Mums to be due in May 2011

[emmywoo]

Hi everyone,
Thought I would start a thread for all us mums to be who are due in May 2011 so that we can support each other. xx

I had a hot chocolate during my booking appt on Monday and the MW said it's fine. She also said that one cup of coffee a day is fine (although I've gone cold turkey on coffee since I used to drink so much).

Hi all, congrats caz jessie, flugella and others.

No tea? I'm not sure I'd make it through. Might be a choice between me and baby. Already cut out coffee - which is hard hard hard as the smell of the beans drives me crazy. Is everyone giving up all caffeine? Straw poll would be good!

How did she work out your dates cowboy lover, do you know? I don't have a due date yet, I think I'm probably due mid may, but have irregular cycles and haven't seen the midwife. Won't until I'm nearly 11 weeks on dates - is this likely to be a problem?

i dont drink coffee but will still have a cuppa tea when i feel like one, i dont drink alot anyway, strangely enuf tho during my last pregnancy at around 3 months i completely went off tea and cud not stand the taste and it was not untill around 8 months that i began to like it agen, it was the only food drink aversion i had, also dont think i really had any craving just the normal stuff i liked anyway, this time i seem to want to eat prawns quite a lot altho i know i cant have them very often, least im not wanting constant chinese food and stodge like last time, this evening i am feeling really nauseous i hope it passes and i feel a bit better afta some food

Thank you, it's great to hear that and I will def try to relax and enjoy the fact I'm feeling ok! Plus, you're right my family are making a big fuss of me which is lovely!!
It's such an anxious time but also really exciting and brilliant!!

Have discovered the perfect treat that I have been craving since weaning myself of large Starbucks lattes; Weight watchers carrot cake with cinammon dusted icing!!!!! Yummy!!!!

I also had irregular periods and she went on the last day I bleed for more than a day which puts me 18th April not 16th may as I estimated!!
I suppose only the scan will show the truth!!

Hello Ladies,
This is my first post on here so sorry if i ramble on.

I'm nearly 7 wks with our first child, it due to the 25/05/2010. just starting to get pregnancy symptoms, so far i have really sore boobs that appear to be huge, waves of feeling sick but not actually been sick (touch wood!!) and i'm starting to put on weight round my middle.

I've also had the usual tiredness, but as i do shift work, i cant tell if its because of that or the pregnancy.

Look forward to chatting to you girls as our pregnancies progress.

Tibbo x

Tibbo81- congrats :)

Bluewellies - I'm drinking one small coffee in the morning (downgraded from my double espresso to a short skinny latte!) and up to two cups of tea a day. I'm a bit nervous but the books say 200 - 300mg of caffeine a day is okay so this is within those guidelines.

But then I panic and think if something happens, I'll never forgive myself.

But honestly, I don't think I could get out of bed without that tea nor start my day's work without some coffee. Although I have been considering changing to decaf - get the hot and taste hit, without the caffeine.

blueloving, i really dont think one coffee an a couple of cups of tea will do u anyharm, i think to myself i dont drink i dont smoke, im sure some caffeine as a luxury will be fine lol

i know people who have drank wine whilst pregnant and still carried on smoking right the way thru and have had healthy babies obviously i wud rather be safe than sorry and not do these things but sometimes i think all the cans and cants in books can make us worry to much :(

i think aslong as we feel healthy and are eating right then our bodies beed to do the rest

Hi All
I think I'm 8+4. Feeling better than I thought... Was in Geneva on business this week and was terrified of something going wrong. My symptoms come in waves - a bit of nausea, lots of spots, permanent exhaustion / lethargy, tender boobs (although better now) and occasional weird internal twinges (although these lasted a few days and seemed to have stopped.) Whereas I lived off spicy food before, I now can now only stomach plain food (last night I could only eat plain spaghetti with grated cheese - something I would never have contemplated before!) Also my shift dress felt tight around the middle yesterday - worrying its just fat cos I'm so tired / inactive.
I panic all the time that there isn't a tadpole in there. Is that silly?
Supposed to have my scan the week after next and petrified it will all be a figment of my imagination. When I have the odd day without any symptoms I think everything's disappeared. Anyone else feel the same?

decaff tea is really ok but it won't hurt you to have a couple of cups or normal tea as well.

Had early scan this morning as am so unsure of dates and been revised from begining to mid may (which is fantastic as my sister is getting married at the very end of april and it was looking dodgy!)

LaraMi - I feel the same. Constantly think I've made the whole thing up and will get to my scan only to discover nothing is there.

I think this normal. I hope so anyway!

Hi Blue wellies - I have gone off tea and coffee completely but I have a craving for Coca Cola -I am drinking about a can a day which is 30mg of caffiene.

My morning sickness seems to be calming down today - I am 10 weeks today! but I have bacterial tonsiltos so I have had to take antibiotics (which I have been worried about) I have only been able to eat fruit and soup so have lost half a stone! My doctor told me not to worry and that if all I could stomach for a few weeks was crisps and coke no harm would be done. I have been really worried that I am taking in too much sugar :(

I had an interal scan at 5 and 7 weeks (as my previous baby was stillborn in the latter stages of pregnancy so I am on a care programme) the scan is a bit uncomfortable but ok, no bleeding afterwards...

Sorry for the braindump!

kx

BlingLoving - thanks ever so much for your post. Glad I'm not the only one... My OH is wonderfully supportive but is getting tired of my panics... I still analyse every single bodily twinge / feeling / movement... perhaps I'm just neurotic...

Have just been for a McDonalds lunch. Nausea lasts all day and have discovered I feel better if I eat more than normal. Just got craving for chicken pieces! I know it's not good, but to be honest, am feeling so rough this pg that I am listening to my body and just trying to give it what it wants (food, sleep etc). Have gone off chocolate and sweet things completely.

Last 2 pgs, ms disappeared at the end of the 1st trimester, so am hoping that the end is in sight.

Not sure whether it's my greater age this time round, or the fact that I've had 2 dc already (plus 2 mc), but ms definitely worse than any time before. Of course, it could be twins.....argh!

dh just doesn't understand at all. Promised to look after me this time, but still kicks a massive fuss when he gets home at 9 and I'm off to bed & haven't cooked him tea (haven't cooked myself anything either as too rough to eat anything other than toast in the evening). Grrr

LaraMi - I know exactly what you mean! I can't wait till the 12 week scan to see if it's ok. I had a scan this week at 7+4 because I had early bleeding, and they could see a heartbeat, but am still scared of having a missed miscarriage as I have NO symptoms yet.
Breasts feel fine, no sickness, nothing except being tired. At least if I had a few proper symptoms I wouldn't feel like an impostor!

Bling Loving and LaraMi,i'm feeling the same, thought i was just being paranoid as its my first. 7+1 today feeling tired and nauseous. Haven't yet put any weight on but definately getting fatter round my middle and boobs feel huge and tender, i'll have to get some new bras soon as the wires are staring to dig in, dread to think what size they'll end up as i was a 36F to start.

I wish I had gone for an early scan so that if I was an "imposter" I would have known earlier rather than living under false pretences. But then on the other hand, I'm scared of having an early scan in case it affects Tadpole in some way! (And then if I had an early scan and then had a MC afterwards I'd never forgive myself!) So... the first chance I'll have to hear a heartbeat will be at ten weeks. I even rang the hospital the other day to ask them if they can't find a heartbeat on the ultrasound scan, whether they'll do an internal scan!!!!! (tummy gone so podgy the past week!).
I think she thought I was being ridulous and assured me the ultrasound technology is good enough to see something if there's something there!
I also feel fatter around my middle but it feels "soft" rather than a hard bump developing... But maybe that's cos there's only a tiny bean in there at the mo! My boobs were also big to begin with so it's hard to see if they're bigger although they certainly feel tender. My husband says they feel like false boobs now (I told him I didn't want to know how he knew what false boobs felt like!!!!!!)

Justtrying and Lara - am soooo jealous of your boobs!
Mine haven't increased at all - really disappointed as I'm only a 32B. The one time in my life I thought big boobs would be mine and it hasn't happened!

But agree Lara - the only bit of me that's bigger is my tummy, buri think that's because Ive been eating everything in sight!

I agree. I wasn't exactly an avid exerciser before but now I am so tired that I can't even bring myself to do basic housework. I am also scared of doing too much of anything in case it tramatises Tadpole (I know that's stupid). I promised myself that at 12 weeks I'll start swimming, doing pregnancy yoga etc but for the past four weeks I've done nothing but sleep.

I'm quite into the idea of swimming, but only once I have a proper big bump. Will feel better than being seen in a swimming costume looking 'normal' fat/squidgy!

Someone told me that extreme pregnancy symptoms are actually unusual. That most women experience a few, that are relatively minor, but because the extreme ones get all the publicity, those are the ones people expect.

And even looking at this thread that seems reasonably true. Most of us are feeling a bit tired, maybe a bit nauseous. Some are worse than that (can't remember who) but most are just experiencing relatively mild symptoms.

[although whenever the period pain feelings kick in it doesn't feel mild at all for me. But then I have to remind myself that a total of maybe an hour discomfort a day is really not the end of the world. And then I stress that the period pain is because I SHOULD have had my period, and am not pregnant... it's a vicious circle.]

Hi Ladies! I just had my first scan. I am 8.5 weeks pregnant. I was soooo worriedgoing into it. It is a very easy procedure. It is an abdominal (rather than intrauterine) scan if you are fairly thin. I was very pleased that it was non-invasive. It was very interesting to see the fetus and hear its heart beat for the first time(it is beating a few times faster than an adult's). Now the pregnancy feels real... Definitely, worth the money spent...

lilly13- so jelous cant wait for my scan still havnt even recieved date yet :( glad u enjoyed it