March babies (due March 2027)

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Just received the call yesterday to say I’m 4 weeks and 4 days pregnant with my first baby at age 36! (conceived via IVf so still in shock!).

Due date on March 3rd so would love to meet some other mums at the same stage as me! I’m a mix of anxiety and excitement!

Congratulations — 36, first baby, after IVF? That is huge, and the anxiety-and-excitement mix you described is so real (I am right in it too). I am an American who moved over mid-pregnancy with my first and I am due just a few weeks ahead of you, so I am figuring all of this out from scratch as well. Wishing you a lovely boring nine months.

Hi! 👋🏼

found out on Tuesday I’m pregnant with baby #3, due date calculator says 9th March!

tests up until today have been super faint, but confirmed with a CB rapid & digital this morning, feeling excited but very nervous!

Wishing everyone a happy and healthy 9 months 🥰✨

Congratulations! That early excited-but-nervous mix is so real — I'm right in it too. I'm an American who moved over mid-pregnancy with my first, due just a few weeks ahead of you, so I'm figuring everything out from scratch as well. So glad to have a due-date buddy — wishing you a smooth nine months. x

Oh amazing!! Great to share this journey with you!! Absolutely hope the nine months go smoothly for us all!

Congratulations wonderful news xxx

Congratulations all 🥰 I’m 38 and 4w 6d with my first. Partner and I started trying in May thinking it might take a while due to age and severe endometriosis (I’ve had 2 separate surgeries to keep removing it) - so shocked (and over the moon) it happened for us so quickly, but now constantly anxious and can’t quite believe it. Due date is 7th March 2026 according to the apps but I’ve got a dating scan next week.

Oh that quick surprise after bracing for a long wait, what a gift. Congratulations 🥰 That anxious, cannot-quite-believe-it feeling is so familiar over here too, I keep half expecting my app to change its mind. Hope your dating scan next week lets you breathe a little easier after.

Hello ladies - I suppose a bit of a vent, I guess I would
usually relay this sort of thing straight away to my friends but we haven’t told them about the pregnancy yet, so sorry for the vent / rant!

Went in at 8am this morning for the dating scan that the hospital had requested; I had received a call from the antenatal admin last week asking me to come in today - she had said that they would send me a text as it wouldn’t be on the NHS App as they were on a different system. Nae bother. But the text doesn’t arrive.

Regardless my partner and I toddle down there for 8am today - and I try to explain that I don’t have an appointment letter but an admin called me etc. The sonographer just starts barking questions at me - how far along, where’s my blue book etc and I’m trying to explain but he’s not really listening. After some huffing he calls us in and tries to scan - can see a wee sac on the over-belly one and then tells me it’ll need to be an internal scan as “I’m too early”. Fine. So we get going with that - and he’s searching and probing for my little sac all the while commenting I’m too early as if I had just wandered in off the street and harangued him for an ultrasound.

He finally finishes and lets me know that he’s transferring me to the Early Pregnancy Unit as his team doesn’t take referrals until 10-12 weeks. And to expect another scan in about 10 days.

I’m an NHS nurse by core profession, and whilst it’s been a while since my training I’ve got a pretty good grasp of women’s healthcare - it’s not like I was expecting to go in and see a baby or even a heartbeat this early, but I was looking forwards to setting a good baseline and understanding where I was in the pregnancy. I’m so sorry for the long post but I just feel like crying now and felt really humiliated by the whole experience. I chose this hospital specifically because all my endo care and surgeries have been here and I’ve always been treated so well, and I just feel like I’ve made a mistake.

Honestly the admin side of all this can be its own special kind of stress, the text-not-text NHS app runaround would have had me refreshing my phone all morning. So glad you made it in and got it done though. Vent away, that's exactly what these threads are for.

Haha thank you love! Afterwards I did belligerently tell my partner “I was going to grow the biggest baby that man has ever seen” to spite him 😅 My partner gently suggested I may come to regret that statement. But we are laughing about it now - dear lord, the fluctuating hormones are no joke already.

Growing the biggest baby he's ever seen out of pure spite is the most iconic hormone-fueled threat I've read all week. So glad you're both laughing about it now, though the mood swings really do come out swinging early don't they. Mine turned a dog food commercial into a full sob session before I'd even missed a period.

Hello,

First of all congratulations to all of you! I hope you don't mind me joining this thread:) I'm 28 and about 3 weeks 4 days, I tested positive yesterday so very early days yet. I have a 21 month old daughter and we have been trying to conceive since January - super excited we finally got a positive! Estimated due date around 31st March, although I know I will be booked in to have this baby early due to my medical conditions so baby will likely come end of Feb/start of March. Super excited to be sharing this journey with you all and wishing everyone a healthy pregnancy.

Welcome and congrats, a positive after trying since January must feel so good. Your little one being 21 months means they'll be the sweetest tiny helper by the time March rolls around. So glad you jumped in, this thread's a good one to have in your corner.

How is everyone doing?

I’m 7+5 today, feeling constantly thirsty but the idea of drinking anything makes me feel sick so I don’t know what to do with myself 🤢 I used to drink 3+ cups of tea a day and now i can’t stand the thought of a hot drink! Private scan booked for Friday which feels like FOREVER away 😅

I’m 5 weeks tomorrow and starting to get random nauseous moments 😬 everything crossed for your private scan- how exciting! Mine isn’t until mid August and I feel like I’m just existing until then 😂 No real symptoms yet for me other than a couple of twinges, super smell and extreme hunger/ tiredness. Looking forward to hopefully being massive in winter- I feel like it’d be so uncomfy being 20+ weeks in this heat!

Hi all! Even after 2 scans (the aforementioned angry sonographer) and another at the EPAU last week - they’re still struggling to date the pregnancy as I never had a period in between having my coil removed and conception. The result is that it feels kind of limbo-y?! We’ve got another scan on 5th August which will hopefully shed some light on timings but essentially existing in constant anxiety that something is wrong and it’s disappeared.

But all digits crossed for WishedFor’s private scan on Friday! Let us know how it goes 😊

Congratulations all 🥰 I’m currently 6 weeks and due 30th March 2027. Although I’m super excited to be a mum for the first time, I had a miscarriage with my first pregnancy so extremely anxious to make it through first semester this time round!! Hoping this group will make the long wait easier 🙏🏽 what symptoms is everyone having so far? I’ve had very low grade nausea every day for the past week that lasts the whole day so been struggling to eat well

Congrats to you too girl! We're due date twins! 😍So sorry about your previous loss, too Waiting until the first scan is so nerve wracking. I've got some nausea too and already gone up a cup size (but I think that's just because the baby craves beige 😂) My nips also feel like they've been dragged across gravel 😂

Congratulations my love! So sorry to hear about your miscarriage, that must make the anxiety something else right now. I’m sure we can keep you company throughout the first trimester!

I’m constantly nauseous, so bloated, and boobs are out of control… say less on the gravel nips, greenshirt, I hear ya…

Ahhhh no way!! 🥰 GP referred me to see if the EPAU will allow me to have an early reassurance scan so fingers crossed! I can’t say I envy you or Esquilo for the gravel nips haha that must be so uncomfortable