Due Dec 2008: The second thread!

[JollyBear]

I thought I'd better start another thread as the other one was full to bursting!

msdynamo that has really made me smile, they wouldn't know what to do with themselves.

I have been giving them all crappy jobs to do which made me feel slightly better

thanks for your unjudging reassurance eveyone.i feel so guilty for feeling negative, i was feeling so lonely and the whole thing is ridiculous i know- as its not even as if i am unhappy about it. i guess i forgot how crazy hormones make you, and how scary being pregnant is. i am so silly worrying about it all week, and turniphead1's story of her friend shows how brave some people can be. will go on and sponsor you turniphead to mark turning the corner from the gloom and start embracing my suprise treasure. x

I just had my first midwives!

Bad veins as usual but she managed to get a vein. Because it was so hot though and it was an early appointment I had bad MS so felt really dizzy, yuck.

And I got my scan date 10th June Will be 11+4 (or 12+4 according to them!)

yey!

..although i did ask henry if he would like another baby, for mommmy to have henry and another baby- he understands 'nother one' though is usually in relation to food, but anyway he said, quite emphatically, NO, and MINE was also muttered...so we've all some getting used to to do. DH is over moon, he would've had me have another one last year if i'd agreed, but i was holding out til henry was 5-well that's what i told him but really i don't think i ever would have chosen to get pg, had terrible hospital and overall birth experience the first time-it really impacts on you doesn't it.

so what kind of births any of you planning, anybody already decided how they are having it this time around yet??

Strikey,

I had an awful 1st birth, induced, in hospital, nasty midwives, no support, bad tearing, placenta problems ect ...

I had my 2nd at home and it was wonderful, he was born on his due date in a birthing pool in the living room with no complications whatsoever, it was amazing,

am planning to do the same again

Got my scan date too Thurs 22nd May

Disenchanted: I too have dodgy veins. The blood people at our local hospital were fantastic last time, mws less so .

oh and my first birth was fast, fairly straightforward (episiotomy but no other intervention), DS fed right away etc. etc. Main aim for this time: get to try the G&A

Just got back - very long day in London I'm a zombie. All is well single interuterine pregnancy, measuring spot on for dates (7+4), with a lovely heart beat. FMC were fab as always. I may have to think about booking now.

We're off on holiday tomorrow, I'll try & keep up a bit better when we get back!

whoopee minster fab news - congrats on your healthy beany

Hello Everyone

Good news Minster glad all is well. You must feel very relieved. Have a good holiday

We've got 'Teddy Eddie' for the weekend. Teddie Eddie is a teddy bear that belongs to DS1's preschool and each weekend someone gets to take him home and look after him. Teddy Eddie has been shopping this afternoon and he's eating pasta at the moment. We've made him a bed for the night out of a cardboard box. Lucky Teddy Eddie. He has his own toothbrush and suitcase. It is all very sweet.

I think I've told some of you about my two previous births: first one 4 1/2 hours but I had a bad third-degree tear as he was a big baby (nearly 10lbs), second one just over 2 hours and we only just about made it to the maternity unit. I am tempted by a home birth for number three. Because my first one was so big and I tore so badly I was really scared about number two. But I only tore a little bit even though he also was a good size (9lbs 4oz) I suppose each birth is different.

aahh Teddy Eddie sounds fab !

Can I play please? Due Dec 03.
Was retching in sink tuesday but don't feel pregnant today!Is second pregnancy -- i am much more anxious this time!

welcome DonnyLass are you Scottish with a name like that ? do you have scan date ?

Yorkshire with Scottishparents!

Well by first day last period I was due Nov but have v long cycle so had nuchal scan 2 weeks ago thinking I was 13 weeks and was actually 9 weeks!

There was a strong heartbeat and everything looked good.

Revised Nuchal scan is next wednesday ... am v anxious. No reason why really .. no pain or spotting or anythng and have had all the usual (nausea, fatigue, cravings etc) ... just paranoid.

Hello DonnyLass. Join the club! I think we are all suffering from the old paranoia here!

I have my 12 week scan tomorrow and am a nervous wreck , going out for dinner to take my mind off it.

hello, this is my first post here! i am due 7th dec which is also my birthday (although i bet i wont labour on time!) my first baby elena-mae will be 18 months when i drop.
having horrible evening sickness and feeling a bit on the low side which im puttig down to hormonies.

evening all - hope everyone has had a good day. I have been asleep most of the day and feeling sick the rest!
I guess its all good that i feel so crap but crikey its draining - although just as draining as when they arrive!! They are not in the same sac so not identical. Told me parents today who couldnt stop laughing - I was terribly disorganised with DD - guess that will have to change.......

Good luck for scan - mibbes

minster I'm glad everything is ok.

mibbes hope all goes well with your scan.

Welcome to our newcomers.

Only a short post, I'm really tired!!

Strikey - I'd love a home birth, even the thought of having a straight forward birth in hospital and using communal bathrooms etc afterwards makes me nervous. Not sure what the midwife will say about it though as this is my first? I have my booking in appointment next week so maybe I'll ask then, guess it depends on their attitude I get the impression it is very different depending on where you live.

Minster hope the scan went well

Congrats on having twins gemenaux

Flumpy as everyone else has said, you have been treated TERRIBLY. why are people so nasty?

Strikey hope things settle down for you soon. You can always come on here and let off steam when you feel low

Artichokes hope you are doing OK

Bisou will ask my friend next time I email her. Incidentally another friend who had a baby in Sydney 5 months ago, also had a drug free natural birth, so maybe there is a pattern there! (although like you say I suppose good/bad birth stories can happen anywhere). Anyway will ask them where they had their babies.

Hope your marathon goes well Turniphead. You are brave.

I am dreading my scan on Monday

whoops missed your post minster (realised I had only caught up with page 2 not 1) -glad all went well

I have a scan tomorrow (am having fortnightly ones at the moment, given previous history) and then NT scan is in another couple of weeks. I'll be 11w1d tomorrow, so I suppose they could technically have done the nuchal tomorrow, but I think EPAU scans are done at a separate place... anyway I'm glad to be having the reassurance this time round.

Bit anxious about the scan - but not as bad as when I was 9w1d, not least because the nausea has gone through the roof and I feel dreadful pretty much constantly at the moment. (It's a good sign, right?!!! )

I was semi-offered an elective c-section at my booking, when they had finished taking the details of DD's birth. The final decision is up to the consultant but if he says no I will go elsewhere as I have always said I would never have another vaginal delivery. (Summary: look away now if you're squeamish! - long labour, failed ventouse, forceps delivery, postpartum haemorrhage, third degree tear and multiple internal lacerations, postnatal frank double incontinence, readmittance to hospital, under the care of a pelvic reconstruction/urogynaecology consultant, nine months of physio, anal ultrasounds and stress tests: final evaluation 40% risk of permanent faecal incontinence with any future vaginal deliveries). PND and PTSD.

Remind me - why am I doing this again?

verso you deserve a medal of honour

I hope you get your elective CS, they'd be mad not to give it to you.

All the best for tommorrow