August 2015 part 2

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MrsFazruns #2 28/7/15 31
Upthewolves #1 1/8/15 30
Otter32 #1 1/8/15 32
Clumsycrocheter 1/8/15
Pollypocket #1 1/8/15
Mzzzf 1/8/15
Missingdietcoke #2 2/8/15 33
Guyropes #3 2/8/15 36
Augustwedding #1 2/8/15
Bethanybeth 2/8/15
LAM1 #1 3/8/15
Nannynome #2 3/8/15
Chancebeafinething #3 3/8/15 mc apr 14
Polkadotspots #2 3/8/15
Isabeau1980 #1 4/8/15 34
Nataliejayne1 4/8/15 prev mc
Glitterrascal #1 5/8/15 28
Icelemongin #1 5/8/15
Nottalotta 5/8/15
Waves and smiles #4 5/8/15 36
Lilmissjt 6/8/15
Daveface #3 7/8/15
NaughtiusMaximus #2 7/8/15 31
Em165 #1 7/8/15
Shantotto #1 8/8/15 35
D00dles #2 8/8/15 mc last Xmas
Iamhopeful #2 10/8/15
Birchwoods #1 10/8/15 31
Whitwoochantelle #1 10/8/15
Runninggirl85 #2 10/8/15
Gillian1980 10/8/15
Daisysunshine2 #1 10/8/15 23 mmc sept14
Xblueberry88x #1 10/8/15
Alovelycuppatea#1 11/8/15
MariaEllen82 #1? 12/8/15
Frankie50000 #2 13/8/15 40
Cattyf #1 13/8/15 31
Ruby242 14/8/15
Dozygirl #1 14/8/15 31
Melon head11 #2 15/8/15
Cinnamonsummer #2 18/8/15 30
Karatekimmi #2 20/8/15
RainbowTortoise #2 20/8/15 3mmcs
Zizkov19 #5 21/8/15
CarrotPuff #2 23/8/15
Toothachereturns #3 23/8/15 2cp 2014
DailyLurker #4(5) 24/8/15
DarkMoon #3 24/8/15
Frolicacid 26/8/15
NatalieBee#1 28/8/15 3 prev mcs
Iloveyoubaby #2 28/8/15
Dillydolkydarling 30/8/15
Elleybear13 #1 31/8/15 24 mc in sep

Edd not certain/ not said/ or I missed it! Please put yourself in date order if you like!

Redcandle #2 42
Bovrilmartini #1 31
Spread on toast #2
Rachywhite83 #2 31
AliOh #2
Poppy86
Clairexxx #1
Leasa21
Mrspana #3
Jojoi6 #3
PerpetualSummer
Equimum #2
Bunnychan #2
Northernlassy24
Lilydreams
Sianihedgehog #1 Mc in sep.
Nona11 #1
Emb540 #3
Pierced mrsL #1
Happygojo mmc in sep
Luciferbox

Sadly mc or cp
Loopyla
Brummiegirl 15
All chat nicknames gone
Gakay
Mummy to goldie
Mrsb0710
Rubmylamp
Bluewisteria
Casiopeia

Hi ladies, I'm due on 17th August and its my first baby! So excited, can't wait to chat to you all, didnt know this existed until it was posted on the pregnancy board. X

I'm 14 weeks today and having a rough day :( still really struggling with nausea and now the exhaustion has hit me. Just need to get back to feeling like me. Anyone feeling the same? When will it get better!?!?!?!
I try be positive but then imagine feeling like this for weeks to come and I get very down. Dreading work tomorrow :(

Im 16 n 3 hun, nausea is still loving me my midwife said could ladt through out now though im just constently tired! I keep waking up with a pain quite high up in my abdomen /back i carnt decide were the pain was to top it off i was in a car crash thursday! Good news on the mudwife point spoke to the matron and she's agreed to change who im with so im quite happy!

Yup, I'm feeling the same SSSMITH! My nausea is terrible, and I'm exhausted. I can't get through the day without several naps, sit on the sofa, walk to the toilet on my own, shower on my own....struggling to cope! I'm 17+2 weeks, so wasn't expecting to feel this way at this stage!

Hi - just joined and reading all your comments has made me feel normal! I'm 13+4 with my second baby and due 26th August. Since 4/5 weeks I've felt awful....sickness, nausea, exhaustion and generally achy stomach. I'm struggling to cope, I can't stand feeling like this anymore and just want to feel like "me" again (I've forgotten what that's like) I did have tablets from the GP to stop the vomiting but the side effects were horrible and in the end they stopped working. Granted the vomiting has eased (sick 2-3 times a day now) but the feeling of having the worse hangover ever is continuing!! Knowing I'm not alone helps...but when will it go!!!!!!! X

Hi everyone. I've been away for a while but back now 14+6 and still dog tired and wish i felt like myself again. Due 18th Aug with #1 so I gained a week and a half at scan and I was delighted.

Those who are worried about cramps... I've had them the whole pregnancy, terrible ones to the point id have tears in my eyes and it woke me in the night but at the scan just over a week ago everything was perfect. Was permanently attached to a hot water bottle for a while which did help. Must just be stretching pains. At least I know for next time not to worry about it (am I crazy for thinking ill do this again??).

Just waiting for blood results for downs testing, although I'm starting to wish I hadn't had the test at all.

I'm on the chubby side so no defined bump although I can definitly feel something going on down there, if I prod about it feels like I have a water balloon im my tummy which sometimes feels like its filling up and I get a strong sensation of pressure. Anyone else experienced this? x

Welcome to all newbies. Sorry for those still feeling rubbish.

I've had a few weeks now of feeling 'normal' but today I've woken up wretching and feeling sick again. Hoping it's just a one off! Also been tired this weekend having lots of naps and wanting to go to bed early. Feel like I waste my days off just doing nothing. However I also reason to myself that soon I'll never be able to lie in or sit doing nothing for long time to come so I may as well make the most of it now!

Hi everyone, it's been a lovely half term, and I've been more energetic than I've felt for ages! (17 weeks now)

fanby the interview could have been worse, but I didn't get the job. Sorry to hear yours didn't go well. It's bad for the self esteem isn't it.
Feel like returning the trousers I bought especially for the occasion!

Frolic I'm so sorry to hear your sad news. Sounds like a roller coaster of emotions for you.

I'm a bit worried about movement: had loads week 15 and then suddenly stopped. Had midwif appt, and heard heartbeat which was lovley. I checked with her and she said not to worry about movement until 24 weeks, by which time there might be be a pattern. But I'm getting hardly any movement at all now and it's worrying me! Someone tell me I'm being silly. Next appointment in 10 days.

Hello all

Just a very quick post, (as should be working ) but I found out after my three darling boys I'm having a girl! Shocked and over the moon and just wanted to share the news

Can anyone tell me how to get on to the FB group please? I've been back though the pages on here but I must be missing the one with the name and the profile pic others have referred to.

Lx

Hi, hope it's ok to join in?!

After self-diagnosing myself with an early menopause , I am actually pregnant with DC6!! Had my first scan today and am 15+2 but due to my age am having an amnio next week - will be a worrying couple of weeks until I know for sure baby is ok - I can never relax until the baby is in my arms

I'm a liar, a dirty rotten liar! What I thought was life returning slightly to 'normal' was just me being sucked in. Yesterday and today have been shocking, super sleepy and with grotty headaches too. Also the delight of sciatica pain is starting to rumble - such fun!!

I really hope the rest of you lovelies are slowly improving and getting a semblance of your normality back. I genuinely thought at 18weeks I'd be 'glowing'. Maybe the glow is another marketing hyper like the post labour amnesia

Guy have you felt anything today? I've bought myself a fetal Doppler and it's bought me so much reassurance when I've had mental wobbles. Try and relax though, especially as your next appt is so close.

Welcome all the newbies and congrats on the pinkness louise

Thanks mzzzf, I do just need to relax. Not felt anything today. I am interested in the Doppler... And a home bp monitor, but resisting as I'm worried they'll just make me worry more! Sorry to hear you're feeling rough again... I took a downhill turn over the weekend with a stinking headache, but undeniably more energy than before.

I have to say this pg has been so much harder than my previous that i think it will be my last. I had wanted lots of children, but I think three will be enough for me now!

Congratulations love and smiles ; hope the amnio goes well and you get good results and reassurance. welcome to all the newbies.

So sorry that there are people still suffering alongside me, but in the same breath I am kinda glad, as it helps to find people who actually understand the feeling. Some of you are further along than I am (14w1d) so I hope your close to your 'glow ' moments.

Work wasn't too bad today after a week off, but it definitely still isn't great. I got home and immediately burst into tears, bless my OH, he was a bit shell shocked. I would stop for a few minutes and then start again. I kept telling him I am just tired of feeling like this, I've lost me.
It is just the thought of feeling like this for much longer, I really don't know how I have managed 8 weeks of feeling like this already, I honestly don't have the strength to do many more weeks like this.
I do feel like I am having the tiniest little snippets of feeling slightly better, but I am nowhere near feeling like myself. I want to eat proper food again, I never realised how much I enjoyed food until I'm stuck eating barely anything. In fact don't seem to enjoy anything these days, part from sleeping and even that is broken by loo visits and insomnia.
At work people keep saying it could just be something you have through to the end, which doesn't help, it panics me! I cannot feel like this for another 26 weeks!! There will not be a 'me' left at the end.
Hope you have all had an improved day :)
X

Evening ladies,

Notta im getting painful hips and back (on consultant led care due to double curvature of the spine) pretty sure its sciatica its really bad some days. Hot water bottle helps, ive got physio next week I'll let you know if they give me any advice.

Im pretty sure felt baby today 16+3 felt like bubbles under my ribs for about 10 mins!

lottalouise for the Facebook group u need to search for someone called alex barlow and her profile pic has her with brown hair and her little cute baby boy with no hair :) then she'll add you to the group. Hope that helps

Had 16 week appointment with midwife today and all's well - phew!
Am having pain in my left hip though. Is this due to hormones, or did I just sleep funny?

Hello to all the newbies and bumps! Congrats to lottalouise on your girl!! How exciting! Have you told your boys that they're getting a sister?

Sounds like the majority are not feeling their usual selves (is it weird/selfish that I find this reassuring that it's not just me?), I'm sick of myself whinging to be honest as bump is so wanted, but I must say pregnancy really isn't what I thought it would be. I really didn't think i'd be this anxious all of the time.

Nottalotta That's so exciting that you felt your baby move! Does it happen often?

Hey Guyropes glad to hear you had a good half term - sorry to hear about the job. Any others in the pipeline? They haven't come back to me yet but I have job alerts set up on email and see that they've reposted the job so I guess no one was successful. I'm really beginning to think that I won't find anything now. I just can't imagine not working for months on end. Any more flutters of movement for you?

Fanby and guyropes I'm kinda in the same situation work wise. I finished a fixed term contract at the end of January and now can't seem to find anything suitable.
I could pimp myself out for hard core locum work - intense 5 day/week shifts that wipe me out when I'm not pregnant!

I'm fortunate that DH will support me and the bump but it feels wrong to be potentially not be working for the next year.

I'm only looking for part time, short term contracts and I'm happily dismissing those that don't match that. I've never previously been picky about work or about big commutes but now I am and that makes me feel very guilty.

The whole pregnancy thing really messes with the independent working woman thing!!

Hip pain people: go to the physio straight away. Get a referral or go private whatever you can. In the meantime have a look at a website called pelvic partnership. This could be SPD otherwise known as pelvic girdle pain. It is extremely painful and it will not go away by itself. It is likely to get worse. I have never recovered from it since dc 1 although with physio I have got lots better. I was in a wheelchair by the end of my last pregnancy and I struggled to pick up my baby for the first three months. You might find you need a support belt and you will certainly need manipulation and exercises. Do not let them give you the brush off. Speak to your work and let them know because there's various things they can do to help (foot rests, support cushions, wedges etc) and you might even be able to get physio treatment through your work. I was at my work physio today and I'm going to the SPD clinic next week at the hospital. They didn't have one here the last time I was pregnant and I suffered so much.

Look up pelvic partnership online. Essential reading.

Here endeth the lesson!

Fanby it's nice when they have the courtesy to let you know, isn't it!

I've felt a few flutters again this morning, so happy about that!

I'm self employed and got bits and pieces of work coming in, which is keeping me going for the time being, I just would prefer a regular wage. Yes, mzzzf , it does feel weird to be more picky about work now. I'm trying to keep my bp low, and I know stress at work will not help me, sounds likes you're similar!

It's a bit quieter on here these days... Do you think there's lots of chat on FB instead? It's a bit easier to keep up with tho!

Ouch, joskar spd sounds horrid! Hope the treatments help you lots this time.

Hi guys, there is a lot of activity on the fb page but I like to check in here every now and again as I am also on other threads but yeah it is quiet. The September lot are onto a 4th or 5th thread!

I think this thread is just generally a very quiet one in my opinion. There's a little bit of chat on facebook but not too much. I get a bit jealous of other people's chats! I find the July thread really informative with the things they talk about so I tend to follow that one but don't like to comment because I'm not due in July lol.
A few days ago I wrote about my mum having a mini stroke and not one person said anything. I have to admit I nearly left the thread after that point but I want to stick with it for now. The Facebook group does help a lot

Morning,

Dozygirl i'm really sorry to hear about your mum, hopefully it's not too late for me to mention it now, genuinely must have missed it when you said a few days ago, I don't usually read and run. I hope she's getting better and the rest of the family are doing ok xx

It's funny how people mention about how quiet this board is, only last night I saw the September board and spent more time than I should have reading back posts! I'm on FB but don't use it too much so haven't joined the group. I'm totally going to have a gander at the July board now though haha!

joskar Crikey that sounds nasty!! I really hope the clinic helps this time around!!!

Guyropes / mzzzf - ahh the job conundrum! I'm being picky too!! I live in South London and there are quite a few job over in the west in my industry but it'd take me about an hour and a half each way to commute and tbh just don't currently fancy it/have the energy.
“I'm fortunate that DH will support me and the bump but it feels wrong to be potentially not be working for the next year” - this pretty much sums me up too, although it will 'kill' me to be financially dependant on someone. I just didn't haven't it in my 'life plan' to be unemployed and pregnant. Don't get me wrong i'd MUCH prefer to be pregnant than not etc, I'm just finding it really difficult not working. My plan was to always work up until due date and then have a year off, but now I feel i'm not entitled to be thankful for the time off when baby comes as i'm not working now...I can't work out whether part of my pregnancy anxiety is job related, it certainly doesn't help having all this time on my hands. No one else seems to get it either, they're all like 'oh I'm so jealous you're not working etc etc' but I genuinely really loved my work. Again, boring myself with whinging, sorry....

Congrats on the flutters too, I'm slightly freaked but looking forward to getting some of those myself , still only 15 + 4 (with first) so assume it'll be another couple of weeks xx

Dozy, I'm really sorry to hear that. hope she's doing ok.

It seems like there's lots of people dipping in and out (myself included!) and it's a bit hard to remember who everyone is. I remember doing the first stats list and there were over 70 people!

Well, hope you are all feeling more energetic and less sick today.

Dozy - I'm sorry if I'm someone who missed your sad news too. I only ever skim read the thread as lots of the chat seems to be on fb, so sorry for not commenting at the time. I am sorry about your mum though, and I hope she is doing ok and recovering well x