Anyone else due in August 2005 yet?

[wilbur]

Well, I can't believe I'm starting this thread, but very happy to be. I'm due August 1st (according to one of those online due date calculators) and ds and dd were both over a week late, so I reckon it will be an August babe. Here's hoping. Still very early days for me, and I have an early scan to get done as I had an ectopic pregnancy in March this year.

Looking forward to someone joining me.

hello to everyone
chickpea - this will be my fourth. its my 5th pregnancy, i had a missed m/c between 2 and 3. i am 32 and feeling v old, well having three does that to you!!!
beachy i hope this pg goes well for you, what a great 40th gift! i'm definately in no rush to be the first of this thread to give birth!!!
my youngest dd is 19mths old and i have no idea how i'm going to 'break' it to her she'll have to share mummy. shes very much my shadow.
feeling rather sick but -touch wood!- not actually sick (yet!!) also abit lost as to what to drink now tea is awful again.....hot chocolate is NOT the same!
dh being useless lump in helping me try to wean dd (yes i still feed her)or even in helping me improve her sleeping hours (basically she doesnt sleep much!)why oh why cant mine be helpful like one of the ladies above? mine certainly wouldnt be cooking dinner and telling me to put my feet up!!never mind, i suspect i am a nightmare to live with too, esp as these pg hormones kick in!!! i DO NOT feel reasonable or nice much at the moment!LOL

Teatime - how are you - has the bleeding stopped?

Back later to catch up on everyone else.

I have got the most disgusting metallic taste in my mouth all the time - like having had too much wine last night (and I didn't have any!!!) How do I lose it?

beachyhead -you give birth!!!LOL LOL! its an awful taste huh? i've got it tooo

Hi - still feeling sick and also very tired - although I had a burst of energy this afternoon and tided and cleaned my house! Paying for it tonight though! Clothes are starting to feel tight and wonder when I might have to buy some maternity gear. Last time I didn't get a bump until 6 months, guess the 2nd time around things speed up a bit. Got my booking in apt in a couple of weeks so looking forward to getting to that stage and getting a scan date.

hello aug2005ers, hope you are all well. I'm due on 16/08/05 apparently. Saw the gp today who said I may not get my first scan until 12th or 14th week - seems a long time to wait. Have you all managed to keep it secret still? I've only told my dh, m, inlaws, BIL, and one friend. I want to try to keep it quiet because I'm 40 this month and feel wary to celebrate until after scans look positive. Am feeling very podge and tired but went swimming today with dh and ds, did 12 gentle lengths and felt really wonderful though tired!

Chickpea, I was glad to see I wasnt the only one with a preg to close to last one! This will be my 5th babe and is my 8th preg as I have had a stillbirth and 2 m/cs.I am starting to feel exhausted and keep having horrible dizzy/faint spells, went to gp today and my bp is low and she thinks im anaemic which will be no surprise as I was in last preg and havent exactly given my bod much time to recover!My ds will be only 13 months when this baby comes!! eekkk!!!I had some spotting in between xmas and new year and went to epu for an early scan, saw a minuscule little dot, they had to do an internal scan to see better, a tiny teeny little flashing dot showed the heart beat, they will scan again at 12 weeks but said I can go to epu whenever im worried, which is nice, had a worrying preg with latest dd so they know I like to reassured!!!!!(frequently!!!)

hi all. Happy New year

Welcome to all the new additions!
Moschops i too am sooooo tired. I could sleep all day and still be tired. I tried to explain it to DH as like someone has pulled the plug inside and all my energy has just drained away, but he wasn't very sympathetic. I also still feel sick all the time but as yet haven't actually been sick. This is my 4th baby, chickpea, but my DD is 17 mths now, although I am still feeding her!

Oh well, hope everyone keeps well and all those babes that are worrying their mums just hold on in there!
Better get back to the huge ironing pile before I get to go to bed!

Eulalia and everyone else, here's my latest. Still on a knife edge. (Welcome Beachyhead - I know about last tries as I'm 45!!) Thought the bleeding had stopped today so was quite up this morning. However thought I?d better act on the advice to contact my GP and got an appointment for 5.30pm. Did a bit of reading and found an old book about Pregnancy (1984 edition first published 1972) by Gordon Bourne which went into a lot of medical detail. According to this book bleeding can be a ?partially suppressed period? due to a lack of progesterone and apparently some pregnant women continue to have these mini periods monthly some way into the pregnancy (anyone heard confirmation of this or is it a long supplanted bit of pseudo-science?). This fits the bleed in my first pregnancy (at 8 weeks) and I suppose this one too. Also according to this book m/s is a consequence of high levels of progesterone so if there is a lack of progesterone it follows that there wouldn?t be m/s which explains why I don?t feel it. Then I remembered that I?d read somewhere that fibroids grow on pregnancy hormones so I formed a nice little theory that having such a big fibroid was using up my progesterone and causing both the bleeding and the lack of m/s. I looked up what can help produce progesterone and found niacin was recommended and so stuffed down a few figs as they were supposed to be a good source!

Anyway, I ventured my theory to the doctor and he told me to stop reading anything except from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists website (www.rcog.org.uk) - however I haven?t found that a particularly easy site to find information on). In his opinion a fibroid is muscle fibre and so not connected with hormones produced by the ovaries (but I'm sure more than one source gave me the information I had). The bleeding was not due to a lack of progesterone either. He thought it was more likely that the fibroid is conflicting with the implantation of the pregnancy which is causing the bleeding. He categorised it as a threatened miscarriage and has got me an appointment for a scan at 10.20 tomorrow morning ? much better than I expected, but not good news overall. I found out while at the clinic that I was bleeding red again and this is continuing ? not a flood but it hasn?t stopped all the same. Feeling rather gloomy at the moment ? wanting to be philosophical and stoic (all about controlling the possible disappointment) but know that it will be a bitter blow if this ?last chance? is lost. First day back at work tomorrow to top it all off ? won?t be able to get in early and get on top of things as I?d hoped. I'll check in late tomorrow again and report on the scan.

Teatime-have been thinking of you all day. I really hope everything goes well for you tomorrow. (((hugs)))

Teatime-have been thinking of you all day. I really hope everything goes well for you tomorrow. (((hugs)))

Hello,bad attack of insomnia but nice to use mumsnet in peace.
Teatime - good luck for today,will be thinking of you
Hi chickpea,dramaqueen and spacecadet,im on no4 but with quite a big gap -ds1 7 ds26 dd3, I had an18 month gap first time - great now but hard work at time.
I see we all have a history of pregnancies that didnt 'go the distance'- I think thats why I needed mumsnet as I dont want to tell people until and if im certain it's OK. A big part of the reaction I got to my m/c was - well you've got 3, why do you want anymore anyway? Hard to explain how when the baby itch appears you just need to scratch it! Im from 5 and always wanted a big family.
Good luck to all on this thread

Morning all, and welcome to Chicpea and Beachyhead - congratulations !

Moschops, you sound normal to me, I'm finding I'm needing a nap part way through the day to manage, which is a killer as I work shifts and they normally start just as I need to sleep. Today I have a staff meeting from 2-4pm and I have a feeling I'm going to struggle not to nof off during it ! On a string of lates this week and when not working am snoozing.

Teatime {{{{{{hugs}}}}}, sorry you're having to go through all this. Every good wish for your scan this morning, hope things are ok - thinking of you, lol x

heres shopping- i too have big gaps... my eldest is 12 (v nearly 13 as he would point out!) and my oldest dd is 10, then huge gap to dd whos 19mths. (and i'm still feeding her too KMS)
teatime, gosh i hope youre scan is good. let us all know how it goes! i actually hate scans after getting bad news that way once. i literally shake before mine - i have one next wed - but i really hope all is well for you at yours. bleeding during pregnancy can be normal, not normal, off and on, all the time -there are no hard and fast rules unfortunately. however i do know that the dr relx after seeing a heartbeat at an early scan, they told me that after seeing a beating heart measuring correct for dates it means 9.9 outa 10 pg go on from that to be successful. hope thats some reassurance for you.
today i have a dr appointment 'to see how i feeling' and get my final referral to cbt. i am keen to start the cbt, but hate seeing this particular gp first as she always speaks to me in her 'soft simple' voice like i'm stupid not depressed wish more people understood how pnd affects perfectly normal women!!! but thats just me venting!
wanted to wish you all a good day, with no sickness, helpful loving partners and if you have them, happy positive appointments/scans.

Teatime, Gordon Bourne is right, this does happen to some women - it happened to me in two out of three of my pregnancies. Very scary and knife-edgy, I agree. Bits of rusty spotting on an approximate monthly basis until 20 weeks with dd, in fact. I became good friends with the people at the EPU.
I am not the only Mumsnetter to have experienced this either.
Just dipping in here as I spotted your message and wanted to give you some reassurance and best wishes for a good outcome. Dd was born when I was 40.
Best wishes to all on this thread, so pleased to see some of the TTC after a loss people graduating That was me two years ago.

Teatime, wishing you all the best for this morning, thinking of you, am dreading my first scan, my ds is nearly four and I had forgotten how scary this stage is.........

TeaTime - thinking of you today. Best of luck. I went to my GP this morning to get into the system. Managed to burst into tears within 10 seconds of seeing her, when I mentioned my previous m/cs. Was impressed that she was able to do an online referral to the midwife team at Queen Charlotte's here in London - marked urgent "due to my age" (38). Unfortunately, she was not able to arrange an early scan for me, as it's down to the midwives, so hopefully I'll hear from them soon.

Good luch tea time for todays scan. I'm off to the epu on Friday at 11.30am, which I presume is just a precaution due to my two miscarriages, but I guess they will do a scan then. I had managed to keep it a secret until new years eve, when we had friends round. The first one asked me outright ' are you still going for a third and are you pregnant now?' well I couldn't say NO...and the second one sniffed my drink when I handed it to her to hold and realised the sneaky Schloer as opposed to champagne......so a few know, but I am being as secret as possible.

Sorry - I meant GOOD LUCK

good luck teatime, if its any consolation i bled with all of my pregs all the way through.With ds1 i was actually hospitilised after consultant examined me at 36 weeks and i poured with blood in front of him, yet, they never found out why and merely suggested a cervical erosion might be to blame, ds is now a healthy lad of nearly 11 although they did induce at 37 weeks to be on the safe side.bled really badly with dd2 and lived in epu, before graduating to constant trips to the day assessment unit, tbh now i think it wouldnt be normal if i didnt bleed but that didnt stop me going to epu the other day!the consultant in my last preg said that bleeding was surprisingly common and in most cases was nothing to worry about.{{{hugs}}}

Has everyone here given up coffee? I haven't gone off it and I am limiting myself to 2 cups a day, but why is coffee so bad? sorry for sounding thick on my third child, but.....

I've gone off coffee, but I wasn't a big coffee drinker anyway. I am limiting my cups of tea and am having decaff Earl Grey when possible. I read somewhere that the guideline was a maximum of 2 cups of coffee or six (sounds high to me) cups of tea per day, based on the caffeine content. When I was pregnant with DS I stuck to fruit teas, but I can't stomach them at the moment.

thinking of you Teatime (((hugs)))

i haven't given up coffee, and am finding myself craving the taste and also wanting to drink gallons of tea. i went out yesterday and bought decaf of both so i can give in to my craving......but have been drinking lots of squash and water, (sorry if tmi!) i am prone to constipation anyway and after pregnant friends regaling me with tales of piles i am doing as much as possible to avoid it!!!!!

i still have this blasted headache, just can't seem to shift it. does anyone know the safe dosage of paracetamol? i'm avoiding medication at all costs but i might have to take one tonight to help me sleep if this pain doesn't go.

hope everyone else is coping with various ailments that pregnancy is throwing our way......finally got a doctors appointment tomorrow, so will ask him about my headaches....

I used to take one normal paracetamol, but like you I am trying to avoid. I've had a few front of brain headaches this time and I just hope its not my blood pressure going bonkers - how could it not, with a hormonal princess of a daughter and a hitting throwing ds!!!! Keep calm Keep calm.....

Another stupid question - I know I am supposed to give up peanuts, but is it all types of nuts or just peanuts.....

Justy peanuts beachyhead.

Teatime - hope all was well today!!