graduates of the wine-and-shagging-after-mc thread come hither!

[wilderumpus]

Seeing as practically all of us have now got pg, here is a new home for all of us to come to carry on chatting after getting the BFP after our mcs. Today we are pregnant! :)

yeeeeeeeeeeees snow it is normal, please don't worry! If you have bright red blood, bad cramping and clots then worry. I know how you feel tho, I thought I was losing this one when I had my first spotting at 6 weeks :( Gritted teeth are the way forward!

The PhD is all written snow! Am into hardcore editing now :) I even have a few chapters that are completely ready for submission! ooh. My submission date is the 31 Dec... So I will be free in three weeks time :) SOOOO excited. Is all fine and comfortable BUT, but, but, I am, of course, in the doldrums with it. And worried about fitting in DS's B'day, and chrimbo (thank god for online shopping) etc. Will editing ever end? Does what i say make any sense and who cares?! Bah.

sheldon oof tests sound stressful. Hope you are ok. When will you get the results?

18 weeks today. wish I could feel the baby more though!

hope you ok one

wilde - yeh, know just how that feels!!! my submission date was around 11th Jan 2011 I think and i remember breaking my back to get most of it done before xmas so i could take a guilt-free week off! Ah it'll all be worth it in the end...even if, like me, you end up working in something only vaguely PhD-related lol

one my PhD is about international aid but I can firmly say that I will not be working in that field! I love public sector stuff though and look forward to getting back into it in erm, a gazillion years time. Cannnot WAIT to get out of academia and, well, education in general. So very educated, so very unemployed... !

Yep am breaking my back too (literally, is killing me sat here!) but editing is so much better than any other part of this process :) When I think of the stress of writing a chapter from scratch! eugh. I will have xmas day and boxing day off as my brain will need to recoup for the last round of editing! NYE is going to be super duper brill this year...

and we have the anomaly scan on the 28th of dec to fit in too. If I am stressed with work we will ask them to write the gender down and save it to open NYE when am relaxed and happy after submission. I think I have said that before. hey ho

Am a bit uncomfortable, thought it was constipation as things are slowing up down there but you know that feeling you get when your bladder is fit to burst? it's more that kind of a thing although am emptying regularly. Hope that doesn't mean impending infection :/

I need to pluck up courage to ring the EPU. Maybe next week...?

Wilde, I'm having deja vu with you talking about your phd lol

sorry foof the phD is taking over my life atm so don't have much else to talk about! i did try not to post for a while but do like to haer advice from one and snow who have been through it all too... Submission is a lonely stressful time! Anyways, no worries, will take the dull convo away again until it is done

If you are uncomfy best get it checked out, can't do any harm eh? Lactulose has been a good friend of mine throughout this pg!

Hope everyone is well. I will be back and fighting fit after new year and maybe know the gender and that it is all ok and am being silly

foof - you are 5 weeks pg in freezing cold weather tho, so could explain the constant feeling that you need to pee. i'm running up and down the corridor to loos in work all the time last couple of days!! Fx that that's all it is - I know with DS my pg wasn't exactly planned and my cycles were so irregular then that i didn't even realise AF might be late and it was also December and freezing cold and I was doing xmas shopping in town and had to keep running to the loo in shops and I was convinced it was the onset of an infection because I needed to go so often. The next day it kind of dawned on me that maybe, just maybe, the needing to wee might not be an infection and lo and behold...bfp!

Hi foof

I am now vomiting. Have been since yesterday evening. And the other end too. Blinkin' kids. feel dreadful and exceedingly sorry for myself.

poor chicken

Not deja vu in a bad way Wilde, just deja vu :) talk away!

I don't know why but I don't feel very optimistic any more, I really hope it's not intuition :( keep poking my boobs to check they still hurt.

poor u ice! hope u feel better soon x

foof - feel just like you, hard to stay confident things will work out! My boobs were so sore with DS and not really the last time which ended in mmc. This time round they are sore-ish but i keep wondering...are they sore enough? Is the heartburn bad enough? Am I needing to pee often enough?? Argh!!! for you, because you have my sympathy!!

I keep thinking well the food cooking at work this morning smelt awful when I know it's not really and thats good, and I peed 4 times in 2 hours on one drink since I got up, again a good sign, but then all these things still happened after my baby had died last time for another few weeks so it's not really reliable is it?

Maybe i was always feeling liek this underneath and the positivity was a front I subconsiously put on?

Ice, I hope you can take it easy today x

Welcome back foof and congrats! great news! I understand your nervousness at this stage, but needing to pee a lot is a good sign - I needed to wee all the time including a good 2 or 3 times in the night (grr) but it has really calmed down. Hoping that's not a bad sign. Like wild said, I don't think the nerves really go away once you've had a MC, but hopefully you & snow will be able to enjoy your pgs a bit anyway. Good luck!

Ice so sorry to hear the bug got you! Hope you are taking it easy - any help around?

wild your scan is the day after mine. Hope we both get good news. I am feeling a bit more movement, but it's still sporadic. Pretty sure it is movement but I am still cynical too, if that makes sense.

No news here - did all my Xmas shopping on Monday - hurrah, chuffed that I don't have to do any more! And DH and the DDs are going away for a couple of days tomorrow so I will have some time to get organised for Xmas! Woohoo!

ooh and avocado - yes, it is another craving of mine. Pret do a nice avocado and pine nut wrap which I got yesterday at work. YUM. I don't actually have any avocado in atm which shall have to be amended! I do have a unopened carton of tzatiki though. (wild don't worry I am having unhealthy cravings too, and eating corn chips with dips is not really healthy!)

It's blimmin freezing here. Hope everyone is keeping warm.

hello Booboo, so bring me up to date, whats happening with you :)

oh yes, sorry. I am currently 18+5, due 10 May! So far so good, a bit nervous, etc etc!! I was feeling rubbish but since about 14 weeks been feeling pretty good. . How far along are you?

5 weeks and a day or two, very early days!! So pleased for you, 18 weeks wow

yes time flies really - the first few weeks are definitely the worst - both with the worry and the feeling ill - though I didn't get symptoms of sickness until about 6/7 weeks. Hope it goes well for you this time, there's every chance it will!

Expecting sickness to kick in around a week from now if everything ok ok with baby. Right before xmas dinner boo hoo! Havent felt queasy or lost appetite yet but thinking about cooking and doing grocery shopping feels totally unappealing at the min...hormones or maybe just laziness?!

snow when I was pg with DD2, I didn't get any sickness at all. So you might be lucky! Xmas dinner would be bad timing!

Meant to ask, sheldon, how come you had the lucozade test? How did it go? Do you get results straight away? I have to have it this time, due to previous large baby. Though no appt yet.

Morning all. Absolutely freezing here, very glad I have a maternity coat! Not really much to report other than suddenly feeling even more huge. Not sure how my body will cope with another 3 months of stretching
boo Everyone gets the lucozade challenge test here. It isn't a full glucose tolerance test - no 12 hour fast - you just drink a set amount of lucozade and fast for 1 hour, then get a blood test. No results yet but if blood sugar is over a certain level I will have to have the full test. I'm wondering how big my baby is because I feel absolutely massive and people keep telling me I am big.
snow I hope sickness doesn't hit in time for xmas! I had nausea with this one from quite early but only slightly. It got worse gradually then disappeared by about 14 weeks. I know plenty of people that didn't get it at all and was hoping to be one of them :) My boobs have not really been sore at all this time either.
ice Oh how horrible, I hope the sickness is short lived. How are you today?
wilde How's the work going?
foof Sympathies for the night weeing but yay for the positive symptoms. I have been awful with the night weeing - was up to 4 or 5 times a night at one point. How are you feeling today?

ladies...sickness is here! It's more like a preview of what is to come but feeling very queasy, tired and dizzy today. With DS I had proper HG but last time I was just constantly nauseous and tired. Almost hoping for another bout of HG (err well not really but you know what i mean) as long as it means there's a healthy baby in there. But :( :( to not being able to enjoy mozzarella sticks and Christmas dinner and stuff!

I feel more pregnant today :)

SNow, hope you find a way to cope, was it bad enough for hospital/drugs last time?

With DS i.needed drugs and i was in hospital to get a drip a couple of times - last time wasnt as bad but it was mmc so hormones might not have been as strong. So tbh it will be reassuring if i keep feeling worse...at least for a while anyway. Collapsed in front of tv tonight!!! Glad you are feeling more pg foof!

and the peeing at night has started! I was possibly having a bit of nausea earlier too, fingers crossed!

Bummer! Ladies just as I get to join the graduate thread it's not looking too good for me any more. I was happy cos I should be 6 weeks tomorrow, I've been feeling really tired and yesterday I was so queasy and I got my 3 + weeks on the digi test a couple of days ago. Then I had some staining on Tuesday, just very light and hardly noticeable unless you're hyper aware of that kind of thing post-mc, so I felt a bit nervous but then there was nothing further for a few days so I was starting to feel tentatively confident again, esp with sickness starting yesterday. Today I had some more spotting. Again, very light, but more red-ish in colour. Really upset. Keep trying to tell myself it's not heavy bleeding and I'm not cramping but that's what I told myself last time with light spotting and then it was mmc. Phoned midwife and she told me that if no more spotting happens and/or it doesn't get heavier to sit tight over the weekend and she'll try and get me in to EPU on Monday for a scan to check on everything. Don't feel very positive though, can't help but feeling I'm just waiting to get some bad news. Right before Christmas :(

Not looking forward to telling DH when he gets home, fairly anxious weekend ahead but loads of xmassy things organised on Sunday which might keep my mind of it. A bit. Boo hoo.