Hello there

Just wondering how all the expectant MTBs are going? Especially the newbies like me.

I am hanging in there and feeling a little bit better thank goodness because I am not sure that I could feel any worse than I have been. I have booked in my 12 week scan for the 30th of January so fingers crossed until then.

Keep in touch everyone

Glad you are starting feel a bit better Claire, how exciting - 12 week scan, not long to go

Me - I have a range of mixed feelings surging through me at the moment, I've only got 16 days before induction (very excited but scared also). I can't believe it's happening so soon
The last couple of weeks have been very emotional as I finally got the courage to change the nursery around and redecorate, I did not feel right leaving the room as it was, as it was originally created for Riley, I have left a part of Riley in the room, but now it is this little bubs room and now once again I feel happy and excited when I go in there and also peaceful knowing that there is still a part of Riley still in there.
My biggest fear at the moment is not if I will bring this baby home (I know I will) but if I will now, not have enough time for Riley, it scares me to think that I may be too busy sometimes to talk to him. I know I will not forget him but I'm scared that I will not think of him as often. (Ally any advice??)

Sorry for the "woe is me" post, overall things are all good.
Wishing all PM wonderful preggy vibes
All TM
And everyone else

Take care
Jacqui

Claire, how exciting the 12 week scan, I can't believe how quickly all these pregnancies are coming along, (i'm sure not quick enough for all you expectant mums).

Jaquie, OMG it has come round so quickly for you. Can't wait to hear your birth story, do you know how they will be inducing you??? For me they broke my waters. as for your question re: remembering Riley, you will always think of him often. I think of Ashley everyday, many times a day, YES this new bub will take over a lot of the "Riley"time, but you will still think of him often. I remember even calling Olivia "Ashley", so be prepared for that one. I had a lot of guilt in the first few months, as I didn't have enough time to go and make my usual visits to Ashley, but I always made a point of talking to her at home, (hoping that she will hear me). Well I am rambling on now........

Come on all you other preggy mums, give us an update, look forward to hearing how you are all doing.

I am doing ok, am 16 weeks now and at that annoying stage where I'm not feeling movement quite yet, so I have anxious times, wondering if the baby has died since I last saw the midwife. I've had 3 scans so far and the midwife is picking up a heartbeat loud and clear on the doppler so that's all good. I have the anatomy scan in about 3 weeks time so looking forward to that and finding out the sex of this one (which we will be keeping a secret . We didn't find out with Joel or Maria so this will be new for me, quite exciting. Then I will have the uterine doppler scan at 24 weeks and then another visit to the specialist to check everything's ok. I think the time between now and then will be most anxious for me, especially wondering whether this baby is growing ok.

My midwife runs 2 open clinics per week so I have plenty of opportunity to drop in and hear the heartbeat whenever I want which is great.

The specialist has recommended that I be induced by my due date which I am a little anxious about. When I had Joel, I went into labour naturally and had him without any intervention or pain relief. I have been told that there is a much higher chance of intervention when having an induction and this scares me because I would like to do it naturally again this time. Sure, I was induced when I had Maria but she was so little that I only had about 15 minutes of pain before she was born and she came so quickly that they didn't have a chance to get any pain relief into me. Any advice Ally? I like the idea of having the waters broken and seeing how things go from there but I guess you have to be already dilated for that to happen. I guess I am finding at the moment, that thinking about how I want the birth to be is helping me to be less anxious.

Maria, with my first DS I was induced as I had high b/p, and went through 8 hours of painful labour, as his head was tilted sideways, so in the end he was a ventouse delivery. My next 2 were natural labours, which went great, then of course Ashley (my angel) was induced and went for an epidural, so when I had Olivia, (I was induced at 37 weeks), I asked for an epidural when they broke my waters, my obst. had no problem with this at all, it was fantastic, IF I were to ever have any more kids I would definatley go for the epidural again. I have done both ways, natural and epi, and it definately was a great birth (the epi), I lay there waiting for the pain and there was none, in the end my obst, told me to push and out she came...... BUT having said that not all people are into epi's, it is a personal choice.

Maria, with my first DS I was induced as I had high b/p, and went through 8 hours of painful labour, as his head was tilted sideways, so in the end he was a ventouse delivery. My next 2 were natural labours, which went great, then of course Ashley (my angel) was induced and went for an epidural, so when I had Olivia, (I was induced at 37 weeks), I asked for an epidural when they broke my waters, my obst. had no problem with this at all, it was fantastic, IF I were to ever have any more kids I would definatley go for the epidural again. I have done both ways, natural and epi, and it definately was a great birth (the epi), I lay there waiting for the pain and there was none, in the end my obst, told me to push and out she came...... BUT having said that not all people are into epi's, it is a personal choice.

Ally - Thanks for the advice, I know I will have good days and I will have sad days as for all the other feelings I am going to go through, I suppose I will just have to ride them out when they come along. It's not fair that we have to feel so uncertain and scared at a time when we should be overflowing with excitement - just another thing that has to be apart of this journey I suppose.

As for induction, they are going to start me off with the gel until I am dialated enough to break my waters, my midwife is pretty sure I will not require the synto as I only required the gel with Riley and my waters were not broken to the very last minute, I'm happy with all this

Jacqui

Well I can not believe how fast the time is going at the moment, 10 weeks and 4 days already.
We will be seeing the gyne-ob on Friday and will hopefully be booking a 12 weeks scan then.
Finding it all a bit overwhelming at the moment, but that is life in general aswell.
Really sick of being sick, and what is the deal with cravings, never had them with the other 3 (well not wierd ones anyway)but I have gone through huge amounts of Balsamic Vinegar recently, on bread even!!!! Have ordered myself not to buy more till this passes else I will end up with more problems I do not need.

Ha ha Lisa you cracked me up about the balsamic vinegar!! My big craving this time round is garlic bread - I even resorted to eating some at 10.00 at night just before going to bed (before CHristmas) - luckily my hubby is very understanding and will put up with anything from me at the moment...

Yeah, have to be thankful for understanding hubbies...Well I wouldn't say he understands it but he just goes along with it.
Hope you are all ok and Babies are all growing well.