OVER HERE!!! Due April 2015

[cinnamongreyhound]

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Ahh brown blood again this morning! This is getting ridiculous. I'm hoping its breakthrough bleeding for my second missed period and once again I'm stuck in limbo as I still haven't had contact with the mw yet.

Oh no, Lauren, how unnerving! I'm sure you're right and it won't be anything to worry about, but I hope your midwife gets in touch soon. Could you maybe ring your surgery and ask for details of how to get in touch with your local MW team just to hurry things along?

The receptionist at my doctors is a right battleaxe so chances are ill just have to wait.
If it's still the same as it was when I had DD you just get the number for an answering service and a mw rings you back when they are free. I know what they will say though wait it out.

Lauren how scary! Personally I would get an emergency appointment with GP (and yes I'd say emergency, I'd be going stir crazy!) so they can refer you to epu if needed. Hope it all settles, like you said it's usually nothing to worry about despite being alarming. Sending a hug!

I've been stressing myself out that my symptoms have pretty much gone, I can't feel any sort of lump behind my pubic bone (I'm not fat, though no longer super skinny like I was with my first) and we can't find a heart beat. Thing is I'm supposedly 9+6 so I suppose it could just all be a bit early. I wasn't stressed like this with my last pregnancy. But then I didn't use MN (until I was in labour, live labour thread while hospital were saying stay at home longer - that was so so helpful and supportive, MN people can be amazing)... But I think MN which can make you think more about stuff that maybe you wouldn't have, as well as being helpful too.

So maybe it's just that. I have no idea but I am worrying myself silly! I also think life is generally getting on top of me a bit - huge professional exam coming up with lots of revision to do, 16 month old, hubby away on business for a couple of weeks so I''ll be on my own, work (which I am behind on) and an impending close bereavement and worrying about my mum, not to mention the 10km charity race I'm supposed to be running in 3 and a half weeks and will never manage, since I've been unable to train and now I'll never fit it in (especially on my own with my daughter).

If I could just find a little heart beat I'd feel so much less worried and I'm sure I could get everything into perspective. 2 weeks tomorrow til the scan... It feels like forever!

Oops bit of a rant...

I'm with you Lauren - woken up to a bit of brown spotting again today after just two days of no bleeding at all. So fed up! Just as I start thinking I can relax a little it starts up again. I've got the day off work tomorrow so will go to the EPU again if it gets heavier.

Well I said sod it and rang in sick so I'm off today. I'll see how I get on today and might ring the EPU later. I have to pick DH up from work anyway (he works at the hospital) only thing is last time I went they weren't really interested as I had no pain. Might do some ironing to keep my mind off it the mountain is almost falling over

Lauren and Bananatoast thinking of you both and fingers crossed its nothing to worry about.

I'm feeling better this morning, but as they said at my last scan, the placenta is starting to take over so not too worried.

12 week scan on oct 1st seems ages away but I am trying to keep myself busy. Dh is having heart surgery next week so panicking a bit about him too.

I did do something naughty yesterday though, I ordered a babygro. Was trying to be good and not order anything until after the 12 week scan but I couldn't resist!

Thinking of you Lauren and Banana. Hope you can get some rest today now you're off Lauren.

Dances, I bought one on holiday last week..we actually did our "announcement photo" while away using the vest as we wanted it to be beach themed. Hope I'm not tempting fate haha xx

Well I've got till 3.30 to chill out before I have to get DD. Found out this week that the girl I work with is also pregnant and she's only a week behind me. My boss is going to love that.

Good luck, Banana and Lauren - I’m sure its nothing to worry about, just your bodies rather rudely reminding you of all the crazy stuff happening in there.

Lovely pic, littleluna!

cinnamon - I hear yer on the eating-becoming-a-chore, thing. Depressing, as I normally adore my food.

Ah, Hiding - yes!! Can I join you on the The-Slightly-Lumpy-Sofa-of-Constant-Worry?

First I was worried I wouldn't get pregnant. When that happened straight away, I switched to worrying about whether there was actually anything alive in there, and whether it would stick.
Now I know it lives, I'm busy worrying it might grow another head. Or lose the one it has!
Then I suppose if my 12 week stuff goes well I can get busy worrying about the anomaly scan - particularly since I inadvertently managed to sit in several uncomfortably hot rooms in early pregnancy.
And that doesn't even include all the worries (and wonder!) about the idea of a real physical being who has to find their way in the world at the end of it.
Plus probably the most legitimate worry of all: that all this worry is going to give me a heart attack before I/we even get that far!! :0)

Anyone else for joining us on the Sofa? :0D

Annia - Yep, I typically run a more Inuit-esque body temperature too. DP keeps exclaiming in surprise to be finding himself in bed next to this boiling hot person.

(DP /does/ stand for ‘Darling Partner’ right? Not.. Double Penetration, or something?? Still getting used to the lingo around here… :0)

Hi all

Well I haven't posted in ages as I tend to read all the posts and go to bed :-/

I'm hardly feeling ill at all now, and I am definitely showing. It's now a real struggle to do the button up on my (size bigger than usual, just until I lose the baby weight...) jeans. Am hoping people think I' just fat but it's getting less and less credible a story.

I looked pregnant really early last time too, which is a shame because it's just too early to tell anyone, it's especially concerning since my symptoms are much less than this stage last time.

9+3

I'm jealous of everyone with their little bulges. I'm still the same weight and even though my boobs are just starting to spill from my bra I can still get in my size 8 jeans. It's only at the end of the day when I've eaten loads of carbs that I bloat enough to be slightly uncomfortable. Makes me panic about mmc especially with the spotting. But then I remind myself I'm still majorly uncomfortable with constipation and trapped wind and my boobs are sore and still get the odd wave of nausea.

Size 8 jeans! I wish! Haven't fitted those since I was 18...

nunkie and hiding I think I already joined you on that sofa didn't I?

I feel fat but the scales say I'm still 4lb under where I started, despite having developed 2 small tyres around the middle!

Today I'm just off food and drink. Not nauseous, just don't want it. Nothing like I have been though, boobs are better too. That's partly why I'm on the worry couch!

I have a super metabolism so I struggle to put weight on I'm under bmi but the docs are always 'your one of the lucky ones.' But when you list all the health problems I'll have later on in life it's not that great. I need to gain as much weight as possible but I really don't feel like food at the moment it's a real struggle just to make anything let alone something healthy.

I am definitely joining you on the always worried sofa. Really can't seem to shake the constant fear that something is going to go wrong. I've had a bit of spotting on a few occasions, but if I'm being rational (not my strong point at the moment) it's incredibly minor, but scans at 6 and 7 weeks were fine. I really need to try and snap out of the worry as I am just constantly grumpy at the moment!
I'm going on holiday between 12-13 weeks so waiting to see if my scan will be just before it just after. I really hope before as I reckon I'll spoil the holiday with worrying if I haven't had it!
Had my booking in appointment yesterday. Found it quite underwhelming if I'm honest, but because I'm under fortnightly consultant appointments already for a pre existing condition I've already had so many appointments, advice, information taken etc that I guess it just seemed repetition.

Had my early scan today, measuring 8 weeks which is just one day out of what I thought.

Everything's fine though, heartbeat and sac etc. The lady did notice a bit of blood in my womb so she said if I get some bleeding not to worry, I haven't had any up until now so we will see.

Was a struggle to get to the clinic as I feel really sick lately, but thought I would give it my best shot.

Lovely pic Siarie, I'm so jealous, I'd love to have a scan already.

Nunkie ... Our posts crossed so I missed your one about whether DP stood for double penetration... mwahahahahahahahaha!!! Brilliant. Yes, it's darling partner, there's an acronyms list floating around on mumsnet somewhere.

As with everyone else I am firmly lodged on the sofa of constant worry.

Oh yes, I am absolutely on the sofa of worry. Frequently dozing on it, but there nonetheless. Cannot stop thinking about it all. Also slightly terrified that I'll never be off the sofa of worry ever again, and it will just become different origins of worry....

Yep, also on the worry sofa - it sounds like it's quite a normal thing from what I'm reading on here! I found my booking appt a bit underwhelming too. I mentioned having brown blood last week which lasted about a week - coinciding perfectly with when I would normally expect a period - and the MW was a bit dismissive and said only to worry if it was red.

Have lost a bit of weight but still no MS. Definitely off my food though and ended up getting in a huff with DH last night because I couldn't decide what I wanted for dinner and he got annoyed with me - I basically don't want to eat anything these days! I wish I could open my stomach and chuck some food in, would be so much easier!

I will also claim my spot on The-Slightly-Lumpy-Sofa-of-Constant-Worry! Mind you, I was thinking yesterday how quiet my symptoms have been, and today (the first I'm working from home this week after running over the country Mon-Wed) I'm feeling considerably more grotty, so maybe it was too soon to tempt fate.

I can't work out if I'm bulging or if I'm bloated or if I'm putting on weight from all the darn crackers and comfort chocolate biscuits. I should be losing weight as I'm not on the booze at the very least! But scales are banned from our house, so at least I'm not number-chasing - I've got a bit of an obsessive personality, so I'd be doing twice-daily tracking before you could blink if I had access to them.

9w+5

I'm having the same bloated vs bump debate. I'm going with a little bloated and def much more firm..
Update on missing mid wife. Rang main office and spoke t other lady. Mm I explained that I thought I was having a visit Tues morning at nine thirty but no show rang her mobile left message but no call back. She looked on the system and said she was working that day but then it was crossed out with annual leave. Asked me t ring her tomorrow morning t fix a date before my scan on Wednesday. Problem is I work 24 he shifts and it would b helpful t know so OS's can arrange another team leader.. X

Rolf nunkie the messages on here take a whole new meaning if dp means double penetration! But yes DP is Darling / dear Partner. DH is husband DD is daughter DS is son.

acronyms

Well I've lost 4lbs lol, possibly more as I haven't weighed myself in a few days. I'm not eating very much so that's why, can't complain though as I've been struggling to shift the last of my weight lol