November 2012 Duebies Part 3 - <insert cheesy name of choice here>

[FoofFighter]

The Stats:

madasahatter EDD 31/10/11
GTBaby [29] DC1 EDD 01/11/12
GingerBL [34] DC2 EDD 01/11/12
Belgrano DC3 EDD 01/11/12
Howiwonder DC2 01/11/12
Wellieboots DC1 01/11/12
LittleLolly [28] DC1 EDD 01/11/12
Hellobear[33] DC2 EDD 02/11/12
Little9 [38] DC1 EDD 02/11/12
Wifey6 EDD 02/11/12
Tomatoplantproject [34] DC1 EDD 02/11/12
PetiteRaleuse [32] DC2 EDD 02/11/2012
CrazyKat [24] DC4 EDD 02/11/2012
Horseylady [30] DC1 EDD 04/11/12
AbsToni [29] DC1 EDD 04/11/12
Cacacaz (29) DC1 EDD 04/11/12
Tiago [28] DC1 EDD 05/11/12
WestWingCJ DC2 EDD 05/11/12
ValiumQueen [43] DC3 EDD 05/11/12
Stabiliser15 [29] [DC2] EDD 05/11/12
TheDetective (27) DC2 EDD 06/11/12
Haywire [38] DC2 EDD 06/11/12
Peaky1 [32] DC1 EDD 06/11/12
Sam86 DC3 EDD 06/11/12
Katuk82 (29) DC1 EDD 06/11/12
Pipsicles (28) DC2 EDD 07/11/12, Surrey.
Schroedingersdodo DC2 EDD 07/11/12
Cherryjam [31] DC2 EDD 07/11/12
ENSMUM DC2 EDD 07/11/12
Blonderthanred [35] DC1 EDD 08/11/12
Debussyhead DC2 EDD 08/11/12
Eversomuch [39] DC2 EDD 08/11/12
FoofFighter [38] DC3 for me DC1 for DP EDD 09/11/12
Gardenpixies(33) DC1 EDD 10/11/12
StuntNun [35] DC3 EDD 10/11/12
YellowWellies [32] DC1 EDD 10/11/12 Orkney (China = B, gut = G)
jaylee89 [23] DC2 EDD 10/11/2012
MsBlueberry [29] DC3 10/11/12
daisychain76 [36] DC3 10/11/12
GsyAutumn [33] DC3 EDD 10/11/2012
ShushBaby [31] DC2 EDD 11/11/12
Ditsygem [27] DC1 EDD 11/11/12
Onamission [28] DC1 EDD 12/11/12
Donnadoon [32] DC4 EDD 12/11/12
Elizadoesdolittle [37] DC2 EDD 12/11/12
Kyordz 12/11/12
Kydravia DC3 EDD 13/11/12
IHeartpasties [31] DC2 EDD 14/11/12 Sydney (from Cornwall)
Desperatehousewife [21] DC2 EDD 14/11/12
justonemorecake [28] DC1 EDD 14/11/12
Ellesabe [29] DC2 EDD 14/11/12
misschord [33] DC2 EDD 14/11/12
igglepiggleiggleonk DC2 14/11/12
Victorious03 (29) DC3 EDD 15/11/2012
Evilwater EDD 15/11/12 or possibly any time in October!!
GreenDragonfly DC4 EDD 15/11/12
Brockle [33] DC3 EDD 16/11/12
Bimbledorf [32] DC3 EDD 17/11/12
TitsalinaBumSquash [25] DC3 EDD 17/11/12
Sooty [34] DC2 EDD 18/11/12
Bryzoan (37) DC2 EDD 18/11/12
MadeInChinaBaby, 29, DC2, EDD 18/11/12
WaitingForMe [29] DC1 for me DC3 for DH EDD 19/11/12
Superpenguin [32] DC2 EDD 19/11/12
ChunkyChicken [32] DC2 EDD 19/11/12
Funthatisfunny [32] DC2 EDD 20/11/12
applepieinthesky (25) DC1 EDD 20/11/12
Misslaughalot (35) DC1 EDD 20/11/12
Lilliana (31) DC1 EDD 21/11/12
EssexWelsh [29] DC1 EDD 21/11/12
nutellaontoast [29] DC2 EDD 21/11/12
ComradeJing [26] DC2 EDD 21/11/12
Thechick (38) DC2 EDD 21/11/12
Soandsomum DC2 EDD 21/11/12
FruitSaladIsNotPudding (31) EDD 22/11/12
Magicrabbit (38) DC2 EDD 22/11/12
mcsquared EDD 22/11/12
FatimaLovesBread (26) EDD 23/11/12
Shinyblackgrape (34) DC1 EDD 25/11/12
Bottlered76 EDD 28/11/2012
Tallulahstar (31) DC1 EDD 28/11/12
rosie0000(36) DC4 EDD 29/11/12
KatherineUK2003 DC2 EDD29/11/12
JessieEssex (35) DC2 EDD 30/11/12
MissTriangle DC2 - EDD TBC
Hoebag EDD TBC
Thereistheball EDD TBC It's twins!!
ItalaItala EDD TBC
Issimma EDD TBC

If anybody on the list needs taking off please pm me and I'll sort it x

izzy good luck on the 4th im sure everything will be fine :)

little9 I've PMed you.

Felt sick on and off all day. Told a few more people today, can't wait for my scan or anything to happen to make it feel real.

Glad it was that dreadful news ValiumQueen, can't imagine how you must have felt.

Good luck Izzy for the 4th.

Think there is a familiar story of feeling shit today, lucky have not actually been sick but it seems it doesn't matter if i eat or not i feel the same nausea in head and stomach (does that make sense)? Got up this morning had toast and went back to bed DH is starting to get fed up with me moaning all the time i have no energy house is so untidy it looks like we have been burgled .

Izzy sorry to hear you are not feelin it i had no symptoms for a few days and i mean nothing but had scan and all OK, even now somedays i am feeling very unpregnant.

valium what a shock and relief hope you are all OK

I know what you mean by head and stomach that's exactly what it's like for me, horrible isn't it? Dh asks me all the time how I feel, he's not used to it either my last pregnancy was a breeze!

Well, after many tears, and several vomits. I managed to wash my hair. I vomited while washing my hair.

I then dragged my sorry carcass to Tesco, and bought every bit of food I even remotely fancied. I came away with salt and vinegar hula hoops, cheese strings, a vegetable lasange, melon, apples, mixed fresh fruit in one of those packs, cabbage, potatoes (for roasting!) and microchips. Oh and a big pack of capri suns. 3 packs of hula hoops and 6 juices later, I am feeling more rational. Please stay down, please stay down.

The dog has has 3 dentachews (mint yay). And I am roasting some potatoes as we speak.

I still feel like shit, but at least its better than earlier.

I'm banned from any future pregnancies .

My mother, the cow, could only say 'well, maybe this baby is trying to tell you it doesn't want a fat mother' followed by 'well, at least you will lose some weight, god knows you need to'. Good fucking job she was on the other end of the phone. She just never lets up about my weight! Even when I was slimmer ffs!!

Thank you for reassuring me that I'm not alone here! Although I wouldn't wish this feeling on my worst enemy. It makes it slightly more bearable.

Izzy and Valium much love ladies, keep strong and you'll get through this, we're all thinking of you xx

detective, I think you posted that you are a 16/18 yes? well I am an 18/20 and I don't fell like a morbidly obese person, fat mother type person - yet by BMI I am. I suggest you vomit on your mother!!

Hi everyone well I think I had a sick bug on top of ms. I don't recommend it. Slowly getting back to just the ms nausea not the howling cramping violent d&v which I had all night. I have been in bed for over 24 hrs. What sort of crappy design is it that renders us so useless and pukey for weeks when we are carrying our young? How has this evolved? It's RUBBISH!
Detective poor you, sounds like hell.
And Izzy I can't believe they were so tactless. Your last scan was ok though wasn't it?
Fingers and toes crossed for worried November duebies.

Foof, I am used to it. My mother has always been an absolute bitch when it comes to weight! I wouldn't mind, but she had bloody liposuction, and she still isn't skinny! And I inherited her frame, but 5 inches less height than her.

Yep am 16-18. I was a 12-14 not that long ago, but due to being HAPPY!!!! I have put weight on. Like most people - when they are happy, they put weight on! When I am miserable (when I was a single parent struggling alone) I lost loads of weight because I stopped eating, and was terribly unhappy!

I know what I'd rather...!

Foof and Detective, I am a size 18 too. Struggled with weight all my life, although conversely I eat badly when I am unhappy and well when I am happy. A few years ago I was a size 8 so I know that life isn't suddenly perfect when you're thinner, just different people comment on it.

From looking at MN I thought I'd be vilified for becoming pg while overweight (which wasn't my intention, I wanted to have a healthy body for my child but the stress of ttc ironically sent me towards the biscuit tin aisle ), in fact the HCPs I've seen have been nothing but supportive and wonderful and this thread is full of wonderful women of all ages and sizes.

I'm keen to eat well and do some exercise during this pg, that's the best I can do really. And try to get some nice maternity clothes! At least I don't have to worry about my bump "making me look fat"...

can't sleep

pissed off with oh, decamped to sofa, blloody starving too! on plus side have caught up with 3 things on iplayer

I too am size 16/18 and am worried about what docs/MW will say about being pregnant and obese according to BMI. Blonderthanred's message about HCPs qll being supportive has put my mind at rest. Have my first appt at docs on Tues so will see what they say.

Not a v good night here either, ds wakin up numerous times because of his bloody teeth, just wish they'd come through now.
Woke up with those dull cramps again, hope it's just growing and stretching that I can feel.

Read the mn preg book again last night, got up to the end of the first trimester and the whole chapter was about mc and loss so I wish I hadn't read that bit.

We visited one of my friends yesterday. A really long drive but so great to see and tell her. She made me sit on a kitchen chair and put my feet on the seat of another one. It was amazing! It tilted all the pressure off my lower back and eased my headache - magic!

I can't believe something so simple was so effective at easing aches and pains.

Morning all!

Food, TheDetective, Blonrdethanred - I'm also a 16 (with 18 boobs) but because I live in France, where being overweight is almost a crime, I am getting it in both barrels from not 1 but 2 doctors, both of whom read me the riot act on Friday. I am on a superstrict diet which bans all sugar and most fat, and which I am finding demoralising and uninspiring, but even so my blood sugar levels are all over the place. I know it's good that I'm being monitored so closely but I am missing the more sympathetic (but no less strict) approach of the diabetes doctors and midwives I had in the UK. And dreading Easter, obvs.

In other news, I've been handed over from my fertility clinic to the hospital. My scan on Friday confirmed twins. I've got my official 3 month scan in 4 weeks, after which the pregnancy gets confirmed to the French authorities and
I can tell friends back home.

Had a difficult day yesterday, like everyone it seems. I had a thumping headache so took a paracetamol then promptly threw it back up, and felt on the verge of being sick for the rest of the day. But DH managed to drag me out to a local shopping centre where I bought out the Gap maternity department sale rail - they gave me an extra 10% off for carrying twins - so today I am going to be wearing comfy clothes for the first time in ages.

Anyway, today is already much better than yesterday. It's sunny so we are going to drive to Fontainebleau, go for a walk in the chateau grounds, then have lunch in a restaurant so I don't have to cook.

Hope everyone is feeling better today!

Ironically, my cold is worse but my nausea & boobs are better. Either it's nature's way so you only cope with one source of 'pain' or things aren't going well with the pg all of a sudden. Going to enjoy the relative peace of being able to eat normally & not worry too much unless I start bleeding...

Enjoy your Sunday everyone - it looks like nice weather where we are :)

Ok, spoke way too soon... just vommed for the first time. So 0-60 in about 5mins. DH was very sweet, holding hair back & everything. Hope this isn't a new trend!!

DD1 is much improved - chest infection responded well to antibiotics and no further bleeding. DD2 now has a bloody chest infection too! Up most of night, temp 39.5, struggling for breath inbetween coughing. Barely given this little bean a thought. MS and boobs much the same, but have not stuck to my diet (inhaling bread) yet bloating is less.

I started my day with a vomit session too :( Well, right after cooking breakfast for the family on the first proper day of our holiday in Cornwall. Wish I felt a little less sick and headachey - the drive here nearly finished me off! That, and the fact that my car alarm seems to have become demonically possessed. Hurrah for car instruction manuals which teach you how to "manually disarm the system". I felt a bit smug, especially as it was MY idea to read the instructions whilst DP was insistent that ripping the fuses out was the logical solution.... who says that men are the logical, car-experts?

Hoping that I can start feeling a bit less sick now....but reminding myself that feeling utter pants is probably a good sign. I just hope it's a sign that actually ends at the 12 week stage!

Good luck to everyone who is worried about various issues - my weight thing is kind of the other end of the spectrum. After my dad died last year I stopped eating altogether and this is partly why I was shocked to get the BFP so quickly. At least MY mum should stop moaning at me for being too skinny for a while (that is right after she stops yelling at me for getting pregnant before having sorted out a bigger house etc)

Does anyone else know how strict the caffeine rules are? I am usually a 14 cups of tea a day kind of girl and am struggling like crazy with limiting myself to 2 :(

Good Morning hope everyone feeling I'll manages to feel abit better today :) have sunshine here so it's a good start to the day, was abit disappointment when I realised Easter was next Sunday and couldn't eat my egg today :( boo

GSYAutumn at my MW appointment she told me a max of 2 cups of tea per day or I could have more of the de caff stuff, don't really drink tea do not sure what de caff would be like, hope thats helpful x

Morning

What's everyone's views on early scans? I was thinking of phoning the clinic tomorrow as I had a bleed week 5 and I would be 7 weeks on Friday (6th April) is this too wary? I can't help thinking that with my bleed someone should have done something either bloods to check levels or a scan or something I know I might not see the baby but I just wanna know if it's there or not?

I've had a week off work and I'm not due a scan till 11th which is next Wednesday but if they can get me in this week then at least j can go back to work? Any ideas on scan this early on?

oh valium you are going through it! hope you are ok, what a nightmare for you :( let us know how you all are getting on and getting better!

detective my mother has weight issues and has passed them all on to us. when I was size 12, pg with DS and 20 weeks, so getting (happily) bigger every day, I went to stay with her and she'd say stuff like 'eugh I can't believe I am eating like a pregnant person' if she had breakfast with me, or say about how she lost a stone when she was pregnant with me (i put on 3 stone!). DH was furious at how neurotic I would get after seeing her! I would lose weight for every time she visited in fear of her comments and needing approval. I was so thin after a trip to india I was underweight and she thought I was beautiful. we don't talk now (her choice) so am happy i don't have that critical running commentary this pregnancy. Mother's can be dreadful. Come on here and rant away when you need to!

foof yay good to see you and glad your friends cheered you up!

I am SICK this weekend. kicked off friday afternoon, actually threw up last night and just lay on the settee unable to move. I feel sick in the head too (hehe), like when I stand up or move it it spins like I have just got off a roundabout. i have to eat but I cannot.

I am bound to my village for the next two weeks (no transport, DH going away with DS over easter) so am making DH take me out into the dales for a new view :) Feel sick, shaky and exhausted so not a good idea but is too sunny to stay in bed! damned sun!

thanks for the scan advice YW and foof and any others, I am very grateful, you are all lovely

so sorry if i have missed anyone's news, am skim reading while juggling DS in one hand and a need to vom on the other! So pleased you are ok izzy - my doc had the same attitude about booking me in with the MW - and good to hear from you little and there and anyone I have missed :)

shit i write far too much! sorry, i need to get out more!

Interesting, fun and detective. My mother is the opposite - appalled if I look thinner (she described me as "looking like I had a terminal illness" when I was in my healthy BMI) and delighted if I look "well" i.e. fat.

Yet she herself, tall and slim with long legs, constantly complains that she is fat, is on a diet and describes other people first and foremost by their weight.

Adore her but I think it's no coincidence my siblings and I all have weight issues!

Hi ladies, sorry people are feeling so rubbish .

Well my ms chose to kick in last night at an unfortunate moment. We were out celebrating a friend's birthday at a Tepenyaki restaurant. I was fine with the smells of the food cooking right in front of me until the fish was put on, at which point I had to discreetly remove myself from the table and threw up in the loo. I haven't been feeling queasy for a few days but boy did that make up for it. It's the first time I've actually been sick so I guess it's a good thing. Just hoping nobody noticed (or the fact I was drinking OJ for the rest of the night) as we're not planning on telling anyone for at least another 2 months.

The sun is shining here today though, we've got a four day week and then I'm on holiday the week after!

Today I'm pregnant and I'm going to enjoy it! Happy April everyone!