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July 2019 - Part 5!!

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Kentishgal · 11/12/2018 12:49

Here goes...hope this works...

Wonder how many threads we'll have completed before the end of the first trimester!

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ememem84 · 26/12/2018 18:56

I’m planning on going to next tomorrow st lunchtime and picking up some things in the sale for dc2. Newborn baby grows etc and also some things in the next size up for ds.

StargazyDrifter · 26/12/2018 19:08

Ow AIDE2424, that's worrying. Any pain? How many weeks are you again? The very best of luck to you and fingers crossed it passes.

Trouble2cats · 27/12/2018 08:34

@AIDE2424 how are you doing today? I have everything crossed for you!

AIDE2424 · 27/12/2018 08:59

Hi, none the wiser as the what’s happening. Went to A and E last night after getting advice from 111. They took bloods and a urine sample and confirmed there was traces of blood in my urine. I then saw a doctor who booked me in for a scan on Monday, sent me home before any blood results came back and said wait it out basically. Keeping fingers crossed all is okay.

@stargazydrifter I’m 9+2 and had mild cramps.

Such a worry! Ringing EPU today to see if they can bring scan forward and looking at booking another private scan.

BirthdayKake · 27/12/2018 09:02

Thinking of you AIDE xx

ForTheLoveOfDoughnuts · 27/12/2018 09:46

@AIDE2424 I had a massive bleed at around 9+5. TMI but red blood pissing out of me. Had a small clot. No pain, but maybe some mild cramps. Really thought that was it. Had to wait 2 days for a scan at the epu. Had a scan at 10 weeks which showed baby was fine. Bleed was coming from somewhere outside of the sack. Was very scary, but thankfully everything was okay.

wombatron · 27/12/2018 09:49

Thinking of you @AIDE2424 - keeping fingers crossed it's all ok!

StargazyDrifter · 27/12/2018 10:39

AIDE2424 I think you're completely right about the scan, Monday is ages away. I had a bleed at 9 weeks, red blood, EPU said it was likely the placenta implanting itself. Keep us posted and hope you get a scan/bloods back soon.

wombatron · 27/12/2018 11:09

I've just been laying in bed and realised my boobs aren't sore anymore - anyone's else had this happen at 9weeks? I am panicking slightly I suppose as I lost with a MMC at 10weeks and had no symptoms other than my boobs stopped hurting (no bleeding etc). I'm also not starving all the time, am not put off by meat and am feeling more normal. I'd expect this around the end of trimester 1 but at 9weeks it feels early to lose all symptoms?

StargazyDrifter · 27/12/2018 11:39

wombatron the symptoms do come and go, though that's of no comfort, I'm sure. An MMC in particular gives everything that sharp edge, I'm struggling with it a bit myself ☹️. I'm sure there have been posts upthread about symptoms dipping around your stage though, and things being ok. Can you get to a private scan at all? Might be the only way to get a bit of peace of mind.

I'd been reassuring myself that, with HG, hopefully an MMC might be less likely. Then I looked online and Google is full of stories of people being really unwell but having MMC'd. Time to step away from the internet!

TwinkleDay · 27/12/2018 12:03

@AIDE2424 hopefully no news is good news... are you still bleeding now?

I had a scary moment at 6 + 2 but was ok thank goodness x

TheScaredyKat · 27/12/2018 12:17

I think my boobs were feeling less sore around 9 weeks @wombatron sore again now though! Ugh I thought this was supposed to ease up? 14 weeks today.

I've also now got dreadful hip pain all the way from my thigh at inner groin to outer side bum. I'm hobbling around like an old woman.

Thinking of you @AIDE2424 hope all is well

Trying2bemum · 27/12/2018 12:29

Thanks for the maternity wear tips. Might have a little browse over the next few weeks - undoing my top button after eating might not be such a good idea when I'm back at work ha.

@Squ1ggle that's a good point re nursing tops. Would definitely like to breastfeed if I can

Best of luck with the Friday scans tomorrow 🤞🏼

@AIDE24I24 I bled from week 5-7 on and off and everything was fine. Hope you're okay

@wombatron my boobs are not as sore as they were a few weeks ago - I think symptoms do fluctuate. Perhaps get a private scan in for reassurance?

It's non stop worry really! I've been arguing terribly with my husband and worried that that might be affecting the pregnancy or could contribute to a miscarriage. Despite going through three years of infertility then ivf he has completely freaked out about me being pregnant and is depressed anxious and very negative about it 😓 think we need some space whilst he sorts his head out.

StargazyDrifter · 27/12/2018 12:44

Trying2bemum sorry to hear about the arguments.

My DH is also having a little trouble adjusting, and after a long time TTC. He's been better since I've been asking him for concrete help with practical stuff, like researching various tests and working out when we'd want the spare room pained/a cot delivered by etc. Sounds a bit trivial but he seems to have found it helpful. He's also now got a pregnancy app and that helps him understand a bit more too. Before that he was sort of slightly dismissive of some of the symptoms.

Is it that you DH is worried about you or overwhelmed by what's coming?

Trying2bemum · 27/12/2018 12:53

@StargazyDrifter thanks, glad yours is coming round. Mine would probably shudder if I mentioned any of those things. He's completely overwhelmed by the thought of it and says things to me like his life is ruined, and will be nothing but stress for the next 18 years 😔 he's got himself into a really dark negative place and I think it's going to take medical / professional help to get him out of it. Very difficult to cope with when I'm here terrified of miscarriage and symptom spotting all the time!

Michelle0507 · 27/12/2018 12:56

I discovered my partner had been reading up on how the baby grows and what happens to my body etc - pretty cute really.
We've discussed starting the babies room once we know the gender.

I feel a ball of anxiety today, boobs seems smaller and so does bump. Was hoping this would pass now, I think once I've been scanned Mon if I'm still the same I'll speak with my GP. It's taking over in every way.

Jxtina86 · 27/12/2018 13:02

@wombatron my boobs fluctuate between feeling fine and hurting like hell. Also around 9-10 weeks my appetite came back and I was feeling less sick between meals. Didn't last though - 12 weeks today and the nausea and being light headed if I don't eat regularly is back!

FuzzyPixel · 27/12/2018 13:02

@Trying2bemum I am sorry to hear this.

I think, after years of trying and going through infertility, it is really easy to fall into the place of 'everything is going to go wrong'. We got to a place where we thought it was never going to happen, so when the latest treatment worked, we struggled to accept good news.

I really hope your husband finds his way through it.

AIDE2424 · 27/12/2018 13:12

Thankyou everyone I have a scan tonight at 7.45 so we shall see how that goes! Keeping everything crossed! There is some hope it was just one of my cysts bursting but again we will see ❤️

StargazyDrifter · 27/12/2018 13:35

Trying2bemum that does sound very hard for you both, and particularly hard on you with all that comes in the first trimester, both physically and emotionally.

I constantly feel like I don't have the brain space/battery power to engage with the world properly at the moment, and that has included helping DH get into the swing of things with this pregnancy properly, I'm ashamed to say. My app asks how I feel every day and each time I click 'overwhelmed'. We do have more grumpy exchanges than usual at the moment at home. It's probably fairly common.

I worked with a guy years ago who had a full on meltdown about "fatherhood" while his wife was expecting. He'd gone and read lots of philosophy and classical literature on the subject and then decided he wasn't good enough for that. Took his wife ages to dig him out of it. Once the baby was born he couldn't stop saying how, actually, it's just the little things she needs: food, nappies, cuddles. I have to admit, guiltily, it was quite amusing. He's got 3 now!

For me, even after years of TTC, it has also crossed my mind a couple of times lately that our lives won't be the same etc. There's an element of fear there too. I haven't shared it with DH and just assumed that's quite normal. I think my DH thinks it too.

Has your DH got experience of families with young kids? It's not as absolute as 'it's all over', as far as I can tell, it's more shades of grey. Can he spend some time with some nice, normal new parents, who can show him that it's not the end, it's just different. Must be particularly hard for him around all the new year stuff which gets a bit existential anyway. Hopefully he'll agree to get some help. At least he's named all the worries, I suppose.

StargazyDrifter · 27/12/2018 13:36

AIDE good luck!!x

wombatron · 27/12/2018 13:54

Thanks all. I think I need to step away from the internet. I think I'm fine, I think I just worry. I had a private scan on Sunday ahead of Christmas and all was well, but I think anxiety whispers in my ear that it only takes an minute to pass for that to change!

I have my 12 week scan on 16th so something to look forward to make myself ill over - such a weird and lonely time! Am glad I joined these threads!!

wombatron · 27/12/2018 13:55

Fingers crossed for you Aide!!

StargazyDrifter · 27/12/2018 13:58

wombatron it's the spiteful monkey in your head again. 🐒 Maybe give him another mince pie? Mine's slowly coming out of his sugar coma. 🙈

Squ1ggle · 27/12/2018 14:11

I'm so sorry for everyone going through struggles at the moment. I have to say I'm finding this pregnancy a lot harder than my previous one, both physically and mentally and I'm very grateful for how supportive my dh has been, although I am worried that he's going to burn out as he's had a really hard few months and is exhausted. Actually I've just sent him to bed for a few hours as he looked so shattered. Ds and I are snuggled up on the sofa watching the princess and the frog. I haven't even got dressed yet today