Oct 2013 come and grab a seat on the first trimester bus!

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Hi all

Just checking in as we're away for a few days. Im 7 weeks today and still feeling sick but not as bad last night as it has been. I called the GP yesterday to check on appts and they said to give it till the end of the week. The GP did give me the exemption form when I saw her though. She stamped it and told me to fill the rest in and post it !

Congrats on the twins Nat!

Pannacotta no I'm in NW London. I'm also considering a home water birth, I'm sure that will go down well for a VBAC! My pregnancy will be high risk because I had problems last time but I'm hoping the high risk clinic will be able to discharge me nearer the time so I can have choices about delivery. My CS could not have been avoided and if I have the same problems again it will likely be another but I've been told I have a 70%ish chance that all will be well. Then I can make a nuisance of myself about the birth!

I like your thinking about home birth, seems to make sense. My local hospital has a birth centre but I'm sure they won't take a VBAC any more than the standalone one will. Ah well long way to go!

Celtic and mousey just out of interest really. what is their main concern about vbacs? are they much more high risk births? I've just heard it mentioned a few times and was wondering what the deal is?
hope everyone is doing alright today. I feel stupid after having been worried about a lack of ms now that its decided to come on full force!Haha. not been sick yet,but feel it all the time!! oh well!! keep telling myself how worth it it will be!!

Oh no roofio. I'm still avoiding ms so keeping fingers crossed.

Congratulations on the twins. Very exciting!

Hmm pannacotta I'm not sure how I'd feel about twins. DH gets 3 weeks paternity leave so I expect he likes the idea of them because he gets away very soon after! He wants them for the same reason roxvox does, I have only ever seen myself having one DC and he has always imagined 2.

I get really ashamed admitting I only want 1 DC as people react as though that's some sort of child cruelty, especially my Mum who was a very reluctant only child and behaves very much like one in her mid fifties I don't get in well at all with my you ger sister (close age gap) as we are polar opposites and she's mean but I adore my baby aged 21 brother so maybe I'd consider a second DC with a bigger age gap. Although not sure i want to go through all this queasiness again! And of course ALL families are the same so my DC will have exactly the same experience as I had NOT! Such flawed logic. Ah I've rambled for ages there!

There was nothing in the fridge today except an egg and a lemon. I made pancakes! Feel mighty sick now though.

I also have a MASSIVE craving for healthy food and have written the longest shopping list full of variants of lettuce. It's a bit annoying living overseas as there is just the one type of food. No chance of a Thai or a curry, I did manage to find what was advertised as a full english breakfast on Sunday but it turned out to be a plate of sausage and chips!

I chickened out of telling my colleagues although they were commenting in how I've been ill for weeks. It just seems the oddest thing to drop into conversation face to face! After the 12 week scan I shall let England know (as in, my friends and family there!) via the Internet so ill be spared the weird chat!

How accurate (or not) is the connection between ms and gender? Although I'm complaining lots I've only had mild nausea really, exacerbated by a bad cold, so I'm thinking a boy?!

8+1 and no scan until 12+4 is is worse than the 2ww!

Bloody hell that was long. Apologies!

Morning all welcome to the bus newbies.

Well today i gave in and booked an early scan with the epu I know i have no real reason to worry but i have lost a few beans and the anxiety is getting to me. My sickness has lessened but as i have said instead of being happy everything is a potential problem :( Scan on Friday at 11. I know there are small risks with early scans and am a bit worried but it will be abdominal so should be ok.

I am just a nervous wreck

my sister had no ms with either of her dcs and she has one of each!! I don't believe there's any link,but I'm sure some do!!

Morning motherships!

I feel terrible!!! I've been using a hot water bottle to help with crampiness!

I didn't know you shouldn't do it!! I know I haven't been shooting up heroin but I've been doing it for days! I'm gutted that I might've proper cocked something up!

That's all.

sal don't worry. they say you just need to be careful about not raising your core body temperature. but you're hot water bottle won't be that hot if you can hold it against you so I'm sure it won't have done any damage. my friend who's a mw says she recommends them for cramps etc just not too hot!!x

Morning Sal1977, I didn't know that you weren't supposed to use a hot water bottle! I am guessing it's to keep temperature down? I'm sure everything is fine.

Umlauf I do feel for you not being able to get the exact food you want! My husband wants only one DC for the same reason as you, he has an older Brother who he didn't get on very well with as a child. I am one of three and like you I get on better with my younger brother as I am not very girly, whereas my sister loves dresses and make up etc. however I just want two because I don't want an only child! Each to their own though and I can completely understand why someone may only want one child.

I have my first MW appt tomorrow (at 7+1), what should I expect?

Is anyone experiencing food aversions? I can't stomach the idea of anything mushy (I.e. soup or couscous) so am munching my way through some crackers right now. I seem to start feeling a little queasy every couple of hours, but crackers are helping. Still no MS.

roxvox I normally have such a sweet tooth,love biscuits and chocolate,but now I can't stand the thought of anything like that!! not had a pudding for weeks!!

Shit none of my clothes are fitting properly! Surely this is too early... Am I just getting really fat?

Hello everyone, no symptoms here yet (just 5 weeks I think) except sensitive skin - I have to strip off when I get in from work

daft question here: how much tea do you drink? I usually have three really strong cuppas a day and I've found conflicting advice about how much to have. Giving up booze is no hardship, but I'm going to struggle without my cuppas!

BTW I'm not in the UK and caffeine-free tea isn't readily available where I am at least I don't think so - I haven't looked, it just seems like such an abomination!

Congrats Natalie! Twins....that would be a dream for me as I can be done with pg in one go lol

Question please regarding dates. Do you date from the first day of your last period or from conception? How does the MW date it? Just occurred to me I am 8 weeks today but if i date from conception it's two weeks less......need it to move quickly plus trying to work out if I get maternity pay. Thanks

Hi funkky. Apparently everyone dates it from the first day of your last period. Seems odd to me but the theory is that people are more likely to know the first date of their last period than they are to know exactly when they conceived. So it's a more universal measure of it all.

cuillereasoup Hello! I used to drink 3 cups of coffee a day but prior to POAS I decided to switch to peppermint tea because I was getting annoyed that I found myself relying on the coffee! It took a bit of getting used to, but I don't miss coffee at all now. Not sure what the limit is I am afraid!

roofio I have always been a big fan of sweets (not chocolate so much), but now I am not fussed. I'd rather have a piece of toast with some marmite on (yum). Or yesterday I discovered Daim bars. Sure I used to hate them but it was bloody lovely!

Is anyone else getting a sickly hungry feeling every hour or so, but when they eat they feel super full really quickly?!

Umlauf my clothes dont fit either my trousers I normally keep for that time of the month are even to tight. I refuse at 8 weeks to wear mat clothes but I also refuse to buy a bigger size. On the reverse of that I have also lost half a stone in weight so not sure how that all ties together.

My pelvis is hurting, short stabby pains just above the pelvic bone. I am sure this is normal and I probably had it in my last pregnancies but its not making me feel great. Anybody else getting stabby pains?

jellycurls I had been having some stabby pains too over the weekend. I think I just over exerted myself walking or something!

I am definitely getting a bit of a belly. I sat in the bath last night looking at my tummy and wondering where the hell it's come from! My diet hasn't really changed (except for less sweets and more crackers) so I find it quite odd. Fortunately my jeans still fit but my belt is a few holes loser than before!

Hey Jelly- yep, hence why I was slowly cooking my bean with a hot water bottle. I have very mild crampiness pretty much on and off all the time interspersed with 'twangers' as I like to call them. All perfectly normal apparantly!

I've been living in leggings and a long vest with a long cardi over the top, although I work from home so can get away with it. I lost over a stone at Slimming world last year then when I quit smoking in August to start TTC put it all back on again! Grrrr...the intention was to get it off again before getting preggers but that didn't happen so I've started off a stone overweight!!

Any others who have given up smoking/trying to give up/not planning to give up out there? Xx

Hello! Is it ok to join?
I'm 7+4, with 1DD 21 months.
Last year I had a MC and an ectopic so extra cautious and on permanent knicker watch - TMI!
Also had a scan yesterday at EPU and they dated me as 5+5! I'm unsure quite what that means ?dates wrong or small baby?
Re scan in 2 weeks so more waiting and more worry, DC2 seems much more drama than DD1!!

Hi all, can't believe how fast these threads have moved, just read through the end of the first one and all of this one, you chatty bunch
I've been away for a week visiting family so haven't been able to post. Told my parents and sister and they were very happy.
Those mentioning the pelvic pains I was having them too and I remembered from being pregnant with dd, when I also had it, that I was told to not stand on one leg when putting on footwear or clothes but to sit down instead and also not to sit with my legs crossed. That really helped last time and the pain has gone away for now since I've stopped doing those things this time too.
I also have the sickly starving feeling but then can't eat too much. So I'm eating more often. Also gone off anything mushy or liquidy like sauces and soups. Have randomly had a craving for edamame this afternoon so may try and find some in the shop. Haven't had it for years.

Urgggh. I'm feeling sick today, yet somehow think it could be cured if I ate the perfect food, but everything tastes rubbish. I'm going to head to the shops to stock up on crackers and ginger biscuits!
cuillereasoup I've been struggling without tea too. I think you're meant to limit caffiene to 200g a day and a mug of tea has 75g in it. So I've been trying to stick to 2 cups of the real stuff and having decaf inbetween. xuntitledx recommended PGtips on the last thread, which is pretty good as decaf goes. I've found lemon and ginger tea is quite good when the morning sickness kicks in.
Welcome Prisci and PipsWife

cuillereasoup I believe the recommended amount is about four cups of tea? I can't do without it either, but swapped my evening earl grey for chamomile a while back and I sleep better.

roofio I believe the main additional risk of VBAC is scar rupture, which is not common but can be catastrophic. There is also the risk of whatever went wrong previously happening again (which doesn't apply to me as my CS was urgent but planned, I've never been in labour). I intend to be an expert by the time I get to birth choices, if I get that far!

Nice new thread! God I feel awful. 6 weeks yesterday & ms kicked in last night. I haven't been sick but the constant nausea on top of the crushing tiredness is making me feel very very grim.

Wow - twins! Congratulations!! excellent,no twins for me

Thanks Rockchick. I think I should probably leave the EPU alone to deal with bigger worries. I just felt a bit overwhelmed yesterday and feeling a bit behind everyone else in terms of mw appointments and scan dates and not looking forward to another appointment with Dr Unhelpful.

Yikes on the Morning sickness. I've been nauseus on and off throughout each day but it is definitely worse in the mornings so perhaps it might be worth trying in the evenings instead. I've been finding exercise a welcome distraction.