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I kind of wish I could have a home birth! But that's not in the cards for me... My first labor ended with me needing a blood transfusion, and my second my son ended up in the nicu with a collapsed lung, so I'm too scared something else will go wrong this time. I'm already super nervous about labor though, and I've got about 28 weeks left still! I was induced with my first and it was only 6 hours long, then my second I went into labor spontaneously and by the time I got to the hospital, was already 8 cm so everyone had to rush around. That labor was 4 hours... So really it woudl be much easier to just stay home lol!

I had my first two at a birthing centre and ds3 at a hospital which was so awful, not because of the labor but because of the midwifes there his labor was only 3 hours! but also worried when you get to that point in labor when you prefer to die than carry on and totally freak out (or is that just me lol) whether I could cope being at home. Maybe need some meditation exercises or something to be able to cope!!

Sorry completely change the subject but look what came today for ds3 to announce on friday :)
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I'm going to see how long it takes everyone to notice lol

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Originally Posted by Lassie1982

suregena i gotta run coz I'm getting ready for work but just wanted to say hold out as long as you can before telling.
My boss is going to an absolute prick to me when he finds out. Long story short he has no idea how to do his job, so i do my job, plus his, and then some more. So he is going to have serious issues when i go (i don't mean to sound big headed, i really don't, but deadset that guy can't even string sentence together professionally without me doing it for him) plus a lot of the stuff i do is very specialised analytics so its not as easy as just handing it over to someone....so anyway - he's going to hate that fact that I'm pregnant, he's going wish ill fate on me, and so i am going to avoid telling him for as one as possible....hopefully i can get to the 11 week mark before telling him, mind you if this bloating keep going the way it has been then i will probably have to tell him after the dating scan..

so anyway - point it, is your body, your baby, do whats right for you, and if you think that by telling it going to subject you to any negativity, then keep it to yourself as long as you can :)

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It would be really hard for me to keep it a secret that long... I don't have clothes I can hide in at all! And, if I have bad morning sickness (I had all day nausea with my son and I called into and was off work frequently or left work early...) that would really be hard to hide. I might try to wait as long as I can, though. We'll see what happens. I noticed I'm getting quite bloated today... even the bloating, they'd raise an eyebrow at me! I'm petite and tend to wear form fitting tops and skirts at work... er...

I've been feeling mildly queasy today - that is a good sign but also way earlier than I felt queasy with my son (I got morning sickness from 5 1/2 weeks with my son and had some queasy moments in the days before)

So, the queasiness could just be in my head or something, otherwise it's starting early!

I got the IC tests in the mail today (haha - the ones I was originally waiting for but ended up getting some tests over the weekend because it was driving me crazy looking at that faint positive test from 8dpo) so I went right ahead and pee'd in one with somewhat diluted pee. About even darkness to the control line - so, overall, darker from the previous three tests. All good things. Yeah! :cool:

Super cute!! We did tshirts... BIG brother and lil BIG brother and only 2 people got it right away. We had to pretty much tell everyone else lol! Let us know how it goes!

Ladies I get the same uneasy feelings about miscarriage. This is my third pregnancy and I thought just by the numbers mine was up. I am almost 12 weeks and baby is still there so now I figure something else is wrong. I think it is just human nature.

I think doing a home-birth would be exciting but I don;t feel comfortable with it since I do VBAC's. I also like when the the nurse takes the baby so I can sleep. I am also easily paranoid by medical things that could go wrong and find comfort in the hospital.

Just popping in for a quick update: I had my scan today and we saw one sac that was measuring about 4 weeks. You could see where I ovulated on my right side, but I had thought it was my left side because I'm still feeling pain there that feels like a CL cyst. They couldn't see anything in the tubes, but I'm going back for another scan in 10 days to make sure that everything is okay.

I am 18dpo today and my beta has doubled since Monday, so now it's somewhere in the 2200s. I asked the dr why this could be and he said he doesn't even want to speculate. I asked if the u/s tech could see more than one sac, and she said, "not today." Apparently it's too early to see much of anything, but when I said "at least there's only one" even the dr said, "we just don't know that for sure." So I guess we wait. We should know more next week, but for now we're thinking it's just one and my levels are just sky high because it's a strong pregnancy. At least we know why the nausea has been so bad, though! LOL

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Originally Posted by mummypink

I'm finding it really hard to be excited about being pregnant, as I kind of feel like I will jinx things?

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I totally understand how y'all feel, ladies. I can't wear any of my jeans because the bloating is so bad, but I'm afraid to put on anything maternity (those elastic-waist no-panel styles) because it feels like I might be jinxing things, because it's JUST so early. We will get through this!

Thanks for the update Shellbelle.

Shell glad things want well for you.
Having only one sac don't rule out twins though does it aren't identical twins in the same sac??? xx