Due Sept 2005 - Thread 2

[franch]

Here you go!

Will be back with a spanking new list of names and stats shortly.

Wow - lots to ctach up with .

I am very worn out - been doing an audit in Heathrow today which is a 100 mile round trip. Left the house at 6:30am so I could get there at 8:15 and not feel bad about leaving at 4:15 so I could get DS before nursery closed at 6:00.

I couldn't find him at first - he's normally in the baby room but as he's moving up a room soon (would have been a little while ago but he still hasn't learned to walk ) he was in there instead. He'd been having a good day - at the moment I'm sure he has more fun at nursery than home .

Andif, really pleased that all was well - I'm looking forward to my scan (whenever I get it).

7 weeks today - only another 33 or so to go.

Hope DH comes back soon; I need to eat some food, but have no energy/enthusiasm to do it myself.

Welcome to all newcomers; there's getting to be lots of us

Pooka, do you know how every thing works aat Farnborough? I started my mat care last time with a fantiastic midwife team in Lambeth and was horrified to find that Bromley didn't do this. The Lambeth team would have done all my checks and bloods etc and I only went to the hospital for scans. Is there anything like this now - I would gladly swop GPs. Also if I there isn't when do they do the scans and the booking in appointments and what tests do they do? (I had a nuchal last time)

Rhumba, I think it all depends on your local surgery. Mine (Pope Road, Bromley Common) has a team of community midwives, 6 in total. You have all your ante-natal checks there, apart from the 20 week scan and the nuchal and over the course of your pregnancy you get to meet all the midwives, with the assumption that when you come to labour, if in hoospital, someone you know is your midwife. Obviously, if at home it's one or two of them too.
Sarahbee is in another part of Bromley and with a different surgery so she might be able to say how it worked with her.
You will get a nuchal referral to Kings once you've told your GP. You also get a routine 20 week scan (although I've heard of people not having this til 23 weeks as they're so busy.

Morning ladies, welcome to all newcomers.

Im 8 weeks today and I got my first scan on 18th Feb, exactly 2 weeks.

I was wondering if anyone felt the same as me...ive been feeling a bit 'fuzzy' most of the day but not actually sick, also, I know I should be feeling really happy, excited and all that but im not really. I remember daydreaming occasionally over my single years, as you do, that it would all be so wonderful to have a dh and plan to be pregnant etc. but in reality I feel quite deflated - with a slightly inflated stomach.

Im hoping that when we tell people I will feel different - dh wants to tell people now, he's so excited but I am in no rush and cant work out why.

Im starting to feel rather ungrateful for my good fortune which isnt like me.

Has anyone else had similar feelings or should I just think happy thoughts?

Sorry to be so miserable!

Good morning everyone .

Sorry for waffling on about DS last night - DH luckily came in not long afterwards so I had someone else to waffle to

Nably, I am having mixed feelings about being pregnant; I think for me it is partly because I have no idea what it will be like with 2 children - I sometimes feel like I've only just got used to 1. But I know it will all be OK in the end.

I also swing between wanting to tell people and not wanting to - still haven't told my parents (or DH's) and haven't told many other people. Most people who know are at work (some of them being friends).

And I'm generally feeling sick, but have only been sick a bit. Don't really feel pregnant at all.

Hi everyone. I feel like all I have had to say on these posts is moans and groans about how awful I am feeling.

I'd hate to break the habit though.... Franch - lucky you that your dh proactively looks after you. My dh is usually a gem but I know that my being sick is getting him down and he doesn't seem to know what to do for me without me spelling everything out for him.

DH has been getting up with dd every morning and this morning she got up super early - which was great for me, as I put her back to bed at 8am and didn't have to get out of bed myself until 10 minutes ago I think it has helped me feel a bit better.

Nably - I was a bit indifferent about my first pregnancy. It's so hard to imagine what your life is going to be like. Once you have heard the heartbeat and seen your baby on a scan, it will start to sink in a bit more. Plys, once you're showing and other people get excited about your pregnancy then it does rub off on you. Just ignore any of the people who say negative things.

Nably, I think it's really very normal to feel the way you're feeling in early pregnancy. I was very ambivalent about my pregnancy with DS and had a lot of anxiety around whether I was capable of the responsibilities involved and how would I know how to look after him. A part of me was always joyful about having a baby but it was hard to trust that there really was a growing baby in there--even the scan seemed a bit surreal. For me, only feeling him kick at about 20 weeks really brought it home that I really was having a baby!
Even with this pregnancy, I'm not 100% sure how I feelmaybe I'm not daring to be too excited in case there is bad news from the nuchal test (if ever get onestill waiting for date from the Homerton).

Just had Chicken nugget Happy Meal. With coke .

Very naughty, but it was what Mark 2 wanted.

I keep feeling really hungry and then not actually wanting to eat anything, so feel glad I have eaten something (although the nutrional quality must have been negative).

Where is everyone today - I am waffling on to myself again

I'm here but about to go to bed for a nap. Since m/s diminished am now eating pretty well, albeit only what I fancy (i.e. no big lumps of meat, tomato pasta sauce, quiche etc.). But bacon sandwiches (loads) and toast with marmite and toast with cherry jam. Lovely. Not a particularly balanced diet, but better than nothing.
Very tired though, hence the nap

I'd like a nap .

Do you think anyone would notice if I disappeared under my desk for a while?

Thank you for all your reassurances.

I think the fact that im not past the 12 weeks stage is making me more cautious than I thought...if im not reading about that poor surrogate mother who died after giving birth, im seeing programs on tv about children with hyperactivity problems and this morning a nice picture of Liv Tyler with black bags under her eyes through lack of sleep since having a child!! Im going to visit my darling god daughter tomorrow to see what a joy it can and will be.

Hi all!

Beatie, I do hope you start to feel better soon. Saw your thread about medication. I hope it doesn't come to that, but do make sure you get the help you need.

PC, I had cravings for McChicken Sandwiches repeatedly when I started getting sick (now I literally can't face anything). Gave in and sent DH out for them a couple of times, as I figured they were better than nothing (some might argue with that!). Must be a design fault, preg hormones making us want stuff like that. Mac-anything would normally turn my stomach.

Still feeling very low, but like Beatie, am worried about repeating myself here ......... Pooka, I'm encouraged that you've started feeling better. Me next please!

I've gone off any red meat completely. Very strange.

And I want lots of carbohydrates, which makes sense to keep me going I suppose.

Big hugs to you franch, really hope you (and all others suffering horrible sickness) start to feel better soon.

Thanks PC

Today am craving egg mayo sandwiches on white bread! Normally I hate them but for some reason, despite completely blocked nose, I can taste them, or maybe it's the chewey gooey texture I'm after. Anyway, as soon as DH gets home he's being sent straight out for eggs & mother's pride.
I haven't eaten meat since 1980, so I've never experienced the joys McD's has to offer.

I'm craving pasta constantly and despite feeling nauseous I haven't gone off food - unfortunate as I bought a new dress especially for a party tomorrow and it's now a bit tight. So will be sober and fat - great pary combination!

My m/s has changed. For the better... I think. I am now simultaneously nauseous and hungry, something I wouldnt have thought possible before. But it is better - cant really explain why. I also cannot face any meat/fish unless it is very well concealed ie in hotdogs or Fishfingers with loads of ketchup. That may explain the McD cravings- its not reallly meat is it Im craving things I normally never eat and a lot are high carb junk ie chips,crisps, white bread etc. But reckon you have to eat what your body says.

The one thing that seems to help nausea - tried ginger, sea bands, crackers etc to no avail - is Wrigleys Extra sugar free mints(little boxes). Loads of artificial sweetener so feel a bit guilty.. but helped in those awful moments when you just feel dreadful. No other mints helped. Preggie Pops help v slightly and make work possible to a point. Everyone is so different though. Good Luck Beatie and Franch

I also expected to feel ecstatic being preg and dont. My parents know and are so over excited - they cant seem to see why I am not. I am putting it down to feeling ill, tired and having to lie to friends plus all the normal anxiety thrown in for good measure. Cant wait for my scan.

Franch and Beatie, I also hope that you feel better soon. I felt completely awful, and I was only being sick very occasionally and only for about 3 weeks in total, so compared to you I've had it EASY.

I mean for you. Selfishly for my sake!

Thank you Boompi & pooka. Have just eaten another McChicken Sandwich - well, at least I actually ate! Fingers crossed I keep it down ...

congrats all you September mums-to-be!

Can't believe this was me last year

Hope the summer isn't too hot!

Good for you Franch.

Pooka and Boompi ~ thanks for your well-wishes.

I managed a poached egg on toast last night... well, I say last night... I mean 4.30pm as soon as DH got in from work. It's the first thing I made him do.

I did not care a bit about the egg being too runny ~ I was just so grateful to crave and eat some protein after a week of white carbs.

Franch ~ I've had some Complan today. Mmmm ~ it tatses good.

Well done Franch, if McD's is the only food you can keep down perhaps you'll have to name the baby Ronald!

State of stomach very depressing. Need baby to grow to stretch the band of blubber that is appearing round my middle.

Got fitted for new bra yesterday. Fitter assured me that exercise bra best, but have to say 'shock absorber' not even sexy in black!!

Off to a 40th bday tonight - no alcohol, feel knackered, nothing fits ...I can hardly wait!