Part 2 - anyone found out they are pregnant and want some buddies

[CL1982]

Hurrah! Here is to thread 2.

Any newcomers please feel free to join.

Thanks for the maternity clothes info @blueobsessive , super useful!

I'm reading that book at the moment too claire 😊

Hello ladies, hope you don't mind a late comer. I'm 36 and between 8-10 weeks 🙈. Hope everyone is doing well and enjoying their journey

Welcome Mimi!

Thanks @kerry, how has your Saturday been?

Hey @mimilicious013 I'm 10 weeks tomorrow hehe xx

Hie @CM23x, it's only a few weeks till the 2nd trimester. How are you feeling? Any belly yet?

@mimilicious013 I caught myself in the mirror this morning and thought ' OH MY GOD! ' I'm only 10 weeks !! but I just look plump at the mo lol this is my second child though, how's you? X

@Mimilicious013 hey Mimi, were you in the other trying to conceive threads?? Recognise your name somewhat??

@CL1982 I'm going to order that book via Amazon today. Is it good??

I'm 10 weeks 3 days today and had a private scan....little bubs was moving and wriggling away....it made it seem so real!!

This is my first, is anyone else noticing a slight bump with their first at 10 weeks or is it just constipation???

Hi ladies and welcome to the newbies. How are you all? Well my bump is defo here. That's me in the 2nd trimester woohoo 26 weeks to go. The headaches and tiredness continue but I have been granted a break from sickness which is amazing.

@mummyGof2boys I love that app!! What is it?!

First pregnancy film tonight-Junior. 1994 and then man has the baby. It's sooooo bad!

Lovely bump @mummy, let have more flab than anything lol

Hie @summer, l do remember you dear. How are you and congrats. It's been a long journey ttc.

Have a great Sunday everyone

@CL1982 it's called baby story. I tenner that film. It's awful 😂😂

@mummyGof2boys I was watching it with DH who is a physicalist and my cousin who has just had a baby. We yelled at the screen the whole time but thoroughly enjoyed it 😂 dear god.

Bridget Jones' Baby tonight.

@CL1982 love Bridget jones baby, some serious eye candy in the form of Colin firth and Patrick Dempsey

@Mimilicious013 it's been such a long journey....but we got there in the end. Praying for a smooth journey ahead for all.

I don't know what a physicalist is guys. I mean physicist.... 😂

Can I ask-how many on here found the TTC journey easy and how many have had a bumpier ride to get here? I know every journey is different so it's interesting to hear :)

@CL1982 we were trying from march 2016. Give and take a few months here and there with hubby or myself being away with work. It wasn't working! My cycles were regular like clockwork and it just wasn't happening I'm 35 and I hadn't had a smear test...(I know, I know) so I booked myself appointments to make sure all was ok and had a smear. That came back good but after doing some swabs they found I had BV. Took antibiotics and got pregnant 3 months after.
We had also received our first appointment with the fertility department but I found I conceived naturally. Could it have been the BV holding me back?
I also used pre-seed on and off.

Ok I thought this film was going to be awful and loving it 😂 Go Bridget Jones's Baby! You're actually enjoyable!

Hello. Glad clothes links helpful. We will rock these bumps.

I seem to remember from the last thread there's quite a few of us bumpy riders on here. After we lost our little daughter Olivia in Aug 2015 I had to have 2x surgery rounds in sept then in oct due to retained placenta bits. We started ttc ing again in March 2016. No luck. Saw a gynaecologist who then did a hysteroscopy to remove some scar tissue from the 2x Erpcs. That was late Feb 2017. DH and I had decided to push the button on a fertility referral after the month we actually conceived. That was our 'having given up naturally' month.

Rocky road continues I'm afraid. I had a bleed on Friday (straight after posting). Epagu checked me out (never good when you are recognised by the receptionist). Sonographer was the same as scanned me the first time this pregnancy. Baby (drama llama) bouncing and looking utterly unconcerned as usual, but a blood clot was coming out of the cervix when they speculum-ed. Hoping to goodness I've not abrupted the placenta again. Mil stayed only yesterday and DH took her out for a long walk so I I've been able to take it easy at home. Pretty shredding though. Thankfully I have both prem clinic and midwife on Wednesday.

@Summerblush1982 Maybe. I think I needed a few months post coil to settle and then we needed to time it right. It was just very hard to get the babies to stick. So we went 11months with nothing, got pregnant, mc'd and that went on two more times until this little bean. We did have clomid prescribed and used it once before the last miscarriage and it has a half life so I think that helped for sure as my cycles were soooooo long. Not as awful as a lot of journeys but not fun either. I still worry but I'm trying to put them to the back of my mind as much as possible.

Ps. Bad luck re he thrush @CL1982 - pessaries (which my phone autocorrects to predators! ) not so pleasant

@blueobsessive Much love-That sounds really scary. How are you doing in yourself? Can you take it VERY easy the next few weeks?

It's been pretty bad, I'll not lie. Whenever it seems as though we've got through something, another thing crops up. The sense of deja vu has been really uncomfortable. The advice seems to be that there isn't anything that we could do at this stage. It will either be ok, or won't. At least prem clinic will monitor the cervix and might be able to put in a stitch if it starts to open. Most other things they won't try until 24 weeks (only another 12 to go...)

My body is saying to take it easy so I'm going to follow that ;hospital didn't seem to think it would change much: other than avoiding swimming or illegal drugs like cocaine (yup they said that - not really a risk with me- I was even teetotal before pregnancy and totally wouldn't go there with drugs - someone must have done to provide the evidence base for the advice: the mind boggles).

Just trying to take each day as it comes.

@blueobsessive I am so sorry you're going through this. We're always here for you. It is an incredibly worrying experience at the best of times and you have extra worries. I think Drama Llama is a fighter. Just rest as much as you possibly can ❤️