Due in October 2012

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Just had a BFP and wondered if anyone wanted to join me in the rollercoaster ride over the next few months

Right, I think I'm ok

Checked my dates and I should be due around 8th October and am 6 weeks pregnant!!

Rang my GP to see if I needed an appointment, receptionist said yes but none available until next week. I'm a Teacher and really want one this week as it's half-term.

When do I have to tell work? I'm not looking forward to it, head will not be pleased. Two people pregnant already this year, oops!

Sorry for rambles and wishing lots of luck to everyone else on this thread.

Lime

Hmmm, I've not told my Mum. The only people who know are DP, my best friend in Australia and my boss!

I have told my parents, siblings, DH's parents, and his siblings... and some close friends... damn, apart from announcing it on Facebook I've practically told everyone :P

I told the people I know who would be caring and supportive if I had a MC.

You need to tell work by week 25 I believe.

I think I feel the need to get through tomorrow first. We had agreed that if we had an early scan and all was ok that we would tell family then before going public at 12 weeks. My friend in Oz only knows due to impending bridesmaid dress situation!

My last MC was appallingly timed on the day my step sister had her baby and the day my step brother announced his girlfriend was pregnant so no one at all knows about that.

Sassee- I am so sorry for your previous loss :( That must have been horrid for you with everyone else around you either having babies or making them :(

It was but it was one of those things. I only knew I was pregnant for 4 or 5 days and to be honest looking back I think I'd already lost the baby when I tested positive because I felt like death the whole time, I was beginning to think it was going to be a very long 9 months (and an even longer one for my DP!). This time round, I feel great. A bit tired, but then I have a stressful job and I'm always tired, a few queasy moments but otherwise really good, not even a cramp. I am hoping that fact I still feel like that is a good sign!

Sassee that sounds so difficult. Hope all goes well tomorrow.

I am the greenest I have been yet today - struggling to act normal in work. Hopefull the MS is a good sign, but it's not nice! We're going to New York tomorrow for our five-year anniversary - booked a long time ago, but now I just hope I don't spend the whole flight there puking! I'm a bad flier as it is, so this will make things extra interesting...

Will be away from the boards for a while, so everyone who has early scans I hope they all go brilliantly, and everyone who is worried about any cramps or spotting, I hope that your fears are allayed asap. xx

Sassee, I am happy to hear this pregnancy feels better :)

Beans1977, New York... I am so envious!!! Have you been before?
I have been twice and both times were amazing!!!

Thanks Milk - I went about 10 years ago, DH has never been! We are both really excited. Timing probably not brilliant, but hopefully it will help me forget about the PG a bit for a week and we'll be another week further on when we get back... xx

Enjoy NewYork Beans - deeply jealous! :o

TBH there is nothing dignified whatsoever about pregnancy, childbirth or raising children. If this is you first, it's all downhill from here....

On that uplifiting note

Good luck with the scan!

Angelico I know what you mean about counting the weeks. I was only 17 when I had DS and completely clueless, so the thought that things could go wrong hadn't crossed my mind! Ignorance can be bliss...

I'm off for scan... will be back later

Good luck milk please report back!

Eugh worst day yet! I take back my moans of no symptoms. Today I have felt terrible, as soon as I get the tiniest bit hungry, I feel really sick. Can't keep up!! Am trying to eat little and often but not really making any difference. Any ideas?

Hope everyones okay today, good luck with scans etc xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Hello everyone!

Firstly to those who have had losses this week I am so very sorry. I really hope we will be seeing you on these boards again soon.

Secondly, I'm very sorry for introducing myself last week and then disappearing- my 2DC had a delightful sickness bug, I am not the only one who has spent the wek vomiting . I think we are finally done with it though. Just what I wanted for half term!

Anyway I just wanted to check in, see how you all were and let you know that I'm fine and still here with you all

And good luck milk!

BabyDust I know exactly how you feel, I'm sure all I do is eat at the moment just to stop myself feeling sick. I'm gonna be the size of a house by October and it's going to have nothing to do with baby!

Hello all - am officially joining the October thread after a strange miscalculation that saw me on the September boards a couple of weeks ago, standing out like a sore thumb with zero symptoms! It turned out, when I went for what I thought would be a 7 week scan, that I was only 5 weeks, and so the gynae sent me away for another week and told me to come back 7 days later when I was 6 weeks so she could see a bit more....That second appointment came around last night, and she did an US abdominally and WE HEARD A HEARTBEAT!!! Really weird hearing the thump thump thump so clearly but reassuring, although I totally understand that it's still early days...In answer to the question about what the internal US is like, I had one last week (which is how the gynae discovered my actual date), and it wasn't that bad...I am completely squeamish about things going up me (it's a wonder I actually managed to have a shag and get up the duff in the first place!), but the probe(??) is really long and skinny and wasn't inserted particularly far and was far far less uncomfortable than when you go for a smear...If the early scanning bit sounds a tad weird and uncommon, it's probably worth mentioning that I live in the UAE where there's no such thing as an NHS. Healthcare here is BIG business, so they'll whip you in for all kinds of procedures and prescribe seventeen remedies if you so much as sneeze, just to make cash out of the insurance companies. Due date is 8th October by the way, and am planning on coming back to the UK in summer to have the baby there...keep annoying myself that I'm making so many plans when I'm only six weeks, but I get carried away and can't stop it! Nice to meet all my fellow first trimesterers on here, and sending love and hugs to anyone who needs it today.

I know I have been told that google is not my friend but seriously, someone is going to have cut my fingers off!

I know I am Rh- and I have been warned I may need a blood test tomorrow. Well ladies, the googling commenced. Should I have had the anti-d at the last miscarriage, who knows. I'm pretty sure my DP is Rh- so my basic science skills tells me that two negatives don't make a positive so it's fine, but I'm not genetic expert and google is not kicking out the answer freely, dammit!

Welcome to our ever growing group mirikat isn't it amazing the first time you hear that little 'thump thump' and you realise you're not going mad and there is actually a baby growing inside you!

Sassee I'm no expert or scientist my only piece of advise would be to step away from google and ask a professional

It's totally amazing iceandaslice, and although there was no official valentine's celebration last night as I seem to be constantly knackered by about 8pm, I feel like it was the nicest 'gift' I've ever got for DH, who was with me when we heard it...

Aaah that's lovely I assume this is you first? I don't know what your scanning system is like out there but it's even more amazing at later scans when you can see them wriggling around on the screen!

Oh and we had no official valentines celebration last night either as I was asleep by 8:30 to be fair that's the norm for me recently

Yes it's our first, and the scanning equipment I guess is pretty up-to-date if she could see and hear so much when it's so early...if that sounds completely naive when every fool knows that you can hear a baby's heartbeat through the tummy if you just use two plastic cups and a piece of string, then forgive me, am learning as I go!! She said she wants to scan again in a month (when I'll be 10 weeks - how am I ever going to get through 27 days of waiting and wondering?!!), and then I'm flying back to London in March in time for my 12 week appointment and to meet the obstetrician...Hopefully that 12 week scan will show the kind of detail you mentioned - am still completely bewildered that my body is producing this whole other person, and think that seeing really will be believing! Does it get less awe-inspiring when you're onto your second or subsequent pregnancies I wonder???