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Staying posifrickentive- Thread 10 for ladies pg after mc

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LynseyH5 · 13/07/2016 22:23

I've made the new thread, hope I'm not stepping on anyone's toes... just wanted to make sure we had one.

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LillianFullStop · 15/07/2016 15:15

Marking my place too! 25+5 today!

cheering on sunday and keys - sooooo close!

good luck today mikesh!

Whatsername17 · 15/07/2016 15:39

Thanks everyone. It's been a weird day. I'm just bringing 44 pupils back from a trip to London so haven't really had time to dwell too much. I'm sure it will hit me when I get home and see the place where we buried the baby. The end of term is manic. Utterly crazy busy and I've been away from home a lot this week doing extracurricular stuff. I can't wait to get home and hug my little girl. We are going on holiday for a week tomorrow. Dh booked a week in Kos to give me something positive to look forward too. I can't wait to be with my dh and dd and no one else for a whole week.

LillianFullStop · 15/07/2016 15:42

Try not to worry Lynsey - i know it's hard for us who have had to deal with the heartache and disappointment of mc Flowers

How many weeks along are you?

LynseyH5 · 15/07/2016 15:47

I'm 9+5 going by my own dates. Early scan put me potentially 3 days ahead x

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Macauley · 15/07/2016 17:34

lynsey totally normal well you feel how I feel! Been stressing all afternoon for no reason and having random thoughts about how I felt just before I miscarried last time. Leaving work for the weekend but not coming back on the Monday because I had miscarried over the weekend, what I would say to everyone this time etc.

I just keep repeating to myself I AM NOT PSYCHIC!!!!

LillianFullStop · 15/07/2016 17:35

First trimester is the hardest Lynsey - we all know well the symptom spotting and chronic checking of underpants. But I promise it does get easier - try to look forward to that 12w scan the change from 9w to 12w is amazing and you will get a glimpse of your little baby soon. I know it's scary to feel like you're thinking too positively but the little one in there needs all the positive vibes it can get!

Flowers for your angel baby whatser. surround yourself with your loved ones this week and enjoy your holiday next week.

mikesh909 · 15/07/2016 17:49

Thanks again for all the good wishes, they mean a lot. Our scan today was good - everything is in its right place and I am hopeful that by the time 20 more weeks have elapsed, our little girl (!) will be here.

LynseyH5 · 15/07/2016 18:16

congratulations mike!! How exciting to know a little pink one is on her way. Brilliant news.

Thank you for the positive words ladies, don't know if it's just an off day or if it's finally sinking in that this is my reality at the moment. It's so cruel what a mc can do to your whole being. The anxiety and uncertainty that comes with a new pregnancy is indescribable. I'd convinced myself this one will stick and seeing that little beautiful bean a week ago was amazing but the 'what ifs' are just always there lurking I suppose.
I will try to just get through these next couple of wks and hope to god nothing bad happens in that time. I never want to see the epu again.
I'm sure I'm safe to say that if we all had a personal sonographer on hand, we'd all find things a little bit easier to cope with!

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Macauley · 15/07/2016 18:37

Congrats mike on your little girl Grin

LuckyinOctober · 15/07/2016 18:56

Aww congrats Mike, what a lovely milestone a positive 20 week scan is. whatser and kate I can empathise with how weird you might be feeling having just passed my due date for my first lost pregnancy this week too. For me it definitely helped to be 11 weeks along and to have the hope for a happier ending this time. Lynsey I try to just let any thought starting with "what if" float on past without getting involved with it, there's no way of reasoning with those kinds of thoughts and if I pay them attention they'd get me down. I told my manager at work today that I'm pregnant, which is a big milestone for me but felt I kinda had to since my 12 week scan is next week and I don't want to use annual leave for it. Can I ask for those of you who've had 12 week scans, how long do they usually take? Just wondering how late into work I might be. My manager was lovely and supportive which I knew she would be, and understanding of my worries about the possibility of bad news at the scan meaning I'd want to keep it quiet from everyone else at work for a bit longer. I'm currently thinking I might try to keep it quiet until the 20 week scan unless I get a more obvious bump before then that I can't hide or bluff away.

Northernlight22 · 15/07/2016 19:43

Congrats Mike!

My 12 week scan was probably 15 mins, not very long but depends if the hospital are running on time! (Mine was 8.30 so first in)

pastabest · 15/07/2016 19:52

So I went for my early scan today at 8 + 5 the scan brought me out at 10+6!! We could see a heartbeat and it wriggling around

Slightly concerned though because as soon as I got home I've had some spotting for the first time ever this pregnancy.

Also the person scanning has written 'there is single intrauterine gestation sac containing a yolk sack and a small fetal pole,

I'm frightening myself that it hints that there is something possibly wrong because she has described it as small? So a bit of a high and a low currently

LynseyH5 · 15/07/2016 20:07

Wow pasta 2 weeks forward is amazing!! I'm not sure about the fetal pole, but please don't Google!

I think I've put my finger slightly on part of my anxiety, germs! I'm terrified something will get in and disturb my happy little bean. I rehomed our kitten due to the fear of the litter tray and when my little one put his hand to my mouth earlier, I had to wash my mouth with antibacterial soap. I'm constantly washing my hands. How likely is that to happen? How easy is it for germs to filter in? I don't want to google incase a lot of horror stories pop up Angry

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pastabest · 15/07/2016 20:20

I suspected I might be further on as I basically had only a week between periods in May and the second one was quite dark and a little bit lighter in comparison to usual. I also got morning sickness really really early (it's what made me test!)

I was so relieved to see a heartbeat and a wriggler and now I'm just worried again. Not getting my NT scan until the 1st August as that's the earliest they could fit me in. Feels like a long time to wait now

Northernlight22 · 15/07/2016 20:44

Brilliant news pasta! 1st Aug will come round quickly too.

Lynsey - try not to worry about germs too much, you're not likely to have anything too nasty lurking. It's hard but remember people all over the world have babies in a much less sanitary environment than us. X

LynseyH5 · 15/07/2016 21:14

I know your right northern I just seem to be letting a lot of anxieties creep in that I worry about. Never worried so much before so definitely the mc's are playing a part. I just cried at corrie (which I never even watch usually) so at least that released some tension Blush

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Trulyamnearanear · 15/07/2016 21:26

Sending positive thoughts Lynsey.

I had my dating scan today and could do with some advice. She saw a heart beat (thank goodness) and it was wriggling but due to sub-optimal image being too fat she couldn't do the downs, or other chromosomal screening. My options now are to wait until the next scan (21 weeks) or go private (£200).
What would people do? We can put it on the credit card, but I don't know if I'm being OTT anxiety person.
Tia.

LynseyH5 · 15/07/2016 22:00

You have bloods taken for low/high risk for downs so maybe wait for the results of those? Bloods only take a few days and if it's low risk, you've no real need to worry and could wait, if it's high, then do what you need to do?
Did you have bloods done today? Sure the downs etc one is done at the 12 wk scan. I remember having the scan and blood tests done at the same appt at my hospital x

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Whatsername17 · 15/07/2016 22:19

What would you do if your baby had chromosomal issue? If it doesn't matter, you could wait. If you would terminate then I'd pay privately. No judgement here at all on your choice because I am firmly pro choice, but 8 weeks is a long time to wait and go through pregnancy just to have to do something that must be really hard. Good luck!
Congrats Mike! Little girls are great! Pasta try not to worry - you have a wriggler! What was the crown to rump length?

pastabest · 15/07/2016 23:03

41.3 whatser I've had no more spotting this evening. Starting to thinking it might be because I strained something going to the toilet this morning Blush must get back on the fybogel!

Told a few people this evening despite my worries. That was nice Smile

This thread is a lifeline!

Whatsername17 · 16/07/2016 08:31

www.babycentre.co.uk/a1004000/average-fetal-length-and-weight-chart

Take a look at this page - your bean is perfect!

MimiDiddy · 16/07/2016 09:12

Pasta congrats on the scan. Did you have an internal scan? If so could you be allergic to the latex sheaf they use? After having too many dildo cams I've developed a latex allergy that stings and causes spotting.

I've been a bit quiet recently and will need to caught up on the thread properly. I've had my first ever booking appointment this week and have my 12 week scan on the 27th July. The nausea has pretty much gone and I have a bit more energy but have a MC milestone coming up when I'm 11+5. I lost my first pregnancy quite unexpectedly at that stage and the last one as well. The last one was a blighted ovum and I had multiple scans so I knew it was coming but the milestone still looms in my head. Any tips for keeping the anxiety in check when coming up to scary data or milestones?

AButterflyLightsBesideUs · 16/07/2016 12:25

Wow lots to catch up on.

mike RESULT! So lovely to hear you've had a good 20 week scan and healthy baby in there, I'm so thrilled for you. And congratulations on a little girl Smile I guess you can slowly start musing names now. Slightly dreading that bit again, it was bloody difficult! Slightly hankering after a Felix or a Cleo but I think DH might complain they are cat names.

truly and pasta fab scan news too Smile
truly that's a bugger they didn't get the measurement. Could you ask them to do an internal scan for that? I had to have an internal once at 13 weeks purely because the baby was so low down they couldn't see through my pelvis very easily. They get a much clearer picture. Otherwise, the options I believe are the quadruple test (after 14 weeks I think?) which is just bloods, go private for a NIPT test such as Harmony (anytime from 10 weeks) or cvs/amnio, but amnio is after 16 weeks and obv those are both invasive tests and I don't know if they do them if initial bloods are not concerning? Someone else might know more here.
Maybe post in the antenatal choices section, there's lots of very knowledgable people there who could explain options properly.

whatser I hope you're ok after yesterday Flowers

mimi I hope booking went well and you've got a nice midwife. No advice tbh on approaching significant scary points - it is really hard and it's just a case of head down and plough slowly through the days, have a few freak outs and big cries or shorttempered grumpiness and don't expect too much of yourself. It does feel a bit easier afterwards, - for a while anyway!

((lynsey)) this is hard work psychologically. You are doing really well. I know and understand the anxiety oh so well. I'm perhaps not the best person to reassure you because of the circumstances of my first loss, but I know in my subsequent pregnancy with DD I completely lost the plot over germs. I refused to eat a thing that grew in ours or anyone elses garden (cats) so gave away kilos of homegrown strawberries that I couldn't eat, I disinfected the entire kitchen multiple times a day, I refused to touch the cats full stop, I set the dishwasher up to 70C, you get the picture. For me there was so cure apart from giving birth to a live child so I don't really have any tips, but much empathy Flowers If it carries on past your scan talk to your MW/GP they might consider CBT for anxiety or meds or something. I believe there is often a perinatal mental health team too, might be worth enquiring, they must see super anxious women all the time and have ways of helping.

11+6 today and feel sick everytime I look at the calendar and think, shit, Tuesday is the scan. Oh god. So bloody tired, I went to bed at 6.45pm last night. I think I have worked out though that it's my antisickness meds acting as a near sedative. I managed without them on Thurs and was tired but not comatose, it was much better. The flipside of course is that I felt really sick through the evening so I wussed out, had a tablet yesterday and was a dozy useless person afterwards.

LynseyH5 · 16/07/2016 12:50

Thank you butterfly for such a lovely message.
Funnily enough I've had my appt through for the mental health team this morning! It's not until the 22nd august though so quite a wait. If all goes well I'll be roughly 15 wks then I think. I'm trying not to let the anxiety take over and I'm doing 'ok'.
I'm still experiencing symptoms and have no reason to think anything is wrong, it's just always there isn't it?

Funny you mentioned the meds, I have been wondering when to have a go at dropping the cyclizine. I feel like a lead weight with the drowisness but I eat abit better at the moment and don't feel bad as much...I'm thinking as it's the last week of doing the school run, keep taking it for now and try once I'm not likely to throw up on the bus if it all goes pear shaped! It took a good week for the full affects of cyclizine to help me so I'm scared of trying without it even for a day incase it'd take another week for it to help again.

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Macauley · 16/07/2016 13:01

butterfly we are scan date buddies. Good luck for Tuesday Smile. I am so so sick today which is awful but keeps my mind off any anxiety. Just managed to eat some hula hoops which tasted like the best things ever made!

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