Due April 2008

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I am a little nervous about starting this thread as I was previously on the March 2008 thread but m/c'd. But I got my bfp this morning and although still faint it is clearly there.

Anyone else coming to nervously join me?

hello ladies!
I haven't even told anyone i know in rel life yet! reason being my husband is in the navy, (erm, i guess you gathered that) and he's away. don't want to tell anyone before i tell him. this doesn't count, really, does it? LOL!

how is everyone today?

Hi navymummy

i am very tired today and my boobs hurt

how do you feel? i told my dp first, he was a bit speechless as the week before he had wanted to know if his sperm wasnt working (took 6 months ttc). When are you due?

hi scorpio!

i second that, i took a two hour nap, while my little ones took theirs this afternoon, rather than catch up on the washing... that and MY BOOBS HURT! lol

my dh is going to be thrilled... but i am going to explode if i can't tell anyone! haa haa

i'm due 24th.

i normally nap when dp gets home at 5 ish, my dcs dont nap in the day.

cant you ring him? sorry i dont know much about navy things!

Welcome Navymummy - and may I say, I am so glad someone's on this thread who's due a few days after me... makes me feel less 'premature' in celebrating and being excited!
I have the same problem - bursting to tell people. This place keeps me sane!

I'm feeling bloated today, few little cramps, nothing too major and I have to wee every 20 minutes (I do drink a whole lot more at the moment - does anyone else have this?)

yep i am so thirsty and everytime i need a wee im like, oh no, have to get up AGAIN! (but secretly love the symptoms)

no, i can't ring him unfortunately... i don't have any contact with him at all whilst he is away. very, very frustrating, depressing, and difficult for all of us: he's on submarines.
Yes, i find that i drink loads more too, but partially consciously, haa haa!

i did have quite a bit of cramping over the past few days, not too bad today, just REALLY tired. really, really tired.

with dh away, i make my poor kiddies nap! haa haa! the little one is only 9 months, so he has to do what i say, LOL! it's getting the 4.5 year old convinced that's the problem, so THAT doesn't happen everyday! LOL LOL!

Hi Ladies! It's amazing what you miss when you don't post for a couple of days. Firstly I just want to say that
Gumbo and Kookiegoddess, I'm so utterly saddened at your news look after yourselves.

I had bad cramps today when out shopping with my Mum (who doesn't know yet) and I was almost bent double with pain and felt sick - found the nearest toilet expecting the worst, but no bleeding. The pain subsided eventually, but it scared me - has anyone else had cramps this badly?

hiya guys, i had my midwife apt to today, its a different surgery from where i had dd so i had never met the local midwife. I wasn't very impressed to be honest. Because i'm young she seemed to be stupidly explaining everything to me... Looked amazingly shocked i knew my exact dates when she stood there trying to work out how far gone i was. Even wanted to get me in on the teenager antenatel classes later on
I definately don't take kindly to that, funny thing is the midwife last time with dd did exactly the same thing! just because i'm young doesn't mean i'm stupid, thick or foolish!!?
I'm in the full throws of morning sickness at the mo, kind of loving this part coz i feel pregnant and dp is taking great care of me and pampering me!

V1KK1M I got my form for maternity excemption when i went to my first doctors apt. still not recieved the card yet tho!?

hope everyone is having a gud monday? i'm 8+1 weeks yey!!

Hi thought I was getting really mad cramps but embarresingly it was trapped wind, I never knew it would be that painful.

I only really dip my toe in here because I still can't quite believe it.

I did not think I had any symptoms until I read down the threads. i've been really thirsty but I did not know it was related to pg.

I feel a little better, I have a very insensitive doc that scared me.

Studentmum- r4eally, 8+1? I massively out on where I am then , the calendar thing I pulled sais I was 8 weeks on thursday

Able to sit up a bit more today which is hopeful, think I might avpid hospitalisation this time- fingers crossed (Thanks daftmoo- appreciated btw)

Antenatal classes question- depends entirely on where you live. In some places (such as Somerset where we used to live) Antenatal classes are often run by the MW at the surgery and everyone is automatically included; in others, sucha s some of the teaching hospitals, I have heard of them booking up REALLY early- even before the end of the first trimester. NCT ones ca,a s well. The best bet is to book with NCT ASAP as you can register an interest online and they contact you when the time is right (IIRC), otherwise perhaps telephone the GP receptionist and ask?

I booked the NCT ones when I was 8 wks pregnant the first time and I got the last place! So worth ringing early if you're very keen to go on them.

babybratt - glad it's not just me! I woke in the night with horrid cramps convinced something was really wrong, but when got up in morning and farted it all went away.......poor DP I am not very pleasant to live with at the moment - all tired and windy

My midwife told me at my booking in appt to book antenatal classes at about 25 weeks, but having read this I've just filled in the online NCT form and emailed it to them!

Besides, 25 weeks will be xmas day for me, so I very much doubt it'd all go to plan if I left it til then.

I'm 6+6 today and can no longer cross my arms as I used to. Well I can but my arms just sit on the shelf that's made by my normous knockers, Les Dawson stylee. They don't hurt as much as they did though, I've felt queasy a couple of times but had something to eat and felt fine after. Otherwise, apart from being very tired, I'm feeling really well.

Oh yes, the farting... Living with me is like living with a trombone at the mo.

This time round I got the free prescription form as soon as I went to the GP (haven't sent it off yet, though). Last time they forgot to give it to me until I got to about 28 weeks and asked about it!

I've sent in the form for a refresher calss, may have ahd 3 babies but not yet managed an antenatal class on birth LOl (pre-eclampsia kept me bedridden with ds1). As hoping for a home birth want to be a bit more aware, iyswim.

peachy - thanks for the grat tip about NCT... never even heard of them! You gals are the best - I'm loving the 'sharing' of all our odd bodily functions at the moment - including farts!

God i want to kill everybody today very tired and kids are following me around EVERYWHERE i go. arrgghh and dp has to go out at 6 tonight, when i just wanna go to bed already.

Midwife tomorrow morning

i went to NHS antenatal when i was having ds1-im not going this time, i dont need to.

bloody dp as well. might run away with the baby

Is anyone else suffering from endless burping??? I had this last time round, and it seems to have started again already. I counted them 1 day last time, and burped 183 times in 12 hrs!!!

Is it worth doing nct clases when you're not a 1st timer? I left booking late last time, my nhs classes started when i was 34 weeks preg, and i only managed to attend 1, i gave birth while eveeyone else was attending the 2nd class!

Ug, feeling ickky and tired, but still can't quite let my brain believe that this pg is going to be ok. I am avoiding sex, as last month, the only time we did it after finding out I was pg, I m/c'd the following day. I know that it was not related, but my brain has just made an unconscious link, and now I am scared. I hope I will be more relaxed after the scan next week.

Hi to the new newbies.

Hi everyone,

Congtas to everyone! Great to find an April thread. I'm due on April 7th. No kids yet and unfortunately had a missed miscarriage back in May so am naturally a bit worried. But I have the 'pregnancy after miscarriage' thread to talk about that and I should try to be more positive anyway!

That said right now, I am exhausted, nautious etc. The only think that really helps is eating and I have to force feed myself as it's the last thing I feel like doing! and believe me normally I have a really good appetite :-)

Morning All - Hope we're all feeling OKish this morning... I'm dipping in and out of this thread as and when I can, juggling life and work!

Anyway - I've found the perfect solution to distract yourself from ms, plus all other symptoms. Go and get stung by a wasp.

Couldn't believe it as I walked out of my front door this morning to feel a very sharp pain in the back of my hand. Looked down to find a wasp quite happily hanging on to me. My word, did it hurt! Hand has proceeded to swell up like a watermelon, and carry on hurting. This has the wonderful side effect of all other pg symptoms disappearing into the background. Popped to the chemist, and because of our wonderfully delicate situation, I can't take anything for it!

I assume the wasp was grumpy because of the weather? If so, was there any real need to take it out on me?!

Mornin' all - sorry about the wasp CS - horrid little buggers aren't they?

Hey again to Mollyf - welcome to this thread too!

Scorpio - know what you mean about wanting to kill people - yesterday I was HORRID all day all shouty and grumpy and poor DSD and DP couldn't do anything right, but I didn't care. He has a bad back at moment, but I actually told him off about it, saying that was his own fault if didn't go to the doctors and then I was so rubbish with DSD that she started being all attention-seeking and playing up, which meant I was even grumpier, and after she had gone to bed I spent the whole evening feeling really guilty and apologising to DP for being a cow all day.
Oh dear. New day today, so onwards and upwards.

Ouch CeylonSapphire, that sounds painful.

I hope you are all doing well. I can't log in much, I am having a sneaky peaky from work now.

I still have no nausea, in fact no symptoms but a couple of cramps and sore boobs. Maybe I should just be grateful but I am worried that no morning sickness is a bad sign.

Anyway, chat soon.