Pregnancy after Long Term TTC - June 2008

[Lenny]

Missy - I know you aren't in here much, but good luck Missy - and i LOVE the name you've picked

Marcellus - how do you cope without the washing machine - Liam is an enviromental disaster! He goes through clothes like it's a joke, and then he spews on me too, and in the bed and on the floor, the couch - everywhere! We bought a brand new front loader, and i'm so glad we did, they use such a lot less water!

Good luck with the scan scooby, and for yours tomorrow Devon. Reality will sink in soon, and I hope you have a great pregnancy.

Best wishes to all
Jo

[Devon]

Scooby - arg, why can't things just be simple! I had very light brown-tinged CM on several occasions earlier on, and everything seemed to be fine after that. I feel a bit crampy sometimes too. But why can't our bodies make this easy on us? Sorry to hear you're feeling sad again, just gotta hang on until tomorrow. Have you got a morning scan or an afternoon one? Absolutely everything for you hun.

Thanks Jo!

Called to confirm my scan, thought it was a transvaginal ultrasound, but it's abdominal - that's a bonus I guess.

xxxx

[Shannon22]

Hi Ladies

Just a quick one we had our 19 week scan yesterday and babies are great!

We are expecting a and a and are very excited!

The little girl is measuring on the small side but nothing to be concerned about apparently.

Shan

[Janie71]

Hi Shannon - I just wanted to drop in and say a huge congratulations!

How wonderful having one of each... it is just PERFECT!

Janie xxx

[Lenny]

That's great Shannon - big congrats on the and

[mako]

Scooby All the best for your scan sweety. Have you had any more cramping or spotting? Please don't feel like a hypercondriact(sp). Its only natural for us LTTTCers to worry about all these things

Shannon Great news about a and a How exciting for you guys.

Devon All the best for your scan too. Just wanted to say that I had both abdo and internal scans for my 12 week one just so the sonographer could have a better look that everything was ok. I only wanted to tell you incase your sonographer wants to do the same

Nic Once again congratulations on the arrival of Luke.

[Acacia]

Hi everyone

Shannon - *still* buzzing after your news, hun! So very pleased for you, B&S and DH. Yay!

Scooby - hope you're doing ok, hun. I know how scary spotting can be, and how sad it can make you feel just when you felt like everything was going ok and you're feeling in a place to start enjoying things. Like Lenny has said, you're not being a hypochondriac, you're simply reacting the completely normal way for someone going through what you are. You need to keep heart that it still is more than likely ok, even though it's hard not to get affected by it. Even after my threatened miscarriage, I still had both brown and pink spotting on and off for many weeks, but the whole time the baby was fine. And it's certainly not uncommon for woman to get some "breakthrough" bleeding around the time of when AF is due at 8 and 12 weeks, and it's that time for you at the moment, so this could be a likely explanation. I hope everything on the scan is able to reassure you, and I'm thinking of you heaps, hun.

Devon - hey hun. Thinking of you lots for you scan tomorrow too, hope you're having a relatively relaxing night and getting some shut-eye. Look forward to hearing how things are going for you and bubs next.

Lenny & mako and any other mums and mums-to-be in the thread. Hope you're all doing well.


AFM: chugging along ok. DH still hasn't got a job (he just had an interview we went to in Wales a few days ago that didn't turn out) - he keeps getting told he's second or third choice each interview he goes to which is quite frustrating, but he has another 4 interviews between now and next Thursday and he's had 5 so far, so hoping as he gets more experience and knowledge, something will click into place, hopefully with this bunch!

I'm already hanging out for my 20 week scan (which is still almost 4 weeks away!) so hopefully if DH gets a job soon that will be a good distraction whilst we move and try and set up our new home! I think I may have been feeling movement, but it seems a little to surreal to be happening, and because of my bowel problems it's difficult to tell if it's associated with my bowel or not even though it feels different, so I'm not entirely convinced that's what it is despite reassurances that it probably is.

One thing that took me by surprise a couple of nights ago is that my BBs are already leaking slightly! It happens in the evening at bedtime and unbeknownst to me, in my sleep as well! Wondering if anyone knows if this is a good thing or a bad thing? I've heard mixed things, including my mother telling me that it's not good to be leaking so early, as she did the same, and ending up having a stressful time BFing because she had too much gushing, watery milk. Not sure what to think at the moment. Ahh, I'm sure it will all work out. Trying not to stress about anything else now!

Hugs to you all,

Miss C