November 2012 - the boringly named fifth thread

[Stuntnun]

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1. www.mumsnet.com/Talk/antenatal_clubs/1412456-Nov-12-babies
2. www.mumsnet.com/Talk/antenatal_clubs/1432039-Due-in-November-2012-part-deux-no-cringy-thread-name-here
3. www.mumsnet.com/Talk/antenatal_clubs/1438916-November-2012-Duebies-Part-3-insert-cheesy-name-of-choice-here
4. www.mumsnet.com/Talk/antenatal_clubs/1449640-November-2012-bring-on-the-second-trimester

Good evening ladies.

Yesterday I felt semi-human so I did some housework and baked scones. So good so mormal. However, from the moment I opened my eyes this morning I have felt awful. I have had an aching head all day and just want to close my eyes. I ended up coming home early as I was non-teaching after lunch. Went to bed when I got home and slept for an hour but still not 100%.

Might head off to bed to watch Dr Who on iPlayer.

Great news everso must be a massive relief.

Thinking of those o you facing going back to work having been unwell. Scary thought - I'm bad enough following a weekend!

Yes Donna, that sounds usual :)

GT - we did NCT first time around. It was good, but I had done quite a lot of reading (and mumsnetting!) beforehand so didn't really tell me anything I didn't know.

Socially, it was useful, we would meet every week for the first few months. But I'm only in contact with one of them now, and the others aren't in contact at all, and to be honest, I've made much closer friends at groups etc. It's luck of the draw though, because I have a friend who still meets regularly with her group 8 years later, and they holiday together too!

One of the best things I did was the NCT tea groups - basically a group of 8 of so of us with similar aged babies were grouped together by a tea group host, and then met at each other's houses (and the pub!). We're all really close now. That was in SE london, we have since moved to the sticks and there's nothing like that here!

Izzy I hope the bleeding stops.
The detective I hope the crisps thing stops soon.

I have to wait until the end of may to have another scan. That's when I will be 20 weeks, and start to buy things. I also am looking forward to feeling the baby.

I have been getting the fog, the timing has been really bad as we have a new boss. So I looked like idiot. A silent, hasn't got a clue idiot, who hasn't got a sence of humour.

Well I'm off to st Ives tomorrow.
EW

My roast potatoes were carcinogenic. They have been sent back to the kitchen with complaints to the chef Mash potato is now being prepared.... tut.

I'm such a mard! But they were AWFUL! And I like my potatoes well done, but they needed a mallet to them....

Detective I think your partner must be a saint!

I was planning on doing the nct classes. They're 170 here? Just had a brill riding lesson having threatened to sell the beast before it for basically being an evil cow!!! I then got back and my ponies rider hadn't returned and I thought mmm bet she's gone to the river.....there's a flood warning in place!!! Sure enough that's what shed done....words fail me!! Just walked the dogs for an hour and now watching the apprentice!! I'm not tired yet :) yes!!!! Thanks for the kind words yesterday!!

I think you could be right Valium!

I'm high maintenance

And he hasn't has so much as a sexy glance in 3 months.... eeeek!

Hope you guys are all ok - izzy am keeping fx for you and yay for good scans.

I've been sounding out friends about NCT and have had a mixed response - although one friend said that £200 to buy a group of local friends going through it at exactly the same time is worth it, and this kinda makes sense.

God knows where we are though with money - the house is going to be quite a lot over budget if we don't scrap some bits - we got planning permission today and dh told the builder about the baby so think we may get some extra favours by pulling on his heart strings!

I just did NHS class with my first but wish I had done NCT. There was no social element to the NHS classes whereas I know that plays a large part in the NCT ones. Lots of my friends who have done NCT are still in contact with the people they met at the classes. I was quite lonely for the first few years after my ds1 was born. It was only when he started preschool that I have established a great group of mum friends.

detective your dp sounds like a saint. I struggle to get my dh to stop for a hot chocolate even when we are driving past starbucks!

Currently tucked up in bed and shan't be moving for at least 10 hers (except to pee). Oh the glamour...

Apple could the nausea be due to taking Pregnacare? The dizziness is due to low blood pressure which is common in pregnancy.

donna as chunky said if it's combined test you don't get the risk results there and then. In my case I will get a letter in a couple of weeks but I will get a call within 3 days if it comes back high risk. So what you've said sounds about right. However I did ask the sonographer what the nuchel fold measurement was and it was very low. It's also listed on the report that they gave me after the scan, although I can't see it on the actual photos itself. If your measurement was unusually high the sonographer would more than likely have drawn it to your attention as happened with a friend of mine.

Re NCT I agree with a lot of the other comments. Personally I didn't learn anything new, but one thing it did help me with is to have the confidence to try and go through labour without an epidural. Prior to my classes I was sure I wanted every drug going but I ended up having none. Am also still close to the friends I met through it and a group of 5 of us meet weekely. It's lovely for my DD to have friends the same age as her and so sweet to see them all together.

Having said all that, I did make another group of really good friends through a pregnancy fitness class. If I had known I would meet reguarly with them I probably would have saved my money and not done the NCT classes.

Never been one to buy friends personally, but I do see the point of going to NCT groups. I could not justify or indeed find the dosh.

Hello, hello all. Have been floating on air today after seeing my lovely baby this morning. It did a little roll around which we were delighted about, although the sonographer was less so as it made the measuring more tricksy. She let me go to the loo mid-scan as I was wincing a bit, I could have held on but I wasn't going to argue. Aaagh the relief.

So the nuchal measurement was 2.3, which is in the normal range - they did give this to me straight away Donna - but the blood test will take about 2 weeks to come back if normal, or 1 week if not. I sort of thought I'd already agreed to the combined test but the mw talked for ages about deciding whether to have the blood test, she seemed to be leaning against it as she kept talking about false positives blighting the pregnancy but in the end we went ahead.

I know it sounds silly but looking at the screen during the scan I just felt so happy and had an overwhelming feeling that this baby is fine. I'm not one to go by feelings over science but also I'm normally a right worrier and in this case I just feel happy and confident and positive. Just give me a few days for the high to wear off and I'll be back to my neurotic self I'm sure. But today you can't wipe the smile off my face (or get me to do any constructive work).

Oh and Detective - I also had a small go at DH on the subject of the correct crisps. It's important!

Hello everyone :) Saw baby this morning, it was just breathtaking! Now I know I really haven't been imagining it, there's a tiny person in there! An awkward tiny person but one there nonetheless! Bean wouldn't lie right so she sent me for a walk, kept getting me to wiggle about and allsorts! She got the NT measurement in the end and said it was a normal measurement, didn't say anything more, and my official EDD is 10/11/12 :) It's nice to have a 'proper' one! Despite not moving much position wise there were arms and legs flailing all over the place! Baby did do a roll and a couple of flips but mostly wanted to settle as though lying in a hammock with it's chin firmly on it's abdomen, making him/her look smaller than he/she actually is, it was a fiddly bean, that's for sure!

The OH was ever so sweet, he was watching the screen like he'd never seen a tv before, totally mesmerized and has just been saying all day how completely amazing it is :) He's taken some of the scan photos into work, bless him :)

I'm off to bed now, am dozing off writing this! Hope everyone else has had a good day! My next scan isn't until the 25th June, and the OH is looking at private scans as he doesn't think he can wait that long! Night all

Amazing, brilliant Kyz. It really is fantastic, isn't it. Congratulations!

Loving all these smiley faces!

YellowWellies - 18th April at 9 weeks - all fine :)
GTbaby - 18th April at 12 weeks spot on - all fine :)
Izzy - 19th April 3pm at 10+3 - all fine :)
Peaky1 - 19th April at 11+2 - all fine :)
PetiteRaleuse - 19th April at 11+something - all fine :)
HorseyLady - 19th April at 3:30pm at 11+5 - all fine :)
ItalaItala - 19th April at 11:25am - more than fine! We have a winner! Due 16/7!! :)
Belgrano - 20th April - all fine :)
WaitingForMe - 21st April at 9+5 - all fine :)
LittleLolly - 23rd April at 12+4 - all fine :)
Little9 - 9am 24th April at 12+4 - all fine :)
Eversomuch - 24th April at 11+5 - all fine :)
tomatoplantproject - 24th April - all fine :)
TheDetective - 25th April at 12+1 - all fine except not enough time looking at bean! :)
ShellyBobbs - 25th April at 11 - all fine :)
Nebbo - 25th April 13 weeks - twins so will deliver early Oct :)
ValiumQueen - 26th April 1.20pm at 12+3 - all fine :)
Onamission28 - 8.50am 27th April at 12+2 weeks - all fine :)
Cacacaz - 27th April at 12+2 - all fine :)
DonnaDoon - 27th April - all fine :)
Elizadoesdolittle - 30th April 12 wks - all fine :)
Blonderthanred - 30th April at 12+4 - all fine :)
Stabiliser15 - 30th April at 13 weeks
Izzybizzybuzzybees -1st May at 12+1
daisychain76 - 1st May at 11+4
WestWinger - 1st May at 13+1
PassMeTheCrisps - 3rd May 13 weeks
NervousAt20 - 3rd May at 4:30pm at poss 13+2
Bluetinkerbell - 3rd May at 11+3
applepieinthesky - 3rd May at 4:30pm at 12+1
RoLoh - 3rd May
DebussyHead - 3rd May at 13+1
goldene - 4th May at 12+5 or thereabouts
Ditsygem - 4th May at 12+2
WaitingForMe -8th May at 12+1
TitsalinaBumSquash - 9th May 12+4
Brockle - 9th May 12+5
Tiago - 10th May at noon 14+2 - will add smilie then
Thechick - 10 May at 12+2
Victorious03 - 10th May 4.30pm at 12+6
Misslaughalot - 11th May 12.10pm at 12 + 3
DesperateHousewife21 - 11th May 4pm 13+2 weeks
StuntNun - 11th May 14+2 weeks
FatimaLovesBread - 11th May 12wks
FruitSaladIsNotPudding - 14 th May at 12+5
ChunkyChicken - 16th May at 13+2 weeks

Jaylee89 - waiting

jaylee are you still waiting for a scan date?

I don't take pregnacare stuntnun. All I take is folic acid, calcium and vit d tablets.

I'm really unsure about paying out all that money for NCT classes. They sound good but we don't have a huge amount of money and I think about all the baby things I could buy for that.

apple the dizziness now is prob due to your blood flow being redirected to your womb. Don't worry - that too shall pass!

And I am not showing either. If anything people keep saying I look thinner !

13 weeks today. I am officially 2nd trimester and there is no sign of any problem. I may begin to breathe again soon.

Glad to hear about the scans going well :)

Still have 10 days to go argh!

Woo hoo, it's May! I'm 11 weeks today and 10 days until our scan, I can count them days on my fingers!

Its fantastic to read all the positive scan stories. Congratulations Blonder and Kyz. I'm so excited and unbelievably scared for ours. Can't help but think its not going to go well. DH I love reading your posts as you're saying exactly what I'm thinking!

Good luck to Izzy, Daisy and Westwinger today!

Aw thanks misslaughalot! We're in the same boat having the scans on the same day, I'm scared about it too!

Morning! We had our scan yesterday afternoon, and am thrilled to report everything looks good. Was dated as 12+3 instead of 13 but suspected dates based on LMP wouldnt be quite right, so very much as expected. EDD now confirmed at 09/11/12.

The nuchal measurement was coming up as 1.7 so the sonographer said it was very likely to be low risk as the threshold in this PCT is 3.5.

We've told the rest of our families and will start to make it public once I have told work - not sure when to do it so will wait for the right moment.

Re NCT - I didnt bother when I was pregnant with DD. I thought it was a waste of money we didnt have really, and I'm the kind of person that didnt really like the idea of befriending people just because they were having the same experience at the same time. But then my DH thinks I am very antisocial sometimes, and I have a couple of close friends who have children a year or two older than DD, so had friends who "knew" that I could call upon. I also knew I'd be going back to work reasonably early on, so felt less of a need to build a social circle based on babies, rather than work. Imagine I'll do the same this time.

Good luck to those having scans today!

Congratulations to all the ladies with good scan results and fingers crossed for lots of very low NT results!

Good luck to all the ladies with scans today! Hope your feelin better today izzy

Good luck to the ladies with scans today. Hopefully there will be lots more smiley faces added to the scan stats