Smallfry - CONGRATULATIONS! Hope you have a happy and healthy 9 months.
Pash - Congratulations on telling your workmates, not be long now and you will feel bubs.
Megsmum - Yay for 32 weeks, glad your app went well, my bp is low too 96/55.
Greenslw - Yay for being further along, glad everything is going well
Erybery - Hope everything is going well for you
Meredith - Know what you mean about feeling heavy, feel like bump is much bigger than was with DD.
Big to WTH,Hannah,Lee,Theresa,Easha and anyone else ive missed
AFM - Everything going fine,appart from uti but on course of antibiotics for that. Seeing midwife today for 25 week check. Just wondering if anyone has had or is having VBAC?
thanks for all the welcomes I'm sure I'll get to know everyone in coming months Is anyone else in the feb 2010 due thread? I fit into the second half of the month but am sitting in the first half cos there's only one other person in my proper thread and we're both waiting for more people to join!! lol
heading to the doc shortly (DH organised to leave work early and come with me!) and have also called hospitals and booked a couple tours. One of them told me I had to book in before I'm 6 weeks!!!!!? I mean, unless you're actively trying (which clearly all of us understand) most women don't know they're pg at 6 weeks do they?!!!! Oh well. Prob won't go there cos I was much happier with the friendliness and helpfulness of one of the others so we'll see.
Pash - it's such a good thing to see you in here. A couple weeks ago I saw your blog listed somewhere, perhaps in the tww journals section, I forget now, (pg brain, honest!) and I read through it and felt so sad to see the pain you had gone through. Seeing you in here made me feel that universal justice has been done!! Really happy to know you're going well now!
Megsmum - glad your Ob appointment went well. Like you, I have low BP - has ranged between 95/55 - 105/55 during this PG. It definitely can make you light-headed. Glad you are going to take it easy
Meredith - Hello plodder Doing the same and YES! Definitely getting fatter by the minute. I have put on more than 6.5kgs since 10 weeks. Loving showing off my big mama belly in public, though I am finding the maternity fashion a bit daggy (and the Winter wear cold - everything seems to be 3/4 sleeves). DD STILL doesn't know. She has attended every appointment, including the fortnightly US. I guess because she went to so many in the past and they did not amount to anything, she has no expectations (we did not tell her about the other PG's either). She definitely has noticed my belly, but has not put 2+2 together.
Smallfryplus - WOOO HOOO! So glad you are joining us
Greenslw - Great news about the US - and the bonus of being ahead a week. So
Chappas - can't help you with the VBAC - looks like I will be having my first CS! Sorry about the UTI - they can be really painful. Hope the antibiotics have kicked in quickly for you.
Erybery - me too on the weeing. I must have gone 5 times last night (that's gotta be a record). My li'l one must be tapdancing on my bladder, too!
Pash - I can understand how telling your workmates was a bit of a mixed blessing. Exciting, but at the same time, maybe making you feel a little vulnerable. I have felt the same way about sharing my news. I will let you know the kicks make all the difference. I am no longer using my doppler daily. Hope you feel your bubba soon
to Theresa, Hannah, Lee, Easha - hope I have not missed anyone!
AFM - Had a busy week. US last Tuesday to check my cervix - continues to measure the same. Saw my Ob on Friday and he said if it continued to measure the same at the next two US (twice a month), that he would be satisfied the cervix would be classified as low risk. for that outcome. He also confirmed it would be in my best interest to have an elective CS, due to previous 3rd and 4th degree tearing from the forceps delivery of DD. He does not want to risk the very likely chance I would tear again. So I am booked in at 39+3 days... October 13th. Don't much like the number 13, but what can you do ? Then today I had my pre-admission interview with the private hospy. The nurse was great and I am feeling a little reassured I might have a more enjoyable birthing experience this time round.
Sorry to crash your thread but just want to pop in to say 'hello' to my friends WTH and Meredith, I am just soo glad to see you two ploding along and over 22 weeks marks...WTH, already booked in for a cs date, wow, how time flies! I am sure not so much on your end... take care my friends and enjoy the rest of the pregnancy before bub arrives!
erybery - I'm fairly sure normal BP is about 120/60 or so, but I'm not sure what is more important, the top or bottom number. I'd say you are probably OK though, especially if your ob and midwife have not made mention of it being a problem. My ob has made quite a few comments about mine being low, especially seeing as I have had plenty of dizziness. High BP is the main worry though, but like I said I would think that they would tell you if it was a problem.
Chappas Ouch! Hope the uti clears up fast, they're not much fun at the best of times.
Smallfryplus Thanks hun Thooe hosps and obs are ridiculous aren't they, for wanting to be booked in before 6 weeks. What sorts of things are you looking for in a hosp?
WTH Yay! Glad your cervix is still long and hope you move on to low risk. So you have a birthday for bubba?! How exciting! And it's close to the Oct pub hol (isn't it?). How do you feel about going for a c/s? I've noticed that a lot of ladies on BB are disappointed by an emergency c/s, but personally the certainties of an elective c/s sounds kinda comforting to me. My cousin had 2 electives and no horror stories.
Lee Hey hun, how are you going? Hope you're feeling less and less green xo
AFM I am happy to say that I've had no spotting for a week. Hooray! And was able to go get the last of the BTs that go with the NT scan. Get my results in a week
Cuddlepie - you are no crasher - you're most welcome here. So sweet of you to think of Meredith and I . I have been stalking you from time to time on the other threads and can't wait until you are here permanently!
Pash - Thanks for the reassurance about having a CS. I feel okay about having one, especially if bubba is on time. Hip-hooray for no spotting this week and GL with the BT results.
Megsmum - hope you are having a better day today and putting your feet up
OK, finally some time for persies and not feeling so under the weather today, yay! I've felt a bit slack lately but it has just been more than I can handle trying to look at a computer screen let alone type something that makes sense!
WTH - For what its worth, and I know I've already said this but I think you are doing the right thing having the C/S if it feels like the best way to go for you. I know I'm hoping so much to have a better natural birth than I had last time, and TBH still feeling a little nervous about it, but that's what I feel is best for me KWIM? I must admit though the thought of an emergency C/S scares me a little, I don't want to be recovering from an attempt at natural birth as well as a C/S eek!
pash - Yay for no spotting for a week! GL with the NT results I know how you feel about the telling people, I must admit whenever I told someone I thought to myself oh no someone else to tell if things go wrong Glad to hear you bought a sling too, I've only had mine for a month or so, so you have done better than I did!
Smallfry - Hope the drs visit went well. I can't believe (well I can but you KWIM) you have to be booked in before 6 weeks I know my ob fills up pretty fast because he is good, but to have to book into hospital - fair dinkum, I didn't have to do that until 20 something weeks.
chappas - Sorry to hear you have a UTI Hope it clears up for you soon, they are no fun. GL with the 25 week visit!
Well I think that has covered everyone, I hope so anyway! Hi and hope you are well everyone else - Easha, erybery, Greenslw, Lee, Theresa, and anyone I have missed.
AFM, like I said above have been feeling a bit better yesterday and today. But yep taking it easy apart from a little bathroom clean this morning - have a prospective cleaning lady coming over tomorrow and don't want her to think we are total grots LOL I have a chiropractor appt shortly and it is bucketing down rain outside - yuck! - so then I'm going to come home and dye some wool to knit a little cloth nappy cover for bubby - looking forward to it too Have a nice day everyone!
pash/megsmum - the hospital is apparently one of the blueribbon ones in the area and gets booked out incredibly quickly. I didn't really find them all that friendly on the phone so have decided to go with a smaller one that has a really good reputation for their nursing staff. I guess what I'm looking for most is that as I had a very bad experience with the last hospital I gave birth at. The nurses were not even remotely concerned that 2 days after the birth I was still passing very large pieces of placenta after they had apparently confirmed the placenta came out in a single piece... hello!! We all know that can kill you if it stays in an rots!!! Two nurses just brushed me off and it wasn't until one of them saw me at the same time as my ob was around that she finally told him and he went pale and freaked out. So, yeah, going to a hospital one of my girlfriends had two babies at and she can't speak highly enough and I haven't been able to find anything particularly negative about it online either.
pash - can you feel the baby yet?
megsmum - isn't it funny how whenever a cleaner is organised, we have to clean before they arrive?! I so understand that concept! Don't think I know any women who are not like that!!
Megsmum That's exactly what I keep thinking! THat if something goes wrong now, I'll have so many people to tell. And I didn't BUY a sling, I only THOUGHT about buying one Actually, I'm thinking about making one. BTW I can't believe that you have the perfect excues for not cleaning the bathroom (dizziness, pg, paid cleaner coming) and you still did! Glad you've been feeling a bit better.
Smallfryplus Your last hosp sounds downright negligent and dangerous. Glad you've been able to find something with a cleaner reputation. I still can't feel bubba, and still 4 weeks till my next scan...
AFM Today, ppl at work, at lunch and at the pub after, were wanting to chat to me about my pg. All very normal, they were just trying to make conversation. But I just don't know how to be truthful and flippant as ppl expect. I can't tell them that I regularly freak out and still have trouble believing that there's a baby in there, and am more scared than anything else. I just lied and said what I've heard other pg ppl say, like how I miss sushi & red wine, when really, I don't miss anything. Nothing like that seems important, as long as monkey is healthy.
Sorry, but a quick one from me, as I have a class shortly.
Pash - great to see you so far along now.......... the chances of anything untoward happening now are very slim........... try not to go there too much. I'm so glad your bleeding has stopped - you must have popped out by now?
Megsmum - not long for you!! Yah on the cleaner - I'm dying for a housegirl or five!! The only way that can happen is a move to a 3rd worly country! Meantime, I'm chief cook etc etc etc etc!!!
Hi to everyone else!!
I'm starting to feel anxious - have not got my blood results back to get combined nt result. They said it takes a week - and it's a week today. So, I know technically it's not 'overdue' - it's just last time with Remy it took less time, and the time before that, my Ob said he put off calling me for a day or so.....arrrgghhh..... maybe I should just call myself. I hate how your mind goes off wandering into dangerous thoughts.....
Will keep you posted anyway! Good news is my nausea has eased right up, still dog tired, but managaeable!
Lee xo
Update - just called - results are not back yet ..... hate waiting.....
Pash - I know what you mean when people ask you about your pregnancy, you want to have the innocence and excitement but people just don't understand. When I've mentioned how stressed I am with this preg after losing my last people get all weird and make comments like "oh but this one is meant to be, the other one wasn't meant to be!" As if, I miss my angel as much as I'd miss this one, even though I was only pregnant for a short time last time! Big Hugs.
Lee - I hate the wait to. I had to wait for CVS results after being told at 9 weeks my baby had too much nuchal fluid and that they thought it was going to die, I didnt even have to have the blood test to combine with a scan to get my risk, so I know how your feeling hun, hopefully not long now!!!
Smallfry - LOL its crazy cleaning before a cleaning lady arrives I know! But I can't help myself!
pash - I know how hard it is acting like you are having a "normal" pregnancy - there's no such thing for us anymore is there? I wish there were something I could say to help, but you have done so well to get this far. Just keep reminding yourself that this bub will be the one you take home, think positive!
Lee - GL with the results, makes me glad I didn't have the bloods done - I hate the waiting around too DH actually promised me a cleaner for after our second bub when we started to TTC 2 and a half years ago (how naive we were back then!) and I'm planning on holding him to it There's always stuff I'll still have to do, but at least she can take care of bathrooms and dusting and things that I always put off doing LOL
Did a big post yesterday but didn't go through agggh!
Lee - I hope those results come in soon. Surely your OB would know to call you ASAP this time around
Pash - hugs to you darl. I know exactly how you feel. Even though I'm more than halfway, have a huge belly and a fairly active bubba... I still can't get my head around there being a possible child in there. Talking to paople who don't know the "full story" can be so uncomfortable. Sometimes I just say that the pregnancy has been quite complicated so that people kind of stop asking much more
megsmum - glad you are feeling a touch better. At least you can now manage your dizziness, knowing its just BP issues
WTH - Glad all going well at your end and that your cervix is behaving. The whole c/s issure really comes down to what is best for you and baby and what you feel comfortable with. At least you have a birthday picked planned.
Can't believe your DD is still in the dark! You must be very good at avoidance talk. My DS knows full well what an u/s shows and what hides inside big bellies!
AFM - just feeling like a sad sack lately. Baby is active and conractions seem to be mostly under control ( at least this week) but I'm still not overjoyed. Its hard right now because I'm so close to her being "viable" if born but still not there quite yet. All the side effects from meds are gtting to me too.
I seriously have barely any hair left ... people must think I'm having chemo. Plus the worst acne ever. I don't even want to show my face in public
Today finally saw a pg physio for help with my failing pelvic floor and all the pains etc. Seems most is reffered from a stuffed lower back but i also tested positive for pelvic instability. So am now wearing a support band and supposed to be icing all my bits. Darn body is just falling apart!!
Megsmum - Thanks for your helpful reply to my post about listeria this morning. It was actually pre-produced guac. so not like your much safer homemade job. Yours certainly would have tasted better LOL. Anyway, I wasn't sure, but still had some. Now I am kicking myself for not following my intuition!
Meredith - Glad you have had an "event-less" week, but sorry to read the meds are understandably getting you down. Is the hair loss from the predisinone? Winter time is a good time for hats. Maybe you could get a nice trendy felt hat at an arty market until you stop taking the meds and it all returns (which it will ) I also saw a physio to help with some pelvic floor issues and she has ordered me a support band. Yeah, feeling better and better about a CS. I did a complete drug-free natural birth with DD (except for the last-minute forceps). I was very passionate about doing things naturally that time, but there ended up being a few problems. My recovery took longer than a CS This time I have been told, due to prior damage, that with vaginal birth I have a very high chance of tearing and 50% chance of incontinence problems in my twilight
years. Would rather not go there on either count.
Lee - for your NT results. Surely can't be long to wait now...
Pash - you're posts are like an echo in my mind. I agree totally. As if giving up wine and sushi is any big deal compared to the goal at the end of 40 weeks! I continue to feel uncomfortable talking about my pregnancy. I find myself saying "hopefully" and "if this all works out" every time I discuss it with family. To strangers, I tend to go off tangent and change the subject at lightning speed.
AFM - a little knackered from some home improvements and sleeping on a sofa bed. Boy does my shoulder get numb sleeping on my side. Also feeling a little paranoid about listeria (I started a thread on it). Looking forward to a little R&R on Sunday.
Hi girls - still don't have the damm results ........... grrrrrr ............. will now have to wait all weekend, what a pain.
Meredith - in 4 months time your body will be your own again, and I'm sure everything that's fallen off will come back again!!! My DH got me a facial called "rescue my face" lol - had it the other day, and walked out plucked, tinted and polished - that combined with a haircut - and I was starting to feel semi-normal - just a suggestion?
Pash - it just depends who you are talking too, doesn't it, as to how much you can say/or want to say. I often don't tell people about Luc, just because I don't need to complicate a simple conversation iykwim - but other times I go there big time, and almost just wait to see how they deal with it. Most people are pretty understanding. But I had a shocker when I was nearly ready to give birth to Remy - I ran into a lady I knew from years ago (she now lives in Tassie) - I had seen her when we first came here, and I was very pregnant with Luc. Well I know she heard that he had died, but I never heard from her (didn't really bother me). And when I ran into her at a work function of DH's - she came up to me and said "how are you, and did you get over all that business". Could have slapped her then and there. Thinking on my feet - I said "no, I have not gotten over the death of my son, and I don't ever expect too". She looked terribly embarassed after that, and I just moved on. Some people just don't know how to say the right thing - but really for gods sake "that business". Off my soapbox now.
Hi to everyone else - better go and the little one's are getting restless!
Hi all, few days away from the forum and I feel like I've missed so much.
Pash for no more spotting it can be so scary.... I hated it.
Lee fingers crossed for you.
WTH I'm glad you're sleeping better, listeria is so scary and it's everywere
MeridithD oh that sounds so unconfortable for you I hope you have lots of good support my thoughts are with you.
MegsMum oh your craft sounds so nice. I"m looming atm but it's taking SOOOOOOO long, but it will be ready for bubs.
ATM I'm at work bummer, everyone was sick so instead of having an early minute from my teaching job I came into my other job for the afternoon. It was nice and quiet but really just want to go home. Going to officially tell my brother and sister in law tonight. Really excited. DP has decided not to tell his parents bit confused but I'm sure I'll get to the bottom of it..... Super slooth away......
Hope you have a happy and healthy 9 months.
to WTH,Hannah,Lee,Theresa,Easha and anyone else ive missed
I'm sure I'll get to know everyone in coming months
Doing the same and YES! Definitely getting fatter by the minute. I have put on more than 6.5kgs since 10 weeks. Loving showing off my big mama belly in public, though I am finding the maternity fashion a bit daggy (and the Winter wear cold - everything seems to be 3/4 sleeves). DD STILL doesn't know. She has attended every appointment, including the fortnightly US. I guess because she went to so many in the past and they did not amount to anything, she has no expectations (we did not tell her about the other PG's either). She definitely has noticed my belly, but has not put 2+2 together.
for that outcome. He also confirmed it would be in my best interest to have an elective CS, due to previous 3rd and 4th degree tearing from the forceps delivery of DD. He does not want to risk the very likely chance I would tear again. So I am booked in at 39+3 days... October 13th. Don't much like the number 13, but what can you do 
? Then today I had my pre-admission interview with the private hospy. The nurse was great and I am feeling a little reassured I might have a more enjoyable birthing experience this time round.
take care my friends and enjoy the rest of the pregnancy before bub arrives! 
for no spotting this week and GL with the BT results.
Hope it clears up for you soon, they are no fun. GL with the 25 week visit!
for no more spotting it can be so scary.... I hated it.
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