I’m 16 weeks pregnant with my 5th child and I feel rotten. If I get up to wash up or hang washing out or just house work in general I get pains in my lower abdomen and have to sit down and relax. I can't get up on a morning to get the other children ready for school so my partner is constantly rushed off his feet. Do you have any answers to why this pregnancy is so exhausting and painful? I'm just so fed up. My other pregnancies have been quite simple so I don't understand what is causing this.
Also, my partner and I mananged to have intercourse a couple of nights ago and when I went to the toilet afterwards I had a show. Will my pregnancy still carry on and will baby be OK?

When I was pregnant with my daughter I had a high risk of Downs syndrome and had an amnio to rule it out for definite as the scan showed it was a 1/40 probability.
I'm now pregnant again, two years later, and with the same father – is it likely to be a high risk again?
I didn't mind having the amnio as I had the chance to find out the sex too, but I'm already worrying about it and I'm only nine weeks! Can you help?

My wife is in her third trimester and is itching all over, she has been for a blood test and the results came back normal for any signs of a liver problem. The baby was also checked and everything was OK.
The doctors at the hospital told her to take Piriton to relieve the itching. They are the drowsy type but I am just concerned this was bad advice. Do you have any experience of this itchy skin problem and the type of medication given?

I’m 42 years old and had identical twin boys last summer, conceived naturally. The pregnancy was unremarkable and there was no TTTS. 
The babies came 6.5 weeks early and were delivered by emergency caesarean (low transverse cut). The labour notes said that I had a poorly formed lower uterine segment and ragged membranes.  I lost just over a litre of blood, with the increased blood loss attributed to the poorly formed lower uterine segment, but did not need a transfusion.
I would like to try for another baby and am thinking of VBAC but am concerned about a few things.
From what I can make out, a poorly formed lower uterine segment means it is thicker than it should be. The surgeon double stitched the uterus after the C-section. 
My questions are:

Q1  Is it a good thing that it was thicker than it should have been in that there would be more uterus to stitch together and therefore give a stronger “seam”?

Q2 Does having a poorly formed lower uterine segment in a previous pregnancy mean that you will have the same in subsequent pregnancies?

Q3  What problems could this cause?

My twins came exactly 1 week after my little girl’s first birthday. She was an uncomplicated vaginal birth and came very quickly, I went from 2-3cm to 10cm in an hour and was only pushing for 7 mins before she was born.  Contractions were very very strong and coming every 20 seconds.  If I do try again, the inter-delivery period would be approximately 22 months and I would be 44 years old.
If I did try for another baby and wanted to deliver vaginally then:

Q4  Would the fact that labour would be likely to be very quick and intense with virtually no break between contractions mean that the uterus would be under more pressure than an average length labour where the contractions are a bit more spaced out?

Q5  Would uterine rupture be more likely or less likely with a quick labour given that the rate of contractions acting on the uterus would be a lot faster than an average pregnancy but the overall time period would be a lot shorter?

I badly ripped when I had my son nearly 18 yrs ago (forceps delivery, one doctor stood behind other holding her waist to pull my son out).
I have trouble going for a number two, get faeces incontinence, am paranoid and self-conscious, suffer postnatal depression, failed relationships and comments are made when I go for a smear test.
Can I have anything done about it without it costing me money?