Due July 2010 - pukey tums & burpy bums on the road to becoming summer mums

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Gosh, we've gabbed our way to 1000 already!

I too am eating like a student - the shame of it!

Stac - with princess royal and got an envelope filled with leaflets with my appt letter. It says that the 12 week scan will "normally be your only scan". Also my 3 SILs have been through this hosp within last few years and have only had 1 scan at 12 weeks.
My family are from fife and perthshire and all got 12 and 20 week scans so i thought it wa just glasgow cost cutting!
Would be interesting to know what you are offered (did you say before your going through southern general?).

However this is 1st time so don't know anything from experience!

Can't even begin to imagine labour...was slightly concerned that the midwife said that as I am very tall that I could have a 12 pounder!!! Eeeeek! I have never heard of any link around that before? Bizare and somewhat scary!

Very possible I will have to have a cs due to bicornulate uterus but hope I won't have too, as scary as it sounds ideally I want to experience what it would be like to give birth relatively naturally. Hope that doesn't sound really naive and I guess I will just have to wait and see what happens.

Lucky my boss is being really understanding and creatively covering for my emergency puking sessions!

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I had booking-in appointment around 9 weeks last time. Went to GP to confirm it over a month ago now. Maybe I'm just impatient!?! everyone else on here who is due around the same time seems to have had their appointment already with a scan date arranged. I must be the only one

stac14 I may be having a section too, due to a combination of age, high-risk pg (high blood pressure) and previous c/s.I don't mind if I do - end result of a healthy baby is all I'm really bothered about.

I say have whatever you need in labour to get through. It's so hard to predict how it will go, especially the first time. I know someone who just had first baby, 5 hour labour, at home, born in the bath, no pain relief. I know other people who went into it with all intentions of no drugs etc and ended up with long long labours and every drug going. I'd say just be open to anything that may arise - don't limit your options. I was induced and had pethidine which was great (just felt quite pissed, tbh, then g+a which did nothing for me - didn't even touch the pain. But I had been induced and was having constant contractions - no break in between them - just wham, wham, wham, on top of each other. The bliss when the epidural went in and within 3 contractions all the pain was gone!

Anyway, there have been lots and lots and LOTS of discussions on MN about this topic, I just say don't rule anything out.

Not sure about the height correlation but MiL is 5ft9 and all her babies were over 10lbs. Dh was 11lb5oz!! Thank god ds was a slightly more reasonable 9lb

More bleedin tonight Trying to think positively. At least it's only light this time, and she did say it could happen again at the us...but hard not to think 'uh oh'

Glad I've got my scan in the morning

becky I just grabbed my stuff from the princess royal and I defo have a leaflet saying we will be offered a 20 week ultrasound. It says all woman will be offered this scan but you don't have to take it. Have you saw the midwife yet? The first day we went to epu up there a woman we were talking to had said she had just missed receiving the 20 week scan but had gone ahead and got it done privately so I am hoping we will definately be entitled to it. I'm going to get my hair done on Thursday, so looking forward, feel as if I havent done anything for me in ages lol

tish fingers crossed you get a scan tomorrow. My 12 week scan is 6th January which is later due to the hols.

whatshesaid Your so right, doesnt matter what way you do it as long as the baby is healthy. How did you feel afterwards? My friend was great, up and about withing a couple of days. Not too worried but hoping I'm still awake during it.

Been busy on here today lol xx

Sure it's all fine Winter, the scan will put your mind at rest

Winter hope all is OK, bleeding is so worrying, good luck for the scan

Stac I felt oK after my em c/s, I wasn't in any pain more tired from the induction and labour than anything else really. The recovery time is obviously the downside with a c/s, I felt OK at the time but looking back it did take a while to really feel 100% though. I got an infection in the wound and ended up back in hospital for five days on IV antibiotics, which didn't really help!

Of course with dd I could just lie there and rest and recover while she slept (she was a very quiet newborn!) whereas this time I'll have a toddler too. And all family (on both sides) the other side of the world! There is a nanny training school in the city I live in that does 3 week placements for their students where they come and work for you for free as part of their training so I'm going to look into that. You can't leave them in sole charge of the children but they can be around to help while you sleep/shower etc.

I dont know how they work it, I am only 5ft 4, DS dad was 5ft 11, I was 7lb and his dad was only 3lb but I still managed to have a boy who was 10lb ounces lol heres hoping I dont have a bigger one this time

Yeah, mw was a bit worried as I was only 4lb 8oz and am barely 5ft now! I don't think 9lb from ds was too bad considering what could have been ;)

I'm 6'1 and dh is 6'5. I was about 8lbs and now desparately texting mil to find out how big dh was.....fingers crossed he started off small!

A friend of mine has a husband same height as mine but she is a couple of inches shorter and their ds was 11lb and a whopping 60cm long after a 35 hour labour.

Both DP and I are about 5'8 and I was about 7lb and he doesnt know (typical)

So just hope its not too huge!

Omg firerise i feel sorry for your friend that must have been a nightmare for her

winter hope your scan goes well tomorrow. I know it's near impossible but try to relax as much as you can this evening x

Good luck tomorrow winter. Let us know how you get on

winter good luck with scan hun, defo let us know how you get on x

my last post was meant to say DS was 10lb 6 ounces, he is now 10 years old and 5ft but dps son is quite small so as you all say there is no way of knowing. the growth scans I had before he was born had told me he was only about 7lbs which I thought was great, the problem was he was long rather than chubby lol
tsc did you suffer from a lot of heartburn with DD?
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I am Not Thinking About That Yet. Eek! All the women in my family seem to have really traumatic births so it doesn't look great for me - plus I was disappointed by that recent thread about how 'childbearing' hips don't actually help. Bugger.

Still sleeping atrociously! Pretty please may I have a good night tonight?

Im the same emster cant sleep to save my life at night but then after lunch the only thing i want is sleep but cant cos im at work

SO SO SO nervous about mw appointment tomorrow. I dont even know why!?

hi ladies, i havnt posted for a while but having been keeping up to date with the thread & glad everyone is doing well, good luck with scan winter

im 9 weeks now and have apt to see my GP this week, things are quite different here in ireland we dont get a 1st scan until 16weeks which is a bit of a bummer, im very impatient this preganancy its dragging by & i dont know why as im run off my feet most of time with 3 other dc's to look after!!

Feeling very lucky that im only nausous & not vomiting like a lot of you, must be awful to be feeling so ill all the time, hope you all start to feel better very soon.

kkfairybrains what part of ireland are you from do you mind me asking?

im 5 weeks off the smokes 2day, still getting some very strong cravings but its def getting easier

tsc i was the exact same, bedtime consisted of gaviscon and a four pint carton of milk. Hope they have better remedies than they did before lol.

winter thinking of you this morning, as you said the mw said it would happen again, sure you and baby are fine.

emster did you get a better sleep hun. I kept waking up with stupid dreams and feeling sick. Wish i could stay in bed.
Hows everyones wednesday??

tish hope your appointment goes well hun
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Good luck today Winter - thinking of you! x

Es, good luck winter. I hope it all goes well.
I am still in bed having vomited four times this morning, including all over dh at 3am
phoned surgery but can't see a dr until Friday afternoon, despite vomming whilst on the phone to receptionist. As she said, morning sickness is not really an emergency
can't wait to get back on the promethazine. It was the only thing that helped with ds. Irritating that you can't drive on it though, as we live in the middle of nowhere and I will be trapped once dh goes back to work.
Don't know how any of you are stomaching milk. I can't think of anything worse right now