~*~ AUGUST 2010 ~*~ Moving into 2nd trimester, where things start getting better

[KayloHalo]

God, are we really on our 3rd thread???? Already???

How many weeks are you BoucningBlueBerries? I am feeling a bit down as I have no bump, no MS, no sore boobs - all of which I am grateful for of course - but makes me wonder if there is really anything in there? Scan next Thursday Feb 4 - I hope there won't be an empty black hole on the screen

Morning,

thanks for all the lovely messages, I'm so relieved and over the moon

Kaylo hope your valuation goes well today, we have the home report guys round just now and not looking forward to the results, hopefully better than the estate agent's dismal valuation.

chulita sounds like you had a rough night, I'm sooooooo moody if I don't get my proper nights sleep, I get so cross! hope your not suffering too much today.

aussieng DH wasn't keen on me sharing pics i said it's no different from putting pics up on facebook and he said that he doesn't want me to put up scan pictures on facebook. I don't see the problem with it at all, I'd love to share the pics with our friends, but he says it's private.. my friend's DH was like that, especially with her pregnancy pics, just didn't think my DH would be like that, strange.

I'm only 9 weeks and I've got a belly not noticeable as a bump but a definate belly, my bra is on the last notch so I fear a new one of them is imminant! ordered some maternity tights and leggings yesterday to keep me going as things are starting to get uncomfortable.

Anyone getting unresonably angry with their DH... any little thing he does seems to be bugging me at the moment but then he shouldn't be annoying me at all!

LCRLCR I'm 14 weeks today but it's my 2nd pregnancy - with my first I just looked fat until I was about 19 weeks, then all of a sudden it was a proper bump.

13 weeks and I have a bump but I'm on #3 so not suprising. Took till after the 2nd scan to show with dd1.

People keep asking us if we're going to find out what we're having at the 20 wk scan and being surpised when we say no.

So do most people find out now then??

Thanks for your advice took 1 paracetamol last night tried the deep heat this morning the smell did make me retch a little though.
Talking about bumps don,t know how long it will take for me to show as i am carrying a few spare tyres on my belly just feels like my fat is firmer
girlsyearapartNever knew with either of my first 2 till they were born,but maybe that was just the norm back then.Must be honest don,t think i could be as patient this time what does bug me is when people say bet you want a girl after 2 boys that,s just not the case i just want a healthy baby boy or girl both would be loved equally.

Thank you for all your messages, you're very kind.

neenz you're right about the stats, but unfortunately given that the baby has 7mm nuchal translucency and also has fluid around the abdomen, in that case the mortality rate is 100% regardless of any chromosomal abnormalities that may be identified. So the CVS results are almost academic.

I will be thinking of you all over the coming months, especially in August when your little ones start arriving. Best of luck with everything and I hope to be back later in the year with some more positive news, lots of love xx

Girlsyearapart We intend to ask if we can know the sex, but I reckon baby won't play game so we'll have to wait anyway - I wouldn't mind either way really, just makes it easier to know so can sort bedrooms out. If it's a boy theres so much rearranging to do. If it's a girl not so much

MrsZac my DH is being pretty sweet still (although annoying when he thinks that his man cold compares in anyway to my ms!) except for his "MS is all in the mind" thing. He read this rubbish about African tribes who have never heard of ms and therefore the women never suffer from it and keeps telling me this. I tell him that if it was all in the mind it would have gone at 12 weeks like all good pregnancy guides say

girlsyearapart we're going to find out and most of my friends have done so too (although one was wrong). There's only 2 permutations so it's not the biggest surprise in the world to wait for now if there was a possibility of them handing me a puppy at the end of it.... But each to their own - you should not feel any pressure either way. We do have some expectations to manage on each side of the family so better done soonest I feel.

not feeling under pressure to find out when we don't want to but it used to be quite rare to find out now it seems the opposite.

bigmuther totally see what you mean everyone keeps saying 'so you're having a 3rd to try for a boy then?'

err no. We actually would prefer a girl if we had to pick and we had always planned on having 4 children actually regardless of the sex..

Aussie I would be very happy if it was a puppy though

Crazycat, so sorry . Take care of yourself and I hope you have good news in your future.

It's so annoying when people say that about trying for a boy/girl. I have boy/girl twins and people used to say to me 'you can stop now' as if it was normal for people to just keep popping them out until they get one of each!

Most people I know haven't found out the sex, but we did for the twins, I really wanted to, DH didn't but it was sensible to find out for practicalities' sake. So it's up to DH to decide this time but I hope he lets us find out. I know what I am getting either way so I can cope with waiting tho.

I figure it's as much of a surprise to find out at 20wks as it is at the birth (and I was so out of it at the birth it wouldn't have been that much fun!)

I also loved telling people the sex and what names we'd chosen. I just loved talking about it really

Hello all and sorry I haven't been posting - the threads have been moving so fast, it's almost impossible to keep up.

Had my 12w scan on Monday, all seemed well - I'm now waiting for the results of the blood tests.

I have one question: the crown-to-rump measurement was 5.5cm and the scan said age:12w2d. So how come the scan doctor didn't change my due date and still wrote that I'm 11w4d pregnant? Do they use different measurements for different things?

Good luck to all of you who haven't had their scans yet!

20 July - Aussie #1, Nottingham, 35 12 weeks scan/nuchal all good
22 July - 4 Aug) Chulita #2: Dorset, 25
29 July - Bouncing Blueberries #2 South London, 33 13 week scan all good
1 Aug - Kaylo, #3, West Yorkshire, Age 24, 12wk scan/nuchal fine.
1 Aug - Nikalah, #1, Dorset. Age 35
2 Aug - Dibbydab, #1, Devon. Age 34 - 12 wk scan/nuchal fine.
2 Aug - Missus84, #1, Bristol. Age 25 - 12 week scan fine
4 Aug- girlyearapart #3 kingston Hospital Age 30 - 12 wk scan fine.
5 Aug - Kanella, 1, Plymouth. Age 37
7 Aug - NichyNoo, #1. Brussels. Age 29 - 12 wk scan fine
7 Aug - Bigmuther #3 Swindon Age 35
8 Aug - ElusiveMoose #2 Kent 33
10 Aug - Crazycatlady #2, South London, age 30
10 Aug - SayAnything #1, Brussels, age 33 - 12 wk scan fine
13 Aug - augustsun, #2, South London, 34
13 Aug - babyisaac, #2, North Yorkshire 35
14 Aug - Soontobefatnat #1 SE London Age 30
16 Aug - Alice #2 Suffolk, Addenbrooks, age 25
16 Aug - Tah2 #3, SWales
16 Aug - Neenz #3 Liverpool (32)
17 Aug - Doodleydoo #2 Kent still just 34...
17 Aug - LCRLCR #1, Brighton 34
21 Aug - babyducky, #2, Brighton, age 23
22 Aug - Vix206 #1, Leicester, 31
23 Aug - Isheisnthe #3 Camberley, FPH, Age 33
23 Aug - cakeywakey, #2
23 Aug - Sparkle #1, age 31
23 Aug - loobyt #2, age 34, Devon
25 Aug - Sam86 #2 Liverpool
25 Aug - vitapulchra, #4, Guernsey, 32
26 Aug - mrsZaC, #1, Glasgow, 26
27 Aug - Littlemiss72#1 S London
27 Aug - ronx (was dollishillbilly), #2, NW London, 37
29 Aug - starshaker #2 & 3 Ayrshire Age 29

3-D photo of bean is on my profile; my mum and dad are already arguing about who it resembles most...

Neenz People have said that to us cos we have a boy and a girl - rather than congratulations we're getting "why? do you expect something different?"

Well, yes. I'm expecting that this time the baby will be orange and work in willy wonkas chocolate factory

Or maybe I just wanted to have another baby - boy orgirls, who cares? I want a healthy baby, that will be loved by me, dh, and his/her siblings.

I agree with on the being out of it at birth as well - with dd I was so spaced with G&A that I was asking where 'Stacey' was? Meaning dd, who we had decided months before to call Sophie

HATE HATE GAS AND AIR!!! (but will prob still use it again...

afternoon all

I have a bit of a bump, I just look fat though I think!
Ive mostly been wearing leggings as they are sooo comfy, but wore my skinny jeans yesterday & could still just about do them up which surprised me!!

I dont think we are going to find out the sex this time, we did with ds but dh really wants to wait this time, I would rather find out though!

Glad your scan went well sayanything & anyone else who has had one, will look at your pic in a min

ooh kaylo I loved gas & air!!

lol at stacey!!

Wow that photo is brilliant sayanything!!

Thanks babyducky!

crazycat I'm so very sorry . Very best wishes to you for the future.

sayanything, they often don't change the
date unless it was a week or more out (I think because the scan can be a couple of days wrong as well).

Re the sex, I reckon about half of my friends have found out. I did with DS because I was really desperate to have a girl, and if I was going to be 'disappointed' (which TBH I was when I found out at the 20 week scan, which is ridiculous really), I wanted to get that feeling out of the way before the birth. Of course, I now wouldn't have had it any other way. And this time round I don't really feel any preference - though I'll still find out at 20 weeks if I can, because I'm so impatient . BTW neenz, I've got some friends where the woman wanted to know and the man didn't, so only the woman found out at 20 weeks. She managed to keep it a secret throughout the whole pregnancy, but then let it slip during labour .

Sorry for all of you having house woes at the moment. We're actually having someone come round next week to give us a quote on a loft conversion. I'd never really thought of having it done until a friend mentioned it, but we've got a big loft which we hardly use, we only really want/need one more bedroom, and the price can apparently be as low as just the moving costs involved in buying somewhere bigger. Not sure if it's possible, though - we'd have to find somewhere to put the stairs, and the neighbours might object to us having windows put in (it's a communal development, so they do have a say). Quite exciting, though.

Oh, and re the bump - yes, and then some. Had to put a swimming costume on this morning - not a pretty sight....

Thanks ElusiveMoose.

On the sex question, we're definitely going to find out. Picking a name is going to be a nightmare, so we want to halve the pain if possible. Plus, it feels strange refering to it as "it" IYSWIM.

And as for the bump, I think there's something there, but I can never be sure if it's just bloating or fat. I definitely feel fat ATM, although I'm still in my normal clothes (but having to surreptitiously pop open a button after lunch ).

sayanything - lovely photo! Which hospital are you giving birth in? I'm going to St Elisabeth in Uccle and the gynae was really nice..phew!

I'm glad you asked about measurements and dates as I was thinking the same thing. I was 11+3 when I had my scan with a due date of 9 August (according to my GP). However before the gynae even scanned me she said that by her calculation 11+3 days from the start of my last period made the due date 7 August. The baby then measured 5.6cm which is quite big for 11+3 but she didn't change the 11+3 figure....I was slightly confused!

Hi NichyNoo. I'm supposed to give birth at Erasmus, but my gynae just told me that she may be on holiday around my due date .

I heard very good things about St Elisabeth, a couple of friends of mine gave birth there and they were very happy.

sayanything - I had the same with my scan, 12w2d and 5.5cm (which matches my dates) but the "official" due date from LMP put me at 13 weeks. I think only your midwife can alter the date, not the sonographer, but the only change it if it's a week out anyway. Apparently the scan date can be 5 days out either side anyway - not an exact science!

Awww, Sayanything How adorable Beautiful pic!

CrazyCatLady I really hope you're ok hun and taking good care of yourself - looking forward to seeing you back on ante-natal in the near future

Moose Good idea re loft conversion - given me a whole new range of ideas "No of course we don't need to move house darling dh, you were right

Missus I remember going for my scan thinking I was 11w6d and she said baby measured 13w5d but couldn't confirm it to my as I needed to wait for my results through the post

I'd definitely go for the loft conversation over moving house, but then I do have a bit of a phobia about moving house - it's so stressful!

Sayanything, if it's within a week of your dates and you are sure of your dates you can insist on what you thought was your EDD, but you can also ask for the scan EDD if you prefer.