Due in June 08 - the rollercoaster continues...

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Morning everyone

Hope you're all OK today

Deb

HI ladies

Still had an unco-operative baby today, waited another 10 minutes, tried again but still not in the right position. So no Nuchal scan for me as I'm nearly at the end of the time they do the measurement. So I'm relieved really, I think I'd rather just wait and see!!

Ds was really good, he sat at the drs desk while the Dr tried to get baby in right position and at the end he came and had a look at the baby on the screen. Did get a photo today but it's just a blur so I'm not posting that one!!

So Har how did you get on?

Nice to see your baby again, Debs, and a shame it wasn't in the right position. You sound like you don't mind though. Did you see the heart beating?

how about you, Har?

Ernest, thanks for offer of CAT. I've never done it before ... May I wait and see how we go?

DH flies back from the States the morning of my scan, so he will have two hospital visits in one week.

MIL has to have a mastectomy and the cancer has spread to lymph nodes but there aren't any obvious lumps in the lymph nodes. So the prognosis is excellent. The sad thing is that she will need 16-20 weeks of chemo followed by radiation, so will probably not be able to see ds (alias Master Germ carrier) until she's stronger. She and ds have a very close relationship despite the distance (and his smallness)!

I couldnt believe that they sent that saying no children, but it also says only 1 person will be permitted into the scan room with you so if DH and DD went only 1 could come it its made me more determind to give birth at home as they are also really arsy in there info about visitors i.e DH!

Debs glad you saw bub again, sorry your Nuctual didnt work out, like you said maybe for the best.

Upsidedown, hope it all works out ok the chemo and radio will be awful but very worth it, light a candle for your MIL

Hi all, sorry to hear your nuchal fold didn't work out Debs, but at least you got to see the baby. Just had my nuchal fold and the dr seemed pleased. It measured 1.36 which he said was perfect, and as long as my blood test results come back ok i should be low risk.

He also checked the brain and skull shape and said it was looking good for no spina bifida problems at this stage too, although the baby needs to be bigger to be sure. So, it was reasurring and hopefully the bloods should be good and I can relax a bit.

Hope everyone has a good weekend, lots of rest and tlc for all of all!

'all of us' that was meant to be! sorry!

Hi everyone,

Glad to hear their are other people feeling the same way I am waiting for their scans, it's weird but after I posted on here the other day that my symptoms seemed to have gone I started feeling really queasy, which I am taking as a good sign! Plus weirdly I also posted about having trouble with numb hands and since then I haven't had it, so maybe my solution is to bore you all with my woes and then they go!

Got the inlaws coming for the weekend, hoping they will be understanding about me wanting to sleep all the time, my OH has been getting a bit fed up with me this week falling asleep every evening, I think the novelty of me being pregnant is wearing off for him already!

Hope you are all well, it sounds like it is scans all round, I am still waiting to get a date for mine and as I only saw the midwife on tuesday I think it may take a while!

upsidedowncake sorry to hear about your mil. seems all i hear about lately is cancer. sounds like her prognosis is good though so that's fantastic!

shame you didn't get a good pic deb but i think nature will take it's course whatever the measurement is anyway so no sense worrying about it. throw it on the pile of worries and let it fall to the bottom!

g43 it is my dream to have ds actually sit beside me when something's happening like that but he does not sit still for one minute ever unless the tv is on in front of him. i really do mean EVER!

josey where do you live if you don't mind me asking? sounds really horrible! i hate the UCH Elisabeth Garrett Anderson because it's old and filthy but at least they're quite laid back about that kind of thing. there's even a lockable play area in the waiting room for kids where you get your scans.

ktpie i had numbness in hands really bad in the first 2 trimesters with ds, off and on but when on i could hardly do anything. then it just went away. haven't had it with this one so far. dr told me it was nothing to worry about anyway!

good luck with the in-laws. you should stop feeling so tired in a few weeks so your OH will have you back in the evenings.... for a couple months anyway!!

I have made it to 10 weeks, so excited forgot to bore you all with it

thanks dylansluckymum, can't wait to feel less tired, have had a twitchy eye all week which is really annoying me now.
I think the numbness may be carpal tunnel syndrome which my mum gets, it only happens when I wake up, so far, and doesn't really hurt, just numb, it sounds like you had it much worse, hoping it doesn't get like that for me.
Ready for the weekend now, wonder if work will notice if I leave 5 mins early!

Hi everyone, have been out most of the day with SIL learning how to drive on the other side of the road. Nearly into ditches a few times but home alive and DH's beloved car unscratched. (DH was perfectly happy with me not driving, scared for the paintwork, till realised he was missing a perfect opportunity, dinner party-wise, with me being pregnant).

Upsidedowncake, so sorry to hear about your MIL, but wonderful that she's got such a good prognosis. Very sad to hear about all the chemo and radiation, that must be absolutely horrible. And to not be able to see ds. But again. fantastic that it's looking good.
Did see the heart beating (or the mw said she could, I was just busy counting arms and legs!)

Deb, it sounds like it worked out ok for you then! Annoying anyway though I think seeing as you came in, but of course the lovely thing is just seeing that it's there! And nice for ds to see, glad he was so good. I'm not having mine till next Friday. Apparently the baby was in the perfect position though, no prodding required. Am sure by next week, one week older and one week cooler, he won't co operate either!

Great news about your scan Sybil (and your well behaved foetus ), must have been lovely to hear!

Happy 10 weeks Sophie!

ktpie, good luck with inlaws and sleeping! Know what you mean about the novelty wearing off, am seriously in need of a bump to keep the attention (and forgiveness for messy flat, boring suppers, general whining etc) going. Hope you get your scan date soon!

Have a lovely weekend everyone! x

Upsidedowncake, just a quick word about the chemo, everyone warned us and mil that she's feel poorly, sick bad etc for a week or so after each session, but actually, she reacted really well and felt maybe under the weather at worst and not nearly as bad as predicted. Not everybody is totally knocked out by it, tho I understand she was very lucky. Hope your mil also reacts so wellxxx

Hello all and especially updide down cake My thoughts are with you too. Glad to hear that she will be all right

Just after we annouced we were pregnant my MIL and FIL were diagnosed with cancer unfornunately mil wont get better but the baby gives her something to go for and it has made her feel happy.

Hope all goes well and be strong. Its hard to understand all this cancer thing but you have to look for the good days and moments

Hi everyone! I have had a flick through the thread since I was last here and it is good to see everyone is still going strong! We haven't lost many from this thread really which is so nice to see.

I went for my dating scan today - the twins are measuring 14 weeks and one day and they are beautiful - check out the pics on my profile page!

It is getting a bit scary now - it looks like these babies are actually going to be born!

Have updated profile just now with photos on too of me partner and the new addtion

Paromapu god how tough for you and DH, my thoughts are with you at this time.

Paromapu that is so sad and must be very difficult.

Dylansluckymum, I stay just outside Aberdeen, I had my other 2 children in Inverness it was lovely there though a Highland Hospital so a bit behind the times but at least nice!!

NH101 I have just had a look at your new scan, wow they look like angels surrounded by light. I have to say I think you have one of each in there apparently there is a way of telling the heads and bodys look a different shape for each sex dont ask me which why it is(its like that spinning pendant I know it goes one way etc but dont know which lol)

Glad everyone's little beans are doing well! nh your pics are amazing!
So sorry to here your news upsidedowncake, hope your dh is ok over there, it sounds like your mil prognosis is good though.

My sister left today for South Africa, a bit sad but so happy for her, hopefully she'll be back in june or july to see the baby.

Hello all haven't posted for ages due to being ridiculously busy at work. Hope everyone is well?
Just wanted to say got the 12 week scan on Monday and suddenly feeling really worried in case there's something wrong.....anyone else got a scan coming up?

Also, anyone got any tips on telling DS1 about new baby? He's 19 months but very articulate and loves books, so we've bought 'There's a House Inside My Mummy' but are waiting for the scan before telling him.

Has anyone read that book? Anyone else slightly freaked out by the bit at the end about the door?

LittleMy34, not read that book. My dss have got Usbornes, How babies are made. They also love looking at internet preg sites, esp 3Dpregnancy.com They've peruse that for ages.

I've got my scan on Thursday.

No one got any thoughts regarding nuchal scan, following the Qs in my earlier post?

The NT scan is always done in our maternity hospital regardless of age, I amd the same age as you and want to have it done, not to have to have a termination if there is a problem but mainly for preparation I think.

Ernest - re the Nuchal fold test, as you know baby made my decision for me as now it's too late for the test for me and I'm relieved as like you I wasn't sure if I wanted to know. I had decided not to have any tests as I wouldn't act on the results and if the result wasn't so good then I would spend the rest of the pregnancy worrying. So when the Dr seemed to do the test as norm it freaked me out a bit.

It can only be your decision in the end though, what does your dh say? Is he home this weekend? How long does he have at home over Christmas?

Deb

Hello all and thanks

Re nuchal scan here in GC everybody has it done its part of the 12 week scan, they measure it, take blood and those results together along with your age. I get my results back on 27th december when i see tocologist again.

I have scan on tues with private ginecologist. So will be thinking of you too ernest.

However things are very good here. Normally when you are not pregnant ginecologist appointments through the state take ages to come through so everyone goes private but when you are pregnant they refer you to a tocologist who sees you every 4 weeks and the midwife every 6 weeks so its really good plus because normally i go to private one too He is happy for us so wants to see me too. So im really lucky as i get to see my baby quite often! Shame that in some parts you only have about 3 scans

I hope everyone is doing ok and the old morning sickness is disappearing and that theres not too much heartburn either!

nh101 your scan pictures are lovely. I
had a little peek at them there!

Ive got my first antenatal appointment through and I should be just under 14 weeks when I get the scan.

Im actually a bit scared about the scan as I think that 14 weeks is kind of late for a first scan. I hope everything will be ok.

Hope everyone has a nice weekend and is getting sorted for Christmas. I still have so much to get!

Ernest - what would you do if the nuchal fold scan gave you a high risk? Would you have an amnio? How high would the risk have to be for you to undergo the risks of an amnio? If you had an amnio with a positive result, what would you do?

In my opinion, if you don't think that you would terminate, then why go through the risk of an amnio? And if you won't have an amnio, then a set of figures giving you a risk factor doesn't allow you to prepare yourself but merely to worry for the whole pregnancy.

Also, you might have some reassurance that the baby doesn't have Down Syndrome, but what other reassurance do you have? Any pregnancy is a leap in the dark. Personally, in my own nightmare list, Down Syndrome ranks lower than lots of other things that can't be detected in a scan.

With DD they found an brain abnormality at 26 weeks and I was offered an amnio as it was a marker for Edwards' Syndrome. Initially we thought we'd hold off until very late on (36 weeks) as we didn't want to jeopardise the pregnancy but wanted to prepare ourselves if it was Edwards. But when we got to 36 weeks we'd spent 10 weeks worrying ourselves sick and decided we'd just wait and see.

No scan will guarantee you a Waitrose baby. It's a very frightening time but my experience is very much that you find your peace of mind from within rather than from testing.

Sorry for ramblig. This is from the woman who is currently totally worried and desperate for a scan!

x