First time mums expecting Spring babies

[FlirtyThirty]

Hello!

I'm expecting my first baby on 24 April. I'm currently only 4+4 but have NO symptoms at all! Have just retested as I'm convinced I've imagined it!

Went to Dr yesterday to share the news and have to wait for hospital 'choose & book' paperwork so that I can arrange first scan for around 10 October.

There seems to be so many decisions to make all of a sudden...

Anyway...just wondered how you other first timers were finding things...or your other halves for that matter. Mine is still in total shock in spite of this being a planned baby!

Flirty x

THE SPRING COLLECTION
lolianja 14+4 due 2 March
CE 10+5 due 28 March
Daisyj 11+4 due 28 March
Skiingone due 3 April
BinkyB TWINS due 7 April
evs34 due 12th april
Flirty 5+0 due 24 April
Littleduck 6+0 due 30 April
Brightsideoflife 5+4 due 1 May

Ooh, BinkyB - twins! I'm .

BrightSide - sorry you're suffering, hon. Hope it eases soon.

My symptoms have been coming and going rapidly over the past week. Don't know quite where I am, but very tired again the past couple of days.

Hi Elpis - nice to see a fellow editor (I'm books though, but DH is magazines).

Looking forward to meeting on the 20th. I think there's about 4 of us now.

Oh, if anyone's interested I posted a pic of our gorgeous cat earlier. Sad but true. Tried to post a wedding pic, too, but I think the file was too big. Will try and do more before next weekend - although with spotty skin and limp hair I probably won't be recognisable anyway .

Angeldog - so very sorry to hear your news. Thinking of you, and sending love.

Angeldog. very sad at your news. will be thinking of you. i dont think i would want to wait for things to happen either as could take weeks which would be v difficult to deal with. you must do what is best for you both though.

sending lots of hugs and best wishes. enjoy your runny eggs - with a large glass of wine perhaps. lol evs xxxxxxxxxx

Angeldog, I am so sorry. It must be the most upsetting feeling, as you say, to know you're still carrying the baby. Like everyone here, I should think, I absolutely dread a MC. At least you know you can get pregnant, and I hope that's a bit of a comfort.

Am so tired right now - I could sleep all day - and the only things I want to eat are limes, celery and a brand of cracker called Finncrisp. Three weeks of travel coming up for work, too: not abroad, thankfully, but it would be lovely to sleep instead.

GP told me not to eat bagged lettuce leaves today, but left unpasteurised cheese off his list of foods to avoid. Do takeaway salads from Pret etc count as bagged...? Grrr.

Hi ladies

angeldog - so very sad and sorry for you. It is so horrible when it happens to you, and there is no preparing for it. Take lots of time to rest, and definitely seek out support on the mc threads. I found a really nice one in June with some great ladies. I personally didn't want the d&c as am terrified of operations etc, and didn't find it too bad having things happen naturally. Do whatever you feel is right for you and DH. Big hugs xxxxx

To everyone else - hope you are ok????? (Can't believe binkyb's having TWINS!!!!!)

Sorry I haven't been around this week. Work has been manic and feeling extremely tired - in bed at 9pm at the latest!!! However, the sickness/nausea has eased! YEY! I am 11w5d and have not been sick for 4 days now! . Very impressive I know!!!

CE xx

I was just about to post this:

Oh, our poor little thread. It's very quiet isn't it? What with no Flirty for ages, and ChocEclair going awol...

When I saw that I am not alone!

CE - yup, I'm in bed by then too. Glad you're not being sick any more

Elpis - ugh - I've gone right off celery. But limes yum! Tis up to you, but I really wouldn't worry about Pret salads as long as you're not eating them all day every day. I didn't realise about bagged salads till last week, but I'm not beating myself up over it .

Been incredibly achy and stretchy this week. I think there's been a bit of a hormone surge/growth spurt going on. Anyway, I'll soon find out, as nuchal scan on Monday. Am nervous and excited [nervous and excited emoticon].

Am going back to our flat this weekend to survey the building site, and hoping to move back in next weekend. Can't wait. Parents lovely, but wouldn't choose to live with them!

Have a lovely weekend everyone.

By the way, anyone think we should start a 'where's Flirty' thread? Or is that stalkery? She hasn't posted anywhere for nearly three weeks

THE SPRING COLLECTION
lolianja 14+4 due 2 March
CE 10+5 due 28 March
Daisyj 11+4 due 28 March
Skiingone due 3 April
BinkyB TWINS due 7 April
evs34 due 12th april
Flirty 5+0 due 24 April
Littleduck 6+0 due 30 April
Brightsideoflife 5+4 due 1 May
Sarah76 due 3 May

Hi all, can I join you? The ladies on the May 2009 thread are lovely, but I'd really like to talk to some first-timers as well. I'm not sure how/if I should have advanced everyone's dates, so thought I'd leave it to the more experienced (I was much better on the TTC threads with charting cycles).

I know exactly when I ovulated, so I'm saying I'm 6+5 today. I was completely convinced I had a blighted ovum (due to disappearing symptoms), and GP sent me for early scan today as my bloodwork showed low (but still normal) HCG that didn't double after 48 hours. However, it turned out there was indeed a bean and a flickering heartbeat. The sac was smaller than it should have been in relation to size of bean, but they are having me back for another scan in 10 days. Hopefully everything will be okay.

In the midst of all this I'm trying to plan a wedding (3rd January) and buy a house on very tight finances. I'm usually never driven to drink, but a bottle of wine would go down so nicely right now...argggghhh.

I'm another of those symptomless ones at the moment, other than chocolate not tasting as good as it did and having mildly sore boobs, I can't feel anything. Really freaked me out until today, now I'm just feeling lucky.

THE SPRING COLLECTION
lolianja 14+4 due 2 March
CE 11+5 due 28 March
Daisyj 11+4 due 28 March
Skiingone due 3 April
BinkyB TWINS due 7 April
evs34 due 12th april
Flirty 5+0 due 24 April
Littleduck 6+0 due 30 April
Brightsideoflife 5+4 due 1 May
Sarah76 due 3 May

Oh I do like a nice stats update!

Welcome to Sarah - we are getting quite a bunch of us now! Enjoy the symptom free weeks while they last! Hope your 2nd scan goes ok next week and beanie is developing well.
ps. you sound like me with your charts etc! lol!

THE SPRING COLLECTION
lolianja 14+4 due 2 March
CE 11+5 due 28 March
Daisyj 11+4 due 28 March
Skiingone due 3 April
BinkyB TWINS due 7 April
evs34 due 12th april
Flirty 5+0 due 24 April
Littleduck 6+0 due 30 April
Brightsideoflife 7+1 due 1 May
Sarah76 due 3 May

Morning all!

I love weekends - I just had a lovely lie-in and woke up only to go downstairs and lie on the couch

I'm really struggling with nausea still - I was late for work yesterday because I couldn't stop being sick. I might have to tell my boss although I didn't want to say anything so soon. Maybe I will see if I can hang on until after my 8 week scan next week.

Welcome sarah It is great news about your early scan - hopefully everything will still be fine at your next scan. Enjoy these symptom free weeks!

Hi daisy such great news about your flat being ready, good luck for the Nuchal fold scan. I am sure all will be well.

CE I hope work quietens down - I know what you mean about the tiredness...I get to 3pm and hit a brick wall of exhaustion. However - when I get home, I seem to get some more energy and don't go to sleep until later...meaning exhaustion the next day again!

Hi elpis do you know why we can't eat bagged salad? I thought that was interesting. Goodluck for the travel for work. It can be so exhausting - try to take it easy as much as possible.

I hope everyone else has a good day and enjoys their weekend!

I forgot to say earlier that I would love to join you guys on the 20th but have my 8 week scan that day. I will look out for the next get together though!

THE SPRING COLLECTION
lolianja 14+4 due 2 March
CE 10+5 due 28 March
Daisyj 11+4 due 28 March
Skiingone due 3 April
BinkyB TWINS due 7 April
evs34 due 12th april
Flirty 5+0 due 24 April
Elpis due 25 April
Littleduck 6+0 due 30 April
Brightsideoflife 5+4 due 1 May
Sarah76 due 3 May

sarah76 - I wouldn't worry: I only discovered I was pregnant six weeks in and had only noticed tender breasts (which I vaguely attributed to disturbed menstrual cycle, or something). Lots of time for all these aversions, cravings and nausea to kick in. I am empathising over the wedding as I get married on November 15. But I'm hoping people will be so blown away by the news, all being well, that they won't notice the small stuff that we normally spend so much time on.

BrightSideofLife - I think the message was that I should was all the fruit and veg I eat thoroughly - there's some suggestion that industrial-scale lettuce washing isn't always effective. Who needs bagged leaves, really, when you've got all the other veg?

Anyone know the official, final word on tinned tuna? I heard it was completely off the table now, but books and websites still seem to say anything from 2-4 tins a week!

My only craving so far has been for tuna and pickles, unless you count the late night supermarket dash last night for pretzels to dip in cream cheese.

Hi Sarah - welcome! Are you in London? Fancy joining us next Saturday for a meet? Do you ever wonder why we do this to ourselves - weddings, houses and babies, all within five minutes!

At my booking-in a couple of weeks ago, the midwife said no more than two tins of tuna a week - I've never heard it's outlawed, and she seemed to think it was OK. Since alcoholic crack whores seem to manage to carry babies to term, I'm of the mind that the odd tin of tuna or glass of wine won't do the bean any harm

Morning all!

Monday morning is a shock to the system, especially after such a relaxing weekend. I also found my nausea was easier to handle when I could take it easy and have a little lie down when it got too bad. This morning it is back with a vengeance

Elpis that is a relief, as I always wash my bagged salad. I feel so ill at night that pre-packed cold food is the maximum of what I can prepare!

sarah lol at the late-night dash to the supermarket for pretzels & cream cheese! Interesting about the pickles - I am also prefering salty, sharp tastes. No cravings yet though

daisyJ I know what you mean about the crack-head alcoholics!! I know it is not quite so bad, but while waiting for a bus last week, I saw a young girl - heavily pregnant - smoking a cigarette! I was so I find it hard to see behaviour like that...my pg was very much wanted and follows a miscarriage - so I find it an alien concept that someone could knowingly do something that could harm the baby or the pregnancy.

Anyway...I will get off my high horse and go back to nibbling my dry toast...

Hope everyone is having a good day and enjoyed their weekend!

Morning all! I recently moved from London up to Warrington in Cheshire, so afraid I can't join you, but thanks for the invite!

It's weird how my tastes have subtly changed. Chocolate doesn't taste as good as it used to. I had diary milk buttons this weekend which I used to love, but now left half a bag just sitting there because they tasted weird. DP was thrilled and scoffed the rest.

Last night started to get some mild indigestion (just stuff repeating on me, bit of burping), and the constipation that had gone away has returned. Yesterday I felt like I had AF cramps and had to lie down before I went to work in the pub.

Speaking of drinking. . .I am carrying around a souvenir of my last drink. We had an Argentinian bottle of wine at the B&B we were staying at in Northumberland, the night before we found out I was up the spout. It had a little plastic bull attached to it with a ribbon, so I'm carrying around the bull in my handbag! I know we're allowed 1-2 units 1-2 times a week, but I just find it easier not to, at least at this stage.

This time next week will have hopefully seen the bean again!

Sarah76 what a small world, I grew up in Warrington and escaped moved to London 8 years ago. Hope you are settling in well and go to the Javed opposite Golden Gates for the best curry!

And can the rest of you please stop talking about bagged salad or vegetables of any type please - am feeling a bit green around the gills today!

All my tastes definitely changed - so weird. I shudder at the thoughts of some foods that were previously my favourites, and meanwhile am eating things I haven't even seen for about ten years. Double Decker, anyone?? yes, they still make them!

Hope everyone is having an OK Monday
x

Aloha Ladies - I'm back!

To angeldog - I am so sad for you. My prayers are with you. Be kind to yourself.

To the new ladies - welcome! Lovely to have you join the gang!

I've been away on business for the last 3 weeks and missed this site and your advice so much - not least because the misery of morning sickness has hit! I am SO glad to be home!

The nausea started at 5+6 and for the first 2 weeks was horrific - constant, all day seasickness feeling and wretching bile from the moment I stepped out of bed. I had assumed I would not suffer for MS as neither my mum or other females in my family ever did - how wrong! Now, at 8+3 it has worn off a little, I still feel a little rough with waves of nausea throughout the day, but not as bad as I did a week or so ago (and I am trying not to panic that symptoms have lessened!). It definitely helps being back at home.

I have my booking in appointment at Kingston Hospital tomorrow and 1st scan on 16 Oct. I have developed total paranoia that there will be no heartbeat at the scan. We have told noone we're PG and are waiting until after the scan...so I have everything crossed. Time seems to be standing still until then... We have a family wedding this weekend too and I have NO idea how I'm going to cover off the no drinking...or more specifically, the vomiting! Think I'll have to tell them I have a bug from travelling.

Also, best friend's wedding is the week that baby is due! Nightmare! Have had to stall on replying to hen weekend invitation. If all goes well at scan I'll tell her I can't go (I'll be 8 and a half months PG so flying is out of the question) but God knows how I'm going to stall answering for 4 weeks!?

Now - a TMI question...has anyone else had cocloured discharge. Not blood red, but sort of biscuity brown and a little like CM in consistency...?! Should I be worried?

Flirty x

THE SPRING COLLECTION
lolianja 14+4 due 2 March
CE 10+5 due 28 March
Daisyj 11+4 due 28 March
Skiingone due 3 April
BinkyB TWINS due 7 April
evs34 due 12th april
Flirty 8+3 due 24 April
Elpis due 25 April
Littleduck 6+0 due 30 April
Brightsideoflife 5+4 due 1 May
Sarah76 due 3 May

Hi Flirty! yes biscuity, not every day but often enough - so glad it's not just me. Am going to ask doc this afternoon (if I remember - I've got a long list!) so will let you know if she says anything of interest.

Drinking tactic my DH and I used was he would go to the bar and order 2 identical drinks, I'd hold one and he'd drink from the other. Then when that glass had gone down a bit we'd swap. Of course by now you will have all spotted the obvious flaw in our plan to have DH 'drinking for two'...

Finally if anyone was on London Bridge station this morning, apologies if you got my sick on your shoes (urgh). Mortified!

Binky - Thanks! Look forward to hearing what Dr says about sicharge...so glad that I can ask these things on here! I'd be mortified asking a friend face-to-face!!

Thanks for the drinking tactic. Think I may also try ordering drinks that look alcoholic but aren't - vodka and cranberry (hold the vodka), G&T (hold the gin) etc... I'm a real wine drinker normally though..so it will be something of a challenge. To top it all off, the dress I'm wearing has a corset built in...just now the nausea worsens at the very thought of anything restrictive around my ribs and stomach!?! Going to be a cracking wedding for me!?

Oh, and so sorry to hear you were sick at the station. I sympathise completely. On this biz trip I was on,I almost threw up in the middle of the hotel buffet one morning as I couldn't find the toilet! I would have died if it had actually happened...

Good luck with GP this afternoon!

Flirty x

Oh binky I am so sorry about being sick on the station! I hope you are feeling slightly better!

flirty I think it is natural to worry about your scan (my first is this Saturday and I am already terrified) How long did it take you to get your appointment & scan details from kingston? I 'booked' myself into Kingston through my GP about 3 weeks ago and haven't heard anything yet?

binky and sarah my tastes have also changed so much - they seem to change every day actually! Things that taste OK one day, taste awful the next ! This weekend, I was making myself some Earl Grey tea. I made it and it tasted like normal Ceylon tea, so I poured it down the drain and made another cup - same problem. I remade the cup 3 times (Amidst lots of swearing) before my DH came in and gently reminded me that the Early Grey Tea bags (with labeled tags on them) from the Early Grey Box was actually Earl Grey, maybe was my taste buds!

Hi BrightSide - I did the online appointment booking for Kingston. When I told my GP I was PG and selected Kingston, they gave me a letter with an NHS reference code which allowed me to go online to make a midwife appointment. I did that at 4+5 and it was confirmed immediately online. I have now received a nice pack from the hospital in the post (at 8 weeks) which has my scan date on it - which they have allocated for 16 Oct when I'll be 12+6. The info pack has a booklet on screening tests, the hospital's maternity services and a leaflet on the Malden Suite. I was quite impressed really as I didn't expect anything before my appointment. If you have a scan date for Saturday surely you have already had a booking in appointment though?

Flirty x

Hello, do you mind if I join? I'm on the April anti-natal thread, but I'm a first-timer too and would love to chat with ladies who are as scared/ paranoid/ clueless as me!

Tomorrow I'll be 11 weeks (according to midwife), but won't get an 'exact' date til scan next week.

Flirty I had that sort of discharge that went on for 3 weeks from about 5 - 8 weeks and still occasionally get it. Midwife told me it was very common and not to worry unless the blood is red and you get cramps. While I was at the appointment (a couple of weeks ago) she gave me a quick scan since the ultrasound machine was available (lovely Scandinavian healthcare!) and everything was fine - strong heartbeat and all. So don't worry.

Apparently the scan I get next week will be an internal one (the 12 week one here is always internal apprently cos it gives a clearer picture) and is done by the doctor. It'll give me an accurate age for the baby and they'll do a nuchal fold test and give me a pelvic examination too (yuck!).

The scan at 20+ weeks is done my the midwife. It's interesting to see how things are done here compared to the UK.

Ok - going to stop waffling now!

Welcome to Kalikaroo, the due date clubs are great but sometimes I feel like everyone else has already been through this. . .I like hanging with the first-timers!

Binky I almost never go to central Warrington, though the Golden Square Mall isn't too bad. I live over in the new bit called Birchwood and my partner works at the business park so he can walk there. Can get to Trafford Centre in 12 minutes from our house, and our little neighbourhood has a pub (where I do a few shifts a week), a Spar and a post office. And a primary school with a 'Very Good' Ofsted rating (I gather I'm supposed to be happy about that?). It's total suburbia, but after 5.5 years in London (3 hours commuting a day) I was ready to get out. My DP was born and raised in NE London and he's vowed we're never going back! Up here is more like where I grew up in the U.S. (Wisconsin)---without all the annoying Americans.

Can't remember if I said, but I've got the booking in appointment for 24/09, when I'm 8w3d. Hope it's more interesting than the stupid Bounty pack! I was really disappointed, I was expecting something more than boring leaflets full of stuff I've already read---but I suppose not everyone is as obsessive. . .

Hi Kalikaroo - you are most welcome . Am jealous of your Scandinavian healthcare. DH and I were talking about the fabulous standard of living there (although I gather that goes with massive taxes, too...) Whereabouts are you - and why?

Yay Flirty - So glad you're OK. You probably said you were going away, but babyhead here forgot!

Binky - oh poor you. There but for the grace of god... I go through London Bridge every day on my way from Lee to Charing Cross - I'll look out for the green pregnant girl next time!

Brightside - lol about the tea. I had weird aversions till about ten weeks, but now I seem to be OK to eat most things again.

Had my nuchal scan today - lovely to hear as well as see the heartbeat. Took a while for the sonographer to get a measurement, though, as the baby kept turning its back on us. It was quite funny, and really seemed deliberate. He had to keep wiggling my tummy to get the baby to move, and then there were flailing limbs aplenty. Cool

THE SPRING COLLECTION
lolianja 14+4 due 2 March
CE 10+5 due 28 March
Daisyj 12+0 due 30 March
Skiingone due 3 April
BinkyB TWINS due 7 April
evs34 due 12th april
Flirty 8+3 due 24 April
Elpis due 25 April
Littleduck 6+0 due 30 April
Brightsideoflife 5+4 due 1 May
Sarah76 due 3 May

filrty - it is so good to see you back! I am sure you must have told us you were going away but we were quite worried about you!

welcome to kalikaroo - interesting name!

I have not had any biskcuit discharge but I understand it is quite normal and nothing to worry about, but obviously worth chatting with the midwife about!

so so sorry to hear of all the vomiting! (Am I allowed a tiny little laugh now that I am not sick any more???) ....sorry

I have only vomited once in the last 8 days so I think it is definitely easing. Can hear the heartbeat really strong with the doppler and it thrills me every time!

I saw the midwife on saturday, she was lovely. Had a long talk about the birth and she is very supportive of a homebirth if that is what I decide to have!!!!! If not it is a very small midwife led unit so she said it practically will be like a homebirth anyway! Hoping to get another dating scan in the next 10 days as a nuchal scan costs £200 here and is 75 miles away! (can you tell I live in the wilds of the north yorkshire moors!)

THE SPRING COLLECTION
lolianja 14+4 due 2 March
CE 12+1 due 28 March
Daisyj 11+4 due 28 March
Skiingone due 3 April
BinkyB TWINS due 7 April
evs34 due 12th april
Flirty 5+0 due 24 April
Elpis due 25 April
Littleduck 6+0 due 30 April
Brightsideoflife 5+4 due 1 May
Sarah76 due 3 May