November 2014- thread 4- 12 week scans and blooming in the second trimester!

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Hi everyone, we have run out of posts on our last thread so hopefully we'll all find this one easily enough.

Here is to more positive 12 week scans and enjoying our second trimesters, all feeling more human hopefully!

^ this is very helpful, thank you.

Oops, things move on quick! This is helpful as well, but I was referring to randomise advice!

hopeful I seem to be a bleeder too! I have been to and from EPU and last visit was just before twelve weeks. My actual twelve week scan is today at nearly thirteen weeks!
Docs say that for some women it's normal but to get checked each time for reassurance...hope all ok this AM.

Thinking of you Hopeful, am sure that all will be well.

Avery, was your scan private? I can't believe that the sonographer gave you a guess! That's so wonderful.

I begged our sonographer to hazard a guess and she said that it wasn't apparent at all before 16 weeks as it wasn't determined, which I know now is nonsense and she said there was no such thing as nub theory either. She told me that I'd been reading too much!l Bloody cheek!
I am so desperate to know and now thinking of a private scan, I can't wait for 2 more months!
Anyone else been given a gender indication at the 12 week scan?

I had my scan on Tuesday and all looked fine, Nuchal measurement of 1.5 which would seem ok too. Bloody woman taking my blood wasn't very good though, my whole arm is bruised!

Oh and Due date moved three days forward to 8th nov!

RandomInternetStranger DC2 due 1st Nov
ToonLass due 1st Nov
Canweseethebunnies DC2 due early Nov
BatCave DC3 due 2nd Nov
Hopeful83 DC1 due 2nd Nov
Annarose2014 due 2nd Nov
booksshoescats DC2 due 3rd Nov
CraziesTogether DC1 due 3rd Nov
RhiBee29 DC1 due 3rd Nov
Babybump0411 DC1 Due 3rd Nov
WinterLover DC2 due 4th Nov
annatha DC1 due 4th Nov
caravela due 5th Nov
Donkey36 DC3 due 5th Nov
weeonion DC2 due 6th Nov
alita7 DC1 due 6th Nov
Littleyewtree DC2 due 7th Nov
Greenstone DC2 due 7th Nov
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AussieGoingHomeSoon DC3 due 7th Nov
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Snook99 due 7th Nov
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Giraffeski DC3 due 8th Nov
AveryJessup DC2 due 8th Nov
MabelMay DC3 due 8th Nov
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Hi Giraffe, great news about your scan too, hooray!

Wee onion cleverly started a special thread just for updated due dates here;
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/antenatal_clubs/2066315-November-2014-list-of-due-dates

I think the one you've got there is a bit older because I'm not on it at all!

Scan tomorrow!

The low GI thing seems to be working on the mood swings. I had a hideous day at work yesterday and was able to just zen my way through it.

anyone seen stripeytoes anywhere - she had a scan yesterday at my local mat hospital. Stripey hope it went ok for you!

Hopeful - let us know how you get on??

glad the scans went well :)

I hope stripey is too busy celebrating!

My sonographer said she hadn't heard of the nub theory -.- So no gender guesses from her. I saw a girly nub though and she showed me the bottom which had two lines, has anyone else seen the babies bottom what did you see?

Told my boss today (in an ideal world would have probably left it till the blood results from the scan come back, but he had emailed me about some new responsibilities I might be taking on which he wanted me to confirm I was happy with in time for a meeting next week, and I thought it was unfair to say "oh yeah, that's all fine", and then turn around a week later and go "actually, no, you need to redo all that organisation now"). Anyway, he was lovely about it and very supportive and positive, so I feel really happy now.

I can see a small horizontal line on my scan but it don't think it's a nub, I don't know... If it is then its more girl like than boy but not even sure it is in the right place!
Is it possible to post a picture on here?

Can I have a big moan?

I'm so so fed up with feeling sick 24/7. It's really getting me down and I'm crying all the time. I feel very lonely cos I've bored everyone with my whinging and I'm trying so hard to be positive and excited but am so worn down with this horrible feeling. My life usually revolves around food - cooking or baking or planning meals or shopping for food or even reading cook books in bed and that's all gone cos I just can't bear anything - I hold my nose when I open the fridge cos it makes me feel ill. I'm losing hope that I won't feel like this the whole way through ;(

Sorry just needed to get that out

hopeful i hope things go well brown colour is good sign things are ok as its old blood and having 'relations' might just dislodged it. Hope things go well.
caravela its nice to hear a story of a nice boss. Mine is such a dragon she found out early as i had bleeding at work an had to go home and she demanded a good reason for me to go. Since then I've been on an off sick with hypermisis and now heamatoma on Monday she asked me to resign. I just brushed it off.

In other next thought sickness was a gonna.... Oh no back today with projectile vengeance. Yay..

chives I really sympathise! I don't properly sick anymore but queasy enough to put me off most meals which is driving me mad and is totally inconvenient. my dp is fed up of my moaning too! But you can moan all you like here!

Thanks - having a very teary day today ;( maybe the scan next week will help - hard when people don't know and I feel I'm avoiding everyone

Oh chives, that sounds horrendous. I
I felt sick for weeks and it was so miserable but nothing like what you're going - please feel free to moan away.
I have no idea if the nausea would have faded regardless but (I'm really not on the payroll for acupuncturists nationwide) I saw my acupuncturist twice when I was feeling horrendous, it improved dramatically after one treatment and completely after the second.
It might have gone any way but weeks 6-9 were really bad for me and since I've been fine, only tiny bit nauseous when hungry since week 9.
I know it's expensive but I shamefully calculated that in the last 14 weeks I have saved a lot of money on the (approx) 35 bottles of wine I would have otherwise drunk!
That figure was quite a shock, about £280 worth of wine, and that's a rather conservative estimate!

I can't believe it when bosses are arsey about pregnancy illness especially women. But having said that I don't think women who haven't had kids understand, I know I didn't lol

I've got my scan today so get to see baby again

Chives sending a hug, and hoping you start to feel better. If it's really getting you down it might be worth going to see your GP and considering some meds if you're not already on them?

Hopeful hugs for you too, hope you've managed to speak to someone and are getting some reassurance.

mismylinford your boss sounds delightful. Sorry to hear she's being so unreasonable

mismylinford your boss sounds like a right cow. Totally unreasonable, a really stupid way to manage an employee, and surely she is on very dodgy legal ground asking you to resign because of pregnancy-related absence. (I'm not an expert or anything, but I'm pretty sure she's out of line.)

I have to say, while I sometimes grumble about my work, I can't fault their attitude to anything family-related: I think they really do get it at an organisational level rather than just paying lip service to it. And the result is, there are loads of women in the workplace, and people on average stay with the organisation for ages, and go above and beyond, because they feel loyal after being treated well. If only all employers would realise that being nice to pregnant women/new mums is about investing in good staff for the long term, rather than treating it like a massive inconvenience.

I would sort of understand my boss being ... Well nasty if she didn't have children, but she has 2! So you would have thought shed understand. All i get told is... My 'condition' isn't good for the business so i should resign. Not a chance while im pregnant and off sick she can't touch me.

Maybe she had really easy pregnancies with no symptoms or complications, and doesn't have the empathy to realise that it doesn't go that way for a lot of women. I think sometimes other women can be nastier and more judgemental than men, because at least men might realise that they don't have personal experience, whereas women can sometimes make assumptions about "X worked for me, so that's the way it has to be for all women, and if you're not like me you're just not trying hard enough".

Sorry didn't get a chance to pop back on here yesterday and super hectic and stressed with job interviews etc. Scan yesterday showed all was fine. Dates have been moved forward so 13 weeks today and now due 6th Nov. would someone be able to update my date on the linked thread? Ipad won't let me do it

Chives hope the sickness eases off soon- I can imagine it is really miserable.

Linford I can't believe what a cowbag your boss is! Especially as you say, she has already got kids. Good on you for being able to brush it off though- must he hard.

Linford I hugely sympathise, but also, just in case - document this as thoroughly as possible, and get as much in writing as you can. You think people are more enlightened in this day and age, but it does still happen (one of my ex bosses had 4 dc) and it's much easier winning a case the more evidence you have. At the very least you already have a case for constructive dismissal. I'm not telling you what to do though, just to cover all bases!

Thanks for the sympathy - nice to be able to have a moan. Now if someone could come and cook dinner that would be ace as I CBa and I have no idea what to make! . Have taken a anti sickness med and think it has helped so maybe I need to keep taking them.....

Those that are not having understanding from people - read the AIBU thread about inverted martyrs - made me feel a lot better!!!