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Due March 2007 No2

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eidsvold · 23/08/2006 06:39

I thought I would start a new thread as I came to this thread late and am not sure who is and isn't around.

I'll start

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due 30 Mar
living in Australia

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onilly · 11/09/2006 10:33

hi - am just passed 14 weeks. The weekend was busy, but not active. Sat pm, back really started to ache, and cramping began. Persistent cramping all night and Sunday. Felt pretty crappy all day, but had friends over and had to keep smiling! Warm bath and early night did not really help and cramps and backache continued all last night. Woke this am, no more cramps, bachache. But still freaked.

MS symptoms have all gone... sore boobs, sickness, discharge (sorry, TMI..) I just feel knackered and tearful. Understand that MS and boobs will go, but not was under impression dishcharge hangs around...

Am I over analysing and have read too many books ?

novadandypowder · 11/09/2006 10:40

I think there is a risk of over analysing, and for all the good it offers I know that being on MN doesn't always help things, as we hear lots of stories about missed m/c, m/c, and lots of losing babies.

Pains and back ache are normal during all stages of pgcy, the body is doing a lot of work and stretching all the time. Beanie may have just been having a growth spurt over the weekend. Could it be early onset of SPD? I don't know much about it, maybe someone else can offer up expereince of that?

I would probably say rest as much as you can today, maybe try some bach flower remedy to balance out again?

onilly · 11/09/2006 11:18

cheers, thanks Nova.
What is SPD ? Would love to crawl into bed today and pull the duvet over my head - alas, have all sorts of crap at work going on. Including running dear friends to Heathrow during rush hour!
I do hope its aches and pains.

novadandypowder · 11/09/2006 12:59

Onilliy - MN thread on SPD . It's quite a basic thread, but if you do an archive search there are lots of similar things.

Ooo the airport in rush hour - don't envy you that.

onilly · 11/09/2006 13:11

Cheers Nova, had a look and the trusty web also had much to say. The pain they describe is similar... and if anything, its reassuring to see this type of pain happens and is'nt necessarily a MC...
I have got out of the Heathrow run, DH has kindly stepped in. However, crappy day continues....

pennygaff · 11/09/2006 15:01

Hi all
a quick catch up, still sick with MS today, got headaches back again too and its really getting me down now.
Its really hot here might have to go to sleep can you have the baby blues before actually having the baby?

Piffle · 11/09/2006 16:25

Hi all
I think all the aches and pains can be pregnancy related, it's amazing how much you can over analyse, relax and accept that your body is doing an incredible job and sometiems it hurts
I know with my 1st pregnancy the tummy pains were really bad, but not so with 2nd baby.

Noonan Syndrome is a genetic syndrome like Downs - it is the 2nd most prevalent after Downs.
DD did not inherit it.
To be honest she has pretty minor problems compared to what can happen but briefly
she is petite, has terrible eyesight, has minor heart defect, has had some developement problems relating to her size and low muscle tone, she also used to have a speech delay but now has none! There are other little things, but to us she's perfect and we adore her beyond words but we also know that she has one of the mildest cases known, and in some cases esp with boys it cna be much worse, sometimes fatal - so we have to try and calculate the risk

anniediv · 11/09/2006 16:34

pennygaff, I have experienced antenatal (and post natal) depression try here

antenatal depression

onilly · 11/09/2006 16:50

I agree, the over analysing is doing my head in too.... it would help if somewhere in the info that there was an acknowledgement of chronic pain in tummy and lower back is not always MC..these seem to be two most commonly quoted symptoms of MC so one assumes the worst.

Its my first pregnancy and keeping on top of the changes is taking some focus! Penny and Annie, would not have probably thought of getting the baby blues beforehand, but must confess feel very very low today too!

anniediv · 11/09/2006 16:52

Onilly, this is my 4th pg, you would think I would have worked it out by now! I am envious of people who bloom. I look and feel like a bag of shit practically from conception to birth. This thread is keeping me going!!

fatfox · 11/09/2006 17:14

Annie - sorry to hear you feel like a bag of shite for 9 months - that's so miserable

Onilly - Your back pains and cramps are probably growing pains - my abdomen is really tender, with very vague period type pains and I have a terribly achey lower back. The softening ligaments make everything more prone to injury too. Try not to worry too much. If there's no blood, its generally fine.

Nova - good luck with your scan Thursday - LOL at your cure for morning sickness

I was 15 weeks yesterday and thought I felt the baby moving last night when lying on the bed. Today I felt it again and was in no doubt - definately little feet kicking Its very reassuring, 'specially after the drama last week - also I don't usually feel it ntil 20 weeks, so its lovely.

Anyone else felt any little kicks - I now a couple of you mentioned it last week?

kittywits · 11/09/2006 17:15

Yes but annie do you feel like an overweight and spotty piece of shit like me?
I now look like I have teenage acne, but with wrinkles.

divastrop · 11/09/2006 17:17

hi people
i posted a thread under feeling depressed a couple of wks ago about depression in preg,before i even looked at ante-natal clubs.i was on prozac in my last pg as i got so low i couldnt see the point in goin on anymore.i think i suffered in my other pg's as well but i just put it down to hormones and being in crap relationships!
i felt alot better on prozac last time but as soon as i gave birth i felt fine.i also envy women who 'bloom' ,i just get fat and bloated and paranoid.

13+5

anniediv · 11/09/2006 17:19

well, my skin is a bit teenagery at the moment, very shiny. i don't have wrinkles though, so you have me beat there!! Because of the weeks of sickness, I'm getting lots of comments on how much weight I am losing. I am just thinking to myself 'but it's all going to go piling on again soon...'

divastrop · 11/09/2006 17:19

pmsl kittywits,i was looking for some moisturiser the other day but i was getting fed up cos they dont sell anti-wrinkle creams that also clear up spots.

Piffle · 11/09/2006 17:23

I blossoned with ds but then I was 22 and fit as a fiddle
with dd it was a pretty awful 9 mths, hyperemesis, extreme tiredness (and I was 31)
this time I fel better comparatively speaking than with dd, so am hoping for a bloom, however limited.
My hair goes thick glossy and ringletty if I grow it, which is a nice thing, if only longer hair suited me which it doesn't

Nuchal scan tomorrow, am ever so slightly a little bit nervous...
How I

WISH I could know the sex this early am gagging to find out

onilly · 11/09/2006 17:24

thanks Fatfox, that was all I wanted to hear ! Not meaning to sound delighted that all of you are in similar agony as I am. I guess the paranoia set in when all MS symptoms disappeared.... which is likely at 14 weeks..but overnight? And my gluey like discharge has gone is that normal ?

I too am waiting for this blossom like process to occur ! Completely passed me by !

fatfox · 11/09/2006 17:34

Onilly, my discharge sometimes dissapears for a few days and then reappears again. The reducion in symptoms does tie in with you reaching 14 weeks though, so that's nothing to worry over. Mine dissapeard at 14 weeks and I felt great for a few days, then suddenly my nibbles felt like they'd been sand papered I got all worried about the symtoms going; then got all worried again when they came back

Piffle - you cow, for having ringlets - I've always wanted ringlets

Good luck with your scan tomorrow; I'm itching to know the sex of ours too - I'm far too impatient to wait 9 months to find out

onilly · 11/09/2006 17:40

Fatfox, thanks again. Glad you are feeling babe kicking around after your scare, that must be a wonderful relief.

fatfox · 11/09/2006 17:41

Onilly, you'll be feeling your's kicking too soon

kittywits · 11/09/2006 17:43

Diva I got that book that was recommended on your antenatal discussion thread. It's very, very good and has helped me enormously already and I'm not even reading it properly.

onilly · 11/09/2006 17:48

Yayyyy - I cant wait ! After being hugely overwhelmed when I learnt I was preggers, I am becoming more and more drawn into this journey...I have been crying all day with this silly anxiety - so unlike me and clearly hormonal....

onilly · 11/09/2006 17:53

Fatfox, that reply was aimed at your kicking post , but reading it back I sound a bit like a nut !

fatfox · 11/09/2006 18:16

You're not the only "nut" on here Onilly

In fact, sometimes I think we should re-name it Mum's Nutters

I never normally cry but at the moment I dissolve a the slightest thing. My eyes even started to sting when I told people at work I was pregnant - how embarassing was that?

I feel particularly desperate about this pregnancy as I had MC last year and also I'm 43, so last chance saloon for me I think.

I bet I'm more emotionally unbalanced than you!

onilly · 11/09/2006 18:25

Mums Nutters... erm, has a somewhat appropriate and rather good ring to it!
I dont know Fatfox, you will have to speak to DH about the unbalanced bit.. I think he deserves knighthood after this lot!

Yes, it does feel like there is suddenly an awful lot to lose doesnt it? It hits you quite hard. When you get your perspective you then feel quite silly, but I guess its all part of the joy !

Must admit, will be looking forward to that regular "large glass of wine to unwind when stressed" at night again