February 2013 - early days but quite excited!

[cheeseandmushroomtoastie]

Thought I'd get the ball rolling as I know there have been some BFPs in the last few days on here.....

Just got a confirmatory BFP on a clear blue. This will be DC2, DC1 will be two in two weeks!

So grab a seat, buckle up and enjoy the vino soft drinks on offer.

Ps is it really bad that I am craving a jug of Pimm's?!

[cheeseandmushroomtoastie]

1000 posts!!!!!! Woohoo!!!!

[queenrollo]

morecoffee and others with sleep issues - i've been waking in the early hours too. DH leaves for work v early in the morning and I woke as he left today and couldn't get back to sleep. Am going to be zzzz this afternoon, but thankfully I don't work so I can grab half hour on the sofa.

[LoisLame]

Thanks queenrollo, think I will try giving the community midwives a ring and ask their advice. I'm thinking of changing gp because it's so difficult to get an appointment. I even phoned them when my DD had a strange rash thinking under those circumstances they would fit her in, but ended up having to take her to the walk in centre. Plus I really don't want the same mw as last time. Had a hard time with DD lack of weight gain so really came to associate the mw with bearing bad news and sending us back to hospital on more than one occasion so think a clean slate would be nice.

Forgot to add, looked on NHS choices about hayfever meds and pg and it listed a few for anyone else who's suffering too.

[morecoffeemorecoffee]

Crap nights sleep :( tossed and turned all night

[somethingwittynot]

oh and we have a sporty astra sri here and have found a double buggy to fit it

[queenrollo]

Spottypyjamas Yorkshire, pg with DC#1, Due Feb 15th
Haywire Wales, pg with DC#2, has DD(4), Due 2nd Feb
HulaBoola (Boola for short), Oxfordshire, pg with DC#1, Due Feb 1st
BeanDunne (AmazeballsSuperFandango), Ireland, pg with DC#1, Due Feb 21st
SomethingWittyNot Kent, pg with DC#2, has DS (21w), Due Feb 19th ish
morecoffee Cornwall, pg with DC#3, Has DS(6) and DS(4), Due 16th Feb
MustBeDueSomeBetterFeet Bedfordshire, pg with DC#1, Due 14th Feb
Pinkie29 East Midlands, pg with DC#1, Due 14th Feb
SBC (SlightlyBabyCrazed), Sussex, pg with DC#1, Due 12th Feb
DinkyPengiun Newcastle upon Tyne, pg with DC#1, Due 15th Feb
carries Glasgow, pg with DC#3, Has DD(8) and DD(5), Due 14th Feb
ZanyWany East Midlands, pg woth DC#3, Has DS(11), DD(8) + DSS(5) and DSS(2), Due 8th-15th Feb
MrsRT Bristol, pg wtih DC#1, Due 2nd Feb
QueenOfTheDrama Merseyside, pg with DC#1, Due 18th Feb
FlyingSubmarine Suffolk, pg with DC#1, Due 14th Feb
perfectshadeofgrey London, pg with DC#2, Has DD, Due 2nd Feb
orangewellies Southeast, pg with DC#3, Has DD(4) and DS(2), Due 15th Feb
Splinters Oxfordshire, pg with DC#1, Due 23rd Feb
sonics Manchester, pg wtih DC#1, Due 20th Feb
littlemisssnowshine Belfast, pg with DC#2, Has DS(nearly 2), Due 20th Feb
CrazySexyCool123 Bristol, pg with DC#1, Due 12th Feb
eggandbean Leeds, pg with DC#1, Due 14th Feb
crabapplebobbin Manchester, pg with DC#2, Has DD(2), Due 22nd Feb
LoisLame West Midlands, pg with DC#2, Has DD(22m), Due 25th Feb
loveschocolate North Somerset, pg with DC#1, Due 3rd Feb
Bunny222 west mids, pg with DC#1, Due 26th Jan
Queenrollo Lincolnshire pg with DC#2 has DS (6), Due 15th Feb (i think)

Hello ladies, have added myself to the list and am joining the group. Has taken two and a half years, after investigations and surgery for me to get pregnant. Second DC for me but first for my DH so it's all very exciting.

littlemisssnowshine you said you wanted to organise the list by due date. When I was on a thread when pg with DS that's what we did, so if you feel so inclined go ahead. I would do it but if you'd actually enjoy doing it then I won't deprive you of the pleasure. It's quite nice when it's done as people can then see much more easily who their due date buddies are. It does mean having to keep on top of things for a while as new people come to the thread but it worked ok last time with a few of us checking in every day and sorting it.

lois have you accessed a midwife yet? If you really can't get hold of a GP for an appt then you could phone the midwives at your hospital to ask for advice on what to take, or even go and see a pharmacist and ask for advice as they often know much better what is contr-indicated in pregnancy.

Right i'm going to have a browse back through some of this thread to see what you have been talking about.

[somethingwittynot]

cheese we have our midwife on the same day!

no waking in the night here just thoroughly knackered starving and stabby achey boobs!!

to anyone on DC1 wait until the insomnia kicks in. thats loads of fun.

[Bunny222]

Spottypyjamas Yorkshire, pg with DC#1, Due Feb 15th
Haywire Wales, pg with DC#2, has DD(4), Due 2nd Feb
HulaBoola (Boola for short), Oxfordshire, pg with DC#1, Due Feb 1st
BeanDunne (AmazeballsSuperFandango), Ireland, pg with DC#1, Due Feb 21st
SomethingWittyNot Kent, pg with DC#2, has DS (21w), Due Feb 19th ish
morecoffee Cornwall, pg with DC#3, Has DS(6) and DS(4), Due 16th Feb
MustBeDueSomeBetterFeet Bedfordshire, pg with DC#1, Due 14th Feb
Pinkie29 East Midlands, pg with DC#1, Due 14th Feb
SBC (SlightlyBabyCrazed), Sussex, pg with DC#1, Due 12th Feb
DinkyPengiun Newcastle upon Tyne, pg with DC#1, Due 15th Feb
carries Glasgow, pg with DC#3, Has DD(8) and DD(5), Due 14th Feb
ZanyWany East Midlands, pg woth DC#3, Has DS(11), DD(8) + DSS(5) and DSS(2), Due 8th-15th Feb
MrsRT Bristol, pg wtih DC#1, Due 2nd Feb
QueenOfTheDrama Merseyside, pg with DC#1, Due 18th Feb
FlyingSubmarine Suffolk, pg with DC#1, Due 14th Feb
perfectshadeofgrey London, pg with DC#2, Has DD, Due 2nd Feb
orangewellies Southeast, pg with DC#3, Has DD(4) and DS(2), Due 15th Feb
Splinters Oxfordshire, pg with DC#1, Due 23rd Feb
sonics Manchester, pg wtih DC#1, Due 20th Feb
littlemisssnowshine Belfast, pg with DC#2, Has DS(nearly 2), Due 20th Feb
CrazySexyCool123 Bristol, pg with DC#1, Due 12th Feb
eggandbean Leeds, pg with DC#1, Due 14th Feb
crabapplebobbin Manchester, pg with DC#2, Has DD(2), Due 22nd Feb
LoisLame West Midlands, pg with DC#2, Has DD(22m), Due 25th Feb
loveschocolate North Somerset, pg with DC#1, Due 3rd Feb
Bunny222 west mids, pg with DC#1, Due 26th Jan

Are many of you waking a lot in the night? I seem to be waking at 1am and 4am daily now. :-(

[BeanDunne]

Aww lois that doesn't sound fun.
This is my normal waking time now... i quite like it. It a lovely time of day.

I had a horrible dream last night which mirrors real life and has left me feeling off. bloody pregnancy dreams and hormones

[LoisLame]

Been up since 5am suffering with hayfever :( Have a horrible itchy throat. Anyone heard of anything you can do/take to help in pg? Not sure if I'll be able to get to the gp as it's almost impossible to get an appointment these days.

[Pinkie29]

And cars, we need to sell at least one for something more 'practical'

[Pinkie29]

Swan we need to move too! Both work local but we're renting atm tenancy ends 3 months before baby is here and we desperately want to buy but am thinking we might be better off waiting until after as it's a lot of stress and pressure house hunting!

[Pinkie29]

cheese I'm constantly hungry being good tho and filling up on fruit veg an yogurts! I was told to bring a sample with me on my first appointment and pretty sure you give one on all the rest too

[Swanlike]

Name: Swanlike
Lives: Cambridge
DC: None
DD: 6th Feb

On iPhone, so can someone add me to the list. Wow, so much has happened on here since I last posted. Relieved to hear that other people have been freezing cold and thirsty - I had started to worry that I was getting gestational diabetes. Have my Midwife's appointment next Tuesday and keep meaning to fill in the Massive form, but then I fall asleep!

Have been discussing how this is going to work out with my boyfriend - we currently don't live or work in the same place. Think that I will need to sell my house and move to London and that he will need to get a new job in London, as that's where I currently work and he lives. It seems like a lot to sort out in the next 7 or so months. It's Scary but exciting too. In a way I'm itching to get things sorted out, but am waiting for the 12 week mark before getting started. Is anyone else's life going to change dramatically as a result of pregnancy?

[cheeseandmushroomtoastie]

I really want to rearrange the list so everyone's details are on a single line, but you will all think I'm bonkers. would do it in excel if I could so i could do some graphs too of due dates and locations

Apart from that am doing ok! No symptoms apart from hunger... Midwife appt next Thursday. Remind me, do you have to provide a urine specimen and take it with you or can you give one there? Always used to forget to take one for my appointments last time.....

[somethingwittynot]

wow you guys move fast

[QueenOfTheDrama]

Hi fidget congratulations! And welcome!

Last person to post on the thread starts the new one!

[FidgetPie]

Hi there,

A new joiner here, I found out on Sunday that I am pregnant with our second (DD is just over 2). We had been trying for over a year so it was a lovely fathers day present for DH!

My due date is Feb 28 (so only just making it into Feb!).

At the moment it still doesn't feel real - I've done 4 pregnancy tests since Sunday morning so pretty sure it is though - and I do feel a bit 'odd'!

I'll add myself properly to the list tomorrow (on my iPhone now), but I live in East London, have a DD (2 years) and am due on 28 Feb.

Really pleased to be joining you all

[Pinkie29]

Threads filling up fast! I have to wash my hair but just sooo exhausted! I'll never complain of being tired again after I've had my Poppy! Oh and I'm comparing my sickness to the epic hangovers I've had in life, so far it's been a breeze!

[QueenOfTheDrama]

Good luck at mw tomorrow morecoffee! Let us know how it goes! Still got 2wks to wait till my appointment

littlemiss I was going to say the same thing! if no one else has re-arranged the list according to due date by tomorrow OCD-style then I may be tempted to do it myself! Not right now though as my bed and book are calling! When I'm not reading pregnancy stuff I'm just starting Fifty Shades Of Grey - has anyone read it and if so what do you think? I hear its quite rude! trying to stop myself from skipping to the parts containing filth

[MrsRT]

Thanks loveschochocolate I think I would like to have the option of having an epidural as I'm absolutely terrible with pain!

[MrsRT]

Ahh, I'm not far from Brislington too! I had an early scan as unfortunately had a bleed last week but we got to see the little prawn and his heartbeat, it was such a relief! I think RUH will be your best bet too, imagine going into labor at 5pm on a Friday afternoon, you'd have the baby by the time you got to Southmead, ha!

[LittleMissSnowShine]

Lois - I'm almost OCD enough to want to organise our list according to due date but i won't restraining myself

Sonic - Yes, I'm worried i'll be all paranoid about being twisty! But my zumba instructor kept taking zumba classes 4 times a week until she was 8 months preg so I keep telling myself if I'm pretty sensible about it I'm sure I should be able to keep it up during first trimester anyway. But might end up swimming too - I'm going to chance taking DS to the pool on my own on Friday. He's a bit of a handful outside of the house at the min, v prone to squealing tantrums and running away, but he has the odd good day so fx Fri is one of them!

[loveschocolate]

MrsRT and crazysexycool I think my options are Weston or St Michaels or poss Southmead. Weston is a midwife unit so no epidurals and if anything goes wrong they blue light you into Bristol. As a hospital it has a shockingly bad reputation though have heard good thing about care post-birth. Have heard positive things about St Michaels & Southmead and think Southmead also has a midwife led unit but ability to transfer you quickly to the hospital if needs be which sounds like a good option.

[monstergoose]

I've added myself to the massive list!

Name: Monstergoose
Lives: West Yorkshire
DC: none
DD: 6th Feb

Name: Spottypyjamas
Lives: Yorkshire
DC: none
DD: Feb 15th ish

Name: Haywire
Lives: Wales
DC: DD (4)
DD: 2nd Feb

Name - HulaBoola (Boola for short)
Lives - Oxfordshire
DC - none yet
DD - 1st Feb 2013

Name - BeanDunne (AmazeballsSuperFandango)
Lives - Ireland
DC - none yet
DD - 21st feb

Name - SomethingWittyNot
Lives - Kent
DC - 1 DS 21 weeks
DD - not really sure but the 19th of febish

Names - morecoffee
Lives - cornwall
DC - 2 Ds age 6 and 4
DD - approx 16th Feb

Name - MustBeDueSomeBetterFeet
Lives - Bedfordshire
DC - none yet
DD - 14th Feb

Name: Pinkie29
Lives: East Midlands
DC: One in the oven!
DD: February 14th!

Name - SBC (SlightlyBabyCrazed)
Lives - Sussex
DC - Nil
DD - 12th February

Name: DinkyPengiun
Lives: Newcastle upon Tyne
DC: none
DD: approx 15 Feb 2013 (by my calcs)

Name: carries
Lives: Glasgow
DC - DD8 & DD5
DD - 14th Feb

Name: ZanyWany
Lives - EAst Midlands
DC - DS age 11, DD aged 8 (2 Step DS age 5 and almost 2)
DD - between 8th to 15th Feb

Name: MrsRT
Lives: Bristol
DC: none yet!
DD: 2nd Feb

Name: QueenOfTheDrama
Lives: Merseyside
DC: none yet
DD: 18th Feb

Name: FlyingSubmarine
Lives: Suffolk
DC: none yet
DD: 14th Feb (I think!)

Name: perfectshadeofgrey
Lives: London
DC: DD
DD: 2nd Feb

Name: orangewellies
Lives: southeast
DC: DD (4) DS (2)
DD: 15th Feb

Name: Splinters
Lives: Oxfordshire
DC: None yet
DD: 23rd Feb (so the mumsnet calculator tells me)

Name: sonics
Lives: manchester
DC: none yet
DD: 20th feb

Name: littlemisssnowshine
Lives: Belfast
DC: DS (nearly 2)
DD: circa 20th Feb

Name: CrazySexyCool123
Lives: Bristol (waves at mrsrt)
DC: None
DD: 12th Feb

Name: eggandbean
Lives: Leeds
DC: none yet
DD: 14th Feb

Name: crabapplebobbin
Lives: Manchester
DC: DD (just turned 2)
DD: 22nd Feb

Name: loveschocolate
Lives: North Somerset
DC: None
DD: Approx 3rd Feb

MW appt tomorrow-excited! Going to ask about med for the nausea as at the moment I feel sick through most of the day and don't feel like eating much at all! (although did scoff a macdonalds on the way to work-not sure if it was a proper craving or just low blood sugar craving!) Not sure if I'll get anything though as (thankfully) haven't actually vommed yet!

Quick question-when do you need to let work know when and how long your maternity leave will be? We're saving like mad at the moment so it'll depend on how much money we have in the bank but work have already asked me if I have any idea yet?! Felt I had to tell work as do nights with just one other person and can't do some of the stuff I'd normally do-is strange they know before most of my mates