April 2013- part 3 scan scan scan

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Started a new thread for all us April ladies.

Morning all, how are we? Welcome to the newbies can't sleep keep needing to pee! And have to wake up brother and sister to help me move they might kill me . It's amazing to be home I'm still bleeding but otherwise feeling ok. I still haven't told anyone outside the immediate family but dd has been talking names with her friends-Sybella is her latest favourite for a girl what do you think? I'm far too scared to be really excited yet. 14+4 though......

Morning Mama - Wide awake since before 7am over here too although that's better than Thursday when I gave up and got up just after 4am. Was like a zombie at work all day! Sybella is a lovely name and very unusual. Your DD has good taste . Against all my better instincts we keep having name conversations too - currently finding blue names a lot easier than pink ones!

I bought a Dreamgenii pillow yesterday and had a really good sleep last night even if I did wake earlier than I would have liked .

We went into the new Kiddicare store in Nottingham to get my pillow - it's only been open a couple of weeks and is apparently only their second store.
Oh. My. God. I've never seen anything like it! So much stuff, armies of different prams, mountains of feeding aparatus, even tons of choices to make between baby baths....... Somewhere between fascinating and completely fucking terrifying! Made us feel a bit freaked out about the new world we are entering !

Glad you got your dates sorted missmuffet - hope you can get a good nights sleep now!

Morning dandelion- yeah I remember that feeling with ds my first trip into baby store it was like seeing a alien land. Don't worry you become accustomed very quickly as does your bank account I know very definitely what I do and don't need or want this time though with my first I bought so much and didnt use half if it, the worst was I bought a amazing fairy tale cot (400£+) and have co slept with ds always! It's greta fun baby shopping though. I won't be buying anything until babe is born though superstitious me....
I'm having probs with boys names or rather dd is my ds has a very unusual name so I need something different but not too different iykwim.

Welcome tattooed. Faith, my scan is on Wednesday. I'm half excited half terrified so trying not to think about too much.

If the scan goes well we'll start to tell people, though probably won't announce on facebook just because I don't use it that much now. I'd like to wait until about 14 weeks until telling work colleagues (only my boss' boss knows at the moment) but think people might start guessing as I'm getting bigger.

Hello everyone, thought I would join in! I have been lurking for a few weeks but have finally got the courage to join! I had a m/c at 6 weeks in April so have been very nervous this time round. But so far so good, had a scan at 7.2 and saw the heartbeat but that still hasn't stopped me worrying! My scan is on Thursday so hopefully will feel more confident after that. Due date is 28th April. Had been really sick until last week and now i just feel 'normal', hope that's not a bad thing. Anyway hello to you all! X

Hi Keys86! You are not too far behind me; my EDD is April 24th. And I've also been feeling much better this week - and also worrying about it. Was feeling like I had been hit by a bus and quite nauseous (never actually been sick though) and now I feel fine. Even my boobs don't seem to hurt as much. I've had two scans (at 7 and 8 weeks) and yet I'm still really nervous about the 12-week scan on Friday too.
It's reassuring that you are feeling similar to me. Hope it helps you too...

Oh that makes me feel better! I was actually throwing up occasionally but felt nauseous all the time, and then nothing! And yes my boobs don't seem to hurt as much either! Oh I feel more reassured already, at least it's not just me feeling like this. Roll on Thursday and Friday and then hopefully we will be able to relax a bit more! X

Hello newbies! Welcome all.

Keys hi, I'm due 26th April so very close to you! I'm 11+2 now and I haven't thrown up since last Thursday which is both good and bad. I still get smell aversion - DH came in from the pub last night smelling of beer and fags (ew). I made him use the electric toothbrush before I could kiss him! :) and now he's cooking sausages for brunch and the smell is making me . I am going along the lines of I assume I'm still pregnant because I have nothing to indicate otherwise. Easier some days than others!

Not long now tea! Only 10 days til mine :)

Welcome Keys86 - we have the same due date! I too feel normal today!

Hello due date buddy! MrsJohnDeere

HaveALittleFaith I had a similar thing when my DH spent ages cooking me a meal, then I sat down, took one sniff and announced there was no way I could eat it! So I had a pot noodle instead! And I usually hate anything along the lines of just add water 'food' let's just say my DH wasn't too pleased, haha!

Thank you everyone for making me feel less like a looney for worrying too much.

Afternoon all. Just wondering if anyone else's DH is driving them round the twist?

Today, he made me get up to make him fry up, after I'd finally managed to drop to sleep. I could have wept. Then he empties out upstairs cupboard and tells me to sort it. Wants me to throw away some little bits and bobs I've kept from childhood, has put my musical instruments, music stand and tennis racket in charity bag (although admittedly I haven't used them for a while)

I've just gone into the bathroom to find him cleaning the bath. Great, thinks I, until I see he is using MY SHOWER PUFF to do it!!! Not flash wipes, or J cloth...If I hadn't have seen him I'd be none the wiser and have been dousing myself in remnants of Mr. Muscle. Not good with sensitive skin, let alone pregnant skin. I think it's just so fucking disrespectful and when I said so, he just shouted at me for being stupid

I could kill him. I spent all day yesterday visiting his rellies, doing the shopping, baking, cooking dinner and he knows I've been looking forward to a chill out day all week. Grrrr.

Not sure if I'm being all hormonal or whether I'd be justified in burying him under the patio.

Sorry for me, me, me rant but...MY SHOWER PUFF!!!

Seriously?! Yes my DH is annoying me - he was snoring horrendously last night (despite ear plugs) and I nearly made him go into the spare room! I have been doing more round the house because he's been working awful hours. But he doesn't make me do anything! He has a hangover and asked me up put the oven on so he could have sausages but that's all! Making you cook him a fry up? Emptying a cupboard and making you tidy it? You need to have words and point out he shouldn't be forcing you to do anything regardless! Let alone in the early stages of pregnancy!

Hmmm. I didn't think I was being unreasonable. Cat has decided to sit on lap and she's normally there for hours, so all tidying nonsense is now on hold. DH has also brought me tea and cake in act of contrition.

Thing is, he really believes a lot of pregnancy stuff is in my head, or made up by advertisers to make us think we're suffering/need something. Eg. Doesn't believe in morning sickness (luckily I only had bad nausea) and gave me a telling off when I mentioned getting a maternity bra. Refuses to read the expectant Dad book I got him as it's 'nonsense.' It's also me who ends up moving to the futon each night because of his snoring. Sigh.

It's weird, he's so sweetly excited about the baby but it complete denial about the changes happening with me.

I'm still having some sleeping troubles, needing to wee in the night, cramps in my legs & arms hurting & waking me up if I try to turn over in my sleep etc, have abdominal aches often which I think are constipation rather than baby related, I look like I have a 5 year old in utero and my moods swing from wanting to cry to wanting to hit people & back again constantly. I am appreciative that I didn't have much sickness but I really hope I start to "bloom" soon. Thats bloom, not glow, I am already sweating quite enough thank you.

OH drives me mad, we argue & he says "its ok, I know you are only being like this cos of hormones" which is like an ON button for a major temper even though I know he is right. He says "you don't seem to cope with this as well as other women" his experience of pregnant women is limited to the TV, obviously I don't cope so well as the skinny actress in the Walking Dead SHE ISNT REALLY PREGNANT & I am quite sure that if put to the test right now I could very easily batter a bunch of dead zombie creatures back to dead.

Sorry for long meme rant :(

12+6 (maybe week 13 will suit me better!)

Hello all, been away for quite a while - the last couple of weeks have gone so quickly! Can't believe I'm over 14 weeks! It's been a busy few weeks here - went away on holiday to Devon for a week, which was nice although not that relaxing - a week in a static caravan with an almost two year old and seriously crap weather! Luckily the site had an indoor pool so we spent a lot of time in there with DS. Was nice to do some exercise myself too actually. Was feeling so sick until recently I haven't felt up to doing anything more than go to work and come home! While we were away though we did a bit of walking in the few non rainy hours and I did 50 lengths of the pool every day. Felt really good when we came back.

Got back to work and had a message from my colleague saying someone had rung for me a couple of times whole I was away. She just left an ext number and her name so I assumed it was something work related (I work in a hospital). Then I rang up and she answered the phone "Hello, antenatal scan" and my heart was in my mouth! I gave her my name and she said "Oh thanks so much for getting back to us - there was a problem with your blood results from your NT scan". At this point I was getting shaky and tearful - turns out the courier had lost the bloods and I just needed to go and have then retaken! I was so relieved that the results weren't bad that I forgot to be pissed off that they lost my blood sample!

So that means I potentially won't get the results for another week when I'll
be 15 weeks. When I had them retaken the woman said that some women had had to have theirs taken a third time cos the retakes had been lost! How pissed off would you be?! She said it was someone new on the courier service.

Anyway, other than that all is well here. Pleased to be over a third of the way through. My friend had her baby on Friday and it has made me incredibly impatient!

Hi tattooed I usually have a very very sweet tooth, but pregnancy has turned me to the dark side - I'd much rather have a salad than a cake, I'm still managing to put away a significant amount of sweets/biscuits though...!

Welcome keys I'm feeling normal now too, I spent weeks waiting for symptoms, weeks wishing them away, and now I miss them - madness!

magictorch how unreasonable of him - I hope your cat has kept you on the sofa all afternoon! I'm lucky to have a v understanding hubby, even though (like yours) he thinks that a lot of the symptoms (especially tiredness - I'm sleeping so much!) are in my head! It's understandable though because at the moment I am a nightmare!

This morning I went an bought a box of pasteurised Camembert to bake for dinner (an hours walk, which I dragged DH and dog on) - then spent all day worrying about it, googling, getting confused. Baked it, worried some more, threw a paddy, threw it away and made a salad!

Oh and at the moment I'm 100% boring (usually asleep by 9pm) not enjoying socialising and generally being a pain in the bum - I hope it's a passing phase...

14+4

Magictorch, your DH is being a selfish arse. Wait till he is exhausted/hungover and then request he does something strenuous and see how he likes it?

tattooed I too went off chocolate when pg with DD, I love wispa's and I could have been eating a candle, there just was no taste. I cried. I've not gained my chocolate taste back, but she loves chocolate.

magictorch my DH has moments of being a complete pita and rude. He is normally a lovely kind and gentle man, but he's fed up of my nausea being used as an excuse. I reminded him of when he had the norovirus and it wiped him out for a week and that seemed to bring it back to him. Last time I had no nausea but from about 16 weeks I had SPD, I was off work from 22 weeks and on bed rest/crutches at the end. Luckily relief was immediate once I had DD. He is worried that once I recover from nausea the SPD will set in again and I'll just be an invalid. I am a SAHM not a domestic goddess. this sums it up

keys welcome! my nausea passed for a few days and came back with a vengence and had me playing with DD from the sofa, watching S4 ER with a bucket. I have my scan on Tuesday, I had a scan at 9 weeks [when I thought I was 12] so saw a fuzzy bean, but so nervous. Even second time around I am anxious.

dandelion I went to MC on Friday, DD who is 21 months and has finally moved into 9-12month MC jamas, there is plenty of growing room. I also saw some nice pretty things that made me sigh with delight. I saw the P&T voyager with doubles kit, having given away my travel system which we inherited from SiL [it was knackered and lasted about 2 months before it was passed on for spares] but the price of everything, as seat pads, doubles kit,rain covers, car seat attachments are extra and it's over £900 for what I want. It was lovely though, but we just can't afford it. It just came out in August so might not be available 2nd hand yet. Will set up a local search on eBay just in case.

mama so glad to hear you are home and your family are looking after you. Sybella is a nice name, I've heard it in a book, probably something your DD read.

Went to a second hand sale today and bought DD a biliboo for £4 and she is loving it right now. I was tempted by a bag full of lovely boys newborn/0-3 stuff for a fiver, I've got DD's leftovers, we aren't planning to find out the sex, but if it's a boy it doesn't matter if he has some of DD's stuff to start with, we had neutrals for her.

I am exceedingly emotional. DH is taking over the family business from his dad... in April, so he's busy preparing all the finances, legal stuff and handling the issues of his badly behaved staff. But his mum and dad keep lecturing me on keeping the house spotless, getting DD in bed before he is home, getting a healthy satisfying meal on the table. Right now it's all suffering and he loves seeing DD before bed [she goes up at 7.30pm after a story] he is home at 5.30pm and it's his bit of time away from work before he goes up to the home office to do more paperwork. I had tears about it, DH patted my shoulder and listened. And then I watched the latest Dr Who episode and sobbed so did DH but I'm not allowed to tell anyone

Pontouf your holiday sounds lovely, although what a scare with the bloods. I can well believe they lose them -when I first did IVF at an NHS hospital, I had to have my bloods done three times as they lost them each time. Was not impressed and it was this sort of thing that made us bite the bullet and go private.

Likecandy your camembert story made me giggle. I stared and stared at the brie and camembert in Sainsbury's for what seemed like an eternity yesterday, before deciding against them. Oh for a Brie, bacon and cranberry sauce baguette

Yes, my DH was being an utter git today. Is currently on sofa in his dressng gown while I make roast lamb. I've tidied (most of) the cupboard, but I refused to lift the heavy stuff back in. I think he thinks I'm being a prima donna. However, he did redeem himself slightly earlier, when he brought me tea and cake and made me lunch. I think it's because like username his experience of pregnancy is perfectly made up ladies on the tellybox, rather than short, plump, cross ladies looking like they've eaten too many pies. Still, he is very excited about it all, which is lovely to see.

14+2

X-post Kellestar -you went off chocolate??! Calamity. Chocolate is my only vice thesedays--

X-post Kellestar -you went off chocolate??! Calamity. Chocolate is my only vice these days

I can enjoy white chocolate now, but milk chocolate has just changed taste. I am a fan of cake in all it's many forms still, so that is good.

My DH has just asked if I want to do any housework, I gave him the 'look' and he has backed out of the room. He and DD have been playing and created a trail of chaos, he has now hopped in the shower with her.

And I've just realised that I am alone in the lounge and still watching in the night garden...

Hi everyone-
Just checking in- I haven't posted for a while but I've been lurking every day -twice a day.

I've been glad to read good news.
mama - glad you're home.
jacqueline - fingers crossed everything is ok for you.

Hello to all the newbies- magictorch sorry to be blunt- but your oh sounds like an arse. Don't get me wrong- my DH gets on my tits at times- a lot of times, but he'd never just be a complete twat. I hope he's not normally like this- hugs to you.

No news with me- but I think no news is good news. 14+0 today. I'm fine- but very constipated and very gassy- attractive hey! I'm also one that is peeing ALL THE TIME! I go, and I do all the stuff you're supposed to- lean forwards and really concentrate on emptying bladder etc but then, 15 minutes late, I have to go again! Where does it all come from? I don't think I'm drinking more fluid- it's very annoying- especially at night!

Anyway- best wishes to you all- good luck to those having scans this week- will be thinking of you. Hope the rest of you have an uneventful and relaxing week!!

X

hello all
i've gone off sweets too - waste of my mouth - i know what you mean by could be eating a candle kellestar. wish someone could explain why. then during breastfeeding it's the exact opposite. so strange.

pontouf omg that's unbelievable. not a good service! sure everything will be fine for you but must be very annoying.

I did the baked camembert thing last night. it was divine but I found that once i started i couldn't stop. Gradually it tasted of less and less. But we managed to put away two whole La Rustique with my sister, something we could never achieve with cold camembert. And in the morning i felt most regretful. my DP too. It was a bit like what i hear taking drugs is like. We have sworn never again - we are obviously too susceptible. It is strong stuff and you have to know how to handle it.

hey mama hope you are ok and finding ways to pass the time. I've got a cuz called Sibella - not quite the same but similar. Lovely name.

My DP did try to suggest my MS was all in the head. I was pretty out of it for 3 months and i think all in all he did just about ok - he even started keeping the house tidy and clean.

I find men actually are a bit like flat-earthers when it comes to PG. They somehow cannot grasp the most basic things, like worrying will not hurt the baby and is an inevitable part of every pregnancy.

My DP wasn't that excited first time round. He seemed oddly detached. Went absolutely nuts for our DS once he arrived though.

This time he's much more excited. I am too. We coulnd't really imagine it first time round.

xxx

Hi all ive been so busy xmas shopping not had time to post recently.is anyone really showing yet?when i had my scan last week i had to be weighed for my bloods and i had lost some more weight.i was pleased but my tummy looks like a preg tum! gettin a steriliser of my cousin next week she never used it for her dd as she had bad colic so a bargain buy for me! consultant app on tues so a q to everyone else with consultant led care what happens at first app and any ideas for qs to ask?thanks all. 12+5