June 2015 - thread 5 - second trimester fast approaching

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Chipsticks and pringles! Walkers are just too wholesome to deliver that Salt'n'Vinegar unadulterated hit.

SMOKED SALMON IS SAFE!

I've just checked the NHS site. Phew.

It isn't done as standard in any NHS trust.

If you have a urine sample sent off for any reason or a vaginal swab taken in pregnancy, it will be tested for on that.

Anything - I spotted the smoked salmon advice & immediately went out & bought a pack!! Ate it on brown buttered bread with lemon juice squeezed over - bliss!

I figure I now can't have any tuna or other salmon for the rest of the week (it's still got mercury, hasn't it?) But totes worth it.

I so need to get some this weekend! I'm definitely not having cravings, but I do get fixated on certain foods. Last week it was King Pao chicken from the takeaway. Currently I want bacon(and now smoked salmon, apparently). I can wait ages for the actual food but can't forget about it until I've had it, if that makes sense.

I'm seeing the midwife tomorrow for my 12 week appointment. Hope it's short and sweet (have to take DD!), and I'm getting my bloods back so hopefully all is well. The scan on Wednesday. Nearly there now!

I'm slightly traumatised I don't love Thai food as much as normal. I'm obsessed with beef - swapped the chicken green curry for the beef. Had steak out the other night (rare, I live on the edge) and been eating Brie and bacon paninis with my white hot choc at costa. I shall of course lie to the midwife so I don't get the patronising lecture! I hate all those lists of what you should and shouldn't eat. I haven't taken any folic acid or vitamins either. I grew a baby on cans of coke, toast and lots of meds last time and she turned out ok. You have all got me thinking about pâté now........

Only 26 weeks to go!!!

osney hope you are on the improve! Everyone whose symptoms are waning hope it's all good signs for this (mythical) 2nd trimester glow! I have been eating smoked salmon for dinner some nights (still struggle especially with hot foods in the evening and vegies are out) so I am happy to confirm it's allowed :) Have just realised how much the medication knocks me out if I take it in the morning - before I felt too terrible to notice one more zombie effect. But means it isn't a great solution for work and now I don't have a good plan for any hypothetical 2nd pregnancy, while I thought that maybe it could be easier next time
if I had a plan in advance. I know it's far too early to be talking about next baby so shutting up now :)

Remind me why I'm doing this again?

Up all night with DD with temp and cough. DD who categorically fights all rest when ill. I've just escaped to the sofa for half an hour whilst she throws herself around my bed until she's ready to drop off as need a break from being continuously kicked for a bit. DP snoring quite happily in her bed but will be up for work in 15 mins.

And I have a nurse appointment at 9.30 for further swabs for I suspect returning BV. And DD will be coming with me. Excellent. for one!

Oh Stop - what a night! Hope she feels better and you get a bit of a rest.

Could everyone please stop talking about food. At my Xmas Do last night my colleague didn't want his Brie and Stilton from his cheese plate. It took all my strength not to plough straight in (I know I can eat Stilton but it would have been a slippery slope). I've always been a bit of a good girl, so if I'm told not to eat it by some authority figure (read NHS) then I won't eat it. This may change on Christmas day where pate is concerned.....

My laptop is acting funny so I think it needs a quick shut down and I probably best look at some work emails (boo!)

Oooh mog that is such a good idea!

Still feeling sick, was awake a whole half hour before it kicked in this morning. Has been a while since I've actually been sick though.

Everyone except my DH and Nan think baby Alis is a boy. Suppose we'll know in a few weeks.

I've managed to resist brie, camembert, pate and booze so far. I have eaten cured meats from a packet without even thinking, and I have been eating cooked prawns and smoked salmon with abandon.

Also ate Dauphinoise potatoes yesterday even though they were made with Gruyere cheese I later realised. It was cooked, so probably okay, right?

So badly wanted a bacon, brie and cranberry baguette the other day but I was good and I resisted. Not sure I'll be able to resist everything around Xmas though.

My friends are organising a "Baileys, Buffet and Rubbish Xmas Movie Evening", which will no doubt include lots of cheese I can't eat, pate and cold cured meats. The utter b***ds. XD

I have also not had any brie, camembert, pate and alcohol. Pate and soft cheese are literally my favourite things ever, it is very hard! I totally didn't realise about parma ham, chorizo, deli meat etc and have had a bit of that.

Can honestly say I am missing pate more than booze, how sad is that?!

Not sad at all, I'd quite happily never drink alcohol again!

I'm absolutely dreading having to be out for the whole day tomoro. More the early morning; I don't do mornings at the best of times and somehow I have to get up, look respectable and get the child up, fed and lookin respectable too. Wondering if I can get my mum to have her tonight instead so I just have to worry about me?!

I do everything by the book, but then I'm a worrier! I love coffee and was a big coffee drinker. I gave it up when we started ttc DD (as I'd read reducing caffeine could help with ttc), didn't have any throughout pregnancy and then just had one a day while breastfeeding DD (until I got pregnant - I cut it out straight away then). I bf for 17 months and have just recently stopped while pregnant so I didn't even get a chance to get back into drinking it again!

The only caffeine I have is from a hot chocolate every evening and chocolate. I don't drink decaf coffee because of the process they use to remove the caffeine (involves chemicals, I'd rather go without after reading up).

I don't drink alcohol so haven't had to worry about that (I just don't like it and it does nothing for me).

I am definitely missing all the foods I can't eat more than booze.

Same here. Never been a big drinker. The cheese and pate over Christmas will be a killer. Added insult to injury by going to Berlin the week before Christmas...Germany; home of glorious cured meats and fabulous wheat beer (the only stuff I do like a glass of every now and again).

I try and keep my sensible hat on, so I'm allowing myself a tiny bit of (good) wine over Christmas and if I could manage it, I'd take on some smoked salmon right now. Pate is harder what with it's dual risks, I'm leaving it off the menu at Christmas. I will take a piping hot stilton sauce on a medium (not my usual rare) steak. I'm also clinging to my cups of tea, I can only stomach two half-cups a day but I do so love the taste.

Tori, yes they check for GBS at 34 weeks here - they check for everything! Had my toxo bloods done last week. 20-week scan they look at cervical length, 34 weeks they do dopplers as standard. I feel very looked-after. Last time around I paid about £20 and did the GBS swabs myself, it was dead easy.

Morning all

Thanks all for your advice about GBS. I definitely think I will ask them to re-test later on. They’ve given me a big warning sticker to put in my pregnancy notes!

Osney, I hope you are feeling better soon.

I’m definitely feeling a bit more lax this time re food and stuff. Although I don’t like pate so that’s not a problem. I haven’t felt like drinking anyway but I will definitely have a small glass of red/fizz on xmas day/new years eve though. I’m a cider drinker too and waitrose do a nice low alcohol version so I’ve got a bottle of that for when I’m feeling a bit more keen on it.

My nausea seems to have totally gone now (famous last words of course!) and I’ve got a slight taste back for tea/coffee. I’m having one cup max though at the moment, and maybe one hot choc a day.
I have had slightly pink steak/lamb though, and a runny egg or two. I’m not a brie fan either but I do like goats cheese so I need to look up on the NHS what the rules are on that!!

Trying I’m SO jealous about your trip to Berlin. DH and I are massive xmas market fans, we were going to go this year but with our toddler at the age he is we thought it wasn’t too suitable, next year instead perhaps. We went to Cologne last year which was ace, our DS was 9 months so was happy being in the buggy snuggled up looking at the lights whilst we drank gluwien and ate sausages!!

My MW said that slightly pink meat that had been completely sealed and Cooked on the outside was now acceptable.

I pretty much eat like a pregnant woman anyway .

I don't like pate, blue cheeses, fish, most meat. I don't drink tea or coffee, or alcohol.

I pretty much don't eat anything on the no go zone, except runny eggs.

Only, one of my aversions this time is eggs. So, I'm not even eating those .

I'm so boring!

My entire diet right now is pretty much carb, salad and veg based. I'm struggling to get any protein at all in. Quorn is about the only thing protein based I can eat.

I've also had aversions to fizzy drinks. My usual pepsi max has been replaced with plain ice cold water. I'm drinking 3L+ a day! I never ever drank water before, unless it had something else in it!

Anything I'm the same, it is a fixation on certain foods, that I then must have at some point! I've run out of fixations at the moment - I've eaten them all . Must find something new!

All these carbs haven't affected my weight yet. No gain thus far. Thank goodness. I lost 4st 11 with slimming world, and desperately don't want to put it back on! I'm hoping for no gain til 24 weeks plus, and then just a max of 2 stone please! Fingers crossed!

I wish I wanted water, I just can't face drinking it plain at the moment! And I really need it because I'll end up getting constipated if I dehydrate.

I'm loving comforting food like cheese toasties at the moment.

Ironically, despite the amount of water I am drinking, I am still constipated, and spent 20 minutes crying in a public loo yesterday as I tried to go for a poo.

The joys of pregnancy . Lactulose is on this weeks shopping list. :(

Cheese toasties sound good! I might do that for lunch! Nice idea!

Oh poor you. Its so uncomfortable isn't it. I haven't been too bad so far, and I wonder if its because I'm not taking Pregnacare but Sanatogen preggo vits instead. I'm also having a large glass of OJ with bits each morning isntead of a cuppa so maybe that's helping!

I'm a bit emotional too. Snapped at my boss yesterday which I have never done before and nearly cried. He doesn't know I'm pregnant yet, god when he does he's going to be treating me with kidd gloves!!

Cheese toasties are a must...in fact, as its lunchtime, I'm off to make one right now. Thanks Jackie. I do feel slightly nauseous though...I'll make it see how I feel.

Jackie - I spent about 6 months in Germany a couple (who am I kidding, ten) years ago so fell in love with the Hamburg market. Hubs has always wanted to go to Berlin as I got to go and he hasn't. I hope to take the future child when they are old enough to enjoy it.

Sorry to those still with aversions - although chicken is still the food of the devil as are onions. I'm off for a second Christmas do tonight where I'm eating Turkey...I hope I don't associate it with Chicken. OH wants to tell our friends tonight...I can see why as we won't see many of them for ages but I'm worried I'll jinx the scan on Tuesday.