Due in December 2012 - here we go!

[rosa7]

Hi all,
Hoping to snare a few of you who has just found out the great news like me, to share the journey and have a big moan about all the lovely effects pregnancy has on us!
It's no.2 for me!
Rosa xxx

Morning all

Well I've had no more spotting overnight or this morning so I'm beginning to feel a little better... thanks for the advice last night.

Have a good day everyone x

Ooo I have just got my scan appointment through. I will be 10+5 which seems quite early.

I seem to have dropped off the list - here I am!

Queenofsiburbia - due 28 Nov DC#1
Clarella - due Nov 28-30 DC#1
BigRedIndiaRubberBall - due 29 Nov DC#2
Quills - due 1st Dec DC#2
smongesmonge - due 1st Dec Dc#2
pleasebethismonth due 1st Dec DC #2 i
QueenofMacaronicheese - due 2nd Dec DC#3
ssimma - due 2nd Dec DC#2
DKNY123 - due 2nd Dec DC#1
AceOfBase - due (approx) 2nd Dec DC#3
PurplePidjin - due 2nd Dec DC #1
KMBatfink - due 3rd Dec DC#1
TeaJunky - due 4th Dec DC#2
M0naLisa - due (approx) 4th Dec DC#3
StrawberrytallCake - due 5th Dec DC#2
Yikesherewego - due 5th Dec DC#1
ItsMyLastOne - due 6th Dec DC#2
kalidasa - due 6th Dec DC#1
Wittywhirl - due 6th Dec DC#1
SeymoreButts - due 7th Dec DC#3
ivanapoo - due (approx) 7th Dec DC#1
prunelladeville - due 8th Dec DC#1
Brenau - due (approx) 8th Dec DC#1
Chloe55 - due (approx) 8th Dec DC#2
minipie - due 8th Dec DC#1
lauraloo09 - due 8th Dec DC#2
ScrambledSmegs - due 9th Dec DC#2
acjfluff - due 9th Dec DC#1
Rosa7 - due 9th Dec DC#2
gilsbubbles - due 10th Dec DC#1
walnut - due 10th Dec DC#2
cashmere - due 11th Dec DC#2
Stacks - due 12th Dec DC#1
Cherrypiew3 - due 12th Dec DC#4
Cookiesandcream06 - due 12th Dec DC#2
Barbeasty - due 12th Dec DC#2
VegemiteSandwich - due 12th Dec DC#1
CODwidow - due 12th Dec DC#5
backwardpossom - due 13th Dec DC#2
bellaboo123 - due 13th Dec DC#1
brooke89 - due 14th Dec
ddas - due 14th Dec DC#2
Margie32 - due 14th Dec DC#2
FriendofDorothy - due 15th Dec (ish) DC#1
QueenandKingMum - due 15th Dec DC#4
Dillydollydaydream - due 16th Dec dc#4
kateand2boys - due 17th Dec FF or due 20th Dec LMP DC#3
roseandroli-due 17th Dec DC#1
Olivetti - due 18th Dec DC #2
ChangeMyHappy - due 18th Dec (ish) DC#2
Whatmess - due 19th Dec DC#2
Shangers - due 19th Dec DC#2
StaceymReadyForNumber3 - due 19th Dec DC#3
nasara - due 20th Dec DC#2
blackcurrants - due 20th Dec DC#2
annelid - due 20th Dec DC#7
CupOfBrownJoy - due 21st Dec DC#1
Chipsandmushypeas - due 24th Dec DC#1
JingleBellBaby - due 25th Dec (?) DC#2
MyDaydream - due 27th Dec DC#1
SpottyTeaCakes - due 27th Dec DC#2
LolaAnn - due 28th Dec DC#2
livismum - due 29th Dec DC#3
NaomiRuth - due 30th Dec DC#1
Mama2threemaybemore - due Dec 31st DC#4

Booking on appoinment tomo, makes it all a bit more real!
Still feeling horrendous, was actually in tears earlier, feeling awful is just taking the excitement out of this. Does anyone else feel that way?
Feels bad to feel sorry for myself when so many on here have had bad news, I need to get a grip.
Off to resume my self pity party now xxx

Booking in yesterday went well - MW was really nice. I've also been the closest yet to actually hurling - rushing to the loo and standing there swallowing hard, is JUST NO FUN!
I don't want to be wishing the weeks away but I do wish the 1st trimester was over and done with!

I hear you, blackcurrants and mwahmwah!

I'm 9 weeks tomorrow and counting the days until the next trimester... I'm feeling physically fine, ie no sickness and even the sore boobs have eased up a bit in the last couple of days, but I'm actually finding this mentally really hard.

I know it seems like an odd thing to say, and tbh I haven't really heard of anyone else experiencing this to the same degree, but my emotions are all over the place. I find myself getting really down and thinking I won't be able to cope, worrying about how much help DP is going to be (he works a lot), oh everything!!! DP can't understand it as he's just really positive and enjoying the experience, and whilst I am too much of the time, sometimes I get really down! Then I feel guilty that I should be all happy and excited, and actually I just feel crap.

So, roll on trimester 2 and hopefully the hormones will have calmed down a little bit...

Glad to hear your MW was nice blackcurrants. I'm a little bit in love with my gynae

hi I am expecting number 2 on december 26th :) glad to meet u all

Okay adding myself to the list:

Queenofsiburbia - due 28 Nov DC#1
Clarella - due Nov 28-30 DC#1
BigRedIndiaRubberBall - due 29 Nov DC#2
Quills - due 1st Dec DC#2
smongesmonge - due 1st Dec Dc#2
pleasebethismonth due 1st Dec DC #2 i
QueenofMacaronicheese - due 2nd Dec DC#3
ssimma - due 2nd Dec DC#2
DKNY123 - due 2nd Dec DC#1
AceOfBase - due (approx) 2nd Dec DC#3
PurplePidjin - due 2nd Dec DC #1
KMBatfink - due 3rd Dec DC#1
TeaJunky - due 4th Dec DC#2
M0naLisa - due (approx) 4th Dec DC#3
StrawberrytallCake - due 5th Dec DC#2
Yikesherewego - due 5th Dec DC#1
ItsMyLastOne - due 6th Dec DC#2
kalidasa - due 6th Dec DC#1
Wittywhirl - due 6th Dec DC#1
SeymoreButts - due 7th Dec DC#3
ivanapoo - due (approx) 7th Dec DC#1
prunelladeville - due 8th Dec DC#1
Brenau - due (approx) 8th Dec DC#1
Chloe55 - due (approx) 8th Dec DC#2
minipie - due 8th Dec DC#1
lauraloo09 - due 8th Dec DC#2
ScrambledSmegs - due 9th Dec DC#2
acjfluff - due 9th Dec DC#1
Rosa7 - due 9th Dec DC#2
gilsbubbles - due 10th Dec DC#1
walnut - due 10th Dec DC#2
cashmere - due 11th Dec DC#2
Stacks - due 12th Dec DC#1
Cherrypiew3 - due 12th Dec DC#4
Cookiesandcream06 - due 12th Dec DC#2
Barbeasty - due 12th Dec DC#2
VegemiteSandwich - due 12th Dec DC#1
CODwidow - due 12th Dec DC#5
backwardpossom - due 13th Dec DC#2
bellaboo123 - due 13th Dec DC#1
brooke89 - due 14th Dec
ddas - due 14th Dec DC#2
Margie32 - due 14th Dec DC#2
FriendofDorothy - due 15th Dec (ish) DC#1
QueenandKingMum - due 15th Dec DC#4
Dillydollydaydream - due 16th Dec dc#4
kateand2boys - due 17th Dec FF or due 20th Dec LMP DC#3
roseandroli-due 17th Dec DC#1
ChangeMyHappy - due 18th Dec (ish) DC#2
Whatmess - due 19th Dec DC#2
Shangers - due 19th Dec DC#2
StaceymReadyForNumber3 - due 19th Dec DC#3
nasara - due 20th Dec DC#2
blackcurrants - due 20th Dec DC#2
annelid - due 20th Dec DC#7
CupOfBrownJoy - due 21st Dec DC#1
Chipsandmushypeas - due 24th Dec DC#1
JingleBellBaby - due 25th Dec (?) DC#2
Magic69- due 26 December DC#2
MyDaydream - due 27th Dec DC#1
SpottyTeaCakes - due 27th Dec DC#2
LolaAnn - due 28th Dec DC#2
livismum - due 29th Dec DC#3
NaomiRuth - due 30th Dec DC#1
Mama2threemaybemore - due Dec 31st DC#4

sorry to hear that many of you are still feeling unwell :( today i have felt slightly better although i missed breakfast so by lunch i was so hungry ive had 2 lunches oops

ok, seem to not be on list, so here I am:
Queenofsiburbia - due 28 Nov DC#1
Clarella - due Nov 28-30 DC#1
BigRedIndiaRubberBall - due 29 Nov DC#2
Quills - due 1st Dec DC#2
smongesmonge - due 1st Dec Dc#2
pleasebethismonth due 1st Dec DC #2 i
QueenofMacaronicheese - due 2nd Dec DC#3
ssimma - due 2nd Dec DC#2
DKNY123 - due 2nd Dec DC#1
AceOfBase - due (approx) 2nd Dec DC#3
PurplePidjin - due 2nd Dec DC #1
KMBatfink - due 3rd Dec DC#1
TeaJunky - due 4th Dec DC#2
M0naLisa - due (approx) 4th Dec DC#3
StrawberrytallCake - due 5th Dec DC#2
Yikesherewego - due 5th Dec DC#1
ItsMyLastOne - due 6th Dec DC#2
kalidasa - due 6th Dec DC#1
Wittywhirl - due 6th Dec DC#1
SeymoreButts - due 7th Dec DC#3
ivanapoo - due (approx) 7th Dec DC#1
prunelladeville - due 8th Dec DC#1
Brenau - due (approx) 8th Dec DC#1
Chloe55 - due (approx) 8th Dec DC#2
minipie - due 8th Dec DC#1
lauraloo09 - due 8th Dec DC#2
ScrambledSmegs - due 9th Dec DC#2
acjfluff - due 9th Dec DC#1
Rosa7 - due 9th Dec DC#2
gilsbubbles - due 10th Dec DC#1
walnut - due 10th Dec DC#2
cashmere - due 11th Dec DC#2
Stacks - due 12th Dec DC#1
Cherrypiew3 - due 12th Dec DC#4
Cookiesandcream06 - due 12th Dec DC#2
Barbeasty - due 12th Dec DC#2
VegemiteSandwich - due 12th Dec DC#1
CODwidow - due 12th Dec DC#5
backwardpossom - due 13th Dec DC#2
bellaboo123 - due 13th Dec DC#1
brooke89 - due 14th Dec
ddas - due 14th Dec DC#2
Margie32 - due 14th Dec DC#2
FriendofDorothy - due 15th Dec (ish) DC#1
QueenandKingMum - due 15th Dec DC#4
Dillydollydaydream - due 16th Dec dc#4
kateand2boys - due 17th Dec FF or due 20th Dec LMP DC#3
roseandroli-due 17th Dec DC#1
ChangeMyHappy - due 18th Dec (ish) DC#2
Whatmess - due 19th Dec DC#2
Shangers - due 19th Dec DC#2
StaceymReadyForNumber3 - due 19th Dec DC#3
nasara - due 20th Dec DC#2
blackcurrants - due 20th Dec DC#2
annelid - due 20th Dec DC#7
CupOfBrownJoy - due 21st Dec DC#1
Chipsandmushypeas - due 24th Dec DC#1
JingleBellBaby - due 25th Dec (?) DC#2
Magic69- due 26 December DC#2
MyDaydream - due 27th Dec DC#1
SpottyTeaCakes - due 27th Dec DC#2
LolaAnn - due 28th Dec DC#2
livismum - due 29th Dec DC#3
NaomiRuth - due 30th Dec DC#1
Mama2threemaybemore - due Dec 31st DC#4
KMR281 - DC3 due end Dec

so, not been on for ages. Feeling pretty nauseous in the mornings, and afternoons too. Pick up a bit in evening, but very very tired. Baby brain also appears to be starting.
Had a wee bit of bleeding today - just a wee bit, so am going to wait and see. not even been booked in yet, and reckon am about 7 weeks (nearly). Actually made me realise that I do actually want to have this baby, as the thought of loosing it was terrible.
hope you ladies are all doing well, and will try and pop on a bit more regularly!

Thanks Cupof and welcome, newbies! Congratulations! I should amend that list, I think, as the MW seems to think I'm due around the 21st not the 20th. Mind you, DS was 4 days late and then induced, so who knows?

Makes me wish I'd kept a better track of my period cycles, really. Just focussed a bit on the few before my last one, got a sense of whether I have a 28 day or 30/31 day cycle. Because if it's a longer cycle then I might only be 7 weeks pg not 8.
Argh no, that can't be true! :)
When palpating my uterus (funtimes!) the MW said "Yep, feels like 8 weeks to me" - who am I to disagree, eh? :) She also said that she'd craved oranges too when pg with her daughter... maybe it's a girl :) Though a little boy would be lovely, I do love my little boy so much and having a small pack of them seems kinda great ... We didn't find out last time, decided on the surprise - but I think I want to know this time. Can't wait! ALSO OMG the craving Oranges! I think I'll turn orange soon - I've had two in the last half hour and reeeally want another!

Cupof I am still sobbing my eyes out about everything and anything, if it helps. And panicking about how I am going to cope and what if I don't love this baby as much as DS or what if DS feels jealous, etc etc etc. I'm basically quite bonkers - I think it's normal to panic. Totally justifiable. This is a Big Fucking Deal, after all.

Hello everyone, is there room for one more? I have been watching the thread for ages and have been too scared to post until now in case everything went wrong, as I have also had a few spotting scares. I am just over 8 weeks, due 23rd Dec.

i want to be booked in :( i'm now 9+3 and haven't even got and appointment yet, humph!

Today is a good day, only thrown up once! hurrah! yesterday was a bad day, i threw up everytime i ate :( such is life, i definately appreciate the good days!

Welcome newbies, can't quite believe how many of us there are in dec!

welcome sicillian beware you are surrounded by citrus cravers
gils hope christmas has proved a great and exciting day for you today?

Queenofsiburbia - due 28 Nov DC#1
Clarella - due Nov 28-30 DC#1
BigRedIndiaRubberBall - due 29 Nov DC#2
Quills - due 1st Dec DC#2
smongesmonge - due 1st Dec Dc#2
pleasebethismonth due 1st Dec DC #2 i
QueenofMacaronicheese - due 2nd Dec DC#3
ssimma - due 2nd Dec DC#2
DKNY123 - due 2nd Dec DC#1
AceOfBase - due (approx) 2nd Dec DC#3
PurplePidjin - due 2nd Dec DC #1
KMBatfink - due 3rd Dec DC#1
TeaJunky - due 4th Dec DC#2
M0naLisa - due (approx) 4th Dec DC#3
StrawberrytallCake - due 5th Dec DC#2
Yikesherewego - due 5th Dec DC#1
ItsMyLastOne - due 6th Dec DC#2
kalidasa - due 6th Dec DC#1
Wittywhirl - due 6th Dec DC#1
SeymoreButts - due 7th Dec DC#3
ivanapoo - due (approx) 7th Dec DC#1
prunelladeville - due 8th Dec DC#1
Brenau - due (approx) 8th Dec DC#1
Chloe55 - due (approx) 8th Dec DC#2
minipie - due 8th Dec DC#1
lauraloo09 - due 8th Dec DC#2
acjfluff - due 9th Dec DC#1
Rosa7 - due 9th Dec DC#2
gilsbubbles - due 10th Dec DC#1
walnut - due 10th Dec DC#2
cashmere - due 11th Dec DC#2
Stacks - due 12th Dec DC#1
Cherrypiew3 - due 12th Dec DC#4
Cookiesandcream06 - due 12th Dec DC#2
Barbeasty - due 12th Dec DC#2
VegemiteSandwich - due 12th Dec DC#1
CODwidow - due 12th Dec DC#5
backwardpossom - due 13th Dec DC#2
bellaboo123 - due 13th Dec DC#1
brooke89 - due 14th Dec
ddas - due 14th Dec DC#2
Margie32 - due 14th Dec DC#2
FriendofDorothy - due 15th Dec (ish) DC#1
QueenandKingMum - due 15th Dec DC#4
Dillydollydaydream - due 16th Dec dc#4
kateand2boys - due 17th Dec FF or due 20th Dec LMP DC#3
roseandroli-due 17th Dec DC#1
ChangeMyHappy - due 18th Dec (ish) DC#2
Whatmess - due 19th Dec DC#2
Shangers - due 19th Dec DC#2
StaceymReadyForNumber3 - due 19th Dec DC#3
nasara - due 20th Dec DC#2
blackcurrants - due 20th Dec DC#2
annelid - due 20th Dec DC#7
CupOfBrownJoy - due 21st Dec DC#1
Chipsandmushypeas - due 24th Dec DC#1
sicilianlemons - due 23rd Dec
JingleBellBaby - due 25th Dec (?) DC#2
Magic69- due 26 December DC#2
MyDaydream - due 27th Dec DC#1
SpottyTeaCakes - due 27th Dec DC#2
LolaAnn - due 28th Dec DC#2
livismum - due 29th Dec DC#3
NaomiRuth - due 30th Dec DC#1
Mama2threemaybemore - due Dec 31st DC#4
KMR281 - DC3 due end Dec

I've removed ScrambledSmegs, who found out (a while ago now) at her 'early' scan she was actually 4 weeks further on than she thought. She's moved over to the Nov thread, and is doing well.

Blimey, there really are a lot of us, aren't there?

Nowt good on telly in March, clearly.

I cannot keep my bloody eyes open this afternoon. Sadly I am at work but I need a nap!

March was such a gorgeous month this year, it really felt like spring was in the air and everything seemed fecund so it doesn't surprise me the number of us on here

Hope scans ok today!

Oh oranges! Yes me too - actually the main crave I've had! (Not preg i usually crave porridge, honey, dark Choc, darjeeling, prunes and fat free yoghurt - hated all except darjeeling, only just beginning to tentatively cope with yoghurt and porridge) but citrus I have gone crazy for! The richest thickest cut marmalade there is, lemon curd, virgin caipharinas (sorry sp!) Which are lovely and clemantines like Jamie o!

Cupof, I've felt very like that a lot, which is why I wondered about seeing the doc. (couldn't see my usual so waiting till Friday for next slapped cheek one) I've rarely been excited as been so worried initially about thyroid issues, more recently about the slapped cheek stuff and also something that happened at school. I feel ungrateful and guilty and wish I could get excited prob after scan!

It didn't help that when I informed the head at 7 weeks (we have kids with major behaviour problems) and simply said ' I'm having lots of joint and back pain, not sure I can manage to deliver rebound (trampoline) therapy ' I was told "pregnancy is not an illness you know, early changes you'll feel more like it in a few weeks." You're actually not supposed to do it with a bad back and one of the three contraindications is pregnancy. I was so gobsmacked I dared not say about what my notes said. Luckily the deputy intervened and took on my group, telling me the head is used to staff refusing to do anything when pregnant (no idea who, what I've seen is the opposite). It really really upset me as I've already dealt with very challenging physical incidents when technically shouldn't but staff and children were being hurt. 'risk assessment' hasn't even been mentioned. Oh then my rebound trainer replied to my enquiry with " documented evidence that it causes mc including the experience of our physiotherapist". Hasn't exactly left me feeling particularly confident about school esp in monitoring possible slapped cheek cases (hpa guidelines not followed till this week after I requested)

Sorry, mega ramble. But definately the main cause of my current anxiety. I want to be able to enjoy my lovely class in the summer term but feel my pregnancy is so unrespected and a hassle.

On the bright side 12 weeks today!

Clarella that sounds awful and totally unsupportive, no wonder you're so worried. I think we all of us struggle on manfully through work, and are actually willing to take on a lot of risks we really shouldn't, but do we get any credit for it??? NO!

I actually finally had an email from the contracts woman at work today. Looks like I've got a big fight on my hands - the last thing I need. They are trying to treat my pregnancy as sickness (or rather, they are treating my doctor-issued work ban as a sick note, which it isn't) and they are talking about letting me have my 40 days sick and then stopping paying me. Disaster.

Legally, I should be entitled to be paid until I go off in December PLUS 3 months maternity, but they're just trying to weasel out of every obligation. I'm waiting to hear more officially from "senior management" but if they fire me for being pregnant the next thing they hear is going to be from my lawyer. Bastards...

Just the thing to make an emotional wreck of a pregnant person feel full of the joys of spring!

And lucky you, Clarella - 12 weeks! Congratulations!

O my giddy that was an embarrassingly long rant, here's a short note to bump us along to thread 3, I should try to stick to twitter length.

(ps more blimming pea puree spherification last night of gbm! Wotthe!)

All good news at my scan
today. can't stop grinning

Sorry I meant my rant!

Heavens cupof, I did wonder about that but I am suuuure it shouldn't be like that? Are you in the uk? Have you spoken to a union?

Other people who have had a work ban due to slapped cheek have worked from home. Just had a lovely chat with a dear colleague who has been pregnant (no-one gets a risk assessment. Not even after 2 kids had blocked her in a corner and threatened to hurt her baby) and she had to leave early due to hips and had to work from home. Then baby came 5 weeks early and she didn't finish reports etc. They'd wanted her to start maternity early, I know she had a battle.

Feel loads better after her call - she thinks stay off till after scan. Certainly nothing school has told me they are doing to monitor the situation has happened, staff know nothing about it.

Massive support and hugs to you cupof, hope you can get some good advice xx

Yeay gils! Great!