PG after MC - posifrickentivity, hand holding, and smelly gush.

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Thread for ladies who are freaking out panicking slightly when preggy after miscarriage.
Plenty of oldies. Newbies always welcome.

yay for being team pink lucky that's so exciting!

yes we love campers too! however we have grown far less spontaneous since dd and DH has spent most weekends on his PhD for the last 3 yrs so we just don't use her enough. we also got tired of camping in mud and the, erm, slight uncertainty about whether you would get somewhere without AA assistance! I think we will look for a newer one maybe after a bit of saving. whilst camping in this country seems to be a wash out mostly we have had some amazing Europe trips and would love to do more in the future, its a very child friendly way to travel not least because you don't have to be selective about what to take on hol, you just take blooming everything! (very unorganised mum packer here esp when dd was v small, I had to take everything for every eventuality, including on one trip 2 different pushchairs )

Janey I'm sure you can get a nice pushchair in your mini. but if not it sounds like a campervan will be in order

YEY! YEY! YEY Lucky - Team Pink is awesome

Lovely news lucky :) team pink rocks! I'm finding it really hard to pick names though!

anda i'm so naive, it never crossed my mind that Kate would be so sneaky - but makes perfect sense. I hope you have got through today ok.

Janie - definitely sounds like he has been doing a bit of thinking, I hope this is a sign of things to come.

pixie I hope your camper will be very happy with her new family

Great news on the scan Lucky!!

Yay congratulations on the scan lucky!

janie - hope this is the start of a bit more sympathy! Dp is a bit crap too, but strangely last pg got a lot better towards the end when I looked very pregnant. When I actually felt great! Got no sympathy when bump was small and I felt crap and could have really used some help.

Stressing a bit here as just found out that a child at a toddler group we went to yesterday has slapped cheek - can cause horrible complications for the baby if you catch it before 20w pregnant (I'm 17 now). My mum doesn't remember me having it before so I'm unlikely to be immune - going to go to gp tomorrow, think they do blood tests? Do I remember right that someone else here was exposed to it and tested, or was that something else? Just hoping that I've been lucky and not caught it.

diy yes i'm hoping dh might be a bit better later on n the pg... i kinda think that he still doesn't really believe it's happening. scan on monday so i'm just hoping that after that he might change. but i keep hoping he'll change! aarrggh!

re. the slapped cheek - i don't think you have to have had it to be immune, i think the majority of people are immune naturally, but best to get checked just in case. a girl in my book club advised that her son had it one night and i was in the 2 week wait and obv didn't want to tell the group i was ttc so i just made sure to sit at the opposite end of the table from her and didn't share any of her food or drinks just in case! fx all ok for you

DIY- it was me with the suspected contact with slap cheek.
I thought my daughter had it.
You need to call up and get a blood test tomorrow to see if you are immune- the results take about a week to come back. Most people are immune and will have had it without realising. Hope all will be okxx

Thanks - I'm going to phone the gp in the morning.

I had it in my class and had to have almost two weeks off while I waited for blood results! Turned out I am immune from ages ago. Chances are you've picked it up if not in your own childhood, then from one of the toddler groups! Hope you are immune!

Great news on scan, lucky!

Garden - it's my birthday tomorrow too! Except I have not been clever enough to take today off

Re the DH not getting how hard bein.g pg is - mine is usually pretty good, but he has already commented about how much weight I've put on (a stone just about) - I can still get into all my clothes albeit can't do up waistbands but I know he's trying in his own way to look out for me as I have been pigging out on chocolate (Kit Kat straw with coffee for me).

I have started to get stabby pains in my pubic bone (SPD/PGP?) told my Mw in 16 week apt on wed, but she wasn't much help. Told me that my 24week apt was very much optional so unless I want it not to go back until end of Sept. felt a bit weird tbh considering how many apts I had with DS.

Happy birthday for tmro garden and choc!!! And it's to be really sunny yay!! Get the non alcoholic beers out!

Sorry if my slapped cheek info was incorrect

I have ex friend news today too (must be the week for it). Just discovered ex friend is also pregnant... Really knocked me for six. If I ever have to see her with a bump or a baby, I swear I would not be able to be nice to her.

At least it's Friday and only 71hrs 35mins til our scan

I can sympathise janie - but yes, it's not long until Tuesday, and the weekends always go quicker

My next one is a week on Tuesday so I'm a week later - at that scan they're unlikely to move so they'll decide on a mode of delivery.

I'm off work today and doing bugger all - it's a lovely state of affairs. Both babies are wriggling and the sun is shining, and I've just done an ocado shop that includes baby wipes, nipple cream, maternity pads and nappies so I can pack a hospital bag just in case. Just need to buy a few more tiny baby vests and babygros and I'm ready(ish).

For those of you with DCs already, how many vests and babygros did you have to start off with?

Oh maybe I added my hours up wrong. My scan is Monday!!

I've no babies yet so no advice on clothes but did find a good thread on here called 'what does a newborn wear', pretty glad I found it as I'm clueless! X

No janie it's me - in my world all scans are always on a Tuesday. I reject any assertions that any of you may make about having scans on different days of the week!!

Not long to wait now janie. Pack those socks ready! I'm flipping melting today! Phew! I have no idea how many vests etc we had with DS. He had reflux and went through loads a day! I vira it depends if you have sicky babies and how often you like to do your washing / drying. Go for some cheap supermarket ones. Can ways pop out and get more when bubbas arrive :) x

Not long to wait now janie. Pack those socks ready! I'm flipping melting today! Phew! I have no idea how many vests etc we had with DS. He had reflux and went through loads a day! I vira it depends if you have sicky babies and how often you like to do your washing / drying. Go for some cheap supermarket ones. Can ways pop out and get more when bubbas arrive :) x

Happy birthday for tomorrow garden and choc got to love a Saturday birthday
choc I completely agree re mw and GP visits. I see my GP at 25 weeks and that will be the first time! And mw visit at 16 weeks then not till 28! Good job we all have this thread or we'd forget we were pg :)
I can't rem how many vests I had but I know I was advised to only get 0 - 3 month and not newborn and it was bad advice! The sleep suits were huge for a newborn and DD was 7lbs 14oz so not tiny by any means. I had to send DH to sainsburys to get some newborn stuff. Also each shop seems to size it's clothes completely differently, Asda and Mothercare clothes are massive and Next are quite small, but this is from 2.5 years ago so may have changed.
Also the baby vests have the special envelope shoulders not only so you can get them over their huge heads but also so you can completely remove the vest down the body rather than take it off over the head. this is handy when the nappy explodes with poo as you don't have to drag it past the baby's head ( nobody told me this )

Choc we have the best birthday date - love it that it's usually hot(ish) and sunny(ish)!

Anda I would get a couple of vests/grows that are smaller than new born (cant remember what they call them! Tiny baby????) as newborn is actually quite big. My DD was 7lb7oz and the vests swamped her, didn't care so much about baby grows as I think they look quite cute oversized! Also once they start poohing their runny yellow pooh no nappy can contain it so you will need a few spares ;o)

Ha ha wrote that without reading Bumps

anda you need more vests and babygros than you think! I took three sets for dd (thinking I was likely to be in hospital for 3 days, so an outfit a day...) and she got through the lot in a day. For newborns I'd reckon on about 3 outfits a day. Of course if it's really hot they'll probably just want a vest on. Outfits need to be changed when the ineptly put on nappy leaks, and also many babies constantly dribble up bits of puke (lovely I know!) I also spilled orange juice on dd ...

Feeling quite weepy this afternoon, hormones are getting the better of me and dd and I had a disastrous trip to town... Thought I'd just try popping into a couple of shops while dd hopefully snoozed after a couple of hours in the park, instead refused to sit in the pushchair, rampaged, pooed her pants in one shop, then started pulling pants off so it got all over her legs and hands too... Then later screamed when I tried to persuade her to use the toilet and wet herself and shoes so had to go in pushchair with bare feet so screamed even louder... Am feeling a bit guilty for shouting at her now, she is only 2 and a bit and that's what 2 and a bit year olds do, but... Nnnnnnngggh! She is now sleeping off the trauma and I'm eating chocolate and on here when I should be doing the laundry. Right, back to it! Sorry for the rant

Janie I forgot to ask, how do you get tea up a twix?! And no, not had a spira for yonks?you must all try the aero biscuits tho (and rolo are good too) they are delicious

Brill scan news lucky and fantastic to hear you are having a girl am very happy for you

Happy birthday garden and choc for tomorrow

choc you can ring and get a MW appt at any time and if you suspect PGP you should as the earlier you can see a physio the better?I feel weird too abt the lack of appts second time round.

anda I second getting smaller sizes than you would think?DS was 8.8lb so not small and he didn?t fit 0-3 for quite while?I?m another who only took 3 changes to hospital and had to send DH for loads more! DS wasn?t sicky at all either, you just seem to go thru them

DIY that sounds like the shopping trip from hell glad you are relaxing now, you deserve it!

Aw DIY your day sounds like it went from bad to worse :( hope the chocolate and some sofa time is making you feel better.

Shell my friend taught me the sucky twix tea trick...just bite each end off and suck really hard (ha that sounds a touch vulgar haha!!) so the tea comes up. the biscuity bit goes mushy and the caramel goes even more gooey, then you just shove it all in your mouth and wonder if life could possibly ever get any better :) mmmm!!

And mmm aero biscuits will be in my list :)

Oh diy sounds like a testing day!, i remember days like this all to well, and many more to come as i haven't started potty training dd yet! Hope you are resting this afternoon & put your feet up x

Anda oooh exciting times, and i second getting a few extra sleepsuits, it's surpising how many you go through and even more with twins too. I bought a newborn layette for each of mine, around 6 sleepsuits newborn size, going home outfit, light jacket, 6 vests and obviously a whole pkt of nappies for the hospital, aswell as wipes- plus you never know whether they are sicky babas until they come!

Mmm janie that twix trick sounds divine, i'm drooling like a puppy thinking of it. Must buy some Twix!