Laura Ashley/Creme Egg graduates - pregnant after MC

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A place to carry on chatting after a BFP and support each other through the stressful bits. I hope to see many new graduates appearing....

I used to be a bit of a gym bunny too, but I am making a habit of just sitting very still now that I have one sticking! ( for the moment anyway!) sure it doesn't actually make a difference (other than to the amount of weight I am piling on!) but just trying everything this time!

I have paid for my scan today. So sods law means that something horrific should happen any minute now.....

aren't we all bonkers thinking that paying money for a scan will jinx everything! I think three of us have said that now. :)

So, what with all the booked up for ages private scan places I've been thinking we should set up an early scan business, £40 scans (no deposits!) all of us available for counselling at any time (even though we are all neurotic!) and bod doing the scanning. All the further along graduates could waddle swan around providing reassurance by their mere presence is everybody in?

Bump I love your idea!!! I'm in Ireland so maybe we can have a few branches?! Oh and maybe we can also invest in a pregnancy test company with with a digi window showing more than 3+ ...perhaps up to 39+ weeks to reassure our crazy asses!!!

Genius idea! I can bake reassuring cakes for ladies to eat while being scanned?

great ideas for expansion, this time next year Rodney...

also, I suggested a knicker cam some time ago now - has no-one invented that yet?

ooh that may have been invented bump (in a backstreet in amsterdam ha!)

ha ha, I am so pg obsessed that I did not even consider the more lewd uses of knicker cam! But not to miss an opportunity we can package one for mummies to be and one for the 'amsterdam market' :)

Wow love the ideas here, knicker cam would be great!!
Like the scan clinic idea- I can be the resident shrink although I am totally paranoid and anxious as well.

Squizita- hugs to you , hope you have a better weekend and please don't worry about stress causing anything to go wrong.

For those exercise fans amongst us I have been on a few slow jogs since finding out- only 3 miles, but if I don't exercise I will balloon, in my first pregnancy I put on over 10kgs before I was 14 weeks- a lot of eating.
I have booked an early scan for 3rd May- ages away.
I am going to the fetal medicine centre in London, very impressed as there is no booking fee to pay upfront- and yes I too think I have now jeopardised the pregnancy. I am too scared to contact the midwife as last time my miscarriage started that same day!!

Hope you all have a great weekend- I'm off to Glasgow first thing in the morning.

We are definitely on to a couple of winners here. Do mumsnet threads count as copyright?! :)

I'm thinking VagCam a step up (or rather in) from KnickerCam....similar positioning to the coil with permanent sticky bean view, like iPhone Face Time but more 'Fanny Time'. I think this will deter the sex pest and pervert market and negate the need for scan clinics, associated overheads and the countdown to scans etc. 24/7 viewing. Whoop! (Copywright@GardenWorm)

I need to get out more.

I can't believe I've missed out on our little dragon's den! Can I do the marketing? Think the cheap scan place would be a no brainer. How much does a sonogram machine cost again?! We could do a buy 9 get 1 free offer for the really neurotic ones... Knicker cam I remember from the other thread. Definitely. The weekly conception test though - that's the money spinner!!! I think we know our market very well. Looks around. Nods.

squizita I thought the same after my last mc. This time I've been through (and am still going through) telling my team their jobs are at risk of redundancy due to their skill sets, one on one consultations, meetings without prejudice, external interviews and compromise agreements. They've both worked for me for over five years and one left the day before Good Friday and I have to go through it all with the other one when I get back. I've had sleep free nights, tears, tantrums and have considered walking out myself. So far, we're all fine. I read somewhere that maternal stress doesn't affect the baby until 17-18 weeks, and that's when the stress hormones make their way into the placenta. You'll be fine. Breathe deeply, and don't worry about what's been done already and that that you can't change. Hugs...

Ha ha loving the enterprise ladies!

What a difference a day makes Got a cancellation for tomorrow so having my scan at 1.15....yikes! And got my booking appt thru and having (fingers crossed tomorrow goes well) 12 week scan on 30 April so nice and early, am much happier

God, just burst into tears in the office: the scan is tomorrow...I can't cope

Oh shell that's fab!! I understand your tears, but they are good/scared/positive/anxious/happy tears! Hand holding alert

shell you'll be fine. It's not long to wait, not really. Try to keep busy and plan something nice to do tomorrow for WHEN everything's okay. Unmumsnetty hugs xx

Oh and my boobs look mahoosive today, not helped by the stripes jumper. Getting that double boobie thing cos my bra must be too small now eek

Thanks guys

anda it's my nieces birthday party at 2 so we will be going there after and it's just immediate family so ill be able to tell them the news.

Result janie you'll have to get them bad boys measured

bod can I pick your brains if you are abt please? I wanted the scan originally on Monday as I would be 8 weeks by when I think I ovulated. Am having the scan on Sat so ill be 7+6 by ovulation (tho 8+3 by LMP)...will they be able to do it at that stage or will it need to be internal?

Thanks

Hahaha fannycam!

Thanks dietcoke! Very reassuring... which I need as my reassurance scan has left me with precisely NOTHING. I'm in limbo thanks to my GP not really understanding how/when to book scans.

Basically got there this morning, did the usual maths (last period, length of cycle etc') and the consultant said BEFORE anything else "well, at this stage many pregnancies don't show on an ultrasound yet, your GP should have booked you for 2 weeks time [ yeah I KNOW but my locum GP didn't know the systems for booking non emergency EPUs ] and if we don't see anything we'll have to call it a PUL and you'll have to do 48 hour bloods." To be honest, I wish they'd just done the bloods!

So they do the scan and lo and behold - they can see some indistinct dot which could be a sac or could be a clot or bubble or something. The junior doc is getting all loud with words like 'ectopic' and 'miscarriage' and I am freaking out a bit- he keeps asking if I'm SURE I don't bleed or have pain (BH calls this 'spotting zebras on a horse farm' ... trainee medics looking for something rare and exciting to them). The consultant is less freaked out and calmly and firmly reminds me that as he said OFTEN at this stage they can't see enough to reassure and my GP booked me too early. The upshot is, they have taken bloods and will take some more on Sunday.

Will get a phone call later today with today's hormone scores then have to go back to the 24hr urgent care clinic Sunday morning (Consultant told me to tell them not to get all over enthusiastic and try to re-scan me or anything but just take a bit of blood lol spotting zebras again). By Sunday night I will know: normal pregnant, not pregnant or (unlikely but they must test) ecptopic.

Well, I've not had one sided pain and I haven't bled and I feel sick... fingers crossed it's option 1, and the sac is just too small to see yet.

shell mine at 8+1 (from LMP) and 7+4 (from ov) was internal. There was no discussion, I was just told it would be trans vaginal due to the stage of pregnancy. I think it depends on the EPU though because other people on the September thread had them abdominally at the same stage.

I've had two TV now because at the private scan at 10+4 she couldn't see twin 2 properly and both have been fine with no spotting or anything else afterwards.

Oh squizita what a nightmare. Still, they can tell a lot from bloods, and hopefully by Sunday you'll have the reassurance you're looking for. Keeping everything crossed for you, and hope the time goes quickly. No pain and no bleeding are very good signs that everything is okay so far

Thanks Dietcoke ... just rang the Miscarriage Assoc helpline and she was like 'well your GP shouldn't have booked to scan you that early, 50% don't show then' and said just wait for bloods. Just the scary words (with no blood or pain) are so scary! And I have upper back pain so now I keep thinking OMG shoulder tip pain and it's not it's my trapped nerve. Ha! Maybe I will start rubbing me back instead of checking me knicks!

Oh squiz just what you needed after yesterday...here's hoping for good results in the bloods...it all sounds positive to me

Thanks anda I had a private scan with DS at 8 weeks (as that is when the MMC had actually stopped growing) and that was just a normal external scan...that's why I wanted Monday so it's interesting to hear you had to have internal at the same point. I better just assume it could be either and ahem prepare myself accordingly

Ooh shell a scan tomorrow? How very exciting! I am not jealous at all so pleased they managed to get you in to a cancellation.
I still have a whole 6 days 21 hours and 15 minutes to wait! But I am under a week now... :)

Squiz. that all sounds most frustrating. Glad you got some good advice though, and at least they are doing something rather than nothing.

This Friday is really dragging. All I can think about is scans. I have a one track mind! Still going between feeling pg and not feeling pg. I don't think I actually really know any more! Not that I ever did .....

Pink- I do hope the whole 'don't know' limbo ends for you - it's just the worst!
Shell - ah the joys of being a woman - I seem to find that if in doubt, they will ALWAYS choose sticking a camera or something up an orifice rather than externally checking LOL.

Update: hospital just rang (so nice when they care and call asap) as they knew I'd be checking that loo roll lol! As of today, my HGC and Progesterone are "textbook" and "very good very healthy" for the dates since my last AF!! Small victory!

Gotta go back but nurse seems to think this lowers the chances of problems with 48 hr bloods and raises the chance it's just a small bean sack which took its time to implant and is small but normal. Still gotta go back for more bloods and they'll scan me again at 6-7 weeks and hopefully bean will not be so shy.