Oh litlady I'm sorry to hear of your loss. That's extremely sad news. I hope recovery goes as smoothly as possible and wish you every bit of luck if and when you decide to keep trying. Take care m'dear.
Cat - congrats on your good 8 week scan, may all the good stuff just keep on continuing 
Digi - yeah, I had a big bloat tummy earlier, then it went away for a few weeks, and now I have just the same belly as before but it's harder and I wake up with it rather than it developing steadily over the day . I'm generally feeling a bit better but had two rough days yesterday and today - still far too well aquainted with our loo sadly (TMI) and my dinners are on sandwich plates or I just feel urgh. So snacking is king for me. That fits with what I'm supposed to do for the blood sugar stuff anyway.
twittwoo when do you have to decide about the nuchal? Can you just decide when you go in for the scan? or do you need to tell them beforehand? My personal feeling was that it is not invasive or harmful at this stage, it does give a fairly good indication of the risk of there being a problem. I try to take everything just one step at a time, so on that basis alone I couldn't see why I wouldn't have it done. The step after would have to be considered on the results - if it came back high risk, I'd want to know exactly how high before making a further decision about whether to have an invasive diagnostic test, etc.
confu3ed if you're waking with lots of thoughts swimming about in your head, you could try listening to the radio or a podcast very quietly. I find having people talking to me stops my own internal voices. I've been doing this almost since my BFP and sleep very well. If I wake up a little, here the voices, listen a bit and drift off again. I generally use the 'In our Time' Radio 4 podcast so it's not pregnancy-related Lovely blood results though. Very reassuring. Progesterone made a difference for me (well, it was the one thing that we did differently this time), fingers crossed for you too.
PieMistress did you book the scan? You're doing really well, just keep getting through the days one by one.
FishandJam are you starting to feel a bit better now? Poor you, flu and MS would be a nightmare!
Knitter - very jealous of Venice. We went at about the same time of year but before DS was born and I loved it. Have some excellent stories of our adventures - much of it was v surreal.
LAF I would like to hang on to your coattails if you're moving into warp speed, please. Time still feels like it's going very very slowly over here.
KatandKit shall await your report on the aquanatal. There is a class not too far from me on a day that might suit but if I'm going to go there is going to have to be some serious personal grooming take place beforehand...and I want to know it's going to be worth it 
So I had a MW appointment yesterday, mainly to go over my blood sugar results which I thought looked ok but they've decided I need to increase my metformin by one and keep monitoring. Oh well. And they found a heartbeat - yay! Was warned that she might take a while but actually I was quite calm while she hunted and it didn't take long. That gives me a bit more confidence in investing in a home doppler now, as I think I might have an ok chance at finding it too, despite the anterior placenta thing. No more appointments for 4 weeks and I anticipate those being quite long weeks without some sort of reassurance.
So having basically done nothing for our anniversary because I was crippled with miserable nausea and fatigue, it is my birthday next weekend and I have no idea what to do. Think probably a lunch is the only option as I get quite uncomfortable/nauseous/tired in the evenings and just want to lay down. And I think I'm going to really miss drinking a lovely glass of NZ wine with an evening meal whereas I think I could pass it up more easily at a lunch.