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

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thread 2

So basically we should just be shut away for 9 months with only our pregnancy pillows for company??

HotCrossPun What??!!! Good grief, no wonder they're missing their homebirth target if midwives and telling women things like that. I've had two homebirths in two different countries (had my first at hospital and wish I'd had him at home too) and am planning the same for this one. Let me know if you want to hear happy birth stories - I can't rate the whole thing highly enough.

I've been advised (in the past, not this time) to avoid cold foods and drinks (watermelon, ice cream etc) and to wear socks when it's even slightly chilly. Love the culture differences! I'm all for moderation - I have a coffee every morning (how else am I supposed to get out of bed?) but was told off by the lovely lady in Starbucks in America, who said she hadn't had one from finding out she was preggers to delivering her baby. A midwife I met when pregnant with my 2nd told me that she recommends wine in lab

And you should minimise your exposure to toiletries, such as shower gel and sunscreen, which could theoretically pose a chemical risk. In short, assume there may be a risk, even if it may be minimal or eventually unfounded.

Im speechless. Basically, this says "'avoid everything because it might be risky'. Should we avoid breathing because the air might contain particulates?

Fat hands.

Labour to relax mum.

Pram Swearing was v amusing. Am assuming it's the general crappiness of people?

Are, not and.

Okay, okay, I give up. I'm going to bed.

Night, all.

Bit late to the party but can I join? I'm 7.5 weeks and due 26th march it looks like. Got booking in on Tuesday and this is my third DC. It's fair to say that I feel pretty sick atm, earlier on DH asked me to sniff a chicken we were going to have for Sunday lunch as he thought it smelled off... He regretted it when I spent the next five minutes vomming profusely. Yes, it was definitely off.

How do you all manage to keep up with the thread? I was too intimidated to join the antenatal thread (as its all so fast moving) when I had DS, so could do with some tips.

Hope everyones doing ok! Was worried about my symptoms going but theyve soon come back!

Was sick in sainsburys yday the whiff of the food as the doors opened errrghh :(

8 days till my 12 week exciteeed/nervous and lol were not allowed to use cleaning products? ... X

Welcome, MadameB, and congratulations. It's easy to keep up with the thread: just resign from your job and lay on the sofa all day watching box sets

Going to the doctors at 9.30. Up all night with shortness of breath and wild palpitations. I was literally lying prostrate and breathing like I had been out running. I am seriously made of strong stuff but almost called 111. That could not have been good for baby

*lie

Welcome Madam personally I'm slightly mumsnet obsessed so I keep up ok most of the time but I think some people just read the latest page, you can usually pick up on any big news by doing that. We've got a stats thread somewhere too if you want to add yourself onto that.

Gaw my symptoms come and go, I worry when they are gone then hate them when they come back - just can't win! R u on the fb group?

Pram hope you're a bit happier today, although the sweary makes me smile!

Re wine, I am happy having a drink or 2 in the second trimester but personally won't til then. Going out for a meal after my 12 week scan (as long as its good news) so will probably have first glass then.

Currently lying in bed with DS, both of us eating an apple - random start to the day!

X posted pram, how u feeling this morning? Any idea what caused it? Hope you're ok!

pram that sounds scary. Hope they get to the bottom of it for you!

Welcome madame

commsgirl and lyra, precisely! As if mothers to be didn't have enough to worry about as it is...

Welcome madame! I check up on the thread every couple of days or so on average. Don't feel you have to keep up with every post, it is quite fast-moving, I've found!

Everyone tells me it's fine and that the heart has to pump 40% harder in this trimester blah, blah, but surely it can't be right to have giant leaps in your heart beats and breathlessness all through the night so you can't sleep?

Fingers crossed for your doc's appointment pram. Sorry, completely missed your post earlier, not fully awake yet...

Morning everyone. Thanks for all your well wishes. Iv been diagnosed with severe morning sickness. Luckily in aloud home today with some anti sickness tablets.
Hope your ok pram I know how that feels as iv got a heart murmur and constantly get palpitations and breathless. Hope your doc finds out why your getting it.

Sarah glad you've got some meds. Fingers crossed they do the trick!

Pram I'll be really interested to hear what the doc says - I've been feeling like my heart is about to leap out of my chest - or stop - all weekend. It's rather disconcerting.

Am feeling a little sorry for Husband as my libido has completely disappeared. Don't want anyone anywhere near me! I told him yesterday he smelt funny.

Morning everyone. Fingers crossed for pram, good to hear that visit in the hospital helped, sarah. Trying to fight the laziness today to finally tidy up the house, after leaving all the chores to OH for the last month... Probably... Athletics and cross stitch are far more interesting then tidying up the fridge...

Sarah, I'm thrilled you're okay and going home with some lovely drugs.

Thanks for your concern, ladies, yet again I feel like a dick Doc says I'm fit as a bleddy fiddle. Listened to my lungs and checked my pulse and said baby won't be affected by my breathlessness or palpitations. He made no attempt to expound on the whys and wherefores of it all so I'm afraid I have no answers for you, Pirate.

at funny-smelling husbands.

Pram, what about anxiety? If palpitations are the common sign of hormonal changes during pregnancy, stress induced by them might aggravate the symptoms... Anyway, good to hear you are well.

Fair point, Dab, but I honestly was very relaxed early evening when the palpitations started. I blithely pretended they weren't there but it was upon retiring for the night that I realised they weren't going to stop and they were precluding sleep. It was only then I became anxious and afraid for the baby.

Ah well, pregnancy is so far a state of perpetual ignorance for me! Who am I to offer any advice! Things are happening to my body that are difficult to comprehend, including going off tea almost completely ( i am a huge tea drinker!) and foul farts (sorry, tmi) Yesterday OH had enough and demanded explanation, I told him to google it and shut up...

Dab, I'm with you, sister. I've gone off s and my arse smells of rotting cadavers.

Morning all, took me a while to catch up this morning as I hadn't been on MN since Friday - very naughty...

Firstly welcome to the Newbies - I'll pop the new stats up

For those of you with heart concerns - if you're getting palpitations and you want to try and calm them down, the best thing is to sit down, hold your breath and squeeze your muscles as if you're trying to do a huge poo (which let's face it we're all very well versed in at the moment) But it is normal to have heart problems, during pregnancy as our hearts are having to deal with a lot more blood and a lot more effort. If however you notice your pulse going over 190 bpm for more than 5 minutes you must see your GP.

We had some friends over for lunch yesterday (who are due their second DC in Feb) and as we were sitting down to lunch DD says to their DD, in a very matter of fact tone, "my mummy has a baby in her tummy too" a moment of silent and then loads of congrats as the new sinks in - can't think of a better way to share the news. It's fantastic as we're going away together in November, so I'll have someone to be grumpy and pregnant with

I do however want to kill DP at the moment, he keeps pointing out how much more I'm eating and that it's not good for me, I keep explaining that pre falling pregnant i was only eating 1200 calories a day, and I now need to up that to 2200 for a healthy pregnancy - ok some of it is junk, but I'm allowed a little bit of a treat as I'm not allowed coffee, wine, chocolate, and I've given up smoking...

My major craving this week, is for a lovely rare steak sandwich - we have a Argentinian restaurant near the office which makes the nicest rare steak... sigh...