Due April 2007!!

[mammyjo]

Hi everyone. Its been a very long time since I have posted on mumsnet, but today I have found out that I am expecting baby number 2. My ds1 is just over three years old. Bit shocked to be having another baby but very pleased too.
It would be great to get a thread going as people join me with their April 2007 due dates!!
Very nervous as ds1 had group b strep and birth and was v poorly but forewarned is forearmed as they say!
Look forward to chatting with anyone who feels like posting!

Hello everyone, can I join in to?

Im 8 + 4 weeks with No.1 - and panicking! I feel lke I can't get excited until 12 weeks comes as I'm paranoid something will go wrong - all I want to do is look at nursery furniture!!

Has anyone else suffered with wind/constipation so early? At least thats what I'm hoping it is. Have moving pains all across tummy.

Have seen GP but not seeing midwife until 18th Sept (for what I think is a 10 minute app)when will be 12 weeks, but that seems so far away with noone to talk to - any advice?

Hi everyone,

A last minute addition to April... due 30th. Am now 5 wks.

Welcome to all the newbies! Peajay - you can call your midwifes anytime if you have a question and at 12 weeks you should have had your booking in which should def take longer than 10 mins - if unsure call and check.

Go beans go!

and I think it was CaptainDippy who also has bad wind!

Glad to see everyone is doing ok just now. I have had horrible cramping type pains which totally freaked me at first but am putting it down to wind which is very loud at times and quite smelly (sorry if TMI!!).
My husband is normally the chief wind blower in our house but I am really giving him a run for his money!!

Still very nauseated and vomiting intermittently but not quite so tired so that is good at least. Am 9 weeks today and sat at home waiting for the midwife to call round to do my booking in visit.

wind here too mammyjo, sure that didn't happen last time!
IS ANYONE GOING TO THE XMAS MEET UP?

Ive just read the entire thread from top to bottom - its taken ages. DH thinks hes lost me to the internet.

Ive had awful nausea for the last few weeks, but not so bad today - which worries me! Can't win, - don't like feeling crap, and then worry when feel fine! Ginger beer/capsules/biscuits now make me feel sick! I bought some seabands from Boots, and I think they certainly reduced the nausea feelings. The problem has been wearing long sleeves to try and hide them! I didn't bother on Friday and got strange looks!

The smell thing is amazing too. Spent yesterday cleaning, used febreze, polish, carpet freshner - you name it. Makes my house sound filthy! I cannot wear my perfume - it makes me heave! Why don't blokes have anything like this to put up with!

Its good not to be at work today, have much more energy than in the week. Went swimming this morning to try and relax stomach & get things moving. That seem to have helped a bit.

Going to Bro & SIL for tea, they want to know why I am driving there and not getting a lift. Haven't told family yet as its my b.day on Friday and want to tell everyone together. So for 2day I have a tooth infection and am taking AB so I can't drink......!

Welcome peajay!!

No time to post, but still feeling fat, fat, fat and still a wind machine - gross!!

Haven't approached my midwife yet, prob should soon!!

Evening everyone and welcome to all the newbies-nice to see there's quite a few of us now.
No nausea here,only extreme tiredness and a few twinges here and there.I have my first midwife appointment on Tuesday,which kind of makes it all seem a bit more real.

Hope everyone is keeping well.

hi peajay yeah im so understanding u with the smells and stuff!! i had an ann summers party on friday and just the smell of the food made me want to chuck my guts up! all my friends wondered what was wrong with me as i usually love my food! try not to worry about your stomach cramps and stuff girls just try to relax, this is my second pregnancy my first ended at 8 weeks and the cramp was so bad i was awake at night, this time around im a bit crampy but not that bad so unless you physically cant get to sleep or are nearly crying with pain try not to worry its just ur bits stretching!! i've got pretty bad wind but not too constipated yet, i drink about 4-6 litres of water a day which seems to help and i got swimming regularly, although i cant seem to face the gym at the moment!!

good luck to everybody for the next couple of weeks talk to you all soon.

Had to undo my trousers when I went out for a meal last night!!

How's everyone doing???

Brilliant to see you here Wantababy - I remember you from the ttc thread - Congratulations.

I am sitting here fighting the nausea....I have been retching in the sink the past 3 mornings in a row but I am not actually sick...is that wierd?

Thankfully it seems to go at about 11.30 and doesn't resurface till next monring so should count myself lucky.

Went to see some friends last night, she had her third little boy 12 weeks ago so got some practice in holding a baby again and bathing them, undressing and dressing them - how is it that you forget so easily!!!! I really enjoyed it, I admire my friend so much - she had the baby permanantley attached to her feeding the whole time we were there - and brought back to me my feelings about breast feeding...

Anyone started thinking about that issue yet? For the first timers.. if there is one thing I would like to tell you it is ...don't feel pressurised by health professionals. I remember feeling such pressure from midwives, doctors and health visitors to breast feed. I did for a while but it became too much and I eventually switched to formula and found that I coped alot better but I missed the closeness of breast feeding.. no one ever told me it was acceptable to top up your breast feeding with some formula if you are struggling or anything like that. It just seemed that you were given two options and made to feel inadequate if you didn't breast feed.

Obviously I am going off my personal experience here and maybe not all health professionals are like this but I just wish I had the confidence when I was first timer to go with my instincts and not worry so much about what everyone told me I "should" be doing. Only you know what will work best for you.

Ohh I went on a bit there ...sorry!

Right off to sit very still in a chair - and I can fully sympathise with you windies out there. I was near bursting last night with wind and I am so constipated....trying to drink more water and eat more fruit and veg to shift it :-(

Have a great day everyone
x

undoingyour trousers already? wow how many weeks are you? i have heard about this thing called the bella band which hold up your normal pre baby clothes but you can undo the tops and no body knows! sorry i didnt explain that very well. but look it up!

good luck

Hi everyone, still feeling nausea here, all the time. sick at least once a day and cant figure out what i cant eat and waht i cant. so just eating everything that pops into my mind . so yeps, i'm undoing my trousers!!

9 weeks this week, roll on 12 weeks!!

Muminamini - I so agree with you about the feeding thing - with my first I went to all the NCT classes etc and it was expected that you would breastfeed - all my friends were breastfeeding and there was a real guilt thing about changing to bottle feeding - feeding my first was a nightmare (too long a story!)and despite seeking help, nobody actually helped! In the end I started bottle feeding at 6 weeks and our lives were transformed - we were all much happier and my son started to sleep and stopped screaming because he was always hungry.

With my second, because of the awful time with my first I bottle fed from birth - there was a great deal of pressure still to breastfeed but I had it put in my notes that I did not want to discuss it! Anyway, with this one I have decided that I am going to breastfeed and give it a go because I have met lots of people over the last two years who are very supportive and do know what they are talking about when it comes to breastfeeding - so the support will be there if it isn't working and I have decided that I am going to buy an electric breastpump and express so that hubbie can give baby milk if I need to go out etc. So kind of mixed feeding but with breastmilk!

I have also thought about labour! Undecided between an elective section or going all out natural! Would like to get into not seeing the labour pains as pain - iyswim and be able to see it as the baby coming out - think may need a lot of help with this if it's going to work!

My trousers are also getting a bit tight - they are alright if standing up but dig in so much when sit down I have to undo them! Maybe because it's my third - can't have put on 'fat' weight as hardly eating anything. My son woke me up in the night and moved over in bed - thought I was going to chuck! Hubbie being extra good - washing, cooking, cleaning, looking after kids - off to my mums tomorrow for more rest!

Have bought some maternity jeans on ebay and am planning to go to M&S tomorrow and get some stretchy trousers! and maybe another bra that fits!

Yummymummy - I am only 7 weeks, but it is my third PG so guess my body's just doing what it is used to!! Have seen the Belly Belt and am thinking of investing in one.....

CaptainDippy - I am only 7 weeks aswell! Oh dear!

I'm not even 6 weeks yet and have already bought a pair of maternity jeans.

Can I please have a rant about my mother here? Am about 6 weeks or so and we decided to tell our parents this weekend as we knew we'd be rubbish at keeping this preg a secret. Dh's parents were absolutely thrilled at the prospect of being grandparents again, and MIL has said she's going to retire so she can help out even more than she already does (fab!). However, told my own mum yesterday and all I got was negativity...."was it planned, you must be mad, can you afford it?, how are you going to cope with work? How's your boss going to react?...etc" You get the drift. So have just had a dreadful sleepless night worrying about whether I'm happy to be preg. It took me a really long time to even want to have another child (dd is 4) and now I'm all upset about it again - I know some of this is hormones, but I fell like saying to her that if that's how she feels she can just butt out of this grandchild. Sorry, but feel better now for saying it.

Afternoon everyone!

I am having trouble with clothes too, I'll be 9 weeks tomorrow. We are at a wedding next weekend and I am really loathed to but something to wear when I know its not going to fit properly for much longer. I don't really want to look at maternity clothes until I get to 12 weeks so I'm living in jogging bottoms and tshirts. Luckily I'm off work for the next fortnight so it will be easier to be comfortable.

Emmymummy - dont worry about your mum - they are strange beings! So long as you and DH are happy that is all that matters. And your DD is going to have a playmate and friend for the rest of her life - I love my bro to bits and I know that no matter what I can always rely on him. So dont worry, just think about all the extra love you'll get off your new baby! (Thats quite sentimental of me!).

I need to go and make some food - the only time i don't feel sick is when I'm eating!

Oh I know PeaJay, I think my mum is stranger than most - but fancy not having a single nice thing to say when your 36 year old happily married daughter tells you she's pregnant! Strange indeed!

I'm suffering with boobs from hell at the moment - I too don't want to hit the maternity clothes until necessary, but I've just ordered some hidden support vest tops as my bras are killing me! And I've already swapped to a non-underwired type. Am back at work on Wednesday after 10 days off and I'm sure someone will notice that my boobs are huge (I work with a load of blokes who aren't afraid to comment on something like that).

Did I say 36? I'm still only 35!

Well, I am starting to wonder now....I am nearly seven weeks and apart from v. slightly bigger boobs, and digestion probs occasionally (i.e indigestion, which I have never had before so assume is linked to PG) have no symptoms whatsoever. No peeing, no sickness, no wind, nothing....I am not complaining of course as long as all is well...maybe its still to come??

Discharge thing seems to be subsiding a bit, maybe over??? who knows....

I'll be writing next week saying I am the sickest person alive I bet....oh, I do look like s**t though, guess that could be a symptom!! Everyone keeps asking me if I am ill, which I am a bit...with my attractive cough, but thats all. Tried to convince the pharmacist she should research to see if there was ANYTHING i could take to get rid of it. She informed me that there is nothing, end of story, and that I had to go home an suffer and hope I don't catch anything else!

Do you know I only just figured out that Muminamini, was mum in a mini...duh. How slow am I??

Buckfyans - I'm a pharmacist, and it sounds as though your pharmacist was a bit mean. You could try some glycerin lemon and honey syrup or simple linctus, which will at least soothe your cough and neither contain anything that will harm the baby.

Must admit I'm a bit jealous of all you ladies who are getting the boobs, mine are still small! They didn't get bigger when I was pg with dd either, just up a cup size or 2 when I was breastfeeding. I suppose I should be grateful as at least they don't hurt!
I think I'm starting to feel a little better most of the time, which then worries me as I'm scared something has happened. Can't win either way! Tired and queasy today though as dd had an unsettled night and early start this morning. Think she was just overtired as we were at a third birthday party yesterday, which for some reason didn't start until 4pm. Its was 8.30 before the cake was cut so well past dd's bedtime! (well past mine at the mo too!)