November 2012 - bring on the second trimester

[Stuntnun]

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

I'm horribly pale NervousAt20. Nobody except DH and the kids have seen me without blusher for three weeks.

I'm with Brockle regarding food. It's so hard to find things I want to eat at the moment that I can't think about it too much. Often peanut butter is the only thing I'm eating that has any protein in it.

Blonder the official rule is peanuts are fine so don't worry about the PB. The recommendation only ever applied to people with a family history of allergies/eczema/asthma.

MissLaughALot I had bad backache a few weeks ago, probably hormones allowed me to pull/damage something.

Nervous I'm a bit wan as well. I don't look great .

Added myself in:

YellowWellies - 18th April at 9 weeks
GTbaby - 18th April at 12 weeks spot on
Peaky1 - 19th April at 11+2
PetiteRaleuse - 19th April at 11+something
HorseyLady - 19th April at 3:30pm at 11+5
ItalaItala - 19th April at 11:25am
WaitingForMe - 21st April at 9+5
Little9 - 9am 24th April at 12+4
Eversomuch - 24th April at 11+5
TheDetective - 25th April at 12+1
ShellyBobbs - 25th April at 11
Cacacaz - 27th April at 12+2
Elizadoesdolittle - 30th April
Blonderthanred - 30th April at 12+4
Stabiliser15 - 30th April at 13 weeks
daisychain76 - 1st May at 11+4
NervousAt20 - 3rd May at 4:30pm at poss 13+2
Bluetinkerbell - 3rd May at 11+3
RoLoh - 3rd May
DebussyHead - 3rd May at 13+1
Ditsygem - 4th May at 12+2
Brockle - 9th May 12+5
Thechick - 10 May at 12+2
Misslaughalot - 11th May 12.10pm at 12 + 3
DesperateHousewife21 - 11th May 4pm 13+2 weeks
StuntNun - 11th May 14+2 weeks
ChunkyChicken - 16th May at 13+2 weeks

Hello all

I'm like waiting when it comes to food. Have gone off most things. I think this baby wants to be veggie lol!! Cant eat bread, or pitta, or potatoes, it gives me heartburn, cant have chicken, or pork anymore, too salty, rice makes me extra bloated. I can eat plums and granola (with no milk, I'm lactose intolerant) and chinese noodles, but i'm really scared of eating too much fish and salmon smells really oily to me now when i cook it and my sodium intake I think is too high.

Hi Folks got my scan date too 27th april 3pm cant add myself though, hope everyone ok and soldiering on , Im still ever so slightly midly nauseous I dont want tea or coffee but better than what I was before .

And now with Donna

YellowWellies - 18th April at 9 weeks
GTbaby - 18th April at 12 weeks spot on
Peaky1 - 19th April at 11+2
PetiteRaleuse - 19th April at 11+something
HorseyLady - 19th April at 3:30pm at 11+5
ItalaItala - 19th April at 11:25am
WaitingForMe - 21st April at 9+5
Little9 - 9am 24th April at 12+4
Eversomuch - 24th April at 11+5
TheDetective - 25th April at 12+1
ShellyBobbs - 25th April at 11
Cacacaz - 27th April at 12+2
DonnaDoon - 27th April
Elizadoesdolittle - 30th April
Blonderthanred - 30th April at 12+4
Stabiliser15 - 30th April at 13 weeks
daisychain76 - 1st May at 11+4
NervousAt20 - 3rd May at 4:30pm at poss 13+2
Bluetinkerbell - 3rd May at 11+3
RoLoh - 3rd May
DebussyHead - 3rd May at 13+1
Ditsygem - 4th May at 12+2
Brockle - 9th May 12+5
Thechick - 10 May at 12+2
Misslaughalot - 11th May 12.10pm at 12 + 3
DesperateHousewife21 - 11th May 4pm 13+2 weeks
StuntNun - 11th May 14+2 weeks
ChunkyChicken - 16th May at 13+2 weeks

Thankyou my lovely Chick

well! when I thought 'triage' I was imagining small boys getting stitches and suchlike. Oh no! this was a maternity triage.

So there am I with 10 week baby bloat, across from me is a proper lady in for her 20 week scan, another one for a 38 week check-up and one with an actual baby. In the room next to us there was one of two possibilities of what was happening:
a) a woman was giving birth
b) a really, rely energetic game of twister.

Lady with actual baby reckoned it was option a and I think she was the expert.

I sat there for ages listening to people talking about a 'huge haemorrhage' and how bonkers things were. Felt like a total imposter.

shellybobs I second the pregnancy oil slick. I am zitty and slimy. That coupled with the pregnancy thighs (that is a thing, isn't it?) and people are looking at me obviously thinking "blimey, she didn't wait long after the wedding to let herself go"

I was pale until recently nervous but have noticed I'm getting my colour back.

Can't believe I've got a MONTH to wait for the scan!!!!

Passmethecrisps I too am disappointed by the wobbly, cellulite-y blubber like state of my thighs. Thought it happened later into pregnancy but clearly I was remembering with rose-tinted glasses... I came back from honeymoon preggo so figure the same thought must have abounded first time around too!!!

really, chicken ? That is torture. I think if mine is more than two weeks away I will get a private one done. I can't stand this much longer. All the "what if there is nothing in there?" "is it all in my head?" etc is making me mental.

Thanks everyone. Went ok my reading was fine and I hardly cried!! So it's ok. Wake over can focus on scan etc Thursday!!

Final installment for a wee while from me, promise!!!

I haven't had to do bloods yet - have been told to take my forms & get it done at the same time as the scan. Don't think that was the case with DD but we have a good drop-in haem unit at my local hospital - the staff are excellent at taking blood because its all they do, day in, day out. Have only every had pain and anguish with bloods taken by ward/a&e staff. And I bruise SOOOOO easily, it looks like I've been beaten :(

chicken me too! did I mention that already? Too much Cava on honeymoon and Bob's your uncle. I have always had, shall we say, sturdy thighs. My legs are not going to snap anyway. Sadly, they have entered into the spirit of things in gay abandon. I am going to have to go for skirts ad dresses from now on.

Sat down to a bit of MN as feeling dreadful despite an afternoon nap and I have to say you have cheered me up no end. It is good to know that I am not the only one who looks like crap and has chunky legs!
On another note I also realised that doing the supermarket shop when I am hungry with a bunch of random food fetishes is probably not the best thing to do. I have cheddar and picallily soup, prawn cocktail crisps and ginger ale. Not sure what I am going to cook with those but it could make for interesting meal times!

I had a pot noodle for lunch it was the nicest most yummy thing ever at the time.
Now I feel sick and the thought of the sausage casserole for dinner is making me feel worse and that's one of my fav dinners usually.

I have chunky thighs too!!

jenbird I have been banned from the weekly shop for that very reason. I would just buy coleslaw, salt and vinegar crisps, peanut butter, white bread, grapefruit and granola ooh and corned beef and fruit gums. Best leave it to DH. Cheese is no longer my friend.

Feel exhausted. Having five minutes of peace whilst the boys play outside. Washing up is calling to me.

Omg I have big thighs from horse riding, running and walking but they also feel HUGE!!! Starting to have a tiny bump I can't pull in either lol!!

Horseylady I wish I could say me too! Mine are from lager and crisps . . .

Charity shops are my new best friend!
I have been looking at maternity trousers, where I am they are about £25-30. Went looking at charity shops, and found a pair for £4! Dorothy Perkins too.

So after weeks of feeling sick and trying to monitor everything I eat to see if it makes it better/worse today I decided to sod it all!
1 giant bag of fruit pastilles, a whole cherry cake, 2 bags of crisps, muffins, pasta and chocolate I still feel really sick but for today at least I feel sick with lots of yummy food in me

Glad. It went well Horseylady x. My scan is 11:20 on thurs!

Thought I would share an 'energy' drink that my friend suggested to me. She's a radio newsreader/presenter and she works stupid hour shifts. She is also on mat leave with a 5 month old. Blend banana, peanut butter and milk together. This becomes a slow release energy drink. She wasn't kidding either. I'm not exactly bouncing off the walls but I felt much better today and still not as tired as I have been at this time of night.

I had my booking in appointment today and OMG they ask a lot of questions + blood sample + urine sample + blood pressure. I didn't realise it would take over an hour. They did a scan to check viability and all was well with the bean doing somersaults the whole time and measuring approximately 10+4 but there was too much wiggling about to be sure of an accurate reading. DS1 was extremely active in his scans as well which makes me think this one will have ADHD as well. It's definitely not twins anyway

The midwife said I could bring my kids for the 20-week scan if I wanted so I might do that. She also said they don't have a policy on gender determination at the anomaly scan so it's up to the sonographer and/or the shyness of the baby whether you find out the sex or not.

Roll on 11 May for the 14 12-week scan when DH will be able to come with me. I still can't quite believe there's a baby in there as there's no sign of a bump yet. The next milestone will be the end of the fatigue and nausea FC.

Hello ladies.

Good luck to YellowWellies and GTbaby for your scans tomorrow. Only one more week for me. Can't wait!

Not doing too bad on the oily front, however have a definite belly now (used to be flat). People at work keep staring at it so they're either thinking "God, she's letting herself go and eating too many pies" or they may have guessed I'm updiffed! Luckily everyone has been polite enough not to ask questions!

Glad you've got through today ok horseylady.

Been thoroughly enjoying peanut butter and jam on toast!

Boobs aren't so sore anymore and not so tired, so hoping this is just because I'm approaching 12 weeks (on Friday) and not anything more sinister.

Little I swear people I work with think the same!! Actually I'm fitting into dresses and jeans etc fine it's just how I 'feel' lol