Due July 2005 - part 2

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Just for you pm :o.

Happy Christmas! xxfxx

Just popping on to wish everyone and their bumps a Merry Christmas. Hope the nausea stays away for Christmas dinner.

It's just started snowing here and the kids are very excited

Happy Christmas everyone!

Too excited to sleep. Ds won't wake up for ANOTHER HOUR to open his toys. Grrr. Kids!

hello all,

hope you've all had lovely christmases. it's the first year ds has really understood about father christmas & he was sooo excited. our house is now entirely over-run with new toys (mostly bought by me ).

i am 12 weeks TODAY. even my dad commented on the size of my bump.... scan on thursday, good timing as dp is off work anyway. oh, & i've borrowed my mum's blood pressure machine & got a reading of 138/81 which seems ok & just goes to prove i really am a loony when confronted by anyone in a white coat.

Merry Christmas everyone!

HC - very jealous of your 12 weeks.
Made 9 yesterday and still no problems. Told my dd (nearly 7) yesterday., She is very excited and keeps making me sit down to look after that baby! Being very protective and very sweet. Think novelty will wear off before the remaining 7 months are up.
Hope you all having a good time.

Belated Merry Christmas to everyone! I have been so busy that I have not had much time to post just recently.

Our Christmas was great and now that I'm over 13 weeks all the family knows. I'm a little relieved that everyone seems to be taking our news OK as when we told MIL she said that SIL may be surprised/upset, as she is trying too, they think.

Other than that we have millions of new toys for ds and dd. I have to report that I have become a world authority on putting together playmobil toys which is really not as thrilling as it sounds.....

PM, we told ds and dd about my bump and on Christmas day when it started snowing dd decided to show the baby the snow by pulling my top up whilst we were stood at the window, goodness knows what the neighbours think of me now!

Oh, I had my booking in appointment last week and can happily report a blood pressure reading of 130/70 - yay!!! I also have scans booked for end of Jan at the Foetal Medicine Centre and also 20 week scan on Valantine's Day, so I'm a happy bunny.

Happy New Year to all, if I don't manage to post again soon.

Dear All,
hope you all survived the funtime family dynamics that can add such extra flavour to this time of the year. Dp called his family to tell them about the pregnancy on Xmas day, it sounded like bedlam. His parents have a history of saying the most tactless things possible over Christmas dinner,( one year they told his brother/sister in law that they hadn't really got the hang of parenting had they). Being on the other side of the world has its advantages sometimes.
Have spent the last few days counting our blessings, and trying to avoid graphic pictures of people with dead children in thier arms. What a complete nightmare, it's too much to comprehend, and really makes me appreciate what we've got.
This time next week we'll be moving! Still haven't begun to pack, think I'll go for the last minute, chuck everything into black binliners & sort it out once we get there approach.
Hope some of you managed to keep down some of the Xmas dinner, and Happy New Year to you all.

Hello all,
had my 12 week scan today. baby hads grown beautifully according to the sonographer . had a nuchal measurement which has reduced my risk of down syndrome to 1 in 5500 which sounds ok. she also found a bloody great cyst on my ovary, you can actually feel it if you poke my tummy in the right place. nice. apparently they just have to keep an eye on it, though not having any pain is a good sign. oh & i have to wear a 24 hour blood pressure monitor to prove once & for all that i'm a loony..... but we are very today.

Hello there.

Bagpuss - that is lovely about your dd and the snow.

hoxtonchick - great that your scan went well.

WEll my Christmas was fairly quiet - felt fairly crap with the cold and nausea etc but didn't tell my parents after all. Feeling better now - 10 weeks tomorrow yeah! Am off to a Hogmanay party later on.

One other person knows though - my friend guessed - not because of anything I was doing - she just had a feeling. I think she must be psychic! Going to annouce the pg after the scan (for some reason feel nervous about it 3rd time round)

Happy New Year and see you all in 2005

Happy New Year to all! I was 12 weeks yesterday and the sickness seems to be subsiding. The tiredness has really kicked in with a vengence though. Can't wait for scan next Tuesday. Starting to feel a bit nervous...

All free time over Xmas has been taken up watching the horrific news from SE Asia. Absolutely horrendous.

Hello all, nice to be back. GLad everyone is surviving/thriving. I ate too much and sat on my proverbial whatsit too much. As my nausea is manageable and luckily my tiredness is easing up I swear to be more active from now on, and build some strength and flexibilty for this birth.

Have been very busy since the 27th triaging public health specialists overseas to help out. I couldn't go myself this time (I work in outbreak control) as I could not pull the needful 18 hour days to save my life let alone anyone elses at present. Also, dp not enamoured of his newly pg woman exposed to endless enteric infections. I think the worldwide response has been amazing. I actually stopped and cried when Mozambique donated to the relief fund. Quite a few African countries have, according to their means.

I have to stop that now and rest for two days before I start our planned househunting on Tuesday. Back to work on the 10th: to a very reduced workforce...everyone who can is going to Asia. It'll be tough for us left behind. Please cross your fingers we have no flu epidemic or the like in this country in the next few months! xx

Hello again, just a question, does anyone else feel their bump expands through the day? I definately feel it's bigger in the evenings, could be imagining it, I'll have to get some maternity jeans soon, or just start using the belly belt thing. Just over 14 weeks now..yehar, finally managed to tell my Dad, who's been holidaying in Spain, so everyone knows. Time to start packing.

i definitely expand during the day ozjo. i am very impressed that you aren't in maternity clothes already!

I definately expand during the day. Can still get in most of my clothes in the morning, but by tea time I am desperately climbing into something comfy as I can no longer bear the tightness. However suspect as I am only 10 weeks that most of it is down to xmas excess and little exercise rather than a bump.

Happy New Year to you all.

I am having a bit of a nightmare. I am 11 weeks and have not heard from the hospital yet and so have no 12 week scan booked and have not yet been booked in. My doctor wrote to them at the beginning of december and I thought it was just taking time because of Christmas. I rang them this morning and am not able to get through to appointments. The lady I spoke to in ultrasound was not very helpful and said there was nothing on the computer for me. I was hoping to have the nuchal fold scan (routine in my hospital) but am running out of time as there is a window in which this can be done - up to 13 weeks? Anyone know?

Also my nausea is getting worse and I vomitted for the first time yesterday. Yuk. Thought it should be easing by now.

Sorry to moan.... I have been hanging on the phone loads this morning, but no-one picks up the phone at the hospital... Feeling very frustrated.

Hi All and Happy New Year!

MommyD - you poor thing, what a nightmare. I think the window is up to 13+6, at least that's what the literature from my hospital says. With dd2 I was on hols at the crucial time and my scan wasn't till 14 weeks and it was too late to measure the nuchal fold. They could, however, do the blood tests (AFP) which aren't quite as reliable but still give you a risk factor.

I had my nuchal scan this morning. They couldn't tell me my risk yet because of a software problem, but the sonographer said that I was low risk and that the measurement would reduce my age related risk (which is 1 in 280). So I feel relieved about that and can start telling people!

Hoxtonchick - congrats on your scan results - that's a lovely low risk!

Hope everyone else is ok.

I am a walking advertisement for perseverance. I hung on that phone for 47 mintues. It put me in a queue, told me I was first, played dreadful music then rang and rang and rang. 47 minutes it took to get through (and that was my 3rd attempt).

The woman at the other end of the line was even shirty with me when I got through. But I have a date! Next Friday! She told me that no letter had arrived from my doctor - and so all this was not their fault. My doctor's secretary is insistent that it was sent. I suggest that as it took so long to get through to the hospital, that perhaps somewhere in their shoddy processes it went astray... Hopefully I'll get booked in before the baby arrives.....

well done mommyd. glad to hear your scan went well pamina.

i have developed a very bad maternity clothes buying obsession. am trying to be sensible & buy stuff i will wear afterwards.... at least the sales are on.

grinning at MommyD congratulations on getting it sorted. are you in london? maybe they genuinely did lose it for a change. we worked out we can lose up to 1/5 of our business post if we send it by royal mail!! mind you, my slow booking in process stagnated because my GPs letter wasn't sent until I chased it up (hard) as well.

I also just managed by nuchal fold. Interestingly, the sonographer fiddled ny dates to make me look 13+3 to the computer (I am 14+0 today) and did it anyway, telling me the new medical literature says you can do it this late...

Re: the screen, I started, due to age, with a risk of 1: 166 and have halved that now to a 1:362 risk of down's syndrome. Great news. It's perked me up no end.

Also the baby has shot along in length to 76mm, almost double in a fortnight, and bringing me back to about end week 14/start week 15 in dates. We could see all the chambers of the heart pumping away, the head is normal, so is the stomach bubble and all the limbs were there. And very active. Marc was so exicted to see a foot shoot out and kick the uterus wall, shoving it out a fair distance. I was slightly less thrilled by that bit, as I know in several weeks time I'll be feeling all that! The baby has stopped looking like Bart Simpson and is proper baby shaped. We couldn't take a away a pic today as their printer was busted, but I hope to remember to call in next week and get a copy before they are deleted off the system. Next scan is the very detailed one at '20 weeks', but I don't have a date until March 8th for mine.

Have been splurging on lovely maternity clothes in the sales. Like you said, I can get into normal clothes in the am but by evening I feel ready to pop out of them. Being in the materinty gear is great: comfy, and the cut screams 'I'm pregant, not just fat!!' Still am going to order a belly belt set now to add maternity life to my trousers for a few months yet.

Have started viewing properties. So far, so fun. Quote me please when I'm sick of overpriced loud smelly dumps by the end of the week:-) xx

Yes merryberry - I am in London. And I shouldn't really complain about the hospital - The Royal Free. I had both my other babies there and the care and the staff were consistently fabulous. They have just opened a new labour wing and apparently every woman and her dog (and bump) are now being refered there - hence the overloaded systems and processes.

I'm not showing yet. I'm 11 weeks (plus a little bit). I've got a flabby bit left over from the last two babies, but I am sure there is no bump behind it yet.

Morning girls!

Good to hear all is going well. I learn so much from you guys. It is an absolute god send to know your not alone.

Well 12 weeks officially today and boy am I relieved, got my scan on monday and I just can't wait to see baby dot!

My tum seems to have appeared from no where this week and these black maternity trousers are worth their weight in gold. Has anyone put on any weight yet? Lolasmum I think we are due same time, how are you feeling?

Well girls I just wanted to wish you all a happy new year, somehow I think we are all going to have a good one! he he

Morning everyone.

We're all back to normal here and yesterday I did a full clean of the house and am suffering for it now . dh has also put our cotbed back together as ds had trashed it by bouncing on it when it was a bed. He has done a really good job on it and it will at least save us a bit of cash rather than having to get a new one. I have been and got all my maternity clothes down from the loft and so have had a mountain of extra washing to do but at least I feel comfortable. I haven't bought much more in the way of clothes but I am waiting for it to get sunny now as Next have some lovely things in their summer catalogue.

Glad everyone else is doing well and having good test and scan results. I can't believe I'll be 15 weeks on Friday, time seems to be flying by!

Hello everyone!

I am new to this forum but wanted to drop a line to introduce myself. My name is Kelleen and I am 13 weeks and 5 days today!

I live in the Edinburgh area and would love to hear from anyone as well as those up Scotland way!

Best and happiest of New Year wishes!

Kelleen

Hello,
Can I join? I'm due on the 16th July and have lurking on this thread since I found out I'm feeling sick 24/7 but hopefully that will soon pass. My ds is just 2yrs so will be exactly 2 1/2 when no2 comes along. He has seen me being sick so many times that he thinks it's very funny to copy me he even runs to get my sick bucket when i start heaving! Had a scan at 8weeks (got dates wrong) but have changed hospitals so have my 1st appointment with them next week (maybe they will scan me again )

Welcome to the thread kelleen and whimsy!

Does anyone know why, in my last two pregnancies I did not have a single day of nausea or sickness, but in this pregnancy I have felt sick every single day, all day and all night for the last 6 weeks? The nausea is overwhelming and tiring as there is no let up. I have only been sick twice - but actually felt a bit better after. I am 11+ weeks and thought it might be easing by now. If anything it is getting worse! The only thing that helps is eating.... eating....eating and more eating.... Stop eating, and the nausea comes back after a few minutes