Due in August Thread Part 2

[Angel786]

So we've hit the limit on the previous thread so continuing here...

Welcome capecath if you send your stats, needles has kindly been perparing a list of all due dates, dd1/2/3 etc age

geekette hope you're feeling better? if it makes you laugh - (i chuckled) i saw a girl texting walk into a lapost this am (oops)!

Only 2.5 hours til my scan argh so nervous!

Needles I hope you are feeling much better, good job your OH tested for you. Sounds very scary :(

I also ended up in A&E today, but dental A&E, for a very painful gum abscess, which is apparently very common in pregnancy! clearly not got to that chapter in my book yet , so please look after your teeth ladies :o

I've also got my scan tomorrow, so good luck to everyone else (loupee westcountrywife) who has their scan tomorrow.

Will look forward to reading all about them.

I wish everyone else a very uneventful Sunday. :)

Quite a few scans over the next few days then :)
Not sure why, but I've been feeling on edge all day today, as if I could burst out crying at any time.
Before I got pregnant, when I thought about the 12 week scan I imagined it to be such a happy event (and I'm sure it will be) but I didn't expect to get so stressed about it, I must just have too much time on my hands!
Need to stop being such a downer on this thread!
Poppy that does sound painful, I was at the dentist on Thurs, not too bad considering I hadn't been in about 10 years, getting a bit of work done on Tuesday but its mostly pre-emptive. Hope your gum heals soon.
Hope all you ladies are taking advantage of the free dental care :)
I'm going to try and keep myself busy now.

Good luck all who have scans this week mine is on Tuesday morning, I was worried but am now visualising myself and DP walking out of the hospital happy.

We had a great conversation today...

DP ...I have been reading on the Internet about having sex when you are pregnant...
Me...what did it say?
DP...it says it would be very good for you...

Happy days x

hello everyone! All the best to everyone getting scans over the coming week, that's very exciting. Haven't got any twins yet on this thread, so will be interesting if one of you has.... I was afraid on Friday that Dr would find twins in me, but she didn't

I'm feeling bit better, haven't actually been sick since Thursday: which will always be remembered as The Day I was Sick 9 Times. Nurse gave me a super-sore injection of Cyclizine, and I got some Cyclizine tablets to take as and when I need to. Took one this morning before church as I was feeling a bit blurgh. Still felt sick, but wasn't actually sick, so that's a good thing.

DH is being a total star, but I'm being a bit of a cow and feel bad for it. Hormones all over the place, emotions a mess with worry and feeling sick is top of my mind a lot. Can't wait for it all to clear....

9+2

That's great news Needles, so pleased you're feeling better!

Loupee, I feel the same, nervous as anything. DH is laid back as anything. Apparently it helps if one of us is calm... Grrrr....

Good look tomorrow on all your scans x

luck!!

mrsmiggins those were my favour ire pram choices last time too I think the linear silver cross is far more manoeuvrable than the crossover chassis we had to get. The SC has been pretty robust over the last yeR ( in all weather) found buying on line much cheaper, may have been precious little ones or sth like that we got ours through and the SC after care service is v good.

kellzi welcome

Laughed out loud at welsh.

Right time for a bit of desperate housewives and self Manila pedi methinks!

I fall off the bandwagon for a week and miss almost 260 posts!! Argh you girls can talk!!! Which I most appreciate as it gives me something to look forward to.

Right - hospitals: West suffok hospital, Bury st. Edmunds.

To all the newbies and there seems to be quite a number. Welcome!
Needles, glad you are feeling better!
And youpee at all the scans :)

I am doing well today. Thanks for the thoughts girls. We've noticed my down days are mostly on weekends. we haven't found something against them yet but we just look forward to the weekdays :)

I had my booking appt this week. I thought the MW was fab! the bounty pack was useless though. dreading having my bloods taken as I hate needles but will get over it soon. still 3 weeks to go to next scan.

mrsmamma (27) DC1 due 27/7/12
aflycup (24) DC1 due 30/7/12
The3Bears (24) DC2 due ??/8/12
Gnomi (29) DC1 due 1/8/12
hamncheese (24) DC1 due 2/8/12 in Wishaw General Hospital, Glasgow, Scotland
dragonleo (29) DC1 due 3/8/12 in Whittington Hospital, London, England
Loupee (26) DC1 due 3/8/12 in Royal Infirmary Hospital, Edinburgh, Scotland
Tubtoes (31) DC1 due 03/08/12
Westcountrywife (33) DC1 due 3/8/12 in RD & E, Exeter, England
Stinyminkymoo (35) DC1 due 4/8/12
halfdoneharris (28) DC1 due 5/08/12
PoppySeed34 (34) DC1 due 6/8/12
Angel786 (32) DC2 due 7/8/12 in UCLH, London, England
Alizzle (24) DC1 due 8/8/12
ballinderrymum (32) DC2 due 8/8/12
SwanseaMum (?) DC3 due 8/8/12
Littlelamb1980 (31) DC1 due 8/8/12
JParkson (28) DC3 due 9/8/12 in GWH, Swindon, England
vinolover (29) DC3 due 11/8/12 in RSCH, Brighton, England
McBaby (31) DC1 11/8/12 in Barnet, Herts, England
lynniegooner (43) DC2 due 12/8/12
eightieshopaholic (31) DC1 due 15/8/12 in Worcester Hospital, England
namechangerbat (?) DC3 due 13/8/12
woopsidaisy (36) DC3 due 13/8/12
Blackcatsdancing (43) DC2 due 13/8/12
HopefulPositive (31) DC1 due 13/8/12
lovemarmite (38) DC1 due 14/8/12 in Eastbourne, England
capecath (29) DC2 due 15/8/12 in Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, Scotland
sc0ttishlass (34) DC1 due 15/8/12 in Princess Royal, Glasgow, Scotland
WelshLadyCDF (40) DC1 due 15/8/12
thatboysmum (?) DC2 due 16/8/12 in Medway Maritime Hospital, England
Glittershoes (27) DC1 due 17/8/12 in Hull Women?s and Children?s Hospital, England
Voscar (31) DC1 due 18/08/12 in Darrent Valley Hospital, Dartford, England
technoduck (27) DC1 due 18/8/12 in Bath, Somerset, England
Glimpers (33) DC2 due 19/8/12 in GWH, Swindon, England
practicallyimperfect (?) DC2 due 20/8/12
Gingerelle (30) DC1 due 20/08/2012
firstfroggy (34) DC1 due 20/8/2012
tashaw28 (36) DC3 due 21/8/12 in Barnet Hospital, Herts, England
TheRealMrsSmith (32) DC4 due 23/08/12
peeriebear (32) DC3 due 23/8/12
MrsMigginslovespies (35) DC? due 24/8/12 in Borders & General Hospital, Scottish Borders
NeedlesCuties (27) DC2 due 24/8/12 in Mater Hospital, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Geekette (32) DC1 due 25/8/12 in West Suffolk, Bury St. Edmunds, England
danmoore00 (39) DC3 due 25/8/12 in Darrent Valley, Kent, England
nearlymumofone (34) DC2 due 25/8/12
Sparklesandglitter (27) DC1 due 26/8/12
alisonmcg (25) DC1 due 26/8/12
therumoursaretrue (22) DC1 due 26/8/12
Estya (35) DC2 due 27/8/12
PictureThis (38) DC2 due 30/8/12
theressomethingaboutmarie (35) DC2 due 30/8/12
kellzi (?) DC? due 31/8/12 in Woodford, Essex, England
Kempstongirl (34) DC1 due 4/8/12
Jods1 (?) DC? due 30/8/12
miaboo (?) DC3 due ??/8/12
MrsLister (35) DC1 due 30/8/12 in Homerton, Hackney, England
purplelooby (31) DC1 due 31/8/12 in Bolton, England
Dorita75 (36) DC1 due 4/9/12

This is the most updated list. Please let me know if I've got any info wrong, or if I've missed anyone out by mistake. Also, if you still haven't told me the hospital you're having DC in and want to me to include it on the list (but it isn't mandatory!) please let me know.

Good luck on all the scans today!

I have a few questions please - I've managed to change my scan (combined scan) to the 7th Feb which is when I'll be 13 weeks exactly. As it involves a blood test, I can't find anywhere how long you have to wait for the results.
I'm a bit of a nervous wreck as this was the only time the hospital could fit me in as my original appointment was booked for 14 weeks 2 days which is too late - however, my time on the 7th is not an actual appointment but I'm being squeezed in before the clinic starts and so hopefully the soniograph won't be late?!
Also my DH is going to be away on business from as soon as we've had the appointment for the rest of the week and so any results and I'll be on my own - yikes - dreading it!
Would you try and go private and see if you can get an appointment for next week when I'll be 12 weeks so you could get the results together? and do the NHS one too?

Ahh feeling mighty anxious about it and hoping I am just being a bit daft!

lovemarmite the midwife said to me that the results of the combined test would take two weeks to come through the post if they were considered low risk, but if the results were considered high risk then I'd be called within a week to discuss things/options further.

I think they fast track the high risk results, but she said I could call for the results anyway. I'm based in London, so don't know if this is normal/usual?

good luck, i feel quite nervous about my scans today

Hope your feeling better now needles how scary.

Good luck to everyone having there scans today, how exciting!

Had a busy weekend, but feeling alot more normal now so hopefully past the first 12 weeks now looking forward to getting alot done while I feel like this. Hope everyone else is feeling good aswell! 4 days til 1st midwife appt :) cant wait!

Poppy, I'm nervous too, can't think of much else. Didn't sleep much last night so I'm also tired... and very likely to be emotional!

Feel a bit like its baby's first judgement (like very early school exams) and so am feeling very protective. Does that sound mad?

that doesn't sound mad at all westcountrywife went I had the 6wk scan I told my partner the hospital report was our baby's first school report :)

good luck today.

Phew it's great to know I'm not alone feeling like that. Good luck for you too!

Hamncheese yes to the itching everywhere!! It's driving me crazy, waking me up at night etc, I saw my gp who tested my liver function but it was fine so I just have to live with it I guess. Does anyone have any advice please! Tried lots of creams but in the middle of the night not much helps

lovemarmite my mw said if i had a high risk score the test results specialist mw from the hospital would most likely call me the next working day. For me that will be this Friday. The bloods can be processed very quickly. At fetal meds they said to me they take bloods half hour before your scan and you can have CVS later that day if your combined results are bad, so it must be a quick process with no cultures or anything else involved. If all is good then i was told by my MW that i'd get a letter through the post with the results within a week. Me personally? If i could afford it i'd have it done privately and have my partner there . I am actually not too stressed about getting a high risk result, I see it as inevitable at almost 44! I will however be terrified about the CVs results.

lovemarmite just reread your situation. I'd want partner there at scan but i'm ok with getting my results alone. I'm a bit of a lone wolf and prefer to be alone when upset. As long i could email/phone him that would be ok. I suppose if it is a high risk score though you may want to have CVS/amnio asap and want him there for that.I can't off the top of my head remember exact weeks you have to be for either procedure so think about that when deciding. and some people don't want to have a diagnostic test anyway. Most likely all be fine though!
Someone else said they were visualising themselves leaving the hospital all happy after the scan and i must say right now with 3 days to go that's my approach. I'm saying to myself 'this baby will be ok' as i really can't start worrying too much. Worse still we're both starting to bond with it and make plans- which i swore i'd try not to.

good luck to fellow scanees(?) this week!

Good luck to everyone who has a scan today!! Looking forward to hearing how you get on! Still have over 3 weeks till my scan, counting down the days!!

Can I come on and have a moan about DH please? Feeling upset and cross. So, he comes home most days from school for lunch, as otherwise we don't see each other that much. I decided today that we'd have a healthy lunch of salad leaves, ryvita crisp breads with hummous, carrot sticks and a nice bean/feta/pulses thing from M&S. Bring on lots of moping and moaning about not being a proper hot lunch with soup (that we have almost every bloody day with sarnies that I make). He then said did I think he was fat? I said, no, I'm preggers and trying to be healthy and get my 5 a day, plus was a bit different. He said, well I get my 5 a day. Great for him. He pointed out (fairly) that he has to coach rugby all afternoon, so salad was cold, but there were lots of nice things and was filling. He then made himself a ham sandwich. Both of us then sat in silence upset and pissed off. Beginning to think he should bugger off back to school and eat their stodgy crap instead. Bah. Rant over. Really can't be arsed.

Mrsmigginslovespies, really sounds like he should be damn well pleased with anything you make for him! Bloody cheek.

On the other hand he could have had a bad morning and you could be a bit like me and a bit hormonal... (not your fault of course, definitely his).

Still though, bloody cheek of it! I hope you enjoyed your healthy lunch, sounds lovely to me.

Hi blackcatsdancing, thanks for all your thoughts/advice. Really helpful, thank you x
I managed to get a private scan in Gatwick next Monday at a Babybond centre and will do the NHS one too. This way DH will be definitely at the private one, the NHS one he'll be really rushed for and so it might not be such a relaxed affair as he has to be off to Heathrow quickly straight after and I can imagine I would be a worrier beforehand.
I think I'm a loner in many ways but a real woos when I need to share the worry. I don't think he's worried though, which is great and he's said that he's going to block the internet as I wouldn't have worried if I hadn't read about it!

Will be thinking of you for your scan x

Thanks West. But we're friends again after he came home and said he'd been a selfish prat. And I gave him a creme egg . So all ok again in the Miggins household. Hate having grumps though.

Have been doing some UN type negotiating with various pram shops. It really pays to look around, as have found my Silver Cross place I went to on Sat MILES cheaper than anywhere else...by almost £200.

Off to do some work reluctantly.

Good luck for all those with scans (retrospectivally for those that were today!) and for everyone else just because!!

I get so cross with my DH as well MrsMiggins, even when I know that he isn't being unreasonable! You are totally in the right and so pleased that he came home and apologised - can you send him round to teach Mr Glittershoes some remorse lessons?

So sorry that you have been having a rough time needles! Glad you are on the mend!

I had my booking in appointment today, I quite enjoyed it really, except peeing in a pot - much trickier than I thought! And my scan is booked - two weeks today! Hooray! Can't wait!