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[prgirl_cesca]

Meow, I think it's really normal at this point not to feel pregnant anymore. I think because we're still really used to the first tri and that panic on a day where you don't feel as sick or your boobs don't hurt as much. The second tri is meant to be the bit where you feel like yourself again - that's meant to be the good thing about it!!

Not having a bump at 15 weeks is not uncommon either, as is movement. I haven't felt movement yet but I'm not overly concerned because I know people feel things at different times.

Try not to worry xx

 

[meow951]

I suppose i should be happy that i actually managed to cook me and OH some tea last night without urging and managed to eat the whole plate. First time since i got pregnant! The simple things in life...

I just had a little cry, always makes me feel better lol I've got my 16 week appointment on tuesday with my midwife so i might say to her i'm feeling a bit jittery. They don't listen for the heartbeat that early do they or does it depend on the midwife?

 

[prgirl_cesca]

Mine listened for it at 15+2 but gave me a big warning that sometimes they don't hear things and also if they don't hear anything then they wouldn't scan me until my 20 week scan so it was my decision whether or not to take the risk. I heard it via my friend's doppler at 14+6.

I think it depends on the midwife though.

 

[Beadette]

Meow my midwife listened at my 16w appointment. I think most do. I would ask her if she doesn't volunteer to. There's no harm in that xxx

 

[mushmouth]

meow - as PR said its totally normal to feel well... totally normal! lol. I think 14-18 were the hardest weeks for me as I did feel fine - and wasnt yet feeling movements but thats just our brief period of relief! lol

My MW didnt listen at 16 weeks but thats probably partly because she was freaking out about my blood pressure!

 

[Mummy2Angel.]

Why is my midwife app not till 17 weeks? Your are all so early lol, i heard heartbeat on doppler at docs last monday at 14+5, but my last midwife app should have been between 8-10 weeks and wasnt till 12 weeks, and because they mucked that up my scan i appaerantly missed it and then it was at more or less 14 weeks, and now this midwife app is 17 insted of 16 weeks . I think the hopsital and midwife have F****d up my address and booking me, i was told after very first midwife app at 5 weeks that i would recieve my booking in appoitnment letter in the post, and i never got it, i had to phone up at 9 weeks and say i had not recived anything 'i had missed that appointment apparently' and i got it aranged over the phone. So then on the 4th october at my booking in app....the hopsital never sent me a scan appointment or new notes, all they sent was my old maternity notes from max . And then after last midwife i was told i would recivie a copy of blood results just like last time...i should get them in 1-2 weeks and i need them before my next midwife app and have still got nothing

 

[roonsma]

Big hugs Meow- we all have these wobbles, you're totally normal hun. I went to my Doc with my LO at 14 weeks as my SPD symtoms and MS disappeared overnight and i was convinced my LO had gone, its awful!! We're all with you hun xx
If you're really concerned go and get checked out xx

Good luck for MW Tulip xx

Thats great your MW appt went well cesca, i still have cramps now hun and have had ALL the way through!, they are really unsettling hun xx

Hi to all xx

 

[lovehearts]

my mw never listened to the HB at my 16 week appointment. She said they dont do it until later. I think its bacause of the worry it can cause if they dont find it. Perhaps if you explain your worry she may have a go at finding it i have my own doppler so i use that when i need reassurance.

i had 'stetching pains' last night. They do worry me but i have started to feel my little man kick since last weekend which has helped. I have only used my doppler once this week also. Very nervous about my 20 week scan which is in a week!!!

hope everyone else is doing ok

xxxxx

 

[Chimpette]

Hello ladies,

Just popping in to say Hi....! :wave:

xxxx

 

[EpdTTC]

Meow-Yup, you are normal. I think I had my biggest wobbles between 15-17 weeks. That is when I started to have less nausea, maybe only 2 days per week. I also didn't feel pregnant-I wasn't feeling big, no movement, no sickness, no sore boobs, etc. Even now, I don't feel a lot of movement. Every now and then. I finally have my 20 wk scan next Weds at 21 and a half weeks! I will be nervous as Hell wondering if baby is growing like she should in there. I think my doc listened for hb at around 15 wks.

I am starting to look more pregnant and feel like it is getting harder to do some things because I am getting bigger. I wish I would feel more significant movement but I am on the heavier side and I have an anterior placenta so those could be why. I hope that your MW will listen for the hb on Tuesday and help put your mind at ease.

I still get odd pains here and there too. Last week was a crampy week for me, but this week seems better. I think it comes and goes.

Mummy-Sorry to hear the communication with the MW and hospital has been so poor. I would be so frustrated...and probably calling to bitch at them. Nothing worse than a frustrated pregnant woman!

Vickie-hope you're doing ok!

 

[Tulip]

I think most listen at 16w. My 16w appointment was 2 weeks early due to a calendar-reading error(!) and she still listened (and diagnosed 'a very active baby' - she was very right).

Hope you're all ok, we're about due another collective wobble I'm currently at the hosp, BP up even further this morning. Munch happy on CTG but protein found in wee. Waiting for further wee results and bloods results too. However, the boy is even more engaged than he was yesterday, so we could still be calling him 'Guy' at this rate. Cheap birthday parties!! xx

 

[prgirl_cesca]

ooooh tulip that's very exciting!!

 

[mushmouth]

ooooh I think a bonfire night bubba would be perfect! always the best birthday parties!

 

[prgirl_cesca]

Yeah Nov 5th birthday is awesome!

Our baby is due last week of April - the first weekend of May in our town we have a huge festival with lots of bands, booze, stalls and fun. It is seriously the best weekend in the year and I'm so glad our child will have a birthday around it!

 

[Tulip]

Home! Midwife coming round to check on me on Sunday. Feet up time!

 

[tinybutterfly]

aaaw november 5.... the day i brought my kitty home 3 yrs ago, he was just 4 weeks and still had to be bottlefed *nostalgia* hehehe


i'm seriously considering going to a midwife in between gyn apointments,
my scan was good yesterday but if we didn't make our own film we wouldn't have any good image of our little one, and i ....well i just think pictures are important, they're not a sole proof your baby is in there, also to show the grandparents etc, as they need to bound with baby too. i'm also not in favor of just being lucky i know alot of medical stuff that i can see alot on the ultrasound without ppl telling me, but i'd still love a detailed explanation of what i see and what they're measureing etc. and on top of that, since i don't feel baby this is the only way for me to bound somewhat with that little creature in my tummy.

maybe i'm terribly hormonal and overreacting,... don't know...i think i'm going to suggest it to OH when he gets home on sunday

 

[SmileyShazza]

My midwife appointment went very well yesterday, heard the baby's heartbeat and it was SO strong on the doppler!! I recorded it on my phone and sent it to my family and my dad has it as his ringtone now, bless his heart.

I'm having so many cramps though - sometimes really low down, other times high up. I don't have a UTI anymore (i've just come off antibiotics and she tested my urine yesterday), and baby is obviously fine so I have no idea what it is. Midwife told me that stretching is very normal and it can hurt all over but I didn't expect it to be this much.

Glad to hear the mw appointment went well - its so fantastic when you hear that heartbeat isn't it I wish I'd recorded it onto my phone now - I might ask next time.

The stretching pains took me by suprise too as I wasn't expecting them to be quite so strong. They do wear off after about 18 / 19 weeks a bit although then I started getting round ligament pains which were even worse

They are perfectly normal though and just a sign that your lovely bump is gorowing as it should be

I just need to get some crazy out...

I am worried sick for some reason. I have a horrible feeling the baby has died. I hate this bit because i don't feel so sick anymore, i don't have a bump and baby isn't moving yet which i know is all normal, i just don't feel pregnant.

I thought i felt baby move last week, felt like a fish or something moving in there. But haven't felt anything since so don't know if it was or not.

Just feel worried. I hate posting things like this as i don't like worrying others but there's no where else i can say this

I was exactly the same at your stage hun. Before my 16 week mw appointment I got myself so worried that something had happened and I had only had one tiny feeling which I thought might be bubs but even then I wasn't sure what with this being our first.

I think the bit between the 12 week scan and the 16 week mw appointment is really difficult as you start feeling much better, less sick, less tired and most people don't have much of a bump at that point so it's easy to worry that things aren't progressing. I hope hearing that a lot of us have felt the same has put your mind at rest a bit

 

[SmileyShazza]

Oh and make sure you keep those feet up Nic! You are under orders missy!

 

[Mummy2Angel.]

Glad your home with feet up nic!

 

[roonsma]

Take your time Tulip, lots of rest for you hun x