February 2011 babies... Getting to second trimester

[Lulabel27]

Hi All

This is the new thread taking over from "Feb 2011... Where only us and a select few know"

So sad that not everyone will be joining us on the new thread but here's looking to the future and hoping we start to see some lovely scans and good news from everyone in the next month

It is hard to keep up with all the posts. I use mn on my iPhone and it isn't good on the eyes lol. I always feel bad because lots of my posts appear to be very impersonal. Apologies x

Has anyone else had any issues with sensitive/painfu teeth? My teeth are v sensitive at the best of times (can't eat acidic foods/drinks and usualy can only drink water or get toothache from sensitivity) but recently got much worse. I'm kinda scared there might be something wrong...but I've never even had a filling in my life so a bit scared to go to the dentist.

I had about 7 weeks when I could barely clean my teeth as it made me gag (luckily that is passing so am giving more thorough cleaning), have had to eat constantly to help nausea (including when I frequently wake up at night) so imagine there's lots of sugary goodness bneing feasted on by my mouth bacteria! I now get a bit of pain when I eat some foods and when I brush my teeth on certain teeth....I'm hoping it's just increased sensitivity which apparently is common in pg, but never having had any issues with teeth before I'm not sure how it would feel/be if I had any serious problems needing attention. Anyone else having teeth probs? I'm still rough with ms so the last thing I want to do is drive miles to my dentist (the nearest NHS one is a long way away!). I've just been sort of cleaning and mouthwashing lots and hoping all is OK. I have noticed an increase in lovely black bits on the back of my teeth (plaque???) but I've had that before (just not as bad) and dentist say it's fine (not good, but fine).

any advice??

wanderingsheep Congratulations on the wedding, I hope your party went well last night and do tell us if your dress fit ok!

hoolabombshell To be honest, I would just approach the job hunt as normal, no reason to fess up at all, esp as some ppl dont even tell their families until much later. Someone I work with didnt tell ANYONE util 20 weeks (except her DH!) as she had suffered previous miscarriages. No-one questioned her and understood her reason for waiting.

Well, I am off to my parents house today for a nice home cooked Sunday lunch, yum yum! will deffo be wearing my stretchy jeans for this

Have a lovely day everyone

grigglepuff, remember that the low hCG levels association with Down's syndrome will already have been factored in to your 1 in 890 result. So it actually implies that all your other measurements and levels must have been really great, probably with just the low hCG dragging your overall odds down a bit -- and from what they've said that (good measurements in general but with low hCG) is just what you'd expect for a baby that's a bit on the small side. Stay away from Google !

Tarlia, sounds like a great scan! Congratulations!

hoola -- in my case it would be bloody obvious I was pregnant, so not sure what you should do. I'd probably stick to not mentioning it, TBH. Discrimination is illegal but it does still go on. I don't suppose there's a chance your previous employers might have chosen you for redundancy because of the pregnancy?

I had a call from the mw who booked me in yesterday to say that they had found Group B Strep in my 10 week urine sample but owing to a cock up hadn't sent me a letter about it . So I'll have to talk to the doctor about that at my Tuesday appointment and get some antibiotics. She also said that I'd need to be on intravenous antibiotics during labour, which we are going to have to discuss because (a) [most importantly] my last labour was 5 hours from first twinge to DD's arrival, and I know that IV antibiotics during labour don't "count" if they aren't given at least six hours before the baby is born (i.e. if six hours don't elapse then they need to treat the baby with antibiotics anyway as if they hadn't given you antibiotics), so chaces are there wouldn't be any point hooking me up to an IV, (b) I really really hate being hooked up to an IV during labour; I need to be able to move around and being hooked up to tubes and wires gets in the way of that. Obviously that comes second to the baby's safety, but given point (a) the chances are that the IV wouldn't be doing any good anyway, (c) GBS in the urine at 10 weeks is not a good predictor of whether there's active GBS in the vagina at 40 weeks, so I want to push for a screen for active GBS at 35 weeks (which is the recommended point to screen for it) and then make decisions about whether antibiotics are needed for anyone on that basis (TBH given the length of labour point I think it would be more sensible just to plan on giving the baby antibiotics after birth if I am GBS+. But it's all more stress I didn't want; I don't like arguing with medical people and hope I get a doctor who can see beyond "well, the hospital policy is...".

EDD - Username - DC# - Age - Location - Progress as of 22 Aug - Gender prediction
26 Jan - cler - baby #4 - 25 - Prestatyn, N Wales - 17+4 - cpc boy
26 Jan - Lulabel27 - baby #1 - 27 - Richmond, SW London - 17+4
28 Jan - scubamummy - baby #1 - 30 - Bethnal Green, E London - 17+2
29 Jan - worrymummy - baby #3 - 40 - 17+1
31 Jan - CheeseChomper - baby #1 - 26 - Bromley - 16+6 - CVS boy
31 Jan - TheBreastmilksonMe - baby #2 - 27 - N Wales - 16+6
01 Feb - GinaFB - baby #1 - 31 - Hants - 16+5 - cpc girl
01 Feb - Loopeylu - baby #2 - 16+5
01 Feb - xkat - baby #1 - 40 - 16+5
02 Feb - Babynelly2010 - baby #1 - 29 - 16+4
02 Feb - MrsEllor - baby #2 - 16+4
02 Feb - MrsTeapot207 - baby #1 - 42 - 16+4
03 Feb - CluckyKate - baby #2 - 36 - 16+3
03 Feb - ElleB1980 - baby #1 - Birmingham - 16+3
03 Feb - Mahraih - baby #1 - 22 - 16+3
03 Feb - missnatalie - baby #2 - 27 - West Midlands - 16+3
04 Feb - americanexpat - baby #1 - 29 - 16+2
04 Feb - Ba8y1 - baby #1 - 28 - 16+2
04 Feb - geekygiraffe - baby #1 - 32 - Leicestershire - 16+2
04 Feb - Loveablebunny - baby #1 - 27 - 16+2
04 Feb - moonminmama - baby #2 - 31 - Warrington - 16+2
04 Feb - PinkElephant73 - baby #3 - 36 - 16+2
04 Feb - RoxyLady - baby #1 - 30 - 16+2
04 Feb - suzym1984 - baby #1 - 25 - Newcastle - 16+2
04 Feb - TallulahBelly14 & NewDad75 - baby #1 - 29 - N London - 16+2 - cpc boy
05 Feb - ledkr - baby #5 - 43 - Cheltenham - 16+1 - NT scan girl
05 Feb - MissTfied - baby #4 - 32 - 16+1
06 Feb - applecharlotte - baby #1 - 30 - Bow, E London - 16+0 - cpc girl
06 Feb - Debka - baby #2 - 30 - Kent - 16+0
06 Feb - LalZee83 - baby #1 - 26 - 16+0
06 Feb - mandy1978 - baby #2 - 16+0
06 Feb - Sam2302 - baby #1 - 29 - Manchester - 16+0
06 Feb - ScMacBt - baby #2 - 22 - Glasgow - 16+0
06 Feb - smallblackflowers - baby #2 - 34 - Lancashire - 16+0 - cpc boy
07 Feb - AnaYorks - baby #1 - 29 - 15+6
07 Feb - DrMouse - baby #1 - 30 - N London - 15+6
07 Feb - Personmaker - baby #2 - 32 - 15+6
08 Feb - fatheadsgirl - baby #2 - 15+5
08 Feb - Girlafraid - baby #2 - 35 - Reading - 15+5
08 Feb - jackinthebump - baby #1 and #2 - 25 - Hampshire - 15+5 - cpc girl
08 Feb - Pink10 - baby #1 - 33 - 15+5
08 Feb - SemperEadem - baby #2 - 30 - Hampshire - 15+5 - cpc girl
09 Feb - Detectivepotato - baby #2 - 28 - 15+4
09 Feb - earlgreyismynectar - baby #2 - 39 - Aberdeen - 15+4
09 Feb - girlinlondon - baby #1 - 31 - Dulwich, S London - 15+4 - cpc girl
09 Feb - linz17xxx - baby #2 - 26 - Hartlepool - 15+4
09 Feb - pipsicles - baby #1 - 26 - Surrey - 15+4 - cpc boy
09 Feb - RachelPross - baby #3 - 30 - 15+4
09 Feb - tadjennyp - baby #3 - 37 - Oregon, USA - 15+4
10 Feb - Grumpling - baby #1 - 30 - 15+3
10 Feb - kateh1978 - baby #2 - 15+3
11 Feb - BrownPaperandString - baby #3 - 39 - 15+2
11 Feb - Canoe - baby #1 - 27 - Gaborone, Botswana - 15+2
11 Feb - naitimum - 15+2
12 Feb (ELCS 3 Feb) - clareanna - baby #2 - 34 - 15+1
12 Feb - Diamondback - baby #1 - 33 - Birmingham - 15+1
12 Feb - EndangeredSpecies - baby #3 - 15+1
12 Feb - Rachel1979 - 15+1
13 Feb - claire196 - baby #1 - 26 - 15+0
13 Feb - Kez84 - baby #1 - 26 - Wiltshire - 15+0
13 Feb - MizK - baby #3 - 28 - Nottingham - 15+0
13 Feb - xkatyx - baby #3 - 15+0
14 Feb - IlovePonyo - baby #1 - 29 - East Midlands - 14+6
14 Feb - Katecool - baby #1 - 14+6
15 Feb - AnathemaDevice - baby #2 - 28 - Essex - 14+5
15 Feb - Bellaby - baby #1 - 30 - 14+5
15 Feb - Breezey - baby #3 - 38 - Overseas - 14+5
15 Feb - cordiality - baby #1 - 32 - 14+5
15 Feb - Grannyapple - baby #1 - 34 - Bromley - 14+5 - cpc boy
15 Feb - juwi - baby #3 - 34 - 14+5
15 Feb - nicb79 - baby #3 - 31 - Cornwall - 14+5
16 Feb - grigglepuff - baby #1 - 27 - N London - 14+4
16 Feb - Jaffa1972 - baby #1 - 38 - 14+4
16 Feb - Rusty06 - baby #1 - 43 - 14+4
16 Feb - wigglesrock - baby #3 - 36 - N Ireland - 14+4
17 Feb - Blackberry74 - 14+3
17 Feb - JustOneMorePlease - baby #4 - 33 - 14+3
17 Feb - varicoseveined - baby #2 - 14+3
18 Feb - PDR - baby #2 - 25 - Devon - 14+2
18 Feb - sweetnitanitro - baby #2 - 29 - Cambridgeshire - 14+2 - cpc girl
19 Feb - Azure78 - 14+1
19 Feb - Deliaskis - baby #1 - 32 - Cheshire - 14+1
20 Feb - Bensmum76 - baby #2 - 34 - 14+0
20 Feb - brockleyD - 27 - S London - 14+0
20 Feb - hoolabombshell - baby #1 - 37 - Glasgow - 14+0
20 Feb - janedoe25 - baby #1 - Glasgow - 14+0
20 Feb - judyjiggles - baby #1 - 14+0
20 Feb - lgmum2b - baby #1 - 14+0
20 Feb - MrsWest2010 - baby #1 - 14+0
21 Feb - angels1 - baby #1 - 28 - Orpington, Kent - 13+6 - cpc girl
21 Feb - nomoregandtforme - baby #1 - 31 - 13+6
21 Feb - starbuck05 - baby #1 - 32 - 13+6
21 Feb - tabbycat76 - baby #1 and #2 - 33 - Suffolk - 13+6 - cpc girl
22 Feb - Gingerbread30 - baby #1 - 30 - Edinburgh - 13+5
22 Feb - MrsWhisk - baby #1 - 31 - 13+5
22 Feb - Pebblestone - baby #1 - 28 - 13+5
23 Feb - knittakid - baby #1 - 30 - Bristol - 13+4
24 Feb - Laineandade - baby #2 - 13+3
24 Feb - pinkgrasshopper - baby #1 - 31 - SW London - 13+3
24 Feb - supadupa900 - baby #1 - 13+3
26 Feb - hubbard86 - baby #2 - 24 - West Midlands - 13+1
26 Feb - PinkiePoo - 13+1
26 Feb - ProfessorLaytonIsMyLoveSlave - baby #3 - 38 - Putney, SW London - 13+1
26 Feb - Wanderingsheep - baby #2 - 26 - 13+1
27 Feb - milliemoocow - baby #4 - 25 - Cumbria - 13+0
28 Feb - Discodisco - baby #1 - 12+6
28 Feb - saintcatling - baby #1 - 31 - Essex - 12+6
28 Feb - Tarlia - baby #1 - 12+6
06 Mar (but promises to get baby out early...) - zerominuszero - baby #1 - 25 - Kent - 12+0 - cpc girl
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kateh1978

Professor, sounds like you've got plenty of evidence and research to back up your decision, don't let them push you around! (can't see you letting that happen anyway )

I've just dropped DH off at the airport, he's in Denmark for the week on business :( a whole week!

Hi Honies i'm home.Just got back from my hols and have been reading up on the pages i have missed.Terible news for Chloe poor thing what a shame she was so fearfull of a mmc.
Good to hear lots of good results and scans coming thru. Griggles my risk is 1 in 600 i know im an old boot compared to you but i was reassured by that personally. Maybe you could pay for an amnio?
I have been having terrible headaches on holiday rang my Dr in the end but she said it was the heat(spain)but i had them with my dd and i have bad one now and uk not exactly hot.
I laughed at all your bump stories esp prof saying will have to be vague about the due date. I have been strutting about in my bikini for 2 weeks looking about 6 months.I did actually lie when asked and said "after xmas"as i felt too embarrassed to say "14-16wks"Took some mat stuff but also some of what i considered loose dresses but some didnt fit and i looked like a sausage trying to fit back in my skin.
My bump too gets progressivly bigger during the day and on hols even more so due to the all inclusive buffet. It also feels tight and heavy at night and i dont like to stand for long anyone else find this?
Am shattered now too and cant tell if my energy is back yet due to post holiday tiredness. Have 1 more week off so hope that i feel less tired after a few nights sleep in my own soft bed and without the man in the next room coughing up a lung each morning.
Got to see mw this week for check up and pain in the rear two weekly blood test.
Have a nice evening.

God i think im going to stick to this thread from now on with you nice people. I just posted a thread asking if it seems unsafe seat children away from their parents on a flight(easy jet)and people just attacked me as if i had said something terrible."YOU SHOULDNT HAVE BOOKED A CHEAP FLIGHT" "WONT CAUSE YOUR DAUGTER LONG TERM DAMAGE TO HAVE COUPLE SNOGGING FOR 3 HRS NEXT TO HER" blimey.Its a shame that a few individuals seem to sit and wait to pounce in with their attacks surely there is another more suitable site for them to use bullysnet maybe

glad you seemed to have a relaxing holiday ledkr :) Hope the head aches improve. Can't believe what people on the other thread were saying, that's so rude. Did you get sat away from your kids on your flight? That's really bad - a child could easily need reassurance on a flight. I always thought easyjet let on families with children first (???) never been with them though so not sure.

Had a nice nap this afternoon and wondering if I'll EVER have enough energy to manage to work again!

Oh ledkr I have seen some outrageous nastiness on some of these threads also - it does seem as if some individuals lie in wait to give what they must think is 'no nonsense' advice, when it probably wouldn't hurt them to be a little more diplomatic.

I haven't been privy to it myself yet but am sure I will be 'putting myself out there' for a public stoning at some point. It can get a medieval sometimes, what with all the hormones flying about!

Tarlia your scan sounded wonderful, I too cannot wait to see my wee monkey at Tuesday's scan, how fantastic it must be to finally put a 'face' to all the excitement - I have a bit of anxiety but you have made me feel better with your story. Do they let you see the screen straight away, or do they have a poke about first and then turn the monitor round (can you tell this is my first?).

Same to you lgmum2b - how fab that your scan went well and you are low risk, how much of a relief it must be - I'll bet it seems like forever between 12 week and 20 week scan (as I'll no doubt find out)!

Wanderingsheep congrats about your wedding and I hope your party with friends was wonderful.

angels1 I've had a few more niggles with my teeth than usual, however I would say it's down to stuffing my face with sugar as well . MW has urged me to take advantage of the free dental treatment but unlike yourself I am not the best when it comes to my teeth, in fact I see it as a major PITA! I would probably get them checked out, especially if your teeth are usually in good condition and you have more black bits appearing...

Thanks suzym1984 I will have a think this week about whether to take on temp work for the next few months or not, or whether to just keep shtum about my pg and just apply for a permanent job. The job market is tough either way so am not looking forward to trying to hawk myself as a M2B for hire!

Professor I wish you all the best for your appointment on Tues, don't back down in pushing for your 35 wk GBS screen.

What a lovely bunch of ladies on this thread

we are nice arent we?
angelsyes i cant believe it either. Didnt get priority boarding as dd is 8 now but she still likes to sit by me and is a bit nervous on take off or landing or any turbulence as most are.We actually had ajacent aisle seats which was ok but a young couple sat next to her "getting it on" big time and the girl was on dd arm so i obviously told her to get off. I was flamed for being "passive aggressive" as my daughter wouldnt suffer any long term damage from that!! Unbelievable.The couple then got chucked off flight for being under influnce of drugs and it raised the question of safety for lone kids and whom they may be sat by ie. cp issues.I dont think thats unreasonable do you? Wouldnt leave her sat with the drunks in the park whilst i set up the picnic.
Just ordered a dopler. Hope i dont regret it. Just finding it hard to relax with only suspected movements so far and no symptoms.Although as i type i have the most horrendous heartburn.No symptoms indeed.

Thank you for your congratulations everyone!
My dress fit but I got changed before the buffet as my tummy tends to get bigger throughout the day, particularly as I eat. People kept telling me not to saying that I'd regret it but I've worn it twice and I was starting to feel a bit squashed!

It is great to hear of all the scans happening!

Hoola, at my scan I could see the screen the whole time but it might depend on the hospital or sonographer. Good luck for Tuesday!

Ledkr, MN does seem like a nest of vipers at times, particularly in the AIBU section! There's a thread at the moment about "baby on board" signs of all things and it's kicked off ! Sometimes I think that there are some MNers that must get offended by just standing outside their own front door!

But it's nice over here in the comfort of Antenatal!

wandering sheeppmsl at "nest of vipers"yes a few come up every now and then having an unecessary dig. My first time on mn i got flamed for saying it was wrong to leave a 7yr old home alone to go grocery shopping. Got told i was the scourge of society and was over protecting my dcs by breathing down their necks.I was very concerned at the no of mums who thought it was reasonable to leave kids alone. One actually left dds aged 4 6 and 4 MONTHS to attend an important hospital app.Had to come off the thread as i was so worried.Think a lot of them are ageing playground bullies who never grew up.Nothing better to do.
Oh this heartburn is driving me mad. Bit early for that i thought.

Just steer clear of AIBU and you'll be fine, generally. Certainly never start a thread in AIBU.

Hope everyone had a good day. I spent the morning at a Peppa Pig show with dd2, soooooo much noise!!!

Ledkr glad you had a great holiday, I am getting heartburn probs too, I had terrible heartburn with dd1 my very old and as it turns out wise granny told me that it meant a hairy baby DD1 had the thickest head of hair ever, would have given Elvis a quiff inferiority complex. No heartburn with dd2 - bald as a coot

angels I am having teeth niggles too, I have a great dentist and spoke to him earlier in the week, he knows how sick I am etc and he told me unless I was in agony to avoid him as nothing will make you hurl quicker that the dentist working in your mouth, of course he may have just been trying to put me - he has lovely clean new offices!!

I actually rather like the... ahem... robustness of MN, once you get used to it. I've been on other forums where no one ever disagrees with anyone and while it's all very fluffy and supportive it gets a bit dull and no one ever changes their mind on anything because no one ever asks them to defend their viewpoint. In contrast MN encourages you to think about why you believe the things you do and realise how many people there are who disagree with you.

I think it has got more "everyone pile in now" over the last few years, but I think that's a function of its having got bigger. The thing that always used to be good about it was that you could have a HUGE argument with someone on one subject and it almost never got carried across to any other threads, where you'd find yourself best buddies agreeing with each other and virtually skipping around plaiting daisies into each other's hair (in fact that was one of the things that made me stick around after first posting). I've definitely seen more cross-thread feuding in the last couple of years, and I don't like it.

A good rule of thumb is to ignore the 5% of posts that are most extreme in their "WHAT ARE YOU THINKING OF? YOU ARE CLEARLY A COMPLETELY UNSUITABLE PARENT AND YOUR CHILDREN SHOULD BE TAKEN AWAY RIGHT NOW!!!!!" and the 5% of posts that are most extreme in their "Awwww hun, you know best and whatever you want to do will be the right thing and no one can say different xxx {{{hugz}}}", then see what the 90% of posters in the middle say. It can be easy to think that everyone on a thread is being mean to you whereas when you take a deep breath and come back and read it again it was only a tiny minority of very loud posters. We're programmed to notice people being nasty.

prof, very profound. Yes i aggree totally.And especially about the aibu ones.
Bng to catch up all day. Great news about your ds screening and terrible about chloe. I just saw her on a mc thread and she is as you would expect devastated. She is getting support from knitta and honey witch who is not pg by the way false alarm sadly.I love this thread and have got so much support but i do think it has made me feel more vulnerable and anxious as you read all the sad news and compare your own symptoms etc.As in my last pg now i am over the 12 wks i have just changed my worry to a late mc.Think when you have had one previously like a lot of us it is impossible not to worry. I said to my sister the other day that i was not worried with my last pg and she laughed as she reminded me i was a bag of worry.
Am off for a nice bubble bath now in my own bathroom and not the hotle one then off to bed to catch up on my zzzzs night all.

I agree totally about being programmed to people being nasty, especially when it's there in black and White print for you to read again and again.

I sometimes like the fact that you get a proper opinion on MN. I started a thread on AIBU once and the replies that came back did actually make me stop and think. There were some replies that were quite upsetting. Someone actually called me self obsessed but it made me realised how U I was being and I was glad because it enabled me to apologise in RL. If I hadn't posted then I probably would have carried on thinking that I was in the right and there probably would have been a big black cloud over mine and the other person involved relationship.

what is this AIBU you speak of?? (I'm a bit slow on these matters). It sounds a bit scary but now I'm intregued to look . Hope all you lovely ladies are doing OK this morning and not too washed out from all this rain the south seems to have had.

AIBU = Am I Being Unreasonable

I find most people on MN tend to be reasonable and far less flamey than other websites - maybe I'm not reading the right boards though. There is a fine line between giving no nonsense advice and doing it rudely and unkindly.

wanderingsheep - congrats on your wedding!

I officially have my first stretch marks. I coated myself in cocoa butter this morning but who knows if it'll make a difference. I expected this eventually but not at 16 weeks.

God didn't it rain? First night home too. me n dd Fell asleep in my bed around ten and so dh slept in spare room. bless him. AIbu is the am I being unreasonable threads which seem to attract some very opinionated people.

Have enjoyed perusing through the AIBU board. It looks like most people are pretty much being 'normal' in their views but there does seem to be a few out there intend on being rude and what look like almost personal attacks. There are also some comments that could be interpreted differently as it can be hard to work out online how a comment is meant.

I think I'd be too chicken to post anything on there myself, but in my pg I would get very upset easily! Did read Ledkrs post and thought some responses very completely out of order.

I love AIBU, it's strictly a spectator sport for me though I don't post much in other forums apart from breastfeeding and pets (if there is a fish in peril), and the odd thread here and there. I lurk on loads of topics, type out long replies and then delete them quite a lot though

How is everyone doing today? I'm so tired, I'd forgotten how badly DD sleeps when DH is away. She woke up every hour from 1am! I am going to have a nap this afternoon when she does.

Hi Everybody,

Sorry I haven't posted any messages lately, been very busy with a commission and summer weddings etc! Nice to see some new people have joined the group.

Most people must have had their 12 week scans by now? I have my next midwife appointment on Thursday at 14.4 weeks, anybody else have theirs that early, I thought it was meant to be at 16 weeks?

Also does anyone else know about when the next midwife appointment normally is? I assume after our 20 week scan?

I am feeling so much better now, haven't felt sick for about 3 weeks, I love the second trimester! Although I do get a lot of aches and pains. Not showing yet, does anyone have a little bump yet?

This is what my MW wrote on my notes-

16 weeks, MW appointment
20 weeks, scan
22 weeks, MW appointment
25 weeks, MW appointment

I can't remember what happened after that last time but I do remember going every week for the last 5 weeks or so.