Freak out room for those newly updiffed after MC to hold hands and support each other...

[YourFriendBrian]

Hello!

Newly updiffed and freaking out about spotting, cramping, the wait until your first scan and each little twinge? Settle in for lots of hand holding and supprt until you're ready to move to grads.

Lots of love
Brian x

Has there been enough talk of inflating boobs for me to dance in a little circle and gleefully announce (repeat??) that I am now bigger than a 32B for the first time in my entire life

Heron I'm with Knitter - water can do the world of good for headaches. Worth a try?

On flying, I'm fretting about it too. Not just to flight, but the scanners and the beiing somewhere other than UK in case something happens thing. I don't have any basis at all for this - in fact everything I've read has said it's no problem in the first tri - but who said pg worries have to be rational?! I'm hoping I've now successfully dodged work-related travel in the first tri (at one point it looked like I might be visiting three countries, two long-haul in a week at about the time I MC last time round! ) but I suspect I'm going to have to go early in the second tri. Part of me would also like to make one more overseas trip with DH 'just the two of us' before baby arrives. So if I get that far, I might just screw my courage to the sticking post and go for it at about 19/20 wks (I have the time already booked off work, though obv I'd have to make sure I'm around for my 20wk scan). Gosh, I still can't believe I'll actually make it that far though. Seems like a bit of a dream rather than potential reality.

mrsteacake I'm Sooo rude-I can't believe I forgot to say hello!! V v pleased to see you here too lovely.

heron i have a banging headache too. I've realised it's probably something to do with the half bottle of Ribena I've drunk and the sugar content of that...... My teeth are itching just at the thought....

Mmm you taste like monster munch!! Xx

Oh on flying, my friend who had a MMC last year went to Dubai earlier this year at prob about 20 weeks and loved it-it's worth considering, v luxurious so nice for a 'just the two of you hol' and just a 5 hour flight.

My boobs are a bit bigger and the underwire digs in but I tried some non wired bras on Saturday-BOAK!!!! NO WAY am I buying them!!!!

Also, velvet I think the flight would be ok but do you think you'd be constantly paranoid about what you could eat with all that raw meat and fish and rice about?

velvet I went to Japan last April and it was absolutely fantastic. The levels of healthcare there are fab and I'm sure you'll be fine to fly. There are lots of food options with cooked meats like beef, pork or chicken with noodles. Sushi is not the only option! LKet me know where you are going and I'll give you some tips!

I am also going away in six weeks this time to Sri Lanka. Slightly worried as more likely to get sick there so will have to be very careful. Just hope everything goes well with this preg otherwise I might not be able to go

I also still have the brown stuff and I did a CB today. I nearly leaped through the ceiling when it said 3+ as I never got to that last time (I'm 5+4 today).

Good luck for all the scans tomorrow and the rest of the week. Positive karma to all....

Wombat, Knitter Pink , thanks for your sympathy. I've been glugging water and the headache has subsided. And had a nice cup of tea and some lemon drizzle cake.

of all you people jetting off. I'd love a holiday. Not been away for ages and not likely too. We're totally broke at the moment as we've just moved house and our new business isn't really properly running yet.

When I was pg with DS I flew short hall at 29 weeks. I think that was the latest I was allowed to fly.

Bee how did the number crunching go?
PV I think your comment was possibly to me, if so, thanks :)
Tunnocks I do remember you from what feels a long time ago, congrats I'm sure a bit if Brie and lemsip so early have made no difference
Hairy! ((hugs)) I hope you're doing as best you can, and am looking forward to that time in the near future you give us some good news :)
Emoo thinking of your scan tomorrow, I think cramps are normal from what everyone says
Nix I dreamt I had a scan and it wasn't moving, and no one would believe me :( glad you've had some heartbeat reassurance
Digi I wish you mega-puking and fatigue all week seriously, I'm willing time to go fast so you can get some reassurance

Mmm eggs :) :) or donut mountain, I'd settle for either. OMFG Krispy Kreme are awesome !

Wombat good news on the bloating/uncomfortableness :) not long now until scan
Knitter KK have concessions but they're made in store I think rather than KK themselves, might be wrong. I was eyeing em up at a service station yesterday

Who's Brian?!?!

I agree with Pink CBD can be evil! I measured 11 days behind from my LMP too
Velvet the thing that would stop me flying first tri would be ms, flight back from Oz twas awful (found out out there). But then I'm currently avoiding anything and everything without rational thought
Mamap I gave up on my size 10/12 clothes a few weeks ago, and currently living in pre-diet clothes which is a bit strange and never thought I'd be pleased with that
Heron I think I read headaches are a symptom

I'm on a residential course this week, trying to act normal while I constantly eat plain crackers and drink Ribena. And booked my 16 week app eek! So scared there won't be a heartbeat, or not even making it that far :(

Dachs - have a look on the multiples thread. You're likely to find advice on budget and where you can get good second hand things there. I'm not daring to post there until I'm a bit further along. Booking in tomorrow and then consultant on wednesday with probable scan.

Just read about someone having MMCs at 12/13 weeks and am now barely able to think straight :( my 16 week appointment seems so far away and I'm terrified I'll get there and not be able to hear anything. MC Association says 99.4% chance....must keep repeating it :( sorry for being on a downer, being away from home doesn't help

Just wanted to say good luck to everyone with scans today :)

Same here velvet very jealous of tunnocks 2-3 weeks.

Not to be a killjoy but I read 1 Kripee Kreme doughnut = 1 whole chicken in terms of calories!!! Not sure if it is true but certainly stopped me from eating them (very difficult as they were standard mtg food)

Good Luck to everyone having scans today xxx

orange try and chill-think about how rare and unlikely that is.

aandr standard meeting food??? That would be a complete disaster-I'm weak enough for biscuits!!

Good luck today scandudes!! I am not joining you in scandom today ad I am trying to be brave and wait a week....

Thought I'd share some amusement with you all-I told my boss that I'm diffed yesterday, she looked at my stomach and said "I noticed-how many months are you?" I am so bloated at the moment I would also hve guessed months rather than weeks..... Eeeek!!

TMI alert-for about 24 hours now I've been having really bad gut cramping like you'd get if you've got diahorria (sorry, spelling!!) but when I go to the loo everything's fine. Chuffs could be used as some kind of chemical weapon though.... What's going on???

I've had a quick scan of the new? thread to see how all are doing - waves frantically to all. Good luck for those with scans today - unlike Wombat all mine have been by dildo cam and I've found them fine, in fact, given my bladder, they're distinctly preferable!

Still an imposter here but it feels like my natural home given my constant mentalling.

Latest subject for crapping myself freak-out is my scan next Weds. Oh hell...

Thanks Pink I just rang poor dh at work to freak out he deserves some kind of medal

I had pains like that on a few occasions a few weeks ago, was so worried. Then wondered if I was constipated. Lactulose proved me right :)

Mmm, lactulose.

Orange you nutter, I want you to go off and draw yourself a pie chart and then stare at the massive section of it that isn't the tiny, tiny percentage that something might go wrong. And like Bee said before, step away from the MC boards. That is not where you need to be right now.

• I think there's a few scans this week, Daisy, please do join in the mentalling!

Pink yep, that was TMI. It is your digestive system going haywire due to insanity preg hormones. I still cannot stop belching. Chuffs of Doom seem to be par for the course in the first trimester as well :)

In terms of bras I have, excitingly, gone from a 36B to a 38D. I am doing a little happy dance to celebrate. :) The ones I've got are from mothercare and they are v.comfy and not horrendously granny-bra-like.

Irene I had a bloody awful headache for most of last week and paracetamol really didn't do much - I do like the lemon drizzle cake idea though

By the way was it one of you lovely lot who was talking about Malteser bunnies? I finally tracked one down last night. OMG. It was so lovely I almost drove back to the shop and bought the rest of their stock.

I'm off to the wilds of the west country today (taking my trusty ribena with me) so probably won't be around for a bit but want to send lots of good luck sticky bean vibes to all having scans or appointments this week - looking foward to coming back and reading lots of good news :)

Hugs to all x

((( tunnocks ))) if it's any consolation, when I was about 6 weeks I had terrible cramps and backache and I called my consultant in a big panic and he said it's very common and I shouldn't worry. I've been having them on and off since then and combined with quite a lot of CM it frequently sends me running to the toilet on knocker check alert. So far so good though so fingers crossed it's all going to be fine for you. I need to work on that time machine already, think we could all do with it!

tunnocks big hugs to you. I'm the opposite - no cramps but had very dark brown/red when I wiped this morning :( I've had nothing since but am now just sitting here miserable waiting for it to all go wrong.

Oh big hugs to those with cramps and/or brown/red this morning. I'm keeping everything crossed for you all xxx

Good luck also to the scanners to day!

Hugs and sympathies to all those mentalling today. I don't know if its any consolation but I've had constant period pains since I found out (am 10+7). The fab ladies on here calmed me down reassuring me that things need to stretch out and that everything is probably fine.

I also have nausea and an upset stomach Tunnocks and this morning was a delightful combo of that and projectile vomiting. Lurvely, isn't it?

Ah, buggery-bollocks - just managed to delete a long post......

Just wanted to say hugs to those with cramps and brown goo too - fingers crossed here.

Haven't got it in me to re-write the whole post again - maybe later!

Can't do the button up on my jeans, and my left boob seems bigger than my right - suspect those 3 cream cakes at the weekend went right to that boob! Am bloated, and look more preggers than I am - yet too scared to buy clothes or bras yet....

back from scan - still 2 pups

pup1 = 10.8mm and has a heartbeat of 144bpm and pup2 = 9.7mm and heartbeat of 131bpm

Am trying not to freak out at the difference in their heartbeats! It was amazing hearing them - I never expected to be able to hear them this early! DH was completely shocked.

Hope everyone else with scans today gets good news. I think it might be beginning to seem a bit real now! Still a long way to go, but it's very nice seeing them growing and their little hearts beating away.

Feel a bit like a Cheshire cat - I keep grinning to myself, but then I have to stop so people at work don't think I've gone completely mental!

For all you symptom worriers out there I have no symptoms at all, (apart from slightly sore ) but doesn't seem to be affecting the pupkins