Pregnant after Fertility Issues / Long Term (12m+) TTC

Somnium

Yeay Nicki Our first arrival on this thread Congrats again, hope your home soon xx

Notsslass - Glad to know am not on my own with the headaches, mine are miagrain status though. Went to doc today and she is happy to sign me off if it helps, she thinks its tiredness combined with light sensativity from the strip lighting at work. As am on hol next week I said not at the mo and she has asked me to call if they dont go and she will provide me with note. She also preescribed a shed load of paracetamol and assured me there is no risk to me or baby with them.

Suffering with vision atm, but still headache free.

Somnium

Hope everyone had a good weekend, its been a lil quiet on here. Well the headaches are on there way out by the looks of it, although am getting the most awful back ache now! Think its cos I keep rolling on my back.

Nicki - any pics yet?

FairyElephant_2

nottslass wrote: »

Hi FE, is the work situation any better ? Did the MW appointment go ok ?

Thanks Nottslass - unfortunately the work situation is about the saem - except they have now withdrawn the previous job offer (the one in Birmingham) and then last Fri they asked me to apply for voluntary redundancy...Hello!?!?! My job ceases to exist as it is on Thursday 1st Oct, and they are now not offering me another - how does that fit into the definition of voluntary????? I'm still waiting for them to 'make me an offer', which in theory they must do by Thursday, so we shall see.....

The MW appt was great! She has 2 children herself - both by IVF - so she understands where we are coming from! Heard the heartbeat, which was pronounced 'perfect' and my womb is apparantly in the position it should be, there's no sugar or nasties in my urine, and my BP was right down to 120/60, which is amazingly low for me (and I haven't taken any BP meds for a couple of weeks as I ran out!). So all is well!

Have my 1st appt with the consultant tomorrow (the MW knows him and says he is 'lovely'!).

Somnium, glad the headaches are going. Hope you have a good week off and get lots of rest.

(((HUGS)))

FE -x-

Nicki

Back home from hospital yesterday and enjoying family life with our little man.

Drum roll, please.....



Am going to post the birth story on that thread for anyone who is interested in the gory details (there were none, it was fab!).

Good luck with the rest of your pregnancies, everyone. I suspect I won't be able to log in anywhere nearly as often from now on, but I will be thinking of you all.

Love

Nicki

nottslass_2

Nicki, he's beautiful:j

I've read your birth story and I'm sooo pleased that you had such an amazing delivery.

Enjoy !!!!!!

nottslass x

FairyElephant_2

AWWWWW Nicki - he is just gorgeous!


Met the consultant today - he does seem like a nice chap as I was told! Did all the usual checks & listened to the heartbeat (he had trouble finding it - didn't have the heart to tell him the midwife got it first try last Thurs!). Unless I have any probs he doesn't need to see me for 15 weeks - which will be January (scary!) when I will be 32 weeks. He wants me to have a scan then & see him straight afterwards (good - cuts down on hospital visits!). He's written notes to my MW to ask her to take my BP more often as we closer to Due Day (and if it starts going up he is to be contacted ASAP!), and also some glucose tolerance tests & stuff he wants done later on.
So that's it for appts for now, until Oct 20th when I have my 20wk scan.

OK - off to read Nicki's birth story now!

Evansangel

nottslass wrote: »

EA - I only got to hear the heart beat after pleading with the Doc at my hospital appointment. I asked the sonographer if we could have "sound effects" while she was doing the scan & was asked "why would you want to hear it when you can see it"(on the scan) - She'd obviously never been pregnant !!!!

I did try to find the heartbeat with my angelsounds doppler, and couldn't find it. It caused so much panic. That i asked my doc if he could have a listen for me (cause the MW's in this area are terribly unorganised and i dont know when my next appointment is) and he found it right away.
Such a relief

I kept panicking i had another missed mc

Im such a drama queen

nottslass_2

Evansangel, I've got the angelsounds doppler thinggy - of course I tried to use it too early,couldn't find the heartbeat and went into a mad panic !!!! me thinks its probably more trouble than its worth.

I'm going to have another go again tonight (now 23 weeks) - if I can't hear anything this time it'll go on ebay. But at least i know know every things OK with bean 'cos he /she seems to take great pleasure in playing football every night,just as I'm trying to go to sleep !!!

There's a boots Parent and baby event /show near us on Sunday,which I think we'll go to.
I need to make up my mind which pram to go for - At the moment its a choice between the i Candy,the M&P pliko pramette and the Bugaboo !!

FE - you must be special,I don't think I've ever met the consultant that I've been under - I always get fobbed off with the Reg. The next time I see him will be when I'm 28 weeks.

Somnium

Nicki - a wonderful pic, thanks for sharing your cutie with us. Loved your birth story too sounds perfect

Notsslass - good luck choosing your PC, I only know the bugaboos and not the others so can't comment.

To start with we were gonna get a dopler but heard such mixed reviews we were in two minds. Then both a news paper article and my MW said similar things about them in the same week and so we decided to save money and not bother. Will be only another week or so till bubs is using me like a punch bag anyhoo.

FairyElephant_2

nottslass wrote: »

FE - you must be special,I don't think I've ever met the consultant that I've been under - I always get fobbed off with the Reg. The next time I see him will be when I'm 28 weeks.

Thanks! - Not sure if being 'special' is necessarily a good thing - LOL!
From the message board that lots of the women from my clinic use I gather that the IVF ladies in our area are generally consultant-led rather than midwife-led at either of the 2 hospitals we get to choose from. If you've had previous losses as I have, then they like to see you earlier on in the PG. Apparantly the chap that I am under is very 'hands on' and likes to meet his patients personally, and I have been told that he takes a great interest and personally sees most of them when in labour/after the birth as well. I admit this is quite reassuring, as I was finding that coming from the IVF clinic where staff talk to you pretty much every step of the way and you are checked on repeatedly, back into the 'NHS world', was a bit unsettling - felt a bit like being cast adrift! It seems that services & help are 'out there' but you need to be very procactive in finding out about them and chasing them up!