October 2014 thread 4 - scans, scans scans!!

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New thread ladies. I should really leave it to someone who can link the old one. Can someone add the edd list and whatnot? Or maybe we should start again now edds are changing after scan.

Bumpbangbump dc#2 EDD 2nd October

careBear, I'm getting the CDs but then putting them onto iTunes. I wonder if I can email you the mp3 files? I'll try emailing to myself when they arrive and let you know.

We could try pebble. How much have the cd's cost? We could try splitting the price or something?

About 11 I think but don't worry. I've bought them for me anyway so sharing is just a bonus if it works :-)

solitaire89 thanks so much for taking time to weigh up natal hypnotherapy versus hypnobirthing. I can identify with some of your criticisms of the MM course and will look at the NH instead.

Ladies, I have so much bacne right now, tell me this too will pass!

Bacne here as well but then I had it as a teenager.

Question for everyone, are you all still taking folic acid or can we stop after 12 weeks?

Also, I usually dye my hair but haven't since found out was pregnant, am I allowed now?

Same with me on the bland food;it's not that I'm being sick or anything just lost interest in food, particularly chicken. Bit strange. Just want to come home each night and have soup and toast. Tomorrow night planning a baked potato, exciting times!

Bump I have died my hair once quite early on but did it in a very well ventilated bathroom...

Yeah there don't seem to be any hard & fast guidelines with dyeing your hair, even the NHS website just says something about "many women choosing not to dye their hair in the first trimester", like fatpony says, as long as the room is well enough ventilated and you don a pair of gloves (as you would anyway, who wants multicoloured hands!). Coincidentally I just made my next hair appointment today, gawd I can't wait!! Feel like I'm showing some chronic mousey roots just now but trying to be economical so postponing it to have it done for a wedding next month. My hairdressers is an Aveda place, their products are 97% (or in that ball park) plant-derived, so if you were worried about it maybe try some Aveda hairdye?

Oops forgot to say, I've been taking Pregnacare supplements, they contain folic acid but directions say they can be taken throughout pregnancy. My doc said I don't need to take folic acid beyond first trimester though, so guess it's just your own choice?

I've had my hair highlighted, and roots done, three times since I got pregnant. First time I didn't know, other times I just looked old!

See I forgot to ask about the multivitamins...I took them throughout last time but my friends mw told her only the first trimester? Tho mw did mention to me that they suggest a vit D supplement every day now...not sure I'll be doing that esp once summer is here.

Oh & ps I always dye my hair religiously (too much grey now not too!)...never had any problems in any pregnancy cos of it x

I take seven seas vitamins got folic acid and iron in too. I've felt better actually since switching to them. Midwife has told me to continue taking them. I have dyed my hair in previous pregnancies and this one. Think it was along time ago now that hair dyes contained anything nasty

I've taken folic acid with vitamin d for about a year due to some other diet related issues, so will keep taking it. Not taking anything else.

Congratulations on the good scans and two sets of twins :-) I was wondering if we would have any October twins.

Re hair dye like other have said no yes or no straight answers really. I haven't dyed mine in the first trimester but that's more due to being skint than anything else!

Although you don't have to take folic acid anymore. Vitamin d is important to take so many women are deficient it's important for breastfeeding mothers and babies too. Also fish oils are beneficial for the omega 3 which is good for brain development. I'm a vegetarian so I didn't take this with my last 2 but I'm debating whether to start in this pregnancy.

bump when I was doing my nvq's in hairdressing we were told to re patch test each time we colour anyone who is pregnant. The reason for this is that your hormones etc change so much and can make you react differently to hair dyes even if you have been using the same one for years. If you're worried have foils instead of putting colour on the scalp.

Yep I was told to take vitamin D as well, to help prevent rickets (can't believe there still is such a thing, it just sounds Dickensian!) and also MS, apparently because of the increasing cases of it being discovered in Scotland. A friend of my sister's who is pregnant was actually prescribed supplements to take throughout her pregnancy (sorry, don't know which) because they might help with her morning sickness - she's still being sick at 18 weeks but nowhere near as bad as she was with her first two kids, and she's attributing that to the supplements.

Wtf?!! I just puked my entire breakfast...I dont puke EVER...ive never had morning sickness...can it really start at 13 weeks?!! I took a prenatal vitamin just before I ate my cereal...could that have caused me to puke!? Im in shock right now!

Thanks guys for the advice, will probably keep taking vitamins and feel better about hair dye now.

Mum2kiss I would say its the vitamin if you changed brands or something? Very strange for it to start now, I hate mornings now because I feel so rubbish.

I think the sicky thing is just another random pregnancy thing. I haven't felt nauseous properly for over 2 weeks, then last night, for no obvious reason at all I had an hour or so of feeling AWFUL - sick, headachey, eye ache.. exhausted. I ate a tiny bit of dinner during that hour, just so I would have something to throw up - it felt like it was going to happen any second - I was eyeing up my boyfriend's huge empty pasta bowl as a sick receptacle. Then just as soon as it had arrived, it vanished.

Weird.

I was told that highlights etc are better as they don't touch the scalp and therefore aren't absorbed into your body...because hair essential is dead. After 12 weeks everything is a bit more ok, but if you like a complete colour then perhaps it's best to switch to an Aveda dye which contains less nasties...
I think it's like anything you put on your skin, it will be absorbed so if you want to be careful it is always a good idea to switch to paraben free stuff etc....but then I'm an Eco warrior at heart!!!

I changed brands 3 days ago from pregnacare to centrum because pregnacare kept giving me diarrhoea! I took another vitamin after I puked and ive eaten again. Still feel a bit blergh but it all seems to be staying down at the minute!

Yep my cousin had to switch to Sanatogen as one kind (think it was Pregnacare actually) made her sick! sazzle I'm going to switch to highlights too for this reason, will be a bit cheaper than getting a full head of colour as well, double bonus.
What's everyone up to today? I went swimming for an hour this morning, cursing myself that it took me this long to get around to it, it felt so good to be in the pool. I went with my ultra athletic friend who runs 10ks regularly for fun and is training for a triathlon, almost kept up with her then gave up and ended up (mentally) racing a man a couple of lanes down and winning, chuffed to bits I was.
I think he was about 70 :P

I have just been given my next four months work Rota, I have 7 12 hour night shifts in a row at what will ne about 27 weeks along... I am jot sure I can do them but apparently it's not NHS policy to stop night's until after 28 weeks, I could cry. Working my first night in six months tonight and feeling very sorry for myself :-(.

Wow cotton! Well I think I'd have to call in sick!