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

[squizita]

Hi Ladies, continuing our posifrickentivity journey.

Wishing all healthy pgs and lots of thread babies!

[LondonJen]

Go Squiz! Love it.

Hello Little pull up a chair! Good news about your scan. I hope coming on here can help keep your feet on the ground a bit when you start to feel the anxiety creep back in. Yes exactly, there's no reason for it to go wrong

Bless you Pixie missing DD. I did not like accepting my mums request on fb but then I found out my dad was on it but had not requested to be my friend
Lots of luck for tomorrow. Will be thinking of you.

I am 3rd day now without all day nausea. Breathlessness however ramped up. Just showering was hard work. Not complaining too much tho as rather that than the sick feeling.

[HopefulHamster]

Congrats to saggy!

I am feeling a bit crampy/achey in the lower abdomen today. Is this always bad? Doesn't feel like round ligament, but not full on cramps either. Allegedly 9.4 weeks by now.

[Davmallem2013]

Ah found the new thread.

Fabulous news for saggy and little lucy

Glad to hear good news on scans, always helps keep me up beat that it will go right this time. So hit 10wks yesterday, MW let me down for my first booking in appoint, but said it was ok as it's only 6 wks for me!!! I then had to remind her that I was 10wks to which she asked if I was sure as she had it as 6! I am starting to despair and it hasn't even started. Then she asked if she had booked me in for my 12wk scan to which I said no. Worrying but now have to wait for a call from her on Monday to sort something out as have a big exam Tuesday and then back in work, o the joys .

Well best I get on with some revision and will try and keep as up to date as I can with the thread.

[CbeebiesIsMyLife]

I'm here, I'm here!!
Place marking for now, will be back soon to read properly.

Congratulations saggy on arrival of Lucy!!

[MabelMay]

Thanks everyone for your advice/support - and congratulations to Saggy on her little girl!

I broke the rules and googled of course and gave myself even more of a heart attack. Again I had a tiny bit of flesh like tissue come out in my wee this morning - no pains, no blood, nothing else - and my only comforting thought is that I had nothing like this in either of my pregnancies that ended in MC. I'm in America - there's no such thing as EPUs here so I think I have to wait until monday before I can call my Ob-Gyn and try and see him or get some advice. Am hoping that my next wee it won't be there but now I'm terrified to go to loo. It's a little disconcerting, but we have loads of people over this weekend and so much to do that I think I'm going to have to grit my teeth and just get through it this weekend. Someone mentioned it might be a bit of cervical tissue... ? Anyway thanks for your words of encouragement. Argh I'm hating this period I know I need to try and relax, but it's hard when there are 'bits' in my wee!

Is anyone taking progesterone supplements by the way?

Anyway, good luck too all and congrats to squiz and lottie and others that just had good scans and entering 2nd trimester etc. Holding everyones hands.

[wigwam33]

Congratulations saggy. Lucy is a lovely name

[HopefulHamster]

I'm on progesterone MabelMay, have another two weeks of them to go I think. Will be so glad to have it over with!

[MabelMay]

Were you diagnosed with low progesterone hopefulhamster? Or did your doctor just prescribe it as a precaution? I'm wondering whether to go on it as am worried that's what caused my last two MCs, but it's kind of a stab in the dark - just would rather do everything I could than leave things to chance. Is it unpleasant then? Are they pessaries?

[fod27]

In complete and utter nesting mode, bleached the kitchen and set up the steriliser ready for baby, second load of washing in and now to crack on with the living room

[Pixielady83]

love it fod! feels good doesn't it I've done 6 loads of washing yesterday and today! suddenly found loads more baby stuff that had to be washed and washed all the pram fabrics for second time

[fod27]

OMG! Never even thought of the pram pixie lol what do you think the chances are of it staying clean? Been on my hands and knees scrubbing the plinths in the kitchen - complete killer

[GuffSmuggler]

Wonderful news saggy! Welcome to the world Lucy. Hope you are enjoy all the gorgeous cuddles. I just can't stop looking at my little parcel, I think it's ok to just stare at them and not do anything else.

Willing you on pixie it will be your time soon I promise!

[bakingtins]

mabel I was on Progesterone from CD21-12 weeks, 400mg twice a day, Cyclogest pessaries. They are a bit messy but otherwise ok. Opinion is divided whether they make any difference (had my 4th MC on them) but I think other than delaying the inevitable if it is going wrong they can't hurt.

[HopefulHamster]

No, I had fertility treatment so need it to support the pregnancy until the placenta takes over. They're fine, but I've been on it since the equivalent of ovulation so am getting a bit bored of it. Pessaries but they're not too bad except they do make you windy (I chose the back passage option as less messy) and what goes up must come down!

[SeaSaltMill]

Hi all, I was on this thread last year (NC since then) but sadly miscarried a second time. I'm currently 4 weeks pregnant. Found out on Wednesday when I think I was about 10/11dpo. Earliest ive ever seen a second line!

Feel really positive but still have that nagging doubt and terror in the back of my head.

I am hopeful that there's no reason it will happen again, the 2 losses were so different (blighted ovum and then an early mc at 5 weeks) that i am able to believe it will all be ok.


Hand holding appreciated, I'm currently testing every day to see the lines get darker, but I haven't actually missed a period yet so it's still really early.

[squizita]

Just 'outed' myself to a colleague. Caught me at the maternity bras when she was buying a nursing bra. Sworn to secrecy.

On a related note... AIBU? There's a thread about when to tell kids (if you're a teacher) and some are saying their head decides for them (!!) and this is quite OK because parents might worry. GGRRR SORRY BUT US TEACHERS DON'T BELONG TO THE SCHOOL. Just because parents 'worry' doesn't mean they get to find out tidbits about our health and private lives before we're ready. What do ladies on here who are already mums think?? The fact mums gossip at the gates was cited as a reason to. In today's educational environment, a head who panders to gossip ain't going to cut it. And of course the fact us secondary ladies just don't understand... yeah, we just teach and run. No hours of much much scarier than primary... drugs, knives, pregnancy etc' pastoral care for us and the parents just don't care (weird, since a couple of years ago they were primary).

[CbeebiesIsMyLife]

Hello all, sooty I've been quiet for a few days just posting every now and then to keep up! I've been in hospital yesterday and have been diagnosed with severe anaemia the dr was convinced it wasn't anaemia since my bloods came back in January fine and the symptoms I was presenting suggested severe anaemia and there's no way it can develop that quickly anyway dh ende up taking me to a&e when he got home from work as I looked like death, could barely stand without getting dizzy, blacking out and gettig breathless. On high dose iron now and hoping I will start to feel much better soon.

Hello to all the newbies here, congratulations on your pregnancies and hoping this one goes better for you. Worry is normal, just take 1 day at a time and remember today you are pregnant :) that's something to celebrate!!

[fod27]

squiz as you know I'm a lecturer and with all the will in the world I couldn't hide my pregnancy if I tried due to MS in all honesty I didn't need to say a word - they already knew - kids are more switched on than people give them credit for. When I MC they knew something was wrong as they had inquired about my scan dates etc so when I didn't return to work they had already figured that something was wrong

They asked about my MMC and I told them, as teachers it's difficult to teach the mere topic of the day, sessions go off on tangents all the time (I do have the added benefit that my students are much older) but they were wonderfully supportive and were overjoyed when they discovered I was pregnant again. It also helped the girls in my class that had suffered similar fates and struggled to discuss it with others

[CbeebiesIsMyLife]

Btw where's saggy a other thread? I want to read!

[Pixielady83]

cbeebies that doesn't sound good- hope you're feeling better on the high dose.

Welcome seasalt all the best for your pregnancy, really hope everything goes smoothly for you this time.

squiz I can't understand why a teacher would need to let kids know earlier than they would choose to. What are the parents worried about?! my sister teaches primary and she has no intention of telling her kids until it becomes obvious.

[SaggyOldClothCatPuss]

Hellooo!
I missed this thread! me and Lucy Locket have been chilling out together!
She's called Lucy because it was one of the only two names on our list and our midwife was called Lucy! She was absolutely AMAZING!
I have to confess, I am a naughty girl in labour! The market trader in me came to the fore . Every grunt, groan and second word was FUUUHHCCCKKKKK!
The MW wrote in my notes, "it was suggested to Saggy that she stop using entonox for the final few pushes, she declined." What actually happened was that I told her to "Go fuck yourself!"
Mind you it was just 2 hours from ARM to delivery with just entonox so hopefully I was justified!

[MrsGiraffe12]

Haha at saggy swearing like a fishwife - woman after my own heart there x

[squizita]

Quality Saggy!

[CbeebiesIsMyLife]

Well done saggy. I remember in my last labour being told not to scream so much as I would have a sore throat/be annoying everyone on the ward. I swore lots at the midwife whilst telling her the screaming helped distract from the pain whatever gets you through I say!!

Pixie I'm doing much better today thank you.

[Emki]

congratulations saggy and welcome to our world Lucy xxxxx