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Can anyone else a faint line

Cand anyone else see a faint line or is it just me

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Consultant appointment

Looking for people’s experiences with their consultant appointment. Had mine today at 32 plus 1, I’m consultant led but haven’t seen a consultant up until this point which I’m not sure if that’s normal as this is my first baby. I waited over 2 hours for the phone call for the consultant to then ask me why I was ha...

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37.5 weeks and travel

Would you travel 1.5 hours away and back in a day at this stage of pregnancy?

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Ideas for how to tell family you’re pregnant?

Just wanted to hear other people’s ideas and how you’ve done it previously? This is our second child 😊

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Very low Papp-a and higher risk of Down syndrome

I’m wondering if anyone has any advice or been through something similar. This is my 3rd pregnancy. My second ended in ectopic and we’d been trying for over a year. I had my 12 week scan on Friday. 10+ 6 by my calculation. I got a very scary call yesterday to say my papp-a is 0.20 and anything under 0.40 is a concer...

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Fasting numbers

I am 31 weeks and started insulin a week ago and my overnight numbers are still bad. I have been increasing every by two units every two days and I am up to 9 Units and it doesn't seem to do anything. But I can barely get any sleep the last two weeks. Idk what to do

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PGP Physio

Had my midwives appointment yesterday and she said she'd refer me to physio for my broken hips - what happens next? Letter in the post? How long does that take? In some serious pain so I'm Abit anxious to get it sorted sooner rather than later!

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Shein

How to get in contact with shein? Ive sent a parcel back but they havent said they have recieved it yet and are still taking payments? Its been ages seems like evri could have lost the item?

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16weeks appointment L&D hospital was terrible

I had my 16 weeks appointment yesterday in Luton and I felt it was useless and I wasted my time, a phone call would have been better and saved me the stress. The midwife felt rushed and no heart beat was listen to, every complain I had her response was call the GP and she just booked me for my next appointment. I se...

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Line Eyes

Can you see something. 4dp5dt today.

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Doula recommendations

Did anyone have a doula that they recommend? I want to have a natural birth, but likely still at a hospital. I’m looking for a doula that can guide me through that, especially in a hospital setting. Someone with experience at Sutter would be ideal. Thanks!

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Gestational Diabetes

I was curious if anyone knew if NC Medicaid pays for the Dexcom or any device that monitors your levels instead of poking your finger for GD?

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I accidentally binged on halloween candy

32 weeks pregnant here and Ive been trying to manage my diabetes since 28 weeks. Im on insulin as well trying to find the cu correct dosage for my fasting levels. Ive been very strict with having no sugar at all but I caved and ate a bunch of halloween candy that was laying around. I feel terrible now 😔

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Faint line?

Do I have line eyes or is this an actual faint line? Any thoughts I’ve never used the dollar tree tests before.

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Advice please

So we went to mumma and papas at 20 weeks and picked our furniture car seats and pram and asked for them to be delivered December the week the murals being painted so we can put it all together and get a bit excited. Jon’s mum wants to buy the pram so I rang her and said if you still want to buy the pram are you ok ...

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Gestational Diabetes

Hello, I'm looking for some advice. I've been diagnosed with gestational diabetes for about 1 month now and in the space of 2 weeks I've gone from 1 tablet of metformin a day to 4 a day. Bricking it would be an understatement, already been threatened with insulin. Does anybody have any ideas or recommendations to he...

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