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!

Thanks humpty, will check it out. My boobs have more or less stopped hurting too...weird. Today's nausea is accompanied by feeling faint, joy!
fur thinking of you and sending love xxx

missmakes

Humpty MrsAVB mmm chai tea, I didn't even realise it had caffeine in it.

I went to the osteopath on Thursday and felt so much better about the propect of this pregnancy and managing if I get SPD. I highly recommend seeing one if any of you are unfortunate enough to suffer with it.

I also told my DM who told me she already knew, as I looked pregnant in my eyes last week WTF!!! Anyhow she was really pleased, told my best mate too, but that's it for now.

Still feeling a bit sick and so tired!! Hope everyone's enjoying the weekend.

Thanks kelli10!

Feeling like a vegetable today, completely brain dead! Bit of a shame, as I had a university presentation this morning. Ho hum.

Hope everyone is doing ok.

Feeling really sickly today :( trying to carry on as normal but dreading going out to to tonight! It's the getting ready part that I'm dreading the most. It's going to take sooooo much effort it's quite pathetic.

Managed to go for a walk, clean bathroom and Hoover and dust upstairs between naps so at least that's something!

I will be praying for those of you with scans on Monday (hugs) xxx

fur will keep everything crossed for you too hun! Xxx

Penny hats off to you for doing what you have today. Everything feels like a massive effort at the moment! Going to the shops yesterday wiped me out!

However after forcing down a sandwich for lunch, I just had some strawberries and vanilla ice cream and its the FIRST thing I have enjoyed eating in weeks, so I thought I would post as a suggestion for anyone struggling with food right now... Strawberries are on offer in the coop and waitrose at the mo too.

Good luck for those with scans on Monday I have everything crossed for excellent outcomes for you.

Penny, I've just come home from being out for a few hours and wild horses couldn't drag me out of the house again now! I feel sorry for you and hope you surprise yourself by having a fab time.

It's good to hear that the painful boobs symptom is wearing off. Mine are still quite sore but I've been wondering if it's been lessening the past few days and having a mild flap about it.

Feeling a bit sick this afternoon but think it's cos I'm hungry. Dinner is already in the oven as I told DH I couldn't guarantee I'd get up and do it later so it had to be while I was already up

Toby I found the apple and ginger juice! Its from Waitrose. I hardly ever go there so am not surprised it has taken me ages to remember. In fact we have Humpty to thank as went there today for the bottle green offer!

Lovely! Thanks -- I will go to waitrose on Monday.

My boobs seem to fluctuate throughout the day and day to day. This morning they were really quite sore but this afternoon they are much less so on poking. It makes me a little worried each time they dont hurt as much, despite feeling sick as a dog. Its reassuring to know others are having similar issues....

Thanks all, keep saying I'm going to bugger off don't I but I guess its not over till the fat lady sings.

Thoughts with you too Fur I have been taking ibuprofen which I know isn't recommended but don't want to feel anything, years of back pain mean paracetamol don't touch it. I still get very bad twinges and pinches, sort of cramping pains, lots of blood still, don't want to go to the loo at all as don't want to look.

The in laws think I have a tummy bug, we were meant to be going out for dinner and she keeps going on as to what we will have for dinner now and the lack of potatoes in the house. (Irish mother)...I just want to tell her to bog off but I am being nice.

I am veering between feeling awful and pessimistic and resigned to it being over and then having hope. I remember that all of Thursday I was running around moving chairs and setting up a display and felt horrible then, I got very sharp pains and could barely walk then, felt very lightheaded. I got the same pains in the evening, had parents evening and had uncomfortable pains when leaning over to get books. I had the same pains on Friday, before the bleeding started.
I can't help thinking its something I did, maybe the moving around made something dislodge, but then I think it obviously means it wasn't meant to be as at 6 weeks last time I was rock climbing and backpacking around Vietnam!

It honestly won't be anything you've done, missmakes. Be nice to yourself

What toby said, missmakes - there's a huge cushion around the embryo right now, you'd have to be punched hard in the belly to 'dislodge' it, it cannot have been anything you did. I do hope your hope is the right way to go, and I shouldn't worry about Ibuprofen - it's probably one of those 'in an ideal world, don't take it', since they can (and do) prescribe stronger if they have to!

I'm making pecan pie today, for dinner party (not ours!) tonight - have prewarned everyone that I'm not drinking due to 'antibiotics', but just hoping no one asks more - or asks why I've also quit smoking!

At least I know the menu (no preggo food worries there - pulled pork, cornbread, coleslaw, green beans) in advance, so no quick 'oh, I've gone off X' to get through!

Hope everyone's okay!

MissMakes I am so sorry you are going through this. You wont have done anything and please do not blame yourself for this. Although its natural that you think "what if?". I know i did and still do sometimes. You are right though its not over till the fat lady sings. I am keeping everything crossed for you. Good luck for Monday and so glad your mum will be with you.

LittleBall I am sorry you are worried too and all the best for Monday . FX all is ok and it's just one of those things that can happen sometimes.

Humpty Funbags comment made me smile. My DF is just gawping at them. Woke up this morning and they must have grown overnight. But he can't touch them as they are sore right now, so he just gawps........

Halfbaked honestly mothers have a sixth sense for pregnancy. I am currently avoiding my MIL as she knows we have been ttc and she will guess within seconds of seeing me......

Enjoying I know how you are feeling and its awful. Slept like a log last night and normally don't sleep well in hotels. But I have been exhausted all day. Fell asleep (hoping i wasn't snoring) whilst getting a treatment at the Spa and then on a sun lounger by the pool whilst SIL did some lengths and still felling exhausted.. Dreading dinner at 8pm.

Humpty pulled pork... Mmmmmmm mouth waters.......

Nothing much else to report here. I am just tired and want to sleep constantly. I sleep like a log at night, I wake up, 30mins later I want to craw back into bed and sleep some more. she's says whilst desperately trying to stay awake to catch up with fellow ladies on the 'Destination New Year Babies' train.

I laughed about the funbags, too :o
DH is LOVING the boobs even more than usual.

I was convinced my mum would guess but she doesn't seem to have done so far. I wondered if she might have speculated with my sister, but as my sister was moaning about me not being pregnant yet, I'm guessing not unless it's some kind of elaborate double bluff.

Toby. It's awful. I feel like I am sneaking about. The worst would be if twhen we tell them they all say "ahhh yea we knew anyway". Then all this sneaking around would be for nothing... I hate the fibbing. Ha ha ha.

I hate the lying. It seems pointless because if I MCed again, I'd probably tell my mum and the DC would definitely wonder where I was if I was in hospital!

But at the same time, it won't be long...

I know what you mean, I do feel a bit guilty buts its not for long. Last time they only found out the day I was in hospital due to mc. It was awful but they were great. I would tell them but DF wants to wait till we know all is well this time. To be fair , I am also secretly relieved as MIL can be a bit overbearing and a fuss pot. Both of which I can't be doing with right now. Don't get me wrong I have a great relationship with MIL and really like her.

Err... I am enjoying the lying and secrecy, does that make me weird? Although all our family live far from us and don't know that we were actively ttc so it's probably easier. A few friends have asked outright in the last couple of weeks though and I have had no qualms lying. I guess as well I know from experience that I'd want to keep a MC secret too. Did anyone read he article in grazia last week about how women should be more open about MCs?
DH bought me the seabands woop! Yet to tell if they're working though.
kelli, thanks for popping by, exciting to think about January!
X

My MIL will be absolutely overjoyed. She loves my DC and thinks I am The best thing to have ever happened to DH.

To have her own grandchild would be the best thing ever. DH is an only child so this is it for her.

I really hope we get to tell her good news in a month or so.

But I hear you on the overbearing MIL. It's no wonder you're keeping it secret!

No didn't read the Grazia article. When I mc,I only told very close family and my two close friends. Didn't want to tell anyone else. Didn't want to talk about it to anyone but my close friends and DF. Its 3 months and only jt started talking about it publically. What I did find that I never expected was some of the stupid things people say (when trying to be supportive) that really hurt. E.g 1. it wasn't meant to be, 2. at least you know you can conceive, 3. it wasn't a baby yet, just a mass of cells really, 4. it's natures way as maybe there was something wrong with it....... And on and on.... All of it intended to be helpful but they forgot I was morning the loss of our baby, that baby... Still makes me mad thinking about it. What does amaze me is how common mc is.

Will try and look up that article.

Toby honesty if she knew now she would be round telling me what I should and shouldn't do to make sure I didn't mc this one. Lovely lady but honestly....

Although she will probably cry when we tell her. She is a fantastic grandma to SIL little 3 year old boy.

Saw my mum today, and managed to not tell her my news ? even when we were in M&S, walked through the kiddie section, and she commented that the baby clothes weren't as cute as usual! And mowed some of the bastarding lawn too. Hard work! Keep having to stop because the previous owners of the house have used it as a dumping ground. Who would have thought that a lawn was the ideal place to discard a dustpan and brush? Not me!

fur, good luck for Monday. missmakes, I echo the others ? don't blame yourself. Just take care of yourself. for you both.

I don't really mind not telling parents etc right now ? it's kind of nice to have a secret! Keep going round chanting in my head "I'm pregnant! I'm pregnant!"

I never found the travel sickness bands worked very well for me with regards to actual travel sickness, so doubt they'd work for me for morning sickness.

Can I join? I haven't managed to read all of the posts on here yet!

I had a BFP today, I think I'm about 4w, due around the 18th of January with our first. Cycles have been very irregular recently so guessing based on OPK. Only me and DH know at the moment, we've been trying for 5 months, but it feels like longer as we've wanted to start TTC since getting married last August but DH is in the Army and was stationed in Germany and we wanted to wait until moving back to the UK to be closer to family. My mum passed away in January so it's a bit bitter sweet as I'm also sad she will never know her grandchildren. My sister will be pretty mad at me for not telling her straight away, but I'm so scared somethings going to go wrong and I don't want her to have to go through that after losing mum and (litterally) breaking her back in February!

Congratulations on your gorgeous BFP and welcomeMrsGSR

And I am sorry for your lo in January.