Bumpety Bump- Feb 2008

[samsmam]

Here you go........

saw dr today and have booked private scan on saturday - was really easy as am near oxford and you can just ring and book it privately, without referral from gp, although mine suggested it.

By the way Hi to lailasmum!

Hello all and congratulations to lailasmum!

I'm having a nice relaxing evening tonight after a hectic day at work. Bring on the weekend! In fact bring on February .

My stomach is starting to look very swollen. Just hope I can keep it secret at work for another 3 weeks as my boss is on holiday when I have the scan so will wait for him to come back before I tell anyone else. Feeling ok - will be 10 weeks on Saturday - time is actually passing quite quickly.

Hope everyone else is doing ok!

Off to watch trashy tv in bed now!!

Welcome lailasmum and congrats on scans etc!!

I'm feeling huge again. Also energy levels are still ok which is great. The old hormones are really kicking in now though. Had a small disaster with childcare yesterday and was a total mess, crying for ages!!! Then I watched a film with dp and cried even though it wasn't a weepy!!! It was just one of those days!!!

Hope everyone's well x

bubblesbabe I'm near oxford too, whereabouts are you booked in and dare I ask the price?
I've calmed down a bit today after my Mum gave me a good talking to and said I should be discussing my concerns with my midwife. I've been trying to ring for the last hour but it's constantly busy. My main worry is that I'll be having my first appointment when I'm 12+6 and I'll miss the chance to have the blood test for Downs. When are you meant to have this as I can't remember when I had it with Dd?

Hi Lucylou. My doc said there was a guy at the JR womens centre who is v good (she used him) and does private scans. I think the nuchal scan is about £120 but more if you have the bloods at the same time. I rang yesterday and got an appointment for a 'reassurance/dating scan' for saturday which I think is about £100. I forgot to check the price! Apparently he will sometimes do a 'buy one get one half price' for you if you are booking nuchal at the same time. I'm only 8+3 ish so don't have nuchal for another 3 weeks i guess. I'm not booked in anywhere yet as I haven't seen the midwife but would like a homebirth really. Mind you, I had a cs with my 3rd baby and am 40 so they'll probably try adn talk me out of it!!

Sorry forgot to tell you his name - Mr Impey.

Lucylou - I get my bloodtests for downs etc at 15 weeks.

thankyou bubblesbabe, a scan simply for reassurance would probably do the trick at the moment! I'l probably give them a ring when I get back from my weekend away, it will be nice to relax for a couple of days now that I know what my options are. Thankyou!

Afternoon Mummy's,
I am so tired my eyes have started to water, only 2.5 hrs left at work and then home for more work, argh!!!
I am not enjoying the restless nights at the minute, Does anyone know what causes it?
I have joined all of the freebie sites, that someone kindly posted up the other day. Thank you.

I am getting slightly worried, as I have not got a scan date yet from the hospital and I had the booking in appointment with M/W two weeks ago.

Hey Bumblesmum- Ring the hospital and ask to be put thru to antenatal scanning- they are usually very helpful. They'll tell you if they have recieved a request.

Ok, thank you.
What you up to? anything nice? hows my mischevious lovely niece?

Being mischevious as per usual- She has learnt to get around the floor now- I caught her when I left the room for second trying to steal my goddaughters packet of skips!
Not up to much today, still got to find a top for the wedding on Saturday.

Hope everyone else is ok and sorting out their scans whether private or not.

She likes skips though! lol
you will find a top I am sure. I am off tom if you want me to come with you and keep an eye on LO, text me.
I am logging off now.

bumblesmum - am understanding about tiredness...went to bed bout 10.00 last night, slept through an hour of radio as my alarm and woke up at 9.20 this morning . Thankfully work pretty laid back!!!

Welcome Lailasmum!

Hope people get scans and reassurance and stuff ok...I'm sorry, I would be a bit more personal with messages but I really haven't got the energy...I just feel yuk!

Have a good evening everyone...zzzz zzzz

Afternoon all!

I truly have the deepest respect for all of you who are working with ms, and/or have babies/toddlers! I've felt so useless due to debilitating nausea. The only time I feel ok is if I'm lying down, otherwise, I feel worse than the worst hangover I've ever had.

Poor DS. He's off school now, so I feel pressured to have him do something active everyday. Today I took him to Gambado here is London, and couldn't even manage to follow him around the soft play area! Normally I go down the slide with him at least once, and play with him on the various activities. Not today. I could only manage to follow him around with my eyes whilst firmly planted in my chair. I was so thankful that he is now at that age where he is happy to play alone and wander, and I can trust him not to do anything naughty. I hope this clears up soon, because I'm starting to feel completely useless and pathetic!

Hi, Just checking in....had a real busy week at work and also been trying to get a grip on my paranoia, before driving you lot mad as well as myself .

So I am feeling much better (mentally), but vream crackered like the rest of you. Nausea has settled but, there in the background (just how I like it).

Scan booked for Monday so very excited about that...and will have made it to 9weeks on sunday. Yay just one more week and I will be in doubles and not feeling like such a phoney.
Uhm a rather overweight phoney!

Hi everyone,

Sounds like most of us are in the same boat - never-ending ms, exhausted and feeling inadequate when it comes to looking after our other DCs .

I have posted a question on active convos about nuchal scans. Does anyone have any ideas about clinics in East Anglia that combine nuchal scan and early blood tests? Anyone been to a BabyBond clinic?

Sorry for lack of personal replies - like Jo, I've got no energy, I just feel so yuck. Best wishes to all of you and your bumps.

jesus god I CANNOT keep up with these threads!

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hope everyone is well

i went to the gp at last and so in the fullness of time should get a midwife's appt. And then, sooner or later, a scan, at which point i will find out the dates. the go is saying late jan early feb but really, all mine have been born after their due dates and i am comfy here so...

Hello, big sympathies for those of you with continuing nausea, I bet I can match you on the tiredness though!

My utterly charmless 12 year old son keeps calling me evil and selfish for inflicting another sibling on him - so that's kind of taken the edge off me being excited. It's school holidays already and DH has just started working away so I'm stuck with them on my own more than usual. Feeling quite down generally and wondering why the hell I thought a 5th child was a good idea.

It's now less than 2 weeks till my nuchal scan and I'm starting to get a bit nervous about that, looking forward to the time when I can just get on with being pregnant and stop being stressed about it.

Oh, and I still don't look pregnant, at 10+4. Probably because I still have all the flab from last time (DD is nearly 4, and still not weaned although I'm working on it)

I also can't keep up! Truely feeling shite this week, apart from the constant nausea, I've had the flu, so energy and appetite went from ok to non-existent Have been living on fruit juice and a cup a soup and toast for the last few days but feeling a bit better today. Saw my dr yesterday for the pregnancy but she was more concerned with the flu so gave me antibiotics so it didn't get any worse, given that dd1 and dd2 still need me to function.....
Anyway, enough whinging I go back to the dr next week, when my blood tests should be back and then I can decide what type of care I want, hospital, gp or shared.

Hi to everyone,
It seems as if we're all more or less going through the same thing at the moment! I'm just hoping that the sickness/nausea will go in the second trimester, so just a few weeks to go. I seem to suffer more in the early evening rather than in the morning, so I'm just figuring out how to deal with it. During the day, eating seems to be the key and I'm generally okay but when I get home from work, I'm quite debilitated by it and it makes no difference whether I eat or not! Never mind - I know it's all worth it in the end.

I've got my scan and booking-in appt dates through from the hospital, so roll on 7th Aug!

I wonder if part of it is the waiting? I feel like life is almost on hold and I'm counting the days till the scan on 24th July (kind of 12 weeks but more like 11) and hopefully reassurance that everything's proceeding as normal...and then I think...what then? There'll still be 28 more weeks to go! This is so hard!!!

Whoops! Boss just came in then...had to abort... dread to think what he'd say if he found me on here!!! Actually could be quite amusing!