Hello all!!
Apologies for disappearing! I've had a crazy time, but I'll get to that after I've caught up with you all! Prepare for another essay!!
Blueroses My heart absolutely broke for you, reading your update. I am so so sorry that you have to deal with this, and I wish I could do more than tell you I am thinking of you. I am so glad the doctors have bought more time, and the second stitch went well. I admire your strength and am praying for you, your DH and your baby xxxxxx
Friends How are you doing, lovely? It does sound like we've been taking turns! How were the swab results after? Any sign of infection? Great news that you're nor dilating! What is your plan of action? That cheesecake looks awesome!!
Ghengis HUGE congratulations on the birth of your little boy!! You must be over the moon. Lots of love to you and your family :-)
Sara ah, people and they're insenstive buump comments! Ignore your husbands aunt. I bet you do look fabulous!! Your colleague also needs to shush! I think its perfectly normal to be nervous before the anomaly scan, especially when you've been through so much to get to this point. Ignore her! Good luck with the scan today!
Custard Glad that you're feeling movements. I think that was the point that I relaxed a little. I hope youre doing ok :-)
Hedgehog Congrats on finding out you're having a boy!! Exciting!! Glad the 20 week scan went well and hope you're doing ok!
Blondes Hope everything has progressed well with the induction!! Keep us posted when you are able. Thinking of you!!
Trixie I'm with you on the nightmares. They've been pretty consistent for me from the start, and I always wake up feeling horrible and anxious. I hope your stretchy crampy feelings have eased. Try not to worry about them too much as I think they are fairly normal but, as aways, its always worth checking with your midwife if you're concerned. Definitely worth looking into group b strep in my opinion, but keep in mind that there are some terrifying stories online and while its worth knowing about, there are things that can be done to minimise the risks if you were found to have it.
Thirdeye Gad to hear your scan went well. Such a lovely moment seeing the heart beating. I hope you are feeling positive :-)
Sammy How are you and the twins doing?
Kate Congratulations on the birth of your son!!
Rosebud Glad to hear you're well!
Lucie I've been wondering how you're doing? Is everything going well? 7 weeks to go for you now!! Thats fab!! Hope you had a good time, out for your drink.
Chocolate Glad to hear you're well, despite the feeling bigger. When things seem like more effort, I recommend a nice nap!! 
Kiwi I hope you enjoy maternity leave!
AFM, its been a strange few weeks. I've been in and out of hospital pretty much constantly with the bleeding. Its literally been 2-3 days at hospital, then 1-2 days at home, then 2-3 days at hospital. No idea why the bleeding seems to stop when I'm there and restart when I get home. Anyway, I continued to keep missing appointments with my consultant and the doctors at the hospital (where I was supposed to be delivering, for gods sake!) pretty much refused to make a decision on what to do with me and kept advising me to 'tell your consultant this is what we suggest', even though I kept explaining that I kept missing my appointments because I was in with them! Eventually, they booked me in for a section on 11th April (38 weeks) but even then they kept saying it wasnt definite until my consultant agreed and I would have to see her first. It was awfully frustrating. Anyway, I finally mananged to make it to see my consultant yesterday. I got a bit upset at first, as she kept saying 'I'm not happy with the 11th' and I thought she was talking about pushing it backwards, but then she checked her book, asked if I'd be willing to change delivery hospitals and told me she could book me in for Monday (37+2)!! I think my jaw hit the floor! She basically said that she was very unhappy with the attitude of the docs at the other hospital because of their refusal to make decisions, and said that even if they wanted it to be her decision, it was simple enough to phone or email her to ask her opinion and formulate a plan instead of leaving me hanging, especially considering I was bleeding and getting stressed out every few days. She said she was not happy to let the cycle of bleeding continue any longer, and would rather get my boy delivered. So, Sunday night I go in for a sliding scale for my diabetes, and monday morning I will be having my section. The only thing that may interfere with this plan is that they want there to be space in the SCBU for him, just incase he has breathing difficulties due to early delivery/c section delivery or incase he has low blood sugars because of my diabetes, so if there's no room in SCBU, section will be Tues/wed/thurs/whenever there's room, but it will def be next week. Its both very scary and very exciting. In the meantime, if I bleed or have reduced movements etc, I have to go straight in and I will be in til after the birth so I'm resting as much as possible to try and stay home as long as possible. I have also had to start colostrum harvesting, as the consultant said it would be very beneficial for baby, due to the diabetes. I've managed about 0.4ml so far, and I'm hoping it'll get a bit easier over the next couple of days. Needless to say, I've deferred my uni course now. I only had two assignments left, and they've let me bank my assessment scores so I have to restart in October officially, but I wont actually have any work to do until this time next year, when I will just complete the two assignments I havent yet done, so thats worked out fine. :-)
So thats my update!! Apologies if I've missed anyone, and I hope everyone is well. I will keep checking in and keep you posted when possible.
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