Babies due June 05 Thread 2

[welshmum]

Here's a new one for us chatty ones

i'm at work - have actually been productive this morning!!!

sure most people are either our christmas shopping or playing in the snow. Wish i was home playing in the snow

I'd rather be doing either or those that sat at my desk bored to tears!!!

I have been told I can go home (obviously looking a little rough today) but dh is home doing DIY and I'll only get ropped in if I go home.

Am now eating like food is going out of fashion!! It's one of the girls' birthdays here today so we sent out for pizza and potato wedges. Now I'm having a baked potato with chicken and bacon mayo. Mmmmm

Tis quiet today...

Hi Everyone

I'm Stallanzii & am now a grand total of nine & half weeks pregnant (not taken to sitting on the floor & seductively eating out of the fridge as my exact length of time pregnancy might suggest)!

Really pleased there is a forum for mums to be in the first trimester (other ones I've seen make you feel like a proper amateur at this mum to be malaky because you haven't gone over the 12 week goalpost).

Anyway, so far I feel great! Peepsin til late every morning but have consitpation, which I have never ever had before so that is interesting. But I am pleased to say my husband, dad & best mate have all kindly taken on various phantom symptoms for me - cravings, eating for 10, nausea & sickness and pelvic movement & discomfort. How generous are they!!

Anyway, about to look through lots of threads, please say hello

Stal
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Hello everyone and welcome Stal!
Sweetheart - poor you, that sounds pretty grim. Does your doc/MW do the thing where she stabs your finger and gets blood out? (Am in Germany and it's my first so am a bit ignorant about UK ante-natal healthcare). I think that's the test for anaemia. Do hope you manage to get it sorted out. Baked beans and fortified breakfast cereals are good for iron, along with all the other 'worthy' but unexciting foods like dried apricots and spinach...
Thanks all for the pg clothes advice. I'm wearing the clothes I've got with the most 'give' and have bought a pair of non-maternity trousers 2 sizes too big with a drawstring waist, so that should be OK to go on with, I hope.
Am pretty shattered today - took us 3 hours (with a services stop) to get back from the meeting yesterday - felt fine yesterday eve but am done in today - spent the morning (it's my, ahem, 'work at home' day) sleeping and having a series of VERY bizarre and colourful dreams! Anyone else had this when pg?

Stallanzii, hello and welcome to the June club. It's usually quieter here at the end of the week for some reason, so don't be alarmed if you don't hear back from many people! Is this your first?

How very kind of your friends and family to take on your symptoms for you - wish I could find someone to be exhausted for me, I can't cope with this level of permanent tiredness.

Sweetheart, sounds like a horrible experience yesterday. Only two more weeks to get through until your exams are finished and you can relax a bit.

Miss Tuesday, glad your scan went well but it must have been a worrying time for you. I'm also having cramps and bleeding (only light) today, so I think I'm going to ring the doctors and see what they say.

Hope everyone is having a good day (impressed you've been productive on a Friday Katzguk!). Have tried and failed to get my DS son to nap today, so we are now watching Lion King (when really I wanted to watch Neighbours!).

Hi Berolina

Thanks for the welcome.

Vivid dreams - totally know where you are coming from. Not nightmarish, just really surreal, very clear and dead interesting (if i was making them as films i'd be winning awards at cannes I'm sure, that or having myself committed with immediate effect).

Fun though isn't it. Maybe our minds are letting their guard down a bit as concentrating on the baballoobas and so we get to have more insight into what we are REALLY all about - yikes eh!
Or maybe (in my case) the lack of alcohol infusion is allowing that side of my brain to function properly. Ahh, wine.......

Stal
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welcome Stallanzii - can you send your friends my way to take some of my symptoms please - that sounds like a fab idea.

berolina,

the midwife put a needles into my arm to take 3 canisters of blood. They normally do this twice I think in pregnancy but because I have a resus negative blood group I have to have extra sets of blood taken and also something called Anti D. I also have to have a vitamin K injection after the birth of my baby - I tell you, it's not at all fun having a rare blood group!!!

Yep, first one. Really happy.

making the most of the phantom family & friends issue as I doubt it will stay this easy for long.

Quick question - my hospital has scheduled my scan at 19 weeks, can i request to have an earlier one as well dya reckon?

had my blood stolen a fortnight ago at my scan an di still have a big bruise to prove it!! Th day afterwards it was bright purple, the bruise was bigger than my thumb!! i.e. my thumb didn't cover it. and its still there now. not sure i want to let them take anymore

might be able to get an earlier one if you aren't sure about dates, otherwise it depends on where you are.

Where i live i'm lucky and get two scans one at 10 weeks for dating and one at 20 weeks for abnormalities scanning

Katzguk

When I have my blood taken I look like I have been arm wrestling with 10... erm... wrestlers!
Usually, my forearm bruise is the size of half a credit card & is a bright purple and brown. Lasts up to a week, not sure what you can do about it. Looks awful though, I feel faint every time I look at mine.

About an earlier scan - I'm going to ask anyway... if they say no I will just wait, I guess.

crikey, you two sound like you have butchers rather than midwives!!!!

My hospital provide a scan at 12 weeks and another at 20 weeks but as katzguk says it varies between regions.

I've always been like that - so think it is more to do with my veins / skin than the midwife / doc... I warn them now not to mess around 'looking' for a vein but to get on with it and be as quick & 'gentle' as they can. I am sure they take ever so much notice though!

this was my worst blood taking ever!! and it bled afterwards!!

not sure on the scan front it will all depend on your health authority

I would like to say hello to all you PG ladys and i hope all is going well for you all..

MrsWednesday, Good luck with the doc, A friend of mine has the same problem (slight bleeding)it has happened twice to her now and all is well with her..

Wishing you all the best

Minnie1, thanks very much. Off to the doctors in five minutes. How are things with you? I do pop into the TTC thread to see how everyone is but it moves so fast!

Blimey, it's quiet around here today!

Saw a different doctor than my usual one yesterday and he took my bleeding very seriously, so has booked a scan for me tomorrow morning at 8.30am. Feel nervous just typing that.

Hope everyone is well and enjoying the weekend.

Lua, how did your scan go yesterday? Uwila, did you have your second nuchal one yesterday too?

Hi there everyone. Everyone busy doing nice weekend things? The highlight of today for me is a shopping trip - otherwise it's work, work, work for me (and hopefully some rest)!
MrsW - will be thinking of you tomorrow. I do hope everything goes well and you have good news to report.
Grrrr, dh! - He was pulling at the elastic waist of my trousers to get a look at the beginnings of my bump (which is also alarmingly hairy!!! - Has anyone else had that?), which I didn't like so moved away, and of course the waist ricocheted back onto my stomach - ouch! Of course now I'm worried that that could have hurt the baby as well. What does anyone think?

hi mrs w,
good luck for the scan tomorrow-will be thinking of you.ive got my first scan on wednesday morning so fingers crossed that everything will go according to plan!

Good luck for tomorrow Mrs W.
Berolina-I'm glad I'm not the only one with a hairly belly!Don't worry about the elastic twanging on your bump-they are safe inside a bag of fluid.Just as well,as dd tramples all over my poor tummy & pokes it on a daily basis.

I have been doing my Christmas shopping on the internet today-I went into town yesterday,but it was madly crowded & cost a fortune to park.Added to that,my queasyness decided to return,so it wasn't a successful trip.

I got a date for my 20wk scan through - 20th Jan.It suddenly seems a whole lot more 'real' than before now.The letter instructs me to read a leaflet & fill in a form before I go-neither of which they have sent me,so I'll have to ring them.

Better go & check on dinner-beef stew & dumplings.

Hello again. Thanks Mirage - I calmed down about it pretty quickly. I noticed the hairiness today - I'm dark haired so it's also very obvious! After no sickness and little in the way of other symptoms though I suppose I had to have something! BTW, talking about hair, does anyone know a method of removing unwanted facial hair (not pg induced!) that doesn't affect the baby and is NOT painful?
How exciting for you with the scan. And good luck Bubbaloo for yours! Where I am things are done a little differently - I'm having a check-up with an extra detailed scan (which I'm having to pay for, but I would have got a shorter scan for free) in week 16, so in three weeks, and another in week 24. First check-up and (scheduled!) scan was 10 1/2 weeks.

Evening evryone!
It has been quiet here! I was away in London until this evening. Had my nuchal scan, and it seems like everything is ok. Thanks for asking Mrs. W. We left before we got the blood results so hopefully I won't have any surprises next week when they come in.
The technician was really nice, and offer her best guest of the gender. It is really early, but she gave a 70% chance of being a girl... Let's see how good she is!

Berolina, you can count meon the hairy belly group ....

Welcome to Stal and minnie1!

hi lua,
glad your scan went well.
how many weeks are you? i'll be 12 when i go for my first scan next week and was wondering whether they'd have an idea on the baby's sex,although alot of people have told me probably not as its a bit too early!
i know this is going to sound daft but the bit i'm most dreading is drinking a pint of water beforehand without going to the loo as i know i'm going to find this really hard.
even when i went to my doc's the other week i must have gone to the loo about 5 times whilst waiting to see him and it was really embarrassing when he asked for a sample as i could only give him a dribble.