Ringing in the New Year & 2nd trimester - July 2019!

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New home and new thread to start 2019.

@AIDE2424 @cravingmilkshake @HchyScott @ReginaPhalange89 - will tag more when I go back to remember.

Bring on the fake Prosecco and bed by 10pm tonight!

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@Giraffe888 my scan is on Tuesday. This has been the longest week of my life so far!

@Giraffe888 mines not til 2.10pm next Friday ! I'm panicking too as my OH has an exam that day at 1pm 🙈 he says he'll be back in time to pick me up but i know I'm gonna be so anxious about being late and that's not gonna help my nerves lol no way I was rearranging it though, I'll be 12+4 that was long enough to wait

We had a private scan at 7+1 and all was fine, but it just shows you from others than doesn't necessarily mean everything will be ok come 12 weeks !

@beckybutterfly time is going slow isn’t it!

@reginaphalange89 mine is 10.50am next Friday. I’m glad it’s morning not afternoon. Our scan at 8wks was fine too but like you say, you never know x

@Giraffe888 and @ReginaPhalange89 I also had a scan at 8 weeks which showed everything was looking fine and I got to see a little heartbeat for the first time but I just have everything crossed that I get to see that heartbeat again. I wish we knew what was going on in there at all times. I’d happily go for a scan every week!

Haha same @Beckybutterfly, I'd happily go weekly . I've 2 kids already and I don't remember feeling this anxious before scans, although I'm sure I probably was and have just forgotten . I think with my first baby I hadn't a clue how common miscarriages where so I was probably a bit oblivious to the idea that something could go wrong

@ReginaPhalange89 well I had a miscarriage in July so I know first hand how devastating that news can be. This is only my second pregnancy so I’m just hoping that I don’t get that news again.

Ah so @Beckybutterfly. How many weeks were you when that happened ? Fingers crossed for you this time. X

@ReginaPhalange89 I went for a private scan when I should’ve been 9 weeks but only measured 7 weeks and couldn’t detect a heart beat. I’d had a really small bleed the night before my private scan then began to miscarry naturally the following week.
Fingers crossed this time is a different story!

Sorry Essexgirl :( what horrible news. Hope you're ok xx

Oh, @Essexgirlupnorth, I'm so sorry. What a shitty day :( x

My deepest sympathy to @notanotherpawpatrol and @essexgirlupnorth. MMCs are absolutely devastating- having been there myself in the past I know that nothing anyone says will make you feel even the slightest bit better. Please both take good care of yourselves xxx

@xjammy i had a long road to conceiving my 18 month old Daughter. For me, getting pregnancy news via text or email was easiest for me to handle. That way I could have time to make sense of my own emotions and feel sad without the pressure of having to act happy (even though I was happy for my friends, the sadness of my own situation far outweighed that).

Fantastic news @Fuzzy So happy for you xx

@essexgirlupnorth - So sorry to hear your sad sad news. How awful. I hope they are looking after you on the Gynae ward.

@xjammy - I think everyone is different, I know when I was struggling I really didn’t like the idea of people worrying about telling me and trying to protect me. I hated the idea of myself as someone jealous who couldn’t be happy for others. I did have a little cry on the way home after a colleague told me she was accidentally pregnant, and did feel a bit sad inside when my husband’s best friend told us his wife was pregnant after 1 cycle and was moaning about the inconvenience but was always genuinely happy for people. If you’re good enough friends to be discussing the ins and outs of TTC I think I’d privately be a bit hurt if someone ordinarily would have said something sooner but had left it until
quite late on account of my difficulties. I think some people do like some acknowledgement that this is hard for them and some people do seem to prefer text and time to digest. You know her best!

Essexgirlupnorth very sorry to hear your news. I've been there too. Take all the time you need, and then take some more. There are no prizes for rushing back to work, for being your 'usual self'. It's a shock, it's such sad and unfair news, it needs time. But this too will pass. Lots of hugs.xx

@Essexgirlupnorth so sorry to hear this take care of yourself.

The waiting for the 12 week scan is a long long time sometimes I wish they could do it earlier or you could go months not thinking anything is wrong and then the bad news is more drawn out :(

Thanks everyone. Had medical management yesterday evening. Hope to be discharged today.

Sorry for worrying anyone waiting for scans. I hope they all go well.

@Essexgirlupnorth I'm so so sorry. Take it easy today and let yourself be looked after if possible

So sorry to hear this @Essexgirlupnorth hope everything went as well as it could have. You don't need to apologise for anything!

So sorry @Essexgirlupnorth what awful news. I can't imagine how you must be feeling x x x

@AIDE2424 & @BeckyButterfly I'm not sure if it's available in every area yet. But I know there's a drug now licensed for sickness in pregnancy. Been used worldwide for 40 years but is new to the UK. Millions of woman have used it.

I work in pharmaceuticals (not for that company) and found it through a friend who does work for them. I haven't used it myself as I didn't need to in the end.

It's called Xonvea

@Essexgirlupnorth I'm so sorry

@ForTheLoveOfDoughnuts I’m at the GP this afternoon see what they say as the tablets I’ve been prescribed aren’t usually prescribed during pregnancy, they’ve only prescribed them because the sickness is so severe. What they would usually supply is apparently on a shortage at the minute. So I’ll have to see what the doctor says and I might mention the tablet you’ve just said so Thankyou for that :) xx

@AIDE2424 I hope it goes well.

Having worked in pharmaceuticals for 10 years. I'm really aware of anything I take at the best of times. I only found out about this recently and my sickness had past. But I've made a note so I know for future pregnancy's. I wish I'd known when my sickness and nausea was really bad

How did all of your scans go today?

Evening ladies.. I keep picking up bargains in the new year sales and have started an excel document for clothes to keep organised and not to forget what I've got already!

I like to be organised and have saved quite a bit :) ... just thought I would share incase anyone is as odd as me 😂

@TwinkleDay that is actually adorable!