December 2010 - Time to stop feeling sick. Please

[RaceyLacey]

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Im snuffley at night and the back of my nose / throat hurts and feels stingy 24/7

Ooh, I've just remembered a silly thing I did yesterday. I was just going to bed and in bathroom to brush my teeth, sorted a few bits out, picked up my toothbrush (without toothpaste) and started brushing my teeth!

Pregnant brain does silly things!

Claire, thoughts and prayers go to you xx

baking - uber snuffly at night, but have pretty much had a cold for 10 weeks + 5 days and counting!

So sorry Cher and Claire, everything crossed.

Baking - I have been breathing through my mouth every night and can't seem to stop. Euch - terrible morning breath. I'm also sneezing a lot and wondering if I have developed hayfever for the first time ever.

Off for my 12 week scan tomorrow, and feeling nervous...

Claire so sorry you're going through this, I hope it is good news on Friday xx

I've been snoring my head off breathing slightly heavier than usual at night, according to DH.

Felt wrecked yesterday, but a bit better today. Hoping this is the beginning of the nausea/exhaustion easing - hopefully the bad days will slowly reduce. I'm 10 + 5 now.

Oh. As I was typing this I had a coughing fit and, erm (sorry tmi), a bit of wee came out! Arrghh! Must do pelvic floors. Any other 2nd or more timers having problems with this?

Hi, I've been lurking for ages and have finally taken the plunge to introduce myself - I'll add all the details to the stats thread, but this is number 3 for me (two boys 6 and 2). We had another son in the middle but lost him when I was at 21 weeks due to a genetic condition which had a 25% chance of happening again, so thats my main reason for not posting on here before as I wanted the all clear first - which I got today!!! . Had a scan today and am 12+6, so due on 2nd December - which is my DH's birthday!

Sorry to those who have had losses or have the worry of a loss. Really hope it all works out Claire. Bleeding like that can be such a worry but the lack of pain is a good thing, hope friday brings good news for you.

I'll try to keep up with you all as the thread moves pretty fast

Sorry to hear your news Cher, and I really hope things are ok for you Clare.
I had a scan today due to pains, but all is fine, saw heartbeat so very relieved, But they have knocked over a week off my dates. I think I'm just measuring small though but might need to lurk on the due in Jan thread just in case. They will wait until I have my nuchal scan before confirming edd. Can't believe their dates though as I thought I was 9+3, and i tested +ve at 4wks exactly and they measured me at 7+6, which can't be right. Will wait and see what happen at my 12/13week scan.
Agree e-bay is handy for maternity things, have already won a few things which is great as I'm already growing out of trousers.

Claire - thinking of you - a friend at work had a similar experience recently, lots of blood at about 14 weeks and taken to A&E in an ambulance but not scanned that night. After waiting a long time she was told to go away and see what happened. The next day she phoned up and asked for the names of the staff who'd been on duty that evening as she was putting in a formal complaint - at which point she was told to come in later in the day and they would scan her! Anyway, the good news is that baby was absolutely fine - she's now 22ish weeks and all is going well.

Sad that being treated callously when you are in such a vulnerable state seems to be such a common experience.

For my part, had booking in appt. on Monday which was good. Midwife was lovely and very reassuring about my worries about another IUGR baby. I'll be getting some extra scans at 28 weeks and 32 weeks to check how things are going. 10+3 and starting to feel a lot better but don't know how I'll stand the 12 day wait until my scan!

apples hope scan's a reassuring experience & you get a delightful pic. So the snuffliness seems quite common! Night everyone.

Hi all, I'm joining you from DIJ2010! I went for my early scan today thinking I was 8wks ish but am confirmed at 12wks so due 8th December! Very pleased!! The scan went very well and all looks good so far. Looking forward to getting to know you all x

Hi RaceyLacey yes i'm in portsmouth - seems like it's a good place to have babies. Not sure if that's your experience, but as a first timer, i've been impressed with the numerous choices about where to give birth, the friendly midwife who came round, talked me through all the scans, etc.
do you go to QA for scans? haven't had my appointment through yet (nearly 10 weeks) and am waiting by the letterbox each day!

Hi to all those stuffed up ladies out there. I know what you mean - I think it's called pregnancy rhinitis - usually sorts itself out after baby is born. However, when I had DD I developed tinnitus in my left ear - a constant low hum - and the specialist thinks it was caused by pregnancy rhinitis that went slightly mad. I am assured this is just rotten luck and really very unusual. So don't add it to your list of worries. I still have it from time to time but I figure it wasn't a bad swap - my gorgeous girl in return for guaranteed silence (not much of that in my house at the best of times these days anyway!). Just goes to show that pregnancy can mess with bits of you that apparently have nothing to do with the business end!

Cher I'm so sorry for your loss, take care of yourself, I hope you have good news soon.

Claire Thinking of you and I hope it's good news tomorrow.

I'm such a crybaby at the moment. The littlest thing sets me off blubbing for England. Latest was yesterday when DH found out he's probably working away next week so won't be able to come to the first scan. I cried for an hour, which is not like me at all.

To top it off DH has come down with a sickness bug and kept me up half the night and is now sleeping while I look after two toddlers. If he wasn't so ill I'd strangle him. I just hope I don't come down with it too (or the DC's which would be even worse).

Claire Still thinking of you, hope all goes well tomorrow.

crazykat Thank goodness it isn't just me feeling that way. I don't cry exactly but I tend to just feel v. mournful for no reason.

I just got the date of my first scan in the post. 10 June! It is also the first piece of post addressed to me under my married name. Funnily appropriate somehow.

Chloesbaby - I've only had positive experiences here, although both mine were long before maternity moved to QA. ds1 was born at St Mary's and ds2 at the Mary Rose. Lovely mw's each time & with ds1 he had to be taken to be resuscitated. I was 'lucky' that I had had 2 mw's looking after me so while 1 went with ds1 & xp, one was with me. It felt like a lifetime, but a dr popped his head round the door and told me all was fine, and the staff were brilliant in general.

With ds2 once I had him I wanted to get home but they said I needed to stay for 6hrs, but at 6hrs on the dot they came in with my notes all signed and ready so I could go. A few weeks later xp's nephews gf had a baby also at the Mary Rose, she was only 14 and they were happy for her to stay as long as she wanted. She was there for a week while she got the hang of things and they never made her feel uncomfortable for staying so long.

I've got my scan tomorrow so will let you know what it's like up at QA & where you have to go etc. I didn't get my scan date trhough until last Fri (I'd been pacing the floor, almost pouncing on the postman for the previous week!) so I was 11+2 when that came, so you've probably got another week or so until you get your letter.

ooh, thanks for info RaceyLacey and good luck with the scan tomorrow

I have booked booked my Nuchal scan The people at the clinic were lovely on the phone. I'm seeing tehm the day after I see my midwife which is planned so I can talk through it all with the Midwife first. Tomorrow I tell my boss.

I hope that my Midwife can book me in for a scan immediately after she sees me as I will be 12 weeks by the time I see her.

Went shopping with my lovely sister yesterday who wanted to buy me something to wear. Ended up getting a lovely M&S dress a couple of sizes bigger than I am, for the summer months. Also bought myself a maxi-dress for Glastonbury Festival. Put it on last night and my DH said my bump looked really obvious, I must b really out of shape if it's obvious so soon

Hope you are ok Claire, thinking of you.

Glad its not just me who hasn't got a scan date yet- I'm so impatient! Had my booking in appointment this week which went well but just added to my frustration that there's no scan date as I don't want to tell family till we've had the all clear.

I am pleased though that the NHS postcode lottery had fallen in my favour - just! They introduced Nuchal scanning here last month - its so silly though that these things are not universal. Ditto for the EPAU system.

ClareDL thinking of you and fingers crossed for tomorrow.

DF - are you sure you're not in my team in the same company? My boss works flexi hours and its always paraded around that they're really happy to accommodated women with children, but I bet you they'll find a reason why I can't go flexi! Double standards are pretty much standard in businesses, I think. But if you've got someone in your team on flexi its much harder for them to justify why they won't give it to you, and by law they can only reject your request if they have a valid objection. Still, 18 months plus till I need to worry about that (God willing that everything goes OK).

I'm also crying at times when I never used to! I'm normally not teary at all but I got into an argument with an estate agent yesterday and my voice went all wobbly and I started to cry . I hated it because I couldn't say everything I wanted to say and ended up just putting the phone down - Oh No!!!! Going to have to phone back today and hope I get someone else .

I'm also snuffly at night and DH has been banished to the spare room. He was complaining that I was wriggling / snuffling too much and I was complaining that he was too smelly! My sense of smell is ridiculous at the moment and if he has anything even vaguely spicy to eat I can smell it on his breath when he's in bed and it makes me feel really sick... So we are now happily sleeping away from each other .

My MS is finally / slowly disappearing although its still there from about 5pm every evening. Unless I stuff food in my mouth every couple of hours, I'm sick until I go to bed. I'm 13 weeks today so I'm really hoping for it to ease up soon.

After my scan yesterday (I get a nuchal up here - Edinburgh - as well) I treated myself finally to some maternity clothes. Only got one pair of over the bump black work trousers which are far too big because my bump is not quite filling them yet, but at least I'm not squashed in trousers / skirts any more. Told my boss as well who was really great about it... I'm not going to tell anyone else until they ask me at work. I'm so bad at telling people, I literally can't do it!!! I just get embarassed - I may as well say "My DH and I have sex" - which I know is obvious but I just hate the "I'm pregnant" moment... Even my mum and dad dont know, but I'm seeing them on monday when I'm sure it'll be obvious .

Am also bidding on some ebay stuff - funny to think some of us are probably bidding aganist each other

WhatWillSantaBring I don't think anyone else in my team is pregnant but then... if you've not told anyone yet, maybe
I think there is quite a prescedent set here for flexible working but as I am in a team of two (Within another larger dept) I might find any requests I put in are declined. You're right though, ages to think about that one.

Chooster the whole announcing that you've had sex thing makes me chuckle because technically speaking me and my DH didn't even have to do that as this is an IVF baby. It's still embarrassing though.
I am probably bidding against anyone who is trying to get size 12/14 maternity bundles on ebay

I have had a few teary moments including a complete melrdown over a dripping tap, crying at a facebook birth announcement and weeping at various adverts. I am quite 'hard' normally so this is worrying - ha ha.

That'll be me then duelingfanjo!! I'm also bidding on 12 / 14 bundles and some seperates too... Good luck!

girls, I have spotting every thursday-Friday

Why?????

No probs chloe. Looking forward to seeing what the hospital is like tomorrow. Haven't been to QA since it was rebuilt.

DF - good luck with telling work. I never know how to word it, I just kind of blurted it out last times.

Chooster - ha ha you're just like me. I've hated telling my parents every time, I may as well just tell them I've had sex. I know they know I have sex, but I don't want to believe that they know etc. I really feel like I'm saying Mum, Dad, we had sex a few weeks ago! DP felt the same way, and felt really awkward when my dad congratulated him. As for DP's parents, well FIL at least made it a little less uncomfortable "So how did that happen...?" and "See 'MIL' I told you this would happen, he moves down there & they get up to all this funny business!"

Santa - I'm not sure how long we've been getting them down here, but seems we're one of the lucky ones with nuchal scans & then a detailed scan at 20wks. It's only very recent though as I've only ever had a 16wk dating scan before.

PJen - try not to worry, I've read that in some people it is perfectly normal to spot al the way thrugh. In fact I know someone who had a proper period all the way through.

Re mat clothes. I got a few a while back from another MN'er & bought a bundle from ebay (although the items I liked in the pics were not actually for sale and the items that did arrive I don't like) I really couldn't be bothered arguing as some of the items pictured weren't in the description so I just left it. I've bought a few things new, I got a really nice dress from Asda for only a tenner, some great things from Pumpkin Patch, all sale items (a lovely, floaty summer dress, a top & a tankini (just hope I'll have a need to use it on holiday next week ). And a couple of dresses from New Look.

PJen my friend spotted every Friday for the first trimester. She never worked out why but thought it might have something to do with end of working week stress. Who knows - it is incredibly common - much more common that the books/some midwives would have you believe.

Girls, if you're after cheap mat clothes which are kind of "on trend" you can buy them at asos.com

any news claire?

i'm so desperate for maternity clothes but i refuse to buy any until im past 12wks.

have my nhs dating scan next thurs when i will be 10+2 then i have booked a nuchal scan for when i'm 12+3. feels like a lifetime away yet though