Oh no minnie! I was so hoping you had at last got your dream pg! I hope it's one of those early pg things where things are still a bit hard to predict but can still turn out ok. WIshing for good news for you. I'm sorry x
WBM: good news on the fluid being just the weather. Glad you still have the birthing options you would like. And hope you are enjoying your little rib tickler! I find the kicking and wriggling under the ribs makes me squirm!
EmilyJames: Congrats on your BFP! I certainly felt very nervous before every ultrasound this time and can only imagine what you are going through. My OB (who has his own machine) was kind enough to let me come in as often as i wanted until i felt more confident. Would you be able to see your Dr more frequently for reassurance (as WBM also suggested?)
Cheshire: clever Bambi, in position already! Hope she stays there!
Alish: enjoy your work send off tomorrow night! Yay! And IKWYM about fluid: I don't have that issue this time but i had little 'tyres' of fluid round my ankles in late pg with DD. Not very attractive but my ankles came back not long after I had DD!
Oh MM - I feel awful for you, what is the plan from here? I hope and pray that there are still sticky vibes around your little person and send you all the love and in the world.
PM - I'm not feeling completely full of baby yet (like I'm sure you are), so the kicking doesn't bother me yet - give me another 10 weeks and I'm sure I'll be like "oh stop it already"
Had a good night's sleep and looking forward to a good day today.
MM I am so sorry you have to go through this again please know we are here to love and support you xxxx.
Today is my angel's EDD and I feel... Nothing. Maybe it's cause I'm sick and exhausted, but when I have made an effort to think about it, all the sadness I had expected to rise up from the depths isn't there. So now I feel guilty that I don't feel anything... IYKWIM?
Phee - I hope this makes you feel better. As you know, our angels have the same EDD. I had forgotten until you posted. So obviously there hasn't been an overwhelming sadness here either. I don't know why - it still comes sometimes, but I guess it's not attached to a specific date (I had the same the year after my Dad died, the date didn't seem to be particularly poignant).
Now that I remember it (or have been reminded), I think I will still go shopping this afternoon and buy baby a guardian angel, as the angel who made way for this life will always be looking over her. Sending you a big hug Phee your angel and your Buggle are lucky to have a Mummy who loves them!
Hi girls- some of you know me, well after a lot of effort I finally got my a few days ago and I am on cloud nine!!
Looking forward to catching up with old and new friends, I have decided that this pregnancy is going to make it so only thinking positive thoughts here, even though Dh and my mum are more guarded, which is natural.
Scan in 3 weeks, to see a HB, then discharged from IVF clinic!
First of all - Saffy - congratulations again!!!! I am so very pleased to see you here. I have been following your journey for quite a while now, so this BFP feels very personal. I have decided also that this time your bub is going to make it :-)
Minniemouse - if you are still reading: I am so sad to read about your scan. I want to say that a heartbeat at this rate this early is normal, and everything still may be ok, but I do not want to just say things to make you feel better. We both know it may be ok, but it may not be also. I understand how after all you have been through you need a break from all babt stuff. Take care of yourself, but I will still hope that you will come back in a week or two with good news.
pheebe - you feel nothing because you are already pregnant with the next. After my first m/c I cried first daily, then weekly until I got pregnant again. And then ****! the sadness disappeared. Part of it is the happy pregnancy hormones. Another part, for me at least, is that after m/c I felt like I will never have a baby, and I felt very empty inside. Whent I got pregnant, at least this part of sadness went away. I still think about my lost baby, but not quite with the same despair.
AFM - had my 20-week ultrasound and it did not go that well. Looks like my little girl has something called multicystic dyspalstic kidney. In normal English it means she only has one functioning kidney. Next scan in 4 weeks, but at this point they just want to make sure the other kidney stays healthy because if not, well, I do not even want to think about "if not".
Angelfish- I'm sure you'll be happy whether you find out the sex or not as long as you get to see a nice healthy bub on the screen
Luna- Sorry to hear about the scan. Thinking positively for you both that the other kidney does just fine. May not help the stress much but my Uncle was born with only one good kidney and it hasn't affected his life much if at all
Saffy and EJ- Woohoo congratulations sending all my sticky vibes to you and everyone else in here since I don't need them anymore (would rather this bub out lol)
Phebee and WBM- I'm sure your lil angels are looking over these new bubs since they couldn't stay themselves.
India's Mum, Cheshire, Alish and anyone else I have missed- How are you all going?
AFM- In my shower bath on my fit ball trying to encourage bub out lol. Officially in early labour after being monitored earlier but doesn't mean too much to me since DS was such a long early labour. Just makes me even more eager to get him or her out... After s/he decided to get out of the posterior position that my lil one wriggled into while hooked up to the ctg monotor lol. Either want to go on the 7th or the 13th so hurry up baby
Luna - my uncle too only has one kidney and it hasn't stopped him doing anything, that the other kidney remains healthy.
PM - so exciting! Only a week to go looking out for your BA
Damp - even more exciting to be in early labour I hope things go really well for you in the next day or so Glad bubs is out of the posterior position!
Saffy - welcome! How wonderful for you to get your BFP - good luck for your upcoming scan, may you see a lovely strong heartbeat!
angel - good luck for your upcoming scan, whether you find out or not, hope all is good in there
Cheshire, India's Mum - how are you going? In the boring stage of pg like me, nothing to report? Hope so, a boring pregnancy's a good pregnancy!
I'm nearly through a busy weekend, Mary Kay party friday night, hairdresser and my brother's 30th yesterday, and I have a baby shower today must get around to piping the chocolate tarts and cleaning the house a bit (DH's family are coming around while I'm out)
Oops, sorry, I really need to check my spelling, just a lil had on my phone. Meant to say after s/he decides* to get out of the posterior position lol. So not having another posterior birth, already been killing my back and DS's labour was soooo long and difficult because of it.
If this bub is anything like big bro, it could take more than a few days of early labour before active labour starts lol.
WBM- I think the 'boring' stage is awesome. Everyone has calmed down and you get to spend time with your belly and all its wriggliness lol.
Yays on the baby shower, I'm tempting fate and having mine Sunday the 14th... If I make it lol
just popping into say hello and i miss u all and thinking of everyone....wish i was pregnant again so i could come in here lol lol...
ariana is going well....she is tiny compared to dd..she sleeps pretty good and is feeding better
dads had a bad turn for the worst and has another tumor and is in hospital....so its not looking great....luckily i have my beautiful dd by my side to keep me going.....
thankyou for your thoughts im sorry im slack at personals but just wanted to update you and ask you your thoughts....
im just so confused and in limbo, it seems im still pregnant but the numbers aren't going up as they should, they were 14800 last wednesday and today was 19515, dr is cautious, basically saying it is still viable and growing but if it slow it might mean there is a problem. she has said to have a scan 2 weeks after the first which isn't for another 9 days.
i just don't know what to think, i really thought it was all over and now i don't know what to think, don't know if there is any hope and don't want to get my hopes up only to find them crushed in a few days, i have cried for days over this and it doesn't look like i will know much more anytime soon *sigh* why is it so hard
Minnie: I'm wishing so hard for you that the news will be good but I understand why you are scared to hope when the doctors aren't giving you 100% reassurance. I've been told that in general there is a range for heartrate and size that they expect to see at certain points in the first trimester and they get worried if you are measuring more than a few days behind. (I think size and HR tells them more than HCG levels?) But even with these there might be some variation? If only it wasn't such a terrible waiting game.... I'll be thinking of you and hoping for good news. Could you get a scan done after one week (instead of waiting two) or does the doctor think it won't give you enough information?
Minnie~ i am sending you long distance hugs. Maybe if the dr thinks that two weeks would show better maybe you could have two with in the two weeks. If you explain how stressful this is on you.
AFM~ on the 11th i have my morph scan I wish that the day would get her soon but i am scared to have it done if that makes sence
Angelfish- I know exactly what you mean. Scans are almost always scary to me. Only time I haven't been sh*tting myself, was todays scan. So exciting to see bub but there is that huge worry of the "what ifs" and there are so many to list. I hope everything goes well and bub is growing great with everything in perfect working order
Minniemouse- Still sending sticky vibes your way and hope your little bub shows improvement at your next scan
Melster- Glad to hear your lil one is doing so well and sorry to hear about your Dad.
PM- How much longer now? Sorry, I keep asking, my memory is crod and I can't see sigs on my phone.
AFM- Another long one. Ended up at the hossy yesterday thanks to the biggest bleed this pregnancy. Scared the daylights outta me but turns out it was just my bloody show lol. Sometimes instead of being all mucousy, it can be an actual bleed. I had no idea that the mucous plug and bloody show can be different things. Apparently, there are two different parts of the cervix. Spotting mostly brown (old blood) today as well as some pink mucous which is apparently the mucous from between the sac and uterus. So much weird stuff I knew nothing about lol.
Had another growth scan today and wowza, bub appears to be putting on 1.5pounds every 2weeks instead 1pound every 2weeks. They recon that bub is about 8pounds/3.6kgs now. Also my water levels are fantastic! Last fornight they measured in at 11cm and today 21cm! So totally nothing to stress about anymore
It has come time to set up a management plan because of bub's size. Not gonna make it 40+weeks as it'll be too high of a risk for a c-section. Doing what I can to naturally bring labour on naturally and if that doesn't work, I'll be getting a stretch and sweep next Tuesday as well as chosing an induction date for within that next week. Means that I'll be having this bub between 38 and 39weeks unless I go this week. Nervous, scared and so excited all at once. Less than 2weeks and I hold my baby on my arms! Guess I'd better get those bags packed lol.
MM - thinking of you honey, what a horrible position to be in - limbo is a pretty apt description! If you can't hang out another 9 days, insist on a scan before that I reckon. Lots of coming your way!
JJ - Don't let him have the vasectomy yet! Not if he's changing his mind in a week, I reckon give it at least 12-18 months before he does something drastic, what if he changes his mind further down the track! There'll always be somewhere you belong on here - there are plenty of parenting threads (not that I'm trying to get rid of you).
angel - good luck for your morphology scan, hope it's all good
PM - hope all's good on your end!
Cheshire - like me, no news is good news
Damp - that would have freaked me out too! Glad all is well in there, sounds like bubs is ready to make an arrival soon which is exciting
Again, nothing new here - sooooo much movement, this little one is VERY active which is lovely. Also means you freak out if it doesn't move for an hour (lol), but still lovely to have company all the time. We've just finished our census form, so DS got to get counted for the first time which is exciting Although when asked how well he speaks English... lol he's not quite 2!
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please know we are here to love and support you xxxx.
a few days ago and I am on cloud nine!!
so excited for you!!
that the other kidney remains healthy.
looking out for your BA
im sorry im slack at personals but just wanted to update you and ask you your thoughts....
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