PAL Spring 2011 babies - Welcome Mason, Iris, Lily, Isaac, Luca & Dominic !!!!

[prgirl_cesca]

Nice to hear from you jenny, glad you're ok.

I went for my consultant appointment yesterday and it was a complete waste of time. I got in there and he was going through my miscarriages in great detail (explaining what a blighted ovum is - yeah I f*cking know mate!!!) and then said "oh so you've had your 20 week scan then?"

Cue confusion from me and OH and turns out he's not meant to see me until 21 weeks!! I said that as I had once had a heart murmer (I stress - HAD one, not have one) I assumed the midwife wanted me to come early. Then I mentioned my history with ovarian tumours and cysts and turns out no one had bothered sending ANY of my medical notes across!!! So I had to sit there with the secretary going through details about my consultant and private clinic from the time so they can request them.

What a waste of time. My heart 'murmur' does not affect my day to day life and when they diagnosed it at 15 they told me it was so minor it was nothing and would have faded by the age of 18. And my ovarian cysts etc wouldn't affect my pregnancy now I imagine.

Gah. My mum keeps saying she wants me under consultant care as it's safer and she'd rather they looked after me properly, but all I keep thinking is I have to take two hours out of work (I know you get paid time off for appointments, but my boss is VERY difficult with these things) for these appointments whereas its 20 mins for the midwife, and all i can imagine is me strapped down during labour unable to move for monitors etc.

*and breathe*

 

[Mummy2Angel.]

Nice to hear from you jenny

Oh nic hopefully he'll be making an appearance soon or wait till friday for a flirt with the midwife he likes

Presca sorry your appointment was such a waste of time....

Hope everyone else is ok not been around much lately with total paranoia after flu jag and stress of moving etc.....I'm 18 weeks today i feel like this might actually be my forever baby.......2 weeks yesterday till my scan just hoping all will still be ok......ive lost the plot thinking something has happened to him in there x

 

[jenny25]

ok girls i need you to come on over and join my journal of course i need people rooting me on ha ha like cheerleaders lol xxxx

 

[tinybutterfly]

alriiight, let me find my pompons!!!

 

[jenny25]

whoop whoop xxx

 

[SmileyShazza]

I’m not sleeping too well at the moment. I can’t get comfy and keep tossing and turning all night. Hoped for a better night last night and then got woken up three times with a really bad cramp in my left leg as a result I am feeling pretty tired

My bump is growing at a nice steady pace now – I still get a bit freaked out to think there is actually a baby in there when I feel how my skin is stretching at the sides I love feeling bubs moving about a lot more now though makes me smile every time it happens.

Other than that we are buying little bits and bobs as we see them. Got a really nice playmat / baby gym at the car boot for £3 on Sunday so that’s another thing ticked off the list

 

[mislaww]

Morning - good to see you're doing well Jenny. It's not cold at all - you're right, you need to take care of yourself and your family and focus on the future.

 

[Minimin]

:wave: Jenny! How are you?

 

[EpdTTC]

Hi Jenny-good to see you feeling hopeful about things!

 

[Perdita]

Oh hey thanks Neen. And Roonsma...that's even grosser. Eww. What joys to look forward to!

Thanks ladies....yes the kitten is a godsend. Unfortunately she's at home and I'm at the office for several more hours...but I'm definitely looking forward to going home to her.

I know how you feel about the kitten - Velcro the kitten takes up so much of my time but so happy to have her about, my old tom cat isn't too amused still but they tolerate each other! She's 16 weeks old now and a complete menace to everything especially the canvas covered furniture in the back room. She's asleep on my uniform just now so will have to disturb her to finish getting ready for work. Cats are just great pets!
xx

 

[braijackava]

Ok here is my rant for the week. So my sister in law is pregnant also and is due in about 3 weeks. I love her to death and am very happy for her. Here is the but. First of all a little background on my brother. This is his third child with his third girl. He is also kind of a jerk. Like he has to get his way or all he'll breaks lose. So my parents wont tell him no, for fear he will throw a fit. Even if it puts me in a bind.
So anyways, i got a call from my parents a couple months ago asking if i would throw a shower for her. I said fine even though i wasn't feeling fab since it was the beginning of my pregnancy. So i went about it thinking i needed to throw the baby shower for her or else she wouldn't have one. Come to find out the day of the shower, she is having 2 other showers none of which i was even invited to.
So the next few months my parents come to visit. I had to go to the airport like 10 times in the last couple months. Even though my brother is unemployed, my parents wont ask him to drive them because he throws a fit saying it is to early. So i get up and take them even with my morning sickness.
so the new blow is this. My parents are coming in for an early christmas the beginning of december. So my dad calls and says well where we have it depends on how your sister in law feels. She is pregnant and might not want to clean the whole house and have people over. Um hello! I am pregnant too, plus i have three kids on top of it. Both my brothers other kids live out of state. And so i told my dad i was offended. And he, knowing i miscarried last year, says well she got pregnant first! I was just really offended. Maybe its just hormones. Oh and no offer to throw me a baby shower yet!!!!
arghhh. Thanks for letting me vent ladies!

 

[tinybutterfly]

you're NOT overreacting, they should do their part too, it's only fair.
i can imagine she can't really do much around the house anymore so it would be your brother having to do it, guess he's not up for that...
but really, i'd be pissed off too! it's not just hormones

Cats are just great pets!
xx

amen!

 

[vickyd]

Brai id be pretty pissed off as well....Defo not hormones!!!!!

Ive got a routine scan today at 5.30, hope the good news continues this time too. Shes been kicking up a storm the past 2 days so gotta be a good sign that all is well right??

 

[tinybutterfly]

i wouldn't worry then

 

[jenny25]

thanks girls of course i need to keep hopeful because i know we will get our day you know so its gotta keep me positive plus having all that fun trying hehehe well apparently im 6dpo so ff says but we shall see we have dtd but im not focusing on trying to fall pregnant inbetween really if it happens that would be nice but i should have my first af next friday or sat if ff is right but im not going out to buy any pregnancy tests xx

 

[MissMaternal]

thanks girls of course i need to keep hopeful because i know we will get our day you know so its gotta keep me positive plus having all that fun trying hehehe well apparently im 6dpo so ff says but we shall see we have dtd but im not focusing on trying to fall pregnant inbetween really if it happens that would be nice but i should have my first af next friday or sat if ff is right but im not going out to buy any pregnancy tests xx

This is what i am going to try to do aswell! Going to try not to buy any tests and see what happens...

I have pretty much stopped spotting now so me and OH 2 nights ago. It was so nice to feel close to him in that way again (my sex drive went a bit AWOL when i was pregnant...poor OH ) Also, this time didn't feel "wrong"...the first time we after we lost Freya, i blubbed like a big baby afterwards, for AGES! It just felt weird.

Look after yourself Jenny xx

 

[Vickieh1981]

Scan went well today ladies - he's still a boy sucking his little thumb, could see his tounge moving and everything. Will post a piccy when I'm at a computer. The sonographer said all looked well from what she could see

Hope everyone is well. Congrats on all the milestones!

Xx

heres the piccy- thumb in mouth lol.:
https://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a55/FA5TKAS/utf-8BSU1HMDA3NTgtMjAxMDExMTItMTQwOC5qcGc-1.jpg

Awww that's such a cute picture. x

thought id share my bump pic x

You have a cute bump xx

I am still keeping an eye on you all ladies....i want to watch all your journeys till the end!

Tulip i am willing little man to come out for you....i can't wait to hear of his safe arrival xx

That's so sweet of you xx

Yeah we've had a bit of a spate of blue bumps!

Annie

For those of you already mummies, I've just passed a reasonable amount of jelly. Plug? Can I start to get excited?

Well it's a good sign but it still means it could be a few days. happy due date - we are all getting impatient lol

A quick and pooped-out 18 week (yay!) update... saw my doc today, all womby measurements are great, the heartbeat is perfect and strong (such beautiful music!) and I'm spot on track with my weight and blood pressure. The funky antibodies are dormant and all is well. Can't wait for the big ultrasound on Monday!!

After much thought, I got the combo flu shot, which I'm glad for but it's knocked me on my butt a bit. I also went for one of the big blood tests and should have the results back in a week or so. Fingers crossed. Time for tea and bad TV. Much love flung out far and wide, and here's to hoping the Tulip jelly is only the tip of the iceberg and there'll be some exciting updates coming our way soon!!

Glad that it all went well xx

peek a boo girls how are we all

oooo looks like tulip your little baba is making a plan of action

hope you all a good and i will still be coming too annoy your asses ha ha

well just letting you all know im doing fine i actually almost feel back to normal if you get me im over the shock part of things now i dont want to sound cold hearted but i can finally start too feel happy again and it does feel good i know nothing i do will bring jamie back but i gotta look forward to the future or else im gonna be in deep depression

well for me ff says i have ovulated and i think i missed my surge on the clearblue so im not really believing that i have ovulated tbh im not caring if it doesnt work this cycle as i have not planned it to happen if you get me tbh im dreading my first cycle cause the pain i felt when i had the cvs keeps going through my head and its like i can feel it weird so thats enough rambling for me x

I'm really glad that you seem to be much more upbeat and coping well with everything. Your chart sure does look like you ovulated. x

Nice to hear from you jenny, glad you're ok.

I went for my consultant appointment yesterday and it was a complete waste of time. I got in there and he was going through my miscarriages in great detail (explaining what a blighted ovum is - yeah I f*cking know mate!!!) and then said "oh so you've had your 20 week scan then?"

Cue confusion from me and OH and turns out he's not meant to see me until 21 weeks!! I said that as I had once had a heart murmer (I stress - HAD one, not have one) I assumed the midwife wanted me to come early. Then I mentioned my history with ovarian tumours and cysts and turns out no one had bothered sending ANY of my medical notes across!!! So I had to sit there with the secretary going through details about my consultant and private clinic from the time so they can request them.

What a waste of time. My heart 'murmur' does not affect my day to day life and when they diagnosed it at 15 they told me it was so minor it was nothing and would have faded by the age of 18. And my ovarian cysts etc wouldn't affect my pregnancy now I imagine.

Gah. My mum keeps saying she wants me under consultant care as it's safer and she'd rather they looked after me properly, but all I keep thinking is I have to take two hours out of work (I know you get paid time off for appointments, but my boss is VERY difficult with these things) for these appointments whereas its 20 mins for the midwife, and all i can imagine is me strapped down during labour unable to move for monitors etc.

*and breathe*

Don't you just hate it when they waste your time like that

AFM. I was readmitted to hospital on Sunday after having bleeding since Saturday.

My consultant came round and saw me on Monday. She said she wanted me to have a scan done to check there wasn't a fibroid or anything (just to rule that out), that she wanted me to take Amytryptollin (sp). it's an antidepressent but it works as a good painkiller by blocked nerve endings so she wanted me on it for that reason as apparently it's a crap anti depressent lol. She said it needed increasing up until it was to 100mg. She also said NO CHRISTMAS SHOPPING and that I was to rest as much as I could.

Tuesday a junior dr came round and took it upon herself to 1) Cancel my scan 2) Tell me that 10mg would be enough "for my mood" so I had to point out I wasn't on it for that and 3) tell me resting wasn't necessary.

So then I had to wait to see my consultant yesterday who was pretty cross that a junior did that. She put it back to how she wanted things lol.

I had my doppler scan today and things look okay for now. They said they can't see the bleeding behind the placenta but that it's notoriously hard to see it. We never saw the retroplacental clot causing the partial abruption with Jessica for about 6 weeks after the bleeding started and never managed to show it clearly with Maff.

But for now things are stable. She is slightly small for her dates.

Her BPD is on the 5th percentile
Head circumfrance 25th
Abdomen circumfrance 25th percentile.

Estimated weight is about 1lb 5oz. But they said she will just be nice and little. Next scan at 28 weeks and I see my consultant in another 2 weeks.

She was surprised that I managed to stay out of hospital for 6 days in between admissions and said I should consider staying in the hospital until delivery. I REALLY don't want to do this so they have said I can stay out and only go back when it's heavy.

They also said they are going to induce me at 35 weeks so that's 78 days to go - eeeekkks.

 

[roonsma]

Hi Vickie, i was wondering if you were back in hospital again. Wow it sounds like you've got a lot going on hun, take care of yourself xx

 

[braijackava]

Wow a march baby in 78 DAYS! Good luck with everything!

 

[mislaww]

Vickie, please take care. Thinking of you.

So good to see you both MissMaternal and Jenny! We're rooting for you both!

Christina! Argh - how IRRITATING!