November 2011 - holding hands, making plans & having scans

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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....

Just realised how self-involved my post was - sorry

Poppet so glad your day improved :) and for other with DH/DP who forgot - I'm pretty sure they only forget once plus I drop a lot of hints about it as my DH has good intentions but not good planning!

My day went from idyllic to a bodily fluid fest - oh you 1st timers the joys you have to come ;) DD did a small poo in her pants so as it was bathtime I cleaned her up and left her bare bum while I sorted out the pants etc and cleaned the potty for DS who also announced he needed a poo. So DD then did about a pint of wee on the bathroom floor so I dumped her in the empty bath while I cleaned that up and she did a poo in the bath by which time DS had done his too - did get it all cleaned up and them bathed but not exactly a Mother's Day treat - never known anything like it!

I only have mild MS in the morning and by evening I could literally eat my own body weight in junk - struggling to fancy anything that might be good for me though. Also struggling with cooking as that makes me want to spew so have turned to ready meals for the moment - waiting for a big pie to cook.....

You know, I too am feeling so averse to anything that might be good for me. Totally different to last time's fruit and veg fest with DS, I'm currently pondering going out to the corner shop for some Lilt. Mainly I've been snarfing the alarmingly coloured cheesy Doritoes and Orangina. Boy or girl I'm not sure, but I think it may be a redhead!

Hello Everyone. I guess from the posts not everyone had a good Mother's Day. Mine was busy but really lovely.

Chip - yeap squint surgery. Eye much improved alignment wise but even for minor surgery it's stressful on Mum, Dad and baby.

Off for more water - my new craving! xx

Not too bad a day here! Boys made me a card, at the last minute and dh brought me breakfast AND lunch in bed! ds4 did eat most of my breakfast though!

Went shopping to get shorts for my holiday and Mothercare are not yet selling maternity shorts so I opted for an elasticated pair of size 18s from M+S

Also got Anusol. Oh the joys!

Happy Mothers Day yummy mummies!!!

Sorry to those that have had a mediocre day.... maybe your DH/DP's will learn a harsh lesson for next year!

I had a fab day... DS woke up at 8:15am which is the latest he has ever slept in his 3 1/2 yrs :) he must have known it was mothers day :)
Lovely cards and perfume, a trip to the Science Museum and a fab Japanese lunch, then a chinese takeaway at my mums tonight.... i am stuffed beyond belief and totally noodled out :)

Good luck to everyone who has scans coming up... am very jealous. I just want mine NOW!

Still no morning sickness, but feeling really bloated all the time and absolutely shattered. I'm only about 5 weeks pg and already have a sticky out tummy (helped by a gorge-fest 1st pregnancy bump that never quite went away which i don;t know how i'm going to hide at work if this keeps up.

I just want to tell everyone... tee hee!!

Alicat - your day sounds like a nightmare... enough to make you sick!!

Please please will one you you slap me and talk some sense into me.

I've been googling for well over an hour all about miscarriage, why oh why am I doing this? We saw a heartbeat at 6 weeks, and got such reassurance from that but I keep finding posts on various forums from women who saw a heartbeat then went back for scan weeks later and fetus had died.

WHY AM I DOING THIS? Now I'm sick to stomach. I've been feeling better in the past week- symptoms have lessened- not having to go to sleep at 9pm. Still queasy though. And now I'm freaking out that lessening of symptoms means miscarriage as yet again I can find lots of posts online from women where symptoms dropped off and then miscarriage.

Anyone else gripped by this madness? I do not know why I am doing this.

9+2 today.

maybe you're feeling its all too good to be true... step away from the computer and make yourself a nice cuppa+biscuits=very happy mummy!!

Also, talk to your DH, he'll help ease your feelings about it all too.
x

onehappymama thanks so much for replying. I just can't as he is just up and about to go to work, I don't want him stressing overnight (he is doing a silly shift tonight).

Am totally upsetting myself.

my DH works shifts too, and i find that i try not to worry him when he's going to work, but you can't keep these thoughts/feelings to yourself ll the time... maybe try discuss it with him on his day/night off. He'll feel bad for not knowing or being able to help and reassure you.... thats what he is there for.

If its any consolation, i feel somewhat more protective of my little bean this time than i did the first time around. I have irrational thoughts and fears of what might happen, how i might feel and even what i would do. Until i have my scan it just doesn;t seem real. I've spoken to DH about it and he gives me loads of cuddles and makes me feel better, but i understand you in that its just irrational i guess.....

sending you big hugs x

Folicacid don't be hard on yourself but please try and stop researching - I have been completely anxious / neurotic / paranoid about both of my previous PG and have 2 lovely children. I'm really worried again as can't believe I could be lucky again (especially as have plenty of friends who haven't been) but what I do know is that being worried is so normal - our protective maternal instincts have kicked in and all our emotions are just bubbling under the surface

Folic m'dear please don't worry yourself. With DS I had a queasy few days then my symptoms vanished for weeks. Weeks! I felt like a fraud going to my 12 week scan I was so sure there'd be nothing there. Right now I'm feeling much worse than I ever did with him but hoping for the same thing to happen. Even though if it does I shall panick every bit as much as you. Try to find a little peace.... away from google

Folic, once you have seen a heartbeat at whatever stage, the risk of MC goes waaaaaaay down! Stop googling!

( should take my own advice, have been googling trisomies all week!)

thank you thank you thank you thank you guys. I dunno what has particularly brought this on today. I was so rational yesterday; I think it may have been mother's day in a weird way.

I did infact speak to OH when he got up- it was written all over my face, I've had a big cry and I'm booking a scan. It's £65 well spent I think. And think of the money I'm saving by not drinking

Time for bed.

Morning Folic,

glad you are feeling better, I think that we are just about the same stage, I'll be 9+2 today so just wanted to let you know that I have been feeling so much better these last couple of days, enough that I was having some thoughts that it might be all over too, but I guess until the scan there is no way to know! Anyway the point was that you are not the only one and hopefully your private scan will really settle your mind. I am going to wait until my first scan on 27th April, only 23 days to go, although that's my Dad's birthday so really nice timing :)

My mother in law was staying over the weekend, but DH is going into work today and MIL is going to head home this morning, so having a day to myself at home with the dogs, been looking forward to this for ages!!!! Shame I have to go back to work tomorrow, but have a wedding on Friday so nice short week for me :)

Had a dress I was making which I started before I found out I was pregnant, so when I finished it yesterday and tried it on found out it was not fitting!!! Cue a mad dash for the shops yesterday to find something acceptable that had some growing room for the next wedding in a month, am definitely showing now!!

Hope everyone has a lovely day today and all have the bank holiday off too, I live for these extra days, they feel like an extra holiday and are great for doing what you want, not what you have to do :)

morning all, just a quick visit as ds was up half the night.
Hope everyone is ok.

collie good luck for scan today.

and any other scanners today.

Morning all - just wanted to say hello!

Folic hope you have stepped away from the computer FWIW my symptoms with DS disappeared around 8 weeks and didn't return until horrendous heartburn kicked in at 16 weeks. I think this is fairly normal as your body has adjusted to the new hormones.

My only real symptom at the moment is tiredness, but this was far worse than with DS anyway. Am thinking it might be his fault though .

Happy Mondays all!

PS - anyone heard from Piply??

Morning all!

Quick hello to all before I dash off to to the school run!

Good luck for those with scans today - still haven't got a date for my NHS one and was hoping it'd be this side of Easter... Have booked Oscar for 26th so only 3 weeks to wait

Morning everyone.

Quick catch-up with all the posting over the last week as I have 5 mins on the computer while DS uses playing quietly with toys as a diversionary tactic to avoid eating any breakfast - again!!

Sorry to hear some Mothers Days weren't so great. Mine started off perfect with totally surprise card and presents but then we were ambushed by MIL in the afternoon who "just had to" see her grandson, despite the fact that we'd told her we were having a quiet day with just the 3 of us. Selfish . We haven't told her I'm pregnant as I find her stifling and after mmc last time, can't bear the constant questioning / faux concern / delight that she has something to talk to her cronies about so she won't have understood about about my rather "hormonal" response... She's now gone off in a huff convinced that DH (who speaks to her every day on the phone) doesn't love her!!! Talk about melodramatic. Anyway, rant over, thanks for listening!

Thanks also for the article debunking the "what you can't eat" myths - I keep waking in the night beating myself up about tiny pieces of soft / blue cheese. Am still going to try to avoid anything too controversial so I don't have so much to hate myself for if I do have another mmc.

Like others here, my symptoms do appear to be on the wane (9+5), but then again I had many more symptoms with the mmc than I did with DS so I really am holding onto the fact that every pregnancy is different and keeping FX for scan on 20th. Hope there is lots of good news from those of you having scans this week as we all need to keep positive and good news always helps. For those of you suffering, please do talk to people you can trust to have your best interests at heart / us.

Must dash and get some food into DS (dry cheerios in the car again, I fear)...

Hi all,

Just come back from hospital, all is fine! Little bean has grown 4 mm over the weekend, have seen the heartbeat very clearly. Nothing to see on the scan that causes the bleed.
Feel so relieved now! They say I can go on with normal day to day activities, if the pregnancy is meant to be then it is so. I am however gonna take it a bit easy this week and rest a lot.
Gonna phone the MW tomorrow to say that I've changed my mind about the nuchal scan and that I want it. Hope that doesn't sound silly. I would just like some confirmation in a few weeks time that everything is still fine before we tell everyone we're pregnant.

FX for all with scans, I hope you all and your little beans will be ok!

Yay babybluetinkerbell!!

Wonderful news, Blue!

thanks! think MS is kicking as well, as I had to throw up for the first time this morning, I know I've been lucky so far I felt so pleased after that, thought it was a good sign, and it was!
now waiting for a phone call back from the hospital, phoned the antenatal screening MW to say I would like to nuchal scan. She asked me whether I had my dating scan and I said yes on Friday, but I'm only 9+4 weeks. She said oh when you have had dating scan we don't do nuchal scan anymore just blood test, well that baffled me a bit, of course they couldn't have checked nuchal fold on Friday, as I am not between 11 and 14 weeks, when they can check for it, am I right? ah while I was writing this, she phoned, have a scan on the 21st of April, when I would be exactly 12 weeks to do nuchal scan!

Good news from me too - despite me going to the wrong hospital - Dunfermline and then having to hotfoot it in a cab to Kirkcaldy. Bean is a bouncing 1.1mm, the bleeding is nowhere nearby, it's a singleton (I'm a twin, DH has twin cousins and so do I so I was a little concerned by my nausea levels after almost none with DS), and the first thing the lovely lovely sonographer said was 'I can see a heartbeat' and there it was shimmering away! Just beautiful. It ties in with my days by just a three day discrepency (they're wrong I know I didn't ovulate for three days after they say bean was conceived ) so we now have a due date of November 17th. Whoop, whoop whoop. Despite a £25 cab fare and mucho stress, I'm delighted, and they were all soooo lovely. I was warned I might not get a 12 week scan now, but she's put me down for one anyway and given I want the nuchal test I think they'll have to do one. Although i do have pics just in case of my tiny wee pea pod! Tink I'm so glad to hear your good news too!!!! Yey us!

Poppet yay yay yay! I just sit here on the sofa with a big grin on my face, feeling so happy for all of us where it is good news today!
going to the wrong hospital! how do you do that?