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?

Hi ladies. Have my follow up scan tomorrow; so nervous. Barely slept at all last night and I'm sure I won't tonight either. I really hope it brings the reassurance I need (and no passing out on the hospital floor!) Even if all ok, I'll only b 6+4 with what will feel like a long wait b4 'proper' scan. Finding it all hard work x

Good luck for tomorrow bingo. Hope you manage to get some pets.

I also thought twins would be great before I had DD and met one of my mum friends who has twins.

Been to the docs today and she's prescribed me some pills so hopefully no more sickness for me.

What have they put you on carebear?

Promethazine mrs. She also said to take 1g of ginger a day so I've bought capsules.

Also did anyone else know that prescriptions now cost £7.85?! It must have been quite a while since I needed a prescription. Wish I had my maternity certificate thing but you need to get it from the midwife don't you?

Quick question, can anyone else feel themselves going a bit, erm.. soft? Physically I mean. I'm a bit chubby anyway (size 14), but not really that 'fat' - it's always been quite solid. Also, I've never had a tummy - any size for me is in my tits and arse (and thighs), I'm a real hour glass shape. Currently I have a new (and not welcome) really soft belly. I know that some of the size of it is wind/bloat, but there is definitely a layer of fat there which wasn't there at Christmas. Clothes that were tight/fitted in December still fit fine (not always after a day of wind collection), but the consistency of 'me' has changed.

Pets carebear? Hahaha brilliant typo!
So I had my booking in appointment today, lovely midwife plus a student who sat in the corner observing. It took about 40 mins and was basically loads of form-filling. She also took 3 vials of blood and left me with an impressive bruise on my arm. Quite surprised she didn't weigh me or do blood pressure or urine but I was happy to be in and out quickly.
She did say I will have to be referred to a consultant due to being high risk (advanced maternal age) and I probably will be pressurised to choose the consultant led unit for delivery but we didn't talk too much about that at my request. I'm doing this one tiny step at a time.
Should get my scan date through in about 2 weeks time. Don't need to see midwife again until the middle of April.
Phew. It was very odd talking about being pregnant. Dh and I don't really speak about it due to kids being around all the time & we are keeping it to ourselves for now. It made it all a bit real
When I got home from work I phoned the private clinic down the road & booked in for a Harmony test - it's on Thursday night. Wasn't filled with confidence by the receptionist as she didn't seem to know much about it, she didn't know whether it included a scan which I thought was essential? Hope they aren't a bunch of charlatans! Anyway - possibly having a scan on Thursday - yikes.

You're going for it then! If you can afford it, I think it's a good idea. Should be available on the NHS really. I've got mine next Saturday, so want a proper run down after yours please!

I probably will be pressurised to choose the consultant led unit for delivery
I don't get a choice - age and Factor V Leiden. If all is OK after next Saturday (or more likely mid April), then I'm going to see what I can do about a doula and maybe some other hypnobirthing type things. I think I might need a person to back me up on reducing intervention on the day etc. I realised on Saturday (snot bubble day), just how naïve I've been my whole life about this baby having malarkey.. never interested, so never listened to anyone talking about it.

Haha whoops. I meant sleep. I'm blaming the lack of food from all vomiting.

Office have you decided when you will tell the kids?

I had my first midwife appointment too. She arrived at my house while I was upstairs throwing up for the 4th time today... great first impression! She seemed to think round 4 of being sick wasn't a concern... just one of the side effects of being pregnant. i did try to explain i wasn't particularly keeping down food or drink down. she was nice but felt like she was in a rush. she arrived 45mins late due to traffic. said she should finish work at 4 but was with us until 5...

Hi all been lurking due to constant nausea etc. care bear the form can be signed off by midwife or gp as early in preg as you want. Issued within a few days and backdated. You can reclaim so don't throw your paid prescription receipts

Meant to say hi to all and commiserations with everyone not blooming at the mo. Well done to those of you who are not too bad.

Roll on October tho, we haven't told ds waiting till scan 26/3.

I'm also feeling much more sick this pregnancy and twins has crossed my mind too. People keep asking me if I've got my dates wrong as I look about 18 weeks pregnant (am 9). Pretty sure it's all just bloat though. I think sickness might be worse this time
as it's harder to control your environment with a toddler around - emptying pooey potties and having to smell endless strawberry flavoured Peppa Pig fromage frais doesn't help. I feel really tired this time but not as bad as last pregnancy - I think it was just such a shock to the system last time and nobody had warned me how exhausting early pregnancy is. Best thing about second time round though is the knowledge that it does pass (for most people anyway) and second trimester brings a bit of respite. Good luck everyone!

Hi all

Everything seems to be happening for me today finally got up the guts to join you lovely ladies and also got my booking app through for a week on thurs! Feel very nervous all of a sudden this feels very real it has been my little secret for the last few weeks!:)

Ohthegoats I think realistically I won't refuse to go with the CLU for delivery but I will be looking into hypnobirthing etc. as I would strongly prefer as little intervention as possible. Good luck for your Harmony test, we can stress out waiting for the results together! Regarding being naïve about babies - don't worry, until you actually do it yourself nobody can really prepare you! I thought I'd be a great mum until I actually became one, it was a total shock to the system and nothing came naturally, even though I'd been around a lot of babies before. I was quite appallingly bad at it but I have 2 lovely teenagers so something must have gone okay!
We are tentatively thinking of telling the kids early April if 12 week scan goes ok. Then my dad & dh's parents (my mum died a couple of years ago or I would probably have already told her). Then I will go public at work afterwards, unless by some miracle my bump isn't obvious, then I'll keep it quiet a bit longer. I kind of like it being a secret to be honest!

Carebear too late for you now but for anyone else I was given a prescription today and mentioned to GP I did not have exemption yet and she said just to mention to pharmacist, so I did and he said fine just tick the box saying I have one as it is just a formality!?

I also have got another week off work due to chest infection.. Hoping the antiobiotics work quickly and I feel better soon as after being out of action for 1.5 weeks already the house is a tip and the mountain of washing is now officially ridiculous..

We definitely only saw 1 blob at the 6 week scan so at least I can rule out twins.. well hopefully, I have heard sometimes they hide at early scans! I used to love the idea of twins, and we do have 2 sets on my mums side.. but I think I would have a nervous breakdown now.. I'm not even sure how I will cope with DS plus 1 baby! I've got too used to sleeping again!

Hi everyone, lots going on - good luck for all the scans and bookings this week.

I am also bit panicky about 'managing' with another baby. I have 4, which was what we planned to have and very glad of them, they're a fab bunch - but this time is real surprise and while I do feel that it is welcome, I keep feeling that I'm not doing a good enough job already so why on earth do I think I could care for anyone else?!! I am quite emotional atm and tired, but my children are also quite wilful (not horrible, they just have their own minds...) so day to day life is sometimes a challenge.

My littlest (just 3) keeps stripping off and running out the back door into the shared area of garden outside the cottages we live in (totally safe area btw, no cars etc), another Mum down the road is really bothered by it and in has grabbed him and tried to force some pants on him in the past (omg!) - we are always on the case and right out getting him back in etc but I end up feeling a bit rubbish about the whole thing. His Sisters just leave the door open when they go out to play, so he often finds an opportunity for a quick streak!

I know this doesn't constitute bad parenting - but I am so over the top concerned about being judged. I'm being ridiculous. Think I might be slightly hormonally challenged....!!! Anyway. midwife on Thursday for booking appt, although still v.early at 6 + 4.

Just read recent posts - I wonder if anyone will have 2! What are that stats for multiples?

Not sure about the stats but my family have been scaring me with ideas of twins or triplets because my Grandmother (on my dad's side) was a triplet, my Grandad's (on my mum's side) brothers were twins and Puppythedog is a twin.

I think I read somewhere that unidentical twins run on the maternal line anyway because it is due to hyper-ovulation so I might be safe...

However, anyone who knows me would tell you that I am certainly eating for three at the moment :) I shall have it as my excuse until the scan!

Still here but lurking as moving house later this week and juggling packing with 24/7 nausea and a toddler is taking its toll.

Also got twin paranoia still here due to how much worse I feel this time compared to DS pregnancy 3 years ago. Although there's a fair chance the fact I am 3 years old and not a spring chicken might be why !

Having the Harmony test a week on Thursday (will be 10+6) so watching with interest to hear others experiences...

Older not old !

officelady - good luck to you too. My main concern is the scan bit at the moment. We've got a day out in London, with appointment early in the morning, what if there isn't a baby? What kind of day out would that be?I had a dream last night about it, and my overwhelming feeling in the dream was embarrassment.

Gah, by Friday I'm going to be a basket case

I've got my performance review tomorrow, it's going a bit difficult to talk about next year's targets etc when it's all potentially a lie. Haha.

Wow. Got my scan appointment through today: April Fools' Day! She'd better not joke and say it's triplets... :-P

7+4 today - in the last few days I've started to feel much better. I'm still more tired than usual but I've had a better appetite and even the sore boobs and period cramps are going away. I still haven't been sick... Part of me is pleased to be feeling so well, but part of me is worried in case there's something wrong! Help me, mums who have done this before - do you have any reassuring stories of everything going fine even though you didn't have terrible symptoms? Xx

Hello all, hope everyone who's been feeling poorly is doing ok and to all those with the rage like me I hope it's subsided! So so hungry here still, but I was the same with dd1.

Still 3 weeks until 12 wk scan and I also worry it will just be an empty screen or that anything that is there is no longer growing. I felt the same last time too, just remember being in shock when I actually saw a baby on that screen.

As for multiples, I've been told identical twins run in families but non identicals don't but your chance increases with age for non identicals - gulp, I'll be 38 this year.

Tamba says one in 65 births is a multiple. I have twin nieces (IVF so not genetically more likely) they are wonderful but...no thanks!

Bingle I had no symptoms with my first, extremely healthy baby. Symptoms mean absolutely bugger all about the health of your pregnancy, it's just that every pregnancy is different. All I have this time around by the way is mild nausea some evenings. Enjoy!