Babies due in November 2016 #2

[FuzzyOwl]

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So pleased to hear you are home Rae. Good luck for your scan xxx

Hope you aren't waiting long for your scan appointment Fedup. I got mine through four days after my booking in appointment.

Thinking of you likea and agree about being referred to your EPU. Really hope everything is ok.

Welcome Elle.

Glad you enjoyed last night Canters and I hope that you managed to have a walk this afternoon.

Great news about your scan bobcat and glad your mind is at rest. Pregnancy is such a worry.

Hope your scan on Friday goes well fuzzyw. I don't have any symptoms at all today, not even sore boobs or hunger. I am sure we can't both be imagining it and the dozens of pregnancy tests I have used are wrong. Your DP sounds lovely!

I am really worried finding and just hoping everything will be ok. The odds are in our favour and today we are pregnant!

Really pleased to hear you have been discharged Rae and I hope you are feeling loads better now. Hope tomorrow's scan goes well. Will be thinking of you.

Hope everyone else is having a good weekend.

Rae that's great to hear, how are you feeling now?

Finding your DM sounds so sweet.

Fuzzyowl I'm actually half hoping I get morning sickness just for reassurance, which I know is ridiculous as I was so unwell with it with both my DDs.

I've a question when are you all telling family and friends about your pregnancies? We plan on telling DDs after the scan on Friday fingers crossed it goes well, as I think they half suspect anyway.
We plan on waiting to tell family after the 12 week scan again hopefully it goes well. This will be the first baby on DP's side, think mil will be delighted.

Thank you FuzzyOwl.

Fuzzywuzzy your dh sounds lovely. I was desperate for a glider rocker with my first and had saved up, ex SIL turned up with a £60 IKEA chair that, I sure was comfortable for something but that wasn't feeding a little one cause the ex had moaned that I was being frivolous. Bet you're very pleased

Like you fuzzyw I associate ms with a healthy pregnancy, even though it is not the case at all. We had to tell my parents and PIL early on (and FIL has kindly told the whole world ) and I also said to some of my close friends as I knew I would need their support if anything goes wrong.

Thank you everyone! fuzzywuzzy I do feel a lot better (I can keep food down in small amounts, touch wood). I am exhausted but hopefully can get a good night's sleep and the nausea will be kept at bay by the meds.

We weren't going to tell anyone until the 12 week scan, but because I've been so poorly we had to tell my parents and brother. I think that if the scan goes well tomorrow then DH will tell my manager (we work at the same place), as we both feel that I will need support for a phased return or reduced hours in my first few days back.

I'll probably also then tell 2 or 3 of my close friends, who also know I've been in hospital but think I've just had a nasty viral thing. I have a feeling it might snowball to be honest- my mum is very close to her sisters and I know she's found it hard to deal with me being unwell and not being able to tell them, so we might end up just telling family early.

It all hinges on tomorrow morning really!

FuzzyOwl I would be so angry if anyone shared our news for us! Have you talked to your FIL?

Considering how badly I am suffering from The Rage these days Rae, I don't think I can be trusted talk to him. However, if we have another child I fully intend to make sure he finds out after other people so he can't say anything first.

Good plan FuzzyOwl

We told my mil last because we knew she couldn't keep a secret. She swears she hasn't told anyone but I'm not so sure.

Just been to a close friends wedding and got in- this is the longest I've managed to go in the last 3 weeks without lying down and having a nap! Feeling exhausted now.

I ordered my food choices months ago and couldn't remember what I'd chosen. I'd ordered a Brie and red onion tart for starter, chicken with Parma ham for main and then homemade ice cream for dessert! Coupled with the amount of wine and champagne on the table, it was literally like a table of temptation! I didn't touch the Parma ham or ice cream but I ate the tart- it was cooked so I thought it might be ok? Plus I was starving at that point after avoiding the mostly fish canapés. Feeling a bit bad now though Do you think it's ok?

Likea, I was in a very abusive relationship previously & I wasn't 'allowed' to buy my DD's anything.
Which has made DP's actions so incredibly sweet. Being with a normal person who wants me to be happy and doesn't constantly judge and criticise me is still shocking to me. He is sweet & very kind.
I hope you get your glider chair too :)

Rae, that sounds really good, I remember from my DD's that tiredness made the sickness worse for me, hope you get a good nights sleep.

Fuzzyowl when you have your baby tell everyone except your FIL, leave him till last. Maybe childish but I'd be tempted!

Jamjar, why did you avoid the fish?
The Camembert and red onion tart sounds divine btw.

Sorry meant Brie and red onion.

Hi everyone. I'm having second thoughts about the pregnacare making ms worse. The last couple of days my MS seems to have really eased off and I have felt pretty good (cue lots of worrying from me). Last night I went out and forgot to take my pregnacare tablet. This morning MS is back with a vengeance!
Hope everyone is feeling well this morning.

Fuzzy, they were rolls of smoked salmon with cream cheese and sushi type stuff. It was quite hot yesterday and without knowing exactly what they were and how long they'd been on a tray, I thought it was better to avoid. I'm sure most of them would have been fine but I've had such a fickle stomach recently that vomiting on the bride would have been quite likely lol.
The Brie was lovely lol, made me realise how much I'm going to miss it! Sadly my DH was very happy with 'proper food' yesterday because I've been eating just grilled meat and veg as its the only thing I can stomach! Might try to make more of an effort to cook him something nicer or his tastebuds might die over the next 8 months!

Morning all,

I had awful insomnia last night, fell asleep about 2:30 and then wide awake feeling sick at 6:30 The nausea is horrible isn't it? I envy anyone who doesn't have it you are so blessed!

I ordered some of those acupressure bracelets yesterday and have found that eating ice lollies helps (had 4 yesterday!) should I see the doctor about the sickness? or is it generally deemed 'part and parcel' of it all. Not sure what I'll hold down today

Hello all, I am 8+5 with my first and feeling disgusting. Just been lying on bathroom floor, now having customary anti morning sickness cocktail of Lucozade and a Rice Krispie Square. So spotty and lethargic and frustrated -- I don't feel like me.
Like some of you, I am freelance and WFH and my productivity is on the floor. I am a journalist so deadlines can't move but have cut the amount of work I am taking on to accommodate the lack of energy. I usually walk 1-2 hours a day, now I struggle to get to end of street.
DH is being fantastic, couldn't ask for better. Goes shopping for whatever I can face eating, gave me a mani pedi voucher last week, is super understanding that he's basically flying solo socially at the moment.

Anyway, lovely to be in touch with you all and all good wishes to those of you feeling anxious or stressed.

Good luck for your scan today Rae.
Welcome to almond
I've had to call in sick for work today, I just feel so awful, it's like flu but with sickness. I have zero energy (it's an effort to get up and go to the loo) and I feel sick 24/7. I am lucky that I'm not actually being sick, but the constant nausea is really starting to wear me down. I rather pathetically had a cry about it last night.

Oh cake, I have had several cries about the nausea. I'm so frustrated at not being able to enjoy eating anything, food is one of my biggest pleasures. I've only actually been sick once which is annoying- I feel if I were vomiting it would be much easier to justify taking time off. I am currently having the daily debate with myself whether to call in sick, it is just miserable trying to work and feeling so crap. Wah. Woe is me!

to those of you feeling rough.

I went shopping yesterday and think I really overdid it. Had to go to bed at 5.30pm to recover as idler so rough. The weird dreams have kicked in for me the last couple of nights and although my nausea isn't too bad today it's still lurking in the background.

I keep telling myself (and DH) that this week and next should be the peak of feeling rubbish and when I hit ten weeks it should start to ease off again.

I'm with you Canters I've only actually been sick a couple of times but I almost want it to happen for some relief and to feel justified for feeling this rubbish!

Hugs to those feeling rough.

Just had a big cry in the doctor's surgery - I've been trying to make an appointment for a week, every day that I possibly can (days offs, late starts, etc) because I really want to talk to my doctor about my antidepressants. A receptionist told me to go in at opening time and try that way, so I did today and the woman in front of me got the last appointment. Cue the tears!

Someone is going to call me later which is something I guess. I'm panicking that I'm still taking my antidepressants, but also that I still haven't set anything into motion - I'm 7 weeks today and know I need to get a booking in appointment, register, or whatever (I don't know pathetic whimper this is my first and I'm clueless) and I don't know how to do that without seeing my doctor?

Sorry, I'm just back at home in tears feeling utterly miserable

for you onthemetro and to everyone else feeling rubbish.

We've just had the scan- all is good for this stage and there is just one in there. It was lovely to see the heartbeat! They've moved my dates back though- I'm measuring 7+1 when I thought I was 8+3!

So pleased your scan went well, Rae! That's great news.

Lots of love to everyone feeling rubbish today. The nausea has really kicked in for me and I need to be constantly eating to keep it at bay! I found that taking my Pregnacare tablet on an empty stomach was a recipe for disaster so now I 'sandwich' it between two lots of food (for e.g. porridge, tablet, banana) and that seems to make me feel ok... ish. Haha!

I have my booking in appointment today at 11.30 so quite excited about that. Although I'm worried about having blood taken... I've never had it done before!

almondbutter, I'm also freelance and my productivity has fallen off a cliff. I just want to sleep!

Twinkle, if you are feeling so nauseous it's stopping you eating much and going about your life then it's always worth talking to the GP. Many people are on medications more for nausea than for actual sickness. It can be just as bad.

Glad your scan went well and that you feel better, Rae, fingers crossed you get some time respite for a while

copper, just don't look I hate having bloods taken and it always makes me feel a bit wobbly. Tell them it's your first time and if it's the midwife taking it and it make you feel bad or hurts too much, ask them to stop and say you'll go to the phlebotomist at the hospital or GP to get them done.