The maybies are keeping a close eye on their fruit - due May 14

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Will this do? I bet someone's beat me to it now!

randdom hope you are feeling better soon! Drink lots of water and look after yourself xx

thistle my skin has stopped being spotty but has begun being dry now, such a pain!

I have a stomach which is half carbs and half baby, so I look pregnant if you know, but to others I probably just look fat. ah well. I'm enjoying having a chest though! As a usual barely-filling-my A cup I'm now (drum roll please durn durn duuurrnnn a B CUP! yeah I know, not that dramatic, but it's the first time in my life I've ever been a B!!

I hope they stay

Scan tomorrow!!!! eeeeeek!!! Good Luck to mumof2 for your scan tomorrow and anyone else who has one tomorrow as well

Had some kind of mini breakdown this morning, just sat and cried on OH's shoulder for what felt like hours - about how I don't feel like I can cope, I don't feel supported, basically all my opinions and feelings came pouring out and so did the tears. He was so supportive and so apologetic and promised to do more and do whatever he could for me. He's driven me home tonight so I can spend the next couple of days at home and then he's coming on Saturday and we're going for dinner with his parents Sunday. Think things are going to improve from here on in but he thinks I've got antenatal depression... after sitting and properly thinking about it I'd be inclined to agree, but I don't want to tell anyone like a doctor, and my next midwife appointment isn't until January now.

Cheered me up a bit later though - we went to the 16 week appointment and got to hear the baby's heartbeat! It was incredible, 151 beats per minute also found out I've lost three kilos since my booking in appointment

Also got my blood test results through; everything fine although I've finally learned my blood group, I'm O-negative (a surprise because my mum is A positive and my brothers and sister have all been A positive, if i remember correctly. Dad's never been tested), so I've got to have the Anti-D injection at 28 weeks - booked for Valentine's Day

GTT is booked thanks to mum's history of GD, 20 week scan is on the 12th December, had my quadruple blood test and flu jab done today so everything is on track but hearing the heartbeat was amazing - I couldn't believe it, OH actually cried which makes me think that he does care and he is interested - he just shows it in his own way :)

Thanks for all the advice :)

Thank you moo good luck for yours too. I'll be thinking of you. Xx

I also have my anti d appt on valentines day moomin

Crap nights sleep, this is my third baby and still I get so anxious. Four hours and 20 minutes till scan and hopefully all will be well.
moo check back in as soon as you've had your scan this afternoon lovely, good luck.

Good luck to those having scans today!

I'm thinking I might have an anterior placenta this time :( all babies movements seems really muffled compared to my others. Hopefully it's just because I'm enormously fat and I will feel more later on

Sorry to hear that random for the ms just hold on a little longer. Week 13 was better for me and 14 was good. Now on 15 and feeling so much happier.

Good luck mumof2 and moo. Thinking of you today. Come back quick and show us your pics and tell us how incredible it was.

Good luck!!! Hope the scans go well xxx

Randdom I understand totally where you're coming from! I'm 11+6 today (and I had a private scan at 7+6) but I still have an overwhelming sense of dread that the pregnancy hasn't progressed it's horrible and I even rehearse in my head how I'm going to react and how I'll explain to people (not that anyone except my best mate knows I'm pregnant even).

The morning sickness is no longer constant which is an improvement however I did throw up in the street (well an alleyway) on my way back from the school run thankfully there was no one around to witness this!

Morning all! Like the others at the tail end of the queue, I'm also still struggling through MS here, hence the relative silence. Hopefully we'll all be out the other side sooner rather than later!

Mine is definitely easing, at least. At the worst I felt awful 24/7, but it's now reduced to just waves of nausea that strike for an hour or two every so often. (Mostly around now, urp.) Still needing ridiculous amounts of sleep, however. 12 hours per night or I cease to function! I really hope that eases before I'm back at work next Wednesday.

Glad to hear scans and stuff are going well. :) I get to see my wiggler again on Monday, which I'm quite excited about! Going by myself this time though, because DH can't really take any more time off work and has already seen it twice. I think he's getting bored, LOL.

randdom, it's probably some small comfort but take heart in the fact that you do still feel tired and sick. Those symptoms are a clear sign that everything is probably fine. First thing in the morning, or when your bladder is full, can you feel a hard lump now just peeking from behind your pelvic bone? That is another good sign that everything is growing and progressing as it should. When is your 12 week scan due to be happening?

Glad to hear you managed to talk with your OH, Moomin. :) It sounds like he's just not really been sure how to support you and, for men, I think they feel a bit detached from it all anyway at times and not really sure what to say or do. In my experience, it's best to be direct and just tell them what you want/expect them to do. Takes the guessing out of it and helps them relax!

And ooh, O-Negative blood type! Have you ever considered becoming a blood donor? They'd bite your hand off. Obviously you can't while pregnant or for a while after giving birth, but O-Neg is the most desired blood type as it's what's called the "Universal Donator". Everyone can receive your blood type with no negative impacts because of the way your antibodies are stored.

On the other hand, I'm the opposite end of the scale as AB-Positive, making me a "Universal Receiver". That means I can receive anyone's blood type and be fine, but no-one else (aside from other AB-Pos) can receive my blood. I donate still, but I think mine is mostly used for research as it's bloody (ha) useless to be stored in emergency rooms!

spirael im a blood donor :) typical O+ though so very common. I convincey OH to give blood but they hit his artery and he won't go near a donation session now! They blamed it on his muscles (hes a big boy) and said they muscles push his artery to high

Off to the hospital now for my scan. Check back in after 11.30 ish. Xx

My DH tried and failed to be a blood donor too, mumof2aimingfor4! But in his case, it's because he fainted when they stuck a needle in him. They politely asked him not to come back.

This is why my birth plan says, in big capital red letters, that DH is not to be allowed anywhere near the business end or even suggested to cut the cord. He is there to make cups of tea (home birth) and nothing else! Otherwise they'll have two patients instead of one.

Good luck at your scan today! :)

Spirael I've tried three times - first time was a month after I turned 17 - but I've been too anemic every time for it. Hoping maybe once I'm allowed to again, my iron levels will be high enough :)

OH is a blood donor, he's AB+ too so apparently it means I definitely need the AntiD injection because he's a positive blood type? My Mum's a blood donor too. The only other O- that I know is OH's dad who gave blood for years and years until he couldn't do it any more.

Best of luck with scans today everyone!

Hi all. Late to the party as was scared to post until id had my 12 week scan. I'm due 30th may 2014 - can I join you ladies?
It will be my DC2 - my little boy has just turned 1 so I'm going to have my hands full. Hoping this little squidge isn't like its big brother who arrived at 33 weeks!

Hello and welcome Honey. Glad that you've had a successful scan.

Ahhhhhh I'm feeling really cross but I know I'm being unfair.
PIL were coming for a visit, we have seen them in about 3 years. MIL just cancelled it will only be FIL now, MIL thinks the cat is sick I would have some sympathy but this is their standard excuse to get out of things plus they could easily rearrange to visit another time.
I find FIL really abrasive, MIL reigns him in a little, so he's hard work plus I do actually like MIL and was looking forward to seeing her.

MIL is very house proud so I've been cleaning and tidying and organising the house all week while feeling awful, only for her to cancel. At least I won't be putting to much effort in today if its only FIL.
I wouldn't mind half as much but this was a really inconvenient date for me being that today is the stage my DS died in pregancy.

I'm wondering if its anything to do with me taking them to task for still being FB friends with DH ex wife who texted DH gleefully on the day of our sons funeral telling us we deserved it. Which they knew about!
I gave them a her or us choice, maybe she's upset?

Good luck all with scans :)

I would give blood, but they find it hard to get enough blood out of me for a blood test!

Welcome Honey I went for a scan 2 weeks ago and they've put me down for 30th May too :) Go back on Monday to see little wriggler and for nuchal scan :)

Oh LittleBairn read your post and can't offer any advice but I just wanted to send you a hug x

Hi Honey welcome to the maybies :)

Great to hear brilliant scan news all round ladies and good luck to those having scans today, mumof2 and anyone else.

I have a very definite and obvious bump which I'm a little surprised I'm showing this early as its my first. Two people have asked me in the last two days if I'm pregnant! And then said 'really you're only 15 weeks?'

Hope you feel better soon random

Trying to deal with DPs family arguing and bickering at each other at the moment, oh and lets not forget a bullshitting 16 year old brother-in-law, so having a lovely time of it generally feeling stressed and now making myself ill and not sleeping!! sorry for the rant but have to vent!!

Definitely a weekend of sleeping, eating, keeping the door locked and my phone off I think!

Urgh little some people really are disgusting and pathetic. Big hugs!!

Still in hospital but scan went well, all fine. Baby was a right fidget! Put me back by two days. So now due a day before my birthday!

Hugs LittleBairn families are a pain in the neck aren't they! You're not being unfair and sounds like you had every right to give her an ultimatum and there is no reason that she should be upset x

great news mumof2 :)