June Bundles of Joy - 2016

[Cmcxx]

So glad I seen this post and so many ladies feeling similar to me . I have constant nausea - nothing appeals to me apart from ice poles and lucozade (I know bad craving ) but it's all that sits well 😟 I'm finding it so frustrating and I never want to wish time away but honestly cannot wait for this to be over its horrific ! I haven't done the toilet (#2- sorry tmi) in 4 days X calling doc tmro to see if there's anything to help !!! All I think is 'it'll be worth it in the end ' hope u all feel better soon x oh I'm 8 and a half weeks had this for 3 weeks now x

 

[lynnikins]

Bubbles,
sorry the scan didn't go as you hoped, scan measurments are known to be inaccurate though so i wouldn't worry too much if everything else is going as you expect it to and everything looked healthy with baby we are talking less than a 1/4 cm of difference making a couple of weeks difference in date so getting the right angle and baby lying the right way makes so much difference at this stage.

I don't get a scan till December probably and won't see the MW again till after christmas and I'll be seeing the Consultant around then too due to having had lots of babies already and big babies at that lol

 

[vaniilla]

Dory - that sounds like a really tough situation for your family I hope things are resolved soon for the better.

bubbles - I agree with the other ladies, they can and do easily get the weeks wrong, what's important is that they are seeing a healthy baby which it sounds like they are

I called the MW's today and made my booking appointment for the 25th of this month, it seems ageeees away I've started getting heartburn alongside nausea, in the evenings I'm sat watching tv and a mouthful of bile will appear

 

[Rhi_Rhi1]

Dory - that sounds like a really tough situation for your family I hope things are resolved soon for the better.

bubbles - I agree with the other ladies, they can and do easily get the weeks wrong, what's important is that they are seeing a healthy baby which it sounds like they are

I called the MW's today and made my booking appointment for the 25th of this month, it seems ageeees away I've started getting heartburn alongside nausea, in the evenings I'm sat watching tv and a mouthful of bile will appear

How awful, are you taking anything for the bile/heatburn? Unfortunately for me i live with this all the time So i just wanted to advise you that you can take omeprazole whilst pregnant. So it's worth getting an app with your GP to get a prescription.

 

[vaniilla]

Thank you for the suggestion, I didn't realize there was anything I could take, I will definitely try and get hold of some because it's making the nausea worse, I don't feel eating a single thing atm and water seems to make it worse

 

[Squig34]

Bubbles, so sorry your scan didn't give you the reassurance you were hoping for if you can't get an appointment with your GP for a while, maybe you could just leave a message for him/her to ring you so they can refer you to the EPU (unless you can self-refer)?

Great scan Boo, but agreeing that Ramzi is tricky since baby is right in the middle.

Starlight, I guess it's all personal preference. There's no way I'd turn down a scan & a chance to see my baby again, but that's because of my history.

Geralyn, sorry to hear that you may have lost a twin

 

[tinkerbelle93]

Bubbles I have my fingers crossed for you, there's always lots of positive stories about what you've experienced. It must be really frustrating not having the reassurance you hoped for though x

 

[tinkerbelle93]

I'm feeling a lot better today, for a few days last week I felt extremely sick and had a bad tummy and thought it was a combination of ibs and pregnancy nausea but my son has had sickness/diarrhoea all weekend so I think it may have been a bug. Luckily he's on the mend.

Now I've had my doctors and my booking in appointment I think time is going to drag again, the next milestone is the scan which isn't for over a month, in the meantime there isn't going to be any other appointments or milestones like feeling movement/showing so it's just 4 weeks of getting on with life and not focussing too much on the pregnancy.

 

[mommyxofxone]

starlight its totally up to you hun. i turned down the 12 week scan. we are just doing the dating one, and the anatomy one at 18-20 weeks. I did the NT one at 13 with dd but they said she was too big for tests, which was great in the end, cause like you said i've known people that got it and the techs and drs scared them so bad saying something was wrong! and the babies were all fine. but i figured i don't need any added stress.


My dating scan is today at 220 wish me luck ladies. will update when i'm home

 

[tinkerbelle93]

Good luck.mommyofone!

I think scans differ in the UK to the USA.. if you're low risk you tend to just have 2.. the dating scan and NT are the same scan here I think. X

 

[vaniilla]

Good luck with your scan today mommyxofxone


In the UK the dating scan is the same thing as the 12 week scan unless you need an earlier one to due to risks or you have it done privately. I might be having a scan next week because my follow up appointment at the fertility clinic was booked months ago and they've asked me to keep it, it feels weird going to that appointment because it's the point where we would have been given injections had the clomid not worked!

 

[mommyxofxone]

apparently my new office always does dating scans. we opted out of the NT scan at 12-13 weeks. with dd we had it but, we didn't have the dating scan before it.

who knows, they all seem to do their own thing! i'm just excited (and nervous) about seeing bean!

 

[Becyboo__x]

Not sure what's going on atm we moved house and I had to register with a new doctors.. but I told my old doctors at about 5-6 weeks when I need to see a midwife I'll have moved etc and they said they would sort something but never did.. I told my new doctors everything and apparently I've got to see a doctor again what I've already done and then book with a midwife I'll be nearly 11 weeks when I go for this appointment so I'll either have a late scan or on time of they can get me in.. but who knows, I'm just worried because they know I've had mcs and a recent chemical but aren't concerned etc I just want to know things are okay and I know I'm anemic I always am when pregnant and blacking out the other day confirms it for me !

 

[tinkerbelle93]

Oh that's annoying, you would have thought they could have just referred you straight to the midwife at the new doctors, especially since all your dates ect should be on your records on their computer system anyway. We're moving in a few weeks but hoping as I'm already booked in there won't be too much hassle.

 

[Becyboo__x]

I'm going to ring my old doctors and ask because it's a bit of a pain specially with my son still not in a school in New area dragging him along to any appointment is never fun I tried ringing all day but was in a Que of 9 then later on 5 I just couldn't be waiting around to be the 1st call not for just am enquiry

 

[vaniilla]

That's crazy that you need to get a gp appointment, I would call the community midwife number and try to book directly through them, it's what I did.

 

[tinkerbelle93]

Yes could you try ringing straight through to the midwife team? I know a lot of doctors want you to have a GP appt first (mine do) but since you've already had one all the stuff they type in will be on the system so you'll be down as pregnant and number of weeks already. Xx

 

[Becyboo__x]

This is what I was confused about I told them I've already had my doctors appointment and how many weeks I am and I really need to see a midwife asap but none seem to be taking notice I don't see why they booked me in with a doctor again but she just said I'll have to start from the start they have my nhs number and my previous doctors so like you said they have my medical records automatically just about if I can't sort anything Ill just go to this appointment and tell them straight that I need to see a midwife the following week they have to understand surely specially for my health and babies I'm not fussed if my scan gets pushed back just want tests doing and to check everything is ok.

I'll look into community midwife never been in this situation before always been straight forward

 

[Rhi_Rhi1]

I think it is just madness. At my current gp surgery and at my previous they never wanted you to see a Dr before the midwife. The nhs is totally squeezed as it is. Having a GP confirm a pregnancy certainly seems like a gigantic waste of time doesn't it. Obviously this doesn't apply for people with more complicated medical histories. But generally speaking.

I don't know anything about contacting the midwife team directly. As far as I was aware all midwives working "through" the gp surgeries are community midwives. They move around locations etc. Same as the health visitor team. This could be area specific though I guess. Baffling how service can be so different from one area to another.

I hope you get an app sorted soon =)

 

[tinkerbelle93]

Feeling so tired and drained recently, feel like I've been doing a really crappy job with my son, we mainly stay in at the moment and he's been watching so much TV. I guess it doesn't help that the weather's not great so I feel even less motivated.

Taken a couple of 'bump' photos (even though there's no changes) and I'm going to try and remember to do one every week. Really curious to see how it develops, last time I was very small.. didn't show at all until very late on and even by the end of pregnancy had a very tiny, neat compact bump that could be easily hidden. I'm guessing I'm likely to be the same this time round but I do know a couple of women who were really small like me with 1st pregnancy then with the 2nd they got really big so I suppose it can vary pregnancy to pregnancy?