Sadly still here - and just putting on make up to go and see the obs. The only time I ever do, ha ha. Wrote a great long thing earlier but it got eaten. The only thing I can remember typing was went to see a friend with a baby yesterday and she told me of a friend of a friend who was told they were def having a girl and the father had the babies name tattoed on his arm. And you know what's coming next.... it was a boy! So don't trust sonographers, and certainly not before 18 weeks!!
Wishes - congrats!! wow 2ltrs of blood loss, I can't even imagine how you felt, what an ordeal. But so glad little Casey is doing well
WantBaby2 - Wow!! It's so close!!
Leabie & Brunette - my belly popped in my 16th week, so Leabie you might be just around the corner! Also Leabie, how good are pregnancy dreams!!?? They are the wildest things!
Brunette - I've been having some horrific tearing pains in my lower abdomen, and I've put it down to growing pains (thought the stabbing and cramping pains around week 15 or so were bad, but they've got nothing on these doozies!)
To everyone else dealing with fluid retention (poor Paula!), emotions running high (um, that covers all of us I think), demanding bosses who only provide 1/2 the information, leg cramps, bad backs, braxton hicks (oh god, I am not looking forward to those!) - BIG BELLY RUBS TO YOU ALL
Woo hoo!! Congrats WantBaby! I hope you're recovering well!
Afm, we had our first appointment with the OB this afternoon. Everything is great. We still haven't heard the heartbeat (they didn't use the doppler today), but bub is now measuring 2 days ahead (OB thinks bub will be tall) and the heartbeat was 159.
Hi Jaki, congratulations & welcome!!
I had mild cramping and stretching feeling up until my scan last week and all was good at the scan. I actually took it as a reassuring sign that things were going on inside my uterus and bub was growing......
BUT..i have a question for you all please....since my scan the stretching feeling has GONE? no twinges or cramps for signs or anything! its like i'm not pregnant. I still have sore boobs and bit tired but other than that...nothing in the last week. Am worried now that something has gone wrong.
Can i ask if the other ladies who have been through or going through end of 1st trimester....did you always feel like there was a "feeling" (stretching/presence/cramps etc) in your uterus?
I am having another bt on tues then another scan on friday, am just so scared that something will go wrong. embarassing to be such the worrywart on this thread...sorry
Thanks again ladies, you really are a lifesaver and i'm so grateful for your ongoing support
Jaki, and then we'll keep worrying for the rest of our lives...
Yogi, I recall there were a couple of weeks there when the cramps were gone. I think they lasted until about 6 or 7 weeks and then stopped. They started again recently. Honestly, you don't sound like any more of a worrywart than I am. I get positively neurotic at times. I suspect every single lady here will tell you they've worried exactly the same way. Have you joined a Belly Buddies (due date) thread? I find it quite reassuring at times when we were all getting similar changes (symptoms starting or stopping) at similar times.
LondonMiss, I hope the lack of posting means your wait is over!
Firstly big congrats to makebaby2, hope you are enjoying your little girl!
Juniper, Lairdoz and Brunette, glad the appointments went well.
Welcome Jaki80 and congratulations!
Yogi Bear - I think it is normal to worry, especially when you have invested so much emotion already getting to this point.
AFM - can't wait until we can do that first scan, it seems so far away. I have to admit if this pregnancy drags on like the last week I will feel like I am 80 by the time I have this baby! Went to DH's work function last night. Usually I will have a drink with the other wives, so had a few questions about why not. Luckily still on antibiotics for sinus infection so used that as excuse, and several people weren't there as sick with the same thing so I think all but one believed me. But she didn't have to scream it out in front of the whole room 'oh your pregnant aren't you!! I just know you are'. I was so annoyed I just said 'no we have been trying but I have issues down there' and left it at that.
Why do people put you in this position??? We have decided we won't even tell family until 13 weeks and here is some random announcing it for us at a party - ahh! Don't know how I will get through the next few weeks as have several functions to go to.....
Oh, Maggie, I'm so sorry to hear you've got a nosy parker putting you in that situation. I've had a problem at work where I keep getting people randomly asking me how our IVF endeavours are going the day before a big scan. My boss asked the day before our first one and one of the other managers asked on Thursday (the day before our first OB appointment). I flat out lied to my boss the first time (and felt terrible about it and told them the next week after we'd told our families). I didn't feel the need to lie last week though, so I just said I wasn't answering his question and he wished us luck. Thankfully there's no-one else that knows about the IVF, so hopefully that's the last one.
I don't know how your functions are run, but is there any way you could sneak a bottle of non-alcoholic wine in with you and fill your glass where no-one sees? Otherwise, (if you're comfortable with it) I think you're probably stuck with the lying option. If you really want to put someone in their place you could tell them all you've been through with TTC and then say you don't appreciate them adding to your stress, but I've never gotten angry enough to try that option myself and it'd probably cause quite a scene.
Congratulations Londonmiss on the safe arrival of your beautiful little girl. Love the name!!! Hope you are both doing well. I agree with the others we need more details about this hot doc !!!!
Wishes, congratulations! I'm sorry to hear the birth was such an ordeal. I hope you're recovering well and that everything goes more smoothly from now on.
Yogi Bear, woo hoo for seeing the heartbeat! I'm so thrilled to hear it went well! I couldn't get over the difference between the 7w and 10w scans. They grow so quickly.
Brunette, I hope the OB says those pains are nothing to worry about. I have to admit that every tiny twinge sends me into a momentary panic.
Leabie, yay for the GTT but boo for the thyroid needing more help.
Paula, I'm glad to hear everything is fine. The fluid retention sounds unpleasant. I hope it eases up a bit for you (or goes away completely would be even better).
LondonMiss, how did you go with the OB?
Afm, this week I've been feeling more like eating during the day. I just tend to feel sick in the morning (before 10am) and then for a couple of hours in the afternoon (2-5pm-ish). I'm going to have to start planning ahead for our office meetings though. We have them at lunchtime so sandwiches are provided. They were making me hungry today, but I don't want to eat the cold sandwich meats, so I'm going to have to start bringing something to the meeting with me now that I don't feel sick at lunchtime.
Haven't been in here for a few days, everyone has so much to add it's great but I tend to get a bit lost! LondonMiss I hope you have something happening soon, how did your appointment go?
Brunette and CK77, I remember getting those stabbing pains in the tummy with my DD, especially in bed. My Dr at the time said it was probably the round ligament of the uterus stretching (as it has too) and not to worry unless you also had bleeding etc, or unless it went on for a long time. So maybe that's what it was????
AFM - I had some cramping in bed last night and was so paranoid got up to the toilet every 20 minutes just to check. Silly really as pain wasn't even anything like period pain. I think I am just paranoid that something will go wrong. To make it worse I went to the pharmacy the other day and the girl behind the counter started telling me how she had a miscarriage two months ago and how traumatic it was and she doesn't think she could ever try for another baby (obviously she had no idea I am preg so don't blame her but it was way too confronting).... Anyway feeling better about it today, trying to get motivated to clean very messy house as home without kids today, but have terrible cold and really don't feel like doing anything but catching up on sleep! Also have worked out that at the moment the only thing I can stomach for breakfast is tomato on toast. Weird....
Hello lovely ladies. Well, thank you for asking. It was... um interesting. I had a sweep and stretch, which is a somewhat euphemistic phrase... I'm not sure it this will help or put you off but it basically involved a midget obstretrician (thankfully female) putting half her arm up my ying yang and having a good old proddle and push. It was painful, but very short and rather more surprising than properly painful. Thank God DH had left the room, when I described it, he said it sounded more suitable for a very very specialist/ wierd porno than a hospital.... Anyhow. The only thing worse than someones forearm being up your ying yang, is someone's forearm being up your yingyang and then no bloody contractions!!! None, at all!!! So I'm booked in for an induction on Monday at 6.45am if nothings happened by then. And strangely, I feel a lot more relaxed about it now I have a deadline. I had great plans of walking lots today but its currently piddling down in Melbourne so I have decided (drum roll please) to do lots of housework so that I'm stood up and moving about as the next best thing. Maggiepie - I don't know if you know but it's the law that only one person on this thread can do housework at a time, so you'd better go back to bed and relax : )
Wishes - what wonderful news, although it must have been very distressing to begin with. So so pleased that everything turned out all right for you in the end. I am so very grateful that we live in a first world country. We are so very lucky.... one in eight pregnancies result in maternal death in Sierra Leone, isn't that utterly shocking. Sorry, wasn't meant to depress you.... I just find it astonishing that we fanny about putting men into space when we can't even help women in labour. Anyway.
Renee - of course - the list is all yours!!! Well volunteered!! I had been wondering what to do with it. I look forward to seeing all of you do your birth announcements in time. It seems only a moment since I was at the bottom.
To all, huge belly rubs and thinking of you all. x
leabie i do get a strange heavy feeling on my cervix when i walk around so hopefully you're right but who knows. YAY on passing your GTT! Juniper any chance you can ask that non meat sandwiches be provided? MaggiePie i think sleep is a much better option! LondonMiss love your description on the stretch and sweep. You always make me laugh. We are definitely going to miss the humour you bring to this thread. It must definitely be a relief to have a date set. Enjoy your housework, as much you can i guess, and hope it helps things along. wantbaby#2 ONE MORE SLEEP!!! I feel so excited for you, kind of crazy i know! LOL
LondonMiss - I had my stretch and sweep around 2pm on Tuesday and by 8pm that night I had contractions 10 mins apart and Finn was born 9:30 Wednesday morning - so I have all my fingers and toes crossed for you that something happens very very very soon
Wantbaby - all the very best for tomorrow, will be thinking of you xx
Hi to everyone else, hope you're all baking along nicely.
embarassing to be such the worrywart on this thread...sorry 
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