Second or subsequent babies due Jan/Feb/March 2016

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Hiya - just thought an alternative place for those of us on our 2nd or more pregnancies might be a good idea. I just found out and already it's very different than the first time!

I'm on #2, EDD 25/3/16, one DS 2yrs and 2 months.

Sorry you're not feeling great huffle.
I'm a bit tired but it's the bloating that's grinding me down. I look so fat and feel full all the time. I need popping

That's lovely, to have an expert in the family LastOne.

Do you find the bloating to be worse at night? Mine also coincides with nausea.

Dd is 5 will be 6 or nearly 6 (due just before her birthday). So I should tell her as she'll start to work it out that something is different.

I just ache and can't get comfortable, still can't eat properly unless it's soup or potato based, having to force feed myself if I go over to the parents (not the most supportive so telling me it's my fault and get over it). I can't get excited over it, everyone's like 'you must be so excited' etc and I'm just 'mmmm'.

I didn't feel like this first time round I breezed through it. This time I'm counting the weeks. I'm going to try and convince dd to have a pj and DVD day on Monday.

Think a phone all to gp or midwife is due. Just feel pants.

Hello hello, I'd like to join please. I'm 36, got one DD aged 23 months, EDD 30 March. 7+3. I've been told I should have an ELCS, which I'm very happy about after my last birth (planned home birth but everything went wrong). I am sad that I'm not going to get to have a vaginal birth, but also kind of pleased have the decision taken away from me.

Congrats on your positive scan Rooibos!

I'm feeling utterly rubbish too and keep asking if I can just be hooked up to a drip and sleep for the next 7 months! I've a very supportive DH whose taken on a lot of the housework and weekend child care so I can rest (went to bed at 8pm last night and still in bed now, just about to go back to sleep!) luckily it's the only time I don't feel sick or have to eat! Symptoms are easing, I was like this last time too so it was expected, I just forgot how bad it was!
Hope you all have a better day today! Rest up x

I've also got a v supportive DH. I keep promising him I'll be back to normal soon but he's doing a stellar job putting up with me whinging for the last 2 weeks. All I've had the energy for is lying on the sofa but I'm so booored of that now as well

I've fallen so low into a well of self pity I may never get out...on day 7 of tonsillitis and it's getting worse, not better. Oh the humanity....

Back to FMC for a rescan tomorrow. Urk.

Sane as you Sunny thank god for my DH this weekend. On Saturday I was a mess of yellow tonsils, headache and nausea and he took over all chores and childcare whilst I spent a good 24hrs moaning and complaining in bed. I've never been more attractive, I must say....

Oh Rae, hope you start feeling better soon.

Welcome Pannacott

It seems there are a few of us who are still feeling crap. Rae I hope you're better v soon. Let's hope we all improve soon too. Huffle I hate it when people dismiss pregnancy sickness and fatigue as something that we should just put up with. It doesn't help that there are some lucky folk who do genuinely sail through their pregnancies, making us all look like lightweights!

Oooooh hello ladies, just discovered this thread! Please may I join? I get a bit lost in the March bus!

I'm currently only 10w pg with #2 after 2 and a half long years of ttc. Dd1 will be 4 in October.

Had an early scan last week due to some spotting but all looked fine. First proper scan is on 2nd September and can't come soon enough!

May, it's totally pants. It's 8.30 and all I want to do it sleep. Will it be bad to leave the washing up till tomorrow?

Hi Brindler.

Mayflowers I'm ashamed to say i was one of those lucky people last time. If it makes anyone feel better I'm definitely suffering this time round. Freaking hope it stops at 12 weeks though.

Apparently my mum was so ill with all her 3 pregnancies she threw up til 37 weeks

Ah Sunny that's cruel. At least I was expecting to feel rubbish because I did last time! Maybe it means you're having the opposite sex of baby this time around?

welcome.

Rae, I really hope you feel better soon, and am pleased that you are being well looked after. My DP is doing lots of work too and only minimally complaining, I do appreciate it. Definitely makes things easier. I had two three-hour naps this weekend - bit concerned I can't do that at work tomoz. As for those who say 'pregnancy is not an illness' - if I felt like this without being pg I'd be straight down the docs for investigations of life-limiting illnesses!

hope scan goes well Rae and the tonsillitis gets better as soon as possible. I was hospitalised with tonsillitis once, it can be awful.

Welcome brindler and Pannacott.

Well this weekend I have managed a nap each day, which has helped and I do not even feel particularly ill!

Pannacott: "if I felt like this without being pg I'd be straight down the docs for investigations of life-limiting illnesses!"

I said that about my last pregnancy: if I hadn't known I was pregnant I'd have thought I was dying.

Pregnancy is hard and really not fun.

Rae, look after yourself. You mentioned work in a previous post. You're far to ill to be at work. Have you seen the doc? Have you got antibiotics? You're entitled to stay in bed all day and wallow in self-pity. You're properly ill!

I had to go home after dropping DD off at nursery because my trousers felt too tight. I'm only 8 weeks

I'm 8 weeks too Sunny and haven't been able to comfortably do my trousers up for ages. I'm going to get DH to dig the old maternity bits out today, I think. But need new jeans.

I know it's all bloat, but the knowledge doesn't make it suck back in. I'm not buying the next size up either - they'd only last another month and I'll never wear them again. Just think of those nice stretchy waistbands!

I wish my trousers felt too tight. I've had none of the pulling and stretching I remember from the first time around. Had another scan today - Embryo hasn't grown and although they can see heartbeat it's far too slow. I'm to ome back in ten days for definitive answer unless something happens before then.

Fairly passed off I've been feeling so rotten if it's all for nowt. Sad, too.

PISSED OFF obv!

Ps: thank you for all your lovely get well wishes. I think now I can go to GP and ask for proper drugs!

Sorry for being so quiet (only posted once!)... am struggling a bit. Sorry also to see others are too.

Had viability scan 6 days ago: there has been progress, but not "enough". Have been given a 50/50 chance of the pregnancy progressing . Am back again tomorrow for another scan. Been talking to my belly, willing growth and embracing the nausea and dry heaving as good signs but, honestly, just want tomorrow over with, one way or the other. And to add insult to injury, I got thrush following my last internal!

Rae So with you there. Feel better soon.

Ah sympathies chandelier but I think 50:50 is much more hope than they gave me so sending all luck your way...

Oh Rae and Chandelier I'm sorry its tough news. I'm hopeful for you both though.

My scan isn't until 12 weeks and keep telling DH to calm down. Feel so much more superstitious this time round.

Keep looking after yourselves