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Is anyone else peeing in the night already? I have been for weeks. This morning it's 1.30 and now I'm still awake at 3.30. Grrrr often will be at 3.30-4am then I lie therethinking, an hour will pass and it feels too late to get back to sleep.

So sick of it, and it feels like it's far too early for this yet!

I am so dehydrated I drink water by the pint even during the night, wake up at least once an hour to go

Carol I don't want to freak you out but I wonder if you should get a glucose tolerance test? I think constant thirst can be a sign of diabetes, although it might be normal in pregnancy! (So many weird things seem to be normal... my hairdresser told me that our hair stops falling out during pregnancy and then loads of hair falls out after the birth?!!)

I've got my GTT on 8th December. I've always drunk a lot though even before pregnancy, been checked so many times.

My hair is so thick at the moment, still falls out though when I condition it. Got appointment at the hairdressers Wednesday to thin it down a bit, it's half way down my back so need to do something with it. Hope I don't loose too much after birth

Ah ok well if you've always drunk at lot I'm sure it's fine

HerRoyal I'm the same! I used to sleep right through but now I have to get up at least twice a night to go for a wee. Very annoying.

I have to get up every morning about 6am to go! But usually am ok during the night.

I go about 5 times a night, it's horrible! At least I'm going back to sleep immediately afterwards now.

I keep telling myself I'm preparing for having a newborn needing feeds in the night.

I expected it later on, but I'm not that big yet, maybe depends how many pregnancies you've had before.

Got back to sleep around 4.30 and woke at 7.30 with the boys getting ready for tennis this morning. DH took them and left me to rest, bless him. He's heading back abroad for work in a week so I need all the rest I can get. He'll be gone for 2mths again.

Herroyal I feel your pain - my husband is in the navy and next November he's away to Scotland and probably deployed for 4 months with zero contact. I know I should feel lucky I have him here on a course til Nov '17 but already a bit petrified of looking after a little one full time without him

I have a couple of friends here but no family. They tend to forget about me though. For his last trip a friend said oh we'll get you over on a weekend we know it must be hard, never heard from her. We're keep to ourselves and just get on with it kind of people, so we're a bit on the fringes of our friendship group.

If I had a job he wouldn't have to be away, but we need to save up some funds for medical bills and other emergencies. Plus I'm less stressed actually while he's gone . He accepts that too.

Oh that will be hard charly

DH will also be back and forth for the next year, so back for DDs birth then away again, we're thinking of flying his mum over for a few weeks. I'm trying to convince him to transfer to a new project where we can all go with him, but that won't happen until June, so I will be on my own with the DC anyway. I've said all things being equally with the type of job, experience and pay, it comes down to being with your family or not. He plays his card close to his chest so I don't know which way he'll go, but will have to decide mid Novemeber at the latest.

namechange the hair falling out thing is so real. Doesn't happen straight after the baby is born, maybe about 4 months later. It's ridiculous how much comes out! And then u get lots of lovely tufty regrowth. So along with feeling mega tired and then bald, you really feel attractive as a new mother 😂😂 but during pregnancy it tends to not fall out so that bits all good.

Yup, embrace the centre parting to hide the regrowth tufts! I am not sure why it all seems to fall out from the same place! My tufts are only about 3" long now and they will fall out again soon!

I've pretty much given up hope of being attractive during pregnancy and early motherhood so I hope the hair issue won't bother me too much! I do have short hair so hopefully that might help a bit!

Hey, name, don't say that! I'm sure you look great.

DP keeps noticing only the bits of her body that she's not happy with and feeling really strange, but actually when she's not worrying, she looks fantastic (or I think so).

Aw thanks LRD
It's a strange feeling when your body changes so quickly and nothing fits. It doesn't feel like my body any more! But I have had some compliments from people saying I'm looking well so maybe I do have a bit of a second trimester glow
I'm sure you do but please tell your DP when she looks fantastic!

I had a little cry about feeling and looking so different the other day and my DH was so confused! I think we've been so tuned to notice any little thing about ourselves that we don't like and it's not good! I hope pregnancy will help me with that

I've done the same, OH keeps spontaneously tell me I'm looking good and I always just give him a shocked look and say "Um, no?!" cos I really don't feel it!

I think having PCOS I've dealt with this for so long I'm used to it now (acne, excess body and facial hair, bloated belly). If anything I feel more attractive in pregnancy as I have a reason for having a big belly, rather than just being fat!

I have PCOS too! Woo PCOS club lol

I've been using pregnancy as an excuse
to not make an effort at all... I'm planning on upping my game soon but too tired so far. I haven't worn make up or been to hairdressers or beauticians since June. I feel like when it's clearly a baby bump and not fat I'll start to want to make more an effort

name - oh, I do tell her!

There's actually a study running at one of the universities near us, that DP signed up for, that is testing pregnant women's sense of their actual size and position of their own bodies - I thought that was really interesting, because how can you feel you look good if you're brain is telling you your body shouldn't even be this size or shape?

LRD I thought you most probably did
Sounds like an interesting study!