Due April 2009 - Time to dance the light scantastic.....

[LittleMyDancing]

New thread as the old one was full!

Morning all

I have my 16 week check up (am only 15+3 but is the only day for 4 weeks that I can do!) today and I swear on my life I look about 6 months pregnant. Everyone has commented on how big my bump is! (which originally I didn't mind but am now getting a bit paranoid about!)

I don't have narrow hips - child bearing would be a good description but have always had a fairly flat stomach (not any more!) I am thankful that it does look like a bump rather than weight which is nice but still huge!!!

Sal, am sure in a few months time when he/she is jumping around and kicking in the morning, you will be wishing they would go off to sleep for ten minutes!

Hope everyone is doing ok this morning - I had a 7 hours train journey yesterday for a work meeting and am really suffering today!

Hi all

Had my 12wk scan yesterday, all fine, just one little baby in there -- phew. It wriggled about a bit and gave us a good look at its bum but was definitely less active than DS was at the same scan. Hopefully this will mean a very laidback baby.

DH was pretty sure he saw a willy and the sonographer did hint heavily that "It MIGHT be a boy" although she said she wasn't supposed to say anything til the 20wk scan!

Great news Megs, always a relief to see that little heart pounding away!
Babybolat, at least people might give you a seat on public transport. It's the early stages when you really need one IME and by the time I looked properly pregnant enough for people to give me a seat on the tune (during last pregnancy) I felt totally fine! I used to make a point of walking up the escalators just to make people feel lazy it used to create quite a stream of movement to the left hand side !

ha ha! yeah you would think that but I am not sure that applies - I spent 5 hours on the train to manchester yesterday sat on the floor!!! Although to be fair, my clients don't yet know I am pregnant so have been trying to hide it in my work clothes!

Yes great news mags, glad all went well, did you want a boy? I think I would find it bizarre knowing there is a little willy growing inside me!!

I heard the heart beat again at the doctors and it was just as amazing as the first time!

Evening all-

Glad to hear we've had some more good news regarding scans.

Well, I had a nice weekend away this weekend. Went to a seaside village just a few miles from where I live with a group of lady friends.

It could have been nicer as had bad morning sickness all saturday. But sunday was a good day. And it was the break I needed from family life. Was good to be back home tho.

Since then, however I have been suffering even worse with my morning sickness and headaches. I'm 14 weeks now and really had hoped it would be over by now. I dont handle being sick very well.

Well just a quick hello from me today. Will pop in again soon. Hope you are all well.

Pink

just to update you all ladies had interview, didn't go too well but will be at least a week before i hear about 2nd interview. Very unlikely I'd say and on some level I feel I deserve it for covering up my beautiful bump - i actually apologised to my baby as i was putting on my magic knickers this morning!!!

Hi all - I've had the nuchal scan and bloods....1 in 22000 risk!! Based on my age was 1 in 600 so this is quite reassuring.

I was scanned for 30 minutes, baby was rolling over and over and wouldn't keep still! Then he/she went to sleep. Was sent for a cold drink, wee, jump around etc and when I came up he/she was awake but turned it's back on us! Sonographer prodded around a bit and baby turned back round. Nuchal fold was 1.4 mm. Saw blood flowing in and out of heart and saw the tiny bladder with water in it! Saw blood flowing through placenta into cord and baby, was really amazing. Saw the tiny nasal bone too.

At my dating scan last Friday (4 days ago) I was told I was 11 weeks but today I measured at 12.5 so I really don't know what to think!

Had to share my exciting news, hope you're all doing okay! xx

surprisenumber3

That is great news! I got a very low risk reading as well...can't remember exactly but it was something like 1 in 2200 or something. Basically nothing to fret about. Phew!

I too am hoping for a girl this time. I only have 1 DS but both DH and I really think that we aren't going to have any more than 2 DCs so, I am hoping to get a little girl - it would complete the family.

Did you see any different with the symptoms with your 2 previous pregnancies? With DS I was pretty lucky....felt great all day just had a little mild nausea in the evenings. But other than that my appetite was good and I felt fine! With this pregnancy, from 7 weeks I was hit with nausea and indigestion 24 hours a day! I am more tired and just generally feel more uuurrgrhhhh.... a now 13 weeks + 4 and still not fully lost the nausea and indigestion is definitely still rampant!

So it has been totally different to the easy ride I had with DS. Sooooooooo many people have commmented how it must be a girl as I have been hit so hard this time. But I keep trying not to get my hopes up too much!

Another thing was at the nuchal scan....when I had the scan for my DS he was really lazy...was just taking it easy not bothered at all that the sonographer was prodding and pressing on my tummy and shaking me about.

This little one was a right ole primadonna! As soon as the sonographer put the scanner on my tummy baby turn it;s back to us! Then baby did loop the loops, turned multiple times started waving and kicking...so different from DS and so much more lively! My immediate instinct was to call baby a 'she'.

Again...don't want to convince myself it is a 'she' right now and of course it is just as likely to be a lively 'he'.

Either way as long as baby is healthy that is all that matters....but I would like a girl...

Hi Dungirl, I felt slightly nauseous with my first two pgs, with this one I feel sick most of the time and no appetite, have acid indigestion very early on this time too. All of them have been really active on the scans, this one in particular! I am inclined to call the baby a 'he' again though. Don't know why, just reminded me of a boy kicking and rolling about!

Although I have 2 DS's and a DSS, I would like another boy. I think I am just used to boys. DS1 wants a sister, DS2 wants a brother, so either way one of them will get what they want!

I will ask at my 20 weeks scan, although I 'know' it will be a boy! If I include my DH in the figures, I will then have a 5 aside football team,

Hey DungunGirl - my symptoms sound really similar to yours and I am absolutely convinced that I am having a girl (it is my first so have no comparison but quite irrationally I am 100% sure)

I always wanted a boy first, call the bump he all the time, but am sure it's a girl and am really getting used to the idea that it's a she!

Wow, Suprisenumber3 that sounds like an amazing scan was it private?

my symptoms are kind of the opposite to yours - eg i felt pretty sick a lot of the time with ds, but this time i have just felt mild nausea in the evenings, so i am kind of a wee bit hoping that the difference means its a girl too - but i would be just as happy with a boy as ds is such great fun.

Hi girls,

Just checking in to keep my name on the list. Haven't been about much lately as still battling the dreaded nausea/sickness. Has got a lot better recently though so I'm hoping it might fade soon. I am 15 + 1 today.
Maybe 16 weeks will be the magical time when it disappears...All I have eaten today is two chocolate poptarts! Not thrown up yet though, so baby must like chocolately, sweet foods.

Poor you Cosmogirl - has the doctor not given you anything to help?

Hi BB, I took some anti-sickness pills for a week but stopped them because they were making me really drowsy and depressed.

I have got much better but I just can't wait for the nausea to go - it is the worse bit imo. Just hangs there draining you of life and enthusiasm! Here's hoping the next few weeks bring some relief...

i cant pretend to know exactly how you feel cosmogirl cause this time round i have been pretty lucky sickness wise - but i do remember how bad it was last time.

the only consolation i can give you is that around the time you start feeling better (given that its gone on for ages) you will probably not be far off feeling the baby move and assuming you're over the sickness by then, thats when i really started to enjoy pregnancy cause you really know there is something in there then.

i had forgotten how that felt and was just starting to think today that i was sick of being tired all the time etc and then i felt a little buzzing sensation down very low which went on for a minute or two - not entirely sure if it was the lo, or something else, but even if it was something else, it reminded me of how amazing it felt to have a little baby inside you and communicating with you well before its born, and has made me excited again to be pg.

hope the sickness goes really soon.

conkertree - i've started feeling our LO this week, felt the odd little popping in my tummy, and also had a 2 braxton hicks this morning which for anyone who has had them before, it makes your uterus go really hard, which is great because i could feel that it is as far up as my belly button - i was amazed!
Is anyone else feeling movements yet?

14+2

I thought I felt movement yesterday as it was a very familiar feeling ( have a DS already). But then thought it had to be too early to feel anything...am 13+4.

Wow conkertree that is a good thought - i can't wait to start feeling the baby! Especially the real kicks and movements! will all start to feel very very real then!

Can I ask everyone something (especially those that have done this before)....

I just told some of my very very closest friends that I was pregnant and this was their response...

"That's great, although we kind of knew anyway and were just waiting for you to admit it!"

And that was it... nothing else!!!

And I was really annoyed (am I over-reacting?), I think I was at the very least expecting some more questions or a bit more excitement! Maybe I am just being selfish and sensitive about it all!

Thanks Conker. Yeah, quite a few people have said the sickness stopping often occurs around the same time as movement. I keep lying really still in bed trying to feel something, but just a gurgling belly usually.

If worst case scenario the nausea carries on all 9 months, I think it is just going to be a case of eating whatever I can stomach and waiting for the 31st March to come round! Not the way I would have imagined my pregnancy to be, but hey, that's the way it is for some of us unlucky ones I guess.

[Can you tell I'm a glass half-empty kind of gal when it comes to the sickness...?]

Oh I feel really jealous of your baby movements - I WANT SOME!!!!!

That's amazing for you...

babybolat - some of my close family haven't really said congrats. its our 3rd we've had them very close together so being pregnant is pretty normal for me. Nobody seeems to be as excited this time, apart from my mom and hubby and best mate. to everyone else it was no surprise and they don't really register that i'm pregnant. or thats at least the way i feel.
forgive me for not knowing but is this your 2nd child?

BabyBolat - I would expect a bit of excitement too. Maybe if they already guessed, they've had the initial excitement already - but they could make the effort a bit now you've told them properly.

I think it also depends very much on what stage they are at - eg if they are at all thinking of children themselves, its more exciting for them, but if they are not at that stage at all, they might not get the excitement of doing the test/first scan etc, and will maybe be more excited the bigger you get, and the closer it gets to the actual birth.

If they are really close friends - I would mention that you were a bit disappointed, and you will probably find they are a lot more excited than they seemed.

diddle - no it's my first baby! and the first baby of all of my friends! I think that's so wrong - it should always be exciting whether it is your first or tenth!!!

Conkertree, no they are not in that place yet which may be a reason for it and I probably will say something a bit down the line -

Anyway feel better about it now to be fair, sure they didn't mean it that way!

Is anyone else really nervous about telling people?
I am actually scared of telling my parents. I am not sure if it is actually pathetically because I am not married - at the age of 37 and living with DP I don't think they think I am a virgin. But I am terrified. Can someone give me a sentence that I can just practise and say?

I have told one person other than DP - a real ramdomer who i had to tell to get out of evening commitments I just couldn't do. He was very unimpressed and I actually felt guilty. (I don't think he has any idea what it can be like for a 1st trimester pregnant person to have 2 / 3 days a week leaving the house at 7.30 am and getting in at 11.10 pm - I couldn't do it.)

I am happy about the baby, DP is happy, I need to try and convince myself that some other people will be happy. Any ideas?

I said to my parents, 'so it looks like you are going to be grandparents...' and let them fill in the rest themselves.

Your parents will be really pleased!! Is it the first grandchild?