June 2021 thread 2

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Welcome all mums to be

@PinkPlantCase thank you. Xx

@Jinglebells87 that's so lovely! Glad it went well

@PinkPlantCase I'm 11 weeks today too 😊 love seeing the app updates when a week changes

@Jinglebells87 So glad everything was okay for you. Lovely little picture too 😁

@Jinglebells87 eeeeeek! Congrats - I love seeing people's scans, it's so nice that we are all in the same boat. My support system is far away and like many others I'm telling everyone after 12 weeks.

Very excited for my scan I'm constantly dreaming about it haha

How is everyone feeling?

10+3 here and have to say, I’m feeling okay! Few twinges and pulling feelings here and there, and when I’m hungry I’m absolutely ravenous but I’m not feeling sick.

@SarahTTC2020 baby’s gone from the size of a Lego man to a profiterole today! Haha love the apps

I feel low level nauseous all the time unless I'm eating, but if I eat too much or too frequently I feel nauseous too 😩 Not enough to feel like vomiting, just enough to feel like my stomach is permanently unsettled, it's horrible.

Very very tired, it's really affecting my mood how tired I am all the time. I'm 8+4ish now. Got 3 appointments in the post yesterday, scattered through December and January, if course the zoom call for history with a midwife is when I'll have no childcare, that'll be fun 😂

Hi everyone! 11 weeks today and had my bloods taken. I had a miscarriage in April at 10 weeks so super nervous, but feel much more ill this time around (and had a scan at 7 weeks that showed all was well) so hoping that's a good sign!

@clexa89 they are very good signs. ❤️❤️

I am 12 weeks today and have my NHS scan on Friday. Can’t wait but does anyone else feel like time is going so slowly?! Those who are on their second or third pregnancy - how on Earth do you pass the time?!

@Garman I'm the same as you with a due date 26 June, I'm literally holding myself together for work, even with WFH I am in awe of women who actually had to go into the office!

@maloney123 yes it's going so slow, for me it's the anxiety of getting past the three months and then wishing all the side effects to disappear, I just want to sleep lying flat and for 8 hours (I keep in waking up at 4 and not sleeping again until 6!)

@malony123 this is my 5th and it's going really quickly. I think it's partly because I'm still quite in denial/shock.

I haven’t had a private scan, decided to hold out as my partner can now come to the nhs one.

Read this, this morning www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54527595

I don’t think it changes my opinion. If I couldn’t have my partner with me I would still go for a private one.

@Scarftown relating to the article, I guess it depend on how early the scan is.

For example at my 8 week one we just wanted to know that there was for sure a baby in there and that it had a heartbeat. They’re things that as a lay person I could see and hear. The sonographer pointed out the head and measured the foetus to date it.

I’m really glad that women have the choice of extra scans. The article is written by a man and refers to hearing the heartbeat before 12 weeks as unnecessary under NICE guidance. NICE is built around on cost/risk basis, not mums wellbeing.

Thankyou for sharing the article though! I’m shocked that’s he industry isn’t more regulated, it’ll make me manage my expectations a bit more if I go for any private scans later on.

From someone who has had an ectopic pregnancy I can vouch that early scans are actually life-saving. I would be dead if I had not had one.

Agree as someone who has also had an ectopic. Early scans play their part in providing reassurance that everything is in the right place and the heart is beating. I would never forego any of of the nhs scans for private ones but I think private ones are helpful in the early days and I'm really glad we had ours. We have another next Friday with our nipt test when I will be 10+1 and then only 1.5 weeks to wait until our nhs 12 week one.

Thank you for sharing the article. Very interesting and shocking. 🙁

V interesting article, thank you for sharing :) and like everything there are always pros and cons but for me personally, I’d read a lot about early scans online before I’d even booked one and knew I wanted to know if there was a) a heartbeat and b) it was in the place it’s meant to be. That was all and to be honest I could see both those things before the sonographer said anything.
I’ve also booked another, again just to see heartbeat nothing further, coz I desperately don’t want to receive awful news on my own at the 12 week scan. That’s not good for anyone’s wellbeing or mental health and that needs to be considered.

@Nesski I'm exactly the same with the waking...think it's an anxiety thing as I have had it before when I wasn't preggo.

I'm still feeling nauseous all the time but now I've got used to the fact I just have to eat through it. I'm moving house next week and completely knackered.

I still haven't been able to make my booking appointment (I'm 9+1). Here (South Devon) you have to fill in a form when you get to 7 weeks, which I did, and they are supposed to contact you within 5 days. So I rang them on Monday and was told they'd call me back but nothing. Can't get through at all today. Just getting a bit worried as I think there's a test you have to have before 10 weeks?

Also no partners allowed to anything here so really hoping lockdown is lifted on the 2nd.

It's a really interesting article and I think it very much depends what you are after/need from a scan. Private ones definitely have their place and why shouldn't people have a 4d if they fancy it.

So when I was pregnant with DS last year after a few early losses we picked a clinic run by a Dr called Beard Mill Clinic. But we paid twice the price for it than we would have a chain one. I haven't been to a chain one and they might be brilliant but I was reassured by her credentials and she was fab and she is an obstetric Dr and I trusted she would see if something was wrong and tell us because of my age I was concerned.

I haven't this time, I don't know why.

I'll be going to my NHS scan alone as DH need to watch DS and be home for the other kids. Hopefully it will be ok 🤞

@craziestyear to give you some reassurance my midwife booking appointment is when I’ll be 11+6, my 12 weeks scan is literally the next day through I did have to ask for the scan to be brought forwards. I was 10 weeks when the appointment letters came through.

I was referred to by midwife service by my GP when I was 5 weeks.

@PinkPlantCase did they send you a letter with the scan date? I have my booking app next week at 10+4 and getting nervous about being able to get a scan for when I’m 12 weeks! I’ve not had any letters or anything, I’m hoping it’s my booking app it’s my first contact with a midwife at any rate!

Feeling a bit stressed this morning as having more of a pulling/weird sensation than normal and it’s making me nervous. Is this normal? I’m 9+5 it’s been feeling like it all morning

@Whywontitname I had a letter for the booking appointment come through followed by a scan letter a few days later.

Where I live the maternity service is centralised but the scans are done at local surestart/children’s centres. I think the midwife might be from the central hospital but not sure as that’s an over the phone appointment. Though I know they won’t be based at the scan place.

I generally try to think of the growing type pains as good, it means baby’s growing! In my very non medical opinion anyway. My GP told me that some pain/camping was normal but to give them a call if it was the kind of pain that paracetamol didn’t help with.

I have growing pains/small cramps every day, its definitely a sign that everything is growing, unless it's prolonged or more painful it wouldn't worry me.

I've a scan in early December in the hospital but my actual booking in appointment isn't until early January when I'll be 16 weeks, later than my pre Covid pregnancies but I don't mind. Because I hate the hospital 😂

Happy 10 weeks today - only 2 more to go just waiting on the 4th December already 🙏

Has anyone experienced this - every night I wake up needing to pee at least twice which I know is normal but when I get back into bed I have this weird feeling in my upper abdomen it genuinely feels like my organs are rearranging like it doesn't hurt but I feel like loads of twinges pulling and popping it is very bizzare 😂