October 2014 thread 2 - Morning sickness, munchies and very tired mummas!

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Old thread is getting full so here's a nice new one for all our moaning, paranoia and getting each other through it. Can someone do the honers and copy our edd list over? Maybe link the old thread too?

I've had the unbearable cramps too, but (sorry tmi) 9 times out of 10 nothing a good clear out didn't sort.
Have been drinking OJ to help...... That helps but the side effects of having a bottom that's giving the brass section of the BBC symphony Orchestra a run for it's money is amusing my 8 year old daughter.
"Ha ha mummy keeps farting! “

Becks Blue, alcohol free lager. For when you really want something like booze but not booze.

There appears to be no substitute for Breaking bad though. Series 4 about 70% through now. We both keep saying we can stop any time and yet we don't

for all of you because this no alcohol beer has gone straight to my head

Thanks for the reassurance ladies...I think you may be right about the digestive thing...my tummy has been really gassy all day and poor dp is threatening to vacate the sofa if I carry on trumping!

Hello :) lots of farting here too, ds makes a farting sound whenever anyone farts so at least it entertains him!

I have been really ill, my fever has been spiking as soon as the paracetamol wears off and I can only take it 4 times a day, I think this is the most ill I have ever been, I feel terrible that I havnt had the energy to play with ds ( dp is home on paternity leave so ds has been cared for but I miss playing with him) I have been worrying about the risk of neural tube defects and miscarriage but I am trying to think to myself I am doing everything I can to keep my temperature down, what will be will be. I think I'm on the mend, I really hope so!

Ikea, that sounds miserable!

Morning all, hope your okay ikea, I honestly don't know how you ladies cope with this tiredness with another child. This is putting me off having anymore already and I wanted three lol

I had such a nice burst of energy yesterday at work I was a different person and got my work done that I had been putting off for last two weeks. Hoping it is same today but had terrible night sleep, my parents are divorcing at moment and it's very messy and stressful and i keep dreaming about them fighting :-(

I have a bit of a dilemma, it is my 30th next weekend and I've booked an expensive steak restaurant. Problem is I can't eat much at moment without feeling so full I think I will be sick. I am thinking about cancelling it as can't justify the expensive if I can't enjoy it. We could go somewhere more standard but it won't be as special. Thoughts?

bump I'd still go for it, you might be feeling great next week. Plus enjoy nice restaurants while you can, I imagine they become a lot less visited once you have a child! Could you order just a starter or give your left over steak to OH?

I know what you mean by other kids too. I can hardly cope as it is. 10 hours in bed and I don't want to get out of it

Today's observations:

Nausea - what a weird thing! Where do you actually feel it? I was lying in bed thinking that I felt really sick, but could poke my tummy without feeling worse, but looking out the window at a bright sky made it much worse. Do you feel it in your eyes? In your head? In your throat? Weird.

And, expectations of myself. I used to go to the gym every day, running to train for a half marathon, lifting weights, I ate healthily and in combination to aid digestion, I was interested in sex, I could read the news and comment on it, I liked being out in the evenings. These have all gone by the wayside, and I'm really chuffed with myself that yesterday I managed to give 'potential child' some nutrition with a banana AND some broccoli. I didn't fall asleep in public, and was still awake at 10.30pm. Thrilled. Is this what they mean by dignity going out the window?

ohthegoats I have been assured that after 12 - 13 weeks energy levels rise and you actually want to eat well again... Counting the days to 12 weeks which seems to be the magic week!

I have just thrown up because I looked at a block of butter. Normal human behaviour and dignity really does go right out of the window!

ohthegoats I enjoy reading you posts so much they always make me smile! You do have a good point though I'm trying to work out where I feel nausea but I think it changes... Strange. Come the 2nd trimester you'll start to feel more normal again...

I'm hoping to be more motivated today... I dont have much choice . DS has swimming so I need to put my bum in gear and go... It's strange that I was fine all last week but as soon as I found out Sunday I was pregnant BOOM no energy, and I feel like a walking zombie! Maybe it's just coincidence...

Any recccomendations for back pain? I have a dull ache in my right side when I get up from sitting or laying that's shoots around my bum cheek and causes me to walk like 1 legs shorter than the other for a few seconds...

I was thinking about that yesterday ohthegoats. Lying in the dark does seem to help so maybe it is in my head.

I am currently so nauseous I can't get out of bed.

Morning ladies, ikea I really hope you're feeling better.

As for tiredness, I thought it was bad first time round but this plus a toddler is a total killer. I am lucky not to feel sick though - in fact the only time I do is if I get hungry then i feel suddenly v sicky so i feel this is my licence to eat anything and everything. I'm on my 2nd breakfast while dd eats hers. I have no family locally so I just have to plod on like a zombie for the time being, feel bad for dd as we're not doing half as much as usual.

the dignity thing....it's nothing compared to birth and post-birth, but the great thing is you don't care at all our nct group all agreed you leave your dignity at the hospital door, it's pretty liberating really as I used to hate being examined by docs etc but no longer give a monkeys, they can all have a look

I feel like I'm losing my marbles a little - just tried to put the milk in the washing machine and the washing in the fridge.

Ohthegoats my nausea is EVEYWHERE! Even in my teeth to a certain extent. I had a pukey evening but don't feel too bad now. I'm hoping to get a few jobs done today, all I've managed so far is getting up to go to the sofa and back again for a about 3 weeks now. Today I'm going to be useful!!!
Binks I'm glad to see you're doing better too

I just threw up taking the bins out. Classy!

Lush pebble!

Blueberry sounds like sciatica may have got you already! Good.luck my friend!

Binky when your dignity has gone you'll know!!! It will be when a group of student doctors come on to the ward and you just cock your legs back and tell them all to have a good poke around!

Oh goodness, I think it's the nausea and vomiting that makes it really hard for loads of you. I've had mild nausea a few evenings and just have to lay still and do nothing. Thankfully I've had nothing near actual vomiting. Don't necessarily fear, being in early pregnancy (ask me again in the latter half) is much easier for me this time. I have a 2-3 hour nap every afternoon and DS gets up around 8 each morning so I can get plenty of sleep if I don't stay up late (fat chance) plus he's a great distraction in the daytime so it's going much more quickly than before. This'll all be forgotten (or at least pushed to one side) once you've held your squish anyway!

Just to add for anyone who is as filled with fear by all this loss of dignity talk as I would have been the first time round - I only had two vaginal examinations in the whole pregnancy (both in labour) both with just one midwife. It's different for very one I realise but it's not necessarily going to be an exhibition of you and your most intimate parts!

Still dignity goes out the window the moment you get pregnant... you become public property...

And if you need early scans you get dildocam...

Happy 30th bumpforme for next week :) could you go to the resteraunt and have a starter, or share something with someone?

I'm feeling tons better today thanks, my temperature is staying down without paracetamol and I'm feeling moremyself. I have the occasional waves of nausea but not very often, it was the same last pregnancy, I first feltreally really ill at around 11 weeks, I was sick whist having a blood test, then I felt sick for the remaining 30 weeks, it's like my body hadn't read the what to expect when your expecting chapter where it says your supposed to start to feel better around 12 weeks!

I didn't mind the lack of dignity whilst in labour but on the aftercare ward we were given our own on suit room, it was lovely, had a double bed for me and dp and a co-sleep ing nest for ds, we made ourselves at home, there was stuff all over the place and I bled quite heavily after the birth so there was some blood on the sheets and bathroom floor the 1st thing ds did when he wasput on my chest after the birth was poo black maconium all over me, it was lit tar, very hard to wash off. A few hours after the birth a Dr asked if it was ok to bring in a bunch of first year ( first week!) medical students to feel my uterus, I said sure we'll just tidy up a bit she said no don't, it's good for them to see the reality of post birth so about 10 18/19 year olds paraded in a lined up to feel my tummy, they were all so shy bless them.

tiny the little dildocam "condoms" made me giggle :)

I was also in a teaching hospital so had really LOOONG scans while students did it and then the proper sonographers did them. it was great, hope i get the same this time

As I say, different for everyone - I've been very lucky not to have needed dildocam!
I honestly do not feel like public property and didn't last time. Although many things are posed as if you have no choice you often do have a choice - I refused an exam 'to check my waters had broken' for example. I told them that unless I had been pissing myself for the last 2.5 hours I was fairly sure they'd gone! I could have refused the other exams too but did want to know how dilated I was so felt it worth it. Obviously sometimes there're genuine medical reasons why they need to do things but it's often up to you. Just trying to give the other perspective.

Im sooooo tired and its not helped by the fact I keep waking up at 4am

Im also not hungry and am struggling to eat anything, ive given up trying to eat actual meals and am grazing, ive set myself the target of eating something every houreven if its just a handful of grapes.

Luckily I dont really have morning sickness yet just the odd feeling of nausea and a couple of occasions when ive just gagged but by 6 pm every day I feel awful, like ive got the flu, all shivery and achey.

I had really bad hip pain last night but it seems fine now.

I picked up the paperwork yesterday to fill in for my booking in appointment on the 12th when ill be 8 weeks.

Mil came along to our first scan at 6 weeks which was a dildocam scan, I didn't mind I was just so happy that the baby had a heartbeat :)

By the time I was 40+10 and it was tge week before Christmas I was so desperate for ds to come that I begged any hcp I came into contact with to try and do a sweep, there was a lovely really tall Russian Dr who had the longest thinest fingers I have ever seen who finally managed to do a sweep, I cried and told her her
hands were fantastic, she must have thought I was bonkers but she was very kind :)