June 2014 (earliest of early days yet!)

[wispaxmas]

I decided to take a peek into the antenatal club threads, but there's no June thread yet, although for good reason.

I may be jinxing myself here, but after a couple very very faint positives on ICs for the last couple days I got a positive on an FRER this morning, so thought it would be safe to start one up.

Of course, still early days, but if it sticks my due date will be 3-5 June, depending on several websites.... What can I say, I tested early!

I hope someone comes to join me soon. There have to be some more recent BFPs....

Bloody hell I've just had a BFP! May I join please? I have been lurking in hope and I think I am near a lot of you. I will be with Lewisham as had my first DC at QE and will have a home birth if all goes well as I can't face hospital again.
Am now having major wtf was I thinking feeling as we have a large gap!
Apparently due 21st June with second DC.

Hi everyone!
I've been absent for a few days.... Drove from London to Devon Friday for my best friends wedding (yesterday)... I was a bridesmaid and it was an awesome day!
The girls (bride and other bridesmaids) all guessed my secret... Hard to find the excuses for not drinking AT ALL and also having to change my pate starter to melon last minute!!!
Chilling out today and driving back to London tomorrow.... Feeling exhausted!

Hi ladies. So much to catch up!
I am still in Estonia after a weekend in Latvia, in the middle of nowhere. It was a bit of a difficult weekend as I spent it with people from work and couldn't tell them I am pregnant. Had to find excuses not to drink alcohol, or only drink boiled water (we were in the middle of the countryside and water was from a pond). However I am a bit worried as last night it was Sauna night. I didn't overdue it, I was only there for max 5 minutes at a time, but now I have been checking that it's not advisable to do sauna, especially in the first 12 weeks . I am trying to convincing myself that most pregnant women in Finland do sauna 2 or 3 times a week and they still have healthy babies. Well, there is nothing I can do now, apart from hopping my little bean is okay.

Oh Liquid - don't worry, I am sure it will be fine!

Can anyone help with advise for a sore throat - it feels like an infection and I haven't a clue what I can take......is lemsip a no no?

Thanks Nessie

I also have a bit of sore throat. I have been taking paracetamol, honey and drinking lemon and ginger tea.
Also you can add some salt to the warm water and gargle. Hope you'll get better soon.

Liquid I'm sure your little bean will be just fine. You too Snowlet.

I'm with you all the exhausted ladies. I've felt a little tired up till now but this weekend have felt totally drained and have had a few lightheaded moments when I've stood up too quickly.

Glad you enjoyed the wedding Gilly I take it your worries over the dress fitting were unfounded? Ha yeah not drinking at all at a wedding would be a dead giveaway to my friends too!

Clever I completely know what you mean about limbo. Don't even have a midwife appointment yet and it's driving me mad!

Liquid, I'm sure it's ok!

And as for sore throats, lockets are ok, but lemsip is a no-no! Hot water with honey, lemon, and ginger as already suggested is good.

Haha penguin
I tried the dress on as soooooon as we got down here and it fitted fine!
Only difference was that when I had tried it on weeks and weeks ago, I needed to wear a strapless bra.... But yesterday I didn't wear a bra at all. Didn't need one! My boobs totally filled it!

liquid 5 minutes won't have hurt. Try not to worry.

Yep _ I would go with paracetamol, honey/lemon in hot water

Speaking of dresses...I am supposed to be a bridesmaid this time next year. If last time was anything to go by I will be at least one dress size bigger than now and 4 month pp will still have a belly and look fuller in the face and don't even get me started on my boobs .

I was bridesmaid last year for the first time when my sister got married and DS was 1. I looked like a sack of potatoes in the wedding pictures (especially next to the other 2 BMs - size 10 and size 8..my other sis) and the tiny bride (size6). What the hell will I look like only 4 months after having a baby? and why couldn't any of these bastards ask me to be a BM before? They've only had 30 years to sort it out

Plus, probably getting dresses from the high street (Debenhams, Monsoon etc) but a) how will I know what size to get when my body will change so much between choosing dress and actual wedding b) I live outside UK so a pain in the arse - can't just pop in and try one on - postage will cost a fortune c) bride lives in NZ so SHE can't just pop in and pick one up for me either d) I will prob still be breastfeeding and is a child free wedding (though my BF would prob be fine with babe in arms and venue is only 15 mins drive from my DM and DF who ahve already agreed to have DS) so how am I going to BF/express with a BM dress on?

Aaargh! Logistics are already driving me a bit crazy!

Sorry for rant

My brain has been running at 100 miles an hour this weekend. Sure someone else was saying that earlier. Finding it hard to focus or concentrate on anything. On half term here though, so tryign to relax and work my way through the piles of work I have

Had quite a bad day today - been so exhausted with shaky legs (after a ridiculously busy week at work) and DS has been a nightmare - the terrible threes are not fun. I think all 3 year olds have split personalities!! So I've been grumpy today, bad backache and really queasy. Plus had to spend the last 5 hours doing marking and lesson planning. Think it's going to be a long week. I'm 5+4 today so I guess it's got to get worse before it gets better! On the plus side, one more work then a week off!

Thanks for letting me rant - this is a good place for that! I'm off to bed to try to fight the insomnia! Happy Sunday all!

Ah clever bet you're looking forward to half term!!!!!! Not long to go!

I had my first instance of nausea last night. I was thinking maybe it was something I had eaten but I don't really think that was it after all.
Was watching tv and all of a sudden I just needed to lie down... Felt so sick and almost a bit dizzy... Had my teeth clenched right cos all I could think was that if I opened my mouth I would be sick!

My sister had just ordered Indian takeaway as well and the thought of it was making my stomach turn. In the end I had some rice and naan with a tiny spoonful of korma and an even tinier spoonful of tikka masala!

I started to feel better after I had eaten and my sister said the only time she ever suffered from nausea during her pregnancies was when she was probably just hungry (although she didn't FEEL hungry... She felt sick!)

Anyway... It was horrible!

Gilly sorry to hear about the nausea. It was crippling for me for a few weeks last time but I do agree. Eat before you get out of bed in the morning (I am investing in some nakd bars) and you should feel better.

A quick question. Are you booked in with Lewisham? Wondering if I should bother calling GP yet or whether I will get fobbed off.

Yup! I live in hither green

Got my booking in appt with the midwife next Wednesday (23rd) at my doctors surgery and my first scan in lewisham hospital on 20th nov.

Went to my doctors as soon as I found out (I was only around 4+3) and she arranged it all. Got a letter from lewisham hospital at the end of last week confirming the scan date

Makes sense to go to lewisham as it's so close and I'm hearing more and more good things about it!

Morning all. Like Gilly, I definiteky experienced my first nausea this weekend. It started on Saturday (when I hit 6 weeks exactly) and has been on and off since then. I've found nibbling on lots of little things has helped - I get those Graze boxes through the post and a,pack of four usually lasts me all week, but they're now all gone after 2 days! I put on 2 and a half stone while pregnant with DD... Am sure I'll beat that this time. Just can't stop eating!

Engels, I'm a bridesmaid next autumn too, early Sept for me so I'll be at most 3 months post birth. Terrifying, but I'm trying not to think about it too much at the moment. It's my sister's wedding though so there'll be lots of my family there to help out. The thing that's upsetting me the most is that I'm not going to be able to go on her hen weekend as it's a plane journey away and in mid May, so I won't be allowed to fly. She'll be fine about it as she's lovely and will be so excited about being an auntie again, but I feel terrible as she did such a brilliant job arranging my hen do this year, I really wanted to pay her back for it. Feel like I've been selfish with this timing!

Anyway, happy Monday everyone. I'm very jealous of Wispa waking up in Paris!

Thanks Gilly. I will call my GP today and see what they say. I have heard good things about lewisham too and I am ridiculously close too.

Hi marlena Didn't see you sneak in there before my last post. Welcome!

I know what you mean pitty I enede up pulling out of a good friend's hen do when I was pg with DS...I would have been 6 months pg but it would have been a nightmare to get there (flight, car hire £££ or no hire car and hellish public transport - cottage in middle of nowhere - and still £££). Plus during MOH wouldn't say what the activities were so I may have gone all that way and not been able to do any of the activities I'd paid for - the last 2 hen dos I went on involved roller skating and horse riding! I pulled out just at the stage where she said "this is how much it'll cost" ( the moh hadn't bothered to ask people how much they'd be willing to spend and it was a scary amount for a weekend). I emailed the moh and said it was too much for me...couldn't tell her I was pg.

It turned out they did wine and cheese tasting, then a boozy meal followed by nightclub, with a naked butler back at the cottage. Very glad I didn't go!

I was pg for my hen do and my Dsis organised a low key picnic at a nearby castle. We played games and ate cupcakes and sandwiches. Twas lovely!

Okay, first interfering pg eating advice received (yes DH I'm looking at you!). Are there limits on how many eggs you should eat? Have been eating eggs for breakfast if I'm home and DH says I need to watch my cholesterol, I don't have high cholesterol (unlike DH) and my BMI is healthy (unlike DH!). I don't think eating scarmbled eggs 3 or 4 times a week for breakfast is going to hurt...

Clever I am 1 week ahead and enjoying half term this week. Have a mountain of school work to get through which I started on last night. The weekend will come quick enough so just hold on!

Gilly I had the same with strong smells and spices last time, but it hasn't kicked in yet.

DS is celebrating his last day of being a 1 year old by tantrumming before brekkie and now watching some old Thomas the tank engine. Have to make his treats to take to nursery tomorrow and sort out the last bits for his party on Sunday.

Have a good day everyone (from a very rainy and grey Holland),

New advice is that eggs don't affect cholesterol at all so you can have as many as you like!! I love your username btw engels

AuntPP I hit 6 weeks exactly today! The nausea started last night but this morning it's horrendous. Feeling horrible right now and have to drive from Devon back to London today!!!!

I'm 6 weeks today as well Gilly - we must be due on the same day (to lazy to check the list!)

I'm feeling lucky that i haven;t had any strong nausea, but I'm eating little and often, because when I have started feeling queasy it has gone away entirely after having a snack!

Hi ladies,
Can I join please? I am expecting my sixth, I am 5 weeks + 3 due on 13th June.
Congratulations to you all.

6! wow Congratulations! welcome

Hello all, welcome to new folks likemumof5plusazoo - how exciting to be on your 6th! What have you got already?

Sympathy to all with nausea. I had hoped to avoid hyperemesis this time round (had it with both ds1 and ds2) but it has reared its ugly head already. Sick about 15 times so far today and feel just awful. am 6+5 today I think. Being sick itself is fine, its the nausea that is so bloody wearing. Hope everyone else manages to find some remedies that work for them!

Hi,
Thank you, I have 3 girls and 2 boys so far. Aged 8,6,5,3,2.

SicknSpan poor you with hypermesis, do you usually have it the whole nine months?

Hi and welcome to the new ladies! wow mumof SIX?? I struggle to see how I'd ever cope with more than one and I've not even had it yet :) you must be very good at multitasking

Nausea has come hard today, more so than before, I'm six weeks tomorrow, so maybe 6 is the magic number! Massive sympathy to everyone else going through this.

If it's of any use, I've been packing as many nutrients as I can into massive smoothies, having as much as I can, and sticking the rest in the fridge, so if I need a 'snack' I've got something right there that tends not to ever turn me off. If you've never tried it, throwing some spinach or cucumber into a smoothie boosts nutritional punch but you can't really taste it (a green smoothie can still taste like fruit, who knew!)

Midwife appointment on Wednesday, first one. TERRIFIED of the blood drawing, hate needles, will probably faint and embarrass myself.