Due September 2024 PART 3 ❤️🩷💛💚💙💜

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New thread as old one was almost at 1000 😊

@Kofifi welcome to the club!!!!

(I've seen a few other due September 5-8 weeks preg threads on here... but I can't bring myself to join those. I think we're a really chatty bunch as we're on thread 3 already and we've all only been here less than a month. I saw a due Feb 24 thread was only on thread 7 and some of them have their babies already!!)

Good morning ladies!
@tierneytarny
there is a range for both gestational sac diameter and CRL.
the Sac range is defined in more places, publicly available in search.
I looked into this few days after I had my 6 week scan which was also my first scan.
in this scan the doctor measured everything he saw and spoke about the position of the sac etc. Exactly at the same time there was a thread on mums net, one lady was wondering whether her pregnancy is viable based on the sac size at the early scan. Her sac was about 0,7 CM (7MM) on her 6 week scan. I was measuring 1,37CM (13,7 MM) on the sac at 6 W +1.
Now if you look at the picture below, both mine and hers are in range. Even though hers was twice as small as mine, they are both within range. I read somewhere some lady on this forum (maybe on that same thread?) said she measured 2 weeks behind through the whole pregnancy and everything was fine.
Also, every time when my stuff has been measured in the scans I’ve seen the person doing it atleast 2 times. The lady yesterday for example took two measurements, then moved the scanner a bit to see if she can get another angle and measured again and went off the median size. This was for the baby, the table below is for the sac, but I’m just trying to explain that the measurements are never absolute. There’s always a range because every baby grows at its own pace.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/pregnancy/4991019-confused-after-early-scan-need-input this is the conversation, she even followed up all was well in the following scan

@HoneyandSunshine thanks for replying to my post 😃 were you the lady who told their parents (or in laws) that they were expecting over web cam and they looked a bit shocked before replying? I didn’t get any negative responses from my parents regarding number 3 but one response I quite clearly remember was from my dentist (didn’t ask for his opinion!) he noticed my bump when I went to see him and asked whether I was expecting and then he asked me rather rudely ‘why?’ as in why are you having another one. I’m dreading seeing him again because I know he’ll make some annoying comment this time too. I also noticed with my 3rd that I received less likes on my pregnancy announcement post on Facebook and I received less cards and just 1 gift. Not really fussed about that but it was a noticeable difference. I felt really worried about going out in public with 3 children too, I’m used to it now though. With this one (if it sticks) I don’t think I’ll make any sort of announcement. I wouldn’t worry about what others think too much regarding your third, you’ll be too busy to care in the end😋

I think through all the infertility and the IVF, doing tons of research has been one of my strategies to cope with it all. Luckily I’ve got access to research databases through my job and in a way I find it calming being able to research what’s happening and why. As though it gives me an element of control during a time where so much is out of my control.

Happy February all - finally!

Oooh yeah happy February! 7 months to go! 😍

I seriously thought I’d turned a corner with the nausea but it’s kicking my arse today. Got such a busy day at work (I run a kitchen so around food ALL day 😭) and I’m desperate just to crawl back into bed and hide!

Haven’t caught up on the chat this morning but I hope everyone is doing ok ❤️

@HoneyandSunshine im pregnant with DC3 too. We haven’t told anyone yet as I’m only 6+2 and have had previous losses so will wait as long as possible.

Also BIL and SIL’s first baby is due around the time of our 12 week scan and I don’t want to get in the way of their news, so will probably wait even longer than that. It will definitely shock the family as they will have thought we were done (we already have a boy and a girl who are 5 and 3 and we’re just getting our lives back…!).

I’m pretty sure it won’t go down well with most people as they will just think we are mad. We live far from our families and both work in high pressure jobs so it is a bit mad tbh. I have moments where I wonder if I’ve made a terrible mistake.

@Bakerbean Being around food all day must be so hard 😭.

DH has offered to pick me up anything I want from the shops today. Trouble is I have no idea what I want - I feel like everything makes me feel sick. I might just go to the shops myself and stock up on small snacky things so at least I can eat something.

I just can’t believe how my taste in food has changed so quickly. Things I loved as recently as a week ago are just horrendous now!

@Lillers it’s pretty tough I can’t lie, but I know in the grand scheme of things I have been so so fortunate not to be physically sick, yet!

I think my change in taste for food has been the biggest shock for me 😅 & it’s the thing that’s making it most difficult to hide being pregnant because I’m known by all my friends and family for being obsessed with vegetables, particularly broccoli, and I gag at the thought of eating it right now. I really feel your pain! A good lunch option for me has been rivita with marmite, cream cheese & cucumber - lots of crunch without being too heavy. Dinner is literally just whatever I can stomach at the time, meal plans have gone completely out the window for the time being!

@Decaffe what do you do out of interest? I finished my MSc last year, it was part time distance learning so it took me 8 years. I'm really missing my pubmed access now the uni email has been revoked 😭 I doubt I could get gynae papers though.
My (non medical) DH can't understand why I need to know everything... I was reading abstracts and papers about IVF treatments I had no clue about to find out how mine was going 🤣

I agree with the food aversions @Lillers @Bakerbean my Instagram keeps serving me with recipes and I have to scroll so quickly past as the look of most things make me feel sick. In particular beans lol so weird

That's what I have just done :) I have done a shop of things I fancy which is basically jacket potatoes and cheese and pB and jam on toast, have also got frozen Spinach and mangos as Remember freezing cold smoothies helped with my first and it's a way of getting some goodness in me!

Also i don't know if it's just a blip but I'm normally a very happy and positive person but all this week I've felt so negative and sad but I don't know why, I keep crying at things like about my dead cat and dog who died last year! Is it just the hormones? I've never been a very hormonal person and don't know how to deal with it, has anyone else found this?
Also because no one knows about it I'm finding it really hard to act my bubbly self which again I normally find easy

• sorry for the blab I just don't have anyone else to ask , this group has been brilliant!

@hol92 I haven’t been crying, but I have been getting really annoyed at tiny things! Honestly my irritation levels are high!

@hol92 some instagram reels nearly made me cry, like emotional videos. I’m not a big cryer and I’m definitely not easily moved.
My fuse has been getting shorter, I’ve snapped at my spouse a few times right now. About meaningless stuff.

@hol92 ive cried so much the last few weeks it’s minimum twice a day 🤣🤣

I've been going through a really tough time at workbthia week. Cried at my boss and I feel so silly about it. Really want to just be honest but I'm up for promotion and sort of feel she will be disappointed at me!

@siobhanmt247 oh you poor thing! These hormones are something else aren’t they 🫣

@siobhanmt247 ah that's so rubbish! And it's horrible that you feel like that

I only went back to work from maternity this month there are only two in our marketing department and she's been constantly saying how happy she is I'm back so I'm dreading telling her so soon 🙈

@hol92 was it you who was talking about nausea being worse with a girl vs boy? I’m 8 weeks and did a sneakpeek and it’s come back saying boy which is interesting as my nausea has been far less than with my daughter. It’s still there but finding things to help this time.

@hol92 I was on the verge of tears the other day because an online order hadn’t arrived 😅 silly hormones!

@Cat2022 I think it was me, a few threads ago! That’s so interesting! I haven’t done any kind of test but I’m thinking the same - boy this time as like you my nausea has been much less vs with my daughter. How accurate is it?

I’ve lost interest in doing the early gender test. 🤷🏻‍♀️ not sure why, feel like I’ll just find out from the routine scan

@Cat2022 it wasn't me but I have heard it's true! Saying that I had awful nausea with my first and he was a boy, I'd say it's creeping up to be the same this time to be honest so no idea haha , ooo I've always been tempted with one of those tests! We have all boys in our family so I just guess mine will be a boy anyway 🤣 💙

@Xur they won’t tell you on the NHS in my area so it’s either blood test or private gender scan after 16 weeks.