Less than 12 weeks pregnant club! 2

LittleMoog

*Twinkle* wrote: »

Hi all, i dont post often now but read the thread daily, hope all ladies and bumps are as well as you can be
had my scan yesterday, they've bumped me up a few days to what i thought i was so i'm now due on Halloween (eek) however if i choose to have a section i can have it on the 24th oct, or wait to have it normally, i dont know what to do, i like the fact of knowing exactly when bubba will be here but then i also like going home 6 hours after having a normal birth and not being stuck in hospital for at least 2 days (had 2 very quick labours and last baby was a section so i can see from both sides). got a lot of thinking to do, unless this one turns ut breech too and then it'll be a section.

Congratulations on your scan Twinkle! Fingers crossed this one stays right way up (or in fact down! )

LadyMorticia

I have my first appointment with my GP tomorrow r.e. the pregnancy (not counting the emergency one last week!) just to re-go through my history and such and then she said she'll refer me to the midwife but that I'll get alot of support from the surgery because of my health problems.

cleofish

thanks everyone for your kind words.

we went up the hospital for the scan earlier to grab a bit of food and something to drink as i was quite dreading it.

got seen really quickly and in antenatal asl it was really quiet, dont know if perhaps it was the afternoon.

When we went into the scanning room there is a tv on the wall that you can see from the bed, i wasnt sure if they would do an internal scan or normal on the belly because of my weeks, so i drank something just in case before hand, but they ended up doing a normal over the belly one.

The first pictures i saw on the screen looked very scary, ive never seen scans where they look like a baby its usually a blob shaped black thing
but the first picture i thought just looked like a large mass shaped thing, which really worried me as i thought it has to be a molar but then she zoomed in and there was what looked like a baby shape, even my oh went oh wow i didnt think it would look like that, the woman carrying out the scan said yes the limbs are starting to take shape and this time around i really could see a little heartbeat beating away- it was wonderful

she had a bit of trouble keeping the good image on the screen as she said she could see my bowel in the picture and that i had a retroverted uterus?? and my bowel was full so it wasnt helping the scanning (whoops didnt know that would affect it) but she did manage to take some measurements and has dated me as 8w +5 and my edd of 29/11/12. Oh asked if we could have a picture and i think she felt a bit sorry for us and gave us one for free, but from the picture you cant really make anything out, we saw better views as she was doing the scanning.

She did tell me that as she could date me the local health board where i am would consider this the dating scan that normal happens at 12 weeks and that i wouldnt have another scan until 20 weeks!! i couldnt believe it, i started telling her i had a missed miscarriage at 11 weeks that must have happened at 8 weeks and i didnt know whether i could go until 20 weeks without knowing if everything was ok especially missing the 12 week one, in the end she did say ok ill request you to have a 12 week one and we booked it there, so my 12 week scan is 23/5/12 where i think i will be 12 +6

I feel a lot happier just knowing i can rule out a molar, its strangly more scary thinking there is an actual baby inside me with a beating heart hopefully time will go quick till the next one.

dont know if anyone has seen this site it has scan pictures from each week.
what we saw today on the screen looked more like the bottom left hand picture under the 9 week section rather then any of those one in the 8 week ones.

http://baby2see.com/development/ultrasound_sonogram/first_trimester_scans.html#week8

going to read back on catch up on everyones news now, sorry for long post.

cleofish

moneypenny- thanks for your words, felt emotional before the scan so i dont think if it was bad news i could have stopped any tears even if i tried, but i suppose they have seen it all before in hospital.
your oh sounds like he has worked out the secret, sometimes i just want oh just to hug, sometimes a hug is better than words.

do you see your midwfie before the 12 week scan? Ive also gone off chocolate my easter eggs were there for ages, well longer than they were last year.;)

littlemoog- be intersting to see if you are having multiples, during my scan oh asked the woman 'only 1?' and i just thought ...ones enough stress to worry about, hoping you had a better day with sickness today.

abis21- sorry to hear your feeling poorly from the sickness, are you able to have any sort of fruit to help with getting fluid/liquid down you perhpas oranges, little segments? Sweet of your mum as well to offer to do the ironing, oh has been cooking all the teas in the night dont think he will stretch to ironing though.:rotfl:

cake4brains- sorry to hear your feeling a but abandaoned is there anyone talking over your midwifes duties or within the team that you can perhaps have a chat to even just for reassurance?

cant believe how different they do everything in the health authorities, down here we have to see the midwife before the 12 week scan, i think so she can see if your high risk and whether you need to see anyone else before hand like a consultant.

twinkle- congrats on your scan and gaining an extra couple of days, hoping that this one isnt breech and you will get a choice of what to do.

ladyM- good luck for the docs, hoping they will give you lots of support, they sound good.
my doc said the other day after i told him i was pregnant, 'your pregnant again!' and i thought to myself yes i would like to have a family before im too old, it just happens to be that so far that my body hasnt managed to sustain the pregancies ive had, i dont have any children either but he made me feel like im a bunny popping machine.:mad:

right sorry for the second long post, off to have some food now, hoping everyone has a good night.

LittleMoog

Yay, congratulations Cleo, so pleased for you
I'm getting super excited and nervous at the same time for ours, 6 sleeps to go!

emsbet

Congratulations on the scan cleo :T
I have a retroverted uterus (uterus tilts backwards instead of being upright or tilting slightly forward) and apparently up to 20% of women do. There are no implications for pregnancy as once your baby starts growing your uterus will pop forward. Some women find that it takes longer until they show but that doesn't seem to have affected me

xx

fluffnutter

LittleMoog wrote: »

I can't find anything online to answer whether the baby takes the thyroxine it needs leaving me short, or if I take what I need, leaving baby short.

Have you tried this link, LittleMoog?

http://www.endocrine.niddk.nih.gov/pubs/pregnancy/

LittleMoog

fluffnutter wrote: »

Have you tried this link, LittleMoog?

http://www.endocrine.niddk.nih.gov/pubs/pregnancy/

hiya, that contains the same information that I already have unfortunately My referral to the endo took 4 weeks to come through, sent me for a blood test and then they LOST my referral before making me an appointment! :mad: I chased them up and the consultant looked at my test results and increased my dosage (over the phone so I still haven't spoken to him), but that was only at 9weeks, so I'm concerned that up until then baby may have been going short, which can cause developmental problems in the brain

I do suspect that like other nutrients the baby takes what it needs and leaves you short, rather than the other way around, and I was already on a large dose of thyroxine so hoping there was enough for beanie, but I can't find anything to confirm this

Seeing consultant next week so will be asking questions then about it, and about why they don't follow the current NHS guidance on treatment, which I took with me to the GP when I told her I was pg at 3+5, but she refused to follow as "it's not what we do in this area".:mad:

mishkanorman

LittleMoog wrote: »

hiya, that contains the same information that I already have unfortunately My referral to the endo took 4 weeks to come through, sent me for a blood test and then they LOST my referral before making me an appointment! :mad: I chased them up and the consultant looked at my test results and increased my dosage (over the phone so I still haven't spoken to him), but that was only at 9weeks, so I'm concerned that up until then baby may have been going short, which can cause developmental problems in the brain

I do suspect that like other nutrients the baby takes what it needs and leaves you short, rather than the other way around, and I was already on a large dose of thyroxine so hoping there was enough for beanie, but I can't find anything to confirm this

Seeing consultant next week so will be asking questions then about it, and about why they don't follow the current NHS guidance on treatment, which I took with me to the GP when I told her I was pg at 3+5, but she refused to follow as "it's not what we do in this area".:mad:

I was led to believe that for a 'normal' healthy pregnancy your body puts baby needs over your own, so they get first dibs on everything.

My specialist also told me as long as I'm getting any thyroxine it will be enough, the shortfall will effect me not baby (as it did)

I've also come across a few cases of thyroid conditions effecting the baby and in extreme cases causing miscarriage - in each one of these though the mother was unaware she had a thyroid condition so was taking no medication at all !

I hope you get your answers next week, try not to worry

LittleMoog

mishkanorman wrote: »

I was led to believe that for a 'normal' healthy pregnancy your body puts baby needs over your own, so they get first dibs on everything.

My specialist also told me as long as I'm getting any thyroxine it will be enough, the shortfall will effect me not baby (as it did)

I've also come across a few cases of thyroid conditions effecting the baby and in extreme cases causing miscarriage - in each one of these though the mother was unaware she had a thyroid condition so was taking no medication at all !

I hope you get your answers next week, try not to worry

Thanks Mishka, that's reassuring I was on 150mcg thyroxine, and they've increased to 200mcg, so hopefully beanie was taking what it needs from me and leaving me short. I will still be asking the specialist all this, and to justify why they don't follow the NHS guidelines in our area, as it's caused me a lot of stress.