June anyone?

[StarlightMcKenzie]

Hi everyone can i join please?

I got my BFP on thursday and have been madly poas everyday to see if the lines are getting darker,which they are(i had a mc in feb so i do have a tendency to worry).

This is dc3 for me,i already have 2 girls aged 5 and 14.
I have had some nausea and i'm getting lots of cramping,my boobs have grown already and i'm ssoooo bloated.
Nice to see there are lots of us all around the same time and with no3.

6th june mrsshears#3

Kveta It's like a short stabbing pain in my lower abdomen. I know it's normal (abdomen stretching and all that) but last time it was throughout my preganacy and it's sore! I only ask as none of my friends seemed to have had this at all.

Starlight I saved everything from DD1 specifically so I didn't have to buy it again for DC2! Obviously if I have a boy I'll sift through the pink clothing and pick out the neutrals, but as far as toys go - if it is a boy - he'll be playing with a lot of pink stuff! :o

Congrats to Horsey and mrsshears! :)

4th June MyMamaToldMe #2
4th June toddle #1
? June Kveta #2
6th June girlofice #3
6th June HorseyGirl #1
6th June mrsshears #3
7th June Dalrymps #3
9th June Starlight #3
12th June LadyGrace #1
12th June Greengoose #3

ah, that sounds quite painful. I've had the aching of expanding :o but nothing more. had it in august too though, so NOT GETTING MY HOPES UP.

I am today at the same stage post POAS that I was when I miscarried last time, so am beyond tense. Even though the actual POAS is a pretty arbitrary date, the fact that I haven't had any blood so far today is keeping me from running around shrieking like a crazy person. and my boobs are still throbbing. I POAS again this morning, and it is still positive - I have to hide my obsessive testing from DH though, as he thinks once is enough, the big spoilsport. When I was pg with DS, we were living apart due to work, and I tested pretty much every other day for 4 weeks :o damn co-habiting!!

we saved all DS's stuff, and after the first few months of excitement at having a real live baby, we started getting him predominantly unisex colours for his clothes! almost all his toys are 2nd (or more) hand anyway, as we are cheap, so it's all pretty genderless. Which is good :o and more or less guarantees a boy next time :o

Starlight - which hospital were you at in Cheshunt? We have the option of Cambridge, Harlow, or the one near Hertford whose name escapes me (plus Chelmsford I think?). I am an out and out snob, so guess which I chose

congrats to the new June mums to be!

MyMama I remember getting the pain you describe first time round. It is painful! Didn't get it so much 2nd time though so fingers crossed it's not as bad this time for you

Kveta,

I've moved to the West just recently and not really sure which hospitals there are, but Harlow was an option last time and I tried really hard to get in but they weren't accepting women from so far south. I did think it was lovely though.

ladygrace Take the conception date (if you know it) and add 14 days.
You can calculate from the first day of your last period to get a rough idea but it will only be day accurate if your cycle is exactly 28 days.

So if your conception date was 2 weeks ago, you are 4 weeks pregnant

Sorry to hear your news, BustAMove.. fingers crossed for next month for you.

Still no symptoms here, so very jealous of all the nausea and sore boobs, so I am another one who is eager to have the 12 week scan to check that I didn't imagine the test result! Maybe I should do some more tests just to make sure?

As my 2 are still very little, I have loads of stuff packed in to the garage, so I won't have to get too much stuff this time round, unless of course it's a girl, in whichcase, she will either have to wear trousers for the first 2 years of her life, or I will have to invest in some girly bits.

LadyGrace my GP is the same, won't see me until about 8 weeks - it seems soooo long away.

Congratulations to mrsshears and HorseyGirl1

Good morning Can I join, got a BFP last night and did another POAS this morning just to make sure . I have DS1 who is 13 months old and got pg on 1st cycle of ttc, so this time around I thought it would take ages, but I am amazed that yet again DH and I have managed to conceive on 1st cycle. My due date is around the 16 June but I'm sure that will change.
MyMama I know exactly what you mean by ligament pains, Ihad them all 1st pg and that was what let me know I was pg this time. Was hoping I wouldn't have to suffer them again.
4th June MyMamaToldMe #2
4th June toddle #1
? June Kveta #2
6th June girlofice #3
6th June HorseyGirl #1
6th June mrsshears #3
7th June Dalrymps #3
9th June Starlight #3
12th June LadyGrace #1
12th June Greengoose #3
16th June Thedogwalker (TDW) #2
I'm so excited .

Hi thedogwalker!

Congratulations and welcome!

Starlight how does that conception date and due date add up, it doesn't make sense, but yet it does follow something as my due date is 2 weeks before I thought it would be. I am confused

thedogwalker - conception date is generally assumed to be 2 weeks after your last menstrual period - as most people can't guarantee they know the date of conception, but the LMP is a fairly easy date to record. It gives medics something to hang the pregnancy dates from, but does tend to assume a 28 day cycle. The 1st scan will obviously give a more accurate due date, but there is such massive variation in biological systems that this method of dating the pregnancy is the one used worldwide to allow medical professionals to monitor the pregnancy, even if it isn't 100% accurate.

does that make sense?

:o

I'm excited today because we've got visitors from the states who have brought me a huge sack of my favourite american peppermint sweets, which means i need to ration myself with them, but MMMMM! these things kept me going during my last pregnancy!! i would have a potato and a peppermint patty every day :o

What an odd combination Kveta, potato and peppermint , not sure about that, I'd just eat the sweets as they were.
I craved danish pastries on last pg. I went from 9.5 stone to over 13 I just ate everything that wasn't nailed down . Luckily I lost all the baby weight and more, so hopefully this time I can limit the ammount I put on and will find it easy to lose it again.

Basically, It takes 2 weeks from ovulation to the first day of your next period. (14 days). This is pretty much universal.

It can take any number of days between the first day of your period and your ovulation date however, but for convenience doctors like to 'assume' 14 days there too.

So, when your next period is due, you will have conceived 2 weeks ago, and assumed to have had your period 4 weeks ago. You are therefore 4 weeks preganant (despite only 'actually' having been pregnant for 2 weeks).

The pregnancy tests that put weeks on, are referring to number of weeks since conception, so whatever they say, you have to add 2 weeks on to keep your doctor happy.

So basically, you base your due date on 40 weeks from 2 weeks before you conceived .

If you do know with accuracy when you conceived (and this can be hard to tell too as sperm can hang around for a few days, so you could have convceived a couple of days after you've had sex) then there are lots of internet due date calculators that can give you your due date from conception.

ha ha, i didn't eat them together :o it was the only two foods i could manage - one for carbs, one for sweetness!!

I lost a stone last pg in the 1st trimester, but gained about a stone overall through the pg, and am HUGE so hoping i can limit my eating a bit this time. i am still bfing DS though so that's why i haven't lost any baby wieght yet.

Kveta I can't wait to bf again. My DS self weaned at 9 months, we moved house at the same time and I think the move upset his routine and new house meant new routine. I loved bf, so can't wait to do it all again and of course DH loved it, as he didn't have to get up in the night.
Thanks Starlight and Kveta for explaining to me, I really didn't have a clue how it worked out. Yeah I've worked my date out from when DH and I were SWI and that isn't often as he only comes homes at weekends and not every weekend either, so I can pinpoint with accuaracy when we conceived. Just won't know if it took his little swimmers a couple of hours or a couple of days to reach goal

I'm at work checking reports and I am so TIRED. I'd forgotten how tired I was in the first trimester. Now that I know I'm pg I've given up caffeine and it has already taken it's toll, no more artificial alertness for me. I want my bed.

I want my bed too TDW... so tired. Yet every morning for the last week I wake up at the crack of dawn - before 5am most mornings. What is that about? I don't remember not being able to sleep last time! Oh - and boobs are back to being sore. BUT - still no morning sickness! Please oh please can I go without getting that this time!

You know, I don't think I knew about the way pregnancy is dated the last time. This time I am totally sure of my dates, so does that mean I won't be back dated by 2 weeks?

I'm tired too, but have been ever since no.2 was born so don't know if it is anything to do with the pregnancy.

Every day I get up with the intention of finding a doctor and registering and every day I put it off!

The start of the 40 weeks is ALWAYS dated from two weeks before you conceived. Alternatively, you can just add 38 weeks from when you conceived of course.

Yep that confirms mine to be 16 June 2012. I never knew how it was worked out during my 1st pregnancy either MyMama, I just followed what the Doc said, but because DH only here on certain weekends I can pinpoint exact weekend that the deed was done .
I think I might try and go home early, I'm not doing much work, too tired and zero concentration at the mo well on work anyway, lots on mn threads

Don't suppose anyone knows what age the placenta attaches?

Week 4 & 5 - Gestational Age (Fetal Age - Weeks 2 & 3):

Arm and leg buds are visible, but not clearly distinguishable. The heart is now beating at a steady rhythm. The placenta has begun to form and is producing some important hormones including hCG. There is movement of rudimentary blood through the main vessels. The early structures that will become the eyes and ears are forming. The embryo is ¼ inch long by the end of these weeks.