December 2010 - Time to stop feeling sick. Please

[RaceyLacey]

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^^ that's me trying to tell myself, that is. I do still worry. I just decided that I should try harder not to worry, because it was a bit futile.

Hi, I've hardly been on this thread yet as things have been so hectic and too tired to bother with the computer in the eveninhg, but I'm off work today so thought i'd catch up, although I haven't read everything. I'm off today as I've got lots of aches and pains in my lower abdomen, I've spoken to my midwife but she reckons uts down to overdoing it yesterday, I should rest and should feel better soon. I work as a countryside ranger, usually in a team of 3, but was on my own yesterday, and had to empty all the litter and dog waste bins (I know a lovely job with ms - I just breathe through my mouth - lager cans are the worst!) I think I overdid the lifting - some of the bins are pretty heavy, so going to need to chat through things with my manager when I'm back at work. She knows I'm pg, told her really early on as I thought using herbicides wasn't a good idea. I've made my job sound awful - i do lots of lovely things like wildlife surveys and childrens activities, its just the bins, strimming and other practical work thats proving a problem. Will have to work out what I can and can't do. I'm currently 8+2 so got a way to go. I'm really looking forward to my scan when I can see the baby and then tell people - we work with volunteers and a couple of them already thinking i'm trying to do the easy jobs and being lazy by avoiding heavy lifting - its really tricky.
I've tried to persuade my gp and midwife to send me for an early scan, I had treatmant to my cervix 6mths ago and I'm concerned about cervical incompetance, but my GP says I'll be fine and not to worry.
Thankfully ms hasn't been as bad this time as it was with dd, but I'm nauseous at times, boobs are really tender though and I've already gone up a cupsize, and I had to buy a new swimsuit for dd's party (she had a swimming party on Sunday for her 5th birthday) and one of my friends spotted that it was a mothercare maternity one! I'm am really tired though and really thirsty, drinking loads of water, and dh has been buying me 'posh' soft drinks like bottle green elderflower to compensate for no alcohol! I do need to confess to having had a small glass of wine on our anniversary though, but won't have anymore until 2nd trimester when I'll just have the odd glass. I also have to confess to having soft scrambled eggs, but I did discuss this with my gp, and only do this as we have our own chickens, who are fully vaccinated and healthy, and eggs often eaten within hours of laying - the best ones are when they are still warm - they go really frothy when you whisk them up and make the best scrambly! I'm off now to clean them out before I go and get dd, she's at 'Happy Planet' after school club today - which gives me more rest time - and she loves it!

Hi
thought I'd pop in to check up on goss, and I have tried to catch up but failed! Got the bit about booze - I'm not a big fan so not much loss for me and prefer my eggs hard boiled. Will read more later

Thought I'd got over tiredness yesterday, no nap, but by 330 I was really drozy (sp?) but managed not to acutally sleep, probably a mistake, as didn't have brilliant night (does this insomina mean I will have a night owl ).

Anyways gets up this morning, bit sleepy, thinks I'll be fine, 2 hrs later I am literally falling asleep standing up and had to lie down - woke up at 2pm! Still feel like a zombie.

Have a good day, what is left of it!
I look terrible, bags under my eyes and OH thinks my parents who arrive on Thursday will believe I am just a bit under the weather!!!!! I am telling them as don't want them to worry - had two medical problems in past.

Hi ladies, sorry have been awol, I've been in hospital.
I can fully agree with the thread title though! Damn sickness got me dehydrated so I've spent 3 nights on a drip in hospital.
Not much else to report going to go lie down.

sorry to hear you've bben so sick QD, that sounds horrible, hope you start to feel better soon.
Walkthedog, I've told people on the basis of them all being people that I would be comfortable telling if anything went wrong, so my parents and dh's parents and our siblings, also my closest friends and work on a need to know basis. I went back to bed today and fell straight to sleep, I'd set my alarm for one hour, woke up and reset it to have another half hour, as don't think i'll sleep tonight if I had more than that, although with this pregnancy tiredness I probably would for 12hours straight if i had the chance! Off to hunt for second hand maternity clothes now!

Hello all

QoD that sounds awful! I hope you've got a good book.

Had my booking appointment earlier today, so it is starting to feel a bit more real. Not telling people does make you feel a bit like you are imagining things! Scan next Thursday and then the cat will come out of the bag provided everything is OK.

Someone mentioned on here that the uterus if probably about the size of a grapefruit - that must explain why it feels as if I have swallowed and partially digested a tennis ball in my sleep. It feels like my internal organs can't quite go in their correct positions .

Have cracked due to waistline discomfort and bought some Noppies maternity jeggings - they are a bit big now, but lovely and long if any of you are tall like me.

h4h when are you due? xx

HELP! I am so grumpy!!! I am a bitch at work now and usually I am a very nice person! Whoever dare to be unreasonable on video or teleconferences (I work with US so on constant TC or VCs - hate it) is dead ! I have developed this way of assertive pushing people on the side when I don't agree with them... I just had an argue with DH on phone and told him "No I won't approve and you won't do it!!" He agreed the poor guy... who is this woman?????? I don't want to be a bitch. I cured my MS with motion sickness bands... Does anyone have any remedy against bitchiness caused by pregnancy hormones?

PJ your post made me laugh!

I am being a bit unreasonable with my DP, think he's already worried about the birth when I'll be screaming "you did this to me!" I'm trying to be as nice as possible when I can, easier said than done.

I have given in and booked a private scan for tomorrow. I phoned the NHS ultrasound clinic to find out when my first scan would be and was told they hadn't started going through anything yet from Saturday (my booking appointment), depending on my dates the earliest would be next week. I can't wait, it just won't feel real until I've seen everything is ok on screen. I'll let you all know how it goes, fingers crossed.

Hi All,

I'm getting jealous reading your posts because I'm so far behind (only 7+5). Waiting for an appointment at GP's (earliest DH could come with me was next Tuesday) and from previous experience, I won't get a booking appt until 15 weeks. All seems ages away.

Anyway, not told anyone at work yet. There's another girl at work who's been ttc for years and she announced she was pregnant a few weeks ago. Really worried she'll feel like I'm stealing her thunder when I let my pregnancy go public, I hope she won't.

Hi Max,

15 weeks is a bit late for a booking appointment isn't it? at my 1st Gp appointment she just said congratulations and asked which hospital I wanted to go to. I was out within minutes. What about scans? It's my first time though so am fairly clueless

Max 15 weeks does seem a bit late, only just in time for blood tests. Do they not do dating scans in your area? It's funny the little quirks in policy from one place to another.... even in the same area: with DS I went to my GP only to be told I needn't have bothered and to arrange a booking appt between 8-10 weeks. This time I mentioned it to my GP when there for something else and she said, yes, I should tell them, for my records. And the community mw was happy to do my booking as soon as I rang her, at 6 weeks .

I'm sure your friend won't feel like you're stealing her thunder at all. I bet she'll be really chuffed and excited that you'll be pregnant together.

PJen your post made me too. I have the stroppy bitch symptom too but it's mainly aimed at DH, poor bloke.

am reading the posts but one thing is now stuck in my head - Maccy Ds!!!!!!!

Hi ladies - I'm 8 weeks today, whoop whoop! I have my booking in appointment tomorrow and am so excited! I'm also on the count down to the scan - its 4 weeks tomorrow, don't know how I'm going to hold out for so long. I keep imagining how I'm going to tell everyone, I don't think anyone even suspects so they'll all be completely surprised!

I'm in just one big fat cloud of relief this week. I did the Moonwalk on Saturday night and apart from it being very tiring physically I haven't had any bleeding or cramping.. and still feel sicky, so it looks like the bean made it through the marathon!!!

I thought I'd got off lightly with the sickness until today, oh boy. It's horrible, I couldn't concentrate on my work all afternoon, I just kept salivating and wondering whether to run to the loo or not. Not as bad as you QofD you poor love.

Hang in there ladies, we've broken the back of this first trimester!! xxx

Hi Hopeful, take it you are 30? if so me too.

Hope you feel better with the MS, I find eating little and often works for me, and chocolate milkshake!

Velvetcu, I prefer Burger King to Maccy D's.

fordypops Good luck with the appointment tommorrow.

Am now 8 weeks and feeling ok - I had a bit of nausea earlier on, though not debilitating as some of you are experiencing . It comes and goes, but mostly goes. I'm trying not to fret about this! I had virtually no nausea with DS, and generally have a cast-iron stomach, so probably this isn't anything sinister, and I'm just lucky!

I'm still very tired though, and doing my best to crowbar a nap into my day. DS slept for nearly 2 hours this afternoon, and so did I!

The main thing is my nipples are on FIRE! They're really burning at the moment. So bad that I check my boobs manually and in the mirror at least once a day to see if there's a remote chance I have a blocked duct (I breastfed DS up to about a week after I had a positive test, but it was such a gradual stop I'd be surprised if there were any probs). Anyone else bursting out of their bra? I've found a lovely one I forgot buying last time around, but the other two I was wearing before I got pregnant are really a bit too small now. I feel a bit superstitious about maternity bra-shopping before my scan though.

is any one else a bloody emotional wreck?

Lucypeanut I'm actually 29, nearly 30 though. Good luck with the scan tomorrow, let us know how it goes xx

OWO - I'm usually quite hard-nosed (in public!) but I've been getting weepy or at least, very blurry-eyed at all the cliched things, especially newborn babies and breastfeeding! I was at the NCT conference this weekend, so saw footage of a lot of both (as well as lots of tiny babies with their parents) and was welling up all the time!

Morning ladies! I am back!! Woohoo!

I had my follow up scan yesterday and all was okay, yolk sac was as it should be and baby was measuring 8 weeks, I was 8 weeks exactly according to LMP! Saw a little heartbeat so I'm all happy! Have my booking appointment with the midwife tomorrow so hoping it will all feel more real and more normal after that!

I have tried to keep up, but you ladies are chatty!!! I have been, and still am, feeling ROUGH! So tired I could cry, so nauseous I just want to stay in bed but I am unfortunately in work! I had to go to the toilets twice yeaterday ad just sit on the loo with my head rested against the cubicle wall and try to catch 40 winks to get some energy from somewhere, it worked a little! I am feeling exactly the same today!

I am also craving carbs! If it's sugary/carby I can eat it otherwise its a no go! With DS I craved meat but this time even the thought of meat turns my stomach!! I am only 8+1 today and seriously can't wait for the first trimester to be over, I have never before felt this rotten for so long!

Hope you are all okay and things are going well! So excited to be back!

Re. emotional wreckage - I sang 'Here Comes The Sun' to Tiny Clanger on my way into work - and nearly blubbed with happiness. I never cry when I am happy or sad, only when I am really angry and frustrated (normally)

Sympathies to poor QoD, and everyone else feeling ill. Have stopped feeling ill. Am cool with this as it going in week 11 is normal acc. to books. However am super tired by end of the day. Asleep in bed by 9pm last night, dinner was cheese crackers, just couldn't be bothered to cook or eat.

I am absolutely DYING for my scan, and to start wearing maternity kit instead of my fat clothes from 2 years ago when I was a size 16/18. Not very good for morale - work colleagues saw me diet to a size 12 and were pleased for me, now I look like a bloater with no willpower who is packing it all back on!.

emma2617 congratulations. Isn't it just brilliant when you see the heartbeat

fordypops hope the scan goes well today.

I hoped my midwife might have left a message on my home phone yesterday as I was told she would pick up the notes from the GP on Tuesday but nothing They told me if she's not contacted me by Friday to give the surgery a ring. I'll be 10 weeks tomorrow so really hoping she gets in touch this week.

Miffster I totally sympathise with wanting to go public and wear clothes which make it obvious I'm pregnant not just fat.

I also want my BIL to stop asking me 'how's the baking going' every time I see him. he even shouted it out in a pub last week in front of everyone. I'm not baking, I'm pregnant!

Did I hear the words "emotional wreck"? Err, yes. I have zero patience with my clients - I feel like shouting "your stupid contract is NOT the most important thing in the world you know - I am growing a PERSON here!" and I am very quick to get weepy and irrational if I feel DH is being the least bit unsupportive. Oh, and Johnsons Baby ads make me cry.

And I would really like to have a night when I don't have to run to the loo and spend 15 minutes retching over the toilet bowl at 4am.

As for feeling fat Miffster, I am with you. I went for a great power walk this morning but it just isn't that easy to get out when you have a 3 yo to look after. Anyone else desperate to exercise but finding the time/energy reserves are just not there?

I'm quite keen to get back on my bike but because I hadn't been cycling much over the winter and so am not as fit as I was I am waiting until 12 weeks before I do a few short rides.

Oh God yes, I am dying to exercise but just haven't got the energy, am gettign off bus 3 stops early and walking for 25 mins into work, and that's about it. Once I'm into second trimester, I am vowing to walk all the way home from work - that's about 5 miles - and enjoy the summer city. ( Provided it's not too hot and stinky!). And do my pregnancy exercise DVD.