Pregnancy After Miscarriage Part VI....Share your worries and knicker checking stories here...

[SparkyMalarky]

Will this do?

And you fozzie, it's pants isn't it.

It really is.

But remeber that while it needs checking out, bleeding is common. And brown blood is often old blood, or cervical erosion (which can be cos you have has sex?)

Anyway should have said welcome first!! To vjay and flossie this is def the place for you!

daisy impressive bump! I am 34 weeks and MASSIVE - might post a pic in fact...
dbno good to see you and well done on the list front - btw new ple ignore the list for as long as you need to - I added at about 22 weeks I think. And now I am nearly next - ! dbno have you donr the hypnobirthing classes? I have the book but haven't found any classes .... I am getting scared and also excited about the next bit.

Sorry fozzie!! and olivio and ready - and sorry if I have missed/misspelt anyone else!! I wish you a long an uneventful stay.

Hi All ! Happy New Year and welcome to all the new people. Sorry some of you are having a particularly worrying time. I so hope it all turns out ok. You are posting in the right place though as we all understand.

I reached 30 weeks yesterday . March suddenly seems very close now we're in January. I am going to get through DD's 4th birthday on 24 Jan before getting organised for the baby !

Hi dan - am doing the classes now, but have been so ridiculously busy that I have not managed to fit them all in and will only just get there by 39 weeks. I would say that it would be useful to have the CDs as well if you can get them, although you may or may not find her voice helpful to you in relaxing. I think she sounds like a kindly old American granny, which works for me, but may be less successful for you!

downbutnotout thanks for the warm welcome!

VJay, I'm thinking of you and hoping that all goes well and that you will have no more discharge - also fozzie. olivo, come on here any time; it's always good to hear from you!

ready2pop, if you are 5 weeks now and took the lemsip etc before Christmas then it would only have been very shortly after implantation, before the embryo has any real interaction with your blood supply, so try not to worry - but check with your GP to set your mind at rest.

Oh ladies I'm panicking today because, having felt increasingly sick for the last week, I suddenly have no nausea at all since this morning. I'm trying not to read too much into it but if it doesn't start again soon it will really freak me out...

VM, mine disappeared a couple of days ago and i panicked, but today, i nearly puked on dd's head while i was holding her on the loo and felt strangely happy!

daisyj my ds1 was 9lbs at 38 weeks - I had actually consulted the medical textbooks to see if anyone had ever popped open through their belly before as it felt as if that would be imminent ( I'm 5'4" - and a half and also petite) plus had laparotomy scar only 6 months prior to conceiving ouch

welcome to all new faces, bleeding common, disappearing and reappearing symptoms also common judging by our collective experience, wish you all well for the coming difficult and nerve racking weeks

olivo and tsom, thanks for the reassuring words about morning sickness! After a day of feeling simply not pregnant any more (!) I feel sick again today and the relief in enormous. olivo, sadly I know exactly what you mean about feeling happy to be about to puke... Maybe I'll be able to get a grip the next time the sickness vanishes (but I doubt it!!)

Meant to ask after Vjay and Fozzie, thinking of you and hoping you're OK... x

HULLO all!
posted a few times in early weeks on here, but i finally reached 12 weeks (third time IS lucky)
wanna add my name if thats ok

GUSSET PATROL GRADUATES
Cricri - 1st November - GIRL- Elise Vivienne
LackaDAISYcal - 6th November - BOY - Finlay
barbareebaa - 24th November -BOY - William
Jackstini - 10th December ? BOY- Harvey
KD73 - 20th December - BOY - Aidan George

CURRENT CONCEIVED-AIR PASSENGERS
downbutnotout - 25th January
supersteph - 1st February
dan39 - 4th February (or 7th, or 9th)
winemakesmummyclever - 23 February
bunnyinheadlights - 26 February
Wheelybug - 13 March
Tsom - 23rd March
Grinningbee - 26th March
Daisy J - 30 March
Scotlass - 21st April
Swaliswan - 25th April
Youknownothingofthecrunch - 25th April
Aquababe - 1st May
Ladyhelen2 - 3rd May
LoobyLou36 - 3rd May
Ses - 10th May
SparkyMalarky - 15th May
divedaisy - 7th May (also 12th, 17th or 19th!!!)
cece - 18th May
nattythomasandellen - 16th July

i am very relieved and a bit more relaxed now

Hi everyone, I still have the brown discharge, still no pain, I have also developed the metallic taste in my mouth today and my boobs are very very sore so im not losing any of the symptoms, im trying to be positive but isnt it difficult after what weve been thru?

congrats nattyplus2andahalf I hope you can start to enjoy your pregnancy now and relax.

Hows vjay today?

olivo and villagemum hows your sickness?
x

fozzie ive had the horrid metallic thing, ive now come down with a horrid bug, could they be linked?

Hi the metallic taste i just a pregnancy symptom and meant to be very common, but maybe the bug could be related to your metallic tasta as i sometimes get that with colds i get x

possibly. might be a bit of both! atm not sure if my sickness is bug or ms either!!

Probably both pregnancy symptom, hope you feel better soon xx

hi fozzie im sure its a pregnancy thing, cos thats one of the firts things that made me do a test! and i had it for ages, and apparently it happens to people different times during pregnancy?! hi everyone else im going to see midwife tomorrow so see wot pearls of wisdom she has to tel me! hows everyone else doing? xx

Morning Ladies and Happy New Year to new and old!

I'm 23+1 today but still can't relax about it all. DH keeps asking me if I'm happy, of course I am I'm just pessimistic sometimes I can't help it.
I was bought some baby clothes at christmas from MIL which I felt a bit funny about - silly I know.

I've been getting quite a bit of backache lately - is this normal?

uggh a 'normal' monday, I hate getting back to the routine after Christmas.
thankyou for the welcome, it makes all the difference. I have my fingers and toes crossed for vjay and fozzie hope your appointments go ok. The metallic taste and sore boobs are all brill signs.
I am panicing today as I dont feel sick,wondering if I should take baby asprin like some have mentioned and generally feeling a little out of control. 8 days to my consultants appointment feels like an age away and I keep reminding myself a day at a time...
wow daisyj that is a bump to be proud of, congratulations.
loobylou you just reminded me of what a long path we are treading, its not silly with the baby clothes, I'll probably be rushing into maternity with an empty suitcase!

Hello girls, and welcome newbies

Being back at work SMELLS. I've no idea what I'm supposed to be doing, just that there's a lot of it.

Unbelievably, I am now 15 weeks. Though I'm having a lot of difficulty believing I'm still pregnant. I don't feel ill any more, and apart from a growing belly and crazy boobs I wouldn't feel any different. Is this normal? I'm not seeing anyone until the 20-week scan, by which time I'll be entirely mad. Haven't had any letters or anything from hospital or midwife about appointments, and it turns out that my GP never sent the letter to the hospital. Great.

herb did you not get a list of weeks to go to appointments at booking in?

My MW/GP/Consultant do not seem to send out letters regarding appointments, they rely on you contacting them. Which is all very well when you are functioning like a normal human being, but when you have PREG HEAD you struggle to work out what day it is sometimes .

Herb I used my GP for this 'no mans land' stage, she was particularly sympathetic mind you, possible that yours isn't? Midwife also said that if I wanted to call at the weekly clinic just for reassurance (hb monitoring with a doppler) then that was ok too - ended up using GP more as I had a few (handy!) water infections.

Might be worth considering? Also looby is right you need to chase 'em up.

I am going to an acqua aerobics ante natal class now!! (Being off work is just THE BUSINESS)

Looby - that's mad... how is one supposed to know when to chase them up, if you don't know when you're supposed to have appointments? If it was up to my GP, I'd have had no scans, and would be drinking a bottle of wine a day to wash down my brie.

Hearing the heartbeat via a doppler would be good - thanks Dan, I may well investigate that option...

herb i agree it is a stupid way of doing things. I haven't seen my MW since booking in 3 months ago so have made an appointment to go on Wed. I s'pose I'd better take a sample - another thing that no one told me I was supposed to do every time I saw doc/MW/consultant.

It's daft really especially as they are supposed to be monitoring me because of my existing high BP.