Any May babies?!

[elizabethtailored]

I only did it a test this morning and have not even told my husband yet!

Hi all, re-early scan, be aware that the MC risk is high until you reach the foetal phase (10weeks). So an early scan might be reassuring there and then but is no guarantee..... Which sucks really

Jealous of those of you getting early scans, my patience is getting thinner - and not just with my DC! Feeling the worst I have felt in any pregnancy so far, glad thisis planned to be the last as if they get worse each time I don't fancy another one!
Jezebelle

Hi, can I join in too?

Had BFP today. Will be number 4 ! Have DS1 who is 6, DD almost 4 and DS2 19m. Very excited-but hoping no twins!

elizabethtailored - due 1st May
MyDaydream - due 1st May
Harecare - due 2nd May
saggybaps - due 4th May
DialMforMummy - due 4th May
Goodname - due 4th May
Yorky - due 5th May
FloydieDoydie - due 7th May
Quenelle - due 7th May
Mildertduck - due 7th/8th May (tbc)
myweeangel - due 8th May
Wrigglebum - due 9th May
Mythical - due 9th May
TooOldForThisLark - due 9th May
Marmite123 - due 10th May
Failsafe -due 11th May
Little9 - 11th May
Dreaming - due 12th May
chocolatesparkle - due 12th May
Yay for May - due 14th May
Lalabaloo - due 14th May
Cacacaz - due around 14th May
Heidihole - due 16th May
MandaHugNKiss - due 18th May
Sunshine100 - due 19th May
Slovenly - due 20th May
Northey - due at some point in May (stupidly irregular cycles)

I know, i am doing that face a lot too !!dunno when i'm due, sometime around mid may i imagine. My baby will be 11 months !!

Onlymydogunderstands - so, so sorry. Gutted for you but hope things get better.
Having a little giggle at you victims of hormonal imbalance. During my first pregnancy I had two real "sobathons".
One was at the end of "50 First Dates" where she has to keep being reminded every day about her the existence of her daughter.
The other my hubby reminds me about regularly. It was a nature programme and there was a colony of elephants making their way through some muddy pastures. A baby elephant got stuck and was sinking into the mud. The mummy elephant tried to help and couldn't so the granny elephant had to come and rescue the little one. SOBBED FOR AGES at that! Kept thinking I hope I can be a better mummy than that. Oh dear!
Fully expect to fall victim to my hormones this time round. Shall inform you of any classics... :)

jezebelle

Oh & regarding books, I loved What to Expect When You're Expecting. You could dip in & out or read the month ahead. I also really enjoyed reading Jools Olivers book, although I'd see if you can borrow a copy.

I bought several others, including Miriam Stoppards book, which just wasn't for me. They are still unread.

Morning all. Hope everyone's ok and not too sick this morning. I'm still just getting a bit of queasiness, although yesterday I didn't eat as soon as I got up and started to feel really sick.

Had my appointment at the GPs yesterday. She's given me a different est due date of 9 May. She only asked for my CD1 and then looked at her little wheel thing, she didn't ask how long my cycles are. Every online calculator I've looked at asks for cycle length and tells me 7 May. Oh well, I'll wait and see what they say at my 12 week scan. She also said I would have consultant-led care due to my age and the borderline GDD I had last time.

I made up quite a convincing lie about why I wasn't drinking when out with friends on Saturday night. But by coincidence one of my friends announced she is 12 weeks pregnant. I was bursting to tell but it's too soon, and it would have taken the focus off her, which wouldn't have been fair. Am very excited that I'm due 6 weeks after her, I'll have a chum to visit when I'm on maternity leave.

I bought the Mumsnet Guide to Pregnancy but tbh I'm finding it a bit irritating. I definitely won't show DH the father's section at the end, it's so patronising. He hates those blokes' guides, they always assume he's more interested in football and widescreen TVs than the baby.

Last time I read The Rough Guide to Pregnancy and Birth, which was ok, quite entertaining, and Conception, Pregnancy and Birth by Miriam Stoppard which I only flicked through occasionally, although DH preferred it as it presents the facts in a factual way, rather than trying to be entertaining. Towards the end I wanted more information about breastfeeding so I read The Food of Love which was brilliant. I referred to it a lot in the early weeks after DS was born.

Oh yes, saggybaps it was me with the armpit pain. I meant to ask the GP yesterday but I forgot. It was really painful on Friday but less so on Saturday and better by Sunday. I'm pretty sure it was a swollen gland. Hope yours is better too.

Oh yes, and the first thing the GP asked was 'Will you want a homebirth or hospital?' Obviously homebirth is encouraged in my area. I won't be going for it though, last time I ended up with ventouse, I'd be afraid something similar would happen again.

Morning all. I've got my GP's appointment tonight, so am quite excited about it (in that clueless first-timer sort of way). I'm really keen to find out what she will do about dates, considering my last period was in June. I really want her to suggest an early scan. Not least because I don't think I can swing a trip to Perth in the near future! How soon can a sonographer actually see and date anything though?

I hear you quenelle - I keep trying to convince the husband to write The Software Engineer's Guide to Pregnancy (subtitle: Oh Shitting Fuck I've Got Someone Up the Duff)

Thanks for the sympathy re my morning sickness. Alas, three times this morning. Happy happy joy. Fortunately management do know and have suggested adjusting my start time if it gets the worst out of the way before work. Feeling better now I've had lunch but I think it'll be another early night tonight...

Realise I should add my name to the stats list:

elizabethtailored - due 1st May
MyDaydream - due 1st May
Harecare - due 2nd May
saggybaps - due 4th May
DialMforMummy - due 4th May
Goodname - due 4th May
Yorky - due 5th May
FloydieDoydie - due 7th May
Quenelle - due 7th May
Mildertduck - due 7th/8th May (tbc)
myweeangel - due 8th May
Wrigglebum - due 9th May
Mythical - due 9th May
TooOldForThisLark - due 9th May
Marmite123 - due 10th May
Failsafe -due 11th May
Little9 - 11th May
Dreaming - due 12th May
chocolatesparkle - due 12th May
Yay for May - due 14th May
Lalabaloo - due 14th May
Cacacaz - due around 14th May
Heidihole - due 16th May
MandaHugNKiss - due 18th May
musicalmrs - due 18th May ish (tbc)
Sunshine100 - due 19th May
Slovenly - due 20th May
Northey - due at some point in May (stupidly irregular cycles)

Quenelle, I also bought the Mumsnet Guide. I'm not entirely convinced by it yet, though I am enjoying reading it (mainly because I'm so clueless!).

I'm flicking between happy, feeling paranoid that there are no symptoms, and feeling worried when symptoms occur, like slight cramps or abdominal pain. They're only fleeting though, so I suspect it's just my body shifting around... I will mention it to the doctor when I finally see her a week Friday (aaaah, ages!). Trying to not to worry too much, as then I spend hours with Dr Google and just panic more! Also researching 'maternity' wear - In ' 's because I know it's very early, but I'm so small, and now so bloated that I'm struggling with my trousers already! Think I may have to invest in some larger sized leggings and live in dresses until I can warrant proper maternity clothes - presuming everything goes well.

I shall be purchasing some leggings at the weekend. Jeans are starting to feel uncomfortable because of the bloating. I have a couple of skirts I wear to work that should still fit for a while. I'm also a bit superstitious about buying anything before 12 weeks.

Yes, I've let my belt out abit too...but must all be in my head as only 4/5 weeks in, and only found out on Sunday and jeans were fine then! Having said that, with DC3 I was in my maternity jeans from 9 weeks so god knows how huge I could get this time and how quickly...

Mine is constipation related. I can only go about once every three days atm. It's creating quite a build-up of wind I can tell you. Twice today I've had to go to the toilets to release some

Ah, yes, wind here too..but as I'm at home, I just release and blame the toddler!

Terrible constipation and wind here as well. Had a long train journey to get through today on a crowded train. Keeping it in was not fun. But oh the bliss when I found a quiet corner at Kings Cross and released it all.

Ah, the wind is pregnancy related? Phew, thought I was ill! I got an Emma's diary and pregnancy book from the doctor when I was pregnant first time. I like reading the week by week guide so read it with dd2 and am reading the same now. I borrowed a book by Yehudi Gordon with DD2 that I've not returned - bad friend! But I actually prefer the free doctors ones. They have all I need to know and not too much more. I looked at the Miriam Stoppard one which had too much information for me, but I preferred a Dad's guide to Fatherhood that I bought DP, can't remember who wrote it.

Hey all,

So many book reccomendations! Where to start?! I'm a bit superstitious about even buying a pregnancy book at this early stage. A friend lent me her copy of Your Pregnancy week by week when I had an early MC as it had a useful section about that. So might just dip in and out of that for now - 'til I feel more confident!

I had a sleepless night last night. I Think the weather (v windy) and work worry were contributing factors, but mainly I was in and out of bed checking for bleeding. I need to get a grip - somebody slap me!

I decided to get myself to docs. He was very reassuring and has applied to the hospital for an early scan for me, although he did warn me that it might make me worse if I see a sac but not a heartbeat (by going too early) So I might not go to the appointment, I will see how I feel when the time comes!

jezebelle I can't believe you're here again (we were on a conception bus together at the beginning of the year, I'm sure!) Congrats and best of luck!

Good luck to all. I had another symptom today (felt suddenly sick after my lunch!) xx

I'm still here too. 6 weeks tomorrow. Still not told anyone - though I don't feel too sick yet so it's not hard to hide. Keep nearly telling my work colleague but it's a smallish office and If I tell one person everyone will know by the end of the week. I have Mod 1 of my bike riding test on Monday - gah. U turns, figure of 8s, slaloms, speed hazard avoidance - still - the upside is it stops me dwelling too much on getting to 12 weeks safely.

Who was talking about software engineers? My husband and I are software engineers and for my oldest daughter's last christmas present my husband bought her a bar code scanner and wrote her an internet shop application so she could run her own online shop. Poor girl - really would have liked a game for Nintendo DS!

I am going to brave the doctors tomorrow - taking the twins in tow - I wonder if the doctor will look at me like I'm mad!

Just back from the doctor, who was as lovely as she always is, and is arranging an early scan for me this week, so hopefully I should soon have a nice date to add to the list like the rest of you :)

Hi all, boobs are not as sore as they were, which is nice in a way but it was reassuring when they were painful. Only been sick once today. I've developed a very itchy all over rash though :( think I might be allergic to something

Isn't itchiness a pregnancy thing, lalabaloo? Pruritis? Though it could be an allergy too of course, especially if it is a rash. Either way, how irritating for you.

I get stressed when my boobs hurt less too :( They are my only real symptom, so I am quite reliant on them to indicate that I haven't hallucinated everything.

In bed now, with the little booklet the doctor gave me. I feel irrationally excited by it.

Hello all. Feeling a bit low today. Had slightly pink discharge today and last night (tmi?) which I can only guess is not a good sign. Will see how things are tomorrow before I panic too much! Glad I'm not the only with wind. I could power my house for a year the way i'm going! Luckily I have two dogs and 3 cats to blame!