Hi ladies. Sorry I've been away, but I forgot to subscribe to the new thread.
Sue -- I'm sorry to hear that the frostie didn't make it. I know you were looking forward to that opportunity. Try to have a relaxing month and take care of your body and soul. But I know it's hard to not think about babies and TTC -- it consumes us. I understand your feelings about the friend's pregnancy as well. It's not easy for us to see everyone else "passing us by" and not just once but sometimes twice. It has been an epidemic here, where only one couple in our circle of friends had a child before we started to TTC, and in the short time since we have now become the last who are not parents or ready to pop. Those closest friends, the ones who already had a child, had their second in June, and she was confused when I still refused to tell her what names we'd picked out for our baby. I explained that it's possible that she will have another before we manage to have one, and I think that's when she realized the difference between how she thinks after having two uncomplicated pregnancies, both of which she became pregnant on the first month's try, and how someone in my situation thinks.
Hammi -- good for you on your decision to start TTC soon! I'm proud of you. We'll be here for you.
Helen -- yes, it is natural to count those weeks. I do it when I see a big pregnant belly walking around, and I think, "I would have been bigger." And I understand that it doesn't stop after the EDD. Some day we might think, "he would have been 5 years old today," but hopefully we will be able to hug our little earth babies after thinking that.
I've been having it a bit shaky. I had a big, sudden bleed on Friday and went into emergency. I have a haematoma that she says was likely caused by my placenta being placed entirely over the inner cervical opening ("placenta previa" if it persists, but it's usually not detected this early at all). Baby looks fine, doctor sounded optimistic, placenta previa usually corrects itself before full term (otherwise a C-section is mandatory), but I'm so scared. It's just more and more deja vu. With Beiron I had a haematoma at 14 weeks that caused this kind of bleeding, all the doctors said it was just bloody fine and dandy... but it wasn't okay. And as I understand it from my constant idiotic googling, an early haematoma is more dangerous. So I'm terrified terrified right now, after being pretty okay with it over the weekend.
Edit to update on this: my midwife has booked me in for a follow-up on Friday and another in a couple weeks, so I am really getting the frequent flier miles between here and the clinics! I feel better today, less panicky.
And I have a question that's been bugging me for months, guys! What does the D in DH, DD, DS etc. stand for?
Last edited by Tildy; August 25th, 2008 at 09:56 PM.
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