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....

Thank you all for a very warm welcome!

I'm seeing my Gp tomorrow. It's a follow up app for smth else but I did mention a positive pregnancy test to receptionist and basically asked what's next. He asked me if I knew what hospital I'd be choosing for birth. I was like hm it's a little early for that, no? But no, he told me to do some research and just tell my Gp during tomorrow's appointment. Anyways, my major worry is that I've moved some months ago and technically I'm outside my gp's catchment area. I know all pg related care will be done by midwives but I'd be gutted to leave this practice because its great and my local ones are rubbish. I'm only about 0.5 miles 'out' so planning to beg to be allowed to stay. Anyone has experience with this?
Sorry for super long message! :)

Was hoping to join thread. Got BFP on Saturday (12.10) and been trying for 2 years so delighted.
Have provisional date of 19th June.
Already have a 14 year old dd and 4 year old ds.
I'm so excited but at 35 feel I'm going to be a mature mum this time and worried about huge age gap. Thinking when I'm 50 I'll have a 29, 19 & 14 year old!
Feel like I need to stop overthinking and just go with the happy feelings!
Congratulations to all x

Don't worry about the gap. We had similar age groups in my family and my littlest sis is adored and utterly spoilt! :)

Aw thanks MTMD I really need to stop worrying, sure there are lots of families with big gaps from oldest to youngest and it's fine.

35 is young clutter
I am 40 waaaahhhh

I think I need to get a grip tiny tear, think its cause I've been parenting for 14 years that I feel old and also seeing my teenage dd blossoming into lovely young adult with shiny hair, slim figure etc makes me feel very old then I think should I be going back to it all with teenage one in the house!! But I know yes, yes, yes I can not wait for new baby kisses and cuddles! Another worry (I worry a lot) is my just turned 4 year old constantly says babies are yuck ad he would not want one in his house! I have 8 months to work on this x

Morning everyone. And hello and congratulations to the newbies.

How exciting clutter. I bet DS will come round and be a super proud big brother.

Hope those meds start kicking in soon and you start feeling Bezza. I don't think in any universe you would be considered a bad mum for feeling ill and needing help!

Struggling with tiredness these past few days. I've been feeling a little nauseous but think it's more owing to lack of sleep than true MS. That's what I'm telling myself anyway!

Having not told anyone so far I cracked and after I told my colleagues I was leaving on the 25th of Oct for a new job I also told them I'm expecting. Unplanned it just sort of popped out - oops. In a way it's a relief for someone other than DH to know although there's a paranoid part of myself telling me "well that's it you've jinxed it now".

I also did a CB Digital test this morning because despite my clear pregnancy symptoms I am clearly insane just wanted to make sure there is still a little bundle of cells in there and woo 3+!

Roll on the scans!

Penguin don't feel like you've jinxed it..!

I've had to tell people in work as they've taken me off 12 hour day and nightshifts and put me on a normal 5 day week so it felt I should explain to my team (about 8 men!) the reason behind the change!

Also a the other bridesmaids and the bride at the wedding I was at I. The weekend guessed and I didn't deny it... Very hard to explain why I wasn't drinking champagne with everyone else!

Sometimes you just have to tell people!

Please excuse the randomness of my last post... I'm on my iPhone in work and clearly didn't check it before posting! Doesn't make much sense but you get the jist of it!

Cheesy, I talked to H about it last night (after I'd already booked it). I told him how scary it is that you can have a missed miscarriage and just not know for weeks and weeks, and that it was really causing me anxiety. I told him the statistics on miscarriage and how they drop to such a low % once a viable heartbeat is found, and we agreed that knowing there's a heartbeat would put us both at ease. And if there isn't, then we will know that we lost the baby, and can book in for a D&C and get it over with. It's a horrible thought to think that will be the outcome, but I'm really optimistic that it will be fine.

cyber, the place I've booked in was recommended on MN, actually. I don't personally know the person who recommended it, though, so I suppose it could've been a fake profile advertising their services..

Welcome to bezzabelle and ohclutter! Sorry about the sickness, I hope it doesn't last the whole pregnancy!! And the age difference sounds great to me, clutter. My eldest brother is 11 years older than me and my mum had me when she was 36. It was lovely being the baby of the family. And my mum had automatic babysitters!

Good morning everyone and hello to the newbies.
I hope you are all not suffering to badly from sickness and tiredness today.

Thanks wispa, sure this little one will love being the baby of the family and good point about build in babysitter
Good luck with your scan, I think if it puts your mind at rest then it is worth it rather than causing you weeks of worry x

Wispa, now I'm getting worried.. I thought that so long as you're not bleeding, you're still pregnant...? I never even considered an early scan.. .

MTMD for the vast majority of people that is true.

For some it is not so... I personaly had 3 miscarriages, with my first i started bleeding at 10 weeks - so so close to the 12 w scan date....

then it was 6 w and then 10w

So I am getting a scan on Friday when I will be 7+5 and hope it will reassure me. I was referred to it as I have the recurrent miscarriage history, otherwise I would have also booked a private one.

Honestly if you have no history of mc, it's likely you will be ok, but unfortunately the truth is that 1 in 4 pregnancies ends in miscarriage (3 in 4 for me) and for some of us, a BFP does not mean a baby at the end of the 9 months...

We have a special June RMC thread here on MN if anyone wants to be able to talk about the worries and concerns with people who have been there... and not worry the ones still with the lovely wide eyed innocence (how I miss it)

it's here: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/antenatal_clubs/1872243-June-2014-Bus-for-those-with-RMC-issues

Sorry, didn't mean to worry you. I have never been pregnant before, and I really shouldn't be worrying this much. I wouldn't blame other ladies for talking about it early in the thread, though. My sister has had miscarriages, and that's where this irrational worry stems from.

Hello new folks, bezza mtmd vicky and clutter plus anyone i've missed.

It's so hard worrying about early pg. hang on in there til 12 weeks ladies! I'm trying to remember that every time I throw up, it's because I have a strong little bean fighting away inside.

bezza sorry you're suffering from hg too. Glad your dr has been merciful and prescribed meds and rest- I managed to convince mine to give me my beloved ondansetron and picked it up this morning, has started to work thankfully as I had got to the stage of bringing up the black stuff at the bottom of my stomach and getting a bit disorientated through dehydration so knew I was v close to being admitted for iv fluids. Have had to tell my boss that I'm up the spout earlier than we'd have liked as although I didn't ask the dr to sign me off I am expecting to need a bit of time to recover enough to work.

Don't feel bad about asking your mum for help, I bet your little one will be thrilled to have more time with her- nannies are so special! You'll get there matey.

Hello everyone and welcome newbies,

Haven't had much time to post or to catch up properly as I'm snowed under with work and kids and DH is away for a week. SicknSpan and Bezza, so sorry for you both. That kind of sickness must be awful - Sick, you seem to be great at looking on the bright side. I don't think I could be so stoic.

I saw the GP on Monday and got my bloods done - all came back by today normal and healthy. I can't get used to the efficiency of the Australian system (I'm Irish!) - the GP even saw me three minutes early. On the downside, she put my due date back to June 11, but I'm pretty convinced I'll go earlier than that. Still, that means I'm NOT EVEN SIX WEEKS yet and I am already having troubling zipping up my jeans. I do hate this stage of pregnancy.

Anyone else going from not hungry at all to so-hungry-I-could-chew-my-arm-off in less than sixty seconds?

MTMD, I've never had a miscarriage (touches wood), but my understanding is that as long as your pregnancy symptoms don't suddenly vanish, you don't need to worry. Missed miscarriages are not very common.

But Wispa is right - if they can find at heartbeat at 8 weeks, your chances of carrying the baby to term shoot up to ninety something percent - I can't remember the exact figure, but it's high.

I don't think I'm really naive I just didn't think a scan would make any difference and didnt know that there might be a delay btw mc and bleeding... Anyhow, Tiny, I hope it goes well this time, fingers crossed for sticky poppy! :)

I feel rather poorly today. Sickly, bloated and crampy.. Also have a ridiculous cough which started more than a month ago! It's driving me (and my work colleagues) crazy! Lots of hours till hometime though..

(Really should read properly and not just scan before I post so I don't have to then spam the thread...) but just wanted to say to Tiny that I'm very sorry to hear you have had such a rough run of it with MCs and really hoping we're all here together til the end. Sending you sticky thoughts.

Thanks all... After my 3 MCs I did have my little schnuggle puff who is 20 months and makes it all worthwhile... So feeling more pragmatic if things go wrong, I can cuddle my daughter and be happy to have her...

I'm becoming increasingly tempted to do an early scan.
The clinic I just called on Harley street in London said they can do it from 7 weeks and they can book me in for next Thursday at 9am. I will be 7+3 at that point.
Has anyone had a scan that early before? Do they see the heartbeat etc?
DH said to go for it but I'm wondering how much they will see at that point..... Help!!

Last time I had a scan at 6+1, i did see a flicker of a pixel on the screen that was the heartbeat...
at 8 weeks was a more recognisable blob

I've been fretting about this since my scan last week, I should've been 6+1 and all they said was that it was too small and early to see baby, they pointed out the yolk sac, that was all. Now I am silently worrying because they didn't point out a heartbeat.

Mind you, I had a positive OPK on the 9th of September but didn't test afterwards at all, and had pain in my ovary on 14/9, I might've been just on the edge of 6 weeks.

Thanks for your nice messages, the anti sickness drugs help a little although I threw up last night just after taking it so not feeling the benefits today. Just had a letter through saying I've got a scan on Friday and appt with consultant... Didn't have one till 12 weeks last time, do people think this will be belly scan or internal one as will only be just over 7 weeks??