November 2014 Thread 2: Springing through the first trimester!

[Nessalina]

Welcome to all you nervous November ladies! Settle in for sore boobs, inappropriate puking, and hopefully happy early scans!

The crew so far:

Just1moretime DC3 due Oct/Nov
devoncreamtea due late Oct
MammySam DC2 due 31st Oct
RandomInternetStranger DC2 due 1st Nov
Canweseethebunnies DC2 due early Nov
booksshoescats DC2 due 3rd Nov
BatCave DC3 due 2nd Nov
Hopeful83 DC1 due 2nd Nov
Annarose2014 due 2nd Nov
CraziesTogether DC1 due 3rd Nov
WinterLover DC2 due 4th Nov
weeonion DC2 due 6th Nov
alita7 DC1 due 6th Nov
caravela due 5th Nov
Littleyewtree DC2 due 7th Nov
Greenstone DC2 due 7th Nov
flipflopsonfifthavenue DC2 due 7th Nov
AussieGoingHomeSoon DC3 due 7th Nov
SazHoopz DC2 due 7th Nov
Fergie11 due 7th Nov
Snook99 due 7th Nov
AveryJessup DC2 due 8th Nov
MabelMay DC3 due 8th Nov
edwardcullensotherwoman DC3 due 8th Nov
Catnap1 DC1 due 8th Nov
Polkadotscarf due 9th Nov
RecklessLadybird DC1 due 9th Nov
Nessalina DC1 due 10th Nov
ladydolly due 10th Nov
PosyFossilsShoes due 10th Nov
LittleRedDinosaur DC2 due 10th Nov
MrsY87 DC1 due 10th Nov
Giraffeski lo DC3 due 11th Nov
BJZebra DC2 due 11th Nov
MrsCuppa DC1 due 11th Nov
nickiswiss due 11th Nov
Mathssssteacher123 DC2 due 11th Nov
HRMumness DC2 due 12th Nov
Misslaughalot due 12th Nov
LadyMillion DC1 due 12th Nov
Amyrose82 DC1 due 12th Nov
FurryScoob DC1 due 13th Nov
Tigsy DC1 due 13th Nov
Lauraparsons233 due 13th Nov
WutheringTights DC2 due 13th Nov
Grayby due 13th Nov
movingmovingmoving DC2 due 14th Nov
MrsWombat DC2 due 14th Nov
Petal26 DC2 due 14th Nov
Misslaughalot DC2 due 14th Nov
Laura1410 DC2 due mid Nov
happyjessie due mid Nov
BeetleBeetle due mid Nov
Baxter2014 due 15th Nov
33goingon64 DC2 due 15th Nov
SeaSaltMill DC1 due 15th Nov
theduchesse DC2 due 15th Nov
Barmybunting DC1 due 16th Nov
selsigfach DC1 due 16th Nov
Getyourflipflopson DC3 due 16th Nov
pinkgirlythoughts DC2 due 17th Nov
StudyFullTime DC2 due 17th Nov
Snooky17 DC4 due 17th Nov
daisydalrymple DC3 due 18th Nov
DilysMoon DC3 due 18th Nov
stowsettler DC2 due 19th Nov
Whenwillwe3meet again DC1 due 19th Nov
utopian99 DC2 due 20th Nov
robynarmstrong92 DC1 due 21st Nov
NorthernExile DC2 due 23rd Nov
keeponkeepinon DC3 due 24th Nov
maeanne DC2 due 26th Nov
ImBrian DC5 due 26th Nov
Sleepingstarsmommy DC1 due 27th Nov
WhatWouldCaitlinDo due Nov

I'm cold too, although I have no idea if I'm carrying a girl or a boy.

I'm totally at some of the old wives' tales about how to tell the gender though. Girls "suck away their mothers' beauty?" You crave "sweet" things with sweet little girls? Boys make you want to shag? It's all based on hideous gender stereotypes!

It's frightful, isn't it, Posy? Although if the bit about the mother's beauty is true then that explains a lot

Bizarrely I'd never put two and two together with the one about craving sweet things because girls are 'sweet'. Ugh!

Haha, Posy! I craved sweet things all the way through with DS- he is very sweet natured, but definitely isn't female!

well all those wives tails can't be true as im all greasy and spotty - girl. can't eat many sweet things - boy and I've gone off sex - girl.

right guys HELP I've seen a lovely newborn dress on ebay for a couple of £s I doubt I'll see it again, (yes I've been silly and started day dream browsing with no intention of buying) buying it would seem like a huge jinx and I don't even know the sex obviously... so do I risk it and buy the dress or do I hold off knowing that if I do have a girl ill wish I got it :p

Books, no I've not bought or read any pregnancy books yet - still feel like I might jinx things! - but heard good things about that one so it's on the list for when I get my brave up!

Hi everyone. I had my booking in appointment today. Nothing much to report, all the usual things were done but it does feel a lot more real now! Got a bit of a lecture about not eating too much and giving in to cravings to avoid weight gain. I am a size 8 with a BMI of 21 so thought it was a bit much tbh. Does anyone know how much weight you should expect to gain/what is too much?

Likeaboss - I've had brown discharge when I wipe/spotting for 2.5 weeks now constantly with 2 days of red bleeding and 2 early scans have been ok so I'm just keeping my fingers crossed. The midwife didn't seem at all concerned about it today.

deary me hopeful... that's ridiculous.... eat what your body needs or at least begs you for :p I craved a solero earlier so guess what I bought after work, the very first sweet craving I've had.
at this point eating is the only way to keep the nausea at bay for me so I'm stuffing myself when I feel sick. now is not the time to diet imo. just to clarify I was a size 10 until the pregnancy bloat appeared.

Hi all, hope everyone is doing well.

Had my booking appt today, my midwife is lovely, so reassuring and helpful, left feeling a lot more confident. Have screening bloods on 8th April and should expect date for scan in the post soon. Very excited to tell our parents on Sunday. I know were not out of the woods yet but feeling less anxious.

DH has got himself a book about pregnancy from a male perspective and keeps saying "did you know..." bless him

alita - get the dress and the baby WILL NOT CARE if he's a boy and wore a dress aged a few weeks. And if she's a girl then even better.

I was in John Lewis the other day and got bored with what I was meant to be shopping for (a kettle) and dragged DP off to look at the baby stuff. They had the winter tog gro-bags half price and DP wouldn't get me buy one because apparently 7 weeks preg is too early to be buying baby things. [sulks]

hopeful, what a mad midwife, hopefully you wont get her again. I read that with a normal BMI like yourself you're advised to gain between 11 and 16 kg, which is weight from the baby, placenta, amniotic fluid, extra blood etc.

rhibee, what book is your dh reading?

Evening all

Feeling quite sick all of the time :-( Carbs are all I want, trying to fit in some fruit and veg as well, I'm really struggling with breakfasts, does anyone have any carby suggestions? I usually have cereal/eggs but can't face them. Forced some crumpets down this morning but I can see that getting boring.

I love any excuse to shop, have gone a bit mad on maternity dresses already (haven't even got the box down from the attic yet full of clothes from last time!)
I don't think I'll be able to consider buying any newborn outfits until 20 weeks when we (hopefully) find out gender, have saved everything of DD's so I'll have to hide any purchases from DH if it's another girl!

All this crap about weight gain pisses me off frankly. I'm very, very thin naturally when not pg but I put on a ridiculous amount of weight when pg - it's just what my body needs to do to cook a big, happy, healthy baby. With DD I went from 7.5 stone to 13.5 and a size 6 to a size 18. Within 4 months I was down to a 10 which I was happy with and when I dumped my husband I went down to an 8. I'm only 9 weeks tomorrow & have already gone from my 8 to a 12, I've already put on a lot of weight and I'm quite expecting to get as big as last time. I joked to my mw how the last one was early & over 10lbs so we were trying to get this one to full term & 12lbs and her face! You'd think I said I hope this is the next elephant man! Then she said GOD NO and said it's another reason to keep me high risk if I have big for term babies. Well at 6' tall with an ex who was 6'4, and this one's father being 6'6 of course I'm going to have a bigger baby than a couple a foot shorter than us! It doesn't make them freaks or different or sick, it makes them normal for me. And if my body needs to put on a silly amount of weight to cook a baby that big then so be it, again it's expected given how skinny I am normally! My mother was the same, as was my aunt and my cousin has just done the same. We make big babies in this family and we put on a fuck load of weight and we're all happy with it thank you very much. I ignore the "advice" and just trust my body to do what it needs to do. It knows what it's doing.

evening folks!

wow this thread has moved on fast - too much to keep up and keep track of who we all are!
Havent posted much as very mixed feelings about being pg and dont want to rain on any parades!

nice to pop in tho'

Went to see my GP yesterday and have been referred by my booking appt. I was a bit worried as I hadn't had any symptoms for a few days but had lots of stretching feelings yesterday and today.

I don't think it's sunk in yet, it's all I think about though!

ugh - anyone else feel/ look about 5 months gone. so uncomfortable. sooo bloated. I have enjoyed feeling like I had a baby bump but I know it's just down to the ridiculous amount of carbs I've been ramming down my neck!!

By the way I popped into Sports Direct this evening just to see if there were any cheap tracky bums for slobbing round the house as all my jeans are too tight now and pretty much sorted my whole pg wardrobe for the waist down! They had maternity clothes but I only got 1 loose floaty tunic top (£7.50) in that range but they had LOADS of stretchy trousers. I got 2 pairs of really stretchy jeggins (£7 each), a pair of stretchy waist boyfriend jeans (£13) and some stretchy yoga pants (20), and a yoga ball (7) my osteopath has recommended for my SPD. And so cheap! I resent paying too much for clothes for a couple of months! They all look like they'll last all the way through and coming back down the other side so I'm happy now. Just want a few feeding tops and then I'm pretty much set I think.

I ended up buying a new dress the other day (event tomorrow and a series of weddings coming up, it should fit for the next few weeks.) After a couple of hours trying on dresses I went and spent an hour in the shoe shop trying on every pair of ridiculously high heels and emerged with two(!) pairs, one of which I can't walk in or even reliably stand up in.

I hate shopping. 15 minutes is my top tolerance. And I haven't tried to wear heels since my teens. Yet I was having a super time in there. How did this happen?!?

(Sensible Posy will be marching Mad Pregnant Posy back to the shoe shop on Monday to return the bedroom shoes.)

Fortunately the dress is both stretchy and will look ok with a bit of a tummy, so that's alright, because all I feel like eating at the moment is mash and pizza.

hello,
I've had my scan appointment arrive for 2 May (i'll be 12.5 weeks). We're going to be moving soon, probably before that date. if that happens I'm going to arrange a private scan before we do move as I imagine it will take a while for the new region to arrange a scan. also, I know where I can get a private scan done very nearby.

I'm full on with the carb cravings - veggie burger, chips, pizza - its unlike me. I have definitely put on weight so am going to make a concerted effort to have smaller potions as I'm sure I didn't put on any weight this early with DD - and I was smaller to start with.

other thing of note is the extreme sense of smell.
I'm 7.4 today.

I love my doppler. Found a little heartbeat again just now. ð??? Makes it all real.

Morning all. Got my scan today. Very nervous. Just wish the time would hurry up. How's everyone else?

Morning! Good luck today tigsy!

I'm luxuriating in bed having an early Mother's Day lie in while DH entertains short stuff

Went out for a meal last night, thought for once I could get away with having three courses, but no, I was stuff after a few bites of my main. I just can't seem to eat a lot in one go. Grazing is the only way at the moment.

I'm 6 weeks today and definitely have a pot belly going on. It may also be due to carbs rather than baby though...

Just had my first proper morning sickness.... Urgh!

Haven't been on the thread since Wednesday and can't believe how quickly it's moved!!

My symptoms are the 'damp' feeling that def makes me worried and can't remember who it was but I also get air bubbles that make me worried Im bleeding.

As for weight gain I am not going to worry about it. At the moment I'm eating enough for 4 let alone 2. Feel so hungry all the time Im not going to make myself miserable worrying about my weight. Only 5+2 and I normally get horrendous sickness from 6 weeks onwards so I'm just reckoning I must be stock piling for when I can't eat

The only other symptom I am getting is waking ridiculously early in the mornings despite working 13 hour shifts. And mad crazy dreams - which only happens when I'm pregnant.

Plan for today is to buy something for my lovely mom for tomorrow. Try and do some uni work and go out for something nice to eat with DH but will probably waste my day googling an ebaying baby related things