January 2014 - Start the new year off with a pop

[MissMedusa]

Any one else hoping for a 2014 baby?

I'm hesitantly dipping my baby toe in the pool after having a mc last October. I'm 4+2 today with my first and hoping and praying this one sticks.

Here's to 2014!

MissMedusa - I hear ya! I got to the point where I knew I was going to drive myself totally INSANE if I didn't stop and realise that there is only so much I can control. I still check each time I wipe and get concerned about things, but I stopped the temping and the peeing on a stick for the exact same reason - it started to cause unbelievable stress and worry - I would get palpitations just before I took my temperature in case it had dropped and waiting for the stick to do it's thing was torture - I decided ignorance is bliss (for a while anyway)....

Fellow mentaller checking in!

Toby - got everything crossed for you.

Well, I cracked and did another two tests this morning. One Internet cheapie came up much stronger. However, u dud another clearblue digital and it still says 1-2

We only DTD once - on Sat 20 April. AF was due on Sat, 4 May so hoping that all OK as am still 4+3

Is such a bloody worrying time for everyone. Whilst I don't want to wish our lives away, I wish we could all wake up post 12 weeks! Actually, make that 20 weeks as once I passed 12 weeks, I just started mentalling about the 20 week scan [sigh]

Big (((hugs))) all round

Good god, I feel sick this morning. Morning sickness wears off after a day two, right? [Wink]

I feel much more worried this time than I did last time. Lots of boob poking and knicker checking. I bought another load of cheapy tests last night too! I will have gone fully mad by 12 weeks. Sorry to all the fellow worriers.

Another knicker-checking, boob-poking madwoman here! I'm 4+3 today, which is when my bleeding started with my cp last year, so I'm especially crazy today! Constant burping and sore nips suggest it'll be okay today, but I'd quite like a bit of morning sickness too! Very early days for that though. Anyone else having weird dreams? Not sure if it is because I'm pg or because my bedroom was so hot yesterday.

I've had 2 dreams I'm having triplets

Thanks for all the support, btw. Nothing more yet. Nothing I can do about it, either, so we're all in the same boat re waiting and panicking!

Morning all! Here's some hands to hold for those of you feeling crappy. I think maybe we should have an amnesty box for all pee sticks and thermometers? I am determined not to get too stressed... There are always new things to worry about, like the booklet about screening for stuff wrong with the baby that came in the post with my appointment (don't read this unless you're feeling strong!). I also had 2 mcs in june and september last year...
I think today has been the worse day for nausea so far. Woke up in the night feeling awful and felt really bad when I woke up.
Hope everyone's doing ok xxx

12 weeks seems like such a LOOOOONG way away... And I don't even know when 12 weeks is cos cycles so weird. Do you reckon I'm eligible for an early scan on NHS just to clarify?!

morning ladies, how are we all this morning? Hugs for Toby and Choco! I'm worried and check every time I wipe too, and this is only my first ever pregnancy so no bad experiences to worry me, so I can't imagine what you're going through.

I really feel quite queasy this morning, I cracked some eggs to make scrambled eggs on toast but then couldn't bear to look at it, and only just about managed to get one slice of toast down my neck and a few sips of decaff. No actual sickness but I do feel icky! Been trying to call my GP all morning but the line's engaged. I downloaded the free sprout app to my brand new birthday present iPad yesterday, very exciting!!

you may be able to get a early dating scan extra x

I just booked my Drs appointment for 2 weeks time!! Argh, don't want to wait that long! otherwise the only way to see a dr is to call at 8am or 2.30! and obviously the lines are engaged at those times and by the time you do get through, the appointments are all gone!

slug - I went to see the doc with DC1 last year. Was told that wasn't necessary and I could self refer to midwife next time.

I've just fine that today and got my first appointment for 2 weeks time. Might be worth checking with your practice if you can do that as I delayed things a bit by going to the doc's first and that then delayed my 12 week scan a bit.

Morning ladies - Toby here's a special big (gentle hug) for you. I'm sure it will be fine - I read somewhere that in the early weeks, the expansion of the uterus causes blood to be 'flushed out' - can you take it nice and easy and distract yourself with something until your appt?

Gobbolino I POAS again this morning - only an IC, but hey, it was in the drawer, calling to me and I might as well. I like peeing on sticks! I am also an obsessive knicker checker, symptom-googler, boob-poker who cannot think about anything except pregnancy. Hell, we should embrace it, right? When else can you legitimately nap during the day and avoid housework?

I am quite cross to have to be at work and pretending having to actually do things other than browse MN, see if my boobs have grown (my 34dd bra no longer fits, you'll be fascinated to know, I am now 36E), plan how I will tell my mum and best mate, imagine myself with a bump (cue lots of tummy sticking out in the mirror - although with the bloat, I HONESTLY look 6 months without really trying. It's awful! I'm going to try fybogel), write lists of names etc.

Oh, and I got a GPs appointment for Friday (amazed they had one so fast, but she seemed happy to book me in at 5weeks. It is Newham (London) though, and they are trying to improve antenatal care. Not that that would be hard...

I have my doctors app nxt week but I keep stressing! I just hope I get more symptoms, all I keep thinking is I feel really well, a little too well!!

Toby, I have everything crossed for, I have heard pink in early preg is very normal it happened to my friend where she thought it was her period which didn't come properly and then it turned out she was preggo and didn't realise...she's now 5 months so that pink bleed turned out fine for her xx

Slug. Last time I went to see doctor and she was as useful as a chocolate fire guard. Lots of congratulations and then just told me to book in with MW. This time didn't bother with doctor and just called surgery told them I was pregnant and they booked me straight in with the MW for the 15th. It was the MW that did all the blood request and set up scans with hospital etc. Disclaimer, my doctor is normally really good....

On the knicker checking, boob popping, symptom watching though. I have turned neurotic.... On top of the knicker checking etc. my thing is vitamins.... So whilst ttc I was taking:

• Floradix for iron
• Viridian Fertility Pro-Conception vitamins (has alots of good stuff including required a,out of vitamin D, Folic etc.)
• made my DF take Viridian Fertility Otency tablets....
• Solgar Homocysteine modulators

-Omega 3 Krill Oil

And now I am taking:

• Floradix for iron
• Solgar Pre-Natal Vitamins
• Solgar Homocysteine modulators
• Solgar Natiral Fiber

-Omega 3 Krill Oil

All the vitamins are natural with no nasty chemical compounds..

I am rattling like a smarties tube and my other half looks at me like I am losing the plot when I take 8 tablets and 20ml liquid Floradix iron.....

Now is that obsessive and paranoid or what??

Gabbo. You are increasing shares in the clearblue company and I am increasing shares in the natural vitamin pregnancy market... Ha ha ha

Toby. Hope you are feeling better..

Blonbaby I am with you. I want more symptoms and sickness.....

thanks Gobbo, I thought that to be honest with you, but I wasn't sure so I rang them for instructions and was told to see a GP first.
Does anyone know If i can have a runny boiled egg, or a runny fried egg? Does fully cooked mean they are hard all the way through?
Thanks x

ahh, just checked the NHS website, and yes they have to be solid all the way through!

Defo no runny eggs from what I have read.

humpty, I am with you re. it being very annoying having to be at work... Am going to struggle to stay motivated for the next 8 months. On a more positive note, our office closes for Christmas so I'll be able to take some free extra time off without it eating in to ML.
Re. Runny eggs - probably better not to risk it, but I did read somewhere that the risk is v v v low if you have eggs that are lion-marked. I think moderation is key! On a similar (but much weirder) note, does anyone know if you can eat fish roe? Not the fancy caviar kind but the swedish tube paste kind that you buy in ikea? Dr google is giving me conflicting advice... Obviously this issue is of top priority in my office this morning
X

Thanks again, all.

I've had no more pinkness so far. To be fair, I've had a really busy weekend, with a massive amount of walking, so maybe it was that. I've had a manic morning, too, but now I'm going to sit on my arse for a bit!

Still no sickness to speak of really (I'm eating cold leftover Chinese as I type!), but mega sore boobs.

I'm taking all the vitamins too. B6, B12, C, D, folic acid and zinc.

Oh, and not sure re the fish roe. Tbh I'd probably eat it (if it didn't sound so gross!). But then again, I eat runny eggs, too.

Thank you for the advice re eggs! I think for time being I'll make egg mayo out of really solid hardboiled eggs and have it in wraps for breakfast. I need to get the protein in and don't eat meat! just looking at the scrambled eggs made me really queasy today so trying to find another way. Great excuse to have porridge more too :)

toby yay for that - I have had the minutest, sort of 'gloopy' almost like bogey brown bit when I wiped just now (aren't we the most charming conversationalists?) but I'm absolutely sure it's nothing. So glad no more horrid pinkness to scare you though.

No runny fried eggs? For nine months? weeps theatrically. I knew the advice, but I thought it meant like, no really lightly poached/raw eggs. Fully 'hard' yolks on fried eggs are an abomination. I'd eat the fish roe too, but only cos it sounds yum.

pod (I like that abbreviation best - someone used it upthread) - I just take Preg vits from Superdrug, until told otherwise. Are you allowed Omega 3 then? I thought Fish Oils were out? Or am I missing something...

I'm just on a multi-vit too humpty, this one

I'm not too excited about runny eggs - as long as they aren't fully raw (although that said, I probably would still lick the cake mix bowl quite happily, than remember I shouldn't have!).

Slug I'm veggie too, so will be packing in the protein with you :)

[Humpty] I was told omega oil vitamins are fine and recommended (by my surgery anyway) as really good for baby brain development however only allowed two portions of oily fish (mackerl etc.) A week and no fish such as shark etc.

[Toby] great to hear you perked up.

I read somewhere (on MN, but can't remember the thread) recently that as long as the white of the egg is fully cooked, it's fine. I can't back it up, though.

Well done for being sensible re the 'bogey brown'-ness, Humpty :o