Anybody else due in NOVEMBER 2009 :-) PART 2

[Koumak]

Ladies, it seems that we do not know when to stop!
Here is another thread. Let?s hope it?s just not the tread that moves that fast - let the weeks fly!
I jsut have to work out how to link the old one now!

turtle where did you get your doppler from? the heartbeat we heard at the scan at 8+3 was 170bpm! I think you just have to be sensible when you use it in the early days, if you can't hear anything then go for a wander and try again later. Don't panic as it won't mean anything, just that bean is small and has moved out of the way!

Laugs I read somewhere you should increase by 300 cals from the start. Personally I just eat to stop the nausea and will deal with the fallout later!

As well as piling on the pounds I'm going to rot my teeth at this rate: I can't stop eating either fruit gums or pear drops to help maintain a level of normality.

Ooooh fruit gums....
If only I could get to the shop

Becks I'm so so sorry for your news. It is so hard but glad you have the support from your dh. Take care x

Hello ive been away for a while after a scare-fell down stairs and had pains but had a can and much to my amazement my baby was there perfectly fine at 9.4.Got to hold a newborn baby the day after and its set something off in me now-I really cant wait!! It was so beautiful and cuddly-I honestly wanted to steal him!

Im so sad for becks and cupoftea-I know they will stay away for a while but i'm sure they know that we all care very much.

Hope everyone else is doing fine?

Thank you for all your kind messages, good luck to you all and I hope you all go on to have healthy and happy pregnancys x

Thinking of you Becks and CupofTea, so sorry to hear your news and thinking of you x

Less than a week until scan, time can't go quick enough!

Becks and Cupoftea I'm so sorry to hear your sad news. Take care.xx

scarlotti- Ebay.

becks so sorry to hear your sad news, I wish you and your dh all the best for the future, take care of yourself x

Hi I hope everyone is doing ok.
Ideeanna I'm glad everything's ok after your fall.

I'm drinking a lot of peach iced tea but what I really want is either a cider or lemonade ice lolly, they don't do either out here so I've had to make do with a strawberry one.

ideeanna that must have been very scary for you. It all feels so precarious at the moment doesn't it? I can't wait for the 12 week mark when we can relax a bit more and start to enjoy things. I see it before us all like a finishing line in a race that we're running towards. It must be even harder for those of you who have MC'd before. I hope no-one else has to leave us.

scarlotti I am definitely going with your stats of 300 extra calories a day! (although I have a feeling that only amounts to oe extra sandwich, rather than the mountains of carbs I've been eating)

I'm 12 weeks today. Feels like a bit of a milestone but am waiting till 12 week scan on Monday before I relax.

My wedding dresses arrived and I think I've chosen one. Fortunately it's got plenty of room to stretch into as my belly is starting to stick out. Bizzarely teachers and students at work keep saying I look like I've lost weight (I haven't).

Becks I am so so sorry to read your post. I felt so shocked for you, actually. Not that that's much consolation, but I really can't imagine how you are feeling.

What sad news there has been this week on our thread

I definitely can't stop eating. I'm actually repulsed by myself at the minute, my trousers are tighter on my thighs and waist. Have only put on 2 pounds but it feels like a lot more, I feel gross. But it is the only thing that takes off the nausea.

Can I also ask, am I being delusional or is it possible I am slightly showing? (Am 10 weeks on Sat). I just can't hold my tummy in, it's hard and protrudes quite noticeably. Am terrified it's just fat, but am literally only 2 poudns heavier! What do you think? It's my first...

katster it's my first and i noticed that my stomach started sticking out a bit at the bottom (hard to describe!) at 11 weeks and trousers have got tighter.

Well Hellooo there! Been away for seemingly ages - the laptop still makes me a bit queasy, and we've been away over Easter too.

I've had a quick scan of recent messages and am so sorry to hear that some have had bad news at this late stage. Becks and Cupoftea do look after yourselves. I've been there at 9 weeks before and the emotional fallout can be pretty horrid so be gentle to yourselves.

Speaking of MC, my paranoia about this pg continues, despite having sickness (not as bad as with pg#1), especially in the evenings. My boobs haven't been sore since 7 weeks really. But, thankfully, since turning 11 weeks this week I've definitely developed a bulge! In fact, my whole abdomen seems to have expanded for no particular reason and I'm starting to look about 5 months pregnant.

I'm a bit cross because I got my letter today for what I presume is a scan (just called an antenatal appointment, helpfully). You may remember I talked myself into a panic at 7 weeks when all symptoms disappeared and I missed my booking in appointment for an emergency scan. I couldn't make another booking appointment until 9 weeks, and as a result it looks like my scan has been delayed - I'll be 14 weeks!!!. I'm going to phone up tomorrow and see if I can negotiate an earlier one.

Hope you are all keeping well. I'm finding MS manageable so long as I eat something sloppy for breakfast like weetabix, snack during the morning, eat lunch by 12 and I need to eat tea at 5 if I'm to manage to eat anything in the evenings. Not so great now I'm back at school but I'm trying to stick as much as I can to my magical timetable!

Loving being in matty jeans by the way. I bought some in New Look last week and love them because they are actually the right length on me!

Nuchal scan tomorrow morning. Can't wait, but we're having a bit of a nightmare finding a babysitter for ds - we booked it in Oxford because that's where my sister, her partner and a fair chunk of my old uni friends are living, but apparently tomorrow is a big rowing regatta and they all appear to be rowing or coxing. My sister's partner said cheerily that ds will be fine running around down by the river (!!!!) but I'm tempted to leash him to the pub down there...

Well girls I had my first scan yesterday, everything was brilliant, and in total I was at the hosp for over 2 hours (not including the waiting!). I reckon I'm 11.5 and they reckon I'm 12.5 - my dates are definitely right though. Mad thing is we're having TWINS!! Non-identical... still in shock, but v.v. happy. Having felt really sick and been wretching but not throwing up for the past 8 weeks, yesterday morning I threw up 5 times (won't go into details, but it was quite spectacular!) - apparently MS gets worse during 12-13ish weeks with twins and then starts to tail off around 16, so I've still a few weeks to go... but at least I know it's all good news now though, such a weight has lifted!

Good luck to all of you with scans coming up, and thanks for listening to my MS whinges the last few weeks! XX

Wow, Munchies congratulations! How exciting, another twins pg on this thread.

I've gone back to silly sleeping patterns these last couple of days. Dh wakes me up with his snoring at say 4am, then I can't get back to sleep for a couple of hours, so then I'm knackered in the morning. Grrr.

11wks+1 today. Only 5 days till scan!

Munchies! How exciting! Did you just find out they were twins yesterday? I thik Flumpity is expecting twis too, so you'll be able to compare notes.

katster I am 10 weeks on Sunday and I'm definitely showing. This is my second and altough I'm bigger I think I was showing now with my first too. I remember I told the girls from work at 12 weeks, but it was a few weeks before that when a lady in Boots asked if I'd joined the Parenting Club. I was horrified!

cies DH went out last night and got in at 1am. He went straight to sleep and I was left lying there for absolutely ages unable to get back to sleep. Then I woke up again at 6 to go to the toilet and knew I couldn't sleep again, despite being exhausted.

I have started wearing my 'fat pants' again (as DH has named them). They're not maternity trousers but stretchy joggers - the kind of thing I used to wear on hangover days only (never actually went to the gym), but now have become my basic wardrobe. Sooo comfy. I can eat all I like in them .

Speaking of which, in less than 4 hours this morning I have eaten 4 slices of toast and an apple. Need to leave the house before I find myself staring into the kitchen cupboards again.

Congratulations to everyone on the positive scans. Becks and CupofTea, I am so sorry to hear your sad news.
What amazing news Munchies! Congratulations x2 on the twins!
Have a lovely Friday everyone and lets cross our fingers for good weather this weekend.

Munchies what fantastic news, congratulations!!

To all expanding waist lines am totally in your camp. It took ages for my body to change with DD, now have a portly tummy. No more waist -sigh. At least the boobs have grown a little!

Still feeling sick...nothing helps..just keep spewing bile. So fed up!

Hope everyone has a good fri..and lets pray this sickness goes soon. Good luck to all of you with scans coming up!

Munchies great news! You're going to be busy com enovember

12 weeks today and scan is on Monday so things feel as though they're progressing. Hoping I'll relax a little more come Monday.

I've had an expanded waistline for a few weeks now, mainly just fat though rather than baby. Your body lays down fat much easier as soon as you're pg to help with breastfeeding Am now starting to get more of a pg tummy though. Read somewhere that your uterus pops out over your plevis around 12 wks and so you'll get a firmer belly showing.
As soon as I get a successful scan on Monday (staying positive!!) I'll be getting out my tops that have baby stuff on them - want people to know I'm pregnant and not just lardy!!