'Little Ones Close in Age' ~ Please join us

[Mrs. AJ]

welcome my fellow nov 2011 mommy how r u robin?

Nice to see you here Amanda!

I am good, a little bit of nausea, but not much so far. I had morning sickness pretty bad with Connor, so I am hoping it isn't as bad this time.

 

[mum_erin]

Hello! I haven't posted in here for a few days now, I hope you all remember me We've had a very busy week as usual and sadly mine and OH's best friends went home today. They were due to stay with us until Saturday but extended their stay until this morning. We loved having them here with us and especially as both OH and I have had opportunities to spend the day with our friends, which doesn't happen much! Best friend Georgia and I went for lunch and did a bit of shopping yesterday while OH and his best friend looked after the tiddywinks. Thankfully Charlie and Ruby were kind to their daddy - lucky him!

A big warm welcome to our new members :wave: I'm Erin and I'm mum to 18 month old Charlie and 3 month old Ruby. There's four days short of a 15 month gap between them

 

[CharlieKeys]

How's everyone doing??

I'm sooo tired still And we have Phoebe's heart scan on Thurs so really worrying about that! Other than that boys have been amazing this weeks so far ... apart from Henry being obsessed with my bloody kitchen bin

 

[CharlieKeys]

Hello! I haven't posted in here for a few days now, I hope you all remember me We've had a very busy week as usual and sadly mine and OH's best friends went home today. They were due to stay with us until Saturday but extended their stay until this morning. We loved having them here with us and especially as both OH and I have had opportunities to spend the day with our friends, which doesn't happen much! Best friend Georgia and I went for lunch and did a bit of shopping yesterday while OH and his best friend looked after the tiddywinks. Thankfully Charlie and Ruby were kind to their daddy - lucky him!

A big warm welcome to our new members :wave: I'm Erin and I'm mum to 18 month old Charlie and 3 month old Ruby. There's four days short of a 15 month gap between them

urm sorry ...... who are you?!

 

[BleedingBlack]

My youngest daughter and the new little one (dont know the gender yet) will be about 11 months apart unless baby decides to come early.

 

[LeeLouClare]

Hey girls!
Could I ask? With my LO only being 14 months when the new baby comes will I need to buy a new cot? Or will he out grow it by the time the baby is out of the Moses basket?
Thank you xxx

 

[x Michelle x]

I have Tabitha in a cot bed, still as a cot... She is such a wriggle that no way is she coming out of her cot anytime soon!
I bought a new cot bed for Hayden, he has been in it since 4 weeks as he is a BIG boy!

 

[YoungNImum]

My eldest is 19month this month and she still in her cot :S, and rosalie went into hers at 5wks old x

 

[CharlieKeys]

Stephen moved into a bed at 18 months and until we were ready to put Henry in the cot he slept in the Moses basket until 5 months (he was big but he liked the small space - weird boy), and then he went in the travel cot for a few months Now he's in the cot

 

[mum_erin]

Charlie is still in his cot and Ruby is still in her moses basket. We'd considered moving Charlie into a cotbed when we moved house in May but decided against it as he wasn't showing any signs of getting out of his cot, he still isn't actually.

 

[KellyC75]

My 2 are both still in cots ~ I wouldnt dare trust my toddler in a bed!

Welcome to the new Ladies :wave:

How's everyone doing??

I'm sooo tired still And we have Phoebe's heart scan on Thurs so really worrying about that! Other than that boys have been amazing this weeks so far ... apart from Henry being obsessed with my bloody kitchen bin

How did the scan go? Hope all is Ok

 

[mum_erin]

Really hope Phoebe's scan went well Charlie, and that there's nothing to worry about with her heart.

Leaving for London in a few minutes, my OH has his graduation tonight! So proud of him.

 

[CharlieKeys]

Urm... a bit hit and miss - The consultant looked at her heart for ages and ages, but the little madam had her back to my front so she kept having to try and move her. She's also breech at the moment. She even showed us her 'footprint' and she ahs BIG feet.

Anyways, there is no evidence to her having a hole in the heart, if she has one it's so tiny that the consultant can't see it.

The consultant wrote this:

"The fetal heart appears normal in structure and well connected. The ventricular septum appears intact. There appears to be an echogenic spot ont he ventricular septum measuring 2mm in size. I have referred her to tertiary centre for a second opinion"

Basically there is a bright spot on her septum. Now I am reading a published article on these spots and apparently they are very very common in downs syndrome babies. She even kept asking me what my downs syndrome results were and kept mentioning if any of us had diabetes :-/

Now I always panicked about downs syndrome with her because her NT was a lot higher than the boys and my 1 in such and such a chance was a lot lower (still low risk but lower) than the boys. . . I know I shouldn't be googling and I shouldn't be so negative if she does have it - but is it too late to request a test?

She just seems so active and everything else was perfect with her - still measuring dead on the 5th November. We have to go to Kings College Hospital on Monday to see a fetal cardiologist and have another scan - more detailed? Someone there mentioned 4D? I said am I still low risk and she said she can't tell me until after Monday

 

[lalos 30]

HI ladies havent been on here in a while but just to update you had my 20 week scan yesterday and bubs looked in perfect health and we also found out were team BLUE xxx

 

[x Michelle x]

Charliekeys. We had multiple extra scans with Hayden due to his sister having Congenital Hypothyroidism. She had enlarged heart wall so we had fetal cardiac scans too, scary isn't it!
Stop googling, you only have to wait until Monday! And if you get 4d I bet you'll get to see her face too, what a lovely extra!
What test do you mean hun? Amnio? I'm not sure how far along you'd be able to get one, but I'd be exactly the same as you!

Congrats lalos!

 

[CharlieKeys]

aww Thank you - I know it's not long until Monday but it feels like forever, especially when it's on my mind all the time. Just trying to forget it so the boys don't pick up on it and making sure I'm doing the best I can for them. It's just hard. When they did your more detailed scans .. what did they do that was different? I don't get if a consultant/2 sonographer's can't tell us what this spot is - how another guy in another hospital will be able to?

Yeah the amnio? I mean we're far enough along that if the amnio did anything she has a chance of surviving ... it's just we'd rather know than not know for the next 16 weeks

What is congenital hypothyroidism?


Congrats on Team Lalos

 

[x Michelle x]

I'd much rather know than not know! I'm such a planner, you sound just like me!
It'll be someone who does nothing but look at baby hearts all day long, they'll have a much more specialized knowledge than a sonographer who can just see something weird or different. This specialist will go into 100% more detail. We had ours at about 26 weeks and they were measuring the pump rate and the blood output and everything, it's absolutely amazing what they can do
CH is when your thyroid doesn't make thyroxine which is essential for pretty much everything! She has a thyroid but it's buggered. She takes a tablet everyday and has blood tests at the hospital every 8 weeks to check her levels.. It's so important at this age that her levels are right. If she doesn't have the right amount of thyroxine then it can cause slow growth both mentally and physically... But she was caught early so I cross my fingers everyday she'll be fine! When she was born, she had a really swollen neck (goitre) so much so that she wasn't getting down the birth canal and had to come out the sunroof. I had her on the ward for one night then it was off to NICU for a week while all her levels for everything were stabilized, was pretty scary time and neither me or OH have it, but we had genetic testing done and it's literally a one in a million chance as we both have a weird genetic mutation which caused!

 

[CharlieKeys]

Thank you - you've helped put my mind at rest!

Sounds like you had very good care too! How did you cope when she was whisked off to NICU for that week? Sorry for all the questions - if you don't want to answer any I understand

 

[x Michelle x]

Like my world had fallen apart I'd only had her one day and then they took her and as I was EMCS I was feeling shit anyway. Luckily the midwives didn't discharge me so I stayed in hospital the whole time, up and down bf-ing her in NICU and she had cannulas in her feet and hands... She was on oxygen and heat, proper sick baby incubator so well looked after tho. But the saddest thing was the 2 little heroin babies, going thru withdrawal and the parents never came either when Hayden was born I demanded he be tested, it was my fear it would happen again but thank god it didn't! I used to go back to the ward after seeing her and all the other mums had their babies, absolutely broke my heart and I'd cry myself to sleep every night even getting her out was a fight, she went into a special nursery after 5 days, where they are in normal cots but monitored and I literally had to shout at the doctor to get her back on the ward. I think as babies with CHcaught at birth are pretty rare and they just wanted to keep observing her. Ask all the questions you want hun, I don't mind do you have a time for your scan in Monday?

 

[x Michelle x]

Oh, if anyone is interested I'm selling some maternity bits

https://babyandbump.momtastic.com/buy-swap-sell/1094673-maternity-clothes-sale.html