Freak out room for those newly updiffed after mc - Part V

[MummyAbroad]

Just found out you are pregnant after a previous miscarriage? There is plenty of support, hand holding and problem-shared-problem-halved going on over here. All welcome to join in.

Wednesday's List (11th May 2011)

Nickster 27+4 EDD 7/8/11
Orange 23+4 EDD 4/9/11
Wombat33 22+4 EDD 10/09/11 next scan 25/5/11
Daisybell 21+6 EDD 14/09/11
Pinkfondantfancy 20+3 EDD 25/09/11
Tiggersreturn (TTT) 20+1 EDD 26/09/11 next scan 13/5/11
mamapower 20+0 EDD 28/9/11
DoubleDiffedDachs 19+0 EDD 5/10/11 next scan 18/5/11
Emoo 18+5 EDD 7/10/11 next scan 19/5/11
Lovemysleep 18+1 EDD 11/10/11
Tunnocksteacake 16+3 EDD 24/10/11
Onions 16+3 EDD 24/10/11 Next Scan 07/06/11
IreneHeron 16+3 EDD 23/10/11 next scan 3/6/11
Velvetcu 16+1 EDD 25/10/11 next scan 22/06/11
MummyAbroad 14+5 EDD 4/11/11
CEP 14+4 EDD 5/11/11 - 20 wk scan 22/6/11
Hils74 14+0 EDD 8/11/11
Katherine2008 13+6 EDD 10/11/11 next scan 23/6/11
Haffertee 13+4 EDD 14/11/11
delilahbelle 12+6 EDD 22/11/11
Mattsmama 12+6 EDD 17/11/11
Collie 12+3 EDD 20/11/11 next scan 18/05/11
Ninunina: 12+2 EDD 21/11/11 next scan 12/5/2011
wombatinwaiting: 11+6 EDD 24/11/11 NT scan 12/5/11
Banana87: 11+6 EDD 24/11/11 NT scan 19/5/11
IzzyWizzyletsgetbusy 11+4 EDD 26/11/11 NT scan 16/5/2011
LaraMi 10+5 EDD 2/12/11 Next scan - 18/05/11
Blackkat 10+2 EDD 5/12/11
Jigglebum 9+6 EDD 8/12/11
Hairylights 4+0

Thinking of.... ladybee; digi; A&R; barbie; harassed; MumTum; Knitter, Kat2504

velvet omg I am so sorry - I have slapped myself with a haddock.

[mortified emoticon]

Daisy, I agree with Hadrian - I had a terrible counsellor the first time (for panic attacks) and had to find someone else - I ended up with a man, which I wasn't expecting to work, but it did.

Hadrian my symptoms came and went like the clappers - please don't give up yet. And I was the queen of cramps. Will be fx for you on Friday.

izzy thanks for your words of wisdom. knowing my luck I would bet on a horse with those odds (I am rubbish at betting...) but I know what you mean. I need to relax and get on with telling people I am pg. I am looking like I ate all the pies now, so could do with having a reason for it!

sending hugs to everyone.

Hello everyone,

Hoping that Minnie scan goes well today (if you're having one, I think you said you were)

Pleased to hear that Hadrian and Hairy have organised scans. It's a big step isn't it.

Velvet would love to come to mamap's to put faces to names, but I'm also oop north and not sure I'd be able to make it. Though agree with Lara that I bet the conversation probably won't reach the levels we do on here!!

Collieandpup perhaps we should organise a northern meet up??

Lara I love your stories of your day. That 20 minute stress infront of the mirror sounds familiar. I look like a bag lady at the moment, won't let myself buy any new clothes til I'm past 12 weeks! [trying not to mental emoticon]

Cep how are you love??

Daisy best of luck for tomorrow.

Battery hope all ok with you??

Katherine, I think Izzy is right those odds sound good to me,

to everyone else, sorry not to name check

Final thought: if some of you lovely ladies are graduating into the grads thread should we amend the list to show that, perhaps with a grads section?? It might then feel a little less daunting for those newly updiffed to join the bottom of such a long and distinguished list? Just a thought, feel free to shoot me down in flames??

Yes, good luck Mimmie and any other scanees today!

Blackkat that sounds okay to me. As long as you don't mind us hanging around here too!

Ohhhhhh Blackkat I like the sound of a northern meet up.... are there many of us????

Like the idea of a grads section too, that way when people move on we can still stalk them watch their progress.

Morning All

(minus the ears cos I just ate them).

Good luck to scanners today. Hope news is good.

Blackkat - how are your symptoms at the mo? (you're my closest thing to a twin).

Just came back from getting my bloods done. A "drop of blood" in each vial my arse...! What a load of bollox... looked like she'd taken the entire blood content of my left arm.

I am so unbelievably chicken... the EPU at St Georges is right next to the "blood part" of the hospital. As I am so super anxious, the mw asked me if I wanted to have another early scan done while I was there this AM. Of course, I chickened out of it. For some weird psychological reason, I'd rather wait till my 12 week scan next week for any bad news rather than getting the bad news reassurance now and then not fretting for a week. Makes no sense. And of course today am convinced that my boobs are back to "old size" and that all nausea etc has gone .

Just found out another woman in the office is pg - that makes 4 right now (excluding me of course cos I don't count yet). So of course, despite our educated discussions about the Poisson theory last week, I am now fretting that statistically, I am due to miscarry. .

Getting quite excited at the thought of a meet-up I have to say... MamaP's menu looks divine. On the subj of food, for some reason all I feel like eating at the mo is Pizza Express (La Reine with extra artichoke for those that care). On the way back from the hospital I REALLY fancied getting a chicken and mushroom Pukka pie for lunch (never, ever eat those - along with Pizza Exp). Thankfully (for waistline reasons) the supermarkets (a Tesco, Sainsburys and Coop) all conspired against me and none of them had them in stock. .

Just looking at the list above, it seems that there are some ladies that we don't seem to hear from any more. Does anyone know if they're ok? Maybe they've changed threads? Like the idea of a grads section - would be very encouraging for us freshers at the bottom.

Hadrian - try not to worry. Friday is very soon.

Collie - what's "dtd"?

Anyways - guess I'd better do some work and think about how I can replace Pukka pie craving

Good luck minnie

LOL @ lara you do make me giggle. I can't believe after all your mentalling you gave up the chance of a scan, there and then. I'd have snapped her hand off.

dtd is sex..... which we're not having!

Crisps are my pg weakness. Crisps are usually a rare treat, but i just want a bag ALL the time!!!

Ahhhhhh - DtD - I geddit now! . We're not erm DtDing (sp?!) either. Am scared crapless to do it. I think I'd freeze up in fear at anything happening and totally kill the moment. We in fact discussed that very issue this AM and DH agreed. I think he's worried too. (To be honest can't say I'm disappointed - not feeling particularly sexy right now and I tend to be out like a light by 9pm)

YES, I DECLINED a scan. So bloody stupid. So for the next seven days: constant knicker-checking, boob-prodding, Dr googling, sleepless nighting and jusr general paranoia. What an idiot.

PMSL lara well a week will pass before you know it. my next scan is weds too

just not jusr, obviously

Jolls i posted earlier and am so sorry bcs I forgot to let you know I was thinking of you, so sorry to hear about the CP. Hope to see you here again soon. X

Lara, I'm knackered, peeing a lot, and have some funny ice lolly and crisp cravings. I can't believe you missed out on a chance to have a cheeky scan and I really think you need to step away from the stat mentalling. Please try!!

Collie not sure who's up here, think YRMOTB and know Chloe and Mouse from t'other threads are.

Wombat of course we'd want you all to stay on the thread, I was just wondering how to make it feel less daunting when you first find out pregnant

Ah fab - we are both being scanned next week... To warn you, if I disappear and don't come back, it will be cos the scan is bad news

Northern meeting - yes please (although I'm still going to try and make the field trip). I'm in the wilds of Cumbria

Happy to be on a grads list although a little that my presence may have been daunting for others.

Thanks for the best wishes re the appointment - I think I'll make a list of the possible causes/effects so I don't forget anything.

PS, I can't remember if I shared this on here or on the other thread but for those worried about the jinx pixies and the aquisition of stuff. I have a theory that if I am given baby items, they come with their own barrowload of Thrift Fairies, who then beat the jinx pixies off so they can't strike

Hi Daisy what I meant was that when I was at 4 or 5 weeks, I felt daunted to add myself to a list with people who were so much further on than me, bcs it made me feel like I was the stat waiting to happen. (bollocks I know). So it could just be me feeling like that, and others aren't bothered, but I wanted to voice it bcs I was worried that lots of people post here and then seem to disappear in the very early stages, and I wanted to make sure it wasn't bcs so many of us are now that bit further on? Hope that eases the confusion and makes some sense from my rather foggy brain.

Right, Collie Daisy that makes 3 of us?!!

Just spoke to DH who said he didn't understand either why I didn't have a scan this AM. Now am mentalling. How could I have been so stupid.... Oh well - have to get through the next week I guess.....

Lara call the mw back, I'm sure she'd do it for you this pm if you asked???

Awww - thanks Blackkat - it's actually just the walk-in at the EPU. I contemplated going in again tomorrow AM but then figured I might as well hold fire til next week. (Plus if you recall I am trying to get out of Dubai business trip the week after next). Weird logic is that if something is wrong and bean isn't there anymore and I need to be hospitalised then better I find out next week and then don't have to go to Dubai the week after rather than it happening now and then me being well enough in time for Dubai. Totally nuts logic I know but my weird way of convincing myself it's best to find out next week. Gah - so bloody stupid!

ps - I love crisps too - salt and vinegar these days are yum!

just eaten bag of ready salted squares...yummm

Errrrr and i just bought a Doppler..... [notsureifitsagoodidea emoticon]

Yum - love ready salted squares.

No motivation to work today (can you tell??)

Ooh - a doppler - don't obsess please! (She says)

Katherine i got this one same as tunnocks i think. Good reviews. I got a used one off ebay though for £35

Hi ladies

Had a horrendous night of really really pain stomach pains. I almost called an ambulance as it got so bad I couldn't take it. Am keeping a low profile on here as I am not really acknowledging I am pregnant but had to laugh when I read Lara's post as I went to the EPU this morning at St Georges as I was so worried and wondered if it was an ectopic pregnancy. We must have been there at the same time! What number blood test were you as I was watching each one go in to take my mind off waiting for the scan!

Anyway as I am only 5 weeks they couldn't see anything other than the sac on the scan. Didn't really reassure me about the pains at all as they think it could be a UTI (not that they tested for it) but I have had plenty of those and this is a totally different pain - like period pains. I still think my uterus is contracting trying to get rid of the embryo and its all going to end badly but there is nothing I can do to stop it so I just have to take it day by day and just hope the pain doesn't come back as bad as last night.

Hope everyone is ok. Sorry not to name check but I am lying in bed with a very sore tummy and feeling pants.

xxxx

afternoon ladies, what a blooming day ds was sick this morning although seemed fine so he went to nursery anyway. crashed car reversing out of tesco's carpark, me and bloke reversed at same time. thankfully not fast, his car fine, my indicator light was smashed. thankfully i bought cream cakes while i was in there so i can comfort eat instead of drink.

Goodluck minnie

blackkat i'm not too bad thankyou for asking, how are things with you?

The news about kelly brook has got my mentalling going again.

I think i'm too far from everyone to meet up, can't afford to go anywhere this year either, can't even go to Manchester for my cousins birthday and another cousins baby's christening, gutted.