Thread #6 - TTC#1 Grads - Sun roasted pregnant ladies

[PotatosMum]

Summers here and bumps are busy growing. Scans photos are coming thick and fast and team pink and blue are rampining up their numbers.

We have new grads furiously POAS, second trimesters eager for their bumps and veterans about to embark on trimester 3 and contemplating baby size with mild terror apprehension.

The weathers to hot for comfort and our pregnancy aches, pains and symptoms are getting on our tits literally in some cases !!

All are welcome to TTC#1 grads thread #6

Indi glad you're having fun on your holiday.

Planet glad your baby is fine. When will you know if you have a UTI.

Canter, Miley can I join you on the huffy couch. I'm so tired and grumpy. I just want to sleep!!

Of course potato! There's infinite room so we can all stretch out.

Is anyone else experiencing painful cramps in their foot?

Yes to foot cramp miley had the most awful foot cramp squatting down to clean shower tray yesterday so have told DP thats his job for next 15 weeks now!

Thanks guys. Jumps on grumpy couch and breaks out the chocolate biscuits.

It is a UTI, but have to call back tomorrow for fuller results to see whether it needs antibiotics to clear it or whether continuing to drink 84,000 glasses of water a day will be enough. Boo hiss. Never mind, at least with this one it's a stealth ninja pg UTI which doesn't have the usual burning wee of doom as a symptom!

I love my baby more than words can express but pregnancy can be really fucking hard! Group hug, everyone. I'm so glad I have you all to share this supposedly beautiful journey with. What is beautiful about vomiting, constipation, bad moods, foot cramps and the constant worry you're doing something/something is going to go wrong? If men had to do this I reckon the human race would be long gone

Flopping down on the huffy couch with a blanket and a pillow.

miley I sometimes get cramps in my left foot but that a result of a dropped arch when I was a younger. Can be really painful.

Beautiful scans miley and elle. Thinking of you for yours tomorrow starky. It's going to be fine and you'll be buzzing.

planeteer hope things get cleared up soon.

Sorry to hear you're not so well lauren. I had a HUGE globule of jelly stuff a while back - very similar to what you've described though not quite as big. I had no pain or bleeding or anything so guess it's normal. Hope they sort out any deficiencies for you.

potato sorry the housing association have been shit and hope everything gets sorted. Moving while pregnant is not much fun! We had our first viewing today but they didn't seem very interested.

Hugs to all of those feeling huffy. I've been really hormonal last few days too.

Joining all the huffy girls! I have a UTI I've got antibiotics and have been assured they're OK for me to take while pregnant. I don't have horrid burning wee but don't feel great and need to wee ALL the time. I may as well just sit on the loo all day.

Sorry to hear others are having rubbish days.

Great news on scan elle and good luck for tomorrow starky

In answer to driving questions - I'd say the actual technical bit of how to drive came back to me pretty quickly, it's more the judgement that I need to practice! Like can the car fit through the gap, should I go or wait at a roundabout etc - stuff that will come through building up my confidence. I've booked another 2 2 hour sessions next week with an instructor in his car and then DH will take me out over the bank holiday in his (our!) car and then I was going to get an intensive lesson in our car focused on parking (lots of on street parking round us in London). That's my current plan anyway!

plqnet can they give you some antibiotics and stuff to sort it? Once they know? You poor thing.

Thanks guys, I was about 48% of my way towards hysterical nervy breakdown when Dh told me to get grip and said he's really excited for it, he has been all week, I've been working myself up a treat. Deffo going to have to do some see breathing and positive thinking. I'm really sorry I'm so self obsessed fx ill be able to calm the balls down!

Lara sorry your viewing didn't go well. Fingers crossed for the next one.

Soda is this your first pregnancy UTI? They're not fun but they are common... So far I've had one in each trimester, just about to hit T3 so it must be time for another

Stark good luck for tomorrow. It really will be fine but that being said every one of us has been a nervous wreck leading up to our scans. It really is a lovely experience though apart from the brutal probe poking but you don't notice that until after

Well, I've just been cheered up no end by a letter from the company we applied to for life insurance saying that they're not willing to insure me because of my fibroid! apparently if after the pregnancy it shrinks and the dr's don't want to remove it I can reapply but for now it's a no. I feel slightly insulted

Still waiting on the mortgage decision but the company has sent me a nice letter asking me to check my direct debit details just in case they say yes

I feel like I'm being mocked this evening hiding head under blanket on the huffy couch and assuming a foetal position... Well as close as I can get to a foetal position with bump in the way

Glad you're ok, Planet.

Soda - I'm the same, I have to wee ALL. THE. TIME. It's really inconvenient - sounds silly, but making sure you're always close to a loo is not very easy. I also feel like I should just live in the bathroom now.

Potato - can't believe you're almost in the third trimester! I can still remember being on the thread when you got your bfp!

Also, what rubbish news about the life insurance, Potato. I could see if they made the insurance more expensive because of it, but to not insure you at all is ridiculous. Have you tried other companies?

Gah, I keep pressing 'Post' rather than the 'X' button. Anyway, last thought...

Miley, interesting that you say how much you love your baby. That's so lovely.

I really don't feel bonded at all. Not necessarily in a bad way, but more that it just feels like a bump. I don't really feel like there's any 'one' inside it if that makes sense.

Does everyone else feel bonded?

I was staying away today because I was in such a huff wish I'd popped in now! There must be something in the air. I'm just sore arsed and overworked nothing major!

Hope everyone is feeling a bit more relaxed now?

Good luck for your scan starky! I'm excited

What a bumpy day for everyone. I've had one of those days at work where I wish I hadn't bothered getting out of bed. Sometimes I wonder why I bother. Anyone want a share of a large bar of and a big piece of ?

Operation nursery has started here. One empty room for me to fill. Any recommendations on where to look for furniture etc?

Hey Everyone!!

I havent been on this in months and as soon as I log in, this is the first thread that crops up!! Glad to see everyone doing well.

Starky!! You have a bun in the oven WOOHOO!!! All the pee sticks paid off. How you feeling?

I am 22+2 with a darling little girl squirming about :)

Lisa I can't remember. Can you feel your baby move yet?
I'm definitely bonding with Potato but it's only seemed real since I started feeling her squirming all the time.

Forgot to say I heard the most annoying thing walking through the shopping centre to the Drs arlier. A charity guy was trying to get a womans attention, she was pushing a pram, as she walked past him he said 'it's a good job your child looks nothing like you' I mean WOW! How does he know what she's gone through she may have bonding issues or have adopted. Complete idiot if I hadn't been rushing I'd probably have said something the mood I was in.

Sorry for everyone at the pity party today, let's hope we all have a better Friday!!

First pregnancy UTI potato but millionth UTI in life Rubbish about the life insurance!

lisa I know what you mean about feeling like its 'just a bump'. I find it hard to relate my bump to an actual baby. I do feel a real bond though - now that I feel it moving around I really enjoy it and it seems real. When the doctor got the heartbeat this week baby then moved and doc was chasing it around with the Doppler and I found that amusing, like it has a little personality already. I think the main thing for me is seeing how much DH loves baby and he's so excited now he can feel them moving - and that helps me feel more of a bond if that makes sense? Sorry for ramble!

lauren that is horrendous!

Morning ladies

How are we? Just trying to catch up, been so busy with work.

Just farted myself awake, I'm so gassy and bloated it's unreal.

I'm also on the huffy couch today!

X

Morning all. Very tired this morning after a work night out (charity quiz). Still not feeling any real movement which is annoying but still the odd pop - including a tiny bit when the music was loud last night. I hope he gets stronger so I can feel him soon. I'm looking pretty round and feeling huge so it would be nice to feel him and be reminded that I'm pregnant and not just fat!

Morning all,

I was definitely on the huffy couch last night with you. Had a few tears at bedtime. Was feeling quite hormonal and missing DH, the swelling, heartburn and hip pain had really got to me too. Feeling better after an early night but we shall see what the day holds.

Lisa I feel quite bonded since I can see movements. It'll be nothing compared to when we meet them though. Although we should all be aware it doesn't always happen immediately the whole falling in love bit.

Has anyone else's eyesight changed? I read it can happen and that it'll go back after pregnancy but really my right eye is so blurry by the end of the day I can't read out of that eye alone- thankfully I have a left!

Lauren what an awful sales person. If I were her I would have turned around and given him a piece of my mind... Or just told him to fuck off

Soda UTI thing suck. I never had one before I got pregnant but the constant need to pee drove me mad!

Sorry Shelb but your comment about farting yourself awake made me snort

Bunch sorry you had a rotten day yesterday. Are you feeling better today.

Well this week feels like a turning point. I feel so heavy and uncomfortable, I need to pee every time I stand up and I actually got stuck on the floor and couldn't stand up last night. My tummy feels like it weighs a tone, I'm huffing and puffing all the time, exhausted and just generally I feel like I've hit the third trimester. I know it's not official for another 2 weeks but with my uterus measuring 28 weeks and my fibroid I'm not surprised I feel like this a little bit early.
I just want to stay in bed.

Morning! I'm feeling quite huffy today! I've had such a busy week, I'm exhausted. Hope everyone has a better day today.

Lisa to be honest, it's only the last couple of weeks I've felt bonded with the baby. Lots of movement definitely helps.

Bunch I'm due an eye test and contact lens test his month but I want to put it off because I've heard pregnancy changes eyesight. I don't want to buy new glasses for them to become uselse's in 3 months!

potato that sucks about insurance! I'd have thought they'd agree to insure you but just for £££ more! Cheeky buggers.

Morning

Think spending time on the virtual huffy couch with like minded lovely grumpy people must have helped, as despite having about 4 hours sleep I'm feeling a bit brighter today.

Soda empathy hugs for UTI. Also first one in pregnancy but millionth one generally. They suck!

Lisa I know what you mean about bonding. I'm hugely protective of my bump, but am not quite thinking of it as a baby yet. Wondering if the 22 week scan will change that. DH has recently started chatting away to the bump, which is adorable and helps me feel bonded too. Sure it'll happen with time as we feel more movement etc.

Ooooooh Lauren I'm impressed with your restraint. I fear I would have marched up to her and unleashed some serious crazy!!

Bunch, sorry you were in pain last night. Hope you've got a fairly easy day ahead.