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.

Thanks for the reassurance molly and dribbleface

arabella I had them on DC1 and DC2 but not on this one I assume my womb has stretched enough by now (or it didn't shrink after dc2 )

Thanks for responding Molybdenum, I will start taking my pregnancy vitamins again in that case.

Hello everyone

Please can I join too! I am (hopefully) due on 3 October. Have done 5 home tests and had my first blood test which I'm told looks good and having a second on Saturday. I have a 5 year old daughter and have had a miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy in September where I lost my tube.

Feel so excited but so worried too

Ha ha-ing at your stretched womb comment crawling

Hello and welcome anotherattempt, sorry to hear what happened with your previous pregnancy. Lots of luck for a healthy one this time though

Hi to everyone and everyone new! It's getting busy now how exciting :) nothing much to add today still having a couple of twinges here and there and went to the docs today who just got me to book an appt with the midwife at 8 weeks ....feels so far away!
Congratulations anotherattempt and sorry for your previous loss hopefully all will go well for you :)
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Hello all
Welcome and congratulations to all newbies

I've also had some Af type cramps - had them with all 3 of previous pregnancies, very common around time your AF would have been due apparently.

I'm seeing GP tomorrow - I'm a bit worried as we still havn't heard from consultant with results from October (we lost our baby at 20 weeks) so hoping the GP might have some of the test results or might be able to chase them up.
Still doesn't feel real at the moment - but I'm sure it will when the sickness kicks in.

I've just cried my eyes out watching Glee - is anyone else feeling very emotional?

iloveblue I'm so sorry to hear of your recent loss. You're so brave; here's hoping for a wonderful pregnancy for you.

arabella36 my stomach was really sore, it still is sometimes but has gone away over the last couple of days. Am feeling better after reading that others have had the same! Was worried.

Ninunina my dr also prescribed be iodine. I don't know anyone else that has happened to though so maybe she just things I don't get enough salt!

Oh and is anyone else morning-sick yet? I don't have it yet and was wondering when it is supposed to kick in. I am just tired and thirsty at this point!

I'm so sorry to hear about your losses iloveblue and another attempt - wishing you both a very healthy and happy pregnancy.

I'm really sorry to ask a stupid question but has anyone else felt really anxious? I don't really feel stressed about pregnancy specifically or work or anything but I keep feeling a bit nervy and waking up early - anyone else had this. I'm not really an anxious sort of a person. I'm just a bit anxious about being anxious now and feeling ridiculous!

I'm not quite as anxious as you Snakeears but do kind of get what you mean, as I am feeling much more worried about whether I'll carry to term or not than I thought I would be. I am also feeling some strange different emotions about other stuff too.

Thanks Penelope - I just started looking on amaon for relaxation CDs then decided it was a bit of a waste of money but it might be time to crack out the old Enya CDs! x

Wow - it's going to be a busy month in October 2011!!! Congrats on all the new BFP's here.

My symptoms have gone for now - I get a dull heavy feeling low down now and again but it passes and my boobs are still tender and pretty full feeling but that's it for now. I hope that's normal at this early stage.

I've still to make appt with GP so he can refer me on to the MW team. Not sure how I am going to handle the antenatal apts tho as I will have to take DS (age 2) with me since I have no one who could look after him while I go to appts. Do you think this will be ok? DS hates the doctors for obvious reasons so I am concerned he might freak out when the MW comes near me...

Maybe I am jumping the gun a bit thinking that far ahead as the MW team here don't usually see you until 10 weeks or so and then the "12 week" scan is usually 14 weeks here.

I just seem to come on here, read the latest posts and then brain dump! Sorry - seems to be keeping me semi sane though.

Thanks to arabella for starting this thread!!!

Have you tried something like yoga Snakeears? Not for everyone, but it helps some people, esp with the breathing. I don't usually get stressed but have recently, I think that's more about being tired though and stressed about not getting enough sleep.

Heh I keep doing the brain dump too Tamashii, it's reassuring to know you aren't morning sick yet either. It's not like I'm looking forward to that as such, but I think I'll relax a little more into pregnancy when/if it starts.

IloveBlue and AnotherAttempt sorry to hear of yout losses, I really hope this pg goes smoothly.

Welcome and congrats to newcomers we are getting full I have been naughty I was in all day yesturday and board (SAHM) so Ipicked up the baby name book I keep telling myself to wait till the scan but I keep getting excited. I got the MW Monday so excited about that.

Also my wonderful DP got up with DD today because she was up at 4 .

Wow, so many October babies already and hi arabella feel abit rude not to have said hello to you properly when you started the thread.

I had really bad cramps with DS1 so much so that I thought there was no way I could be pregnant and for the first time in 5 years of ttc I didn't test that month, then I had what I thought was AF (but much lighter), it was only when I went to the dr's a couple of weeks later for something completely unrelated and I mentioned I was feeling rundown and really tired and the dr asked if I could be pregnant that the penny dropped.

crawlinginmyskin what a great surprise and great to see there are a few of us on DC3, I know most of my family will be surprised and presume this one was an 'accident' but I'll be putting them straight!

sunface I've got my answer for all the 'was it planned and 'wanting a girl' ready, someone posted on here a while ago about how to respond to questions like that (think it was in chat) and someone suggested replying 'that's a personnal question and came across quite rude, did you mean to say that?, although I'll probably chicken out and just fume silently

The tiredness really hit me yesterday, I just couldn't keep my eyes open all day but then at bedtime I couldn't sleep and ended up just thinking about things which wasn't a great idea because little problems seem so huge in the early hours when your on your own, managed to convince myself the box room is far too small to be a nursery and that there's no way I'll be able to juggle 3 children etc etc, lovely DH has done a fab job of putting things in perspective though so will banish those thoughts now.

Anyway, off to do the school run now, hope everyone has a great day

Hello arabella36 and all the other October mummies.

I have an 8YO dd and a 6YO ds and after a horrid divorce I find myself 3 years into a new relationship and 4 weeks pregnant!
We are very excited and due on October 1st so I'd like to join the October bus too if I may.

Hello everyone, and congrats! I have just (like, about ten minutes ago) had a BFP, can't quite believe it but v cautious as had a miscarriage last year. I don't 'feel' pregnant in the way I did last time, though (and had convinced myself I wasn't, so positive came as a bit of a surprise!) But then, obviously it wasn't meant to be last time, so I guess that's no indicator.
Anyway. Nice to join the October bus!

Wow, there are so many of us now! Not sure I'm going to be able to keep up.
I filled in my booking form this morning so I get on the list to see the midwife. Managed to put my estimated due date down wrong, got all excited because it was 1/1/11 then realised it was actually 1/10/11

No symptoms yet apart from a bit of twinging and I'm moody as hell, poor DS is wondering what has happened to his normally chilled mum.
Thanks for the reminder about the pregnancy vitamins further up the thread. I've been taking folic acid but not vit D so will get some tomorrow hopefully.
Right time to go to work now, hopefully check in tonight

Heya newbies.

To reply to PPs about symptoms :
Yes - occassional cramps

Yes - tearful - in fact today is the first day and I keep welling up at stupid things. Usually my client annoys the hell out of me. Today I just want to cry I keep having to leave the office to calm down

No - not particularly more anxious than usual. But I'm a fairly anxious person anyway so that might be why.

No - no morning sickness yet. Which I'm glad about. When my mum was pregnant with me she literally couldn't get out of bed and couldn't even keep water down. I don't want people at work to know I'm pregnant for as long as possible and being sick everyday will definately give the game away!

Yes - sleeping very badly. I usually sleep badly but I don't usually wake up at 4am wide awake but tired but unable to get back to sleep.

That's it really. Still a bit unsure about my next step. Will probably go to a doctor next week. Vaguely remember a friend saying her tests basically took all day - tests in the morning then results in the afternoon and discussion with a doctor. That would be very inconvenient for work and in the line of work I'm in it's very hard to take a day off with little notice.

Just realised I'm really not happy today . I'm sure I'll cheer up once it's the weekend

Hi Fluff shufflebum wagon and Aurora

wagon I've got 2DC already aged 10 and nearly 5 so quite similar ages to yours, I'm very excited too but have to keep reminding myself that I'm not supposed to be telling anyone yet.

Aurora sorry to hear about your mc, this time I'm feeling quite different to when I had my boys, can't explain quite why it's different it just is!

shufflebum I know what you mean with the dates, Ds1 was due on Christams Day and Ds2 was due on Valentines day, I quite liked the idea of them arriving on special days but both of them were early so niether did.

fluffy I've been quite anxious too and today in particular, daft thing this morning was when we were walking to school we saw a lady walking her dog and we see her all the time, never had any reason to be anxious about this dog, it is perfectly behaved but today it sniffed DS2 and I didn't want it to!
Totally irrational but I couldn't help it, I think it must be the 'tigress' instinct coming out.

Anyway must go and do some work

Update : still close to tears plus I've found something else to worry about!

Been googling away in French and the basic advice is to see the gynecologue (sp in English?!) ASAP and also "register" with the hospital/clinic where you want to give birth ASAP. I have NO idea about any clinics or hospitals here. I'm quite worried now. I have no idea what I'm supposed to do.

Plus my usual gynecologue (for my annual check up) is lovely but her office is 45 mins away from where I live because I moved flats. When it was once a year it was fine but I need a new one! So I've just chosen one off the internet who is 5 minutes walk from my flat.

I now have an appointment Monday. I'm so scared that my test was wrong and that I'm not in fact pregnant. Isn't that stupid?

Am off to the overseas site to see if i can find an MNetter who has given birth in Paris....