December 2010 any one? Come keep me company

[OnlyWantsOne]

well... this is scary

Hello, can I join? I got my BFP a week or so ago but have been in de nile since! I'm due 27 December, and like novicemama I am hoping this one will be late so I can get through christmas and new year. We've got DD (Boo) who will be 3 in July and much as she is hoping for a little brother for christmas, I don't think she actually means christmas day, it would kind of interfere with the present opening somewhat!

Not feeling sick so far (fingers crossed) but boobage is tres sore and I am so tired, I feel like I've run into a brick wall! Angel I've also been feeling breathless, and I seem to remember being like that with Boo. Luckily though I don't suffer from asthma. Hope it gets better for you soon.

Evening ladies, just a little apology for being rubbish and for the fact I'm going to be absent for a while again, just found out DPs best friend (DS's godfather) passed away this morning, was meant to be his 30th birthday tomorrow, and it's totally rubbish. Also just before DS arrived DP was made redundant and his best friends little girl died aged 4, and now that I'm pregnant again DP has been laid off again and now his best friend has died, I jusy feel (however unreasonably) that it is my fault and that my being pregnant is a jinx for everything else.

Have had a lot more cramping and pain than I did wih DS and with all the additional stress I called the midwife this morning (despite not booking in yet) and have an appointment at the EPU on Tuesday at 8.40 for a scan, hoping to see a little heartbeat and hoping that will bring me out of this hole as only just recovered from PND and don't want to sink into depression again...trying to think happy thoughts!

I'm going back to my mum and dads tomorrow, despite being a grown up with a baby I'm having such a rubbish time I just want to go home and be looked after by my mummy! Also, was meant tobe going across on saturday to tell them we're pregnant, what a downer on our happy news!

Sorry to be so miserable, I'm hoping a break at my parents and a scan will perk me up and I will be back next week and you won't recognise me!!

Welcome to all the newbies, I will get to know you all when I return! To everyone else I hope you are all well and continue to be so!!

Oh emma what an awful time you are having. I don't blame you for running back to your parents, I think I would too. Enjoy being a mummy's girl for the weekend.

quick post before work,

jodie hope you are feeling better. would give epu a call to be on the safe side if i was you. i have to pay for my claxane as i have given up on my nhs consultant and gone for private care for my recurrent miscarriage tests. best thing i have ever done.

welcome polly

sorry your having a bad time emma. of course you know your not a jinx dont you?! wish i could get my mum to look after me she has a more exciting life than me!

Morning all

Emma hope you have a refreshing and relaxing weekend with your parents - its nice to go "home" and feel all safe

Hope everyone else is ok, DP and I are meant to be taking DD camping tomorrow, just seen the forcast, HORRID!!!!!

Seriously dont know if I CBA now however, dont want to let my friends down we are going with and DD will get very grumpy with me - however if the DHL driver doesnt turn up with my tent, we wont be going any where.

Still no eggs from the chickens yet - however the heavily PG guineapigs are about to drop

9 weeks today yipeeeeeeeee

Congrats Only! I am a mere 5 weeks and 4 days. And I should not have said what I did about not feeling sick yet. The morning sickness has officially started... ugh.... I am trying to drink ginger and lemon tea. How is everyone today?

Hi everyone! sorry I haven't been around much - I am EXHAUSTED. It's all I can do to get through the day at work, go home, eat and then crash out. Feeling nauseous all the time and awful headaches in the evening. Yuck. I know it could be worse, as I haven't actually puked, but it is getting really boring now!!!!!

I will be 9 weeks on Sunday, and I think I am starting to feel a little bit better. I hope so as my poor dd is wondering what has happened to her mummy! Also it is her sixth birthday on Tuesday.

First OB/GYN appointment next Thursday. Can't wait. If all goes well I will be breaking the news to my boss next Friday. I'm sure everyone must have guessed already as I look so tired and spotty, I'm not going running and yesterday we had champagne for a colleague who is leaving and I didn't drink any. Dead giveaway!

Emma you sound like you're having a really rough time, I hope the scan helps to make you feel better.

mumatron ah that makes sense, couldn't you ask for a prescription from your nsh dr now you have been given it though? Not sure how that works. I feel a lot better this morning so maybe it was tiredness and doing a bit too much?? Who knows but I'm so glad they've stopped, going to take it easy today and rest (as much as possible anyway!) I think the massage from dp helped and he's promised another one tonight hehe. If the cramps start up again I'm definitely going to call though.

OnlyWantsOne I think Monday is supposed to be the best day. I've been interested in camping lately, never done it before and never wanted to but I've been thinking about it. How is it? I have visions of insects and noise lol, I hate spiders and anything crawly or that flies at me.... Fresh eggs but be great, hope you get some soon. Good luck to the guinea pigs

Congrats on 9 weeks!!

PollyPoo similar to me, I'll be 6 weeks tomorrow I think. I felt sicky last night but nothing yet today. Having cheese on toast and a decaff coffee right now.

I'm looking forward to a weekend with the kids, there's a fair in Cambridge so I think we'll be heading there on MOnday, supposedly the best day for weather. Have to see what else we can do.

morning pregnant ladies, I am so glad QoD put me onto this thread

PollyPoo we have the same due date! so legs crossed all through that turkey lunch and praying for early Jan!

Hope you all have lovely weekends, I am jealous of you OnlyWantsOne going camping

xx

we're only going for 2 nights!!!!!

I am never jealous of anyone going c*ing You have my commiserations Only! I hope the rain stays away for you.

Oh yes NM I am hoping for a January baby, legs crossed until then! Boo was 12 days late so if BooTwo follows the tradition he/she will arrive around 8 Jan. That will do me just fine. Although... don't they say second ones usually come earlier?

PollyPoo - ds1 was 1 day overdue & ds2 was 8 days over. I guess they just come when they're ready though. I have so many dates in December that I want to avoid, I didn't time things very well!

Emma, I'm so sorry. You are having a tough time, and is absolutley nothing to do with your pregnancy. Nothing at all! Life is just unfair sometimes. And we will most likely never understand why.

Welcome newbies. Feel free to go sign yourselves up on the Due December 2010 Stats Thread

I am feeling fat already. How can this be? And I am so incredibly hungry. I could eat a horse, and ten minutes later another one.

I am so NOT ready for mat clothes shopping. This morning I thought about measuring that size of my thigh so I'll know how much it changes between now and December, but I decided it was just depress me.

Now I really must get moving and decide on a hospital... decisions decisions...

persnickety what are your choices? is this your first consults the stats thread

what about a homebirth>

Am definitely not a homebirth girl. I want a planned section. Have had two previous sections.

No one has told me what my choices are, but am not going to the hospital in whose catchment I live. I went to Queen Charlotte last time and if was nice. But, I am just pondering that when I go tell the GP my news she might say it's not on offer so I thought I'd have another option or two I'd be willing to accept.

I want a hospital who will not try talk me out of my caesarean request. With two previous ones, I think I'll be okay.

So, I'm trying to find out more about Chelsea and Wesminister. I have just therned that both they and Quenn Charlotte accept self-referrals. I'm a bit puzzle dby this as I've never hear of such a thing. Since when do hospitals allow you to just refer yourself?

Emma - really sorry to hear the news. That's terrible for you and I don't blame you for running home to your Mum - that's what they're there for! Also, I think your DP being laid off is more due to the bankers than your pg so don't get hung up on the idea of being jinxed, as all that will do is upset you.

pollypoo my lemon and ginger tea which I started drinking at about the same time as you is still sitting on my desk as I can't even face that.

Today is my first day with serious nausea (a few waves before now, but only for ten mins or so). So far I've managed a packet of skips and two satsumas. Hmmm, wonder if that's a healthy, nutritious balanced diet. Also having a total wobbly about how I'm going to get through the next six weeks (if I'm lucky!) of ms, which makes me think that I'm never going to cope with either labour or actually having a child to look after - I'm such a wimp!!!

Please tell me that these feelings of inadequacy and patheticness are normal?

whatwillsantabring, don't worry about eating properly while you have ms, IIRC I was lucky if I held down anything at all in the first 10 weeks of my first pregnancy . Someone did helpfully tell me at the time that your body makes sure the baby gets all the nutrients it needs from whatever you manage to eat - so you might suffer but your baby won't .

Emma hope you're doing OK, it sounds like lots of things have gone wrong all at once . I do hope your mum looks after you well this weekend [virtual hug]

whatwillsantabring I dont really have MS but today Ive eaten a yogurt, a bacon sandwich and TWO packets of skips.... fear not

Emma what a horrid time for you - I hope seeing your Mum helps.

We are off to see my parents this weekend and Im torn between telling them (I am 7 weeks today) or leaving it a little longer. Got my first appt with doc next week but tempted to go for an early private scan. I am a very impatient person and also just want to know all is ok.

We told DSD last night having spoken to her counsellor about how and when to tell her. She is delighted and Im hoping this experience will help us to bond as a family unit given she has only been with us on a permanent basis for 4 weeks.

The MS is hitting home with a vengance and no longer just in the afternoon - the only thing I am managing to eat is cheese and bread (wierd) - I have gone through two large blocks of cheddar in 3 days - I know the tightness of my clothes is not just to do with being bloated and pg!! I cant bear the thought of the size I am going to be at the end of all this!!

Emma poor you - please don't let in such thoughts! Bad things happen with no real connection to anything else... Hope you feel better during the long wknd.

I hate having MS and can't wait for it to stop at wk 12! I don't really get sick but a constant annoying nausea and at work I am usually in all day meetings and teleconferences and it is really difficult to listen when all you can think of is how badly someone's coffee stinks or how badly you want to gag! God when will this be over?

Hello everybody new and old!

Emma poor you, hope you have a nice relaxing time at your mums and your scan goes ok on Tues.

Morning Sickness has properly set in, I have only managed to eat 4 slices of toast over the last three days.
Work was a nightmare, and the icing on the cake was it was Photo day, I am this colour in all the pictures!
Couldn't get hold of Fentimans, DH is meant to be looking for it tonight so attempted an elderly can of Canada Dry I found at the back of the drinks cupboard was not bad, don't know if I felt better but certainly no worse.

Dh has decided we are going to tell the kids tonight, mainly because DD is getting worried I am really ill. I feel a bit nervous about telling them especially as MIL brought my 1yo DN round today and after they left DS said "Phew, I don't really like Babies!"

Firsttimer- Why did the midwife change your dates? That seems an odd thing to do so early on without a scan. I learned with me first baby (when I said I was two weeks over due and she wouldn't believe me) to get a nuchal scan at 12 weeks and never let anyone reajust the date after that. The date at the nuchal is pretty accurate. Scans done later on are less accurate so my advice is to never let anyone move a date at 20 weeks scan if you have a date from the nuchal.

Emma I hope you feel better after going home for a few days.

Got my date for a nuchal scan today - 1st June, that seems like forever away. I don't know what to expect as last time round it was just a dating scan at 12(ish) weeks. The only thing I do know is that it's something to do with the new combined screaning that's replaced the triple test.

hello ladies,

quick visit to pass on my hot new anti nausea tip! Holland & Barrett crystallised ginger! Also available online!

is helping me where all else fails.