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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

Okay, I admit.... I might have been a bit bloated Still, really should eat a better diet.

@WonkyDonk87. Are you 24 weeks yet? I've all of a sudden over the last couple of days got a viability panic on . Every little tummy twinge I get sends me into a panic! I'm 22 weeks so still two weeks to go yet.

Turned 23 yesterday. Now having proper kicks that move my belly! Don't panic - it's just your baby doing somersaults

I have been assured that my GDD is bollock all to do with my diet Wonks. It's a placenta / hormone thing. My bump is massive but it was with DD and that wasn't GDD as far as I know. Try not to panic!

Thanks @LimpLettice - I've been fretting quietly in my head for a while now and it all came out last night We're going to have to send you the biggest Bruce Bogtrotter style chocolate cake once you've popped!

I turned 24 weeks yesterday. Yay for a technically viable baby!

I'm also quite worried about GDD. I've been eating far more sweets during this pregnancy than I normally would, it's all I seem to want.

I've also got a fucking miserable cold. I miss lemsip so much.

Hope you are feeling a bit better today S1lver. Yay indeed for technically viable. It is a strange yet lovely milestone. Not long to go Looking

I have hit 34 weeks. Midwife happy this morning and talk of sweeps in 4 weeks. I feel ginormous, but in fact have gained 1lb in total on the last 6 weeks, mostly becauseof this high fat low carb GD diet. Wonky I am on it (that choccie cake) like a car bonnet. Well, the afternoon tea hamper I am expecting as a 'push' present, anyway.

Now on the final countdown. With some time off for half term I have 11 days left. Not counting today. I cannot wait.

@LimpLettice Afternoon Tea hamper sounds amazing! Quite frankly so does having 11 days til the end of work. Very frustrated in my job at the moment 

Hope you're feeling better @Si1ver

I keep flitting from grateful to be alive to bored of being in recovery! I have been given a wheelchair to use while my lungs are recovering (apparently parts of your lung can die after a P.E). A few days ago I got loads of letters for various appointments through the post - baby consultant, GAP scans, heart scans and P.E clinics! It's a little overwhelming!

I've started having counselling for the emotional side of things as I was getting do that I was consumed with anxiety. The thinner blood has been weird to get used to - I bit my lip earlier and blood literally poured out!

DH is having two days a week off work throughout October/November and my MIL is helping out two other days. So we are muddling along here.

@WonkyDonk87. Ha Ha! I watched that film the other day. I was perving over the M&S Christmas food catalogue the other night, they have some yummy looking moussey pine cones but I don't know if we would be allowed mousse stuff?

@LimpLettice. Yes, I am literally counting down the days! My GTT is booked for this time next month, more or less, I hate that appointment as it's so bloody long!

@s1lver. I hope you are feeling better ❤

Hello ladies, I've been lurking on here for a bit because I'm still pinching myself! I'm 13+1 and all results are good, but I still can't quite believe it. I've almost convinced myself that I'm going to wake up and it was all a dream. Does that make any sense?

Definitely! Still looking at myself in the mirror and disbelieving that this big, wriggling bump is actually gonna be a baby...

Yay for viability, Si1ver!! I had that cold. Not impressed it took me so long to get over it!

Wow, Limp, final countdown!! Can't believe we got this far, huh? I might bring my leave date forward by about 3 weeks as work is too stressful (think that's a good idea, Yammers?), so including half term that'd be 16 working days for me. Sounds too good to be true!

Looking, I'm glad you're being looked after and they're giving you all the required tests. The counselling is an excellent idea. I am looking to get some as I worry with my history of depression and current stressful state of mind at work (which makes me very upset) I will get postnatal depression. So I think it's a great idea to talk it all through.

Big observation day tomorrow at work, been working so hard. I was at work 9 1/2 hours today, worked through lunch, done another 2 hours at home now. It'd better bloody be appreciated. I can tell my HT is not impressed with me right now. Hence my thinking of going early.

@Hopeislost Time for a new name for you?! Welcome x

@SoozC I hear ya! I'm so stressed this evening that even a yoga/walk/distraction/bath/toblerone combo has failed to switch me off from work. Wish I could have a whole new career.

Yay Si1ver for 24 weeks. Pregnancy is all about weird milestones. Anomaly scan anyone!? I've got a multipack of fruitella in my desk. It's great.....sorry about your cold.

limplettice I'm loving the sound of the afternoon tea hamper. 11 days. Sounds great!

lookingatthestars89 sorry you're feeling so overwhelmed with all the appointments. It's bad enough for people who just get the PE without being pregnant too - you're doing great. What's wrong with mousse? Surely mousse is fine?

hopeislost Congratulations! Glad all is going well. It is all quite bizarre when you've given up hope of it ever happening and then it does. We were waiting for ivf and it all seems like a very long elaborate dream.... You definitely need a name change!

soozC hope your observation goes well today. It's pants that you're doing so much extra work for it, it just wouldn't be expected in most other jobs. Maybe you need a countdown calender!

I thought I'd perfected my morning sickness routine - eating toast with marmite and a cup of herbal tea before I get the urge to chuck up. Failed miserably this morning when I was sick in the kitchen sink while my toast was in the toaster :( anyone had any brilliant snacks by their bed that worked first thing?

WHY have my paragraphs gone!?

@SoozC Thank you! And good luck for the observation! Looking back I think that leaving teaching (and the stress of it!) may have helped me conceive.

@WonkyDonk87 Thanks! We'll see how things go before I name change. Still very anxious.

@Rubberduckies Thanks! And sorry to hear about the morning sickness. M&S salt and vinegar brown rice and kale popped crisps have been my saviour. Although my sickness seems to be tailing off now hopefully!

God Looking you really have had a time of it. Makes me feel bad for whinging about tablespoons of wholemeal rice. I have been looking at that Christmas food brochure too and am sure the mousse will be utterly fine.

Hello Hopeis. Its such an anxious time but past 13 weeks is an excellent sign lovely.

Sooz I literally cannot wait. I was going to work longer but I am just too tired, and with holiday accrual this still covers me to the end of DDs summer holiday which is good enough for me.

Rubberduckies I had the Aldi pukey crackers. Their luxury sea salt and pepper crackers - kept by the bed staved off morning nausea really well.

Obvs just called pukey crackers in my house!

@LimpLettice new marketing campaign? Feeling Pukey? Try our best ever Pukey crackers. They're bland.

@Sooz hope your observation goes well.

I worry about PND as well. I spoke to my midwife about my concerns. She gave me some numbers to call if I was struggling and said that she thought I had a good grasp on my own mental health and she thought I'd be fine. Which was nice.

@Hopeislost congratulations! I hope your anxiety starts to calm down a bit. Weirdly, for me, I've just become better at ignoring it. I know my anxiety is there, but if I don't think about it too much it's ok. I've not really relaxed into the pregnancy at all, but I've got better at ignoring my anxiety. Reaching 24 weeks definitely helps.

My cold has finally died away. I've spent the last couple of days washing baby clothes ready to be put away. I'm off to see my folks this weekend who have generously offered to buy us a travel system. Any recommendations anyone? I need something that is height adjustable for 5ft6 me and 6ft3 giant husband. Something which is light for use on public transport (husband doesn't drive) and easily collapsible but that will cope with some off road when walking the dog. I don't think it exists.

I have two countdown calendars! One in my phone and another, old-fashioned wall calendar that I can cross days off. Will speak to midwife tomorrow and ask her opinion about leaving earlier. If I can say it's recommended by a healthcare professional my head is less likely to be annoyed (at me, at least).

Review is over. Not sure how it went yet. I had three of them in my room while I taught reading. Horrible. Still, done now!

Abdomen has felt painful at times today, think it's just growing pains. Penguin has been a bit fluttery, if that makes sense, but I've been on my feet a lot. Not going to panic, will see how he is this evening and speak to mw tomorrow if he doesn't give me his usual wriggles later.

@Si1ver I'm probably getting the Babyjogger City Mini GT - light, one hand fold, decent wheels and height adjustable handlebar. Comes highly recommended by my sisters. You can get adapters for car seat or a carry cot

@SoozC That sounds horrible - like being a student all over again. Countdown to the end can truly start now!

Oh we have the real thing a few weeks after half term. So I get to do it all again unless I bugger off earlier! Makes it sound so appealing... 3 weeks of holiday... Bliss!

How long have you got left @SoozC? It sounds bloody awful.

My Fridays off start next week, combined with my Wednesdays working from home I think I'll be able to power through to the end of the year.

I was going to be at work until the end of November, but it's so stressful I'm not sure I can last that long. I hate the constant scrutiny. Head had another word with me this week (third time this year), apparently my books aren't up to scratch, although they're "not bad". Things like writing in the wrong pen and pages having curled corners. I just feel like I can't do enough. I've brought work home every night this week and over the weekend. I just want to be enjoying my pregnancy.

Sorry for moaning, I just find it so hard sometimes! I'm surviving on about 4-5 hours sleep a night, which isn't nearly enough for the job with all the scrutinising.

Sounds utterly shit Sooz and I think I'd go earlier if I was you. Will it effect you in terms of going back after? Totally sympathise re the sleep, I'm peeing through a head which feels about 2 inches above my foof on an hourly basis atm. I'm glad he's head down at last but I've got to that waddling / sitting on a football feeling thing already.

Yay to Friday's off S1lver. It'll defo help.