Shan sorry about the bad appointment.
Yes 1 week 4 days till 20 week scan
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Shan sorry about the bad appointment.
Yes 1 week 4 days till 20 week scan
TL... that is great hun...keep the count down going.
God i hope never to have an internal!!!
just popping by again...
:D
Melbel- congratulations
hippymum- your comments made me smile...thank you :) I'm sure you'll be a great mummy!
HM, at 30 weeks I've had all of one internal exam (not counting the 6 week internal scan), and that was at 17 weeks and only because I'd been bleeding. I think internals are something that aren't going to happen regularly, at least until we're in the final stages of pregnancy like Shannon is.
Shan, sorry the appointment wasn't as great as you'd hoped... hopefully things will go well and your little troublemaker will move a bit soon.
I'm with you though, the stats in here have been amazing - even for those having been under long term assisted conception... I think we've got one LTACer due every month for the first 6 months of the year - and that's bloody amazing and super fantastic!
Can anyone (Shan, I think :o you're the only one left ahead of me now) tell me about the sharp, shooty, stabby pains in the cervix? I'm still pretty sure Munchkin is transverse, so I don't think it's a well-aimed kick!
BW
Thanks for that BW...yeah i have heard that unless you have an issue, you can opt not to have one...i guess it depends. Thanks for the comfort hun.
Yukky stuff!
Shannon, hope you enjoyed your crunchie choc :) I really hope you don't have to wait those full 8 days. Fingers crossed over here.
TL, looks like my scan is the same week as yours. They've booked me in just before 19 weeks. The countdown is definitely on here too!
It's official, I have GD. I did the 2 hour test and my blood sugar levels were 5.9, 10.1 and 8.4. I saw the diabetes educator and dietician this afternoon and the finger *****ing starts tonight. Hopefully I can get things to settle down without going on insulin. I was so upset after my appointments. They put all these thoughts into your head about the size of baby, possibly difficult birth, jaundice baby etc.. here I thought I might get an easy pregnancy after all the crap I went through to get here.
That's a bugger Megan...if you need any tips feel free to holler in my general direction and I will try and help.
Shannon..... I thought you also had GD or am I mistaken? If so crunchie choc tsk tsk......hehe
hi everyone else hope all those bubbas are treating you well today.
I got my latest HCG done today and so far the results are as follows:
4w2d 172
4w5d 615
5w5d 2085
Am having major panic attacks here because it does not seem to have doubled appropriately the past week...Dh has been trawling sites trying to reassure me but at the moment I am a nervous wreck and of course Thursday would be the day my doctor is not there in the afternoon so I cant talk to him about them till tomorrow...grrrrr.....feel like *****e....am so over all this...why can't it just go 'normally' for once in my life! So not fair....... :(
Hi Girls
Just a quick pop in, wooahhh its been really busy in here which is just fantaastic :dance: yeah to all those who got there BFP. Sorry for lack of personals but after reading most of the posts i wouldnt know where to start, will try to pay more attention :doh:
Big belly rubs to you all and hope everyone is going along nicely.
Hey Devon (belly buddy :lol:) how are you going? It really feels like we are picking up speed now :o hope you are good!
Hi Everyone -
Wow ! I was offline for 2 days and so much to keep up on. I've read through all the posts and enjoyed a good laugh out of some of them.
Welcome to Melbel and On_tra_K - congratulations on your BFP's !! I am new to this as well and still finding my way through books and every internet site I can find on early weeks of pg.
I'm not even going to try with personals today but hoping everyone is doing well in this amazing journey to motherhood.
AFM - feeling ok, not a lot of PG symptoms yet and counting the sleeps (8 to go) until our first scan. I've had some weird CM the last 2 days which has me a bit freaked out. Twice now when I've gone to pee (I always blot a bit first to check for spotting, sorry for TMI) and there isn't any, but then when I wipe after a pee, there is a soft pink tinge on the paper, not much , just a little tinge. It happened once on Wednesday and once again today - about 24 hours apart. Now I am checking every 30 mins and :pray::pray::pray::pray::pray::pray: for no spotting.
Take care everyone,
LNB
Megan- Hope the GD can be controlled hun. Wish you all the best with it. One more thing fo ryou to think about but absolutely no reason for you to think you can 't have a normal pg, birth weight etc. Don't let them make you feel that it is out of your control. You can do it hun and your baby will be beautiful. Take care of yourself and you will be safe. What a git of a Dr to scare you so much. It has so much to do with HOW they talk to you!! I had a bla appointment today too..could have shot him.
MelBel- Hope the HCG is just taking a breather and you have a good surge soon. I am sure you will be ok hun. Wouldn't it be nice if we all hit the 'normal range' for once!! Good luck hun.
LNB- Hope it is nothing to worry about hun...to make you smile- Don't chaff yourself! LOL Many women Bleed full on and stil go on to have wonderful pg. My SIL did too. It is just a shame as it gets you so stressed. Easy sailing for LNB please...that is an order!
AFM- Had a horrid afternoon at the DR. He refused point blank to refer me to a scan or blood tests on the NHS. It really upset me. It seemed my case was not reason enough for him. He had to nerve to say 'if it is not meant to be, it is not meant to be and nature will take it's course'. God i was beside myself. I can't afford to have it done privately and i am feeling really irresponsible not being able to be proactive. If this pregnancy (the beginning of) was risk free....then i would have been pregnant years and years ago. What an insensitive approach to someone who has been trying for 10 years to have a baby. People have ART to sustain a pregnancy and i don't even have the choice to have a natural progesterone if i need it.
I am NOT ALLOWED to have a scan before 12 weeks. So it will be a very long and axious wait for us. He said unless i am in pain or bleeding, he can't help me. So much for preventative care. I was fuming...your Dr is supposed to have you best interests at heart. I was not being rediculus and he treated me like a neurotic pg woman over reacting. Anyway, i will just have to look after myself from now on...i am not going back to him. The pain of it is in the Uk you can't choose your DR....so changing is a huge deal. Oh god, we are hopeful and leaving it in natures hands. He also said to take folic acid...doh...but then made me laugh by saying...IF YOU WANT, you could take a multi vitamin...Thanks for that mate. He has no idea what kind of nutrition i am getting and for all he knows i could be under nourished. What kind of advice is that??? Luckily i have been doing this for years...anyway he took my blood pressure...that is it. No abdominal touch, no temp, no pulse, no Pee in a cup....Am I expecting too much. Nothing to even confirm the pregnancy.
Ok I am mad again now so i better go. There is no point getting myself stressed over this...i just risk my baby...for that idiot, i don't think so!!
Love to you all and up the bum of DRs over here!!
Hm oxoxox
Mel - :redface: yep i do have GD, thats how naughty i was with the crunchie chocolate. Somehow i can eat a little chocolate and get ok levels but eat a slice of multigrain bread and my levels are skyhigh :rolleyes: But it was WAYYYYYY to much crunchie chocolate!
Hope those HCG levels pick up speed, and the dr has only good news for you tomorrow. I have everything crossed... and nope your not normal you fell pregnant by having sex! :o What is that all about! :rofl:
Megan - Sorry to hear about the GD that really does suck, i remember the feeling well and definately take Mel up on her offer she has great advice! The main thing that helped me was eating protein for breakfast, two boiled eggs and a glass of milk helped keep the levels down. Boring as bat poo but really made a difference, ask away and i will try and be helpful if i can. But huge :hug: cos it is really crap when they ring with the news and doing the *****ing!
HM- i would be soooo peeved, he really has some nerve, what about the emotional effacts of the 10years TTC, i was totally freaked and had several scans to reassure myself. Can you go see another GP and not mention you saw this one? Is it possible to say your not sure exactly how far along you are and get a dating scan? Did i mention crunchie chocolate?? Hope your feeling better soon.
BW - Ahh the shooty pains that make you lift your butt of the chair really quickly are lots of fun, ive had them for ages i think its just bubs putting pressure down there which can only be good for later on.
LNB - Will have everything crossed for you, im sure bubba is doing just fine. I know this might sound silly but i you sure it isnt a pattern on the TP? I freaked myself out once big time with that.
Shan
Melbel, if it helps, 85% of women with normal pg only has hcg level increase every 72 hours so yours might just be o.k. Hang in there hun.:
LNB I am sorry you have to go through such anxiety. For any consolation, my sister had light bleeding for the 1st trimester for both of her boys. They are both born healthy. Apparently it is very normal to have some spotting during pg.:
HM, how dare the gp! I am surprised that the gp could be so insensitive! I agree with Shannon.. see if you could go to another dr.
AFM, had my second bt at 5w2d. HCG level at 8910 and P4 at 66. I told the nurse that I am very surprise the hcg level is so high. 7 days ago it was only at 316. She said it was all fine. I didn't argue with her but thought to myself, it is increasing greater than the doubling every 48 hours theory (which if true my level should only be at ~4000 mark). I can't be carrying twins as I only had 1 embie transferred... identical twin??? Has anyone has identical twin through AC??? or could it be molar pg???? I am doing my own head in :wall::wall:
Kahlan...I wonder if it is twins hun,...those levels seem nice and high. I wish i could compare with you right now. Maybe the less i know the better. Yep My dr is an idiot. I would have to put a pretty good case together to change drs...not usually allowed. I just don't want the stress.
Shan...Thanks hun. I know, other friends have suggested a fake it a bit, but i just don't want to do anything negative that might tempt fate. Best i can do right now is get some quotes. See if i can get a second opinion by ringing the fert clinic...see how i go from there. Why oh why can't this be straight forward...a BT is not going crazy.
Love to you guys xoxox
hi HM,
Perhaps not knowing is a bliss... In truth I have read that even if the drs know something is not quite right with the pg they can't do much for us anyway... then it becomes a sit and wait game of which most is of anxiety... With my recent bt result, I am just going to accept that things are going well and wait for my scan. I have the option of doing a 7w scan but am contemplating doing an 8w scan instead as the 7w appointment clashes with work committment. Not sure yet. The sonographer that I have been referred to is a also a gyn and ob so would be able to give me interpretive results straight away so I am not keen to change the appointment to fit the 7w scan and just end up having someone else. What would you recommend?
Anyway, good night everyone. Talk more tomorrow.
Kahlan, Sounds like the 8 week is the way to go then hun. I will send you a link in your PM for a video of 8 week development.
You are right, we just have to believe that everything is going to be fine. I can't help but have a glimmer of the thought...if i lost this baby could it have been prevented? I will be fine. I fell strong and the spirit of our bubba feels strong too.
Love to you hun
Hi Ladies -
Shannon - good point on the TP. DH bought TP that has teddy bears on it (i have no idea why) so I am constantly folding little squares that don't have the brown of the teddy bear in the 'blot zone' as I call it so I don't freak myself out. I am going out to be white TP on the weekend, enough of making TP look like oragami ! Thanks for your kind thoughts, I too have everything crossed but feel good so am praying that is okay.
HM - LOL on the chaffing comment - I needed a good laugh - thanks :) Sorry to hear your DR was such a sh*t to you. I wonder sometimes why some people go into professions based on caring when they just don't seem to care about people. I lived in the UK for a few years so I know how frustrating the medical system is there - can you find a midwife maybe?
Kahlan - your levels sound good - isn't weird how we stress over things being to high or to low. I've read the the levels can fluctuate in how they rise and the 'doubling every 48 hours is a guide not a rule. Take care and don't stress to much.
Hope everyone else is doing well today and looking foward to the weekend so we can obsess about our bellys without the distraction of work :)
AFM - no more wierd CM last night or this morning. I am going to call my clinic today just to feel like I've done something about it. I am feeling positive this morning that it hasn't gotten heavier, worse and my BB are more tender this morning. DH keeps laughing at me and says they are tender because I poke at them all the time to check on them :)
Have a great Friday ,
Take care,
LNB
LNB -Tee heee re the over handling of the boobies. Good one love!
I can't remember if i read where you are on your cycle hun? What day or week are you and when are you due. You will have to add to your signature and get a ticker or something to celebrate the occasion. I was going to hold off on it but hen thought...why not encourage this as much as i can.
I have always thought i would get a doula later on and if i didn't find the midwifery service good enough then i would get an independent...which is for alter down the track. Pricey to get from here on in and again...not much they can do yet.
Take care hun and enjoy your work day!! I will be in bed!
Hippy mum - I hope I don't sound insensitive, but have you mentioned your angel bub to the GP? It's just that I have read that they may be more likely to give you an early scan if there is a history of m/c.
The other thing that you may want to consider is that there is a risk that a scan too early they will not be able to detect a HB and then you have a whole new level of stress as you wait a few more weeks to find out if the scan was done too early or if there is really no HB.
I know I was climbing the walls for my early scan, so please don't think I'm trying to put you off.
I too have lived in the UK (Scotland to be precise) and I abhor the health system there. I was very ill when I first arrived and didn't have the first clue about registering for the dr's - they would not see me at all. I ended up in A&E.
Anyway, I'll keep trying to think of reasons for an early scans....the reason of dating is a good one if you know you want to have an NT test done - as they need to know the date before the 12 week mark.
Good luck. Where abouts in the Uk are you?3
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