October 2013-anyone else with an early Bfp?

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Got my line at 10dpo
This will be my secomd dc. Torn between delight and fear it will all go wrong. Dd october 3 by my reckoning.
Cant tell anyone except dh in real life so hoping i can get quietly excited here!

Right,well I just phoned the surgery & receptionist says I have to hand in a sample on one of their sample pots to be sent off & tested before they will refer to midwife. It's changed since last time! Then I made appt with gp who trusted the home pregnancy test & referred me on my say so. Probably just as well I started the ball rolling since they forgot to book my 12 week scan last time until I phoned to demand to know what was happening... How it all comes flooding back - remembered the midwife didn't give me any of the preparatory books/dvds for life with a baby/breastfeeding last time either. Grrr.

*in not on one of their pots.

So I now have to tog us both back up to go out in a high wind snow & hail storm to get a pot from the surgery. Not very impressed,but only because of the weather & my lack of desire to drag DS out in it again. Should just have popped in on my way home from toddlers but wanted to maintain anonymity for a bit longer!

Went to docs ladies, little bit of bad news, have high blood pressure 148/106 wants me back in next week to check it again and has referred me for consultant care as I suspected he would but other than that everything seems ok ATM. Every tiny little pain I get sends me into a panic lol as for us we haven't discussed finding out the babies sex yet but I would I,agen we will, we did last time so it will help us prepare dd for her baby brother/sisters arrival. And means I can sort through clothes etc to save some money xx

hello again all - its been busy on here since I last looked (as have I!). Sorry to hear that some of the GPs and MW appts have been a bit of a let down. With DC1 I didn't get anything more than a list of foods not to eat till my booking appt at 10 weeks. PG2 I had a booking appt at 9 weeks. Has anyone else on here had a MMC? I don't know whether they'll let me have an early scan this time round as I really don't want to go through 8 weeks of waiting to find out it had all gone wrong so early on.

This time round, I'm being slightly less strict on the dietary restrictions and have decided that I will be eating blue cheese, runny eggs and rare steak. Currently hanging out for some nurofen though but won't risk that - so hoping the paracetamol will kick in soon!

No symptoms except tiredness with me, but that could be down to the late night last night. With DC1 my boobs increased five cup sizes in the first four weeks - I'm hoping that because they haven't fully shrunk back that I'll be spared another massive increase.

Afternoon ladies we have a happy nauseous jellycurls checking in again. MW went well as was not the one I expected and agreed to not doing my bloods till 12 week scan as my friend works in hospital labs. As had a cp in August to call in if I start getting cramps, shooting pains or a bleed which is good to know. Going to have consultant led care and already put in notes for a medical delivery so all in all it went well. Just to wait on scan date which will be in about 6 weeks (she gave me an earlier due date so I can get an earlier scan )

Oh Santa- reading your post has just made me very hungry!! Not good as one of my clients has just asked if I'm pregnant!! Am only 5 weeks and didn't pig out at lunch! There's no way I'll be able to keep this quiet at work until the scan...(good bye nice fitted dresses, hello baggy sacks).

Can i join, I apologise that i haven't been through all the posts here yet

I got a BFP on Friday and reconfirmed today - heres to staying safe for the next 8 weeks, then 6 months beyond that

PS jelly- v glad your appointment went well- especially the earlier scan date!!

Funny u say that. pinkush someone asked me today if I was pregnant and as much as I wanted to jump up and down and be like YES. I AM, I was like NAaa definitely definitely not. Killed me lying but it was at a toddler group with my daughter and once u tell one person everyone knows so had to bite my tongue roll on 12 weeks :-)

Is anyone showing at all yet? I'm growing a little concerned by lack of symptoms. Only got the sore boobs! I seem to have got a little thinner which is weird as I'm eating like mad as I'm hungry all the time. And I don't have a scan until 13 weeks so ages to go! Bit worried I've made it all up!

I am having bad cramps, have a previous history if chemical pregnancies so am very very scared. Just want to fast forward the next 8 weeks and get the 1st trimester done, but now I'm wondering whether ill even get 4 weeks under my belt.

Dh doesn't want us to tell anyone till after the 1st scan which I think will be hard- depends on how sick I get lol
Will be finding out the sex as have 2 boys and won't have to get much if its another one!

Fingers crossed your pg isn't a chemical one delilahbelle

Thanks toinfinity This was a hard won BFP after infertility treatment and it just seems to unfair for it to end so soon. The cramps are getting worse though, it really feels like AF. Any symptoms I had (sore boobs, tiredness, mild icky ness) have completely gone.

Told my boss I wont be in tomorrow. Physically I might well be capable but not mentally. I just can't face it any more :(

Don't let the cramps get you down delilahbelle my friend who is also pregnant but about 14.3 weeks said she had really bad period pains she thought she was gunna come on right near the beginning (she found out as early as us guys) but 14.3 weeks on she's going strong

What infertility treatment did u have delilahbelle?

This is a donor egg cycle, and my 4th IVF in all. Thanks for the reassurance Natalie but I am not very hopeful (even though a tiny bit of me still won't believe it's over until I get a negative test)

Best wishes delilahbelle. It's awful when you're worrying about such things. Fingers crossed for you. Was it you who was hoping for an early scan? Would you be able ask your gp or self refer to epu? Not sure how that works so apologies if I'm making stupid suggestions. I had two early scans last time due to heavy bleeding but don't know the script otherwise.

So much for my high hopes of holding out til my mum's birthday - she was happily playing with DS earlier & I blurted out "how would you feel about having another one of those?!". Durrr. She was pleased but a little concerned as I predicted,think her mind is a bit more at ease now. We have agreed to hold off telling my dad for a while yet. His fears won't be so easily allayed as mostly stems from financial difficulties which he has helped us (partner,shit with money) out of,so I need to be able to prove a good track record now that I'm in charge of both house & business (and my business) accounts,when he sees it's under control I'm sure he'll be fine. Not that it really matters,but he's my dad & I'm hugely grateful to him for his rescue package & don't want to worry him further unnecessarily. If that makes sense to anyone but me!

Had a lovely lovely lump sum back payment of ctc today,haven't had any since July as they said we weren't eligible anymore,but we were & now it's a lump sum we can afford to extend our box room into the loft & make it a large enough room to be useable for DC2. My goodness,freaky saying that! Can't believe that at the end of being pregnant again (which I LOVED last time around) there'll be a second child!! I'll really have to grow up & get organised.

In addition to the new room,we are hoping to stretch the budget for a new boiler that works & will actually heat the house! Bliss. Partner is a chippy so he can do all the work himself with some help from me & someone to commission the new boiler if we manage it. Feel as though we will finally be getting somewhere with this great but run down house we bought 18 months ago!

So if u have had ivf that means u no for sure a fertilised egg was placed back? How many did they place back?

I'm telling you now I'm sure heartburn shouldn't be this bad early on lol

Thinking of you delilah I also had period like cramps before getting my BFP and after, will be keeping my fingers crossed for you.

fingers crossed delilah.

I'm keeping everything crossed for u Delilah. Lots of us on here seems to have had AF type pains too, so just try to relax tomorrow and stress as little as possible (I know easier said than done)

I always thought I would want to find out the sex as I'm very much a planner, but now it's really happening we don't think we're going to... It's our first so we don't mind either way. Will probably have changed my mind by 20 wks though!

I went and had a sly wander through mothercare today and only just managed to stop myself buying something cute and tiny!

Haha elleroo that last bit made me chuckle, sounds like I been looking for bump supports and maternity clothes all day on my iPad cos I'm quite big like size 22-24 its difficult to get half decent maternity clothes and I no ill need the support for my tum! Roll on scan day it seems so far away!!

Hello, can I join you? Due on 8th October (ish) with number 2. I have a 3 y.o. DD already.

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Hi ladies. Lovely to hear how youre all doing. I have my GP appointment on Wednesday, which is the first step here. I'm also feeling pretty severe AF pains that I don't remember with DD, so I'm hoping all is okay.