We are all jolly well going to have a perfectly uneventful pregnancy and pain free birth and will brook no argument at all

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In a moment bravery here is the anti-natal thread for all those continuing to Brook No Argument into pregnancy and beyond.

So raise your fists to the sky and sing loud for there is no turning back now! We shall all stand firm and prevail with joy in our hearts as all our pregnancies will be simply blooming perfect!

Hurrah! and more Hurrah! :o

Hi meme and welcome to our lovely thread :)

don't mind aubers. She has a terrible attack of power ballads. Do feel free to use the ear plugs provided :o

Morning, preggos. How's the sickness, Aubers and meme? How are you today, Hiding? I haven't yet developed a craving for power ballads but someone appears to have removed my brain and replaced it with cotton wool. Yesterday I got on the bus and showed the driver my car keys instead of my bus pass. Also, my job is very analytical and I seem to have lost the ability to do that... I am really struggling with working out probabilities and causation. Anyone else's brain also leaking out through their ears?

God. I am so fucking sick. This is madness. Even dh has admitted I wasn't this bad last time. I am unable to do anything but lie whimpering on my left side (right makes me throw up) or dash to the loo and throw up violently. I am bruised and exhausted and miserable. I am throwing up 6 or 7 times a day. A lot of the time I am barely bringing anything up because I can't get anything down in the first place. Even the smell of fresh fruit or veg makes me retch. By about 3.00 in the afternoon I can manage a bowl of massively overboiled cheap chinese noodles and keep about half down if I sit very still afterwards breathing heavily. And weak lime juice works some of the time. Fuckity fuck. I don't mean to whinge on, but wow I wasn't expecting this.

Husband is being a saint, as he should be. God knows what my children are eating in the daytime. I imagine they forage in the bins, or perhaps snack on fish food.

And, of course, because I haven't told anyone yet I am SUFFERING IN SILENCE. This is just as well. If I were allowed to whinge and moan to everyone in real life I would rapidly lose friends.

Aubers get ur self to gp to make sure u haven't got hyperemisis apple skins are supposed to help? Feel sick as a dog not been sick yet just feel it

Oh, Aubers, please go to your doctor. That sounds terrible - they need to check you're not dehydrated. You poor thing. Unmumsnet hugs for you.

Poor aubers! I agree with everyone, as it's the weekend phone the out of hours number to see the gp or it would be worth giving nhs direct a call and see what they think.

No more suffering in silence!
Go! Now! We are all thinking of you :)

At the moment every morning is an adventure for me. Yesterday I woke up pretty much deaf in one ear because it was so blocked up. This morning I have discovered brown patches on the back of my neck (which I thought you weren't supposed to get until the 2nd trimester) and a raised red mark which may or may not be an insect bite. So now I have a dilema because i have really bad reactions to insect bites which make me swell up and get all feverish, the only thing that helps is hydrocortisone cream and I don't think I'm suppost to use that during pregnancy. So is a smidgen of hydrocortisone worse then a swollen and feverish hiding?

Mah! I am all of a cofusion.

Hope you are feeling a bit better meme. I find oatcakes are a wonder when I am feeling rough.

I know how you feel love, my brain has gone in holiday and I seem to have no memory at all!

aubers if you haven't phoned a doctor yet there will be stern words.

How did you discover brown patches on the back of your neck? What were you doing back there??

I didn't know you couldn't use hydroquarterzone in pregnancy. You can use it on babies can't you?

Have not been to GP or rang NHS Direct as I live in Oman and don't fancy the long distance phone bill . I could go and see my doctor, but she will prescribe me drugs that will cost me a fortune and then I will bring them home and not take them anyway.

Hey, guess what?? I'm eight weeks pregnant. Count em!

8 weeks! Wow! Are you sure you're not getting dehydrated? Is your wee a normal colour etc? Please look after yourself.

8 weeks! wow. that's loads! i know feel inadequate with my piddly 5 weeks :)

Perhaps you could provide some kind of wee colour chart so Love can inspect it for you and we can all be reassured that you are getting enough water. Particularly if you are going to insist on not living in a sensibly grey and rainy country and instead go around living somewhere exotic and ... ...foreign! :o

To clear up the brown mark confusion it is kind of round the back but to the side a bit so you can just about see it if you look in a mirror. Also, DP took a look for me and confirmed that it definitely wasn't just grubbiness.

So, for your amusement I shall tell you about my little episode this afternoon.

I was going round to a friends house with the children. Realised I was going to throw up. Was driving faster and faster to get there. Small voices from the back "why are you making that funny humming sound Mummy?"

I steamed into a parking space outside her house. No chance of making it inside to her bathroom. Grabbed a plastic bag and chundered mightily into it. Now, sitting in a car is not a very good position for throwing up - the steering wheel is in the way and you are too reclined. I had heaved so hard in throwing up that some wee had escaped. Slightly more wee than ideal, to be honest. I realised that one more heave and I would wee mightily. I leaped out of the car, crossed my legs as tightly as I could and continued to heave very loudly and violently into my carrier bag, sort of squatting so as not to wee (once you start...) About 5 minutes I stood there making "HRRRRGGHHHHHHHH HARRRROOOGHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAHHHHH" noises into my bag.

Finally it ended. I have the back of my skirt a good check - no damp patch! Win!

And then I noticed friend's neighbour standing in his driveway. He was ostensibly washing his car, but was in actual fact standing staring gobsmacked at me, hose dribbling futilely on the ground.

I waved cheerily. He waved back.

Ho hum.

Aubers - there are no words. .

So at a potential 7 weeks gone according to the lovely Hosp doctor I have been admitted to gynae with a potential eptopic I have been swabbed stabbed and starved awaiting an emergency scan tomoz... Joy

Morning, its rather nice here

Only very intermittently posted when TTC with absolute vitriolic determination, and have seemed to have managed to pull it off this month, as it's just HORRENDOUS timing; my PhD is due around 3 days before the ETA of the 12wk scan. I'm having visions of sobbing at the thesis binders whilst dealing with some appauling news I've received from the scan. Cheerful, no?

Also with the potato brain, terrible last time and varible so far this time (handful of cat food in the washing machine drawer), but yes, writing up findings of 5 years of work is proving somewhat challenging.

meme goodness, I had a suspected ectopic pg at around 8-9wks last time and turned out to be a particuarly painful rupture of a large follicular cyst. Scan showed all was fine with baby, so fingers crossed this turns out to also be benign x

Aubers Hyperemesis can be serious (as can a craving for power ballards), take care!

I don't think it is hyperemesis. I've been reading about it. I can sip water through the day and keep about half of it down so am not dehydrated. And I do manage to eat a little bit.

Yesterday I had two weetabix and a boiled egg with crackers.

Today I have had a weetabix and I'll try another cracker for lunch.

Hyperemesis websites tells me I should be depressed, dehydrated and unable to function. I'm okay - am throwing up about 10 times a day but not losing everything when I do. A lot of the time it's just bile. Today I have put the paints out for the children, had a shower (throwing up in the shower - easy to clean!) and made some phonecalls. Miserable, but functioning!

Oh meme, you poor thing! Keep us updated on the scan results when you are able. Fingers crossed that it is all fine. [big unmumsnet like hugs]

Welcome to our little gang calypso! it is certainly a relief to hear that you are not also aflicted by the power ballad craving. One vomiting, warbling pregnant lady is quite enough for any thread I think. Though others may disagree :)

I'm off to have a lovely tepid bath now. Hmmm ...

Yes Meme, sorry was so wrapped up in my own stuff I didn't say how sorry I am to hear your latest. Look after yourself, and fingers crossed for good news asap.

Hooray for a grads thread that Brooks No Argument!
Since getting my BFP which simply confirmed what we all knew, my pg has been progressing perfectly uneventfully, to the extent that I actually re-tested just to make sure as I haven't had anything more than a touch of mild nausea & cramps . Fortunately it gave me a BFP again which meant I didn't have to un-book myself at the hospital and cancel my scan for 3 weeks time
I hope this bodes well for a pain-free birth, if there's anything I'll brook no argument about it's that

9+2

Didn't read to the end of the thread before posting - meme really hope it's not an ectopic, and hope you're doing ok in the hospital

Aubers your sickness sounds quite extreme, you should probably get it checked out- if you can't keep anything down, how will you be growing your little pip?

I'm ok... 5 weeks ish not ectopic just a uti however my hormone level is high and the doctor says ther could be two babes in there got another scan next mon and repeat bloods in 48 hours xx

Great news that it's not ectopic Meme. How are you feeling about the possibility of two?

Hello Calypso and Late - welcome.

Just popping in to say hurrah for meme So pleased it isn't an ectopic. Twins eh?! 2 rats smacked

Phew meme, really glad to hear it's not ectopic. Twins though! Cor blimey gov :o

Welcome to the thread late! Make yourself comfy, you have a long boring pregnancy ahead :)

still thinking non-sicky thoughts for you aubers.

Hey you guys, thought I'd pop across and join you . FINALLY got the confirmation I'd known about for ages (well, I've been fairly sure since about Thursday anyway!)

Sorry to hear about the vomming Aubers and Meme I'm so relieved it's not ectopic.

From my calculations I'm a wimpish 4+4 today but I'm brooking no argument about this one sticking.

Now may be a bad time to admit I love a good power ballad even when unpreggo ....

Yep, Top Gun's on tv right now - oh Aubers, what have you started here? there will be tissues & tears on the sofa tonight!

Whoop whoop herethere!

meme great it turned out not to be ectopic, if it turns out to be twins...wow!