Due December 2011!!

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HI everyone, I know it is very early but I got a very faint positve line this morning, and another at lunch, and another at tea time! Was not due AF till Thurs but was meant to be going for a proceedure that involved radiation tomorrow so needed to do checks and here I am, and there I will not be! I have already got 2 and not told OH yet but need to tell somebody! Anyone else yet?

S&S I think that will be the hardest thing until wk 12 is keeping it quiet lol.

Hey all I will be 31 in the summer...my DB has a Dec birthday and I always envied him (I'm June) as my Grandma used to get him a 'summer birthday' present as well as she felt sad that he got all his presents at once...though of course she also bought him an actual birthday gift and I only got my normal birthday present

darcies at your DP response!

I also have seem to have copious CM and itchy nipples and cramps on and off...oh, and constant need to pee! Feel a bit like a whale too with bloating getting worse as the day goes on so trousers fit when I go to work but sooo uncomfortable by the time I get home!

Keeping quiet til 12 weeks is going to be stupidly difficult! Don't know how I'm going to manage it tbh

I haven't blue but I work with a bunch of MW and health visitors among others so they are very god at spotting things.

I like having a summer birthday but I am keen to find out if it is easier being at my biggest when it is colder.

i'm 28 and this is baby 2.

DP is a sept baby, I'm a feb baby and DD is a March baby so relativly close to xmas we are.

I feel shattered and feel the need to pee all the time which is going to get on my wick.

Hello all,
just to introduce myself - this is my first ever post on mn! Eek! Bfp about a week ago - was a bit of a shock but I am coming around to the idea now. I am glad you are all here to talk to as we won't be telling anyone else for a few more weeks.

Am off to see if I can put myself on the stats now!

Ooo - it worked! Being in the stats seems to make it so much more real! :)

Just had the weirdest pregnancy symptom. I woke up in a sweat after two of the most vivid dreams I've ever had. I really don't have dreams that feel this real normally. Nothing bad, but very intense. Of course Googling it (as you do at 6.30am....) it came up as an early pregnancy symptom. Certainly didn't happen with my two previous kids tho. Anyone else....?

Hi strawberries, and thank you!

No other DC's - am overseas so am 7 hours ahead. I dread to think what life will be like with DC and no sleep; I am a grumpy mare at the best of times!

Mizza I have been having incredibly vivid dreams, even before the BFP. I don't normally dream, so it was one of the things that made me and do a test! Were they nice dreams or scary/strange ones?

Welcome Chinngis congrats on your BFP.

I done another test this morning just to make sure yesterdays wasn't a fluke and came up with a BFP :) so can't be a fluke right?

Mizza Never had dreams like that with my prev pg. and nowt so far but i'm only 3+5days. (hoping not a chemical pregnancy - had one a before)

Testing out my new name as cakes on the conception thread I was on suggested.

Good name change darcies two bfp's in a row sounds good

I've just worked out that if you go by my last AF date then that would make me 6 weeks today!! but thinking it's more like 5 due to long cycle and late ov...but at least it feels like a good way through the 12ww to scan time!!

Morning peeps soz I didn't post yesterday had a grotty day at work, it was like an oven and I am trying to be discreet about symptoms (although me going round checking desk fans work might be a clue to some of them!!!) Was very tired and a bit down definitely a rollercoaster of emotions I gettit now.

All my bloods were ok it seems apart from blood sugars got to repeat it don't know if it was high or just didn't work yet. Then doc tried to get hold of me and wants to see me which plummeted my mood for no good reason. I'm booked in for Monday so got a weekend to worry and speculate.

And the mood swings wow - my DH looked a bit stunned last night as I ranted about nothing. Then everyone rang wanting to know my blood results which didnt help. Wishing I hadn't mentioned it to a select few seems the news has spread yeek!

Just call me snappy adalle for now.

Hugs to everyone. X

Hello everyone...congrats to all the newbies, welcome to our lovely bus :)

Went for my early pregnancy scan yesterday. My dates were a bit out - my EDD is now 7th December which meansd I'm not 7 today but 6+2 which is annoying - every day closer I get to week 12, the less I panic...
The very best bit was seeing the tiny sprout's heartbeat. A little quick flicker of bright light...simply amazing. Such a relief - the way I'd been feeling I thought I'd have a gnome in there or something...

Now its going to be doubly hard not to spill the beans. Anyone seen Thunderbolt recently? Think she was also having early scan

jomouse must have been great to see the heartbeat already.

How soon does/did everyone have to wait to get a dr's appointment? I couldn't get one until 5th May, I'll be nearly 9 weeks! Does anyone know if I can make an appointment myself with the community mw as this is my 2nd or do I have to see the GP first and be referred?

Oh and I'm 25 btw.

sevenfrustrateddwarves I think you can self refer through your local hospital but it still can take a while for the appt to come through. Mine called me though so maybe you can ask to be bumped forwards then?

Blue Hoping that 2 BFPs is a good sign lol.

Called and made an appt to see my GP next week to get things rolling with booking in etc and getting a scan etc and having a battle about going to the birthing centre I want to go to and not the hospital.

Hi everyone
Welcome and congrats to newbies

Ihad my booking in apoointment on Wednesday and it lasted 2 hours. I am 7 weeks not 5-6 like i thought. My 12 week scan is booked for sometime between 12 -14th of May, just waiting for letter to confirm. Midwife could not take my blood so i had to go to the blood room at hospital - its all bringing back bad memories of the first time round

I was worried that i had no signs as last time my tummy was very bloted and sensative when touched and i couldn't lie on my front. But this time round my tummy feels fine and i even slept on my front this morning but then i wake up and i have morning sickness and my tummy feels havry but not painful.

I'm just so worried that something will go wrong. I just cant get excited or happy about it until i know everything is ok

I had a really horrible pregnancy last time and i'm worried that this time so far so easy, so there must be something wrong!

I also think i freaked out a first time mum at my booking in appointment by telling her that when your waters break they keep breaking untill you give birth and that can be 48 hours later, so you feel like your weeing yourself for 48hours and that there is no such thing as a pain free labour as the take all the pain relife away so you can feel when to push, unless you have forceps or a c-section. She was white when she went in the midwife room but she did ask what was the worest bit!

Sorry not a posative post but i needed to get it out sorry.

LittleBlueBoat I think it was mums like you that scared the wits out of me when I was in my 20s and 30s that put me off pg in general. Didn't help either when I was asked to sit with ex-sisterinlaw whilst she was in labour screaming for more drugs!! It was supposed to make me broody and totally failed.

Hope all goes well

adalle glad your bloods all ok. I would try not to worry about gp wanting to see you. If it was a real emergency then i think they would have let you know. It may just be that s/he wants to go through things with you as an older first time mum.

Congrat jomouse and thunder on your scans - such a relief. I can't wait til mine, like you littleblue am just very worried about something going wrong due to my history. I can hardly let myself accept this pg yet despite being massively tired, headache (had same with DD) and very bloated tum. It is very clearly protuding, i am not forcing it, willing it (like i did with dd) or anything like that. I want to hide this pg until i had have done the nuchal and the triple at 12-13 weeks. I won't even begin to relax until after the 20 week anomaly scan which at the moment is a lifetime away.
Lots of baggy clothes when i go back to work after the easter break (i am a teacher)

I am one of the older mums on here at 39 (just). I will still be the right side of 40 when (if) the baby's born!!

Bu the way all you first timers who are nervous about birth please try not to be. You only hear about the bad deliveries. I had my dd at 35 and had a very positive experience. I spent the first 6 hours of labour at home, read, had a bath (it was during the night). The contractions were totally manageable even when 2 mins apart. Woke dh up who decided to have a shave!!!! I remember standing on the landing, contractions a minute apart, saying 'come ON, we need to go!'
Parked a little way away from the hosp as i was too stingy to pay for astronomical parking and as we walked had to stop frequently due to the now huge contractions!
Got to the labour ward and the mw saw i was a first timer and told me she would be sending me home with A PARACETOMAL!! I thought to myself WHAT!!! Then she examined me and saw i was 8 centimetres and decided against sending me home! DD was born an hour and a half later.

No pain relief - not because i am a hard-nut there was just no time. I tried gas and air but it made me violently sick and had to have an anti-sickness pill.

The worse part was the transitional stage (i think it's called) as the baby starts to go down the birth canal. I pushed for 26 mins and that was not nearly as awful as i was expecting it to be.

I didn't tear and i went home 6 hours later.

so, it's not all bad.

No doubt i have jinxed myself now and will have dreadful labour next time!!!

Thanks Jan9ne I will.

I got a horrible thought that the docs have discussed me in a practice meeting and the nasty docs may have suggested I am encouraged to end it - my imagination playing games. So I got into a tizz yesterday! Feel much better today.

Someone should have warned me about these mad things that the brain makes up.