Due April 2009? Am I really the first?

[LittleMyDancingForJoy]

Anyone else out there? Just got faint, but definitely there, BFP.

Due 1st April, according to those dodgy due date calculators.

Hi everyone, how's everyone doing?

I am starting to really enjoy being pregnant now, as it's starting to feel more real (probably because overnight I seem to have become huge... how did that happen??) I still have the sicknbess, but am weirdly not minding it, as it is just a side affect of such a brilliant thing. Although I am a little annoyed as I just bought some cracker things which I thought I would nibble at to make me feel better, and they were so gross now I want to be sick for real! Yuck. I am trying so hard to avoid the 'everytime you feel sick have a ginger biscuit' route, which I am sure is terribly effective - but I'd be big as a house!

I'm so excited for all those new scan people! I have to wait till 12 weeks for mine (I think some people have to wait until 20 weeks too so I guess 12 weeks isn't that bad??) so am very jealous!

I am still confused though! Baby Bolat (Hi and congrats)- I have the same due date but have worked it out as being only 7 weeks pregnant... Hmmmmmmm. Last period was 29th June. Ruddynorah, Foxymagoo,ToastnHoney, Mathsmummy27 and Diddle, you're due around the 5th / 6th - how many weeks are you?

I am having such mad dreams at the minute. Anyone else? So strange! I don't feel rested at all when I wake up there has been that much going on in my dreams!

People keep asking me how TTC is going, as I'd been quite open about the fact that we were trying. I am seriously regretting this now, as am such a bad liar, and hate doing it, but don't want to say I'm pregnant just yet.

Who else is holding out for the full 12 weeks?

Just seen new posts which must have come on whilst I was writing my epic.

Congratulations and welcome littlelady. I hope this is a happy and healthy pregnancy for you.

thankyou very much scrumptious. i am waiting till 12 weeks too after 2 m/cs i thought the less people know the easier if anything goes wrong. very annoyed with midwifes today, was supposed to be having my 1st appointment. but it was booked in wrong so now have to wait till next week!! how far r u scrumptious? iseem huge too! wake up looking bout 12 weeks and go to bed looking 20!! is this the norm?

that's annoying about the midwifes appointment. If you're anything like me, I get quite excited about things like that, so it's a shame to have it cancelled. I have to wait until next week too for my first appointment. I think I'm about 7 weeks 2 days. So true about going to bed looking about 20 weeks! I was sooooooo bloated yesterday. I was hoping nobody would guess by 12 weeks, as thoiught there was no way I would be showing, but now I'm not so sure.

my work trousers r beginning to bulge already! yes i get very excited about those sorts of things i think i am 7 weeks and 6 days but i have to have a scan to make sure as i dont completely know the dates. i look like if trying to inflate a balloon in there, so glad its not just me! very cautious this time but tying to be optimistic as symptoms are showing this time whereas b4 it was nothing past 5 weeks. looks like baggy jumpers and elasticated waistbands if i keep going out like this!!

Hello everyone - can I join?

Found out at about 5 to 7 last Friday morning that I'm pregnant with my first baby! DP an I are slightly shellchocked because we hadn't planned to have a baby for a couple of years but are now starting to get our heads round the idea of becoming parents a bit sooner than we thought!

Went to GP who says I am 4 weeks today and due on 30 April so another April baby to join the list if all continues fine.

No symptoms as yet other than horribly sore boobs - long may it last (the lack of other symptoms that is, not the sore boobs which I'd love to stop being sore right now!)

Littleduck xx

Scrumptious - I'm 7 weeks today (LMP was 1st July but have 27 day cycle). It will depend how long your cycle is.

I'm waiting the full 12 weeks to tell everyone, see it as a 'reward' for getting through those first fretful weeks.

You can get an early scan up here if you have bleeding, no questions asked. Other than that its 12 and 20 weeks. I'll only start to breath easier after the 20 week scan which is aeons away!

Welcome all new BFPs! I wonder when the 'due in May 09 will pop up!

am very underwhelmed about midwife appointment to be honest (not till the 11th Sep), our local midwives are mostly difficult to get on with.

more excited about my consultant's appointment on 29th August, our consultant is lovely and has promised to 'plan' this pregnancy with us and get all scans booked in pronto, (our last pregnancy had severe heart defects hence the fuss) so am looking forward to seeing him.

Foxy, I am right with you about telling people being something of a reward for surviving the first 12 weeks. I am very aware that if people knew I was pregnant I might be more inclined to moan about feeling sick, or tired, and I don't want to do this. This way I am forced to act as normal, and I think this in turn makes me feel better and forget about symptoms to a degree. Thanks for date info too.

I was just wondering about May '09 too, as can see the newcomers due at the end of April now. We'll be a well established thread before we know it!

Congratulations littleduck. How exciting for you. Someone once said to me 'there is never an ideal time for having a baby, you just have to go ahead and do i' and it was the truest advice ever. Good luck to you!

Surprise - are you around? Hope things are going okay for you.

so excited to see all these people with new pregnancies, cant really talk to my boyfriend cause he doesn't understand why i am excited after 2 m/cs. no probs as yet except the tiniest bit of blood 2 weeks ago which i have now put down to implantation bleeding as nothing has come of it, and a few (stretchy) sort of pains which i presume are the norm as many seem to get them. didnt get these with m/cs so hoping my body is getting properly ready this time congrats to every1! x

where is ev1 from then anyway/ i am ilfracombe, (near barnstaple) north devon x

Hi all - yes I'm here scrumptiousbumptious!!

Well I think I am starting to get my head around it now Not bursting into tears every few minutes anyway!

I have never liked sweets much but I can't stop eating sweets today! really fancy the sour tangy ones

Anyway, I'm going to try and start getting into it a bit now....

I'm in West Mids xx

I have a craving for violet creams...have just managed to ascertain that Waitrose sell them, but they shut 20 minutes ago.

sweets - noooooooooooooooooo - urg.

(usually, 'sweets? Yeeeeeeesssssssssssssssssss, bring 'em on!')

Good to hear that others are having odd food cravings and feeling vast!!

I found this page whilst browing on the Internet and thought you might be interested:
www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/year/april.htm

(I don't live in Kent though!).

tried to do a grocery shop, go as far as the veg and felt sick so went to the checkout but had to abandon my trolley and run outside where I was sick on front of everyone. abandoned Tescos in shame, had better luck in sainsburys since there was nothing left in my stomach.

suppose I'd better get used to throwing up at inappropriate times!

Have a dating scan on fri

as for sweets - I had two bags of strawberry bonbons yesterday - 1st time I've had em since the 80s. Am usually more of a chocolate girl but now think chocolate (and meat) is yuck!

I am still in total that I have gone off chocolate.

I. Cannot. Believe. It.

I know! I NEVER saw that one coming in a million years!

I went off chocolate first time round - sadly, not the second, and not this time either.

wish i had, i might be gaining weight a little less rapidly!

(and it had nothing to do with gender - first two were both boys)

I too have gone off chocolate, but despite my body telling me this, my brain refuses to believe it. My naughty brain made me eat some the other day, and my body quickly jumped n to say how it felt about it (i.e not good at all!)

Hi all, just wanted to check in to see I'm not the only one suffering this hideous nausea! Am 7 wks today, and almost to the clock the nausea kicked in over the weekend, luckily no sickness yet, I was like this first time, no actual throwing up, just constant nausea, but this time it's much worse. Plus horrible constant headache as well. sympathy to all you ladies throwing up - salbysea - can you try internet shopping until it passes? might save your blushes if nothing else??? poor you.

I too am huge, waist up 4" in 2 wks (no, not eating too much yet, can just about eat half a meal at the moment!) I hadn't gone up this much by 12 wks with DS, so don't know what's going on! I would like to wait 12 wks before telling people but don't see how I'm going to get away with it in work as my clothes won't fit me for much longer and if I have to start buying baggy stuff to get my through till can wear mat clothes again, it'll be obvious anyway, so think I might just proudly show off my little bump (half of it is insulation left over from DS at this stage tho!)

anybody got any tips to stop the constant feeling of sickness?

eat little and often
keep your blood sugar up
coke is good for an emergency sugar fix
eat slowly
keep bananas and raisins in your handbag
think slow release carbs

Hi all, just popping in quickly, this thread has moved too fast to keep up with it!

Hi to all the new BFPs

And sorry that a few of us have dropped out

I am 5+1 and had the first vague hints of MS today, not much though. Like a few of you I will be secretly relieved when I really start to feel pg!