Flight BFP2012 - passport ready it's our time!

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Hi Ladies - this flight is going on Auto - pilot !
Feeling good things for all still wanting to stay aboard our Flight BFP2012- Welcome one and all!
As we share this journey!

Moo, I love your madness, keep it up!! Be strong and wait a few days to test, how exciting!!

Jam, sorry to hear about your issues with dp, glad you're managing to work through it, men tend to need things spelling out to them so hopefully he'll get it this time!!

Disco, I think you might have a similar edd to me, doc reckons 7th Oct although I think slightly later due to long cycles, only scan will tell! Have no symptoms which is slightly worrying, hopefully all is well.

Hi to everyone else, hope all are enjoying the fact its Friday!!!

Happy Friday!

moo eeek! Pinching sounds good! Always look forward to your updates!

disco thank you lovely. Sorry to hear about the nausea, ginger tea always works for me.

maisie thank you, you're right about that! He seemed very taken about I was upset about it, twonk.

I'm about 8dpo I think? So nothing much going on here, still got a cold, woke up with horrible heartburn and nausea but I get that sometimes.

What's everyone looking forward to in pregnancy? And what are you dreading?

I'm looking forward to having a bump, feeling movements. I'm not really looking forward to the morning sickness as I suffer from emetephobia.

Hello chaps,

I'm still here, skulking in the corner with me bucket.

Vomiting and nausea continues apace. Been in bed a lot and I have a new development to report, which hopefully you ladies who are ttc#1, 2 or 3 won't have to content with. My pelvic floor must be shot to shit really, but when I vomit with a full bladder (most mornings then) I am finding I 'burst' as dh puts it, god love him! It's utterly depressing really! Roll on 2nd trimester!

xxxxxxx

Sorry to hear you're emetephobic jam - just to reassure you. I think I'm very unlucky and most people escape this level of yuck!

FESTIE i have missed you love

So sorry to hear you are having a horrible time of it though - not good. Poor you. Hope that it doesn't go on for too much longer, sounds horrendous!! I hate being sick........ugh!!!!

Jam I'll be honest, i am just looking forward to being pregnant - bring it all on :)

Maisie good to see you back here as well!! Hope you are having less of a traumatic time than some of the other ladies here!!

thanks festie! Sorry about the 'bursting' !

I know there are good anti sickness drugs about now, if I get pregnant I will probably go to my very understanding gp and get them before it kicks in, so I will have them in the house when needed!

Well I've just thrown up for the first time (sorry Jam). I actually feel a bit better now. The dog wouldn't settle down and go to sleep until 12.40am and was up again at 6.30am so I'm not feeling brilliant. He's just had two bloody hours of playfulness (which involves trying to rip my slippers to shreds and running gaily through the puddle he's just made, spreading it through the house). DP has been away and it's definitely his turn to do some pup sitting. It's my half term holiday and I've only had one lie in yet, most unfair. I know I should be happy but I feel a bit glum.

Hiya Festie! I've missed you. You sound like you're having a terrible time. Is it bad enough to go to the doctor's do you think? When did the sickness stop with your other pregnancies?

Moo it'll be exciting to see what the next few days bring!

Maisie don't worry about not having any symptoms, if the line is there you're pregnant (and lucky if the morning sickness holds off :) )

Jam I was quite enjoying my ginger tea but the idea of hot drinks of any description seems unpleasant at the moment. I might have a go with ginger beer instead.

Oh Disco you poor thing. Hope the morning sickness is a shortlived thing though and you can go on to have a sickness free pregnancy. You are bound to be feeling a bit glum if you are not feeling well, plus all those new hormones bouncing around on top of having a mischevious puppy to deal with.

I am cramping - think the witch could be making her way down for a visit. How very dare she!!!

Morning ladies! Hope everyone is keeping dry and having a nice relaxing weekend!

POAS again this morning and I'm certain that there is the faintest of faint lines, but it is really really faint, so much so that I have to shine a light on it, so not entirely convinced that it's real. Will obviously test again in the morning!! I have compared it to my BFNs from the last few days and there is absolutely nothing on them, they are stark white. Is very frustrating! Nothing I can do until tomorrow!

Annoyingly though, I have friends visiting tonight, which ultimately means drinking and i'm not sure what to do!! I can't not drink because they'll ask questions but at the same time I can't really drink too much because of potential upset to potential bean!!

AAAARGH! Why is nothing ever simple and straightforward??

Ooh Moo, that's exciting! Fingers crossed for tomorrow morning!

As for your friends you can either go down the 'I drank rather too much last night and really don't feel like booze today' route or say you are on medication and that the doctor has advised you don't drink. Or you could get some alcohol free beer in (i like bavaria malt) and drink it from a glass, they won't know then. Or drink tonic water, they won't know the difference...

I've ordered an extra-wide and extra high stair gate today so that we can stick Jim the puppy in the kitchen soon. Our downstairs area is quite open plan, including extra wide door openings (without doors, so useful grr). Lots of people advise crates but Jim will need to be left for at least 1 day a week on his own for the next few months so keeping him in a crate isn't on in the daytime. We'll try putting his playpen on the landing tonight and see how he does...I have to say the timing of getting this poor little mite is terrible but I didn't know I'd be feeling like crap when we got him! We could have a newborn at the same time I suppose...that'd be worse!

Festie have you tried sitting on the loo and being sick into a bucket? How grim for you....

Moo have a drink, FFS, a few won't cause a problem. Some people get pissed all the time they're pregnant, and they KNOW. Rude.
Also, excuse me... SLAP!... what happened to waiting to test? You're going to drive yourself batshit insane doing that. And then your body will say,'oh ho, two can play at that game', and then deliberately not be pregnant to spite you.

Disco sorry your puppy is being a PITA. They get better, honest. I remember when my mum and dad got theirs, when he first learned to wee up the (outside) walls, my dad had a thing about him knowing he was the pack leader. So my dad would then wee up the outside wall, and go 'MY house'. Seems to have done the trick, lol!
Although last time they came down to visit, he got a bit overexcited and cocked his leg up the sofa. And he's coming up on 6! I saw what he was planning and went NO Kaspar! And he dropped his leg, so there was just a trail of tiddle on the floor. Guess I frightened the pee back in. Then I shoved him in the back garden.

Festie Hellooooo! [waves] re: the wee explosions. As long as you're on the toilet, pants around your ankles and a bucket in your lap, I think you'll be ok. If I have a full bladder and sneeze while sitting cross-legged on the beanbag, I have accidents too. And this is before #1 even! (subconsciously tenses and relaxes downstairs).

Jam I haven't been sick at all. I was worrying myself to death, thinking it hadn't taken properly, and then my mum casually mentions she never had MS at all. THANKS FOR TELLING ME EARLIER!!!!! FFS!!!

Here in not so sunny not so far from part of the Thames, I have actual skirting boards actually screwed to the walls. With wall plugs! I got to use my hammer drill, which cheered me no end. I have done just over half the bedroom this morning, and will do the other half this evening, once wanky neighbours have gone to work, even though FiL is staying over and we were supposed to be having awesome fun.
The sawing has been killing my back (and left me in tears, wah, no circular saw), so if any pieces are a bit too long I'll get the dremel (Moo: small rotary tool for cutting, grinding, drilling, sanding, ruining...) and just wazz it down the side. Fuck it, that'll do. Woodfiller cures all sins!

3 sleeps til the 12 week scan. Have convinced myself that it's gone wrong and my body doesn't want to tell me. I know this is ridiculous, but I'm terrified I've a) boiled it in a too-hot bath and caused untold amounts of brain damage; b) squashed it doing DIY,; c) Just been crap in general. And you know what? If it has all gone wrong, it will be MiL's fault for buying something when I freaking well told her not to. Git. Thank god she's in Brazil or Germany most of the time. Although frankly, Antarctica isn't far enough!!!!

Fingers crossed moo !!

Hi all,
I have managed to get onto the computer and have just been scanning through the posts over the last week or so.
Sounds like it has been a very difficult week!!
I am feeling a little down.... I'm 12DPO and for the last couple of days had been having cramps, nausea etc, so was starting to really hope that it might be this month...... and last night was really excited as I had a bad bout of nausea when we went out to diinner with our friends - I found the smell of the food was putting me off, and then when everyone started talking about it.... that's when I had to run off to throw up. I thought it was all very good signs until I sppent the rest of the night throwing up and am thinking it must jjust be food poisoning (albeit, no-one else has come down with it and we all ate the same thing). Temp was really high this morning, so sign of fever I guess....and I thought it was all looking so good!! I am going to try and enjoy the rest of my holiday but can't help feeling a little disappointed.... but maybe there's still some hope.

Moo- really hoping that this month it's definitely the one - the fant line certainly sounds hopeful.

Rusulka - hoping everything is fine for the scan - I'm sure it is!! Looking forward to hearing all about it when I'm back.

xxxx

Why so down and defeated already, Alex? All sounds good to me! Sorry you're not feeling well x

Sorry, I'm going to have a little moan. I've just been sick again, don't think I've had a day in weeks where I haven't been sick at least once, and I know if I wasn't staying in bed I'd be sick a lot more often. I'm trying everything but it's just on and on, constant nausea broken up with the vomiting. I've hardly seen the kids. Dh is such a rock, but at only 7+ weeks, how long can we keep this up? I don't think I can. I don't want it to colour the way I feel about the pregnancy, but it does. I can't believe how much I wanted to be pg and now.... :(

Sorry, moan over. xx

So sorry festie, it's such a horrible feeling. I can't imagine how you feel. Can you not go drs and ask for something to help?

Thanks jam. Just thrown up again. This is ridiculous. Seeing GP on mon anyway, as I haven't reported the pregnancy yet, will chat to him about it I think. Going to try and sleep now. xx

for all those feeling down.

I'm 6dpo now and shattered, but that's because I'm on a week of night shifts. Between that and trying to go running I've not got much time to drive myself mad on the 2ww, apart from times like now when there's a lull. Just as well, because despite the cystitis-inducing shagging, I'm fairly sure this isn't my month. for me too I guess.

Damn night shifts are hard when you're cutting down on caffeine!

Hey winkly glad to see someone else in the bastard tww

I'm about 9dpo now and it's going ok, trying not to ss very unsuccessfully! Feel like I'm out already too, had some period like pains yesterday and I'm sure AF will come soon. I have quite short cycles. I work in a coffee shop so it's been hard avoiding the caffeine here too!

any updates moo ?!? Really hope it's good news.

Glad you're seeing the dr festie don't leave without a prescription!

just dropping in to say hi.

Feel better soon festie - it's a bastard isn't it. throughout all the TRYING I keep telling myself at least i don't feel rough like when you're preggo!

mooley - any update? I wish you your BFP very soon.

Well I am CD31 today and AF due tomorrow. Every month at this time i madly symptom spot and this month i am convinced my boobs are bigger. convinced. and the cramps i am having feel different. I have been so bloody positive this month i am literally counting the hours till Tues morning when i can test. I tested with an IC yesterday and BFN so i should accept that it probably isn't our month but i just can't!!!! Hope is good i think!

disco - hope the scan goes well love

rusulka - still funny as ever! hope you're ok.

Wave to everyone else!!

Festie don't symptoms tail off around 12 weeks? If so it's only another month or so... And there's plenty of decent anti-sickness drugs available, we've come a long way since thalidomide!

Sorry you've been feeling crap Alex- maybe you're more sensitive to the water or something.

Jam it isn't over til the fat lady sings!

Winkly boo to night shifts, I used to do those once upon a time. You'll feel more awake if you're not near a heater, lol!

Berries fingers crossed!

Moo where've you got to?

Scan in 2 sleeps.

MiL rang earlier and got her telling off from DH. She apparently feels terrible, and will give whatever she's bought to a charity shop or someone else. Do I feel any better about it? Not really. Feel like I'm upsetting everyone around me, but I couldn't just let it slide, not after everyone else has been so patient. DH has rightly pointed out that I could have handled it a lot better. I'm not used to putting my foot down when it comes to people I don't know very well and I obviously took a stand in utterly the wrong way. Stupid Rusulka!

Hello ladies,

Am back from Istanbul and feeling a bit better. Have had much to celebrate lack of being pg but feel like I need to get a bit more healthy again now.

Jam - yes, I did like it - although I didn't see very much because I was working. I'd like to go back for a holiday - when it's warmer - we had snow!!

Festie and Disco - sorry you're both feeling awful. I get a bit nauseous just before / at beginning of AF and I can't imagine feeling like that for weeks on end. My mum had quite bad MS with all of her pregnancies so I'm pretty sure that's what I'm in for too... desperate to be pg but not looking forward to constant sickness

moo - any update from you? I'm guessing by the fact that you've not been on the forum that it hasn't been a BFP but I'm keeping everything crossed for you. I'm already sick of TTC and I've been doing it for 3 weeks (ridiculous I know but I have absolutely zero patience and am a complete control freak - not a good combo for TTC!

Alex - so sorry that you're feeling poorly - not ideal when on holiday and especially cruel if it coincides with when you're expecting AF! Let us know if / when she arrives!

Berries am really hoping this is your month. Sounds like it could be but i know SS doesn't necessarily help.

Can I ask you guys for a bit of advice. I'm on CD5 now so am hoping that a fair bit of SWI over the next 2-3 weeks will do the trick. I do a fair bit of travel with my work and my client has asked me to travel to Kenya in early April. If I manage to get PG this month I'll only be a few weeks - I'll just have been able t to test by the time I go. I really don't want to go to Kenya just a few weeks pg as am worried I'll get sick and lose the baby. But I also don't want to put off TTC for another nearly 2 months. Should I tell my boss that we're TTC and explain why I don't want to go to Kenya? Or should I risk it and assume it'll be OK / I won't be pg? Or should I wait and stop TTC until after the trip?

Help!

Sorry Rusulka - just saw your post.

Don't beat yourself up. It's totally understandable that you'd react the way you have an insensitive of you MiL not to respect your wishes. And you're going through a stressful and new experience for you - so give yourself a break and don't fret about the way you reacted.

And try not to worry about the scan. Chances are everything will be fine - but I'm sure it's very nerve-wracking. Let us all know as soon as you've had it!

Flour I'm sure you'd be ok to go to Kenya. If there's one thing I've learnt it's that you can't put off life 'in case'. I've done that so many times, and it turned out that each time I could have done whatever it was and be fine.
Hell, if I were you I'd go, just because it would be that much more likely to happen if you're worried about it, lol.

Thanks Rusulka - i guess I could get a flexible ticket and then if I AM pg I could tell my boss and ask for someone else to go instead... Think that might be the answer

Luckily, I don't think you need to take anti-malarials for Nairobi (you can't take Malerone while pg AND you can't TTC for at least 2/3 weeks afterwards) so will just have to hope we're not going anywhere outside of Nairobi (we might end up visiting some villages out in the countryside where we have some health projects running)

The thing is, if I went and then I lost the baby I would always wonder if it would have happened if I'd not gone...