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hi, im due on the 1st of october with 2nd after 3mcs in the past 18m. anyone else?

im with you lot on the peeing!!!dont understand why im peeing so much!!i dont rememer peeing this much early on witha ny of my others.
im also waking up during teh night,and i cant gte back to sleep!its a combination of odd dreams and needing the loo tahts waking me,and tbh its driving me mad!im so tired all the time and i just NEED some decent sleep!by the time dh gets home from work (just after 7pm) im half asleep and have to perk up and look like im listening when he tells me what hes done during the day!!

had to get my jacket spud and coronation chicken fix today!!went to porthmadog to get some fish (tropical...not edible!!)and i ended up going to a shop called jesses and they do the absolute bets coronation chicken ever!!!so if ever any of you come here for a hol...you know where to go!!(oh,also got a massive chunk of carrot cake!!was soooo yummy!!)

Just wondering if you have all told your family and friends yet? We haven't told anyone, well apart from you guys my DH did say, I can't believe you have just told a lot of strangers but it feels good to tell someone.

I am with the rest of you on the peeing front, waking at about 4am and then can't get back to sleep! Hence I am now knackered!

Hi Polarmum, I told my sisters and mum and dad on sunday. They knew we were TTC, so it was only a matter of time that they would ask how it was going! DP yet to tell his side of the family though. His mum is desperate for another grandchild, so I think DP is enjoying the almost sadistic pleasure of not telling her! I havent told any friends yet, as would rather wait until 12 weeks.

If you have close family, I think it is nice to tell them. If anything goes wrong (hopefully is doesnt), I will want to talk to them about it anyway.

I am feeling knackered all the time- especially about 2pm, just when I've got to get some energy to get DS from school. And DD wanted me to make her a treasure hunt today- but I was too tired, just lay on the sofa! Felt rubbish. Poor DD then tried to put her barbie princess tent up with no help- she was struggling, so I had to pull myself together and help her! I feel like something has zapped all my power!

Hi Honeyapple, we are close to both our families and would like to tell them at the same time, but there is some family stuff going on with my PIL, good stuff, and we want them to enjoy that first before announcing our news, so will have to wait another couple of weeks, if I don't let it slip meantime!! Also family meals are a bit trying as I have constant nausea (?sp) but I guess its all part of the fun

I know what you mean about feeling knackered, I was doing a stock take earlier and tiredness hit me like a ton of bricks!!

Mrs McJnr - I'm thinking that it sounds pretty positive that your dates might just be out a bit as the tests being negative would go with the fact that you were actually just much earlier on. I should also say that I have had 2 miscarriages so am not one to be confident if there is any room for doubt! With my first miscarriage I had bleeding and although a scan could see a heartbeat they said it was too small, and there was also a clot nearby, and they said they werent hopeful of a good outcome so I dont think they would be saying 50/50 if it wasnt equal either way. My symptoms also disappeared when the baby did die - not that I want to make you paranoid checking - I'm sure you already do. I have hardly any symptoms this time round but do have headaches and some nausea which only started recently - again I'm viewing that as consistent with the pregnancy only now getting on a bit. Sorry its so long!

Morning all!
I stayed up a bit later last night and managed to go all night without waking!!
I am waiting for the doctors to call back as I've been getting some pains around my section scars and hopefully they are going to arrange a scan for me (I went yesterday to see the doc and she wasn't too concerned about the pain but said to call back if it reappeared!)
As for telling people I think most people I know now know about the pregnancy I am hopeless at keeping quiet about this sort of thing!!

Morning all!

Good luck at the docs today Whoops

Thanks Zephyrcat
Am going to PA now for a scan at 11am

Hope everything is ok. Are they going to scan your scar?

whoops ive been getting pain across my section scar aswell,and dh remindedme (as if i needed reminding!!) that i had it with dd3 (my last pgnancy).i had a vbac last time and was in agony with the scar pain,mainly as dd3 went under my scar.i could cope with the contractions but the scar pain was unbearable.it really felt like she was tearing her way out through it!sorry to anyone who is planning a vbac,im sure it isnt teh same for every vbac!this time i am absolutely terrified about giving birth again!!stupid i know as this is my 6th baby!!

spoke to teh midwife yesterday and as she is retiring,i am having my booking viist at the hospital.had to ring today to arrange time and date.spoke to a lovely mw,and told her about my concerns,and that i hadnt been offered an early scan.she was disgusted that because i have had mc's last year and more because dd3 was twins but i lost one at 12 weeks,she is arranging a scan for me for next week!she said i shouldve had one by now,but when i go,as it will e before my booking visit,she told me to lie to them and say i have forgotten my notes and that its a dating scan!not sure about why i need to lie to them,but if i get the reassurance i need i dont mind!!

booking visit is for a week on saturday,so i will be 9 and a bit weeks!

as for telling people,we told close family teh day after we found out.it was a bit hard keeping it from my older kids,as we were having to watch what we were saying,so we told them!close family friends know,and of course you guys!!!

hoep everyone is feeling ok today!!

Ooh hello Buffy!! Well that's has wiped any thoughts of going for a VBAC from my mind Not really, I'll be on the 4th CS without a doubt.

Just wanted to quiz you on what it's like having 5 little ones?? These, all being well, will be my 4th & 5th in one go and the mere thought of it terrifies me!! Please tell me it's easy!

Morning all!

B2B - pleased to see you are going to get an early scan after all!

MrsMcJnr - glad to see you back where you belong... Only 5 more days to go until you see your baby again!!

Whoopsee - I am afraid that I never had to get up to pee in the middle of the night with ds and this one seems to be following suit!! Sorry to be smug! But I did get chronic third trimester insomnia last time where I was only sleeping a couple of hours a night tops so my time will come...

lfm and polarmummy - welcome and congratulations... Don't forget to add your stats on to the stats thread!

Feeling quite tired today. Had to leave work at lunchtime on Wednesday 'cos my mother was very who was ill. Turns out she has a chest and bowel infection which was very nasty and I got told off at the hospital for being anywhere near her in my "condition". Honestly!!! How was I, a layperson, meant to know that she was that ill or that infectious. Bluddi hospitals - reminds me why I wanted a home birth last time!

Anyway, enough moaning. The upside was that when I mentioned I felt queasy when ds woke up at 05:30 this morning, dh ended up dealing with him as he didn't want me to touch him and potentially infect him so I got a lie-in until 07:00!!!

buffythenappyslayer - I just love your name by the way! Big respect to your DH for coming up with the chicken. I have keep reminding mine that he is lucky to be alive, if he comments that I am moody, and that I have not bitten his head completely off or thrown him out the window. I am not having food cravings but I am having some hormone issues. Filled with an all consuming rage towards my DH poor bloke. Its like being permanently premenstrual.It stopped at 12 weeks last time thank god.

I have no pain in my section scar but was thinking of a VBAC. Not that I want to and would much rather have a c section, but logic tells me I should not opt for a major op when unless it is medically necesssary. Also my friend who has a ds the same age as mine has caused herself internal bleeding when she picked him up too much too soon after her section. Not very appealing. I'm sure a vbac will be ghastly but I have a faint hope of a dreamy hippy water birth. Best cling on the faint hope.
I know it is early days to be talking birth but just out of interest who has had a c-section before apart from me. buffy, whoopsfallenover, verso....
Hope you and whoopsfallenover again are ok anyway.
This talk of weeing and farting has been making me laugh. Kezza your post about the bucket cracked me up. You hang on to that last shred of dignity babe. I weed in a plastic pint glass at the end last time and I live on one level!
The creme egg thing - I am a bit dubious too about the goo in the middle. My thing is Breen and Blacks mint. Better than s*x.
Gemmac I pee loads too normally, its just at the moment when I have a pee I go and eat as well. No wonder I am so fat.

Honeyapple - not had ms but my friend who did always carried ginger biscuits in her pocket and would have a nibble when she felt sick. Also ginger beer and a lump of peeled root ginger in hot water recommended.

MrsM - so hard to say with the symptoms thing, but with my mc I felt really quite unwell in the week before I started to bleed. It was more a change in symptoms rather than an increase or decrease in symptoms. I just felt wretched and had a strange sence of forboding. I knew something was wrong that is all I can say. However your situation is different as you have been told something might be wrong so that could change your perception of symptoms and your instincts about your pg. There is no way of knowing until wed you poor thing. We have all got everything crossed for you.

zephyr,i never thought iw ould actually have this many sprogglings!!but tbh you just get on with it!

when dd3 was born (she was my no.5) i was dreading the day when dh went back to work,as i thought i wouldnt be able to cope.the day came,he went off to work,i took the kids to school,came home etc,and tehn picked em up again.it wasnt as bad as i thought it was going to be.like i say,you just get on with it.dd3 was diagnosed with cf at 6 weeks old,so that made life a little bit harder,but it just meant i ahd to get up ealrier to give her her meds and phsyio,and have her ready in time for leaving for school!

my tip would be though,to get your others involved.i asked them to get nappies,clothes etc for me and it did make things just that little bit easier,as they felt a part of things.how old are your other children?my eldest is 15 then 13,11,7 and 2.so my older ones can do other things around the house now,its a struggle sometimes to get everything done in one day,so if you have older children that can put the washer on,or hoover up for you,its a great help!(costs you abit but at least you can get on with other things!!!)

taichimum,i keep telling dh not to be horrible to me as he'll make me cry!!!last weekend he was after a bit of hows your father!i felt soooooo sick and was knackered.just because i said no he said "charming...youve got what you want and now you dont want to know me!!"he was joking when he said it,as he was laughing,but i burst into tears as it felt like he was having a go at me!!!

i keep snapping at him aswell,and he says "ooooh touchy"!! which starts me off bawling again!!its got to the point if he so much as looks at me wrong i tell him not to because he'll start me off crying and tehn he'll feel guilty and have to go buy me flowers!!(or coronation chicken!!)

That's my biggest dread - when dp has to go back to work. In my head I have given him a 'gap year' so he can be at home until I am 100% recovered and they are old enough that I can cope on my own!!! Bit dramatic but it feels immensely overwhelming at the moment.... My others are 5.2, 2.8 and 10 months old!!

well,by the time these two come you can get your other lo's to fetch things for you.they do get jealous and you might find they argue and fight more between themselves,mainly to get your attention.your certainly going to have your hands full,but honestly,you'll be amazed at how you actually do cope!im not saying its easy,at times its so bloody hard,but you start to think "well,if i dont do it,no one else will" and you get on with things!

but if you dh can take as much time off as poss at teh beginning as you are going to need his help.you'll be knackered after giving birth and if you do ahve c section then youve got to take things easy anyway.but if you can,when the twins are sleeping,make a fuss of teh others.even if its just a cuddle on the settee or reading tehm a story.they will feel left out at first,and i know i started feeling guilty when i brought dd3 home and felt i wanst giving enough attention to the others!

but the other thing to remmeber is that you need some time for you aswell.i dont get any time to myself at all,and its my own fault!!dd3 is so clingy and because of her having cf,im teh one that gives her her physio and meds,so i spend more time with her tahn any of my others!but even if im just sat doing nothing,shes on me!!

so as soon as your twins arrive,get yourself into some sort of routine,so taht you get at least half an hour to yourself!!!

Buffy and and zephrycat, both of you sound amazing. I am scared about having two so now I feel like a bit of a whimp. Z I did not realise you were expecting twins and with a 10 month old. Buffy is right though, you will be alright. My friend has 4 young ones and she manages really well. Her kids do fight a lot though like buffy says.
How did you find out it was twins? Early scan?

I'm back from the scan - things aren't looking good they could see a sac but nothing in it and it wasn't as big as it should be for 9 weeks I have an appointment to have another scan in 2 weeks to check what is happening but it isn't hopeful

I'm so sorry . You must be devastated. Thinking of you

Hi girls, after my invitation from KezzaG a couple of weeks ago to join the due oct thread, ive finally decided to do so .

This is my 2nd pregnancy (lost EP baby Nov 06) and i am 6 weeks today. Going off mt LMP my EDD is 0ot 26th. Im totally useless when it comes to pregnancy so expect lots and lots of questions .

1st question - when will the tiredness and sickness start? Im feeling more tired than normal but not exausted. My boobs are huge(gone up a cup size already). There really painful at times too. There also covered in blue veins.

I had a scan a couple of weeks ago to make sure baba was in the right place and he was. Got another scan next Thurs and hopefully we'll see the heartbeat..

If anyone can give me advice on when symptoms should kick in or when yours did, please do so.

Natalie x

P.S hi KezzaG and thanks for the invite

Whoops - so, so sorry that it's not looking good. I am thinking of you and hoping that maybe they might be wrong... You take care of yourself over the weekend and get lots of TLC from your other half...

Missnatalie - hello and congrats to you. Some people never get pg symptoms so you might have an easy (and hopefully uneventful) pg if you're lucky...

Aww whoops, so sorry, poor you, i hope you'll be ok. sending you a hug, and thinking of you x

Whoops - thinking of you - this limbo period is just awful.

I'm also going for a vbac - was hoping for a hbac, but may not get that (I had very severe bleeding after the mmc last year - nearly bled to death, so medics are understandably a bit concerned that it may happen again. I will be quizzing my consultant when I go to see him though). I'm not getting scar pain now - but I am getting a lot of groin pain ... I think the spd is back already, and with the coccyx pain too, I'm a bit of a mess.

Right royally sick today - haven't managed to keep anything down ... boo hoo ... had a a very bad day yesterday too, full of thoughts of doom and gloom ...

[sigh] knicker checkers of the world unite!
love to all,
ejt