Hi everyone... ok this time I made some notes...
Popinda: It was me who said about feeling sick on the train. I wasn't ever actually sick first time around (v lucky I know) so not sure what I would have done.
Somewhat unrelated, I recently had a bout of food sickness which started at work and was just awful. I destroyed the ladies loo (door, sink, toilet, floor) before finally feeling up to getting a taxi home (muttering my apologies to the lovely cleaning lady before I fled the scene). I warned the driver before we set off (not that I need to; I reaked of vomit to the extent that, despite it being a typical summer's day (i.e. raining and freezing cold) he pointedly had all the windows all the way down). About half way home I thought 'amazing, I'm going to make it without any further humiliation'. About 5 mins later I thought 'I'm def going to puke again' so I asked the guy to pull over. I had to repeat the request three times, then he finally said he would stop shortly whilst gesturing at some indistinct place in the distance. At this point I projectiled vomitted all over the chair in front (which I noticed had a nice deep leather pocket as I watched my vomit slipping down into it). I knew I wasn't out of the woods so grabbed the carrier bag from my handbag, which I'd sensibly packed for the trip home, but I didn't get chance to open the bag and was sick again in such violent fashion that it just re-bounded off the bag into my face. Sick was literally dripping off my face (even my eye lashes) onto my lap. The driver turned out to be lovely in the end and refused to take any money for the clean up (I think I must have looked pretty pathetic by this point and he noted that he had been warned) but I felt awful about the car. On the positive side the pool of vomit I was sat in for the last 20 mins of my journey was at least warm. As I got home and my DP clocked me covered head to toe in vomit I just said 'and you think you've had a bad day'! In short I have no idea how you cope if you get morning sickness bad. I'm hoping it doesn't go beyond the sort of motion sickness I got last time (and occasional dry retching if I hadn't eaten enough and a bad smell wafted my way) this time again for me. If you do get it bad though I don't think there is anything for it but to hole up for the duration...
Woody: My DD has a Sophie the Giraffe toy and I agree it's adorable. I'm going to the docs this week to get into the system but, from what I recall last time, it wasn't until about the 9 week point I had my first midwife/booking in appointment.
Mandasand: As HeeHee said, you're not obliged to say anything at the 12 week scan point (although it may start to get difficult to hide especially if you're like me and eat like a woman possessed the first few months). Also, I was wondering... couldn't it even be seen as a good thing for you to deliver on your current projects, and be showing high levels of commitment, whilst your boss knows you are pregnant? You don't need to sign up to any maternity arrangements early on so you could still defer discussions on that until you have delivered on the current projects.
Sorry to hear that so many of you are suffering (HeeHee, Hitchingirl, Tay, Carikube, bbface, Harpie to name a few!). Apart from a spot of breathlessness I've felt disconcertingly normal today (to the extent that I did another digi test and was relieved to see I've gone from the 1-2 weeks last wednesday to now being 2-3 weeks today so I'm trying not to fret). It's still such early days though from me. I swing from feeling unbelievably excited to properly annoyed with myself for counting babies before their born and potentially jinxing myself.
Better go but hope everyone takes care of themselves (and is well stocked for ginger biscuits 
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