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New thread for our little junebugs!

London.. What? When?
How much?
Are you in pain? How far along are you???
Go to the hospital!

I am going to find out if its a boy/girl but seeing as I have 3 boys it doesnt take a genius to guess what we have cooking lol!

I feel a lot better today no more pink, still have the backache but I had that all the way through with my DS2 - I am going to call the EPU tomorrow as they have said I will be able to have a scan to make sure all is ok so hopfully a scan tomorrow :)

Anyone else having bad headaches, this is the first Pregnancy that I am getting at least 3 a week! I use to get them a lot when I was a teen but have gone 10 years without one so its a bit of a shock.

I find polar no pyret really fab for bright unisex bits :)

London is it about the time that you would be due your period? There is sometimes breakthrough bleeding at that time? Hope that's all it is x

London I checked the list and saw you're due on 8th June so 8 weeks today.
Is it just spotting or a lot of bleeding? Hopefully there's nothing to worry about (I know loads of women who had bleeding during pregnancy and now have happy healthy bouncing babies) but maybe you should go to the hospital just in case?
Or ring community midwifes number?

Hi everyone, haven't been able to get on here for a few days, but it seems really exciting, everyone talking about finding out the gender (or not) and choosing hospitals etc! How far do you think is sensible to travel for the hospital you deliver in? I'm between two: one being 30-40 mins away dependent on traffic, and the other 40-45... Has anyone been to have a look round the hospitals? My two are under different trusts so I really need to choose one and stick to it or I'll have masses of paperwork to do at a later date. I was hoping to go up and see one of them this week with DP...

Re finding out the gender, I really want to and DP doesn't. Eeek. Not sure what we're gonna do!

London: Hope you're ok... Hope you have spoken to the midwife.

Oh London I must have cross posted, so sorry to hear that it is crappy :( I know just how you feel thankfully I only had a small amount of blood. Good luck with the EPU tomorrow hoping all is ok for the both of us xx (I know x is not the done things on MN but X)

London sorry to hear you are bleeding can you go to the hospital to have it checked? Hopefully it's nothing. There are so many people who bleed throughout pregnancy. hugs x

london I read online that a little bit of bleeding sometimes happens around 8 weeks. Would go and get it checked though.

London hope all is ok and it stops soon.

I'm feeling so tired today. Really concerned about going back to work tomorrow after a week off. No one knows I'm pg there and I don't want to tell anyone. I know all jobs are tough but teenage boys are so unforgiving lol!

Lots of love London

Rara my experience of driving to the hospital in labour was that every second was excruciating. It is very unlikely you will need to rush- most first babies take ages- but the drive was very uncomfortable for me. Pick the one with fewer bumps along the way!

Hahahaha thanks Marlena!

Thanks everyone. I'm 8 weeks today. I've rang the EPU but it's not manned at the weekend. I'm expecting a phone call tomorrow for a scan- my EPU is fab!

I'm bleeding but not heavily. I guess it's between spotting and full period bleed. My sister bled throughout the first trimester and my gorgeous nephew was born 2 weeks ago. She was signed off got 8 weeks bed rest!

Oh fingers crossed it is nothing London

If it's brown, London that means it's old blood which is better. Bright red is worse but can be ok unless also clots and bad cramping. Try to rest as much as you can until you can get seen. Like others have said bleeding in early pregnancy is very, very common and often means nothing.

Keeping my fingers crossed that it's nothing and just normal early pregnancy bleeding, London.

Thinking of you London......rest up and hopefully you can get a scan tomorrow.

Fingers crossed that everything's ok for you London hope you get a scan quickly.

Hope that everything is ok London.
I had lots of bleeding in my pregnancy with ds and he was born healthy. Hope you can rest up

Fingers crossed for you London

Hope everything's ok, London!

Rara, it doesn't sound like the difference in distance is too much, is one much better than the other?

We have put an offer in on a house now, so if it's accepted I'm going to have to change my hospital. Moving from having a hospital a 2 minute drive down the road to having the nearest hospital 25 minutes away. Not bad, though. I wasn't planning to tell the midwives until I had a completion date. In your case, it's cutting it close. Any way you could call the midwife unit at you future local hospital (whichever one you choose) to see if they can book you in for a nuchal scan? Or if you need referral, pop into your GP and tell them about the situation and ask if they will contact the chosen hospital for you?

Hope everything goes ok tomorrow london

Warning....as there is a rant on the way......

Men!!
So I was preparing chicken for dinner and the intense smell was making me queasy and I started gagging. I told DH he should help me next time as I was struggling....and he said (And I quote)

...."if this is making you feel ill now, imagine how sick you'll be in three or four months when you are 'properly pregnant'"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And he wonders why Ive started to get him to read the week ahead in my pregnancy book once a week!
Apparently he thought ms ramped up throughout the 9months ending with birth!

I have to pay privately for the nuchal scan - it's not covered in NI, probably because of the crappy abortion laws we have here, though it seems unfair that we pay the same taxes and I still have to pay out £220 for something you get for free in Britain.

/rant over

I've just put in my application for a few weeks of unpaid leave, we should sign the contract on our house this week so hopefully I can decorate and move and also get some rest without worrying about being off sick from work.

Wispa house offer is exciting!! Sounds like a successful weekend for you

Jaykay I think men struggle to begin with when outwardly we look the same but inside there is so much going on! At least he's reading the updates now.....that will get him prepared for those pre birthing classes

Wispa: I don't know. One I really like, having been there numerous times for all kinds of things since I was about 15. The staff there are good and I trust them, and I've already met one of their midwives and several of their pregnancy/gynae nurses. The other, I dunno....I just like the sound of! But I'd like to see it first. I'll call them tomorrow. Apparently, I can give birth at the first one I mentioned and then be transferred to the other (the first one kicks you out after 6hrs, the thought of which terrifies me, whereas the other has like a mother-and-baby unit where you can stay for a few days and learn about breastfeeding and have people on hand to help etc. I'd like to do that, but they can't guarantee I'd be expected as the hospitals are run by different trusts and the one I'd transfer to would see to patients from its own trust first... However, the first one has an obstetric unit, SCBU, etc so no transfer required if anything goes wrong. The second doesn't, and I'd likely be transferred to my local (where I really don't want to go) if anything went wrong. Aaaarrrrgggghhh how to choose!!

Jaykay: Yikes, don't blame you - I'd have been at his throat! Mine was wonderful last week - I was absolutely crippled with sickness, so off he trotted into the kitchen to bake me some ginger biscuits .

I am so glad that we live close to my chosen hospital with my ds he was born 20 minutes after arriving and there is no way I would of made it if we lived more than 10 mins away and it had been during the day and busy traffic! But he was a 2nd and everyone always said to me second babies have a way of coming really quickly!