April 2017 #3 - looking forward to first scans and the second trimester!

[Celen]

The third thread for all those due around April 2017

Apologies to anyone who I've missed off the list x

Esker, due 29 March, dc#1
Smiles01, due 29th March, dc#1 (5th pregnancy).
IrnBruFan, due 30 March (expected to change to April)
Needtoloseastone, due 30th March, dc#5
Bellatrixandstrange, due 1st April, dc#1
MummaFB, due 1 April, dc#1
Gemsbok, due 1 April, dc#2
MonkeyArms, due 1 April, dc#1
Celen, due 2 April, dc#2
Mummymulb16, due 3rd April, dc#2
StillaChocoholic, due 3rd April, dc#2
SummerSkittles91, due 3rd April, dc#1
Strubo, due 4th April, dc#3
AnnaKateNZ, due 4 April, dc#1
Ilovegbbo, due 4 April, dc#2
LotsaTuddles, due 6th April, dc#3 (pregnancy 6)
Sniffysnifferson, due 7th April, dc#?
Littlespoon, due 8th April, dc#2
Midrog, due 9th April, dc#1
MrsRhubarb, 9th April, dc#2
Naranciata, due 10th April, dc#1
Cazbg, due 10 April, dc#2
MyGreenSofa, due 11th April, dc#2
Everdene, due 11th April, dc#1
Finova, due 11th April, dc#3
WindyTriller, due 12 April, dc#2
TopKittyKat, due 13 April, dc#1
Mamato1, due 13th April, dc#2
katemarob17, due 14th April, dc#1
Allaboutthecake13, due 14 April, dc#2
Puggleface, due 14 April, dc#2
Prive120, due 15 April, dc#1
Helbelle75, due 15 April, dc1 (pregnancy 2)
cantmakeme, due 15 April, dc#2
Choccybiscuit due 15th April dc#3
Marmitecheesetoast, due 16th April, dc#1
Jennywren15, due 16th April, dc#2
Hayls17, due 17 April, dc#1
MummySN, due 17 April, dc#?
MumiTravels, due 22 April, dc#2
Bubbinsmakesthree, due 18 April, dc#2
Dandelionrarrrrr, due 18th April, dc#2
Autumnsunshinebaby, due 18th April, dc#2
DeepFriedCamembert, due 20 April, dc#2
Jpeg28, due 21st April, dc#1 (2nd pregnancy)
Jobrum, due 21st April, dc#2
Theknittinggorilla, due 22 April, dc#3
RaRa25, due 22 April, dc#2
Superbabywright, due 22 April
Welsh due 22 April dc#1
SharkBastard, due 23 April, dc#2
Onecrazycook, due 23rd April, dc#1
mrsbobflob, due 23 April, dc#2
Ecofreckle, due 24 April, dc#2
Hummingbird100, due 25 April, dc#2
sarahhh1984, due 25 April dc#1
IAmALionTamer, due 26 April, dc#2
Number4OnTheWay, due 27 April, dc#4
Niks2026, due 28 April, dc#3
Wherethefuckisthefuckingtuna, due 30th Apr, dc#2

Yes to the self centred in laws. My FIL tells her off sometimes which makes me laugh . He also bangs on about how much he loves my cooking whilst she's sat there and you can see her burning on the inside.
My BIL is also the same as her but DH and FIL escaped the selfish genes.

Anyone for a funny story?

Today at lunch in a busy country pub in a very conservative part of England, my toddler picked up an empty wine glass and said Mummy. I wanted to die. He's never seen me drink wine. They were on the table for table water. The waiter just looked at me like you awful human being. The table next to us glanced a look of disgust. Our friends saw the funny side thank goodness. My toddler's trying to make me out to be a raging drinker Don't get me wrong I'd bloody love a glass of wine

I can hear my neighbour snoring!

Haha Mumi wonder where he got the wine thing from! Kids are a terror for that! My 8 year old daughter, whenever she sees cans of Stella or Stella on tap she says "mum, you love Stella, go on have one" cheeky sod! I do love a stella and wine!

I've just heaved and thrown up a bit, slept so well the night before, had hoped the early morning/insomnia/sickness thing had passed...tis shit

Thankfully I only have a FIL, he's married to a woman but she doesn't like his sons so we rarely see them. My MIL died before I got together with DH, she sounded just my kind so sad I never got to meet her

Best of luck with the outlaws they sound a right pain!!

Wowsers, so much chat yesterday

jpeg so pleased your scan went well!

Luchi glad you saw a happy baby but how confusing for you too

Sorry your MIL sounds like such hard work sarahhh

Hope you got some sleep jobrum!

I read yesterday that 10 weeks can be peak for feeling like crap and symptoms tend to ease off afterwards. I'm kind of hoping that's the case but know as soon as I feel better, I'll be worrying again that things aren't going well I barely had the energy to make dinner last night as I tend to feel worse as the day goes on - anyone else like that? I really just want to fast forward to my scan date and see a happy baby!

sarahhh totally feeling your MIL pain!!!
Mine is a nightmare. We haven't had a good relationship since my daughter (15 months) was born. She's becoming worse and worse though
Husbands family are all very selfish and constantly put themselves first - never ever husband. When daughter was born she refused to get two buses to hospital but made husband feel really bad about her 'not being able' to get to see baby in hospital. So he left me and baby in hospital to do one hour round trip to get her (in this time I took unwell and there was nobody to look after baby).
She's always complaining about being 'ill' (there's not any diagnosed to be wrong with her), she didn't bother visiting us for the first year of my daughters life but has recently suggested visiting and when it didn't suit us threw a massive strop which has caused a huge family argument. Whenever we go out she never offers to but us a cup of tea and basically milks all she can out of us. The recent family argument resulted in her husband sending drunk abusive texts (all slagging me off) and her complaining her doesn't get to look after my child.
They can't see that they're horrible people and there's just no way I'd ever let them look after my children. I don't trust them to look after them properly and I think if they can be so vindictive to me, how can they reasonably expect me to leave my children with them
Anyway, my husband just wants to keep the peace and hasn't once stood up for me or told them they're out of line. So now we find ourselves in a permanent argument as I refuse to see them as its all too raw. He thinks i should just forget about it and move on.

Oh God sorry for the in-law pain what a nightmare! Not what you need at all right now.

Anyone else just seem to constantly look the colour of a sheet these days?! Have put on so much make up this morning before work and still look ridiculously washed out. Still feeling a bit weak and shaky after Saturday night's fainting so a bit nervous about work today, it's such a busy time as well.

Hoping your right about 10 weeks celen which would mean I only have another 2 weeks or so of this f*cking horrendous nausea!

Seems to me IrnBrufan that someone so ill all the time couldn't possibly look after a small child and surely the small child would be a germ risk?

These stories about horrible inlaws are so sad I'm lucky that both my inlaws are great...its my mother who can be an unsupportive cowbag judgey pants, but I only see her once a year as she lives a good 5 hours away. Love her to bits but she's really shown me her true colours since I've had a child

Alehfrikinluya! No sickness this morning!! Woke up feeling relatively normal. I doubt its going to last, but enjoying it while it does!
Sorry to all those struggling with grandparents, we struggle too, but for other reasons. Its so hard juggling family :(

Morning all...I've got my interview this morning It's at a National Trust place a 45 min drive away from my house. I'm not looking forward to a) the drive there and back or b) the interview, my nausea comes and goes quite dramatically and I'm really anxious about it dropping by right in the middle of my interview.

I'm not sure if the job will suit me, the role description was quite vague and I applied for it before I realised I was up the duff...so I don't know what to think about it all really!

Oh hummingbird I hope the drive and interview goes well, do you have any sweets you can take on the drive? I have a 40 minute drive to work each day and I'm finding polos are a relief!

Have my booking in appointment on Wednesday...will be interesting

Lots to catch up in from the last couplease of days. I've been so sick over the weekend, the last five days the sickness has just come out of nowhere amd been overwhelming. Managed to keep some of what I ate yesterday down, so feeling a little bit more human today, but haven't dared try anything as at this moment I feel alright.

Luchi what a bizarre scan, I would be out of my mind without more answers if that was me

Sarahhh your MILNSOUNDS very much like my DM. My wedding day was all about her, and she was an overbearing nightmare. A few weeks before the wedding she kicked off about changing my DFs access to my DSIS, and it was awful. There was no way they could be in the same room as each other. I remember DH dropping me off at work in tears, with him reassuring me that it was going to be fine and me sting everything was ruined. Unknown to me he then visited both my parents and read them the riot act. Told them that this day wasn't about them and if they didn't pack it in then it was too late for them to be uninvited. They were both as good as gold from then on! When DD was born my mum was obsessed with holding her, but then totally ignored her once she had her. It was like she just want her grandchild-trophy on hand. She didn't respect our choices at all, oh I didn't do any of that with you and you're fine! So therefore she was never allowed to have DD. Once DD got a bit older, and realised she was ignored when DM held her she started refusing to go to her and cried if she did. She wouldn't let her pick her up. DM soon realised that if she wanted DD she had to make more of an effort. I think DD WAS nearly 18 months before DM had her for the first time, and I only allowed it as DSIS was there too. Now at nearly 3 DM is great with her, and they love spending time together, and she is actually excited by the thought of grandchild number 2 ( last time her response was "Oh", I felt like a naughty teenager rather than a grown, married woman)

Now that I've written all of that (and probably outted myself) I cant remember all the other people I was going to reply too! Feels very therapeutic though

number4 I share your joy and have also woken up feeling fine only very slightly queasy which is a win!

Can I join the MIL club? Mine has really bad anxiety and depression and it became very bad just after we told them I was pregnant, not related obviously. We didn't see her for months as she just couldn't cope with day to day life but really made an effort after dd was born and got better too. We hadn't seen them since January again so I emailed to explain I'd been suffering anxiety and struggled with returning to work and that we'd love to see them, her anxiety had returned as well. Everything was well, she was going to drop round but never turned up. Heard nothing from her since and that was abut a month ago. What makes me sad is that I see on bloody facebook her doing lovely things with her other grandchildren. It makes me feel sad for dd.

celen that's exactly what I said when I eventually had it out with her

I'm returning to work from mat leave this week so reading everyone's posts about sickness etc with dread. I've been fine so far but the earlier starts for work might be the start of it for me!

Two weeks till my scan and I'm already showing so might be a couple of hard weeks trying to keep it secret

shark that's a good idea, mints! I have some fruity sweets but I think mints and a bottle of water would be a good idea. Late morning/early pm is actually the time I feel the least horrendous so hopefully I'll make it though...Long drives to work can be a nightmare

All my symptoms have gone and I accidentally ate some salami and I'm on holiday and it's supposed to be perfect and it's very beautiful but I'm having a crap time and worrying loads and shouting at DH for no reason. Scared something bad has happened/will happen.

How many weeks are you narancitia? Symptoms are notorious for dipping in and out!

Good luck hummingbird, will a fizzy drink be better for settling than plain water? I'm drinking a lot of fizzy water as finding fizzy flavoured just makes me feel more icky

Can totally understand your worry Naranciata symptoms and lack of are such a pain, don't worry about the accidental eating of salami though x

Salami is fine. Don't worry. Most foodstuff adheres to all kinds of safety standards.

9 weeks today. My boobs hurt a bit but nothing else. Hmm.

Good luck with the drive and interview hummingbird!

Try not to worry Naranciata as others have said symptoms are supposed to be notorious for coming and going one day to the next. Easier said than done I know but try and relax and enjoy the holiday.

I'm feeling so awful today, have felt worse ever since the fainting. I can't believe how pale I look and I just feel soooo exhausted and weak on top of the nausea. Have had to go to the toilets at work twice today for a cry for no reason other than I feel so crap. I feel so ridiculous and pathetic! This isn't like me at all. Seeing midwife tomorrow for booking-in so will ask about low BP/anemia..All I want to do now is go home and sleep.I don't know how I'm going to last the rest of the day at work.

I have had days when I feel wonderful with the faintest of achey boobs. And just when I am panicking the nausea, gentle stretchy pains and general miserableness returns. Oh joy.

Hope you're feeling ok narancitia x

Well the drive and interview went ok actually apart from 'D'H leaving the car with very little petrol so I had to go fill it up and buy some Crunchies for the road

The traffic was minimal and so I arrived happily and perfectly on time, in fact I was merrily singing to DH's Simon and Garfunkel album and I almost missed the turn to the estate (it's a huge place in the middle of gorgeous Northumberland). I got there, met a lovely lady, had a wee, and had a 30-min test (felt a bit manky in there but I sipped water and powered through) and then the lady who was interviewing me asked me 'Do you need to use the facilities again before the interview?' at which point I did A LITTLE JIGGLE and said 'No I'm fine thanks!' I have a tendency to be very familiar wth people very quickly so if you say hi to me basically I think we're best pals. Not sure jiggling to see if you need a wee is advised in formal situations but anyway. She smiled though and winked at me as I left so....I'll hear back tomorrow either way!

Now to devour last night's leftover shepherds pie

That's hilarious hummingbird!!
I hope you get it!

hummingbird