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

I wrote a lovely long post which then vanished, but most Importantly, here, I was feeling panicky and dreadful last week, also at about five and a half weeks. I was so terrified of something happening to the baby that my heart was racing and I felt on the verge of a panic attack the whole time. It was so bad I rang my GP who suggested I came in to get my blood presssure etc checked, which I did. Now, a week on, I do feel calmer (still very worried about something going wrong but not obsessed and making myself feel unwell with it). Hopefully all you need is time to make yourself feel calmer. If you like, PM me and I'll give you my number if you need to call and talk about you feel - I know how dreadful it is feeling tearful with anxiety.

Hello lovely ladies!

Well, I survived my weekend in a field thanks to sickness wristband thingies and sleeping a lot. I did find that there is smething rather comforting about being in a field full of really hungover people when you have morning sickness as for a brief period everyone feels as crap as you do :)

here I have a tendancy to get very anxious and have suffered badly with it inthe past. I took up meditation a few months ago and started going to a local group and it has really helped me learn how to let go of stuff. Not everyones cup of tea I know but worth trying if you have a group near by.

On the hair front dp calledmine crazy lady hair last night as it is massive and I am feeling too rubbish to tackle it with a hairbrush. I do have lovely nails though! :o

I am really very bored with feeling sick now and I really don't think that dp understands just how much I absolutly need ice lollies right now.

Hmmm... I think there are just too many spelling mistakes in that post to even begin to correct them all.

I feeeeeeeeeel siiiiiiiiiick and I have lost my anti nausea bands somehow. I feel bad moaning about a little nausea when we have Aubers' example before us but I dooooooooooo....

I have started listening to my new Natal Hypnotherapy pregnancy relaxation CDs and have started reading that Ina May book everyone goes on about - this baby is going to pop out with no trouble at all .

Would it be entirely lame to go to bed as soon as my cereal bars have finished cooking? Should I at least try to make it to eight? I am making some cereal bars from a recipe nicked from River Cottage in the hope they will add another possibility to my constant grazing - the shop ones are so sickly but I am starting to get fed up with oat cakes...

I feel your pain love! Feeling sick even without actual vomiting is horrible. I get that awful hangover feeling like the room spins whenever I move. Going to bed is absolutly allowed, I spent most of yesterday and today dozing in bed or on the sofa and feel so much better for it.

I have also eaten 4 (yes 4!) ice lollies today and can definitely see at least one more leaping out of the freezer before bedtime. Yum :o

What I don't understand is how anyone gets anything done during their first trimester! I feel so horrid I just want to curl up and cry. How do people manage to go into work and do sensible things? I feel terribly inadequate at not feeling able to put on a brave face and breeze into work as if everything is normal. I don't even have a very physically demanding job. :(

I was seriously looking at my remaining leave and wondering if I could just use it all up and take the whole of August off work. Thankfully I am working at home today but I am dreading having to go into the office tomorrow.

I know just what you mean, Hiding. I actually took yesterday off sick and am working at home this afternoon but TBH I feel just as crap no matter where I am. The only thing that helps a bit is lying down but not very compatible with work or needing to get things done.

I am starving but can't decide what I would like to eat. Am currently thinking a ready meal lasagne would be nice but suspect that in between buying and cooking it I will have gone off it. So hungry but repelled by food...

I definitely don't have the monopoly on feeling sick. Misery likes company - please come and wallow with me.

I am throwing up a little less, but still feeling dreadful. Everything tastes of onions. I even accused a cupcake of tasting of onions yesterday. Consequently I have a very sweet tooth, trying to get rid of the onion taste. I have even tried eating sugar straight from the packet with a spoon [no shame]. A jar of that candied fennel like you get as a mouth freshener in Indian restaurants has had a bit of success. Am now sucking a humbug.

And I've moved on to Phill Collins.

Hi, I posted on your conception thread once or twice to say I was going to be brooking no argument next cycle, however your good vibes are so contagious I got my BFP instead. I hope I can join you, I am about 7+3 and sick as a dog today!

Oh purplebuns do join us all wallowing in self pity. The more the merrier I say :)

I dream of tasting onions. At the moment I have a constant kind of fusty rotting taste in my mouth and everywhere smells horrible! Ice lollies are amazing though and dave the day.

I gave in and have booked the rest of the week off work which means that along with the next week I already have off that makes almost 2 whole weeks of no office! Hurrah! Thankfully I have the nicest boss in the world who let's me book leave at the last minute just for feeling pathetic.

Welcome, purplebuns.

Oh, Hiding, the smells, the smells. The world is such a stinky place right now. Very jealous of your lovely long break.

I am ravenous and cannot find the thing I want to eat. Crumpets are working well but I feel I might need something with slightly more nutrious value as well...

Now I want crumpets.

And doesn't the fridge smell vile?

Hello Purple :) Welcome and congratulations. Pull up a bucket.

Oh, the fridge is disgusting. So is the dishwasher. And the sheets have a funny smell if not literally clean that day. We also have a cupboard with a painted inside (painted about 3 years ago) which I have to hold my breath to open. I really need to take the bin out but don't think I can manage the smell either of our bin or the communal one it goes in. Boak. The bus is a nightmare, as are the streets, and don't get me started on the horror of the supermarket. Also my friend's baby's nappies are a symphony of vileness. .

The crumpets were a good move, I must say.

Right, I am going to eat some mashed potato and baked beans and go to bed I think!

Above & Beyond Award goes to my husband who has been ^washing up
by hand^ every evening so I don't have to deal with dishwasher smells the next morning.

Hello preggos! Still not quite at the nauseous weird smells phase yet (6w tomorrow!) but have made progress on the weird anxiety feelings. Turns out heart palpitations are a pg symptom! Who'd 'ave thought?!! So Dr Google has for once put my mind at ease a bit (I was getting really cross with myself and I don't feel stressed at all!) Will be mentioning it along with potential UTI (it's all glamour here!) when I see the doc next Monday.

Sooooo tired I might go to bed now. Night all x

Well today I decided to see how I got on without my sickness medication and I have only thrown up 3 times, so win!

AND I am managing to eat things (see prunes).

I have booked a scan for Saturday. I am half excited and half terrified. Pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease let there be a happy little bean in the right place doing whatever happy little beans are supposed be be doing at this stage.

Also, and I know it's really early but I can't help myself, my mind has started to wander into thinking about having a new little baby to cuddle. A little jerky limbed, fat bottomed, yawning scrap of a thing with no hair and an insatiable appetite for boob. I feel quite trembly at the thought.

Here - would it be completely lame of me to suggest yoga? I find it very calming and centring. And antenatal yoga isn't really yoga at all, in my experience it's 40 minutes out of your day to just be, and be still, and say hi to your bean if that's what you want to do, and be calm.

Hurrah for Aubers and her prunes :o)

Also crumpets do sound nice...mmmmm...crumpets.....

For the past few days I have been having a phase of waking up a 6am and eating 4 strawberries a bannana and an ice lolly. It really is that specific a craving. DP thinks I have lost the plot completly.

I have also booked a scan, mine is for Friday. I decided that I was getting stupidly stressed about it all and I would only spend the whole of my holiday in the highlands next week worrying if I didn't have one. At least this way if it is bad news I can cancel the holiday, and if it's good news I can go away having seen a happy little beating hearted bean :)

I am also both silly excited and rather terrified but I think it is a relief to have booked it and know I will see either way within the next couple of days. I am one of those people who if there is a problem or the chance of one can be all organised and deal with it but not knowing sends me into a state of panic!

Ooo...yoga sounds super! I was doing pilates but it was just soooo expensive that it was either continue with the pilates or take maternity leave, both is not finacially viable. I think yoga round here is rather cheaper so maybe I will look into that.

So, I have already found myself planning the birth which is a little premature I know but I just can't help myself. I accidently read the thread about post-natal wards which has scared me silly

I've just eaten half a packet of crumpets and I hold you all responsible [stern and accusing face]

Hi everyone, thank you for such a warm welcome!
Hiding I to have been waking up at 6-6.30am and needing to eat, it is horrible.
I have just booked a scan for tomorrow at 4pm, today, so fingers, toes and everything crossed. I had been umming and ahhing for awhile about having one as they are £££s, my local private hospital was £160! Luckily I have found somewhere comparatively a lot cheaper. I feel uplifted with the decision to book one so I know it was right choice.

I am slightly nervous as I am going to have to let MIL know our news so soon. However, I think she would have figured it out as we are going for lunch tomorrow and I am really struggling with food atm.

For the smell aversive my dd walked behind me with cucumber and the smell really sickened me, cucumber hardly has a smell normally!
Also DH is cooking for me as I can't cope with the smell. :o

Has anyone else gone completely off tea and coffee? I have and it is my favourite :(

Fingers crossed for all of the upcoming scans, hopefully full of lots of sticky beans

Hello wise pee stick endorsed ones! I've just nipped over from the NO BROOKING ttc thread to let you know we've moved house. It would be lovely if any of you wise and updiffed ladies would like to pop in for a minute, see what we've done with the place, and hopefully rub lots of pregnancy cooties all over the place! (Please ignore any references to peepholes, ahem).

Hope to see you soon!

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HERE you all are!

And that lovely Aldi mayo ad just came on the telly.

Yay!

I have booked a private scan for saturday (will be 8 plus 1 then). Will be £60 which although quite a bit isn't too bad.

I feel sooo tired and yucky and I think dd has hand, foot and mouth which is a little scary. Off to the docs tomorrow.

Funnily enough I am loving cucumber, purple. Gone off coffee but not tea, so have switched to decaf but allowing myself two real cups a day.

Dreamt last night was expecting twins...

Pommed - are you going somewhere with lots of clinics for your scan? £60 seems v good - the cheapest I have seen round here is £80. Am very tempted by an early scan I must say... Worrying myself sick about miscarriage and especially missed miscarriage so think a scan might reassure me or at least let me know the worst and deal with it. Hate the uncertainty.

Oh, Pommed, hope your DD is ok!

Thanks for the relaxation suggestions preggo chums. I really must try to do something, either yoga or was thinking acupuncture? I work 4 days a week and have a 21mth old DD and we're living in a tiny flat whilst our house gets fixed up so life is really hectic

They just have the one - in Hampshire. Not sure where you are?
Oh yes, 'the timing just really couldn't be worse'.
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