Anybody else due in NOVEMBER 2009 :-) PART 3

[ldeeanna]

Hopefully this has worked?

Oh Cies I am pleased you saw and heard the heartbeat, esp after you were worried about your lack of symptoms recently. What a miserable old sod you had for a sonographer though? How about a bit of gentleness and consideration for your feelings? Also he should have explained everything to you and not just over your heard to the nurse.

I'm STARVING hungry. My nausea has definitely ebbed (eleven weeks today: Alan Sugar is my weekly reminder!). My boobies are still really sore though and my stomach just feels like there is something there, if that makes sense. It isn't showing much yet but it just feels solid.

Cies I hope you get someone else for your next scan, he must realise that this can be a worrying and stressful time, he really needs to work on his communication skills. My sonographer was really nice and explained everything, he could have done with an air freshner cause his room smelt of bad breath.

I had a crap nights sleep last night, I got in from baby sitting at midnight DH was snorring so loud I could hear it from outside the house. DS has started to shout things in his sleep so I was up with him a few times, all in all I think I got less then 6 hours sleep, so after DS went to cheche this moring I put some washing on and had a 2 hour nap.
I hope everyone is doing well today.

Cies - what a grumpy old sod you got! you would think they would make so much more effort to be smiley and show you everything, seeing as this is an experience to put our minds at rest. You should have puked up all over him, give him something to look sour-faced about .

I have not been sick today, and I have hardly felt sick today. I feel very very tired. But a different tired. Like I did not sleep well tired (which I did not) rather than a 'I am so tired and hurting nothing will ever make it right again' type of tired, it was an ill tired. Now I feel just exhausted but not unwell. Hard to explain. Smells still a major problem - our car stinks for example, DHs breath smells, told him he had to clean his teeth again! - but although there is a vague sense of neuseasness it is in the background (its more in my throat, not stomach?). So, here is hoping it is not a blip, but that the acupuncture worked. If so, it is bloody marvelous! Scarlotti where did you have your needles? I had them in the acupressure points in my arms (and found I had been using the bands in the wrong place, too bear my wrist) and one in the middle of the front of my leg (stomach 40 or something?!). She was hesitating between that and just above my knee/back of thigh which is the spleen.

Hi everyone, just checking in - I'm afraid I haven't caught up with the last thread - it was so massive that my computer started to crash every time it loaded.

All well with us, had the scan yesterday and all is fine and dandy. Good luck to those still playing the waiting game! We have started to tell people too, which is a relief, and I feel as though I don't have to suck my tummy in any more!

Cies - don't worry about that stupid sonographer! He is probably very unhappy with his life and just has a need to show his (non-existing) power whereas you are a lucky pregnant woman who just heard and saw the heartbeat of her baby!
Don't worry about the size. They grow so quickly. In 10 days, mine grew 12mm, if I remember correctly.

I promised DH I would stay up this evening and spend some time with him. So, er, I best go to bed for a nap or else it won't happen .

buttercup and Cies great news on your scans although at your rubbish sonographer cies.

pavlov that's exactly how I felt! I had this odd sort of dry hungry/nausea feeling in my throat and found that a glass of milk does the trick. As long as I kept eating (grapes was my thing!) I was fine. I had them somewhere on my ankles and my wrists. I too had been wearing the band in the wrong place!! Hope it carries on working for you, I was so relieved it gave me a break from feeling so rotten.

Ds woke at 6 here so have also been up for what seems like ages. Dh woke me up at 5:15 and I'm not convinced I slept properly again after that

scarlotti - the acupuncturist told me to avoid/limit dairy and fatty food for a while, as the ones on the legs would help reduce/regulate the production of bile, and something along the lines of fatty/diary stuff will counteract it/interfere.

So for lunch I had a cheese and ham sarnie and a chocolate muffin it is very difficult to avoid, esp when DH comes out of tesco's with it!

Grapes though, I too have a thing for them, for mixed fruit actually (well, went off it when chucking to heavily) - chopped up apples, red grapes, banana, strawberries, melon, kiwi (and mixed with strawberry yoghurt, mmmmm)

Pavlov so pleased you're not too sick today and keeping food down: I totally believe in acupuncture (and dithered about trying it myself but my sickness hasn't been that bad overall).

Scarlotti DH wakes me up at 5.15 every day because that's when his alarm goes off. It's a pain! Then the cats come and sit on my chest.

I'm happy because me and dp had sex last night, twice! Possibly TMI, but we had only done it twice since I found out I was pregnant, and I was a bit worried he had gone off me, because we were at it like rabbits when I was pg with dd. But last night he actually turned off world of warcraft and suggested we go to bed

Lissy thats great news! DH is avoiding me like the plague at the moment - he says "thats it until next year". This happened last time I was preg too - he didnt want to have sex because I was " a mother". I did mention that I was not his mother, but that didnt seem to make a difference. I have been doing my best seductive stances too! LOL

Lissy very funny! good for you..I only dream about it at tho mo, not feeling like it at all. Don't think I could get my DH to turn off Lost, Heroes or Top Gear!..Last night it was an ex-fling and we were in my halls of residence..amazing these pregnancy hormones!

pedal keep at it..its bound to work sooner or later!

Can't wait to get rid of this sickness. Pavlov I hope you've cracked it!!!

Cies I dont know how you didn't give him a good telling off-I think if he did that to me and I was left waiting to se whether it was alright I would go out of my mind!!!But i'm glad little one is ok!! I think the size sound ok-I had a scan at 9.4 weeks and he was 2.7cm-2 weeks and 3 days later at 4cm sounds ok!! Check different sites to get an average size to give you peace of mind!!

Sleepless I know what you mean-I just can't be bothered but he's not happy about it!! Tough!!

I haven't had much MS so far but in the last week I've been feeling really rough and starting to understand where you lot are coming from!! And I haven't been even been sick!! Don't know how you coped!!

just back from nuchal, had to prod my stomach...alot...for ages...and it hurt!... to try and get very active baby to get in right position but all is well and saw it sit up and wave...hurrah...can de stress now for at least 24 hours..due 13th nov...

Yeah! Another good scan Weston!

Lissy I'm just sooo not in the mood.

I've got a stinker of a headache. Does anyone else get headaches? I get them about every two or three days at the moment. I know you can get them in pregnancy but I can't remember what causes them.

Fantastic, Cies and weston for positive scans! Cies*, what a shame your sonographer was such a pig.

Lissy also - have had absolutely NO interest in that since finding out.... I a wondering if I would even know what to do DH is also a bit funny about it and says he doesn't want to upset anything... Aaaaw, he is v sweet.

Can I have a whinge??! Sorry in advance, but am finding it so so so hard working when I am feeling so sick. I had to leave 2 lessons today to vom, and am having to get up earlier to fit in a puke before I leave the house, or I will end up missing my train. It is really draining, as you all know, and I am fed up!! Went to bed at 8 last night, purely because I don't seem to feel as bad lying down. Am nearly 11 weeks and it has def been a lot worse this last week. Am scared I will be one of these women who get it until 40 weeks or something!

BeckyBL yes I am also getting a few headaches. Probably about 2 a week ish. Pregnancy is so lovely, isn't it!! (Not that I am complaining - I really am so so so sooooo happy to be pregnant, I promise!)

Katster37- poor you, it must be really annoying being sick at school. And just to reassure you, I had already thought my nausea would get better when suddently I had the worst week ever. It was around 11 weeks, too. I was really desperate and felt so sorry for myself as I thought, I might be one of those who feel crap until the end. So I know exactly how you feel. But I have to say, I feel so much better now, I think, already since a week. I'm sure it will soon be better for you, too.

Congratulations on the positive scans

BeckyBL - I am getting awful headaches too. I had one yesterday which was very much on the verge of a migraine but fortunately I caught it in time and it eventually went after about 5 hours and paracetamol and 4head stick! They are horrible aren't they!

I've had a busy day but it's been ok! One of the little ones I look after is leaving tomorrow so we've been making cards and things as well as playing in the garden on the trampoline (not me of course!) and new slide! Was feeling really sick earlier and the only thing I could find quickly to eat was an apple and it made me feel so much better!! I will have to keep a stock in as sooooo much healthier than all the cheese, sweets and other rubbish I've been eating lately!!

weston great news, another happy scan..

Katster poor you..i remember working with DD and it was a nightmare. Puking between meetings and just dying to sleep all the time.. It IS draining..but all I can say is that it WILL go...and you'll feel a lot better and forget all about the rough time..Pregnancy is pretty nasty stuff but to make a little person must take a lot of work and we're doing it every minute..So we're pretty amazing... I know it doesn't seem like it but you'll forget the sickness as soon as its over.

HAving said that.. I so feel like poooooo...please let it end soon. I get headaches too, and i'm sure its hormonal.

Worse is I have house guests this weekend..so not in the mood to play host, let alone tidy and make the place look good..

BBL - I'm into my prawn cocktail crisps too (or cracked lobster if they are Burts!) Maybe it's because we can't have the actual prawns!

Congratulations on the scans Weston & Cies - so sorry they weren't altogether the best experiences (meanies) but it is great to know they're ok, isn't it?!!

My news is out, want to shout it from the rooftops and so many people have been genuinely happy for us which has kept me smiling all day! Think I could turn into a complete bore but am going to go with it!!

Hope everyone else is well

Thanks sleepless and usigurke - you are both right, I know somewhere in my head it will go off eventually, it is just so draining living through it 24 hours a day, isn't it? Usigurke quite reassured that you also had a bad time at 11 weeks and that it went off fairly quickly after.

Sleepless - yuck, guests. My uncle and his new lady are coming to stay in June and I am already dreading it! They are the tidiest people in the world and we don't have a spare bed in spare room so I think they will have to have ours and me and DH sleep on the airbed Hope you've found the energy to get sorted - I am currently slobbing in dressing gown with a Double Decker, watching Don't tell the bride on iPlayer! Nice!

sleepless and Katster - Guests in the house? I can easily beat that. Had friends of my husband here last weekend (ok, I was in France but I had to deal with them on Monday), in two weeks, in-laws, a week later, a friend of husband (who probably expects him to go out every night, and they will certainly wake me up each time as we have rubbish doors and walls), and another week later in-laws again. They are nice but so demanding and in need of family (husband is their only child). Will be worse than ever now that I am pregnant.

Katster poor you, i know exactly how you feel, to the point that I finally went to gp and got a week of work. I felt so guilty for it, but I was just not coping at all, and it meant that at work I was hopeless, at home I was hopeless and I was stressing. It has made a world of difference, along with the acupuncture. Fingers crossed it passes for you soon x

Headaches - yes all the time. Most days, some days awful some days bearable. I sort of put it down to being dehydrated with the sickness.

A good thing, and a bad thing happened today.

Good thing - I went to sleep feeling tired, had a very horny dream about me and DH, and when he came in and had put a dvd on for DD in the front room, I dragged him into bed . He protested - not! He had told me jokingly to ask the acupuncturist to sort out my sex-drive out (i told him once sickness was sorted, I am sure it would be) and he is very pleased!!!

Bad thing - acupuncture has not cured the consequences of smelling garlic. DH did jer chicken and rice and peas for dunner, chopped up two cloves of the stuff, I smelt it and promptly threw up then drank water, and threw up again! I had to shut all the doors to the front room to stop it smelling.

Southernbelle - apples are anti-emetic as they contain pectin in them, so my acupuncturist told me yesterday, as they have been one of the only things I have been able to consistently keep down (i shall soon run out of wise things to tell you from her honestly ).

Pavlov that is really interesting - I am managing to keep apples down as well, and in fact really liking them, and Copella cloudy apple juice!
You are right to get a week off work - don't feel at all guilty. I bet some time off will help make you feel more relaxed as well as enabling you to lie down and take it easy a bit.
Well done on the, ahem, bedroom activity as well! I am beginning to wonder if I will ever feel like it again! Bed is for sleeping at the minute... Oh dear! Maybe this one will be an only child!