Due in Nov 05 - Part II

[rodeo1]

Here we go all!

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Hi Diddle, How are you? Been out enjoying the sunshine here too, we've been really lucky in that the rain & thunderstorms have mainly been at night and each afternoon has been glorious.

Feeling like I can't be arsed to do anything today even though my house looks like a tip. Hopefully I'll start to get some energy back in the next week or so, so that I can get my routine back as the mess is irritating me but in turn I can't get motivated to sort it out!

Better go and see what's happening downstairs, I left dh & ds watching an old Robot Wars, so will speak to you later.

hi all hope everyone had a good weekend, am dreading working tomorrow as I still feel knackered when I put DD2 down for her nap today I managed to get 2hrs. I think that I will try to get to bed early all this week.
I told the parents of the children that I mind that I am pg because I needed to give notice to the baby. The babies mum cried and I feel soooo guilty but I know its the right thing to do. The others were really pleased though and promised not to tell their children till after half term.
Glad you had a better day with your DS Beks, my DS just told me I just ruined his day because I have told him its bedtime he was allowed to stay up and watch Indiana Jones last night so we thought he should have an early one tonight flipping cheek how easily they forget.

Hi everyone I popped in a while ago just to say Hi as my due date given my gp was 27th Oct as my last af was 20th Jan, but last time I went 10 days over.

Well I went for my booking in scan on Friday, it was great!! But he gave me a new EDD of Nov 2nd based on the size of the baby, so I have come to join you all if thats ok!!

Hello all, I'm back!

Had a lovely hot weekend in Madrid with friends, beautiful place and gorgeous house - even went in their outdoor pool! Have come back very relaxed and with a bit of a tan! And probably a stone heavier...

Have got mw this afternoon so relaxed feeling is slowly seeping away, still not convinced there's anything in there.

Dangirl, sorry to hear your upsetting news

Sorry you had a rough weekend Xena, but sooo glad it was a false alarm

Mummygow, I think you may be on our Nov Members List already, if not I'll pop you on

PS. It's my birthday today!

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Where are you all?! x

Hi All,

Haven't been around for a while and it's taking ages to catch up on all the news.

Dangirl - Sorry to read your sad news. I hope you doing ok.

Hellkat, Diddle and CP3 - Nice to see you are still hanging around. Am watching the conception board and holding thumbs for you all.

Belated welcome and congrats to Hamster, SharonTW1 and Mummygow.

Chacha and Enthusia - Hope you are both starting to relax and enjoy your first pregnancy. You won't have much time to focus on yourself and baby, second time round, so pamper and enjoy yourselves.

Rodeo1 - HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! Hope you have a fantastic day. Pretty you can't enjoy a few glasses to celebrate. Extremely jealous of your weekend!!

Hope everyone else is doing well and getting over the first trimester problems.

Have been ms free for two weeks and have managed to get loads of energy (during the day only) from god knows where. Have actually turned into a domestic goddess, needless to say dh is ecstatic.

Had my 12 week scan today and glad to report everything is well. Baby appears normal and is the right size (EDD 12th Nov). Pregnancy and baby feel real now and am starting to get excited. Was worried because I wasn't as excited as I thought i would be about being pregnant. Was dying for no.2 ever since ds was born and then when i did get pregnant i wasn't as happy as I expected to be.

Anyway enough about me.

Keep well everyone.
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rodeo - happy birthday

Cads - so pleased your scan went well, and you are now a domestic goddess, wish i was, and i have no excuse to sit down and rest or take it any easier. not yet anyway.

Diddle - Domestic goddess phase won't last. It NEVER does. I give it 3 weeks!

Afternoon girls, just a quickie from me as we're off to Microsports in a minute.

Rodeo Happy Birthday, hope you have a great day, your weekend sounds fab you'll have to tell us more about it.

Cads glad your scan went well and that everything is as it should be, know what you mean about not being as excited as you thught you'd be. I go from being pleased to downright depressed by the whole idea of this one - I think that's mainly when ds is being a little sod though!

Xena glad you managed to tell the mums you're working for, it must be a relief. Lol at your little one , they do indeed have very short memories!

Mummygow welcome aboard, hope all goes smoothly for you.

Been for my booking in appointment today, everything was fine except for my blood pressure 100/150 very high, oops, got to go to see the dr for a recheck on Friday, think I need to take a chill pill of some kind hee hee. Have been very stressed out lately so will need to take a few more deep breaths.

Have got another Nuchal scan on Thursday as bub was sound asleep at last one, hopefully all will be well this time. We're taking ds with us this time so he can see it, not sure if this is a good or bad idea really, but we'll just have to wait and see his reaction.

Speak to you all later.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY RODEO am sooo looks like you had a great weekend.

Hello Mummygow

Beksmum hope your next scan goes well we took DS to DD1's scan and I think that it defiantly made it more real for him.

Cads glad your scan went well, can you send some of your Domesticness over to me, my house looks like a bomb site (and I won't even mention the washing pile)

Hi everyone hope you're all ok. Been feeling really crap last few days with stinking cold and bad chest ( even off work today!!)Feeling v sorry for myself esp as can't take any medicines that give your the mental idea hat your doing something to help yourself!! Sickness seems to be dying down tiredness not so bad now. Seeing mw next mon, time for the Down's blood tests etc!! Never really thought about them with Dd but seem more crucial now. Anyway have a good day what ever you're doing!! xx

hello all,

a bit short of time so have not had a chance to read all the postings. Hope everyone is good and had a nice relaxing long weekend.

layla - hope u are feeling better soon.

my m/s is still knocking the stuffing out of me, most evenings i spend lying on the sofa feeling terrible and it is made worse by the fact I am still doing controlled crying with my dd, she is much better now but still surprises me every other night! DH is not as sympathetic as i would like, i think with dd i was vomiting so often that he was terrified but this time round just feel terrible so he thinks i am milking it - i wish i was!

anyway, just felt the need to rant - sorry!

Probably going to steal her thunder but has everyone seen Thomcats's scan thread? Everythings ok. am so glad for her All the best with the rest of your pg!! xxx

Hi everyone, just a quick message, Hope everyone is well and good luck for all scans/booking appts. I'm okay, feeling a bit better, but i tend to say that and it all comes back with a vengeance.

Love to all xxxx

oh...Happy Birthday Rodeo!!!! Cyber cake pls?

Hi...this testing business is a minefield, what do you reckon on this, I had a scan at 11 weeks that showed a 2.7 mm nuchal on a 4.4 cm crown to rump (read up a bit on this on the internet and discovered that htis is a little on the high side but lower than cut off point of 3 mm. was offered the intergrated test but found out this does not give results until week 17. week 18-21 I currently have work commitments that take me to the US...which means i cannot 'do' anything about the integrated test results whatever they may be ...ie. have an amnio...anyway, pregnant acquaintence suggested i go private and have combined test..this would put my mind at rest or at least tell me to cancel the trip I have to take for work pending results of more stringent integrated test. So i had a harley street combined test at the cost of £150(!) suprisingly this test showed a nuchal fold of 1.4 (had this one 9 days after the NHS scan which showed a nuchal fold of 2.7 - when combined with blood results this gave a 1 in 7500 risk of DS. went back to hosp today for booking in visit and mentioned the discrepancy between the two nuchal measurements. hosp could not explain the difference and refused to rescan me to double check. in fact they seemed a bit narked that I had gone private (unsurprisingly). They said that their sonographer is very experienced and that they felt they did not need to redo the nuchal and they would work out my risk via the integrated test at week 16 based on the 2.7 measurement at week 11. this is going on a bit. but what to do/believe, do I sit quiet and see what the risk factor is based on 2.7? pay for another private scan while a can this time with another different sonographer (I'm 13 weeks today). ignore the nhs integrated test results and stick with the very favourable private scan 'odds'?. Does any of this matter???
what do you think?

Yingers feel for you and know what you mean, my dh has been really supportive but I think it is starting to drive him mad too now!

Jenjam, blimey don't really know what to say. It must be reassuring to have the private scan with a lower figure but if the hospital are being so uncooperative it will be hard to make a decision. Did the private clinic give you any reason for the discrepancy?

If I was you I'd probably lay it the line to the midwife or your doctor, explaining that you are going to be away on business from week 18 and that you need to know a more clear answer so that you can make an informed decision or so that you can at least let your company know that you will be unable to travel.

Don't think that was much help but let us know what you find out and how you are getting on, week 17 seems a long way away at the moment but I'm sure it'll come round very quickly.

Jenjam I think that I would agree with beks that you need the doctor to sort this out for you before you go away - hope it all works xx

Thanks xena and beksmum. not sure how much all this matters, but don't like idea of getting some kind of headache risk factor as in 1 in 24 and not be around to do anything. i did explain all this to the midwife and asked if they could rescan to be sure but they say no way. i imagine the risk of 'losing face' and saying 'yes we were wrong the first time' is to be avoided. The private sonographer checked it four times and said that a nuchal would not normally vary this much in 9 days and certainly would not get smaller...he implied that the 2.7 might be 'an operator error' and i should take it up with my caregivers at the nhs hospital on my next visit, as many other women may also be measured incorrectly. the NHS say they are happy that my measurements were done correctly. thing is i don't even know if 2.7 at 11 weeks for a 32 year old is high risk (even without bloods). have lost a bit of confidence in the whole procedure. and i bet they've marked me down on my file as a trouble maker (....paranoia)

had a bit of time to read through the millions of threads that have appeared since i was last on mumsnet ...

happy birthday RODEO! [SMILE] did you have a lovely day?

Cads congrats on your scan results.

Beksmum hope all is well with your nuchal on Thurs..try coughing. ours was snoozing too and from a side profile did not look at all unlike james's favourite sofa position...lazy bugger. selfishly i coughed quite a bit...perform my little monkey, perform! cruel mummy

Laylasmum - try blanket, girly movie, nice cup of tea, large bar of galaxy...nearly as good as medicine

enthusia re: alcohol..it is a sort of torture that i am growing to love. i even get a sort of smug feeling that I might have cured myself forever from a deepseated need to spend 3 hours after work drinking red wine and eating bar snacks with my girlfriends (dp is a saint). now i'm bored after 30 mins in pub...it's all good. people pay for this kind of detox (in fact i did pay for this once in koh samui)

Hellkat, Diddle, CP3, good to hear from you...can't wait to hear very good news from you soon. you too Dangirl sorry to hear about your m/c(hug oclock)

mummygow - you really are going to be the 'mummy' on the november thread. Youre first!
we should do a new list....

Cha cha re: scan crazy. me too. it's an addiction. I asked the midwife today if I could listen to the heartbeat (she said no. poo.) it's so fascinating to see the little bub i'm desperate to know if its a boy or girl, even my dreams are full of this baby.
anyway. if i've missed anyone else off, it was not intentional. really good to catch up and read up on you all. bye everyone
TC - read your thread - pleased to see you buzzing again!

Look what i found, think this is the latest..i've updated a couple of you ..plus added in some more info on me...

shall we personalise the list a bit more any ideas? ages, locations, how about something character-revealing... such as 'one day will'.../ loves.../...job? ooh you can tell i'm a researcher

Mawbroon, Oct 26, Baby no 1
Laylasmum, Nov 1, Baby no 2, dd
Mumygow, Nov 2, Baby no ?
Rodeo, Nov 3, Baby no 3, dd+ds - 1st MW Appt (!) Tue 3rd May
Hamster, Nov 4, Baby no ?
Yingers74, Early Nov, Baby no 2
Panther, Nov 5, Baby no 1
Cuppatea, Nov 6, Baby no 2, dd
Tex, Nov 7, Baby no 2, ds
BEKsmum, Nov 7, Baby no 2, ds - Scan Mon 25th Apr
Alfiesmum, Nov 7, Baby no 2, ds
Jenjam, Nov 8, Baby no 1, 32yo, north london
Enthusia, Nov 11, Baby no 1 - Scan Wed 27th Apr
Flowerlady, Nov 11, Baby no 2, ds
Busyalexsmummy, Nov 11, Baby no 2, ds
Alicemama, Nov 11, Baby no 2, dd
Cads, Nov 12, Baby no 2, ds
Hollybelle, Nov 13, Baby no 3, ds+dd
Chocolatequeen, Nov 18, Baby no 2, ds
CharlieJ, Nov 18, Baby no 2, ds
Thomcat, Nov 21?, Baby no 2, dd - Scan Mon 25th Apr
Tania2, Nov 22, Baby no 2, ds
KristinaM, Nov 23, Baby no 3, dd+ds
Lola01, Nov 24, Baby no 2, ds
Twinkle1, Nov 25, Baby no 3, ds+dd

Lisalisa, Nov 20something, Baby no 5,????
LilJ, Nov 26, Baby no 1
SharonTW1, Nov 26, Baby no 1
Chacha, Nov 27, Baby no 1 - Booking appt Fri 29th Apr
Koala, Nov 28, Baby no 2, ds
Xena, Nov 28, Baby no 4, ???
Honorary Nov Members - Hellkat, Diddle, Peepee, cp3, LexyB and Dangirl

Hi everybody,

Thank you for all the lovely birthday wishes, made me want to cry. Feeling v. emotional tonight and after such a lovely weekend too.

Went to mw this afternoon I was nervous but wanted to be reassured there was something in there. But she couldn't get a heartbeat. Im pretty sure I'm 13 weeks now. She said it might not have lifted out of the pelvis yet or that my dates might not be right. She didn't seem worried at all, but now have a dating scan for 16th May.

But now I feel terrible, and I'm fearing the worst and can't stand the 2 week wait. Even thought about telling them I've got severe cramps (which I haven't) just to be seen quicker, that's terrible isn't it?

Wondered if it had happened to anyone else, I'll copy this to pregnancy and see if I get any reassurance

Sorry to sound so gloomy x x x

rodeo, don't worry, it will only make you feel worse. You little bump is probably just hiding away tucked up in your pelvis, i think plenty of people will be ale to reassure you that everything is ok.
I hope that all is well in 2 weeks. Couldn't you make an appointment to be seen by the midwife aain get her to try the heartbeat again? maybe in a week. I couldn't wait that long either. I'd have to go private and pay for it.
I'm sure it will be fine, stay positive.

Thank you dids,

Just posted a thread on pregnancy and got some very welcome reassuring replies which have made me feel a lot better. (And make the wait a bit more bearable)

How are you by the way poppet? Did you get your AF BTW?

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Hi Rodeo. please don't worry yourself silly. Assume all is okay - I too asked the midwife today if she would listen to the heartbeat (I'm 13 weeks tomorrow) and she said no because it's too early - the baby would not have risen out of pelvis area yet. hope this helps. night night

Thanks Jen,

Yes it does help thank you. All reassuring comments welcome!

Do feel much better - even got a reply from mears!

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