Snowy... As the others have said, welcome, but I'm so sorry you need to be here. To answer your question, after I gave birth to Merryn (also at 32 wks) I was surprised that my AF arrived about four or five weeks later. My cycle settled into a routine, but not the same as before, but i found it has changed after each time ive been pregnant.
My consultant said we could try straight away, although they did put me on asprin and high dose Folic acid, but that was because of Preeclamsia. I can relate to wanting to try straight away, although I think in the end I am glad it has taken us a few months as I feel more able to cope with being pregnant that I would have done in the early days.
FAN, you really do not need this. I hope the spotting is stopping and you are able to rest? Are you at work, and if so can you go home?
I will be thinking about you through the week until your scan, and then of course coming up to Fi's birthday on the 27th.
Of course you are worried sick about this little one, but I really don't think you need to worry about being a good mum, as Rainbox said, you are a mum already, and you are going to be amazing for this little one too, really.
(I don't know how it is there, but the maternity day unit here will Doppler me when I'm worried, if I call and tell them I'm coming, it might be worth calling them to ask, if it would make the wait until Wed any easier)?
RAINBOX, 24 weeks, you are doing so well, although this month and these weeks must be so hard for you. I am glad you are being scanned regularly, it must help a little. (although for me no more than two days before the panic returns)!
I think I understand some of how you feel about Dexter and this baby, and it all being very confusing and difficult. I sometimes think that it's Merryn inside me, and then feel guilty that I feel so upset that it isn't. I don't know how we will feel when our little ones are here. I remember worrying (although obviously different) when I was due my second boy that I couldn't feel as strongly about him as I do about his brother. When he came he looked so different (while looking like his brother too), and was so obviously himself, and that helped. I hope, for me, that Merryn and her brothers will always be loved differently but just as much as each other, I think mums are good at this. I just wish it was different for us all....
I'll be thinking of you and Dexter on his birthday. Do you have any plans for the day? X
BABYH, I'm sorry to hear about your Granddad. And I'm glad your SIL had a lovely girl, I completely understand why that makes it a little easier for you. X
I need to go, but Thankyou to everyone who thought of us and Merryn last week. It meant an awful lot. We ran away on Thurs and went to Cadburys world with the boys (don't ask). Then we had WE at Inlaws in the NE. Lots of driving and time with the boys, and sugar. I think on Merryns birthday we wanted to remember and think, but we found no joy in the 18th and just got through as best we could, it wasn't easy. The week between her being born and leaving us is always going to be very difficult.