Pregnancy After Miscarriage - Knicker Checkers Anonymous Part III

[lackaDAISYcal]

Hi everyone.....roll up here for your passport to check your knickers on an hourly basis

Go dondons, Go dondons, Go dondons, wooooooh

What an exciting evening!

Oooh, good luck Ellie and Dondons Look forward to your birth announcements very soon I hope

Wow, Ellie and Dondons!! I hope you are managing to get through this labour milarky (sp?)!! How exciting, hope it all goes smoothly and so impressed you are managing to type when in labour!
Good to hear you are well Goingfor3, you're right, the more active you are the better the sleep. My girls were back to school today and for the first time in ages I sat on the sofa for most of the day! I am going to have such a bad night's sleep!
Jules, it is so normal. I have only lost one but I still think and wonder about him/her. I still light a candle once in a while and think 'what if', it's normal. I have managed to relax in the middle/end weeks of pregnancy, around 24 weeks when I thought it had a good chance and have only got anxious again now as it is so close and it would be so dreadful to get this far and then not happen. I do feel sad that I can't 'enjoy' this pregnancy like the others but it will all be worth it in the end, as for you. You're doing remarkably well, you just have to keep plodding on, if you know what I mean. Take care.

Good luck Dondons too, can't wait to hear about minidon and miniellie

Aggh- Ellie and DonDons- sending lots and lots of positive vibes. So excited for you...and a little for me too. 15th May it'll be my turn!!!

Splishsplosh- thanks for the tip! Start NCT on Wednesday, as it happens. Don't think I'll go to the meet before baby cakes arrives though as pretty much bedbound now.

Did get some new painkillers from Doc today so they should help me through the last three weeks.

Big smooches to all. Healthy and well, healthy and well...will be my mantra untl the end of time!!!

Still at home but if carries on like this I reckon I'll be going in tonight cos they are getting more painful!

Thanks for good wishes ladies - can't believe that this time tomorrow I might be a mummy!

Will let you know how get on x

Good luck and peaceful labour vibes Ellie and DonDons!!!

Have decided to back off and let Ellie win this one!

CTX's stopped at about 10.30pm, had another bout around 3am and then nothing since then so figure it was a practice run.

So altogether now - Go Ellie!!

Oh Dondons, I had this for 3 nights in a row with my second, 'real labour' was on the fourth night, so definitely sounds like things are getting underway! Good luck.
And, ... go Ellie, go ...

Go Ellie!
Go DonDons! - I had about 5 days on/off contractions before it really kicked off with waters breaking (and I will fight anyone who tells me they weren't contractions! Admit they did get loads more painful, but they still hurt!) So anyway reckon we will be hearing more from you soon!

Just to keep you updated from our other threads...

By PeachyHas4BoysAndLovesIt on Tue 22-Apr-08 10:24:33

email from ellie

no baby yet- but in hospital

Ohhh how exciting!!

To think ellie will have her baby by the end of the day.....how exciting.

Dondons, your turn will come. Now listen to lulu and mars "envisage your cervix as a flower........" and those practice contractions are doing you good. Now get bouncing on the ball and glugging the raspberry leaf tea, dosing yourself with evening primrose and black and blue cohosh...erm what else...pineapples, sex, up and down the stairs, burning the clary sage oil.........

Sorry to crash the thread at such a happy time, just wanted to give you all a quick update and to say thank you for all the help and support you have all given me over the past months. I honestly don't know how I would have got through it without you all.

Here is my MC Avengers post from this morning:

Thomas William K--- was born at 6.40pm on Sunday.
I can't believe he's gone.
The induction, though horrible, wasn't as bad as I feared. Contractions were fairly terrible until my waters broke, but much better once they got me a morphine drip and some gas and air (great stuff!) DH was timing and said they were lasting 45secs every 1 1/2 minutes, but it felt like much longer and much more often! That went on for about an hour and a half, then the pain stopped. He was born, quite suddenly, about 2 hours or so later.
I decided not to see him in the end, though DH did and he described him to me. The hospital took his footprints for us, which I'm glad about, although I haven't yet found the strength to look at them yet.
The placenta didn't come away as easily as they would have liked and it took them AGES (about 12 hours) to decide whether I needed an erpc. Had to go for an internal scan which in a way was the worst bit. It was so familiar and yet so different - in the past I have always been terrified about whether there was a heartbeat, whether everything looked ok etc etc, but to see nothing there was terrible. Just felt like he should still be in there, safe and sound.
We will have a very small funeral for him, just me, DH and the vicar who married us. Not sure when though. Maybe next week.
Am doing ok all things considered. Want the bleeding to stop though.
We will wait a few months before we ttc again, but I hope no-one minds if I stay here in the mean time.
I want to do everything I can to make sure we are as strong as we can be, both emotionally and physically, before we try again. I also want to have tests done on us to check this isn't something that's just bound to happen again and again. Don't think I could bear that.
Somehow it seems the world keeps turning, and for that I am grateful.

Now I will go and catch up with all your posts from the last week or so... Kxx

(((Kate))) I've been thinking about you lots, thanks for posting with your update. I'm so so sorry you have lost your little boy You are being very strong at an incredibly difficult time. My heart goes out to you and your family.

Oh Kate
I've been thinking of you in recent days and wondering how you were getting on. Thanks for letting us know - you sound remarkably composed under the circumstances, but (and I know it isn't the same at all) I was too when I lost my Dad. Just make sure you take time to grieve - I didn't and tried to carry on as normal, which was my way of coping but it doesn't help in the long run. The world does keep turning, but make sure you get off occasionally for a little break to stop and absorb what has happened.
You will treasure little Thomas's footprints in the future and the funeral is a good idea.
I also hope you get the tests and the answers you want. Nobody should have to go through what you've been through once, let alone any more times. But I'm sure you'll let us know how you're doing - do please stay on this thread. I for one would miss you if you left. (((hugs))) to you.

kate2179 so sorry that you have had to suffer, it's so unfair. The footprints will be of comfort to you, I miscarried my first boy over 8 years ago and have only looked at his footprints three times but knowing I have them is a comfort to me.

Kate I think you are so strong and amazing. ((big hugs))

Thanks for telling us Kate- have been thnking about you often- and stick with us for as long as we are useful. WE love you!

Still no Ellie news???

Ellie update

Kate - so sorry you have been through this horrible experience. I can't really add anymore than what the other ladies have said, just that my thoughts are with you.

Kate {{{{{{{hugs}}}}}}}} lovely lady, to you and to your DH. I'm so so sorry that you had to go through what must have been a very harrowing experience. The hospital sound like they treated you with compassion and respect, which must have made a difficult time a little bit easier to bear. You will be glad of the footprints later, when you have the strength to look at them, and I'm sure they will be a comfort in helping you remember Thomas in the future, and of course talking about him to his future siblings. He will always be your little boy.

Of course you can hang around and talk to us, and we will be here with you when you and your DH feel ready for trying again. I hope all goes well next week, I'll be thinking about you.

take care xx

Kate

Just wanted to say hi. So sorry you have had to go through all that you have. Do take time to grieve. If and when you would like to talk about life after a triploidy pregnancy I will be here. Thinking of you.