Less than 12 weeks pregnant club! Part 4!!

Miss_Imaginative

Thank you, LailaP for taking the time to reply. It's reassuring to hear the niggles and twinges are perfectly normal - it just freaked me out the sheer frequency of them all of a sudden!

Daisiegg, I'm so pleased you're a lot calmer and you've taken it easy today. Any idea when your midwife appointment will be re-arranged for?

I've had quite a day. I rang the midwife this morning to express my concerns re: this funny brown discharge and increase in twinges, etc. She said the twinges weren't a huge concern, but wondered whether the brown discharge might be an infection (increased pain could also be a sign), so suggested I come in for a once over, swab, etc, just to be on the safe side.

So, headed over to the hospital from work (who were very understanding and just told me to go and not worry about them, thank goodness) and was put on the maternity day ward. The midwife was super, very attentive and understanding of my concerns, especially after my previous bleeds. Took my blood pressure (normal), I provided a urine sample and a swab (results of which will be coming back to my GP on Tuesday afternoon). She also wanted to take some blood, which proved rather tricky... I am notorious for getting blood out of! Midwife 1 tried three times, Midwife 2 tried twice - they then gave up and called a doctor, who was doing ward rounds but would be round shortly. An hour later, after being told "he'll be down in 5 minutes!" - was told he'd just been called into theatre and would not be able to come and take my blood. Midwife 1 decided she was determined to get blood out of me and eventually managed to get a tubes worth out from the back of my hand (not ideal, but it worked). She also examined my tummy and confirmed that she thinks the pains are just the baby/uterus rising out of my pelvis - especially that my tummy is not remotely tender in the slightest, she really doesn't think there's a problem. She's a bit concerned re: the brown discharge, but wonders whether it might be an old bleed just working it's way out, but the swab/bloods will confirm/deny an infection soon enough.

The midwife also wanted to check my blood type as she had a bit of a hunch and just wanted to check something - turns out I am a very rare B Negative. However, I am also Rhesus Negative, as she had an inkling. So, given that I have had bleeding and am I now also over 10 weeks I can have the Anti-D injection as a preventative measure. So, after going to work this afternoon, I pottered back to the hospital and had a lovely Anti-D injection. If I bleed fresh blood again, I need to go back in within 72 hours and have another Anti-D injection. But the midwives were all very nice about it and it all seems very run of the mill to them, so I'm not too concerned - if anything pleased it's been picked up so promptly and I'm having the correct treatment.

It's been quite a day, but to be honest I'm just relieved that they've listened to my concerns and reassured me.

On that note, I am absolutely shattered and am ordering take-away for tea as I can't be bothered to cook (and neither can hubby). Thank goodness it's Friday!

Mrs_I

Peonie

Hi Miss I, the treatment you got is fantastic. I'm glad they put your mind at ease. What's the anti-D injection? Daisie, sorry your treatment has been rubbish.

It's been a week since out positive test. :T

Miss_Imaginative

Peonie wrote: »

Hi Miss I, the treatment you got is fantastic. I'm glad they put your mind at ease. What's the anti-D injection? Daisie, sorry your treatment has been rubbish.

It's been a week since out positive test. :T

:j Massive yay for it being a week since your positive test, Peonie!

Peonie, you are so right, it's been fantastic - I really cannot fault the treatment I have received so far from my local hospital. They have a very bad reputation in the local news (and national news, but not quite as well known as Stafford for instance), but they are really changing my opinions of them at the moment. Am very impressed.

This is the gist I got today, I'm still getting my head around the finer details of it all really so my description may be ever so slightly inaccurate but I'll link to articles at the bottom for more details for those who want it.

The Anti-D injection (made up of plasma) is given to those who are diagnosed as Rhesus Negative (about 15% of people are Rhesus Negative); it essentially means that mother's blood and the unborn child's blood may be incompatible. Those who are Rhesus Negative are missing a protein (the "D antigen") on the surface of their red blood cells - those who are positive have it. After the mother/baby bloods may be mixed (e.g. after childbirth or c-section, or a bleed) the mother's blood develops anti-bodies to remove the unwelcome blood type. The mother's blood considers the unborn child's blood an infection - essentially mother's immune system doing it's job to protect mother. It's not such an issue in the first pregnancy, but is a problem in later pregnancies as when the bloods are mixed through the placenta, the mother's blood remembers how to make the anti-bodies to remove the baby's blood and starts "attacking" the baby's blood within the unborn child, causing problems and can potentially be fatal. The Anti-D injection is quite clever - it neutralises the "D factor" of the baby's blood so the mother's blood doesn't detect it and therefore doesn't produce the antibodies (and therefore can't remember them in future pregnancies!). More info here and here.

Mrs_I

Bluebell1000

Congratulations cmace, purcy and lilmissmup on your scans

I'm going to have to adjust my scan date to 7/3 instead of 5/3. Boo, two more days of waiting. I realised the original date clashed with a class I'm teaching, and it was a lot easier to rearrange the scan than to rearrange the class.

I have a very sore back today. I was stuck in a chair for 6 hours of meeting yesterday (at least there was a good lunch) and it just got more and more uncomfortable. I think I have a bruised line along my back where the chair back was, if that makes any sense. I sent DH and DS and my Dad off to the shops to buy food, and I am supposed to be resting. So far I have paid the allotment bill, caught up on emails, sorted the post, hoovered the downstairs and tidied, and as my laptop is about to run out of battery I'll probably go and clean the loo. I'm not very good at resting.

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Daisiegg (?07-10-2014) private scan on 23/02
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Peonie (10-10-14)

lollypopswater

Ooh the scan dates are creeping down - hope I get a date soon! Midwife said would either be posted or she would bring it when she comes on 1st march (10wk booking appt)

Xxx

time2deal

Hey all.

Sorry I missed your post on Thursday daisy. Sounds a nightmare! I'd hate having my doctor be someone I knew otherwise. I second the idea of changing doctors if you can.

I'm also at my one week anniversary of bfp! Did another cbd today and still getting 2-3. Boooo.... But I'm not going to let it worry me. The sample looked a bit light coloured, so hopefully all is still well. Only symptoms are sensitive boobs and fatigue, and the odd stretchy position when I get up. Enough for the moment! Plus extreme grumpiness from time to time. Dh has fixed a light and done the laundry... So I think maybe he has noticed I'm less tolerant than usual!

lollypopswater

Am also a bit grumpy T2D! Hubby doesn't have much sympathy though. When I say I feel sick he tells me I'm not ill and to get on with it. Supportive eh?!

He means well underneath thankfully just a very get up and go kind if guy so thinks I should just get on with things.

DanielleNic87

I got my form and booklet today from my SW consultant for the midwife to sign at my 1st appt. I'm anxious about it as all I can imagine is her telling me I'm far too overweight to have a baby.

daisiegg

DanielleNic87 wrote: »

I got my form and booklet today from my SW consultant for the midwife to sign at my 1st appt. I'm anxious about it as all I can imagine is her telling me I'm far too overweight to have a baby.

I am terrified the mw is going to say the same thing to me keep worrying about it.

time2deal

Me too! Actually I just hate dh hearing my weight. At least he won't be there.