Just MC and ready to try again? Pregnant after MC and seeking somewhere safe to hide? Come on down to the mosh pit for some serious metalling and cake overindulgence

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Continuation of the last thread.

There's cake for scoffing, backs for patting, and screeching death metal for all your metalling moments. All welcome so come on in and get settled into the plush sofas!

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So settle into the mosh pit, we have special VIP area's for those on the 2WW, the new bumps metalling with segregated areas for the first/second/third trimesters and the club class cocktail bar for those who have just got AF and can get-pissed let loose for the first two weeks!

Yay GBP great news!

My scan was fine too - everything where it should be! Got some lovely pictures too :) - didn't get much done at work though!

marbles I hope your DD is ok.

Brilliant news kirrin

GPB and Kirrin, excellent news! So pleased for you both.

Marbles I am sorry you and your DD are going through all of this. It's good you are getting treated early. Will she be seen in a children's dept or a neurology one? I hope you are in children's dept. My DD had 2 bad accidents in Jan, and we ended up in A and E. Being treated in a child friendly place helped. Just try and prepare yourself emotionally for being a bit unnerved by it. And lots of sticker books helped, although maybe you won't have to deal with waiting with an appointment. Big hugs. X
pebs I second everything people have said on here. A consultant being so dismissive of her esteemed peers is unnerving and smacks of sour grapes. I think you are right to pursue the course of treatment you have researched and decided on. It is you that has to act on and live with treatment offered. I keep thinking about my lovely and now retired GP who said ' I cannot change what is going on here, but you can have some control of your treatment'. He understood the mental impact of mc, and the importance of me being able to stop feeling so helpless. And I think it is similar for you in a bigger sense .
Manda, I think denial is in the air for May babies. My RL pregnant friend is over 38 weeks, and still hasn't packed her hospital bag. My DD was born at 38+2! She has all the stuff, just won't pack it, apparently she can do that in labour...
Well, I am awake at silly o clock. It's my NT scan today. Scared of bad news. I have moved from the 'general background risk' danger zone, into my own on. And there is a Bad Cat that can get through the magnetic cat flap and woke me up bullying my own cat. And now sleep has left me.
Waves to all I have missed

Good luck today Jaffa

woo hoo kirrin!

marbles so sorry that your DD is going through that. I dont think DS's is to the same degree, it is certainly not that often and only every now and again he just wanders off to space, but i think that is just a 'thing' but i shall certainly keep an eye on things. OTOH it is reassuring that you have spotted it so quickly and the GP seems v supportive. Good luck and let us know how you get on

can i just backtrack on this statement of last night:

bizarre as it may sound i really do miss those early newborn days, even though me and DH were grappling in the dark experience wise we enjoyed the whole 'learning curve' and just the whole 'us being responsible for DS'. I even coped pretty well with the culture shock of no sleep as i figured that this was the hardest most tiring work i have ever done, but by far the most rewarding.

FFS DS was awake screaming from 9.30pm to 2.30am last night he has NEVER done that he has a cough and it is bothering him but my god we had some arguments with him. He was demanding everything from 'medicine' (calpol) to 'breathing thing' (his asthma inhaler) we gave them to him as he needed them but tried everything else from cups of warm milk to vicks on the chest, olbas oil, chill out music....... we even tried controlled crying (he is nearly 3!!). Anyway he settled around 2.30 and me and DH had to be up at 6.30. DS decided to have a lie in and said to me when he woke up that he had a 'nice sleep'

marbles so sorry that you are having such a worrying tine with DD. hers hoping it's something that she grows out of PDQ and there is nothing sinister at the root of it. The brain is a complicated business. At least you are getting an immediate referral though and they are taking it seriously. Such a source of worry those pesky kids, even worse when they are in the outside.

kirrin and GPB* yeah yeah yeah. Cyber hugs and manly pats on the back.

pebs my specialist could do nothing for me and suggested there was probably no cause. Cue, St Mary's. Immediate linkage of all my issues (clots in placenta, pph, etc etc) and a fairly instant different and successful diagnosis. raj and the crew of specialists are amongst the est in the world so your co sultans is quite frankly misguided.

matha high five!!!

i live further away from liverpool than you! i think there are very few rmc's in the country so liverpool will be your nearest one. unless there is a rmc in manchester that i don't know about??

i think my plan is a good one as i will either be pg or getting tests. either way it's moving forward.

thanks for the recomendation marbles - i wil make a note of it and try to make sure i get him.

Posted too soon, apologies for the typos. I have rats in my garden. Did some gardening without gloves and now convinced iI may get Wiels disease as didn't wear gloves. Major metal. Can't help thinking I should wrap myself in Bloody cotton wool and eat cake till this bean is cooked. 14 plus 5 and still pregnant x

Good luck today Jaffa xxx

Had another dream about bleeding, will it ever stop? But for today I am still pregnant.

Yay for gpb and Kirrin any news???

manda u do make me smile I'm very disorganised so can see me being like that if I ever get there

Any one who poo poos rw I would be dubious of .....

Me? Still mentalling am I / aren't I but over the last few days symptoms have multiplied I to am now suffering from ninja sickness just creeps right up on me and bang! projectile everywhere ( including the school run yesterday afternoon had to hang out of car window NOT a good look ) and now 12 year old dd is worried I'm ill as we haven't told her yet.... Also brought what I sort of in a weirdly odd I'm sure u ladies will understand hope is the first of many bottles of gaviscon for the horrific heart burn I've got

Right best get on with some work ... Here are some Ben and jerrys pots various flavours and raspberry sorbet for all ( about all I can stomach at the mo!)

Sorry phone didn't update yay for Kirrin and her lovely pictures xx

hooray Kirrin!

Good luck today Jaffa

Sorry to hear you are having a worrying time marbles. My Aunty suffers from a mild form of epilepsy so I know a little about "absences". She had them from when she was about 2/3 and did grow out of them until a traumatic incident when she was 17 which seemed to kick start them again and still has them now. She has had a LOT of other health problems since birth though. When she does have a "turn" it's usually only us in the family who are used to it who even notice. To those who don't know it just looks like she's daydreaming or not paying attention for a couple of minutes. Also, treatment and understanding of this condition seem to have come on in leaps and bounds in the last 10-15 years. She was having 4/5 a day at one point, it's more like one every 18 months now. Good luck x

mumtum i am still rooting for you

Good luck today Jaffa, and yay Kirrin!

Thanks everyone. I got the best nights sleep ever last night - I think I'd been stressed about it for a while. It was very exciting though, I've never been so far along that I've seen it move, so that's really what sticks in my head.

Only 3 weeks and 1 day until my NT scan - let the metalling commence, no more special scans!

Well, the good news is still one baby, heart beating.

But, I found today horrendous. The baby was asleep, and floating in exactly the same eerie position my DS was when they diagnosed the mmc. I thought the baby was dead again. It brought back all the horror. Eventually the baby moved a bit, and rolled over slightly and went back to sleep. Scared me witless.

The next thing I am metalling about are the measurements. I know I am 12+5 today. Last week, the baby measured 12+4 when they could only be 11+6. today they measured 13+1. Last week the sonographer wouldn't do NT because she said the machine wasn't accurate enough. But I am still having a huge flap that the baby's growth has slowed down, despite the fact that I am 3 days ahead of where I should be... DH is 6ft5 so expect a long one.

Wish I could calm down. Next scan is at 16 weeks.

glad all was well jaffa. sorry you had a scare though . I've always made a point of not looking at the screen....On the bright side baby's obviously a good sleeper, that can only be a good thing!

No need to metal, the baby is FINE. The sonographer said herself the machine wasn't that accurate so try not to worry about the measurements. You can start metalling again soon I promise but you've had a good scan, enjoy today! x

Jaffa ok so it was good news in the end but a rather horrible experience none the less. I had totally different measurements given to me by EPU & RMC and then again when I had NT. Try not to worry - honestly. x

jaffa glad it was good news but so sorry it made you feel so bad.

Glad to hear your good news Jaffa. Sorry you had such bad deja vu. Don't worry about the measurements - they aren't precise and your baby is fine.

Afternoon ladies,
I keep logging on to catch up on what's been going on but never get a chance to post. I see there have been quite a few scans! Yay!

Jaffa What a horrible scare.

Well, my WTF month is over! After getting no egg symbol on my CBF monitor I was expecting a long prolonged wait for inevitable AF, but she turned up dead on time! Sneaky bitch. So, I was quite happy to see her in an odd sort of way so we can get started on the baby-making again this month.

I got pregnant the first month I used the monitor, but prior to that I used ovu test sticks for a few months but didn't get any result. I assumed that it was user error or bad timing but have a niggling at the back of my mind that I'm not ovulating regularly. Anyway, can't do much about it until I know for sure so feeding up husband for another round!

Fingers but not legs crossed for this month!

X

jaffa that must have been awful and brought back memories, glad the baby moved about a bit though.

I thought the dates she gave me were a little odd but they are ALL plus or minus 10 days. She made that very clear when I queried it. We are talking a question of mm at this stage so moving the cursor just a fraction to the right or left depending on how baby is lying gives you a few days difference. Please try not to worry about growth slowing, harder to do in reality I know!!! You only have 4 weeks until ther next scan, are you seeing the midwife before hand?

Oh poor you jaffa I can't imagine how that felt for you. I'm glad mini Jaffa is ok though.

Nothing to report here, feeling ok, feeling some tiny flutters after ice cold food/drink. Scan is next Wednesday.

wow what allot has happened!

Congrats on all the scans - although what a naughty baby Jaffa fancy scaring mummy and daddy like that ;)

Well i did another test (cost £11.50 ekk) and it says "I am pregnant +3" so that is good. Although i mc at 6 weeks last time. So i am still waiting for things to go wrong. slaps head!

Oh good luck for all scans that are coming up and i do hope that the ladies waiting for answers/bfp get those soon

Evening everyone,

I've not read the thread for a couple of days so a lot has happened in the meantime for me to catch up on!

i got hit on the side of the head by a box falling off a shelf at work and had such a bad headache i couldn't bare to look at a screen for a couple of days i'm in the swi period though, so i have carried on with other activities nonetheless

gpb and kirrin, brilliant news about your scans :)

Jaffa scan deja vu must have been really unpleasant, I'm so glad your little one is doing well, try not to let the metalling of the dates scare you

pebs i'm still reading research papers on clotting in pg in a misguided attempt to feel i'm doing something and r rai seems to be the lead researcher on a LOT of the published papers on clotting. Not sure what your snotty consultant is called but i've not come across her in the literature yet!!

manda wow we are in may. this month you are going to have that baby :)

mrsN if you are reading this i'm thinking of you

marbles, so sorry to hear about your dd, another thing for you to have to cope with, sometimes things aren't fair..

midgetm, what is pph and how is it linked to clotting, please??

bottle red, sorry about AF, maybe may is your month....

hello to all the other ladies on the thread...