November 2012 - bring on the second trimester

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Previous threads:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/antenatal_clubs/1412456-Nov-12-babies

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/antenatal_clubs/1432039-Due-in-November-2012-part-deux-no-cringy-thread-name-here

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/antenatal_clubs/1438916-November-2012-Duebies-Part-3-insert-cheesy-name-of-choice-here

Well tbh Det I am quite annoyed now as we have NO TANGERINES LEFT. I had to eat an orange.

I am all out too. Just ate the last one. I might have to buy 2 bags tomorrow. Oranges are ace too! But tangerines are making my mouth water mmmmmm!

Sowwy

ever hope the time passes quickly until the rest of the tests. On a more positive note my friend was given a 1:2 chance of one of her twins having downs (the other was low risk) nd they were both fine. As someone else said there are 52 chances it is all ok.

Detective when we were camping last summer DH got up to make breakfast with DD1 (strawberries, blueberries etc with yoghurt) and he offerred to share some leftover doughnuts with her and she was most concerned that she would still get the fruit!

Glad you're all enjoying vitamin c. You're making it sound like crack for pregnant ladies

I nearly told the world I was pregnant today. I'm having a big party for my 30th in September on a vaguely Regency theme. My mum and I were looking at dressed online and I was about to pin one to my board on pintrest! Just stopped myself in time realising nobody really knows yet

Welcome new ladies. I don't really buy into astrology stuff but I do like the number of Dragon babies conceived around Valentines day.

I have always had a fascination with China and I think it's awesome my baby will be born in the year of the Dragon.

Morning girls.

I've tried skim reading since I last came on here which was only at the weekend, this thread moves do fast!! Huge, massive, yippee congrats to all of the great scan results!!!!!
Welcome to the newbies, it's a great thread and really supportive.
I'm eagerly waiting my scan this morning. It's at 9 am - 2 hours to go but still seems ages!!!!!!
If all goes well we are shouting from the roof tops and hubby is running around his office (probably top off) celebrating his masculinity!!!!!
We heard of another friend that is pregnant last night. I can't wait to tell people that we are too.
Please let it all go well xxxxxxxxxxx 🙏👶👶

Morning everyone, I'm 11 weeks today and the scan is getting ever nearer.

I feel cold in the evenings too, it's prob linked to tiredness the two seem to go hand in hand.

Good luck for the scans today everyone.

Had a couple of horrible dreams last night. First one was that I had quite a heavy bleed, went to the antenatal unit & NOBODY would scan me. Like ever.
The second 1 was that I lost my wedding & engagement rings & everybody was waiting to order dinner & all they cared about was that I chose my food - not that I wanted to find my precious jewellery!!! Bit :( now but busy, busy, busy so can't wallow. Just hope the 1st dream isn't a prediction of anything.

I had a wiered dream too!!! I had two little boys they missed one in the scans?! It was hiding and they had no idea?! Feeling so much better everyday!! 13 weeks tomorrow :) so the 2nd trimester firmly in sight!!! Told work yesterday and a good few friends. Far too much squealing and crying!! And many many omg?! So I'd done a good job keeping it under wraps!! Now comes all the advice including people telling me start reserving places in nurseries!! I'm not showing either. Happy about that!!

Good morning ladies. Good luck nebbo and anyone else with a scan today.

DH I'm 11 weeks today as well. Despite my rotten cold still lingering I am feeling very positive today. May tell my mum at the weekend because I want her to come to the scan with me next week. She doesn't work on thursdays but if I don't give advance notice she may make plans. Though I suspect they would be quickly undone once she finds out my news. She will be over the moon, she's been saying for years that she can't wait until I have a baby.

Thinking of you nebbo - look forward to hearing your result!

I've been dreaming all night about scans, buggies, my sister and other related things. My scan showed that my baby was only the size of a biscuit (digestive? Wagon wheel?) and I needed to eat more (this is unlikely to be true).

Echoing all well wishes for scans today. I am tomorrow and I am getting quite nervous.

Good luck today nebbo detective and shelly with your scans, fingers crossed!!! Sorry of I've missed anyone :)

Welcome to all the newbies this thread keeps getting bigger and bigger! Wonder how many we'll go through until November?

Bah! Same old this morning... Had some fresh orange and it seems to have settled my stomach - I had a feeling it had been helping, and I think I was right, it wipes away the nausea completely.

So now I'm sat here scoffing a giant bag of ridged salted crisps NOM!

(Please stay down!!!)

Had to make DS hold a vomit bag at the ready while driving him to school this morning!

Will be sat here twiddling my thumbs for the next few hours . I'm very nervous about my booking in. I guess I've shared it before, but it helps writing it down. I plan (and informed the midwife at my initial visit) to decline all consultant care. I have 2 'risks' - raised BMI (which I don't consider a risk if I am otherwise healthy, which I am) and a previous caesarean. I accept that is a risk, but that it is NOT going to alter my antenatal care in any way. Therefore I have no reason to see an obstetrician - everyone will view it differently. But since this is my pregnancy, I want to do what is right for me.

I do not want to get in to a discussion about my choice for homebirth, not by a doctor who will find it extremely difficult to accept my decision. Of course this is a big assumption - but an educated assumption. If there is a supportive doctor, then great. But I doubt it, and I don't want the extra stress of having to discuss/argue about things.

I know they will assume I will see a doctor today, but I won't be, I'm starting as I mean to go on. I'm just not looking forward to having to fight for what I need.

I could be wrong - but expect a very mixed feeling detective later on! The joy of seeing my baby (fingers tightly crossed) but the stress of the above :(

Good luck Detective. Risks and the like are so much based on statistics whereas when we're going through it we very much intuit what is right. I understand why that frustrates some medical practitioners but pregnancy and birth are natural things and we have evolved to know what to do for the most part.

I hope you aren't too challenged and get the care you want today.

Thanks Waiting. My own colleagues think I am off my head for it, but you know what, I don't care. I knew 10 years ago what I would do if I have any more children, and doing my midwifery training and 5 years working as a midwife have not changed my mind in any way. Yes I've seen some awful awful things, and been witness to vbac's going wrong. However I have never ever seen anyone have a vbac 'naturally' without the use of synto, or otherwise medicalised.

I am however part of a group of women who have had vbac at home, and every day there is a new story. Not all end with the home birth, but even those that transfer in have good outcomes, and although disappointed that they didn't get the birth they wanted, happy that they did everything they could to facilitate it.

If I could afford to and if I wasn't afraid of the NMC I'd be an Independent Midwife. There is medicalisation of absolutely everything. If a woman wants that, then GREAT! That is her choice. But many women don't. It shouldn't be a fight to get that.

I'm going to shut up now, because we are all different, and I'm aware that what I want is a bit of a controversial subject.

I want a ga but I doubt that will happen!!!

It is controversial but when I posted about refusing NT and getting grief for it I got support from a lively poster (whose name escapes me) who despite having the completely opposite view, said I had the right to mine.

I think that is the greatest strength of these threads. There are lots of choices from how and where we give birth to how we feed our babies. Our MWs, partners, mothers and friends all have opinions but I like to think this is our safe place.

There's room for those wanting to knit yoghurt out of the placenta to make post birth snacks and those planning a tummy tuck within a month of a c-section.

Now that's enough hearts and flowers, I'm going back to being a mardy cow

Lol the only thing I'd thought about was the nt scan (and ga!!) I have no ideas on anything else!!! I'll just see what happens and try to go with the flow!!! As I said to my friend last night 'if it has 4 legs...... Oh no hang on 2 arms and 2 legs'....., I need to own fewer 4 legged friends!! I also need for the rain to stop and for people to stop asking my maternity/work plans!!

That made me chuckle Horsey 4 legs, I might be worried.... a little

I agree Waiting that is why I like it here, I feel free to feel how I want to, and love how everyone seems to respect everyone elses opinion! Now fuck off you caaaaaaaaaaaaaaaw!!!

I have to share this - I just remembered a discussion between me and DP last night.
DP: You know those tests tomorrow?
Me: Yeah, the NT?
DP: Well, I've been thinking, we could have those tests, but maybe if there is a problem we shouldn't have any further testing
Me: Errrrrrrrrm, well, can we discuss this tomorrow morning, I thought we had already agreed on what to do?
DP: I mean, even if our baby has Downs Syndrome, it won't change my mind about how I feel. And babies with Downs Syndrome can leave a full and happy life
Me: Yes, of course they can
DP: I mean look at keanu reeves. He has Downs Syndrome and he's fine.
Me: WFT?????? keanu reeves does NOT have Downs Syndrome.
DP: Oh yeah, that's Autism.

Seriously?! Sometimes that man can be so thick!! ARGHHHHHHH! I mean what WAS he thinking?!

And now, we have gone back to the beginning re: testing. I still want them, as I want to be prepared because there would be a hell of a lot to consider. DP will let me know later apparently.... sigh.

horsey and detective - you both made me chuckle

Detective and Blonder I'm glad I'm not the only one with crazy fruit cravings! At Morrisons they're selling nets of easy peel satsumas for 50p (yum!) but my real passion at the moment is MELON! I can't get enough of delicious melon. Honeydew or cantaloupe. How lovely to be into fruit - a healthy thing! I usually make a beeline for the chocolate or ice cream after dinner but the past few nights when DH kindly brings me the spoon and tub I have turned my nose up at it! Miracle!

I'm excited to hear about all your scans! I still have 3 weeks to wait for mine. Passmethecrisps cannot believe you haven't been booked in yet and you're 12 weeks! How does it work in your NHS area? We have to call a call centre to book early on and it's just done there and then.

I think my DH is having sympathetic pregnancy! He had some really vivid dreams yesterday and then (very very uncharacteristically) after I showed him some pushchairs I'd researched and suggested we look at in a few months, bought one online! WHAT? Luckily they have a return policy. Dearie me.

Interested to know - who have you ladies told so far? Just close family and friends or more? My colleague told me and our boss before 12 weeks but then this is her second and she's feeling pretty relaxed about it going well.

Hi Enchanted and Barmee, great to hear more good news and fingers crossed for every one with scans today. Was really proud of myself last night - managed to eat 2 courses (well, about a third of each, but not too bad), wasn't sick once and actually did a lot of dancing to New Kids (they were touring with Back Street Boys so I just sat down and had a bit of a rest whenever they came on!) I was glad I made the effort to go in the end because I actually felt "normal" for the first time in weeks!

thedetective I am in the stupid position where, just to get a scan time I could make without missing school runs, I had to go for consultant-led care! I am a bit worried that this will make it harder for me to have a home birth. Am going to try and ask about it at my scan next week.

Anyone still suffering from constipation? Can I (ahem) recommend the kiwi fruits. Two should do the trick....

I'm v excited about a dragon baby too. I lived in Hong Kong and dragon babies were considered the luckiest (there will be a baby boom in HK this year and is every dragon year). DH is a dragon baby too.

Totally get the vitimin c craving - when I was pregnant with DD I consumed vast quantities of clementines - so much so that my canteen at work let me have a BOGOF every time, I was buying about 12 a day. Am not quite as obsessed this time around, but do have a fresh fruit and ice smoothy every morning which is probably setting me up the same way.

I've not yet told anyone apart from both sets of parents and my brother and sister. Waiting for scan result on Monday, and will then probably tell my boss, and a few more people, gradually.

Need to tell a very close friend who has been struggling to conceive for years, and in that time I have gotten accidently knocked up with DD and then very easily pregnant this time around, and I cant help but be aware how unfair it will seem. Not relishing that conversation really, although she's a very good friend and will be very happy for me.

Just on countdown to the scan and confirmation of dates - current EDD is 5 November, but I think it may be adjusted because it took a good couple of weeks after AF was due before I got my BFP.