Jan 2013 club: "Oh, wow, it's positive!"

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So I POAS and oh, wow, it's positive!
From my online calculating, that puts the due date at Jan 20th, ish, 2013.

This will be my second, DS is currently 20 months old.

I'm so exciiiiiiiiiiited and I can't tell anyone yet! Also, I am looking for a new job and we're talking about buying a house. Crazy, moi?

Anyone else?

I have just had a letter through with an appointment for 23rd august when I will be 21 weeks. Not sure if it is my 20 week scan or for my c section chat? One of lifes little mysteries.

pmgkt have you not had an appt through for your 12 week scan yet?

I think the tiredness is going thank goodness - as today I rode five horses, lunged a sixth, bred a mare to the stallion and then went to play tennis. Whoop!!!

Awake AGAIN!!!!!! [Hmm]

Also awake...feel so sick...

Now up eating toast and apples. What is going on???? I had a second early scan yesterday as my midwife wasn't happy with the bleeding - brown spotting for nearly four weeks. The baby is fine, measures as expected for dates. She could also see the source of the bleed which has reassured me too. I am delighted and it was lovely to see the baby!

Yes crafty my 12 week scan is next Friday, just think its too efficient for they nhs. Isn't it?

Hello, can I join please? Due on 20 January 2012. First time. Hugely chuffed but a bit confused by it all.

Hi thebeta congrats on your news and welcome.

Hi everyone, I also felt rough yesterday so worked from home for the day (thank godness for remote access) as could not face the commute in feeling like I was going to hurl!

octane I am tired just reading your post

Good luck with all the scans etc coming up and keep posting the good news, always great to hear when scans reveal good news.

I am excited today as I am 8weeks today. Another week bites the dust - whoop whoop!

Thanks for your support all :) well i too am awake stupidly early every day and then shattered . I feel rather sick and constantly thirsty . Very annoying , x

Mummypud, that's good news. Yes, I'm thirsty a lot too, which i don't remember being last time. Also sick.

Finally seeing my GP on Tues so I can get on the system and get scans booked etc! It's been very busy with work and I just haven't had time yet - crazy. I think I'm 8 weeks. Do I need to bring a urine sample with me? I can't remember what happened last time.

Cute story - I have just been teaching a sex ed lesson to my year 9class, one of them pipes up 'Miss, i think you might be having a baby' me - Oh really what makes you say that? 'because you keep on nibbling at biscuits and drinking juice and yesterday I heard you were off sick' Blooming well, perhaps Im teaching them too well in sex ed!!
Also, my headteacher has got a scientist background, she was telling me (whilst i was waiting to go home after puking up all morning) that when the baby has a big growth burst, chemicals are released into the body and they gather on areas of smooth muscle and cause them to contract, the stomach being one of the largest flat muscles (her explanation was way more scientific but that was the general idea) So next time Ive got my head down the loo I'll try and be happy thinking the bean is having another growth spurt!!
Hope everyone is good :)
I think we should also chllege ourselves to try and find nice alcohol alternatives and yummy safe cheeses in time for Christmas! I normally eat my body weight in stilton and guzzle mulled wine like its going out of fashion!!

I read on another thread that it is OK to eat runny eggs so long as they are lion stamped (as this means they are vaccinated against salmonella).

I also read that it is OK to eat baked camembert, as the cooking process kills any bacteria.

This makes me happy

I'm also massively thirsty, waking up at all hours of the morning gasping for water, tongue stuck to roof of my mouth etc, and dreaming about water every night too - weird! My sister had the same so hoping it's a common thing.

Having a major baby-brain day. I just had an assessment at work which went horrendously - brain turned to mush. Wish I could tell them I have an excuse of being preggers!

Welcome thebeta.

Question for those who've had a nuchal scan before. Am curious, when they measure the neck can you see the measurement? I'd like to know what it is so I can either get a bit if reassurance (or early warning, but hopefully not). My notes say they won't tell me but surely you can see. I know it's only one part of the test but not looking forward to waiting up to 3 weeks for the full result.

I am so ill. Does anyone else have overwhelming and hideous nausea? I came home from school early today and have not stopped feeling sick for days. I know it's all for a good cause but it is horrid and I just want to cry.

I think at my nuchal scan last time I was told the measurement and the combined result was posted to me. If you are considered high risk where I live you are telephoned within 48 hours of the test. A friend has recently had a nuchal scan and she was told the measurement at the time too.

Thanks spring.

That sounds tough. I feel sick alot of the time but it's manageable - not actually puked and if eating or distracted it disappears. Can't imagine how awful it must be to have it really bad.

Just had an early scan. All fine and has a heartbeat. New due date of 31 Jan. Can some one change it on the list for me. I also have my normal scan date of 18 July to be added.

Great news Brug, congratulations!

I'm wondering whether to start telling more people now. DP and I have told or parents and siblings. we're going to a biggish family do I've the weekend, so I was thinking about letting people there know now. I'm thinking about letting my manager know sometime next week. Not sure if it's still a bit early or if it's probably ok to feel more confident and start spreading the news.

brug I know its exciting, but the early days are still 'early days'.
You've yet to have the 12 wk scan (I assume) and to 'put it out there' is to take away your privacy to contemplate and absorb (potentially) devastating info that you may wish to act upon/deal with without judgement and interference.
I've seen this 1st hand (though not personally suffered) and it meant that everyone hung on tenter hooks wanting calls updating at each test result etc. (the last thing I'd want).
The above is just an opinion and TBH if your a 'talker' it may suit you to have a support network.
I'm not a talker.
With scans....... I know people who had low risk scan/bloods and delivered a downs baby and 1 had high risk going on to invasive amnio test (risk of miscarriage) to be told all clear no problem.
This isn't unheard of, not sure if you could go as far as to say its common............ So I guess scans take em or leave em, occasionally they seem to be a blind stab in the dark.
I'm really not trying to be too woefull and I hope that comes across.
Its crap keeping amazing secrets I guess.

I agree with knucking - at the end of the day if something were to go wrong, would you mind lots of people knowing. You might want to have as much support as possible but also you might want to deal with things in private. That's the cautious/sensible side!

The other side is to go by statistics - you've seen the heartbeat which is great and means the mc rate massively drops and typically with all stats for nasty things, there's more chance of things being fine than not. Depends what you think about stats though. You're right to feel more confidant....but whether it's right to tell people, only you can say! Go with your gut instinct :)

I am the other side of the coin. I am a talker. We've told most of our close friends and family and work now know because they figured it out. My reason for telling is that a) in the worst case scenario I would want support from the people close to me and b) the worst case scenario is not what is most likely to happen, although there are risks and sone pregancies do not go as planned most do! I am thinking positive thoughts about the little life inside me whilst hoping and praying for the best. Do whatever is right for you, and if you want to tell people - do and if you don't - then don't. There is no hard and fast rule. Congrats on the good news must have been such a relief x

I've told people on a need to know basis so only those at work who are directly affected by me going off on maternity leave have been told. I had a mc in jan and although I am 'a talker' I preferred dealing with it on my own with my husband and a few people found out later. Our parents and siblings will find out after the scan.

On that note, got my scan date in yesterday!! Totally didn't see the letter on the mat and my husband handed me it when he got in at 11.30pm! Very excited for the 25th so hope everything is ok with the sprog...

People are starting to guess now on account of me being as sick as anything

We are just saying no when they ask haven't had a scan date yet and we still want to be sure before we say anything that everything is ok

Anyone else having trouble cleaning their teeth while trying not to yak its bloody horrible