Due in March 2013

[Leftwingharpie]

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Evening ladies. I may have to move threads...dating scan today. Got to see my little peanut with a heart beat! 7.5 weeks. Due end of Feb although i'll be surprised if I go that long as will probably have to go early for medical reasons. All seems real now but still trying not to get carried away. Dh doesn't want us to tell until over 12 weeks...my sisters know but are pretending not to to save me an earful! I'd tell them if I miscarried so I don't see the big deal.

Hoping the nausea doesn't become hyperemesis like last time & i'll get to avoid telling work for a few more weeks: just had a promotion and this is unlikely to go down well...also yet to finish negotiating maternity terms!

Sorry to hear the vomiting has got some of you. It will pass! Hope it does do very quickly!

Congratulations on your scan sleep!!! Also to motherofone and suzy - lovely to hear!

Like others, I'm desperate to see my little Pea's heartbeat - I think that will be the only thing that makes me settle down. I've read that the risk of miscarriage reduces massively once the heart is visible, so, like you ted may have to be thinking of a scan in two weeks time. Do you have one booked already or are you going to be begging and pleading with the epu? It really is the missed element of the mc that makes me feel waves of panic every now and then.

I know I must be worried because I've not told that many people and only my closest friend at work knows and she is leaving at the end of term. Only four more teaching days for me to keep my mouth shut! All being well, I'll go back to school in September at 13 weeks and they'll all get a right old shock! (I'm almost certain I'll be very visibly pg by then - thick waisted just ain't the word for it!) the look on their faces is what's helping me keep my big blabber mouth shut!

Thank you though to the person who was talking about being positive - you are very right! I was at yoga last night and at the end of our relaxation, my teacher told us to visualise the Sanskrit word 'shanti', which means peace. I am trying to take that with me and think it whenever I feel the darkness creeping over me! (sorry if I've come across all hippy and crazy!)

The nausea seems to be creeping it's way into most of us now (sick face!) with DS I wasn't actually sick until 8weeks, but with my lost baby, before I even got BFP! The fact that I have puked yet is (kind of!) nice!

I'm off to bed now. Sleep well all.

*haven't! No sick here yet!

mmmsleep hooray for the jumping bean! How utterly wonderful, you must be so happy & relieved. 7.5 weeks, cool. I will be 7 weeks tomorrow according to lmp date so also expecting end feb (harpie is end feb too) but I like it here :)

harpie how have you made it through the day without salt & vinegar crisps??

Sleep well pips :)

Tiddley I had lots of salt and vinegar on my chip shop chips! I don't even like chip shop chips, so goodness only knows why I went to the chip shop!

Goodness, I'm not going to keep up on here. Been awol for a while whilst I was getting some exam marking done. Still here though, but don't have the energy to read through the many many pages of posts I've missed I'm afraid!

5 + 5 here and no symptoms (apart from no af and a bfp of course!), but I didn't get any with DS until about 6 1/2 - 7 weeks. Sorry to those strugeling so much with the sockness already. Last time I keept telling people it wasn't too bad and I was very lucky, and then once it had all past remember thinking, actually that was pretty grim, and I felt rough most of the time! But I was lucky really as only actually sick two or three times, mostly I just reched, not fun, but not as bad as real sick.

Had a shocker of a day at work today. Can't wait for mat leave. I've been checking out how soon I can leave (no way I'd stay in the job if not preg) and it's 29 weeks which would be Christmas. Serrously considering it. Would have to go back to work when the LO was younger than I'd prefer if I leave earlier, but I intend to find a new job and only do part time after this one so at least it wouldn't be full time. Urgh, not relishing going back to face it all again tomorrow.

Any way, here's for a less sicky day for everyone tomorrow!

Harpie, oh I ate bag after bag of salt and vinigar squares when PG with DS. I never normally eat crisps but couldn't get enough of them. Those and roast potatoes, mmmmmm.

Thanks!
We've had a chat and dh has been haggled down to telling family at 9 weeks!
Hoping the peanut holds in there. I know the heartbeat makes the odds good...I'm just paranoid. A lot happened in my last pregnancy so just keep wondering when the s**t will hit the fan this time. Bp already up so not looking good for escaping pre eclampsia:( .
Tiddley thank-you! I think i'll hang out on this thread too!

I swear to god if my MIL rings up one more time to push her über medicalised birth agenda, I'm going to lose it! I'm close to agreeing to change health trust just to shut her up, but I know she'd only start on the next thing! sigh

Oh flowery there's not much worse than not liking your job. Are you not craving the carbs this time round?

Oh leftwing that's a difficult one.send her my way if u want. I have no choice but uber medicalised...she can medic away to her heart's content. How rude to tell u what to do!

Mmmmsleep ha ha be careful what you wish for!

MIL had several miscarriages, two DD born sleeping and had DH prematurely by cs under constant medical supervision after suffering with severe preeclampsia, and then had to have a hysterectomy so couldn't have any more DC. She has been patiently waiting for GC for years and is very anxious about this pg, understandably I think - but it's stressing me out!

What will über medicalised mean in practice, if you don't mind me asking? Sorry if you have already explained upthread.

Oh yes, the salt! I ripped open family pack of pretzels in marks the other days. I was just desperate.
This morning had two bowls of cereal and slice of toast. I feel ok when eating, but zero appetite. I honestly think I could go all day without anything passing my lips but water water and more water. I eat because I know it will make me feel better, sort of. Aaaaahhhh. Mustn't complain too much, only 7 weeks, no actual vomiting and not debilitating just constant low level until about 6pm.

So excited about scan on Monday.

Hope all holding up ok despite the sickness. It is the head aswell? Or is that just me? Like I am on a boat, and if i move too suddenly, it is like.... Woah!!

Just go, ds waking.

Have a good day, we only have another 4/5 weeks of this and then we should start to feel the best we have ever felt. That is how I felt in last pregnany 3 months to 7 months.... Awesome. So fingers crossed xx

It's not so much that I'm hungry or fancy savoury snacks, it's the need to combat the constant sweet sickly taste in my mouth and excess saliva. Pretzels would be perfect - or salt and vinegar squares!

Bb I am feeling dizzy sometimes I have to sit down. It's worst when I have been lying down or resting my head on something and I sit up too suddenly.
Can't wait to feel the best I've ever felt! [hopeful]

Salt and vinegar squares!!!! Perfection. I will be stopping at corner shop on way to playgroup this morning to get a packet. Thanks harpie x

Don't thank me, thank Tiddleypompom!

Good morning everyone. Harpie, goodness, your poor MIL. I sometimes can't believe what women get through. It's no wonder she is anxious but don't let her make you anxious too. It's obviously a completely different pregnancy, and time.

Flowery sorry to hear you're hating work. I have also been working out how early I can leave, ha ha. Just keep making mistakes (nothing to do with being pregnant) and want to be at home with my toddler. I don't have the brain for work anymore.

So is everyone having salty cravings then? I am more for the savoury this time, but things like marmite on toast and cheese. Last time I craved sugar my entire pregnancy. I didn't go a day without eating at least three chocolate biscuits. The amount of crap I ate (shudders to think).

bb my best I've ever felt didn't come til 20 weeks last time! But it was a great feeling, worth the wait. 12 weeks would be a nice surprise this time.

Urgh, stupid work. My toddler has ring side seats to watch the olympic torch later with her childminder and I am very jealous. I want to be doing fun stuff like that, not sitting at a desk feeling like hell!

posypoo I am all about the marmite on toast! Definitely wanting savoury food. Finding the nasty taste in mouth is increasing but no retching yet! Just so exhausted & still worried something is wrong, natural till the scan I guess! DH can't understand why I am not more excited but I am so tired I feel like I am swimming through fog all the time. Please tell me it won't be like this for the whole pregnancy?!
Welcome new folks waves good to have you with us!

Woop, just got my first scan date through! 25 August when I think I'll be 12 weeks on the nose. This is DC1 and I'm a bit confused by the dating. Last period began on 2/6 and the due date calculators say I'm five weeks (but they've been saying that since I first got BFP a week ago on Monday!)

We're seeing quite a bit of family before the scan so we're thinking of telling them - there's no way I can get away with not drinking without raising several eyebrows! Fingers crossed everything will be okay at the scan...the stories of 'silent' miscarriages are so sad and terrifying. I just hope that I'll start getting a bit of a belly in a couple of weeks which surely is a good sign?!

Me too on the savoury foods - I'm craving a lot of chilli and salt. So we're having stir frys or curry or fajitas every night! DH wondered if all the chilli can be good for the growing bean, but half the world eats a lot of chilli with no adverse consequences on fertility! But please someone correct me if I'm wrong, hehe :-)

PS just found this really good site which has cleared up my confusion on the dating and has a fab day-by-day dating thing to keep me focused. Brilliant! www.pregnology.com/faralong.php?month=3&day=09&year=2013

Just devoured a packet of chipsticks as if my life dependent on it. DS giving me quizzical looks as he munches on a cucumber stick - judged by a 9 month old, oh dear.

No chocoholics yet then? Last time the choc consumption didn't start till 3rd trimester. Then it was feast ice creams. Seriously classy. Good job there isn't a greggs nearby as I quite fancy a vege pasty

Heavens, more rain. Grim isn't it? Sorry for those struggling at work - it is tough when your heart (and body) isn't in it anymore. Massive priority shift I guess. Though I am lucky to be at home with DS, he is hard work & I am so tired. We got up this morn at 5.30 so it's a long day.

Still no exchange. Will we ever move??

manda there are some incredible photos on that site - I checked out week 7 and it shows the hands and feet at the start & at the end of the week - and amazing growth spurt this week, which I find quite emotional!

Brace yourself. DH just rang me and said he had been reading up on pregnancy nausea. Apparently semen is a solution!

Hi Everyone, sorry I've been awol for a bit, and haven't yet read through all the past posts. Need a place to vent so I apologise if this is a bit lengthy:

I have been spotting (light brown, sorry TMI) since Friday, then Monday night at 2am I woke with several cramping pains. Ran to the loo and found fresh blood, not loads (no clotting), but enough that I needed a pad and those knickers are binned. I assumed the worse, but I didn't have any further fresh blood, instead reverted back to the brown spotting. Also the cramps died down the next day too. So this morning DH and I went to EPU for scan. I thought I was about 6-6.5 weeks. They dated me at 5-5.5 weeks and could only see the sac. No heartbeat or anything else. So they couldn't really tell me anything (except that its not ectopic, phew!)
Anyone else have a scan around this time and only saw the sac?

So I'm booked in 12 days for another scan. An agonising wait to see if this pregnancy is going to work or not. I'm still brown spotting, and have weird cramps which concern the heck out of me.

Also another thing that worries me: when TTC this cycle, I assumed a regular 28 day cycle, so concentrated DTD around day 14 etc. So I know when the last time we had sex was. When I calculate, going by these new dates, egg would have fertilised about 4 or 5 or even 6 days after having sex!! The midwife says this could be a possibility, but of course I'm thinking negatively and assume that the embryo just didn't grow, and thats why its dated earlier...

Feel a bit down. I hate this waiting. I either want the pregnancy symptoms (nausea, sickness, etc) to start to reassure me, or I just want the miscarriage to happen so I can accept whats happening.

Sorry for the rant! Hope everyone else is doing well