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BlindKitty · 19/04/2014 09:01

Small print: ideally pg with #1 and had ttc for >12months although let's face it, we ain't as fussy as we used to be, just as long as you're nice Smile

5 second generation berry babies and LOADS more to follow Grin

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greatbigbushybeard · 19/05/2014 18:45

Hi ladies, I posted an update on the main berry thread but the gist is I should retest Friday then if + they'll get me to come in and have a look, if negative then this bleeding was pg but I was pg. so more waiting!! Thanks for all the advice it is really helping. X x

greatbigbushybeard · 19/05/2014 18:46

No they don't monitor progesterone. I was googling and a lot of talk about betas came up, think it was an American site, is that scans in our lingo?

CatsCantFlyFast · 19/05/2014 19:47

Betas are hcg levels I think, they test for them doubling every 24 hours I think. Will go and read your other post but hope the bleeding is getting less. Everything crossed for you and a hand to hold x

CatsCantFlyFast · 19/05/2014 19:50

Bushy you didn't say on your other post whether its back to spotting or proper bleeding? Don't beat yourself up about the chiro, that would make no difference at all

qazxc · 19/05/2014 20:09

bushy no useful advice but my best wishes, I know how head wrecking Limboland can be. Thanks

greatbigbushybeard · 19/05/2014 21:05

No, still bleeding not spotting. Last time I went to loo was less on sanitary towel but still pinky red. Hoping it's slowing. Trying to take it easy and drink lots. Thanks merkin

jessplussomeonenew · 20/05/2014 08:46

Bushy, I've no advice to offer, but really hope this awful suspense is resolved positively and soon. I didn't have any spotting but did have cramps that utterly convinced me that I wasn't pregnant.... Why do these symptoms have to be so confusing and mess with our heads so much!

Bunnygirlie · 20/05/2014 12:58

WHOOP WHOOP another berry baby Grin

PuppyMummy · 20/05/2014 14:59

what?! whom? is it on FB? fill us non facebookers in?!

CatsCantFlyFast · 20/05/2014 17:11

Kitty had her baby this morning, a little girl, 7lb2oz. Won't say the name. Mum and baby fine, and she's gorgeous
Ps Puppy get yourself on FB, its a hive of activity over there

qazxc · 20/05/2014 17:41

Yay well done kitty and welcome to the world mini-kitty. Thanks

greatbigbushybeard · 20/05/2014 18:14

Ooh lovely a berry baby! Thanks jess. I hope you don't mind but I posted this on main berry thread but could really do with your thoughts and any experience you nay, may not have had with this. Have shamelessly cut and pasted it from there:

Arr a berry baby, def pleased about that. Hmm, not sure about gracefully calm feather but thank you for the compliment.

I don't think things are good at all. Felt quite sore this afternoon, bleeding had continued. Ok big fat tmi alert: Took it easier at work, went to the loo and the sanitary towel was pretty much soaked but not leaking, just needed changing and there was a very strange whiteish lump on my sanitary towel, about an inch long, rubbery looking, like a bit of fat on some meat- yuk I know. I don't know what it is but I think it could be our embie or would that be nowhere that size? I just looked at it and thought it's all over, that's our little embie. I have kept the towel just in case nurses needed to see it. I had a little cry in the toilet, had to get it back under control as work with lots of other adults and didn't want to say why I was crying and also when I cry you can really tell! Anyhow said to my TA that I wasn't feeling well and would prob go home early after end of day. She said she too felt ill last week, hmm not like this I thought! Anyway I had some small things to do after work and I actually found it better as my mind was taken off it. I thought if I go home all I will do is sit there and cry for 2 hours til my husband comes home. So I stayed at work. I feel quite ginger if you know what I mean and really bloated.

Anyone got any good luck stories after finding this kind of thing in your pants? What else could it be? Think it's game over, if so ,I really want to know why. I know it sounds stupid to blame the chiropractor and acupuncture... Maybe I can't hold onto babies, maybe it wasn't a healthy one so nature's way and all for a reason. Just feel it's so unfair, we came so close and it was such a long journey and to think we've got to go back and do it all over again. I only really had a day to be excited about this until it all started going tits up.

Can I ask advice, if I have miscarried and I do a pg test on Friday is it going to say pg? Have heard of this happening to people who've had to have erpc's when baby has stopped growing and they've had to have it removed. I will try to put this on the copter thread in case anyone can shed any light.

Tallyra · 20/05/2014 20:40

Oh bushy, sending you big hugs. I'm not sure about that, as I've only ever had mmcs. It doesn't sound great though. I'm not really much help as I never took any tests after my erpcs so I can't really answer any of your questions. However, I'd just like to say that mcs are common. If that is what has happened, it is almost certainly nothing you have done. I had 3. I did nothing differently but the 4th time it worked. You have every chance that it will not happen again.

qazxc · 20/05/2014 20:58

Bushy I'm so sorry you are having such a rough time. Look after yourself and your DP, now is the time to be selfish and sod what other people expect of you.
The pg test results would depend partly on how far gone you were, how long the hormones will have had to build up IYSWIM. When I miscarried at 6 and 8 weeks they went down quicker than when i miscarried at 12. So it's hard to say what a test will say either way, it would also depend on the brand of test and how concentrated the urine is.
Sadly if it is a miscarriage, nobody will be able to tell you why, there are a number of possible reasons and none of them are your fault or because of something you did.

CatsCantFlyFast · 20/05/2014 22:13

Bushy I'm do sorry this is happening. I would be very surprised if that is an embryo as it is very big. Hope the clinic can shed some light on it. Look after yourself this evening. Hugs x

Boomgoestheweasel · 20/05/2014 22:46

bushy just popping in to lend a hand to hold. I'm so sorry to hear you're going through this. I also had Mmc later on so no experience of early mc, but can promise you that if this pregnancy doesn't continue it will be nothing at all you've done or anything to do with any treatments you've had. Sadly some pregnancies just don't work for some reason, and there is nothing and no-one to blame. Doesn't make it much easier I know. Xxx

greatbigbushybeard · 20/05/2014 22:51

Thank you for the reassuring words. It's only natural to look for reasons why and to blame something but you 're all very right in saying it's not something I did or didn't do, as the old saying goes, shit happens.... However still hoping it might be holding on and this is some weird pg thing.

Boomgoestheweasel · 21/05/2014 02:10

Fingers firmly crossed for you bushy xxx

SidneyBristow · 21/05/2014 03:46

And another set of crossed fingers for you here, bushy. I'm just so sorry that this worrying stuff has happened, and that there are no definitive answers to be bad just yet. Fwiw early in my pregnancy, there were many days I had terrible AF-style cramping, sometimes for days at a time. I think it's so unfair that we're all led to believe that pregnancy is a straightforward process, a seamless arc that ends in a baby, and is the same set of experiences for everyone. As someone said, there are ladies who spot/bleed off and on for the entire nine months - and maybe you're one of them.

Hoping that it stops soon and that Friday brings some positive news for you xx we're here for you all the way. No Berry left behind! Thanks

PuppyMummy · 21/05/2014 06:44

bushy sorry I am not able to offer advice but hav fingers firmly crossed for you.

congratulations kitty how lovely! Smile Thanks hope u and the kitten r doin well.

guess it's me up next then!! still at work so he can def wait a while!

Bunnygirlie · 21/05/2014 08:32

Thinking of you bushy

Bunnygirlie · 21/05/2014 08:33

puppy wow you're up next! How long to go?

qazxc · 21/05/2014 12:58

Ooh Puppy, when are you due?

CatsCantFlyFast · 21/05/2014 17:27

Thinking of you Bushy. Hope you've got hold of your clinic

PuppyMummy · 21/05/2014 19:11

due 31st May.

Run into some problems today tho. is concerns about blood flow to placenta, so far in normal range but very high end.

being scanned again next week and been told to keep an eye on movement but had a really bad experience being scanned today (given no info, really unhappy with Sonographer) so am stressing about the whole thing Sad Sad Sad