Jan 2016 #3 - booking in for ginger tea vs frankfurters + rapidly expanding boobs

[Blackandwhitecat3]

New thread for the January babies

Oh and thanks manatee for the tip! Will get some later and give them a go!!

Thanks for doing the stats teenie, could you put my 12 week scan as 22 June?

loveulots We're just stayibg in South Devon and it's lovely. North Sands, Salcombe and Blackpool Sands are really beautiful beaches. Dartmoor is only 30mins away for walks. Might be a bit less £££ than Cornwall.

I'm being vegetarian at the moment, just can't deal with meat or fish at all. DH said last night "it would be great if we could manage some fish at least once a week." I love that he is soooo involved but there's no "we" feeling sick, just me!

So I'm back- the Dr wouldn't give me blood tests but she did suggest I should get a urine test, DH then dipsticked my pee and it turns out it was positive for blood and proteins so the problem was a UTI, not mc. I was advised to drink as much water as humanly possible last night to try to flush it out and they are testing my urine today to see if I need antibiotics. It's fair to say I was completely terrified but now DH, my parents and his mother all know I'm expecting now.

bee glad you are OK, although a UTI is pretty horrid. I hope the GP sorts you out. How do you feel about people knowing now?

joey yep meat is the devil - and I love chicken and fish usually.

bee - UTI is horrible but glad to hear it's not a mc!

newbie Welcome!

Hi Hopeful don't worry too much as symptoms do come and go. Yesterday I was nauseous as hell, today, nothing.

loveyoulots we've just come back from a week in Somerset and it was lovely. Day out at Bath, Cheddar Gorge and Longleat.

Thank you so much for the suggestions! Got a lot to look at tonight!!

thanks everyone.. I really need to chill out, I just hate not being in control lol

The control thing is hard, isn't it, Hopeful. I keep telling myself the only way to get through this in a reasonably zen-like state is to let go as much as possible - of the idealised 'perfect' pregnancy, the 'natural' birth, all those other things people say you can have some control over but you can't really or only in an incredibly limited way.

I've spent my life being the author of my own fate and feeling confident in my ability to change things for myself so they work for me - get fit, change jobs, whatever. Suddenly my body is in the driving seat and there's not much I can do to affect things either way beyond just avoiding anything that would be actively harmful to the foetus. It's a huge mental transition to make and I'm finding I have to keep reminding myself it's OK to just be a passenger for a bit.

OTheHugeManatee I need to take a page out of your book.. it is so hard though, always thought I was a calm person and id be relaxed about it all but since the day I found out I was pregnant I am second guessing everything and google has made me paranoid

Massive craving for supernoodles.

OMG SUPER NOODLES.

Now you've put the thought into my head

Funny..... I had a huge craving for super noodles earlier too!

Didn't have any left though and ended up eating half a pack of sour cream pretzels

Don't worry, I've been craving a chicken and mushroom pot noodle for weeks. I finally succumbed at lunch time... Omg was the best thing ever I was so disappointed when I'd finished it!

On the flip side, does anyone else get the thing where you really, really fancy something but the minute you start eating it the nausea goes 'ohhhhh no we're not having that'

ooooooooh super noodles!! Have just texted dh to buy some on the way home. They would go down perfectly!

kep everyone reacted really well when they were told so that's as much as I could hope for and means the worry of telling them is out the way. I'm just obviously hoping baby sticks in there now they know.

Re cravings- with me it's not so much wanting something but having complete aversions to things I normally love (chickpeas, hummus, salad, vegetarian food) so I've just eaten stodge all week- I will need to work out a sensible food plan next week as crisps and cake aren't going to help to avoid GD.

Have spent a lovely half hour getting excited about actually having a baby. Started adding a baby tab to my mammoth cash flow spreadsheet (I'm an accountant, I love spreadsheets). It was lovely to actually allow myself to think about things like pushchairs and bouncy chairs and reusable nappies, rather than worrying that I'm only 8 weeks and loads could still go wrong.

It will be great to discuss on here too - as some stuff I know what I want, but others I'd love opinions on, as a lot has changed since I had my last dc in 2006.

That's nice kep - it's hard to get past the unpleasant symptoms and worrying to actually enjoy it sometimes, and it's not that worrying acheives anything anyway. I don't think i've once sat down yet and actually been excited about growing a baby

Ooohh super noodles... The right mix of carbs and stodge with not too strong a flavour... I need them!

Today has been a mixture of being calm to insanely angry and then back to calm again. Long story short, my GP is hopeless and I need to move surgeries. I moved out my folks when I was 17 (I'm now 35) and they still can't get my address or phone number right. They called my parents to confirm my BFP last month, so no way of me and OH keeping it to ourselves for a while. Then after a lovely chat with her a few weeks ago where she agreed to refer me for an early scan, today I called the EPU just to enquire as to when I should expect to hear from them and they didn't have a clue what I was talking about... Cue hormonally charged pregnancy rage. Luckily, the midwife I spoke to was the one that discovered my mmc in Dec and made an appointment for my early scan there and then. So 16th June it is, but basically if I hadn't enquired I wouldn't be getting one. I feel like wringing my GPs neck, they are hopeless!!!!! And breathe...

PS. Sorry for the rant but you're the only ones who'll understand, grrr...

Welcome hopeful, I'll get you added to the stats!

Hi all, can I join you? A little late to the party I know, but I have been lurking (sounds dodgey) on the thread.
Think I've been a bit nervous to come in til a bit later. Although I realise 9+1 is still considered early. But it's starting to feel real now.
Stats: Age 28, this is my first, no mc.
Both DH and I super excited.
Had my booking app on Monday, now waiting to hear on 12 week scan date.

Nausea really stepped up this last week - I'm all about lemonade ice lollies!

Forgot to say EDD around 7th Jan, waiting to confirm at dating scan, as I'm not the most regular.

And just realised, my names totally going to be shortened to "fish" now isn't it, lol

Yes fish it is Welcome! Lemonade ice lollies sound good!

teenie rant away, my GP is useless too. Going to call midwife myself next week as I have absolutely no faith that GP has managed to contact them.

aloha yep I decided to allow myself a momentary escape from nerves and anxiety and it was very refreshing. My dh is now shitting himself concerned about the "stuff" required for a little person - I am just chomping at the bit to start shopping. I will wait until after the 20 week scan and then go on a bit of a rampage. There's a baby show in Olympia in October, but that seems a bit late to leave shopping, although will only be 28 weeks. I cannot remember how big and uncomfy I was at that stage.