@NRDoss, thank you. I really hope so too. It didn’t help last time that after all that stress, ds was unwell for the first year and we were in and out of gps and hospitals with his kidneys and sepsis infections where half the GPS I encountered refused to listen to me. I even had one refuse to look at a specialists letter, telling me I was making a fuss over nothing and he had a cold. I had to explain I wasn’t leaving until they checked the urine (His) provided and when the doctor finally checked it and low and behold, it was an infection, she refused to treat him and sent us to A&E - though the antibiotic he needed was in the letter. There were so many issues like that and part of the lack of diagnosis was down to the change of hospitals last minute which interrupted a referral the first hospital made (but didn’t tell me about, so I was unable to chase). It all came out almost a year later. He didn’t sleep for more than 30 minute to an hour bursts for the whole first year and would be up for hours in between sobbing in pain, it was awful and I was absolutely knackered to the point where I could barely function.
It’s not a genetic condition (so unlikely this baby would also have it), and I’d go through it all over again and more if I had to because I love ds to pieces, but it did mean I held off having another for a long time. The first hospital care issue wasn’t to do with his kidneys, but down to poor management of my notes, but it started off a whole nightmare journey. My biggest hope is this baby is born healthy and that the notes are properly looked at early on. At least I’m going in with experience this time.
Still, on the plus side, I have a fab ds who’ll be a great brother. I hope those with scans coming up get good news and lovely pictures. My sickness has ramped up massively, which wasn’t something that happened last time.
@ShalomToYouJackie, it might be that your placenta is taking over from the corpus luteum. I’ve heard that it can reduce the symptoms in some women to feel like nothing at all really. It’s often written as 12 weeks, but can vary from between 8-13 weeks, and as it takes over progesterone production the nausea, really sore boobs and lightheaded feelings can feel as if they’ve stopped completely. Usually, if someone doesn’t have symptoms at that point, they tend to have quite a good second trimester (or so I’ve been told) and then might develop symptoms later again, like heartburn, tiredness, hip pain etc. as the baby gets bigger. It’s not often a negative sign, so fingers crossed, all is well and you’re just losing the yucky early symptoms. xxx