The Graduates of TTC after loss thread #7 - 🐧 The Penguin Huddle

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This is a safe space and supportive thread for anyone who is pregnant following a loss.

We all understand the worry and anxiety that can come from being pregnant again following miscarriage/stillbirth/neonatal death.

Plenty of births on the last thread, congratulations to you all!

Let's start a fresh roll call below? I'll collate as we go.

@Lozzak87 congratulations on your little girl, wow she was so very tiny and look at her now! It must be lovely to finally have her home with you and be able to get into a routine! Congratulations again she is beautiful

@InDreamland thank you, feel better today emotionally although baby is so low I feel like I'm sitting on its head! Plus I'm suffering the joys of anaemia, iron tablets and the side effects and my ankles are swelling if I stand for too long. I cannot wait for this cheeky one to be here and back home.

Hello, hope mums bumps and babies are doing well.

I am officially the most pregnant I have ever been - I will be 38 weeks on Sunday and had already had my son by this point. Do any of you have any pointers on getting labour started? Been having painful braxton a hicks on and off for the last 5 days but they taper off to nothing, although did get some during the night which was a first

My consultant wanted to induce me at 39 weeks but I've made her push that by a week to 11th May, but I want this little one to make its way without being induced. I'm already planning an oxytocin friendly weekend with DH but feel like I'm now in a countdown clock!

My DD arrived this evening just before 8pm weighing a healthy 8lb 1oz. I'd had pains on and off since 11 the previous night but a check at 2 pm yesterday showed only 2cm. They did a sweep and boy did the contractions ramp up. Back in hospital at 6pm, 5cm, straight time delivery suite, baby had pooed so on constant monitor and in bed, delivered with about 3 or 4 pushes at 7:50 using gas and air ( and nothing for pushing stage). I gave birth on all 4s very unladylike but so much better than on my back. I have a small 2nd degree tear so have some stitches and because of little lady and meconium we have to stay in for obs for 24 hrs ( she needed and ecg anyway). Feeling happy and exhausted - plus she arrived on my birthday so lovely to share that with her forever more!

Congratulations @KayJay2018 what a wonderful birthday present.

Congratulations @Kayjay2018 !!! Xxxx

Wonderful news @Lozzak87 ❤️

Congratulations @Kayjay2018 !

Awww congratulations @Kayjay2018 what lovely news to read. Hope you are recovering well and all will be fine to be discharged after 24 hours. You're amazing to have only had entonox (same as me). When you're ready and if you're on Facebook come join us.............just PM @Beaglemum93 your email. Looking forward to a cute picture of your DD soon x

Congratulations @Kayjay2018 what a wonderful birthday present! Xx

Thank you everyone, just home yesterday evening and been up all night feeding! If only men's boobs worked like ours and we could share the feeding!

Hello, I’m just wondering if anyone is still lurking around on this thread? I can see it’s been a few months since anyone posted!

I’m on the TTC after loss penguin huddle thread after a stillbirth earlier this year but have recently found out I’m pregnant again (very early days) so just wondering if anyone was about! 🤷🏻‍♀️

Hi @marmitecheesetoast. Most of us moved over to a Facebook group after having our rainbows. However there are a few on there who are pregnant still I think. You'd be welcome to join us there - it's a lot of baby chat now but we all understand the anxieties of being pregnant after various types of loss. I think you need to PM @Beaglemum93 if you want to join us. Understand if Facebook feels a bit daunting though depending where you are in pregnancy! xxx

Congratulations @marmitecheesetoast, I think we have all migrated over to a Facebook group and I think most of us have had our babies. I remember how scary those first weeks and months were all too well. If you don't feel ready to join us on the group (and you would be very welcome - I was one of the last to be due my little one) I think there is another thread on the pregnancy board that was started by someone from the TTC penguin huddle. I'll see if I can find a link. I found it so helpful to be among people who understood how I was feeling.

Pregnant after Loss and Dreaming of Rainbows - 5 www.mumsnet.com/Talk/pregnancy/3969763-pregnant-after-loss-and-dreaming-of-rainbows-5

Here's the link - we would love to see you over on the Facebook group too, I understand if it might be a bit too much just yet as I only moved over when I actually had my little girl

@marmitecheesetoast congratulations on your BFP! Lovely to see the huddle is still going strong on the TTC board and now others are graduating to the pregnancy board. Like @MyHeartIsBrokeButIHaveSomeGlue and @Kayjay2018 said most of us who were on here migrated to a FB group after having our rainbows.

Sorry, meant to add, hope you have a healthy and uneventful pregnancy. Those early days and even right up until you give birth can be so full of anxiety after a loss. If you would like to join the FB group you'd be very welcome there. I think the last rainbow we were expecting in the group has been born now, only just this week.

@MyHeartIsBrokeButIHaveSomeGlue @Kayjay2018 @InDreamland thank you so much for your replies and congratulations to you all on the safe arrival of your rainbows 🌈 💓
Thank you so much for the invite to the Facebook group. I think it probably is a bit early days for that for me just yet, but I will keep it in mind and will check out the new MN thread in the meantime, I must have missed that one, thank you ❤️

@marmitecheesetoast Congratulations on your pregnancy. I hope it all goes well for you! I had my rainbow baby last week after two miscarriages in 2018! I still can't believe he's here and that he's mine! Would love to see you on our fb group when you feel the time is right xx

@RedRobin7 thank you ❤️ I’m feeling very anxious and absolutely terrified of another stillbirth or something else going wrong, but I guess that’s probably fairly standard in PAL. Massive congratulations on the safe arrival of your rainbow 🌈 Hope you and wee baby are doing well.