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

He everyone, I've just found out I'm pregnant, due towards the end of November. Dating from my last period, I'm about 4-5 weeks along. I've been having a few symptoms, including headaches, really tender breasts, lightheadedness and tiredness, and a runny nose, but I've also had period pain-type cramps for the last few days. I've found a couple of websites that say this is normal, but I'd be glad of some reassurance from other mothers-to-be! I'm so terrified of losing it. Thanks!

Hi everyone!

Annarose that early scan sounds like a good idea. 16 weeks is a very long time to wait!

Hi Bex, how are you? I hope your scan tomorrow goes well. I'm ok thanks . I've spent the weekend alternating between bed and marking books, wild times here ! I have developed a delightful cold on top of my lost voice, which doesn't seem to want to return yet, so I think I may be phoning in sick tomorrow if this continues.

Has anyone noticed their stomach making really odd noises and constantly feeling unsettled?

It's not like period cramps, more like when you've eaten something that you aren't happy about! It's driving me mad with the morning sickness- which like many of you, isn't morning sickness here. Seems to alternate between all day sickness and mainly afternoon/evening sickness depending on the day.

Someone asked about period type cramps. Yes, lots of us have mentioned them. Like parts of your stomach are pulling etc. It is apparently normal.

wow just had tears in my eyes at a simpsons episode...

Carmine I have had lots of cramps, keep expecting AF to turn up at any minute!! But apparently its completely normal, so try not to worry!

Hi all. I've been worrying about a drop in symptoms over the last few days - breasts are bit sore if squeezed but no constant throbbing, not really feeling ill any more, but am hugely bloated (look about 6 months gone!), waking early and feeling shattered so fingers crossed everything is ok. I keep testing and it still says positive - could I have lost the baby without bleeding and still show positive?
I'll be 6+1 tomorrow and will ring my doctor then. Didn't want to ring too early but now I'm desperate for an early scan! This is all so stressful. If I felt shit again I'd be happy! Madness.

Thanks, Moffit and barmy, that's really reassuring! It's all so scary!

Selsigfach, I'm exactly the same with mc paranoia! Haven't felt too tired today and only vaguely sick so now of course I'm worried! Have had to give boobs a quick squeeze just for the reassuring "OWWW!!!"

In my case its definately from reading other forums where people had early scans and to their horror found nothing there and its all very sad. Am scaring myself silly and its all my own fault!!!

Oh and a word of advice ladies: do NOT venture into either the BFing or
Sleep sub-forums here yet - you'll freak yourself out so badly!!!

Carmine scary is indeed the word!

I am sitting looking at my cat just now, he is fast asleep on his radiator bed, looking like the happiest creature in the world! DH and I often joke that we would like to be the cat, as he is spoiled rotten and has a lovely life. Right now, I would give absolutely everything to be the cat for the next few weeks (hoping this horrible nausea disappears within a few weeks) just so I could stay at home and sleep for hours like he does!

selsigfach I'm in a similar boat to you! I'm six weeks pregnant today, and have absolutely no symptoms! Apart from the very vivid dreams. It is a bit worrying, isn't it? My other two pregnancies weren't like this at all.

Is anyone going to buy a Fetal Doppler? I'm really tempted to buy one for after my 8 week scan.

Hi everyone!
I'm 5+1 due 22nd Nov. Have DD age 3, was TTC for approx 1 year, have had 2 chem pg both at 4+5 so I'm relieved I've made it past that milestone! Kind of too scared to phone for booking in appt since last two times I've had to cancel a few days later.
Have had plenty symptoms, feeling reassuringly crappy!
Just wonder if anyone else is struggling with moods? I've had full on hormonal rage this weekend and made for a miserable weekend in our house! I'm still seething with DH for going on a bike ride on his own leaving me with an inconsolable DD who wanted to go with her Daddy!
It comes and goes but when Im angry it's the angriest I can ever remember being!

alpaca I really want to get one but with my retroverted uterus it's so unlikely I'd hear it, I'd just freak myself out...

last poster (Sorry forgot yoyour name and on phone app so I can't see the post while I'm typing) i also frequently feel the angriest EVER but then realise the next morning that it was over nothing at all ;p

Hey to the new folks!
mxmum - OMG twins! How exciting! One of my best friends has just had twin boys and they are the cutest.
Horis - I am very ragey if I get myself wound up I'm ok most of the time, but I can really get a rage going if I want to - trying to rein it in!!

Yes, probably best you don't then alita7. We are worrying enough already!

Hello ladies, please can I join in?

I'm due on Nov 4th, this is my first pregnancy and I keep going from being incredibly excited to being terrified that something will go wrong. So far I've had sore boobs, nausea (but not actually throwing up yet) and awful moodswings.

How's everyone coping at work? I'm really struggling trying to work while feeling like I'm going to be sick, but seeing as I haven't actually BEEN sick yet I feel like I'm moaning about nothing...

Yes, barmy, I'm the same. I have constant gas and rumbling and a queasy feeling after eating like the food was gone off or something... veering between being starving and then feeling like I ate bad food...

But we're all so anxious on this thread! A friend of mine has kids 10 years older than my DS and in my second pregnancy when I was strung out with anxiety about it going wrong again, she said to me 'the worry never stops, no matter what age they are, so you might as well stay calm and put the bad thoughts out of your mind'. Good advice... hard to follow though

I still worry myself daft about DS breaking his neck at the playground or walking out in front of a car or choking on something. I was just watching a film yesterday with a scene where teenagers sneak out to go joyriding and I thought to myself 'DS is never going to be allowed to drive a car, not until he's at least 30!!'.

dear god avery, what have we let ourselves in for :p a life of worry!!!! well worth it though I'm sure.
I guess worrying about a temporary decrease in symptoms is a bit like when our little ones don't answer their phones in 15 years time, they'll probably be just fine but it worries the life out of you!

right girls, next time I complain of missing nausea tell me to shut up and enjoy it ... now its back in full swing and I want a break again :p there's no pleasing some people!

Ha ha, good analogy alita. It really is like that! Especially in later pregnancy when the kicking starts. I used to panic if I didn't feel DS kicking for a while and then I'd be woken up at 4am by DS doing his Jackie Chan manoeuvres and feel ridiculous for ever having worried...

How are we all doing today? I'm really struggling with the morning sickness. Same pattern every day- I wake up, eat some crackers and drink something (keeping them next to me bed) and within half an hour I'm in the bathroom throwing up! Today's my first day at work since the sickness really hit (as was on leave last week) and unfortunately my office is the furthest from the toilets!
On the plus side, got my early scan on Saturday so not long to go until that

Hi all, Welcome to all the new joiners & Congratulations !

Glad to hear lots of reassuring scans for those who were worried, I'm very jealous, no scan for me till 1 May which is sooooo far away !! Can't wait as we wont announce to anyone till after scan.

Well I'm still pretty symptom-less just a slight bit of nausea at some part of the day & feeling a bit rounded towards the evening, which didnt happen before till about 7-8months.

I've been feeling really calm & relaxed this time, I am a pretty calm person generally but of course had lots of nerves the 1st baby & still had some 2nd baby but feeling oddly "zen" this time.

I've got a meeting with my boss & HR tomorrow to discuss my returning back to work schedule in May, they want to change my days but I told them can't work Fridays & I'm sure they r going to fight me over it ! So feeling very nervous about it especially as my boss is a total evil nightmare & I have to go back so I get my maternity leave again, which I obviously will be keeping quiet about for now.

Anyone know if they can basically say work Fridays or no job ? I work 3 days a week & have offered to do 4 days Mon-Thurs just not Fridays, & even said if I have childcare in Sept (daughter hopefully starts her free nursery hours) will change then. I hate confrontation & feel like it will be 2 of them ganging up on me

I would tell them about the pregnancy. I could be wrong but they can't threaten you that much if you're pregnant. They caertainly can't fire you or increase your hours.

I've already told work (hospital so its an infectious environment - I had to) and I'm glad as they've already been going much easier on me.

hello, can I join? I'm 7+5 due 7/11 I think!
sorry to all those who've had bad news at early scans - I'm so scared of a mmc - no date for booking in scan yet.
feeling nauseous all the time

meant to say I have 1 DD who is 3