OVER HERE!!! Due April 2015

[cinnamongreyhound]

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sazzle when its the baby bump, it feels quite hard and oddly incompressible. If its all squishy, its still just cake.

My bulge is baby bump when I tense my tummy muscles, otherwise its just cake!

DM says that you show more with the later babies as your muscles are all pre-stretched, you don't have time for exercise like you did before children, and your diet is more likely to include large amounts of pombears... All of which are true for me!

Yay my house is clean. DH's whole family turned up this morning and cleaned it all with us. Was very nice of them but I can't stand that many people in my house especially if it's not clean. Makes my eye twitch.
Ready to nod off now but got to take the car to be valeted used it to transport stuff to the tip. It stinks.

On the plus side today I am not spotting!

Sounds tough Lauren82000, be worth it when it's finished though! Glad you had help :)

It does make me feel better but I've felt quite rough and tired so getting the motivation to go has been tough
Nunkie, hence my panic about running the race!! I don't think I'd have managed it 3 weeks ago though, I'm definitely starting to feel more human!!

Hope it gives you some reassurance Stuntman.

I can definitely feel a hard lump at the top of my pubic bone but above my belly button sticks out towards the end of the day which I assume is bloat!

Wow, Cinnamon, congratulations on completing your race!

Banana, I feel your pain about house renovations - we moved into a new house at the start of December last year, so went through the whole palaver of the first stage of renovation etc. Still doing the last odds and ends but no work needed, thankfully. Phase 2 is sorting out the study and the bedroom that's now been designated the nursery, but I think that can wait until the end of the year when I can try and avoid being anywhere near paint fumes/new carpets etc! It'll all be worth the pain and angst when it's finished and you can get on with a newborn with all of that done and dusted.

Just done a spell out in the garden and waiting to see if it brings on spotting again... if it does, I might have to instruct DH in the proper use of the hoe and push him past his comfort zone of the lawnmower...

Nunkie that sofa pic actually made me laugh out load! brilliant.

I was at a friends hen do last night, on lovely lemonade! the man behind the bar very kindly obliged when i said "can I have a lemonade but can you make it look like its got vodka in it" so he pretended to put a shot in and made sure I had the same glass as everyone else, and only charged me 70p :D
the bride to be did take a swig and she's defo onto me, but with only 6 days till the wedding I really don't want to announce anything as I don't want to steel her thunder, she's had plenty of that from her brothers fiance who's getting married in a couple of months!
I think i'm 11 weeks on Tuesday, which is my booking appointment, but i really want my scan date from the hospital!!!

Quick Question... has anybody else actually had anyone check that they are pregnant?

By that I mean, I called my doctors when i did my own test and the receptionist said she'd get a midwife to ring me. she called me and told me that due to my address i'd be registered elsewhere rather than where my doctors is. but no-ones actuall checked.
Just thought it was a bit odd and i'd see what other people have experienced.

I am 100% preggers, the morning ritual of head in toilet in proof enough.

hiding I haven't had anyone check. I did say to DP after my booking in appointment that it was hilarious/terrifying that no one had checked. Still four weeks until scan so still doesn't quite feel real.

No, no one checked me either. During my booking appointment the MW didn't even ask what symptoms I was having which I found really bizarre. All that time and setting up of appointments and I really could just be making it up. I guess it shows how good pregnancy tests are.

Has anyone worked out how to use the mums net app? I've got it but every page is just blank. Can't get it to work at all.

I've only been checked because I had early scans - at the first one I was worried they were going to tell me I wasn't ever pregnant and it was all a mistake!

I haven't tried the app sazzle, I just use the mobile site.

sazzle that's exactly the thought that occurred to me, all that time and money and someone could be making it up. Not that it's something I imagine many people would do of course.
Maybe it's cheaper to trust people than it is to spend money testing everyone.

How long has it taken some of you to get your scan dates? are they usually only a few days notice or should i be asking where my letter is if i don't have it already seen as i'm almost 11 weeks. Feeling impatient

Hmm my scan isn't due until I'm 12+3 but I've had the date for a while - a good few weeks now. However last time I wasn't given the scan date until my booking in appointment - have you had that, yet?

hidingthefear I got mine about two weeks after I notified my nurse that I was pregnant, so I was about 8 weeks at that point. Scan is in a week now, feels like I've been waiting ages for it. Part of me is expecting that they're going to find nothing there or that it's stopped growing. It's hard not to worry when all symptoms seem to have gone (except for the damn spots!) and there weren't many symptoms to begin with.

My scan will be at 13wks but I had it quite quickly after I filled in the form my dr's require to refer to the midwife. And no no one has checked if I'm pregnant.

I hate the app Sazzle82G, I use the mobile site.

Thanks for the congrats, I'm feeling it today!

Thanks everyone :)
I have my booking appointment on Tuesday. When i went to my first appointment there at about 5/6weeks they said I would be referred to a hospital of my choice (so i chose the closer of the 2) and I would have my scan there, although this is a different hospital to where i will actually have my baby.
The midwife I see for appointments is at a childrens centre attached to a school which is a little strange.
I'll bring it up at the appointment on Tuesday then and see what they say

I've only just got my booking appointment letter. (9+2)Every area does it differently. In my area you see the mw at about 10 weeks. My boss lives in a little village not far from us but in another hospital district and you don't see the mw till after you've had the 12w scan. I wouldn't panic too much yet but if your unsure just ring the doctors/mw. Someone will know what's going on.

Hello all! I got my scan letter at about 9 and a half weeks. Booking was at 7 and a half with the midwife at my GP practice.

Thanks for all your kind words about my grandma. We did tell the family when we went yesterday, using my daughter'a "I'm going to be a big sister" t-shirt. Everyone was pleased.

I'm pretty sure my grandma heard her beloved little great-granddaughter 'reading' her book with me next to her bed, squeaking about the chickens ("boc boc boc"). She became a bit more unsettled when she was there as though trying to let us know she could hear us. Pretty much every time my little girl left her bedside yesterday (she's 16 months) she waved and blew her kisses which was lovely. She spent the whole day lifting the mood and cheering everyone up, a complete mini superstar, I was so proud of her.

We toasted the pregnancy in the evening and grandma sucked some vigorously, as we all stood around the bed happily with our drinks, and it was lovely that it felt she was truly involved. She wouldn't have a second sip though, and died 15 mins later. We were all at home. However silly it sounds it really felt like she had been waiting to share in the family celebration and then could allow herself to go. The day was as perfect as a day like that can be, I think. Feeling sad and tired but relieved her suffering is over. Worried about my mum and aunt in particular but will try to keep them busy by engaging them with my daughter as much as I can. Hubby is leaving at 06.30 tomorrow so I have a challenging couple of weeks ahead and will need to keep it together!

We told my in-laws today, still with the t-shirt thing, which was fun since it took a while for them to notice.

Intermittent extreme gnawing hunger and eating like a horse, with nausea, only mild though. Boobs are tingling again today. Can't feel any bump yet, I just have fat spilling over my jeans!!!

Well done cinnamon! Dreading my 10k in 3 weeks... I've no idea how I'm going to do it... Or train when I'm on my own for 2 out of 3 of them looking after my little girl! Perhaps I'll just run and see what happens... Bad idea?!

Ooh 10+2 today!

daholster so sorry for your loss, but it sounds like the perfect way to say goodbye, with happy news surrounded by loved ones. Your dd sounds fantastic. Thinking of you and your family

So sorry daholster but it does sound as lovely as it could have been. I hadn't done more than 6 miles in over a month and managed the 9 and a bit in a good time too so maybe. I was only running a total of 7 to 10 miles a week in 2 or 3 runs but still running. Good luck!

Thanks banana and cinnamon. I like the fact that her last drink was champagne!

So sorry about your nan, daholster, but that does sound like a lovely and touching ending to a life, and very lovely that she got to hear your news and some time with your DD.