Nervous nutjobs pregnant with no.2

[winterpansy]

Hello,
Just set up this wee thread for the nutjob graduates. I am hoping all our lovely thread dwellers will be on here very soon.

We should do some stats. I'll kick off:

winterpansy 1 DS edd January 5th
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my terror is less about pregnancy labour but just..how the feck do you manage two, keep house reasonable, maintain relationship career & social life .....waaah! Good to share fears ladies. Also lots guilt ...ds is watching far too much tv and not enough park/ stimulation I am soooo tired today

Bart and abi how old are your boys?ds is two so telling him prob about 20 week scan time and well know what we r having. I keep pointing out babies and pregnant ladies though so maybe idea won't be such a freaky one when it comes ..

My ds was 4 in june. So i think he will start to notice my tummy getting bigger. Give him time to get used to the ides aswell lol. Im sort of glad we have left it a bit later now its happening as having him at school every day will give me that little bit of a break to nap during the day when/if baby naps!

Hello hello!
Sorry I've been a bit AWOL lately. I just seem to have been so busy during the day, despite being unemployed, and then going to bed early as I am so knackered after looking after DS all day. He is such a good child but yet utterly exhausting.

Hope you're all well. So good to see me old pal abi here and a big welcome apprentice

Everything is all good here. 19+1 and I've been being monitored for the gestational diabetes which hasn't raised its head yet and since I've been sticking to the diet anyway, I've lost 5lbs since my booking in appointment so I am well happy about that. I had a midwife appointment on Tuesday and had a scan and all is looking well for little bambino. Our big scan is on the 20th so not long to wait now. So excited to find out the gender! DS is a little bit aware that a baby will be coming to live with us and sometimes he even says it will be allowed to share his duck toys :-) We shall see how it goes, I'm planning to get him some little books to help explain what's going to happen.

Anyway, must head off here for some ironing and then bed. It's all glamour here! Hope y'all have a nice weekend, fellow nutjobs

I promise I will write on here tomorrow! ! Just touching base to say hi quickly!! Way past my bedtime but thats another story!! :0) x

morning all and winterpansy glad you are keeping well. So cute about what your lo says about sharing his toys. Books are a great idea so i will research them. My littlie got me up at 6.15 , earlier than usual and I am so shattered. Dh also v shattered so I am being a morning martyr but I'll crawl back to bed at 9.30am ..Anyone else up? I guess days of pampered pregnancy are over

Yes I'm up aprentice and struggling this morning aswell. Been up since about 6.20 aswell and feel totally drained. Having some nice cuddles though with ds watching peppa pig. I will be getting dh up about 8.30 and then going back to bed for an hour. I can't wait!

not long now Bart! Managed to sneak in a snooze during Thomas.Ds loves peppapig too. And yes cuddles defo ease the pain. My ds even apologised for the early start when he saw grumpy mummy! haha.

Hi nutjobs! Am also back after a bit of an absence - RL stuff took over a bit! How are we all? Good to see the 20w scans are starting-it's all getting v exciting! Know what you mean about the days of pampered pg's being over: couldn't work out why I felt so much more tired in this pg than last time, til someone pointed out that this time round I have a dd (5) to look after! Hoping people's nausea and stuff is starting to come to an end. I haven't really suffered this time, apart from some food aversion type stuff, and didn't with my last pg either - makes me wonder if we're having another girl. Am 16+2 at the moment and trying to decide on whether to find out th flavour, dd was a surprise.

Are people starting to feel movement? I have been for the last week or so-took me by surprise as it seems so early, but mw told me that's what happens in 2nd pgs. Have also had to do a lot of maternity clothes shopping; none of my current trousers fit

Hello smidge we found out that ds was a boy. And i imagine we will find out this one aswell. I'm impatient and dont like surprises! i like to be able to plan things.

aprentice still so very tired today even with my extra hour. Feel like I could just go straight to bed at the same time as ds!

abi how are you doing? We decided to tell ds today. Mainly so he is careful and doesn't jump on me and kick me etc. Simply telling him I had a poorly tummy didnt seem to stop him lol. He is very excited. And keeps referring to it as 'my baby' - as in his baby and he's asking lots of questions! How it got in there and how will it get out?! And I told him he doesn't need to go telling everyone, that only us need to know for now. But I can't see that somehow and I'm sure my auntie will know within 10 minutes when we go there on Monday.

Hahaha Bart - we told dd after 12 w scan and literally moments later she saw a school friend across the rd, and literally screamed our news out of the open lounge window. So much for discreet, need to know info sharing!

I like the idea of planning too, especially as we've kept a lot of DD's clothes that will be no good if this one's a boy. Am sorta 70:30 in favour of finding out, but am also v neurotic and it's whether I'll believe the sonographer or decide we must be in that 1% margin of error!

Hello ladies!!!

How are we all feeling today? Waves of nausea here and there are doing nut in!!

Winter - hello lovely! !! So good to hear from you! Wow how quickly has that time gone!! I bet you are really looking forward to the 20th!! Do let us know how you get on!?! Glad you are feeling good and doing well, hopefully the gestational diabetes will stay at bay and not give you any hassles!! I have shown our ds my pregnancy book and he is really interested in it all, I like him to be as much a part of it as possible! Thats so adorable that your LO wants to share duck toys!!

Midge - hello! Yep, we are all likely to feel more tired as we have dc#1 to sort as well as growing a whole new one! ! Its amazing how much energy we need just to keep going! Nausea no good, felt awful when it goes in waves. Wow cant believe how far along you are, where has the time gone, it seems like yesterday when everyone on here announced their bfp on the other thread!

Bart how you feeling today?

How are the other ladies? Still about or way too busy!!?

Cross post by hours here!! Sorry its taken me ages to reply! !! Had it stuck in the comments box for ages before I posted it!! Baby brain ahoy!! :0)

Hello ladies!

How are you? Let me just point out that honey nut cornflakes should not even be an option for a recently pg ladies cupboard of cereals! !! Yuk and double yuk this morning. And then that has set me up for tender tummy ffor the rest of the day :0 (

How is everyone else getting on? x

abi also ready brek aswell. Really fancied it the other day but made me feel ill all day!

Well I've been feeling pretty rotten. I know I shouldn't complain as we were ttc for ages and there are people who would give anything to be in my position, but hell no I'm going to complain! It's pants! I've even felt to bad to post on here for a few days lol. The mornings tend to be the worse but the nausea is lasting most of the day. Although I am grateful Ive so far avoided actually being sick, I had a brief moment of ok-ness last night after some lucozade which helped, but now im awake with a banging headache. Having dreams about prams and travel systems and chicken! Which isn't helping with the queasy
Luckily I am ds free and dh free so I can have a much needed lay in in the morning. Ds has been getting up really, and I just can't keep my eves open by 7.30-8am especially when we're watching all the crap kids stuff, so I feel a bit guilty about it that he's not getting so much attention or I'm not doing as much with him. Hopefully it won't be for too much longer!

and for all of you with horrible nausea

Oh no, sorry to hear of all the nausea. I'm so glad that is behind me (touch wood!). I've just been blighted with hideous constipation at the minute! It's such a delightful process this, isn't it!

Asmidge I've been feeling little flutters for a couple of weeks but they have definitely got much stronger in the last week or so probably in retaliation for the constipation straining! I don't think I felt anything with DS until around 22/23 weeks so this has been much earlier.

abi I know! The time has just flown in. So excited to think that this time next week we will know if this is DS or DD! Most people are predicting a DD. I don't mind either way at all.

Hey lovely ladies!

Eeeeek winter its so exciting, will you keep us updated?NNot about the constipation of course but the 20week scan! ! Although feel free to offload (pardon the pun!) About your gripes with constipation too! Plenty of waterhhelps and bananas apparently, worth a try maybe! So exciting that both you and midge are feeling movements Eeeeeeeek!

Bart, I am with you on the complaining, complain away seriously!! I certainly didn't miss this bit of pg thats fit sure!! I was literally in tears this morning with the constant fear of hurling!! I was afraid to eat anything, dried toast didnt help, but rich tea did a bit. But I just haven't been able to get anything done. Phoned my mum up in tears and she wax trying to think of ideas. I tried a white bread roll and that settled better than brown bread!! I have bought two multipacks of watet as tap water not cutting the mustard and tge bottled water so much better! ! Me and mum vaguely remembered when I was pg with ds that mum used sea bands (anti sickness travel bands) and they worked last time. We couldnt find any so I nipped down to chemist who actually stock sea bands 'mama' for morning sickness! ! They work by using acupuncture, yhe wristbands have a bit that presses on your nei kuan pressure point which helps ease sickness! Well yhis afternoon it has worked so far, but tge real test is tomorrow morning! ! So I shall keep you updated if you want? They are about8quid but if ythey do the job, they'll be priceless! !!

Apart from the nausea not else out of the norm pg symptoms yet, just waiting for m/w to get in touch!!

How are you all?

Sorry typo's galore! ! :0/

hello sickly ladies. Sorry to hear you feeling so rough. Worse still limited in who we can moan to when pre scan so here is so therapeutic . on another note ...baby kicks anyone?I felt a butterfly fluttery feeling in my left lower abdomen today. I'm pretty sure it was puffin moving around. With muffin (ds1!) he kicked much later 17 weeks. I'm eleven weeks now. What are yourexperiences? x

Apprentice thats so exciting! ! Well they do say that the second one you can feel moving sooner than the first, and I think that if your in tune with your body then there is no set time to feel the flutters!! with ds I felt movement at about 16wks and by 18 wks he was a real mover! !

Im so glad I can moan on here!! Nausea was less thid morning, due to the anti sickness bands, and then I had to take them off to have a bath and it crept back in a little, thdn went off again when I put them back on. Then when I took my folic acid and multivitamin an hour later the nausea came back with a vengence, but theres folic acid in the multivitamin too plus any extra natural folic acid in cereals and wheat products too means probablya daily intake of 1000 a day!! So im gonna stop taking the individual folic acid tabs and stick to my multivitamin plus natural intake and see if that makes a difference as I googled it and a lot of women can get nausea with taking folic acid. I dont want to cut it out as I would be worried to take the risk, so just reducing it may help. I thought earlier how weird that most women's morning sickness lasts just the first trimester and its only the first trimester that you need to take the extra suppliment!! Hmmmmm coincidence. ....

So how are you good ladies doing today?

Abi thanks it's nice to share excitement ! I've been much more nausea after taking those giant fecking horse biscuits pregncare. My spewing which is rare seems v much correlated to pregnacare consumption! im also not taking them regularly subcondciously bc of this...so u may be right in thinking.

oops best stay away from Google...apparently early movement a sign of twins panic !!!!!