December 2016... Babies

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Doesn't seem to be a thread yet for babies due in December, possibly because I'm crazy and POAS really really early but a line is a line and today was my "double check" second day and a BFP it was again!

I sadly had a miscarriage in November found the July babies thread a huge help in my early days of pregnancy and the ladies were very supportive after the MC - I've just returned to mumsnet under a new name as I was finding it a bit painful at one point and went a bit cold turkey from it all!

So here is a bit about me

I'm 38
This will be baby number one for me
EDD 3rd December (know when I ovulated been using the monitor - the app ok many apps I've consulted this morning confirm this as the date

Very nervous after last time but want to enjoy every minute I can, I loved being pregnant before and want to do all the same things as before just keeping everything crossed for a sticky one.

Who is ready to join me

I'm toying with the idea of an early scan. I have to take a drug which is only newly licensed and I'm waiting to see if I can get an early one on the nhs because of the uncertainty over the drug or if I'll have to pay for one privately x

I'm OK with the standard scans at 12 and 20 weeks, but think it's great that if your bean is ivf or you've had problems you can get them done. I might get a 3d scan later on (after the 20wk) as I've not had one before and have heard they're amazing. I'm really struggling today, I'm literally disgusted with food, everything is making me feel worse

I hope Bertie's OK today

Thanks for all your kind words ladies. It's now stopped and nothing there when I wipe fx it was just due to friskyness this morn I've told DH no sex until after first trimester! Xxx

Hi ladies! waves Fan, Swan and Barking.
I thought I'd give those travel bands a Ho if sickness kicks in. At the moment it's just exhaustuation , weeing every hour and my sense of smell has gone the roof.

I'm actually in bed at the moment DP with Dd and I'm chilling

Don't think I'll get this treatment for 9 months..

I'm also in bed leaf. If I move I'll be sick!

glad to hear it's stopped Chapman. I haven't got the energy for any frisky business, I did tell DP it would happen (again) just hope the sickness doesn't last as long as it has in all my previous pregnancies.
Anewleaf, mine aren't working but I'm still wearing them. Just had a mad flurry and tidied the house and now chilling too, might watch a film..

I was like that last night leaf, I (stupidly) shifted positions then had to jump out of bed to be sick, 'twas horrible

Eating constantly today has eased my sickness. A few people have said not to let myself get even remotely hungry.

My early scan (next week - eek!) is only because my dating/12 week scan will be quite late due to my holiday. I just want that peace of mind before I go.

How exciting bonkers. At first eating non stop worked for me too, now I just can't face food though

Hi everyone
I just found out this week that I'm about 6 weeks, probably due mid Dec. It's a bit of a surprise but we're starting to get used to the idea. We already have DD who is 2.11. Feeling a bit sickly and exhausted. I'd forgotten how bad the tiredness is. It's like nothing else!

I was quite adamant about no early scan but wavering a bit torn between wanting to know if there's bad news and what will be will be. I have finally booked a GP appt for when I'll be 8 weeks.

Paranoid because symptoms are very off again. Had few symptoms last time but once we knew we had big problems I put it down to that. So wondering if we'll have similar issues again. Repeat rate is 1% above age risk so not that likely. It wasn't picked up at 12 weeks last time, we were low risk but problems appeared at 20 weeks. I'm between very anxious and not bothered at all.

I am wondering about my decision to return to the same hospital. Partly it's better the devil you know. I've seen how medical professionals behave and at least I know and can manage this lot and also if we do end up deciding on home birth it's our only option but on the other hand they aren't our greatest fans, there is a long history of mistrust and I wonder if we'd be better off elsewhere. (Unless this baby has the same problems, in which case we're fucked wherever we go)

So big decisions and lots of worries. Welcome to all newbies. And so sorry to all those having difficult times especially Bertie. Miscarriage is so so hard.

exhaustuation umm exhaustion. My spelling went a bit dolally last week with students picking up on it too. This was a big symptom for me last time too.Just eaten a whole pizza and feeling loads better.

Went for an early scan today and I though I was 7+4 they've pushed back the dates to "around 5 weeks" only pregnancy sack visible on abdominal scan and they don't do transvaginal scan.

Apparently lovely round pregnancy sack I'm not to stress and re-scan in three weeks. DH is being amazing but I'm just a bit shocked.

I'm okay, thanks for thinking of me. I hid this thread for a bit earlier because I didn't want to deal with it. Had a few sad moments over the last couple of days. DH is still hanging on to the last hope which is hard because I know that it's over, I can feel it. I'm trying to respect his way of dealing with it but I also don't want to be told that everything is going to be okay. I want to prepare for being scanned and told that it's not. But I am starting to feel a bit better, we are defo going to try again :) It's a temporary setback, not the end of the road. I have had a bit of pelvic floor pain as well today but other than that nothing distressing. Now totally getting the point about not telling people early because I asked for advice on my local group the other day and now I have about five people I have to say no actually not happening any more to, and I don't think I can handle RL sympathy yet so I'm waiting. We also haven't told DS. DH wants to wait for confirmation, but I sort of wanted to tell him at the weekend so he can have a bit of a mope if he wants to. I'm going to stay on the thread until we get medical confirmation, if that's okay? I am pretty much just having a normal period now though so I'm sure that I have miscarried. I'm glad in hindsight that I never really worked out when my due date would have been as I don't think I will be dwelling on it. (And I still don't know if I ovulated late or whether it just didn't progress properly in the first place.)

I'm okay, thanks for thinking of me. I hid this thread for a bit earlier because I didn't want to deal with it. Had a few sad moments over the last couple of days. DH is still hanging on to the last hope which is hard because I know that it's over, I can feel it. I'm trying to respect his way of dealing with it but I also don't want to be told that everything is going to be okay. I want to prepare for being scanned and told that it's not. But I am starting to feel a bit better, we are defo going to try again :) It's a temporary setback, not the end of the road. I have had a bit of pelvic floor pain as well today but other than that nothing distressing. Now totally getting the point about not telling people early because I asked for advice on my local group the other day and now I have about five people I have to say no actually not happening any more to, and I don't think I can handle RL sympathy yet so I'm waiting. We also haven't told DS. DH wants to wait for confirmation, but I sort of wanted to tell him at the weekend so he can have a bit of a mope if he wants to. I'm going to stay on the thread until we get medical confirmation, if that's okay? I am pretty much just having a normal period now though so I'm sure that I have miscarried. I'm glad in hindsight that I never really worked out when my due date would have been as I don't think I will be dwelling on it. (And I still don't know if I ovulated late or whether it just didn't progress properly in the first place.)

Sorry. Was having issues posting.

Bertie everyone deals with it differently but just be kind to yourself for the next few days and see what happens at the scan. Be thinking of you.

Oh Bertie. Please look after yourself. Hand holding here x

I'm fine honestly :) I have been playing Sims. Decorating houses and nice music without any words to get me all emotional.

I have been sleeping a lot too which also helps. I'm a bit fed up of wearing pads because I normally use a mooncup and they are making me sweaty, but not sure if it's okay with infection risks etc. Might switch to my washable ones.

I think when I tell my friends I'll probably arrange a little night out with a few of them and have a glass of . I have been making myself strong, sweet tea today which is nice but DH wants me to stick to caffeine limits still so have run out now. But I'll go to bed shortly anyway.

Bertie

Barking: ah, I didn't realise they were all brand names of heparin. Yes, the fragmin needles are awful - so blunt. Are the clexane ones better then? Brilliant news about Happy

I'm getting a bit lost with this thread! I think we might all need to do introductions again! So, I'm Lily, I'm 36, live in SE Scotland and have two DC - girl, 8yrs who will be 9yrs when this baby is born and boy, 6yrs who will be 7yrs when this baby is born. I'm due on 11th December and I'm 7 weeks pregnant tomorrow, yahoo! I'm feeling positive just now as I m/carried last November at 5w6d so to have passed that stage feels amazing. Only my OH knows about this pregnancy - not another soul, and it's been so tricky to keep schtum. We want to tell the kids first, before anyone else so will have to make sure we're ready to tell the world once they know! I am toying with the idea of waiting until after hearing HB at 16w before we tell the kids/anyone just to make sure all is ok, as although I'm feeling confident and positive, I do still feel vulnerable and precarious.

So I've had loads of symptoms and can't really miss the fact I'm pregnant. I'm missing out on the sickness (yay!) but do lots of gagging - things that wouldn't normally bother me turny stomach wise really get to me when pregnant - weird but the sight of my kids' crusty spit at the side of their mouth in the morning (sorry) or the sight of my food waste bin and I'm retching away! I feel absolutely bone tired, hungover and body exhausted - don't remember it as bad previously, but had my first 2 children in my twenties! I work p/t but also run my own business which has received barely any attention over the past few weeks - it's time sensitive so I need to pull my finger out with this! My boobs are so tender and full feeling and when my kids cuddle me (just the right height), it's agony. I've had food cravings and severe hunger pangs and insomnia (5am waking most days) and dizzy spells and hot flushes and more! I feel like a walking hormone factory!

Things with OH are tricky. He's not really acknowledging the pregnancy, asking how I'm feeling, talking about the future but I understand that as I know he's trying to protect himself. It's just that I've then lost the only person who knows to tell how I'm feeling, what I'm thinking. He can't and won't think past the 12w scan, which I understand but I would like him to be there to talk to.

I have the MW booking in appointment at 10w on 16th May then our 12w scan on 30th May. Feels like forever away, but I've survived 3 whole weeks of knowing so far and got through it! I really really can't afford it, but I'm very tempted to book a reassurance scan at 9.5w, there's a place just across the road from work. I'm still thinking about this...

Anyway, I've rambled on enough and my phone is about to die! I can't remember anyone's news above to comment individually but I'll try and do this in future. Hang in there everyone - let's grow some babies!!

Hi ladies, can I join you please? Have been lurking on the December thread in the main pregnancy talk but but only just discovered this one! Thought it was a bit quiet over there, didn't realise there was a massive antenatal club for December bumps going on over here!

I'm 32, this is #1 for me and EDD according to NHS calculator is 18th Dec, so I think that makes me 6 weeks. Am very blessed that this is my honeymoon baby, fell straight away so still in a state of shock and feel very blessed. Having every pregnancy symptom in the book at the moment, taking that as a good sign but feeling rather anxious. I've got midwife appt on 3rd May and have booked private viability scan on the 9th when I should be 8+1.

Am just reading through all of the previous messages and see a few familiar names from the other thread *waves.

I went for a "nap" at 5pm and haven't long woken up, should prob go downstairs now and check DH hasn't starved without me!

Hi, hoping to join this group!

I'm 29, did two tests last week and got strong lines on both. Been TTC since mid Jan so caught quickly! This is my second child, I had my son at age 18 and he is now almost 11. Last pregnancy very easy, all went smoothly (which is good, as was clueless and had no friends with children or a mum&baby social circle). I am hoping it will be just as easy 11 years on! DH very happy, and I can't resist telling everyone!

Very few symptoms so far, apart from weeing and feeling completely starving. I thought I was around 5 weeks gone, but not sure as over the past week my tummy has gained a visible bump so I suspect I'm further along than I thought. I was reading on the NHS choice site and you can have some early stage spotting which you might mistake for a light period, so it's possible I'm up to 8 weeks. I am calling the midwife on Monday to ask her if I can push scan date forwards.

So not sure when I am due!

Anyone else on here with a big gap between their children?

Argh can't sleep! sore boobs, sore belly and keep waking up. With the added bonus of a bit of heartburn...

And is anyone else having really odd dreams?