It looks like berolina's placenta is going to stay put.

[berolina]

Had another bleed today - a lot lighter than the last one, but worrying all the same. I went to the hospital as per instructions and had a very detailed scan, as a result of which I have now graduated from 'placenta praevia partialis' to 'totalis' (I don't think they do the 4-grade scale over here). Because a bit of it is on the other side of the cervix and the the bit directly over the cervix is a sort of 'bridge', they think it is very unlikely it will move. Ho hum - a pregnancy of being very careful (and I'm not quite 21 weeks yet) and a CS seemingly await. It probably means I can't go away either, doesn't it?

On the upside, hey did the whole detailed looking-at-the-organs thing too and the baby is fine and doing very well

Oh dear, berolina - & indeed.

Let's concentrate on the - the baby sounds great!

definitely concentrating on the

certainly is

quick bump for the evening

don't worry Cali - dh is being a heroic rusher (incl Ikea trip this evening )
Btw, did I let something slip, or how did you know? (I refer to your 'ds1' reference )

i had pp it's a pain! yes rest all you can

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Flat is lovely Pruni, bit loud sometimes (quite near a train line, the ring road is on the horizon) but screened off by some lovely trees (we have seen a red squirrel scoot up the one just outside a couple of times) and lack of garden made up for by close proximity to the enormous botanic gardens. We still need to get rid of quite a few boxes but are rather hampered obviously. And it's lovely to have friends nearby (ish). As soon as we've settled in properly I know I'll be a lot happier than I was

Your Guardian posters are gracing the walls of ds's playroom! Thank you again

[I was FiT, in case you're wondering! This is my old new name]

ha yes guessed it was you!

Oh belolina, you have to chill now! Another boy then? Congratulations. Can I update you on our lists then? Not that I am list obsessive on our thread, but want to feel you are 'part' of things. Most of us so far seem to be having girls (they think I am!). Please take very special gentle care of yourself.

Floss! Yes, please do. I must, must drop by and say hello - am famous for beng hopeless at keeping up with AN/PN threads, though. Think I offended the June 2005 lot by just disappearing

I was certain from about 11/12 weeks that it was a boy, but wasn't planning to find out - but the evidence jumped out at me at a detailed and very high-resolution scan

Hellooooo! Have been thinking about you. Will email again soon.

Sorry to hear about the bleed, but glad that baby is fine. Please do what Auntie Califrau says and take it easy. Whatever you were doing, don't! And step AWAY from the boxes!

And don't worry about the CS. I promise you that they can be truly wonderful experiences. Different, and a bit weird (!?), but really really good. You have lots of time to get used to the idea, which I think is important. (I've opined on here before that a lot of the time when people feel really disappointed by having had a CS, it's because it has been 'thrust upon them' and they haven't had time to get their heads round it.)

I don't see why you shouldn't go away, as long as you're within striking distance of a hospital (just in case). Just find out where the hospital is wherever you're going as soon as you get there. I presume you weren't thinking of trekking in the Sahara, or climbing in the Andes or snowboarding at the South Pole... Were you?

Sending you loads of love. It'll be OK. My pp baby is seven in two weeks, and the weeks I spent not moving (and drawing up lists of things for dh to do!) were (a) definitely worth it, and (b) really very insignificant in the scheme of things.

Ellbell lovely to 'see' you. No, more the Baltic than the South Pole - just a weekend of sea and sand

I think I'll get my head round the CS OK, given a bit of time. Will they schedule a date pre-term or let me go into labour? I presume the former.

Take care, will be in touch x

Hi, sorry to hear this. I had pp too, and the cs will be scheduled so you shouldn't go into labour as it is not at all a good idea if you have pp. Please take it easy and try not to worry. My pp baby is now five!

thanks aloha. ds arrived at 38 weeks so I expect they'll want to do it at 37 + something?

My last 2 CSs (I've had 4) were scheduled so that I wouldn't go into labour - DS1 at 38 weeks and DS2 at 37 - no probs with either

wow, 4 CSes!

Mine was 37.5. And it went brilliantly! A lovely, lovely experience. Honestly. Unforgettable.

I second what Aloha says. They definitely won't let you go into labour, as, as soon as your uterus starts to contract, there's a danger that the placenta will come away entirely. (Sorry, not wanting to scare you...) I had dd at 36 weeks, but was lucky to get that far (and I think they wanted to move me on as I'd been clogging up a bed for far too long). I think I've heard that they normally deliver at c. 37 weeks. Your CS will be calm and your dh wille able to be with you. There is no reason why you shouldn't hold your baby straight away. You'll be fine...

These are reassuring experiences. I suppose after 50-hour labour with ds, ending in ventouse and episiotomy, while it was handled well enough not to be a 'negative' experience (the post-natal care was something else entirely, unfortunately), that I'd hoped to have a lovely intervention-free 'natural' birth (whatever 'natural' means) this time around. But meeting him for the first time will be lovely, however it happens, and i think you're right, Ellbell, that it being planned will take the fraughtness and disappointment away.