July 2018 babies - part 2 :)

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Made a new group

Happy New Year, all!

@LollipopsandWine Have you chased your GP surgery, if they were the ones who were making the referral (I assume that they told you that they were referring and that you didn't need to make a self-referral)? My GP has been really dreadful, I have decided today that I'm done with her as I feel massively let down, I've had to chase every little thing. I wouldn't turn up at the EPU before checking this as if there has been an issue with the referral they won't know who you are.

I've had another scan, and all seems well, so it is all systems go on telling people (I'm 14 weeks tomorrow), which I'm a little anxious about (but my DH is in full swing - I haven't told my work but he has told his!).

@Minster2012 Welcome, and huge congratulations both on the remission and your little one. Such an exciting time for you!

So, this week has been interesting. I projectile vomited all over the kitchen floor as I was about to leave for work on Tuesday, which my lovely husband then had to clear up as there was no way I could. I then threw up on the train on Thursday morning - luckily I just about managed to make it to the loo - and right outside the house on Thursday evening. I feel like death - I have so so so much sympathy for those of you suffering with HG I'm still utterly exhausted as well - I cannot wait for the apparent energy surge which is waiting for me in the second trimester!

I told my boss this week, and he was over the moon for me. I don't know why I was so anxious, it was absolutely fine. He said that he's usually really good at guessing, and I slipped under his 'baby-dar'!

I've also told a friend in my team, who said that she thought before Christmas that I might be pregnant. I was worried about telling her, as she told me about four weeks ago that she was miscarrying, and so we would have been at about the same stage, but she was fine and gave me a big hug. I know she's trying again, so perhaps we'll be on maternity leave at a similar time.

And I found out that another friend at work is 14 weeks' pregnant! I've not told her yet. She was telling me about how she's been feeling great all the way through, and not had any sickness or tiredness at all - this was on the day I chucked on the train, and I could have throttled her!

Hi @karategirl , nice to have a partner in puke!

I might be wrong but I think you are about 12 weeks? My nausea/vomming hugely improved in week 13 and I thought it was all over. Week 14 was the worst yet... but I gather it tends to peak before it gets better? Fingers crossed...

Haha @Heregoes We could be a very unproductive crime fighting team I'm 11+2, so getting there... My mum had HG when she was pregnant with me, and apparently had a week and a half at about 13 weeks where the sickness cleared up, and then she was back to puking right up until I was born. Really hoping I don't follow in her footsteps, but I'm nowhere close to as poorly as she was, so fingers crossed it'll all be just an unpleasant memory in a few weeks' time...

How far along are you now? And how are you feeling generally?

I'm 14 weeks today and feeling okay apart from the nausea and vomiting, but they are fairly dominant features these days! Trying to stay cheerful as it's the best possible reason to feel sick and I feel so so lucky to have got this far (knock on wood, etc!). My main concern has been work, I had a really important presentation last week that I had to give when I hadn't been able to keep fluids down for the previous 24 hours! I think I will need to tell work this week...

To be honest, if pregnancy wasn't so obvious my preference would be to keep things to just us for as long as possible, telling people makes me feel like I'm tempting fate and it will be much harder if anything goes wrong...but trying to stay positive!!

Hope you feel better soon @Heregoeseverything

Hi everyone sorry to barge in the thread, didn’t know about the July 2028 group just wanted to say hello and wish you all luck with your pregnancies! 14 weeks tomorrow!

Xx

Bloody hell 2018 I meant. That’s a sodding long pregnancy!!!

Is anyone thinking of going to a baby show? The London one is in March. Ill be 22 weeks then, is that too soon to buy stuff?

@Heregoeseverything I hope the presentation went well, all things considered! I honestly feel so much better now I've let a couple of people at work know, it's taken the pressure off a little.

Really revolting, but I chucked up again quite violently half an hour ago and I don't think I got any on the sofa, but I swear I can still smell it...

@Soon2BeMumof3 I certainly hope it's not going to be that long!

@Winterfellismyhome It's not crossed my mind to be honest. What are you planning to look for at the baby show?

@karategirl i just wanted a general mooch tbh lol. The main thing would probably be a pram

@Winterfellismyhome Thanks so much for your kindness! Re baby shows, one of my friends has already done much of her shopping at 22 weeks but I'm personally a bit scared of tempting fate so will probably wait longer - but that's my own anxiety, not suggesting it's sensible!

@Soon2beMumof3 We are one day apart on EDD. Welcome!

@karategirl solidarity hug This is gross, but from personal experience make sure you have cleared your nose out super-well post-puke and suck a mint or something if you can. Your sense of smell will be heightened, potentially to super-human levels. I feel like the boy in Sixth Sense, "What is that strong smell of fish in here?" everyone looks on bewildered "There really is no smell of fish." (Homeowner) "I mean, we did have fish for tea last Tuesday..."

@lifechangesforeverinjuly My monkey was extremely active and tricky to pin down at last scan also, luckily had a very patient sonographer!

I didn't realise there would be so many blood tests in pregnancy, I've had 3 already and I am terribly squeamish! Embarrassingly I have form for fainting at them but have managed to keep it together in pregnancy thusfar...

@Heregoeseverything I found a minty metholated sweet earlier and it helped a lot - thank you!

I decided to go out for a little walk earlier and I think the absolutely effing freezing bracing air helped with the nausea. The longest walk I've had without my crutches since I did my ankle in too, so double success.

Spoke too soon...

Have just sent my boss a text to say I'm probably going to work from home tomorrow. Can't risk this horror in the office...

@karategirl Noooo!

There really does seem to be a very limited amount that can be done without going to the dr for meds (and I don't feel bad enough for that). If one more person suggests ginger...!

I tried the sea-band anti-sickness wristbands yesterday but I don't think they made any difference. Impossible to say of course as I don't know how bad I would have been without them, but I felt on the verge of puking all day. I'd actually much rather puke than be on the verge of puking, and don't want anything that might hold me back in that respect!!

Godspeed!

@Heregoeseverything you've probably tried these but I found freeze pops, ice cubes, randomly- cheddar cheese with crackers, cold fizzy water... Haribos helped x

Thanks @Hulaballoo , my go-tos are similarly ice-pops, lentil crisps (had a bad experience with crackers...), 7-up, Fox's glacier fruits... but none of these "cure" the nausea for me. They certainly don't cure the vomiting!

I'm remaining as cheerful as possible as I do really think there's no better reason to feel sick and feel so very lucky to have got this far, but I'm afraid I did snap at my lovely DM when she suggested that I should eat pasta or porridge because "It is impossible to vomit them up". (1) I was vomiting water up at the time and (2) I had specifically vomited up both pasta and porridge on different occasions that week...!

Told work today and they were great, and really happy for me! I think the state of me last Friday was a bit of a giveaway!

Also managed to have my worst nosebleed yet, at work... had to scrub blood off the cream carpet

How are you feeling @karategirl ?

@Heregoeseverything So glad your work are being supportive! Pretty rubbish about the nosebleed though - typical that it was on a cream carpet! My brother used to have nosebleeds all the time as a kid, but touch wood I've never had one in my life, and so far haven't had a pregnancy related nosebleed.

I'm feeling much better today, haven't been sick although have the standard nausea. Have been feeling a bit squiffy in the last half hour or so again though, so may not make it to the end of the day... Working from home has been good though, much less stressful than it would have been to go in (especially without the ridiculous commute). Only wish I could do it tomorrow too, but alas, I have to be there for a couple of meetings.

Hope you're wellish today @karategirl (though I appreciate that "today" is a very long time in the land of nausea/vomiting!).

May have spoken too soon about work and pregnancy. I am currently unable to work as there is steam coming out my ears. The senior people were amazing yesterday, but today a male admin assistant made a comment that annoyed me so much! When I asked him very politely and respectfully where a document was (he was supposed to provide it to me in response to an earlier query but had forgotten), his immediate response was "Are you okay?? You are all over the place, I gave you that document last week!" He has now acknowledged that the error was his and says that his comment was out of "concern" for me, but I have not in any respect dropped the ball, the error was all his, and he would never previously have jumped to that conclusion or spoken so disrespectfully to me before... I took his head off and hope that will be the last of it, I really couldn't cope with having my brain consistently doubted by junior staff on the sole basis that I'm pregnant...

Hi ladies! I've been a lurker here for a few weeks, but due to a previous MMC at 12 weeks in August, was too scared to join. I had my 12 week scan today (most nerve wracking thing ever!) and all was well. Couldn't stop crying with relief! EDD 23rd July.

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@Heregoeseverything I'd have been utterly livid! I think it's probably worthwhile having a quiet chat with him (or asking someone else to do so) once you're a bit less liable to explode, to gently advise him of why he should think before he speaks... Is he quite young? I hop your day has otherwise been OK?

My day has been fine, although I'm so bloated I'm like a flipping hot air balloon. Have had some dry heaving, but luckily nothing more than that. I'm now waiting for someone to arrive for a meeting, and just want to go to bed... Really hope it doesn't go on until 9:00 like it did last time I met this particular lady.

@Flatwhite32 huge congratulations! I can't wait to have my scan on Saturday, somehow it still doesn't feel quite real (or at least it wouldn't if it weren't for all the symptoms!)

Does anyone else feel like they can feel babymloving yet? I’m 14 weeks and I’m sure I can fee flutetrinsg every now and again but my mum says it’s just gas