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September 2013 - The Beginning of the Bumps

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BinarySolo · 06/03/2013 16:01

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andadietcoke · 14/03/2013 06:17

frogchops Yes, me (know that's not what you want to hear though!) Wink

LexyMa · 14/03/2013 06:48

I haven't felt anything and I am 16 weeks, with my second. Slightly worried actually.I'm sure I felt gurglings by now the first time. Tum is getting steadily bigger though so I guess little Mildred must be growing. I am still being sick - this morning I had to sit on the loo and simultaneously dribble stomach acid into the bathroom bin - how glamorous.

Off out for another day of skiing today! Is going to be really really cold so I will have a lot of hot choc stops. Yesterday I stopped after 3.5 hours, had lunch, went back to the chalet and lay down on my bed... instantly knew I was not going to be able to move again for a loooong time! Just seized up everywhere from not doing any stretches.

Lovely to hear more scan news and MIL venting!!

Readytosettle · 14/03/2013 07:05

Have you had ur scan yet frog? Maybe you're further along than u thought?!

frogchops · 14/03/2013 07:23

Dietcoke - oh my!
Ready- no it's tomorrow. Eeeeek!
This is not even funny now dietcoke, I'm petrified. What if there's two?!? I'm sure there isn't and I'm just fat. And I'm sure my dates are right, we only Dtd twice around ov and they were the day before and the day after.

Readytosettle · 14/03/2013 07:38

Ha ha, ok well the good news is that ur baby(ies??) is growing :-). Maybe ur stomach muscles are just super relaxed!

kimjayne · 14/03/2013 08:14

Frogchops -.Im having the opposite problem. Really.starting to worry me now that I don't have a visible bump yet. My tights have started digging in so I guess Im getting buggers but to look at me you really can't tell Im pregnant. I feel like Im lying when I tell people Im expecting! I've stopped being sick now and hit 15 weeks today. Is anyone else worried by lack of bump?

nerual · 14/03/2013 08:38

sigh. one week until nuchal scan for me. Am I last? Is anyone else still waiting??

Readytosettle · 14/03/2013 08:48

kim you have to stop worrying or you'll end up with a really stressed out baby! You've prob just got really strong muscles. Try tracking the measurements with a tape measure & see if u can notice it that way...u'll have ur 16 week midwife soon anyways so hopefully you'll get to hear the heartbeat & that'll set ur mind at rest!

juniper9 · 14/03/2013 09:28

Neural, my scan is on Monday.

I had an horrific day yesterday. Turns out a child in my class has slapped cheek syndrome. She would have been infectious about 10 days ago, so it's likely she's passed it around the class and onto me. I've never had it (as far as I know) so my school had to get emergency cover in so that I could go to the hospital and have a blood test. Have to wait a week for the results. I spoke to the consultant virologist (who obviously chose to study viruses as he lacks people skills) and it sounds pretty damming if I have contracted it. 5-10% chance of miscarriage before 20 weeks, then risk of severe anaemia for baby which might need an in uterine bloody transfusion, or heart failure.

On top of that, I had to return to school and do parents evening. Quite a few parents asked me if I was ok as I looked so pale, tired and stressed. Survived at least.

A week feels like a long time to have to wait. It might all be ok...

jemimahpuddleduck · 14/03/2013 09:30

frog I have a pretty noticeable bump too and it's only the one I'm 14+1 but had bump for a week or so.

Still haven't told work yet! Going to have to soon, it's all men so just don't think they have noticed or they are being polite.

Creamtea1 · 14/03/2013 09:31

Excited for frogs scan tomorrow to see if more twins in the group :)

jemimahpuddleduck · 14/03/2013 09:33

Sorry cross post with juniper what an awful day for you fingers crossed everything will be ok. Some of the other ladies here have also come into contact with slapped cheek who might be able to offer more advice than me.

Creamtea1 · 14/03/2013 09:34

Juniper I had a test for slapped cheek last week - so has eek a few weeks back. Please try not to worry- it is very, very likely you yourself would have had slapped cheek when you were a child and not even known as its a mild cold/flu type virus. My midwife told mr that she had never tested a lady who had results back as 'not immune'. Also, if u explain your job circumstances etc they may fast track your results - this happened at my ds school for a teacher.

Eeeknumber3 · 14/03/2013 09:38

Yep, same here juniper, I was told they'd never seen one at my practice that didn't come back as already having immunity, so, so common...I have no memory, nor does my mum, of having it, but must have done. It's scary though, everyone in school with my kids seemed to have it!

Eeeknumber3 · 14/03/2013 09:40

frog i am big already, which kinda expected as this is my third, I look like I did at about 18 weeks with DS and DD and am only 12+4...also I always get huge and produce big babies 9lb and 8lb 5oz...one day I will reveal some comedy photos of my hugeness in the last few weeks of other two pregs!

badguider · 14/03/2013 10:00

Why had I never heard of slapped cheek? I didn't hear anything about it as a child, and have no awareness of having it or anybody else I knew having it (and i belong to the genration who all had chicken pox, mumps, measels, german measels etc. before there was routine vaccination).
And yet, it sounds from those who have been tested like most adults have been exposed and are immune now???

Eeeknumber3 · 14/03/2013 10:06

I know badguider I'd never heard of it til I had kids, sometimes it is also called parvovirus, I thought dogs got parvo?!? I had all the childhood illnesses, bad measles (got three weeks off school though!), mumps, chickenpox...but like you say I have no memory of this?! Maybe it's having a renaissance?!

fl0b0t · 14/03/2013 10:15

MrsMC82 so glad you said that- both me and husband thought we felt some BIG movement last night. Definitely wasn't wind, I felt it from inside, and he had his band just under my belly button (as I thought I'd felt something). As I've lost some weight and seeing how active baby was on the scan (literally jumping).. and if it's about the size of a lime... I'd imagine definitely being able to feel it! It was SO COOL. Ahem.

ION I told my brothers by phone yesterday (I think I'm hillarious) by saying "I've got a question to ask you... the only viable answer is "yes" but you've got 6 months to decide....... Would you like to be an uncle?" :-) Both were ecstatic (well, as ecstatic as I've ever seen/heard them!) and I had a nice chat to them both!

Apart from being knackered and nauseous, it's all starting to feel real. Been telling a few more friends (still not done a big announcement!) and everyone's so excited which makes me feel a bit special Blush

Eeeknumber3 · 14/03/2013 10:24

Also, juniper I found it reassuring when my GP gave me the figure, he said the vast majority of pregnant women are immune (never come across one that wasn't). He also said that even if I had contracted it, it would be extremely unlikely I or the baby would develop complications, he reckoned only approx 10% of pregnant women that contracted it would suffer further issues and those would most likely be women that were already compromised (ill) in some other way...so please don't worry, I know that I did, but the likelihood is all will be fine xx

kimjayne · 14/03/2013 13:10

Readytosettle - I know you are right. I must sound like a real moaner to you ladies. Apologies. I am generally a very anxious person. The Dr had prescribed me medication for anxiety around this time last year when things just got on top of me. They brought me off them after a while when things calmed down.

I will try to curb my worries. As you pointed out, I will only end up stressing my little'un out if not.

I have herbal tea and cake sat on my desk! So thats cheering me up. I bought the cakes from a Comic Relief Bake Sale so I am actually doing my bit for charity by eating it! :) nom nom

Readytosettle · 14/03/2013 13:46

Sounds like we're going to have to keep an eye on you kim!

My husband has a comic relief bake sale tomorrow, so have just made a batch of rice crispie squares....absolutely nothing to do with me having a burning desire to melt a whole load of toffee, marshmallows & butter together & then scoff the gooey mixture by the spoonful...honest.

LCR77 · 14/03/2013 15:01

At 14+3 we've told pretty much everyone we want to know although DP wanted to wait to tell his grandma till her 80th birthday yesterday. Conversation went something like this "You know how you're already a grandma that's great? How do you fancy being an actual great grandma?"

Apparently she was in floods of tears and over the moon. Always nice to give people lovely news

FYI bump is already quite large at only 14 weeks plus boobs gone up two sizes already....help!

TripleRock · 14/03/2013 17:50

Low point so far. Vommed into work bogs. Then my glasses fell straight down the toilet. Along with my dignity!

Creamtea1 · 14/03/2013 18:19

Oh triple big load of sympathy! Are you at home now? best get the spare pair of glasses out :(

Kittenkatzen · 14/03/2013 18:22

Thanks for you triplerock. Did you rescue them?!