Thread #4 - TTC#1 the one where Stark joins the grads!!!!

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Welcome to another riveting instalment of TTC#1 grads.

We've got new grads POAS every day just to make sure, 1st Trimesters wondering if they will be hit by the dreaded morning sickness or not, those approaching the hollowed promised land of the second trimester where all is good and the glowing will prevail... Those who have reached the second trimester and are thoroughly miffed at the lack of glowing.
We have scan photos, bizarre symptoms and the joys of baby shopping, and very importantly we now have Stark!

All are welcome on the wild gas powered ride that is TTC#1 grads

Elle, mamas and papas are apparently having sales/events on both May bank holiday weekends, so I bet Mothercare will do likewise!

Ooh thanks Pink! I might be brave enough to buy something by then! Not rational I know.

Thoughts are with you Potato 💐

Congrats on your scan new and good luck for yours today planet. Just a week to wait until ours lillian!

Beautiful bumps shelb and miley! And awesome abs miley. Like you I'm really struggling with being too ill to go to gym. Trying to just accept that it is what it is and remember that I can get my strength and tone back after baby is born.

Welcome and congrats feef!!

elle my morning sickness started at about 6 weeks, much in the way stark describes. It then ramped up and the vomiting started a week or so later. I'm just over 11 weeks now and the nausea is still bad but I haven't vomited since Saturday so am hoping I'm over the worst. For me the worst weeks were probably 7-10. Hope it doesn't get any worse for you though!

Morning everyone - Friday at last! Is it just me or does time seem to be going faster?! In the first 12 weeks I felt time was going backwards but since then it's sped up!

Great bump pics! Yesterday a few people at work (who know) commented I was showing more. I think it depends what outfit I wear. I'll post a pic over the weekend.

I haven't bought any baby stuff at all yet. But I somehow managed to spend another £100 on seraphine online yesterday. Oops

potato what an awful thing to go through with your mum, I'm so sorry. Dementia is a cruel illness.

Thanks for the tip elle! I'm also devouring fig rolls courtesy of potato's tip. In terms of morning sickness I'd say try not to worry too much. I think around 80% ?? experience some nausea but experiences like mileys (poor thing!) are rare. From about 6-14 weeks I had a hungover feeling for a few hours a day, some days worse than others. It usually got better by eating. I was only physically sick a handful of times and weeks 8-9 were probably when I felt worse. I think for me the worst thing was horrid taste in my mouth! I found the nausea a bit reassuring but appreciate that's because I didn't have it badly!! don't hate me for saying that ms sufferers!

Great news on scan new. Mine is next Monday when I'll be 18+5 so hope they'll be able to check everything they need to.

lillian - I don't think your 16 week check matters if it's a week out. Nothing very time sensitive happens then, I think it's just checking in with you.

Good luck on your scan today planet

Welcome and congrats feef!

Right, I think that's me caught up!

Morning everyone.

Hi feefs hope your well. Welcome on board ☺

Glad your scan went well new. We waited for a surprise first time round, was lovely. Think I'm finding out this time though so I know if I need to buy lots of stuff or not.

Good luck for yours planet

potato sending some hugs your way. Your really getting put through the ringer just now! Hope your chats on here help off load some. It's a really emotional time. I'm glad your able to feel strong enough to put you and potato first. If your mum was well I'm sure it's what she would want. Glad you have an understanding OH too. Sometimes it's good to have a good cry and let it all out x

stark im the same, there's stuff (which I could logically explain away) then there's days where there's nothing..... Although OH decided he was craving Chinese last night for dinner and I just knew it wasn't for me. In the end I couldn't go in the kitchen the smell was turning my stomach. My midwife didn't seem phased when I met her earlier this week. Hopefully yours will help you feel the same 😊

Oops, went away for 48 hours....

Congratulations Feef!! I'm no longer along in December

Gorgeous owl blanket irregular!!

Potato I'm so, so sorry to hear about your Mum. That's such a difficult thing to go through, and especially when you just want her to be excited about the baby. It's such a hard decision to make re contact, you have so much sympathy from me. We're currently going through something similar with DHs mum, who is delusional and paranoid (for example, my niece has leukaemia, DMIL believes that actually the mafia are poisoning her/assassinating her to get back at DMIL for some unspecified thing). To see them we have to stay overnight as they live 15 hours away. We've decided not to stay any more, as she woke up the boys screaming that we were all being poisoned by gas, they were terrified. She doesn't believe anythings wrong. DH feels terrible, but we don't want little ones scared or upset. They have gotten over that one incident and mainly remember her as she was before. Your mum isn't her real self at the moment, and it must be so painful that she's rejecting the baby, but try to remover how she was, and how much she would love potato if she could. Your mum might be going through a bad patch and might be a little better once the baby's here, or might react differently once she sees it. Dementia is such a terrible, terrible thing.

Good call on your mat leave, I think with house moving you'll be grateful for extra time

Lillian I hope you're feeling a bit better! You can definitely move the appointed by a week! Holiday sounds lovely!

New great news about your scan! Cheeky little thing though Don't worry yourself about the action. You've got a long time yet and it's only a possibility, everything might be fine by then

Good luck today Planet!! Sorry you feel ill, but I'm sure the scan will be lovely

So I saw my gp yesterday who referred me for an early scan. Unfortunately although they can see a pregnancy, they can't see enough there to decide if it's viable or not. So I have to go back next Friday for a repeat scan, and then they should be able to tell me. They also saw something on my right ovary, where I've been getting some pain. It could be a cyst, but again, they can't see enough to tell. So they'll have another look at that next week too. It looks to me more or less what they'd expect for 5+5, but they didn't even want to confirm that. In the meantime, if I get more bleeding no sex, exercise etc. So not as reassuring as I'd hoped. I've just got everything crossed for a good result next Friday. But that means I have to take time off school and I didn't really want to mention it to anyone yet...

Re MS, I'm feeling pretty nauseous, but that's it. With both boys I had horrendous nausea, but was maybe sick 5 times max with each. Although with the bad nausea there were times I wished I was sick to get it over with...

So I took the boys shopping and ended up bent over the trolley with sudden severe pain on the right. The kind where it's almost hard to breathe. It lasted about 15 mins, came on suddenly, eased off and then disappeared. Went from front to back. My back in particularly is still a bit achey. At EPU they said I should go to urgent care if I got bleeding but didn't say anything about pain. I'm not booked in with the midwives yet, so can't call them yet. Any ideas? Shelb they told you not to worry?

Imp - where abouts was the pain? Was it crampy?

Well I saw the midwife yesterday and she is keeping a close eye on it as my abdomen is tender and rock hard (as in bump hard, not rock hard abs!)

Sorry trying to catch up on all news!

Ah potato dementia is incredibly cruel, we've had it in our family.

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It was on the right of abdomen. It has been crampy, but when it was severe earlier it was more like severe cramps combined with stabby...

I'm really glad the midwife is keeping an eye on you! Rock hard and tender sounds unpleasant! How are you feeling generally?

EDD 9th December! Thanks for the welcomes! Baby number 1. Mostly tired, and peeing a lot, windy () and bit headaches. Only really have nausea when I get really hungry.

Soda at 5 weeks I see what you mean I really feel time is so slow! Glad it speeds up!!

Hope next Friday goes well imp.

Thanks Lara. I will keep my fingers crossed!

Soda I skipped the apricots yesterday and feel a bit constipated again today-currently munching on some lovely prunes!

Impy how are you feeling now? That sounds really scary. Argh at having to wait for the repeat scan too.

Shelb are you being seen again next week? Has the bleeding settled?

Hmmm imp I'd been tempted to leave it unless you get any bleeding or wee problems ykno. My experience is that is really prompts them to act - otherwise you spend hours chasing people and stressing yourself more. Has the pain gone?

Welcome fee.

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Imp that sounds like the pain I had. I had two episodes of pain like this so I wouldn't worry too much but it wouldn't harm to phone in for some reassurance and advice.

Pleased to have you join us Fee.

I really wish there were something could be done to help your situation with your Mum Potato. In my experience through work and family, women with dementia still have their maternal instincts so fingers crossed your Mum will behave differently when Mini Potato arrives. X

Yay Feefs, welcome to the dark side! Time goes awfully slowly at first. I found out at 3+6 and it felt like a millennia to get to 6 weeks!

Impy, that sounds awful. I hope they figure out what it is and everything gets resolved!

I went out for lunch with my best mate today who has a 9 month old. We went to a pottery painting centre and did her handprints on a mug for her first Father's Day gift. There were tons of casts for newborn hands and feet. I didn't think my broodiness could get any more crippling but then when I saw them... Omg!

It was so hard not telling her as these symptoms seem so hard to get through sometimes but we're waiting until we're 12 weeks. I can't hold on that long but will try for at least 10 lol. When she changed her really pooey nappy, it was all I could do to not throw up on the spot! My MS seems to really kick in about 5pm :(

Pooey nappies and MS are the worst! One of the few times I was sick with DS2 I was literally sick on DS1 he was like 10/11 months old and he poop stank. And before I knew it, I vommed all over him. And then I pissed myself laughing. Whilst cleaning him up. I couldn't stop. And then the guilt hit me, along with a "oh no having a second child has already made PFBs life crap..."

Thanks all. I think bleeding is what they're really worried about, so I'm just going to try to chill out until next Friday. Unless I get horrendous horrendous pain.

Feef I get horrendous headaches in pregnancy, it's the progesterone. Keep ultra hydrated and get lots of sleep!

Keeping everything crossed for you imp. Hope that pain is a one off for you!

Just back from scan and have a healthy Pancake! S/he was absolutely determined to be upside down for most of it, so took forever and a lot of leaping about from me, but am so happy all is well.

New EDD 15th Oct.

Lovely scan there Planet - it's so good to have it done isn't it.

Hope everything's ok Impy. Not what you need even if the docs don't seem overly worried.

Adding my voice to those saying that although the first few weeks take an absolute AGE, it does start speeding up once you've had the 12w scan. I guess partly as you stop being quite so nervous...

Have ordered my pram now. Found a good deal so went with it! Uppababy Vista 2015. One of my best friends has it and I'm fairly used to it from hanging out with her so know I get on with it well. I think maybe we need to clear some loft space as I'm seemingly intent on buying everything 5.5 months ahead of time now 🙈

Hi everyone!

Sorry I've been away for a week. I was in the US for work and it kept me too busy to pop over here and check in.

I'm still reading to catch up but wanted to say hi and I hope everyone is ok. I'm sure I'll read through and find lovely news about more scans.

I am so glad to be home. Transatlantic flights while having bad sickness is not something I recommend. The whole time I just wanted my own bed. Also, being sick in aeroplane loos is not the most fun. I am promising myself that once this finally goes, I will not take 'normalness' (i.e. Not feeling sick) for granted!

Morning ladies, how are you all today?

I'm officially half way!!! Woohoo!!! It's all down hill from here! Thank bloody god lol. Hopefully I'll only have another 10 weeks at work then I can just chill, sort the flat/house and buy stuff until the baby arrives.

Imp sorry you're having similar problems to me with your MIL. It's very sad but just nothing you can do.

That pain sounds scary but hopefully it was just things stretching. When are you seeing the midwife?

Thanks Co5mo it's a difficult one. My mum aslo has bipolar and was born with learning difficulties so I've got a fair bit of experience with her mood and behavioural problems including the violent tantrums. My instincts are telling me not to risk her with the baby no matter how sad that is.

The story about being sick on your baby was soooo wrong... It made me snort lol
Jam apparently people find other people's baby's pooy nappies more revolting than their own baby's.

Planet that's a gorgeous scan... I guess girl on that one

Irregular baby stuff is like Pringles, ones you pop you can't stop!

August
11 Mor
13 Bunch (boy)
16 New (surprise)
27 Potato (or any time after 04/06)
30 Pink (girl)

September
1 Shelb
4 Nev (boy)
12 Danni
14 Soda
14 LittleBelle
17 Bubbles
28 Leonie
29 Laurenrl

October
5 Lisa
6 Irregular
8 Miley
12 Indi
13 Co5mo
14 Lillian
15 Planet
27 Lara
30 First

November
6 Bellini
8 Pyxie
11 Peaches
11 5tar
12 Rae
21 Canters
25 Stark!!!!!
25 Jam
29 Elle

December
6 Impy
9 Feef

Hi jam, also funny what you said about the earwax before I also have more now.

Imp trying to drink loads of water but can't really seem to sleep 10pm till 6am with lots of toilet breaks is the most! I hope your doing better today.

Lovely scan pic planet

Ugh, baby doesn't seem to like anything I try for breakfast today! Return of the horrendous vomiting.

lisa I feel your pain! It's particularly unpleasant spewing in a plane toilet immediately after someone had flushed their dump! I will never fly with morning sickness ever again!

How is everyone else this morning? Better than me I hope.

Dropping OH off at the pub at lunch time and I'm going to watch harry potter and be a sofa slug all afternoon!

planet I think girly too!!! Lovely scan

Congrats on the halfway mark Potato! 10 weeks at work will hopefully pass in a flash. That's a lovely countdown to have.

Sorry you're still feeling grim Lisa and Miley. You've really been put through the mangle by your tiny people. Flying with ms sounds like one of the world's least pleasant experiences. Hope neither of you have to go through it again!

Lots of girly guesses on our scan. DH and DM are pretty sure it's a girl too. I'm trying not to think too much one way or the other until the anomaly scan (which is at 22 weeks in my hospital). Am just so happy it's an actual baby! Sounds silly but seeing it on screen has really made it feel real. October suddenly doesn't feel that far away.

What's everyone up to today? I am still full of cold and feeling utterly vile so will be joining Miley in the sofa slug club.

I'm so sorry about your mum potato (I want to call you Spud! It's a term of endearment in our family!) I think you're right to trust your instincts. You know best.

I'm still here, pooyling along, got my booking in appointment next week, I might believe it after I have the 12 week scan, still in utter disbelief. Although we're now calling "it" Little T...short for Tapeworm, because I'm constantly hungry and a terrible nickname picker! Just get tired in the afternoons a bit earlier. I'm waiting for it to get terrible, feel like I'm either getting off really lightly or something awful is/will happen!

I've been having a Harry Potter week too! How is everyone?

Forgot to say, beautiful scans!