November 2011 - holding hands, making plans & having scans

[TerrysNo2]

Thread 2 for the chatty lot. Welcome from the first thread and hopefully some newbies too!

This thread is for chats and this thread is for stats!

Continue as you were....

Knitter I am expanding but I think it is all the food I am eating rather than anything else :(

Kels if you feel worried can you consult your dr or midwife by phone? Fx for you. X

Hi, I'm new to this as well. Due baby no 3 in Nov (DS 4, DD 2) with 2 cs under my belt. CS scar really aching already - didn't last time - anyone else had this?

Evening all
I'm with everyone on the whole feeling tired, hungry, bloated thing. Had to attend a family 'do' today and I had NO energy for it and just had to creep into a quiet room for a bit - not like me! Felt really starving but when I went to the delicious looking buffet and filled up my plate - took one little bite of everything but couldn't face a 2nd bite of anything. Also very unlike me!

laabama Good luck getting in touch with the doc and I hope the bleeding calms down for you and you manage to get a scan.

CONGRATS alicat and Kelsgrr both baby no 3!

I'm expanding. Still am 1 stone heavier than pre-preg DS1 and concerned that another preg = 1 more stone....I think I am going to try and be careful this pregnancy.

Have a good sat evening and unbutton your trousers!xxxx

My weight crept up after each of my first 2 - worked really hard through the autumn to lose 23lbs so in a much better starting place but all I'm doing is eating carbs at the moment so undoing all that good work - think it must be another girl

Morning all!
Welcome in and congratulations Kelsgrr and Alicat!

Its the last families brief of the tour today!
We'll find out when DHs flight is booked and exactly how many weeks to go!
Can't wait. There's the light at the end of this loooong tunnel!

We've decided to keep this pregnancy quiet til he gets home so I'll also find out how much longer I have to keep my mouth shut, too!

Whats everyone elses plans for today?

morning all, Hope you're all ok. welcome newbies and congratulations.

wuzz that must be exciting to finally have him home.

Hi All and welcome to kels and alice!

Had a bad couple of days with MS. Had ds2's confirmation ceremony on Friday. Don't know if any of you are Catholic ( Hey, I don't even consider myself catholic!) but the confirmation ceremonly is looooooong! I threw up three times before we left the house, managed to keep it together during the ceremony, got home, Mum did all the cooking, thank God for her! I ended up having to go to bed, couldn't move without vomiting.

Stayed in bed all day yesterday, dh brought me up all my meals. If I got up to go to the loo, I just felt this overwhelming nausea.

Am going to try to have a normal day today but it's not going to be easy.

5 weeks today, but so tired! Slept 11 hours last night, and ended up going to bed about 9pm. I didn't think I would get like that for at least another couple of weeks!

Also, nervous about the idea of morning sickness, although thankfully it hasn't kicked in yet. How early did everyone else's start and is there anything you can do to ward it off?

English, I think if you're going to get it, you're going to get it. some people say Vitamin B6 helps. I started taking Pregnacare yesterday which does have Vit B6 and think it may be helping.

My impression is that if you have it mildly that ginger biscuits and lemonade may help.

If you have it badly, nothing helps.

Morning all,

I had my first GP appt yesterday. He was really nice and thankfully I don't have to book my own scans or midwife appointments like Truffkin! I'm 7+3 and have decided just to wait (with fingers crossed) till my 12 weeks scan rather than book an earlier private one and won't tell anyone until then. I get my first midwife appointment around the same time. He put on my notes that I would like to consider a homebirth and was really encouraging about it too. So now just a long five weeks to get through...

Still no MS here, just mild nausea every now again so hope it stays this way - feel really sorry for chipmonkey and others suffering.

I have friends coming for lunch so am hoping to get through another social situation without people commenting on me not drinking. I'm pulled out of going on a few nights out because I didn't want people asking if I was pregnant and either having to lie to good friends or be forced into telling people when I don't want to.

I did have to go clubbing the day after I found out for a friends birthday and got away with people thinking I was drinking and I changed plans last week to have friends for dinner instead of meeting in the pub so I could drink tonic without the gin and pretend my elderflower drink was a wine spritzer!

What's worse is I miss the booze too, could murder a glass of wine and I've only been a few weeks without. [alcoholic emoticon]

chip i am, but it's been a very long time since i've been to a first communion. glad you managed to keep it together. was the ceremony nice?

I'm lucky not to have had bad MS really with any PG - feel rough when I wake up but I eat a rich tea in bed about 10 mins before I get up and that seems to help. Have had upset tummy though for a couple of weeks so had private scan this week to reassure myself it's not EP - saw heartbeat and confirmed dates (and just 1 bean thank goodness) :-)

Blee I'm six weeks exactly and can I just say I'm feeling rather delicate today. I had vague queasyness with DS so it could be this, but I think it feels a little more full on (girl??). Thought I really wanted a healthy luscious Innocent veg pot. Turned out I meant cheese and pickle sandwich. Still DH ate well. Having to hide my symptoms as MIL is here. Not easy. Still the bleeding seems to have finally stopped - touches wood -.

Room for a little one??! Due 9th november (7+4) and it's my first!! Soooooo excited!! Been really tired, sore boobs and dizzy spells, but no morning sickness so far! Was a little worried about not having any sickness thanks to stuff I read on doctor google, but my mum never had morning sickness with her 3 children so I now think I'm one of the lucky ones! Went into babys r us this morning on an impulse as I drove by and burst into tears looking at all the lovely baby stuff. My partner is off skiing this week and I am missing him, but my emotions are all over the place!!!

Hello Ladies,

It's lovely catching up with how you've all progressed over the last few days!

I'm back after a weekend visiting the family, I'm 7+1 today according to my version of the dates. I managed not to tell my parents, but my sister saw straight through my flimsy non drinking exterior. She was a bit tipsy and her sustained and not very subtle 'are you pregnant, are you pregnant, are you pregnant?' was enough to make me crumble. Still it's really nice to have told her and it meant I got to grill her about her first trimesters with her two kids. Hopefully she'll manage not to tell my mum...

My symptoms seem to have settled down a bit for the past couple of days, or I've just got used to nausea and boobache. I do feel extraordinarily tired come 7pm though and could go straight to bed.

I've got my appt with my doctor tomorrow so I can find out what Hackney's approach with preggers ladies is. I'm quite looking forward to it. I have extremely irregular periods so I'd quite like it if he suggested an early scan to measure it. My cycle masures from 35 days and it's been up to 90 although the last two were 40 and 44 so I've taken it at 42. I did a test again just now and it's still positive so that's nice. I've decided to stop researching miscarriage statistics now and just know that if it's meant to be it'll hopefully go all the way through.

Have decided to start pulling out of things for the next 5 weeks so I don't have to keep drawing attention to my not drinking or pretend I'm on antibiotics, I hate lying. Tickets for primavera festival in Spain arrived today.. suddenly it sounds a bit like hard work, my party self was looking forward to that. My bloated sober self isn't so much..

Sorry for long post, enjoy the rest of the weekend ladies!

Welcome figaro and congratulations!

I read somewhere that fizzy water helps with MS as the bubbles help to calm it down - not sure if there's any truth in that but might be worth a try!

All ok here today, just incredibly tired. Was in bed just after 9 last night and slept for about 12 hours. So unlike me!

welcome figaro and congratulations

I went to bed at 9pm last night and still shattered - though have just got back from 3rd 4th birthday party of the weekend!

Afternoon all,

how are we all doing? I was away for a couple of nights, but got home this afternoon having left the hubby at his mums and the dogs and I are stretched out on the sofa watching terrible tv, bliss!! Was catching up with friends last night so got to bed really late (actually was impressed that I managed to stay up), but with the clocks going forward so had an hour less in bed too and had to get up at the normal time to entertain my nieces who came round to my mum's just to see me, so although I have crochet sitting out, can't actually bring myself to get started.

What's everyone else up to?

Hope everyone is well and there are not too many stresses going on at the moment.

Jack (8+1)

Bleeding has picked up properly this afternoon and is accompanied with full-on period-like cramps. Trying to think positively but not doing too well at the moment. Going to try to see a Dr / get a scan tomorrow but I can't help but think that it's all over. :(

Laabama try not to panic, although I can totally understand why you would be thinking the absolute worst. I saw a thread on pregnancy board today that has lots of reassuring stories about bleeding, some very heavy, gushy etc and still healthy pregnancy. hang in there. x

Laabama sorry to hear its taken a turn for the worse - you really can't second guess what it means, so try and stay as positive as you can xx

laabama keeping fx for you.

i'm having a nice soak in the bath in a minute, if the water has heated up enough. then an early night. ds slept better last night but still woke up 3 times, and even though he went back to sleep quickly i didn't, i was sat there waiting for him to wake up like the rest of the week. and I'd planned to put him to bed at his usual time according to his body clock, he wanted out of the bath earlier than normal and is now zonked, so goodness knows what's going to happen tonight.

fx for you laabama, keep your spirits up, i know how hard it is

does anyone know where i can get a private scan in the suffolk / essex area?

laabama sorry to hear that. But don't give up hope, just yet. When I had the Big Bleed, I really thought it was all over but somehow the bean managed to hang in there.

cep it was a lovely ceremony but tbh, they might as well all have been up on the altar doing a can-can for all the attention I was able to pay. Ds2 had to bring up their certificates which the class made themselves. Have to say, I was at the style of some of the girls. They were dressed as if they were going out clubbing afterwards. One of the few occasions when I was glad to have only boys! I would be making a right cats bum mouth if I had a dd who wanted to dress like that in a church!