Hi ladies! I've finally been able to get my internet connection to work long enough to post! (ADSL only recently became available to us, but even though it's faster with ten times the download limit it's so much less reliable than the dirty old wireless broadband that we had recently. SO annoying!)
Ok, internet rant over... How are we all? Hope you had a lovely Christmas!
Welcome lalalollipop. What do you know, I share the same short-ass gene as you!
I'm very happy to hear you've seen a heartbeat, and I hope your next scan - only 4 days away now! - brings you good news too! I hope your DH is doing a lot better now as well. I'm sure 'relaxing and enjoying' Christmas was the last thing you were able to do after being told such a thing, but I'm so happy you got to see that little flicker! I hope we get to see the same thing too.
I'll share my story, as requested
{The other ladies have all already heard it so feel free to skip this rambling paragraph Loulla, Fairey and Marylou - since you've heard about it all many a time!} I was spotting constantly right from 7dpo with my last pregnancy (also my first). I only experienced the slightest bit of symptoms at about 4 and a half weeks for a couple of days before they were gone, and I thought I was lucky because of it! At 6 weeks I had a scan because of the spotting (4 separate GPs told me it was "common but not normal/extended implantation bleeding"), and showed only 5 weeks, but they waived away my concerns and told me I probably just had my LMP wrong (though I couldn't forget the date easily as it was my birthday!). I was told to come back a couple of weeks later. I made my appointment for 9 weeks, but my spotting had turned to bleeding that morning so I knew it was going to be bad. When there was nothing really visible on the screen, and he asked to do an internal instead, I almost refused, as I didn't see the point. But in the end, the internal scan showed I was still only showing 5 weeks, despite the US tech joking that our baby was probably just hiding. I think he was one of those people that resorted to joking in awkward situations because as we were leaving the room, with me sobbing, he patted me on the back and told me there were plenty more baby fish in the sea! It's stuck in my head, for some reason. I was so close to punching him because of it, I think! Anyway, this was the 9th of October, and after seeing an OBGYN on the morning of the 14th (not sure why my GP made the appt 5 days later), I had a D&C that night. That afternoon I'm quite certain I experienced a natural MC, but I went ahead with the D&C just to be sure it was all done. Lots of bad memories there, but at least I found myself a nice OBGYN and hospital! To wrap up my ramble, we were lucky enough to fall pregnant again in my first proper cycle after the D&C, and I'm 6 weeks today
Loulla I had to have a bit of a giggle about your MIL. We're going to have an interesting time there I think too! What silly demands - it's amazing how people can make things all about themselves! I do hope she doesn't cause too much stress for you, and settles down a bit (a lot!) in the coming months! We told DH's family on Christmas Day too. My mum already knew, and she's my whole family so that was easy
The MIL was kind of excited, but there wasn't really any talk about it at all. She hugged us, asked when the due date was, and that was it. Having said that, we got in trouble years ago for being engaged before his older sister so I guess I wasn't expecting too much. Speaking of: the SIL just said "yeah, we were kind of expecting that" and BIL (4 years younger and mega immature) just got the sh*ts and left because the focus wasn't on him anymore. I think my mum was itching to talk grandma stuff with MIL, but it didn't really happen. Ohhhh, it's going to be interesting!!
Oh, and you're right! We're in Bris and it's revoltingly sticky most of the time, which is much of the reason I'm very excited to have a Winter bub on board. I can't imagine being in late pregnancy dealing with the Qld summer. Pretty horrible I imagine! I'll be thinking of you on the 11th - I bet you're counting down! I can't wait to hear how you go. Three good scans so far must mean good things
Fairey I hope you're enjoying Vanuatu! I can't wait to hear how you went when you're back
One half of me is hoping you were plagued by symptoms, since that's usually reassuring, but then the other half hopes you were fairly symptom-free so you could enjoy your holiday. Ah, this early pregnancy biz... Fun times!
MaryLou I'm so glad you found your way here. I did send you a message about it but no doubt it got lost by my wonderful internet connection. I never got to see a heartbeat in any of my US's either so hopefully we both have much better luck this time around! My first US will be three days after yours on the 13th. I should be about 8 weeks then. Hoping we both get to see those little flickers! And yes I'm totally on the mantra: stick baby stick!! Big hugs to you too
So, I'm 6 weeks today. The past few days I've been queasy for much of the day, but I haven't actually been sick. I almost feel like I'd feel better if I just did once! The thought of eating makes my stomach turn, but I always feel much better when I do of course, so I might have to try the whole thing about 5/6 smaller meals through the day to help with the nausea. I didn't have any nausea last time around so that's a small kind of twisted comfort at least! I feel bad when DH is out slaving in the garden and I'm flat out on the couch having a 'woe is me' moment, but he's been great about it at least! I had a whopper headache yesterday and the day before too. You know the kind when everything's just too glarey and you have to keep yourself perfectly still or it pounds? That's usually the point where I'd reach for the Nurofen but there was none of that of course! I just tried to rest up and drink plenty of cold water. Oh, and I've had hugely tender breasts for 2 weeks straight now, when it only lasted a couple of days last time. My nipples are even a bit bigger, which makes these pancakes look mighty funny!
Finally, I'm trying not to be concerned that I've had some very light spotting over the past couple of days, (but my 8 weeks of straight spotting last time is haunting me of course). This morning when it was still there I was feeling really quite negative about it, but this afternoon I've calmed down a bit and am trying to lean more towards the more optimistic side, thinking of all the ways the GPs explained it away last time. It's still nothing like before, so maybe it really is just a of old blood finally making its way out. Such a charming way to put it but I guess that's it! My US is exactly two weeks away, so I really hope it goes away quickly and I'm not dealing with it for that whole time...
Right, no doubt I was really needing to talk about all this since I've just written soooo much, so please excuse my me-me essay! Do write back with some massively whingey posts to get me back for it
Stick babies, stick!
Pg with #1 after M/c BG #1
26/12/2011, 09:04 AM
Its a specialist US clinic, so I'm hoping the date discrepancy was just the crappy old hospital equipment (first scan was at the EPAS clinic at RPA in Sydney). Either that or the baby has inherited mine and DH's short-ass gene!
