Pregnancy after miscarraige.........POWER to the Beanies!!!!

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hi snowboo long time no speak, was hoping you were ok.
sil is being selfish, you can't go anywhere after the stitch is out! and you will not feel like going anywhere right before the stitch is taken out either.
if someone had said about having baby in scbu is worse etc to me i would have hit them! i would have done anything for my baby just to be given a chance of life in scbu!
my stitch is due to be taken out on 31st may (36+6) and im preparing everything like thats my due date. how many weeks are you now?

oinker, im glad you still have your appointment with LR, it really is so wrong that you have had to go through so many mc and no real answers.

She does sound a little insensitive, woe is me type snowboo. Maybe she's jealous of you being pg rather than it being your hormones?

snowboo - what a thoughtless cow she is. I wouldn't have hit her i'd have burst into tears, then got very angry. how dare she even suggest that she is worse off than you. i wouldn't want to go to her Hen do either!!! you stay at home with your feet up.

Had a lovely gift today, a group of the parents are the school i drop the kids off at, have put together a hamper of essentials for me, with gripe water and nappy sacks, magazines, wine etc. its gorgeous, makes it all seem so much more real.

Hi all,

Oinker - oh honey I'm soo incredibly sorry.

Cori - HOpe all has gone well.

Diddle - present sounds gorgeous.

I'm finally home from hospital. My "d"m came round MOnday but refused to talk to me and refused to help me lift the enormous bag of dog food into her car. It all seriously upset me. I'm 38 weeks pregnant and she still can't put anyone's else's needs first. Anyway at 11.00pm at night I had a "significant" bleed i.e. definetly not a show - just lots of blood. Given that dd2 arrived via an abrupted placenta I knew I had to move quickly. Both dds were taken out of bed and to a friends (absolutely horrible leaving your 2 year howling in a confused tired way ). Got to the hospital who were angry that I hadn't got an ambulance (honestly either you're being accused of making a fuss or accused of not taking it seriously). Anyway soaring blood pressure 145/110 etc but absolutely no pain. Spent the night in the delivery suit by which point the bleeding had stopped. Got transfered to ward to be watched. No more blood but bp all over the place. Had another scan of little one and have come home with some truly gorgeous pictures . They couldn't find a reason for the blood which has left me feeling rather nervous. Also each doctor who saw me had a different opinion. The one on the delivery suite wanted me on bp pills. The first one on Ward wanted to leave it a day and today's one said only if it was still high in a week's time (i.e. 4 days before term). Also just before I saw the doctor today they put me on a heart monitor for an hour. For the first 15 minutes little one's heart rate was too high but I had a headache so mw gave me painkillers and said that if that didn't work to reduce little's heart rate then she'd be calling the doctor in the next 5 minutes. 5 mins later and he was back to normal and the doctor didn't even blink about it. So.... Was little one ok or not? The whole thing has left me feeling very jittery. I'm still loosing brown blood but they're not worried by that.

Also spent the entire time watching women getting induced and remembering why I have such a phobia about getting induced AND I soooo missed my girls.

Sorry but you're probably the only ones who would understand how I feel at this moment in time so sorry for the moan.

Blast none of you are around. REally had hoped you'd be around. Am very confused as am now having painful Bh's but really really really don't want to drag the kids back out of their beds for a false alarm. Am feeling v. confused all round to be honest. Oh well.

im around wills- sounds like you've had an awful time
...and painful BH now i reckon its time for you. are you counting the contractions? if they get close you should disturb kids again, is there no one that can come over to yours to babysit so kids can stay in bed?
did your BP come down?

also...just had a text from cori:)
baby boy born at 11.10am this morning, 7lb 11oz there doing well:)

Thanks again. Feel a lot better for your thoughts. Cheeky cow got my bro to call me to ask for the full amount of money! He went quiet when i told him i'd actually called the place to check how much i owe, and NO, it wasn't the full amount. And NO, the full amount isn't overdue, NOT due til June! Oh, and last time we had an argument i was pg with ds, had had some bleeding the week before then she started. It felt good losing it at her. Hmmm....Maybe i could try that again?

Slink, keep me informed of how it all goes. Am 28 weeks on Friday and already getting jittery. Have a scan on Tues so will get another peek at baby. Also have been getting increasingly painful BH's, so bad that i have to stop what i'm doing and actually PANT! And i've got 12 weeks left? Methinks someone must want to arrive a bit earlier than planned. Hopefully not too early!

Wills, sounds like you've had an awful time. I guess at least you've got some moe pics to gaze at! And only a couple of weeks til you meet baby. Just put your feet up and rest.

Ohhh sounds like it could be sooner than a couple of weeks....

Have you called the labour ward up? Just to see what they advise.

And congratulations to Cori, lucky thing! Want to be at that stage NOW! Hurry up weeks....

Hi Slink and Snowboo. Like yours Snow I'm having to stop but they're really irratic but then they were when dd2 was born and its supposed to be a sign that the placenta has abrupted. I'm going to try going to bed for a sleep. If I can't sleep because of the pain then I know for certain that something's happening.

Snow - your sil to be is a cow - sorry but she sounds seriously stuck up herself.

Many many many congrats Cori honey. Will look out for your announcement thread in presumably a couple of days time.

Ah, its only cos shes better than my family. IN HER HEAD!

Well take it easy and try to get some rest, hopefully you can sleep for a couple of hours at least before baby decides nows the time!

Ah, its only cos shes better than my family. IN HER HEAD!

Well take it easy and try to get some rest, hopefully you can sleep for a couple of hours at least before baby decides nows the time!

Cheers Snow. Part of me knows its not time yet.....

good plan wills, try not to worry. ring labour ward if you can't sleep. or maybe have a bath and if the bh dont relax then its def labour. oooh exciting we might get babywills tonight:)

snowboo, glad you sorted out your sil, did she make up the amount of money you "owed" her then? what a cow!
congrats on 28 weeks thats the biggest milestone for us knackered cervixes baby has 95% or more chance of survival now if born, so the real danger zone is passed. i have been getting panting BH too, and worrying stabbing pains in cervix, it feels like stitch is being pulled. hope it can just last a few weeks longer.

Oh i'm glad you said that Slink! I think its where the little monkey is kicking on it. But its so painful! Poor dh is getting it in the neck now, every twinge i'm having a major panic! At least my neighbour is a paramedic. And she has delivered her fair share of babies. So she has said anytime, night or day, just call on her! A relief to be honest.

As for sil-to-be, she didn't exactly make up the money, just tried to extract it before its due. Basically if i can't go then she has to share a table with other groups so i think she wanted to get my money then say opps, sorry, non refundable. Meant she could have her own table. Ah, shes not right in the head sometimes, really funny girl. But my bro, who i love dearly, is marrying her. And even he isn't happy! Hmmm. Thread in a years time: My bro has got divorced!

Ohhh baby is in my ribs both back and front. Hes a real night wriggler. Will be up now til the morning. Ah well, its only sleep, who really needs it????!

Oh wills - sounds like you had an awful time of it. I'd have left the bloody dog food on the floor, how can she not care about your health and your feelings. You have every rght to act just the same and leave her to it.

I'm sure this message is really too late, but how are the Braxton Hicks/contractions going?? Any developments. I would have been worried stiff if i had been bleeding. My friend bled for a week before her baby was induced.
Reassuring that you had a scan and the heartbeat calmed down though, thats good. Your stress may have made the baby's HB higher too.
How have you slept, are you still at home?????

Snowboo - sounds like you've got some action too. Your BH will be more noticeable now, although not painful, if you're at all worried you should definitly get it checked out.

Slink - I am getting the same as you, strong BH enough to take my breath away, and sharp shooting pains and i don't even have a stitch. Feels very odd, wonder what on earth is going on.

Cori - huge congratulations to you Cori, I am so thrilled that you have finally got your baby in your arms, you must feel so relieved that he's now with you and safe.

hello!

Very quick catch up now that I am starting to feel like a human being again.

yay for Cori. You must be so pleased and relieved - look forward to pics and full details.

Wills - glad you are OK after your alarm. If I see newspaper reports of a woman having been murdered with a large bag of dog food, I shan't be in the least bit surprised.

And Snowboo - I have a sister-out-law who is just the same. If she isn't the centre of attention she kicks off and sulks until she is. We love our family gatherings now...

Hope everyone else is doing well, relaxing and enjoying the sunshine. I went out this week and bought some maternity clothes, which did seem a bit like tempting fate. But I was running the risk of waking up one morning in the next couple of weeks and not being able to leave the house because nothing fitted.

My next mission is to find a nice maternity wedding dress that isn't a meringue. Ought to be straightforward (I was imagining a nice floaty floral frock) but none of those fit over my bust, and all maternity evening wear is black. Aaargh... am going to have to stomp round London in the heat, and not looking forward to it.

Morning diddle! God but being stuck in a hospital bed, no mobiles allowed no mn you feel really cut off from the world. All the women had their partners with them but mine had to be with my girls and since nothing was happening I didn't see why both of us had to be bored stupid.

No bh's this morning. But headache is still there as is vague sickness. I know want this symptomatic of but at the same time the hospital knew this as well and were happy to send me home so I don't feel the urge to rush and phone them..... I didn't say yesterday but they felt my cervix and its really soft and beginning to open so he could come any day now... Or in the next 4 weeks. So nothing new there then given he's due in 10 days! One change that has happened is that listening to all the new born babies down the other end of the ward and bought on my milk. Definitely starting to leak now.

My mother is very screwed up. I've seen her psychiatrist and in a nut shell she was absued terribly (physically and mental not sexual) by her mother and she's looking for someone to replace her mother and guess what.... She thinks its me (and my two brothers and my two daughters). She wants to be treated like a child and loved like one. She's stunning at guilt trips and having realised that she's doing the same to my daughters that she did to me I've put my foot down and said no. On Monday she came round in a serious strop and refused to speak to me and kept whispering to my girls. At 38 weeks pregnant I could really do with a mum that was supportive and loving and it really hurt me that just this once she couldn't give to me instead. Some people don't have mums but I wonder if having a mum that's crap is not somehow worse. My dh tries to be there for me but really a man cannot be a mum they simply do not understand hormones and I really need someone to understand hormones AND 38 weeks pregnant. I suspect that dh has thought me completely raving bonkers at various points but has learnt that its called pregnancy and simply ducks. Oh God and drivelled on again. Sorry. Lets put it down to hormones again please.

Snow - my younger brother's wife managed to fall pregnant 3 days after flying over from the USA to meet him for the first time (they were having an internet relationship). He's now married and (thank goodness) happy but I rarely see him and .... she's the biggest money grabbing little cow around. So you have my complete sympathy - unfortunately we can't chose for them can we. On the upside my favourite brother in law on dh's side has just started dating my best friend. They're absolutely hooked and I'm desperate that it stays that way although petrified that if it doesn't how the hell I'd handle it iyswim. BUT.... if carries on this way then my bf could very well become my sil. So its not all doom and gloom .

Diddle - So how did the mum's take the letter? were they ok?

Hi ya 2 cats - therre's a special website for pregnant wedding dresses. give us a mo as I need to oust dd2 off the other comp.

Morning girls.
Cori- congratulations !!!!! Well done!
Wills- {{{{{{{{{hugs}}}}}}} you poor thing!

Hiya everyone else!
Hope everyone's well on this glorious sunny day.
I'm going to grab an hours' nap soon as 2 nights in a row had a pants night sleep (really bizarre dreams, waking for loo, seeing to a fidgety toddler etc). Got a busy day tomorrow baking a white & dark choclate fudge cake for ds1 (he's 14!!!! ). Can't believe that. Where does the time go?
Have a great day my loves xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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Well done Cori!! So pleased for you and can't wait to hear all about it.

Good luck today Arabica. Shall be waiting for news.