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January 2014 - Start the new year off with a pop

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MissMedusa · 24/04/2013 21:18

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!

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TobyLerone · 07/05/2013 17:41

All. Bloody. Day, pod!

LittlePeaPod · 07/05/2013 17:48

thanks Toby thought I was losing it....

enjoyingscience · 07/05/2013 17:50

pea Yes - the excess discharge symptom seems entirely designed to mess with your head.

LittlePeaPod · 07/05/2013 18:00

Enjoying. Yes totally designed to mess with your head....... BUT actually thank you didn't realise its a symptom. I have another symptom even if its one that's sends me into meltdown.... Ha ha ha ha

blondebaby111 · 07/05/2013 18:19

quick question, i've put my estimated due date as 8th jan, working it out from my last period. I understand this is what docs do, so have i done it right or should it be from conception?? seeing docs nxt week xx

Wardy17 · 07/05/2013 18:20

pod totally the same have had loads of cm since being pg and always freaks me out when feel particularly wet down their. You are not on your own.

Last time I was pg the doc asked me what I was taking and I said folic acid and vit d and he didn't tell me to take anything else but everyone else is taking loads more than me now I'm worried!!

LittlePeaPod · 07/05/2013 18:29

Blondbaby its caculated from the first day of your last period.

Wardy that's exactly it. Felt really wet. TMI. Bloody nightmare. May need to cary extra underware or start wearing massive pany liners.

Frizz1986 · 07/05/2013 18:42

Hi everyone, can i join please. I got my bfp yesterday and double checked it today on a digital to make sure I wasn't imagining things. Have a feeling I will be checking every few days until my first midwife app next Wed.
Its my first child so am very excited but also very nervous as I just hope I make it all the way.
My EDD is jan 10th.
Have been feeling rather tight in my breathing this afternoon which is strange but am hoping it'll pass and it isn't a bad sign. Since I found out I have only really had cramping, indigestion and back ache (the sickness has gone for now)
Waiting for my boobs to grow as they are fairly tiny! When does that normally start??

Sultanajo · 07/05/2013 19:28

Wardy the only reason I am taking a multi vit is because I am allergic to a lot of fruit and veg and that combined with current food aversions I was concerned I would be lacking in vits...Confused

Pod omg yes! Mainly happens after I have been moving around for a while - freaks me out every time!!!

Congratulations Frizz! I am 5+6 today and boobs are just starting to swell and get sore now - for me the nausea kicked in first! Oh the nausea! X

chocoloulou33 · 07/05/2013 19:29

welcome frizz from may bfp bus :)
Well ladies I'm glad its not just me with the whole feeling wet down below situation! Blush x

Sultanajo · 07/05/2013 19:31

I feel your pain MrsAVB! Not vommed yet but feeling it all day, getting worse as the day goes on. Will really appreciate feeling well again once it finally buggers off! (please say it will by 2nd trimester!)

Sultanajo · 07/05/2013 19:34

Definitely not alone Choco and it would seem you have plenty of company! Grin

winterpansy · 07/05/2013 20:03

Still no sickness here yet...6w on Sat so I'm expecting it to kick in!
I'm exhausted today - DS was up all night ill and has been poorly since Sat and will be for another few days I think. DH is working this evening so I'm going to head to bed pretty soon.

How are you guys doing tonight? waves to the newbies! We're a fast growing bunch Smile

Wardy17 · 07/05/2013 20:16

Just taken bra off and nipples are sooooooo sore. Woo hoo first proper symptom!!!!

Sultanajo · 07/05/2013 20:18

Lol! This is the only time in our lives when we are going to celebrate feeling sore and sick! Grin

chocoholicalcoholic · 07/05/2013 20:37

Maaaaan you lot can talk! I hope you all had a good bank holiday weekend. Hello and congratulations to all of the newbies!

I rang up to book my first appt with the midwife and I've got to wait until I'm 9 weeks, I swear it wasn't that far along last time. I hope that doesn't mean I have to wait longer for the 12 week scan.

The last few days I have noticed that I NEED to eat every 3 hours otherwise I feel dog rough. If I go too long without food then dizziness, nausea and general rankness just appears out of nowhere. I've been wondering what you are all going to snack on between meals to keep nausea at bay? I seem to fancy food that is dry. I've been eating nuts but not sure how healthy they will be every day. Any suggestions welcome!

TobyLerone · 07/05/2013 20:43

Pretzels, homemade popcorn with butter/salt or Marmite, toast and Marmite.

Basically anything salty. And grapes.

Sultanajo · 07/05/2013 20:44

chocoholic I am snacking on whatever I can manage - that seems to change on a daily basis. Yesterday it was yoghurt which I can't face today and today it has been plain crackers and orange ice lollies. Wonder what it will be tomorrow....I have learnt very quickly not to bulk buy at the moment!!! Wink

chocoholicalcoholic · 07/05/2013 21:10

Oooh I didn't think of popcorn, thanks Toby. Marmite on toast is one of my faves so that's going down well at the moment. I'm with you on the need for salty stuff.

Sultanajo - orange ice lollies were all I could keep down whilst pregnant with dc2, they tasted so goood! I know what you mean about fancying one thing one day and something different the next. Some days I don't have a clue what I actually want, I walk round the supermarket turning my nose up at everything I see because I JUST DON'T KNOW WHAT I WANT! Sigh... Grin

stickortwist · 07/05/2013 21:22

How wierd i was just about to post about discharge and frantic knicker chevking and youve beaten me to it.

I have developed a super sensitive sense of smell today... Ds1 was even more skinky than normal today. Its like my new super power.... X men hrre i come!

stickortwist · 07/05/2013 21:23

And now i fancy an orange ice lolly! Arggghh

missmakesstuff · 07/05/2013 21:27

I am just checking in as want to catch up on the thread but it has grown by 10 pages since I last looked! We have just got back from a short trip to Bulgaria to see my brother in law get married - was lovely, but the wedding afters were a bit painful with no drink - walked in and every table had a bottle of Rakiya (potent hideous spirit) and bottles of whisky, wine, beer etc..spent the whole day drinking water with half a glass of wine in front of me and made it look like I was drinking it when anyone looked...the music was painful and would have been much improved with a few glasses, but not for me...

We haven't told family yet but don't see my brother in law much so DH told him, we aren't going to say anything to his wife yet though as they have been trying for a few months and it seems she has problems with ovulation, we last talked about it at xmas so she knows we are trying, think she guessed something and I am dreading telling her. Going to have to bite the bullet in a month or so and do it then, it is heartbreaking thinking I am going to make her feel dreadful with our news.

I had to tell someone at work as we have an event coming up which will possibly be a problem - she has just emailed me to say my boss has also found out but it wasn't her that told him - I think he may have overheard me talking to a colleague, she caught me off guard and asked me straight out, had guessed, bit worried as she is a loudmouth but told her not to say anything..bloody nightmare, I am walking round looking fat and like I am going to puke every few mins, and hoping no one works it out and now loads of people know.

Hope everyone else is ok, choc I found oatcakes good for the sickness, nuts good too, I had the same thing last time, sickness whenever I didn't eat often enough.

YY to the knicker checking. TMI but had a moment today when in the hotel I wiped and thought there was blood. Don't know why but just went 'oh, thats that then' for a moment. Then realised it was peach toilet tissue...was just wet and had gone pink. Dur.

Right off to bed, the outlaws are still staying with us and it is painful in more ways than one, they stay up so bloody late! Going to bed early a lot these days...

TobyLerone · 07/05/2013 21:44

chocoholic, google Jamie Oliver's marmite popcorn recipe. It's gorgeous and keeps a few days if you make a big batch. Apparently, it's physically impossible to feel sick while you're eating, so popcorn is good because it's not particularly filling. You can eat it all day!

HumptyDumptyBumpty · 07/05/2013 21:59

YY to the knicker checking, although not so much CM as some. Instead, I have BLOATING to the point where I SWEAR one of my students tonight was on the point of asking if I was preggo. I am honestly about 5 months gone in my maxi dress today, when I don't suck in. Jeez. I read you have to have loads of water in case it's water retention - any other advice?

Popcorn sounds good, I stocked up on minibites oatcakes from Holland and Barrett today and plain cashews, and mini satsumas. No sickness yet (I am sure that's good, but I am impatient to have a 'real' preggo symptom - remind me I said that, eh? Hmm) but the back pain is chronic.

PeggySusan · 07/05/2013 21:59

Thanks for the warm welcome everyone. You are a friendly bunch. I'm only 4 weeks so no nausea yet but am liking the idea of popcorn. I had a thing for sandwiches in my last pregnancy. Popcorn sounds much better, and orange lollies, well any food really!