January 2014 - Thread 3 (Danger: Due to the influence of pregnancy hormones I could either burst into tears or kill you in the next 5 minutes.... You have been warned!

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Thread three... Rock and Roll......

Hello all, I cant believe how fast this thread is moving, so hard to keep up. So reassuring to know that everyone is as worried as I am. Dh thinks I'm mad. I'm only 4+4 and have really sore boobs and cramping but no other symptoms yet...but like you lady I fear the worst all the time. Got my first gp appointment next tuesday and then i will have to wait painfully for the 12 week scan!!!!

Wow how many posts on this thread already!!

Have only scan read posts as am feeling tired after a meal out with some work friends. I know what people mean about rage tho as there were supposed to be 7 of us for our meal and then today people decided they had double booked themselves (we arranged the meal weeks ago and their new events were booked over the weekend) but they decided not to come to the meal i actually wanted to punch people.

Am glad people seem to be doing well, scans have gone well and scan photos looking good.

Am feeling v jealous of early scans now. Would like to know if there is actually something in there. Need to keep reminding myself that I don't need it but I may crumble.

Thankfully i go on holiday on sat for a week so i will be thinking of other things (i hope) God knows what thread we will be on by the time i get back!!

Evening all!
sultana so pleased you got to see bean and heartbeat! Very exciting.
pea lots of love. Spending time in toilets is not fun. I think we are allowed to wallow in some woe is me though so don't give yourself too hard a time.
Love to everyone else who is feeling fretful and crap!
I think we need to channel some beyonce or similar. WE ARE STRONG INDEPENDENT LADIES! WE CAN DO THIS BABY SHIT! girlfriends!!!

Xxx

Completely agree with how fast this thread moves! I'm sure I only posted last week and there's been so many since then!

I'm 7+4 now and really looking forward to my midwife appointment next week. Last time I had my first scan at about 9 weeks so I'm hoping it will be the same this time so I get to see the lo really soon!

I've still managed to not tell anyone. Went to a wedding on Saturday with my work colleagues and even though I've been out drinking with them a few times before they actually believed me when I said that I hardly drank at all and was fine on soft drinks.

Also, has anyone else found that everyone around them is talking babies, I keep getting so close to saying something. My sister is going on about how she's gonna start trying in January, the woman at work has just had someone give birth and I've even been asked whether I am thinking of having another one. So tempted to blab but was very impressed by my ability to keep a straight face and say it wasn't on the cards at the mo.

Really looking forward to getting the scan photo and revealing all.

Just as an aside, is anyone else always really hungry? I'm sat here and all I can think of is how I really need to eat the hot dogs that my dp has left in the fridge from his lunch. The smell is so tempting I might just have to finish them off!

Oh my god yes I ate 5 crunchy nature valley cereal bars today! Still have a horrendous aversion to all things onion related.

To those worried ladies I heard you're bound to cramp around 6 weeks as your tendons attached to your uterus are stretching... So that's what I'm telling myself.

Wishing every other grouchy mummy to be lots of happy thoughts. I just cried because I spilled some rice xxx

So i caved and have emailed a private scan place to see if they have anything available when I am 9 weeks!
Dh told me to stop being silly and just find out if it might make me feel better. I know it may only be 2 weeks before nhs one but I could be left waiting until 14 weeks.
Read on a website that if there is a heartbeat at 8 weeks there is a 97% chance u will carry to term and I am a numbers girl so these percentages have reeled me in (damn them - not even sure how true they are)

I had a lot of random cramps at 4-6 weeks but hardly have anything now. Starting to wonder if anything is actually there!

sultana and catch yay for scans!

Also, gemma, catch and frog welcome to the Rage Club! Bizarrely mine is better when I'm driving - did the first part of Pass Plus today and I was fine!

toby and book I am now rationing POAS, but still doing it. All the best preggos do, y'know...

lady I know what you mean about slooooooooow days. COME ON TIME!

pod sorry you had a crappy day.

MrsAVB I am WITH YOU.

I had a good day - sicky feeling on train (of course), but work was fine, and driving 'lesson' was good, got home to find my BOB (Baby on Board) badge has arrived AND my referral for my booking in appt! Exactly four weeks today! So excited now!

I'm off for the weekend tomorrow, so fully expect to come back to another three threads worth of chat...

Well, I'll be POAS again tomorrow -- bit more pinkish stuff this evening, so feeling quite wobbly.

Have a lovely weekend humpty! Hope you are doing something nice...
Xxx

toby hoping the pinkish stuff stays just pinkish stuff. It's awful that we have to go through this stress. X

I think the 97% at 8 weeks is only on an external scan but at 8 weeks I do think a lot of the danger has passed (that's what I'm hoping anyway as cant worry like this for another 35 weeks!)

Well my staple breakfast of peanut butter on toast is no more! Blerghhh! Just bought a new jar too!

MrsAVB and Humpty snap snap snap!

Alexander YY - so many people talking about babies and several friends are pregnant, so it's been really hard not going "I know what you mean, I had that".... Off to see one friends new bubba next week - may end up telling her because she will know straight away something is up, but I know she will keep it a secret. Arghhh! Still not sure how I am gonna keep it from the other friend I am meeting up with who I really don't want to tell yet. Am sure I will wangle something....

Frizz how exciting you have a 9 week scan! That will give you something to focus on now!

Humpty it's so exciting when you get dates through isn't it! I have my booking in appointment next Tuesday and then I should hear when my official 12 week scan date is gonna be! Probably won't be for another 4 weeks, but these interim appointments break up the lonnnggggg wait!

Toby sending you really positive vibes this morning. My discharge is still there and I crap myself whenever I have to go for a wee, worrying what I will see, but I am trying to hold on to the sonographers indifference to the bleeding yesterday and the fact she told me it was so common. Keeping everything crossed for you it's just random spotting and bubba is safely tucked into it's little nest....

Found this on the miscarriage association website:

"What if I see a heartbeat but I am still bleeding?

If the scan does pick up a heartbeat and the baby appears to be the right size according to your dates, this can be very reassuring, even if you are still bleeding.

Research has shown that if you see a heartbeat at 6 weeks of pregnancy, the chances of the pregnancy continuing are 78%.

A heartbeat at 8 weeks increases the chance of a continuing pregnancy to 98% and at 10 weeks that goes up to 99.4%.

So things could still go wrong and sadly sometimes do, but as long as there is a heartbeat, the risk of miscarriage decreases as the weeks go by."

It gives me hope despite it all going tits up last time after the 8 week scan. Fingers firmly crossed - this is a different pregnancy and therefore there WILL be a good outcome this time!

Thanks :) It stopped as soon as it started. I'm a bit crampy, but that's no different to the last 4 weeks. Trying to convince myself that it's a coincidence/my imagination that my boobs seem to hurt less today.

That MA info must feel lovely and reassuring for you, sultana :)

Well it ain't gonna stop me worrying Toby but it gives a glimmer of hope....

That's great it stopped as soon as it started. Mine keeps lulling me into a false sense of security - like first thing it will have gone and I start to feel relieved and then an hour later it's back and I am back to worrying again. I am constantly poking at my boobs and feel as though they aren't as sore as they were a few days ago too. In fact I jumped up and down this morning to see if that hurt! The sonographer yesterday did say symptoms can fluctuate due to hormones. I feel as though we have come such a long way already but we have such a long way to go.... I have confidence we will all get there!

From our BFP onwards is where the worrying starts. For the rest of our lives!

Can I join in? I've just got my BFP today, all rather exciting. Have worked out due date to be 2 Feb but as this is my second and I know I'll be having an ELCS it will be at least a week earlier so that makes me end of January.... scary stuff even having done this before.

Welcome craving huge congrats on ur bfp.
sultanajo that's similar mc stuff to what i saw. I know if i go for a 9 week scan I will still worry and there is still a chance of things going wrong after but I am still not convinced I am even pg. Only slightly sore nipples, a bit tired and possibly some ms so if like to know I am not imaging that positive line. Also as i may only get a scan at 14 weeks with nhs I'd like to know sooner if something has gone wrong.

It's nice knowing that some people are getting their appointments through. I really wanted my dates to arrive before I went away but it's looking unlikely.
Think you guys on here makes things go a little faster as everyone is at different stages so i can learn everything :-)

Hi everyone! Just catching up on the new thread. Having a terrible week (non pregnancy related) so not been thinking about pregnancy much. Starting to feel pretty sick though!

Morning all, how are we?
Vomming seems to have settled into a routine now; I haven't vommed at all the last few evenings but every day fit in 2 before leaving for work.
Not looking forward to work today as know that my white, middle class, older, woman, SE London colleagues will have some intolerable opinions on yesterday's events in woolwich which will give me the RAGE!
humpty and sultana thanks for joining me in your leotards!
toby hope you're feeling ok this morning, not long to wait til your scan, right? Or did I remember wrong...?
X

Scan's on Sunday, MrsA. If it wasn't, I'd call the EPU today, but I doubt they could fit me in til next week anyway, so I might as well just wait til Sunday. Thanks :)

Morning all!

Is anyone else having really mad dreams? I was enjoying mine so much this morning that I really didn't want to get up - but now I can't remember what it was about! It's like watching a movie or something, and similar to dreams I had years ago when I was on anti-malarials on a trip to Africa.
Still no MS and I'm 6+2 today (phew, am so worried about how I'll manage it when it arrives), though I have been noticing my food tasting funny. Was so looking forward to my thai green curry last night but in the end all I could taste was salt and garlic, and was left with some delightful hb from the spice...lovely.

Morning all. Am on the bus to work - normally I'm a regular at the coffee shop by my office (skinny cap and choc croissant, they start making it as soon as I walk in!) but now the very idea is making me retch. All I can think about is almonds, with some salt, and apple slices, neither of which i normally eat at all!

Didn't expect cravings this early but I suppose my body needs nuts and fruit more than choc and caffeine.

My colleagues are bound to notice I'm not having normal breakfast, will have to claim I'm on a healthy eating kick I suppose, Amy other techniques people are using to avoid nosy parkers at the moment?

I'm currently getting The Rage with thick racists on FB/twitter, so I wish you luck in the office today, MrsA.

toby I'm pleased that your pinkish stuff went away!

I am still symptom free, this time last week I was so ill I just don't understand it! I have read that symptoms can disappear as the placenta takes over but of course I have also read that it means bad news.

I have to confess I bought a Doppler last night I had a moment of craziness. I realise that if I use it and don't find a heartbeat it will make me worse. Someone slap me please!