Jan 2016 #5 - Scanxiety, sickness and sweet relief as we approach the second trimester!

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Melon - am super impressed you managed to keep your secret, there's no way I would have done as I am such a boozer usually and a very bad liar! I was also feeling quite poorly at the time. I have my scan next Thursday thank goodness! Think I'll be about thirteen weeks by then. What about you?

Anybody else got a bit of a surge of energy?! I think the first trimester fatigue might be lifting? But could just be imagining things...

Thanks Edgar and Loveulots i think i might give my MW a call just to double check and have a read through my red book. my plan is jsut to give the red book to the GP and go 'here you go thats all the proof you need' lol!

With reference to Emmas Diary - we were actrively trying but as it had only been 2 months i wasn't anxiously looking so i tested about a week after lol!

The vouchers are great though and i recommend joining the mothercare club too as you get money off vouchers for there too that currenlty don't expire until September!

13 weeks today! I hate to tempt fate but I have been feeling less sick the last few days, soooo hope I'm reaching the end of MS now!! I've not weighed myself since my booking in appt but Urgh I feel fat - I thought no boozing and healthy eating would make me feel great but the bloating, big boobs, waist "thickening" and less exercise just mean I feel enormous. Really struggling with it even though I do know I am SO lucky to be pg and DH tells me 100 times a day I look amazing (advice from his book I guess!). I think having an actual bump will really help...is anyone else feeling like this or am I just a dreadful, self-obsessed mother?!

Sleepy - apparently you can buy those extra strength folic acid pills at holland and Barrett type places. If you're takin the "regular" ones atm you're not taking 4mg you're taking 4mmg (ie the prescription ones are 20 times the strength of the normal ones you'd buy in Boots, not 1.25x). I agree though in that I thought they were only key for the first 12 weeks.

joey I feel the same! I do have past history of Anorexia (hospitalized in 2010) but have been recovered ever since - but from speaking to other friends they felt the same and they don't have my "issues". I just cannot wait to look pregnant rather than like I've put weight on. Dh is doing quite well reassuring me that I don't look terrible - and he's usually great at foot in mouth!

And isn't "thickening waist" such a horrid concept!

PS I have weighed myself (old habits die hard) and although I have gone up at least a size in trousers, boobs have grown by 3 inches, and now have no waist I have put on less than half a kilo - so about a pound! Amazing really, I reckon I look at least a stone heavier - and my boobs feel like they weigh that much!

Thanks for your support. Got to see and nurse at gps who referred me straight to epu. I have an appointment at 11 tomorrow but bleeding has ramped up and have cramps so it's not looking good.

Oh lil keeping everything crossed for you.

Lil sending positive vibes. So hope all will be fine for you

I've just had my booking in appointment. Crikey how much paperwork do they give you to read! My scan is booked for 14th July which feels years away

So sorry lil. Hope you get positive news at the scan

Sending positive thoughts lil - I hope you have someone with you.

lil so sorry your so worried, hopefully it will be nothing. . goodluck with your scan.. take care of yourself and have a rest! Thinking of you xx

So sorry Lilliana Sending positive thoughts for your scan tomorrow, fingers and toes crossed for you and your OH. X

Hope everything is okay lil.

liliana keeping my fingers crossed for you - good luck for tomorrow

Hope it's ok for you lil.

I'm glad to read of one plausible reason for waiting so long to test. But I don't think that's why Emma waited. I think the writers just didn't want to fill another 2 entries with 'you've gotten a positive and not a lot happens for another few weeks which can't be discussed in the next couple of entries anyway'. I'm a cynical so-and-so.

Has Gouda disappeared or did I miss something? I enjoyed hearing about life in France.

Liliana I really hope you are ok.

How's everyone getting on in the heat? I made it into work but have come home early, poorly tummy and heat aren't a great combo. Just like yesterday my tummy pains are getting worse as the day goes on. I'm worried I'm not drinking enough either. I've rung the GP and now waiting for the duty Dr to ring me back.

Having a few ice cubes. Cat is being sympathetic.

Everything crossed for you Lilli

Joey the ones I have nowhere prescribed but are only 4 and the MW wanted me on 5. May look in H&B though thank you.

Finally home from work, 37 degrees is toouch for me I feel sooooo sick. Had a shower and mislaid on sofa with a fan on!

Oops! Now laid on sofa not mislaid lol!

Sorry to hear it's ramped up liliana.
I hope you have better news tomorrow.

Definitely a little on the warm side but mainly worried DS is too hot and not hydrated enough. It's supposed to rain here tomorrow and cool down to 21 deg so there'll be something else to moan about!

I think we're forecast 28 and possible rain tomorrow... The breeze has got up but not cooled down so my restless legs are on the move!

I'm going for a swim I think! It's way to hot and hoping it will cool me down!

Anyone else bursting out of all there clothes? When is an acceptable time to go maternity clothes shopping!?

Urgh prego hormones are definitely in full force today. The train company was giving out free ice lollys and water at the station- i was so touched by the gesture I welled up.......wtf?!

So glad it not just me that was irritated by that bit of Emma's diary. Poe clearly they missed a vital entry where Emma joins an online antenatal group and stresses out about what her symptoms / lack of symptoms mean!!!

Black Weather is hideous, I agree! Currently sat under fan feeling sorry for myself.

Lil I am crossing fingers and toes for your scan tomorrow, really hope everything's okay.

I haven't sat down to read it properly but quite a lot of Emma's Diary has irritated me from the bits I have read, so agree with all your comments! I guess they're aiming for some sort of Everywoman which is tough but I resented the bit where she went to see a chick flick (well, that was implied) and also that she couldn't remember the name of the 'American, indie' band her partner went to see, like such things are such a mystery to us girly girls. I think at that point I decided reading in depth would get me nowhere

mrsfaz yes, it's been dresses only this week so far (except today when I haven't got dressed at all, thanks sick day) as my trousers are now out of the question and jeans aren heading that way. I don't even look particularly bigger unless I've eaten too much and haven't put on any weight so it feels weird that clothes are getting tighter!

i definately need to start drinking more fluids ive only had about 3 glass's full today.. its so hot here aswell supposed to start raining tomorrow but its still going to be as hot apparently