Due at New Year....anyone else?!

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Have just found out that I am pregnant. Blimey! A bit nervous/scared! DH says scared is too strong a word. Might be from his side of things but I think that I'm scared!
Due 31st Dec or 1st Jan, can't quite work out whether cycle is 29 or 30 days.
First time, so not too sure what to expect!
Anyone else due at new year?

Dear All

I just finished a long post and it got lost somehow and never posted - I think. So sorry if I muck up and this comes twice. I will try and be shorter!

Thanks to all the wellwishers for the doctor's appointment yesterday. It all went well. The doctor asked if I wanted a dating scan and I just couldn't refuse so we had one yesterday afternoon. It was really cool and we say the little bean MOVING AROUND (!) and it's little heart beating. It was a very special moment. I was on an absolute high when we left and have been since.

The baby was bigger than they expected so they are dating me a bit later than expected which hopefully just means that I am a bit further along than I thought and not that I am going to give birth to a giant. It was 36 mm crown to rump. I love the expression "crown to rump".

This was not the important nuchal fold scan - I am booked in for that on 22 June. Fingers crossed that all is ok for that.

I will try this if it works and then do responses.

PBirdy X

Oh thats fantastic PBirdy! Fabulous news. Am very jealous. When do they reckon you are due now?

Looks like a lot of us have our nuchal scans around the same week.

Housemum / Plummy: I too cannot stay up much later than 9pm. Also, come 2.30pm on Sunday afternoon I am in desperate need of a kip and can sleep for up to 3 hours (unheard of usually). I am trying to just go with it, although it does make me feel like a little old lady!

PBX

Well, the doctor had me at 3 Jan (GP had said 2 Jan) so that wasn't a big difference but they said they will re-date me officially at the next scan in two weeks so maybe the date will change then - towards the end of December I guess.

To all those stay at home mums - I would LOVE to do that and not come into the bloody office every day! So I am v jealous.

BWMum - how did work take it when you told them?

My partner (boss) was a real sh - t about my appointment yesterday and made such a fuss because I didn't come back to the office afterwards (I would have been back at the office at 5.30). My DH thinks that I should just tell him today and get it out there so I don't have to feel any more stress about the nuchal test in a fortnight. Has anyone else told work? I was looking forward to doing it but now I feel nervous for some reason. Any advice appreciated!

PBirdy - I told my boss yesterday cos he was trying to get me to return to 4 days a week and I get on very well with him so I said - look I'm not telling HR yet but I'll let you know I'm 91/2 weeks pg - and he said 'how disappointing' and hasn't spoken to me since! He did this last time. He'll start speaking to me again in about a months time I reckon.

dont like the sound of your boss bettymumma

Am fighting off ms today. Cant get free access to my kithcen as being replastered. I forget they were coming today till nearly midnight last night so had to clear it all this morning. I am so forgetful at the moment.

Advice please - Still not heard from midwife. NOt had booking in appointment (I thought i had with gp but that wasnt a 'booking in appointment' apparantly)

PBirdy - what a fab scan result

Good luck to all the scans today xx

PBirdy thats great. First time scans are very exciting arent they? Well any scan is realy if you get a chance to see your beanYour partner sounds horrible. Or maybe hes just worrying about when your on maternity leave and hell miss all your hard work!
Im so fed up re weight. I bought loads of lovely clothes off Ebay ready for this summer. Just tried on some red 3 quater trousers and they wont even do up. Back to the brown elasticated skirt for now.
Awen give your gp a quick ring and find out if they told your mw you need an appt.
Going to the mil for lunch today. I love going there because she always buys gooey cakes.
Have a good day all. xxx

Apologies if this is TMI, but my early morning vomit (I did warn you!) has the same consistency and colour as egg yolk - is this normal? My stomach bile before has been fairly normal, but this egg yolk stuff is really odd (not to mention absolutely foul!). Its always first thing in the morning when the last thing I've had to eat has been an apple the night before (about 10 hours previously). There's also usually a fair amount of it

Apologies again for TMI, just getting a bit worried!

Bettymamma- why are you selfish?? Its your baby!! Cant believe how work have been..not looking fwd to telling mine
Housemum- I have to get up for work at 5..and its killing me already! Thats plus about 3-4 times in th enight for the loo! So 9 o clock is the latest I have been going to bed at the moment...with the odd 8.30 thrown in!
pbirdy- fab news about the scan! Bet it was great, just waiting for mine now,but i suppose will be 2 and a bit weeks at the earliest. I havnt told work yet, and im trying to hold off. 1) because my boyfriend didnt stick around, and I dont want to face all the questions 2) I work with about 300 men, so smpathy isnt going to be a strong point. 3) going out and entertaining is a big part of my job, and im sure this is going to effect my bonus's etc..although i know its not supposed to!
Awen- I would give them a call and make sure it hasnt been missed?

naetha- i havnt had any sickness at all...so not sure whats normal..maybe give your gp a call?

Awen, I would chase up your GP. Mine is absolutely hopeless and does nothing until you are raging down the telephone (hormones!?). Once you have followed it up you will feel better about it.

Betttymamma - I cannot believe he said "disappointing". Unbelieveable. My boss is going to be exactly the same which is why I am dreading it. I think it has to be said though because that way there is nothing he can do about the appointment in two weeks time.

Beller - meant to say before, my sleep walking is totally related to stress and when I have something big on that I am worried or excited about. I also sleep talk! Glad to see I am not alone! I am only worried about doing something freaky with the baby once it is born, but I can't really bear to think about that.

PB X

Hello everyone. I'm a newbie in all senses of the word. This is my first post on Mumsnet and my first successful (hopefully) pregnancy! I had a miscarriage in April so I am just scared witless at the moment even though I had a early scan last week and saw a little bean and a slight flicker of the screen which they told me was a heartbeat. Apparently due on 17th Jan. Does anyone else feel this scared

Naetha,

I am not sure either sorry. Usually if I am sick it happens after eating something (and just nauseaous before that). It might be a one off thing but if not then you might want to speak to your GP for peace of mind. It sounds like it is just bile.

I agree PBirdy I think you should say but don't be shocked if he is overwhelming unimpressed. This country's employers are shocking with regards to women and babies.

Awen - I booked my own midwife appointment after seeing gp but they told me to do it if that makes sense. Get on the phone and shout I say.

Naetha - mine looked like egg white not egg yolk (its gone - where can it be - its been replaced by MAD appetite). Sounds like bile to me. have you had tummy, indigestion pains? Maybe just check with gp.

Beller - hello - if you can delay telling work especially if all male like mine. They prob wouldn't realise until you're 8 months anyway!

gingeme - gooey cake yum!

Welcome Lozza70!

Yes - I've had moments of complete scaredness and worry. I read somewhere on Tommy's pregnancy website if you've seen the heartbeat on a scan there's only a 3% chance that something can go wrong. I need to find a link to prove it.

Yes, my partner is guaranteed to have something negative to say to me, I think I am thinking too much about it now! I have a meeting at 2 and will do it after that. Perhaps I should do some actual work in the meantime instead of chatting away on this website. What would I do if they firewalled this like all the others!?

Lozza70 - welcome! Yes, we are all just as scared as you and also as excited. It is a mad time. Sorry to hear about your miscarriage, your scan sounded positive for this one - fingers crossed X

Hi Bettymamma

Thanks, I am hoping that speaking to other mum's/nearly mum's will put my mind at rest. Every little twinge is driving me scatty at the moment but it appears that the odd cramp is perfectly normal. Here's hoping

Welcome Lozza70, I'm on my fourth pregancy and feel more worried this time than I ever did before, I think I just know too much about what can go wrong.

pbirdy- mine was so bad at one stage i was under the London Sleep Clinic! I had to do a sleep study at the Princess Grace hospital. i had to see the doctor once a mnth for 18months,and they controlled it in the end by medication and sleep programme..i had to go to bed and get up same time every day including weekends...not read/watch tv in bed. Not look at clock in the night,and go through a routine before i went to bed....worked,but wasnt easy! Only a couple of incidents since....fingers crossed! x

Beller - that is so interesting, it must have been such an ordeal trying to go to bed and get up at the same time each day! I would really struggle with that. I would love to go to some sort of clinic becuase I am sure I have very strange sleep patterns anyway but I have never done anything about it. Hopefully we will both be fine

well I have what they call "slow wave sleep paranomnia"...i can act out dreams...all very strange. The slep study was hard,as i have to get up at 5 in the week, i had to get up at 5 at the weekend!! Killed me..but at least it got me back into a sleep pattern..
Like you say, hopfully we will be ok xx

PBirdy - my head of department was really nice about it when I told him I was pg. I'm the 5th in two years (our department is fairly female-dominated) and, given my age etc, I doubt it was a huge surprise. But he said how pleased he was for us and that he hopes everything goes well. I see some people's bosses have been fairly nasty - don't think I'd have handled that very well! I wasn't that keen on telling him anyway as we're on 9.5 weeks but was doing it to fit in with the work allocation.

Awen - I also haven't had my booking in appt and am beginning to get a bit worried that I haven't heard from the mw. I might ring my gp, but the receptionists are real dragons (even manage to scare my DH) so I never get past them!

BWMum - glad to hear that it was a positive experience for you telling your boss. I don't really know why I feel nervous about telling. I just plucked up the courage and went around to his office and he wasn't there. Classic.

Had my scan this morning, most undignified legs in stirrups vaginal scan with 2 sonographers and a student in the room - I'd forgotten the "public display of all your bits" aspect of pregnancy!

Anyway, we saw the heartbeat, so that is really good news. I forgot to ask how far along they thought I was, was rushing cos had to get back in time to get ds from nursery.

The not-so-good news is that the baby has implanted really low down. I have to go back in 2 weeks "to make sure its viable". Cheers - I do love their bedside manner! It also doesn't look good for me not having placenta previa again, aaaaaagh.

So feelings very mixed.