February 2015 #2: Is the first trimester over yet?

[freneticfox]

Shiny new thread for us all!

Stats are here

Oh and I'll be having both flu and whooping cough jabs! I work in a care home for older people with lots and lots of staff so you can imagine the coughs and colds that go round in winter!

Hi everyone! Finally comfortable to join in after stalking you for some time :-) Had our scan on Monday, all seemed to be fine and was told that our little one was well behaved. It suddenly felt so real seeing the little one on the screen and hearing the heartbeat! We are expecting our first one on 23rd Feb. So excited as will be able to start telling people now. Already told my mum and off to Glasgow at the weekend so will be a nice surprise for DH family.
I have been ok so far, thank god no vomiting (only came close once) just very tired and feeling hungry, sick and full at the same time! Just started having heartburn though, never suffered with it so will have to find out what to use for that! Any suggestions?
Jack - I'm obsessed with all the pregnancy related programmes on the telly :-) We went to look around the birth centre after our scan and the midwife asked if we were watching One born every minute and told me not to watch as it's not real and heavily edited!
12+4 today!

Welcome new peeps (scurries off to update spreadsheet)

I just ate the most hideously lazy dinner- beans and veggie sausages in a tin on toast. I disgust myself sometimes :D

Hallo all

Welcome Lancs!

Haven't checked in for awhile but on cloth nappies, I used 'prefolds'; they're the least technical you can get so relatively cheap and v straightforward. I chose to use cloth nappies because I liked the thought of never running out! I'm sure we saved a lot doing them. There was a special second hand nappies website (coz ebay wouldn't sell them) and would be where lots of unused ones went because plenty of people try them and don't get in with them.

Haz-nappybore-zer

I'm just like you Memphis I get more stubborn the more someone tells me what I 'should' be doing. Re breast feeding I'm planning on giving it a go, but I'm not expecting much so I'll get the bottle feeding kit too. My mum bottle fed us all and my sister's did the same for theirs, all for various reasons including inverted nipples, and all of us have grown up well. I'm prepared for the bullying and have my arguments prepared...

Welcome to the new people and congrats for all the lovely scans and low risk results. It really feels like we are all moving properly in to trimester 2 now .

As for nappies I'm not sure yet. We used disposable for ds because we live in a flat and already have enough issues with drying clothes but we will be moving to a house in oz when this one is about 2 months old so cloth may become an option. Mainly if my sister hasn't got rid of hers and we can have them for free .

I will be breast feeding again. When it works it is so convenient and I think it is like birth in that there is a big element of luck/genes/biology whatever you want to call it in how you get on. My body just doesn't do birth well so I will be having my second c section with this baby but breast feeding is something that just worked easily for me.

I'm undecided on the whooping cough vaccination, still need to do more research. I'll definitely be getting the flu vaccine though (much as i'm not keen on the idea of immunisations during pregnancy) - i'm asthmatic, and ended up in hospital for a week earlier this year with asthma attack/pneumonia, so i really can't take the risk.

I'll be breastfeeding - i fed DS till he was well over 4. I'm terrified though, as he had very severe feeding issues, and it was a combo of breastfeeding, expressed milk and formula, all of which were a nightmare to get into him for the first year!

I used cloth nappies mainly last time - still have some, and getting more from a friend, though i know there will be times i use disposables. Cloth nappies and wrap can really help contain explosive poos though!

Hanflan, frenetic - hope you are hanging in there! Internet down this week so just catching up. 16 weeks today and I think I have what most people would call normal morning sickness. Queasiness all day instead of intense nausea. Haven't vomited for a few days. Still eating total rubbish but managed first glass of water in about 10 weeks (could only have OJ or lemonade for some reason - tap water made me vomit). Still on 2 x phenergan per day. Every day feels a tiny bit better. Hope this gives you hope! We will get through it!

Bangles that dinner sounds fine to me, one might this week mine was pickled onions, gerkins, cockles and some crisps!

I have my arguments lined up, I would love to try and breast feed but I take 36 tablets a day when not pg, half of them I come off when pg as they are harmful to the baby one is a Parkinsons drug, I have start taking this within a few hours of birth or I would be in a wheelchair and good for nothing with my right side so I really cannot although I say all this some breast feeding support workers in Sure start seemed to think it was worth doing this to feed

We had Chinese takeaway so even lazier. Dh had come home from his crohns treatment and neither of us felt up for cooking. Absolutely shameless.

I had a plate of chicken nuggets! Not healthy but it's what baby wanted!

I'm going to bottle feed. Due to reasons surrounding DDs birth. I got an extremely hard time in hospital when DS was born about it though. Made me feel like I was going to poison him if I gave him formula.

Heartburn is ok this evening. As long as I'm sat upright.
Been trying so hard not to buy things for baby yet buy DH has just suggested we start at the weekend! Very excited!
I need to do some maternity clothes shopping as well. Have put on 6lb in total already :(

hanflan It's still evenings for me. Awful tonight; got the dreaded 'mouth sweats', feels gross. It hit so suddenly tonight as well rather than gradually like it usually does. Was walking round Tesco with DH and suddenly went hot and queasy and it's just not gone away or abated. I'll be 14w on Saturday - I keep telling myself this over and over in the hope that my body will catch up and start coping with the hormones...

Proudly That's so encouraging. I do admit in my low points I just resign myself to a miserable six months and cry for a couple of hours. Work just aren't quite understanding how rough it is - my GP has written to them though explaining that it's not something I can choose or control; I hope that this takes some of the pressure off me.

So yeah. Today I'm pretty miserable as usual!

I'm ashamed to say my dinner consisted of DD's cheese strings - all of them

Bangon...i think you win just for depriving your child of cheesestrings

Morning all, I had a chippy last night ha ha, it was sooo tasty! I weighed myself this morning though and I seem to have managed to lose weight so I guess its not so bad really?!?

I will cloth nappy, have all the ones from my ds last time and if he isnt toilet trained by the time I go on mat leave he's going back into cloth as I will hav time for the extra washing (which isn't really much but when you work fulltime...)

I want to breastfeed, but it didnt really work last time and I ended up expressing for six weeks, which is quite hard work! I still havent gotten over the guilt of not managing which I know is silly!

Hello everyone new :)

Ha ha, so we're all eating healthily then, yes!

Think I'm going to investigate cloth nappy options today- disposables just sound so blessedly convenient, but maybe a mixture would work

Frenetic - so sorry to hear it's still torture. I try to avoid supermarkets at all costs because i feel like such a weirdo retching around the aisles. Have you had excess saliva? That was a real issue for me but is beginning to calm down. Re work, I am lucky my office have been great, but when I went back this week they all assumed I was completely cured, so I think they were frustrated (though they would never say it) that I was only a little way down the road to recovery. It's hard to explain to people that it might take months to get better, not days. I have stopped thinking/dreaming of when it might go away fully. Every time I set a target -I'll be fine at 12 weeks! - I just end up disappointed and upset. I think we need to take every day at a time. Or even every hour!

I find the comments like 'I would love to eat pizza and lemonade all the time' (that's the kind of stuff I can handle) really annoying. I would do anything to give the baby one nutritious meal and not total crap. Also it's not like the food tastes nice like it does normally. It's just what will stay down!

Rant over! Good luck.

Don't worry about not eating healthy all my friend ate for 6 weeks were chips...nothing else, micro chips for brekkie, chippy chips for lunch and oven chips for tea. She couldn't stomach anything else and her boy he fine

Morning all! No puking on the train today, YAY! My pregnancy app kindly told me that "fatigue and nausea should be long gone and you should be feeling that second trimester glow." OH POO OFF!
In other exciting news, we bought a breast pump last night! A bit early I know, but it was the Ameda Lactaline one which I was planning on getting, and it was reduced to 75 pounds on ebay, brand new and unused but the box is completed battered. Fine by me! Can't pass on a deal like that, especially when rrp is 130 pounds! If we don't end up using it then can always pass on to a friend I'm sure :)

Oh and I had pesto pasta with loads of tabasco last night. Pretty much zero nutrition so I can join the crappy dinner club haha!

Even though my appetite is so much better I had chippys on Tuesday, fish and chips by the sea weds, and scampi and chips at play centre yesterday. Today I have a half day at work so taking ds into the city to buy school stuff and treat him to nandos.

I used cloth nappies for a bit with ds they were adjustable popper ones. I really liked them but ds had very bad skin and they made his skin worse.

yep- i'm sure if pizza and lemonade is all that's staying in, the baby will be getting what he or she needs from it, proudly :)

congrabulations on not puking on the train, han! (and welcome to the crappy dinner club- i like it, it's catchy!)

When I was at the height of my sickness I went three days only eating about 3 potato waffles and could barely even keep down water. I called my midwife in tears because I was so worried about baby and she said "Don't worry, I promise you the baby is getting EVERYTHING it needs from you, especially if you are taking prenatal vitamins. If potato is all you can keep down, then just eat potato!" Bless. She was lovely.

Successful scan and new edd for me, 17th :-) Pizza Express dinner last night, which I told myself is healthier than Domino's/Pizza Hut etc. so must therefore be healthy, full stop!

Yay congrats shell