Pregnancy after Long Term TTC - June 2008

Hi girls
Firstly: Arielle that si just awesome news congrats on the birth of your gorgeous baby girl well done!!!!!!!!!:cheer::stork-girl::babygirl:
Sorry ive been MIA too, just trying to stay distracted till i hit the 12 week mark. still sick morning and night although ginger biscuits are good been havin quite abit of ouchy in the pubic region really weird feels like someone has kicked me :rolleyes:anyhoo. Saw my ob for the first time last week and she is the most wonderful woman i couldnt be happier with my choice, but after intially saying i could have a VB she examined me and took history and said its really not a good idea and cs is really the best option, well that the 3rd ob to tell me that as well as a midwife so i think i might have to go with their advise. I just find it really sad that as women we can not get any support or unbiased advise for so calles "elective" ceseareans. I posted in a cs support section and got inundated by the you should do your research/ get a 2nd option/ weigh up the risks blah blah blah:doh: (sorry i bit bitter about this) my options are have a cs or face the fact that i will probably tear again (very short perineum sorry TMI) and end up with fecal incontinence like my mother and possibly another 12 month recovery like i had with DS. Anyway enough of my rant, i just wish as women we would support and impower each other no matter what are so called "choices"
Numa: you and i are due the very same day !!!!:dance:
BW: havent had a chance to read about your relies but packing them up and sending them to mars sounds great , you really dont need the stress take care and your nearly 12 weeks woooooohooooooooo
Hi to all the lovelyladies in here hope your all well :hug:

Well firstly congrats again Arielle or your wondeful little Sprogette! Well done hun and enjoy!

BW - definately pack them up and send them! As for the muscle cramps calcium and magnesium helps and if they are aching sleep with a pillow between them with the sorest on the bottom.. i feel your pain and i hope they get better.

Scooby - I completely agree you obviously have your reasons for your choices and do whatever is right by you!

Nic - Hope you are resting up and cant wait to hear your baby news!

Lol the terrific two are going great here, have started kicking which is lovely and actually starting to feel a little heavy and uncomfortable now... which stupidly surprised me. So 13 sleeps until we know what we are cooking! can't wait!

Will catch up properly soon have a great week ladies!

Shan

Meant to say BW if you get schusseler salts, magnesium,from the health shop that is great for muscle cramps and spasms, good luck.

Scooby Thats really disappointing that you didn't get the supportive responses about your upcoming c/s.
I totally understand where you are coming from as I will be having another c/s for bub #2when the time comes as I had one with DS on recommendation from my OB which I'm sooooooo glad I did as he wouldn't have survived a single contraction let alone a vaginal birth.If you want to chat or ask any questions please feel free to either ask me here or PM me. I'm happy to give you any info or even just to be there to offer you support which we all deserve :hug:

Hi Girls
Mako thanks so much for the support, it has been annoying me a little and i just cant seem to get any info, its mostlly how to avoid a CS. Anyway would you know with elective CS do you go on your due date or earlier and how did you go with the recovery and breast feeding ? i think they are my 2 main concerns at this stage?
Shan: woah 2 little pairs of feet booting you thats going to be fun :lol: you must be so excited to find out if tis boys or girls or maybe one of each:babygirl::babyboy:
Again thanks for the support i will chill out eventually :rolleyes:
PS sorry another question how long after do you stay in hospital?

Hi Scooby,
You're welcome sweet.
I think it depends on your Ob and you when you'll go in for your c/s. Some Obs like bub to be born 10 days or so before your due date and others will let you go into labour 1st and then do the c/s.
You can ask if you can have bub in recovery with you so you can bf pretty much straight away(I couldn't do this as my ds was premmie and he went straight into a humidi crib in special care) I did start to bf him the following day though and we are still going strong 8 months later :dance:
My recovery was very good too. I didn't have any problems. I only had 2 panadol each day that I was in hospital only to keep the nurses off my back lol.I was more worried about my bub than pain relief.
I stayed in hospital for 6 days only because my DH was away for the weekend and I didn't want to be home alone with bub and unable to drive incase I had any problems. My Ob said I could have gone home on day 4 though.( I have heard of ldies going home on day 2 but I really think thats way too soon) Just my opinion though.
I drove my car 3 weeks after the birth too and was hanging washing on the line before this(even though I wasn't meant too "slaps hand" lol).

If you have anymore questions please ask hun :hug:

Thanks Mako
I know what you mean about when youre in pain but too busy worrying about bubs my DS popped his lung on the way out so he was in the humidicrib for 3 days but i just expressed the whole time and then went on to feeding (which was sooooo much easier than those evil beast ( i mean breast :lol:) pump machines. Thats good you dont have to stay in hspital too long although with DS i didnt want to leave i felt so much safer there!!
Great to hear you had a quick recovery do you pput it down to anything eg diet, exercise or just a positive mind set? thanks again mako i hope its ok for us to be having this discussion in here. I love the dont hang out the washing my answer to that "who else is going to do it" ( really do love you DH :p)

Congratulations Arielle - that really is a lovely name!

Nic - I guess you will have had your little precious one by now....?

Good luck with shipping out your relies BW

Hi Lenny - how're you guys going?

Scooby - I guess they meant well, but that wasn't really very helpful, hey? Re bf, I know the ABA have booklets & info on it for those having c/s, maybe they could be some help. Like Mako says, it'll largely depend on your ob and hospital policy as far as when they do it and what happens with baby after, so asking them might be a good place to start. Hope you can get a clear plan in mind soon - probably allow you to relax and enjoy the pg better.

Take care everyone

Hi there, just sticking my head in wondering if anyone had heard from Nic?

Wishing you all the best with your exciting journeys!
xx

also just wondering about nic;)

Hi everyone :)

Jumping into the PALTTTC thread for the first time since my BFP on my 4th transfer from IVF in April. I'm now a little over 15 weeks along.

I've had a difficult time with the scare of a threatened miscarriage at 7 weeks, and that - as well as actually having quite a delayed emotional reaction to the IVF and an early miscarriage on our second transfer - seemed to trigger in me a great deal of anxiety about my pregnancy. I haven't felt ok about joining the pregnancy forums until now, stupidly! :redface:

I've just moved to the UK with DH, and we received our news of our BFP the day after we arrived here, so I've been trying to cope with all the mental and emotional issues in a new environment, which has added an extra challenge. (We've been living out of suitcases and continue to do so since January when we sold our house in Melbourne, so that's been quite an experience too!!)

But... we *are* thrilled to have got this far especially on our last try before leaving Australia. Just trying to take one day at a time, and not get too worried or worked up about things I can't control or can't know about. Just trying to stay positive and look forward to our next landmark, which is our 20 week anomaly scan in just over a month.

On reading through the thread, many of the lovely ladies here I know from journals and blogs, and some I knew from the LTTTC&AC forums, so I'm really looking forward to hearing how your journeys are going and being a part of the forum here, offering support and understanding and knowing that I'm sure so much of what I'm feeling and have felt so far is really understood too.

I thought I could post personals today, but I think this post is getting too long already so I'll say a big group "Hi" and look forward to writing personals in the future.

Hope everyone is feeling well at the moment and big bellyrubs to you all.

Miss C :grouphug:

Welcome, Miss C, I'm glad you have finally joined us. I can completely understand the delayed reactions... I'm still in a weird state where I don't like to talk about my pregnancy with those who don't understand what it has been like for us. The people who supported us along the way are fine - they know what the miscarriages and the hyperstimulation has done to me... But with family being less than supportive and being totally cut out of the loop regarding IVF treatment - I now have a MIL who wants to do nothing more than chat about the pregnancy with me. She doesn't know that my second stim cycle put me in hospital for a week and stopped me working for a month. She doesn't know about the other two miscarriages. She certainly has no understanding of the emotional impact of those things on me and can't understand why I'm not out buying baby things already (hell, I've only just started to be able to buy maternity clothes!) and why I'm not all that comfortable talking about the baby - certainly not at any stage beyond the next milestone... scans, OB appointments, trimesters... I really can't think beyond the next step, and it makes it hard when people don't get why I'm like that and keep trying to talk to me as a normal pregnant woman!

Sorry for the epic there... strange emotional responses to pregnancy are completely normal after going through so much to get here.

Also getting worried about Nic... did she not arrange for someone to post a birth announcement?

BW

Congrats Miss C, :dance::dance: I received so much support here as i didn't cope well with the emotions of being pg. It's a great place to share and be supported.

Nic: hope all is well and you are spending these wonderful days with DH, DD and your new little bundle of joy.

marcellus: I'm faking it, 'til i make it. Liam is asleep now, but there are never enough hours in the day, i'm sure you know that. How you cope with working is beyond me!!!

Yay welcome Miss C so lovely to see you and CB joining us!

And yep completely agree with BW i had a slight melt down yesterday we went to look at furniture and DH was so excited he wanted to buy it right there and then which scared the crap out of me i was there to "tentatively look" and we took home two cots and a change table.. the sales lady thought i was crazy because i was petrified at the thought of actually buying something. I think people just have to be patient it does take us longer we arent used to good news and happy endings just yet... but by the end we will be!

Lenny - so glad to hear things with you are going great, hope you are feeling a lot better!

Also wondering about Nic.... :D

Shan

Congrats Arielle:dance: and it is a beautiful name

Nic - are you out there?? hopefully holding bub right now

Hi to everyone, hope your all doing well

xx

Nuchal scan went great today - despite my freak outs before hand! I still have trouble getting my head around the size of the baby now, so I was initially concerned when I couldn't see anything that remotely resembled a heart beat until the sonographer pointed to the tiny little flicker in the chest. It seems our baby is a bit uncooperative with having measurements taken, sat very still (probably asleep!) through the first stages, but as soon as the sonographer went to measure the nuchal fold, the baby woke up and commenced squirming, wriggling, twisting and flipping over making it really hard!

I'm told that my age-related risk of downs syndrome is 1:371, and after the scan it came down to 1:1447 so I'm feeling quite good about things. I probably won't go chasing the blood results and how that changes things again until I get to next week's OB appointment. Everything is looking great. We got lots of pictures this time - even some gorgeous 3D ones where our little parasite just looks so cute and comfy snuggled in.

My right ovary is still enlarged, but appears to be coming down slowly. Posterior placenta, I'm told - does this mean anything good or bad or is just a statement of position?

Hope everyone is well... Starting to get worried about Nic, though. Has been ages since we heard anything. Hopefully she's just too busy with her new little bundle and all is ok.

BW

BW :dance::dance::dance: on a fantastic NT scan. What great results and its lovely that you got some pics too.

I thought I should mention that Nic was having a c/s so she has probably spent most of if not all of the past week in hospital recovering.(I was in for 6 days with Sage).

Nic just know that we are all thinking of you hun :D

BW - Congrats on the fantastic scan results... go parasite! Nope posterior just means its sitting at the back which will be better for feeling the babies kicks.

Struggling a little bit here with sciatica which is causing me a fair bit of pain when i sit down, so really struggling at work. Went to see GP today about this freckle they want to cut off but want 100 different opinions before they take it out whilst i am pregnant, so off to the dermatologist next for a final decision. Though she did get out the magical doppler and i got to hear babies heartbeats for the fist time via doppler, was amazing and both and going great. Very wiggly today which is nice :)

Oh Nic hope you are healing up nicely and bubs is going great!

Shan

Hi girls
BW: so glad your scan went well that is just awesome and im sure its such a relief for you know to get to that magical point, good luck and big hugs :hug:
Shan: so sorry about the sciatica, that is so painful and unless youve had it you dont get how bad the pain is, i supoose its really hard to get something you can take to stop the pain as anti inflammatories are off the list. Dont know if youve tried homoeopathics but hypericum is suppose to be really good for nerve pain. Good luck also with the dermatologist hopefully you wont need anything cutting off.
Nic: hope your doing well and healing quickly very gentle :hug:
Miss C: sooooo glad to see you in here and im glad your pregnancy is going well, totally understand the caution, its so difficult to feel excited after the effort and losses. I was just saying that to DH yesterday, 2 of my friends are preg with there first, both had no hassles falling and have never had m/cs and i envy so much there "innocence" (if thats the right word) i would love to be so carefree and relaxed and believe that nothing can go wrong, unfortuantely too many of us know different! Good luck miss C and i lok forward to sharing this journey with you. PS hows the UK treating you?
Marcellus: thanks for that info i am going to get on to that as it is one of my biggest worries about the CS, thanks!!
AFM: going good, still sick but it is such a comfort (ridiculous i know) im 11 weeks now so starting to relax "alittle" ill be 12 weeks on monday but im not having my scan till wed, so just over a week to go, yeeehaaaa:dance:
Well girls hope your all keeping well :grouphug:

Any news on Nic? Hope you and bub are doing well hun. We're all thinking of you. xo

BW - great news on your scan! I am so pleased to hear all is progressing beautifully.

Shan - sciatica? ouchies! You poor thing. Hope it buggers off real soon!
Yay for the wiggles!! Always nice and reassuring, hey.

Scooby! Bring on the 2nd trim (and BW too). Hope you start to feel more and more relaxed and confident with each day hun. You're doing great!

ME? Trying to type with one hand is tricky! All's going great with us. Laela pulled through really well. The doc was rather impressed. Obviously a tough chick. The doc says she is pretty sure she had pneumonia. She somehow contracted it in utero. Bazaar!!!
Anways, she's home now, doing great, and we're loving it!! I can't wait for all of you pg LTTTC'ers to get to the same point. It really is awesome!!! The best feeling ever, and worth every iota of angst I went through.

Take care all.

Ari

Thanks so much everyone for the welcome! :D It feels soooo nice to be here now!

BW - so very glad to hear about your scan results! BRILLIANT!! I'm glad you feel so good about the nuchal fold results too - it's a really good result! I know I felt similarly when my risk dropped after the scan - a similar drop to you too. And watching Parasite being cheeky and not letting the sonographer get those measurements must have been a real thrill! We were the opposite - CB wouldn't stop moving for the first part of the scan, and then we had to wait for it / encourage it into the right position for the nuchal scan, and then it behaved beautifully then! Kept very still and quiet! I hope the blood test results at your OB appointment give your further peace of mind, and hope things continue along the wonderful path their travelling for you. Another milestone you've reached. Huge congratulations! :cheer: Great to hear that your ovary is slowly but surely getting better too.

Lenny - thanks for the words of encouragement :) I hope Liam's doing well and you're getting some rest and enjoying motherhood!

Shan - ahhhh, I'm sorry to hear about the sciatica hun. I don't know what it's like, but I can understand the feeling of having discomfort a lot of the time. My back is starting to play up a little now as CB starts this big growth spurt at this time, all because of the broken coccyx/damaged sacrum I sustained about 18 months ago, but more than that the IBS-related pain and discomfort so far during the pregnancy is tiring me, even though I feel so relieved that it's not affecting / anything to do with CB. I hope you're able to get some relief from it, and that you feel ok.
Glad you're getting lots of opinions about your freckle, so you feel very comfortable with whatever has to happen. Hope it all works out.
I completely understand how amazing that sound that comes out of the doppler is for the first time - I'm still buzzing from the weekend! ;) Enjoy the wigglets, hun. I hope it's nice distraction from the sciatica. Oh, and congratulations on getting the cots! What a exciting, brave step! I know how that must have felt (see more below) Well done :)

scooby - It's so nice to see you in here when the last time we were posting to each other was in the LTTTC forums! I know it's a bit late, but congratulations to you!! :dance: My m/s started to improve during week 12, and even though I missed the reassurance it gave me, I didn't miss the nausea! My BBs have taken over the reassurance role a fair bit now - it's ridiculous how sore they get sometimes now! I'm very pleased to hear that you are starting to relax a little bit, and I really understand what you mean by "innocence". I described it to DH that way too. You're spot on. I hope the time to your scan goes quickly, and that you have a wonderful scan that brings you lots of excitement and reassurance.

Ari - so glad to hear that Laela is home and with you! Yay!! It's wonderful to hear that motherhood is making you feel so happy and fulfilled - more than anything in the world :D

BW & Shan - I totally understand the whole moving through the pregnancy in small steps. I can only think about the next scan, the next milestone, certainly not the having-a-baby part, as well. DH is very keen on shopping for baby clothes already (he's bought quite a lot now), and has researched prams and cots etc. already. He's so very excited and this is the way that he expresses his excitement that everything is going well, but I've found this uncomfortable a lot of the time. I have trouble feeling ok about thinking about and preparing for a baby yet. I'm getting better though, and I went shopping with DH for some baby clothes at a sale a couple of days ago. Felt weird, but not as uncomfortable as it has been. Maybe it just takes time to get through the anxiety, to get past the emotional aspects and adjust to the having-a-baby part. And sharing that with people like you who understand completely makes a huge difference to me not feeling like "the lady who can't enjoy her 'normal' pregnancy".

All is well here. It just feels like a big turning point to be in here with you ladies in the forum :grouphug: And since we went through the anxiety on the weekend of ending up in the emergency department of the local hospital (long story, but it involved being told by my midwife on Sunday to see a doctor because of consistent pain in my lower abdomen that had been building in intensity for a number of days - only place to see a doctor on a Sunday in the UK is at the A&E!) and to be relieved of that anxiety that something may have been wrong after this ongoing pain, we also got to hear the baby's heart beat as well for the first time, after the worry of not hearing it a number of times before that - I am feeling relaxed and getting excited about the idea of everything being ok for the first time! It's a really nice feeling!

Really hoping Nic is recovering well and everything with the birth went well. Hope you're well, Nic!!

Miss C

Hi everyone

I think I might be ready to post in here, am feeling like I need to talk.

I?m 11 weeks and 2 days pregnant following a miscarriage early last year. I fell pg again on my fourth cycle of OI/IUI, 15 months after my miscarriage.

I am really scared about losing this one, having gone through a lot of heartache to get here. I really should remind myself how lucky I am to be pg, but it?s so hard to shake the fear.

I?m still terrified that I?m going to lose this one without knowing it ? which is what happened last time. My next scan (the NT scan) is next Wednesday, I was feeling OK about it but now I?m getting quite anxious so I?ll probably be a mess by then.

Anyway, I look forward to getting to know you all through our pg journeys and am sending you all lots of :bellyrubs: and :stickyvibesgirl: :stickyvibesboy:

D
xxx

Welcome Devon and congratulation on your beautiful pregnancy! Hope everything went well with the nuchal scan and you are feeling a little better :)

Shan

hi Girls
Devon: welcome and congrats we are actually due about the same time and my scan is wednesday as well. And im sure as you have read im very much the same as you, i lost an angel at the end of last year, it was an ectopic, and an m/c a few years before and i have been just soo nervous, ive had 4 scans already all showing excellent signs and the last one the ob said to me its going to take alot to disturb this pregnancy now, BUT, 1 week later im a basket case again. I wanted to ask my nana to the 12 week scan as she has never experienced anything like that, and im just too nervous to ask her, id hate it if she was there and things werent good.
Well just wanted to let you know i do get exactly how your feeling and it helps so much to talk about it. I really hope after next week we can get on and enjoy this wonderful journey together ( and i can finally put a ticker up :rolleyes:. Good luck and please know we are all here if you need to talk :hug:
Arielle: so happy laela is doing well that must of been scary, but you sound so happy it truly is wonderful.
Miss C: So glad you got to hear the heartbeat it must have been such a relief after all that. Dont know whats going on but the MS is actually worse this week, maybe a nerve thing, but i have been so busy at work i havent had time to think about it too much which is really good, 3 days to go :dance:
Would love some opinions: As i mentioned i really want to take my nana to my 12 week scan, she has never seen anything like that before and she is so worried she wont live to see the baby ( even though she 84 theres really no reason why she wont) but am soooooo scared it might not be good even though scan last week said other wise. What would you do?
Thanks girls hope your all well

Arielle, CONGRATULATIONS!! So very glad to hear all went well :) Love the name Laela and especially the way you have spelt it.

Shannon, how beautiful that you are now feeling the twins kicking around.

BW, I'm so very glad to hear all went well with your last scan.

missC, so nice to see you posting in here too :)

BIG hello to everyone else, sorry for the lack of personals, little man is having a nap (which I'm sure will be a short one since I am doing something lol) so thought I would log on quickly. We got home late last night. I spent 5 days in hospital, which was a day longer than we had discussed with the OB, but I ended up vomiting all day and night on day 2, so I had to go back to a clear fluid diet...lucky me! and he wouldn't let me go home until I was better. I ended up having a GA for the c/s as I freaked out a little, and the OB suggested that it would probably be a better option for me.
Our gorgeous little man, according to our OB, came into the world screaming his lungs out at 9.46am on Monday, after a couple of little hiccups along the way. He weighed 7lb 10oz, and was 50 cms long. He is just absolutely gorgeous, and I'm so in love with him. I even shed a few tears this morning watching him feed.
I will aim to write up my birth story one day soon, and will have to go and make the BA hey. Thanks for all the well wishes, it was lovely to come home and read them.
I will try to come in and catch up with you all a bit more later on :)

Nic

Congratulations, Nic! Good to see you back at last. :)

BW

Yay Congrats Nic! Well done! Hope you are feeling a lot better and enjoying being home with the kids :) Now i might be having a blonde moment but what is the gorgeous ones name?

:loveshower: you sound so in love and it is wonderful!

Devon - Ooops that was a definate blonde moment! Scan next week good luck and i cant wait to hear the news!

Scooby - Have you thought about maybe waiting and asking her to the 19 week scan if you are really nervous about this one? Just do whatever you are more comfortable with and i will have everything crossed for you for wonderful results and nice little show for your bubba next week.

Shan

:excited::happyforyou::excited: HUGE congrats to Nic, Nics DH and DD!!
You sound so in love. I'm stoked for you hun. Well done. I look forward to reading your Birth Story. I'm nowhere near ready to write mine yet.
Enjoy your precious lil' man.
Luv Arielle
xo

Congratulations, Nic! :cheer: So happy to hear everything has gone well. I hope you're recovering quickly, and that you enjoy being Mum to your beautiful new baby boy. So glad that you're feeling so content! :hug:

Devon - welcome to the thread :) I've just joined in here too. I know you'll find everyone here really understanding and supportive of what you're feeling at the moment. What you've mentioned about being fearful is really common for women who have experienced loss and/or difficulty on their journey to have a child, so please know how much we do understand and appreciate how you are feeling. It's a big step to start talking about your pregnancy and how you're feeling, so good on you for getting in here and posting :) I really hope that your NT scan goes well - I'll be thinking of you on Wednesday.

scooby - I agree with Shannon, hun. I think you need to do first ahead of anything else what is going to make you feel the most comfortable on the day of the scan. If it's making you feel more nervous about any potential results from the scan (which I'm hoping very much, and I'm sure they will be great results, given how well everything has been going so far) with the thought of having your Nan there, then maybe it's best if you ask your Nan to the next scan you have, or even find out if they can provide you with DVD/video footage of the scan, and pictures that you can show her after the event, when you're feeling relaxed and ok about it. I think BW mentioned that at her most recent scan she was able to get DVD as well as pictures, so I'm sure there's some places that do this, and it's worth checking. Of course it's important that your Nan has the opportunity to experience your pregnancy, particularly with her concerns, but always remember that you, your feelings and your needs come first. I think it's really lovely that you're thinking about your Nan's needs, hun. I'll be thinking about you Monday, and I hope the m/s starts to improve for you soon! :hug:

:hello: to BW, Shan, Arielle, Lenny, lis and everyone else who's in the thread at the moment. Hope you're all doing well, and I'm thinking of you :)

Miss C

Aww Nic welcome back, and congratulations! I hope the hiccups along the way are all behind you now. I think i would need a GA if someone was coming at me with a knife too!!!
Well done and I hope you have a wonderful few days settling in at home.

YAY nic. I was getting abit worried about you hun. So glad all is well. Congrats hun. Welcome little one. xxxx

Congratulations Nic! Sounds like little Luke was really in a hurry to meet you all. Hope your DD is enjoying being a big sister.

Congratulations also to Devon and Miss C - hope you find lots of help and support through this thread.

Glad to hear your scan went so well BW

Hi Lenny - love your 'location' lol. Havn't been out there myself for a while cause we're still waiting for our washing machine to get fixed. NEver going to buy anything from electrolux again.

Belly rubs to all you other lovely ladies

Hi everyone

Thankyou all for your warm welcomes.

Sorry, I think it's going to take me a while to get used to posting in here. I still don't feel like it's really happening and almost feel like talking about it will jinx it.

NT scan tomorrow. Not too anxious (considering), trying just to hang on and hope that all will be OK.

Scooby - best of luck for your scan tomorrow too! Looking forward to hearing that it all went well.

Bellyrubs to the pg girls, and congratulations to the new mums!

Devon
xxxx

Hi everyone
NIc: Huge congrat thats great, glad to hear you are both doing well :dance:
Devon: thanks and good luck to you too
Missc: how are you going, hope alls well and no more scares, think youve had enough for this pregnancy!!!
Well still not sure what to do with nana, DH is coming to the 20 week scan and im only allowed one person, hence why i picked this one for nana, thinkning i might ask her to come and sit in the waiting area with DS and if all good then ill call her in. BUT i have had some very light streaky brown spotting and very crampy ( but i did spend the day walking around the city) went to the gp last night but of course he had no equipment to check anything so i still dont know whats going on and i dont want to bug my ob again if its nothing. It so light that if i wasnt doing my normal toilet paper check :rolleyes: i would have missed it, anyone else have this? I am so sick of freaking out, i really just want to enjoy this its making me very sad !!! I felt so great yesterday morning as i had hit the big 12 weeks and then by last night i was right back down again, poor DH any ways.
Hi to everyone hope you are all keeping happy and healthy :grouphug:

scooby i had some blood with first child. " freaked out", but all was ok and it is common for some spotting 1st trimester. hope you have a better day and all is ok. hugs to you.xxoo

thanks JBM i just read the BB thing on bleeding and i would have been due AF yesterday so hopefully its related to that. Feel im turning into to a hypochondriac !!!! Thanks again for looking out for me and i hope you are keeping well (hugs)

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 :hug:
Jo

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 :crossfingers: 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

Hi Ladies

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

We are expecting a :babyboy: and a :babygirl: and are very excited!

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

Shan

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