October 2005 - time for nr. 2 !!!

[SusiS]

i always wanted to do that

We are a sad lot arent we.!
I am glad I am not the only one feeling down. I woke up at 5.00 this morning, thinking about work , started crying again. Ridiculous. If I wasnt pregnant I would be seriously worried about myself.
On a more positive note DH and I have decided to shell out for a 4D scan in a couple of months time. The photos are amazing.
Anyone else had one?

Hi ya everyone,
Spoke briefly about a week ago. Hope you are all feeling ok....Or at least copying with this sea sick feeling.... Pass me the lemonade...anybody else find that fizzy drinks kinda settle the stomache?

Just awful isn't it? Just bought caffiene free Coke as I find it's the only drink that doesn't make me feel sick and apparently pepsi was invented as an aid to settle stomachs!! It's working for me at the mo anyway...and I'll try anything!

evening girls! i have to say i am feeling better every day!!! no sickness today at all
touch wood

am still very tired so; but i guess that's more to do with me not sleeping well!!!
besides that i am slowly getting used to the idea of having another child. making lots of plans in my head already

oh, and i had ginger ale the last few days. it's fizzy and contains ginger

OOOh fizzy... nice..
Just been offline, trying to get work ready for the dreaded Ofsted on Monday....

Don't you think we should be intitled to Materntiy leave at the beginning of pregnancy as well as the end?

Mishmash - I've had spotting/ more pronounced bleeding. I had a scan at 7wks4days and they said the baby was 'textbook', doctor not worried and I'm not seeing midwife until tue (I'll be 9wks 3days), yet I've continued with the spotting/bleeding. The radiographer did say that this was not exactly a bad sign considering the amount of hormones flooding my body at this early stage.

Still feeling sick on and off, total exhaustion between 1-3pm, DS age 2 won't let me nap!! Bloated. Wake up feeling stuffed up in the nose but nothing to 'blow' away. And crying, oh my God, I've been crying for the World. Tonight my 2 yr old told his Dad "Mum OK, no cry now, better now". Luckily DH can't interpret him as well as I can and thought he was talking about his fire engine he was clutching at the time!!! After suffering taking the kids to a farm a few weeks ago, glutton for punishment, I took them to the zoo today, on my own with snow and rain, and God the smells!!! They had a great time so it was worth it. When does the irritability and mood swings pass, apart from all of the above??? Can't remember going through this much with my previous pregs, except the extreme tiredness. Mind you had a devil of a time coping with an unsupportive boss and lots of timescales to meet.....

Just got back from my mum's house. Feeling miserable today, my glands are all up in my neck and I'm all achy and painy.
Lousy feeling made worse by the fact that during watching Fame Acadamy, they sang "Where is the love" by Black Eyed Peas, which got me all upset and on the verge of tears, and I had to hide behind a magazine.
Everything makes me cry at the moment. Cancer research adverts are the worst. They've always upset me anyway, as my Granddad died of cancer aged 61, but this one is really sad. Loads of people doing lovely life things like playing footie, getting engaged, holding their grandchild for the first time saying "I shouldn't be here". Then a woman being fitted for a wedding dress saying "my mum should be here." Makes me sob like a little baby. And even the Baci chocolate advert gets me going - the cafe owner who falls in love with one of the customers and puts all the little messages into the heater so they drift around her while she's having her coffee. I even cried the other day watching Friends. It's like OH MY GOD WHATS WRONG WITH ME?!!??!
Tomorrow I am going to a health sap, and my treatments include a back, neck and shoulder massage, and a facial. Will tell treatment person that I am pregnant and feeling pretty terrible, and hopefully they'll be extra lovely to me.
Just waiting for my appointment with the midwife on the 17th to get the all clear (fingers crossed) and then start telling people. Then at least when I feel like shite, I don't have to pretend I am on top of the world.

morning girls! it's not getting better - i keep waking up at 2am for 2 weeks now! no fun! and just can't go back to sleep. when i finally could at 5ish lucas wakes. last night i woke my usual 2am and dp was still not in bed. and i know when he goes to bed that late he will sleep very long next day and i will have lucas all to myself all day!! could really do with some help; at least on weekends! so i had a little cry and dp was really sweet. he even got up at 5 when lucas started crying!!!!!!! wow - well, ended up with me getting up with the little monster at 6 and dp is still asleep now. we are supposed to take lucas swimming today at 11. don't know yet if i wake dp or not. decide later.

well at least reading all these posts about you all crying and barfing all the time makes me feel slightly better ... cos i feel SHITE. been soooo upset this weekend thinking about how i'm ruining dd's life by bringing another baby into our house, fed up because the only food i can stomach is junk food or curries or chineses - ie anything that doesn't require cooking myself. can't go into the kitchen without retching at the smell of the sink, the bin or the fridge and feel really really fat. dh has been an angel, bless him. got an early scan tuesday and feel so ungrateful about all of this. have wanted this for 2 years and now can't help thinking it's a big mistake. is this normal?

I havent cooked in weeks. Living on anything that easy such as ready meals and take outs. Thankfully DH is a chef and can always put something together, or bring something home from work.
Am looking forward to going out for lunch today. Going to a carvery restaraunt , plain and simple, is all I can handle at the moment.
I hope everyone has a nice Mothersday, despite the nausea and the blubbering.

I'm sorry to hear everyone's feeling so rotten, but I'm also kind of relieved cos at least now I feel normal and not like I'm a raving lunatic. I used to be worried that I wasn't getting the m/s but now I'm glad cos I feel so crappy in other ways I think that would just finish me off. I can't stop wanting to sleep and cry.

Moomin I think I understand how you feel. I'm glad you wrote that last sentance because I've had the same thoughts and been feeling really ashamed of myself, haven't even told hubby. I was so pleased when I got the bfp I thought I'd stay that happy for the whole 9 months. Now all I keep thinking is "OMG what have I done!, how will I cope, I didn't think this through properly. Oh s**t!" With all our rampaging hormones it's got to be normal, being able to blame stuff on the hormones is what keeps me sane at the moment.

Hi Everyone and Congratulations! I have just found out (10 days ago) that I am pregnant and think I am almost 8 weeks now (around 17th October) (I had implantation bleeding which I confused for a period...). Only yesterday have I started feeling really hungry all the time and very slightly nauseous. I have a question to you all - are you experiencing a change in your tummy size? This is baby number 2 and my tummy button is starting to push out and I'm worried that maybe I am further along than 8 weeks....? I don't remember this last time... Elf1981 - I hope you get your massage - I tried to get a facial last weekend and they said they won't treat any mother who is less than 3 months pregnant - not sure if you are or not!

It is a loveley sunny day. I was playing with ds at the park and imagining this time next year when I will hopefully have a small five month old tagging along.

What a lovely thought

Hope everyone manages to eat some food and get a nap today if they need one. Happy mothers day.

Hey girls sorry I've not been around much... been feeling yucky.... is anyone else fed up of retching bile up every five minutes all morning? Big pause as the thought makes me retch again! It seems to scare poor DS as I make a really awful noise! It's painful too cos my stomach's empty... massive hugs for everyone else feeling rough!

The really annoying thing is though - that I sit here at home complaining about it and using it as a (good!) excuse not to go out, but then when I do go out I don't puke! I feel bloomin awful but somehow manage to eat a bit more and puke less... it must be because I'm so shy about puking in public lol although people are going to start not believing me lol!

Oooh and HAPPY MOTHERS DAY! To all of you

morning girls!!! wohoooo i actually got 6 hours sleep last night!! much better than the last 2 weeks but could really do with let's say 12

and i've been sick yesterday for the first time - hope the last time too!!!!!

am feeling not too bad atm actually

dp is asleep (he works nights) and so is ds; so i might just stretch out on the sofa and watch tv

Aww Susi good for you I'm almost feeling up to some toast myself...yay! Lol

Hi ladies and thank you so much for all of your help and advice. I don't have a computer at home hence the silence all w'end and left work early on Fri as couldn't stop crying! Anyway, went and had another scan this morning and all is fine. I'm bleeding outside of the sac like last time - no explanation as to why, but baby is fine and now measures 28mm! It is so reassuring to see the little heartbeat and now limbs - it has grown 2cm in 2.5 weeks! So had a very quiet w'end but now am a happy chappy again! Luckily I don't feel sick at all - but the tears started on Fri and continued on Sat much to my DH's distress! Mind you, now he know the baby is only 28mm long he is wondering why my stomach is getting so large - he thought he would see a Ben & Jerry's mound of icecream on the scan!!

Really glad everything is ok with your little bean. Quite amazing how such a tiny thing can have such a huge effect on us. Feeling very sick today. tesco delieved the food shop and now at least i can try and eat something healthy as i seem to have eaten utter crap over the past few weeks.

Hello all - not been around for the weekend as trying to sell flat and needed to tidy like mad.

Lewpy - welcome, I am interested in how you get on as my dd is also 15 months, so will be interesting to see how the whole sibling thing effects them.

Crying!! Glad others are doing that too - I almost started crying at a fundraising notice for Comic Relief as I was so impressed by people being lovely and caring for one another - if that doesn't make you sick, don't know what will!!

Moomin - I feel like you, I have been desperate to get preggers again and thought it would so exciting this time as knew what to expect - it is awful and worried am doing the right thing - not sure if this is just tiredness, nausea, ante natal depression or hormones, I just keep telling myself it will get better!

Bozzy, congrats and welcome, I'm due 17th as well, however, cannot locate tummy button to tell you what is normal!

I'm off to buy some Ginger beer - mmmm!

MM

I still feel awful so haven't been on here much. Going on the computer makes me feel sick (don't ask me why!) watching c beebies makes me feel sick in fact everything makes me feel sick. Yesterday was the worse day I've had yet. I was constantly being sick all day with an empty stomach. I couldn't even keep down water. I ended up so dehydrated last night that I made hubby search for ice lollies (which he found, bless him) managed to keep those down and feel slightly better today. I have lost about half a stone since I fell pregnant and the anti sickness tablets the doc prescribed don't even seem to work anymore. The only other option is to go into hospital and be put on a drip which I really don't want to do as I have a 21 month old. Please let this be gone by 12 weeks!! My sympathies go out to everyone else who feels sick. Hope everyone's ok as I haven't had time to read the rest of the thread. Speak soon xx

ds has been at wacky warehouse all morning and pre school this afternoon which means I have been having a lovely rest. I feel better if I am outside so I have been doing some gardening. Online shopping saved my life and I have booked a cleaner to come in and sort out the house. Heaven.

Oh bonniej - poor you. I know what you mean about the computer screen and I can't stand the telly either - cbeebies does seem particularly irritating at the moment. Hope you feel better very soon.

Welcome Bozzy and Lewpy!

My father supplies medical goods to hospitals and he has given me some of the latest technology sick bags. They have a sort of cardboard cut out to put your face in to contain any mess and special deoderising gel in the bottom which makes it all go solid. (Sorry if this is TMI). They are fantastic - total freedom and no cleaning up, can be used while driving. They should sell them at lakeland.