Jan 2016 #7 - headaches and exhaustion but 1/3 through

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Hi all. You've been busy. Congrats to those celebrating anniversaries and good test results. Glad brickie got checked out.

Went to visist family this weekend. Quite overwhelming having millions of questions and advice thrown at you. DH and I decided to spend some time "educating" ourselves in Mothercare. We really loved the oyster 2 pushchair and maxi cosi cat seat. Feel like everyone has a maxi cosi for the car, so happy with that. But anyone here got any experience with oyster 2?

Feeling really rubbish about myself today. Work has been piling on and incredibly stressful at the mo, to the point of "don't know how I'm going to do it/cope". But just feel incredibly tired all the time and been really nauseous this last week. Had a few spells of dizziness over the weekend. One in a car park and I had to grab DH as I thought I was going down, and a couple in a car actually laughed at me! Who does that?

Just feeling really down today as I feel like I'm really pathetic and should be doing more and work is getting behind etc but really struggling. Sorry for my pity party!

16+2 today and two appointments this week. One with mw, and the other with consultant.

Sorry you're feeling so crappy Fisher

i had a couple of weeks wher i felt tlike everything ea getting on top of me and i was 'sad' (as opposed to upset/tearful) every day. i ended up taking the week off work as my BP went up. Was really useful for me purely because i have a caveat in my out of office saying emails sent whilst i am off will not be responded to. it was nice then coming back to work starting fresh.

Two huge fingers up to the couple in the car though! Lucky for them you were't sicky too or they could have borne the brunt of vomiting instead lol

Incidentally, has anyone else started noticing a severe lack of ankles yet..... my right foot/ankle is most definitely a cankle!

Faz - I know, everyone has a bloody view. I am going for 'secret' runs while DH is at the gym. Hah! That plus dog walks every day. I do miss the gym though. He asks me every day if I've cancelled my membership... I especially miss going for runs in the morning. Not that I have bundles of energy but I don't want to grind to a halt!

I'm starting to enjoy exercise again after 1st tri and going to book a half marathon for May so don't want to lose all fitness ... My DH is opposite to yours though pug he literally forces me to the gym and asks every day of I'm going for a run!! Not stood on scales since 8 weeks though ..... Dreading it at midwife tomorrow

Afternoon all,

am in awe of those still exercising! Am hoping chasing after my toddler and the nursery run counts. i used to walk up to 17 miles a week so i'm feeling unfit but last time round I stopped everything as well (I used to rock climb 3 x a week) and it made no difference to birth (drug free/fast) but took me awhile to lose all my baby weight.

I feel a bit meh about it this time round - we have so much going on it's the last thing on my mind hahaha.

Generally still feeling v low and tired. Hope this growth spurt is over soon!

I agree the IKEA nursery stuff is less than inspiring. I do find Mamas and Papas a bit twee at times but we bought our full nursery set (cotbed/changer/wardrobe/bookshelves) there in the sales for DS and it's lasted very well (will have done 3 house moves/reassembled by the time baby arrives) and so by the time this baby grows out of it, it'll have lasted say 6 years.

Lutrinae - I don't know how you do it! I stopped bfing DS last Oct at 25mo - couldnt have done it pregnant, the whole boob/nipple area is so sensitive LOL! I am hoping to BF to 2yo again this time but we'll see.....

MissMartin Hope the drugs work soon for you - it's miserable being so sick.

I'm back to work tomorrow after 7 weeks off sick...eeeeep!

SG

Having lots of pain and achiness in my pelvis/bump area today. It feels a cross between painful wind and stretching. I'm also having to pee quite alot today as well. Is this normal or should I go get checked over do you think?

14+4

teenie I had this the other day, and assume it is just stretching/everything rearranging itself. Obvs if you are worried give the mw a call, but mine did ease off.

Plus I have found in the last week that I need to wee more often, and I thought it was supposed to ease in the second trimester?

15+3

Thanks for the quick reply Kep, I'll see how I get on for the rest of today but relieved to hear others are having similar aches and pains.

I'm also thinking I will need to move into my maternity jeans now to give everything a bit more room to move about/stretch. Sitting with top button undone after lunch seems silly when I could just get into my (hopefully) comfy maternity jeans.

mrsfaz thanks for that article think I have seen it before, it says no out of the saddle movements have you still been doing standing climbs/hover etc in the class? I would find it so boring if I was limited to the seat! Went for a swim today which was pretty tiring so pleased with myself! Just trying to keep as active as poss really but when I've been in work all day the last thing I fancy is the gym.

lutrinae you should get a letter either way saying you're low risk but if you had the bloods taken over a week ago I really wouldn't worry they would've rung you by now for sure! The sonographer shouldn't have told you you were low risk though based on the NT measurement alone - unless they had your blood results already by then.

Can't remember who said their Down's screening letter just said low risk with no numbers - but my health board is the same in cardiff! My friend who is literally in the next county over though did get the figures in her letter, so think it just depends on the HB.

Ah coffee another blue! You already have 2 dds is that right?

teenie I have had the same on and off, think it's stretching or round ligament pain, I was really uncomfortable on Saturday in particular!

teenie yes, I be had achey, stretchy cramping too, low down. But it hasn't lasted more than a few hours each time and not had it at all since Saturday. I put it down to growing and shifting. I hope it eases up for you. But mention it if worried.

Thanks sleepy I'm even annoyed at myself for letting it get me down. I think some time off would be great, but just can't at the moment with a really big project on my plate. Hoping to get a week in September, so just telling myself I need to make it til then!

lutrinae, I echo the others - hats off to you for still BF. My DS is a bit younger (21 months) but I won't be worrying about potty training until the baby is a few months old at least. I imagine he will be quite a bit older than DD before he's ready anyway (she was just 2). I haemorrhaged with my first and saw a consultant for my second - they proposed putting me on a syntocinon drip after birth to reduce risk of bleeding and that was fine - they left me alone during labour other than putting a cannula in. It did rule out the birth centre for me though but that may have been because I also had retained placenta. As it happens I had no problems with my second but I still have to see a consultant this time around .
Hope those of you still feeling rubbish turn a corner soon.

Aah, thanks stupid and romeo. It can indeed be quite sore but, hey, I got through that first few weeks of doing it when he was born, I remember how I was determined to get through that despite the pain!

Thanks for the info romeo, I think my midwife mentioned just the injection but I'll see what the consultant says. Would love not to have a PPH this time, it really ruined my postnatal experience - from being kept in the ward to not being able to move hardly at home my iron was so low.

Hm, that's weird looking, maybe I'll ring the clinic again and ask specifically about the Downs risk. Thanks all.

Teenie definitely lots of stretching and weird pains here too. But never hurts to get checked.

looking im still doing standing climbs but feel belly starting to get i the way hovering too much!! Think its advising out if saddle movements once belly gets too big ... I'm not there yet I don't think!

yep i have those pains too! they are annoying
has anyone developed a hairy belly??.. mine looks fluffy & covered in blonde tiny hairs
i wish sunbeds were safe! im so pale i have no energy to put my tan on normally im nice and orange brown .. now im a pasty ghost! Ah well i never leave the house anyway

Yes missmartin! But I wish mine were blonde tiny hairs. I've developed a proper hairy belly with dark hairs! So embarrassing and I'm really self conscious of it. I've read it not uncommon with all the hormone changes. But still. DH thinks it's hilarious. I think its gross

Think I was pretty hairy anyway, but my belly button is already on its way out. Last time my DP said he would disown me if my belly button became an outie! (It did and obvs he didn't).

Haha I thought I was the only hairy belly babe! Yeah defo got worse over the last few weeks...
Belly has really popped today everyone was commenting at the office! At last!

Oh exercise I remember you fondly...I'm just lazy now. Eating homemade shortbread...you can take the girl out of Scotland

Mmm homemade shortbread am eating everything in sight...having pre-dinner snacks cus obv me and this bump just can't hold on for another 40mins til DP is home I'm gonna be the size of a house!!
Off work this week - first time off since March, much needed! Got so much to do around the house that I've just been way too lazy to even contemplate

Another hairy belly here! Lol. Glad I'm not the only one! Also I've had really bad stretching pains accompanied by lots of discharge (sorry) so keep dashing to the loo panicking!

I'm just so tired could go to bed right now

melon I'm the same how far are you I've been experiencing this a few weeks I'm 15+1 x

I'm 14+5

Oh my!!! I only ruined to DH last night that I thought my tummy had gotten 'furry'! So glad I'm not going mad and not on my own lol!

Just been laid on the bed with my phone on my bump playing music 'to it'... Does anyone else do this?

Yeah melon I'm experiencing the sane 'symptom'
Does anyone think it's weird my manager has not told HR I'm pregnant? Told work St 9w when I had sickness and my boss said leave it all to him to tell HR etc. He's moved to a new role (1 week ago) my new manager in a stand in and finding her feet so fair enough...but in my prev role when I was a team manager I'd have told he as soon as I knew...what do you ladies think? Oh btw I only found out because I emailed HR with a maternity/holiday query and the girl was like 'omg your pregnant!!!???' (She wasn't being over friendly she sits right next to my DH and knows him quite well work wise)

sleepy I'm going to start now I know baby can hear now!