The even newer posifrickentivity thread for ladies pregnant after miscarriage! Spring 2, welcome!

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Hi Ladies, continuing our posifrickentivity journey.

Wishing all healthy pgs and lots of thread babies!

Squiz haha, I'll put a book in there now thanks

polka haha, nope, looks like I'll be staying within a perimeter of no more than 30 ft from our bathroom! You're welcome x

Stars I might need to up my dose - today was an uncomfortable morning experience!

Squiz ouch - sorry to hear that, on the flip side of the coin, I think I may need to lower mine, I didn't get much sleep last night and SPD makes it hard to move fast, so I had a few close calls! Also forgive the tmi but the quantities were shocking, I must be squeaky clean internally now!

Better out than in! As my gran would say...

Hi kjh - funny to go all through pregnancy together and not have met! We're due within a couple of days of each other, aren't we?

cbeebies - sorry you can't choose where you go. Hope you get a passable experience where you go x.

Penguin - haven't dared to open the pack. It's a bin bag. I'm not sure if I think it might explode, or whether she's finger printing it later. Might be renegade and go and poke through it in a minute. Will post back!

LondonJen - Third baby, couldn't get in the pool last time as someone else got there first (cheek!), so I've got one at home now - arrived ten mins ago.

Stars, no, she's just pretty miserable generally. Husband thinks if she came to announce we'd won the lottery, she'd probably give us the statistics for breakdown of relationships and mortality after lottery winning! She's a (forgive me) sour faced bag of a woman who doesn't know the relevant literature well enough to discuss my actual risks, and just wants me to sod off to hospital so she can stay working 9-5. I think. Ha!

stars 1 litre of prune juice?! Uh-oh... But great news about your ELCS date! May babies are great

I had a great scan yesterday, thank you all for thinking of me. Brilliant views of the little bean bouncing around, and a very lovely sonographer who explained everything in great detail. We got an amazing view of the umbilical cord, we could even see it pulsating. Cloud 9 for the rest of the day
And we didn't get charged for the picture, which at £5/photo is an added bonus!

Feeling very tired and drained today, though, which makes the nausea so much worse. I actually considered staying at home today, as I felt so rough, but there is so much to do at work. And it's my own fault really, as I went out to dinner with some friends last night and got back really late.
And I won't be getting an early night tonight either, as I need to decorate two birthday cakes, argh!

Fantastic news jbrd (you do like to keep us in suspense, I was worried!) so pleased it is all going well for you.
Hope you'll soon be into 2nd trimester and glowing seem to have missed that stage out this time myself
What cakes are you decorating? I hauled myself through first trimester planning DS1's Harry Potter party, complete with Hedwig cake, and am now working on DS2's Peter Pan party but as I'll be 37 weeks by then am scaling down a bit! I've got a fantastic pirate ship cake stand and am just going to make cupcakes with rice paper characters on top.

Dav I'm sorry the wait is so stressful. I'll be 12 weeks on Friday and a lot of my symptoms, esp the nausea, have really eased off. It's hard to appreciate it isn't it? My scan is 2nd April. Will be thinking of you on the 1st.

Thanks Stars I still can't believe it! Very exciting that you have a date.

He he Tea I like your thinking, get your own so no-one else can hog it! I am very lucky to have a great birthing centre attached to the local hospital here and hoping will get to use the pool there or one of those stools with the rope, which I first saw on OBEM. Just need to stay low risk for the next 28 weeks!

Awesome scan news Jbrd I am so chuffed for you after the worry you had a few weeks ago. Just fantastic. Sorry you're feeling pants today tho. Get thee to bed! After cakes done obv.

Baking your cakes sound brilliant.

All this cake talk is making me hungry. One more week to my scan. Hurry up April!

The stomach pains eventually settled down yesterday afternoon so I think stars you were right, it's so scary tho, wasn't helped by responses from RL people just being 'is he still moving plenty tho' knowing full well I can't feel any movement yet, n then following up my response with silence. I no it's still normal not to feel him moving yet (17+4) especially as I have an anterior

Oops posted too soon... An anterior placenta, but it still worries me when people comment on it so much!

Thanks for the advice on antinatal classes, il forget about them for a while longer then, may give them a call anyway I check what's available tho.

JBrd glad you had a nice scan, sounds like you had a particularly good one!

fod keeping my fingers crossed that something exciting is happening for you!

responses from RL people just being 'is he still moving plenty tho' knowing full well I can't feel any movement yet, n then following up my response with silence.

I have actually taken to explaining that regular movement before 19-22 weeks is rare, citing sources. It's ridiculous and worrying 'comfort' and I'm sure people don't remember right. Someone told me theirs moved from 10 or 11 weeks... I must admit I did say "interesting, at my scan then, my big-for-that-time embryo had no bones yet, apparently they don't grow till week 13." bitchy but why on earth was she saying that herself??

I think that people do forget how long it takes to look pregnant and actually feel the baby, probably because the latter stages are what you remember properly. I vaguely recall some fluttery/bubbly sensations (which could have been wind anyway) around 16 weeks, but I was quite thin/toned before my first pregnancy.
Good news for all the scanning, and mixed MW news, why can't we all get a good one (I still haven't forgiven my last one for missing DD's being breech until I was 35w)? Hoping my new one will be better, although there is not a chance of my being allowed to deliver anywhere other than the labour ward. Am a bit torn about this; on one level the idea of a home birth seems quite appealing, whilst simultaneously a bit scary. But the whole thing seems a bit scary and a long way off just yet.
No real news here, no apology forthcoming from the (usually OK but student) neighbours; other than that I have my consultant appointment booked in now (but not until May). I just hope I don't have to cancel all these appointments .

All this talk of cake had me hauling out the kenwood to mix up a Mary Berry Orange Spice cake with cream cheese icing... better invite someone round for coffee before I eat the entire thing!

Great scan news Jbrd! Hope you are enjoying every minute of that post-scan high :)

Just had my 36wk midwife appointment and was seen by such a lovely woman who was brilliant and has put me in a very good mood! She is 27 weeks preggers herself so was fully sympathetic about all my suffering ;)

Baby is engaged - hurrah! even although I know that means nothing in reality and he could still go overdue and is in the correct position. The feisty little monkey also gave her a good kicking while she was trying to feel what position he is in and find his heartbeat - so he is doing brilliantly which is pretty much what I wanted to hear.

Tea I still can't believe the end is near! I think it is brilliant you are planning a home birth - I just about feel confident enough to book into the midwife-led centre instead of contemplating the drug-fuelled delivery suite labour I initially had in mind! But we'll have to see how things go in reality. I could be screaming for an epidural as DH drags me through the hospital doors!

Looking forward to hearing about our imminent thread babies. Now if only I could stop watching for my waters to break every five minutes and try and enjoy the peace and quiet of the flat for the last few weeks...

Hello everyone! I'm sorry - I'm so so many pages behind that I'm not too sure where everyone is at, but hope you're all doing well and babes are all thriving.

JBrd what lovely news about your scan. That must have been a happy relief and I hope you'll be having even more posifrickintivity in your pregnancy now.

Everyone else I'm so sorry not to name-check - I'm just too behind on it all but hope to check in more regularly now. I have an early scan tomorrow. I'll be 7+5. I'm feeling pretty positive, for once - hope that doesn't come back to bite me. My DH can't come with me so I know I'll be bricking it in the lead up. The good things is, I still feel pregnant, so I hope my body isn't deceiving me. Wish me luck!

Take care everyone.

Good luck mabel !

JBrd lovely news about the scan. Good luck with yours tomorrow mabel.

I'm decorating a birthday cake tonight too, must be the season for it! It is a cat shaped one for my niece. I'll be having a short break to watch the first in the new masterchef series though.

tea go on and look in the bag! I'm a bit shocked it is a bin bag though, I had imagined something more the size of a carrier bag. What type of pool have you hired? I quite fancied a rigid sided one (something to grip onto) but my sister is giving me her inflatable one, so I'm not going to turn down a freebie. I'm going to collect it this weekend.

Great to hear the baby is engaged kjh, it could be any day now! how exciting!

It is snowing a bit here. Very weird.

Where is fod? Anyone heard from her? Hope she's just busy cuddling her newborn.

Nothing new to report here - still as paranoid as ever. 8 days til 12 wk scan. Eeeek.

Good luck mabel for scan and kjh for not long to go!!

Had a great 12wk scan today. When I asked the sonographer, "can you see the heartbeat?" and she showed it pulsating on the screen I burst out crying and was a little hysterical! Managed to make her cry too. Took me a while to calm down and stop heaving so that she could actually measure little bean. I had not had any earlier scans so this was my first real hurdle.

Anyway, she told me I'm 13wks+2 rather than 11+4. Now I KNOW it's technically impossible for me to be 13wks+2 because of when we started trying (this time round) AND my last period dates, so we'll see.

For now, I'm just totally elated that little one is alive and kicking (s/he was wriggling all over the place). There have been times in the last few months where I've seriously thought to myself, "what if I'm just making all this up?". Weird what MCs and subsequent pregnancy can do to you.

Mabel hope your scan goes really well tomorrow and sorry your DH can't go - is there anyone else that can hold your hand? (I think my poor DH had to restart the circulation in his hand after ours today).

LondonJen and fedup hang on in there and keep the hope. My scan was at the end of the day today and it was by far the hardest day so far, just the waiting and not knowing. Then I was kept waiting for half an hour in the waiting room (desparate for a wee). Distraction is key IME - do whatever it takes.

kjh5 it's really encouraging to hear of others towards the end of their pregnancy journey. Hope the next few weeks continue to go well for you.

squiz and stars I've taken note of the prune juice tips for when the constipation properly kicks in - thanks for the tips!

Penguin - in the bag is..... (drum roll please):

A yellow bucket - assume for the placenta.
Some maternity pads.
Some thick orange plastic sheeting.
Some bed pads.
Lots of sick bowls.
What looks like sick bowls, but different shape (pee bowls?)
A bit of plastic tube (for gas and air?)
A cryo-hazard (sp?) disposable bag (for radioactive bits of me/placenta/baby??)
Some plastic shapes (the mind boggles)
Some syringes.
A wrapped box, which I assume was a resuscitation pack
A bunch of stuff at the bottom I couldn't see, and was too wussy to pull the other stuff around to look at - I felt like I was looking in someone's handbag, so only looked in the top! ;-)

Not massively exciting. Not as exciting as the GAS AND AIR which came direct from the hospital porter today. Goody goody good!

My SIL claims she'd use g&a as a recreational, like some opium den from Sherlock Holmes. In fact her "congrats" may have been "you're one step closer to using gas n air!"

Good luck tomorrow Mabel x

Ooh tea, that is so intriguing! What do they use all those bits for? I suppose they have to prepare for every eventuality.

After reading the "Funniest bit of childbirth" thread in mn classics I can't wait to get my hands on gas and air. I highly recommend that thread, amusing and educational! thread here

wig your scan sounds lovely, glad you feel better now!

squiz iv been doin the same quoting my midwife an the nhs sites amongst others about when movements are normally felt, I think people really must forget! Iv been reading other forums about anterior placentas and seen that a decent amount of them havnt felt their babies till 23-24 weeks, I may go crazy if I have to have another 7 weeks of convincing people it's ok I havnt felt him move yet!

Good luck to all those with scans coming up

Hmm. Baby has been really quiet this evening. Often moves quite a lot when I go to bed though. Normally at this time I'm napping on the sofa so wouldn't feel anything anyway. Just trying not to panic.