Pregnancy After Miscarriage Part V....Still checking those knickers? Check together here :0)

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New thread for knicker checkers every where

Off to catch up with and link the old thread.

Cece - congrats, the previous tests were maybe a little too early, brilliant news. And this time the official welcome.

Thanks, feeling a bit scared and already knicker checking all the time.

For those of you who don't know me, I have had a mc at 8 and half weeks and last Dec lost my little girl at 18 and half weeks. Hence the extra scans I have been promised.

Well I tried to book a booking in appointment this afternoon. I know they get booked up fast, BUT there were none available . Apparently the mw will phone me to organise soemthing...

Cece I'm so happy for you! I know this pg will be tough for you, but you will have endless support on here every step of the way Wishing you a long and uneventful stay - hopefully I might actually make it back here before you graduate! Please let us know how you get on with the consultant. When do you think you were 4 weeks? Keeping everything crossed for you! (And I mean everything - we are STILL not allowed to ttc ) Congratulations!!!

Just a quick gatecrash from me to say Hi to Wheelybug and Cece - so glad you are back here and fingers crossed for you both!

Hope DH gets a diagnosis soon Wheely, must be particularly stressful at the moment for you.

Cece, I had the same thing as you with tests getting no darker and the result is now 8 months old so please keep positive (plus the CBD is definite answer too)

Popsy, nearly there now! Can't believe how quickly you have flown to the top of the list! Thinking about it you must have been just pg when DD was born!

Official congratulations Cece I am so pleased for you. Fingers crossed you hear from the mw soon. We're all here to support you over the next few weeks if you need us.

congratulation cece great news

any more scans this week? i have my GP appointment on Wednesday and will ask for an early one but not feeling like I will get it

cece - congratulations and welcome to the knicker, knockers and loo paper checkers club! May you have a long, happy and uneventful stay here

Just got back from the ANC - bloods, weight(eeek!), etc. Discussed my labour with ds and it really hit me how badly affected dh was by it. He has always been dead against a VBAC (which I wasn't too in favour of tbh), but I didn't fully realise how worried he had been at ds's delivery.

Short synopsis: 23 hr labour with no progress from 1st stage, despite ARM & IV synto. Meconium in waters & abnormal CTG with deteriorating ABGs = crash section. Ds Apgar @ 1 min in his boots & resus needed. Picked up pretty quickly though & is a fine & healthy wee boy.

Dh says that if he hadn't been so sleep deprived & if things had continued to look bleak, he would have got and worked on ds himself he was that worried. Meanwhile, I am lay there, high as kite on diamorph, totally oblivious to the panic. I think it was a far worse experience for dh than for me tbh. Sometimes ignorance is bliss

Anyway, enough gloom - everything was ok in the end, we have a beautiful ds and we're going to make sure things go better this time round.

Was getting worried that I couldn't really feel any movement, but it turns out that have an anterior placenta (which I had been telling myself was a possibility in my more rational moments). Have just been getting dull flutters for a couple of weeks, but have been constipated (sorry if tmi) and thought it was probably trapped wind. At least now I can be reassured by that and not think I should get out the peppermint cordial

Also have to have the Anti-D injection and GBS screening (probable cause for first mc). Will happily submit to anything if it means it all goes well.

Jules & cricri - thanks for the 4d info - think we are going to go with Babybond as they are only down the road in Chorlton (mmmm....lunch after @ Palmiro...yum).

Wow, what an essay. Better go and get ds from nursery.

Hello all, been away for a few days - this thread tkes some catching up!!! went to Belfast to see family, quite stressful as families are wont to be but nice. Went up big hill to see dead dad/ pretend to see dead dad/visit spot where we left his ashes. Had a little weep that he doesn't know I am pregnant with a GIRL ....gosh its fun having a secret! I haven't told anyone apart from you lot and I feel so mature...it has taken me 39 years to keep a secret!!

Mind you it might not be as dh did point out that he wasn't 100% sure...we watched the scan last night (got it on DVD, dh's idea but I am pleased really) and I was looking for bits all the time - like I would have a clue if I saw any!! Another scan in two weeks so we will check then.

Congrats and welcome (back?) to cece and fingers crossed mm for the next scan. scotlass ta for the image of stroppy girls...I do avert my eyes from teens in the street!!

Gotta go now, sticky thoughts to all.

Oh ps my boobs have finally, finally started to swell a wee bit, at 20 weeks

cece - congratulations - wonderful news

dan - have you really not told anyone? At 20 weeks?? When will you tell? Congrats on the boobs - I'm looking forward to being bigger than 32B, and you give me hope!

Just had my nuchal. Measurement 1.7, so all OK. Bloods to come, but hopefully will be OK. 'Tis not as if it tells you anything for sure anyway... Was very exciting to hear the heartbeat as well as seeing it. Took the sonographer a while to get a measurement as the baby kept turning its back on us - cheeky monkey

Sorry not to catch up with everyone properly - knackered!

CONGRATULATIONS CECE that's fantastic news!! (did we 'chat' before after one of my mc about cycling and camper vans??)

dan39 baby girls are gorgeous and by the time they're hitting the tween stage you just take a deep breath and count - a lot! You must be so smug keeping your secret - bet you end up telling

WMMC don't think about the labour just now, I too had a hellish time with DD but hoping second babies are easier (hence the big gap). My cousin was showing us her 4d scan picture yeterday, wow it's amazing seeing your baby in definition like that.

daisyj my boobs have sprouted and I'm having to be selective with tops I wear to work now so people don't guess! A coupke of colleagues I know were having a giggle today, I hate this point where everyone just thinks you've been eating too many pies but are too polite to comment on your weight gain!!

Hi to everyone else!

cece congrats from me too.

I have been only lurking for a bit as I didn't want to scare anyone, esp dan as I know she had concerns about her scan, but (deep breath) my 20 week scan last week showed a cyst on the baby's neck. We saw a specialist for a detailed scan today and this is apparently exceedingly rare (so I have probably outed myself on mumsnet forever now ), but has to be monitored. It could all turn out to be a bit of an anti-climax if it doesn't grow, but may need surgery at birth if becomes very large before term. We have been referred to a specialist unit in London who will decree how often I should be scanned. So on the upside we will be seeing a lot of our baby before birth , if not under ideal circumstances. And I'm guessing a home birth is probably out of the window, but obviously the baby's safety comes first.

Sticky thoughts to all and please don't worry, there is next to zero chance of this happening to any of you as well!

hi everyone i had miscarriage in aug, and was just wundering how long everyone left it before trying again, have just started my first period since miscarrying, and am desperate to try again!!xx

maz32 - after my 1st MC i tried straight away before my period, got pregnant but sadly lost that one too, don't think my body was quite ready to grow another one. We started trying again for the next time after my first period and it took 6 months, but we now have 2 gorgeous boys, and no further miscarriages. good luck!!!!

hi regarding ttc after mc it has been varied for me. I mc in 2001 at 12wks but only really started trying a couple of years later dd was born in 2005

also mc last year late Nov early Dec and honestly only felt ok a couple of months ago, it just so happened that I got pg at first try

MAZ we left it 3 months before we started trying again. Felt too crappy before then - and needed a break from nasty MS - and then the MC blues; and also just fancied going out and getting drunk and letting my hair down for a bit - so I did.

Downbutnotout - that does sound scary. Hope you're coping okay.

Pg symptoms are scarce over her in nauseous-world - but I'm trying to take one day at a time.I've only manged to get excited about 3 times since we found out. If you could see me last time I was on cloud 9... Every time me and DH mention something to do with the baby we say, it comes with a caveat like "IF the baby happens, or if this pregnancy goes ahead", .. etc etc - i guess we're just protecting ourselves really. We're just sort of pretending that I'm a bit ill and DH occasionally brings me breakfast in bed which is sweet. Quite surreal.

CECE. Oh my goodness. I am over the moon you have made it back here. And I only have weeks left untill hopefully I graduate. I have everything crossed that this little bean gives you nothing but happiness.

WMMC I had a horrible birth with DD1 induction, waters broken, epidural, 27 hours later a ventouse but DD2 was a beautiful home birth with Tens machine and the smell of DH bacon sandwich for pain relief. So you can never really tell how it will all work out.

Congrats to all of you with good scans. It helps to get through the dark days of worry.

MM. Keep positive, every day that you are pregnant is a good thing. Some babies dont like being looked at. They hide and all kinds of nonsense

Hugs to everyone today whether or not you need them

I'm feeling rather happy today and wanted to share if that's ok!

After last weeks little scare and scan, I had my 12 week scan yesterday. Funny how the appt came through so fast.

I can't believe how long the whole process took with the waiting (will take a book next time!) we were there almost three hours. However, not only did I get to see bean again - we saw it boogey!! I kid you not, it looked like it was running on the spot. Poor little sod was probably fighting back as the sonographer had to wobble my tummy quite hard to get the nuchal measurements. I'm sure I didn't help as I kept laughing...

More good news - despite my old old decrepit age, my risk came back as 1 in 835 for DS and 1 in 11000 for something else (I forget, I was too excited!). All in all very pleasing.

I knew the results were good as I could see the measurement in the corner of the screen, and it was between 1.23 and 1.4.

Bean has grown 2 centimetres in 7 days! They've put me at 12 + 5 now, so three days ahead of where it was last week...

Roll on the 17th November when the next scan is.

Sorry for rabbiting on! Am I allowed to start enjoying this yet?

grinningbee this is wonderful. How old are you if you don't mind me being nosey? I conceived in July aged 38, turned 39 in August, miscarried and had D&E last week. Now feel gloomy about my age and chances of getting pregnant again. Anyone else out there as ancient as me??

grinningbee congratulations, did you have your nuchal on the NHS? if you don't mind me asking

was thinking of booking private despite being entitled to it where I live, just to make sure it is done early enough

am 39, 40 in Feb btw

did not do nuchal last time (35/36yrs) just the triple test

So sorry to hear that Villagemum.

I turn 38 in November. I lost my first pregnancy last year in October. Don't feel down about age - you'll get there!

I had the nuchal scan on the NHS. I thought I was 12 + 1, so it was nice and early. The nurse told me yesterday to think of my age as a perk, because it would normally have cost £100 to have one done. I was told I don't have to have any other test for it as my result was good. Still get the one for spina bifida though.

Because I am a little heavy and have family with diabetes I have to have a glucose tolerance test at 28 weeks, and another ANC check up at 32 weeks. Other than that though, it's all routine visits to the midwife.

It's funny seeing appointments on the notes for January and February - seems a lifetime away!

What are youo lot talking about??? 39 is young, think yourselves lucky . I am [whisper] 41.

congrats grinningbee and cece
still no news on scan, waiting for a phone call from epu think i might try phoning them if still no news by tomorrow.

the nuchal with blood test, done privately was £150 last year

and with CVS £450

Thanks nauseous - yes, it was exceedingly scary to start with, but we have now got more used to the idea. It may yet turn out to be very minor, as I said, so we just have to keep everything crossed.

Congrats bee - there's nothing quite like seeing them wiggle is there? I'm lucky (in a way) that I will now be having a lot more scans before 40 weeks!!

villagemum - I am 38 (39 in feb). I had 3mcs over the three years before this one was conceived (and a very healthy dd 4.5 years ago) so anything is possible.

Hi everyone - feeling down today, questioning why this may have happened again. I find it hard to comprehend that why, after having the easiest time falling pregnant and during my pregnancy with DD, now my body can't seem to do this. I am constantly knicker checking and thinking it may even be a relief if I start bleeding before my scan next week, does that sound bad or make any sense? I am at work acting normal as you do but almost want to scream out at times with sheer frustration. I guess I just need to wait until the scan and deal with what news we get then.

Sorry this all sounds so negative and there has been lots of good news on here. I just need somewhere to let off steam and until I know for certain I don't feel ready to move onto mc avengers yet. Hope you don't mind too much. I guess I am still clinging on to that slim chance that everything will be ok.