May 2018 thread 2: first trimester, early scans and first heartbeats

[cautiousoptimist1]

Ladies,

Welcome to thread 2 for babies due in May 2018.

Looking forward to early scans, seeing the first flutters and progressing further into the first trimester.

Ah yay muddleduck first scan! Got aaaaages till mine so will live through you all!

Oh wow, 12 week scans already! Good luck everyone with scans this week. I have my booking in on Thursday and only then get a referral for the 12 week scan.

Ladypug when's yours? Mines 9th Nov! Feel like I'm well behind everyone!

Mines 13th November Phoenix think I’m last!!! 😂

cautious I’m the same had to wait to be referred after booking!

No scan date yet... had booking last Wednesday but nothing has come through yet. 9+5 today so I hope the scan date turns up soon as I will be 12 weeks on 2 November!

What a pain having to wait for the scan appt to come through!

Fortunately my booking appt was at the same location as the scan will be so I could queue up (most of the morning spent queueing!) to book in person

I haven’t got my booking in appointment for another week, and THEN I’ll be referred for the scan. I feel like I should be in the June thread too. 😂

Come and join June thread! I'm on both as I originally thought I was due 29th May and felt really far behind in May. :-) my due date is now 27th May.

I might join the June thread too as my dd was 21st May but now they’ve moved me to 28th May! Will wait for dating scan though to get actual dates!

Hi everyone, i’m a filthy traitor and i’ve been hanging out in the June group because i’m due 27th and was feeling left behind - now i’m back to join the self pity parade - I feel rrrrrrrrough. I’ve signed myself off work since last Thursday because I am so exhausted I can barely function and constant nausea. I don’t think I was this bad with dd but i didn’t find out with her until about week 8 so I wonder if there’s something in the knowing-and-not-being-able-to-talk-about-it that makes it feel worse.

Hey purplebiro I think it was this bad last time. The difference is this time I have a toddler! And I probably blocked out how bad it was! Hahaha

purplebiro, I also don't remember it being this bad last time. I had nausea but grazing helped, this time nothing has helped. I may therefore have already convinced myself that this ones definitely a boy!

Good luck for scan tomorrow muddleduck!

I'm waiting for results of the Harmony blood test which are due tomorrow night. As an older first timer I am really nervous about the tests...

@LadyPug @purplebiro I’m camping out on both this thread and the June thread as I’m due 31st. Too late for one and too early for the other 😬

Good luck with the scan muddle and your harmony results noredwine!
What a bummer about your scan date Ladypug, mine is 3 weeks tomorrow, a frigging age away!
I had my booking in appt today, was weird but nice being back in the maternity hospital! The midwife managed to get blood out of my usually very miserly veins really easily so that made a nice change, though my bp was borderline (I have crazy white coat syndrome) and I'm about 4lbs up from 6 weeks ago 🙈 Hoping i can exercise properly again soon, I tried to at weekend and ended up feeling sick

Hope everything goes well for you @Noredwine . I’ve been at the doctors today and was given anti sickness medication via injection and my third different kind of anti sickness tablets. That’s me been diagnosed with hyperemesis. 12 weeks tomorrow so hopefully I’ve not got this for the long haul.

Had another poop emergency at work today I'm getting a bit nervous about being out away from a toilet. No warning again, just instantly needed a very urgent poop. Can hardly call it poop, brown water thundershit is a tmi but accurate description. Ugh I wish there was something I could take. Imodium leaflet say don't take in pregnancy.

Also got a call from the hospital, my bloods have come back and I'm anaemic so have to go and collect iron tablets tomorrow. One of the main side effects... diarrhoea.

I'm struggling more with this than the sickness. With sickness I know the worst that can happen is I puke into bag and if it happens in public then that's unfortunate but not too bad. With this the worst that could happen is I shit myself in public or at work. Oh god please don't let that happen!

California and Milford -
So sorry you are both having such a bad time of it. hang in there and just think about the beautiful baby at the end! you guys are managing so well - don't know how you do it! X

@Milford I had to take iron for anaemia last time and it bunged me right up - fingers crossed!

Insomnia is hitting me hard. How can you be so tired but not sleep?? I had a succession of bizarre dreams, woke up thinking it must be nearly morning and was 1am tossed and turned for an hour and decided to get up for a bit. Feel sick and crampy and just want to cry.

I'm with you Phoenix. All day all I want to do is sleep. I get to bed at 8pm on my knees and fall asleep quickly. Now I've been awake for two hours!

I'm with you Phoenix. All day all I want to do is sleep. I get to bed at 8pm on my knees and fall asleep quickly. Now I've been awake for two hours!

I’ve also got insomnia. Paired with horrific vivid dreams about ghosts chasing me - like a horror film!

Hope the scan goes well muddle and the test results say everything is ok nored

I had a private scan yesterday evening, all looking good and we heard the heartbeat which was incredible and such a relief! They dated me at 9+4 which is what I thought I was. ladypug my dates are back on track so fingers crossed for yours too! My 12 week scan is on 30th so really hoping everything continues to go well.

milford I've been moving between constipation and diarrhoea and it's absolutely mortifying having to go in work. I've heard that iron can make you a bit constipated so hopefully that will help to counteract it, if not can you go to your GP and ask if they can give you something?
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aggy lovely news!

milford I would definitely try to talk to a pharmacist or GP, it sounds intensely stressful if you're worried about leaving the house. I so hope it stops for you soon.

I caved and ordered some maternity leggings and tops from H&M yesterday as wearing anything tight around my stomach makes me feel sick. Feels a bit weird ordering before my scan... 11 weeks today.