17 weeks and 2ish days pregnant today. 6 weeks and 5 days til potential viability.
Have a private cervical length scan today as the hospital initially proposed these and then cancelled them because they decided they weren't needed. Way to make a person paranoid! Am hoping for a nice long, shut cervix.
I always have a lot of pressure and abdominal pain but this may be due to endometriosis or, more likely, my IBS which goes haywire during pregnancy. It's terrifying because all the 'signs' of prem labour (other than bleeding and waters breaking, thank goodness) I have on a daily basis so no way of telling what's going on in there. From my births, I know that I dilate extremely precipitously, so by the time I noticed something it would be too late.
Midwife on Monday so hoping she will approve my request to move my consultant-led antenatal care to a hospital near my work. Unlike my district hospital, it has a wonderful paediatric department (actually a whole children's hospital attached!) and the obs/gynae team are the experts that I'd be referred to by my district hospital if something was spotted.
Assuming we get to that date, '20 week' scan is on the 28th. I should be 18+6 or so. Last time with J the sonographer terrified me by finding a tiny amount of fluid around his heart ... it was purely incidental and he was fine, but I spent several weeks panicking about pericardial effusion etc. This is the same sonographer who estimated J's weight to be 4lb 3oz the day before he was born at 6lb 6oz. So, I'm not particularly keen to encounter the person again, another reason why I'm looking to move...