Updated: February 2014 Buddies!

[ksilme]

WebWebb're not that far away from each other then I live about 40 mins from st mawes right near st ives? X it's a shame it's more expensive up there though
Feeling more confident today though xxx how are you today?

 

[vicwa]

Glad your feeling more positive. It's a shame most of us on here have gone through heartbreaking stuff that we can't just enjoy it all.
Feeling ok today actually back ache has eased up which is good but I still feel cramping when I go to bed at night, maybe because I'm relaxed and not rushing around.
Do you work? I'm a student nurse and my last day of my current community placement is next fri so I'm looking forward to having some time off over the summer

What does everyone else on this board do?

 

[baby1wanted]

Glad your feeling more positive. It's a shame most of us on here have gone through heartbreaking stuff that we can't just enjoy it all.
Feeling ok today actually back ache has eased up which is good but I still feel cramping when I go to bed at night, maybe because I'm relaxed and not rushing around.
Do you work? I'm a student nurse and my last day of my current community placement is next fri so I'm looking forward to having some time off over the summer

What does everyone else on this board do?

Oooh summer off sounds good! I'm a physiotherapist so in healthcare too Off work at the minute though until this spotting stops...

 

[hibiscus07]

Hi ladies! Can i join
Based on lmp due date is set at feb 2 2014 but I'm 99% sure of when I conceived so due date should probably be week after that.

Would you prefer I put you in as Feb 2 or Feb 9?
Welcome to the group!

 

[hibiscus07]

Hi All!
I just posted this in the other Feb group, too, so sorry for a repeat to others in both groups.

I just had another beta drawn today at 5w4d/25 DPO. I didn't feel nervous last time but I feel nervous this time. At 4w4d/18 DPO, hCG was 1,682 so I feel like it would have to be REALLY high to have doubled appropriately. What if it hasn't? I wish I could get my mind off this. As soon as I start thinking about this stuff, I can't stop worrying! Hormones don't help, either
How's everyone else feeling today?

 

[vicwa]

Glad your feeling more positive. It's a shame most of us on here have gone through heartbreaking stuff that we can't just enjoy it all.
Feeling ok today actually back ache has eased up which is good but I still feel cramping when I go to bed at night, maybe because I'm relaxed and not rushing around.
Do you work? I'm a student nurse and my last day of my current community placement is next fri so I'm looking forward to having some time off over the summer

What does everyone else on this board do?

Oooh summer off sounds good! I'm a physiotherapist so in healthcare too Off work at the minute though until this spotting stops...

Yeah I work in a multidisciplinary team so have been out with physio's a bit. How long have you been doing that?

 

[hibiscus07]

Glad your feeling more positive. It's a shame most of us on here have gone through heartbreaking stuff that we can't just enjoy it all.
Feeling ok today actually back ache has eased up which is good but I still feel cramping when I go to bed at night, maybe because I'm relaxed and not rushing around.
Do you work? I'm a student nurse and my last day of my current community placement is next fri so I'm looking forward to having some time off over the summer

What does everyone else on this board do?

Oooh summer off sounds good! I'm a physiotherapist so in healthcare too Off work at the minute though until this spotting stops...

Any news?? Has the spotting stopped/slowed? How did the scan go?
Fingers crossed!

 

[baby1wanted]

Glad your feeling more positive. It's a shame most of us on here have gone through heartbreaking stuff that we can't just enjoy it all.
Feeling ok today actually back ache has eased up which is good but I still feel cramping when I go to bed at night, maybe because I'm relaxed and not rushing around.
Do you work? I'm a student nurse and my last day of my current community placement is next fri so I'm looking forward to having some time off over the summer

What does everyone else on this board do?

Oooh summer off sounds good! I'm a physiotherapist so in healthcare too Off work at the minute though until this spotting stops...

Yeah I work in a multidisciplinary team so have been out with physio's a bit. How long have you been doing that?

10 years in August! I'm hospital based, work mainly on Intensive Care. How much of your training do you have left? Any idea which area you want to go into yet?

 

[vicwa]

Hi All!
I just posted this in the other Feb group, too, so sorry for a repeat to others in both groups.

I just had another beta drawn today at 5w4d/25 DPO. I didn't feel nervous last time but I feel nervous this time. At 4w4d/18 DPO, hCG was 1,682 so I feel like it would have to be REALLY high to have doubled appropriately. What if it hasn't? I wish I could get my mind off this. As soon as I start thinking about this stuff, I can't stop worrying! Hormones don't help, either
How's everyone else feeling today?

I don't really know much about beta levels we don't get them here but 1,682 sounds really high lol. Do they tell you what they expect them to be at 5w4d's or just ensure that they have gone up?

 

[vicwa]

@baby1wantd. I have 1 year left have done 3 so far. Hopefully if this pregnancy goes well I will get to complete half of my last year (from sep) then will only have to complete half of the year after maternity leave. As student nurses we get paid our NHS bursary for up to a year for maternity leave like a job so that's good.
I think I want to go into midwifery or health visiting after my general nursing but if not i will probably g
Enjoy a & e, theatre or community. Don't really enjoy run of the mill ward work.
You've been doing it. While then do you still enjoy it?

 

[baby1wanted]

Spotting continues but extremely light and only a couple of times a day. Scan showed gestational sac and yolk sac measuring ahead of dates so all on track Booked in for another scan in 2 weeks where we should get to see heartbeat...

 

[baby1wanted]

@baby1wantd. I have 1 year left have done 3 so far. Hopefully if this pregnancy goes well I will get to complete half of my last year (from sep) then will only have to complete half of the year after maternity leave. As student nurses we get paid our NHS bursary for up to a year for maternity leave like a job so that's good.
I think I want to go into midwifery or health visiting after my general nursing but if not i will probably g
Enjoy a & e, theatre or community. Don't really enjoy run of the mill ward work.
You've been doing it. While then do you still enjoy it?

Love the job, wouldn't change it, count myself very lucky to get paid for something I enjoy doing. I like the pace of ICU, no 2 days the same. Did a bit in community but just wasn't for me, all suited to different things I guess!

 

[hibiscus07]

Spotting continues but extremely light and only a couple of times a day. Scan showed gestational sac and yolk sac measuring ahead of dates so all on track Booked in for another scan in 2 weeks where we should get to see heartbeat...

Woooo! That sounds great! I looked back at my chart from DS and I spotted with him around 4-5 weeks and that ended well

 

[baby1wanted]

Thanks hibiscus - my mum just told me she had the same when she was pregnant with me as well!!

 

[ksilme]

Glad your feeling more positive. It's a shame most of us on here have gone through heartbreaking stuff that we can't just enjoy it all.
Feeling ok today actually back ache has eased up which is good but I still feel cramping when I go to bed at night, maybe because I'm relaxed and not rushing around.
Do you work? I'm a student nurse and my last day of my current community placement is next fri so I'm looking forward to having some time off over the summer

What does everyone else on this board do?

I know, I was saying to my mum today, I think I am too scared to get too excited and she replied with I am young, everything will be fine, but as I said I was young last time .... and I didn't worry last time and Loki what happened, so a lot more wary. My mum and I are the only 2 out of our huge family who have ever had miscarriages ( she has 5 of us, and 3 mc's -- me, MC, sis, bro, sis, MC, sis, MC,) but I looked up chances of 2 mc's in a row and the chances are low, and as she said she has had a few, but never 2 in a row x quite a www people I know had a MC and then have gone on tt get pregnant within a couple of months and had healthy pregnancies and now have toddlers so thinking about it like that has got me more confident.

Good about your back letting up a bit, my boobs aren't quite as sore all the time now, although, I have just woken up from a nap, and they are feeling very heavy and tender, and that is just sitting here lol

Yes indoor work, I am a cleaner at the local naval base :/ pays the bills whilst looking for a job within psychology/working with children, don't necessarily enjoy it, apart from some of the people I work with, I have made few good friends there
although I do also look after a 16 year old boy with autism and epilepsy, we look funny when out as he is 6ft 3in and I, his carer, am 4ft 10in lol

I would love to have a full time job I loved

Has anyone told their supervisors/bosses they are pregnant? The boy I care for, his mum knows, but she is a family friend too, but I am tempted to tell my supervisor at work, so that someone knows, in the event of doctors/midwives appts etc, she knew about the loss etc. Then we would tell everyone else after 12 week scan, a few know now, my mum, dad, nan, auntie, cousin (one of my best friends as well as cousin), my other dad (long story) and his wife, hubbys mum and her partner and his cousin and auntie, and he told a couple of friends at work, we weren't going to tell them, but he got excited, and I just told people who knew we were trying and who asked about the doctor stuff in regards to fertility.

Baby1wanted - my mum spotted from about 6 weeks on my sister, and she continued to spot until 23 weeks :0 and mh sister is now a cheeky, pain in the bum, but adorable, nearly 7 year old

I just realised I have written an essay, so will stop now, I love this site

 

[vicwa]

Don't apologise for long post it was nice to read. Glad you're feeling more confident now as you say the chances of it happening in a row must be really low.
That's funny about you being a lot shorter than the lad you care for - made me laugh.
Cleaning is cool my mum does it and I have many times it can be a right laugh as you say if you work with good people.
Like you we have only told close friends and family. I'm putting off telling my tutor at uni because she might say I cannot go on my elective placement in September which is on a gynae ward and I'm really looking forward to it.
Anyone having problems sleeping all through the night?

 

[ksilme]

Don't apologise for long post it was nice to read. Glad you're feeling more confident now as you say the chances of it happening in a row must be really low.
That's funny about you being a lot shorter than the lad you care for - made me laugh.
Cleaning is cool my mum does it and I have many times it can be a right laugh as you say if you work with good people.
Like you we have only told close friends and family. I'm putting off telling my tutor at uni because she might say I cannot go on my elective placement in September which is on a gynae ward and I'm really looking forward to it.
Anyone having problems sleeping all through the night?

Omg yes, It is a bit better now but over the weekend I was awake for like an hour every couple of hours now u am still waking up but not for long, apart from right now, I woke dying of thirst, and am awake cos had to go get a drink, and hubby playing on his stupid PlayStation lol xx I feel bad saying it, but the past week or so, I sleep better in bed alone lol, probably because of his snoring xx

I see what you mean about not telling your tutor, I wouldn't want to tell the other supervisor ( there are two, I am on nice ones books, but in the other ones building)but thinking I should tell someone there in case of any chemicals or tasks I can't use or do etc and I know she won't be funny about it, when does your placement end? X

 

[Alexas Mommy]

hibiscus, sounds like your pregnancy started out great! Don't worry too much as I am almost sure you are going to have an excellent 2nd beta! I was scared when I went for my 2nd beta as well, so I know how you feel- sucks being a worrier, huh? When will you get the beta results?

 

[hibiscus07]

hibiscus, sounds like your pregnancy started out great! Don't worry too much as I am almost sure you are going to have an excellent 2nd beta! I was scared when I went for my 2nd beta as well, so I know how you feel- sucks being a worrier, huh? When will you get the beta results?

Thank you!
I feel better tonight in that I feel physically terrible! Ha. Funny how that works.

I get my result hopefully tomorrow AM. Fingers crossed...

How are you feeling??

 

[ksilme]

Had a bit of a panic this morning, for some reason (dream maybe) I thought my lines on test would be lighter today so stupidly did one to check, but it was darker yay!!!!!
Has anyone else had the same though, where the test line is darker on one side than the other?

Told supervisor today she is excited, she asked when she could share news lol, I did say 12 weeks, seems ages away xx