Fan, yes to the working out the due date thing! That was the first thing I did when we started ttc - and then my period came the very next day, so I had to put that in the Due Date Calculator as well.
Thea was called Babbit and I still call her that most often to DH. I'm going back to work tomorrow, alas. I feel like I'm just marking time there - have to force myself to get on with things.
Hi Blue and Angel!
Hi Whatever, glad you felt able to join us. Congratulations on your BFP! So sorry to hear about your baby Erin. Don't feel guilty about being pg again so quickly - you couldn't help it. I was pg again just over 3 months from Thea's death, first month of trying. I haven't had any 'moving on' type comments, just people telling me how pleased they are for me and DH, and saying that it's not forgetting Thea, but being able to go on living. You must be in a whirl emotionally at the moment with your grief, your worries over your own health and now the new pregnancy. Do you have to go back to work? I say this because I went back to work after about 13 weeks, got some upsetting news from the hospital (about Thea's care, not about my own health) and couldn't cope - I ended up signed off with stress for a further 6 weeks, during which time I discovered I was pg, which helped my recovery. I think you have enough to process at the moment without the added stress of going back to work. You may not have a choice, of course, in which case ignore me! I hope you get hold of your consultant tomorrow and can start to get some answers about what this will mean for you. Please come back and post here - there's always someone around to hold your hand.
Wow, Cheese, 29+3! Good to hear that your ctg trace was fine and that LO is moving heaps. Hope your iron levels have picked up a bit since you were last tested. Enjoy the 4D scan, too. I have been counting down the weeks thinking about preemies/viability etc etc - also on the basis that at least if Bean was born early she would be carefully watched and making sure she was still alive wouldn't be solely my responsibility...
I don't want her to be early, but the suspense is getting to me and I just want her to be safely born. 27+4 is much too early, though.
I've got my 28 week growth scan on Thurs, followed by a consultant appt. I am going to try to pin the consultant down to a definite week for ELCS this time. She originally suggested 38 weeks as a good time, and when I said that would be Thea's birthday she said we'd go for the week before. However, at the last appt she said 39 weeks, and I was too hung up on Bean's dodgy kidney to argue. I have fretted about it ever since, so I just want a definite week to aim for. I am pretty sure Bean has been growing - I'm getting heartburn again (ow!) and she just feels bigger. She wriggles lots, too. She was only on the 25th centile at the last scan, but I suppose there's nothing wrong with that, per se - I'm only 5'2" and someone has to be on the smaller side of the bell curve.