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

Mmmmmmm tomato ketchup flavoured crisps! Those were yummy! I will definitely keep my eyes open for them Biscuits and report back if I find any!

How is everyone doing this morning? I failed miserably at my attempt to eat my dinner last night (first day without having all 5 of my 5 a day :( ) and it was only the third pregnacare pill which I finally managed to keep down! So today I'm off on a mission to manage my symptoms! I will be buying:

• teeny tiny folic acid tablets so that the next time I throw up a pregnacare tablet I can just take a little folic acid one instead and try the horse pills another day!

• I'm going to get some ginger biscuits (bleurgh! I hate ginger!) and see if they can settle down my stomach a little.

• I'm going to get a maternity sleep bra!! I need something to help with the sore boobs at night thing!

I'm also tempted to get some maternity jeans because I'm worried about the way my normal jeans seem to cut into me at exactly uterus level whenever I sit down. Even though I'm only 5 weeks. Ahem

I hope everyone else is feeling well? You all look like you're glowing!

Love I'll be thinking of you today! Good luck, and let us know how it goes!

Boots have the folic acid tablets in the tic tac type packet, those are great as they're minuscule. It's all I've been able to manage for the past month.

No shame in getting maternity jeans early - comfort is key. I got one of those belly belt things from amazon last time and will definitely do so again. Meant I could wear normal trousers until about 28 weeks so saved me a fortune

Oh my gosh, scan was amazing! Baby was wriggling around - you could see fingers! He/she stayed lovely and still for the nucal translucency bit, though - the midwife was so impressed by the stillness she asked if she could use the pictures for training - maybe the baby will grow up to be a model?!

Wasn't someone else also having a scan today? Am usually on here on iPhone so it all gets very confusing...

Scream - try not to worry, I spent some weeks mainly living on oatcakes and salt and vinegar crisps, you and the baby will be fine.

I am already in maternity clothes - couldn't do any of my trousers up. Much more comfy and look nicer than straining fabric!

LoveIn I'm so pleased all went well at your scan. How exciting. You're completely entitled to be a smug mummy when your baby has been so well behaved. Pictures being used for training? Wow, get on the phone to Select straight away When is your due date?

aw cool Love. what a well behaved wee baby. :)

i can't wait for a scan, it makes it a lot more real somehow. DS's scan pic was funny as he looked like he was lying with his wee bum in the air.

oh i forgot to say that the midwife didn't tell me a due date! i guess she forgot, i was her first customer of the day.

Oooo congratulations Love! Well done to miniLove as well! Sounds like everything went perfectly! Very impressed with miniLove's well-timed poses! Who are you going to tell now? Also, have you heard of the nub theory? (One of those silly unscientific ways of "predicting" the gender which only survives because of course 50% of the time they get it right!) I was just wondering if you had a look at the angle of the nub, to make a jokey prediction?

Thanks for the comforting words re the maternity clothes! I'm on study leave all next week so I can continue to mostly live in my pjs for a while and avoid the jeans issue! I'll be 7 weeks (if everything goes well) when I go back to work and at that point I think I'd actually be able to hide the bloating better if I buy some maternity clothes - in my normal close-fitting work tops I think everyone would guess straight away! So embarrassing to be bloating so early!

I did a little No Brooking earlier. I thought I'd ring the maternity unit at the hospital I want, just to double check they've got my referral from the GP, and it turns out that my GP hadn't even sent it in yet!! This hospital is the most popular maternity unit in my area, but much smaller than the main hospital nearby, so it books up REALLY early. I couldn't believe my GP hadn't sent in the form following my appt last week!! So I rang up the GP surgery and begged the receptionist to talk to the doc for me. She then rang me back 20 minutes later to say the form was signed and sent! I love that lady Fingers crossed I might actually get in to this hospital now - I'm sooooooooo glad I checked though!

Due date was moved forward a bit to 15 March, which makes me 12+1 - clearly quite ok that I am the size of a whale, then! Am telling everyone now, not that I need to as look about 6 months! Totally forgot to look at the nub on screen and can't work out which bit I should be looking at on photos! Will do some research later...

Oooh, nub theory says girl, which is also my gut feeling...

Exciting!! Possibly a little girl in the Love household! Lucky you!!! Also excellent work on getting pregnanter!!

Congratulations, Love!
I too had my scan this morning, (and yucky blood test) my due date has moved to the 9th of March and I am 12+6 today, this means I will be in my second Trimester tomorrow!
I am really pleased/relieved, I had a 2 hour nap to celebrate and have been looking at Maternity wear! Starting to think I might actually get to have a lovely little baby!
I asked for a photo of the nub but the sonographer just said they all look like boys at this stage. (Meany!) I think it will probably be a girl although I do fancy a boy, my family just doesn't make them.
Baby was also quite lazy, although didn't have much room to move around, except for a bubble of space by its feet!
Love I am similar, I think I don't have such a big bump now I am nearly 13 weeks!

Just waiting for the sickness to end, seems unlikely as it has got worse recently

Lots of lovely, scans coming up, lots of fabulous brooking and hopefully some more newbies too! :) :) :)

Aarrghh!!! :o

Congratulations on all the fab scan news. So glad that everyone is getting good news. I am super impressed by your well behaved baby love. Surely this indicates a future quiet and perfectly behaved child... Right...

My scan is on Monday at silly o'clock in the morning. I am moving sporadically between excessive excitement and terror. But it will all be over in a few day...

Has anyone got a scan tomorrow or am I the next?

By the way, I also have a crazy salt and vinegar crisp craving...yum :)

Yay on the scans you two, great news :)

I was told it would be 90% boys at 12 weeks too Purple. Can't wait to find out.

Congrats love and purple on your healthy little babies as seen on screen! VERY exciting! :)
scream did you book your scan, if so when will it be? Mine is two weeks today :)
hiding is it 8 or 12 weeks scan on monday? Good luck, it will be fab.

Deny will tell work after 12 week scan.
The only people we have told is our best friend couple who live round the corner, who knew we were ttc. Havent even told the parents! I like the idea of giving them a scan photo and saying your going to be grandparents, so the 8 week scan even though they wont be able to tell what it is is ideal :)

Bought a couple of maternity bras (ebay=high street brand, new, reduced from £22 to £9 for two) as my boobs are getting bigger and sorer (made up word time!) starting yesterday and am finding the wire under the arm digs in and is tender.

Well hiding DS jumped up and down the whole time at his 12wk scan and that's pretty much what he does now, so you could be onto something...

"I jump in bed"
"I jump on couch"
"I jump in tent" appear to be some current favourites...

hehe bless him. Let hope you can talk him out of "I jump on baby."

Yay - congratulations on all the excellent scan activity ladies!

And good luck for Monday Hiding

It will be 12 weeks Meconium. I had one at 7 weeks and saw a little bean with beating heart so hopefully everything should be fine. I am broking no arguement :o

I have to say Jaggy, I can hardly blame him as jumping on beds and couches is clearly one of the funnest things you can do . I suspect jumping in tents is something you can only really appreciate at a young age as I can't even stand up in mine let alone jump about in it.

So far I've told the people who knew about my mc before, so mine and DPs mums, my line manager (as she is super and lovely and was amazing last time), and also the friend I went to see in scotland (as I think my inability to drink or stay awake for more then an hour would have given me away otherwise). For all the other friends and family we are waiting until monday, which DP now refers to as our 'coming out day' :)

I'm so jealous of all the 12 weeks scans! Congrats to Purple (and again to Love) and GOOD LUCK to Hiding for next week! 12 weeks just sounds like such an exciting time!!

I'm having a bit of a wobble today, I'm really not sure why. Maybe it's just the hormones, but I suddenly feel really worried and negative! I threw up again yesterday, which whilst unpleasant (bleurgh!!) could be taken as a good sign. I think it's because my cramps have pretty much gone. While I had really bad cramps I was permanently worried it might mean something was going wrong, and now I haven't had cramps for a couple of days I no longer feel pregnant! How stupid and illogical is that!?! I just can't make myself do any revision this morning, I desperately wish my 8 week scan was tomorrow instead of two weeks tomorrow!

Meconium I'm so glad you bought maternity bras and you're at the same stage as me! I chickened out of buying maternity sleep bras yesterday, I just felt like such a fraud in Mothercare! I came home to order some online but everything I read online said stuff like "from around the fourth month pg women may need to buy a maternity bra". Why the fourth month when sore boobs are consistently listed as one of the earliest symptoms!?! Wandering around at home without a bra is guaranteed to make the inevitable sagging worse (although DH doesn't seem to mind ) so I will follow your example and order some online even though I'm petrified that I might not actually be pg anymore!?! argh!

p.s. Jaggy your little jumper sounds sooooooooooooo cute!

Come on Scream my scan buddy - you are brooking NO arguments remember - and we're brooking on your behalf.

I do know what you mean about the symptoms make you think something is wrong, then no symptoms make you think something is wrong - it's hideous :(

If it helps I don't have any symptoms to speak of and am freaking out too

However, I do have some urgent tomato ketchup crisp news: Morrisons sell 6 packs . Currently on offer if you buy 2 six packs (so it would have been rude not to)

I am such a crisp fiend at the mo really not like me at all (and normally chocolate all the way through).

I actually wondered if DS might be born with a cream egg centre given my diet during my last pg

meconium, scream and biscuits we are all scan buddies! In less than two weeks we'll be all scanned up! Sorry to hear you're having a wobble scream but not long now.

Am also obsessed with salty snacks. Ridiculously. Sometimes I can spend 10+ minutes in the supermarket crisp aisle making a decision.

Exciting about your "coming out day" hiding. Lovely to tell everyone.

Just realised I've sent DS to nursery in thick socks and shoes and its boiling. Poor little nugget. My DH says that he gets so hot and bothered sometimes from all the running around he does that he's often to be found with his top off, pot belly sticking out when he picks him up from nursery. (DS not DH)

Thanks Biscuits and Deny! You're right, I need to focus on the next milestone which is the scan! Also many thanks to Biscuits for the TK crisps update - I really fancy some and DH passes a Morrisons on his way home from work....

I am having expensive cravings - smoked salmon and cherries. Last night I went to Tesco on purpose to buy smoked salmon for dinner (smoked salmon, cream cheese, cucumber, lemon juice and black pepper sandwiches. Divine!)

Congrats on the scans, Love and Purple. Both of you getting moved forward too - hurray! I haven't been given a due date yet - think they wait until 12 weeks to do that now.

I left work at 4 yesterday and hurried home to make the house presentable for the MW coming to drop off my notes and she never turned up! She had said around 5ish, and at 7 we gave up and went food shopping. Grr! I suppose I'd better text her and ask where she was. I have a suspicion she's about to go on holiday for a fortnight so it might be a while until I can get the notes.

grrr about the midwife too. Preventing food shopping is a crime in my book!

I have a little wheel here at work where it tells you your due date. Some places wait until 12 week scan although they only change the date at the 12 week scan if there's more than a week difference from your original date

Grrr at your midwife too. I've never had a home visit apart from after DS was born, and then every time she would say a time, turn up hours later (like she would say between 10-11 and come at 6pm), never let me know, and then to top it off would tell me I should be trying to get DS outside more by going for walks to help with his jaundice! It never seemed to occur to her that it was her fault I was stuck inside! Gah!

You wouldn't mind as much if they just called to let you know!

Rant over, off to meet friend for nice calm coffee xx