The 6th form post mc ttc and pregnancy common room Part 2

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Getting us started on a new thread; this one is gonna be a lucky one!

Congratulations barrenbrook!!!

BBB so pleased to hear that scan went well, lovely news

Yay bbb lovely news

Woop bb. That's lovely to hear. So exciting now!

izz my appointment is tomorrow where I beg for a referral. Tonight I've got ten ton of homework to do, so that should keep me occupied. I will make a booking in appointment after that.

Sorry I haven't been around much, I've been feeling ill and tired, and mostly overwhelmed by the huge amounts of study I need to do in order to pass this section of my degree. I am failing completely to understand the basics, so am floundering somewhat.. Please forgive me, I'm here, but not here, and very distracted.

Yey to mouse's union chappy being a jolly Good Egg.

Waves to all.

Yay for the scan bbb - that's tremendous news!!

Good luck with the appt tomorrow yrmotb - fx you get a tame gp and a quick referral. Sorry you've been so tired - I've been completely wiped out since day 1 so I know how you feel (think it may be starting to wear off a bit now, which I keep telling myself is because I'm heading into the second trimester and not for a more sinister reason!). If you don't mind me asking, what degree are you doing?

Well after a very uncomfortable day in my favourite monsoon work skirt I'm now facing that awkward phase of normal clothes being too tight but maternity clothes looking ridiculous (I have tried on some of my mat clothes and felt really daft!). Am now wishing I hadn't blown all my birthday vouchers on fitted size 10 clothes!

Brilliant news BBB

Mouse so glad the union man sees your side of things (as he should). Hurrah to both eggs in your life right now. I missed your earlier post about hot tubs and champagne - sounds lovely!

Izzy it's so brill you are now in your 2nd trimester

And another good luck for tomorrow yrmotb

I tried to get a gp appt this week but my gp is on holiday so decided to wait till she gets back next week. I have made a booking appt for 10 weeks as the receptionist said that's when they normally do them but now beginning to wonder after Blackkat's advice.

Talking of stodgy carbs, I worked my way through a whole packet of cream crackers yesterday - seemed to do the trick didn't feel nearly so icky but my stomach has definitely changed shape

Knitter (and BBB) your story of the bathroom floor incident made me glad it's not just me who manages to do this kind of thing out of the blue despite my student years being well behind me (and I mean well). About 2 years ago I managed to do it at a client night out and my boss had to carry me back to the hotel room

waves to all jolls, digital, wiggle, mummyA, velvet, ladybee, hairy and everyone else

Thats great news bbb

Good luck for your appointment yrmotb what's your degree in? There's no way I could concentrate at level in the early stages of pregnancy - I can barely walk in a straight line at that point!

Scary boss has been awful today, just awful. I just want it to be the summer hols so I can draw a line under this year and move on.

Big love to all x

bbb so pleased to hear scan went well! Hooray for you!

izzy congrats on reaching 2nd trimester!

mouse glad you have full union support at work. And hooray for the egg. Will you start ttc next cycle?

Still egg-stalking here. No positive opk's and will soon run out of them. Silly me for starting them so early. Should have waited till next week, but was really hoping that the metformin would shorten my cycle from the usual mammoth 40 days. Dh is under strict instructions to continue with the daily swi until I get a temp rise...which could be another 12 days away. Hoping we have the stamina.

A little sad today too as another friend announced her pregnancy. Very happy for her as it's her first and she's one of the last of my close group of friends to get pregnant (although she only started ttc recently). But feeling very sorry for myself. I can't share her excitement at all as I just keep thinking how unfair it is that I've had to miscarry 4 times and the next pregnancy will be fraught with worry and stress.

digi have a stash of internet OPK sticks I bought in Feb this year, (no use to me bcs of PCOS [stupid and rash purchase emoticon]) can I send them to you? PM me if useful. Sorry to hear you're feeling a bit glum, a totally understandable reaction to that news. Hope today is better

YRMOTBFP good luck for appt today

ok in no particular order...
BBB my gorgeous girl, as I said on Arsebook, hip hip hoooooray :)

mouse really pleased you are getting good union support - as you should of course, but welcome all the same.

izwhiz serves you right for being a dinky size 10 to start with ... you'll get no sympathy from me x

knitter good to see you, can't believe it's been a month :(, you brave thing you x

wiggle you're dead sweet to even consider me at all - don't be daft, am chuffed you're now firmly on the list. Keep well.

digi, I understand how you feel. Even the few people IRL I know who have had problems of one kind or another, they have all resolved them now, IVF, donor eggs, try/try/try again. I had to sit in the middle yesterday of 2 women, one feeding her 4week old DD2, the other joking about how her unplanned 24week pregnancy with DC3 was messing all her plans up... I literally don't know anyone else still NOT got what they yearn for. I'm afraid I don't even have your confidence that I'll even get pregnant again to be honest. It sucks :(

wave to everyone else - must dash, have a busy day of toddler activities sandwiched round popping into a wake for my BIL's mother, even though I'm estranged from my sister, but as she won't be there (dunno why but that's what my niece tells me) I'm "safe" to go. Feckin' family shit.

Sorry to post and run just wanted to say...
BB great news and may the rest of your pregnancy be lovely and uncomplicated xx

Hi all, sorry no posting - this one is going to be short too but I'm trying to get on regularly to at least read and keep up to date.
I'm really hoping my body is going to hold off laying that egg until tomorrow and then hoping I can persuade DH to SWI after a long journey back to us after being away at work all week. It's my only opportunity and means we might be in with a tiny chance this month rather than having to flag it entirely.

digi just wanted to mention I really chimed with your thoughts - my two best friends, neither of whom have had easy backgrounds have both become pregnant since I had my most recent MC. Despite bleeds and various scares they've both come through the first trimester. It feels incredibly unfair to me that I started trying long before either of them, have been pg 3 times since and still haven't come through to a successful point. I was imagining what I would tell a new GP once we're in a new house and the basic message was what we've found out so far, and what I would expect them to support me with in terms of further investigations if I got pg again and had another loss. At the moment that seems like a much more likely scenario than actually having a successful pregnancy and that really pains me.

jolls I was very sad to see that it didn't turn out well for you this time either. So tough. Must feel very frustrating.

This jetlag is a drag. What do they say? is it a day for every hour? Better not be, I don't want to still be struggling in a week.

Crikey - slow day here today...

LadyBee just to say have fun with the SWI :-)

and

BBB lovely scan news - really pleased for you

Still nothing interesting from me - day 34 since the termination and no AF yet.... Sigh...

BBB Hurray for the wriggling bean and strong heartbeat and congrats on the hospital 'graduation', chuffed to bits for you.

Digi Sorry you're feeling low. I know too well the feeling of other people announcing their pgs, it just seems never ending. You make it through all the birth announcements and then a whole new batch of friends/ family etc announce that they've just reached 12 weeks! At least the next time you know that you have the meds in place. I'm still on clexane, cyclogest and prednisolone and so far, so good. I'm waiting for results to see if the steroids have lowered my nks so will keep you posted. I hope that you hatch an egg v soon though so you can relax. Great that your dh is obliging too!

Ladydownbelow Lovely to hear from you and glad you've arrived safely. I hope that egg holds off until MrBee gets home.

Mouse Really pleased you're getting support from your union (ie they're doing their job!) but surely it's time your beatch of a boss pissed off and found something else to busy herself with got a job elsewhere?

YRMOTB Sorry you're feeling groggy, hope you feel better soon. Respect for the degree too. I often think of retraining/studying again but then someone mentions essays/dissertations and I remember how shocking I am with deadlines etc and reconsider!

Izzy Fanfare for the second trimester. Woot woot! Let's hope it passes as uneventfully as the first

Jolls at 'Arsebook'.

A little positive thought for the ttcers today - a bfp at any point over the next 6 months will result in a spring/summer dd - surely one of the loveliest times to have a newborn/birthday (unlike myself who has managed another dd slap bang in the dead of winter!).

Anyone seen AandR lately? Hope you're ok if you're lurking xx

Battery How's the clexane going? I've got the hang of it now but for some strange reason I can only do it on left hand side. My right side was covered in some corking bruises and when I tried to do it on my right again this morning I somehow managed to bend the needle!!

All symptoms seem to have vanished here today but I'm not flapping about it. I'm taking the rational approach that I've just eaten another bag of pickled onion Monster Munch 'therefore I must still be pregnant.'

Knitter I hope af doesn't keep you waiting too long x

Hello everyone. Just a quick post form me.

wiggle I am getting on ok with the injections, I am the opposite to you - I can inject on the right with no problem, it is the left hand side that I always bruise on! My symptoms come and go but have been very strong over the past few days- normally when I am driving home from work and feel like I am going to puke in my lap :(

Sorry not to name check anyome, I spend my evenings just waiting until 9pm so I can go to bed, I am knackered! I hope everyone is ok though xx

hi all

just wanted to say I know I'm updiffed but I'm getting fed up with people announcing their pgs around me too. My sister is the latest one - she already has a one yr old and is now 9 weeks with her 2nd and I'm really annoyed about it! I want my one to be special for a while!! DH says I'm being an idiot but my sister has always been the centre of attention so I know that her baby will get priority over mine.

ladybee fx you get some action :)

knitter sorry AF isnt here yet - is the WTF the same after a termination as with an ERPC? Mine took 10 weeks to come back after that!

One more week til half term woooohooo

Here here wiggle I too hope her time at school is coming to an end... Think she'll do at least another year though. Doom.

Right, I'm going to be brave and say I have definitely ovulated. Temps are v clearly up. Should I expect my LP to be shorter or just the normal 14 days?

Waves to jolls digi lady izzy battery blackkat bbb aandr

I feel your pain I am so worried someone else will be pg before me and I feel like stamping my feet and saying it's my turn!

yrmotb did you get to the gp? How did it go?

knitter hope af hurries up and gets here for you, mine was just over 4 weeks after erpc but I know it can take a while.

mouse sorry boss is back to being an Arse, hope you're still getting support from the union. Would you think about raising a formal grievance/complaint? She sounds a complete nightmare.

However, good news on the egg front - my luteal phase was more screwed up (shorter and more irregular) than normal after my erpc but it had never been brilliant tbh. Hopefully yours will settle back to normal fairly soon.

ladybee lovely to hear from you . Hope the jet lag hasn't wiped you out too much and you get a bit of swi in this weekend

Big ((hug)) for jolls and digi - jolls funny thing is I spent the first three months of this year dieting hard to get back to my former "dinky size 10", was so delighted I bought a load of new clothes, then got my bfp straight away and since then have been slowly reversing my achievements . Not that I'm complaining of course but tis the law of sod re the diet!

velvet your baby will be special and will be loved, you will make sure of that, don't worry. Do you get on with your sister? It might be nice for your lo to have a cousin about the same age? (having said that, I had a cousin the same age as me and it was really irritating because everyone expected us to play together and we didn't really get on very well! )

battery (if you're still up!) hope the tiredness isn't getting too much for you, get dh to run around after you and put your feet up.

wiggle and freezing hope you're doing well with enough symptoms to put you at ease but not so many you're feeling rubbish!

Velvet My Termination actually was by ERPC... Actually quite horrific when you think about it... normally I try not to. I was under GA and they did whatever they do normally except that my bean was alive :(

So in theory my AF should come back any time now... I think it was 30 days exactly after the ERPC I had for my MC.... and the same after my ectopic (although there was some bleeding after 10 days then too)...

If I get to the end of the month without AF turning up I'll POAS.... because if I were to be pg I'll then be hot-footing it to the EPU for a scan to check it's not another ectopic.... Agggg... bloomin' medical history!

V quick post as I should be in bed but up late working doing the work I should have done this afternoon instead of reading MN again

lovely to hear you've arrived safely LadyBee - get to it Mr Bee

wiggle at the bent needle

I have just the right amount of symptoms thanks Izzy - I'm even considering the freak out room but don't want to start freaking out

Jolls so sorry you feel so down. I, for one, really do think you'll have your turn soon but that probably isn't much help to you. Sorry

Mouse woo hoo, mouse has ovulated, mouse has ovulated - doing a little dance to celebrate

YRMOTB what did the GP say?

sorry not to namecheck you all

Hello peeps.

Gp was nice, tried to make me an appointment at EPAU, but the first one was next Weds, and I'm away. They can't do before that, or after that as it's an acute service, so it's no go on that front. I really doubt we can afford a private scan, but I could try crying on DP's shoulder, if it gets that bad. Anyway, am away in Edinburgh for a week from today, so that will be nice. She was quite nice, and pointed out gently that I don't really need an appt, chances are slim, yada yada yada. So that's that.

izz I'm doing an English language and literature degree, which I've found to be quite useful in terms of taking my mind off things for the last year, but I just seem unable to concentrate recently, or study properly.

I've just got up, and am knackered again, I've been up for less than 45 minutes, but could happily go back to sleep. I feel your pain battery. Is dp visiting soon?

mouse grr for your boss, again. Silly mare. I'm not sure re the LP, I think mine was the same, but actually I've no idea. Sorry.

this is the cottage in the borders I'm staying at this week. Excited.

freezing I keep popping my head around the door of the freak out room and getting scared. Glad you feel symptomy though. I figure I might as well go on the list though as no chance of a scan til 12 weeks... perhaps I'll do that today. I'm doing enough internal mentalling, and some on izz- sorry

knitter I waited 8 weeks, thereabouts after the ERPC for my period, which, like velvet was on the long side of normal, I think.

jolls hope you're ok- busy?

bb Are you well? tired?

wiggle I need to steal some zen, pass it over here please. I lost my last bean at 6+5, so am now at 7+1 and been obsessing over possible imagined lessening of symptoms today and yesterday. I did kick off with dp yesterday after he burped in my face (not intentionally) which nearly made me vom. Onions and beer. It's making me feel sick just thinking about it.

Waves and love to all. aandr zam digi hope you're all well.

yrmotb - it took me until I was 6 weeks and had had a scan to confirm live bean(s) to post in freak out room and past the 20 weeks scan to go to the grads. I know how you're feeling

YRMOTB If it's any consolation my symptoms have all but disappeared this last couple of days too. I'm a little bit but not overly worried. My clinic has been taking my hcg and progesterone every other day but I decided that it was becoming to stressful with a toddler in tow and trying to avoid congestion charges/ traffic wardens/ rush hour etc every other day so I told them I am away until Monday. It was also becoming v expensive! I hope I don't regret that decision! From others in the freak out room I think it's quite normal for symptoms to come and go in these early days so I really wouldn't worry. Cottage looks lovely too btw, hope you have a fab week!