Milly5 dont let yourself be worried by not having felt movements just yet. I only just felt my first tiny movement last week at around 19 weeks but as i say it was so small and could only feel it coz i was lying completely still. They say that in first pregnancys its normal not to feel anything untill after 20 weeks so im sure that everything will be just fine. Good luck with your scan on the 17th. Audax bugger about having to wait the long weekend for your results. If your anything like me that must be so painful coz im extremely impatient with things like that Charliecat welcome hun. Have you tested again since? Keeping everything crossed for you that it is a BFP. Sparkles YAY on feeling the flutters isnt it just the best, i felt them for the first time last week too and its very exciting. HPL wow you sound very busy, you must be exhausted, im tired just working full time. So cute about the heartbeat as your tone on your phone, i would love to do that.
Hello to everyone else i have missed i hope you are going well and growing nicely AFM things are going well, i have my 20 week ultrasound this friday and im so excited. Im also quite scared but i just keep telling myself that everything will be fine. I just cant wait know if i have a pink or blue bundle on board Will be sure to let you all know. Started feeling small movements last week too so that is quite reassuring in itself
Take care all
Audax - poor bugger. At least feeling sick does take up a lot of your focus! Poor Bugger. Seems like Milly5 and HLP are going to have to move over and share with you....
Elise- that IS exciting. LOOK at how far alng you are? I am so excited for you. It's ok and normal to be scared. I found the 20 week scan I had dissapointing and scary, becuase I didn't do any research into it and thought it would be like the nuchal - with lots of nice shorts of bubs in profile. Just in case you don't know, the 20 weeks scan is a morphology scan and the sonographer will be looking for all the vital structures and organs to see if the are present and developing, so lots of focus and time spent on individual parts of bubs. I have only ever had one, but that's what it was like for me. I am going to ask the sonographer to give me a few profile images of bubs this time around. It's pretty exciting to feel the "quickening" isn't it?
Milly - don't worry about not "feeling" bubs yet, particularly if this is the first time you've gotten this far along. There are so many factors, first of all, your abdominal muscles will still be "tight" ( rather than loose) so that makes it harder and also, you're not quite sure exactly what to look for. For Amelia, I thought I was starting to feel the flutters, but it wasn't definite nor all the time, even at 21 weeks I was still uncertain. Now, though, I am fairly sure I have been feeling them for a while, which surprised me. I suppose there have got to be some positives to all that stretching and heartache...but then again it could just be my wacky GI tract! Who knows, it makes me feel better to say its bubs.
About the proceedure, thanks for asking. I am not sure for me there is a time to breath a genuine sigh of relief, except maybe after 30 weeks when bubs has an excellent chance of surivial without too many complications if born prem, although every day after 24 weeks is welcome. I am not trying to be meladramatic.
I will be monitored closely, at least every 2 weeks my cervix will be measured ( either internal manual, or internal dildo cam (u/s) or external u/s - but worth it) and I am going to ask the Dr about the benfits of testing me for fetal fibroconnectin levels ( an indicator of that prem labour is likely). Luckily I get on well with my ob and its no hassle for me to get to his rooms, given that I will be there a lot!
But having said all that, I am quietly confident, that I will be holding a healthy bubs at term. If I wasn't quietly hopeful, I wouldn't be on this journey. If history is an indicator of the future, it doesn't bode well for me, but I just try to take each day as it comes and be thankful for what I have today. It's all I can do to keep myself from going around the twist. But all the optomism goes out the window whenever I feel a twinge or cramp or back ache - my immediate thought is - am I going into labour?
Sounds tough, but I read a book by Darci Klein called "To Full Term, a Mothers triumph over miscarriage", and her pregnancy journey was truly truly frightening and inspiring. So when I feel sorry for myself, I think, it could be so much worse.
Charliecat - hope you are hanging in there girl.
HPL, Gabrille and Emersyn, MillyD - how are you doing?Hope easter has kept you busy with enough time to rest.
Hi to everyone else - Laney, Angelic... I am going on memory here, which is not the best.....
Hi ladies,
Congratulations to all on your BFPs!
There are quite a few familiar names in here and its so good to see so many good stories.
Looking forward to getting to know you all in the short time i have left.
Hi all,
Congrats to any new BFP holders!!
Hope everyone had a nice easter weekend, we went away and it was lovely and i got another definite kick while away!!!
As for the doppler , i used it again this morning and found a nice strong HB of 157bpm straight away, i'd say if you are calm enough to cope if you cannot hear a HB then go for it and get one. I had convinced myself that it may never work and coped really well when i couldn't find it, but i think until you are in that situation you don't know how you will react!! Starting to get a real little pot belly now, which is exciting and also bought some material for some curtains for the nursery, its all beginning to seem real!!
Have midwife appointment next week, ob appointment the week after and 19w scan two weeks after that, its all getting exciting now!!
Thinking if you all xx
Maddison - welcome. Blimey 33 weeks! are you excited? Are you huge? That's one the the things I am looking forward to, being huge. Hope your pg has been going well.
Sparkles - awesome! 157 is right on! You must just feel so good when you hear bubs heartbeat.
What happens at a midwide appointment? My ob spoke about them at some point in one of my pg, but I have never attended one, I always see the ob.
I was talking to my DH the other day after I read your post about that very issue - how I would cope if I couldn't find the HB. I decided until a little later on,its not for me. I was at the ob last week and it took him ages to find it, I was strying to keep calm and not jump to conclusions but it was getting hard.... I know I would have without the ob there reassurring me. So for me, as much as I would love to have easy access to bubs HB, I am not ready to cope on my own if I can't find it. Besides the ob says i can go up to his rooms anytime.
Tashy - glad you found some peace and some answers.
HPL - I am so excited for you for next week, you must have been exhausted after 3 hours! OMG, I would have needed to lie down and have a toilet break and something to eat and drink. Did you have to take a vommie break?
I can understand what you mean about more testing not being useful to you. I am so proud of you that you and DH made a decision about that because it can be tough.
Audax - today is thursday???? Any news? How is the m/s going?
Sparkles - how is that doppler going?
Charlicat - how are you doing?
Elise - one more day til your scan! OMG I am so excited for you!
Hi to everyone else, sorry if I missed you. I have been having some very Dory moments lately. Maybe its a good thing I am not a work? All seems to be going well here - the usual ups and downs and excitment at getting to 16 weeks, soon replaced by fear of losing bubs to be replaced with a worry that feeling warm/cool means a temperature which means infection. You all know how it is. But today is a good day, the sun is shining, the cats are snoozing, and I have felt bubs today. Have a godo day.
Will be sure to let you all know. Started feeling small movements last week too so that is quite reassuring in itself
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