April 2013... under starters orders

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so tested positive on thursday am for a due date of ... 1st april.... anyone else? early days yet but after 2 years of trying for no. 2 i am very excited!!

Hi Angel!

I'm slightly jealous of you all telling RL people, it's only me and DH that know at the moment. Don't want to tell friends and family until we've seen a scan. This is our first so a tad over the top anxious.

That's why it's so nice to chat to you ladies!

Giddypants I'm the same - eating and then feel sick afterwards!

I also feel sick if I leave it too long between meals, so have lots of healthy stuff in. I never 'fancy' anything proper to eat though, hard to cook something whilst feeling sick, so have been eating whatever pops into my mind:

Burger King
Chips
Jam butty

...over the past week

Once DD is here I will have to cook for her so I will eat whatever I cook her.

I am sipping alcohol free beer this evening - isn't too bad, Becks Blue.

Lola I want to tell more people but am so nervous. I have a big family as does DP so we have only told immediates and I have told work, but that equates to 40 odd people knowing already!

Acquaintances will not be told until my scan date. DP is eager to shout it all over Facebook but I've told him in no uncertain terms that FB is out of bounds

Mmm, burger king....not as good as a McDonalds in my greedy eyes but I still wouldn't say no!

I think I need to remember that if we did tell people early that, god forbid, if something bad did happen that I would want certain people to know anyway. Argh, roll on 12 week scan!!!

BrianCoxIsUpTheDuff I'm on the hard stuff!
I'm drinking Waitrose Low Alcohol Cider - it's whopping 1%

It's fairly nice. Inoffensive. Doesn't taste of very much. Last time I was pregnant we discovered an Aspel's low alcohol cider, it was absolutely delicious, and tasted just like full strength good quality cider. Will have to have a go at finding it this time.

I did miss drinking. DP made me a load of food with alcohol as ingredients towards the end (heated to lose most of the actual alcohol content.)

My favourite was poached pears in red wine. Yummmmm! And (very!) mulled wine at Christmas.

Mmm, mulled wine :) I'm so glad we're going to do the very pregnant bit in the winter, it must be miserable when it's really hot.

But I digress. (Promise to to mention Christmas again for quite some time!)

Mmmm burger king, mind you I just as bad 3 meals out/take always in 3 days, but I was on a mini break!

Feel free to drop the Christmas word as often as you like with me. I love Christmas and can't wait to get all bundled up in winter clothes with a bump. Plus we have the excuse of being pregnant to eat what we want over Christmas!

I would be a total witch dealing with the sun and heat heavily pregnant, urgh!

Hi everyone, just been enjoying reading about your symptoms, it helps to know there are other people with gigantic painful boobs out there!
Mrs Twinks your boss sounds like a nasty piece of work, under no circumstances would I tell her until that contract is signed. It's perfectly acceptable to say you wanted to wait until 12 weeks before telling anyone and you're under no obligation to tell work until you reach 25 weeks (although it might be a bit obvious by then!).

Ha ha, if I didn't tell my family they'd guess in 3.5 seconds due to lack of alcoholic drink in my hand! so I'm telling family only for now, would like to wait for 12-14 weeks for everyone else.

I have a friend's wedding when i'll be 8 weeks, trouble is there is no way they'll belive any excuse reason for not drinking beacuse we're usually...er, drinking.

Hmmm...my liver won't know what's hit it, with a 9 month break!

I do do other things than drinking too BTW...honest!

I love Christmas too Lola, one of my fave memories is being snuggled up in bed with DH on Christmas morning listening to Christmas music and feeling DS kicking away. Just felt like I didn't need any presents at all. Aww feel all emotional now (mad hormonal cow).

Aw Josie that sounds very special, must be amazing feeling the baby kick.

Angel, I hear you about friends etc guessing from lack of drink. I've a wedding in 2 weeks, am I awful thinking a 'dry' wedding won't be as much fun?!

Not as much fun at all

I also have 2 weddings in February, everyone else will be all glam, I will (very, very hopefully) be the size of a house and sober!

Josie, ahh, sounds perfect - hopefully we'll all feeeling exactly that this christmas, with our bumps!

I went to a wedding when I was very pregnant with DS. It was OK being dry, my friends are a good laugh with or without booze. It was convenient that there was no argument about who was driving as it was in the middle of nowhere. The biggest problem was what to wear, tbh.

I am missing beer. The alcohol free stuff is just not the same. And gin. I wish I'd known I was going to get up the duff and I'd have had a final gin.

My DH, boss and two of my friends know. One of my friends worked it out the day I got my BFP. I managed to get away with the I've chosen to drive excuse, but not taking him up on the offer of a sneaky fag was a step too far.

mrstwinks your boss sounds like mine from when I was pg with DS. I was about to switch from temp to permanent, told them I was pg, and offer was withdrawn. His exact words were "I know you've said you'll come back, but women tend to get all hormonal and not want to leave the baby, so it's best we just replace you now" I didn't fight it in the end, although I managed to negotiate a massive increase in pay for my last few months in the job, which I think he only agreed to to keep me quiet. Bizarrely enough I got a email from them yesterday asking if I would be interested in some more work.....I replied saying that i no interest in ever being associated with that organization again!

You're under no obligation to tell them anything, but the law is on your side if you do.

aufaniae I'm in Oz so will be hugely pg over summer. DS was born in late spring and that was bad enough, I swelled to massive proportions, so really not looking forwards to this time.

I'm still feeling incredibly nauseous, and not 6wks till Monday, so I imagine it'll only get worse. I mentioned I was feeling much sicker this time around when I saw the GP, and her only comment was the rather unhelpful perhaps it's twins!

Oh bunny girl I'm sorry I didn't think!

I wish you amazingly good air conditioning this summer :)

You guys really have had crap bosses. It's mad that we still have to worry about crap like that from some people!

DH is currently fixing me a de-fiizzed coke as I was feeling a little sick and it helps me. Desperately trying to convince myself it may be my symptoms starting and not just the massive bowl of ice cream I just ate!

My boss was brilliant about it, but told me that someone who used to work for him didn't tell him till she was 6 months! He was furious because he needs to do risk assessments, make adjustments and all sorts and if anything had happened to her he would have been in trouble.

Hello all, right I am feeling more positive now and managing to calm down somewhat.

Jeez mrstwinks- I hope it goes ok, and yes, I really wouldn't say anything until you have that contract signed. I'm going to find it tricky telling my boss who I have worked with for oooh, 2 weeks so far. She and I have both had holidays and have more to come. I had another role in my organisation before this one (only been there since Feb though) and I kind of wish I hadn't switched now, I feel a right doofus getting preggers in my first week.

angel- glad to hear all is going so well.
Jessieessex- hope your break is super relaxing!

Just to add, I think April is a great month for having a baby. The long dark nights are out the way and it's a great time of year for getting out of the house and going for walks.

My DD was born in beg. of June and that was almost perfect, if I hadn't been 2 weeks overdue with a 9lb 5oz baby during the hottest May known to

known to man!

People talking about Christmas in August?! I am definitely in the right place - I LOVE Christmas! This year I am asking for Christmas decorations as presents so that Christmas 2013 can be properly festive for Baby!

I am six weeks today, I have an early scan booked for Tuesday morning as I have been (dark brown) bleeding lightly on and off. GP was concerned about ectopic or mc - I've been told to take it easy and be cautiously optimistic.
I am a bit heartbroken but hoping for the best. DH is being amazing.

Have a great weekend everyone!
(ps was it any of you guys who won the £148m last night?!)

wow I can't keep up with this thread, its moving so fast!! Just wanted to say that bleeding doesn't always mean anything bad is going to happen, I had a big bleed about 10 weeks with DS and it was unexplained, he was fine. My mum says she bled intermittently throughout whole pregnancy with my brother, so sending psitive thoughts to all of you, although I know its hard not to worry!!
No symptoms here yet but didnt get any last time until 6 weeks + and then it was just a bit of nausea and tiredness.
Doctors appt on tuesday, that wil def make it more real! PIL staying this weekend so going to tell them and my brother, am desperate to tell everyone!
Hope everyone has a lovely weekend.

LikeCandy like highlandbird says there's a good chance everything's OK, keeping fingers and toes crossed for you :)

Thanks both

Hi can I join. Just done test this morning as feeling quite sick and realised was overdue (I am a bit scatty with regards to periods as have a long cycle and only just becoming regular after stopping breastfeeding dd) . Not told anyone yet apart from mumsnet, dh still asleep. I can't believe it.

Will be due around 8th April. Already have 2 dcs. Ds age 4 and dd age 2 so will have a house full! Luckily ds will start school in september and dd starts preschool 2 mornings a week then too.

Have massive alcohol guilt and will be running out to stock up on vitamins this morning! Also remember taking 2 ibuprofen a couple of weeks ago and my caffeine in take has been massive - it's the school holidays!

OMG we are going to need a bigger house now.

I'm interested to hear everyone's thoughts about informing people at work. I haven't told anyone yet, but I'm finding it weird hiding it. For example I was really quite unfriendly to a colleague who came to me asking me to look at a spot she had and for my opinion about whether it was chicken pox (which was plausible because someone else in a different part of the organisation did actually get it). I curtly told her to go away and look it up on google and to go home immediately if she got any more spots. I felt so rude I nearly told I her I was pregnant in order to explain myself.

I'm not sure when I'll tell my boss. I originally thought about 3 months, but now I think maybe sooner because at least then there's a reasonable explanation if I'm sometimes tired and cranky. But from reading everyone else's posts I realise I'm lucky to be in an organisation which I know will deal with my pregnancy lawfully and reasonably.

Btw, thanks for the reassurances about the paracetemol - I'm feeling much less guilty about that now