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Marleym28 · 28/07/2019 21:12

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purplefig · 30/07/2019 11:02

Hi all! Wondered where this thread had gone Grin. I had the 12 week scan yesterday - so nice to see them again. I'm also fiercely anti veg at the moment. Utterly shocking as I normally follow a pretty much vegan diet!!

hazandduck · 30/07/2019 12:47

Ah I found you all! I had my scan today and was a quivering wreck before 🙈😂 All good, due date has jumped forward a few days, I’m now due 6th of Feb. I’m SO excited now. Weeks of feeling crap worth it. Hope everyone else is well.

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Sheep90 · 30/07/2019 13:37

I have my dating scan tomorrow. Very nervous! I think I'm due around 8th February

hazandduck · 30/07/2019 13:55

Good luck @Sheep90 it’s nerve-racking! Hope all is well x

sulkysukey · 30/07/2019 14:35

Ah found you all again, yay! Exciting the scans are coming in 😊 I was supposed to have mine a week today but had to reschedule to over a week later because of work - have had no scans at all yet so despite being 11 weeks today it all still feels really surreal. I'm sooooo tired and the nausea is still nipping at my heels. Trying to keep my 2 DCs entertained over the hols has already wiped me out... only 5 weeks to go! 🙈

ImMeantToBeWorking · 30/07/2019 17:10

@InOmniaParatus13 I never thought of smoothies, but I am managing apples so it is not too bad!! I have had such cravings for lemon flavour, lemonade is my new fave thing!! I didn't even bother trying to eat my soup today. Going to try a different flavour this evening, fingers crossed I manage it better. 😂

@ManicPerchant19 If Sligo tell me I will not be getting an anomaly scan I will no joke ask to be transferred to Dublin. My DP was born with a heart condition that his nephew also has so I want the scan, if just to be prepared. Both DP and his nephew ended up in Crumlin for months after birth so if there is anything wrong with my baby I am giving birth in Dublin. Once I finish for maternity leave I will move back into my parents if I have too!! 😂😂 My "12 week scan" is being done at 13+5 so I well believe they try push them out to 14 weeks if they can. It is shocking!

@Savvysaz that's great to hear!!

@purplefig baby wants what baby wants, or doesn't want in this case. I made dinner for myself and DP yesterday, I had chicken and potatoes. He had loads of veg too. I can't do it!

Welcome to the newbies! Grin

ManicPerchant19 · 30/07/2019 17:42

@ImMeantToBeWorking there's no way they won't do an anomaly scan with a family history of congenital heart condition - I would make sure to mention it and really emphasise it at your first appointment! You may find your care goes up a level after that!

InOmniaParatus13 · 30/07/2019 18:25

Aww it’s so lovely to see all the scan pics! Hopefully I’ll get a date for mine after my booking appointment on Thursday 😁

I’m 12 weeks today, sickness is kicking my butt again, but I’m so glad to have made it this far after all the spotting and nerves early on!

@ImMeantToBeWorking I currently live off smoothies and horlicks at the moment haha, need to get the vitamins into me somehow! Oooh I went through the lemon phase a few weeks ago, couldn’t get enough, can’t stand them now 😂 fingers crossed you manage to enjoy a different flavour 😂

Dweebette · 30/07/2019 20:34

Yay, found the new thread! So lovely seeing all the positive scan posts! I still have a week to wait but I'm feeling positive.

Also veg free, can manage the odd pepper but nothing else. Also still have inane aversion to most meat so I'm pretty much living on carbs. Lots of high fibre cereal.

Thinking it's time to start looking for maternity trousers for work, having serious difficulties keeping mine buttoned!

MumbleLumble · 31/07/2019 07:48

Weird how so many of us are off veg. Especially at a time we probably all want to be eating it too.

Pregnancy does not agree with me. I've constantly got something to moan about. I'm really struggling with having a constant blocked nose and I'm not getting any sleep. It's driving me insane!

Marleym28 · 31/07/2019 08:12

I've got my scan Friday, managed to find a limited selection of work clothes that can hide bump on rotation until then.
I am excited about the scan but yesterday and this morning I've started to have some anxious thoughts... what's if there's nothing there and I'm just chubby from all the eating? What if this or that. I'm trying to get my positive pants on just want it so bad that it worries me.
It's my first and so far I've only peed on sticks (at the start) and had a booking app at 8 ish weeks.
Also, nausea subsided for a couple of weeks but seems to have popped it's head back up. Not how it was thankfully but still annoying lol

Sorry to moan just think I'm having an anxious few moments.

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hazandduck · 31/07/2019 09:16

@Marleym28 totally normal to feel like that! It’s so surreal to actually see on the screen what is actually in there. Best of luck for it x

Dr273 · 31/07/2019 09:30

Has anyone started buying things yet? Is it too early?

I had an early "reassurance scan" and have proper scan coming up next week (does it make a difference if it's before or after the scan?). Telling relatives/work this and next week.

ImMeantToBeWorking · 31/07/2019 11:26

@ManicPerchant19 I hope so. I don't have anything on my side that I know of (I am basically NC with bio father but I can contact if needs be - but I want to tell my family before him) but DP's condition is still monitored yearly in the Mater and he is 35. He also had open heart surgery at a few months old. I will really be hitting that home with them, I obviously want my baby to be looked after as much as possible.

@InOmniaParatus13 its mad that some of us are having the same cravings, and most of us seem to be having the same aversions.

@Dweebette I went up a size in jeans for work, not quite ready for maternity trousers until I tell them in work! I can put on my normal size but they are tight and uncomfortable so cannot be good for baby!

@MumbleLumble how far along are you now? Apparently it gets easier. Currently I can sleep, its getting up that's the problem, and then I have a nap after work too. I am so tired all the time.

@Marleym28 I said that to my DP at the weekend, what if there is no baby there?? He looked at me like I was a crazy woman.

@Dr273 we have bought nothing yet, there is a baby fair coming up in October so I am going to go to that and try get some deals. We can't buy too much either as our house will not be built until after baby is born so we have very little space in rented house for too much.

Last night I had a complete emotional meltdown. My scan is not until 13+5 which is worrying me (still over 2 weeks away). I also live about 2 hours from my family and friends network, I am living where I am the last 2.5 years but only have a handful of people here I would call close friends, my bestie is an hour away. DP is currently working at home, but due to the nature of his work that could easily change (up to recently he was working 2plus hours away so not home during the week). I think it all got the better of me last night, I was trying to not let DP know just how upset I was, until he said "you will have support from your mam and sister".

Well, that just made me 100 times worse as I sobbed that they live too far away, then he said about his mam and sister, who I pointed out work. I feel so isolated at the min. I know there is a BF support group, and family centers that have baby and parent groups, but I can't join any of them yet. Plus none of my friends in the area know I am pregnant yet so I can't talk to any of them about it until after the scan.

I work with only men, so I won't have anyone to talk to in work really either. Two of them have kids, but it just is not the same!!

Sorry I just think I needed a bit of a rant. Tell me I am not the only one who is freaking out that they won't manage once baby arrives??

ImMeantToBeWorking · 31/07/2019 11:29

Wow sorry about the long post!

OccasionalNachos · 31/07/2019 12:43

@ImMeantToBeWorking Flowers getting support by text & phone is better than nothing. I live away from my family & close friends too - I have a great friendship group in the city I live in, but none of them have kids. Those who do, I mainly keep in touch by text/social media because they have no free time because they have kids

I am certainly freaking out, but in an internal way. When I’m awake in the middle of the night I worry about everything, way beyond the baby stage like getting bullied at school, making bad choices as teenagers, not choosing the right career path... it’s exhausting!

@Dr273 I bought a couple of little baby grows and a cardigan that were on sale in Gap. I need to speak to my mum friends about the big things like prams!

@Marleym28 hope the scan goes well. It will seem very real then!

Dr273 · 31/07/2019 13:28

@ImMeantToBeWorking sounds like you're having a hard time. It's tough enough being pregnant and not telling anyone yet without feeling generally isolated. Really feel for you. Have you asked your Dr about accessing mental health support - they offer services for pregnant women, the midwife was telling me about them yesterday. I don't know what county you're in - it'll vary - but worth looking up as getting someone to talk through could be amazing right now. Keep posting.

InOmniaParatus13 · 31/07/2019 17:11

@ImMeantToBeWorking it sounds like you’re going through a horrendous time bless you Flowers my baby daddy has walked out saying he wants nothing to do with either of us, so I understand somewhat about the isolation. I have amazing family although they live quite far, I will join some antenatal groups I think!
I wonder if those of us with the same cravings / aversions are having the same sex baby? I have a gender scan booked for the 24th August at 9am 😁

On another note; my arms are ridiculously hairy, I’ve never seen so much hair, I look like a damn yeti 😂

Sheep90 · 31/07/2019 17:17

I had my dating scan today! And found out my family have a bet on the sex of the baby. Hoping for a girl purely so my brother has to buy us all McDonald's Grin still, I'm no good at reading scan photos and all the old wives' tales point to a boy

ImMeantToBeWorking · 31/07/2019 17:38

@OccasionalNachos this is true, and I can pick up the phone to so many people at any time. I think the emotions just got to me last night, I am so annoyed with the hospital, and worried about EVERYTHING as I am a worrier and I didn't have my post work nap. We are also building a house and that is stressful enough as it is. I am feeling so much better today though!! I say that is exhausting. I have yet to think that far ahead, I just can't imagine myself with a grown up child! Have you tried something to help you relax, listening to white noise / meditation etc. Spotify has loads!

@Dr273 no I have not seen my doc since I was 3+4. Not met a mid-wife either (I will at 13+5). I will talk to them then, but I really think it was a mixture of tiredness, worrying about a baby and knowing I will have to move house with a month old baby and it just really scared me for a while!

@InOmniaParatus13 I am so sorry to hear that!! What a horrible horrible person!! You deserve so much better!! Would it be possible for you to move back home? If not antenatal groups sound like a good idea, also I know some places do pregnancy yoga and Pilates etc. which would be another way to meet new women. Unfortunately no where around me do!

It could be possible, it will be interesting to find out. DP does not want to know the sex, so I might not know until the baby is here what I am having! I am working on him though. I want to know!!

How is the hair on your head? I have noticed no difference anywhere yet!!

InOmniaParatus13 · 31/07/2019 19:13

@ImMeantToBeWorking thank you! He’s a waste of space and it’s his loss! I’m looking into the option of moving back home, not sure it will be possible with work though hmmm.
I don’t have the self restraint not to find out 😂 credit to you though if you don’t!
I seem to have a lot of my hair coming out when I brush it, though I have ridiculously thick hair so it’s not a bad thing 😂
Just shaved my arms, no longer look like a yeti 😂

S082018 · 31/07/2019 19:23

I've only just seen this thread despite being tagged in it at the very beginning - strange!

Hi everyone 😊
I'm 11+5, due on 14th February ❤️ 12 week scan is this Friday when I'll be exactly 12 weeks!
Had an early reassurance scan at what I thought was 7+4 but I was dated a little ahead at 8+1 on the day! This may change at my dating scan on Friday though. Two more sleeps to go - I'm so excited!

InOmniaParatus13 · 01/08/2019 11:22

Hi all!
Haven’t been sick today it’s a miracle 😁
I’m 12+2 today and finally see the midwife this afternoon for my booking appointment, hopefully I’ll get a 12 week scan date through soon too!

Hope everyone is well 😁

purplefig · 01/08/2019 12:19

How's everyone doing today? :)

Interested to hear how all you're all getting on with clothing? I'm 12+3 and my jeans do up, but I can tell they won't for long! I've ordered a few maternity bits of eBay - and just had a little order on the New Look sale which someone mentioned in another thread - but thinking maybe it's a bit early to be stocking up on maternity clothes. It's my first pregnancy so I'm excited...and very ready for a bump!

Marleym28 · 01/08/2019 13:50

I had to cave last week and had to get some maternity trousers. Mine just didn't do up any more. I tried normal ones but a bit bigger size but they just looked weird and huge on my legs and bottom lol
Didn't really want to until after my scan (my first scan -tomorrow) but just had to.

I'm pooping it for tomorrow. Just so frightened they will say it's bad news :(

Had a couple of busy evenings and works busy too so just hoping it's me being a bit tired and emotional.

I think I just need a hair stroke and my bed lol

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