Christmas and new years babies thread!

[CuppaSarah]

Just got my bfp positive today and am thinking we need a thread for all the babies that will be born around new years and Christmas. I'm due new years eve and just know I'll be sick of the comments real quick! So we can vent and plan low stress xmases together.

I know we have the December thread and will have the January one, but why the hell not there's room for everyone!

I've only just seen this thread. I'm due with my first around the 30th December

Hi NoArmani... Brilliant username! Congrats and welcome! Is this your first DC?

You lot are super helpful - thanks so much!! Am guzzling water like it's going out of fashion but it's 38 degrees here at the moment, so hard to keep hydrated! That's definitely not helping..!! Off to find prunes and juice today...

Hope you're feeling a bit better ohholy and glad the docs saw you so soon.

REALLY need to register with local docs so can get maternity referral. Will try and sort next week, so much house-move admin to do and yesterday I was so tired (for no good reason) I broke down crying at 9pm because I wanted to go to bed and DS was still up. DP thought I was being silly. I was. So I went to bed. DS was up until 10(!!) and he got up at 4.45 this morning, he's just dropped off again. What am I thinking?

Hi NoArmarni and welcome, I was thinking we wouldn't get anymore people joining, so I'm thrilled to get Another member.

Chandlers I hope you get things moving quickly, at least it's like a practice for when you start getting a bump.

Tango that sounds exhausting, no wonder it got the better of you. Moving house and having a baby are the two most stressful things. The only way you could be under more pressure would be if you decided to get married too.

We told our very close friends last night. We had to tell them as me giving up drinking would have looked suspicious very quickly. They were both really excited which was lovely. I also have a little bloat bump! I'm so bloaty I'm filling out maternity tops already! But as my boobs have gone up a few cup sizes no ones noticed as the boob to belly ratio is the same. I need all new bras.

Yes to the worries etc. Still few symptoms here but sure they'll appear soon.

Thanks for the welcome. It's our first DC. We got a very odd response when we told MIL about the baby, thought she'd be happy. I feel like I need new bras already and I'm only 6 weeks gone.

Hey everyone - OhHoly glad you are ok have been thinking about you. In my first pregnancy I had horrendous nausea until 14 weeks. I'm 6 weeks today and not a hint of nausea - Im worrying that its a bad sign (obviously I don't wish myself to be ill but Im sure you know what I mean).

I told a friend on Thursday too. I needed someone to be excited with me as DH is really struggling to get his head around it and can only see the worries and challenges of a third at the moment. I think with it taking so long to conceive he thought we were destined to be a family of 4 rather than 5. It was me that really wanted a third rather than him. I know he will love it and all will be fine, but it is sad that he's not excited yet. . Luckily my friend was over the moon for me. She picked me back up after the miscarriage last year is being great.

I don't know how those of you with toddlers manage to cope with the tiredness and the toddler. I'm napping all the time.

armani I manage by letting (SAHD) DP take the brunt during the week. And sobbing like a toddler when it gets past my bedtime (about 8.45 this week). V copey.

Went out with my whole family (lots of sibs) for lunch. Didn't tell anyone. Not even tempted this time. I mc at 12w before DS, but it's not that stopping me, it's that pregnancy is so long anyway I got bored of it last time, so 3 months where every conversation doesn't have to be about it is nice. No symptoms apart from tiredness still so pretty sure no-one clocked it. Wasn't a boozy lunch.

Don't worry sweep my DP isn't exactly overexcited either but I know from last time that it won't be real for him until he's actually holding DC, it just isn't the same when you aren't the one carrying it, I think.

Oh and cuppa thankfully marriage is not on the cards, I definitely don't have the time, nor the inclination! I am, however, having 10 people over to our not-quite-unpacked new house tomorrow and the kitchen (washing machine, sink, dishwasher) have all just stopped draining. U-bend clear and drain-unblocker ineffective so have just done a day and a half's worth of washing up in the bath. And the landlord isn't picking up.

Coping though!

Oh Tango that sounds beyond shit. But hopefully something that will.make you laugh come next year.

I'm sorry about your husband Sweep but I agree with Tango, men are rubbish at getting their heads round things in advance. Dp is trying, but he obviously has to contiously remind himself why I'm such a misery.

Griff it will come sooner or later I imagine. They say drastically different pregnancies means a different gender. So we'll see.if there's any truth to it I guess

NoArmarni, I'm lucky enough to have a sahd for a dh. So he does the bulk of the house stuff and toddler work. I get left with all the cuddles and playing!(and a fair share of cooking and housework on weekends) but its work I can't cope with.

Tango that sounds awful. We had no heating or hot water a few weeks ago and it was such a pain! I can't imagine doing it while pregnant & exhausted.

Sweep I know the week we found out, DH was as crabbit as sin. Turns out he was terrified we'd MC again but didn't want to say that so just stropped around stressing out & not telling me what was wrong. He's been lovely since we had a long talk about things though & is getting pretty excited about it all.

I'm so goddamn hungry ALL. THE. TIME. I've eaten so much that I'm out of all my trousers already.

I know he'll get there, but it's real for me, growing in my body. He is so unengaged that he keeps offering me wine as he forgets!

God, I'd swap with any of you who haven't got sickness yet! I'm on antiemetics already and still haven't been out this weekend due to throwing up every half hour or so...

Thank you everyone for your lovely responses, still can't believe I seen the heartbeat at just 6+1!

I haven't been on here in the last few days, I'd been in such pain and yesterday it was horrendous, id convinced myself it was really serious and went to epu and after the examination everything was fine. Typically the pain went near enough as soon as I got there after it being horrific for the past two days but I feel reassured that everything is ok! I should probably stop worrying now and try to relax!

Hope everyone is doing well.. Nausea has kicked in for me today and I assume it'll only get worse as things progress.. Woo!

I hope the sickness starts to ease off soon Oh holy.

Chandlers, I feel for you ref the constipation, I suffered from it terribly with dd for most of the pregnancy and I'm dreading getting it again this time. My advice for when it's really bad is to drink a strong coffee (Not ideal in pregnancy I know but if you need to go...) and then if you can go and lie down and try to sleep for half an hour while it takes effect. I found that if I juat stayed on the loo (and sorry for tmi) that I would start to have sweats and feel sick and faint, but mine was really severe. Gp advised lactose for me, it didn't really seem to help though.

I've booked a private scan for this Saturday, I'm just too paranoid to wait until the 12 week one. I feel nervous already.

Apart from exhaustion (especially with an 8 month old to run around after and be woken at 6am every day!) I don't really feel pregnant at all, my boobs already feel heavier but no other symptoms, my morning sickness hasn't kicked in yet thankfully! I had it terribly last pregnancy but can't remember how soon it started, should count myself lucky for now!

I had morning sickness, but it went. Its coming back again now, Mr bloom sent me running to the toilet with all his talk of.compost and squashes tomato's. Started dry heaving typing that.

Other than that, big sore boobs, belly bloat and really bad anxiety are my main symptoms. OhHolyFuck I would trade my anxiety for your sickness if I could.

Getting really scared about work tomorrow. I just need to get through this week and get my apprenticeship signed off. Then I can go to the drs and ask about being signed off for stress. I can't cope with work at all and I'm really worried how daily panic attacks and constant stress will effect the baby. I'm not taking the piss trying to get signed off am I?

cuppa Im.sorry if i was insensitive about feeling sick, of course it is reassuring too, just easy to lose perspective when even turning over in bed/standing up makes you retch

I don't think your taking the piss fwiw, you're genuinely anxious/stressed and thats a proper sign that work might be a bit too much atm
You need to take care of yourself too

Thanks OhHoly and you haven't been even slightly insensitive about sickness, you hce it really bad and that'd really shit. I have anxiety really bad and that's shit.

I think I could cope with work if they were supportive, but constantly being forced to take really late lunch with no access to any food or toilets abdand bring tricked into overtime is too much for me right now. I can barely go to the supermarket. I feel like such a misery as these things are expected at my work and weren't an issue for me before.

cuppa your work is not behaving appropriately and therefore the environment is not suitable for you (both) to be in right now - workers need regular access to get a drink and a reasonable time to get some lunch and much more so when pregnant, they're clearly not doing this and it's just not on
Don't feel bad in the slightest that you're taking some time off

If it helps, I had to tell my boss last night (throwing up as soon as I got in the office so had to tell him before he thought id been drinking pre-shift!)
He said congratulations and asked if I need anything changing right now to make things better/easier, he also went through a risk assessment with me and highlighted things I wouldn't have even thought of - like when I go back, he'll arrange a private place where I could express milk if needs be etc
That's what an employer should be doing, not treating you the way they are
Take a break until you feel better

Yeah you're right, I'm the only woman in my district, so I get they aren't used to it. But I just don't feel listened too at all. My midwife suggested I not work on gas till after 12 weeks, but I've been pressured back into doing it to get signed off quick enough. Why am I letting them push me and put mine and babies health at risk? I need to stop worrying about what they think of me, because it just doesn't matter.

My husband and I have told no one yet but already there have been 4 events where I've had to make an excuse up for why I'm not drinking. And at brunch today I had to change my order when I remembered I couldn't really eat runny eggs.

I got some of that pregnacare max today, anyone else taking it?

Also has anyone read Expecting Better by Emily Oster?

I'm feeling quite tired but that might be because I'm not sleeping that well. Refusing to be too useless at this stage though and getting plenty of exercise in! My boobs are pretty sore but other than that, no real symptoms yet. I did POAS yesterday though and got a really dark line right away which was pleasing...