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

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Will this do?

tsom nice to see you - bad luck on the jobs! I have the low placenta thing too...sometimes hope it will move, other times think cs sounds ok!

grinning welcome to the GIRL club!! I cry too at scans...do you get to have another then to check the placenta position?

Bunny hello!! and thank you re osteopath - thanks for advice, will look into. Seeing mw today so might talk to her.

Hello to new ple - moomin good luck with the tests - bleeding isn't automatically the end so fingers crossed. chibi you are right about mc taking the 'shine' off, its so worrying!

And maz thinking of you too today...all limbs crossed!

joyful Thank you SO much for posting. Why can't these midwives have communication lessons - just want to know what is going on at every second of the day - is that too much to ask?!? Why didn't she just TELLme that?! Sorry bit ranty about the whole thing... That's made me feel whole lot better. We will sleep better tonight knowing how the placenta actually works, so thank you. Thank you all for your supportive advice! Love Mumsnet!

grinningbee that is fabulous now you can really relax!

tsom - what a day! I hope you're having a calmer day today.

dan39 I would definitely try an osteopath a friend had SPD and she said it really helped with hers - though going twice a week cost her a small blinking fortune... not sure how many weeks you are..?

herby and whhelybug re the braindrain... I have started to take hi strength fish oils in the hope that I'll stop dropping things/loosing things/talking utter b*llox etc...

maz be thinking of you today.
*moomin good luck.

With all the talk of prams, I'm just trying to get my head around how to get a pram up the steps to my flat - and where the HELL is it going to go?? Shit. I think we're going to have to move house...

Sorry for so much chat - can't speak as also have bad cold and hurts to talk.. still, it means i gte to spend all day on mumsnet!

Does anyone find that their symptoms come and go? Last week my boobs weren't as sore for a few days, which made me panic, but then they reinflated so much the pain of turning over in bed wakes me up.

Now, this week I'm not as cold as I had been, and don't seem very tired.

For goodness sake - why can't it be straightforward?

Definitely - triggering major panic!

Boobs soreness comes and goes, nausea comes and goes, aches and pains, exhaustion, even bump size shrinks and expands. It makes no sense at all

Welcome chibi and moomin - we know how you feel, and we are all a mass of neuroses here. Many of us have had bleeding in pg without it meaning the end, so hang on in there.

dan the most stylish person I know has that pram (she's too cool for school) so you are in good company. I think I can kiss goodbye to the idea of getting anything new as dh has agreed to that I can hire an independent midwife and go for a home birth (although I will never hear the last about how much it's costing). But I'm happy!

And herb my bump has a mind of its own - all different sizes from one week to the next. All very weird.

Definitely herby - particularly boob pain. I can remember panicking when I woke up and they weren't hurting, didn't for a few days, then did, then didn't etc etc....

having a calmer day today - working from home

find size of my bump mainly related to whether I've just scoffed a KFC or not

Yes bump def related to size of meal etc... !but also my belly size fluctuates - ie flat as a pancake when I get up, 4/5 months pg by 9pm... symptoms come and go all the time. v unnerving for post MC-ers..

hi everyone,thanx for your messages, well had scan today, and thank god theres a little heart beat and a waving bean! so i thought id feel better and i do a bit?!but still nervous etc! wen will this feeling ever stop? hi to everyone else

maz32 - thats really good news! how many weeks are you?

Thanks everyone. Had my blood tests today and hopefully get the results tomorrow and can take it from there. The bleeding seems to have calmed right down today, just trying not to get my hopes up after last time. When I bled last time everyone said I showed no signs of miscarrying (cervix still closed etc) but a scan at 10 weeks revealed the little bean (complete with its little flutter) had died and I started to miscarry the next day.

Got everything crossed.

Oh, I don't have a hope of catching up - have skimmed the posts, so can I just say:

Kate and Sussex - loving the new category

Dan - hope you're feeling a bit less blue - it never rains, but it pours. Why can't we just have one worry at a time, eh?

And lbot - YAY - I am so, so pleased for you. That's absolutely wonderful news , and I am wishing you lots of healthy sticky thoughts.

All fine here. 21+2 (can't believe it - I look like a pregnant woman - weird and wonderful!). Had scan yesterday, and sonographer kept saying how 'lovely' the baby looks. Apparently Bo has 'nice legs' - well, they do run in the family, doncha know .

I am drowning in work at the moment, which is why I hardly ever get to check in here, but it's lovely to 'see' everyone.

xx

hi grinningbee congrats on good scan - and welcome to the girl club! what a lovely relief huh to finally get to this point. i still have my moments of paranaioa but try to put that at the back of my mind.

daisyj hi too - great news about your scan too and good to see you here!

dan yeah do make sure that it's an osteopath that's treated preggy ladies before and i checked with my gp and she had heard of my osteopath and said she had heard good things, which was the closest to a recommendation i could get from my gp. i found my through my friend's hubby who is also an osteopath (but i didnt want to be treated by him - just too weird). if you have private healthcare - you could get it covered if you dont mention it's related to the pg - naughty i know, but i think insurance co's are even naughtier for thinking they get a get-out of jail card if they can relate anything to a pg! but i reported mine as pelvic and back pain (true) and they are covering it. it's fabulous really. i went from shuffling with small steps to back to normal with the spd.

wmmc you too huh? it's terrible isnt it? i was like the exorcist with the tummy/vomitting bug - so unfair, esp since my morning sickness only tapered off a few weeks ago!! i didnt eat anything for 3 days and then i ate for england i was soooo hungry after that!! hope you are better now? it's a vicious bug that's going around.

congrats maz on good scan

hang in there moomin hope you get some good news soon fingers crossed.

hello to everyone else!

Grinningbee and Maz - great news on scan.
Wheely and looby - I'm ok thanks. No more orange cm. Got thrush though
Dan - excited about your pram . I wasn't into prams much when pg with ds but now I keep looking longingly at them
Herby - ikwym about symptoms coming and going. I seem to have the same ones as you....sore breasts when turning over in bed, feeling cold (mostly evenings)and tired - can barely stay awake beyond 9pm.
Hi everyone else
Oh and I've got pregnancy brain too.

hi lizzie im 9 weeks today by scan, thought i was few days more but im not grumbling about a few days!!how far r u?x and thanx to everyone else for the congrats, it means so much to think you guys do actually know what im going thro, even tho we all have different experiences and emotions at different times the support is alway here thanx x

Hi all,

Haven't managed to get back on here since Friday (DH was home for weekend - need I say more ). There's loads to catch up on!!

Good news re scans and sorry to those who are feeling poorly.

dan Nice pram - have you forgiven your DH now? I'd have killed mine

swali I'm a few days before you and I too was lying in bed on Saturday worrying that I appeared to be having braxton hicks type pains. Baby is kicking like mad and doppler is reassuring with hb so I've put it down to growing pains. I've sprouted loads the last week or two and am not able to hide buddha belly now. I wonder if afterpains are more intense with your second maybe growing pains are too? - just a mad pg brain thought.

Maz & Bee - great news about your scans!!

maz - I'm 6+4 by my lmp so little bit behind you, just wanna get to the 12 week scan. I hate the waiting and not knowing whats going on in there.

Maz I am so pleased for you!! grin] Just remember one day at a time! The worry doesn't stop btw...tho I do feel much better now that I have loads of movements (29 weeks!!) - having said that last night in bed it was a bit quiet in my tum at a time when its normally active, and I found myself flinging myself around a bit to wake her up!!

Scotlass hellooo there good weekend I see, being 'busy' with dh ...I sort of have forgiven him, largely due to big f**k off expensive pram purchase...

Just to go against the trend here, I DO feel the very attractive tubigrip is helping with the pelvic paijn, I have felt much better today. Also doing 10 pelvic floors before getting up and that is either working or is an amazing placebo...will still try to find an oseopath tho.

I wonder if there is anything in the old wives tale about girls being better than boys...bear with me here - what I mean is there are loads of girls being born or expected on here. Do sticky girl beans stick better than sticky boy beans? Overall? Just a ponder...

(sorry me again...all this time off work I can't sleep!)

I just worked out the profile page thingy so have posted a pic of my posh frock for those of you who had to endure the saga. Will scan my scans and add them too, in preparation for the money shot when she finally emerges!

DaisyJ HI! Hope you're well. Really good to see you! 21+2!!! WOW! Congratulations to you! Thank you for your sticky thoughts!

maz congrats on your scan, that's wonderful news!

Congrats to everyone on their scans.

DaisyJ I was looking at the graph thingy they give you after the scan, and after googling what the abbreviations are have discovered that our bean has slightly longer than average legs. I'm kind of glad really as I'm a short arse!

Bit of a TMI here, but does anyone elses bump go rock hard and stand up like a mountain when you have an orgasm? It's quite funny really and doesn't hurt.

It still hasn't sunk in yet about us having a girly. I think I may have to finally give in and buy something small and pink just to make it more real! There must definitely have been something about the end of June to favour girls with the number due in March!

Just had to post in response to grinning bee's TMI post...!!! I've not even been near DH since the BFP so can't answer that question. I am too paranoid and frankly too damn tired to even think about it. But well done to anyone who is still getting action!

I've been getting a few twinges. Wonder if its because I have had to lie on my back (propped up) in bed due to an horrendous blocked up nose and notice when I turn to the side, the twinges seem to start. But at 16+3, is this a time when you are prone to twinges anyway??