Hello all. Sorry I've been a bit quiet - too lazy to keep name-changing 
Also not a lot to share, though now my MS has kicked in and I've spent two days on the nausea rollercoaster - though I have very few symptoms other than sore nips, so am quite relieved really! Needed to do a supermarket trip last night anyway but ended up spending a fortune as I kept putting things in my trolley that I thought would make me feel better Ginger cordial is on special offer at Sainsbury's (as are pregnancy vitamnins!) so stocked up as ginger seemed to help last time - last time, my office was over a sushi restaurant, so I used to go down and buy bags of pickled ginger for 5p a time and scoff them at my desk Last night I picked up a piece of root ginger as well and sniffed it as I went round - was looking uberglamourous in DH's long coat and my garden clogs, so if anyone was in a shop last night and saw a baglady furtively sniffing ginger then it was probably me 
Has anyone else had achey legs? Don't remember this from last time round but this time they seem to ache like when you have the 'flu. Don't have the exhaustion yet either, just a touch of the insomnia that dogged me last time (I was quite hoping for exhaustion this time, I could do with the sleep). Bizarrely I'm also craving healthy stuff more than crap (most of the time); last time I assumed my body would cleverly want to stock up on vitamins and other good stuff, but in fact I only wanted stodge - would eat a massive bag of sweets a day and started going to McD's several times a week after boycotting them for years (even made veggie DH take me through the drive-through ). Am wondering if it's a sign it's a boy this time ... or just a sign that all pregnancies are different!
Still hasn't really sunk in, not helped by the fact that DH keeps forgetting that I'm pg 
He laughed while watching me heave a massive, heavy piece of worktop into a skip the other day (did I mentin how glamorous I am?) and then sent me up a stepladder to scrub a ceiling. I'm kind of still planning to try to get an early scan at around 7-8 weeks, but also putting it off slightly - I think as long as I don't have one then chances are everything is fine, whereas a scan could be bad news. Do want to tell family before Christmas though, so will have to bite the bullet at some point. Also need to get round to registering with a GP!
MissLolita I visited the EPU at St George's in Tooting last time round. They are happy to scan you just for "maternal anxiety" (or were in 2008 anyway). The system was that you just turned up early in the morning and waited for your go but you might want to check whether that's still the case. It is extremely quick - literally just confirming a heartbeat - but you get a photo and I doubt that a private scan would be able to tell you very much more than that anyway.
falling Look after yourself but try not to worry - your body is incredibly well designed to protect your little bean in there. You could have a carcrash and would probably still be okay. Bit jealous of the pretzels though 
Can't remember who asked, but it's entirely normal for symptoms to come and go. Still unnerving though
Spanner fab news on the hb, made me well up that did
Wave to everyone else, welcome all the new newbies, apologies if I've missed anything!