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

donbean, fingers crossed for you. HCG almost doubling is good isn't it?

nothing from jules today?

Hi Everyone. Sorry not to post sooner. We came home yesterday. Baby James is doing well (though currently crying on his Daddy!)

Birth announcement here
Hope that worked!

I'll catch up whats been going on tomorrow...Love to all knicker checkers and beans

Well done winkygirl..or is that winkymum now

Looking forward to seeing you on the success after MC thread

Fantastic news Jules, so glad everything ok

Congratulations Winkygirl but at the birth story... I so do not want to think about anything like that happening to me! Hope you're making a good recovery though and that baby James is doing well.
Jules Great news about the scan - such a relief to have another one over and done with and to be one step closer.
Hope everybody else is OK.

aw jules that's fantastic.

I feel all teary and hormonal now

When i first started on this thread, way back in November 2006, one of the posters was 39 weeks pregnant and hadn't built the cot up yet as she still wasn't convinced, after several MCs that it was actually going to happen. I think we can all relate to the in denial thing!

Gah, I was going to bed an hour ago and I'm still bloody here!

Hi everyone

winky Huge congratulations and welcome baby James!!! I'm sure I wasn't the only person to cross her legs wincing at the end of your birth story though - I hope everything recovers quickly.

jules great news about the scan!

donbean and scully sorry you're going through worrying times, I hope you get some good news soon.

I had my 16wk m/w appointment yesterday, everything's fine and she found the hb straight away despite my anterior placenta . I thought I was coping OK with the anxiety but I was fighting back tears of relief listening to the heartbeat!

I went maternity clothes shopping today as well, it was fun as it's soooo long since I had a shopping day all to myself, but didn't find much that I really liked, oh well.

Hello ladies, could really do with some support this evening...
I had my nuchal scan and blood test on friday. All seemed well with the scan, though it took ages to get beanie to move into a position so that they could take the nuchal measurement and I was quite sore afterwards.
The measurement was pretty tiny but they said they wouldn't give me a result until they had the blood results as well so as not to give me false hope just in case.
But we heard the heartbeat - which totally blew me away - and consultant said all looked good.
Got the blood results this afternoon - not so good. Very low risk for Downs but the hormone levels were the lowest the consultant has ever seen in 3 years of doing these tests. In fact, to quote, they've never seen anything like it. I had to go back to give another sample in case it was just that the first one got contaminated (though this has never happened before and everyone else's results from Friday were fine...)
I should get the results on Thursday, though possibly tomorrow or Friday. If the results are the same they'll scan me over the weekend and the consultant said he'll talk to the fetal medicine centre in London as he's never seen hormone levels so low before...
The possibilities at this stage seem to be 1. No problems, 2. chromosonal disorder other than Downs, 3. a sign that the pregnancy will mc at a later stage or that I will go into premature labour 4. something else!
Feel like I've been hit by a bus. Just can't take it all in, though in some ways it all feels so horribly familiar - back in the "wait and see" territory so familiar to anyone who's ever had a mmc...
Not expecting any of you to have had experience of this, just wanted to 'talk' to people who'd understand what we're going through.
Praying for a positive outcome, but don't really believe they're going to find that the bloods were just a mistake, so who knows where we'll go from here.

Sorry for the "me" post. Kx

kate . so sorry that you have this uncertainty hanging over you, and wish there was something I could say. hoping for a positive outcome for you and that all is well and it was just a dodgy test result.

{{{{hugs}}}} to you and your DH for the next few days.

Hi Kate, so sorry to hear that after everything seemed to be going so well, you've got more to worry about What hormones is it that's so low? (or is that a really silly question?). Waiting and not knowing must be so agonising, I really feel for you. On the good side, you've had unusual hormones levels in your blood tests before, and your little baby is still hanging on in there. I'm keeping everything crossed for you

Thanks for your messages daisy splish & jules.
To answer your questions Jules:
They did a full nuchal as it was a private scan. We booked privately because the hospital I was under for the mmc and early in this pg only offers a 16 week scan so no nuchal and I thought that even if I went to a different hospital I would be unlikely to get the scan in time as I was late booking in with my midwife due to GP not wanting me to in case it turned/turns into another mc...
The nuchal measurement was 1.2mm at 12 weeks exactly, or 11 weeks 6 days depending on who you believe.
They didn't tell me what the hormone levels were, and tbh I'm not even quite sure what the hormones were. Didn't want to press it as I knew I wouldn't be able to resist googling it if I knew for sure, and that way madness lies.
As far as the consultant could see there was nothing not right on the scan, though was obv still pretty tiny. He showed us the skull, the nasal bone, the bladder, the stomach...
Am somewhere between 12+5 and 12+3 today.

Thank you all for the good wishes. Doesn't really feel real. Not expecting to sleep much tonight though

try and get some rest kate {{{{hugs}}}}

Kate- enveloping you in large, fluffy duvet type hug. Wish I could do more.

Jules- I am so so so happy for you. And let me know what you find out about inductions...may be going down that route.

Winky- well done, and eek at the whole womb thing. Definitely with Jules in the head-in-sand department on that score.

Love and goodnight kisses to you all.

kate how worrying I didn't even know they tested hormone levels with the nuchal scan. The nuchal measurement is excellent though, especially if the nasal bone is visible as well. I do hope they give you some answers quickly. Lots and lots of hugs xxx

omg . what shocking news.

awful news, so so sad
hope everything is ok Kate
know what you mean about conflicting messages Donbean, it is frustrating. I'm trying to prepare myself for bad news next Thurs but at the same time don't want to give up all hope.
I'm going to trying to relax and enjoy the Easter break with dh and the dd's & remind myself how lucky I am have to them, even if having no3 is proving difficult.

Poor poor feedme, I geel so sad for her

I actually peered at a speck of something in mine for about ten minutes - if I had had a microscope.....conclusion was that it was unidentified non-blood substance!

Poor feedmenow. How my heart breaks when I read something like that.

am in tears for feedmnow i really hope she can find some comfort from MN in the coming weeks