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Due April 2005

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Seabird · 29/07/2004 21:01

Hello!

Have tested very early so not surprised to have to start this one off! Due 8 April I think.

Anyone joining me?

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aprilmeadow · 24/08/2004 17:38

Hi everyone, thanks for the welcome.

I have felt really sick all day today, and would quite happily stayed at home. Just found out that cheese does not like me at the moment! Also the smell of smoke is making me feel really yuk. A colleague of mine smokes every five mins! Not helping matters. Luckily my dh is being really supportive and actually feels guilty that i am suffereing. I think i might have to take out shares in a manufacturer of ginger biscuits as these seem to be helping!

fisil · 24/08/2004 18:47

aprilmeadow - I discovered that with cheese yesterday! I had cheese on toast for lunch and then spent the afternoon thinking about cheese followed by waves of nausea! Mind you, glad to be feeling sick - I didn't last time, and I often hear it said that it's a good sign that things are healthy!

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Seabird · 24/08/2004 21:04

very glad we can be of some small help, 006 - hope you've got lots of support in rl too but I know sometimes I find it easier to "talk" about some things here, or just to offload.

fisil & aprilmeadow - I'm with you on the cheese - on our anniversary last week we went to pizza express [all I could face!] where I ordered my usual veneziana but couldn't eat any of it because of the cheese!

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Seabird · 24/08/2004 21:09

bronniemuldoon - yes it is a nuchal scan which I also got last time on the nhs, though this time we're getting it privately as part of the package at the Birth Centre. Possibly naively I'm not really thinking of the nuchal aspect of it though, more just a check that there's a healthy baby there. I can't imagine waiting til 20 weeks. Though I suppose the midwife can hear the heartbeat before then.

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Azure · 25/08/2004 09:01

006, I'm so sorry to hear what a difficult time you are having. Thank goodness for your DH and two little girls, not forgetting the one on the way. Surely it has to get better from now.

I got a message yesterday that my doctor's appointment for this morning had been cancelled. I know they don't do much at this stage, but it's quite annoying. I was looking forward to leaving the house at 10 to 9am, rather than my usual 7.30am!

miranda2 · 25/08/2004 10:10

OOH azure that must be really annoying! my dr has finally 'confirmed' my preg on the phone this morning - but i have to wait til the back end of next week for an appointment. but at least i know i'm not imagining the whole thing!
Can't agree on the cheese though - my 'craving' (probably not that at all, just that i'm now letting myself eat whatever i fancy!) is currently for caerphilly cheese on multigrain ryvita - i have at least 3 a day.

bronniemuldoon · 25/08/2004 10:17

006 you must talk away - it makes you feel so much better and mumsnet is such a relief sometimes. As Azure says you sound like you've got a lovely DH and 2 DD's and I bet they love you to bits!

Re the cheese. That's so weird, I'm really craving it! But that's not really much of a surprise as I'm craving everything except vegetables and brown rice at the moment . Currently lusting after a piece of bread with philadelphia on it... mmmm... just trying not to drool at my desk.

MoseGirl · 25/08/2004 10:17

Wow, what a wonderful list of mums-to-be since I've been away!

Had my first visit to meet my mid wife yesterday who confirmed all the symptoms are normal (huge relief) for 9.5 weeks. Have a 12 week scan date for 13th Sept and can't wait!

Love my growing boobs though am having to wear sports bra to bed as they are sooooo sensitive!

Seabird, how are you doing?

Azure · 25/08/2004 10:31

Still no m/s for me. Is there anyone else who doesn't have any symptoms? Should I be concerned? As I'm really busy at work next week, my new doctor's appointment isn't until September 6th. Lovely to hear that some of you have your scan dates already.

Tallbird · 25/08/2004 13:08

Azure - no m/s for me either - but then I didn't really have any with dd either, so hopefully not a cause for concern - though I can't help worrying after previous m/c.
Doctor's appointment this afternoon - though as you say, they don't really do anything at this stage.

tassis · 25/08/2004 13:55

miranda2 - just wanted to say that I'm so pleased that everything's turned out OK for you.

xoz · 25/08/2004 14:09

hee hee bronniemuldoon, for lunch I had 5, (yes 5!) sesame ryvitas, each with very thick layer of philadelphia on them. It was delicious!!!!
However, I lost half my breakfast the morning, and we had to explain to dd1 why even though mummy was sick I didn't have to go and lie down or visit the doctors. She was very upset, almost hysterical in fact, SO we told her about the baby. She was very excited at first and started to talk about making up a name for the baby, but then got hysterical again when she realised that she couldn't see it yet and that it wouldn't be ready to come out until Easter!!!! she's okay about it now thankfully. At first I was really regretting telling her, but I know from past experience that there's a LOT more vomiting to come and I'd rather she understood why!!!

miranda2 · 25/08/2004 16:00

azure - no symptoms at all for me so far (but only 5 weeks). Feels odd - not like I'm pg at all. But then I didn't really have any with ds either, except tiredness and ocasional faintness if i was standing up for too long, but that was more months 3-4 if i recall rightly.

DelGirl · 25/08/2004 17:41

Well I had terrible m/s again today. Probably not helped by the huge chinese I had at lunchtime . I'm having another Friday lunchtime so will be a bit more careful not to woolf it down. I had to go to the shops and I thought I'd lose my lunch in the street, it was awful but I made a dash for Boots and picked up a travel band. It did seem to help so was £8 well spent. I am glad to be having symptoms but that was dreadful, I could do with less traumatic symptoms in future

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DelGirl · 25/08/2004 18:14

I don't have the excuse of two previous babies!

fisil · 25/08/2004 22:05

I have had the worst ms I can remember today. I think it was as bad with ds (but not this early - I didn't feel anything for weeks) - because I did the old trick of eating (even thought the thought of it made me feel worse) and suddenly all was better! But with my last pg I had no sickness at all - just overwhelming tiredness (way beyond anything I'm feeling now). So I'm taking it all as a good sign!

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Seabird · 26/08/2004 13:49

welcome back MoseGirl - glad to hear all's well with you.

I just had a horrible couple of days with a headache and lots of discomfort in my colon area (not sure how to describe it, it didn't feel gynaelogicial though IYKWIM). Thankfully my mum was here to look after dd so I languished in bed feeling pathetic. The only explanation I can think of is that it's around the time of my 2nd missed period so maybe that was it.

I was thinking that next pregnancy (when I have won the lottery) I will have a personal chef on hand to cook me tasty morsels. But actually what I think would be better would be to have a full size canteen (posh work style rather than school meal type) available 24hours with an enormous array of hot and cold food to tempt me

Meanwhile I will have to make do with Sainsburies... if only I could anticipate what I might be able to eat tomorrow!

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aprilmeadow · 26/08/2004 14:21

Well m/s is now taking over my life!! Havent been able to shift it for a week now! Ginger biscuits no longer work. I now feel sick from the moment i wake up until the time i go to bed - there are short spells in the day when i feel more human, but they dont last for long enough.

I too have purchased sea sickness bands in the hope that they can rid me of some of the m/s. They have taken the edge off of it but not as much as i would have liked

I am trying the constant grazing but then i feel sick because i have eaten too much.

I guess that this is a good sign though..... i just have to keep my mind on the fact that i will get something wonderful at the end of it!

Sorry to have such a moan......

sweetheart · 26/08/2004 14:23

I left a thread for you am!!!

Can u find it

Azure · 26/08/2004 15:51

Quick question - how much tea or coffee are you drinking? I am having about 3 mugs of decaff Earl Grey per day - when I was pregnant with DS I only drank fruit / herbal tea, but got very, very bored with that. I've had about two decaff coffees since finding out I was pregnant.

aprilmeadow · 26/08/2004 15:54

I am drinking about 4 or 5 cups of tea - does it make a difference?? Should i cut down?

Azure · 26/08/2004 17:03

I think caffeine intake is meant to be reduced - I'll see what my books say tonight.

fisil · 26/08/2004 17:06

Does the caffeine not make you feel even sicker, am? I can't stand the thought of it. In fact, tea made me feel soooo sick when I was pg with ds that he was well over a year old before I could drink it. The thought of it now is making me feel queasy!