Molar pregnancy - please tell me your positive stories! I need cheering up...

[Habbibu]

Just back from hospital - test results after EPRC showed partial molar pregnancy. Tired, fed up and in need of good news stories. Please!

Will you mark DD1s anniversary ? It must be so tough to have all those milestones so firmly in your mind.

I don't do much, but have a necklace with a silver heart with little footprints, and birthstones for each baby and I wear that on the mc dates and due dates. Not that anyone else would remember, but its nice to do something that makes me feel that someone paid attention to their tiny lives.

Yes, we bought her a tree first year - last year had her little sister with us, and I don't remember exactly what we did. Will have to decide what to do this year. We have her hand and foot prints framed - think I'll show dd2 her memory box again - we had a bit of an unseemly tussle over the blanket last time, so will prepare for that! Necklace idea is really nice - will definitely look into that.

I got mine from here

Must go now - I've got a conference call with west coast US to do. Sometimes I hate this company structure!

Thanks, cmot - feel much better for this talk!

Habbibu, sorry to hear your feeling down. Hopefully you are tucked up after tea and chocolate.

It is so frustrating, waiting for your levels to come down, and I think I found it harder when my figures were low, and I still didn't know when it would all be over, than at the beginning when my levels were huge.

I know what you mean about other people, I found it very hard dealing with friends who were pregnant, even if they were the model of sensitivity. TBH I found it hard to deal with anyone, apart from dh, in relation to the molar pregnancy, because no-one has ever heard of it, it is a pretty hard thing to explain, and it just drags on for such a long time, that after a while there isn't much that people can say, it's just like a big elephant in the room, if you know what i mean!

Dd1's tree is a beautiful idea, I have never done anything to mark the 2 mc I've had, but I think that is something I like the idea of.

Take care.

Thanks, hj. It feels a bit like groundhog day at the moment, especially when I go to work - good friend at work was pregnant at the same time, so I had the horrible vicarious pregnancy thing then too.
You're right about the elephant thing! It's such a drawn-out process, and I just feel stuck in the middle of it right now. Part of me if hoping that I'm having a flump because my hormones are righting themselves...
Am thinking I might do something jewellery-like for this anniversary - cmot has inspired me.

yay and boo, habs. as you know my situation was different but i do remember that feeling of very nearly being all clear on levels but not knowing when it would all be o-VER! and of course over really means 'happily pg with no complications', so it's even tougher. but overall, a yay from me. 77, fingers crossed that you'll move on from this bit soon.

Wow! Down to 16 today!!! This is fab and unexpected. One more weekly test - if that's still down we'll go to fortnightly, and then if that's still down they'll count the 6 month follow up as starting from today. Very very chuffed - feels like there's light at the end of the tunnel.

Wheeee! Watch those levels come down - Brilliant. I'm really pleased for you, Habbibu.

Thanks so much hj - and thanks for all your support through this - it's hit me harder than expected at times, and your help (and everyone elses) is much appreciated.

I wish I'd had something like Mumsnet when I was ill. It's a fantastic thing to be feeling worried/crap/isolated etc and come on here and talk to someone.

Oh dear, I've just realised that that paint's a really gloomy picture of my life,I'm a 'sunshine person' really!

oh that IS good news, habs. that's great news, in fact. super-great. i'm so relieved for you. only one more week at teh vampire clinic then, fingers crossed.

No vampireage, actually - just posting urine samples. They do bloods if they want to double-check, but otherwise it's just piss in the post.

ROFL.

Charing Cross phoned me once to ask for another urine sample, because the original had broken in the post (the packaging system used to be a bit rubbish), and they said the test tubes often leaked due to 'overfilling' - lovely.

I pity the poor postman who has had to deliver my gallons of wee.

Explains the double tube and instructions only to half fill! Did you have to do 12 hour samples, hj? I swear I never knew exactly how much I excreted. Had to buy a bigger jug!

were they the ones with the HYOOOOGE brown plastic jar thing? with the weird crystals in the bottom to prevent the ammonia taking over the world. i complained to the nurse that the crystals were splashing up and irritating my bum flesh and she said 'er, why do you think we gave you the silver foil bowl?'

pah. like that mimsy article could've contained my golden offerings...

No, Aitch - that's clearly some weird Glasgow ritual, or else you have urine with megalomaniac tendencies. You have to collect all you piss in 12 hours in a jug, and then send a tiny bit of that off to the hosp. You have to measure to say how much there was in the jug in total - record so far has been 1.2 litres. What's all the crystal stuff?

PS Am so tempted to submit this "pah. like that mimsy article could've contained my golden offerings..." for quote of the week.

a jug? like a kitchen jug? GURRRR-oss. they gave you a big bottle, like an old-fashioend sweetie jar (but discreetly opaque) at my hosp. crystals were in the bottom of the jar, maybe they were to do with preserving the pee, who knows. they STUNG.

Oh, yes. A big sweetie jar is so much less gross than a nice clean brand new kitchen jug bought for the purpose... I like "discreetly opaque" - in case you're parading the piss out on the town.

my sweetie jar had a lid...

Again - where were you going with all the piss? Mine stays in the bathroom. And I piss into a little cup and decant, in case you're curious.

back to the hospital. precious cargo. fuck knows what they do with it. probably put a dip strip into and kill themselves laughing at What They Have Put Me Through.

(does ikea have a piss catcher homewares section btw? the pisjug?)