Due March 2010 - do my boobs look big in this?

[donttrythisathome]

Hello everyone,

I can't find a March 2010 thread so thought I'd start with.

This is my first and i think my EDD is 2 March 2010.

Come and join me!

DB at your previous birth! Kudos to you for ever conisdering going through it again! Hope this one is a healing experience...

DB

Really pleased that your scan went well. We had to tell really due to problems at work - that was also at 9 weeks. We had a scan the day before which seemed ok. Apparantly if you get a strong heartbeat at 8 weeks + miscarriage rate drops to less than 3%

Do whatever makes you feel comfortable.

x

Well the only way is up, right Arcadie?
Scooby that stat is encouraging... think will start to tell in the next week or so.

db
xx

Absolutely right db. My plan is to manage to go into labour without requiring drugs this time. 0 for 2 on "going into labour naturally" so far. Not bothered if I get drugs once I'm IN labour mind....

Yeah, I'd settle for that Arcadie... which is why I'm so glad about having new dates... and wondering if that was maybe part of the problem last time...

db
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Yup me too. The fact that I KNOW which day I conceived and the scan is still saying a week later makes me think that my body just sits on the fertilised egg for a week before doing anything with it- thus guarenteeing a ridiculous length gestation.

That said, I'd probably have let labour naturally last time if it wasn't for the fact that Christmas was very rapidly approaching for my November baby....

just a word about swine flu...people aren't getting too poorly at the mo but it is expected to peak and affect people much worse come october and through the winter. I'm 8 weeks and a school nurse so petrified of the vaccine (untested on pregnant ladies) but more scared of getting it late on (I'm also asthmatic). The vaccine will have been tested on kids soon so I will be giving it to my toddler to help protect everyone.

hope you dont mind i have added myself in
Becky7000 15 February #4
Tigresswoods 1 March #1
DrSkid 1 Mar #3
Potpourri 1 March #4
onlyanauntie 1 March #1
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MissieMoosMummy 1 March #2
cyphercat EDD 2 March #2
Caitni EDD 2 March #1
Horsiemummy 2 March #2
Oscarsmumm 2 March #2
pureeandpearls 2 March #2
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sarahmikeharryandrosie 3 march #3
Donttrythisathome EDD 3 March #1
Smac 4 March #2
BlueyDragon 4 March #2
TakeLovingChances 5 March #1
Dalrymps 5 March #2
Dophus 07March #3
Twofalls 7 March #2
Carrie2010 7 March #1
BYM 8 March #2
CAFW 9th March #2
ilgb 9 March #2
Sariska 9 March #2
rebeccacad 9 March #1
wilkos 11 March #2
Lemonadegirl 11 March #2
Josie22 12 March #1
Swingsofglory 12 March #2
Iwonka 12 March #1
Scooby26 13 March #1
Vixie123 13 March #1
MrsSnow 13 March #1
Minicooper 14 March #2
slackrunner 14 March #2
Poppyjen 15 March #1
Annamama 15 March #2
Childofthe80s 16 March #1
mmtwgr 16 march #2
Scootergrrrl 17 March (??) #3
Arcadie 17 March #3
SleepWhenImDead 18 March #2
designerbaby 19 March #2
Kay1980 19 March #2
Luckysalem EDD 22 March #2
Veryworriedme 22 March #1
Rindercella EDD 27 March #2
Fleximum EDD 28 March #3

how do I add myself please?

In terms of becoming a member of the thread - you just did - welcome .

In terms of being "on the list" ... copy and paste the list into the message box. Find where your Expected Due Date is and slot yourself right in. The #1 #2 numbers refer to what number this baby will be in your family. eg I'm due 17th of march & this baby will be my 3rd.

itwascertainlyasurprise - i know how you are feeling. all i can say is thank god i skyplussed 15 episodes of gossip girl. about to have boozy bbq with friends (or rather becks non alcoholic larger in my case)to try and pull me out of this bloated grumpy waiting game

Well, I feel in the weird limbo bit now. I have finally stopped feeling sick and can make meals without wretching (sorry TMI) but now I don't feel pg at all! I have got a bit of a bigger tummy but I think that is more due to lack of stomach muscles now and bad eating when I was feeling sick. Would like a proper Baby bump now so people don't just think I have let myself go!

itwascertainlyasurprise - I know how you're feeling too! In fact I wrote "I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired" on Facebook the other day... cuz I felt sorry for myself, and to see if anyone (who doesn't know I'm pregnant) could work out the hint. One person wrote "for a good reason I hope?!" And that's just it, we have to remember we're not ill, it's not a permanent condition, and it is for a good reason! It shouldn't be too much longer.

Becky - lucky you to not feel sick anymore! My pregnancy book says "By the end of the first trimester your tummy may be starting to swell, but this is more likely to be due to mild bloating and sluggish bowels than to your growing baby." Hmm, ok, whatever...

DB wow to your 1st birth, hope this one is loads easier

IWCAS I know what you mean about feeling sick, of feeling sick and tired. Generally I'm ok, and as yet have not thrown up but do feel very sea sick at times...like today. I've spent the whole day in bed all that sunshine and I'm stuck inside.

I've been reading more and more about the swine flu jab and have to say that on hearing that the trials are to be in Germany does not fill me with confidence. I feel that the distance between us and whoever is on the trials in Germany means that there won't even be a chance that if something goes wrong it would be leaked to the press (thinking like the trials which took place in Middlesex hospital). I don't feel confident in something that has not been tested on pregnant women (and which pregnant woman would take part in a drug test trial?) and the long terms effects seen on their babies.

On a funny note I did brave a pregnancy shop to buy some clothes. As I was paying the woman said ' let me guess how far along you are', reluctantly I said yes...Her guess was 5 months!!!!! I don't look that big, infact had lunch with a friend who is five months and look nothing like her.

Enjoy the sunshine

Mrs Snow - I've been doing the same as you, reading up on the vaccine, the only evidence I found that's even marginally reassuring is that it's administered as an inactive virus and there's been no evidence of harm with other types of inactive viruses in pregnant women. Even still, it doesn't give me the confidence to take it. They need to be a lot more open with the trial results. Maintaining this cloak of secrecy only makes me feel more unsure about it.

IWCAS - try the sea sickness bands from Boots, it helps me a bit, but I'm also fed up of sicky sickness on a sicky stick

Dreading going to work tomorrow, I look MASSIVE

hmmm bbq was a lttle tricky. all friends asking whether any luck on TTC and i felt bad about remaining silent. also dh had a few too many and is now being very vocal about how hard it is for him because he wants to be excited but cannot be because i wont let him. i meanwhile am shattered and lying on the sofa with the far too frequent abdominal pains praying it is indigestion

Veryworriedme ? 99% sure it is indigestion. I practically lived on Gaviscon (sweeties less pukey than liquid IMHO) first time around and it's just starting to kick in again now... loverly.

Delightfully it seems to be something which kicks in just as the MS starts to abate...

Try not to worry, easier said tha done I know, but you'll feel all sorts of nasty things over the next few months. Try remember that 99% of them are nothing but the by-product of your insides being rather drastically rearranged to accomodate the increasing needs of the other human who has taken up residence.

Oh, and because your body has ceased to give a stuff about you, or your comfort as it is much too busy looking after your baby... . Your body has defected, basically.

Reassuring hugs from over here. You'll get more confident as the weeks go on, promise.

db
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thank you db - will try to stop worrying so much. it feels like an age until that 12 week scan!

Ha! db, just saw your post at the top of the page about your 'normal' labour. puts my (probable)indigestion pains in perspective

DB is right, try not to worry... but I hate that feeling too, when you feel a bad tummy ache coming on, thinking OH NO! Then if you're lucky you release a big fat pregnancy fart (oops too much info), and feel a lot better.

Well, yes, veryworriedme... but just to reiterate, despite my glass-half-full attitude twards it (which is only really possible with almost 2 years of hindsight!) it actually really wasn't 'normal' at all, and in all probability 99% of labours will probably be better than mine was. Probably because 99% of people would have been smarter than me and accepted the CS on one of the many occassions it was offered.

See, I combine a glass-half-full attitude with a really stupid, and possibly reckless, level of stubborness... Will be working on that a bit over the next 6 months or so...

Annamamma - for got the mention the giant farts. After DH spent several hours mopping up meconium which was running down my legs, I think it's safe to say the mystique has pretty much gone from our marriage, (I don't think it's possible to get it back after something like that TBH) to the point when pregnancy mega-farts don't even really warrant a mention in the designerbaby household anymore...

db
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Hi All

I have a very embarrassing question to ask. I have been really uncomfortable for the last 24 hours and I am not sure whether it is because I am mcing or constipation! or trapped wind. I have never suffered from the second 2.

My lower back is incredibly painful especially to stand and it feels like the first stage of contractions that keep coming in waves when you feel you need to poo but it is the pressure of the babies head. Basically I can't poo when I try and I have had some wind but I am not sure whether this is laughable or something sinister.

I asked my mum who didn't think it would be contractions as she said the head wouldn't be big enough yet to feel this kind of pressure but she was unsure as well. I thought I'd ask if anyone else had suffered anything likes this or know what it might be before i take myself to A&E for them to tell me i'm constipated

I'm so sorry I am fully aware that this is TMI but I'd rather ask you rather than a loud of medical staff in hospital!!!.

Retro. It sounds like dehydration. I get sore kidneys (sore back, comes in waves) when dehydrated. And of course that can cause constipation. I would recommend getting some prune juice, drink loads or it, and lots of over clear liquids - that should get it moving. I also found that the best thing for constipation is a teaspoon of linseeds over your breakfast cereal (get from Holland and Barratt). Much better than manky fibogel - yuk

On the swine flu jab - no way will I or my littlies be having it.

Hi ladies,

Retro, I was going to suggest something to do with your kidneys too as pot pouri said. I had pain like that when I had a really bad bout of cystitis, I think it had started to become a kidnet infection, paracetamol did help though as well as antibiotics. Might just be dehydration/constipation as pot pouri said. Try not to worry

Sorry I've fallen behind at the mo, i'm rubbish, have been so tired. I'm finding it really difficult to sleep, I go to bed tired and just lay there and toss and turn. If I do fall asleep I just wake a couple of hours later and have broken sleep till the morning

DB - Thrilled the scan went ok for you, must be a big relief

Got my scan on weds aft eek.

Mrs snow - The lady who guessed how far along you are is obviously cr*p at guessing! Take no notice, silly woman! I had the opposite problem last time, no one noticed I was pg as i was so small!

On the subject of the swine flu jab. I thought it sounded like a simple sollution when I first heard about it. However, since hearing about it not being tested on lo's etc I just can't bring myself to take that risk I don't think. I am asthmatic also so I really wish I could trust the vaccine as it would put my mind at rest but it just not that simple

itwascertainlyasurprise - Welcome . You sound like a very strong determined lady. I hope we can be a good support for you (and you us!) throughout your pg etc

Also welcome to easydoes it and sarahmikeharryandrosie and congratualtions

scooby - How's the work situation?

Hope everyone else is doing ok and those with sickness are starting to feel better.

Sorry I haven't replied to everyone, I'm just too far behind! Must try harder!