Due March 2009?? Lets see those BFP!!!

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Come on I can't be the ONLY one!!! I got my BFP this morning - I think I'm due around the 12th March...

No real symptoms yet other than slightly weary this afternoon, and quite bad backache.

Not too hopeful JUST yet as very early days and had a m/c last year. Already have a DD (2.5)

Don't leave me here on my own too long!!

I must say my normally flabby belly is def a little bit firmer and looks a bit difference, more like a bump from the side instead of the normal flab. Surely its a bit early though, I don't even have the excuse that this is my 2/3 dc! Maybe I am just more bloated or something?

Just got the details through for a hen night on 2nd August. Loads of champagne and wine and more champagne. I have already had dinner with this girl last week at someone's house and was able to use the "I'm driving" excuse, and she said "yeah, or you're pregnant..." with a knowing look. No way she (and 30 others) are not going to know at her hen do as I potter around with an OJ.

I can't not go. But I really do want this to be a secret until the OK from the scan.

Hurumpf. Any ideas?

hi, all, just had call from surgery - have tested positive for parvovirus (slapped cheek) - it's been going around school, my two kids have both had it, I think.

seeing MW this afternoon, think I will be having loads of extra scans as it can cause heart failure in foetus (rarely)

WELL. It was my wedding reception the other week (got married at the end of May abroad so had a party here when we got back) and I just found out I was preggers. I walked round with the same glass of champers for an hour and then had tonic water, which looks like gin and tonic.
Only my best friend guessed so it worked.... there's the antibiotic one, or 'recovering from a stomach bug' which is a great one as it means you can look a bit sick too

Is it a weekend away or just a night on the lash?

x-posted dinny sorry.... fingers crossed you'll be fine but sorry you'll have extra stuff to worry about

Hope you're ok Dinny!

It's an all day thing. Champagne in Regent's park with Tea Party games, boating on the Serpentine, twister etc (am bound to fart in someone's face - has been the only symptom I've had!) And then more drinking on a boat party up the Thames and then clubbing in Soho.

Yikes. Not sure I can pull this off! Will defo try the one glass thing, but we're a pretty rowdy lot so can see drinking games and shots coming into the picture which I will have to point blank refuse.

Grumble.

Calsworld, I thought I recognised your name! Congratulations on your bfp. We both know what it's like to have a 20 month old climbing on you when all you want to do is sleep don't we!

HC x

Hi all! Boobz I had this same problem, I found out I was pg first time around just before a v boozy long weekend in Warsaw with all my Uni friends. Some of them were slower than others but we just gave in and came clean - apart from anything else I was really struggling to know what I could and couldn't eat and only one of our party speaks Polish so she did all the translating for me. I was really glad everyone knew, it meant they could look after me (let me rest / wee / nap / drink water) and not think I was being a wet blanket. It also meant that if anything had gone wrong I could have turned to any one of them for support.

I waited longer to tell work, although it ended up being slightly before 12 weeks as some big decisions were being made and my pregnancy had quite a bearing on them. Actually, it does this time around too but I don't feel so obliged to the company these days so they'll just have to wait till I'm good and ready!

I did another test this morning and got another faint positive...have decided to wait a couple of days and do either a FR or CBD test to get further confirmation and reassurance, though boobs are starting to get sore and I seem to be getting heartburn already! Anyone else suffer with this yet??

x-posted HC, its not too bad at the moment, I have more problems staying awake at work - last time round we had a bed in a sick room that I would snooze on, now we've moved offices there isn't one anymore so may well have to resort to the car!

Well ladies...the moody cow has arrived!! I was having a nap in my car at lunch...which was doing me the world of good!! When I was disturbed by voices outside my car and scratching on the window...I knew it was people from my team so I kindly gesticulated with 2 fingers and rolled over! I woke up to find a sign on my windscreen and rear windscreen saying "wake up lazy" I'm not f*ing lazy, I am mind blowingly, bone shatteringly exhausted I was so pissed off I actually cried, and i had an argument with them in my head so I didn't do it in real life! I know who one of them is, she is my age (21) and totally immature with it and we have never got on since we met...so why does she think it is appropriate to stick her nose in my business?! My lunch hour is exactly that...MINE...I don't get paid for it so it is mine to do with as I see fit. I am sooo mad

I know she doesn't know I'm pregnant, but she doesn't know whats wrong with me...it could be anything, I could have thyroid problems, I could be depressed, it could be ANYTHING, insensitive b*tch.

Am I being irrational?! I don't have a compass for that anymore with DP away...I don't think I am, but I guess thats the prob;em with being irrational!

Oh dear Emma...I'm here having a sneaky snooze as am bone tired too and know exactly how you feel.

Hormones are running amazingy riotous at the moment and think that rather than being irrational, you may be a little oversensitive caused by the hormones.

The best thing you can do is just make a joke of it, she'll find out in good time and if she's worth anything, she'll feel guilty and may apologise, at worst she should just back off.

Is it possible to drive off site a little way and park up somewhere so you can be more private perhaps?

Rest and sleep is so important - don't let her stop you getting what you need, its soo infuriating that the time you most need everyone to know and be aware is the time that you want to keep it secret too.

PS should also say am very at her putting a sign on your car, and I would be very very too!

Hi all! Can I please join you? I'm six and a half weeks, due 13 March, and swore I wouldn't join till 12 weeks after a mc at 8 weeks in May, but the sickness has started with a vengeance... Am feeling a little more positive about this one now.

Have been lurking since Aunty's first post, so feel like I know you all already, and hi to those I've 'met' before!

Emma, am on your behalf - how rude! I hope they do feel bad when they find out why you are so knackered. Try not to worry about them, they sound very immature. The most important thing is that you're getting some rest to help you get through the day. I think you're great to be in work full stop if you're feeling that awful...

Welcome Monkey!! and Congratulations!!

Well I'm just having a shitty day. DH and I are fighting about I don't know what, and I'm just in a terrible mood, it's hot, I'm tired and I just want to be left alone and nothing is working out right.

Out of interest, how many of those on here are thinking of having a home birth, and of those, is it your first baby?

Well I'm thinking of having a homebirth, but don't think it's going to happen. I'm going to ask next week, but don't think it'll be supported by the midwife. Homebirths aren't done around here, so will be difficult.

Sorry you're having a pants day MKG!

I was trying for a homebirth last time round, but waters broke and head didn't engage so transferred to hospital due to risk of cord prolapse and ended up with an emergency c-section.

I have no idea which way to go this time, it was such an easy transfer (all of 3 mins) that I'd like to try it again if they'll let me - only thing is, I didn't cope with the pain that well so am wondering if perhaps doing it in hospital might be for the best , well, plenty of time to think about it I guess!

I'm thinking of having a homebirth because my labour with DD was quick. Well, it was 6 hours, but I didn't twig I was in labour for ages (thought I had food poisoning!) and only just made it to the hospital in time. If not a homebirth, I'm going to try the birthing centre. It's midwife led, no doctors, but on the hospital site if any emergency.

Had an early scan today (7w1) and everything was OK. Phew! MS is killing me though - barely managed a few mouthfuls of supper tonight.

Calsworld - I lurked for ages on Dec 06 (DD was born 10 Dec) and on the post-natal thread. Never posted though because everyone seemed to know each other so well!

Elective c-section for me.... I had a dreadful birth with DD and break out in sweat just thinking about it... can't handle the idea of anything other than an elective I'm afraid.

I might feel differently later on, quite open to that idea, but I doubt it.

Actually cacking myself about it all, but long way to go before then....

MKG i'm feeling a bit like that today, no-one can do anything right and I seem to be really cranky.

Elsy, I posted mostly on the Nov thread because my original EDD was 24th Nov then it was moved back a week to 1st Dec...so kind of lurked a bit on Dec. By the time I joined it had been running for ages. I know exactly whwat you mean about people knowing each other well.

I think if I didn't already 'know' so many people on here I'd have lurked a bit longer before jumping in!

Elsy, I posted mostly on the Nov thread because my original EDD was 24th Nov then it was moved back a week to 1st Dec...so kind of lurked a bit on Dec. By the time I joined it had been running for ages. I know exactly whwat you mean about people knowing each other well.

I think if I didn't already 'know' so many people on here I'd have lurked a bit longer before jumping in!

MKG sorry you've not had a good day . I've been a bit like that too.

I really want an elective c-section for this little one. Getting it on the NHS will probably be difficult. It's not that I'm scared of pain or tearing but DH & me both have younger relatives severely disabled by vaginal births - no picnic for the families - and although we know there are no guarantees in life it's a bit of a shared trauma tbh. We don't care if elective CS is seen as a cop-out. Discussed all the pros & cons last night and the possibility of pulling our life savings together and go private if there's no other way.

Sorry about the essay, never really shared this. But I think it's affected us more than we've wanted to admit, and is one of the reasons why we waited quite long TTC.

im having a homebirth, as long as i dont have the group b strep thingy.. fingers crossed!

soryr to be so doom and gloom- but are any of you worrying about miscarrige?
I am thinking about it all the time and worrying myself sick.
I have no reason to worry, no bleeding, or pain, but I am still concerned

me too, i got really annoyed with my husband for telling ppl cos im so worried!