Leaving the first trimester behind and hopefully all the sickness and worry that has come with it. January 2015 thread #5

[Dec2013mummy]

I love how much we talk!! No one else seems to go through threads this fast. Can someone on a laptop add the threads in to this first page please so people can update. :)

Jesus, Lulu what's wrong with people? I mean you don't expect a medal but a straightforward 'congratulations' never hurt anyone did it?

helloelo Her book "Expecting better" pretty much kept me sane and I read it cover to cover when I was newly pregnant and baffled (while on holiday in France incidentally!)

lots of news indeed on here. I think I've caught up now!

Like everyone else, I was so sorry to see mademoiselle and keep's worrying news. All my fingers and toes are firmly crossed.

yay for welsh, pru and others with good scans. As someone else said, we have to make sure that we share and support all the good news as well as the bad, so I hope no one ever feels bad about having a happy update.

Today I am happy about finally getting my appetite back (flavours! amazing!), while at the same time worrying about...getting my appetite back (arrgh, what if it's a bad sign?) Did I mention that I can't wait for scan on Monday?

I just finally watched the hypynobirthing bit of the last OBEM that everyone was talking about & I'm sold! And it totally made me cry. Such a pregnant cliche.

Sunshine you'll be fine - enjoy the flavours!

rumisyum it's incredible isn't it. I know you can't account for complications or have any idea how it'll actually progress, but I get the impression that at least hypnobirthing can prepare you to develop a degree of control and calmness regardless of outcome.

I've just had the confirmation email through with the Mindful Mamma meditation MP3 links (that mini posted on an earlier thread - they're included in the course) and I'm wishing the day away dying to get started!

oops, forgot again, 11+6

Anyone else only just now get Helloelo's name?

sleep I had to read it out a couple of times! you're not the only one.

Also, I know this is going back a bit on the thread now, but I was so pleased to see others talking about camping with a baby! We bought a lovely big new tent last year with thoughts of DCs in the backs of our minds and we are determined to use it next year. We may be crazy but at least we are not alone!

Oh madrigals , that little seed of hope you just planted there might be a joyously dangerous thing...I just assumed that we were over and done with and zero hope for us anymore! Ok. Keep calm. The day is almost over. Which means only 12 more sleeps. This thing is putting the 2WW on a whole new level!

RE: food guidelines, my fellow countrymen/women are quite relaxed about cheese in general, but then it's different in France as people buy an awful lot of it, restaurants know how to store it / serve it much more so than over here I guess and it's a staple food item! I usually get laughed at when I go back home if I ask whether it's pasteurised or not... I usually avoid the really runny / vintage-looking / funky-smelling ones just to be safe, but if I don't know whether pasteurised or not and I REALLY want it, I make a secret pact with myself that it'll be ok !

I didn't do a proper hypnobirthing course last time but just got a CD that I listened to loads in the last few weeks. My dd's birth took 42 hours and she was back to back, so extra painful apparently. I am a MASSIVE wuss with pain, I scream at the dentist's and always demand extra doses of anesthetic, but I managed with just gas&air for the whole time. I knew it was 'healthy' pain and that my body knew what to do and just went with it! I should probably have taken an epidural at some stage just to be able to sleep because it got really tough once she was born and I couldn't suddenly 'binge-sleep' after my mammoth labour, so next time round I am thinking epi + hypnobirthing = dream birth

I went to work this afternoon and it felt so good to be 'normal' and just getting on with life...

Thank you all for the hand-holding

Ooh Sunshine lovely big tent you say? My ears have pricked right up. 2 weeks after my BFP we went camping with some friends (who had no idea I was pg) and pitched next to a group of families with a 7wk and a 11wk old... I'm not sure I'd be that eager but we're definitely going to try to put best foot forward with it. I was dreading our (childfree) friends getting the arse about screaming babies at night on the campsite but they were actually really quite philosophical about it!

you lot are chatty this afternoon! Welcome newbies!!

Vivi when did you book your mindful mama course for? I'm thinking of doing mine in october as there is one near me then. Have decided not to do NCT my friend who has just had a baby said I'd be better off spending the money on something else as she felt everything they learnt she already knew from books etc. and the people she met were ok but its not worth 300 just to meet some people. So I'm going to spend that money on hynobirthing course and lots of preggo yoga :)

I start preggo yoga on saturday, I'm so excited!! Hoping there will be some others at a similar stage to me there and the teacher does mother and baby yoga so i'm hoping to make mummy friends that way.

13+5 :o

sunshine we got a new big tent last year - we are using it this summer when I will be 19-20 weeks pg for our summer break to Cornwall and cannot wait to take baby next summer.
We're enrolling on our local NCT - our friend did it and said it was great. It's £200 here so expensive enough but will be good I am sure.

Afternoon ladies!

Sorry to hear your news Mademoiselle - crossing everything your next scan will be absolutely fine!! Hope you and the other half are getting the support you need.

Had my scan this morning and there is a real baby in there - phew! It was wriggling like mad, so cute. New due date 3rd Jan. Hopefully all today's other scans went well

12+4

Hi helloelo, I'm getting married in September too!

Good to hear about all the happy scans today.

Yay RPopz wriggly baby joy! So pleased

Sara I'm seriously considering giving NCT a swerve too after having previously been pretty set on it. I'm not sure it will teach me anything I don't know already that Mindful Mamma and local antenatal exercise groups will, so it would just be an exercise in meeting other people for me too...

I emailed the MM course leader to ask her what date she recommended considering my due date and she suggested the late September one, so I think October would be fine too.

cheshire glad to hear you're planning on keeping up with the camping too! Just booked this weekend's trip, preying the new Tent Of My Dreams™ is delivered in time....

kat and hello I saw some great maternity wedding dresses online a while ago...let me see if I can find the link...

www.tiffanyrose.com/maternity/clothes/wedding-dresses.html

Thanks minibagel, someone on here linked me to Tiffany Rose before and I love those dresses. The question is, which one do I love the most?!

Woops missed that. The only other one I've heard is seraphine but I think you've already seen those. Depending on how big your bump is you could also try non maternity grecian styles which tend to have a lot of fabric?

Hurrah, Rpopz! Excellent news.

I have just realised that I have a slightly different fashion problem. In the last few days my bump has grown so much that it is massively obvious that I'm pg when I'm in wearing my running kit. Had to run today with my water bottle held in front of my tummy in the hope that my running buddies (from work) wouldn't notice! fx I can tell them next week, not a moment too soon.

saraswati let me know how preggo yoga goes. I need to try the classes at my studio a in a couple of weeks. Bit annoyed with them tbh after they cancelled most of the classes I liked, but I reckon I'll give these a go.

Congrats welsh and lm!

lulu - haha- loving the responses. Sure is nothing queer aa folk ;)

Well I has my meeting with hosp and have my cvs on Monday at 4. I will have main downs results back by Thursday / Friday. I then have the rest of the chromosomal checks back after 10 days- and the gender result too. If all is well with initial results - generally it means all will be ok with further results. They test for two main types of downs and also a third more unusual type that takes longer to come back. I was saddened to here that if the baby did indeed have downs I would not know the severity. This obviously worries me. Dh wishes to abort of it is downs, were as I do not. However 93% so abort . I think this must be because they do not know the severity of the downs.

Unfortunately the meeting also raised a couple of other factors. I have a low papal -hormone which means there is a risk that baby will grow less. It purely means the baby could be small, but not necessarily will be and it is nothing to be too concerned over apparently. They will just keep their eyes on baby with 2 extra scans (one at 28 weeks and one at 34) at the mo baby is measuring fine. Appaeantly, this is caused by a problem with placenta - which again is nothing I could have caused etc- purely just down to chance. (I feel a lot of guilt over all this)

My pregnancy with dd was fine though, so I know logically it is not my fault.
I also have an under-active thyroid so I will be on meds for this, not worried over this though- it is common for thyroid to be affected in pregnancies and is easily resolved.

Overall I am feeling rather angry to be perfectly honest. I am 26, I don't drink or smoke or do drugs. I eat healthily and I am very active. I know I already have 1 dd that I am so lucky to have; she is perfection. Still, I just feel it's not fair at rhe mo! Sure It will pass. The midwife said I will experience lots of different emotions. I keep feeling fine then sad - now I am just fucking angry! Sorry for rant. Sorry for me me me, but I knew I has said I would report back and wanted to keep you's posted. Thanks for all the support. I do love MN and this thread :)

X post rpopz! Congrats :)

Glad your CVS is fairly soon Keep. Though I guess it will feel like forever for you regardless. Anger is perfectly natural, I would feel exactly the same. Crossing everything that your results come back absolutely normal! x