First consultant appointment

Today was my first Consultant appointment. With my previous pregnancy my son had to be induced at 37 weeks and 6 days because scans showed he had stopped growing at about 35 weeks, he wasn't moving much, I was lucky to feel one movement a day and he had low fluid around him.

I have a bicornuate uterus. This means it is heart shaped, normally they are pear shaped, possibly my son stopped growing because of the bicornuate uterus. Or it might have been a coincidence and it was placental insufficiency.

Anyway this was why I was referred to a consultant. I didn't actually get to see the consultant today but instead saw a Senior Registrar. He wasn't worried, reckoned there are unlikely to be further problems and suggested they do growth scans at 28 weeks and every four weeks after that. He also quickly scanned me and all looked well. I mentioned that I had a lot of discharge and he let me do a swab which will be sent off for testing.

I go back for an anomaly scan in a week.

More bleeding and due date confirmed

Had my scan. My official due date is 9th September. Baby is fine. I had more heavy bleeding before the scan. The sonographer said she would expect the other half of my uterus to be doing something, although she did go off to confer with a colleague about it. Bleeding is very common in bicornuate uteruses apparently. I said I had not had it in my previous pregnancy but she didn't have an answer to that. She said to expect more bleeding and that the area of haemorrhage was fairly large.

Did I say that at my appointment before this one the midwife / doctor I spoke to gave me a 50% chance of miscarrying?

Not a fabulous end to my son's birthday

My son's birthday was Thursday. We had been looking forward to it. All presents etc. ready. We took him to Las Iguanus by bus (he loves buses). Had a lovely meal and were thinking of going to the aquarium. I went to use the bathroom after the meal and discovered I was bleeding. I should have been 6 weeks pregnant....

We went home. I went to the doctors. Took ages to be seen. The doctor was nice. She referred me to the Early Pregnancy Clinic and explained that if this was the start of a miscarriage it would probably be like a heavy period.

So I went to the Early Pregnancy Clinic. Convinced it was a miscarriage. But wow there was a heartbeat on the scan. They thought it was just implantation bleeding. They mentioned my bicornuate uterus and said there was something on the other side of the uterus and want to check it in a couple weeks so I have another scan for then. The bleeding stopped by Monday.