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Hi all
Laney, congrats again on Brexton! Gorgeous pic on FB and great name too :)
Dory - I have another scan in 1 week so fingers crossed for another good CL! I had a really vivid dream last night that I had a scan and my CL was only 1.2cm and I was bawling as it meant I would have to go to hospital. Hopefully that won't happen!! I have been pretty good and lying down as much as I can so lets hope the next scan is as good as the last.
Sorry, got to run, DD is very cranky and refusing to let her daddy have anything to do with her tonight for some reason. BBL x
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Hi Ladies!
I have a quick minute to post while the boys are sleeping. I just wanted to let you know that everything is going well and I am feeling great after my section. So far Brexton is a pretty easy baby. He does have his nights and days a bit mixed up so I haven't been getting much sleep. Grayson is having a hard time sharing his mom too :( I am really scared for next week when DH goes back to work. It should be interesting!
It hasn't really hit me yet that I have two healthy boys. I really never thought I would be able to say that. Trying for a third has already crossed my mind :) Of course that might change after I am home alone with two boys next week.
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jo, goodluck on your upcoming scan!
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Laney - Trying for a 3rd?!!! :o :clap:
Hope next week goes okay for you with the 2 little guys at home. Love that pic on your sig with the 2 of them having a bottle. Scares me the thought of having a newborn and Kaitlyn but I guess they adapt pretty quick, as we will lol.
Mo4 - just saw your ticker and you are ticking along nicely! I hope you are still hanging in there, not long now :)
Dory, I meant to say in my last post that I hope Hannah eases up on the rough nights and mornings for you! Makes it all worth it though doesn't it, when they smile at you and you see some acknowledgement in their eyes or reaction to you.
My next scan is Monday. I am so relieved to be so close to 24 weeks now and having had avoided a hospital stay so far! Fingers crossed that continues. Will let you know how I go. Have a lovely weekend everyone!
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Im glad to hear you are feeling alright Laney! Im sure things will settle jsut fine once DH is back at work, i found my kids seemed to be more disrupted by the fact that daddy was home all the time than the whole baby issue!
Good luck with your scan Jo 24 weeks is an awesome milestone!!!
im still here plodding along. I am a bit ****ty today. It is the day the booked my first C section for and then changed their minds. now i have to wait till the 1st of Dec i am getting a bit scared... ok understatement of the yearm i am sooo worried that we have come this far and something is going to go wrong nowI was hoping bub would just decide to make an appearance on his own but that isnt looking too likely either :(
anyway i better go... 2 kids fighting over 1 doughnut.... i cant see this ending well lol
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MO4 - oh wow - 38 weeks! Sorry that you don't get to meet your bubs today and I so understand the fear. My prayers are with you. You'll be strong.
Laney - I LOVE the pic of Grayon and Brexton... very cute. I can only imagine what its like to contemplate having two kids at home without DH! I was petrified abut DH going back to work. But then I tend to agree with Mo4 - a bit easier to find your own rhythm ( how embarrassing I had to look up how to spell that) when it's just you and the boys. I am so glad you got to say 2 healthy boys are home. I understand the feeling about trying again. I have had that too. Luckily the doc says no medical reasons not to try again whenever we want. But it will be a suture and rest etc. Already hoping to be a VBAC'er next time around! LOL.
Jo - Those dreams are scary. You have done very well to get to 24 weeks and still be at home. You must be taking very good care of yourself. I was always amazed not to be in hossy and amazed not to have gone into prem labour. And 24 weeks - the statistics get better from now!
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Hey girls
Just a quick update from me - had a scan today and all is GREAT! My cervix has grown again and now up to 4.5cm; no idea how that has happened as I haven't been resting as much as I would have liked to in the last week or so but either way, YAY :D
So, I will do 2 days at work this week and then see my ob next week for a check in. I think he wants 1 more scan at around the 27-28 week mark and then that will be it if all still good.
Bubs is growing perfectly and spot on average size and gave us some lovely 4D face shots - our sonographer is just lovely (we see the same one every time) and she took heaps of photos for us and then snuck us a disk with all the shots on it. Feeling very relieved tonight :)
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Jo that is awesome news!!!
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jo, such great news! The 4d pics are really nice.
well, my first day alone with the boys went really well. Brexton slept most of the day and Grayson was much happier getting back into our routine.
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Jo
AWESOME! Things are going great! Good work cervix. Stay tight and closed and long!
Laney - Glad the first day going solo went well. You are a champion!
Mo$ - OMG - 7 DAYS TO GO!!!!!!!!! This is so exciting? Are you excited or just wanting newborn buddles instead of belly rubs?
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Hello ladies,
Hope you don't mind me joining your thread.. I found out yesterday that i am pregnant, 4 weeks today! Of course, now the fear and worry sets in!
I have suffered 4 miscarriages, the most recent one being a missed miscarriage in June this year.
I am a little upset as i just saw my GP who, while i was TTC, was all for constant monitoring once i got my BFP. Today, she did a pee test (with my very watered down wee after me drinking lots of water all morning!) on a test that wasn't very sensitive (she said so herself that they usually only pick up pregnancy at 6-8 weeks) and of course it was extremely feint (i could see it, she couldn't but she wears glasses and is in her 60's!) so of course now she wants me to wait til monday to see her again as by then the BHCG results would be in. She wouldn't test for anything else, no progesterone or anything, even though i requested it, she said she wouldn't be able to do any of this testing anyway, that the hospital would have to do it. She wouldn't refer me to the hospital... she won't do anything until the pregnancy is confirmed! I have done two tests at home which were both definate positives!
I understand why she wants to confirm first but i just feel like something should be done ASAP as time is precious here! I am so worried that the recurrent m/c's are something that can be prevented and i want to do everything in my power to keep this bub safe. I feel so helpless now! I just signed up to a private health insurer last month so i could start seeing a OB/GYN BEFORE i got my BFP so i could get monitoring before and after my BFP but it's too late for that now, i am already pregnant. I may as well cancel HBF as i can use the OB side of it for 12 months anyway (It will be 11 months when i'm due!)!
I am worried. I wanted to get the ball rolling straight away and now who knows when i'll be able to get into the hospital. Has anyone else had monitoring through their GP? Has anyone used a public hospital? Does anyone have any advice for me? Sorry... i was so excited before i went to the Dr... now i'm just worried.
Thanks, look forward to getting to know you all xx
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Welcome Stoked and congrats on your pregnancy! Sorry, I don't have any advice for you - I haven't had recurrent miscarriages and have always gone private, but I hope someone else can help.. Congrats again though :)
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Hi Ladies
I have been looking for a forum to join that "fitted" for a while now and after reading how supportive and honest you all are this might just be it..:D
I lost my son in april this year at 31 weeks and am now currently 13 weeks pregnant. Thomas was my first child and after waiting two years to get pregnant i was over the moon. I guess i am finding it hard to cope with the whole "can i really go through all this again, see the finish line and it go wrong?" issue at the moment. My partner is super supportive but due to what i can only call incompetance by the hospital when i delivered thomas i had to go through the labour alone (my family were told to go home for a couple of hours as i had 12 hours to go apparently). I am really not coping with the lead up to christmas this year at all. Last christmas we had so many plans for bubs first christmas and now i feel like it is all spoiled and i just can't see things working out.... i am sorry if i have brought negativity to a obviously lovely group of people but i guess i would need to hear things will be easier from people who have actually gone through what i have and have come out the other side...xxxooo
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Stoked - congratulations on your pregnancy....it is so exciting and so scary all at once. I am a bit like Jo - I can't help much. I have always seen an obstetrician, apart from the first appointment with the GP to get the referral and confirm the pregnancy.... ahhh actually no, for one of the pregnancies I had my HCG monitored every week for about 5 weeks until I saw the obstetrician who recommended I discontinue with it. I've not gone public for hossy either. For one of my pregnancies I requested a blood test to confirm and the GP refused. I thought it was weird but I already had made an appointment with the obs, for the next week so wasn't that worried. The GP told me that sometimes progesterone is given early on in pregnancy to help maintain the uterus in a receptive state for the embryo... I never ended up having that treatment, so have done no reading on it at all. I did see an accupuncturist while trying to get pregnant and the treatment and herbs were intended to help with the endometrium. I am pretty sure it did, as the flow was exactly how they said it would be each time and it as different to my normal flow during menstruation.
Wishing you a healthy pregnancy and hoping this bubba stays sticky.
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Hi guys... just found this thread, and not sure if I fit the bill or not as I have only had recurrent early m/c's. Let me know if I'm in the wrong place.
Hi Dory, how are things with you and Hannah?
Stoked - just wanted to say hi and Congrats on your pregnancy :) I went through the public system with my DS, and if you can find an OB in your area that you *LIKE* and who can bulk bill or isn't too expensive, then you're on the right track. With my DS we were lucky enough to get in with a wonderful lady GP/OB who Bulk Billed all of our appointments for us, and we were able to start seeing her at 7 & 1/2 wks due to my previous history (she was the first doctor who actually took my previous history seriously, every other doctor just told me it was bad luck and I was still young - I was 17 with my first pregnancy and 20 when I got pregnant with my DS). My OB also performed my emergency c-section with my DS as well.
I have actually been rather disappointed with my GP's this time around, I lost 2 early on (1 chemical and the other 4 days after I was refused a BT by one of the 3 GP's I see - I have 3 that I see as that way if I can't get in to see one then I can always call one of the others and one of them is always available) before getting my BFP in July, and while it convinced my GP's to do some basic tests (Your GP DOESN'T have to refer you to the hospital for all the basic tests as the nurses who take the blood for the collection agencies have the tubes for them anyway and they CAN be done while pregnant too since you will have to have some bloods done anyway if you haven't already and some of those are part of the basic tests so all the doctor has to do is write you a BT referral for them) nothing was found and I still don't have any reasons why I have so much trouble carrying past 8wks, and though they reassured me continuously while I was TTC that they would do constant monitoring until 14wks when I could see the OB/Midwives (I am doing shared care this time) when it came down to the crunch they didn't do it at all and any extra tests and U/S's I had were at the request of the emergency department because I had a lot of early cramping and quite a few early bleeds. I've basically been on couch rest since my last bleed at 13wks because I tried to keep going as I normally did as I assumed everything was ok when I hadn't had a bleed for almost 4wks.
My advice is to find a GP who listens and who can deal with you for anything minor between OB visits, and also find an OB you trust and like, as if you are anything like I was with my DS you will be calling him/her about every little thing and asking heaps of questions :)
Hope that helps :)
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Hey guys
Just popping in to say...
WE DID IT!!!!!
Xavier Luke was born on the 1/12/10 at 9.29am He weighed 7lb13 and he is just perfect!
He is feeding like a trooper and im feeling ok... bit sore but i am jsut so happy to have my little man earth side with us!
the kids love him, DD would like to know if we can keep him forever lol
I hope everyone else is doing ok.. ( sorry for the selfish post!)
Im off for some more newborn snuggles!
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:dance:CONGRATULATIONS MO4!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Love his name - Xavier is actually top of our list at the moment if bubs is a boy :)
Jenna, you are welcome to chat in here anytime! Hope your pg goes well.
Dory, hows Hannah going?
Things are going smoothly for me atm which is a big relief. I saw my ob on Wed and all was good - BP excellent, FH measuring as it should and nothing really to report. It is kind of strange to be seeing him this time as pretty much a "normal" patient. He is relying on my ultrasounds to tell him if anything is going on that shouldn't be and because every scan so far has been great, he hasn't had to do too much for me. I have my final u/s in just under 2 weeks and then the week before xmas I will do my GD test.
Hope everyone is having a nice weekend :)
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Welcome Jenna and stoked. I am sorry that you have to join our little group but I hope that we are able to support you through your journey.
jo, so glad to read that your appt. went well. It is a very weird feeling to have a "normal" pregnancy. I didn't even see my high risk ob with Brexton.
mo4, congratulations on the safe arrival of your little man. I knew that you could do it!
Cindee, How are things going?
Things are a little crazy here! It is very difficult to play with, change nappies, and feed two little ones! I don't know how people do it when they have twins or more :o I am starting to get into a routine and it is getting easier. Brexton sleeps pretty well, on a good night I only get up once.
