August 2011 - 2nd trimester blooming - not us!

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New thread for us August 11 ladies

EVERYTHINGS FINE!!!!!

Finally MW called me, went back to hosp, picked up heartbeat on a doppler straight away then showed us baby very briefly on a scan.

so relieved and happy
such a rollercoaster of emotions
Shant bother with A&E again.. why they couldnt just do that?!

Great news, Nix. What do they put the liquid/blood down to?

i too am a second timer and have a bump. To be honest its quite obvious so i'm going to out myself at work on monday. Great news nickstar bet your relieved. I.ve been getting the pains too i had them last time so i'm not fretting. clothes wise I'm in dress with tights this week or leggings and long top.

I remember one of my friends looking for a tshirt that said 'I'm not fat I'm pregnant!' because she was fed up with the comments. :)

I've gone the other way - because I've been so ill I've lost about a stone and am thinking about cracking out the belt for my jeans again to hold them up! To be fair I had some spare fat but it's lucky I didn't lose the weight before I got pregnant like I planned originally.

Currently I can only stomach rice cakes and grapefruit juice - can't wait for the sicky bit to stop as I miss real food and more importnantly cake!

G i have to go back on fri for another scan, they will look at the amniotic fluids etc then.

She said the smell just could have been the old blood collecting overnight, will see what is said fri

Very tender...and feeling physically fragile!

Hurrah!!! Great news Nix! So relieved for you x x x

nickster glad everything is okay, must be such a relief

as for the clothes i am desperate to buy some new stuff and maternity jeans etc, im just squeezing in my normal ones but not comfy now, bump is quite noticeable so will be v nice to get some maternity ones and just have some room in them to feel comfy. hope i get the chance to go shopping on weekend, should just leave dc with dh and just go really

anu your post has massively reassured me. I am 14+3 and aching back tummy everywhere v tender, but your mw explains it well!

Glad everything ok for you too xx

Glad everything OK nix. I wouldn't even know what amnio fluid smelt like TBH.

Glad everything OK with you too Anu

Just a quick post to say keep well cadmum

Really good news nickster and Abu

And...capcarrie your brownies are so sinful but really, really delicious.

No bump here. But I am tall and took ages to show last time.

Any hints on telling people you are pregnant but not in a huge announcement way? Feeling a bit sheepish this time (don't know why) so the only people we have told are a random person at playgroup and a drunk wife of one of DP's colleagues . Also I need to tell a very close friend who has had cycle after cycle of IVF and is in the middle of one now. Has anyone had trouble conceiving? How did you appreciate being told.

That wasn't such a short post after all!

KLou...........SPERM!

I'm having clothes trouble too - I just about fit in things (with a few judiciously undone buttons) but I teach and haven't told the kids yet, mostly because I hate the idea of them all talking about me, so I am wearing only bump-hiding stuff! I only have a small bump but in clingy clothes it's very definitely there.

Does anyone else have achy legs? Mine feel like I have run ten miles (and yes, I used to do that sort of thing so I know what it feels like!). I have done no exercise for ages because I'm just too tired and achy. I was full of high hopes that I would be running and gymming for ages yet.

LOL nix oh right

It so does nickstermum!

coast yes have had achy legs since conceived.... terribly achy, almost fluey like. not wondering if its circulation, or potassium (i know lack of potassium causes leg cramps!) I struggle to climb the stairs these days...!!

and thats what baby smells like at birth too... KL

Mmm...sperm baby!

I don't think my achy legs can be lack of potassium, I've eaten three bananas in four days. Of course I teach on the third floor at work and there's no lift, so that's not helping.

Glad you liked the brownies bellamy

I was someone who took a looooong time to conceive, and I can tell you how I didn't like being told:
facebook
text
email
The problem with all the above being that you might be out having a coffee/sitting at your desk at work (the very worst in my experience)/innocently going about your day and WHAM you have news that, although you're really happy for the person telling you, will leave you in tears. Your best bet is phoning them at a time when you're pretty confident they'll be at home (or email when you think they're most likely on line at home) and say something along the lines of: "I know this will be really hard for you and I wasn't sure the best way to tell you so I'm sorry if I'm doing this wrong, but I'm pregnant."
Do not say "I hope you'll be happy for me" (there's an AIBU thread about that somewhere!)

I was always happy for the person who was pg, but so, so :( for myself, and needed the space to have a good cry before picking myself up and getting on with things.

Other people may disagree, I mostly know what I didn't like!

I'm not planning to announce on fb this time but let the news eeek out once I tell my friends its ok to blab about it! Its still 19 days til my first scan, grrr.

My bump is definitely growing, I clearly have no stomach muscles left!

One theory about restless legs is lack of quinine, so drink tonic water. Gin optional

@CappuccinoCarie Normally the quinine in tonic water is brilliant for getting rid of and preventing cramps and tics but I've been told that it's not a good idea having quinine when you're pregnant.

Oh dear...I drank gallons of it in my last pregnancy after having it recommended! Thankfully DS turned out very nicely indeed!!

Glad to hear everything was ok, nickster!

I'm in that annoying inbetween stage too, too small for mat clothes but jeans all too tight :( Am hoping for more of a bump over the next few weeks so I can be comfy again!

Good to hear that all us well with you and baby nickster

I'm in maternity jeans at the moment, but just the ones with the stretchy pocket inserts, so they aren't too loose.
Also, I think I can feel my uterus above my pubic bone :) yay! Although I keep panicking that I'm kidding myself.

Still got no date for my scan. I can't be doing with the hassle of getting a private one, so I'm just going to have to sit tight.

So sorry cadmum

In regards to telling people who are struggling to conceive, I have never had a problem getting pregnant but have been devastated following a 'loss'-for want of a better word. I so appreciated the friend who met up with me and told me about her pregnancy. Though I felt sad for me I did not want to be shut out. Two pregnant friends avoided me for months-one finally texted me to say she was 20 odd weeks having cancelled seeing me numerous times over the preceding months.

Well I have a definite bump. Aftert stating how I think it is best to be up front with pregnancy news, I do not apply this policy to my children! I am trying to keep it quiet from my kids for another month or so, the expanding tummy is being blamed on cake.

nickster and Anu - phew, that's good news :)

bellamysbride Is there any chance of telling her after she has finished the IVF cycle and knows whether she is pregnant herself. I know someone who found out her sister was pregnant the day she had the embryo implanted - got really emotional and upset by it and then the IVF didn't work, it was a bad time :( Alternatively, could you maybe tell her partner, or another friend and ask them to break the news to her when it seems a good time - that way someone tells her face to face, hopefully at a good time, but she doesn't have to worry about upsetting you by her reaction.

I think i may have inadvertently upset a friend with our birth announcement, I had no idea she was having problems conceiving but then she mentioned recently she had polycystic ovary syndrome and they're looking at fostering - I hope I didn't upset her :(

Phew! I've been without internet for a while, and boy what a lot to catch up on!

cadmum so sorry for your loss :(

BF - I have no plans to bf, I bottlefed my DS from the outset, and plan to so again. He is a very bright little boy who has never had any health problems, and the idea of bf makes me feel physically ill, tho no idea why

Pillow - I have a V shaped pillow from 1st pg, and it was brilliant, tho DH hated it. I have already warned him that he will be sharing the bed again soon.

Pains - I have been getting a very severe "stitch" like feeling under my right boob, which hurts when I bend down or cough, very inconvienient as I have a raging cold at the mo :(