Pregnancy post mc: Totally Grads Part 11!

[digitalgirl]

Welcoming all those pregnant after miscarriage who need hand-holding, a place to moan, share happy news or just lurk.

It will happen for us this time.

link to part 10

Good luck LAF!! Will keep lurking for news!

No news from me, I'm afraid. I have had 2 pessaries, before pessary number 2, I was given a bishops score of 4, 1cm dilated, so very slow progress. I believe I'm going to get another pessary in about an hour. I don't have regular contractions. I'd quite like to have tonight in my own bed instead of the hospital, so we will see what they have to say.

How exciting LAF! You might have a due date baby! I missed out by 3 hours which was a shame! Will you have to wait until tomorrow morning for the second attempt at induction with the oxytocin drip if the pessaries don't work?

Hi Can I join you guys please? recognise some names off other threads and now feel ready to join you after a bouncing bean scan on Monday.

Have updated the stats even though they might need doing again shortly with imminent arrival of baby LAF and LILI Good Luck!

LAF77 - baby#1 40 wks EDD 21 March
LILI80 - 40 wks EDD 21 March
KatAndKit - baby #1 37+2 wks EDD 11 April
Digitalgirl - baby#2 36+2 wks EDD 16 April
Dachs - baby #1 34+2 weeks, EDD 30th April
LadyMaybe - baby #2 34+6 weeks, EDD 3rd May
Googietheegg - 32 weeks,
KnitterNotTwitter - baby #2 31 weeks, EDD 23rd May
LimeFlower - 30+6, EDD 24th May
Twittwoo - 30, EDD 30th May
mousebacon - baby #2 28+3 EDD 9th June
Confu3ed - baby # 2 24 EDD 12th July
AmandinePoulain - baby girl - 17+2 weeks
Loup23 - baby #1 - 16+4 EDD 1 September
funchum8am - 14 weeks, EDD 21st Sept

All these gorgeous babies have arrived in the last year! Huge congratulations to:
Stuffedmk - with son Thomas, born Wednesday 23rd March
Hopefully - with son, born 29th March 7lb 12oz
Lia - with daughter, born 1st April 8lb 11oz
PenguinsMummy - with daughter Clodagh
VivClicquot - with daughter, Phoebe, born Thursday 28 April, 7lb 5oz
Ivysedai - with son, born Tuesday May 2nd 3.83KG
Loopymumsy - with daughter, born Thursday 12th May, 7lb 15oz
Caribou - with son, Caleb, born Saturday 28 May, 9lb 1oz
LittleMiss - with son- born Wednesday 1st June 7lb 1oz
appleblossoms - with son Malachi, born Wednesday 15th June, 9lb 4oz
crochetcircle - with daughter born Sunday 26th June, 8lb 4oz.
urbanlolly - with daughter born Tuesday 19th July, 8lb 3oz.
Nickster - with son Corey born Tuesday 2nd August
Tiggersreturn - with sons born Saturday 13th August, 5lb 2oz and 3lb 13oz
Owlbooty - With son Robin born 18th August 8lb 13oz
PrettyVacant - baby girl born Tuesday 23rd August
OrangeGloss ? with son, Huw born Thursday 1st September
Wombat - baby born Sunday 11th September
Emoo - baby girl born 13 September
PinkFondantFancy - with daughter Persephone Amelia, born 16 September
ALovelyBunchofCoconuts - with son Thomas James, born 22nd September 8lb 12 oz
MamaPower - with daughter, born 24th September
Daisybell - with daughter Philippa Alice, born 26th September
Velvetcu ? with daughter Eva Lily, born 18th October
Tunnocksteacake ? with daughter Esther Joy, born 19th October
Hotnspicyonions - with son Max Lewis, born 28th October
Hils74 with son Archie Dylan, born born 28th October
MummyAbroad - with son Max, born 1st November
IreneHeron - with son Joe, born 3rd November.
Katherine2008 - with son Teddy, born 5th November
CEP - with son Alexander George, born 10th November
Collie with son Isaac Thomas, born 21 November 8lb 7oz
LaraMi - details TBC
Wombatinwaiting - with son Jack Albert born 29th November 8lb 8oz
Izzy - with daughter Catherine Hope, born 4th December
Bigmacandhappymeal - with daughter, born 5th December 7lb 11ozs
Dooscooby - with daughter, born 16th December
Freezingmyarseoff - with son Charlie Thomas, born 18th December 4lb 12oz
Minnie74 -with son Max Gabriel George, born 19th December 7lb 14oz
Blackkat - with daughter, born 20th December, 8lb 10 oz
Sunchild77 - with daughter, born 30th Dec, 8lb 12 oz
Harassedandherbug - baby #4 details TBC
Milkyways - with son born on 9th January, 6lbs 5 oz
Youremindmeofthebabe - son born on 19th January 8lb 2oz
Laylasmummy -Son, Jacob, born on 21st Jan, 7 lb 3.5 oz
Hairy - daughter, Matilda Erin (Tilly) born 4.32am 22 January 2012
Purpletoes - son, Eoin Laurence, born 15th Feb, 7lbs 5oz
Stitchinline - daughter, Alice, born Friday 2 March 2012 weighing 7lb 10oz
Biscuitsandtea - son, Ethan Thomas, born 8th March 2012, weighing 8 lbs 4 oz.
Shellshock7 - son, Harrison Matthew born 16th March, weighing 8lb 8.5oz

In our thoughts and prayers:
Louise whose daughter Georgie was born asleep on 10th October
Dachs whose babies Alexander and Felicia who left the world asleep on 21st May
Magic8ballhastheanswers who leaves behind her beautiful little girl, the spiderbabies and DH. Blessed are those of us that had the privilege of knowing you.

We share the pain and and mourn the loss with:
Jollster, Cheepz, MsJL and Boodleboot

Welcome loup lovely to have you over here - congratulations :) Wishing you a nice stress-free pregnancy from here on in!

Congratulations loup it's lovely to have a new person here. Wishing you a very relaxing pregnancy

Any news laf Thinking of you xx

Can't believe my due date is here! Just really keeping my fingers crossed my little one won't keep me waiting much longer!

Good luck laf hope it all kicks off for you soon

Hello loup great to see you over here.

No real news from me. Am suffering with tiredness and heartburn but that's to be expected I suppose! Can't wait for the Easter hols now - I'm practically counting down the minutes!

I'm seeing the mw tomorrow for my next check up and bloods and I think it's about time DH and I did sone serious shopping!

ooh, I was lurking this morning hoping for news from LAF, but still none. So her waters went but labour didn't start, and she's being induced? I hope it has progressed or that they've made the decision to go for C-section and she's cuddling a squishy newborn right now. Hope you're all ok LAF.

LILI hope you don't have much longer to wait too - won't ask if there are any twinges as that does get quite annoying doesn't it (thinks back to last time when she went more than a week over d-day).

knitter I keep meaning to say, you are a little inspiration to me, you seem to have this steadfast faith that your body will do the right thing and a big baby is nothing to worry about. I guess maybe that comes with having birthed one previously - I'm going to have to start listening to my natal hypnotherapy cds to start getting more positive about the prospect of my (most likely) large bub. I had been feeling totally like I would be able to give birth normallly given the chance and decent support, but now little doubts are creeping in and I really need to get back the VBAC faith!

Things are ok here, still injecting clexane and taking aspirin - there's no talk of that stopping at all, and quite a lot of talk about having to continue the clexane for 6 weeks post-partum (you can imagine how thrilled I am with that idea).
Still on slow-acting insulin overnight, the dose creeps up about every three weeks which they say is absolutely normal and to be expected and generally my sugar control has been very good, which is good as it all gets taken into consideration when it comes to the recommendations they make re: induction etc. when I get closer to 38 weeks.
Got another growth scan next tuesday, so we'll see how everything is tracking compared to the last two. I'm hoping that it's just following the line or decreasing a little and there are no 'ooh it's jumped off the scale' type comments.

Apart from that, I've got DS's 4th birthday party to plan - it's going to be a fireengine/fireman theme (eek! how to do the cake??) and still quite a lot of sorting out of stuff for baby. Haven't packed a bag yet and probably should make a start on that at least, ooh and I did buy a packet of nappies and pack of maternity pads - so not completely disorganised right??

Hi all

Hope it's all going well Laf, looking forward to news!

Enjoy shopping mouse! We don't need much now we know she's a she, the main thing is a pram as we sold dd's, we think we'll go for the Oyster, especially as I can potentially get one second hand

I hope you're not kept waiting for too much longer lili

A fireman cake sounds ambitious lady! Dd wanted Dora for hers so my mum made a square cake that she decorated like a garden and then we bought Dora cake toppers, they sell them on Amazon over here, maybe you can get something similar?

I've got my triple test today. We don't get NT scans here so I haven't got good results from that for reassurance so I'm a little nervous about it. I'm also becoming anxious about my anomaly scan in 3 weeks, I just can't shake the feeling that they'll find something

I can't believe it that I am staring at our much longed for miracle baby, Maxwell Andrew born at 7:37 this morning, weighing 9lbs 8 oz.

It was not an easy labour as the three attempts to induce with prostin failed, but I still had false contractions with prostin that did nothing to my cervix and just gave me a sleepless night.

I went on the syntocin drip yesterday at 7AM and labour progressed slowly over 24 hours until I delivered him this morning. I can't believe I pushed him out myself and he is here. I love him so much.

It has been a long journey to get here, nearly exactly 2 years since my first miscarriage and the support from everyone on these threads has kept me sane in some dark days.

I look forward to hearing about the next new arrivals!

Congratulations laf, sounds like you had a tough time of it though, I hope little Max lets you get some rest

I've been waiting an hour and a half so far to get my bloods done, I'm next though so hopefully not too much longer as dd is bored which means hard work!

Congratulations LAF lovely news, well done you!

Thanks for the warm welcome, look forward to sharing all of your lovely news.

Good luck Amandine

Marvellous news LAF - enjoy your newborn snuggles and good luck xx

woo hoo! Congratulations Laf so happy for you. Love the name Max it's on my shortlist if this baby's a boy. Wishing you lot's of future happiness. xxx

Oh LAF a BIG congratulations! I am so happy for you, I have a little tear in my eye! What a journey you have been through to get here - and I can tell you it only gets better! Enjoy those newborn snuggles and take lots of care of yourself - apricots, arnica and lansinoh!!

Yay!! Congratulations laf that's wonderful news enjoy every second xx

Lady good luck with the party planning - digi is your woman if you're after a themed bash. I seem to remember a lot of planning going into a Thomas party not too long ago! It's lovely to hear everything's progressing well for you xx

Well, I went to see mw today and got diagnosed with SPD! I only mentioned a grinding pain, bad back ache and physiotherapy here I come! Baby's growing well though and that's all I care about. Might have bough a chocolate eclair to 'help with heartburn' too. I'm sure they're calorie free when helping with a genuine medical condition...?

Congratulations Laf! What a thing to be able to tell little Maxwell when he's older. "I knew you were on your way, I farted and my waters broke"

Am thinking about joining you all on here, just trying to work out if I'm brave enough at just 14 weeks! Have heard baby's lovely heartbeat today, thanks to MIL and her doppler left over from her midwifery days.

Congratulations LAF! Lovely, lovely news despite what sounds like a tough labour. Enjoy your first days (and the rest of your life!) with Maxwell. You have been such a support over the last few months, and I'm so pleased your time has come and things have worked out. Yay!! xx

so happy for you LAF - wonderful news.

Friday 23rd March

LILI80 - 40+2 wks EDD 21 March
KatAndKit - baby #1 37+4 wks EDD 11 April
Digitalgirl - baby#2 36+4 wks EDD 16 April
Dachs - baby #1 34+4 weeks, EDD 30th April
LadyMaybe - baby #2 35+1 weeks, EDD 3rd May
Googietheegg - 32+1 weeks,
KnitterNotTwitter - baby #2 girl, 31+2 weeks, EDD 23rd May
LimeFlower - 31+1, EDD 24th May
Twittwoo - 30+2, EDD 30th May
mousebacon - baby #2 28+5, EDD 9th June
Confu3ed - baby #2, 24+2, EDD 12th July
AmandinePoulain - baby girl - 17+6 weeks
Loup23 - baby #1 - 16+6 EDD 1 September
funchum8am - 14+2 weeks, EDD 21st Sept

All these gorgeous babies have arrived in the last year! Huge congratulations to:
Hopefully - with son, born 29th March 7lb 12oz
Lia - with daughter, born 1st April 8lb 11oz
PenguinsMummy - with daughter Clodagh
VivClicquot - with daughter, Phoebe, born Thursday 28 April, 7lb 5oz
Ivysedai - with son, born Tuesday May 2nd 3.83KG
Loopymumsy - with daughter, born Thursday 12th May, 7lb 15oz
Caribou - with son, Caleb, born Saturday 28 May, 9lb 1oz
LittleMiss - with son- born Wednesday 1st June 7lb 1oz
appleblossoms - with son Malachi, born Wednesday 15th June, 9lb 4oz
crochetcircle - with daughter born Sunday 26th June, 8lb 4oz.
urbanlolly - with daughter born Tuesday 19th July, 8lb 3oz.
Nickster - with son Corey born Tuesday 2nd August
Tiggersreturn - with sons born Saturday 13th August, 5lb 2oz and 3lb 13oz
Owlbooty - With son Robin born 18th August 8lb 13oz
PrettyVacant - baby girl born Tuesday 23rd August
OrangeGloss ? with son, Huw born Thursday 1st September
Wombat - baby born Sunday 11th September
Emoo - baby girl born 13 September
PinkFondantFancy - with daughter Persephone Amelia, born 16 September
ALovelyBunchofCoconuts - with son Thomas James, born 22nd September 8lb 12 oz
MamaPower - with daughter, born 24th September
Daisybell - with daughter Philippa Alice, born 26th September
Velvetcu ? with daughter Eva Lily, born 18th October
Tunnocksteacake ? with daughter Esther Joy, born 19th October
Hotnspicyonions - with son Max Lewis, born 28th October
Hils74 with son Archie Dylan, born born 28th October
MummyAbroad - with son Max, born 1st November
IreneHeron - with son Joe, born 3rd November.
Katherine2008 - with son Teddy, born 5th November
CEP - with son Alexander George, born 10th November
Collie with son Isaac Thomas, born 21 November 8lb 7oz
LaraMi - details TBC
Wombatinwaiting - with son Jack Albert born 29th November 8lb 8oz
Izzy - with daughter Catherine Hope, born 4th December
Bigmacandhappymeal - with daughter, born 5th December 7lb 11ozs
Dooscooby - with daughter, born 16th December
Freezingmyarseoff - with son Charlie Thomas, born 18th December 4lb 12oz
Minnie74 -with son Max Gabriel George, born 19th December 7lb 14oz
Blackkat - with daughter, born 20th December, 8lb 10 oz
Sunchild77 - with daughter, born 30th Dec, 8lb 12 oz
Harassedandherbug - baby #4 details TBC
Milkyways - with son born on 9th January, 6lbs 5 oz
Youremindmeofthebabe - son born on 19th January 8lb 2oz
Laylasmummy -Son, Jacob, born on 21st Jan, 7 lb 3.5 oz
Hairy - daughter, Matilda Erin (Tilly) born 4.32am 22 January 2012
Purpletoes - son, Eoin Laurence, born 15th Feb, 7lbs 5oz
Stitchinline - daughter, Alice, born Friday 2 March 2012 weighing 7lb 10oz
Biscuitsandtea - son, Ethan Thomas, born 8th March 2012, weighing 8 lbs 4 oz.
Shellshock7 - son, Harrison Matthew born 16th March, weighing 8lb 8.5oz
LAF - son, Maxwell Andrew born 22nd March, weighing 9lbs 8 oz

In our thoughts and prayers:
Louise whose daughter Georgie was born asleep on 10th October
Dachs whose babies Alexander and Felicia who left the world asleep on 21st May
Magic8ballhastheanswers who leaves behind her beautiful little girl, the spiderbabies and DH. Blessed are those of us that had the privilege of knowing you.

We share the pain and and mourn the loss with:
Jollster, Cheepz, MsJL and Boodleboot

Laf brilliant news - congratulations!

huge congratulations LAF, and best of luck for getting some rest if you can!

Just delurking to say a huge congratulations to LAF on the birth of her baby boy. Seems so surreal to look back on those days not so long ago when we were trying to meet up and you were a few weeks pregnant again and we were all so miserable. I wish we could have had a fast forward preview to know that it was all going to work out ok.

Hello to everyone else, so glad to see the babies coming and everyone progressing well! Am just over 22 weeks now too. All going well, due 24th July.

Lovely to see you on here freelance! I know exactly what you mean about the tough times and feeling like things were never going to work out. It's so lovely to hear positive news and I'm pleased you're doing well at 22 weeks! I'm now 30 weeks and feeling good so far too. xx

Gosh, 30 weeks is great twittwoo! So pleased it's all going well for you. I am a regular lurker, just tend to loiter more on the Present Thread. But it's so good to see everyone graduating and then having babies, after everything we've been through.