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March 2014 - thread 3....Boy can we chat!

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Souredstoneshasasouredpebble · 01/08/2013 21:09

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Beccadugs · 08/08/2013 22:31

I've just watched a piece in the BBC website about the baby boom where they uttered the words: it seems a baby is the latest must have accesory.

Is it just me who finds that particularly rage inducing?! Because obviously I choose to have a baby because that's what every one is doing.... Aghhhh

justmuddlingthroughit · 08/08/2013 23:13

But of course becca, don't you realise that all us women are materialistic, self-obsessed sheep? I only chose my husband so that our children would have cool, Irish colouring; pale is going to be the new tanned, daahhhling...

Do these telly people never think first??

PramQueen1971 · 08/08/2013 23:19

Actually, there's some truth in it. Sales of OPK testing strips have gone through the roof since K-Middy had her baby. It's true: some women out there decided to have a sprog 'cos Kate did it. They are evidently the same twats who go out and buy a dress from Reiss just because Kate wore it.

justmuddlingthroughit · 08/08/2013 23:25

Please excuse me while I quietly weep for humanity...

PramQueen1971 · 08/08/2013 23:27

I decided to have a baby 'cos I wanted to copy that Mick Philpott and his missus. Oh, and Katie Price.

FrankelInFoal · 09/08/2013 06:50

Can't the media do maths?! It doesn't make sense that there has been a baby boom becausevifvthe Duchess if Cambridge - no one knew she was pregnant till December, so any "copycats" will by be due to give birth until September at the earliest!

On the telling people front, my number just went up to 5 people (3 work colleagues, my best friend and the lady that I share lifts to/from work with) I had to tell her yesterday as I needed to leave work early after starting to throw up and she put 2+2 together (she knew we'd been having fertility treatment). We always agreed that we would not tell people until after the 12 week scan but my scare 3 weeks ago put the kibosh on that! We are still holding off telling family/friends until we get the all-clear at the scan.

Glad to report I managed to keep some soup down last night and feel much better this morning, so I'm hoping the vomming is done and dusted. I have to go into work as no one else is in today (small office), but think I'll just do a half day and come home. I'm still fighting this cold, and losing!

gawjus, I wouldn't worry about such a small amount of blood but keep an eye on it. If it gets heavier/turns bright red or is accompanied by cramps then give your local EPU a call and see what they say.

x0gawjus0x · 09/08/2013 07:55

Thankyou pram and frank got 12 week scan in 11 days so will try hold off unless i bleed alot im sure its nothing to worry about :) xx

MummyPig24 · 09/08/2013 08:08

People really want a baby because Kate had one? Give me strength!

faithfulandtruthful · 09/08/2013 08:14

Hello All,

I had my booking in yesterday and I could cry with reliefe my Midwife has a sense of humour and is lovely. Breath huge sigh out and on to the scan (awaiting my letter).

I have started getting thr most overwhelming feelings of nausea, they seem to happen first thing and once they are gone I'm fine for the rest of the day, I'm still hanging on in there, having not been sick so far but its getting harder to contol.

Hope everyone has a good friday.

F&T

PramQueen1971 · 09/08/2013 08:43

Frank, sales of OPK tests have gone mental since the royal birth, meaning copycats wanted to start trying since she had the wee 'un. I think the royal baby being born did weird stuff to the nation, for sure. You only had to look on mumsnet to see that those trying for a baby were particularly stung by it. It doesn't take a great leap of imagination to see how thousands of women of child-bearing age would be like: 'Ooh, darling, let's do it now' Even I was sucked in by that blow-dry and polkadot-clad bump Hmm

April13 · 09/08/2013 09:42

for the last two weeks I have been waking very day at 0519. Not 0523 or 0515, but 0519. Why???????????????????????????? I am usually at up roughly 0100 and 0400 for the loo and then this. the same time is freaking me right out........

MTBMummy · 09/08/2013 10:12

April this may or may not help - I spent all my teens and 3 years in my early twenties, waking up at 2:26 am every day, made no difference when I went to bed, if I was drunk, nothing, then when I was pg with DD, early 30's, it started again, thankfully it lasted until she was only 4 days old and I didn't have another 3 years of it.

God I hope that doesn't happen again...

LyraSilvertongue · 09/08/2013 10:53

That's weird April. I had a period where I seemed to look at the clock every day at 10.10. It started to freak me out and I imagined it was some kind of omen that something terrible would happen to me at 10.10 one day or on the 10th of October. It's stopped now, thank goodness.

FrankelInFoal · 09/08/2013 11:05

Oops, that'll teach me not to read properly!

I agree that the royal baby news had funny effects. I got a bit depressed when the pregnancy was announced, as we'd been trying 2.5 years at that point.

April13 · 09/08/2013 11:09

its crazy eh? I have always had to get up during the night for the toilet, and its usually at around the same time, but never bang on...hmmm...I will try and stay away from google on this one because I'll no doubt put the fear of God in myself one way or another :)

Pram - Not sure when your scan is today, but good luck!

rescoonetwothree · 09/08/2013 11:32

if you glance at the clock at 11.11 you're meant to make a wish apparently, i always thought what a load of rubbish then found myself doing it every time...

glad your appointment went well f&t

faithfulandtruthful · 09/08/2013 13:04

April I was waking up (not needing the loo) at 5am then the next night 5.05am each day I would wake 5mins (exactly) later, that was just after conception I googled it it seems it does happen. It lasted a couple of weeks for me then stopped. I think I was just so exhausted from being woken up I just stared to sleep through. Our brains are designed to pattern finders, maybe your REM cycle is coinciding with a hot water pump coming on?

Thanks greymoose I didnt realise how worried I was about getting a MW I didn't get on with, until after the appointment and I was happy about everything (life is wonderful etc...)

F&T

MTBMummy · 09/08/2013 13:31

I'm a bit Envy of those of you with nice midwives - I'm dreading mine, after I had DD I put in a complaint about her, I'm not sure if she recalls it or not. But she was completely useless, I have even looked at changing surgeries to avoid having to deal with her, but I love my GP

Beccadugs · 09/08/2013 13:36

I've just had my booking in. Midwife was nice, but a cover one, not the usual one. I will meet her at 16 weeks!

The bounty pack is rubbish! And I didn't even get Emma's Diary!!

FrankelInFoal · 09/08/2013 13:40

Am I right in thinking that the midwife you see for all your appointments is not the midwife you'll have at your birth? I got the impression that they have one team that go out and about for appointments/check ups and another team based at the actual hospital.

My midwife was lovely, an older lady (probably late 40s/early 50s) from Northern Ireland.

LyraSilvertongue · 09/08/2013 13:43

Frank, when I had DS1 I had the same midwife for my appointments and the birth.
I think it depends on where you live and how they do things.

LyraSilvertongue · 09/08/2013 13:45

Pram, don't you have a scan today? Hope all goes well. Let us know ASAP.

I've had crampy feelings today but I'm assuming it's just my uterus stretching and growing. I have a distinct grapefruit-sized hard bulge in my lower abdomen. Feels very strange.

10+5

April13 · 09/08/2013 14:04

I have a team....and a team name. I am a member of Team Tulip :)

apprenticemamma · 09/08/2013 14:11

team tulip? .... I'm calling little bean puffin. ..as his her big brother was muffin so it kind of works ...is that what ya mean?

Beccadugs · 09/08/2013 14:11

The way it works here (east surrey redhill Reigate and homely area) is that each GP practice has a dedicated midwife who does all the appointments at that practice (barring holidays) in one or two days a week. The rest of the time they are in hospital doing deliveries (the one I saw this morning does home births!) but that is just here. Probably different elsewhere!