Pregnant after a miscarriage, as the bumps get bigger we get braver, 1st,2nd or 3rd trimester, reasurance and hand holding aplenty!

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So beautiful and peaceful! You made a good un! X

Congrats wellies, your pic is lush :) take care hunny xxx

You've had such a rough time Swansea it's no wonder you want it all over. Try hard to rest and focus on the positives to come soon! X

Congrats wellies!

Congratulations Wellies! She is BEAUTIFUL!

Congratulations wellies she is beautiful! our first graduate! :)

Ah, thanks everyone x

She is a dream and worth all the waiting. We're currently enjoying lovely cuddles in bed, the joys of the newborn days

C-section was fine and recovery as painful (or more!) as I remember but I don't mind! She's a good little feeder too and has got her little lifestyle sorted: eat, sleep, stare cutely at adoring parents, and then repeat!

congratulations wellies and well done! she is so beautiful! Amazing! I feel like I want to get this pg over with but as dp said last night im going to miss being pg so enjoy it while it lasts! Wont initially but when it starts to sink in that this is my last pg I will feel quite sad. In the new house now, its great and feels like a palace compared to the flat! My back has started aching right on my bum bone and getting pains round the bottom of my bump when im walking around so this boy is certainly going to be a bruiser!

Oh Wellies she is just gorgeous, huge congratulations!!!

Just popping in to see how everyone is doing

I have a bug and feel awful :( not been sick at all today though so hoping ill be ok for my MW apt this evening.

How's everyone else doing?

I was choked with the cold yesterday, had to cancel my flu jag and spent the day in bed watching Downton Abbey. Feeling much better today.

Hope you get to your MW and feel better soon.

Feeling a bit better this afternoon.

I don't know about everyone else but being a little bit poorly when pregnant hits me harder than usual, guessing its because the baby sucks all my reserves, its been kicking so much today I could see them, not that pleasant when you feel sick!

Glad you're feeling a bit better state, yup immune system is shut when you're pg so bound to feel worse. Touch wood I've escaped the colds my two have had...so far!

Had my 28wk check today, all ok, bit disapointed they didn't check the HB, they don't anymore apparently :( backs killing me this evening, wretching and laying on the sofa too much I'm guessing.

Not sure if anyone else watches hollyoaks but it made me all teary, Nancy had her mc at the same time as me, then her new pregnancy story line started around the same time as my 10wk scan, she's just delivered early at 26wks, I know its not real but it really pulled at the heartstrings!

State, I don't watch Hollyoaks but I can imagine how you would have felt, things like that seem to get to me as well, the slightest thing sets me off these days! And yep - bugs seem to completely wipe me out right now when everyone else shakes them off after a day or two.

Another panic last night, had horrible sharp pains every 5 minutes for about 45 minutes, was really working myself into a tizz. Two paracetemol and a bath helped so I went to bed early. They seem to have stopped but I'm really sore, I feel like I've done a load of sit ups.

I had really awful braxton hicks with DS, so I'm hoping this isn't the start of it - in the end they got so bad I went into labour at 30 and 32 weeks before he was eventually born at 34 weeks. I know it's not really premature but he was so poorly. I would hate to go through all that again, DS is still dealing with health issues as a result of his early-ness.

I've had pain all around the line of my ribs today, not pleasant.

My ds was 36wk but scbu adamant my edd was wrong and he was more 34, luckily at 5yo we seem to have left the health issues behind but for a while we were forever in and out of hospital so I understand your fears with that!

Having awful back pain/aches aswell but a hot water bottle is fantàstic, baby is very active and making me even more uncomfortable.

But I am not complaining! Haha!

Oh it was awful for the first few years - and could they put all the appointments in the one hospital? So we were all over the place at lots of different bloody hospitals for different specialties. Fortunately he's 8.5 now and all we see is the nurse who takes care of his misbehaving bowels. He gets down about it occasionally as it's not the nicest condition to have, but for the most part he's quite cheerful. He's one of the smartest kids I know, so he has a lot of insight into his situation - he realises it will probably be long term and worries how to deal with it as an adult - and this means for awkward conversations every so often.

I sometimes worry how I'm going to cope with his needs (having to remind him to go to the toilet, keeping an eye on his bowel habits and adjusting his medication accordingly) and those of a little baby but I'll just have to get on with it.

Oh bless him, he sounds a wonderful young boy though, I'm sure you will all do just fine! Ds is 5 now, and very fortunate that the only lasting thing is he's a bit small, and is slow to gain weight, not underweight just low end of the graph as such. He had a lot of breathing difficulties as a baby, in hospital every few weeks until 10mnths, often floppy and blue, utterly terrifying! He was also mute until 4yo. They're all the more amazing though aren't they!

When I was worried about keeping on top of ds meds etc alongside caring for dd (16mnth age gap) I had a small white board stuck inside a kitchen cupboard so it was private but I saw it when I made breakfast/lunch and dinner and kept it updated.

Well my back and ribs have finally eased off but this baby is SO busy today!

Also just got a message from school its school pictures tomorrow and as dds in nursery they'll do a pic of them together! Really hope they both co-operate, I'd love one of them together.

Oh that sounds so familiar, I remember rushing to A&E on a few occasions with a blue lipped baby. Terrifying what they put you through isn't it? DS was so tiny, but now he's in the 99th percentile for his height, but he is very slim, and could eat for Scotland without putting a pound on. And if he gets ill he fades away to nothing.

This baby just gave the most allmighty wriggle while I was looking at shoes online, the first movement that has been unmistakabely baby and not wind [Grin] I almost can't believe it - I'm 20 weeks next week! How the heck did that happen? Oh when I look back to the heartbreak we were going through this time last year, if only I knew it would get better.

I hope your DCs are on their best behaviour and you get a gorgeous photo of them! It's photo day here next week, I've been battling with DS' excema on his face and I think I've won - everything crossed it stays at bay until after next Tuesday!!

Hello all, newbie here, I got my BFP on Tuesday (still surreal) I'm 4wk4/40 at the moment. I've had 2 early MCs both at 6wks2 and have been trying on and off for 3 and a half years (24 cycles in all). My last MC was in May '11, which seems so long ago now. I am very scared today - its kinda taken over. Trying to keep busy but could do with a hand hold.

Waves to you all anyway, it's nice to go from a TTC thread to a pregnancy thread, at least that's a small achievement in itself :)

Welcome princess :) Congrats on the bfp!!

Had the whooping cough vaccine today my arm hurts like hell now but its definitely the safest thing for the baby!!

Still feel like shit the tightenings are still torturing me :( but at least I only have 2 weeks (well just over) till he arrives can not wait to meet my little man now :)
Hope everyone is ok xxx

mrs ds is 56th percentile, can't remember what he was when he was born but by 18mo he'd earnt the nickname buddah and was on the 96th for weight lovely chunky boy but then learnt to move and slimmed out again. Horray for huge baby wriggles, and whilst looking at shoes my baby did similar once which meant I had to buy the tiny newborn sized uggs, or so I tell dp haha! Hope his excema stays away, I had it terribly on my face as a child and it all vanished when I was 16/17.

Welcome aboard princess and congratulations. :)

2 weeks swansea I may be a bit jealous I've got to book my flu and whooping cough jabs, dd coughed today and I had a small breakdown, it was because she was sucking her hair blooming kid! Hope the tightenings settle or sod off all together xxx

I've worked out this is my most active baby because it has an very loud older sister, who has quite a pitch to her voice lol.

Welcome Princess and good luck - you'll find plenty of support and hand holding here

I hate needles and was all booked for my flu jag on Tuesday but my asthma was awful so had to cancel it, not looking forward to it next Saturday but needs much. Will definitely be getting the whooping cough one as well, I had "mild" whooping cough as a baby and my DM tells me I was very, very ill. It's a horrible illness.

Two weeks Swansea!! Wow - it's come round quickly, I hope the tightenings ease for you so you can enjoy this last fortnight as much as possible.

Waving to princess, early days are so much if a worry but hopefully you can take heart from the fact that recall worried ourselves silly and now we're talking about just weeks til big days!

Sorry about your asthma state, my allergies are terrible at the mo - were much worse than normal with dds too, but builders dust and mess is killing my nose. Am absolutely exhausted today as had v little sleep over last few days worrying about build and how to pay for it but I know it's a luxury problem to have. Touch wood it'll all be done by mat leave time. Cold ridden dd2 and I are snuggled up watching peppa pig. Poor little soul is not enjoying the disruption, unlike dd1 who wants to watch the builders all day long!

I will def have flu jab and whooping cough jab but have to wait for surgery to contact me!