Staying posifrickentive- Thread 19 for ladies pg after mc

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Ready. Steady. Go

Hope appt went well and was reassuring msjuniper - definitely think you did the right thing by going in asap.

Thanks - they found ketones but not blood in my urine so either I mistook dark wee for blood or it was from elsewhere. I am so sure it wasn't though and it was very pink. All other obs fine so just recommended to drink lots and monitor over next few days. Baby still kicking so that's good. Just trying to quell The Fear bubbling up.

My blood sugars are really erratic even though I'm on metformin and eating really carefully so think I will have to go back to the diabetes team. Really not looking forward to the possibility of insulin injections for the next 3 months but if that's what it takes then of course I'll do it.

msjuniper that’s good news at least! have you had beetroot or anything like it to eat? Can turn your wee pink.

Been at EPU waiting for early scan and it could be a few hours yet, so bored!! Even more annoyed that over the phone was told I’d just have to come in and wait then when I got here then now scan routinely at 6 weeks after an EP and they would have booked me in 😭 DH is in a right strop about it which isn’t helping.

@Eastend2015 you know what I suddenly had a lightbulb moment and realised I had beetroot salad for lunch yesterday. Oh god I've just spent the last 24 hours panicking over some bloody beetroot haven't I.

Hope your scan goes well - how annoying for you but things are bound to be very heightened and emotions running high so hopefully your DH focuses on what's important and the scan goes well.

Haha happens to the best of us! Just glad all is well. Still waiting- MS isn’t helped by empty stomach. I wish DP would stop being a twat and go and get me a mcdonalds!!

Eastend hope you get scanned soon!

Juniper, really glad you got a GP appt anyway - love that it was beetroot!

thought you’re right- I think my original plan was from it stared with the egg (borrowed it a while ago and don’t have a copy any more). I’ve tried so many things I forget why I’m doing what I’m doing

Does a feeling of pressure on your stomach sound familiar to anyone?
Like someone has their hands above my belly button and is pushing down

MsJuniper that was good to remember about the beetroot salad, big relief!!

Hello All, welcome Eastend and lifeofpies. Fingers crossed you get scanned soon Eastend, good luck.

Been offline for a bit, just trying to distract myself, 8 weeks now (hopefully, if everything's alright in there). Bit depressed, really - just finding it so difficult to motivate or enjoy much.

I'm 15 weeks with possible IC and no stich if relevant

Can’t identify a definite pregnancy sac etc, might just be too early to tell or miscarriage. If what they can see is a pregnancy then would be around 5 weeks and I don’t think my dates could be that far off. Just waiting for blood tests now 😔 Gutted, was really hoping to see a little heartbeat.

I'm really sorry you got such an inconclusive result, eastend - really hoping for you that it is just a bit earlier than you think. How far along did you think you were?

Should be around 6+3 so not getting my hopes up 😔

So sorry your scan wasn’t conclusive, Eastend - I really hope the dates are just off, they can be way out sometimes. Keeping everything crossed for you. X

Will they rescan you @eastend? Fingers crossed it's a date mix up.

Presumably they're going to do two blood tests to see whether hormones are going up? Fingers very crossed that they are.

zaa what does IC mean? I feel pressure on my tummy from time to time, it feels weird!

juniper I was once convinced I had some sort of horrendous cancer after I had 4 large pickled beetroots!! Googled it and it’s very common to have pink wee, it should come with a warning.
east I hope the blood test went well, thinking of you.

mogul IC is incompetent cervix. & yes omg beetroot wee is so pink hehe!
I hope all is well juniper xx

eastend oh I'm sorry, How confusing :(
I hope they do further tests ect? And bean is just alittle too small atm. Xx

I had a big nose bleed today, which I've read is common in pregnancy anyway but i keep thinking its a good sign as i had a couple when i had dd my only successful pregnancy so far. In my last pregnancy where i had the mmc i had nothing atall.
What a stupid thing to make me hopeful🙈

15days until my private scan.. time is dragging!!

zaa I get that feeling, have done since about 17/18 weeks when I started to get paranoid about cervical length. Scans have been fine, and I still get the feeling now. Usually when I'm walking, and often if I have a slightly full bladder.

A year ago today we had our scan at 6&1/2 weeks which showed only a 2mm foetal pole, a week later there was no change and MMC was diagnosed. I'm feeling anxious today, and just wish would start feeling movements-I thought I felt a couple of kicks on tuesday night (it was like someone twanged an elastic band inside my stomach) but nothing since, so I'm thinking I imagined it.

hotcookie thanks, that's reassuring.

I understand your second paragraph, it'll be 2 years saturday since my first mc, I thought I was 8 weeks and went for a reassurance scan to be told what they could see was a 5-6 week pregnancy. Now my symptoms have dropped off I'm desperate to feel the baby too, just so I know it's ok.

Thanks for the support ladies- I was supposed to get blood test results back tonight but the lab hasn’t sent them back yet. Yes expect they’ll do 2 lots of blood tests to be sure and/ or rescan. It depends on these results really. I hate this process so much. I just want to fast forward to a happy and healthy pregnancy.

Hi, hope it's ok if I join? I am 6+1 today, after a long year of ttc after I had a mmc early January. In the end we opted for IVF as I am 41 and felt that time was running out. I have a DD who is 2 and a DS who is 20 (not really a planned age gap there...). We really would love a young sibling for DD, she loves her big brother, but he has gone away to uni so really not around much.

Anyway, I feel super lucky to have my DCs, but also desperate for one last baby. I have (creepily enough) been following this thread since my mmc since I needed to feel it was possible to have a happy ending. So I kind of feel I already know you Anyway, I hope I get to stick around for a while, but I still feel the likelihood of this ending well is not so great. Both age and IVF are risk factors, and it is impossible to erase the horrors of the mmc. We discovered that the baby had stopped growing at 8 weeks on a scan I had at 10 weeks (and after a good 7 weeks scan with heartbeat and spot on dates). To make it slightly worse, my new due due date is four days after my previous, so everything happens at the same time this year. Terrified to see pink wiping over NYE, although of course the likelihood of it ending on the same date is not so great, but my brain does all sorts of magical thinking.

We also haven't told many people, so I really don't have anyone to talk to about it all, at least not who'll understand. So, well. Sorry for a long rant. Hope the rest of you are ok, and that you get good news from your blood tests, eastend.

@Eastend2015 I'm really sorry the scan didn't go how you planned. The hardest thing of all is the waiting. I hope there's good news round the corner for you.

@notparticularlypatient welcome and I hope this is the one that will stick for you. You've obviously been through a lot and there are several of us here who know only too well the feeling of time running out (I'm 41 too). Do you have early scans as part of the IVF process?

Utter congratulations on your baby girl! The last weeks must have been so difficult for you with the loss of your boy, but it sounds like you are able to enjoy the new little person in your family. Hope she is a sleeper so you get some rest and recovery.

MrsJ, thank you for that, and it really is very reassuring that people my age do indeed go on to have successful pregnancies. My clinic offers a scan at 7 weeks. So on Wednesday we have our first milestone. For now, I can't plan further ahead, but if all is well we might plan for the week after as well.. I am a planner and I really find it difficult not to know what happens
in two weeks time, but for now that is just how it is.