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July 2018 Babies

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HarryPotterandtheSAHM · 16/10/2017 19:48

I thought I’d start this thread now as I can’t see one yet! I got my bfp this weekend on a digital and estimate my due date to be 1st of July, but I have long cycles so I’m anticipating it changing at a dating scan. Anyone else with me for end of June or beginning of July 2018?

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RFThomas · 19/12/2017 12:40

Hey everyone, I am due 7th July and it will be my first baby. So exciting to hear about others due at a similar time! Dating scan this Friday, eeek!

Twickerhun—I have defo become breathless quicker when walking up hill...

karategirl · 19/12/2017 14:19

Had my booking appointment today (8+5) and the midwife is referring me to a consultant because of my asthma - she said they might not want to see me though.

She also said that they might want to pay a bit more attention to baby's heart due to my husband's heart problems (which were thankfully sorted with surgery a few years ago), and his dad having the same.

Otherwise all looking good. Bit of a ridiculous moment of me trying to balance on the scales with my crutches... And my blood pressure's really low, but that's usually the case for me anyway, and apparently not unusual in the first trimester?

Just waiting for my scan date now!! Exciting

Wingingitdaily · 19/12/2017 14:42

I had my 12 week scan this morning. My due date was moved to the 1st July, I went over due with my dd so expecting to do the same this time. Was so exciting to finally see the baby and it was really wiggly. All feels very real now.

Heregoeseverything · 19/12/2017 15:44

Welcome @hellybellyjellybean !

We haven't told anyone apart from our two close friends who were finalising their wedding date abroad for 2 weeks before my due date...! Telling our families at Christmas.

@karategirl What was your BP? Mine was 90/52 which the midwife said wasn't a worry.

karategirl · 19/12/2017 18:22

@Heregoeseverything mine was 90/50 and my midwife said it wasn't a concern too, although she did ask if I've been getting lightheaded, and whether that was how I fell down the stairs! (it wasn't)

We've told our parents (major excitement) and our close group of friends who we saw at the start of the month, as we won't see them all again until the summer probably. It's going to be interesting hiding it from the rest of the family over Christmas!

18mnthsandcounting · 19/12/2017 18:40

We’ve not told any family (saving it for Christmas Day!) but told a few friends and work colleagues, can’t wait to tell family now! 12 week scan today and all looks well, congrats to you all ladies xxx

Heregoeseverything · 19/12/2017 18:44

@karategirl I haven't personally been getting lightheaded, have you? I don't know whether the pregnancy has hugely lowered my BP, it's always been low (though I admit I expected it to have crept up since I last got it checked many years ago, as I eat a LOT of cheese...!). I get headrushes occasionally when standing up but always have.

I have my 12 week scan on Thursday - slightly less nervous about it than would be otherwise given I had one last week, but still conscious that anything can happen. Harmony results due on Friday or after Christmas, am a bit more nervous about those...

LittleBirdBlues · 19/12/2017 19:47

Great news to everyone who had their scans! All good news, it's making me more optimistic about my scan tomorrow (private at 9 weeks).

Morning sickness is getting worse here. I can't keep anything down after lunch and have lost two pounds in less than a week. I haven't got a lot to lose so it's not great!

@karategirl I also have mild asthma and have been placed under a consultant partly for that reason. My guess is that it will just be for the first appointment and then we'll be referred back to the midwives.

Heregoeseverything · 19/12/2017 20:30

@LittleBirdBlues I managed to gain 5-6lbs despite being barely able to eat!

LittleBirdBlues · 19/12/2017 21:53

@heregoeseverything that can only be good! Extra blood, placenta... I'm sure it's a good sign

Heregoeseverything · 19/12/2017 22:40

I think at least 50% of it is on my boobs...

SarahT81 · 20/12/2017 06:52

@heregoeseverything I'm totally with you on that - having always been basically flat chested the sudden cleavage is very odd for me... @littlebirdblues luckily for me morning sickness has mainly just been an ongoing queasy feeling. However it goes away when I'm eating - I've been eating a lot...

Clarelushx · 20/12/2017 08:38

Hi everyone. Due on the 19th of July. Had an private US at 8w 1d and saw a tiny little bean and heard a heartbeat. Next is January 3rd. No big announcement yet, still worried about MC.
My morning sickness was horrific uptill a few days ago (completely gone now) still saw boobs though.
First pregnancy. It's all very exciting :D

Daphne33 · 20/12/2017 15:56

Just an update as I was very unfamiliar with NHS when I first came on this thread, but the midwife has contacted me and my booking appointment will be 5 Jan. Relieved to finally hear back. I'll be 11weeks then! So hopefully the official scan won't be long after.

Am dealing with a new slew of symptoms this week that just suddenly appeared. Waves of nausea (after catching a whiff of most meat foods), alternating between one-sided headache and light-headedness, very emotional and grumpy and zero appetite (with a noisy, gassy tummy as a result I believe).
Boobs still hurt but I think I will remain quite flat...haha.

Soldier on, all!

LittleBirdBlues · 20/12/2017 19:03

Congratulations @clarelushx!

I had my private scan today and I'm 9+3! A bit further along than I thought but not had much. Due date 22nd July. I cried when I saw the heartbeat

They've suggested I see my pg for some anti sickness meds which I am really keen to get my hands on! Does anyone have any experience or recommendations? I'm going on a 14 hour car journey this Friday which is likely to be a complete nightmare if I feel the way I do now.

My son has also just come back from nursery with a temperature, which means a rough night for everyone. Fingers crossed DD doesn't catch it too. I'm so bloody exhausted! Happy Christmas ho ho ho. soldier on indeed @daphne33

Farrar · 20/12/2017 19:20

Those of you that are due around 15th-20th July - have you had a date through for your dating scan yet?

I had my booking in appt a week and 3 days ago with my local midwife but because I want to have my baby outside of our CCG, she's had to fax everything to Leeds and I'm now waiting on them! I'll have to have another booking in appt there and my scan, I getting concerned that time is getting a little tight now.

Just wondering when it might be.. I'm getting impatient and want to announce the news, feels like I've been pregnant forever

Heregoeseverything · 20/12/2017 19:40

@Farrar My dating scan is tomorrow but my EDD is 7 July.

Does anyone else NOT feel impatient to announce the news?! I am looking forward to the joy it will bring our families, I really am, but am frankly anxious about how things will be after the announcement.

I've really enjoyed the first trimester, nausea/vomiting notwithstanding, as it's just been so nice and calm, just my DH and I and our secret little bean. I am not looking forward to the inevitable onslaught of interference in what I eat/how I sleep/how hard I work/the baby's name/how much maternity leave I should take/whether I should go back to work part-time, constant chat about preparations for baby, stomach-groping etc etc! I feel anxious just thinking about it...

Alexandra87 · 21/12/2017 06:59

@Heregoeseverything who are you expecting that from?
I've never experienced that in any of my pregnancies.

Farrar · 21/12/2017 07:22

I've told family, did that after my early scan at 8+4 but I'm getting a little fed up of holding this big exciting news in when I'm being asked to go to concerts in July and having to make excuses for not drinking.

Names are a big thing in my family so my mum and nanna will wear thin with the suggestions and scoffs at names I like but they get a joy out of it and I get to talk about baby so it doesn't bother me. Beyond that though, I don't think that anyone will be putting pressure on me or giving me undue advice?

Skyechasemarshalontheway · 21/12/2017 11:18

I am 10 weeks just had my booking and she phoned threw for a scan date for my 12 week scan.
Mine will be the 11th january so 3 weeks away.

My mum and dhs mum (and family) know. I have not told my step dad, step mum or dad yet.
Turns out theres 3 in dh's family due in july next year so a busy july for us then.

Heregoeseverything · 21/12/2017 13:00

@Alexandra87 @Farrar

My MIL... she is a lovely woman, very warm and caring, but I really struggle with her bossiness. She means well but thinks her way is the only way and that the route to happiness for all is to do what she says. I grew up with a very controlling parent and being micromanaged and bossed around makes me anxious, I feel like I'm losing control. She is bossy generally, even about the sorts of things that most people would realise are personal choices, but I find it less upsetting/irritating than the inevitable bossiness about my pregnancy and my child. She doesn't even know I am pregnant and already I have had her (much of this before we began to TTC):

1."Ruling out" a class of baby names I told her I liked, on the basis that "You have to think of the child".

Telling us what the middle name of our first boy will be (I am likely carrying a boy, according to today's scan).
Nagging my DH so much he gave her our specific TTC plans (which I really think should be private...).
Despite knowing that we have only recently begun trying, demanding that we hurry up and give her a DGC as she loves newborns.
Told my DH to tell me to change my medication for a chronic illness while TTC.
"Strongly advised" me to take the same amount of maternity leave she took - this doesn't work for us.
"Strongly advised" me to go back to work part-time after birth, as she did - this doesn't work for us.
"Casually" suggested that the usual practice nowadays is for MILs to attend at the birth.

I'm so scared of what it will be like when there is an actual foetus and then baby....

Winterfellismyhome · 21/12/2017 13:01

Just had my 12 week scan and all is well :). Couldnt measure the fluid around babys neck as they wouldn't stay still

Skyechasemarshalontheway · 21/12/2017 13:10

Heregoes im so glad neither my parents or dhs wanted to be at the birth. I did have an aunt who turned up when i was about 8cm with ds she was told by the midwifes she was not getting in the delievery room as i had said no when they said she was there.

I really feel for you. You are the one incharge hopefully shell back off in time :(

Heregoeseverything · 21/12/2017 13:11

@Winterfellismyhome Me too! Baby was going nuts, I think it must have been the tea I had with breakfast... sonographer was pretty grumpy/rude but managed to get a measurement and thinks it's likely to be a boy...

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