Puking our way through the first trimester: It's the November 2015 ladies here! Hand out plenty of ginger tea, cold drinks and some lovely scan pics soon!

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If you're due in November 2015, well here's your ante natal club! Come and talk about vomit inducing man-scents, cheese roasties you simply cannot do without/or stand, the picked ice cream you must have right now, and the bubbling desire to tell the world but checking dates to restrain yourself!

I'm still waiting for my booking appointment to come through but have another scan this thursday, due to bleeding and spotting. The EPAU referred me back to my GP two weeks ago and told me to tell him it looked like a viable pregnancy at that point. I'm 9+2 today.

Thanks gor the new thread focus I posted this on the other one then realised you are all here.

Just heard from my friend who has had a baby boy who is perfect but the most horrific labour. The details were pretty graphic and I am slightly terrified. She doesn't know we are pregnant yet. Might hold off telling her until she is feeling better and has forgotten some of the horror.

Hope the sickness is easing off ladies.

Ninja is it your first? Her first? If so she will forget some of the more dramatic details soon enough, and look at me I'm on my fourth if it was that bad no one would have more than one! You do right keeping stchum for now.

I have to moan about this somewhere right now!! My daughters hair stinks of well -hair so strong! She is almost 9 so we wash 3 times per week she has a bath every night tho. She's sat at my feet making Easter cards she's no bother bless her but her hair Jeeez it's making me nauseas! Even when I've washed it I can smell the shampoo smell I mile off! Sensitive pregnancy nose me!? How dare you suggest such a thing!!!!

Hi ladies!

Hope you don't mind me joining you - I used mumsnet with my daughter and found the support amazing! Have to admit I'm useless at keeping up but I will try!

Positive pregnancy test last week! Very shocked and quite honestly absolutely terrified about it! DD is 2 years old and I had so much planned this year not sure how I'm going to squeeze another baby in too!

I have my booking in appointment in about an hour, so hopefully they can refer me up to the hospital for a dating scan... I'm not sure if I'm 5 or 9 weeks!

Hope you are all feeling ok so far and looking forward to chatting with you all!

Wow, thread is filling up quickly!!

I am sat marking a pile of University essays at the masters level - and sucking on a piece of salted lemon. Its divine, the sea salt, the lemon, all of it.

Not sure how much my nausea is impacting the marks I am giving, or maybe its just a bad set...kidding, take my job seriously!

Welcome brooke!!!

I was terrified of birth (I come from a private medical culture country of origin and every urban woman is autiomatically C-sectioned) - but after getting PG i seem to have just deleted that from my head. What shall be shall be. Armed myself with a booking on a birthing course, got some material on hypnobirthing, DH will take part with TENS machine, essential oils, hot bags and my birth notes will scream GIVE ME EPIDURALS ASAP in big highlighted letters, as I totes dont get the being a hero giving birth all natural etc . Wont think further about it!

Brooke89 congratulations and welcome

Welcome Brooke! I didn't realise people had moved over to the new thread already! So I'll repost my last post -

Had my booking in this morning. Bloody hell it took ages! My midwife was a bit of a waffler but still. Just loads of questions and blood samples etc. I was good and did my pee sample whilst I was waiting. I think I'll be getting my scan appointment through soon now. Can't wait!

Congrats Brooke89

Can I ask - I called the GP, said I was pregnant and booked an appt for 14th. Is that my booking in appointment?! Or will they organise that on 14th at the doctor's?

Gobbolino - me too!

I am 9 weeks and don't have a booking in appointment or scan yet - I am seeing my GP on Thursday as that was the first time he could fit me in.

I also hope that he can turn around a scan referral in time!

Dreadful cold here, I don't know if it's that pregnancy makes it worse or the lack of available drugs to make me feel better.

I know it's easier said than done (hell, for the best part of last year I devoured birth stories and watched every OBEM episode ever aired) but try and take birth horror stories with a pinch of salt. I think that people tend to tell their negative birth stories much more than positive ones. Plenty of ladies give birth every day, it's what we're designed to do and our bodies are rather good at it. My DD's birth was brilliant- no denying that it was the hardest thing I've ever done in my life, but I couldn't have asked for it to go any better and I felt so empowered afterwards. Although I know that all pregnancies, births etc are different, I know that my body knows what it's doing and to trust it.

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I watched about 8 straight episodes of One Born Every Minute when I was at home ill yesterday. Veering between being terrified and convinced that it can't be as bad as it is shown...

My booking in is on Thursday when I'll be 7+1 - I'm glad it's so soon as it will be the first thing to make it 'real' since the test!

So LadyStark will Thurs be your booking in appt?

I love a bit of One Born! They're always nice outcomes on that anyway, so I don't think there's anything too scary on it.

Saying that, I think I'm still a bit detached from the thought that I will have to go through labour and have an ACTUAL baby though. It's still all a bit unreal and far off at this stage.

Welcome Brooke.

Another positive birth story here with DS, despite not going anything like specified in my birth plan (which basically just said "I WANT AN EPIDURAL ASAP!!"). Got to hospital at 4am, DS born 4:58am, half hour of active labour and 13 minutes of pushing. No time for pain relief but I wouldn't have changed anything, it was great! I'm still worried about having a horrible birth this time as I feel I got off lightly, but fx!

Be nice to hear other people's positive birth stories for reassurance!

My mum was scheduled for a C section (as urban women are in that country). Docs said no chance of a birth till 21 days later.

Pains began 6.30 am. Rushed to hospital. Dad went to fetch doctor who was still asleep in her house (!) - olden days, different society - Dad got back at 8 am - to find out his daughter had arrived while they were preparing mum for the surgery.

Mum describes it as 30 minutes of feeling rather drowsy, and then one piercing pain and a lanky little fair child was being waved about!

Second story - my friend - this was 5 years ago. Also sked for a C section. Dh half the world away. She's alone at home, parents and parents in law in different cities/traveling. Due date 1 month away.

Pains at 1 pm. Child out while seated on a chair at 1:45 pm. she says she cannot for her life remember what transpired in those 45 minutes. In both cases - the private gynaecologists felt "cheated" out of C Section surgery fees (which is how the gynaecology industry runs in India).

Sorry - a last third story, my friend - bled throughout her pregnancy - copious volumes of river-like blood.

At 29 weeks - waters break. She goes to hospital to find out what the F is happening. 1 hour later she says "an octopus like shrivelled up thing came out of me, while I sat on a chair" and they rushed her off to the NICU for 3 months.

Everyone is happy and healthy and fine now - just showing how 3 births with such different circs were all - essentially done in under 1 hour.

Realy hoping my mother's genes will have rubbed off on me! i am consciously trying not to watch OBEM though - and not to listen to/read birth horror stories.

Ann please don't leave the thread for a while its important that you stay. Your birth experience sounds awful and we are here to support you through this pregnancy and birth and beyond. You are definitely not saying the wrong things. Some women having lovely pregnancies/crap births. Some women have crap pregnancies/lovely births. Some women have lovely pregnancies/lovely births. Some women have crap pregnancies/crap births. We will all fall into that mixture somewhere and to varying degrees. I can only speak for myself but i would rather hear about all the different scenerios and not just the pleasent experiences.

With my Dd i had HG, an epidural that didn't work in my left hip and leg, episitomy and forceps. I unsurprisingly went on to develop PND. But i believe my PND didn't come on due to the experiences i had, i believe it was caused by the realities of being a mother for the 1st time being far different from my expectations and having a Dd who only slept 2 hours out of a possible 24 This time i want to know the good and the bad.

I also want to be able to support others when they need it. Being pregnant again is making you face upto what happened last time you are understandably scared of it happening again and scared of your memories of what happened. Please stay.

Golly so much chat to catch up on!

I've got my booking in appointment on the 22 April and my scan on the 5 May - it's all as my mum says, very exciting!

What is not exciting is the excruciating dull period like pain that wakes me up at 4 in the morning - no spotting or bleeding so can only assume that my womb is trying to stretch to Australia!

Hey Ann

Not sure who you've upset? On this thread do you mean or RL? Please dont leave, sorry if I/we have upset you in any way. We are here to support each other!

Wow this thread has already filled up quickly.....just marking my place