Pregnancy post mc: Totally's grads continued part 6...

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Tuesday's list

toomuchteaching - baby#1 41+4 wks EDD 5th January - awaiting news!!
Dorcas111 - baby#1 38+4 wks EDD 28th January
Ba8y1 - baby#1 37+4 wks EDD 4th February
Lotta123 - baby#? 36+5 wks EDD 10th Feb
Clareanna - baby#2 (1DS) 36+4 wks ADD 10th Feb
Muser - baby#1 34+2 wks EDD 27th Feb
Northerngoldilocks - baby#1 31+3 wks EDD 18 March
Magic8ballhastheanswers - babies#3&4 31 wks EDD Anytime!
Lia - baby#6 30+3 wks EDD 23rd March
Hopefully - baby#2 29+4 wks EDD 2nd April
stuffedmk - baby#2 29+1 wks EDD 4th April
Osch - Baby#3 28+2 wks EDD 10th April
Ivysedai - baby#2 26+5 wks EDD 21st April
PenguinsMummy - baby#3 26+5 wks EDD 21st April
VivClicquot - baby#1 25+1 wks EDD 2nd May
Loopymumsy - baby#4 24+5 wks EDD 5th May
Tigerbear - baby#1 22+6 wks EDD 14th May
Caribou - baby #2 (DD, 3yrs) 22+6 wks EDD 18th May
appleblossoms - baby#2 19+3 wks EDD 11th June
crochetcircle - baby#1 19+3 wks EDD 11th June
LittleMiss - baby#1 17+3 wks EDD 24th June
Wobblewatcher - baby#2 17 wks EDD 27th June
Inbetweener - baby#3 14+2 wks EDD 17th July

Waiting to join the list:
emmywoo
Purplehibiscus
Nickstermum
Lucysnowe

The babies are arriving! Huge congratulations to:
Totally with daughter Faith Juliet, 9lb5oz born Tuesday 16th February 2010
Amyboo with son Matthew James, 4.714kg (10lb3oz) born Tuesday 30th March 2010
Hoops with son Benjamin Scott, 7lb4oz born Friday 2nd April 2010
Memorylapse with daughter Olivia, born Friday 16th April 2010
Jacanne with daughter Lotta Eliza, 8lbs 5oz born 20th April 2010
Becky78 with son Thomas Christopher born 22nd May, 9lb 1oz
Meita with son Ianto born 23 August, 7lbs 4
Boodleboot with daughter Alice Elizabeth born 10 Sep - 8lbs 2oz
LeeWT with son Andrew Anthony born 28th Sept 7lbs 14oz
TFLS with son Charlie born on 30th September, 6lbs 8oz
SamB with daughter Ruby Mae born 19th October, 7lbs 10oz
Effilump with son Arlen born 16th October, 8lbs
Sarahlou8 with daughter Emily Isabella born 21st October, 7lb8oz
Unbuffy with son James Anthony born 3rd December, 6lb8oz
HappyGirl with daughter Ciara born 10th December, 8lb2oz
Malteser1981 with son Eli born 18 December, 8lb 6oz
Zayja with daughter Winona born 19 December, 7lbs 11oz
Sparklyrainbow with son Alex born 28th December, 9lb 7oz
GoodLuckBear with son James born 25th December, 8lb
BunnyBaby with son Daniel George born 5th January 2011, 10lb 1oz
AlbaDeTamble - with son born 10th Jan 2011, 8lbs 10oz
Gilda - with son Ren born 10th Jan 2011, 8lb 4oz
WestYorkshireGirl - with daughter Hester Rose born 14th Jan 2011, 6lb 4oz
Redheadgal - with daughter Cecily Anne born 13th Jan 2011, 8lbs 13oz

In our thoughts and prayers:
Louise with daughter Georgie born asleep on 10th October

We share the pain and mourn the loss with:
Jollster, Cheepz, Freezing, BarrenBrook, MsJL, LadyBee, Banana87, BatteryHen, HairyTriangle and Waterplate

Viv I've had cankles since week 12 in sub zero temperatures. Can't imagine how I would fair over there! Hope the holiday is going well x

Hi Hairy - lovely to see you back. Just to reiterate what others have said that the symptoms or lack of don't seem to make any difference and vary massively. In my first pregnancy (MMC) i had massively sore boobs that expanded quickly too - whereas this time they hardly hurt at all. Was worried - but then figured maybe they hurt through expansion/ hormones and the second time they'd already done it so didn't hurt.

Viv - hope the cankles go down once you get back to the UK as its not really sandals weather here!

link to postgrads

Thank you all you lovelies!

Wave to viv and northern ... thanks both.

My are a bit sore today but I'm trying not to obsess.

Hi all and welcome hairy! At the mo I have the thing where my symptoms are v. slight in morning, whereupon I freak out, and then I get loads more in the afternoon, and feel a bit better (and at the same time, worse ). Went to see midwife and she said I couldn't have a early scan on the NHS anyway as they don't do 'reassurance' scans. So now I have to wait till the end of Feb. I am going to be absolutely bricking myself till then. Am just getting to the stage (9 weeks) when everything went wrong last time...

Hi all,
I hope everyone is having a nice Sunday.
Still that Viv is in sunny Thailand! It's sooo cold here again isn't it?

Can I ask Caribou, Viv and Loopy, as you're all closest in weeks to me on the list - what sort of movements are you getting? Can you feel proper kicks or still fluttery type of movements? I'm beginning to get obsessive again that I rarely feel tigerbaby, and certainly not any big kicks. I thought they were supposed to be quite big by approx 26 weeks?

Tiger I'm getting fairly hefty kicks, but I think the wee man has changed position recently. At first the kicks were at the front of my bump, now the big ones seem internal, bladder kicks and the likes. I'm almost certain he's in a breech position.

I was talking to a girl in our Cardiff office a few weeks ago, who is due 6 days before me. She was about 22 weeks and still hadn't felt a thing. She was just back from a MW check where strong HB was heard and at the anomoly scan couldn't believe how much the baby was writhing about because she hadn't felt him/ her moving.

As long as you're feeling some movement a few times a day I wouldn't get too worried. I was actually worried today that I hadn't felt anything since this morning but I'm getting some boots now. Some days he is busier than others as well.

Tiger I didn't feel anything for ages with my first and it was then only subtle for quite a while, this one I started feeling fluttering at about 11 weeks (thought I was imagining it lol).

Loopy Gotta say I think I was desperate for number two for years, but this pregnancy has been soooo much harder than my first (I can only put it down to being 10 years older lol) that I really don't feel upset that I know DH will never agree to any more. Eight kids .....she has my admiration but I am not jealous like I may have been a few years ago
Hope the cat is doing better.

Magic I do tend to just sit in the nursery alone with my thoughts....could sit there for hours if I had nothing else to do lol.

Hairy if it helps I had zero symptoms with DS, I only realise now how lucky I was. Try to relax, every pregnancy is different etc, etc.... I know, I know, easier said than done.

Tiger do you know if your placenta is anterior (round the front?) - the doc said to me I probably wouldn't feel much for a very long time cos it was acting as a mini-beanbag!

Hey tiger - I'm not really having any hefty kicks, but varying degrees of what I can only call pulses really. Like Moo, mine are very much internal - especially when I need the loo, but then I'm another with an anterior placenta, so am not sure how different they would feel if the placenta was where it should be. DH has only felt one kick so far, despite all our best intentions, so I def think that's soaking up the impact of them.

That said, they kicks do have a vague routine - a few light ones in the morning, maybe one or two mid-afternoon, and then any time after 7.30pm is the witching hour when I feel them most often and are the most pronounced.

Hi everyone,
Thanks for your responses ladies!
Viv, that's what it's like, a pulsing sort of feeling rather than proper kicks.
Owl - just checked my hospital notes - placenta is posterior.
Loopy, wow, 8 kids is superhuman!
Caribou Like your friend, I couldn't believe how much tigerbaby was moving at the scan, as couldn't feel anything at all.

Anyone else feeling greedy all the time? I want scones and cream, crisps, biscuits, everything!

Sorry stuffed, didn't say hello to you.
11 weeks is mega early to feel anything - are you getting massive kicks now?

Ivy how are you doing?

Does anyone know how Louise is?

Just a quickie: Muser just wanted to say a huge thank you for your advice, as they did only find the gestational sack but because of what you said, I didn't panic! mwah!
They are assuming that because my cycle is short and I ov late that although I'm 6+1 actually the bean is only approx at the 5 week stage, which could also account for the fact that I was getting negatives from poas for 3 days before getting the positive. Re-scan next Friday!
Thanks all for hand holding

Ivy Just wanted to let you know that I got my HIP grant paid today .

So we do qualify for payment by the skin of our teeth!! Hope you're feeling well.

Waves to all.

Mmm, scones. With clotted cream and jam.

They could well be right, MamaP - I got moved back a few days at my early scan, I also ov late - well done for not panicking

Time to treat yourself to nice things, oh yes indeed.

tiger Yep, 11 weeks was mega early and the after the MC I was convinced I must be imagining it but when I had my 12 week scan I could see what I was feeling it can actually be worse though when you feel movement so early because it only takes a little change of position from bubs and you get days of not feeling anything (I had a few panics with that I can tell you) but nobody will do anything to check you out because you're not supposed to feel anything yet anyway
Anyway I get loads of massive kicks now, reassuring? yes....comfortable? no

Well done on the not panicking mama. It does sound a lot like my experience, I didn't get a positive until I was about 3 days late either. Are you going to get scanned again before 12 weeks? I love looking at my 8 week scan with the little blob and now thinking that the tiny blob is a big massive baby!

afternoon all - how are you?
I have had a massage and my hair done so am feeling (almost) human.
Next week I'm getting my eyelashes, eyebrows and a wax done and have started my grad tan regime in run up to birth.
I realise I now sound like a demented footballers wife, which couldn't be further from the truth, so I'll now move on to see if anyone else has also developed an unhealthy obsession with comfortable night wear?! So far i've taken 3 nighties and 2 pairs of Pjs back to mothercare as I can't decide which ones I like best. This is clear displacement behaviour I know, and I thought I had nipped it in the bud, until I saw a rather nice nightie and robe on the M&P website.... SOMEONE CONFISCATE THE LAPTOP NOW.

mama great news that everything is where it should be and you're not worrying

lucy can't believe your mw said that - it's a real postcode lottery. could you have a private scan?

Lucy, can you try other hospitals? Watford wouldn't scan despite GP asking for a reassurance scan. But Homerton let me self-refer as I'd already had one miscarriage. They scanned me twice over a fortnight. Worth phoning around EPUs as the policy
varies.

Evening lovelies :)

Just thought I'd hop on and say am 13+1 today. Not quite sure how that happened! Getting a lot of lower backache does anyone have experience of that in early ish pg? Worrying me as it has been through the night. Ds wakes me then can't get back to sleep CPA back aches! Have a v comfy bed, just hoping I shouldn't be worried!

Thought I had felt a couple of flutters, mm followed by some gurgles so poss not bambino! Totally exhausted ATM and a fat little piggy :) have to go to the Docs also on wed to get seances for an infection:(

Hope everyone us fab :) Loving the pampering Clare... Crying out for
that myself :) waves to everyone xx

Seances....???? Swabbed even..... Gah!

WTF is going on with my typing tonight? Cos not cfa Ffs!

lol at the idea of seances for infections - an alternative remedy I've not come accross before. Does the ectoplasm help too?

He he I think the ectoplasm is the problem :)

Let's face it, I'm just a twat that can't type :)