14w+1 - bleeds

I'm onto my third bleed this pregnancy.  The first one was a two day implantation bleed which was super exciting.  The second one was only a wipe after dtd with hubby so that didn't worry me.  And yesterday I'd been feeling a bit crampy on and off all day and around 9:30pm I went to the bathroom, not feeling well after having pizza for dinner, and I had some pink blood on the paper.  The sent my OB a text and he said nothing to worry about it, it happens, but to let him know about any more bleeds.  I woke up at 4am needing to wee and there was slightly heavier brown on the paper.  Thankfully this morning there was barely there pink, so hopefully it's on its way out, though I am slightly crampy this morning.  But I'm going to basically have a day in front of the tv with my feet up just to be sure.  As my husband said last night, there's no point in pushing myself and risking anything as it's been so hard just to get where we are.  I am so thankful for my Doppler though as I checked last night and this morning and baby's heart is still thumping away - I think I'd be completely freaking out if I didn't know.  Fingers crossed it is just one of those bleeds.  That said, last night was also the first time that my gums bled a little when I brushed my teeth before bed.  Maybe it's just my increased blood volume overflowing a bit.  haha.  It's scary though.

13w+5 - OB appointment

I had my first proper OB appointment today and I'm to have them monthly from now on.  He weighed me (shoes and all), took my blood pressure & had a quick look at baby.  Our wee man was still wriggling and jumping around and the Dr showed me baby's little man bits.  The Dr was really happy with the results of my scan and said that everything was looking really good.  He also gave me a new multivitamin to replace the current British multivitamin and the separate 5mg of folic acid that I'm taking.  This new one's got 1mg of folic acid and 150mg of iron, which is great because I'm soooo sleepy all the time.

13w+2 - NT scan

Ooops, I meant to post this on Saturday.  I was really nervous about this scan in case there was something wrong, but the Dr measured absolutely everything and everything is well within the normal ranges. He said at my age you start out with about a 1 in 170 chance of a baby with Downs but with my results it's going to be way better than that. So a big huge sigh of relief and oh it was just such an amazing scan. Baby looks like a proper person now and was sooooo active, we were in there for ages trying to get baby in the right position for all the measurements but baby was doing lots of turning and jumping and just jiggling around, it was actually quite funny, even the Dr was laughing at one point. And... it's a boy! Something about the angle of the pelvis, and the Dr was super sure about it. I said from right at the beginning that I just had a feeling in my gut that it was a boy, and there you go.  He's also measuring in at 13w+5 which would bring his due date to May 13th, but babies never come when they're meant to so I'm just saying he's coming sometime in mid May. So my report says my age risk of having a Downs baby is 1/111 but taking the scan measurements into account that takes it to 1/480, which takes me out of the high risk category.  Hubby and I are soooo relieved.  Oh and baby's head is measuring in at 14w+3 which we find hilarious as hubby and I both have pretty big heads, so it was kind of inevitable. lol This image has been resized. Click this bar to view the full image. The original image is sized 960x640.

11w+6 - I felt something today

This morning before I got out of bed, I put my hands on my tummy and I'm pretty sure I felt my uterus sticking out a bit.  It was firm and in the same area where I hear baby's heart with the doppler.  My trousers now don't do up and I'm having to wear my belly band and the only thing that's really comfortable are my trackies at the moment.  I've got my scan at 12w+2 so I'm also going to pop into a maternity clothes shop that's nearby while I'm there and see if I can get some jeans and leggings with a more comfortable waist!

11 weeks - cravings

Yay - we've made it to 11 weeks.  9 days to go till the next scan.  I have to admit that I'm nervous about it in case my risk level for Down's or another defect is not good.  Obviously there's nothing I can do about it but I would really like to come away from that scan with a light heart rather than with concerns about what to do next.

Today I started feeling a little queasy after breakfast and I was thinking through what I could eat to make me feel better.  Everything I thought of made my stomach turn until I thought of salami and hotdogs!  So all well cooked obviously but I'm feeling good again.  Soooo weird, but so nice obviously.

10w+6 - tests

This is the day that we went for that awful scan with the last pregnancy where we found out that the baby's heart wasn't beating any more.  However, I am very pleased to say that I've just had a listen with the doppler and this baby's heart is happily thumping away! Yay!

So anyway, I'm just back from my first lot of blood and urine tests.  It's so backward here sometimes it's almost funny.   Now normally when I've gone for blood tests, they stick the needle in and then pop on and off the different vials that they're going to use for the tests and the blood just comes out at its own rate.  Not in the place I had to go to today, I got my blood sucked out with a big syringe, I cold feel it coming out and it felt really weird!  Then for the urine tests normally you're just given a cup and told to pee in it, or with some instructions on how to clean yourself first and how not to contaminate the sample.  Oh no, not here, I had to have my feet up in stirrups for this.  She cleaned me and then told me to pee while I was lying down.  For me, that is impossible!  Even after my embryo transfer when I did my IVF and I was absolutely bursting for a wee, I couldn't relax myself enough to use the bed pan, even when they left me alone.  There's no way I was going to manage to wee with my legs in stirrups and some random woman holding a cup up against me!  I argued enough that she eventually agreed to let me wee in the cup in the normal way, thought she did put a bit of cotton up me so as no potential discharge could contaminate the urine sample.  Oh my word!  Anyway, results will be ready on Friday.

10w + 4 - a good milestone

It was at 10w+2 or 3 that baby's heart stopped beating last pregnancy. I've just had another listen on the Doppler & the little heart is still going strong. I'm so happy to be passed that point. 10w+6 is when we found out last time so I'll be really pleased when we get to 11 weeks. Fingers crossed!