Due in October 2012 Part 2

[YompingJo]

Kicking off the second thread as we outgrew the first one.

Well. Out for dinner and bingo last night ( didn't win a thing) Alk this up the duff ness sure les to one tame 30th birthday party! Oh joy. In bed by ten.

I seem to have a tiny bump already too, just my normal tummy paunch that I can no longer suck in. only gained a pound or two , and only 6+3 so so I know it's not the little blueberry.

Have still been feeling great, no major mood swings, or even minor ones for that matter.

On the name front, my dh is dead set on maximus for a boy, but my aunt's dogs name is max! We can't give our baby a dogs name. Sooooo hope we have a girl.

I do like alexander 2lm

We were offered free NHS antenatal classes with DS1. I assumed they were still available for first time parents. Cutbacks, eh? TBH if you have read lots of pregnancy books like I had, you'd know all the answers and wonder why you bothered going to NHS classes, though it was useful to have a nosey round the birthing suite, hospital facilities etc (everyone there was 6-10 weeks from EDD... one lady had hers very early and didn't make the 3rd class due to having her bambino!)

twolittlemonkeys - its so hard to eat well when you are craving junk. Ive tried to stick to healthy but incorporate carbs. Something i never normally eat! But i just cant get over how much i want potato and pasta! they are still low fat though if eaten with veg and chicken or fish. I dont know if this would help you too but healthy things mixed up with a load of pasta seems to help me out!
beans1977 so sorry to hear you lost a twin. I am a twin myself and have been wondering whether i may have twins. It must be so sad, my thoughts are with you and its good to hear you have one healthy baby.
I was wondering, sorry if i am being ignorant, but how do you know you have lost one pre-scan? I didnt think you could even know you had 2 until the 12 weeks scan?

Hello everyone,

Hope you're all feeling well today. I do feel well...which concerns me...this whole on/off symptoms is doing my head in...anyone else experiencing it?

Have my midwife appointment on saturday, looking forward to that and then hopefully getting 12 week scan date through.

xxxx

Babydust - yes. Been feeling not at all tired today (bit heavy/bloated still), no sickness. Got masses done! It's so easy to worry that things aren't right. I only take comfort from the fact that most people on here (apart from the poor folk with terrible MS) seem to be having fluctuating symptoms, with good days and bad.

Beans & Midgetm - so glad you both had reassuring appointments. So jealous of everyone with appointments! I still won't have seen a doc/midwife or anyone until I'm about 8+4 when I'll see my GP in London & beg for an early scan to check my fibroids before returning to Norway & getting midwife appt at around 16 weeks & scan at 18. If it's impossible I'll go private I think.

Hope everyone's had a good day & feeling ok :)

Hi girls

My symptoms are still dwindling! Although I already struggle to keep my jeans done up all day. Finding long tops and leggings also the best thing at the moment.

Thanks to you all for your welcomes. It's nice to feel I finally have some support. It's such a big secret to keep, so nice to have you all in the same boat.

bella20 - Thanks, its nice to have someone who's at exactly the same stage. What symptoms do you/don't you have at the moment?

x

Thanks FjordMor, good to know I'm not the only one!!

As for the bloating BrownBear2012 I'm finding my 99p button extender from ebay a god send!!!

26, 8+2, 1st baby

Hi all,

Great idea Babydust re button extender! :-)

Wrote a massive post earlier, only for stupid mumsnet page to refresh itself and delete everything - happened twice last week too. So just saying hi and hope all is well with peeps. Oh - and stay away from people with colds - still off work and an utterly miserable night without the usual drugs. Caved in and took an illicit Strepsil after almost coughing my uterus out

xo

Hi all :)

Just found out I'm preggers, 1st time - estimated dates make it 29th October. Not feeling tired at the moment but constantly feeling nauseous and stomach feeling uncomfortable (bloaty - kind of like trapped wind but not!). Sore boobs (difficulty doing stairs or rolling over in bed!) but it's more the nausea that's driving me mad. It is with me all day - bad first thing but eases up midday but then from 5pm onwards I feel sick as a dog. Not been sick yet but the drive home over speedbumps tonight didn't help the queasiness! Am trying to eat little and often but finding that I feel a bit too sick to want to eat and it doesn't seem to help nausea when I do.

Want to discuss this with someone but myself and hubby want to keep it to ourselves until we've had a scan - going mad not being able to talk about it with anyone!!

Thanks Babydust, I shall be trawling Ebay for one of these for sure!

Welcome and congratulations Kyyria!
x

Welcome Kyria, congratulations. I was given some good advice and told to tell the pharmacist - I told 2 - it was brilliant. I have now also told a good friend and my pilates teacher. Phew.

Baby Brain meant to also say..

FjordMor Thanks for the well wishes. I am sure you could get a referral to an EPU from your GP if you are on a short visit but maybe not so easy to get the full blown works. Some EPUS take walk in referrals. To be honest I didn't find out much - next week should be more enlightening but still knowledge is power and all that jazz. x

Have had my first experience this evening of foodstuffs likely to make me hurl....hubby making tuna sandwiches for work tomorrow and had to leave the room :0P

Hi all, hope your doing well?

Re: button extender- I use a hair bobble, if you wrap it around the button twice and then thread the other end though loop and back over button it works just the same... Yeh I'm bloated too lol and when I hold my tum in I get cramps so I've taken to letting it all hang out!!

I had a date today for first scan woohoo. Next thurs (8th) can't wait x

Hi all, hope your doing well?

Re: button extender- I use a hair bobble, if you wrap it around the button twice and then thread the other end though loop and back over button it works just the same... Yeh I'm bloated too lol and when I hold my tum in I get cramps so I've taken to letting it all hang out!!

I had a date today for first scan woohoo. Next thurs (8th) can't wait x

Whoops double post sorry!!!

Bought a 2 pack of button extenders on Ebay tonight after Babydust's post but hair bobble idea sounds good too cheekychops.

Nenehooo are you out there somewhere? Hope all is well x

Thanks for the tip Midgetm - I didn't think of that. Now just googled EPUs in my area & turns out there's one that does walk-ins every day! May be the answer if I don't get any joy through my GP. Thanks again! :)

Happy to help - if there is one thing I know about it is an EPU. When a new nurse asked if I had been there before the girl behind the desk went 'Oh yes, she most certainly has.' (oops)

Hi ChrissieJA - how lovely you are a twin! I found out my pregnancy had begun as identical twins at an early scan. The scan also revealed I was a few weeks ahead of my numbers, and I'm now 10+1. I went for an early scan as I had a MMC at 14 weeks last year which led to heartache for DH and I, so I have been 'extra' anxious this time.

If you'd told me before the scan I'd come away having seen a healthy baby wiggling away, I would have been over the moon. However, it was a punch in the stomach to find out that I had lost one of a pair of babies - it's left me feeling upset and concerned that perhaps pregnancy is not 'my thing'. I've now lost two of the three babies my body has made, and both to MMC - which I think is painful as it makes me doubt my body a bit. My midwife reassures me that the remaining twin has every reason to progress and that, once again, I have just been unlucky. First time around the doctor told me the odds of losing a baby after a normal 12 week scan were about 1 in 200. Having a twin pregnancy when you have no history of twins/are not having fertility treatment (like me) and losing one of them before 12 weeks is also about 1 in 200. I'm beginning to hate the numbers game - it doesn't seem to work the other way round when I buy my lottery tickets! Not sure I've ever wanted so much to be 'normal'.

Hopefully my 12w scan (which is now booked in for Friday week) will be a good indication of how my remaining baby is doing - and will be a bog standard scan showing a bog standard baby! I'll be 11+4 then so they should be able to match my bloods with the nuchal measurements and see if it's viable. I'm trying to be really positive and stay strong - and for the most part I succeed because there is a lot to be hopeful about and I know many others have it far, far harder than me. But when I'm extra tired / hormonal / feeling bloated and nauseous it can be hard. Hey ho!

Anyway - hope that helps explain, and like I say I've apparently just been really unlucky so don't let my experience give you any cause for concern and it's not the norm! x

Morning all. I've just had a good night's sleep, this seems to be improving. I have two appointments this week - blood tests tomorrow and then an appointment with the genetics department on Thursday. There is a genetic condition in DH's family that we are going to discuss. I really hope there is good news there. So much to worry about... can't wait until my scan so I can relax a bit.

Beans sorry to hear about your twin.

Hello all,
I am new to the thread, but just found out I am 5 weeks following a mmc at Christmas. I am delighted and terrified at the same time. By my calcs, I would be due on Halloween.

I cannot wait 7 weeks for my 12 week scan like last time to find out if all Is ok (or not ). I will go loopy before then.
Do any of you guys know the rules about getting an earlier scan off the NHS or do I have to go private?
From all I have read there is no value to be gained from a scan before 8 weeks as i don't think the heartbeat will be heard till then.

Anyone with experience here that can share?

Morning all. DD has generously shared her cold with me so I feel bloody awful. There is no way I can go to work today.

Babybun, welcome and congratulations. I also has a mmc ( nov 2010). Different regions seem to have different rules on early scans. When I went to book my MW appointment I was told she would not see me until after I was 10 weeks so no chance of her arranging an early scan for me

Just thought of another thing that came up at my midwife appointment - I got a letter last week saying I am due a routine smear test, midwife said to wait until 3-6 months after you have the baby - in case anyone else is wondering.

Welcome Babybun - I couldn't get an NHS early scan after a MMC last year, so had to go for a private one (for sanity!) so completely understand where you are coming from. Also, Running sorry to hear your sad news too. MMC absolutely sucks.

I guess it depends where you live - maybe ask your GP? The private clinic wouldn't see me until 8 weeks as they couldn't be sure of hearing a HB before then.

I used Baby Premier who have offices all round the UK and they were really nice and gentle with me - I would recommend them.

Running I feel your pain - I am still off work with wretched cold. Ironically I've felt pretty fine so far with the pregnancy - only the bloody cold that's killing me. One tip to save you pain - out of hours doc told me Strepsils extra are FINE in pregnancy. The pharmacist put the fear of God into me if I took anything other than a glycerine sweet or paracetamol but last night I was coughing till the point of vomiting. The only thing that helped was a Strepsil. So I phoned out of hours doc in desperation and she was lovely, told me they were fine as all they contain is a local anaesthetic which doesn't go into my bloodstream or the baby's. She also told me to take paracetamol because I was / am quite feverish. Hope that helps xo