Due Novermber 2008 - Let's here it for the BFP's!

[Heartmum2Jamie]

After a bit of cajoling from some friends (some of whom I hope can join me here soon), I decided to take the plunge and start this thread.

Anyway, I have just found out I am pregnant again, got a BFP on Saturday 23rd at 12dpo, which gives me an EDD of 3rd November 2008 (or the 4th, depending on which calculator I use). This is my 4th pregnancy and will be my 3rd child. I am super excited and a little scared & nervous after a previous missed miscarriage.

I hope I don't get too lonely waiting for more BFP's to roll in! Please come and join me.

Me too xxxxxxx

That is pretty terrible that your EPU closes at 1pm, pretty terrible actually, what if you had pain in the afternoon?

It seems we are all having a wobbly day. I don't know why, today I am terribly worried that the baby had already died I don't know why, just a feeling I have.

Me too Heartmum2Jamie - We really need to pick ourselves up. I think i am thinking like that so if nothing shows at my scan next week i will already have convinced myself so the shock won't be as much. I just still can not believe anything is growing in me.

I think you will be as far along next wek as I am now Pinkali37. I am 7+2 today. I always said my goal was to enjoy every minutes and to get to 9 weeks without bleeding or spotting (I started spotting at 8+6 with my m/c). I was enjoying it, but then suddenly today, I am terrified. What I wouldn't do for my morning sickness to hit me full pelt right this second. I am going to ask dh if we should pay £70 for a private reassurance scan when he gets home. I bet he says no, but it's worth asking I think.

Hugs to everyone feeling this way.

Yep I am 6 weeks today and like you really want to suffer from ms. I am having a scan next Wednesday so i am sooooo scared of what they may not find Stupid really, i wish I hadn't had a previous mc as then i think i would be much more relaxed about the whole thing.

so you're not having an early scan?

Not as yet. I have no pain and am not bleeding or spotting. I doubt my gp would refer me to reassure me because of 1 previous m/c I may go tomorrow and beg the GP though, I don't think I can stand the uncertainty much more. I think I did well to get to 7 weeks before my worries set in.

I have only had 1 m/c but my consultant suggested I had a 6 wk scan (turning out to be a 7 wk one) and so my doc faxed EPAU and they telephoned me to book in. He said he would play on my mc and endometriosis and they wouldn't normally offer me one. Not sure if it is making me feel more relaxed or twice as anxious. I'll let you know next Wednesday. I just don't know how I am going to sleep from now until then. I am quite literally waking up in the middle of the night in floods of sweat convinced something is wrong. Don;t think the ovary pain is helping but am just hoping that is one of those corpus luetum cysts.

Your dr sounds like a bit of a gem! I am glad that he is on your side, I am sure he is playing on the sie of caution rather than being worried. I hope that the ovary pain you are having is just a cyst. Big hugs to you, I hope the weekend passes quickly for you with it being the holidays.

And to you too. Bug Hugs to you xx

Oh this has just made me laugh. DH has just come in from a very important business meeting (lol)and handed me a present. HE has got me a Sanding and Insulation Mask and some throw away gloves for cleaning the cat litter tray out with and the chickens. Bless him... I did look rather stupid this morning with rubber gloves on and a pink scarf wrapped round my face

ROFLMAO!!!! Bless him, he's only trying to help! I am incredibly jealous of your chickens. I would love some chickens to go with my homegrown fruit and veg (for the eggs, not the meat!) My dh came home last night from an assessment day to see if he can get into corporate sales, with a HUGE bag of stuff from Julian Graves. I normally love the stuff like choccy covered brazils and fudge, but it was hard to break the news that I mainly want savoury things right now . Still, it's the thought that counts!

Bless him!?
Do they come man sized!?

You're pregnant, that is no longer your job.
DH found this out on Sunday (we let the dog out the back in the mornings, bad I know), he had to pick up after her. He norm hates it, well still does, but avoids it to the point I just do it.
But no more, I will not be doing it this time.
My fave embarass DH story is that I still had to pick up the poo the day I went into labour with DD
OK truth is, I was on a mad cleaning thing and wanted to cut the grass and could not wait at all. I had to do it NOW!

Anyway, no more picking up poo for you until LO arrives then there will be lots of that

Evening all! I am tired, feel sick and groggy and have a headache but just beacuse I was up to late working and had to deal with a wet bed in the night (not mine!) then get us all out the door for my 1 day of -peace at the office.

To much going on to take on board what might not be hapening with the little PEA - I mean it is always on my mind but my mind is too full and body to tired to have to worry all the time.

Am still at the office as need to get hours in - will be home about 10.30pm and am gonna allow myself to collapse on the sofa and forget what there is around me to do.

hmmm - I think I need some sleep and a break from work - my head feels like it's gonna explode!

Positive thinking gals

suprise suprise just had some micro mash and baby bels to get me through!

what is it with us and carbs??!! We are all carbing out big time!!! I am not hungry in the slightest (very unusal for me) but have got some seabass in oven with some Pak Choi.....ohhhhh how healthy am i (actually, typing that just made me feel sick...hmmmm)

Hello everyone, stay positive, I was nervous of my 12wk scan last time as I didn't feel at all different or pregnant so couldn't quite believe it wwas real, but it was. I can't imagine anyhting worse than losing a baby and hope you all get all the reassurance you need
I'm trying to decide if I can be bothered to make rice pudding, we've only got DSs full fat milk left mmmmmmmm

Yorky - your name is not good for keeping me off gettin a bar of choc

i second Roca......(now where did I hid the kids eggs.......)

there has been so much going on since I was last here. It's taken me a long time to read through the last 4 pages or so.

You're all feeling really down Sorry to hear your worries, but I think that's what being a caring mum is all about! We'll be worrying about our Peas/Beans/Bumps from now on/ Last weekend I really thought my GP was preparing me for an iminent (not spelt right) mc, but this week I do feel pregnant. I too thought I wouldn't be able to sleep until this Fri when I go to my EPAU, but I have, and moreover I've really started to relax. My boobs hurt, yet have softened slightly. My MS comes and goes - this afternoon it hit me full blast and all I wanted to do was get to bed. Ginger tea helped.

Yes Yorky - make the pudding rice with full fat milk - where do you live, I'll be striaght over to help you lick to bowl!! Sounds yummy. Anyone like semolina??

Can I join your knitting club?? I too like to click-clack my needles, and am often a slave to the 'just one more row' mantra. I'll probably leave it for a while b4 starting updating the knit wear. And can only do a bit at a time because of neck pain.

I'm in agony for another non-preg reason. Since discovering I'm pregnant I cannot take the strong painkillers I am usually on for prolapsed discs in my neck which is causing me excrutiating pain in my neck, through my right shoulder and down my arm... I don't even bother with paracetamol, cos they're like sucking a tootie fruitie!! Sorry... needed to blow off steam.

Cheer up ladies, Easter is nearly here... and all those easter eggs! Unfortunately chocolate tastes a bit bitter to me, but I can still sample it!!!

I won't be around tomorrow cos I'm out most of the day on business, but will try to pop in b4 I go to bed.

Oh forgot to say....

Someone earlier on in the thread was asking about multi-vits and their sizes. Because someone on this thread said that PND maybe can be reduced by taking a multi-vit I've decided to try, so I bought Boots 'Pregnancy Mum To Be Plus' that have all the recommended vits along with folic acid and omega-3. This tablet is a yucky brown colour with a smooth shiney coating which helped me swallow it with a good drink, however, it is not small. I'd say the tablet could measure 1cm long and it's diameter (it's a cylinder shape) would be about 0.4cm. These were available on a 3 for 2 offer.

Roca - its not as if you need me for an excuse!
Nice to know there are so many knittaholics out there!
Daisy - I suppose you've tried massage and acupuncture and all the non drug things for your neck, is there nothing you can take? And I liek semolina as well - but not with the glow in the dark pink jam they put on it for school dinners!

As for dog poo not being my job too any more! If I left it up to DH the poor dogs would be up to their elbows in it! And my ds wouldn't be able to play outside. No I'm afraid, its on with the gloves. I really couldn't be bothered with the dogs - poor things, but they just take up too much of my time, and i don't get DH's help. I have suggested trying to rehouse them, but DH thinks our terrior would get put down due to his age (he must be 10 - so would feel guilty getting rid of him at this age - he's a contented dog who loves to cuddle up on his bedding in his cardboard box to sleep!!LOL) They'll not be there for ever and once they've gone to the Kennel in the sky I won't get any more.

Yorky, hi there and welcome! You've joined in the few days I haven't logged in.
I tried accupuncture and while it helped slightly during the treatment it had no benefit between treatments. Ive had months of physio again to no avail, if anything I think it agrivated it. I've bought a £1500 memory foam bed which at least has helped a bit at night - no more 'roll together' like the old bed. It was that soft it was like sleeping on a water bed! Every time DH moved i 'rode the wave'!!!

To the Knits - are you knit-a-row purl-a-row, or do you do cables, twists etc? I knit a blanket in DK and it ended up being about 1m x 1m!! The DK was recommended - as was 4 and 2 ply - wish now I'd sone it in 2 ply! One thing for sure - it kept me warm when I was knitting it, but I don't think I ever used it as it was too big. I also knit a FABULOUS hat with matching pompom hat. The pompom I made was huge - get a head get a pompom!! And a teddy bear sleep bag - I loved that one!

If any one gets a good pattern please share the pattern numbers etc!

You make me feel so much better about the way that I feel about my dog divedaisy.
She is such a lovely loving thing too that I feel guilty that I would happily let her go. I wonder if I look after her properly at all. Well, I know that I do, but it is a bind that I could easily do without.
DH won't consider re-homing her either, but then I don't know how seriously I would want to. We took her from a bad home, so would feel so so bad if we forced her to be re-homed twice in her life.
I do have to remind him that when we took her for a test couple of weeks. At the end I said, hmm not sure. DH said, NO! we have to keep her! Yet it is me alone, who picks up poo.

I am wishful thinking saying that I will not pick anymore up. I had to whilst walking her today and wondered how I will manage if the MS hits in bad again.

I have a fab book that has patchwork squares, so much easier than a huge project.
Blankets and Throws to Knit, Debbie Abrahams.
It has so many ideas. I am using a combination of the whole book to make DD's blanket.
V happy little knitter