May 2009 Part 3 - brains still pregnancy addled so we forgot we needed a new thread !

[Jools1]

Hope this will do

JustgotBFP due 1 May (36 will be 37 when dc arrives DS age 4)
Sahbear due 1 May (DS age 14 mo)
farrahgillani due 1 May (1st Child)
Brightsideoflife due 1 May
Reggiee due 1 May (ahem 30 April but want to stay - DD age 22 months)
Aquababe due 1 May (DD age 2.9)
Evergrounded due 1 May
Momino due 1 May (DD age 2.5 and DD age 1)
Llareggub due 1 May (DS age 22 months)
Loulabela due 1 May
AAL due 1 May (DS age 4)
Olderbutnotwiser due 1 May (DD age 21, DS age 19, DS age 16 DS age 4, DD age 2)
MissyK due 1 May (DS age 3)
Heverhoney due 2 May
SpangleMaker due 3 May (first child)
LoobyLou36 due 3 May (first child)
Inni due 4 May (DS age 2.9 and DD age 1)
Ceeceeanne due 4 May (DD age 9)
Bantam73 due 5 May (2 DCs ages 2.5, 16.5)
Chicadee due 5 May (DD age 6.5)
Overtiredmum due 5 May (DS age 3)
Hopefullypregnant due 5 May (DD age 10.5m)
Gibsongirl due 6 May (DS1 age 5 and DS2 nearly 2)
BrownieBells due 6 May (DS age 2.9)
lauralou1 due 6 May (first)
Minimenace due 7 May (DS age 11 mo)
Detsy due 8 May (UK, Cheshire - DD 11 months)
Carol7 due 9 May (DS age 16 DD age 12)
Febes due 10 May (DD age 9 months)
Jennster due 10 May (DD age 2y7m, DS age 13m)
Missblythe due 10 May (DD age?)
Superdenki due 10 May (DS age 2.5)
Pinkcandyfloss due 11 May (DS1 age 5 and DS2 age 1.7)
Mootie due 11 May (DD age 2.4)
Flippineck due 12 May (DD age 17 months)
Ses due 12 May (first child)
Millionsaway due 13 May (DD 20 months)
Mammajamma due 13 May (DS1 age 4, DS2 age 22m)
Gateau due 14 May (DS 16 months)
Wobblypig due 14 May (DS 1.11)
Looneywoman due 14 May
Nikkiemadisonandbump due 15 May (DD age 2)
Frazzledoldbag due 16 May (DD1 age 7, DD2 age 2)
Nauseous due 16 May
Daisydoo due 16 May (DS age 19m)
Bluebell82 due 16 May (dd age 7 months)
umamimama due 16 May (dd age 16 months)
Bigtree due 17 May (first child)
Divediasy due 19 May (DS age 5 1/2 3rd preg)nucal scan 04/11 hosp 05/11
Bekkaboo due 19 May (DS age 2)
Tigergem due 19 May (DD 18m)
GreenFingeredMummy due 20 May (DD age 15m)
Jonesy68 due 20 May (DS age 5.10)
Mags98 due 21 May (first child)
2beautifulgals due 22 May (2 dds?!)
halfmumhalfbiscuit due 23 May (DS age 2)
Swottybetty: Due 24/05/09. DD 6mths
Moonlit due 24 May (DD age 2.6)
Agooboo due 24 May (DS1 age 6 DS2 age 2)
Dandelioness due 25 May (DD age 3 1/2)
Alapala due 25 May (DS 1.5)
MatthewandBumpsMummy due 26 May
citybranch due 27 May (DS age 21m)
Imnotok due 27 May
pulapula due 27 May (DD 3.10yr, DS 16 mths, Sheffield, booking in 20 Oct, dating scan 7 Nov, nuchal scan 13 Nov)
Runningmonkey due 27 May (first child)
CoteDAzur due 28 May (DD age 3)
MrsEvs due 28 May (DD age 4, DD age 2)
Jools1 due 29 May (first child at 39)Dating Scan Nov 11th
Fryn due 29 May (first child)
MsG due 30 May (first child)
Bluebutterfly due 31 May (DS age 3.5)
DorisIsAPinkDragon due sometime! (DD1 age 3 DD2 age 14mths)
FiKelly due may sometime (DS age just over 2yrs)
sebandelliotsmum due sometime in May ds1 5 and ds2 20 months.

Hey ladies had my booking in yesterday - and as usual things are never easy for me! I got there on time and because of a alarm going of at the centre they couldnt see me

I was sent home and told i'd be called... waited, waited nothing so I rang them.. they said they'd visit me at home for around 3.00pm which was fine.. but meant I had to stay home the whole time

Once she arrived it was actually really good to finally make contact with someone and it felt so much more real.. she was really helpful and put a few doubts in my head about getting the Nucal.. all in all it went fine..

ROLL ON SCAN TOMMOROW! theres loads of us due tommorow.. best of luck!

I'll be praying for all of us!

I hope the scan pictures arent to expensive and they give me differant ones not all the same!

Suddenly very hungry today... the dry rethching is so painful though..

Really looking forward to the Christmas break... Looking forward to sleeping all the time.. so sleepy at the moment..

Hopefully go shopping tommorow if scan goes well!

Good Morning Ladies.
I have meant to post over the last few days, but internet server is tempermental and keeps crashing on me.

I went for my nucal fold scan on Tuesday morning. Because I'm 39 1/2 my risk factor is 1:98 for Downs and 1:168 (or something like that) for the other 2 chromosomal abnormalities. My Nucal Fold was 1.2mm and readjusted my risk to 1:413. Privately I was hoping for a higher score (3000 would be nice!!) but the Dr told me that because of my age the result wouldn't have gone over 800. However, she also said that the baby has it's nasal bone present (which isn't present in Downs until at least 17 weeks), it has a rugby shaped head (Downs have a round head) and it was extremely active. SO those things increased the score, but aren't part of the algorythmn thing used to calculate. So I'm happy and won't be having the triple test or anything else. I'll see what the anomally scan shows on 31st Dec and reasses then.

Also on a previous scan (st 8+2 weeks) I should have been 12 weeks on Tuesday according to scan, and 12+2 according to my dates. At the nucal fold scan she readjusted my date to 13+1, and then yesterday when I went for my booking in at the hospital I was scanned againg and my consultant dated me at 13+6!!!!! So my EDD has gone from 19th to 17th to 12th to 7th May!!!

As for jeans... my Next jeans size 14 are still very big round the waist, but I can't tolerate a belt to keep them up so they are getting rather 'builders bumish'!! If I get jeans I think I'll go either for over bump (they stay up!!) or the type with side stretchy panels. I need to be looking for a pair of jeans cos my Next pair are about to rip!

Also feeling quite sick again. And I can't eat a lot. Breakfast for example consists of one shredded wheat and a glass of pure pink grapefruit juice, and a cuppa tea.

I also told DS youre going to be a big brother! He is so over the moon - he talks about the egg in my tummy and he cannot wait for the baby to hatch!! So cute!

sorry for long post.xx

Back from scan...IT'S TWINS!!!!

Both babies are a good size (about 7cms), have all their bits and are low risk for Downs (>1:1800 for each of them) so I'm very pleased, but slightly overwhelmed!

Think I might deserve that McDonald's now...

divedaisy great news we've also been mentioning to DS about us having another baby... when asked if he wanted it to be a boy or a girl he said he wants a ball! lol

1stMrsF That is fabulous! Congratualtions... I'd love to have twins!

I'm so glad it went well for you!

Did they say if they were identical or not?

I'm still in two minds about finding where do nuchal scans in my area. I'd never even heard of them, as I never had one with DD. I talked to DP briefly about it last night, and he reckons I don't need to worry at all, as I'm only 21, almost 22. I still can't help but worry though. DP was like, what would you do if you found out the baby did have downs, get rid of it? Which just upset me even more. I know it was only a question, still upset me. I'm 14 weeks and I really couldn't get rid of a baby, especially this far along, and then I started to think, could I cope with a downs baby and a 3 year old at 22?

I keep looking at my scan pics from this time too, and I know they say all pregnancys are different but this baby looks 100% different from DD's pics. The head, body, arms, legs, everything looks different...Sorry for waffling on.

Jael X

Thank you!

They are non identical, each with their own placenta and amniotic sac, so that's good too, as it makes them a lower risk.

Oh, I don't know what to do with myself!

1stMrsF Smile and ENJOY! its so eciting.. 2 bundles of blessings...

Wow Mrs F, twins! did you suspect at all?
that's amazing. do have that McDs. congrats.

1stMrsF omg that's amazing... congratulations!!!!! You definitely deserve the McD. I expect the news will take a while to sink in... and will now change your what I need to buy list dramatically how exciting

Jael, you are young so the risk will be so low.

i'm 39 and didn't have any screening tests because, having had two children now, I wouldn't be able to do anything else about it should baby have downs.

I've decided to wait for the 20 week scan where they can see anomolies like downs and other things so at least i would have time to mentally prepare should something be 'wrong'.

But please try not to worry as the chances for you are really, really low.

MrsF Did you get pictures? how much did you have to pay?

MrsF congrats! Double trouble.

jael - at your age the risk is extremely low. If you feel you couldn't get rid of the baby then to me there seems little point in have the tests done in the first place. I didn't have it done yesterday, and I am 41 and it was offered to me for free.

sweetbrody - at our hospital the pictures are £3 each. You need £1 coins as you have to pay via a machine that only takes the coins. However, this was in the letter they sent me about the appointment. Is there any info on you letter?

jael i'm 38.5 so that's why we paid for the nuchal scan. Your risk is so low I don't think i would have done it either had i been your age...

That's why DP asked me, would you get rid of the baby if it was, and my answer was no. So I guess there would be no point paying for a nuchal scan. So as I only had a normal nhs scan, is there no way at that scan they can tell whether the baby has any abnormalaties of any kind?

On the scan pictures, the hospital I had my scan at was donations for scan pictures, although they do like about a pound per pic. I had about four pics, only one of them is very clear though.

Jael X

Does anyone else have a sore belly button?? Mine is so sore to touch. It's not red or inflamed looking!! Weird!

1stMrsF - really good news and excellent that all other risk factors are low. I knew we'd get twins on this thread eventually!!

SweetBroody - photos for us were £5 but that covers you for all scans and photos. Again our letter explained it beforehand so we knew we needed the pound coins!

cece no information what so ever :S Scared but excited...

FiKelly - what was your nucal score, if you don't mind me probing.

MrsF - WOW!!! I'd go and have 2 McDs - one each! - but I don't like them!!!!

Away to get DS from school!

Lets decide a name please.. I really dont want lose the friends I am making on here...

Oh my goodness 1stMrsF how very exciting and I'm sure terrifying at the same time! How lovely though that they are both well and a good size etc. Part of me would have loved twins so I could have 4 children without having to do the pg/birth thing again!

divedaisy great news on the numbers. Look forward to hearing all the other scan news today!

Jael I haven't had the nuchal, or triple screen or anything with my first 2 and I'm not planning to this time either. I've had so many friends who had false postives and worried themselves sick, went for an amnio etc only to find all well, and I just didn't want to spend my pregnancy worried. A friend of mine had a good point though that even if you wouldn't do anything about it, it might be good to know so you could be prepared - but again for me, I would have spent the whole pregnancy vexed, so I just figured I'd enjoy my pregnancy and deal with anything that happened as it happened. Like others have said too your risk is very low

Hiya Ladies,

Sorry haven't written 4 a while have been so busy but have been lurking to keep up to date, don't want to get left behind!

At my last scan, i was 9 weeks so my due date has changed to 26th may, anyone else popping round then?

I have my 3rd scan next thursday,which will be my 12 week scan, have decided against nuchal scan as I wouldn't know what to do with the results, good or bad it would still make me worry so am not going to go there this time round!

The problem withmy ovarys seems to have gone now, although it does flair up if I do anything to strenuous! Pushing DP off the bed tuesday night proved this!

Is anybody in this thread in Devon??? Would love to make some lovely new friends to meet up with!

Congrats to all of you with your positive scan results, am so happy!

BRING ON THE 2ND TRIMESTER!! WOOHOO

Nikkie

divedaisy don't mind sharing my scores... in fact already posted them quite a few pages back on monday when we got home page 31 it was 1:3322 for downs and 1:27000 odd for the others & the nuchal measurement was 1.4

Nikkiemadisonandbump i'm in north somerset... weston-super-mare. not devon but kinda close!