Pregnancy after LT TTC #15

Hi Ladies, wow so many newbies in here - it's great that you'll all be able to share similar journeys..... (and hopefully one of you can take over 'The List' that Renee has been keeping up since the honour was passed to her from London Miss).
I hope you all have a wonderful pregnancy journey.

RENEE!!!!! I am hoping you are holding your little one in your hospital room right now?? Although your PIG is Brunette and we haven't heard from her on this thread :-(

Check out my new ticker, little Rossi has finally given me a bit of time to update it, I was apparently 43 weeks pregnant - yikes!!

Welcome Danni girl, congrats on your BFP!!!

CK77- LOVE your pic!!! Hope little Rossi is doing great. I was also thinking about Renee and wondering if Brunette will come tell us! Havent seen her in here at all since the twins were born :(

Welcome and congratulations to Aimee, Bug'sMum and danni_girl! I hope you have a H&H 9 months!!

Renee, FX your silence means you're holding your LO as I type!

Kelly, congrats on reaching 20wks!!

dreamrise, sorry to hear about the hemorrhoids. I hope you don't end up needing to treat them surgically. Sounds awful though!

CK77, love the pic in your new ticker! You and Rossi look great!

Afm, OB appt didn't go well today. After being head down and in the pelvis last week, she has apparently decided to turn and is now breech again. :doh: OB has faxed a referral to the hospital and we're now waiting on a call to book in for an ECV. I had really hoped to avoid that (and still do), but I'll try anything to avoid a c-section. In the meantime, I see me spending lots of time trying the exercises from the spinning babies website...

In the meantime, I'm feeling quite nervous about being 37wks pg with bub in a breech position and possibly about to be cut off from the hospital due to flooding. Trying to stay calm and trust that things will work out okay (at the very least that bub will decided to turn again on her own :pray:), but still worried...

juniper...sorry she has turned around again and I understand your anxiety, especially with flooding issues etc. I hope she turns around again and your exercises do the trick and that you will still have access to the hospital at any rate. I know how unpredictable flooding can be.

danni-girl- congratulations and welcome!

afm- got a bit worried today, noticed some discloured, brownish discharge. Called my clinic nurse and she told me not to worry as it's pretty common. I know it is, but it still gave me a bit of a scare.

hi everyone else ...sorry this is just a quickie

Hi all

Welcome Danni Girl, I hope you have a H & H pregnancy.

Juniper – Sorry to hear about your little one turning, but I guess if she can turn easily this late in the game hopefully she can just as easily turn back! My friend had that happen at about the same time and she turned up at the hospital for the “turning” and bub had already turned back on it’s own. I hope this is the same for you.

Possums, I know it’s hard but try not to stress. I spotted (pink) consistently from four weeks and then it stopped the day I had my 7 week scan. I was sure it was all over but my FS, who is also my OB was not terribly concerned. Hang in there.

Not much happening here, just going crazy trying to keep an active 18 month old cooped up inside as it’s scorching outside. I'm enjoying having a bit more energy in the last few days so that I have more time for fun things… like ironing, and vaccuming…yay! :doh:

bugsmum- glad you have a bit more energy, sounds like you need it :-)

and thanks for the reassurance. no more discharge now, so hopefully no more, because even though I know how common it is, it still makes me anxious

HI to all the newbies- it's a pregnancy explosion after months and months of no-one getting any BFP's!!

I can't possibly catch-up after only four days off the site...

Juniper - How annoying that she moved into breech! Fingers triple crossed she decides to move back to where she was or that the attempts to move her work. Sorry to hear you are also affected by the floods - I am sure everything with access to the hospital will be fine :)

Possums, I am sure the bleeding is fine. It's sooooo common - I had bright red bleeding to about 18 weeks as I had a cervical polyp along with lovely constipation which meant anytime went to the toilet the strain caused me to bleed bright red blood from my cervix and scared the life out of me. Bubs is still in there, albeit a bit more squished now!!

Kelly - congrats on 20 weeks with your little men :)

CK77 - congrats on making it to 43 weeks ;) Rossi is super cute, but you already knew that!

Dreamrise - I have had hemorrhoids since after the birth of my DD, they stayed for a month of so after she was born, then I have had them twice this time. Had horrible, awful constipation which diet made no difference as I have a high fibre diet and only drink water (literally!) Solution which has worked is to take Colloxyl (without senna) as per the directions from the OB and pharmacist with lots and lots of water as well as lots of walking when I can. This means I go without straining once every couple of days. Hope your discomfort eases - I used an over the counter cream called proto something (don't have any at the moment). If I hadn't taken it, they would def. had burst as they were partially internal. Lucky us being pregnant heah!?

HI to everyone I have missed - and again, welcome to all the newly-pregnant ladies and I wish you all a very happy and healthy 9 months :)

AFM -Also in the hot, hot weather which is consistently 35 degrees plus which makes having a 21 month old DD very hard. She has watched TV far more than she ever had before, even though I take her to the park every morning to get her out of the house.
DH's new business is going really, really well which is great as it was scary giving up our only income while I was on unpaid maternity leave (and still am) - got to take risks to get rewards I guess though - just like IVF!!

Hi all,

Dannigirl - welcome - glad I'm not the only new girl in here - there are heaps of us. I have been having the same concerns as you. Feeling gross most of the time, then stress out when I start to feel better. We'll get through it

Lairdoz - glad that I am not the only one being a slackarse and letting my toddler watch more tv than he should. I am just giving my attention to my 'other' child for a little while.

Bugs mum - glad you found some energy (how did you do it???) and bummer that you had to waste it on housework. It probably put you right back at feeling exhausted again.

Possums - I can imagine that even the tiniest bit of discharge would be stressing the hell out of you. So glad that it has stopped, even if it was all completely normal. Just stay away blood! I'll be holding my breath (and crossing my legs) with you over the next couple of weeks xx

Juniper - I hope your bub has started heading down again. Can you feel anything? As if it's not enough to be flooded in - there's still time for baby to turn and floods to ease before the big event though. Your knees will be sore from all the crawling - good luck!!

Dreamrise - oh you poor thing. What a nightmare! I don't know what else to say - hope your bum feels better xx

Kelly - congrats on getting to the downhill slide. Your belly shot is very impressive!

DH is getting a bit ahead of himself and has started telling a few people. We promised we were going to wait until the 12wk scan at least but he can't help himself. Now I feel awful to my family because haven't told anyone except my mum and he's already telling friends. He just doesn't get it. It's nice that he's excited, but he tells them in front of me and I'm just not ready yet - I'm still so nervous and so aware that we are not out of the danger zone yet. And I also really really would hate for someone in my family to find out from one of DH's friends. My family already think I hold info back from them and it would hurt them so much. Ahhh, not long to go I guess

Hi Everyone

Wow - so busy I'm not sure I'm able to keep up. Thankyou for the welcome though. I'm technically 8 weeks tomorrow, and was feeling awful yesterday but better today, I'm not sure if thats a good thing or not though?

Hi Kaybee - I know over excited DH's is good but tricky hope all is going well for you!

Hi Lairdoz - hope everything cools down for you a bit soon, I know I often feel bad about the increased tv time too...

Possums - Congratulations just in case I forgot to mention it in the 2WW!!! what a lovely surprise. I have a brown discharge everyday with my crinone....its horrid but hopefully everything is ok for you.

Hi Bug's mum - hope you're going well in the heat too

Hi Juniper - sorry to hear she is breech, my DD1 was breech too and I could feel her head on my stomach the entire time, hopefully she will turn and let you know, we are quite wet too and hoping everything subsides soon, I can understand your concern.

Hi to Jaki80, CK77, Leabie, Dreamrise, Kelly, and anyone else I've missed. Hope you're all doing well and anyone in QLD is managing to stay dry.

xoxo

Hi Girls

Congrats to all our newbies who got recent BFP's. It is so nice to see that 2011 will have some new bubba's enter the world..

Juniper: You have one cheeky girl in there. I hope that she turns again for you... come on little one you have turned around once so you can turn back for mummy...

Girls with toddlers & T.V's: it is happening here as well but it is due to the rain that is now sweeping across Victoria as well. As DD has just started walking all she wants to do is go outside, but it is pouring down with predicted flooding here as well (lucky for us we aren't in a low lying area).

Apart from having a manic toddler who is now walking and getting into more things, everything is going great. The boys are now kicking up a storm and DH actually felt some kicks a couple of nights ago. I think it was righty as he has the posterior placenta and his kicks are much firmer, my guy on the left has the anterior placenta so his kicks are more subtle although a couple of night ago he though it would be fun to kick me in the "nether regions" for a good 1/2 hour or so....ouchy....

I'm thinking of all you girls in QLD and especially our girls who are getting close to meeting bubba. I'm hoping the rain eases off for us by tomorrow as I have my 20 week scan and hate driving in rain especially with DD in the car.

Hello!

Firstly, my thoughts and prayers go out to anyone who lives up there in QLD and is being affected by the floods...it's so awful. My parents live on Bribie Island so they aren't too affected but I can only imagine how scary it would be for those living amongst it or those with family and friends amongst the chaos.

Possums: I know what you mean about panicking over brown discharge. I have been having brown spotting on and off really lightly since I got my BFP (I'm only 5 and a bit weeks along) I sooo hope it's normal but I think that so long as it's not accompanied by cramping and so long as it's not BRIGHT red and heavy or with clotting, we are all good. I've read that brown spotting is 'old' blodd' which is most likely caused by the baby implanting deeper into the wall of your uterus and the uterus going through all the changes to begin accomodating pregnancy. Makes sense.

Kaybee: thanks for the welcome. Yeah you are right, there are lots of us newbies in here! Let's hope they keep coming! Not long til your 12 week scan now hon, you will be just fine I'm sure :)

Bug's Mum: Thanks for the welcome as well. Hope the hot weather isn't making you feel too bad and I hope you get time to rest up soon :)

AFM: 6 week scan booked in for next Tues...cannot wait to find out whats going on in there! As I mentioned, I have been experiencing some brown spotting but not too bad. I got my morning sickness back again this morning (mild) and just feeling hungry all the time still!!

Hope everyone else I missed is doing well too. x

Hi everyone,

Haven't had time to read your posts. Just wanted to jump on and update... I rushed to emergency this afternoon after a massive bleed. No cramps just blood started gushing out (like when your waters break except it was all bright red blood). The Dr told me it is a "threatened miscarriage". He also told me that the chances of the baby surviving such a massive bleed aren't good.

I was already scheduled to have the fetal heart scan tomorrow afternoon so the Dr told me to just wait until that but come back to hospital if I get fever, extreme pain or the bleeding gets worse.

I've cried and then tried to hold onto hope... maybe by some miracle I am still pregnant and the baby will survive this.
I hate the just waiting... not able to do anything to change the outcome but not knowing what that will be... so unable to grieve because the baby might be alive so holding onto hope but being told that realistically it's unlikely I'll keep this baby. I thought that the fact the bleeding hasn't been accompanied by any cramps might be a positive sign but apparently given the amount of blood loss it doesn't really make any difference that there were no cramps. I haven't had any clots yet so I asked the Dr if I don't get any clotty bits (which would be the baby) does that mean I am okay. He told me the dead baby can stay inside you for 10 days or longer without causing a problem so even the lack of clots doesn't mean anything.

I was told the only thing I can do is wait till the scan tomorrow and depending on what that says I might need another scan next week. If I lose the baby apparently they'll wait 10 days to see if I pass it naturally and if not then I will have surgery.

I know a few of you have had miscarriages before. How do you survive this?

Lori
DD- 14
Started TTC journey Dec 2006 but this is the closest I've ever got (7.5 weeks pregnant)

Hi all sorry just a quick one as trying to get dinner ready but Lori just saw your post.

Oh darl what a horrible thing, I can only imagine what you're feeling. Good luck tomorrow I will be thinking of you and have my fingers crossed. I'm sorry I can't offer any helpful advice but I send lots of :hug:

Hi everyone

Dreamrise - I'm so sorry to hear your news, I have no advice, but will be thinking of you tomorrow, the waiting and worrying is so awful. I'm really really sorry. Please take care of yourself and be gentle with yourself.

I'm not sure if this is helpful but my sonographer did tell me a story one day of a lady who was pregnant and used to get her period every month!!! She tried to describe to me like the baby was like a balloon sticking to one side of the inside of a bottle (if that makes sense) and the parts the balloon wasn't touching would bleed out.

Yogi - I forgot to say hi to you before! Hope you're ok and all is going well!

xoxo

Just a quick one for dream rise - I am thinking if you, I hope everything is OK but regardless I know it is horrible waiting xxx

Thinking also of those in QLD and Brisbane tonight. Seems so strange to be have another 37 degree day here and more to come, yet so much water in QLD.

Lairdoz you must be in Perth too? This heat is killing me. I feel like a vampire every time I go outside - I hiss at the sun and cower back in the shade.

Yeah my thoughts to everyone in QLD as well - the footage has been breaking my heart and I'm about to go and donate some dosh. Juniper I hope you're hanging in there?

Lori im so sorry you are going thru this. I cant believe they didnt scan you on the spot! I'll be praying you get good news. Please let us know. xoxo

Hi everyone,

Thanks for your messages of support.

Unfortunately I lost the baby last night. About 3.30am I woke to another huge gush of blood. Stumbled to a camp toilet which I currently have at the end of my bed (due to previously needed to wee regularly during the night since getting pregnant). Ended up sitting on the toilet for around 10 minutes with blood just gushing out. I didn't realise we actually had that much blood in our uterus. Probably close to 2 measuring cups full into the toilet, plus all the blood which soaked my night-time pad and then went through it and through my undies, pants, sheet and woollen underlay on the bed.

After this I had a clot come out. I'm assuming this is the baby. Then more gushing blood. Finally eased up and I woke my tenant who had driven me to the hospital yesterday afternoon. She rang the hospital and asked them whether we should come back or not. The guy was nice but told us that I had obviously lost the baby and unless the bleeding continued to the point that I got dizzy or it was a haemorage (however it's spelt) I should just stay home. He said I should still have my scan which was already booked for this afternoon as they can use that to check that everything is out... not checking for a heart beat now!

I only had the most mild cramps before the bleeding and none during the bleeding (the cramps were like a really mild period) so I was really surpsised about this... kept thinking maybe it would be okay because there wasn't bad cramps but when I looked in the toilet and saw how much was there I knew that there was no point holding onto hope.

I've cancelled work for the next few days to give myself time to grieve as I can't imagine looking after other people's kids when I just lost my own.

I've had one ray of light. I had borrowed the maximum I could borrow and spent it all on IVF (over $10,000 after medicare rebates) so didn't think I could even afford to think about trying again. I had an email this morning from someone who might have a possible buyer for my horse and she has suggested I ask over $6,000 for him (he is a good pedigree). So maybe I can sell my horse to pay for one last try... put the rest of the cost on my credit card until I get the rebate back. I had vowed I would never sell my horse as he is my "baby" but then when I was pregnant I started to consider it because I wouldn't risk riding whilst pregnant and didn't know how easy I'd be able to get babysitting to allow me to ride after the baby was born. Of course if I sell him and still don't end up with a baby I know I'll really regret selling him so it's a catch-22. I actually bought my farm because of this horse... he's like a great big puppy dog and I used to feel guilty leaving him in a big shared agistment paddock so wanted to have a place where I could literally keep him in my backyard... and if we leave the door open he just walks right into the house and down the hall to the kitchen to see if there is anything tasty for him to eat... he is such a character. So he was the reason I sold up in Melbourne and moved to near Ballarat - lost alot of city-centric friends in the move but it has provided a better lifestyle for my daughter... I was just hoping I could provide that country upbringing to another kid as well.

I'm thinking of burying the clot in the garden to sort of have a way of saying goodbye. I know it probably sounds stupid but I really wish I'd already had the heart beat scan so I would know whether it had been one or two. I know it makes no difference now but I still wish I knew. Trishy (on one of the other threads) said she wrote letters to her lost babies and I'm thinking I will do the same.

My parents are currently in Antartica so uncontactable for another 2 weeks and this makes it even harder because I wish I could talk to my mum about all this. She miscarried around this stage of pregnancy after my brother was born. Just feel really alone right now.

Lori
DD - 14
Not pregnant any more.