Due in June 08 - the rollercoaster continues...

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Morning everyone

Hope you're all OK today

Deb

Hi all
Been off radar a bit due to feeling totally drained but just wanted to say I'm also moving house! Hopefully before Xmas - the nice thing is we're going to be renting from my best friend and she has a stack of baby stuff in the roof which she's going to leave for me (her son is 1). So good luck to everyone in the same boat.
I was also just wondering re scan pictures in the UK - can you ask for them whenever you go for u/s? I've got a follow up on Monday after last Tuesday's and I don't know whether I can get one but obviously I want one!
Finally, hang in there re those with MS. Am also struggling, but hopefully it'll be gone fairly soon - and then we'll miss the lack of symptoms - oh the irony.
China
PS. looney I also keep waking up STARVING at 4.30am. Not good at all.

oh, and josey - we NEED that emoticon!

god I am just feeling sooooooooooo grim!! I have managed a packet of ready salted Hula Hoops today and some grapefruit juice. It's very strange isn't it being starving but not being able to eat.

ernest I have been having the most vivd/horrid dreams imaginable. Those first few seconds when you wake up and you think it's real are awful. My first midwife appointment is next Tuesday too. josey good luck tomorrow!

CS you can ask for a pic but you may have to pay, my hospital charge £3.

I miss my MIL, she's been here for 9 days and she's great. Now it feels like my kitchen again and I don't like it, the smells make me sick, I've got no appetite myself but have to make food for the family obviously and it's such a trial!! I've decided that tomorrow in one of those good (i.e not puking or sleeping) windows I'll actually try and prepare the tea for later. Don't know if it will actually happen!!

so current symptoms - disgusting taste in my mouth, sore, itchy boobs, tired ( what's new), so I'll say goodnight.

Josey hope you manage to control your snot during your appointment

Deb

morning all. I am feeling etremely tired today, woke at 2 ish for loo and couldn't get back to sleep for hours (literally) am so knackered. I think a lot of my symptoms are wearing off now ( breasts only slightly uncomfortable now, was yelping if any one came near'em a couple of weeks ago. and belly def. smaller, but feeling so knackered it's untrue.

bed time with the boys last night was crap cos I was so tired and grumpy and didn't have the patience to cope with them being bonkers.

Must work out a bedtime strategy so day doesn't end badly

ga4, looking forward to mw appt? is it morning or pm? Mine's at 9

Morning everyone - hoping for a good day today, I was a wreck yesterday! I can't seem to focus on anything until the scan on Thursday.

Had a full day in the office yesterday with no meetings when I could have got loads done and I honestly did barely a thing - can't afford to waste days like that, but I was incapable of making any decisions.

It's crazy, I have no evidence anything might be wrong (beyond ms disappearing but that's probably OK at this stage) so why am I such a mess?? It just feels like I'm in limbo at the moment - and I was relatively chilled out about it until this week. Will be glad when it's over and I know one way or the other and can start making plans for the next year and telling people.

Have a day at home with ds today (though I have to work during his naps to make up for yesterday!) so will try and focus on getting house sorted out and getting loads of cuddles.

Good luck with appts today josey, ernest - let us know how they go! And thanks for reassuring tales of moving - will pass them on to dp, who is feeling a bit overwhelmed by the prospect!

Morning all, haven't been on for a couple of days as been making frineds with the loo, no morninf sickness but very bad dairrohea (sp) getting better but totally useless and not eating. Have a scan on 13th December when I estimate that I will be 12 weeks so have that to look forward to and also our mini break next week without DD.

Good luck to anyone who has appointments today and to those who are bleeding.

sa, don't go into too much detail - the whole good thing about moving when pg is that he has to do all the work

ps appt not till tuesday, arrgghhh

Morning everyone,

Good luck with all the appointments happening today. Mines at 10 ad hopeflly I'll be able to add another picture when I return. I hope the MS wears off for everyone soon.

good luck everyone today.

ernest mines at 9 on tuesday too! I'll be 8 weeks.

sorry ernest, losing track of when everyone's things are! good luck for tuesday then

Ernest and Garden Angel, I have my booking in appointment next week too, but on Wednesday, although I will be 9 weeks! Gosh, 9 weeks sounds so far along, roll on that day. I just hope they can book me in for a scan quickly as I don't want to go too far past the 12 week date as I am already having to watch what I wear as a few eagle eyed people are bound to notice if I am not careful. I can't imagine how big I will be by the time I get to 12 weeks.

Anyway I'm feeling less sick today which is great as I have generally been feeling icky from about 9.30 in the morning until I go to bed at night and sometimes I have even been waking up feeling icky too. But out of respect to all those of you who are suffering from bad MS I count my blessings as I haven't actually been sick yet. I do worry that I will turn into a good advert for tango as the only thing that seems to settle my stomach are oranges oh and the obligatory salt and vinegar crisps.

Anyway good luck to us all with minor or major MS and lets hope it passes soon.

Hello everyone
Hope all well today? has anyone been suffering with gales? I got woken at 2am with the wind bashing against the house and the garden furniture is half was round the garden.
Really nervous about my appointment today(2pm) dont know why just being silly me thinks. At least cold has held at a sore throat so wont snott at the poor woman
I decided to measure the chest last night as going to town on Friday and really need to stop the bra overspill, I didnt quite think I would have gone from a C to a DD already thats what I was full term with my other 2

Hello all,

I had my scan today and baby was wriggling around like crazy agfain and the sonographer had real trouble trying to catch it to get a picture, I did get one a very nice view of it's bum - either camera shy or cheeky! I didn't see the dr as his clinic had been cancelled but the epu nurse decided that I should come in for my scan anyway as she nkows how much I wanted it. I will see the dr next week although I really just want to get the care plan decided so I can relax a bit.

josie57 I am with you on the crisps - but ready salted for me and also cheese on cheddar thins seems to be the only thing I can eat, and instead of Tango it's Appletise for me!!

Am SO hoping I get a scan on time as I too am v. worried about hiding it, I am also hopeless at keeping secrets, but fear and superstition will hopefully keep me quiet!

Does anyone have really bad lower back pain? I don't know if it is anything to do with relaxin (I think that's what it's called the hormone that relaxes all your back muscles and makes them weak?), but it is getting so bad I can hardly move. Thinking of going to doctor to get referred.

josey good luck. You'll be fine, remember you've done this before!

Good luck Josey! You must be in getting your scan at the moment.
I can't wait to get my scan, but 2 weeks to wait, I will be over 12 weeks by then, but I think just about everyone knows now anyway!
I was on holiday with my sil at the beginning of october, (only just found out I was pregnant) but I knew she was onto me as I didn't drink the whole holiday - not like me!!
Sil told mil,fil and bil so I knew they were all suspicious but no-one said anything, but bil finally cornered my dh and asked him outright, said he thought I looked pregnant - how rude! So I told my family, everyone really happy but I feel really stressed now everyone knows, after mc I am a bit worried about everything. Hopefully I'll feel better once I have my scan!
I better go, I'm at work.

Sorry just re-read your post Josey, its your booking appointment today! Hope it all went well.

Just back and have a lovely MW looking after me, she is sending off for my scan so should get within 3 weeks thats 4ever away. She asked what I wanted to do etc I told her I wouldnt mind a homebirth as DS was 3hours20 and dd was 3hours basically I wont make the hospital in rush hour, she thought I might want that before she even met me and new my labour times, anyway its 6months to talk dh round who is dead against is.
Katyjo try not to worry about people knowing, sometimes it helps with the stress of hiding things, I was so set noone should know with my 1st that by 15 weeks i was 2 scared to tell anyone and was 4months before I told my dad he was gutted.

josey glad it went well! wow can't believe your labour times - respect!!

Hi all, I've stupidly read some threads I should've avoided, and done some mental-fatal internet browsing and ended up making myself miserable and stressed out and paranoid about abnormalities/ problems/ risks associated with being older. I'm 37 and will be 38 when lo is born. The risk of downs rises so incredibly dramatically.

I spoilt my last 3 pregnancies being terrified of miscarrying and towards the end, worrying there'd be something wrong. Now I seem to have got my knickers in a twist so early and there's no answer is there, cos at my age it is considered 'high risk'. How the hell am I going to get through the next 7 months

Ernest, I know lots of people aged 38 who have given birth to perfect little babies so please don't stress too much. One of my friends (38) was even told that she had a very high risk of a Downs syndrome child based on the nuchal fold measurement they did at the first scan and was offered amniotencesis (sp?) tests to confirm. She decided against it and said what will be will be and she had a lovely little boy who is just perfect.

As mums we are programmed to worry so if it wasn't this it would be something else...

Sending you hugs for your worries as I worry too and am only 34 well 35 tomorrow! No matter what age we all want perfect little babies so it's natural to worry but the risks are still low.

Going for 3 - our little boy was a wriggler at the first scan and also mooned us, which my husband thought hilarious. I think it is just part of their personality showing through even at this early age as our little boy never changed throughout pregnancy or after he was born - he was permenantly wriggling and waving his arms and legs once he'd been born. Enjoy it as it sounds like you have a cheeky one on the way!!!

Thanks Josey
I was totally the opposite with ds , told everyone when I was only 10 weeks, I had never known anyone to have any problems so I guess I was just naive, but since hearing everyones problems. I'm just a worrier!!
Wow, your labour times are quick, I would love a home birth too, but dh is really worried about it, so I doubt it will happen.

Ernest - please don't worry, although the risk factors increase the likelihood is still really low try turning the stats around and look at the chance of having a non-downs baby. I know loads of people who have had babies in late thirties and early forties and they were all healthy beautiful babies!

thanks josie and katiejo. I guess I'm feeling realy crap and got no energy so mooching listlessly round the house not doing anything but worry, and dh being away means I've got no one to talk to, as I haven't told anyone else apart from 1 person. Feel very stressed out tired and lonely atm and dh is on a trip today so I won't even get a phone call tonight.

sorry, feeling sorry for myelf.

Josie, hope you have a lovely birthday tomorrw.

With my other 3 pregnancies I was so excited I told everyone straight away, at just 4/5 weeks. Now I feel so different. I don't want to tell anybody.