Pregnancy after miscarriage - Various ways of getting from one day to the next...

[Uki]

Thanks for the thread name Purplelostprincess

Remind me not to go into labour in Scotland!!!

Yey Angua! Great news about LO being a wriggler!

I don't know whether I can't wait for my scan or am dreading it. After going the first time and my LO being dead which ranks up there as one of the worst moments of my life and still brings tears to my eyes, don't know if I actually want to have a scan, I know I have to at 12 weeks, but I will be a wreck I know. Am going to settle for not thinking about it til the day before if possible (yeah, right like that's going to work!).

EllieG - I can truely sympathsize with you. There is nothing so utterly destroying than that silence in the scan room and the picture on the screen - my mmc was over 18 months ago, but I can still picture my little one on the screen very clearly in my mind.

However, it will be ok this time - remember healthy and well, healthy and well. There is nothing I can advise to stop the complete utter panic while waiting for the scan - just remember we will all be thinking of you and be here for you. (I still worry every time they try and find the heart beat during MW appointments and I'm 36 weeks!)

HEALTHY AND WELL!!

Thanks fettle healthy and well healthy and well healthy and well....

hiya, we have loads of chavs up here but you have your own room at the hospital im at so your stuffs less likely to get knicked

angua - congrats on the scan

fettle - when are you due? i hope you havnt got the oc, sounds grim.

still no scan date for me! im 12 wks on wed so hopefully it will come soon x

Hi Spugs - we haven't even had a tour of the labour suite yet - I think it is private delivery rooms, but if you need to stay in for a while, I don't know if you get moved to a ward or not - hope I last til Saturday, when our tour is booked!!!

Due on 29th Sept - so a while to go, but with the itching I may be induced anytime from end of next week onwards - getting a bit close and real now!!

hope your scan date comes through soon - do you definitely get a 12 week scan? I know some areas only scan at 20 weeks.

take care
xxx

spugs, nothng thru yet for me either but should get something thru this week for next week or week after. am tick tocking to Wednesday and 12 weeks as well!!

MrsMc - I don't think you are snobby! My local maternity unit was revamped in 2001, and it now consist of 10 delivery suites which you stay in after the baby is born - so you are not in an open ward. Have to admit, I really do prefer that - I've never had a hospital stay since I was a baby, and am not keen on being on a ward...
Some hospitals allow you to go and have a neb at the labour ward once you go past a certain point - my friend was able to go up on a Sunday pm once she was past 30 weeks.

Morning all ... have just taken ds to school for his first day in Dosbarth Derbyn - he was so excited about going to school and staying all day - he had to asked (gently by his teacher) to come back and given me a kiss!

Ellie - I remember the day of my scan vividly - I cried all over absolutely everybody ... the woman at the booking in desk, I cried in the waiting room, I cried all over the sonographer when I got in the room - she took pity on me, and found the baby really quickly, then turned the screen to show me before she did all the bits and pieces they're supposed to do: then I cried all over again! The woman on the reception desk remembers me when I go in there every time, as I cried so much on that day.
Healthy and well, healthy and well....

MrsMc - I don't think you are in the slightest bit snobby - one of my abiding memories of being in hospital after having had ds is that there were 2 very young girls in the same ward as me - around the 15 / 16 mark ... the one refused to even attempt to change / bath her baby as she said her mum would do it all ... the other one spent the entire time changing this poor newborn in and out of all these frilly little outfits that were hanging around the crib ... I couldn't get out of there soon enough!

I know that if I have to stay in again this time (please, no!), I'll be on an open ward again - although I am thinking of enquiring if they have any private rooms ... I'd willingly pay!

fettle - the fact that you may be induced any time from next week brings it home to me just how close this is all getting!

Right, am going to my consultant appointment this afternoon - am going to have to be calm and firm about why I don't want to be on CLU ... am almost expecting to be bullied! I'm getting myself fired up to walk out if necessary - and dh has been briefed not to listen to the scaremongering!

Morning all! Got some mild contractions on the train last night after my 25 minute walk. It made me realise how knackered I am and how desperate I am for some sleep and relaxation before having to go through childbirth. Dh said could I please avoid walking anywhere for the next couple of weeks, but I need to keep active and it's the only exercise I get so if I stop, I'm worried that I won't be fit enough to get through labour without any difficulties! I think it must have been Braxton Hicks - never had any with ds so not sure what they feel like - but it made me feel a little nervous...

EllieG - I remember how difficult it was staying calm before the 12 week scan. As you say, you can't help, but be excited about the prospect of seeing a healthy baby, but at the same time, are petrified that it might be bad news. Just keep going with the mantra and you will be fine...

EJT - pleased to hear that your ds' first morning at school was not at all traumatic! Good luck with the appointment this afternoon...

Spugs - I would ring and chase up your scan. I remember with ds, the hospital never received the form and it was only 'cos I rang to check the appointment that I got booked in!

Hello to everyone else. Will be back later to post some more, but have to go do some work now - shame!!

Mornin all -
when are you due mumpbump?

Ejt - very sweet about you DS, bless him. DSD just moaned all morning - she's going into year 4 and doesn't like the thought of her work getting harder!

1 October so will be officially full term (37 weeks) next Monday... I can't believe how quickly it has gone since my 12 week scan. All I can remember is how it dragged when I first joined this thread at 6 weeks... Unreal!

Oooo exciting!
Too right about time dragging til 12 week scan - I'm sure it's taking longer than it should.

EllieG, it is taking longer! I am sure i have been PG for 6 months already and i am 12 weeks tomo! how is that happening?!

Hi Everyone - I have been lurking and feeling too knackered to join in properly so apologies!

My 12 week scan is tonight at 5.15pm. I am actually 11.6 today but I figure thats close enough! (I am paying for a private scan because I did not want to be at the mercy of the NHS and am in France next week so wanted it this week!)
Spugs hope you get your date through soon. And Feedmenow good luck for next Monday.
MrsMc Hope your appointment went well this morning
Angua and Dolly1 very glad to hear that your scans went well.

Hello everyone else. Sorry I havent said hello to everyone individually. xxx

Mumofmonsters both 12 weeks tomorrow then! YES YES YES how has it only been 8 weeks ish since we have known we are pregnant? It has d-r-a-g-g-e-d!!!

Let us know how you get on winky!

It's sod's law - if you are ttc 2 ww goes incredibly slowly too, and then when you finally get there you jsut discover a whole new set of stuff to worry about which makes the time drag. Hey-ho. Healthy and well, healthy and well

Hello Just wanted to let you all know that the scan went well this morning our consultant is so nice she had a student with her which was great as she was telling her in detail what everything was too; we saw the face, nose, lips, all the organs in intricate detail, souls of the feet, toes, hands, thumb sucking it was fab ? and the sex is still a surprise! I must have got myself quite worked up about it though as feel so sick and hung over now. What a relief though! I?ve posted a couple of Beanie?s new photos on my profile.

Fettle - hope all went well for you x

Ah lovely photos Mrs MC x

Fantastic news - Mrs - so pleased for you.

As you've seen, my results were inconclusive - LFTs are on the upper limit of normal and my bile acids have doubled, but still well within normal limits. going back for more blood tests of Friday, when I have another CTG to check on baby. All seemed well this morning with him though.

hope everyone else is doing well!!

I'm beginning to think that each stage of pg drags!! The 2WW, the first 12 weeks, then next few weeks until you feel movement and then the last few weeks when you're kind of getting a bit fed up of being pg and want to see you little one!!!

take care all
xxx

Have just read thread about lovely activities to do with your children and am feeling a bit sad cos I can only (just) afford to take a year off work and then have to go back full-time and I will be rubbish mummy who never makes playdough and the child minder does it oh the guilt.

Fettle - glad to hear that everything is okay for the moment!

Ellie - I only took 6 months off last time, but am hoping to take 7 months off - wahay - this time! Personally, I think I make more of an effort to have special time with ds in the morning before work, evening after work and at weekends than I would do if I spent all day every day with him.

MrsMcJnr - lovely piccies!

Hi everybody --
still regulrary reading all the posts but not much posting myself.

MrsMcJ -- congratulations on your scan. I am so happy verything's so well.

Fettle -- I agree with you! I am six weeks behind you but I can't wait until I meet LO. Right now I would prefer sleepless nights over carrying all this extra weight but ask me in 3 months! Sorry you are worried about OC but it's good that your are being monitored and everything's still in the normal range. How did you find out about it the first time around? I am not being monitored for it and deevloped some strange itching on my belly (which could be anything..)

Elli, Winky and MOM -- all the best for your scans. Can only second what has been said. They are wonderful and terryfying at the same time. I will be thinking of you!

Mumpbump - First contractions -- how exciting! And you are almost full term! I have had regurlarly Braxtion Hicks for the last two weeks, so if you want I can describe them to you. I have them basically all afternoon. Was worried at first, but now I am so used to them that I hardly notice. MW normally say it's a good thing when the uterus practises, so don't be too worried about early delivery. Might be just your body getting some special exercise for Oct 1st!

EJT hope your meeting with your consultant will go well. It's good that you are getting prepared for it. And don't forget you have each of use behind you, so there is a large invisible army behind you :-)

Uki I am so sorry to hear about your worries and am very reliefed that they didn't find anything. So sorry you are having so much to worry about postnatally. I am thinking of you! Spring must be around the corner for you for us the first autumn smells are in the air...

Everybody else I forgot

OK, I will stop fretting about not being able to be alpha mummy.

I loved your photos MrsMcJnr!!!