Totally's GRADS...lets handhold thru this....

[boodleboot]

Ok girls....time to get started....

lee stressy amyboo totally

and of course any other ladies who have recently had a Big Scary Fat Positive and will now literally be counting the days to healthy babe in arms, welcome y'all

i have no idea how i am going to make it but i know that i will need handholding....and knowing lots of you already i know you will too ha ha

{Totally's conception thread got me thus far with lots of handholding and i love them for that....}

BRING ON THE BABIES.....

emmielou I think this thread is quite used to incessant worriers... you will fit right in!

louise you're scaring me... Don't panic, whatever it is. Panic doesn't help... I have everything crossed for you. Sending mountains of sticky vibes your way. Hope it's not too late

cheepz I hope the tired feeling gets better soon. I got very little work done in those early weeks, what with constantly feeling sick, tired and worried... It's a lot better now though. Yet, if it weren't for the prospect of having a baby at the end, I wouldn't choose to go through all this... pregnancy takes so much energy. That's why I don't know if I could go back to TTC if I'd lose this one. And I'm in awe of all you ladies with histories of multiple lost babies.
Good that you're getting your scan sorted and have a date for the booking in appointment. Better late than never, right?

Sorry, sorry, sorry no problems!!!! Bloody laptop playing up!!!

Sorry all for scaring you and thanks very much for your concern!!!I was trying to acess the thread and my laptop would only bring up the "message" post!!!

Hope everyones well.

MEITA Glad you re a a step closer to sorting stuff out.

TFLS your scan soon? I know totally where you re coming from you want a scan/you don t want a scan!!!!

Hi to other newbies.

Well DD day again tomorrow SCAN again!!!! Why oh why????? Still feeling pg....Shattered , chucked up again this a.m, still stomach stretching going on!!!! [Which i ve never had in the past] Soo , fingers crossed.Will post tomorrow , probably later on as [all being well] straight to work after and got a retirement fuddle at lunch time.

Come on louise positive mental attitude.....i m further than ever been before just keep plodding on girl!!!!![ Mmmm......doesn t seem to make tomorrow any less scarey]

Louisesh - hope everything is OK. Your post has got me worrying.

Emmielou - I suddenly realised today that I spend as much time thinking about my bowels as I used to on SWI! When I get cramps I try to focus on how much change my body is preparing for - and try and take it as a good sign that it's getting ready to grow. Occasionally works!

Lee - fantastic news re the scan. Sorry it wasn't better focussed but - wow - a heartbeat.

Samantha - lovely to hear from you. Hope you enjoyed that lie-in.

Meita - how's the rash doing? Have you had your bloods taken and when are the results due? Sorry for the multiple questions! I've avoided OBEM like the plague - I'm a big wimp!

Cheepz - 14 weeks is a bit poor. I assume they'll arrange for the 12 week scan beforehand? Tiredness is a real bind isn't it. I can't remember the last night's good sleep I've had. Still waking up during the night - then want to doze all day!

Lucygrif - hope you got some reassurance.

Amended the list as somehow got 2 days ahead of where I am (wishful thinking).

Very dense emoticon as I've only just realised that Amy and Hoops are due on the same day. Early April will be interesting!

Wednesday

Amy - BOY - 36 wks - due 02 April
Hoops - BOY - 36 wks - due 02 April
Memorylapse - GIRL 32+2 wks - due 4th May
Jacanne - GIRL - 31+6 wks - due 29th April/6 May - mat leave starts 26th Feb
Meita - baby#1 - ??? - 17+1 wks, due 17th August - 2nd scan 1st April
Boodleboot - baby#3 - 1DD {10} 1DS {5} - 13+1wks- due 16th Sept 20wk scan - 4th May
TFLS - baby#1 - 11wks, due 29 Sept
LeeWT - baby#2 (DD1 2yrs) 10+6 weeks, due 30th Sept - 12 wk scan 26th March
MrsRigby - baby#2 (DS 15 months), 10+3 weeks, EDD 7th October
SamanthaB123 baby#3(2x DD's 11 & 9 yrs) 8+1 wks, EDD 20th October
Freezing - baby#2 (DD 18 months) 7+6 wks, EDD 21st Oct
Cheepz - baby#2 (DS1 2.8) 7+5 weeks, EDD 22nd Oct, mw booking appt 21st April

We share the pain and mourn the loss with:
Jollster - one DC, two babies lost, recent MMC w9/@11, 26th Feb

The babies are arriving! Huge congratulations to:
Totally with daughter Faith Juliet, 9lb5oz born Tuesday 16th February 2010 V

Phew,glad to hear all is well with you louisesh. Good luck with scan tomorrow.

I ended up having scans every 2 weeks with DD towards the end of pregnancy, and actually came to quite like it in a strange way. It was assuring to know they were keeping a close eye on things. I got to know the staff at the day assessment unit quite well, and they were all lovely, and it meant I had a morning off work so it had some positives even though it was a worry to have to have fornightly scans in the first place. Just saying if it helps but I know everyone feels differently about these things.

Oh great louisesh - was a bit like a der der der der moment of suspense! Either that or you had started typing and got hit by a wave of nausea!

My scan is on 22 March - week on Monday. So far away enough to blot it out!!

Onwards and upwards for you tomorrow. Sounds like you've got strong symptoms which is all good news (even it it doesn't feel like it )

On a separate note, I've been eating really healthily this pregnancy but now got a massive craving for massive packets of crisps. Almost drooling as I type - sorry! I want salt and vinegar chip sticks.......

Hello

I went to the midwife for my booking in today. A good hour and a half appointment. She was lovely and very good. I was a bit disappointed that I will hardly see her - third baby, not considered a risk...8 weeks, 16 weeks, 24 weeks, 32 weeks, 36 weeks and 38 weeks. And that's it. Scans at 12 weeks and 20 weeks. I already have the date for the 20 week one but not the 12 week (don't ask - they are done at different hospitals for some reason).

It was good to talk freely about it and it felt nice and real. She said that the further along I get the lower and lower the risk of mc (which I know but I can't help worrying about ). To have reached 8 weeks and still be this unwell is apparantly a very good sign. She said if my symptoms miraculously stopped before 12 weeks then I should worry and contact her.

Have felt utterly shit all day today...I'm glad it's a good sign but four more weeks of this . Ooof. I wasn't this ill with either of the girls, although it was a long time ago and my (elderly) memory is fading, I would have remembered. Teaching is a tough business with constant nausea, frequent urge to wee, exhaustion and either diarrea or constipation (I sway wildly between the two with little warning). I cannot wait to bloom, cannot wait... I am holding out this romantic hope that I will be the epitome of pregnancy health, glowing and smiley (walking around with a basket of fruit in a long white floaty dress and barefeet...) Ok, I've lost the plot

Hope all well, SB

salt and vinegar chipsticks mmmmm mmmmmmm mmmmmmm

I havent eaten healthily at all and im massive and raging about it! booooo

good luck for scan tomor lou.. how come u not on the list? nosey nosey

hi meita and totally know what you mean because if something happens to this one then dd is being an only child full stop. this is HARD! how did people pop them out every year in the olden days!

Sorry Lee! I've just had a huge plate of pasta with tonnes of parmesan for the third night running.

Sam, can you clone your midwife for meita and I please....

My symptoms actually seem to have lessened in the last week but are still there. Of course, can't help but worry.

Blimey it's so busy on here! Sounds like everyone's getting on fine though, which is great news.

I'm off into hospital for an ECV tomorrow to try and turn baby. Am starting to panic a bit that it might end up in EMCS but I'm hoping that's just a worst case scenario. If the ECV fails I'll get booked in for a CS in 2 weeks' time! Argh! Last day of work today though, so I'm very happy

amyboo good luck with your ECV tomorrow, hope mini-boo turns like a good boy

It's great to be off work, have been buying the world for mini-hoops and his pram turned up the other day.......it's fab, just need a baby to put in it now!!

Hope everyone else is doing ok, it is getting busy on here, I find it hard to keep up!!

Good luck AMYSAM B i m also only seeing my MW at the dates you ve mentioned.....didn t know it nade a difference how many dc you ve got? [i ve got none]

LEE yes i can be added to the list just didn t want to do it too early and tempt fate.

TFLS i too am loving crisps....but ANY variety!!!! Trying to not over indulge too much as don t want to pile it on!!! Soo far still weigh the same as when i was first pg but am somewhat more bloated!!!!

Well another gold star for me please!!!! Bravely attended the 2 nd scan....ALL GOOD!!!!!!! .We ve seen arms,legs.feet even a little "fat belly" as i said "just like his/hers mothers"!!!!! They ve dated me as 10 weeks, 6 days soo only 1 week, 1 day left to 12 weeks!!!!!!! Soo another big PWHEE!!!!!! Had to leave work at 2pm as soo shattered don t sleep very well when i ve got a scan looming.But now i ve had 2 bad scans and 2 good scans soo how i m looking at it : is now the good are on par with the bad!!!!!

Hope everyone else is ok.2 more weeks of hormone injections then another scan.But for now all is good X

Good evening!

Louise so glad it was just a computer problem - and thrilled to hear that the scan went well! Whoohoo!

TFLS hope the tiredness eases up soon for you. I for one am getting used to earlier bedtimes AND longer lie-ins (I decide my own working hours). Not very long to your scan now... sorry, can't pass over the crisps, as have eaten them all myself .
My symptoms also seemed to reduce at that stage and obviously you're worried, but the scan will most likely show that everything is all right. And just in time, too .

SamB sorry to hear you're having a tough time... but great that you have a good MW! I see someone else every time -> impossible to build any sort of relation or trust. At least you get to see the same person, even if it isn't very often. (Well, actually it's not much different for me although it's my first)
I like your image of pregnancy bloom

Lee glad I'm not the only one to feel that way... Let's just hope that all considerations of TTC after MC will remain theoretical for us. BTW yours and Louise's 12w-scans will be within days from each other...

Amyboo good luck tomorrow, I hope you manage to convince your LO! And enjoy your maternity leave

Hoops at pram arriving and prospect of near-future baby in it... well, just a little bit anyway

Ok and here's my news...

Private blood test results came in today and it appears I'm immune and there was no recent infection. Yay! One thing less to worry about. (Well there remains a marginal little thing in that the recent infection test only picks up on infections occurring during the last 4 weeks and this could maybe have occurred about 5 weeks ago... but... won't let that worry me as I'm sure the test limits are set generously).

Oh and... I really need an (astonished wide-eyed wonderment) smiley. I think I felt minimeita move. Maybe it was just some digestive thing, but still... sitting here in astonished wide-eyed wonderment.
It's like... an experience from out of this world. No words to describe it. OMG. This is real.

Meita You just made me cry. Amidst the despair of sickness and exhustion I have lost sight of what this is all for. Thanks hun, SB x

Oh Meita - What a wonderful post to read! Isn't it just the most incredible feeling in the world? So thrilled for you

thats a wonderful moment to share with us meita...i think i was about 17 wks with my first baby. Last time i felt bob move at fourteen and a bit wks! At the moment i am so windy my belly is constantly swishy and gurgly!!

Lou - fab scan news. so plsd for u. xx

I am having duvet day today as had very emotionally draining wk at work and feel frazzled and emotional. keep crying....such a wuss. I hope u all having better wks than me

xx

Glad you've had some good news meita Love that you felt minimeita move!
louisesh excellent scan news.
I've got my private early scan in the morning, dont mind telling you that im scared to death, so worried that im going to be told i've had another mmc, and excited at the same time that, maybe,just maybe, i get to see a baby. Well, im going to know either way tomorrow.

Good luck EFFILUMP right there wth you X

louisesh - that's fantastic news about your scan, you must be so excited!

boodle - hope you're feeling better soon, here's to a relaxing weekend for you!

effilump - wishing you all the luck in the world for tomorrow morning, and look forward to reading a post from you with good news! I know exactly how awful the waiting is, got another 6 days to go for my scan

Amyboo - what news from today? Did miniamyboo play ball?

Hoops - exciting - getting closer now.

Louisesh - that's fantastic news. Here's making it three great scans in a row. Each day nearer.

Meita - so pleased for you. Must be great to get the reassurance and sounds like minimeita was giving your a ressuring wriggle to confirm! Thanks for letting me know re your symptoms. I've had very mild MS for the last few days and I'm desperately trying to convince myself that it's normal.

Boodle - ummm a duvet day sounds nice. Enjoy!

Effilump - we'll be thinking of you. Just imagine our collective hand holding if you can't sleep tonight. Just one more day sweetie.

Hope everyone has a good weekend.

No movement from miniamyboo unfortunately. His head moved ok, but gynae couldn't get his legs to shift. So i' ll be sorting out a date for an ELCS next week when I see the gynae. It'll probably be around 26 march. Hope everyone else is doing ok.

Meita...its so lovely when you realise that you can actually feel your baby moving

amyboo..sorry that miniamyboo was uncooperative..but it means that you have a date for LO to arrive...exciting

im nearly 33 weeks and suddenly suffering from overwhelming tiredness..high risk clinic on weds with growth scan too

amyboo sorry to hear mini-boo hasn't moved, I hope you get a date soon for your ELCS........

boodle, you've got it wrong, when you say you're "such a wuss". How could you say that of yourself?

To be precise, it's got to be "such a PREGNANT wuss" .

Being serious, it's the hormones. They'll make normal situations emotional, and stressful/emotional times will be quite hard. Hope you are getting some well deserved rest. Don't forget - "blooming" times are awaiting you, just around the corner now...

effilump any news? Let us know please... Fingers crossed for you that everything is all right.

emmielou only five days now...

TFLS don't panic. I think it's very normal for symptoms to decline at that stage. I was worried because my boobs weren't sore/tender any more, and very little nausea. BUT I figured it's the placenta taking over hormone production and balancing things out. How are your feet these days (cold at night)? And how are you sleeping? Anyway, scan coming soon to reassure you.

amyboo very sorry to hear that he wouldn't be persuaded to move. Well at least you have a date (nearly), and with the ELCS know exactly what to expect... no hours and hours of labour just to end up with an EMCS anyway. How are you feeling about it?

memory I hope you're ok. I seem to have missed this, why high risk clinic? Try to get as much rest as you can.

I'm starting to feel v. impatient for my next scan... Well, I have a book review due end of March so I should be occupied and distracted.
The rash (which now feels much less sinister) is persistently hanging around, and has now spread from originally just on the cheeks, backwards to ears and neck; also backs of my hands, and it seems it's starting on my feet now too. Luckily it's quite faint, not itchy, and not very bothersome; but I do wonder what's causing it and how I can make it go away. Can't think of anything I changed that could have caused a reaction. Oh well. Will just wait and see.

Hope you're all having a good weekend!

Thanks to everyone for the kind words and hand holding. It was good news at the scan, baby fine, saw heartbeat, brilliant! I am over the moon!!!