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November 2015 mums to be! Here we are! Our bus is decorated with scan pics, our appetites are beginning to heal, and spring is in the air!

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Focusfocus · 30/04/2015 10:16

Here is the new thread for November ladies! Let's smell the flowers, regain our sense of taste and keep chatting!

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MademoiselleG · 18/05/2015 20:38

I am yet to read back but STALPHONSO : how amazing!!!!!!! I'm just so pleased for you and your little baby. What a fantastic feeling this must be. Have you treated yourself to something nice to celebrate?! I hope you can now try to relax a little and enjoy the rest of your pregnancy. I'm so chuffed for you!

Blueblink · 18/05/2015 20:49

crying I'm really struggling to eat full meals too! I'm starving, then am full after less than half a meal! Same at lunchtime.

Just wondering if anyone here had had a cervical stitch before? I had treatment for pre-cancerous cervical cells last year and got my consultant letter through today to check the length of my cervix. (I knew this would be coming) it's not until about 20 weeks, which I assume is normal!

StAlphonsosPancakeBreakfast · 18/05/2015 21:08

Thank you all so so much! Flowers

I'm not struggling to eat at all, haha. I do feel like things have settled down to more like normality now, symptomwise - I feel more like myself, to the extent that if I hadn't

Told my best friend this morning (he's delighted), my brother and sister-in-law earlier, and my 11-year-old nephew (I'm really really close to him) is thrilled at having a cousin, and fascinated by all the gory details of my scan. My DP gets here in about thirty minutes and then we're going to Skype my parents to tell them. I do feel very far from family and friends at the moment, but it's lovely to be bringing good news.

It's very exciting, but of course now I feel like I've jinxed everything by telling people - if I had my way I'd probably try and keep it all secret til the baby was about thirty. Grin

Blueblink a friend of mine had a cervical stitch in each of her two successful pregnancies, and I know it didn't go in early, although I can't remember quite when it did - I imagine if you rang up they might be able to advise you, or maybe there are NICE guidelines online that would help clarify?

cryingbabymess · 18/05/2015 21:33

Heir I'm the same, I love food so I don't understand! At lunch I'm alright but it's just an evening meal, I sit down and can't face it!!

Probably doesn't help that I've been feeling "off" the past few days! Not sure why, I don't think it's monkey related as all symptoms have gone? Confused

Gr33dyeggs · 18/05/2015 21:34

Some good news here today! Lovely scan news and particularly 'hooray' for stalphonso what a relief after that wait!

Today I have felt shocking again. Nausea all day and I was sick at work. I am absolutely exhausted now. I hope it soon passes!

Unthoughtknown · 18/05/2015 21:39

I wish I couldn't face a meal every know and again, I'm 14 + 3 and feeling fat. I haven't got much of a bump just thicker round the middle. I am awaiting the cute bump.

doomclaw · 18/05/2015 21:47

Great news StAlphs - what a relief for you!

Unthoughtknown I feel the same!

I have definitely felt more like myself over the last few days and it's strange telling people when I don't really look or feel pregnant. I keep telling myself it's normal at 13+5 to just be a bit rounder but having grabbed a few Ebay maternity bargains I want to wear them stamps foot

Oddicombe37 · 18/05/2015 21:47

I have, thanks! No idea what was going on before.

Oddicombe37 · 18/05/2015 21:50

Yes thanks! No idea what was going on before.

Oddicombe37 · 18/05/2015 21:51

Now it's not showing me my own posts! AAARRGGHHHH!

NoMoreSashimi · 18/05/2015 21:53

Fab news StAlphs, so happy for you!

Is anyone planning to go for private scans in between 12 and 20 weeks or after? I'm checking it out at the moment, midwife not checking heartbeat at 16 weeks really botheres me. And we're off on holidays to see my family soon, so some new scan pics would be lovely.

Oddicombe37 · 18/05/2015 21:55

Anyway, I'm having a bit of a freak out today as I got my NT results which were not great but ok (1:580), but also a letter saying my PAPP-A levels were very low, and they would like me to have a growth scan at 34 weeks, but no more information than that, so I've spent all day looking up studies on PAPP-A levels and associated risks and it's not looking good. I hoped that getting past the first trimeter I would be able to relax, but it isn't going to be so.

mrsscarlettbutler · 18/05/2015 22:04

Ahhh StAlphon so pleased for you, you must be so relieved. Rubbish that you had such a long drawn out wait for results but hooray that it all has worked out!

Lauramum your due date is my birthday - obviously that means it's the best day to be born on Grin

Not much to report from me. 16+2 today, midwife appt on Thursday but at the booking in she said they don't try and hear the heartbeat at that appointment, so guess I'll have to wait for 20 week scan.

Toots I am having similar bump issues. Nothing much there until later in the day - I'm 99.9% sure that it's bloat! I hate it though, a few people at work have started commenting that I'm getting a bump but it's definitely NOT baby, it's a bit of fat and some bloat. I can feel where the baby is and it's still very low down, just a gentle curve in my lower abdomen if that makes sense? I am waiting for the day I wake up and have 'popped'!

Also, I think I have started to feel a bit of movement, but is that ridiculous at this stage? Every now and again I've felt some funny things - sometimes it feels like something is tickling inside me, other times it feels like tiny bubbles popping, and a few times it's felt like a firmer single 'push' inside. It's all happening in my lower abdomen. At first I thought it might be wind (been happening for about 10 days) but it feels different. Plus (TMI) with wind, it generally feels like things move around and 'redistribute' as it were, but this is more stand alone. Perhaps just wishful thinking?!

Oddicombe37 · 18/05/2015 22:07

You can definitely feel movements by 16 weeks. I could feel them very clearly with my first at 15 weeks, though was a bit later with my second.

Dixiebell · 18/05/2015 22:39

mrsscarlett, that's definitely movements. It was 16 weeks with my first. Felt exactly like you say - bubbles popping mainly. It's an amazing feeling! Partly why I wanted to go for ds3!

Told my two DCs last week after our scan. DS1 (4.5): "but WHY are you having a baby mummy?" (I think he means how did it get there!). DS2 (2.5): "want more milk". ??

Dixiebell · 18/05/2015 22:40

Grin that was supposed to be

tootsroots · 19/05/2015 07:43

poppy we have done Jakarta Borneo and Lombok and have Bali left! Two or three nights in each! Hard work travelling so much preggers tho- booked before we knew! Is awesome but very careful not to sunbathe and keep cool so a lot of reading In the shade wearing factor 50 to ensure no chlorasma face marks. Eating so much rice this
Baby will be a rice baby!

Have requested to join the fb group so if my trip didn't give me away to anyone I will soon be on the group !!!

Focusfocus · 19/05/2015 07:57

Stalphonso hurrrrrrray!!! How relieving!

I can't wait for the movement to make this feel real. I'm still in regular clothes and sometimes having trouble bonding with babe I think :( makes me sound awful doesn't it?

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flyingsprocket · 19/05/2015 08:09

toots if your baby is a rice baby then mine's a hot sauce baby, can't get enough of it!!

blueblink I'm having my cervix measured too. My membranes ruptured at 16 weeks last time round, they didn't think the cause was incompetent cervix but I'm being checked anyway. I know it's serious but I can't help but snigger when I hear "incompetent cervix" Grin

cryingbabymess · 19/05/2015 08:16

Focus I know how you feel! I'm excited that I'm pregnant but at the same time I'm not overly enthusiastic about buying things etc. I feel awful for it too

GuybrushThreepwoodMP · 19/05/2015 08:28

In some ways, it can be impossible to bond with a baby until you actually meet it. With dd, it just seemed so abstract and I couldn't relate the bump to an actual baby. Immediately when she was born, it felt bizarre: 'Oh my god, it's a baby! Where did that come from?'
We've bonded more every day since then Smile

Focusfocus · 19/05/2015 08:51

Good to hear that guybrush! Some days I honestly feel un pregnant if you see what I mean. Some days my bump is bloat. How can there possibly be a wriggly baby in there?!

I've even considered how bored it must be,mjust sat floating in those dungeons for months on end! But I am sure that's not what they feel. If they feel anything. I need movements, else clearly I will think myself crazy!

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GuybrushThreepwoodMP · 19/05/2015 09:37

Even when I felt movements last time, it's hard to make it feel real! For us, it helped knowing the sex. We gave her a name and called her by name through the pregnancy which helped us feel more like she was a person. But I still wouldn't call it a bond! Not for me anyway, not until I met her.

CoffeeTwo · 19/05/2015 09:42

Same as guy. I felt very odd about my last pregnancy until we found out the sex and that really kick started the maternal feelings. Suddenly the baby wasn't it, he was my son. That's the reason we're finding out the sex this time :)

AbbeyRoadCrossing · 19/05/2015 09:43

If it makes anyone feel better I didn't feel anything until 20 weeks with my 1st and that's totally normal, especially for a 1st!

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