Less than 12 weeks pregnant club! Part 3

blondy24

Hi Birdie, please can I be added to the list due on 9 march according to dr today, have to wait till 10 weeks before midwife contacts me and then they come to our house, seems different to others. So tired today and have been wanting savoury food lately. Also got stretching tummy pains. Hope everyone is enjoying the weather and nearly the weekend.

bigzippy

Faerie wrote: »

Birdie does your letter say how many people can come with you? Ultrasound scan rooms are usually quite small, theres normally just enough room for the machine, a trolley for you to lie on and a few chairs etc.

I'm just having my husband there, I'll send them photos afterwards if all is well. I'm planning to drive to my nanna's after the scan to tell her our news, she'll be so excited! Mine is on the 24th, I'm really nervous something will be wrong. Is anyone having the NT scan and blood test? I am, but still don't know what to think about it.

My midwife didn't give me a choice of where to give birth, she didn't even discuss it! I'll be at Wythenshawe hospital.

The gynae ward at Wythenshawe was really good, my sister had a hysterectomy there last year and she was fine there while usually terrified of hospitals. She looked them up before hand and they had a good rep

I had the NT and blood test for Downs, even though it wouldn't change my/our mind about the baby I thought perhaps it would just help us prepare. We got the letter back yesterday that we're low risk

14+2

becca0417

Sorry guys am still here just feeling rather awful! Had a very anxious day yesterday and today feel poorly!

I'm struggling to believe that this is happening for us, even though we've seen baby I'm just terrified! After so long of bad news, it just feels like we couldn't be this lucky if that makes sense?

Jox

I know how you feel becca, none of us can look into the future or see why the crappy things that have happened to us, happened, but let's hope that with each day that passes we are closer to meeting our little rays of sunshine, no matter how sick they are making us at the moment

Hope it ends up well for all of us xx

faithhope

BigZippy - So happy for you that you got low risk from the tests. I have looked up what it normal measurements at the Nuchal scan so I will have a bit of an idea when I get my scan. Probably best not to google these types of things but I wanted to know.

Becca - It's understandable to be worried. It does seem so long till 12 weeks at this stage. Hope you feel a bit better soon x.

AFM - With my first pg it wasn't noticeable even at 5 mths!! The second was a lot earlier and this time I'm only 6 wks and someone asked if i was pg!! I want to wait to tell people but I've no idea how to keep this big belly under wraps :rotfl:

In terms of who is there for birth/scans I had DH only. In saying that in the labour room he sat munching on a packet of squares with a kind of spare part look about him. I only wanted to hold the midwife's hand not his as I felt she was the only one who understood what was going on. In the end I had two lovely midwifes there and a doc hovering about in case he was needed - he wasn't thank goodness.

Magpie27

becca0417 wrote: »

Sorry guys am still here just feeling rather awful! Had a very anxious day yesterday and today feel poorly!

I'm struggling to believe that this is happening for us, even though we've seen baby I'm just terrified! After so long of bad news, it just feels like we couldn't be this lucky if that makes sense?

Take care of yourself Becca I don't know your history but it sounds like you both deserve this wonderful news but I know what its like to expect the worst because that's what your used

Lara44

First Dr's appointment today, got a huge lot of pamphlets and some free vits. Made it all seem real! :j She put me at 6+3 but gave me a DD of 9th March, it's quite confusing. Got my booking in appointment beginning of August so will be 9+something.

Told my parents too, they were so shocked and only stayed on the phone a few minutes. I hope they are happy. Both my Mum and my MIL live hundreds of miles from us, so they won't have the opportunity to join us. Shame as MIL used to be a midwife!!!

Still not got really any symptoms except lightheadedness now. Given up worrying about it, as have too much else to pickle the grey cells with.

((((((Hugs Becca)))))) - a bit of distraction sounds good right now.

Hugs to all xx

TeamLowe

Becca just remember your little bean has already passed its first little hurdle to get its little heart beating, the chances of things going wrong now have reduced dramatically the anxiety is unfortunately completely normal, and the hormones making us feel emotional don't help anything either. I've had days were for no apparent reason I've decided it was all over and I'd lost the baby but Flutter is still there as far as I'm aware 10 days til i find out for sure...

Birdie tbh i think that's it, i see the scans as a medical examination which they are, and I'd only take DH to them anyway. i think a lot of people are blessed with naiveity (and i mean that sincerely, wish i had that) about the bad things and think everything will be fine anyway, so the scan is just a chance to show off baby and find out gender

Faith that's exactly what i'm expecting from DH, when i've caught bits of OBEM its always made me smile wryly to see the women getting annoyed with their useless/mildly annoying men, as i know that will be us. If you've watched Modern Family, he's Phil Dunphy all over and i just know when the time comes he'll try to be 'helpful' lol

I'm properly good for nothing today. i'm stuttering and mixing up words, in my minutes i wrote 'stupids' instead of 'students' and it took me three goes to spell Alexander. do you think i can ask my boss to go home early as i'm currently useless and a bit of a liability? :rotfl:

Birdie85

Big hugs Becca, try to distract yourself, it's not easy though. All we can do right now is wait and hope.

I've added ladies to the list and fiddled Lara's EDD.

Smlsave, I admire your attitude and hope to be able to do the same myself! I don't think you sound like a hard case at all for trying to get people to respect your boundaries from the start. OH has a big family and I'm already thinking of throwing a 'Sip and See' afternoon once the baby's a few weeks old for all his aunts and uncles to come and see the baby in a 3 hour slot to get it all over and done with rather than have them appear on my doorstep in dribs and drabs for weeks! Same with our friends-that-aren't-that-close friends!

Our in-laws only live 5 minutes down the road from us and this is their first grandchild so I have a feeling they'll be 'just passing by' a lot more regularly than they do now. I think MIL is jealous of my Mum too since she's only got boys and hasn't got that Mother-Daughter relationship that my Mum and I have so she'll be forever trying to spend as much time, if not more time, with us than my Mum does because she gets a strange look in her eyes when I say I did something with my parents, as if to say 'Why THEM and not US?'. It's going to get crazy and we'll have to set up a rota! I know we're lucky that we've got our familes so close but sometimes too much love can be as problematic as not enough!

Birdie85

Poor TL for being useless today! I went home on Tuesday as I was good for nothing! I had a bit of a headache and felt a little dizzy but could've dealt with it.... but decided I was going to do nothing of any use anyway so might as well do nothing at home!

I'm sorry you're married to a Phil Dunphy too! My OH is really matter of fact and unsympathetic, he's useless with any bodily fluids but will tell me off if I'm making too much rof a racket whilst giving birth!