Pregnancy After Miscarriage Part IV------Welcome to Knicker Checker's Anonymous

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Ooops, the thread filling up sneaked up on us didn't it!

Can't see another one yet...so here we are

Tryingnotot...that is fantastic news . I hope you can enjoy your weekend in Barcelona. I heart Barcelona and am v

Morning all. Am adding myself too. Mmmm pate. It's not even the booze I miss at the moment, it's the pate and cheese...

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Daisyj - 30 March
Ses - 12th May

I like wine me

Morning Ladies

After posting on Sun, the bleeding slowed down a bit but yesterday morning (sorry if this is TMI) I passed what looked like a massive blood clot so presumed that was it. Went up to my local EPU and told the nurse scanning me that I had definitely had a MC and I just wanted to check it had all gone. Anyway, much to my surprise the little bean is still there! I really couldn't believe my eyes. The nurse said it could have been a rogue blood clot that had attached itself and come away and it often happens.

I just wanted you to know that it's ok at the moment and I'm going to try not to worry too much (easier said than done!)

Flaunting wine and pate indeed!!! Naughty Jules

Well, I think it should be law that pg ladies cannot move house. After a rotten few days and being internetless I'm back!

The move coincided with the point in my pg that I had my mmc last time, so could have been better. I spent 4 and a half sodding hours cleaning the house from top to bottom, only to have the letting agent come round yesterday for final inspection to say the bottom of the bath felt "bumpy", the extractor fan felt a bit sticky, and there were a few crumbs in a cupboard to mention a few of the nit picky things she said. I held together till we were out the house and then bawled. Ho hum. I really fancied a big glass of red i can tell you.

So, now I'm in my mobile home where you can't have kids, looking forward to moving again some time in the next few months!!!

We need an insane emoticon.

Anyhoo, I've made it to 10 + 2 today, so about a week past my mmc now. Midwife appointment is on Thursday, and I'm desperate for the next scan to make sure bean is ok. I've been reading too many sad stories about other ladies, and it's made me worry a little more.

Oooooh, sorry for the long post! Hope everyone else is ok.

What I'd give for a runny boiled egg with soldiers...

Sorry cupcake x posted.

That must have been a huge relief to see bean! Take it easy and rest as much as you can. I won't say don't worry 'cos I know what it's like.

Take care

Hello everyone.

This keeps falling off my "threads I'm on" list so I lost you all for a bit there.

Hi to all the new bumps over the last week or so.

Sorry maz to hear your news. Look after yourself and good luck for the future.

cupcake.....wow, you must be so relieved, fantastic news

not sure if anyone here knows, but Lcy had a little girl by c-section last week (one of her RL friends is on my PN thread). she has had some problems though and although got her BFing off to a flying start, had to go back into hospital and was given bum advice about her meds, told she couldn't BF and had to pump and dump while the baby was given SMA and isn't very happy about it all. and for her. she's back home and feeding well again now.

jules, love the new name.....but get ye gone with your pate and red wine. I was having the odd glass of vino, but it now goves me the most awful heartburn so I don't bother. All I can drink is milk or water. I missed your call yesterday, but thanks for thinking of me.

Looking forward to a few glasses of red and some lovely home made chicken liver pate once this is over.

I'll be 31 weeks on Thursday .....can't believe it, really is the home stretch now.

Waves to everyone else; keep positive ladies and think "healthy and well" thoughts.

kate, you are welcome here any time lovely, and fingers crossed it will be with some good news soon enough

Don't worry ronny...we'll get her back

Enough with the pate talk, I don't even like the damn stuff and I am missing it now!!

Cupcake fab news, v similar to my experience, lets hope its a wee sign that its a sticky bean! Time will indeed crawl for you now but you will get to the next scan and see it again...Time does pass eventually - when i see all the new ple at 4/5/6 weeks I can't believe I am at 17, really never thought I would make it. Still - rest assured I am not exactly sane which id why I have made an appt with lovely Dr tomoro to hear the hb hopefully...have been feeling sort of neutral and am convinced bump has not changed so therefore paranoid its gone...

Grinningbee there is nothing like the getting past the mmc date - well done and again, hoping its a sticky bean...

wmmc - loved the sniffing old corks image!!

Tell you what - if the hb is ok tomoro I will add self to the list...not been brave enough yet...so fingers crossed.

Cupcake So pleased your scan went well and saw your little bean That's great news and will keep you going for a while. How many weeks are you now?
Dan Good luck for tomorrow I found my bump seemed to grow in spurts so yours could be the same. Not long now before you start to feel movements too
Grinningbee Sorry to hear about the nightmare move but pleased you got through the point of your mmc. Hope mw appt goes ok on Thursday and you get a date through for your next scan asap.
Daisy Thanks for the update about Lcy. I've been meaning to look through the birth announcements to see if she'd posted but by the sounds of it she wouldn't have been in a position to anyway Still, at least everything is OK now. Hopefully she'll pop in soon and tell us all about it.
No more talk of wine and pate please ... It's torture!

Well I think I'm only 6 weeks as I had an erratic cycle the month I conceived. I'm certainly no more than 6 and a half weeks.

I tell you what though, the internet is a double edged sword as I really do think ignorance is bliss sometimes! I'm driving myself mad with all the things that could go wrong!

dan - good luck for tomorrow. Am sure all will be well but it wouldn't be normal for any of us not to worry.

grinningbee - hope the next move is less fraught. First night in your new home, get take out and chill. Sod it - unpacking can be done gradually (preferably by someone else whilst you direct from a comfy chair ). I know what you mean about getting past the mc date - it eases the worry a wee bit. Am seeing mw Thursday too - good luck!

cupcake - great news about your scan. Keep up the good work and rest up when you can.

jules - yes, we should meet up sometime, but not for wine & pate at the mo . There is a Manchester Xmas do, but will be too huge and grumpy to go by then. Shall have to sort something else out.

scotlass - woohoo @ the nausea! Yeah, I know it's not any fun, but I took it as a sign that all those lovely hormones needed to grow a lo were doing their job. I spent most of the summer living off meagre amounts of supernoodles and Nairn's ginger cookies. Am making up for that now though [size of a house emoticon].

ronshar - hope you sleep better tonight. Have a bath, get dp to rub your back and chill out with a good book.

Daisy - thanks for the news on Lcy. Hope that she and her dd are back on track now.

Oh dear, ds has been asleep for an hour and half - why can't he be this sleepy at five in the morning?? Better wake him up if I want him in bed anytime before it goes dark. And I haven't even christened tea yet!!

Hi everyone,

Good news cupcake, any bleed is always a worry but it's so good to hear that it's not always bad news.

Paranoia is kicking in today again I'm afraid. Two reasons I suppose the first is that today I am really symptomless, boobs have been killing me for days and today! Nothing! I am also round about the point where the baby stopped growing last time with the mmc, stopped growing at 6 weeks found out at 12. Still got till next Friday until my next scan, don't know if I am looking forward or dreading it. I guess I am just scared about what news we could get.

Sorry for going off on a rant again, if I say all of this in RL I will probably just sound a bit neurotic (which I probably am) also we have told very few people know about this pregnancy a the moment so kind of limits the options.

mm You are not paraniod you are just naturally scared, for a good reason! The symptoms can come and go so don't take that as a sign that all has necessarily gone wrong. It will seem like a lifetime til scan but hang in there...it will come! And any stresses in the meantime, ring your EPU just to talk, they are often v nice.

And keep ranting at us - you are in good company!!

cupcake - pleased to see your news

mm - I can understand your paranoia. I've had the same with a mmc at 12 weeks and they think the baby died at 6 weeks. Symptoms coming and going really don't signify anything though. I still had MS and sore boobs with my mmc 2 days before ERPC!

Don't worry about ranting - I'm sure I'll be doing plenty of my own

well saw my GP who hasn't really given me any reassurance. Tomorrow is a year since my mmc so I am obsessing that soemthing bad will happen again tomorrow

redseasharon - sorry your GP wasn't reassuring. Sometimes they just don't seem to realise what our past experiences can make us think and feel. There is no logical reason why anything should go wrong tomorrow. Try and treat tomorrow as just another day. I know logic doesn't really come into it and it won't be for you but have you got any plans to keep you occupied?
Sorry, don't know if that 's much help but you have my sympathies.

redseasharon - Hope you are not worrying too much, if you read my earlier post then you will see we are all kind of in the same situation, I guess that's why we are posting on here. I know it helps me to keep my sanity at times. Hope tomorrow isn't too hard and try to think positive if you can. I read earlier someone saying one day at a time, that's what I'm trying to do. Lets all do it together if needs be.

Thanks ses and dan, makes me feel much better knowing that others understand the feelings going on in my head and that I am not the only one with them. This site is an absolute godsend at times and right now is definitely one of them.

Hi, all. I don't normally post, just hang around on the outskirts of MN getting lots of comfort from you wonderful people on the KCA thread.

mm I just wanted to say that we went and are going through exactly the same as you - had a mmc at around 6 weeks at Christmas, not found until 13 weeks, then 3 d&cs. Am tying myself in knots with the symptoms/no symptoms thing (today is a no symptoms day and am awaiting results from a hcg levels test on Friday - another cause for anxiety!). I'll soon be 41 and am 5 weeks pregnant.

Just wanted to say good luck to everyone. Thank God for threads like this one!

It is great to have a thread like this to come on and realise that you are not alone in the world. I think I only survived the early days of this pregnancy because of everyone on here. Maybe I should call baby Knickers.
Congratulations to LCY. I hope you get ont o let us know how you are soon.

Easyjules. What can I say to you

I hope nobody shoots me but I had a whole bottle of beer last night. I even put lime in it. It was beautiful. I havent wanted any alcohol right from the beginning and apart from an odd slurp of Champagne (which I cant resist) I have not had a drop of alcohol since New years eve, which was first day of last AF.
I went to bed and felt sick so it serves me right I guess.

bad ronshar

I had a glass of champagne Sunday before last, felt crappy for two days. It doesn't 'serve you right' - it's just your body telling you it doesn't really want that right now. It won't do the lo any harm, just makes you feel bad . As you have probably guessed, these are all the things I've said to myself - that glass of champagne was the THIRD drink I've had since I found out I was pg {{daisy hangs her head}}.

cupcake - great news, but STEP AWAY from Google - it will drive you INSANE!!!

redseasharon - 'anniversaries' like that are horrid. I hope today is going OK for you.

Hello everyone. Just back from a check up scan and feeling really happy. sac has grown, baby has grown and heart beating strongly - yeah!!!!!!!!! reassurance for 2 minutes is bliss, I think I'd like daily scans at this stage but think that might be a bit excessive. Dates are slightly behind what I thought but we're not going to quibble over 4 days. I thought 8 wks today, they say 7+wks. So coping with ms by eating ginger nuts and drinking milk first and last thing.

Thing is am still a nervous wreck, mmc in Feb happened at 11+wks so know there's still no guarantee. So ladies who have got to 2nd/3rd trimesters tell me how you calmed yourselves down???????? I've been off work but am going back on Monday so hopefully distraction will help.

Oops got to go and get DD off school bus, this thread is too addictive for me!!

Scotlass, tell me have you noticed any calm on this thread.
It gets a little easier once you get past 13 weeks but then you worry about blood tests, 20 week scans, not seeing the midwife enough, not being big enough, being too big, pains that are normal, pains that are not normal, feeling sick again at 32 weeks, baby being the wrong way round!
All of these are a small selection of the things you will torment yourself with over the coming months.

My favourite worry is the can I feel my baby move yet which quickly changes to - If this baby kicks me in the fanjo/bladder one more time I will cry/ouch is that a bloody foot sticking out of my side?

As you can see, no calm here.

scotlass congratulations!! Its a brilliant feeling and I hope it lasts for a while and keeps you sane! I do wonder about all the other ple who don't have the ghost of mc past to deal with in their pregnancies...do they just - I dunno, complain about the lack of pate and beer? Daisyj 3 whole glasses - what a very good girl you are!

Speaking of which, ronshar nice one on the beer front - I doubt if a whole bottle is against the laws of nature, humanity and common sense (in the way that a session of ten pints/14 gin and tonics might be..) I reclon the lo wants mummy-to-be to be happy too...I have the odd half glass of red wine and savour every drop.

I went to the GP for my paranoiditis this aft and she brought the sono thingy (listening thing, can't remember name) in and picked up my heartbeat but not babys; said the battery was going and went off to get another.

Whilst she was gone i was lying on the bed with panic and tears rising thinking 'I knew it, I knew it, something is wrong, she doesn't want to tell me, she has gone to compose herself, I KNEW I felt different this week, what will I do, what will I do...' til she came back and picked up the heartbeat immediately but couldn't keep it cos she siad she could tell from the whooshing sounds that it was spinning around!

So - indeed, ronshar - no calm here!!

So to keep sane I personally need regular reassurance like this - I know its too early scotlass for that, but any extra scans if you can wangle it around the time of the last mmc - or just after - are the most reassuring thing.

redsea good luck with today too. I guess non-due dates will be hard too. Think sticky thoughts.

Thanks for that ronny

I can't believe I didn't worry about anything with DD, but that was 10yrs ago and pre mc.

God I can't believe how moody I've been today, up and down like a flippin yo yo. MIL phoned earlier and I was really snappy . She drives me bonkers but normally I keep quiet and let her witter on but I kind of ranted today.

Does anyone else wish people would stop asking how the scan went? Fine today but who knows tomorrow.

dan39 cross posts. I'm glad you heard HB, I actually came on here to check how you'd got on but ended up having a moan instead . Good feeling lasted about an hour I think . How often will you be seen?