The October Baby Bus

[arabella36]

Will anyone join a new baby bus with me?

I just got a BFP this morning so its very early days for me, but I'm so excited I thought what the hell, I'll head straight for the pregnancy thread anyway

If all goes according to plan this will be DC2 and due on 2nd October. Ive enjoyed being on the October TTC bus so I thought it would be fun to continue over here.

Fluffy

The drugs are fine - the GP will tell you that they have not been officially blessed for use in pregnancy because they are no studies that say they are fine.

However Cyclizine etc are regularly prescribed and babies are all fine.

I wondered all this back in 2008 with DD but loads of MNetters came out of the woodwork to tell me to take the drugs and stop feeling quite so dreadful (you still feel dreadful though, just not quite so empty!)

Some GPs are lairy about prescribing them unless absolutely needed - I think they want to see that you have been unable to keep stuff down for a 24-48 hour period before they do. If that is the case with you then make sure the GP knows how little you are eating and drinking. The key thing is to get your wee tested.

PS I lived off M&S sherberts and coke for three weeks with DD - she is fine!

Definitely go to the GP then Fluffy . Take a urine sample with you. If you have ketones in your urine then your body has gone into starvation and you need the cyclizine meds. They sedate you a little but being able to eat and drink is wonderful. I also had billirubin in my urine which I'm a little worried about but the doctors didn't seem to be overly concerned so I'm just glad to be home and eating.It was very scary but I was just relieved and grateful that the baby was ok.

This is my virgin message and I am 7+4 for third time in a year at 41. Not sure how optimistic I can be? Feel very miserable, tired, cranky, headachy, a little bit crampy, just crossing my fingers to make it farther than 10 weeks (mcs were at 7 and 9). I have four teens so I don't really remember what any of this was like???

I'm going to join in too, due on 19 October I think. This will be number 3 for me as I have DD6 and DS1. I'm still in shock as I'm not supposed to be able to get pg without treatment. I always wanted 3 but decided after going through all we went through to get the first two had decided not to put myself through the heartache of fertility treatment again.

I had a mc between DD and DS so very nervous and feeling this is too good to be true. I will not be able to relax until I see the heartbeat. Obs appointment booked for 14 March so will get a referal for a scan then.

lovemybabyboy I had an early scan last week - because I had a miscarriage back in November, the EPU told me to contact them directly next time I got pregnant and they'd scan me at 7 weeks. Which they did, and it turned out I was 8 weeks, and everything is fine so far.

Weary wave from me!
Just catching up on the thread - it sounds like the grimness is abound. I really feel for you guys who are throwing up all the time. I had my first vomit last night after a somewhat foolhardy sri-lankan meal for lunch and then a pregnacare vitamin on an empty tummy in the evening. god I hate being sick. I have those red little dots around my eyes this morning where all the straining seems to burst blood vessels...Lovely!

Am generally feeling sicky, tired, headachey and sorry for myself today - but I am able to eat so silver lining etc...!

Have decided to tell boss tomorrow, and then promptly use the rest of this year's leave to have Friday's off all next month. 4 day week seems a bit more manageable.

oh crawling and daimbardiva that's great you got a scan, i think i'll call up and see what they say. Someone had mentioned 'reassurance scans' if you've had a MC. I didn't know if they would still do this as i had an early MC at 8 weeks? i'll not know until i call i guess! Also very tempted to call and see when/if my 12week scan is!

fluffy definately go to the GP and gt some meds. They worked wonders with me in my pregnancy with dd. I was a bit nervous about taking them, but really I had no choice as I was so ill. My GP said she used same. I also know several obstetricians who have used meds during pregnancy (I used to work on labour ward which is why I know so many obstetricians!). I figure if the dr's do it, then it's ok for me.

Thor fingers crossed for you - hopefully it will be third time lucky for you.

anyhow good luck to you too. Miscarriages are awful (I have had a couple myself) I just try to remember that my body CAN and HAS had babies before, so hopefully can do again.

It was lovely to have a scan, you cant see much just a big blob a little bean inside and a slight flutter (which was heartbeat). But it was reassuring even more so if you have previously had a misscarriage.

hi ladies

need some help, i seem to have pulled a muscle or something? i'm getting pain from just above right hipbone to halfway down right thigh but only when i'm walking? cant fell it at all when stood still or sitting.

i did have SPD with last PG but not till much further on, really hoping its not that again?

anyone have similar or know what to do?

I've been feeling horribly hungover all day (and haven't had a drink in well over a month) so I guess this is the start of my symptoms!!! Funny how just a day ago I was saying I wish I felt pregnant and now I feel awful and regret saying it!!

I haven't called the doc yet so will get onto that tomorrow.

Oh and the biggest news is that my partner proposed on Valentine's day. It's not exactly the order we planned things in, but we're delighted and wondering whether we can squeeze a wedding in before I get obviously pregnant! Probably a daft idea I know!

Aw congratulations lia - how lovely! You don't need ages to organise a wedding - my parents got engaged after 2mo together and married 4mo after that. Still together as well, 38 years this year

Sorry to hear so many of you are suffering. Having said I've only had a bit of queasiness, I felt stupidly sick all weekend and am the same today. Didn't have this in either of my previous pregnancies and had one DD and one DS so can't even use it to guess what sex this one will be

Oh EdorEric, I feel for you, I have had the same thing but on the other side and I am only 5+5. I had mild SPD with DS1, and had the same pains early on with DS2 - was really worried it was going to be terrible but the pains went after about 12 weeks. I am desperately hoping it is the same this time around!

Oh and congratulations Lia!

Fleecy I was fairly certain of the sex until you said that. DD good pg DS bad pg as I seemed to be ill I had assumed I was carrying a boy but I guess you cant tell.

Hey, my experience could be the exception that proves the rule - you never know!

Hello everyone. First post and foremost on my mind is 'Oh my god, I've become someone who has joined Mumsnet...!' It just feels so far away from where I usually am. I haven't had a scan yet, as I am guessing neither have most of you, but online calculations seem to have me as being due the first week of Oct. Last period started on 26th Dec. I find it so odd that you're actually pregnant two weeks before you really are actually pregnant...

So how's everyone feeling? It's my first, as you might have guessed, and I think my hormones are all over the place. Feeling a bit miserable at times - hence enjoying finding like minded posts on the forum - and a bit anxious. My main thing is, as I am freelance and work from home I feel a bit isolated. And of course most of my friends don't know yet either so it feels odd when I meet up and can't talk about what is really going on with my head. Looking forward to a scan so I can hopefully start moving forward and getting my head around it!

Perhaps you have more than one fleecy and that is why it feels different I am only joking.

Hi freelancegirl!

My MIL is convinced there's more than one and that's why I already have a bump! I'm fairly certain it's because this is number three so everything's already stretched plus I'm thinner than I was with the first two. She's lovely but I said to DH that if it were to be twins the worst bit at first would be that she'd be right and I'd be wrong

Finally getting round to joining properly....

Had IVF, despite consultant telling us that we ought to consider adoption instead, because we had less than 2% chance of it working, due to my poor ovarian function and DH's slightly wonky motility. Got 2 good eggs, both fertilised (without the ICSI we were apparently guaranteed to need), both put back and got my BFP (with a HcG of 218) on Valentine's Day. Am 5 weeks today (I love this idea of being 2 weeks gone before you even ovulate!).

Now terrified that all the symptoms were the Cyclogest, which I last took on Saturday night. Have had exhaustion, cramps, ickiness, brain drain, back ache, gone off food generally, and looking forward to (fingers crossed) another 8 months of this. Really. Truly. Although you can all tell me to eat my words later on!

First scan 2 weeks today.

Oh aye, forgot the sore boobs.

freelancegirl: I work at home too, so I know what you mean about isolation. And the temptation to sit here reading MN ALL the way through the day is a bit too much... :)

thank you for all of your kind messages.

spent all day on sunday in a&e, not very pleasant. had urine tests, blood tests and a vaginal exam (truly horrendous).

i don't have any infections (i had thought it was cystitis or a kidney infection) but it may be ectopic. they didn't have an ultrasound machine and the EPU couldn't get me in today for a scan either, so now i'm going in tomorrow afternoon for a scan.

so many things going through my head, so worried about it being eptopic, and now what do i tell my boss tomorrow to be able to leave early? do i tell her everything or just say something about having a 'personal issue' (which i know wouldn't go over well and could cause more stress and problems). of course this is just stressing me out more which is the last thing i need :(

Lia Congrats!
There's loads of time to organise a wedding. DH and I got married last year. We've been together for 15 years. He asked me on my birthday in August 2009 but we decided not to tell anyone until we'd worked out what we wanted to do. By June 2010 we'd still not decided what we wanted to do so we thought if we told people we might get some ideas.
5 weeks later we were married. :o

Well I've told both employers today. Both over the moon for me thankfully. I need a risk assessment for one job and my team leader is going to look at staffing ratios when I'm on. They don't need to do anything at the other job and my manager is very laid back because she's a locum and isn't expecting to still be around when I go off... though she admitted if she is she'll be in a blind panic.

Feeling so tired today. I've been seriously flagging since lunch time. It seems odd that 5 days ago I just felt a bit fluey and like I was due to start. Now I've got pregnancy symptoms galore.

Also my sense of smell has gone haywire. Actually that was one of the first things that made me thing I might be pregnant, unpleasant smells that I cope with daily were making me gag. Also DD was upstairs cleaning her teeth on Saturday, I was sat on the sofa downstairs but I could smell the toothpaste.!

Monkeybubbles I hope everything goes well tomorrow. I'll be checking back for updates. x

I am totally at the wrong end of this bus! I came on to complain that everything's going soooo sloooowly since my BFP (only six days ago but it feels like a lifetime!) and here are all of you talking about scans and booking appointments! Boo! I want to be a couple of weeks (months) further on. I hate this stressy, tired, secretive time where you have to pretend everything's fine even when you're panicking about everything and wish you could sleep for seven weeks solid!

Moan over!