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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Before the first thread fills and locks a 2nd thread for us getting braver!

Well, had a scan yestday and all good, not ectopic, heartbeat and in the right place, fingers crossed it develops well.... Have started looking at double buggies now, but will wait to buy anything until at least 6 months I think, did some tidying up this morning and am feeling shattered, up and down ladders and reorganising the girls' toys.... Had to sit with a bag of crisps and a soda......

Shirley, that's great, did they tell you how many weeks you might be?

Hey Swansea - been thinking of you, how are you getting on?

Great news shirley :)

My scan went very well yesterday, everything looked great!

Great news shirley what will the age gap be between this baby and your youngest? I had a double for my big two couldn't have lived without it!

Hope your doing ok swansea x

Really getting a pattern to movements now, its some comforting!

Shirley - I'm so sorry I missed your message! That's fab news for you and Possum

State I can remember when DS settled into a pattern of such, it really is reassuring.

Hi, I hope you don't mind me joining you all. Found out last night that we are expecting dc2 and feeling all sorts of emotions not least nerves! Ds1 is 14 months and prior to him we had 4 miscarriages in 3 years. First was mmc at 10 weeks, followed by three at between 6 and 7 weeks. Had begun investigations before falling with ds1 and early tests found no issues.
Ds1 was so worth the wait as i had really begun to wonder if we would ever be so lucky.
We are thrilled about this new little one but overnight all my fears and worries have returned and I am a frantic knicker checker already at just under 5 weeks! I know that you will help to keep me sane on the long road and i look forward to your stories of inspiration.

Welcome couldthisbeit, knicker checkers are us!

At the Paralympics I kept rushing to the loo to check!

Congrats Shirley :)
Mrs i am ok sug not getting much rest (joy of having 2 dc :) ) i am contracting all the time i bloody move which looks like i am stuck with an iu until i go into labour, just hope labour won't start properly for at least a few weeks xxx

Lol, me too frantic knicker checker :D ... They said I was 6 + 3days , Swansea, how many weeks are you??? I had contractions at 26 weeks with no 2 so they kept me in until they stopped and told me to stop everything, well I was in full flow ME so there was little to stop!:s but she eventually went full term.

Age gap between no 2 and 3 will be 2 yrs and 2 ish months, they will probably go at 38 weeks I should think as it would be 3rd c-sec and I expect gestational diabetes, had the first Gtt on Monday so will find out next week...hope it's not started already as I'll get insulin pretty much immediately, already I've not had sugar for months anyhow as I was on Dukan diet and no carbs, now just added some low GL carbs just to keep me going, still starving !!!

Also congrats possum, how many weeks?

This is my 3rd csec, I'd not asked when they'd schedule it for just assumed like dds, a few days before duedate! Argh!

Er, 13+4 which I think is ahead by just over a week (I doubt I ovulated 2 days after my period started, lol, we certainly weren't dtd!) :)

Argh GTT tomorrow not been allowed to eat since 8.30pm and feel sick, so sick. I'm so not going to last until 12/1ish tomorrow!

Well 1st venofer done, took forever. Took 3 trys to get the venflon in. My hands are a mess, got another one on Friday :(

Aww swansea you poor thing! I hope your being well looked after. Xx

Had my dreaded GTT and thanks to the hospital finally changing the solution I had to drink it was bareable. And I dug the baby gym out of my mums loft, and its still lovely which is nice as its the only thing other than cotbed all 3 dc will use.

well, what a day! hope all is well with you guys. I've woken up full of cold, head throbbing and runny nose but was determined to remain in high spirits as we had our 20 wk scan at half 3. It all went fine, although baby was again wriggling like mad and wouldnt stay still for sonographer to do all checks. So yet again I was sent to wee and walk around, didn't make much difference but she managed to get everything she needed! They must have the patience of a saint to do that job! We're in for trouble when this one comes out, I can feel it! ....anyway, we have found out it's definitely a boy can't quite believe it. I keep repeating to dp 'we're having a boy!' it's a bit surreal! DP's happy he will no longer be outnumbered by us girlies!

Congrats on your boy gemdrop! My experience of wriggly boy bumps is that they are just as wriggly on the outside, too. DS who is now 3 never stops. Even when he's sleeping...

Gemdrop - congrats on your news!!!

I'm going to agree with Possom, I had a right wriggler and he's now 8 years old and constantly on the move - he's a sleepwalker too!

At my 12 week scan this beanie was dancing all over the place, so I'm bracing myself for another one that can't sit still

Haha MrsR, my scan on Monday, this bean was beating me up with its legs and wriggling about being awkward. I'm also bracing myself for another crazy!

Backward and mrsreiver, you seem to have my 2 sons wriggly, even in sleep, always on the move, sleepwaking, same as yours! Congrats on the boy, gemdrop, boys are fab!

Glad the GTT went ok, state. I've never had one, it sounds icky.

Swansea hope things get better for you now. Stay strong.

I'm 36 weeks tomorrow Am almost paralysed with the back pain (no pain relief helps) but it's no shocker given the size of the bump. I thought I was big with ds2 but this is extreme.

Congratulations on you boy gemdrop wonderful news

Can't believe your 36wks wellies times flying! Sorry to hear your backs so bad, would a bump support band help at all?

I got ds and dds playmat/activity arch out today, I still love it as much as when I chose it for the pfb, made me a bit soppy. Going to hoover it and wash it tomorrow (as I left all our new carpet fluff on it when we packed it up many years ago)

ha ha, wow a wriggly boy thanks mrsr and possum. He was really amazingly wriggly yesterday, when the sonographer was trying to check his heart, he kept trying to roll over etc, she was pushing probe over my belly quite firmly to get a good look and he was actually bashing the probe away with a fist She found that hilarious! Oh wellies 36 wks sorry to hear about your back. Glad your GTT went ok state and have fun with the playmat, can't wait to get all that stuff but I must restrain myself until we are moved I will be buying a little outfit soon though just for Seth.

Morning all, just a feeling sorry for myself, just dropped ds off at school, first day in year 1 and had to carry in him through the door, he broke his heart sobbing and begging me to take him home, took everything in me not to cry and just bring him back, his teach ended helping me and had to pull him off me, whens this going to get easier! Atleast he wasn't the only one, atleast 5 others were sobbing which is some comfort, but my poor boy :(

Aww state big hugs to you xx