December 2014 thread #2

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Morning all! Terrible nights sleep with diarrhoea (sorry tmi) this seems to be my only symptom so far!

daddypig it was malarone, stopped taking them about 4/5 days before bfp, I had a really bad stomach and was blaming the tablets! Didn't have a single mossie bite so think I'll be ok for malaria, was just worried about the tablets.

Anyone know what you can take for diarrhoea?

spider fingers crossed for your scan today

Sometimes pre-pg I would feel sick when I got up, or a bit light headed during/after shower especially if I was particularly tired. Felt like that the last couple of mornings, although definitely on the upper end of that scale so assuming this is MS nausea... Great. Also shattered mainly due to hubby coming to bed late last night.

Nope that's definitely the morning sickness here...

In my 1st pg my skin was amazing somerset so seemed like a good time for wedding photos but so far I've had a few nasty spots come out.

Good luck today spider

5+2

I'm like you Somerset, lucky enough to rarely suffer from spots, even as a teen. Now my forehead has a breakout

I'm shattered too whats. I'm falling asleep all day, then when I get into bed at night I've got that many thoughts running through my head I can't get off, then I'm having stressy dreams all night.

I'm not being sick so far but I'm having terrible diarrhea every morning and mild nausea all day.

I also have a spotty forehead. Very unusual for me.

What I'm finding strange is that I've really filled out, my bras and trousers are just not fitting at all but when I weighed myself this morning I'd lost a lb since 2 weeks ago. How is that possible?

6+5

Somerset my skins got worse, I have quite bad skin anyway but it's just getting worse and that was one of the few symptoms of how I knew I was pregnant! That and acid reflux, is anybody else getting that? As mine won't go I'm also going to need to go bra shopping soon I think! Got my first appointment with my GP today and I've known for a week so I'm sure I won't see the MW or get a scan anytime soon as they're rubbish here! I'm just so worried and it's stressing me out I need a scan ASAP to put my mind to rest!

6+0

Congratulations to all you poop-ers! You must be so relieved! Thankfully not experienced it- yet! but have had it in the past (due to alcohol and rich good excesses) and I know how distressing it can be.

I'm taking folio acid I bought in tescos, but thanks for the tips girls. My sil reminded me that a lot of cereals have all the extra vitamins that pregnacare tablets have in them and when I checked pregnacare tablets against weetabix ingredients, she's totally right. She also recommended cornflakes and now I have major craving for them.

My feeling a lot better has made me worried about my pg and whether something is going wrong, but I'm refusing to go for an early scan, I'm resigned to the whatever will be will be and just hoping that that means a healthy bub!!

8wks today!

Hello ladies - I know some of you from the other thread but thought I'd say hello here too. I'm just over 5 weeks - EDD 28 Dec I think, but seeing the doc tomorrow.

I know how you feel natasha - hope your doc's appointment goes well today. I'm looking forward to mine tomorrow - think it'll help everything feel more real, but I've read that in my area the midwife's appt won't be until 10-12 weeks and the first scan 11-14 weeks, which feels like AGES away! Those 5 weeks between seeing the GP and midwife are going to drag... thinking of getting a reassurance scan in the meantime, just to set my mind at rest. Will cost £75 but think it might be worth it.

No acid reflux here, but I think you can take Gaviscon during pg?! I've just got sore boobs and some cramping now and then, which I was worried about but which I've read is normal as the womb stretches, so hopefully it's ok. I know I still might have sickness and nausea to come though.... in a weird way you want it, as reassurance things are progressing ok, but I know I won't feel like that if I have it! xxx

martie you sound like you have a really strong, positive attitude. You're so right - what will be will be.

I am slobbed out on the sofa. Child free day (I n school holidays and ds is at nursery). Feeling lazy and sleepy!

poly I ended up losing weight during my 1st trimester because everything made me feel sick between 6 and 12 weeks, but was hard to see where it had gone from because my stomach and boobs were also swollen!

5+2 ( and 20 sleeps till 8 wk scan).

I wonder how much my dates will shift after 1st scan? Trying to remember what my original dd with ds was...

Ahhh that's exciting Calling!! And guess what, 28 December is my birthday too!! Due to give birth on your birthday...what are the chances?!

Thankyou kate, I hope yours goes ok tomorrow! Yes around my area I have to wait that long for a MW app too :( will see what the GP says today though! I was thinking of a reassurance scan too but i might just wait as I'm such an inpatient person and if I do that it'll drive me crazy for the rest of my pregnancy! Yes I've had the cramps and it makes me worried but in a way it feels sort of normal. I'm waiting for M/S too so then I know everything's ok!

Hope everyone's pregnancies are going ok :)

How cool kate !

My bday is 2nd Jan so who knows!

DS was 3 days early, but my DM told me that her 1st (my dbro) was a few days early, but that I was very late making an appearance, so guess I can't rely on what it was like last time as my guide. Shame since bar nausea 6-12, I had a dream pg and birth..labour started at 9am and finished at 4pm and was home by 7pm. My Dsis was born in the middle of a snowstorm at 4am!

Hi ladies

Liking the idea of putting your week and days at the bottom of the post. It's a shame mumsnet don't do signature boxes like other forums.

8+5 today and am suffering with lower back pain :( wake up with it and goes on all day - anyone else?

Feeling SO tired as well - hope this starts to get easier soon so I can feel ok and get excited!!

8+5 :)

kate my original due date (before the midwife adjusted) was my birthday too!

Nausea is back, worse in the evenings. Cramps are really bad today as well.

My old doctor has just been in to see me (he's a friend/client as well) and it was so, so hard not to scream "I'm pregnant!" at him

7+6

No back pain here yet, but can't believe you're more than 3 weeks ahead of me emily ! I desperately want to fast forward...switch places?!

very restrained chilly

5+2

I know calling!! Hard being the ones due right at the end of the month, we'll have to get used to bring a few steps behind! Anyway, hopefully we can benefit from the advice and experience of those a few weeks ahead!

5+2 with you! Xx

Just popping in to say hi :) the day are going much quicker now I'm back at work.
Off to the doctors today. Hopefully I won't come out in tears this time.

5+6 :)

chilly my old Dr got married to one of my best friends mum... I haven't been back to that Drs surgery after going to her house to find him ironing in his boxers!!!

My constant nausea has turned to vomiting in the mornings, and lunchtimes, and afternoons. :-/ Not impressed, as now I have no motivation to eat at all. Midwife booking-in appointment still feels ages away, despite it being on the 12th May (less than 2 weeks). Work is stressful, but hopefully after this week is done, I should be able to just work afternoon/evenings and be home in the mornings.

Also trying a new/different multivit this week, so will see if that helps (but I have yet to take it today as it says to take with a meal - pfffft!)

7+1

How many weeks are you Sasseh?

My food aversions are on the brink of constant nausea, am 6+2.

I went to bed at 8pm last night, just to lie down in the quiet.

Screen time makes me feel a bit bleugh, so am keeping MNing to a minimum. Work is hard though, as I'm sat at my screen all day!

Didn't have any of this last time so it's all a bit of a shock to the system and I'm feeling a bit blue about the whole thing. The enormity of the situation is starting to set in and I suppose I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed. Meh.

Stetsons Im 7+1 today. I've just managed to eat a few cooked carrot slices and 3 roast potatoes from the canteen, and a couple of ritz crackers. Hoping to keep them down as I'm at work now until about 7pm judging by the amount of work left to do today! Also I love your name ;)

I'm getting lower back pain when I drive for too long, but think that's just me sitting awkwardly.

callingallangels thank you- i had a complete melt down around week 5, reading far to many scary stories online, imagining the worst. Ended up in a blazing row with dh. So i stopped mn-ing, and googling for about 5 days, and resigned myself to the belief that nature will take its own course. I eat healthy, have a bmi of 21, don't drink alcohol (during pg!) and im keeping my caffeine intake low-ish so am now of the view that what will be will be, and for the most part, if I keep doing what I have been, I really can't blame myself if something goes wrong. Don't get me wrong, i still have doubts, i turned on tv last night and caught the last few minutes of hollyoaks were a girl was having a scan and the doctors think her baby has downs syndrome. Cue lots of thoughts in the last 24 hours of downs syndrome. But downs is definitely not caused by the actions of the parents, its nature and so again, im trying to go with the what will be will be. Whatever happens is nature's choice, god's plan. I just hope his plan is that I get a beautiful healthy baby in December

Im feeling truly rotten again today. Im at home, on my laptop, supposed to be catching up on paperwork but im wrecked and have the top button of my jeans open even though i haven't put on any weight! So snap poly

We told my ds, db & sil, at the weekend plus my dh's sis and bil. All were delighted for us. DH's sis said she suspected but my family hadn't a clue! Delighted with that since we spent a lot of time with them over the easter holidays and were sure they had worked it out! My covert beer (apple juice) swigging was obviously genius! Maybe I should take up acting.....