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

yes elliekins I have exactly this! Something else to (not?) worry about!

Random - good luck with telling your DD - I bet she'll be thrilled. My mum and a close friend at work both have 8 years between them and their younger sisters and they are really close.

I was planning to wait till next week, after my next scan at 10+2, to tell DD, but I really do feel that all is OK, and a very close friend of mine is coming to stay this weekend and I'll be telling her and I just don't want any more people to know without DD knowing. Think I might see if DH wants to tell her this evening. What is everyone else with DC (of an age where they'll understand what's going on) planning to do? 9+3 today.

hello all, no internet access yesterday so just caught up on everything!
eating absolute crap - already put on about 6lb. have been eating fruit and veg but it's totally outnumbered by the amount of fatty or salty carbohydrates I've been consuming. wish McDonald's did a loyalty card
booking in appointment tmw.

I wanted to keep it from my DS who's 4 but he asked me the other day if I was having a baby and he'd really like a sister

So the cat is out the bag, I think they pick up on things quite quickly.

Well I had a small bowl of rice and stir-fried veg for dinner last night, followed by a massive bag of salt and vinegar crisps. Gross. DH is also highly amused at my first-trimester diet but he's definitely happy to join in the snacking with me I've noticed

9 weeks tomorrow and still only DH, me and the GP know. Just really want the next three weeks to hurry up. I keep meaning to start a preggo diary and then forgetting. I'm not planning on having any more children after this one (she says now!) so really it's a shame to be wishing the time away.

Got my first hospital appointment today - just a booking in one. The letter does warn you that you WILL NOT have a scan.

Typically I forgot to wee in a cup earlier (you MUST bring a urine sample) so now I'm drinking a pint of naice squash (elderflower which seems to have a good effect on the nausea).

Whoever it was upthread who said McDonalds was the cure for ms - I haven't set foot in one for about a decade (went off it after a short lived vegan phase) but I had a Big Mac yesterday on the kill or cure principle, and it was the first meal I've had in a fortnight that didn't make me feel ill! I don't think I'll tell the midwife that though.

Greenstone, I had a pregnancy diary with DS, nothing fancy, just a notebook I wrote in from time to time. I found it a really useful way of working through all the weird range of emotions I was having, and was fab for recording my birth story after he was born. I read it all on the evening of his first birthday, and had a little cry to myself :)

Does anyone (with more experience than me) know if we can expect our eating to return to a bit more like 'normal' after the first trimester? I've also put on 6 pounds and am only 8 weeks so worried about this trend continuing! I'm hoping that when the nausea subsides I'll feel less need to eat huge amounts of rubbish on a constant basis.

hmm I think if I did a pre 12 week diary it would just be full of moaning and worrying... its all I seem to do these days :p

right I apologise in advance if I become even more neurotic/ panicky over the next week or 2 as I have mentioned my mmc stopped growing at 9+ 4 ans I'm 9 weeks today so any symptom loss and I'm going to freak out :/

The last couple of days I have had more spotting... should I go back to the GP? He told me it was normal last time...

also forgot to say about McDonald's, the was really helpful until the 3rd or 4th (hangs head in shame) one when I felt 10 x worse after it. but then anything that works tends to only work for a bit until it makes things worse sigh.

tigsy, from what I remember, my appetite returned to normal after about 14 weeks although couldn't stomach bbq'd food for the whole pregnancy. I put on a stone by 12 weeks last time!!! last time I ate a lot of crap the whole pregnancy because I could!! and put on 3 stone - I'm hoping to be a bit more healthy this time round but I lost the weight last time so no reason why I wouldn't this time!!

I've had my second scan this morning and it's not good news. No Hb or growth detected so they have diagnosed mmc. Wishing all you well in your pregnancies and I hope I'm back on this thread soon x

tigsy I was massively hungry for everything last time, but that included healthy food which I liked again after 12 weeks. I did stay addicted to fruit throughout but fruit is better than current crap!

You'll put on what you'll put on and you'll likely lose it all again eventually. I was only about 7ish stone when I got preg and I think I'd put on 3 stone by the end it sounds like a LOT but really it was all baby plus some fluid by the end. I was in my normal skinnies after about 10 days. A lot of people find that breastfeeding shrinks the uterus very quickly and this was certainly the case for me let's not mention the fact that breastfeeding also makes you stark staring ravingly hungry so there will be a return to the eating of crap--

pink, your diary sounds lovely :)

blamber is ringing GP a possibility? I am sure it's fine though.

I'm sorry, Fergie, really hope you'll be back soon

Oh Fergie just saw your post. Shit shit shit. So sorry that this has happened. Be very gentle on yourself with the next steps, whatever they are xx

Hello ladies. I'm about 6-7 weeks pregnant, due in the second half of November. This will be my 3rd. My previous two pregnancies were, um, vile. I'm due to start throwing my guts up in about a week, although trying very hard not to develop Munchausen's about it. And eating well now ... getting green vegetables and oily fish down while they will still go down ...

Do we have a list? I feel a need to tag myself onto one.

Hope you're all doing well x

Fergie so sorry to hear your news. Make sure you take good care of yourself and hope to see you back with a sticky BFP soon xx

so sorry fergie

welcome kairos

Hi Ladies, can I join?
By my dates I'm 6+6, so due 21st November but have to wait until the end of April for my booking appointment as we're away the week before Easter - so by then I'll hopefully be 10 weeks which seems ages away :( Was doing really well with the fruit and veg but this week the morning sickness has kicked off, I can't stomach loads of things I'd normally love to eat and I'm feeling sorry for myself as I have a nasty cold and non stop nausea.

Oh Fergie, so sorry . Look after yourself and hope you're back soon with good news.

Thanks, greenstone. I think I'll just see what happens today and go see him tomorrow. He just wasn't bothered at all last time.

welcome guys!

so sorry fergie it's such a horrible thing to happen xxx

blamber nag your doc... If it's still going exaggerate a bit and get a scan!

Thanks for the tea, Elle