Nov 12 babies

[Gingerbreadlatte]

Hello
I had a bfp yesterday. Due 1st Nov. Anyone else due in Nov yet ?

It's dc 2 for me!

Just forced a vege curry etc down me and I feel so revived!!! Think my body just wanted feeding!!

Thank you YellowBellies!

Bit worried about people saying internet cheapies are duff - I have been getting my bfp's on ebay's finest. But I wouldn't get a false positive, right? Plus, I have a dreadful taste in my mouth and am knackered.

Stupidly, I feel slightly envious of you ladies who have strong symptoms, because I want it to feel more real. I was exactly the same last time until about day 3 of the sickness and then I was in despair at how long I had to go! I don't learn. Also am looking forward to the labour, so clearly I have memory problems!

Also having, er, elimination issues here. Although the opposite of most of you, am massively constipated. Think that is where my burgeoning bump is coming from. NICE.

So pleased you are feeling better horseylady.

apple I have to see the GP first and get a referral from them, I rang and asked. I am really unsure if I really have to, seems daft to me, but am going along with it - I need to go to the docs anywho. Was meant to go this week at 4 weeks but cancelled and made an appt for next week when will be 5 weeks and maybe will feel a bit more real ;)

Aw fruit no you can't get false positives like that, no. The only duffness is when they don't work - get no line/not very sensitive. Am miffed because my IC stix are lazy and only have a little bit of dye on but my FRER lit up like a chirstmas tree - could have saved lots of squinting if i'd just shelled out earlier! Not all are like that though, my batch was a bit rubbish tis all, I still would buy cheapies again.

And i agree re: symptoms... mine come and go! I like to have them. And I too am looking forward to labour again! I am going to go to preggo yoga when I am 13 weeks to get all fit and 'ready'. I am not into relaxation and meditation at all, am more of a get drunk/go running type of relaxer, but really did think last time it would have coped with the rising panic I had in transition (we did not know I was in transition, I just thought I was dying).

another essay. Can you tell I don't see anyone all day?!

laters!

waiting for me what is your job? It sounds awesome! I want a job where I can write about food! Well, maybe not at the moment (barf) but you know what I mean.
All I can enjoy foodwise is very salty sour type things. So a bacon sandwich which could have made me hurl (wasn't sure till I tried it) at toddlers this morning was actually brilliant. And last night and the night before I sent DH out to Wagamamas for hot sour noodley soup. Can't face anything stodgy or plain.
Runny tummy here too, glad I am not alone. Pregnancy is SO delightful isn't it?
Midwife next Thursday, a week today! It will feel official when I have those yellow notes in my possession.

PS do educate me if I have this wrong - but don't you get a jippy tummy in early pregnancy because your metabolism speeds up along with your heartbeat to do its new job of providing for the wean... And then everything will catch up in a few days/weeks and all will be well again? IIRC...

I do various things Belgrano but the journalistic stuff sadly isn't paid. It's something I love and do to keep up the marketing/PR side of my CV which fits with my being a copywriter. So I may get to write a 200 word editorial to go with an advert a restaurant has placed in a magazine. Doing journalistic work gives me an edge over copywriters with less clear marketing connections.

I'm also a cookery teacher (we'll see how that goes!) and life coach. I left my job in marketing last summer in order to start building a portfolio career that could be flexible around pregnancy and having a baby as I want to be a SAHM to school and beyond.

Gosh that makes me sound like I have everything figured out. It really doesn't feel that way!

Belgrano - you get bacon sandwiches at toddler group?? Can I come?

Fun - yes yes yes to transition panic, I remember that. Scary stuff.

Think it does vary. I called my gp when I first found out (and to cancel an appointment as were starting investigations as to why nothing was happening) and they just made an appointment to see the midwife at 8 weeks. I go a week Wednesday no idea what to expect they said it would take an hour?! Dh is coming along too I think though I said to him it wasn't necessary. Guess he just wants to be involved :) really difficult to know what to do and when though!

bacon sarnies at toddler group belgrano?!! We harrumphed when we found out the menfolk got them at their group of a saturday when we get lemonade if we're lucky, but you get them too?! That is cool.

I think my receptionist at the docs was just being contrary and grumpy and decided I had to see the doc. seeing the doc to see the MW makes no sense at all! It's not like they do a test or anything.

wow waiting you do sound lovely and organised :)

Aw horsey for our first bubs DH came to every appt going; it was so lovely. he was self employed then and all excited too. this time he has a job in an office (who work him like a dog grrr) and well, he knows what is what. Is lovely to go together though!

I can't remember what happened at my booking-in but it did take a while. Filled out forms, talked about weight and nutrition, talked about where to have the baby... it was just lovely being able to spraff about my pregnancy without boring anyone to tears/having to stay silent. made it very real as I remember, I was walking on air afterwards :)

Oooh my friend (my son's childminder) nearly sussed my pregnancy this morning. I went all red and cross-eyed trying not to look suspicious (she commented on my sensitive nose and how she always got that in pregnancy... and she knows we were trying!). if I was 6 weeks or so i would say but at 4 weeks I am being cautious...

well I have just had a rather strange conversation with "MIL"!

She says that the week before we found out I was pregnant she was at a Reiki massage session and had a vision of a scan photo! there's no way she would have had an inkling as we weren't trying, I was on the pill and am old!

twilight zone music

What do we make of that then? Anyone know about this kind of thing?

BTW Pants over tights? I do that sometimes too

Hello all

just to add quickly - I also have the dodgy belly and runny poo....so glad to hear I am not alone!:) Last night it took hours for some gases to move from up the belly down and out and it was so painful that I couldn't sleep. Once it was out - then i fell dead asleep:)

I'm waiting a bit before going to the docs - think last time my booking in wasn't until about 10 weeks. It feels too early to be making it official, but I am only four weeks.

I want to get excited, but I am so cautious at this stage. It's frustrating.

I rang up my surgery and they said they don't wait till 8 weeks anymore and just have you in at the next available MW appt and don't see the GP at all.

Mine will be on Monday when I am going to be 6+3 weeks :)

fun I read on google (because thats so reliable!) that a jippy tum can also be down to the racing hormones. I guess digestion isnt the most important thing going on in the body anymore so it goes a bit haywire!

Spent a really nice sunny afternoon at the animal park with ds, he loved it! Feel knackered now though, their toilets and restaurant were shut because of electrical problems so I had to come home as I got that familiar stomach pain which meant I needed a toilet NOW!

Been to epu. Looks like I've lost the baby :( had scan and sonographer said bluntly there's something in your womb but looks like retained products. Got blood taken to check hormone level, will retest either sat or Mon to make sure it falls.

OK, I'm taking the plunge and joining you on this thread. Got a pale BFP on Monday and a nice dark one today. Think my EDD is 20th November.

I had a mc in November, so really hoping this one sticks, I don't want to go through that again. I'm already more optimistic about this one, got my BFP on CD27 (as opposed to CD38 last time, which in my tiny mind meant there wasn't enough pregnancy hormone to hold onto it) plus I'm feeling queasy (never thought I'd be happy to say that) which I didn't experience before.

I'm also having the jippy tum issues, it woke me up at 2am this morning when I had to race to the loo!

Think I'm going to hold off making a MW appt for a couple of weeks though. 4+3 seems really early still.

Nice to see so many familiar names from the 2ww thread!

Oh Izzy, so sorry to hear that .

Take some time to look after yourself. Do you have anyone with you? xx

oh izzy :"( I am so sorry. Will they scan again to make sure? {{hugs}}

Oh Izzy I'm so sorry.

Izzy I'm thinking of you. Please let us know how things go.

MISSLAUGHALOT I was on the June bus with you! Let's hope we do better this time.

Regarding our various bowel problems, it's because your gut transit time slows down. This means it takes longer to digest food so you get more nutrition out of it. That's why you don't need to eat more even though you're making a baby. You'll get more calories than usual from the food you're eating.

Hiya Stuntnun good to see you here! How are you doing?

For me Monday all I did was cry because I could only imagine it all going the same way again.
Tuesday I was in denial about being pregnant at all.
Yesterday I started to think this might be good.
Today is all about the PMA, this is going to go well because I damn well say so!

Except...would someone come round and shoot all the magpies outside my house please? All I can see are lone magpies landing on the roof of the house opposite.

izzy I'm so sorry :( I can't imagine how you must feel ((big hugs))

misslaughalot welcome to the thread :)

izzy so so sorry. I know nothing we say can make it better but my thoughts are with you. Big hugs.