February 2016 babies - let the chundering commence

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Stats sheet here :) docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dWmvdD9SkvPQqKn7rpFHazgufmda2FOTMtL093cZFj8/htmlview

Charlotte, I hope you are ok and that you will rejoin us later.

Good luck CharlotteRose I really hope despite your worries that everything works out for you.

Ellie, as Jeremy Kyle says: "You should've put something on the end of it"

I hope you're back pronto, Charlotte...I have an odd feeling you will be.

Hello! I am nearby 7 weeks pregnant with my second. My due date is 28 Jan but can I join anyway?

I have a 1 year old son. Like last time I am already spending much of the day hugging the toilet, or dry heaving in the street. I really really hate this, I'm not good at pregnancy! All your enthusiasm perks me up no end, but I really am the chundering one!

Charlotte, I really hope we see you back here in a week or two - try to be positive.
Carlton, if only, I'm back at work doing to different nanny jobs with my daughter in tow - on Wednesdays I have 2 babies (my 7m old and a 9 m old and 2 toddlers.
There is no sofa time for me. Paying for this baby is going to be impossible so actually going to have to look and doing some night-nannying as well - did about 60 hours a week while preggers with daughter!

Charlotte, please drop back in. If I may say my CB Digital hasn't gone beyond 2-3 weeks yet, and I am already 7 weeks, and have a strong heartbeat on an early scan....same happened with my now 1 year old too.

I entirely trust your female gut instinct, and if you are right I am so sorry. But those digital tests really do know how to mess with a woman's instinct!

Can I ask you opinion ladies? I'm 5w +1 and I went swimming today but afterwards started to read about how chlorine can cause birth defects, lots of articles saying how good swimming is in later pregnancy but I'm worried about doing harm when so many important things like the heart developing this week and the neural tube closes! Would you go swimming at week 5?

I was planning to go swimming as it's recommended Rufus! The water can't get into your uterus so don't think it will cause harm :)

Charlotte take care hope all is well with you.
Totally agree with everyones comments about bloating. Last time I was really self conscious that people could see but actually hardly anyone guessed until 5 months this time I know someone is going to guess any day! Even in baggy tops you can definitely see a bump

Hi all can I join in?! I will be 6 wks tomorrow with an edd of 2nd feb I think. This will be my first baby but had a miscarriage almost a year ago. I got my bfp nearly a year to the day as last time so hoping there is some karma to that! I'm v nervous having miscarried at 8 wks last time but I have been getting sore boobs and a sort of travel sick in the head type feeling a few times which I didn't have last time. Have booked an early scan for 8 wks so only 2 more weeks to wait! Good luck to everyone!

Hi everyone

Another one not having a good day. Still getting 2-3 on clearblue digital even though I am 6 weeks today. Combined with my complete lack of symptoms I am thinking the worst (lahottiereturns has given me a slight glimmer of hope though)

Doctor's appointment tomorrow...I was really looking forward to making it official but will probably spend the appointment being pessimistic.

Hi everyone! Glad to have found you! Carlton directed me here on a post I started earlier in pregnancy.

I'm 4+3 edd 12th Feb with DC2 who'll have just turned 3 when this little one arrives.

Have been reading about everyone's bloating on here! I have been the exact same, don't remember this the last time! I've completely lost my appetite, anyone else having this?? But I've been eating little and often as it keeps the nausea at bay.

I'm sorry to those who are having a tough time just now

Hi Disneybelle and LaHottie - thread's filling up first!

Having never been in this situation before it's as nerve-racking as I imagined! My cramping's a bit stronger today especially on the right hand side. I'm sure it's nothing but I'll be so glad when I've had my first scan.

My first midwife appt's booked for next Friday when I'll be 6+4 and my lovely fertility doctor is keeping the IVF appt I have booked for the end of August open for me. As long as everything's alright two weeks before I can then ring up and cancel it - I'm really looking forward to that phone call

Hi all.

Sat at Milan airport and can't bloody well wait to fly home.

Charlotte I'm sorry you feel like that, I can't help but feel that your panic has spiralled your anxiety out of control.

The reality is, you have no idea what will happen. I lost my 3rd baby after having a scan with a heartbeat so nothing is conclusive.

You've pretty much convinced yourself it don't work and you don't actually know.

But I appreciate your need to step back. Tossed fingers crossed for you too.

I'm so bloated and can't work out my symptoms today. I've not really felt nauseous today but it's blistering in Milan at 32 degrees so I've been knocking the water back like nobodies business.

However I'm very tired, crazy dreams last night and still have sore boobs. Needing Friday to get here for my scan but I admit I'm terrified!

When you all say 'sore boobs' what do you mean? My breasts are fine but my nipples feel as though they've been scrubbed with a Brillo pad.

Tossedsalads I really feel you must throw away your digital tests. This 2-3 week thing is rife, just Google 'CB Digital still says 2-3 weeks' and you will see!

I am in no way complacent...I am nearly 40 years old and at just 7 weeks so much can still go wrong for me. Until I am 12 weeks with a clear Harmony test, I won't assume I might get a healthy baby....but I do feel that some information we have access to nowadays does nothing but mess with our heads.

You have a positive pregnancy test and to be symptomless at just 6 weeks is really quite normal. Imagine CB Digital hadn't been invented yet...

Mine are very achy. I'm aware of them and I cannot lie on my front as they are so tender.

Sometimes I can just feel an ache in them if that makes sense, without actually touching them!

purdiepie mine just feel really bruised all over...especially when my cats jump on them Nipples feel fine and non-brillo'd though

purdie my boobs just feel painful. It's hard to describe, but it's worse when I'm in bed and I stand up, the pain in them makes my eyes water. I can't feel them being painful now but if I move or touch them slightly (think brushing arm against them) they hurt like they've been punched. My boobs are quite small though so maybe that's why they hurt so much?

Today I have eaten porridge and Brazil nuts, a tuna baton, eight chocolate biscuits, a Mars Bar, a Topic, some fruit salad chews, 4 cans of energy drink and 2 packets of pickled onion Space Raiders. Spag bol and garlic bread for tea. Get in!!

Thanks for tit tidbits. Mine only felt how you lot describe when I was 8 months pregnant. I have big juicy jugs though

Purdie, we did but in a fit of drunken idiocy (with a one-squiffy-squinty-eyed glance at THE WRONG MONTH on my fertility app) it was promptly flung off again as it apparently "made of bloody tarpaulin".
I doubt many people would plan to be 6m pregnant at their baby's 1st birthday without alcohol being heavily involved.