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Any ladies over here in the pregnancy boards from the ttc yammer board want to join Me?

I'm 4 weeks and just got my bfp yesterday and have my fx for a sticky bean x

Argh - the BF I mean.

He’s pretty cool. Completely and utterly fascinating

Head's up ladies - Dunelm have a baby event. Lots of car seats and travel systems.... but all I want is the orla kiely grobags 😍

Hello everyone, sidling up to this thread from the latest Yammers one. I'm 4 weeks as of yesterday according to the fertility nurses. Conceived on round 1 of ovulation induction with letrozole for primary infertility due to anovulation probably as a result of a combination of PCOS and lithium playing fast and loose with my hormones. Alternating between excited and scared as the risk of miscarriage is so high atm, have gotten into the habit of checking for blood every time I go to the bathroom or undress. 7 week scan and 12 week milestone seem so far away! I think checking this site daily has become my new obsession: spacefem.com/pregnant/mc.php?m=08&d=10&y=12 Found it from a high school friend's blog when she was pregnant with her daughter after miscarrying at five weeks. Oh, and I should mention I'm Aussie, living in Sydney, so working within a completely different health system (literally and figuratively).

Woo hoo! Welcome aboard @BGDino and erm...... morning? (I don't know how it works)
The subconscious knicker checking goes on for a little while, and the three weeks until your scan will be the slowest ever, but once you've got there it all speeds up again. Glad you're here with us

Thanks @WonkyDonk87, it's all a bit confused here in Oz as well, you might have read we've just gotten our 6th prime minister in 8 years

Hi @dino it's so nice to see you over here. I'm so glad that the jumpstart on your ovulation helped.

I'm finding this last couple of weeks are dragging massively. I'm bored. I don't have any real movements yet to cheer me up, I feel fat, I can't bend over properly, I'm tired all the time. I want to look pregnant rather than like I've eaten too much cake. Whinge

It wasn't meant to be.

I got a call from the fertility clinic today to say my BHCG has barely risen instead of doubling. I'm probably going to lose this baby. It's just a matter of when.

Oh bloody hell @BGDino, how miserable for you. I'm so sorry.

BG I'm so sorry to hear that. Hugs.

I'm very, very sorry to hear your news, Dino. I will keep things crossed for you just in case, in the meantime look after yourself. Big hugs.

Thanks. I get retested on Thursday but have pretty much been told the odds aren't on our side. I almost wish I hadn't gotten so excited, because now it hurts too much to feel.

I'm so sorry to hear this @BGDino

Oh gosh Dino I'm so sorry for you. I really hope that they've got it wrong xx

Just back from consultant and 28 week growth scan. The boy is looking good, estimated at almost 2lb 9, so on track at 50th centile and no large tummy. GD consultant and midwife were happy with my diet (so dull) and readings and the very charming consultant says if I can keep this going I'm good to stick to no induction etc.

According to my notes I've put on Just under 10lb since the start which I feel ok about given the massive bump too

How everyone else doing?

The diet sounds dull as dishwater Limp so we'll done you for sticking with it! Fingers crossed you can avoid induction.

I'm on the pre-scan anxiety increase, two weeks to go before I can be truly settled.

I'm 23 weeks today! Doing good, got a proper bump which I love! Weighed myself yesterday and I've put on 7lbs - after weeks of only a couple of pounds gain suddenly it's shot up. Which I know it has to, but I was already overweight, is rather not put on anymore than I have to! Hopefully staying back at work next week will help; more walking and less chance to snack on stuff and go to Costa for a latte!

Got out of work 40 mins late, which meant I made it too late to get to my yoga class to get a car parking space (although infuriatingly in time for the class if there had been a space which there was all the other times) so I turned around and drove home in tears. Can I just stop work now?

Ah, *Wonky, sorry to hear you had a bad time. I hear you about being ready to finish work already; second day back and the head has already told me off for something! Plus I'm on my feet almost all day, already tired, not sure how I'll make it to 36 weeks! It really makes me wish DH earned a much as I do because then I could tell them to stick the job where the sun doesn't shine. But if I'm not working, we can't afford the rent.

Treat yourself to some chocolate and a warm bath or something, Wonks. When are you due to finish?

Thanks @SoozC , not for months and months but sometimes my job gets the better of me . I've got my 20 week scan on the 14th and then on leave for a week, so counting the days until then. the run up to going on leave is über stressful so it's never a fun week but I will be a happy lady when I get there.

I am also on the countdown to going. About 10 weeks left if I can avoid early induction but I am nearly ready. SO much to do here to prepare, boss is panicking a bit, but sitting in the same fecking chair for hours a week is killing me now, especially as I am so massive already. We could probably afford for me togo a bit sooner but I would like my job back this time next year, albeit it at reduced hours.

OMG if one more person asks me if I am certain there isn't a hidden twin! I bought some gin yesterday for sloe purposes in the supermarket and the look the cashier gave me was priceless, judgy faced cow. I really wanted to unscrew it and sniff at the till just to be awkward. Just love how public everything I do seems to be these days. Not.

@LimpLettice I'd have been pretending to take a good slug as I walked away.

A friend of mine is fucking obsessed with fetal alcohol syndrome and rants at me about it every time she sees me. I swear to god I'm going to smack her one next time she does it. Not least because I've obviously not had anything to drink since I started IVF - WAY BEFORE I was pregnant. But also because she's smug and judgemental and has never had a baby or been pregnant and is ten years younger than me and the ongoing implication that I would ever risk my pregnancy is starting to make me slightly murderous.

Gosh. I was more upset about that than I thought.

It did really piss me off S1lver. It annoys me so much that we are not seen as capable of risk assessment. In fact, I have a small glass of red every weekend, had 2 small proseccos at my wedding, eat chorizo and have had the odd rare steak. As I did in my first pregnancy, with lots of relevant research. I am comfortable with the outcomes suggested. Not so comfortable with being policed by randoms in supermarkets.

I have similar with the GD stuff. If I dare to moan about not being able to eat anything, I seem to get met with a barrage of comments about how it's all about keeping baby safe, it will all be worth it, baby's safety is paramount etc. My DM is the prime culprit, or was until I got a bit upset. Does she really think after 3 losses in a year I need that pointing out? Doesn't stop me wanting a moan, but I am not scoffing mars bars willy nilly and sod the consequences. Grrr.

@LimpLettice I'm so bloody envious of your red wine and prosecco! It all smells awful to me.

This friend keeps saying things like "one small glass is ok if you want". Really? Fucking really? As an adult I've been unable to make that pissing judgement call on my own. I'm so glad you're here to tell me what I am and aren't allowed to do.

I hate the way your body and your actions are considered public property and up for commenting on when you're pregnant.

Sorry S1lver but how have you not told her to fuck right off? Toothless cow in Sainsbo = bit my lip. Friend = nonono.

I had to laugh yesterday, my bosses daughter (all of 18, lovely but clueless) popped in and kept going on about how HUGE I am, how HUGE this baby will be, how HARD it will be to lose. Funnily enough I managed not to point out that her arse is big enough not pregnant, because, you know, that's rude and personal. Actually it isn't that big, but you get my drift :)