PG after MC: Posifrickentivity, Batshit Crazy and a Rash of New Babies...

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Here we go ladies...

Ooh I would love baby to come any time now. Just had my last bit of birthday celebrations, so she is now allowed to make an appearance whenever she wants. However I suspect she will probably be late (I am late for everything!) so no jumping the queue here.
However, baby eviction starts here! Trying anything and everything from today :)

Emki - glad all is well you had us worried!

I hope all your babies come on time! Both mine were 2 weeks late! They had their feet wedged on the doorframe and had to be tempted out with biscuits! Apparently Ryvita is likely to put in an appearance at around 37 weeks! Im not convinced!

Doh! Ive already said that!

Nothing to report here, still haven't finished my hospital bag... just can't seem to imagine it happening yet. The most inconvenient day would be Thursday as we have a builder coming round to do a bit of work and it's DH's birthday so maybe something will happen then!
Now half term is out of the way anytime is good for me and the baby movements are making me feel claustrophobic - she is a tight fit now :)

Miss I actually don't think there is one person on here that hasn't been nervous before the 12 week scan. It's completely normal, sending positive thoughts your way.

Oh sorry miss i didn't see your post, obviously hadn't refreshed for a while! Yes the anxiety is normal - this is why we have coined the phrase 'scan doom' for the period leading up to a scan, it doesn't mean anything at all. Good luck xx

So sorry ladies!! In the middle of Thursday night I remember I hadn't posted - straight from scan I went to have my hair done then rushed home to sort out DD then went out to meet Sister in law - Friday I was up and out early and not back till late - I'm so so so sorry!!! Thank you though for caring!

miss totally normal to be anxious, if you look back at my posts I've been full of doom! And will be again in a couple of weeks. Good luck! xx

Its ok Emki. We forgive you. Just dont do it again!

Wide awake v early again. If Scan is ok on Thursday I get to start weaning off the steroids, which I have v mixed feelings about. Will not miss being hungry, thirsty and wide awake the whole time, but am worried that they are propping up the pregnancy and it will all go wrong without them

Phew emki! You had us all worried there!

I'm sitting here in tears due to yet another Facebook pregnancy announcement. That is seven in about three weeks. I don't know why this one has tipped me over the edge. I think it is just knowing how awful it will be if my one doesn't work out and everyone else is having babies at the same time. And some jealousy over how easy it seems for other people, although I'm sure it wasn't for all of them. God, I feel so guilty and horrible for not being able to be happy for them . I need to pull myself together before DH wakes up!

Hugs for penguin (and Pingu). Not too long to wait until you are past the 12 week scan milestone. It's hard not to regret the loss of that blind optimism, and I don't think you can get it back, but you'll have happy news of your own to share soon, and those baby announcements are going to be playmates for Pingu.

Thanks tins . You are totally right that if it all works out for me it will be great. But it does make my fear of it going wrong even more intense! I do feel a lot better now and trying to look on the bright side

penguin I know exactly how you feel. Now that I am almost at 12 weeks and things are (knock wood) looking positive, I'm starting to welcome the idea of others being pregnant as we'll all belong to an exclusive little club and be able to share stories and tips but since the point where we started TTC and especially since finding out that there were problems (it took us 2 years almost to the day and two mcs before we conceived this one), it was very hard for me when friends would announce pregnancies, especially those that seemed to do it so easily. Not because I begrudged them their happiness but because it highlighted my own failure.

I can promise you there are always things going on behind the scenes that you don know about. For some people pregnancy is easy yes, but other parts of their life might not be so perfect. For example thay may have children easy but have a rocky relationship, or be cut of from their parents etched etc.

Even people who know me look at my children and assume pregnancy is easy for me, they assume because I have a 14 month age gap and will have a 2.3 yea age gap I have it easy. They assume that because I'm 26 this is my 3rd pregnancy and I have it easy. It wasn't till I started my blog and let every one in to my 'secret' (this is my 9th pg not my 3rd) that people were shocked as suprised.

The world is not always as it seems!

Yes you're right cbeebies and I know it which is why I felt so guilty. But emotions are funny things that don't respond to logical reasoning, and it don't think it helped that I'd been awake since 5am due to pg bladder and hormones! Feeling much more in perspective now, today I am pregnant and very grateful for it

Thanks for your kind words medusa, I think you hit the nail right on the head there!

I'm going to Dublin for a three day conference tomorrow. A bit nervous about flying, both because of the small risk and because I don't want to be sick on the plane! On the plus side though, if I'm not ill then I can steal the sick bag for emergencies . The antibiotic excuse that I got from the lovely ladies on here will be coming out again, there's no way I can avoid the Irish alcohol for three days otherwise!

Hello ladies

Its so hard to not be jealous - I don't understand why I still glare at bumps when (fingers crossed) I will be showing soon ... I have to keep reminding myself that when my bump is showing I might be that someone that someone is glaring at because they've had problems ttc or had mc(s) - my cousin has been trying to get pregnant for about 6 years - 4 rounds of IVF and nothing. she is now here (she usually lives in OZ) and is trying IVF again - I'm actually dreading telling her I'm pregnant as I know it will be hard for her. She knows my history so I know she will be expecting the news but it'll be hard for her - because compared to her at least I can get pregnant, even if I did lose 2 .... no one has it easy unfortunately.

Hope you are all having a good Sunday xx
(thank you for forgiving me - and I promise I wont do it again - I will make sure I log on to MN where ever I am - I can't do that to you ladies again) xxx

Just catching up on all the posts. Sickness is very bad here do this will be short as pretty much anything other than laying with my eyes closed makes me feel poorly! Lovely to hear of all the positive scans. We had an early one on Saturday and he/she has a heartbeat and a yolk sac. Felt oddly detached but DH quite emotional. He wants to find out the sex for sake of DS's. I am less keen.

Sending happy pregnant vibes to all of you. I am off to buy jolly ranchers tomorrow as have been told they help sickness. Will try anything if it helps!

sorry you're feeling so yukky me, did you try the arm bands? not a lot of advice really....fat coke and salty hula hoops were my saviour when i was got sick...although i'm one of those hateful people that only had sickness for about 4 days (don't hate me)

shell and pink you're being very quiet....any news?!?!?!?!?!?

also - i was thinking of thunder - has anyone been in touch with her?

That sounds horrible saggy hope you had a better night last night This is my second birth and I'm so anxious abt it being like my first, but also freaking out in case it is super quick and my folks can't get here in time (they only live 10 mins away ) to look after DS so I don't get to hospital in time aaaggghh my brain is driving me mad

I dont think many births happen inside ten minutes!
But I do understand. There are never any guarantees. Even if we've done it before it could still go completely differently. You'll be ok.
And just think how cool it would be to be delivered by your siblings!

The horrific heartburn has hit!
I suppose its gaviscon all the way now!

Janie I have messaged thunder recently and she and baby are fine. 20 week scan all ok

Sorry penguin I didn't mean to invalidate your feelings, I was trying to make you feel better. It's what I tell myself when I feel jealous of bumps and pregnancy announcements. I remind myself that I don't know their story. Of course it's normal to feel the jealousy, that's what miscarriage does and in a way you are still and will forever grieve your baby/ies that you lost.

I fell asleep at 7 today just after putting he girls to bed, dh woke me up when he came to bed and now I'm wide awake very tired but wide awake.

Janie - still here, no news. Not even so much as a cramp today. Pah. Guessing she's going to keep me waiting at least another 3 weeks.
Ooh, can't wait til the babies start popping!!!
As excited as I am, I'm just so scared still. In a way, want it over with so can just relax (and spend the next 18 years worrying about her)