February 2012 Baby Bus!

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So who is due February 2012?....

Im due 1st February with baby number 3!....Already have 2 Sons, age 8 & 4....

Found out on Monday :)

my midwife/Gp refer for scan here after they have seen you
then get letter in post with appt on
i have midwife appt booked 6/7/11
i will be 7 +1 then

Quick question all, who will be wanting to find out the gender? I know it is very early days but i am in limbo already about it

Here (bristol) you ring the MW and she refers you for your scan, and you get the date through the post. Will be 9 +3 for MW appointment, and haven't had hospital appointment.

evenin all - this staying in on a friday night is a novelty for me. i'm so tired at the moment i just rush home from work and get in bed for a nap as soon as i can. currently in bed eating biscuits with books and laptop for the evening :-)

there was lots of chat today!

phlossie that made me giggle about the perfume - i can't wear it any more - the thought of spraying it on me makes me feel nauseous in the morning.

yeah my friends are wise to the antibiotics thing. i tried it a couple of weeks ago when i was out for dinner with friends and they all just looked at me as if to say it was obvious i was pregnant. they were all to polite to say anything though. trouble is i used to drink a lot - and even smoke socially when i was drinking - and the fact that they have both dramatically stopped is a little bit obvious to everyone around me!

i'm so sorry to hear your news missredindie and i wish you all the best for coming months. it really upsets me every time i read of someone leaving the bus. i know it was particularly important to you.

innocent i don't want to find out. In this day in age some things are never a suprise any more and that's what i'd like. DH on the other hand wants to know as he thinks it will help him 'bond' with it before it's born! Got a feeling come 20 weeks i'll end up caving!

Here (Oxon) we book in with gp when we test positive to collect notes and be referred for a scan. They may also refer you to a midwife but I think if you are not on your first they pretty much let you fend for yourself with making mw appointments.

It's much nicer to see all the messages without having to scroll through stats isn't it? Just need iPhone to start doing push notifications for mumsnet now...

Thanks for all the advice re appointments! Still no idea what they do in my area. I went to see GP to tell her about my positive test and all she did was book me in for an antenatal appt at the same place on 7th July. I will be 7+4. Does this sound normal? Should I be doing anything else myself?

Innocentredhead - thanks for the tips re symptoms. I dont have anything except sore boobs!

Innocent - I definitely want to find out the gender! But its my first so I want to know everything!

im still waiting for my first appointment with the mw. Come on GP it will be 2 weeks on tuesday i told you!

i'm in london and i'll have my first midwife appointment when i'm 10 weeks exactly and my scan at 12+1. i got both the appointments sent to me at the same time just after i did the referral through the gp. so that sounds about right maltesers

i'm thinking of going for a bra fitting to get a bigger bra tomorrow as they've grown so much already! but not sure if 8 weeks is too early?

me and dp don't want to find out the gender. i can see why people do, but i like the idea of a surprise myself

Maltesers that sounds about right - They say you should have it before your first scan, I got told before 8 weeks.. The appointment you have with MW for antenatal appointment, is a booking appointment, they take your height, weight BP, bloods for screening, if you accept, speak to you about health, answer any questions you may have, etc. Really informal atmosphere i found, usually happens at your doctors. You also decide your place of birth - Hospital, MLU, home etc. Nothing more you can do for yourself until after appointment, not sure the protocol for booking your scan, but you will probably only be able to do it after booking appointment. Hope that helps!!

See where you are coming from melliebobs and that is probably how i am going to be, but will cave i reckon... Still not sure!!

Start a mumsnet app xavelli, or suggest it to MN and get someone techy at MNHQ to do it... So when you bookmark a thread, you get a push message... Just a thought

melliebobs have you tried calling your doctor or the mw?

currybaby not too early at all, I'm needing a new one and I am 5+6, hard and painful too :(

Thanks everyone, all good info!

Maybe only get one new bra for now to hold you for a while as they are likely to get bigger and they aren't cheap are they!

Evening all and welcome to the newcomers

so sorry to hear your news missred. Wishing you and yiur DH lots of strength.

bill i live in Durham too, where abouts are you? PM me if you don't want to say on the thread.

Can't remember who asked but I didn't gt any symptoms last time until about 6 weeks and that was just really sore boobs. The nausea kicked in at 7 weeks and lasted til about week 16 . Didn 't get the urge to pee, metallic taste or funny smells like it says in a lotof books though.

I would like another surprise but I think DH will be more persistent about finding out this time. I was convinced DD was a boy

re being due on 20th, it was the Bank Holiday monday lie in while DC was watching Cbeebies happily in the living room

8+3 today and only symptoms are that I am a bit more tired and bloated. I have had a few late nights recently. I went out with colleagues and had to stick to ginger ale because "I have to get up early with the kids". I don't think they sussed me! It still feels rather unreal at the moment. I have an appointment with the midwife on Monday so that should make it more real!

Wow, it's certainly busy around here! Tee hee about the bank holiday baby boom, obviously everyone had a bit more energy than usual :)
DP had a day off today just randomly, and I took the boys out in the morning, then we all went out for a walk in the afternoon. So as soon as we got back from that I just flaked out for a few hours, glad he was here to take over!
Innocent I think we probably won't find out, we didn't for the boys, and it was pretty amazing to get that surprise at the end of labour. Though with ds1 I was a bit too exhausted to care! With ds2 he was born underwater and slowly lifted up to my chest, we were gazing at his/her face and under the water I felt that he was a boy before we saw :) (then DP confessed he was glad he was a boy as he'd make an ugly girl!). I wouldn't mind finding out this time, mainly to help with the names stress that I'm anticipating, but I think DP would prefer to have a surprise again.

So, who is where and what are we doing? To start:
I am 6+4
slight periody pain
No nausea
Eating a lot of ginger biscuits
getting impatient
Starting to get moody
Told BF

I live near sedgefield at the moment but am moving back to aykley heads in july, where are you?

I'm feeling very sorry for myself tonight, I'm in a horrible PMT type mood, and I've been crying like a loon because I'm so hungry, but so so sick I can't face anything.

I feel like a right grumpy old git

AND I can only seem to eat white things, bread/toast/mash/dairylea slices

Which annoys me because I love salad and veg < waaaiiiiiiillllllll> I'm going to cry again.

Hi, late one for the bus here. Been trying to conceive no.2 for over 2 years, and had various phantom pregnancies, so got rather phobic about testing. But here I am about 7 weeks, thanks to metformin and clomid!

GP receptionist says have to make an appt to get referred to the hospital, although the hospital web page allows you to fill in the forms yourself but you have to fax it - FAX? This is the 21st century!

Last time I only found out I was pregnant at 15 weeks (got a letter from my GP about recent blood test!!), so I'm not sure what I'm supposed to be doing. And trying not to think about miscarriages as lots of them run in the family. But feeling sick is meant to be a good sign, right?

Anyone else got SPD yet? I was using a wheelchair for the last few months last time (on the plus side, recovered really quickly from birth), and hefting a 2.9yo about was triggering it anyway.

I know how you feel BillComptonstrousers! I'm living off digestive biscuits, toast and rice at the moment and if I think about being sick for any length of time it's making me want to cry in self pity! I really must pull myself together! I'd got myself worked up ready for morning sickness, didn't expect it to last all day every day since it started! You can tell it's my first baby, I'm obviously naive to a these symptoms!

notcitrus I had terrible SPD last time around. Not wheelchairbound, but on crutches by the end. It has never totally gone away so I am dreading what it will be like later on . Already wearing a support belt/keeping knees together in the hope of stopping it deteriorating too quickly.
Was struggling by 18 weeks last time but at that point my MW was fobbing me off, I'm just hoping that because I know now to request an early physio referral and what to avoid doing that I might be able to keep it at bay a bit longer this time.

I feel like meeting the new person who you will spending the rest of your life with is more exciting than finding out its gender on the day, so I will find out the gender early to keep myself going!.