MC avengers, still eating cake, 2008 WILL BE OUR YEAR!

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Hey ladies I have been brave and started new thread.
Aquababe will not have to look at her thread opener again.

and dive daisy too - welcome. Sorry about missing you off.

Take care GG, keep your pom poms in the cupboard...you necer know when you might need them

Champagne is going down v well - LOL re your 3am experience! I know what you mean.

hi kazbeth
so sorry to hear about your miscarriages
poor you
i am not suprised that you are fed up
i have just started temping on ff charts.
i am on cd23 have only being trying for number 2 for 3 months came off pill jan 23rd so first cycle was 55 days.
i dont know when i ovulated either.
it is so easy to imagine symptoms isnt it

heres hoping that you have some good luck soon and have your much needed sticky bean

Thank you for the welcome girls. Good to be surrounded by people who know what we're going through and don't say stupid things (have been feeling a bit intolerant in RL !)

Makes me really sad to read of all your experiences. As kazbeth says, hopefully there will be no new mc storeis from any of us. I think we've all had about enough already, am sure you all agree!

divedaisy hello, did you mean the due nov08 thread? My baby was due in September (althouth I was always too scared to join the thread - with good reason as it turns out ),I was on here last november though, is that what you meant?

tammy so sorry to hear what you're going through. Have they told you what the pill is they're going to give you because there are 2 different types. Mine is the first part of a 2 stage process due to the size of the baby, I have to be given something else 48 hours later to actually bring on labour. If you have had a blighted ovum they may be talking about methotrexate (sp?) for you? Completely up to you if that's what you want to do, but I would suggest finding out a bit about it before you take it (really don't mean that to sound patronising, hope it doesn't). It's just that it's not a very nice drug. I know there's no magic wand solution to any of this, but certainly for me, the more I found out about methotrexate last time, the more I was sure I would prefer a d&c even though that meant a general anaesthetic (sp?). Bottom line: do whatever's right for you. {{{hugs}}}

Georgie so sorry to see you go, I know we never really 'met' last time, but I do remember you. Good luck with the renovations (not to sound like a stalker, but I've been lurking on here for a while...!)

Lissie thank you so much for your messages, on here and over with the Knicker Checkers - I've read your posts in the past and I really admire your strength. Your DD is lucky to have such a wonderful mummy

Have been wondering how things were Kate, so sorry to hear your news and will be thinking of you
Bye bye GG, don't stay away too long
Welcome Kazbeth, be as miserable as you like, no-one here will mind, we all take turns at it
Well I certainly spoke too soon, I posted on another thread this morning that it was day 6 of m/c, bleeding was constant but not horrendous and that I was going to take dd1 into the city to visit the museum etc. Big mistake, all good until about midday when my body decided it would practically haemorrhage. I was sitting in the play area of the State Library, watching dd1 play, got up, found blood where I had been sitting and realised my trousers were soaked. We made quick exit out of there to the nearest loos, I realised it was just a disaster so caught the train straight home. Probably took about an hour to get home from when I first realised, blood everywhere at this stage, managed to keep it from dd1 though 4hrs after this started, I'm still soaking through regular pads about every 10min, is this normal?
Sorry if this is tmi, but this caught me completely by surprise today, had just expected it to continue on how it had been, like a period. I never got to this point last year, having erpc on day 3 of bleeding.
So shocker of an afternoon really. Going to pick up dd2 from nursery, dh from work, and come home to a glass of wine

Kate, Kazbeth and Tammy - sorry you've had to join us, but welcome.

Kate and Tammy - will be thinking about you both this week.

Kazbeth - frustrating isn't it. I bought an ovulation microscope the other day - have been using it for a few days and it is showing I haven't ov'd yet (but that is no surprise as I'm still spotting at what I hope is the end of a 2 week af). It works by putting a spot of saliva on the lense and then looking at the pattern it makes when dry. If you are about to ov or are ov'ing a slight ferning then v.obvious ferning appears. I will let you know if it works (if I ever ov again [impatient face]).

Scully - sorry to hear about your afternoon - hope the bleeding has settled now. I think they say you should check with your Dr if you are soaking through pads at that rate.

I don't know what is normal for a natural mc as I had an ERPC. After that had very light bleeding for the first 3 days then v.heavy blood with clots for another 3 days then light again. Horrible. First af was really heavy too (again after a few light days lulling me into a false sense of security).

GG - I will miss you! Thank you for all your kind words over the last few weeks. Good luck with everything and hope you come back soon (if only to tell us the beeny effect has worked! ).

scully soory hun about all the bleeding
hope that it has calmed down abit now

Scully I'd ring the dr just to check - when I mc'd they told me to contact them if the bleeding got bad, yours sounds like it qualifies to me. Hope you are feeling better and take it easy , hard with dd's I knwo but worth trying.

Kazbeth hello - sorry you had to join us but good to meet you. I agree re getting tired, I've had a chest infection for aaaggees now and cant shift it, just finished ab's and it still hasn't gone away so coughing like a deranged person every now and again still

Happy Monday morning to everyone anyway - my offering is mugs of steaming hot choc with fresh crusty bread and honey to go with it - mmmm

feck. cant go to LWH today, ds is still not well

Hello everyone new, sorry you've had to join us. However, in some ways it is reassuring to know that you're not alone, and lots of other people are going through/feeling the same things.

My offering - restricted today, sorry - ds's birthday cake - green dragon!

(diet started today, so not going to go too far down this route today!)

Thx ladies, seems to have slowed a little now, I've never in my life had to buy super pads, first time for everything. I just seem to have lost clots all afternoon, surely must stop soon. Probably shouldn't be having a glass of wine, but I am, after managing to keep this from dd1 (I had blood running down my legs ffs), I am just wanting to disappear into a cave until it's all over. Obviously not possible, but one can wish
Sorry Lissie, I've got a shocking memory at the best of times, what is LWH?
Green dragon cake sounds lovely Mistle, would it go well with my chardonnay?
You're all going to think I'm an wino, I'm not really, it's just the time difference

Sounds like wine is the best prescription scully I know it was for me - didnt say before a big WELL DONE for being so calm while getting home - it must have been so hard to act normal for DD1 - it never fails to amaze me what mothers will do/ endure to protect their LO's - that's got to be worth a slug of chardonnay

Green dragon mistle sounds perfect to me

Thx ladies, for your kind words, I have had said slug of chardie quarkee and am now off to bed
Tomorrow can only be a better day
Thx for the advice Kazbeth, you're right, after such a sudden blood loss I do need to remember to take it easier, I shall try.....
dh cooked me a yummy steak on the bbq tonight, that was his contribution to getting my iron levels back up to normal

well you are in Australia!!!

Scully - I don't know whether you can get this easily, but if you can get hold of some carob it is fantastic at getting iron levels up - I have a teaspoon full (of the powder rather than the bar) in my breakfast cereal or with yoghurt every now and again, to keep levels up, but when I was really low after 2nd d&C (and lots of bleeding before), got my iron levels up in one week what they expected in 3 weeks with just the iron pills by having 2 or 3 tsp per day. And I'm vege, so no steaks for me! Glad it seems to have slowed down a bit - have had similar experience

mistle is carob suitable for children - DS has been picking at his food the last couple of weeks deu to having the same couh as me and I worry he's not getting enough iron as he avoids meat at the best of times

quarkee, re your comment yesterday, I think your DH is right, but that doesn't make it any easier. DH and I went out with friends on Saturday night, and no one said anything until I gently brought up the subject by referring to it in passing (i.e. 'After everything happened...') They seemed really relieved I'd mentioned it, and even said that they hadn't said anything as they didn't know whether I'd want to talk about it.

kate so sorry to hear your hearbreaking story. Hope this thread helps to ease the waiting and the distress a little. And for tammy too - hope you're doing OK at work today if you decided to go in. Sometimes it does help if at least one person knows, so you have a shoulder to cry on - go easy on yourself, though, and go home if you need to.

GG - will miss your pom poms and house renovation tales. Hope you'll pop in when you have good news

And yum to all the food. Spent the weekend stuffing my face, but saved you all some delicious Mexican food including churros and chocolate for pudding .

xxx

scully so sorry first about all the bleeding and then about being caught while on a day out with your dd. And you certainly deserved as much wine as you liked!

My good news is that my period showed up today! 30 days after mc. I'm so pleased that my cycle returned to normal-ish so quickly and that we can start TTC again!

Hi All, hope you don't mind if I join you. I've been lurking for a while. My storym briefly, is that I have two DCs (DD 5yr and DS 2yr) and we started trying for a third in July 07. Mmc in Nov at 9wks then again at 5wks in March. Probably going to have a break now for a couple of months, go on hols, have a couple of glasses of the good stuff, then give it another go. Never had any spotting/bleeding with 1st 2 pregnancies, so the 2 mcs came as a big shock.

I'm pretty much over them now, but some days are easier than others. Feeling a little lonely today as we only moved here 7 months ago. Miss my mum-mates where we used to be. Ho well, that's what's so great about MN!

Sorry to read all your stories, but here's hoping for some great news all round in 08!

Oh, and I meant to say - scully, hope you're better today; the doc told me that more than two pads in an hour was too much, and to go back if that happened.

kazbeth I know what you mean about wanting to try again straight away. I'm 35 and mc'd four weeks ago, over the course of a week. No bleeding now for two weeks, and I think I might have been o'ing over the weekend. We'd been told to wait for first AF, but bd'd on Saturday (for first time in aaaages, and for fun and not baby-making!) and couldn't find a condom (although didn't try very hard - turned out that they were where they usually are all along, except I was looking in the dark and didn't see them).

There seems to be a lot of contradictory information about whether there is any risk about getting pg before first af, but I figure what will be will be - and the thought of using contraception seems really weird when all we want is a BABY!

thanks daisyj I know you're right - sounds loike you dealt with it v well on Sat

Way to go PrePG you're a few days ahead of me on all this so I am (amazingly) looking forward to AF coming along too now!

Hello verona come on in and take the comfy seat, hob nobs all round. From what I can pick up here having a break seems to be the best way to get pregnant again IKWYM re shock - I had a compleely normal pg with DS and then bam totally unexpected mc - you don't know what to think/feel do you? Hope it works out for you

Thanks quarkee, that's the thing - trying now to stop myself thinking there's something 'wrong' with me. I mean, one mc is very common, but TWO.....in a row?! I'm sure the fact that I have had two straight forward pregs means it's more likely to be bad luck, but it's hard to think this way some days. At least with MN, you know there are others who have been/are going throught eh same or similar and that really does help. For me, anyway.

Welcome to verona - with you on the shock - had such a trouble free pg with DS(although pg felt different IYKWIM). Have you read the Lesley Regan book? 2 in a row is often bad luck (she says that is why the NHS don't do all the tests until 3 in a row) Fingers crossed that our luck will change for the next attempt.

PrePG - glad to hear AF has made an appearance for you. Mine is still dragging on (2 weeks!)so we might be on the 2ww together soon!