Awww, gorgeous bumps ladies! They all look lovely to me. I like it when it starts to look like there is a baby in there and not just like you have overindulged at your last meal!
Flava, naturopaths often use homeopathic remedies. I haven't tried any for m/s, but do give homeopathic drops to my kids at the first sign of a cold and often nothing develops. You definitely need something though, it sounds debilitating. Don't the midwives have the ability to speak to a doctor and describe the condition and either get you assessed or write a script? Your system sounds so different to here, so I don't know how it works.
Hobber, here we get the nuchal fold ultrasound combined with a blood test to work out our risk factor for something like Downs syndrome. Is that what you had that came back showing low risk? A friend of mine had a high risk result come back (in her late 30's) last year, so she had an amnio. It came back that baby was fine, and sure enough he was. So even the high risk results can be wrong. Tough decision to make. Downs syndrome children are absolutely lovely, however they do come with varying degrees of ongoing medical issues and dependency on you as parents. MY DH and I have always thought we would not be able to keep one if I found out. He was reluctant to try for a 3rd, thinking we had been lucky enough to have 2 healthy children.
