12 to 24 week pregnancy thread

Angel11_2

We are Team Blue !!!!!!!

Everything in the scan indicates he is all well and healthy. Growing well.
I'm not telling anyone else, just me, oh and daughter know (she only knows because she won't see any pink bits, she is sworn to secrecy).
And you lot on here of course.

Hope all bumps are good today - little fella has been kicking well the last couple of days.

Winnie_in_Pooh

Congratulations on team blue Twinkle and team pink Angel!

Just can't wait to find out what we've got now!! My scan isn't until 7th June and I'll be nearly 23 weeks at that point so will probably be pulling my hair out!!

That stomach surgery doesn't sound great Pigpen, sorry to be nosy but did they mess up a c-section to leave you needing it?

Well after lots of fluttering about in there for the past few days its been very still yesterday and so far today...sure its nothing to worry about but I'd welcome a nice hard kick to reassure me! Off for physio at 2pm so hoping that will wake Bob up enough to boot me

Loonytoons

Afternoon Not been around lately as i'm finding it really hard to want to do anything to do with being pregnant I don't know what's the matter with me, i was so convinced at the beginning everything was going to go wrong and so couldn't get excited but now at nearly 16 weeks it still doesn't feel real. I look at babies and have no interest at all and can't relate to me having one soon. I flicked through the boots baby magazine that arrived this morning and it just felt weird, i was so uninterested. This may be fairly normal for some people but not for me. I loved being pregnant before and we tried for a year with this one and i was so excited when i got a positive test. Before i was even pregnant, i loved reading baby mags knowing i was going to have another soon and would use any excuse to pop into mothercare or even the baby clothes section in tesco but now i've just got no interest. I just want to feel happy and excited about it as this is what i want so should be over the moon. I'm not particularly down about anything else, everything is good at the mo but if i start to think about how i feel i end up crying. What's the matter with me?! x

pigpen

Winnie_in_Pooh wrote: »

That stomach surgery doesn't sound great Pigpen, sorry to be nosy but did they mess up a c-section to leave you needing it?

Just a touch.. I have no peritoneum as it had to be removed, it was in a lumpy roll under my ribs. The muscles were free floating and stitched in place.. the sonographer ripped a hole in behind my navel so I have a huge hernia now. I had a perforated bowel that was undiagnosed for 2 years and massive nerve damage to my cervix. I had 2 contractions with the next one which ripped the bowel open and the muscles apart due to scar tissue.. so yes there is a lot of damage needs repairing and DD4 has cerebral palsy as they had to delay getting her out due to the damage.

Said surgeon is no longer practising but that doesn't help me or DD4!

Winnie_in_Pooh

Good god! No wonder you don't trust these people! Thank goodness that surgeon isn't practising anymore, small consolation though as you say.

pigpen

It was such a mess the surgeon wanted to take photographs for his file as he had never seen anything like it and wasn't sure quite how I was still alive.. takes a bit more than peritonitis to kill me!

Winnie_in_Pooh

pigpen wrote: »

It was such a mess the surgeon wanted to take photographs for his file as he had never seen anything like it and wasn't sure quite how I was still alive.. takes a bit more than peritonitis to kill me!

It certainly sounds like it, what with all the problems with your last pregnancy too! You must be made of some strong stuff, wonder if there's something in the water up there

twi1ight

Hi loonytoons. I feel a bit like that sometimes. I thought it was because it's my first and my brain can't cope with what's about to happen/change in my life. Maybe it's hormones acting to surpress things and stop us freaking out. I went to mothercare a few weeks ago as I thought it might help me get excited but i just felt like I was in the wrong place and legged it out of there before anyone spoke to me. And in the supermarket yesterday there was a tiny baby crying and part of me was thinking I should feel sympathetic or drawn to it but I just thought "how irritating". Think I'm destined to forever be annoyed by other people's children.

I think it's normal but if you are worried then mention it to midwife. They are meant to look for signs of depression. I was going to but I feel ok in myself and am beginning to feel more attachment to this baby now I've had the anomaly scan and can feel it move.

pigpen

Winnie_in_Pooh wrote: »

It certainly sounds like it, what with all the problems with your last pregnancy too! You must be made of some strong stuff, wonder if there's something in the water up there

When my kidneys stopped working last time the MW said, they can't be that bad or you'd be in agony... erm.. yeah.. but what does whining get you? it doesn't make it hurt less!

It is when I stop moaning about being in pain and feeing ill they should be worrying because that is when it is really really bad. My kidneys and SPD were so bad I didn't even realise my liver was not working properly as well.. and I still refuse to die lol..

I did make sure it was written in my notes (not that anyone ever reads anything in them) that if I say I am ill and seek 'help' I am really ill.. at least then my family can sue them if they do kill me this time.

Winnie_in_Pooh

Have just got back from physio and if moaning about being in pain gets me an hours worth of attention with the luscious Ian every time, I'm never gonna shut up :rotfl:! On the downside, it is SPD and I have a lovely girdle to support my hips. Brightside? Another hour with Ian in two weeks time