July 2014!!!! Hop on board and join the fun!!!

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I got my bfp this morning and calculator says due July 4th!!!

Wow, that seems ages away!!

Feeling quite scared....can't wait for this bus to fill up, can't party on my own!! xxx

My boobs are getting ridiculous already. Already bought a bra up a cup size (34F) and I'm bursting over it already - it fitted on Saturday! This could get very silly, very fast. Worrying that people are going to ask if I've had a boob job!

Ipsum I too am having my first after years of pressure from family and friends. There are good reasons why it took a while but apparently not good enough for some - whose business it wasn't in the first place!

I feel a bit weird about now being pregnant and having to tell the people that were the loudest and pushiest that I'm now pregnant. It feels sort of like I've lost an argument or caved somehow, even though this was always our plan.

At the same time I'm rubbish with secrets and just want to get it over with - tell everyone. It's not simple, this growing beans thing..

First success of the day - my trousers zip up. First time in thre weeks!
Second success of the day - made it into work - which I didn't manage yesterday.

First fail of the day - 90minute commute nearly killed me, and less than two hours in the office I had to turn and around and come home!

Uuurrggghh. Feel so rough.

Lp sum - it's our first, but we are getting on (early thirties), have been together ten years, just bought a house (having sold our flat) both have decent jobs and got married last year. So Im not sure there's any boxes we haven't ticked that would give cause to concern for anyone who is trying to interfere! It'll be the first grandchild on both sides, so Im hoping everyone will be happy. We're not planning on telling until after my 10w scan - mid december - assuming it all goes well. Im still worried about telling my dad though - no idea why!

Bump - my only craving is beer. So odd isn't it?!

dollydaydream27 - I went to meet the midwife at the docs today, but instead was sent in to see the doctor again. She took my weight and blood pressure, and asked loads of questions about health, previous operations etc, and filled out a form which will be sent off and in return I get a cert giving me free prescriptions.

She gave me a due date of 13th July, even though every single time I've checked it on sites I've been given 12th July (first date of last period was 5th Oct). I guess I better go with 13th though, if that's what she's written officially.

There was a negative part though. I'd done my hospital research in advance, as had read I'd be asked to choose a hospital. However, she automatically assigned me to one (Whipps Cross in East London), and said that if I wanted to change (which I did, to the Whittington), then I was basically completely cutting myself from the surgery, and she went on to say that if I had complications/bleeding/spotting etc, that I wouldn't be able to come to them as they wouldn't help me and instead would have to go to the other hospital instead.

I felt really pressurised to stay with Whipps, even when I told her I'd read really bad reviews, and had seen the press from August slamming the maternity unit. She was really detached though, and said she doesn't know very much about either maternity unit (she's young, inexperienced, couldn't even tell me if I have to take vitamin D for the whole pregnancy), and just reiterated that if I didn't go with Whipps I'd be cutting myself off. No pressure!!

So I said fine, even though I was on the brink of tears, and I guess all I can do is assess what it's like when I go there (was told midwife should contact me within 2 weeks to make appointment to go in, at which time I get scan date). If it's in any way dodgy, I'll then try to transfer. I've had ops at the Whittington before and always had a good experience, so that's why I'm most comfortable with that hospital.

DH rang me when I was on way into work to ask how I got on - as soon as I started explaining, I burst into tears on the train (embarrassing, though thankfully it was practically empty!). I'm sure I'm overreacting, but it's so difficult to ignore the bad reviews and articles I've read.

Don't suppose anyone here knows of anyone who's had a very positive Whipps Cross experience?

jaykay I know what you mean, I'm really excited about telling people (finding it hard to keep my mouth shut!) but I'm so nervous about telling my Dad.

Hello all, I have finally found five minutes to sit down and catch up with the thread. I can't believe how many July babies there are already! I have managed to catch a horrid cold so feeling very sorry for myself. I am starting to feel quite sick too. Just want to curl up in bed and have a nap but DD has other ideas! I'm off to the Dr this afternoon to let them know I'm pregnant. I think I will have to write a list of everything I need to talk to her about as baby brain has already kicked in big time. I had such a complicated and dramatic pregnancy with DD and I am not really sure what the implications are for this pregnancy. I am hoping she will refer me back to the same consultant as last time. Hope everyone is well

Ahhhh! Lost the rest of my post! I will finish it after Dr...

Thanks for the update lemon . Sorry to hear it didn't go to plan. I'm sure everything will be fine and if you really want to change I'm sure it won't be as much of a problem as she's making out.
I called my gp surgery again this morning to check that it wasn't too early to see the midwife (il be 5+5) as I've been worrying about it . The nice receptionist said they didn't have any guidelines and all newly pregnant ladies go straight to see the midwife. So I suppose that's that then I will go - post night shift - feeling bleurrgghh on fri morning .

Hope you get on OK - let us know how it goes. And hope you feel better soon!

I feel ok in the day just a bit nauseous if I get hungry . But I did nights a week ago when I had just found out so dreading it again this time because I felt so sick

JayKay

yes, it is odd. it was weird for me coz I don't even like it!

although I think what puzzled me the most that with my youngest I craved smoked salmon.
between 8-11 weeks, when the nausea was the worst I lived on smoked salmon sandwiches. I had up to four a day. nothing else.

but just who do you know who wants to eat fish during that time?! so bizarre. although I was only physically sick twice during the entire pg with her.
the boys on the other hand - oh dear...I was this colour

I craved different things with each pg too. and with my youngest son the craving kept on changing every few days. it was very confusing.
and he was expensive. I lived on Tropicana for the entire time!

Hi all, you might remember that I was having pain in my left side I saw the early pregnacy unit yesterday and they took bloods got the results today and my hcg levels were 4447 so they called me back for a scan. I saw the sack on screen with an external scan got another scan booked for 25/11 to hopefully see the heartbeat. Back again tomorrow for more bloods p make sure everything is going as it should. The best news today was that my baby is in my womb and not ectopic we are over the moon after a very long weekend of thinking the worst. Hope everybody else is feeling well.

Great news, Sparky. Huge relief that everything is where it is supposed to be.

ismarah I completely get where you're coming from about the pushy people. I had some serious medical issues a few years ago but people still thought they had a right to tell me to hurry up and have children even though I told them it wasn't that simple. So not looking forward to telling them and them saying 'about time too'.

MW appt booked today for 2 December... it was that or the 26 November but I have an important work meeting I can't miss.

It still doesn't feel real in some ways - hopefully it will seem more real after the scan.

Fab news sparky ! Very happy for you

It's getting harder to hide how much discomfort I'm getting from my boobs. And I got asked if I was ok at work today by a colleague, apparently I look tired and a little washed out!

Yeah, seriously no one will believe the health detox thing, I'm always very vocal in my views on such things (e.g I think they are a con, you just follow moderate habits the whole time). a second PG is so much harder to hide! I'm crying off the event tomorrow and for xmas party I will just do the dropping off/tipping drink thing, easier as it will be a large group.

I'm thinking I may suddenly find myself driving to events with me and DH. We usually get a taxi!

Lemon, we must be not too far from each other - the Whittington is my local and my preferred hospital at the moment. I hope you can get in there if you want to, or at least get the info you want on Whipps Cross to make the decision.

Feeling a bit low after my doc's appointment this eve. She seemed fairly realistic/pessimistic about the fact I've been spotting on and off since Friday and that it's very early days as far as a pregnancy is concerned (I think I'm 4w + 4). However, she is taking it seriously, and has booked me to come back in in a week and a half's time, where she'll send me for an early scan if she still has concerns. (I also had higher blood pressure, but that was probably because she took it just after we'd discussed the chances of miscarriage at this stage!)

I felt fairly stoical about it all, in a "well there's nothing either she or I can do it about it at this stage except wait" way, but feel very down about it all now. On the positive side, I took another preg test this morning (just to check before I saw the GP!) and it came up 'pregnant' in less than a minute, and I've been feeling nauseous on and off all day. (Never thought I'd say that was a positive thing, but I'm clutching at straws here...)

I was thinking of letting the news slip to two of my closest friends who I'm catching up with this week, but bearing in mind today's news I think I might just keep schtum for a bit longer. It felt great being able to tell someone other than DH, though, even if it was just the GP :)

Oh and meant to say Lemon, the Whittington lets you self-refer, so that's always an option?

Hello all, I've been off radar since logging on early days in this thread (due date 3 July), fab to see so many of us on the July bus now! Feeling very sorry for those of you in the grip of nausea, etc, I have to say I've not got any symptoms as yet, which is a bit disconcerting, as I did last time. Oh, apart from the nice layer of podge that's appeared over my thighs and backside. Nice! I remember getting it with DS practically overnight! 'Baby fat' it is, apparently Think I've got only a week or so left of squeezing my podge into my skinnies before I'm going to have to break out the lounge pants.

I've been so nauseous today but not sure whether it is pregnancy related or the dreadful jet-lag?!
I'm still taking the folic acid but nothing else. Does anyone know, if we need to take anything else?
I got my midwife appt for the 4th of december when I will be 8 weeks+. Is that normal?

Coco - Ill be 8w at my mw appointment. Think it's fairly normal.

So for tea I had cauliflower cheese and oven chips. Could my diet me more yellow?! At least the cauliflower counts towards my veg intake. Im struggling to eat anything that doesn't come in bread at the moment!

I'm on the sofa, feet up and totally wrecked. I was in south east Asia on a business trip last week and then had a weekend away staying with friends. I've got a nasty cold, nausea and I'm absolutely shattered! On the plus side I've lost my appetite and I've lost some weight!

Hopefully tomorrow I will be in a better state for posting!

Thanks jaykay

I've been stuffing my face with carbs too! Also had a massive jar of gherkins in the staff toilet so people didn't suspect anything!!!