babies due in june!

[megi]

I know it is very early - but somebody needs to do it! Still not down from cloud nine yet!
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Hi everyone, Have had THE worst day today. Felt sicker than ever and couldn't even face eating anything, everything made me feel worse So, obviously I am starving and then to top it off I had a bit of brie and crackers just now, I was so starving and I craved it slapped wrist Anyway. I would love some crispy duck, it's my all time fave but am prety sure I couldn't manage it

Good luck with your scan Katz, hope it's fun. Not sure when mine will be, have yet to book my nuchal, was meant to do it today, but felt like shit.

Welcome Berolina! Sorry I don't know anything about cold sores/ herpes during pregnancy. perhaps put a post up on here, or search??

Gotta go and eat waves

Pinkarjuna,I'm sorry that people are trying to scare you by telling you that your baby will be taken away if you have a history of depression ect.

I hope I can help reassure you that they are taliking utter rubbish.I have a history of depression & had bad PND after dd was born & no one ever mentioned that this would make me an unfit mother.

It sounds to me as though these people are jealous of how well you are coping with the pregnancy/move ect & want to put a damper on it.They should keep their misguided opinions to themselves.

Look sfter yourself

Dp got home and went pretty ape that I'd had some Brie .
Anyway, he cooked some kedgeree for dinner and I was so starving I ate a pretty decent portion, minus the smoked fish and huge bits of onion dp failed to chop small enough Now I feel good for the first time today, hope it was a freak, feeling really bad day.

We're going on holiday for a week on Friday and we're not looking forward to the prospect of a buffet style dinner every night (normally we'd love it) the potential for salmonella and god knows what other bugs to be lurking in food that's left hanging around are huge. Ah well, I shall have to order a la carte every night

How are you all doing?? It's so nice to know other pregnant people, as yet I don't know anyone else pregnant. Was hoping my neighbour would be thinking it was time to start a family and we could be preggers together, but, she isn't..

{berolina} welcome to mums net good luck I have my fingers crossed everything is ok this time.

{Mirage}
{Teabelly}
{Uwila}
{Mrs Wednesday}
Thanks for your encouragement Just popping in to see how people are doing. Oh the above are hugs, not sure how it works on this board. Glad to hear some positivity. Though got A on another homework tonight despite pregnancy hangover feelings . So don't feel like it is all washing down the loo with college. Exams a few months later isn't really a problem as long as I keep going as long as possible

Uwila = no father. Made one mistake in my life. Haven't told him - lost his number. Even if I could get it I know what I would hear. Biggest jack arse I ever met. Confessed to sleeping with women and then pretending not to in the morning. I don't want that in my life. Don't think he is fit. Let alone I have no means to contact him. I know a few details for the future if he needs to be found. Just stuff he was bragging about really when I was lonely and had too much to drink. So I know what uni he went to, school what he studied - how old he is and his name. I know people who know him - loose aquaintances - he could be found If I was hell bent on telling him. I choose not to make that effort. An investigator could be employed for childs sake at later date - if that is childs overwhelming desire to meet said father. Needless to say he never rang. Grabbed his ipod off me in the flat like I was a money grabbing cow trying to make off with it. Yeah Like I want maintenance from that - Probably (if I could even contact by a quick ring to arrange to meet) just think I was trying to rip him off and got pregnant to ruin his life. He couldn't stand girls who didn't live alone cos he was afraid they'd want something from him. Honestly I should have known better but thats all water under the bridge now. I am usually a strict safety girl even braving cap nurse so I could do double jeopardy. Well one night is all it takes even though I took the morning after pill. Stange how things go.

Want the pregnancy though I don't see the father as being part of it. Never will; don't want to be bound to a man who treated me like crap just for the sake of a cheque. Hey life isn't perfect but you have just got to enjoy it. This pregnancy might be the best thing that ever happened in my life

Morning all, how're you feeling today??

Good Morning!!!!

Feeling GREAT today - still feeling a bit BUT I lost 1.5Ibs last night which means I can now eat everything in sight

m/s doesn't seem so bad when you can eat your way through it!!!!!!!

I had a trapped nerve that was giving me gip yesterday and that has also gone today so all in all I'm feeling GREAT!!!

How's everyone else???

Oh, can I take it as red now that means feeling sick on this board???????

Hi everyone!

I'm starting to tell people this week which is quite exciting.

I'm very jealous of all you who can eat through their sickness.. I'm just feeling sick from the moment I wake up til i go to sleep and sometimes in the middle of the night too. Only actually thrown up 3/4 times, but feel sick all the time . So I've lost 4lbs!! I can't eat anything except the occasional digestive biscuit, and I'm living on pineapple juice.

The annoying thing is that my preggy vitamins say on the pack that they must be taken with a full stomach!! HOW EXACTLY?????

Anyway, moving back home to Scotland on Monday after 5 years away from where i belong - can't wait!!

More to the point how are YOU feeling Lipstick after your crap day yesterday??? I must admit i had a crap one yesterday as well. Sickness and an upset stomach. I just feel at the moment like this is never going to end .... feel ill ALL day!

Teabelly - i am also petrified of blood tests. The only way i cope with them is to lye down when they do it, concerntrate on my breathing, not look (obviously) and wriggle my fingers a lot!. I also have to (and this is really pathetic) for a few days in advance of the blood test decide which arm i am going to have it done in and then i can psyche myself up!!!!!
Berolina - welcome to this lovely thread
Megi - i have also got constant sickness without being sick - crap isnt it?
PinkArjuna - you sound really brave to be going through what you are. for what its worth i think you are doing the right thing NOT telling the father - but at the same time you are being sensible in your ability to trace him at a later stage if needs be Also IGNORE those nasty comments about your baby being taken away. Nowadays i beleive the authorities do everything possible to keep a child with its mother. Try not to worry
Anyway i am feeling slightly better today .. still sick but tummy more settled ... hope you all have a good day..

Sorry, Morning Mudda and Sweetheart (well done with your weight )

Morning all,

Feeling great today - not sure why?? But m/s seems to have finally gone, hurrah! Still feeling the urge to eat everything in sight though

Tessiebear - maybe I'll try your method to psyche myself up...it'd certainly be better than being the quivering wreck I normally am, ha ha ha!

PinkArjuna, I agree with Tessiebear - sounds like your better off not having him around. Having had one child already I can definitely agree with you that having a child will be the best thing you ever do (and that's after taking into account all of those times you could cheerfully kill them! )

Sweetheart - congratulations!! I know just how chuffed you must be feeling, well done

Wow, Pink. What a lot you have on your plate. School, moving, moving again, sounds like finances are tight, doing it all alone... and then those morons who told you to worry about having him/her taken away. God knows I have a fit every time I walk in the door after work and complain that no one clean up the house. But, jeez, if that's all I can complain about...

Well, you should be proud of yourself. And, if ever anyone does come and question your qualifications as fit mother, I think you could rightly argue that you are OBVIOUSLY capable of conquering the world on your own.

Ooo tough one on the father. I take he has some money, then. Well, save his name and keep track of how to contact him. Just in case you change your mind. I wonder, though, if you might want to tell him when the little one is say still a baby. Okay, this is noe of my business, I'mm just offering unsolicited advice. So, fel free to tell me to bugger off and I will. But, what if the dad walks into dd/ds's life in fifteen years and tells him/her a different story. Like he would have been there all the time but it's your fault because you never told him. I think I'd do something like put it in a letter when the baby is say 1 year old. That way he is informed and the choice is his. But, also it will be far enough away that you will have established your home with a good and stable life for the baby. I just worry because of course you know what the father is really like, but he could tell a very different story and you just can't predict how the little one's will feel/react.

I hope you find this post helpful, and I'm not butting in where it's none of my darned business.

Ooh forgot - welcome Berolina
I've been lucky enough to never have cold sores, but a good friend always gets them, and had them during two healthy pregnancies, as Mirage said I think any concern would be to do with the genital form of herpes.HTH

Hi Tessie, I'm ok today, better than yesterday's disaster. Managing to eat. I just can't wait to ENJOY food again!!! It seems like an impossibility at the moment. Still tired, even though it feels like I have only just got up!!

Mudda, good luck with your move back up to Scotland. What did you do re booking appts in the end?

How are you Mrs W and WelshMum?

Congrats for the weight loss sweetheart, now forget all about it and get on with pregnancy

I see there is now a well established "due in July" thread!! Makes me feel like a slightly old timer, but in a good way

Morning to all,
Welcome Berolina - I haven't heard the coldsore m/c connection either and I agree with the others. It'll be genital herpes that's the potential problem.
Sweetheart - well done on reaching your goal weight. I understand a bit of what you feel. I also lost 2 stone over a year - busy putting it on how though!
Pink - you've got a lot to think about - I hope all goes well and you have an easy pregnancy.
Well done for being so positive about your pregnancy so young - don't know if I'd have coped at your age. Don't think I coped particularly at my advance years
Lipstick - you shouldn't have mentioned the brie, now I want some and I'd get into trouble too.
Teabelly - are you coming up to 11 weeks? I'm asking because I think my symptoms are definitely starting to go too.
Mudda - good luck with your move. I'm so jealous I'd love to go back to Wales but it's hard to bring everything together as my kiwi DH has no reason to want to live there - apart from to keep me happy!

Thanks for asking Lipstick I feel like I'm heading towards feeling normal (not quite there) but less nausea, less tiredness, no metallic taste, no more sore bosoms either.Apologies and sympathy to all those still in the middle of it all.
Still quite hungry though! and more likely to cry at anything and everything but from what I recall that lasts all the way through.

Yeah Welshmum, I got such stick for the sodding brie. I knew I shouldn't have, but, I did. Anywaway do went crazy and said he didn't want to be the one 'policing' my food intake during pregnancy if it was going to make us argue etc etc. He's right though and I rely on his willpower!!!

Where in Wales did you live/grow up? My BIL and SIL live in Lampeter and we go there regularly (this w/e) and St Davids for the odd holiday.

Also, you mentioned your dh is a Kiwi and I used to live there for about 5 years!! We are citizens. Went back this year for a holiday with dd. Coincidence!

Crying at neighbours is generally the worst.

LipstickMum - spooky - dh went to uni in Lampeter - no-one else has ever heard of it!! He loved it there and is always promising to take me but we've never made it yet.

I haven't done anything about seeing the GP now as I'll be in Scotland by Tuesday, but that is now number one priority, even before we unpack anything, cos I'll be pushing 11 weeks by then. Hope I get a nice m/w, my m/w with ds was utterly fab and it'll take a lot to beat her

Lampeter's a sweet place, but nothing special to look at in itself imo!!

Have just booked my nuchal scan, it's ages away!!! 14th December

Hi there all and thank you for your lovely welcomes! This is just a quick post to say thanks as I'm having my 'lunch break' at the mo. Hope I'll be 'in' this evening though!

I'm a North Wales girl but I did once kiss a boy called Rhys from Lampeter, that's my only connection! DH is from Wellington and would like to go back.....needless to say I wouldn't! I seem to remember Lipstick that you gave your little one a kiwi/maori name - or was it middle name? Our dd also has a kiwi name in there too.
On the cheese front I think I'm right in saying that France doesn't issue these guildelines - they can eat what they like. I'd love to see comparative figures for what happens over there and in the UK. There's a part of me that thinks we should just eat and drink what we want to - eg it's not rules that keep me off alcohol for 3 months I just can't face it. By about 5 months I'm quite happy with the idea of the odd glass of wine but don't really want more than that. I know it's a bit woolly but I think listening to our bodies is the best approach.

We lived at the opposite end of the north island in Whangarei (teeny lil town, by UK standards). We did give dd a well known maori middle name and intend to do the same with the next one. Just so they both have some connection with the place, even if it is name only.

If NZ had been the same proximity as, say France, we probably would hav stayed. But right now we enjoy having our family a round us and them haveing lots of contact with dd. You may have a different experience as your dh will have family out there..?

Yes, I was thinking about the France/food connection. I did try and mention it to dp but he just said " if it's got listeria in it, it doesn't matter how much you eat!!!" rant rant rant.

Going to lie down.

Welsh mum yes I'm 11 weeks today.

Agree with you on the cheese front too - esp as I'm a veggie and cheese is my one big love! IMO I've never had listeria from eating cheese, or even a mild stomach ache (unless you count the ache you get from eating too much ) so I haven't stopped eating any cheese yet (I just cook blue or unpasturised cheese first)

Hello All!

I must say that I am feeling incredibly less sick today too! I'm 10 weeks now (LMP), so maybe things will be looking up from now on. Yesterday I was almost sick, but managed to convince myself that a rhubarb and custard sweet would sort me out - and it did.

On the bad side, I have broken out in teenage acne!! Aaargh!! Why me???

Pink - you sound like you know your own mind, and I'm sure you know that you're going to be a wonderful mum. A friend of mine was in a similar situation, her feelings towards the father did change about 6 months after the birth, but only from the point of view that she wanted her little boy to know what an a*hole his dad was himself, so she didn't take the rap for it later. Take your time, no need to make any decisions yet.

Sweetheart - well done! 1.5 is excellent! What did you have to celebrate??

Lipstickmum - I wouldn't worry about a little bit of brie. I mean, like everyone says the guidelines from country to country are different, and besides, what was it doing in the fridge if you're not allowed it? Tempting providence I think!