Any summer 2016 babies?

[JJay]

Yay Dimmu that's lovely news! Our heartbeat was 173 so very similar! I am so relieved - I'm definitely not planning any more after this one but I wouldn't have such an early scan again, they're obviously not that accurate and it just caused me to worry.

Sorry your party didn't go too well, I ended up telling one colleague who had guessed anyway as soon as I ordered a lime and soda. How was your party Miss B?

Eva have you had another scan yet?

How are you doing TLk?

 

[dimmu]

Glad to hear the heart rate is almost the same! Trying to upload a pic from my phone, it's not very clear but you can see a little arm and leg buds, the baby was waving its arms, so amazing how developed they are so early on!

Sorry the picture is enormous but can't work out how to make it smaller on my phone!


https://i1322.photobucket.com/albums/u564/hmh3101/20151212_162423_zps9tco4hyh.jpg

 

[JJay]

Wow Dimmu your pic is amazing! So clear, it's lovely to be able to see arms and legs. Mine is much blurrier- I have a feeling that might be something to do with my mummy tummy. The tech also commented that my bladder didn't seem very full - even though I felt like I was bursting! She said she could see baby wiggling but I didn't see it.

 

[Miss Bellum]

Evening ladies hope everyone is well.

Left LG with my auntie last night so OH & I could go to our work parties. I loved the planetarium show found it very entertaining. The drinks left something to be desired though, it was champagne or water. The party started at 7 and they didn’t open the bar until 9 and then the only soft drink available was coke. Pretty lousy for non-drinkers! I just told everyone I drove in case I needed to leave quickly and no-one really paid any attention.

The food was a bit weird - it was a buffet with some hot turkey/ham and potatoes then salad, cold rice, cheese crackers and bread. No veggies at all! Had to dash out early though as my LG was having a melt down and screamed for an hour! My aunt did her best but she was worried LG would make herself ill. In all honesty I was pretty pleased to have an excuse to slope off early.

Dimmu - Hope the scan when OK. shamethe party didn’t go so well. I do wonder why your boss felt the need to comment on your not-drinking to anyone else. Sorry you are still having ms - I had a fairly rough today as well. Lets hope its clears for us both soon.

Great news the scan showed everything was ok, must be so reassuring. What a fab picture.

JJ - Fab news, so pleased the scan shows everything is ok xx Aside from telling your colleague, hope your party was fun. Mine wasn’t so great, but at least I got to see the planetarium show.

 

[eva1978]

Hi everyone, sorry for my silence the last few days. DH has been working nights all this week so I'm mostly on my own with the kids... since he needs to sleep during much of the day. That + feeling the pregnancy hormones making me extra tired has been a bit draining. So glad I'm not feeling too ill on top of all of that (just a bit nauseated).

Welcome TLK! I hope you can get some results soon for reassurance. Hugs.

Dimmu - ugh sorry about the party experience. I can't believe your boss... how nosey! I hope it doesn't lead to any annoying drama/stress at work for you. Sorry you still feel so rotten, too Your scan pic looks great though!!!

JJay - yay your scan also looks awesome! Congrats! It must feel quite relieving

Miss B - no veggies at the dinner? What? LOL! What did they show at the planetarium show? Sounds pretty cool.

I did try my doppler a couple of nights ago. After careful slow moving around my lower abdomen I found the HB! It was pretty faint and only had it for about a minute but HB was around 160 bpm. Felt so good to find it of course I want to try again now... since I just had a small glob of brown cm when I went to the bathroom (TMI). No cramping, and I know it's normal to spot a bit of brown in the first trimester, but I didn't do that with my two kids so I'm just a tad nervous about it. Hopefully I can find the HB again today/tonight once kids are in bed.

No I didn't have another scan yet, but I think I'll make an appt for this week. At that stage if all is OK I might tell my dad who will be visiting in late December. He knows about my previous miscarriage (as do my in-laws), but this time we've decided to wait a bit longer before letting anyone know.

Hope everyone is having a good weekend!

 

[eva1978]

Just a quick update - DH took the boys shopping so I could have a bit of time to myself. I managed to find the HB again, yay The doppler measures around 150 bpm (hard to get a lock)... but when I measure the rate myself using sound + a timer, I get around 175 bpm - close to JJay and dimmu!

 

[Miss Bellum]

Eva - Sounds pretty tiring! Glad you are feeling pretty well. Great news on the HB. In the planetarium, you sit inside a giant dome and they bring up 3-D images of the stars, galaxies and planets. They showed us where stars are born, their toddler years, middle age and end of their life. They also showed us the surface of Jupiter and its moons along with some of the more well know constellations.

 

[dimmu]

Hello everyone, apologies again that I'm not that active here these days. My nausea and MS is still pretty relentless and I seem to have very low energy levels, just tired all the time, even typing is too much!!

Miss B, the planetarium sounds cool, just a shame about the food and drink! Glad to hear your nausea is now under control. Did you have your booking in yet?

Eva, that's great about the heartbeat! Have you had any more brown cm? It's pretty common to have it during the first trimester I understand. When's your next scan?

I keep getting lots of little twinges and short stabby pains in my tummy, I guess that's still round ligament pain. It seems to come when I sit still for a long time, or if I do something sudden like sneeze really hard.
I had my second midwife appointment today, but that was just for the results of the blood tests so took like five minutes. The next appointment will be my 12 week scan on new year's day.
I really wish my nausea would get better by xmas but not having my hopes up, it just would be so nice to be able to enjoy all the food without feeling sick. I also don't know how I'm gonna be able to cope with cooking, just can't do it these days. Poor DD is living on ready meals and easy pasta dishes, although she doesn't seem to mind!! We ate out over the weekend as well as I just didn't have the energy/will to cook, not really helping with my plans to save lots of money before I start maternity leave!!!!

 

[Miss Bellum]

My first baby brain moment today! Dropped LG off at nursery today and was so pleased it went well, she was happy & smiling. Went to collect her this evening and found our buggy was soaking wet where it had been left out in the rain. OH was pretty annoyed and spoke to the staff as thought someone had pulled out our buggy by mistake and left it. However it turned out that I left it out this morning and it was noticed by a staff in the afternoon and put away to prevent it getting wetter. Oops!


Dimmu - Sorry to hear you are still having a rough time of it, hope you are feeling better soon.

I had a pre-booking appointment but it was pretty much a waste of time, just going through some leaflets. I don’t get my booking appointment until January when I will be 11 weeks. At least I was able to put in my scan request though. The other ladies at the session werent so lucky!

Its tough to try and cook when you feel poorly. Hopefully you can make up it up in 2nd trimester. It does get pricey to eat out a lot.

 

[JJay]

Hi everyone,

Haha love your baby brain story Miss B! Mine has never recovered from DD and DS - I'm always forgetting things. 11 weeks seems late for your booking appointment but at least you might get your scan date through before Christmas

Eva, so exciting you're hearing the hb on your Doppler - I think I might try mine again this week. The original scan I booked is Saturday morning but I don't feel the need for it after just having one last weekend. I've paid £30 deposit but will save £69 if we don't go. If I can get the hb on my Doppler I think I'll give it a miss.

Sorry to hear you're still feeling rotten Dimmu. I am also getting the round ligament pain and I've noticed my clothes are getting tighter. I can't hold my tummy in as I get the ligament pain and am so bloated most of the time that I look around 4 months pregnant already and am having to go for floaty tops and leggings.

I've been thinking a lot about the NIPT testing. A clinic bearish to me does the UK versions IONA and genisis for £395 and results are back in 3-5 days. I'm thinking of going for it next week. I was going to wait and see what happened at the 12 week scan but I'm thinking it will likely come back highish risk due to my age and then I'll probably get the test done anyway but have the worry in between.

 

[Miss Bellum]

Jjay - Its hard to know what to do for the best with tests. Last time, mine came back as high risk and I was so stressed by it. We talked it over and decided we would want to give our lo a chance whatever the risk and didn’t want to take chances with further investigations. Having got to that conclusion last time, we decided as our views havent changed we wont bother with tests at all and will just have a dating scan. But I can see why it would be good to know about any potential issues earlier to have more time to consider how to deal with them. Good luck what ever you decide.

 

[dimmu]

Haha loving the baby brain story Miss B! Shame that the pre booking appointment was a waste of time.

JJay I'm the same with the extra test, feeling quite torn. I was gonna wait until after the NHS scan and decide based on that, but the clinic where I had my viability scan last week does a bundle deal where you can have the viability + harmony done for £400 but you have to do them before 11 weeks. If you wait until after 12 weeks it's gonna cost £500 for harmony alone. DH is quite keen to get it done, he works for social services and says there has been so many funding cuts with disabled and people with learning difficulties in recent years. He's worried we actually couldn't cope with a disabled child as we have no family here to support us and we both have to work to pay the mortgage etc.

ETA: I think I've decided against the Harmony test at this point. We could just do without the extra cost right now, and I'm also struggling to find the time to have it done before 11 weeks. I think that if the results from the NT scan are alarming I'll look into perhaps having the panorama test done which is supposed to be even more accurate.
Do you happen to know if we as more mature expecting mothers will automatically get a "high risk" result from the NHS scan because of our age?

 

[JJay]

It's a difficult one and I've been in two minds as well. We didn't do any testing with DD and DS as I wasn't aware of harmony etc and didn't want to do an amino or CVS so decided against the NT scan in case I got a high risk result and then worried for the remaining 6 months!

My risk for downs at 39 is 1:110. At 12 weeks (if you want) they will test blood and measure nuchal fold. The way I understand it is that if these come back as average then the risk would remain 1:110 however if any are higher than normal the risk would increase, lower than normal and the risk would look better. Anything over 1:150 is classed as high risk so even with average results I will already be high risk. I guess it makes no difference really as if there is something wrong it's already decided so these are just figures!

I had decided to go for the NT testing this time and then get harmony if I was worried by the figures, however I've now decided to save myself the potential worry and get the testing done ASAP. Im booked in next Wednesday afternoon for bloods and hope to have the replay the following week. Hopefully will get the all clear and if so I will probably not bother with the NT at all.

 

[Holliems]

Hey everyone! Just got done reading the thread from start to finish! Whew! It's a long one.

Time is going by so slow for me. I've been super nervous about this pregnancy. Maybe because of my age? Maybe because on this site, m/c seems to happen quite often. I don't remember what it feels like to be pregnant so I analyze every twinge or lack of symptoms. So far, no ms. And I've been having a dull ache around my right ovary for days. Last night I had pretty strong AF cramps. My first scan is at 7 weeks. It can't come soon enough!

 

[Miss Bellum]

Hi everyone hope you are all well. Still feeling sick a lot and think I am coming down with a cold boo

Dimmu - Its such a tough choice to make and the tests are so expensive. They do automatically rate you higher rate the older you are. With my first, the NT fold was actually not too bad but my age bumped me into high risk, 1:40. Turned out to be fine.

Jjay - Good luck with the scan, hope it can help put your mind at rest.

Holliems - I know a few ladies in real life who discovered losses at 9 & 12 weeks and it does make you worry. I think on-line there are so many more ladies that it seems like there are a lot more losses. First trimester is always difficult. At least you don’t have long to wait for a scan, hope it goes well for you.

 

[eva1978]

Holliems good luck on your upcoming scan. Those first 6-8 weeks are indeed some of the toughest emotionally I think. I also think that more ladies share their stories about losses vs. those with normal pregnancies. If everything is going great (or at least you think it is) you're less likely to google things and wind up at places like this (which are great... but yes, a lot of freaky/sad stories).

JJay let us know if you have luck with the doppler HB! The first couple of times it took me 10-15 mins but just now I found it in 10 seconds! Just hard to get a lock on it. I'm 10w1d. All the best for your booking coming up. So far no more scans booked until Dec 30.
When I was 35 and preggo with DS2 I did some tests for genetic issues, and the probability came back very low (about 1/2000.... the "age" probability was about 1/250). So I guess it depends on the tests they do, but with certain tests maternal age *does not* automatically put you in the high-risk category.
Miss Bellum wow 1/40 seems crazy and must have been very stressful... great that all turned out to be fine. Sorry about the wet buggy!

dimmu - I also get some pain when I sneeze or move suddenly. I'm also finding it hard to get energized to cook a full-on meal. I'm lucky DH likes to cook! Hope you start feeling better before that Christmas meal!

Is anyone doing a big holiday dinner/feast? We haven't planned anything yet.... should probably get on that!

 

[Miss Bellum]

Eva - We are going to my mum's for Christmas so can take things fairly easy. Just need to get cracking on the wrapping.

 

[dimmu]

We have my two aunts staying over, one of them has two little dogs as well so will be a full house as our place is only small. I'm kind of hoping they'd take care of most of the cooking as I'm really not feeling it, still too nauseous. Haven't done any food shopping yet, gonna have to do that this weekend.

 

[JJay]

Hi everyone, we've got a busy time coming up. DH and I are both out at separate things tonight. Monday we go to center parcs for 2 nights then to the inlaws and back home on Christmas Eve afternoon. We're going to my parents on Christmas afternoon. Lots of traveling around but I'm happy driving as I can't drink anyway and at least I have no cooking to do! I'm planning to stock the fridge with m&s party food tomorrow to keep us going over the holidays.

I decided not to bother with the scan today and save the £69 though I have been feeling a little wobbly as I can't find the hb on my Doppler. I found it with DS from 9 weeks. I know it is still early so I'm trying not to stress. I think I'll have another go later.

Does anyone else feel huge? All of a sudden i look very pregnant.

 

[dimmu]

Jjay you seem to have a very busy schedule, sounds like fun!
I'm gonna be working all the way until December 24th, have my aunts here to look after DD and I want to carry over some holidays for next year.

That's exactly why I'm refusing to buy a doppler, I think it would just cause me more worry rather than reassure me.

I look quite big now as well, or I have a definite bloat bump! It still goes flat when I lie down. I think I'm gonna have to get some maternity clothing soon, all my jeans are getting a bit tight around the waist. I'm sure with DD I could wear my normal jeans until four months or so.