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

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bumpbangbump · 18/02/2014 20:10

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?

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CareBearWithFangs · 04/03/2014 08:52

Don't Binky. I keep thinking if I felt this awful while not pregnant I'd be calling in sick so why are we expected to solider on because we're pregnant? It makes no sense. People at my work are so bitchy about taking sick days while pregnant, it doesn't make any sense.

I haven't been sick so far today, hooray! I haven't got out of bed yet though, DD and I are watching stuff on the ipad.

binkybunny · 04/03/2014 09:08

I have wondered why I'm at work running to the loos when normally if I felt this bad I'd be at home! Annoyingly they have stopped us working from home now so I have to be in the office or sick. Angry

Today is definitely a bed day!

mrsb87 · 04/03/2014 09:08

Ah binks don't beat yourself up, you need to rest up. I havn't been to work in a month now. My manager has been really supportive though.
Glad to hear you havn't vommed yet carebear. Take it easy and eat what you fancy Smile

CareBearWithFangs · 04/03/2014 09:19

That's exactly what I thought yesterday Binky. After my 4th trip to the bathroom I just thought what am I doing? If anyone else had been doing it they'd have been sent home. Why should we be expected suffer because we're "pregnant not ill", especially when it's not just the vomiting your dealing with but the exhaustion as well? It's as though people think pregnant vomiting must be easier in some way than normal vomiting?

Mrs I still have no appetite whatsoever Hmm forced myself to eat a piece of toast for breakfast.

Who watched one born last night? I spend the hour swaying between thinking oh shit why am I doing this again and then a thinking aww i can't wait to meet my new baby.

binkybunny · 04/03/2014 09:36

All I want is Ribena but the kitchen is soooo far away. Wish I had trained my house bunny better so she could go make it Wink

I have been too scared to watch obem. Labour terrifies me and I think I will just freak out! Might watch a bit on catch up and skip the bits I cant handle.

BingoBango85 · 04/03/2014 09:42

Scanned; could see a v tiny little blob and a teeny weeny flickering heartbeat Grin Been discharged to normal midwifery people. Celebrated with a sausage n egg mcmuffin; it was lush! Let's hope that next 5 weeks flies by x

binkybunny · 04/03/2014 09:44

Yay Bingo. Its great seeing that little flicker of a heartbeat!

mrsb87 · 04/03/2014 09:53

Congrats bingo! Great news.
I hear ya carebear, appetite is something that isn't there unfortunately. Little and often is the best idea.
Nesquick has been going down well, its also got lots of vitamins and iron which will help.

ikeaismylocal · 04/03/2014 11:23

Congratulations on the healthy scan bingo!

I think sick days whilst pregnant really shouldn't be looked down upon, it's so important to look after ourselves and being ill at work is no fun :(

I'm still bloody ill! I now have a sinus infection, it's so unlike me to be so ill. I'm starting to feel a little better, im just resting whilst dp and ds are at playgroup.

I feel occasionally sick but not very often, I have no appetite and I can't taste anything so eating ( something I usually love!) isn't much fun.

I'm looking forward to watching obem on catch up tonight :)

Mrsthedog · 04/03/2014 11:58

I am taking my first sick day during pregnancy. I was supposed to mark a set of Year 7 books last night and just gave up. Set my alarm for 4 am this morning to do them, but instead woke up with hideous morning sickness.

My classroom is two corridors and a staircase away from the lavatory and i just didn't trust myself to go in. The thought of spectacularly vomiting in front of my bottom set year 8s was more than I could bear!

Argh.

Mrsthedog · 04/03/2014 11:58

Oooh and great news, BingoBango85. Really fantastic. Phew!

binkybunny · 04/03/2014 12:10

mrsthedog the closest toilets to my office is about the same. Never seemed that far away until I got pregnant. Yesterday I ended up running past the badminton courts retching. Thank god they were empty!

I feel rather pleased with myself now as I finally dragged myself out of bed and actually did some washing up. Had to leave the grill tray though- just too much! Laid on the bed now feeling like I have climbed a munro.

Think its sofa this aft and filling in the booklet for my booking in apt tomorrow. Is it silly to be nervous about meeting the midwife? Feel like I am going to be in trouble for being overweight!!!

binkybunny · 04/03/2014 12:12

ikea you're not really getting a break are you? Hope you start to feel better soon and shift the infections Sad

Mrsthedog · 04/03/2014 12:51

Binkybunny we have our booking in appointment tomorrow as well and I feel just as nervous.

I wish I had a form to fill in - I like a bit of admin when I am anxious! I am filling in the Boots birth plan instead.

I am worried that the midwife will tell me off for being plump as well :)

I am most worried that the midwife will tell that I am not pregnant and that I have just made up all these symptoms. :(

ohthegoats · 04/03/2014 13:01

Booking in was a nice appointment, don't worry about it.

TroubleAndFyfe · 04/03/2014 13:22

Mrsthedog the midwife won't even attempt to confirm your pregnancy, they just take your word for it so there's no way that'll happen. It'll likely be a nice friendly appointment with lots of questions about family health histories and you'll have some blood taken- that's as bad as it gets!

Cakebaker35 · 04/03/2014 13:40

Yep booking in appointments are fine and if you like filling forms in then you'll love it. For what it's worth mrs I wouldn't spend too much time or energy on birth plans - I don't even think they should be called plans as you really can't plan for it. Just jot down a few points if it makes you feel better but beware of saying 'I don't want an epidural' for example as you just can't be sure - I know several people who have regretted writing this then spent most of their labour arguing with the midwife that they didn't mean it!

BlueberryPoppy123 · 04/03/2014 13:46

8 weeks today... This has been the longest 9 days in the world!!! Hopefully once I don't have to keep it a secret anymore it will speed up and I'll start feeling happier about it all :/

mum2kiss · 04/03/2014 14:12

I second what cake says about birth plans. Complete waste of time in my opinion. You have no idea what you will or won't want in the heat of the moment so theres no point trying to outline it all ahead of time. Pregnancy and childbirth is a time to realise that you can be a control freak no more! Your body and your baby will do as nature intended for you both. It doesnt matter what you read or what someone else thought. Your experience will be unique and you will deal with it as best you can when the time comes. That may turn out to be with or without pain relief, intervention, water births or whatever. Its a time to just let go and go with it! ALL of the mums that I met after dds birth had a completely different (and often opposite) experience to the one they so inticately depicted in their birth plans!

mum2kiss · 04/03/2014 14:14

Oh and I thought that girl on obem last night who screamed her way through labour was screaming more out of fear of the unknown than because of pain!

magichandles · 04/03/2014 14:26

I had two completely different labours and no birth plan for either (DC1 was prem so hadn't done one then, and didn't see the need for DC2) - DC1 I internalised everything and didn't let out so much as a squeak. DC2 I was much, much more vocal and DH said he felt really sorry for everyone who came into the delivery suite as we were in Room No 1 right by the door and apparently you could hear me in reception Blush He reckons I put the fear of God into anyone who came in to give birth that day Grin

mum2kiss · 04/03/2014 14:39

Lol magic by friend said she started screaming as soon as she set foot in the hospital when she was in labour with number 2. I guess that must have been fear of the known!!

sazzlehopes · 04/03/2014 15:02

Bingle - to confirm what trouble said i had the easiest time with my 1st pregnancy...no sickness, not tired, no indigestion or anything troubling at all really. Completely breezed it, and had a generally lovely time. Nothing wrong at all with my boy!

I'm checking in as this thread moves quickly and just need to mark my place! 9+5 today! No appointment yet for the scan, hoping it'll come in the post soon. I'm feeling a bit rotten today - seems i have some sort of mouth/salvia gland infection???! Really painful but I'm still eating loads through the pain! Hoping to book appointment with the docs and get something for it. You can take antibiotics can't you whilst preggo?

mum2kiss · 04/03/2014 15:12

You can take antibiotics but a lot of gps are reluctant to prescribe them unless you are at deaths door!

sazzlehopes · 04/03/2014 15:48

Thanks mum2 - i'm not too bad it just feels uncomfortable...and looks unsightly as my lip is swollen! i have a docs appointment booked for fri if it gets really bad, otherwise i'll just try and ride it out and hope my body fights it off itself!