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

[TeenieDeenie]

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Oh and I felt movements around 19 weeks with DS - anterior placenta. Expect it to be earlier this time, no idea what effect twins will have on that...

13+5 today and I thought the first trimester tidreness was lifting... slightly wrong, I managed to oversleep by an hour this morning! Luckily my boss is off and I can work from home!

DH wants to find out the sex, I wasn't keen but he's so impatient so we probably will, it'll help with shopping and name choosing. Up until now I haven't had any feelings towards it being either a boy or a girl. DH thinks (and I think secretly wants) a boy, and whenever we talk about names he only suggests boy names. I've now got a funny feeling it'll be a girl! I think it's probably a good idea to find out now, if it is a girl he'll be over the moon but I think because he's adamant in his mind its a boy at least he'll have a few months to get his head around it.

I told my Boss on Wednesday, she cried! She'd had quite an emotional week (close family members funeral on Monday) she kept saying it was lovely to have some good news for a change! I think she was even happier when I said that i'm definitely coming back!

Is 16 weeks the earliest you can find out the sex from a scan? I'll be 16 weeks on the Sunday, DH's Birthday is the Monday. It'd be so cool if I could get a scan booked on his Birthday to go and find out!

I keep thinking I can feel movements too, but not sure it's not just trapped wind moving about!

So I decided to stay home today as well. I'm not in agony any more, but my guts are still pretty sore. I had no dinner weds night and just a bit of rice yest evening (all agreed with Dr, she said to give my insides a rest from food but drink plenty of water). Now I feel sick but can't tell if that's just ms from not eating. Not hungry at all, and tummy is still sore.

Beginning to get a bit worried about how the baby's getting on with no food . I might ring the GP again today.

Dont worry too much about the lack of food B&W. My sister has hyperemesis (sp) throughout her pregnancy. She lived on lemonade and salt and vinegar chipsticks for about 7 months. My nephew was born 7lbs 4oz and is absolutely fine. It's amazing what your body can do.

Maybe try something else bland this morning, even if you dont feel like it. Feeling hungry might be making it worse.

Loveyoulots 16w is the earliest the private scan center will check for Gender here

I just cried down the phone to the GP. I feel like a helpless child. He was lovely though, very reassuring.

I just can't stop crying. Lovely pg hormones.

Going to pull myself together in a minute and try to eat some toast. Thanks loveulots

I had my 12 week scan yesterday. Little Dino stayed very still for the measurements and then woke up and gave us a wave. They changed my EDD by a day so I'm now 12th Jan. It all feels so real now.

I thought I was going mad thinking I was feeling some movements at this early stage which I had convinced myself must be gas but I'm glad I'm not the only one.

We are going to be Team Yellow but congrats to everyone who is finding out already. How exciting!

Also is anyone else suffering from indigestion?

So much sympathy b&w I had an awful stomach bug last week, felt horrendous and then as I slowly started to recover found it really hard to work out if I was feeling sick because I wasn't eating - my morning sickness requires me to eat constantly or because I was still ill and therefore shouldn't be eating. Took me a while recover and nearly a week before I was eating normally again. Fwiw and it sounds like you are already I found that sticking to the BRATs diet for a couple of days was really necessary. Banana was particularly good as easier to swallow than toast somehow, took me an hour to eat half a banana at first though :( fully recovered now though :)

Also second don't worry about baby, they get what they need from your body one way or another - I had a friend who I guess wasn't having enough calcium, baby needed calcium so stole it from her teeth! Her teeth were in a dreadful state but baby was absolutely fine...

Sorry to all those not feeling well with stomach bugs but as others have said baby will get nutrients from the stores in your body they will be fine. Hope you all feel better soon.

Finally caught up on the thread wanted to say hello to the newbies and so sorry to lil and others suffering at the moment.

Also another spreadsheet botherer here.

Just got back from GP after my appointment to prove I need the prescription the MW requested... GP was lovely, different one to the one I saw last time and he couldn't understand why I'd only been prescribed 4mg in the first place and apologised, also gave me the aspirin but it wasn't till I got to the pharmacy that I realised he'd forgotten the vitamin D!

He also signed me off work for 2 weeks as my sickness has really ramped up and I'm struggling even with water (yet still no actual vomiting) and I keep going dizzy.

Had my 12 week (and first ever) scan yesterday. It was amazing. I sort of expected not to understand what anything was, but it was all very clear to me. We found out it I'm 13 weeks rather than 12+4 so new due date is 7th January.

But the bean was not playing along! He (I don't know if it's a he but I don't like it) wouldn't stop jumping about, I think he was purposefully trying to wind the sonographer up. She'd get in position, finger poised to take a picture and he'd flip over. She had me lay on my side and he did it again! I had to go and pee out all my carefully built up urine (aah relief) and somehow that made it a bit better, but the bean was hyperactive all the way through. Takes after his daddy!

Finally told my in-laws, telling my family when they visit in a week or so. It's a relief to not be so hush-hush at long last, since DH and I told literally no-one up til now.

I also think it's unfair that my sickness/nausea is worse now I'm 12+1.... Feel cheated lol!

I'm not a spreadsheet botherer by the way, I'm a letter writer instead lol!

Ahhhh congrats Edgar

Aww lovely Edgar

I don't work with spreadsheets either, think they'd be too confusing for me! I'm a beauty therapist :)

I am excited about feeling movements - with ds2 I started feeling flutterings at about 13 weeks, so am hoping it's not too much longer to wait (I'm 12 weeks tomorrow)

b&w hope you start feeling properly better soon, this heat probably won't have been helping.

I am back at work today.... tfi Friday!

Whoa, lots of news!
Congrats on the scans Edgar and dino!

Good luck with the scan today baby, hope you get to see bouncing twins!

Good you got the prescription sorted (sort of) sleepy, I'm intrigued by the letter writing! Are you a professional agony aunt?

Hope you feel better soon b&w

edgar great news on the scan I am excited about mine on Monday - and I think a few others have theirs too?

Great news on the scans dino and edgar and really exciting results Joey. Can't wait to find out which team we're on.

Just back from 12 week scan. Well they put me back by just over a week last time, but it seems bean must have been in a funny position then, because I've been brought back on almost a week! Now 12+6 and official EDD of 9th Jan (only 2 days later than my original estimate). And that won't change now.

DH joking that my genes are strong as it was 9:45 and baby would not wake up. Had to jump around and go to loo to wake him/her to get in better position for NT. But then it had hiccups! So sonographer had to wait between them to get pics for measuring. Can't get over how much it'd changed in not even two weeks. 13 weeks tomorrow and feeling so pleased

Ha Crumble that made me laugh, nothing as exciting as that I'm afraid lol!

I work for a London Council dealing with all the formal complaints submitted by the Councillors, MP's and Ombudsman. It's my job to investigate then write the formal outcome letters to them and their constituents.

Great scan news fish and dino

And hope you start feeling better soon sleepy - it does suck that you are feeling worse now - hopefully it will start to improve very soon.

Wow, pregnancy is such a rollercoaster of emotions. Mixed news from me at my scan today, they only found one heartbeat. The second baby looked to have stopped growing around 9 weeks, no heartbeat, no signs. The first baby looked well, wiggling around, measured bang on for dates 11+4, no signs of problems.

They aren't 100% sure what will happen. Maybe the second baby will be reabsorbed by my body, I might bleed, not sure. They've switched my 12 week scan (which is at 13 weeks) to be with a consultant who will have a proper look and tell me what happens next.

I mostly feel shock. Wasn't expecting it. I'm very very sad about the loss, very pleased to have a healthy baby still in there, very nervous about something happening to the existing baby. Mixed.

Oh baby so sorry for your sad news. It must be especially hard not knowing what happens next. Will be keeping everything crossed that it all works out well for you.

Oh baby what a confusing and mixed time for you. I'm sure you need time to get your head around it.

I hope you don't have long to wait for consultant appointment.

I'm so sorry baby, really glad that your other twin is all healthy but so sad for the loss of one twin