I'm Pregnant ....................................

[Jemma7]

WAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Found out last night i am pregnant - 5 weeks and 2 days!

Am so excited - need all the advise i can get as this is the first time and i know absolutely nothing!

Off ot join the June thread now

Jemma, congratulations!!!

Congrats Jemma7 ! Really really pleased for you.

Tell your work when you feel good and ready. I still haven't told mine yet and I'm 16 wks now and it is getting harder and harder to hide. Am also relying on the fact that they are all blokes and won't notice anyway

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!

Nothing much more to say except I hope it's a wonderful 9 months for you, but don't feel bad if you don't enjoy it - sickness, heartburn etc. Just get through it as best you can and here's to a lovely July baby!

Congrats!

Some advice - please, please enjoy and relish every remaining moment of your freedom. Have lots of lie ins, long baths, go out to the cinema frequently, etc etc

Don't worry about creams to avoid stretchmarks etc - they don't work. You will either get stretchmarks or you will be lucky enough to avoid them - its depends on your skin etc.

Use your mat leave before the baby is born to do some cooking and freeze lots of meals - so that you've got something to eat in the first hectic few weeks after he /she arrives when you wont have time to draw breath.

Be prepared for 'babyshock' - don't expect to be permanently on cloud 9 after baby arrives. You might be viewing it with rose tinted specs (like I was before dd arrived), and yet whilst in some ways happy and elated with your new baby you will have moments of exhaustion and despondency as you try to make the massive adjustments to parenthood. Am not saying this to depress you - just wish somebody had bothered forewarning me of this before my first baby arrived!

Good luck and keep well

completely agree with handlemecarefully. I remember being really cross with all mothers in the world that no-one had really warned dp and I how utterly exhausting and emotionally/mentally draining having a newborn would be. It felt like a great big conspiracy of silence...

Of course it was also wonderful, but just the shock of being up all hours of the day and night was unbelievable - never mind having a tiny thing to look after!

Good advice there! Make sure your dh is prepared too. I remember reading in a book that this was the case and thinking Naaaah they're just being pessimists, It's all going to be gurgles and cute little bottoms. Boy how wrong was I?!

Having said that she was the yummiest bundle ever and I can't believe she can walk and talk (a bit) and I love her so much! This is making me broody! Lucky we are trying for another.

OH tell me about it!!
I'm actually looking forward to having the next one and not having that shock anymore!

DS still gets us up during the night so I might as well have another one just now before I remember what a nights sleep feels like. LOL

Jemma7 Very wise words from Handlemecarefully!

M2T poor you, aren't you exhausted? DD occasionally wakes in the night if she's ill and I feel like death the next day. You are brave mother

CD - Last night was particularly bad. He woke up at midnight. Came into bed beside me. DH went through to his bed.
Ds was totally freaked by the fireworks and didn't got to sleep until about 2-ish. I was wide awake until about 3am.
I have to get up for work at 6am!!!!

That's not a normal night now, but it was until ds was at least a year old! My little cherub.

Yeah and relish in the fact that people are lovely to you they'll soon start letting doors go in your face again, even if you are pushing a buggy but when you're pregnant people are kind for a change so enjoy that too!

Oh and stock up on liquid Gaviscon now!!!

Yes, Gaviscon Extra is brilliant. And get comfy pillows as you will soon be sleeping upright like the Elephant Man LOL!!!

My nights when pg,
Go to bed, drink pint of milk and swig Gaviscon Extra. Surround bump with pillows and pile up enough pillows to sleep upright.

Sleep for half and hour, wake up with searing indigestion, guzzle Gaviscon, go for a wee, reposition pillows, back to sleep trying to ignore mule kicking inside. Repeat until morning.

milk really is the only thing to drink, isn't it! Haven't tried Gaviscon liquid - must go and get some 'cos the tablets are horrible and too big to chew!

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Hold on, this is meant to be happy not telling me i'm not going to be able to sleep before the babys even arrived and that im going to have to stock up on gaviscon!

Only kidding, obviously knew this would happen but just hoping i don't get too big (Elephant style) or suffer from heatburn too badly - DP gets it terrible and swears by a pint of milk and a banana

Can we talk about the nice things now? ?

OK - the best thing is the first time you feel it move. I'd been decorating and collapsed onto my bed and all of a sudden she just went mad inside of me. From nothing to this crazy thing! it was out of this world and I miss that feelong so much - ugghhh sheer bliss.

I also loved being huge and feeling sexy - you do feel very sexy btw, it's all those hormones!

FYI I got sick while preggers from eating tiramisu - didn't know it was made with raw eggs. I was past 12weeks & everything was OK.

Congratulations Jemma, thats fantastic news.

My bit of advice is if you can, go for a holiday somewhere warm. We had booked a holiday when ttc and went when I was 6 weeks gone, it was lovely, lots of lying on the beach soaking up the sun. Just what you need esp in the first three months (don't forget the last minute deals in the travel agents).
Although holidays with children are also fantastic, they are so very very different.

On a more practical note, sleep anywhere is good.

Have fun with your cravings, I don't really think mine are cravings - more like excuses. With DS I craved icecream, this time I crave chocolate! Also don't forget you are eating for two as in - one chocolate cake for me, one chocolate cake for the baby etc.

For the sensible ones out there, I lost the weight quite quickly after the birth of DS. As I bf and went for lots of walks with ds - had to get dressed then.

I loved feeling the baby move. But for me the best time was towards the end when you could see the movement as well and the way your tummy shifts from inside - like watching someone move under the duvet!

We were meant to go to London next weekend for DP's birthday but we have decided not to go.

I know it would be nice for us to have 1 last break, just the 2 of us as we wont have the chance when DD/DS (OH MY GOD, HOW WIERD IS IT WRITING THAT) arrives but we decided that we could easily spend £500 over the weekend and i can buy the buggy i've got my heart set on with that

I think as this is our first child it we are more interested in having everything we want for the baby - i know people will say "well why spend £500 on a buggy when u can get one from Toys R Us for £200"!
We want to have everything we want no matter the cost, we are not planning on having hundred of kids and are more interested that we have everything we need for the baby rather than for ourselves!

Got, i did change the subject there slightly didn't I !

Have got so many things coming up where i wont be able to drink will have to tell everyone really soon - DP's birthday on Tuesday, SIL b'day, work xmas party, Xmas eve, Xmas day, Boxing day, New Years Eve, mates 30th in Jan, DB's 25th in April!
I don't mind though, at least i've got a good enough reason now - just means i can eat more

Jemma7 - Don't get too carried away with buying expensive things for the baby.... there are better more practical ways to spend the money! Like...... stocking up on Nappies!

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I know what you mean M2T but i meant what with Xmas coming up we would both probably ask for present for the baby rather than for us.

I knwo it's a long way off but i'm one of these ultra organised people and would much rather our baby had everything it needed rather than us having present which may be nice and welcomed but not actually needed as much as things for the baby!

I don't explain myself very well do i - sorry !

Yeah - save it for when they are born and you realise all the things that you need that you still haven't got! The best thing you can spend your money on is your 1st holiday away together!

Also that last holiday when it's just the 2 of you and you can lie on a beach and soak up the sun with your lovely big belly.

Jemma - Babies don't really need that much at first.

Are you planning to bf?? I planned to but it didn't work out coz ds wouldn't latch on
so poor DH had to run about like a lunatic buying a sterlizer and bottles!

Make sure you have a wee stash of stuff like that.

My SIl had a baby in May so i will ask her to help me with everything i will need - should still be fresh in her mind!

Not planning on B/f athough not ruling it out - havben't really looking into a great deal but always thought "Oh no, no way i can do that"!

Will have a read up and see what i think!