Due in July 2005 (No. 1)

[AussieSim]

I am so tickled to start this thread! I have just found out today that I am pregnant with no. 2 after 8mths of trying. My DH doesn't want me to tell anyone yet but you guys are alright I reckon!

DS is 21mths. I am in Sydney and while v excited having a baby in Australia will be a new experience for me as I had the last one in Germany. This time I am over 35, so there are all the questions about tests etc. Also DS was 5 weeks early, but was trying to get out from about 25 weeks, so I spent three weeks in hospital and the rest of the pregnancy on medication. I hope I can avoid any complications during pregnancy this time.

So who else is out there expecting a July baby?

I'm not pregnant (and don't wish to be!), but a big CONGRATUALTIONS to hoxtonchick, I'm very pleased to hear your good news!

oh thank you kid . i wondered if anyone i knew would see me here! how's your new house? and how about your sister? in fact, i think i'll just e-mail you!

emailed you back with all the details!!!

Hi - can I join too??! Found out I was pg with no 2 last week and am a whole 5 weeks today - due 11th July! V.excited but feeling sooooo tired and sick but am so glad to hear I'm not the only one with an expanding waistline already ... dread to think what it'll be like in the months to come.

Oh and larlylou ... I keep having cramping too and I remember I had exactly the same with DD so hopefully nothing to worry about.

Congrats to everyone!!!

Hello, new here. I'm due 4th July (cue endless grating jokes about the usa from my about to decease better half).

This is my first child, I'm 37 in January. I currently live down in SW18, though the house is on the market and we would like to be in SE1 for spring.

I was paralysed by tiredness for a couple of weeks but started getting better last week. However, my long term shoulder RSI has since become intolerable. After months of just getting on with it it ground me to a halt last Thursday and I've been sent home to contemplate my not very swollen navel for a week or two. Do we get more sensitive to this kind of thing when pregnant? Though it may just be that I can't use painkillers/alcohol that makes me hurt.

I look forward to 'meeting' you all as time passes. xx

Cosybear. I know EXACTLY what you mean about the tiredness. Actually I think its fatigue, more than tiredness. It is just impossible to shake off and you have to sleep. But once the baby arrives, you won't be tired in the same way-it'll just be sleep deprivation which I actually think is easier to cope with.

Also bloody sickness started way earlier with me (like around 3 1/2 weeks, but didn't work out what it was). It was about 7 weeks with ds. And its a lot worse. It did occur to us that it might be twins but thats a nightmare not a fantasy. I just think ds would probably never get a look in-and he really is still going to be a baby.

Any hints on preparing under 2s for a baby by the way?

I don't think you should mention to such a young child too early in the pregnancy. I told DD that I was pregnant at 5 weeks and she didn't think the baby was ever going to come!
I wish I had left it until I had at least found out what the sex of the baby was so I could have introduced DS a bit before he arrived. As it was, DD wanted a sister and was quite disappointed to be having a brother!

For an update on me see the Should I be worried thread (answer yes) as further explain in Vanishing Twin? thread.

Hi AussieSim, sorry to hear about your visit to the dr, I really hope everything turns out ok. It must be very confusing for you. xxxxxx

I'm off to the GP this morning. We aren't meant to be telling anyone yet, but I'm useless at secrets. And I figured if I told you guys I couldn't not tell my parents....

Aussiesim, had nipped across from tcc thread to see how our graduates were doing, sorry you've been having a stressful time, I hope everything turns out well for you {{{hug}}} x

Hi to everyone else, and best wishes x

Really sorry to hear whats going on, Aussiesim. Big sympathy your way.

With ds we had to go for a scan at 5 weeks because they thought it might be ectopic (obviously it wasn't). They could see only a murky sac-I think they could see a yolk too but can't remember. So we were told to come back after 2 weeks. Given absolutely no explaination at all. We assumed the pregnancy was possibly over. That was probably the longest 2 weeks of my life, even though it was Christmas which I LOVE. It was horrible, we were practically coutning eveery second.

Didn't help that MIL was up and (even though she knew what was happening) kept going on and on about the fact that our oven didn't work well!

Wishingchair, thanks for your message...haven't checked mumsnet for a while so apologies for not replying earlier. Cramping much improved now and only really appears on the very odd occassion now and have found that it only ccvomes if very tired and have been lifting (rather heavy) ds too much (as with backache too). So far everything is going well and funnily enough...we have the same due date!! How are you feeling?

Hi everyone, and welcome to all the newly pg ladies too .

AussieSim, I'm so sorry to hear what you are going through. I had bleeding in my first pg and also started spotting on Sunday too . I have an appointment at the EPAU on Friday morning to discuss the bleeding this time, but really don't want a scan at the moment. I have also changed doctors but our new GP won't refer me to see a normal midwife until I make it past the Early pg unit people and I have to go and see her again at 10 weeks! I am not very impressed as it took so long last time to get them to refer me for a foetal echo (ds has TGA) that I'd rather get the ball rolling now .

Good luxk all!!!
Especially Hoxton chick, remember you!

thank you quackers! hope your little dd is doing well, she must be quite big now .

hello all me again. god these doctors keep mixing my dates up! had a very slight discharge at weekend so midwife got me a early scan for today.

seen my tiny bundle of joy as a dot with a nice heart beat on the screen.

but they measured dot and im 5 weeks not 7 or 8. so i will be due in july. can i join u again please

Welcome back Pandagirl to you and your dot .

It's really quiet on here - only forty odd messages. Come on girls, where are you all!

Um, can I join you?

Just found out I'm pg after years of trying, feeling a little nervous that joining this thread may be tempting fate, but desperately need somewhere to obsess at least until I can tell the outside world

Lovely to see some of you from the ttc threads.

My due date is 19th July.

Oh my god hester!!!! Congratulations!!!!!

(sorry, was just passing through, being nosey).

What brilliant news

hi hester. well done! . here is definitely the place to obsess.....

i'm at work & have the concentration span of a flea.... roll on 4pm when i can leave to pick ds up.

Hester - think i am due 16th July so alike dates !
Going to doctor tomorrow aaahhhhhh
Great to have you here !!
xxx

Yay Hester . Welcome to our happy little thread .

oh, & hester is my middle name, nice to 'know' another one

Thanks for the lovely welcome . I still can't believe it's real...

Dp just said to me, while dishing up my dinner, 'Now, remember that you are no longer you; you are a giant walking lunchbox for our baby'

hoxtonchick - I have no connections with the name hester; just picked it because I love it! (I also work near Hoxton..)

I am kind of holding off posting as I don't feel very up. 11 days to go to find out if both my babies are viable. My DH is scared stiff about having twins and doesn't see them at the moment as being babies and so isn't so passionate as me about wanting both babies to make it. We were all just a bunch of cells once I say. Still constantly nauseous plus gastro. If I eat more than dry toast than I live in the bathroom. Totally exhausted - must nap every day. I feel like I can't make any plans till I know whether my both my babies are going to make it or not. Naturally I'm seeing twins everywhere...