February 2014

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Very early days but I'm due 26 January - really expecting early February after being 15 days late with DC1. Thought I'd get the ball rolling

Anyone else?

Cramps from me too today combined with a scary afternoon slump - had a great pub lunch with friends, feeling fine and full of energy, then half way home my energy levels crashed and nearly had to stop to sleep by the side of the road. At 5.30 in the afternoon At least I haven't been sick yet though - not quite 6 weeks though so think I've got that all to come.

Hope you've all had good weekends (if that's possible with sickness, tiredness, tenderness and abdo pain...)

I think we are all just as scared as each other. This is my third and it all feels scary and new. I had some cramps earlier today but I'm just telling myself that its all normal stretching and to let it happen.
I'm getting a bit tetchy with DP as its the scan tomorrow. He's being lovely as usual but I can't help being anxious. What if there's nothing there?
Hopefully we can all look back at this stage and laugh at how silly we were being.

Thanks for the hand holding bear, I'm glad it's not just me who's nervous :-/

we should form a hand holding circle!!!

I just keep thinking about may scan on Friday - I KNOW the dates of my last period and when I could have ovulated, and when we DtD... Which put me at 7+1 as of Friday. What possible reason could there be for baby to only measure 5 weeks? And would there have even been a visible heartbeat if I really was 5 weeks? There's something wrong somewhere :-(

Early ultrasounds aren't at all accurate for dating, that's why the dating scan isn't done until 11-13wks because they can be really out on dates until that point.

I went for an early scan with DS after bleeding. I thought I was 8wks but only measured 6wks. I was gutted and thought it meant it wasn't developing even though the sonographer said everything was fine. I went back 6wks later so by their dates I would have been 12wks. I was 13+5 which put my dates as correct and further along than the 6wk scan estimated.

Same happened with DD, I had an early scan that put me at less than my dates. Went back at what should have been 12wks and I was 13+6 so again accurate to my dates not theirs.

Both times I caught up to what my dates were and the early scan dates were wrong.

I've also been feeling better today maybe it's got something to do with it being Sunday? We'll go back to feeling rubbish tomorrow!

I caved and bought some maternity jeggings for my bloated tum yesterday - soo comfy!

Hello ladies mind if I join you? Got my BFP yesterday and I think I'm due 28/02 so just squeezing into the Feb group...

Very unexpected positive as we've been trying for so long (coming up to two years)... We started infertility tests this month to investigate why it was taking so long - so a big phew that we've finally done it.

However... Not the best timing in that I've literally just left my job with good mat benefits for a good promotion but with little hope of decent mat cover... Knew this would happen!! Just hoping I'm lucky with my first trimester so I don't have to tell then too early. Anyone know if there's a particular date that you have to tell your employer by? Look forward to getting to know everyone anyway

Congratulations loulou, and welcome!

I think it's 15 weeks before expected delivery date which makes you safe for at least the first trimester (but double check local policies to make sure I'm not telling you a load of rubbish...)

Back again, and welcome to all the newcomers. Sorry to hear Moomin's news :(

I've felt queasy occasionally but no actual sickness. Constantly craving diet coke or pepsi max and malt loaf - getting through loads of it! But other than that I have seriously gone off sweet stuff, which is strange as I have a really sweet tooth normally! Baked a massive batch of brownies for the cast yesterday evening and am not feeling particularly tempted by them, which is most strange as I'd have wolfed down half the plate normally I have let slip to a couple of people in the cast that I am pregnant - funnily enough I'm playing a character who is pregnant in the last scene of the play so get pregnancy jokes when I say I'm tired or my feet and ankles are swollen and have let slip a couple of times but the three people who know have kept schtum.

Is anyone else paranoid when symptoms disappear? For example, most of the time my boobs are sore and heavy at the moment so when I'm having some relief I start to panic and prod them to check if they're still sensitive!! [nutter emoticon needed]

I'm like that SugarMice. Only very vague sickness again today so I'm feeling paranoid, although as I type this I'm feeling a little sicker. I keep reminding myself I'm 'lucky' to be feeling any sickness this early as I normally don't get sickness until 6-7wks. I keep getting weepy though so I'm definitely hormonal! Last night I was overwhelmed with love for DS and DD so had a little weep to DH about how proud I am of them and how much I love them and how we're going to be a complete family now (three is our limit) and blah blah blah. DH thought it was hilarious, like being drunk but far cheaper!

I'm bursting to tell DS and DD, although DD won't really understand but DS does. He keeps asking if he can have another little brother or sister and I just want to blurt out that he might have one :o

Happy Monday everyone

I'm finally up and working after fighting the nausea for the first three hours today. I don't know how I'll manage with commuting this week as the sickness is getting worse and worse. I did manage a proper sized dinner last night for the first time in four days.

I've also got dates for my booking in appointment and my 12 week scan. I'm still irrationally nervous about things going wrong, but also daring to hope now I've passed the date of my miscarriage.

has anyone had their booking in appointment? I've no clue what to expect. The midwife sounded lovely in the phone so I hope I get her!

Eeyoreish at my booking in appt they took my weight, history, bloods and just ran through the dos and donts.

Had my GP appointment this morning. All very non-eventful. He calculated my DD as 22nd Feb so slightly later than I'd thought. He thinks I'm 5+5 so at least that matches my calcs. Now waiting for a midwife to contact me (letter?) for booking in appointment and scan.

Feeling very tired today and slightly peaky. Perhaps the nausea is coming.

Still not sure whether to tell my line manager yet. Might wait for letter from midwife confirming date of next appt.

jazz I'm the same about not knowing whether to tell my line manager, but I've felt so sick I think I'll have to tell him. I'd rather not say anything until I've had my 12 week scan.

Hi everyone,
That's me a little over 5 weeks now. I have not felt sick yet just had sensitivity to some cooking smells. I had severe Hyperemisis with my first two dc. I am wondering if maybe I will be lucky on this one as I was already sick by this time.

I seem to have bounds of energy during the day but then it gets to my children's bed time and I am going to bed at the same time as them haha!

On Saturday I felt like a was going to pass out about 5 times which really scared me as I have a fear of fainting. Then I realised I had not taken my iron for 2 days and as I am already anaemic I think this is what caused the faint feeling.

How long does it usually take for the booking appointment to come through?

I am going to be moving so won't be having my baby in my usual maternity hospital which I am a bit worried about as I have high risk pregnancies and I feel safe at that hospital.
Also I have been quite surprised that moving to Surrey and living in a village means being really far from a hospital. I just assumed the nearby little towns would have maternity hospitals, but they don't. So I am going to have to look into that now. I have become far too comfortable with London living and having everything on my doorstep.

Oh and by the way just incase of confusion my last post was under 'unimama' but I have changed my name as I am almost a graduate yey! 1 more week until result as are out and I graduate in July.

Hope everyone has a good day :-)

Oh and one more thing, is it just me who finds it impossible not to tell people? My best friends and my mum and PIL all know, oh and our 2 DC.

I just find it so hard to keep it a secret and waiting for 12 weeks seems like forever.

Somanychanges I think I am opposite to you! I am too scared to tell people incase I have to untell them. Dh is finding it harder :) he has told only 2 friends though.
I am 6 weeks now and by this point With my first I had already been very ill with hg for a week, I know every pregnancy is different, and I really dont want hg again, but I have light period pains, and its not making me feel relaxed about it all!

I find it sooo hard keeping it a secret. I think I will tell my mum when I speak to her later as I know I will want her support if I MC anyway so may as well tell her. I am also seriously tempted to shell out for a private scan just for some reassurance and so I can feel it's safe to start telling people (though having had 2 MCs following a heartbeat on a scan, I am all too aware that it's still very possible, even likely in my case to miscarry once a HB is detected).

Somanychanges whereabouts are you in Surrey? Frimley Park hospital, Royal Surrey and Kingston hospital are good from what I understand. St Peter's has a maternity unit too but it's very very busy and not so great from what friends have told me.

I've spoken to DH today and we've agreed it might be best for me to tell my day to day senior manager (not technically my line manager) so that he understands the sudden need for doctor's appointments and potential bouts of sickness etc. Also because I commute a long way (90 mins each way driving) they may consider doing a risk assessment. Also if I did MC then it would be good to have someone in the know at work from a support perspective.

I'm going to tell him in my weekly 1-2-1 with him later today at 4pm. Nervous doesn't come close!

That will mean only me, DH, this colleague and my best friend will know. Trying to wait a bit longer before telling our parents. Really want to wait until 12wk scan to tell friends though, having just experienced a close friend telling us her exciting news at 9wks then having to tell us 3wks later that the scan showed a mmc.

After my MC in March I am open to telling more people if anything. When I miscarried I actually found it harder having to tell people who didn't know I was pregnant, that I had been but then lost the baby.

I also feel nervous and would like to join the handholding.

I think we are normal to worry. It is a tentative time this first trimester.

Yes have heard Frimley is good, think I might go there

We're trying to hold off until the 12 week scan but we're staying with my parents at the moment and I think they might guess when I turn down a glass of wine a few nights in a row... At the other end of the scale, a very distant acquaintance has just annouced it to the world on facebook at 5 weeks ! We're due to give birth at the same hospital in the same week, which I hope won't cause any awkwardness as she's not on good terms with the people we know in common