New thread for TTC graduates - PinkB, MrsmcJ, Bodkin, Fettle, Chooster etc!

[KitKat30]

Hello! Thought we should leave those lovely TTCers in peace!!

Firststar - one of my friends, due in a couple of weeks is going for a colonic rather her than me!

Mrsmcjnr,

yipeeeeeee. I am completely thrilled for you and your BFP . Im going to have to go to the ttc board and read how you did it in the end.

This is a great thread for catching uo on all the graduates of the ttc boards.

Congrats to you all, I recognise loads of you.

Im now 11+1 and feeling very sick. Also sore boobs and extremely emotional. Ive has a few scans, and they are all amazing, but yesterday I had one and my bump had turned from a blob with a flutter, to a baby with legs, arms, head... the works. It was moving all over the place. DH and I couldnt believe our eyes. We really didnt expect to see so much at 11 weeks

a happy dd1
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Hi all. Dreaded the thought of pooing during labour last time - tbh, don't think I did, but don't really know - when you're pushing out 7lbs of baby, a small poop doesn't really register! If I did, it was swiftly removed before I was aware of it - and what the eye don't see etc....! So even if you do, hopefully you'll have a sweet and sympathetic MW who will whisk it away without you ever knowing.

Hope Greedy's ok - anyone seen her anywhere today?

Hi DD1 as well - glad to see another graduate had found this thread - it's THE place to be dontcha know!

Hi all

Feel very out of place on the TTC threads, but not really confident of posting on pg threads yet, as I'm not at all confident that this pg is going to hold. So hope you'll make me feel welcome and not out of my depth on here!

Had 2 mc last year and just want to know that this one is going to be ok. Stupidly I've carried on temping and there has been a drop in my temps, but I did get out of bed first this morning to take DD to the loo and there was no heating on, so it was freezing - so i'm hoping that that would have been enough to lower my body temp by 0.1 of a deg- I tried hard not to move more than I had to while taking her as I didn't want to artifically raise my temp. Wish I had now, as then I wouldn't have spent the whole day on knicker-watch!

MrsMc, don't take this the wrong way, but I'm glad you have more CM than usual and it is slightly coloured as I'm having that at the moment, but it is definitely not thrush. [i still can't get used to what we talk about on these threads!! but wouldn't dream of discussing with our best friends in Real life!]

Going on that theme! I just have to say that I was terried I would poo while giving birth to DD and in fact thought I was going to as I suddenly had a real urge! But then the midwife checked ! and said no I didn't, I told her I really did and then she realised that I'd dilated from 4 cm to 10cm in 90mins! So it was just DD desperate to make an appearance, but noone tells you in antenatal classes that it is going to feel like that!!!

thanks for listening!
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i have news!

cant quite believe it but my levels more than doubled, so APPARENTLY thats a really good sign and there is still an ickle baby growing inside me! i am being scanned on monday cos i am still bleeding and passing clots. i am confused really, cos all this bleeding is telling me there must be something wrong, but then my blood test results are exactly what they should be. now i feel a bit in limbo till monday when maybe i will get some answers about the bleeding.

anyway! i really cant moan cos i got the best result possible today so i am over the moon! i just dont want to get too excited until ive had the scan too!

i hope i am not being too much of a drama queen for you all.........sorry!

thanks for thinking of me, its lovely to know people that dont even know me care!

sorry about this message! i cut and pasted it so its on 2 other threads too if anyone has already read it!

on the subject of pooing yourself in labour................i have lots to say!.................with ds i can remember when i first arrived at hospital leaning over the bed with my knickers off and my arse in the air having a contraction. as i had just arrived the midwives assumed i wouldnt be very far gone and hadnt examined me, so when one of them came for a peek at my bits she said " oh my god! she has anal dilatation already!"
i immediately thought i had some horrific bumhole disease, but then she explained that when your anus dilates (nice) it means the baby is moving down and you are ready to push (and boy was she right!)

with my dd, i had gastroenteritis for 2 days before i went into labour so hadnt eaten ANYTHING at all cos i couldnt keep it down. i then had a waterbirth and STUPIDLY assumed there couldnt possibly be any poo left in me to come out............but i was wrong.........and after a few pushes, there it was bobbing around in the birthing pool next to me!

Oh good, Greedy, you are here too! Very glad the news was good today - hope Monday can put your mind completely at rest.

Don't they even provide DP/H with a little fishing net when you have a water birth - gives 'em something to do doesn't it!?

Just popping in to say congratulations to MrsMcJnr. I'm so glad you've got your BFP at last. Your advice and support was invaluable when I was briefly on the TTC
threads in October. I was MrsPF then but changed my nickname since.

I also remember pinkb and kitkat from a 'first cycle 2ww thread' i think. Luckily I conceived in my first cycle following a brief wait after an early m/c in August. I have been very nervous about m/c again, but things seem ok and I am due 2 July (18+2 today).

Good luck with all your pregnancies.

MrsMcJnr- I wouldn't worry about tinged CM if it's not itchy. I have had it since the start of my pregnancy and its quite common to get more discharge.

Greedy - YAY!!! Great news about the HCG levels. Hope everythign goes well on Mon.

How's everyone else this morning? Not too bad over here, just hate, hate, hate morning sickness - although for me it's evening sickness. Bleurgh. Roll on 12 weeks.

PMSL - anal dilation are two words I never want to hear in the same sentence...

Oh DD1, so lovely to hear from you your post made me well up, how fantastic to see your baby transforming like that! I cannot believe how far along you are! I hope that you feel much better soon. I on the other hand want the MS to kick in so I feel more pregnant! Beyond ballons for boobs and crying at the News, there aren?t many other signs! Today my software is confirming my pregnancy because I am 18dpo and have high temps all that time, after my GP sending me away for another week, it was becoming too much that the software wouldn?t confirm it either! How we did it? a lot!! BD everyday from CD10 to CD17. There were also other factors like a holiday, DH coming off his back medication, me changing job and all the fun of Christmas! Keep in touch with your progress. What?s your nickname for your Beanie? DH texted me from the football last night to say he would like to call our little bear Booboo for now ? I shed tears about that too!

On the poo subject ? two very funny things to tell (in my opinion!) same friend who is having the colonic did umm poo the first time round and when her DH asked about it, she told him it was the baby who had done it! , second story ? my sister had a home birth in a bathing pool last year and her DH was given a net to catch ?debris? he?s still teasing her about it!

Fettle ? I know exactly how you feel, both about the boards and about your current feelings in general but at least I?m stuck in the middle with you (cue for a song! ) I did post on October just to say I was lurking, felt that was only polite. Most of the people on there at the mo are not having their first and seem supremely confident. It is quite positive reading actually. Why aren?t you confident that the pregnancy will hold hon? Is that because of your experiences to date and the fear they?ve caused or is it a gut/medical feeling? I really hope you are wrong, sending huge hugs. After saying I wouldn?t take my temps, I have the last couple of days because the software wouldn?t confirm the pregnancy. Now it has, I?ll stop because I think it is stressful. If only you could still see Stretchmarks and Babymad?s charts on the chart spotting thread, they?d make you feel better. I think the yellow CM might be down to my cold actually, I am so choked up. It seems a little less yellow today but still abundant.

I?m still off work I know I am a complete woose and normally I would brave it feeling the way I do (pretty rotten) but I would just never forgive myself if it lost me the baby. I am nervous about being off for 3 days when I have been there less than 2 months but I think they can hear in my voice how bunged up I am. That is why I am on here so early, I need to stay awake to call in!

Greedy, oh Greedy ? go girl! I am DELIGHTED for you. That is wonderful news!!!!
Monday is not too far away (I?m telling myself that as that is when I get tested by the GP) and in the meantime you can try and relax and tell that Beanie to stay put!! I am over the moon for you, I really am. You are never a drama queen, what you have been through has been so scary and you have been so brave facing the worst case scenario, I really admire you. X PMSL at your stories, god isn?t it so true that you leave your dignity at the door!

Thank you pulapula/MrsPF that?s very sweet of you. I remember you! Thank you for your reassurances about the CM. I bet you are getting a nice bump now?!

Crossed with you KitKat - hello!

Hi hon - you'll be feeling pg before you know it. To be honest, until the 1st scan I didn't connect what I was feeling with being pregnant. I just felt ill, hormonal, emotional etc etc - but just couldnt get my head around the fact that it was because I was pg! It's such a huge thing, it took my simple old brain a while to process things!! The 1st scan definitely helps though - was amazing to see. I'm rambling - but what I'm trying to say is that it really does take time for everything to sink in and make sense - so go easy on yourself. You'll be feeling pg before you know it!

Incidentally, a few of you may like this - a pictorial chart to see exactly how the baby develops...

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Great site KitKat!

Sooooooo pleased for you greedy - fingers crossed for monday for you xxxx

How lovely to see so many names I remember!!! So pleased for you all!! Hoping this thread will still be about when I finally graduate... here's hoping I don't get "held back" a year

All the best to all of you... don't forget about those of us still trying!!

isnt it amazing how quickly it goes from a blob to a baby! i still have a blob at the moment!.........but its MY blob!

I have an apple seed never thought I could love something so small so much

i think i prefer apple seed to blob! ok i have an apple seed too, a pink one i reckon!

me too!

Ready! Nice to hear from you - course we havent forgotten. Here's hoping you join us very very soon!!

I think mine is pink too - dont know why. Convinced there's a wee girl in there...

Do you know the bit that really made me weep? When I read somehwere that at about 6 weeks (I think), his/her heart is the size of a poppy seed and will have just started beating... oh my god I wept!!

Oh no I've just read Abwab's thread - the 12wk scan showed no heartbeat. I really feel for her . How sad and how scary that our pregnancies are so fragile...

I've been feeling OK because we saw a heartbeat at 8wks, but now I just feel wracked with worry. This is so awful! Why cant everything just be straightforward?

Here's wishing all of us healthy, sticky pregnancies. x

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Hello!!

Thanks MrsMC ? you?ve made me feel better that I?m not alone in these early few weeks. I think I?m just scared after having had 2 mc last year, especially reading Abwah?s news ? Horrible, poor poor girl . After taking 2 years to conceive DD, when we conceived after 9 months last Jan, I never thought it would go wrong, but at 9 weeks I had a missed mc. Then I finally managed to conceive just before Christmas as you know, for it all to go horribly wrong very quickly. At least I managed to conceive the very next cycle and this time get to go through it all with you and Greedy, but I?m still terrified. I think mc takes away some the magic of pg ? I should be wondering around with a secret smile at what?s going on in my body, but instead every twinge or feeling gets analysed ? horrible! And I wish I felt more sick! But at least I?m still aware of my boobs, IYKWIM!!

At least there are some positive stories on here ? I just wish I?d joined the hoping for threads earlier last year, as then I would have met more of these lovely ladies earlier!! I just felt that with my long cycles, I would be one thread there and then have to miss an entire thread, but you?ll understand that won?t you Greedy!

Anyway ? I?ll try and stay positive if you all do. I?ve always told myself that I will temp till 6 weeks, which will be Monday and then stop as that will definitely got me further than my last mc.

Coincidentally, I was reading last night that this is week that the heart starts beating and that made me really feel that there was someone growing inside me ? can?t wait to tell DD, she?ll be so excited, but that makes it all more scary as I know how much she would love a babysister or brother.

We were convinced that DD was a girl (when I was pg, we obviously know now!!) ? not got any really feeling about this little one yet, except I want it to be healthy. I?ve got the added concerns if I get past 12 weeks ok, that I had obstetric cholestasis with DD and there is a 50:50 chance I?ll get it again ? but I?ll cross that bridge when I get there!

Don?t laugh, but we called DD ?fettle? when I was pg ? hence my name!! Have to blame the fact that we are both scientists, so it is pet name for foetus, which sounded a bit clinical!!! Oh, you?re all going to think I?m really mad! I think I?ll go now.

Take care
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oops that was a bit long - sorry !