October 2013: where we all make it to the 2nd trimester and begin to glow!

[pinksky]

Welcome October passengers--all aboard our new thread (is it number four or five?!). Hope everyone is having a lovely Easter and enjoying an egg or three.

Stats thread HERE

Ps Orange, the holiday sounds amazing!

Noooo just been sick for the first time. Got some milk out if the fridge which had turn to yogurt. Just looking at it made my violently sick! Oh dear.

Just a quickie to say cheerio for a few days, our Internet is about to be cut off pre move. Hoping to be online again by Tuesday.

Hope you all keep well and no nasty scares.

Tarlia, I can't speak for anyone else but you certainly didn't offend me.

Bye for now.

Got my scan in a few hours. Excited and terrified at the same time!

All the best pink your scan day finally here. Cannot be bothered to go to work today, absolutely no enthusiasm whatsoever :-(

We've got a wedding in Sweden when I'm 30 weeks and are planning on going to that. The second wedding we've been invited to in October when I should have a 3 week old newborn is proving a little more difficult (it's in Chicago..) gutted...

livened we went to a wedding when ds was 4 weeks. It was so much easier than I thought it would be. It wasn't in Chicago but it was a 4 hour drive away and involved a hotel stay. I was breastfeeding so that made feeding him easy and he was a dream. It's easier than you think so if you want to go just do. Baby will sleep most of the time at that age anyway and be the star of the show at the wedding. The photographer was obsessed with ds and I have some beautiful shots of him from that day.
I'm off to my parents today in readiness for ds' christening on Sunday. Shame I can't celebrate with any champagne but I will certainly eat lots of cake! I bought a dress a few weeks ago when I didnt realise I was preggo which is now pretty tight so am going armed with firm control pants to try and hold in my expanding tummy!

Good luck Pink! Happy scan day! I have my scan at 3:30. I don't know how I'll get through the morning at work.

Can I join? Been a long time lurker but was anxious until we had results back from 12 week scan. Still anxious as although they say low DS risk they say it's 1 in 170 which doesn't feel low.
This is first baby and in 38 but I still feel this is high risk

I read above that people are struggling with travel insurance. I'm with insure and go. A bit more expensive but pregnancy (including premature birth) is covered as standard. There is also no extra charge for well controlled asthma which is why I was with them in the first place for our annual policy

Re insurance, I have annual family travel insurance with through Mutlitrip.com, and I am covered to travel until 32 weeks. Can't remember how much it was exactly, but £40 or £50. No idea if it would be more expensive if you took it out while pregnant, but I don't think so as they didn't seem overly concerned. I would really recommend insurance for anyone travelling, just for that piece of mind.

Soup you have logged off now, but just to let you know I am thinking of you.

Good luck for scans pink and flyer. I also heard heartbeat and saw the trace at 12w scan - didn't even ask, she just offered at the end of the scan. She was very good though, pointing out everything, telling us what she was doing etc. I think a lot of it is down to the sonographer - some seem very focused on 'I am here to check the baby only', whereas others seem to understand how important it is to the parents to see their little bean and hear that everything is ok.

I agree bowlful our sonographer was fine,no complaints,but was very much there to do her job.and get measurements, I definitely feel she'd lost sight of the fact that it was one of the best moments of our lives so far,its just a job to her!! I was just pleased baby was in there and there was a hb though so I didn't really mind about anything else!!

The sonographer with DS was very business like and I hardly saw anything. The one last week was amazing, so friendly showed us loads of images and enjoyed baby waving to us all :o

Yes absolutely Roofio - given the option I would much rather have someone do their job thoroughly than spend time cooing with me and miss something - but a bit of cooing as well as thorough is very nice. I feel that all the way through pregnancy though - to the health professionals you see you are simply another woman having a baby, which has been going on since the dawn of time. But to us, it's the most amazing, special, life changing thing. I said before that on my first pregnancy I spent a lot of time wondering why the midwives and doctors weren't more interested in me and this amazing and scary thing that is happening. This time round I am more prepared for that!

Welcome Socks, nice to have new passengers! Re the results, is it because with age as a factor, there is only so low that your risk factor can be once in late 30's, and that's why you have been told that's low risk? (Disclaimer - don't really know what I am talking about)

Welcome socks! Perhaps as bowlful said, that's low risk for you because of your age? When you got the results, where did the "risk" appear to be from? High NT? Bloods? Or just your age? It's still very good odds!

Bowlful - I agree with you re medical professionals. Especially sonographers. Relatively often, they are the bearers of bad news, so it's not surprising they maintain some level of distance... I especially think that about the 20w scan tbh. At the 12w, there are just the basics to look out for, but they have to really concentrate (so I'm told by obstetrician friend) at the 20w scan as they are properly looking for defects in all the organs... Bricking it about mine already... Twins does feel like double the worry!!!

Welcome socks and good luck scanners.

Thanks for the advice everyone. Mice to know i wont be the pnly pne travelling aroubd then. I will just check I can get insurance and maybe call the midwife to check she doesn't have any objections then go for it. Yay a holiday! We went on honeymoon at Christmas and thought that was the end of going abroad for us for the next 5 years or so.

Goo luck pink, flyer and ananikifo!

Welcome lost, and thanks for the suggestion of an insurance company. I have asthma also, so that's helpful to know. Sorry you're feeling anxious

I've been invited to a wedding in the Ukraine on Sept 7th. Due on Sept 30th. Probably can't go, can I?! Bummer!

If it makes you feel better Umlauf, at that stage you might not want to hoik yourself to the Ukraine and back!

This is going to sound awful, but we are declining invites to weddings abroad this summer. They aren't weddings of close friends or family, otherwise we'd go. I would just feel bad turning up and then having to leave early to sleep before the festivities really kick off - I feel like they've wasted an invite on me!

It's true, and weddings abroad are so expensive! I feel sad though as we never get invited to weddings! DHs friends are having smaller ones and mine aren't getting married!

Welcome socks

I have a MW 16 week appointment today and i'm a bit worried as i received a letter asking me to go in for more bloods my thyroids off :/ That topped with not feel very pregnant at all atm im scared, hopefully she will find HB today and all will be well

Just seen mw I'm 13+4 she tried to listen for a heart beat but couldn't hear it, she did say to me before she'll try and listen providing I don't panic if she can't find it and she's just left my house and now I'm panicking. And there was a trace of protein in my urine (which I'm not too worried about as I had that through out my whole pregnancy with dd) I have consultant next week so hope they scan me as she has a portable ultrasound in the office.

Hope all of today's scan-ees run smoothly xxxx

I hope everything turns out ok Falcon
Is anyone else suffering from "baby brain" yet?
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Yesterday I asked Dd(11) to go upstairs and get my mobile phone from the bedroom. She came downstairs and said she couldn't find it. I was busy ranting about how she never looked for anything properly, couldn't see past the end of her nose etc when dd(4) pointed out that while I was shouting I was busy mumsnetting on said phone.

Hi everyone,

Just back from my holiday. Sorry I haven't read the 50 pages or so posted since I left you are all still as chatty as when I left! Regarding insurance. I had a standard policy with Columbus and this covered pregnancy as standard as long as there was no history of issues.

We had our '12' week scan today (rather late actually as I'm 14 weeks today) but there was an upside as because it was so late we found out the sex - and its a boy!! I really thought it was a girl so just re-adjusting my head but very exciting to know and neither me or my husband have any preference.

We had our private one yesterday for all the downs and related tests so we are getting quite used to seeing the bub - but have to wait for 6 weeks till we see him again thought. I agree that its important that the scanners do their jobs but I think it has really helped us start to bond with the bub to get longer to be able to ask questions and be able to see what has developed - it was amazing to see so many details.

MoN I'm embarrassed to tell you all the things I've forgotten or mistaken recently. I got all the way to the tram this morning and didn't have my purse with me, so showed up 45 minutes late to work! DH read about "mummy brain" in his pregnancy for blokes book and I could slap him every time it happens and he says it to mr.

Congrats Bronze the first person to find out on the October what sex they are having. Must have felt so special, made up for you xx