Due Jan 2010... Grab the folic acid and settle down for the long haul...

[singalongamumum]

Wow, can't believe I'm posting this, hope I'm not jinxing it but sooooooooo excited. Just found I'm due on January 1st. OMG!

Starshaker glad to see you're back, patched up and rehydrated. Horrible for you to be so out of sorts.
Had my own mini-drama tonight, been feeling twingy and crampy this afternoon and then got myself worried about it, eventually saw an out-of-hours doc. He ruled out a urinary infection (sorry if tmi) and then shrugged his shoulders and told me to keep my fingers crossed that I wouldn't miscarry.
Funny enough, this didn't upset me particularly, it seems to be fair enough - sometimes there really isn't much the medics can do, it's all down to nature. Oh to do a Rip Van Winkle until July - to awake from my slumber to be told it's 12 weeks and all's well.

Morning
Feeling a little worried this morning last night I had some sharp stabbing pains they were on my left side and in the middle they only lasted a few second but enough to make me worry.
Read on internet that these could be ligaments stretching any one else had anything similar I'm 10+3.

Ladies, apologies for going quiet on you all so soon after joining you but have to admit this thread isn't having the calming effect I hoped for....
I have no sickness at all! You all seem so poorly and I'm really worried the fact I don't is not a good sign for me.
I'm so sick of the constant worry

Hugs to all x

Hi starshaker glad to hear you're getting sorted. Hope you feel better soon.
Mowmi With ds I had morning sickness day and night and was really ill for 8 months - this time around I have thrown up maybe 5 times and compared to pregnancy with ds have not many symptoms at all - but that's the way pregnancy is - they are never the same don't compare yourself to anyone else. And try not to worry I know it's not easy.

Morning all!

Tons to catch up on. Am LOL at marmiteDP thinking oven chips would cut it. I have not caved to the chip shop chips craving. Had a jacket spud (oven baked very healthy) on saturday and new potatoes with Salmon and Yogurty dip last night. Eating spuds seems to have taken care of it...for now!

Anyhows, just popped on after seeing Mowmi post. Mowmi - I had zero nausea and zero sickness with DS. I promise you! Please dont let your lack of MS worry you. Skip away in silent glee that you have escaped it thus far! I dont even have it that severely, and it is not pleasant!

Have good days all! Another working week to get through!

xx

Hi all - wow, a busy weekend, so much for my 'start work early' plans for today - have spent it all catching up.
I'm another one not feeling sick so far (sorry), though I'm getting really bad indigestion in the evenings - feel like someone's sitting on my chest from about 4pm onwards and constant burping! Had to go out for a big dinner on Saturday for my FIL's birthday - was very pleased that managed to sip a single glass of vino for long enough for nobody to notice that I wasn't really drinking - but then spent the whole walk home wondering if they could hear me belching dinner back up! Nice...
Must admit that lack of sick does worry me slightly on whether all's OK (then I tell myself to stop being ridiculous!)

I'm trying really hard to be 'good' on the list of things not to eat/not to do - alcohol-free beer is helping! Delighted to find out that the Food Standards Agency thinks sushi is OK - particularly as my SIL in Australia was told she couldn't have it when she was pregnant last year and really missed it (not smug at all...). Did get told off by DH yesterday for moving heavy pots and things around in the garden...

Hope everyone has a good day at work/home - sending some 'non sick' vibes to everyone feeling grotty.

alibobbins i've had lots of little twinges and pains in my tummy but i just figured they were ligaments like you said. also have had period type pains and backache from time to time which i've convinced myself are clearly signs of a miscarriage, but so far, not yet thank god.

Morning everyone. I've had some brief stabbing pains too - most people seem to think it's a ligament thing. Also, I think you can get a bit windy and constipated, and that can give you a crampy tummy... it's so easy at the moment to take note of every tiny twinge that you would normally not even notice I think.

Anyone else suffering with hayfever? I must find my homeopathic stuff and see if it helps at all.

Trying to do some housework this morning as I seem to feel best first thing and worst last thing now, and the house has got into a right old mess. But dusting not helping with the sneezing!!

Hi everyone,

alibobbins, i had stabbing twinges with my son and also felt v sick constantly the pains I was told were ligaments moving etc. This pg i have hardly any symptoms i am 7 weeks so having read londonlottie expecting all to poss kick off this week.

Mowmi please dont worry as everyone says every pg is different.

Any tips on relieving constipation trying linseed but it makes me feel sick eating it. thinking dried apricots next??

coffeeicecream pears are good laxatives, or even pear juice, otherwise prunes.
For my toddler we soaked dried prunes in very hot water since he wouldn't eat them and then he had the very concentrated water stuff and it worked.

Hmm, the prune water thing sounds interesting - dd gets constipated, but won't eat prunes.

I am fed up with DP today. He asked me yesterday if we were telling dd, and I said no because 1) it would be too much for her to understand if something went wrong, 2) it's too long for her to wait and 3) she would tell everyone. So, minutes later, he started dancing round the sitting room saying he had a fat tummy with a baby inside it... dd of course very quickly switched this to me having a fat tummy with a baby in it. We said 'no, daddy was just joking', but this morning when I was washing she started patting me and saying 'mummy's got a fat tummy with a baby inside it'. Brilliant. Even if she hasn't actually registered this as something that's true, her joking is still likely to alert everyone we meet. And DP just shrugs his shoulders and says 'it wasn't my fault'. Really pissed with him about this.

Hi Biccy I make it really concentrated and stab the prunes with a fork and then put a couple of tablespoons in ds drinks during the day and it works.
Your dp sounds so happy - we have told ds who has said he wants a brother called Auntie Liz - .

hello and congrats to everyone!!hope you are all doing well and enjoying carrying your little secrets around with you!

Found out I am about 8/9 weeks (and due approx 15 Jan) last week but have had a pretty stressful few days...went to my GP and was referred to midwife - all hunkydory - but then had some bleeding. Massively freaked out and became a hysterical wreck. Returned to the doctor two days later who said nope not a miscarraige but infection in your kidneys: drink more water!!! Am now on antibiotics and have got the week off work (always a silver lining!) Feeling much better now and MS seems to have disappeared at last too!

This is my first pg and I feel completely confused by the whole thing tbh. I'm single and the first of my friends to get herself a baby so nobody to tell me to stop being a crazy!!

Looking forward to sharing the big adventure with you all!

Thanks folks, I hadn't thought of it in terms of DP's excitement... that helps actually. DD is just 3; I think the thing will be to play it down now, avoid the words 'fat' and 'tummy' and hopefully she'll forget about it.

Welcome Esme, glad to hear your scare was just that. I won't tell you to stop being a crazy though... just that being a crazy isn't all that crazy!! It's a bonkers time of your life.

Biccy, on the hayfever I had a long chat with my local pharmacist on this the other week when it was hot (and I was going mental with my nose practically falling off). You can use eyedrops (sodium glyo-something?) and you can use limited amounts of the nose spray stuff. Pharmacists went through his prescribing manual with me and it said 'benefits outweigh the risks' for the steroid nosespray, and he was happy to sell it to me as long as you use within instructed limits and as little as possible (so with the recent rainy days I've managed to do without most of the time). Because it's sprayed on rather than tablet, apparently that makes any risk MUCH lower.
If you're really struggling 'the book' said you could have Piriton - as long as you don't mind it sending you to sleep!

Thanks glad to hear other people are getting the same things.
Still feeling a bit tender around my hip bone but only when I sit in a certain way.

alibobbins I'm going to go against the grain here and say that if you have sustained pain you should get in touch with your GP or midwife.

It is, as most people are saying, probably nothing. But we're allowed to be anxious at this stage, and a pain like that that lasts would make me seek medical advice, and I am not one for rushing off for reassurance at the slightest twinge (not that I'm criticising those that do, I'm just too lazy, and have been lucky so far).

Welcome esme I don't think you'll get much help with not being crazy on this thread, but we should normalise it for you

PMSL @ timmette's DS and a boy called Auntie Liz Kids are brilliant. Thanks for the tips re: getting children to drink prune juice. I am a complete baby when it comes to the prune, so I might get DH to sneak prune water into my juice when I don't know about it

Hi everyone else I'm 8+5 today and this morning I woke up with the nausea. It seems to have gone now, thank God. I guess my easy ride might be coming to an end.

mowmi how sick you feel seems to vary enormously even from pregnancy to pregnancy. My former self is seriously jealous of how well I'm feeling this time around. Last time I just thought that other people who weren't floored by their nausea were just made of sterner stuff than I. It turns out that they were probably just feeling tip top whilst I found being conscious something of a struggle.

alibobins, I second what skidoodle has said - I would get that pain checked out too. And I keep meaning to congratulate you on your degree pass - well done!

And thanks flightoffancy for the hayfever advice.. not so bad today, but if it gets worse I will go along to a friendly pharmacist.

Hi all, well I am now 6 weeks and the sickness and tiredness have kicked in! My sickness comes and goes at the mo and I just feel it.

I saw somewhere about preggie pops. Do they really work?

afternoon all
welcome to new BFPs
Mowmi - I had very few symptoms with DS and no MS.
How I am paying for my smug, glowing pregnancy now I am pregnant with my second ! I am not even 7 weeks yet and I feel and look dreadful.
I will have a bet with you all now that if all goes according to plan I am either having a girl or twins.
Poor DS is streaming with either a cold or teeth today so we have spent rather a lot of time curled up reading books. Good as I am not up to much more but if I have to read Each Peach... one more time I might scream!
We have just made it to the shops as I had a sudden fancy for tomato soup ! and some of those big chocolate buttons. Maybe I am incubating a giant sumo wrestler ?

Doctors have got no appointments and said if there is no bleeding then not to worry. Definatly think its ligaments as my back is twingy and feels like a nerve is trapped down my leg.