Oct 2012 - the first pips

[Winnie81]

Just got my BFP so I'm starting this off!

Let the growing of small pips begin!!

Phone app says due date 2nd October!

Welcome to all x

Welcome Emmy. Poor you. I feel pretty terrible with regular morning sickness and feel so sorry for anyone who has hyperemsis. Gutted for you too that your partner has left you when you are so vulnerable. Take good care of yourself and hope the hyperemsis passes very soon. My friend had it and it disappeared completely at 12 weeks so hope the same goes for you.

Meanwhile, in more trivial matters, I feel absolutely rubbish today. I had roast pork stuffed with black pudding in a creamy cider sauce for dinner last night. Delicious but I have felt so ill ever since. I think it was too rich for my fragile digestive system. My only weapon against nausea is rubbish food like toast and crisps. I've been eating so badly for the past four or five weeks. It's weird though; I've been putting away buckets of rubbish and doing bugger all exercise but haven't put on any weight. Could it be that my body is working so hard at growing this baby that I'm burning up the calories or am I going to get on the scales one morning and find I'm two stone heavier and the weight as finally caught up with me?

Hello All, just back from a lovely week away in the mountains and trying to catch up with all the news this week. Got my booking appointment first thing tomorrow morning and after a week away i'm trying to think of questions i should be asking.

Finally told my parents last week and I'm not sure how they feel about it really. mum took it pretty well overall but with the instant "when are you getting married?" (not now) "can you not do it quietly in the next month or so?" (no, we don't feel the need to and i also don't care about what you have to say to the ladies at the golf club, it's none of their business!!) Sorry for the rant... I'm 31 and feel i can take my own decisions and the negativity on their side slightly mars what I'd like to be a happy experience. but I'm sure they'll come round eventually - they do really like my partner at least!

thunder i feel like i need to do some serious organising... but was kind of waiting for the first scan. now i'm back from hols i might get planning!

hetty and cottonsock i'll be keeping my fingers crossed for you both tomorrow.

welcome emmy so sorry to hear that your partner has left you. maybe it is cold feet, but if not i'm sure you will be able to cope and everything will seem better once you feel less ill. take care!

Apologies for the essay... and good luck again for positive scans this week!

The best of luck to cotton and hetty for tomorrow x

Good luck cotton and Hetty - shall keep my fingers crossed for you both! And welcome Emmy, look after yourself.

I'm sure your parents will come round, goodsense. Parents are funny things. My SIL has had babies on the brain ever since I've known her (ten years or so...), and when she and my bro got married last year we were all having bets on when the happy news would come out. So despite the fact that I'm 30 and have been married 5 years, it took them totally off guard when I got there first - plus they were totally in denial about the possibility that I could have the grandkids on the other side of the world. But now it's sunk in, I think they're pretty happy, and certainly Mum is having to employ great restraint not to buy every baby-thing she sees!

Good luck everyone who has a scan this week.

goodsense I also ate completely the wrong food yesterday - roast lamb with roast parsnips and sweet potato. It was delicious but too much fat for my failing gall bladder to cope with. I felt really nauseous. I shall have to be really good today.

Hi all Monday morning is upon is again I hope everyone will start to feel human (ish) very soon,thats what I'm wishing for myself anyway lol

Welcome Emmy,i feel for u in the undesirable situation u have been left with,but I really hope from the bottom of my heart that things work out for u

Hi lady's hope you all ok I really don't want to go to work today just can't face it as I'm so tired god knows why as all I did yesterday was doze on couch

Iv got my scan tomorrow to see if heart beat there and baby in correct place this time so I am anxious over that but I'm such a horrible Person at moment don't know how my kids and hubby are putting up with me.

The thought of having to deal with a full dairy of customers is making me want to phone in sick so I can catch up on all the things I should of done yesterday like ironing change beds mop floors washing cook a meal ha ha

Think I will go to work after all x

Morning ladies, another not happy bunny here too. Feeling rubbish this morning.

I also had bad experience after going out for lunch with hubby on Saturday - duck filo parcels & steak & chips upset my stomach and I almost passed out in the early hours of Sunday morning

Anyhoo...I've got sea bands on my wrist this morning for the first time but have NO idea if they're in the right place or not Can anyone assist? I'm such a doughnut !!

Thinking of you Cotton & Hetty x

Hope all goes well with your scans today.... Fx for you both ?

Thinking of Hetty and cotton today, fingers crossed for good news x

Good luck to tennerlady as well; I was really anxious before my scan too, I'm sure it will be fine.

Morning ladies

Good luck today Cotton and Hetty I hope all goes well with your scans. You too for tomorrow Tenner
I will be thinking of you all.

I have deicded not to go the the mainland for the Nuchal scan. The results will make no difference to my continuing this pregnancy and I would rather live and enjoy this pregnancy in ignorant bliss than a state of worry.
I shall ring midwives later and ask for the gp to do me a quick dating scan instead.

I have woken up with a cold. I feel grotty. This has made for a miserable and grumpy Monday morning. My immune system must be shot as it seems to be 1 bug after another at the minute. oh well.....its all rather minor in the grand scheme of things isn't it!!

Gizzy I did read somewhere that pregnancy can weaken an immune system so it's not just you! Just rather frustrating that you an't take the usual paraphenalia of drugs that you'd normally take to combat it! Try to up your vitamin C uptake and try to eat foods with zinc in them - I like to munch a couple of squares of dark chocolate!

Loopy I'm totally with you ? I felt so down last week, I actually felt super guilty about it! I've gone up a cupsize too ? I'm now a 34FF, sob, and I had to buy new tshirts on Saturday as I couldn't shoehorn myself into my old ones any more!

I'm hoping to work as long as I can, like, til I pop as I work from home so it's pretty easy comfort-wise and commute-wise iyswim. Is that crazy? Obv this is DC1 for me so I don't really know if that's realistic or not?

Oh god emmie :( I know it doesn't feel like it now, but you're so much better off without a catastrophically selfish, self-absorbed shit like that in your life. Onwards and upwards!!

Morning everyone, sorry to hear so many of you are feeling poorly :( got a bit of a cold coming on here but nothing major. Hope the ladies with scans today get on super-duper well, got everything crossed for you!

10+1 today :) Left the MW a message this morning as the doctor said to contact her if I've not heard anything by this week. Hopefully hear something in the next few days. Is anyone else showing rather considerably? My sister saw me on Saturday and actually said 'wow, you're big already!' :/

Morning All.
Hope everyone feeling OK and scans go well!
Loopyla I've got the travel sickness bands, the instructions I had said to place the bands three fingers width down from the first crease line between hand and wrist. The accupressure bead goes between the two tendons that run down from the hand into the wrist. I hope that makes sense.

I have what I am describing as pregnancy flab, although my dh and one of my colleagues reckons i'm starting to show a little. My clothes still fit at mo without hairbands so that is something.
I'm kinda looking forward to going up a cupsize or two cause i'm small anyway. Might feel differently if I went up more than two cupsizes tho and stayed there.

Hi girls, do you mind if I join you? My EDD is 25 Oct and it's my first - am pregnant naturally after two failed IVF (ICSI) cycles last year. So excited, but also very anxious (and nauseous!).

If anyone is in Marylebone, Notting Hill or surrounds, please get in touch as I'd love to meet some girls in the same situation nearby!

Welcome sweetpea and huge congratulations :)

My news is in and not very good, but as I expected. Pregnany considered 'non viable', but I had to really push the doc to tell me that which was a bit annoying as I felt like she was giving me false hope until I put her on the spot. Still measuring < 6 weeks with a larger sac than it should be no heartbeat. Doc expects it to miscarry naturally within a few weeks. She would not offer me any medical intervention, so I have to sit it out and wait.

I did not really know what to decide anyway (re the medical intervention), so at least the decision was made for me.

So at least I know know, and I'm afraid to say I am planning much vino and seafood and anything else previously disallowed, esp as I'm on holiday next week.

I am also looking forward and planning a nice holiday in Turkey for June when hopefully we will start TTC. So, all in all I am doing pretty well (so far). And really hoping my bean sticks next time (3rd time lucky, or I really will be ready to give up on it all).

I wish you all well with your scans and pregnancies. I hope my next group are as nice a bunch as you lot.

Sorry to hear your sad news cotton. Wishing you strength and I'm sorry your journey has come to this sad end. Be kind to yourself and best of luck with the ttc journey x

CottonSock I'm just so sorry to hear that I know that no words will help but I hope you're ok...

SweetPea welcome to group!! I'm afraid I live in North Kent but my EDD is just a day later than yours