Due in Fab Feb 2009 - 662 posts in 26 days, time for a new thread, me thinks!!

[IHaveASecretLittleSmile]

List so far is below. Please cut and paste and add/change your name and details at will!

IHaveaSecretLittleSmile DC2 21/1/09 or 25/1/09 (age 28, East Anglia)
nkweto DC2 25/1/09
florrieandme DC2 26/1/09
laidback DC4 27/1/09 (age 34 North Devon)
oooggs DC4 30/01/09 (age 34 Cornwall)
MissMitford 31/1/09
Ethelredtheunready DC2 01/02/09
AngelDoll DC1 01/02/09
jenandbean DC2 02/02/09
ruthmollymummy 02/02/09
Supersteph DC2 02/02/09 (age 24 Torbay)
Littlesarah DC2 02/02/09 (age 26, Edinburgh)
MamaGoose DC3 03/02/09
Tummytrouble 03/02/09
Knax DC2 04/02/09
PinkTulips DC3 04/02/09 (age 24, Roscommon, Ireland)
Davidsmom DC2 04/02/09 (age 39, Cheshire)
NoNickname DC2 04/2/09 (age 41, South London)
MissDelighted DC1 05/02/09
m2alyssa DC2 05/02/09 (age 30, Isle of Man)
idontbelieveit DC2 06/02/09 (age 31 Leeds)
Newb DC1 06/02/09 (age 31, Zürich)
Guitargirl DC2 07/02/09
Aila DC2 07/02/09
Tinasan DC2 09/02/09
LuluBai DC2 09/02/09 (age 34, London)
MarkStretch DC2 9/2/08 (aged 29, Norfolk)
Herbgarden 09-11/02/09
Ewemoo 10/2/09
Singingintherain DC3 10/02/09
Jenniferturkington DC2 11/02/09
Francesrivis 11/02/09 (age 38, Devon)
Jelliebaby 13/02/09 (age 29, Cheshire)
Louisebunny 13-15/02/09
Mapleleaf 13/02/09 (age 38, Cambridge)
Loopylula DC2 14/02/09j (age 28, Sussex)
shubiedoo dc3 17/02/09 (age 37, Canada)
Fruitstick DC2 19/02/09 (age 32, London)
Imaginewittynamehere DC2 19/02/09 (age 32, Cambs)
NervousMouse DC2 19/02/09 (age 36, Berks)
McDreamy DC3 19/02/2009 (age 37, Cyprus but will give birth in Bucks)
Hopingforasecond DC2 second week of Feb
Clarabumps DC2 12/02/09 (aged 27, Glasgow)
Chilledmama DC2 25/02/09 (aged 31, Hampshire
Littlemissnorty TBC (age 39, DC2, Kent)
Nellstar TBC

had sore bbs now i don't at 8 weeks. and no other symptoms - worried! anyone had this?

Knax, it's perfectly normal, I don't get symptoms at all (4th pregnancy) and didn't know till last week I was pregnant because I felt so normal.

You are all so lucky to have no symptoms. I have severe MS and have already spent 2 days in hospital with it, I have been given Cyclizine (anti sickness tablet) to take 3 times a day but it has little affect.

I've got my scan 8th July, i will be 8 weeks by then and the reason it's early is because they are checking for twins, apparently thats a sign of being so sick so early.

I had no MS with DD so not use to it at all, i'm off work sick and going on hols in 3 wks so hoping it ends before then.

Does anyone know when MS ends? I know it's usually 12 wks but has anyone had it stop earlier? I'm hoping coz it started so early (5 wks) it night end early?

Hi all

I am off sick from work today. I had a whole day training and I knew I wouldn't have the energy to concentrate so have re-arranged it all. Am having a lazy day at home catching up on sleep and working my way through a pile of magazines.

Luckily it's sunny here at the moment and a lovely day.

Jelliebaby sorry to hear you're having such a hard time. I'm not sure when it's supposed to end but at least they seem to be keeping a close eye on you.

jelliebaby - with ds1 the feeling sick eased at 12 weeks but it was still there until he was born and I wasn't sick often

with the twins I was sick every for 14 weeks then it subsided.

I have been signed off with sickness [suprise suprise] until 9th July

Hi Knax - try not to worry too much. My boobs swelled up much more last time. I am wearing a button front dress today that I couldn't button up at this stage of my last pregnancy (and I was quite a bit slimmer then - so my boobs were REALLY disproportionate).

I'm finding soreness comes and goes. Some days I wonder if I actually dreamt the whole BFP and other days I definitely feel pregnant.

jamescagney, where in ireland are you? exciting to have 2 of us on the same thread

i got up in the middle of the night last night to open a window and had such a bad rush of blood from the head i lost my vision completely and got a splitting headache that only faded a few minutes ago. dying sick again, back to not being able to force down food.

knax, symptoms can be remarkably differant from preg to preg, with dd i was very ill from 8 weeks, had agonisingly sore boobs and all the odd syptoms like metallic taste in my mouth. with ds i threw up a couple of times and was a bit tired and that was about the extent of it!

wouldn't it be funny if a few of us on the same thread were having twins, i'm half tempted to go back to the doc sooner than 10 weeks to ask her for an early scan but dp is on work experiance for the next month and we still haven't sorted the second car so i wouldn't be able to get to the hospital anyway!

having an easy day today, dp has an unexpected day off and is being a sweetie, it's funny, he was no use at all when i was having dd, barely better with ds but this time round he's being really sweet and understanding and really trying to give me a break..... 3rd time lucky i guess!

Bleeeeeeeeeeeeeurgh

Just made error of dipping into pregnancy thread about 'what you wish you had known about labour and post labour' .

Oh no lulu I've posted on that, so know what it says!
Don't worry, you might be a lucky one. You know what though? It is all worth it. When you look at that little baby for the first time, all the pain will just disappear. It really will. You'll be fine.

tee hee hee..... it's all ahead of you

honestly though, you laugh about it afterwards

Hmmmm, haven't looked at that thread. (Fingers crossed for another home birth here!)

Phoned midwives about my booking appointment, after they hadn't got my referral last time, and they're going to phone back, hopefully today with appointment.

Really feel so lazy at the moment. Have lots to be getting on with but finding it so hard to motivate myself. Grrr.

Apparently totally normal to have no/loads of symptoms! I didn't notice a thing 1st trimester last time (some mild nausea), now feel ill ill ill! It's twins or a boy, I just know it!

I think I may have had my first craving.

I have just eaten two tins of mackerel fillets in curry sauce. Out of the tin with a spoon. God it was good.

I just want to remind you all I have set up a map for us to add ourselves to. If you email me (tinkerbellesmum at ymail.com) I'll send you an invite to add yourself to the map.

Yup - Littleboyblue - first one was really OK. And hope it will be pretty much the same this time. It's all that silly stuff that you forget like how teeeeny the paper pants are (that and the fact that I was deluded when I bought them in size 10-12) and how scared I was of going to the loo for ages and ages. And the sheer number of maternity pads I got through.

MarkStretch - just reading your craving makes me want to heave...

However I am sitting here eating a completely unreasonable amount of lettuce (healty no?) smothered in blue cheese sauce (hmm not so healthy!)

Tinkerbellesmum have emailed you

o jesus girls, stop discussing your creepy cravings or i'm gonna puke on the pc!

TBM, am heading dowmstairs now but will email you this evening about the map.

things are eerily silent downstairs... either dp has gotten ds to sleep or dp has fallen asleep and the kids have escaped

hope he is asleep, could just about manage some crisps i think and don't wanna share

Oh dear. I have made the mistake of watching Adoption Stories on Discovery whilst reading the labour thread.

I have been crying with sadness and hilarity for the last half an hour! Very snotty now.

Hang on I'll find the post that really got me going....

'That the first time just you and your baby are together & everyone else has gone and you study each others faces, you will be overwhelmed and there is no other feeling in the world like it.'

This got me sobbing!

I remember that so well.

Sorry for the TMI regarding the cravings. If it makes anyone feel better I now stink of curry and fish and DH was just physically repelled by my delightful scent.

Tink- going to email you now.

Cravings is one thing I didn't have last time and don't seem to have this one. Why can't I get that instead of MS??!

Guess what, midwife phoned and the referral from GP (who I saw two weeks ago) still hadn't arrived. I mean, they are one floor apart! Which makes sense when I think about it as the doc was under impression nurse would refer me... and midwives say no, doc does it! Anyway, she's getting it sent up so hopefully I'll find out next week sometime!

Sorry LuLu, assumed it was your 1st.

Jeelie baby your sickness sounds awful you poor thing.
I am still suffering MS. Mainly just before lunch, and late at night, but I feel sick all the time. It is so odd. How can a baby make you feel so poo?

Biscuitytrousers - Thats lovely, it bought a tear to my eye. I have a 3yr old DD, we have told her about the new one and she's very excited - although she is adamant she wants a baby brother and adamant she wants to call him Edward.....

Bumpvlump - it is really odd how a pea sized baby can make you feel yuk and also look yuk, I have a face of spots, im sure its the hormones....can't wait to feel normal again.