Due in October -part 3

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The third instalment as we're a talkative bunch!

Welcome LondonMrsS!! Our due dates are one day apart - I'm 26 October. Also 27, also my first! Very scary I know.

Have told close friends and family already as I'm going back to NZ to visit this week and seemed silly not to tell them (I'll be back here at just after 10 weeks).

Blergh tube stinkiness, I sympathise. I have to cycle to work because I can't stand Dublin Bus stink. On my route, it's pensioners who either stink of smoke (and look like shrivelled up leather gloves) or no longer wash themselves and smelly self-entitled nuns who want you to give up your seat for them. It makes me feel grim about humanity because I think that all beautiful babies have the potential to turn into people that like. That probably sounds quite vitriolic but it's how I feel right now .... and why I'm not taking the bus!

Anyone as crazy as me and still POAS? :P

LondonMrsS and Zara I'm also due on the 26th October, am 28 and he or she will be my first.. I have also told a few friends and family but I don't have any friends with children so feel a bit of a pioneer

I have just started to feel sick today... can't seem to shift the nausea which is probably nothing compared to what others are going through but is beginning to irritate me and I can't concentrate. Other than that I am getting increasingly excited though hugely hormonal - poor DH is fighting simultaneous battles to keep potentially irritating things out of my way and picking up the pieces when I begin to cry about stupid stuff! It's full on!

Anyway we're more than half way to the 2nd trimester! Let's hope everything improves then.

turnwest to be big because of being pregnant is the most beautiful thing in the world to me. Perhaps to this lady too. I am sure She will not have thought how her words would have hurt you. I know it's hard with the hormones raging but try not it get to you. If I could come and hug you I would.

Welcome londonmrsS. Come join us farty moany constipated yet elated and excited people. We are all a little unhinged but at least we can blame the hormones.

I am currently on the tube it really smells. Been to Westfield, that also really smells. May chuck up my lunch on the unsuspecting strangers next to me. Heading into town for a meeting when all I really want to do is sleep for Engand. got the most crazy busy week. 2 big lunches and 3 nights out. Want to tell everyone the truth so I can stop acting weird. The first trimester is so cruel!

Thanks everyone for being nice and you re right of course migetm whenever I see a pregnant lady, I do always think its looks beautiful, just not on me. I think its because Im only 9 weeks and it seems a bit early for people to be bump commenting.

Anyway, I ve picked myself up, braving myself for the school run now, and I m not going to suck my stomach in or wear a baggy jumper!!! Thanks for being lovely everyone, I m sorry to have had such a moan.

Hello Mrs LondonMrsS

Thanks guys!
Liege07 I've been really nauseous for the last week. I know everyone has their own remedies (ginger make me MUCH worse), but personally I find that nothing helps more than extra strong mints! Minty fresh, and it's a hit of sugar which can really help. I may have no teeth left by the second trimester, but I will have avoided throwing up on colleagues / husband / strangers in the street.
I went into a natural food place to ask for advice on remedies (what happened to me? I used to just take the drugs...) and all the woman said was 'Eat brown rice, it'll make your baby really clever' which made me want to punch her.

LondonMrsS, I would have wanted to punch her too!

londonmrsS extra strong mints are my saviour too! I keep having to go on theatre visits with schoo when ms is at its worst and i just sit there gobbling them up! Lifesaver.

turnwest i am so sorry that silly woman hurt your feelings. People seem to think that telling you that you look big is a compliment and that they are implying that you have a big healthy bairn in there. I agree that at 9 weeks it is hard to see it like that. I found it v hard to feel attractive last time when i was big, but i am a bit chubby post ds so am looking forward to having an excuse for chubbiness! Then i plan to run the great north run again which i used to love and put all my energies into getting into shape again. I am so dying for a bump! Got mega 11 week envy!

Got to dash to a rehearsal now, wish i could go to sleep instead! Dh working late again tonight so will have to try and wake up enough to give ds a fun bath and bedtime like he deserves. Right...where are my extra strong mints...

turnwest try not to worry, saw a thread on MN when first joined where a woman was crying because someone had said the opposite to her - "you're not very big are you?" lol. I'm with Bella - she is probably saying wow, baby growing machine! :-)

Sympathetic laughter to all poor peeps who get public transport. I have super smell-sense even when not pregnant so it would be GROSS beyond words at the minute!!!

Phoned mid-wife there as have been getting a bit breathless over the weekend on and off and some dizzy spells since beginning but really bad dizzy spell today where I went a bit 'spacey'. It just passed but the breathless thing was horrible - like I couldn't get enough air in for a minute or two. She said I might be anaemic so have GP appt anyway on Fri and might get them to check my iron levels. I did have a savage craving for red meat a few days last week so maybe bean was trying to tell me something

Oh and skatergrrrl those 'hot milk' undies look fab! Going to go and have a proper snoop! :o

Have just spent an hour torturing self looking up holidays. Trying to predict how good / woeful I will feel at 27 weeks, whether too much heat will be unbearable etc. And also if I can risk flights as that is the airline cutoff and you start needing doc's letter etc. Bah!

Hello all, I know I have been away for quite a while, I actually have been lurking but every time I go to post my brain just shuts down! I seem to be really really struggling with this pregnancy I'm sure I wasn't this tired in either of my previous pregnancies Any one else feel like quite frankly they can't be arsed and would like to sit on the sofa in front of the tv and eat crap all day? And I'm paranoid that something bad is going to happen even though there is no evidence of this...

< returns to grump corner >

I went to the gym . I was pathetic, hardly did anything and felt totally, totally crap afterwards . But I went. And today was a ridiculous day, it feels like it should be at least Thursday already. Tomorrow I am taking 2 classes on a trip for the day, and on Wednesday I have Parents Evening Part 3, the Maths parents evening. Then I'm away for the weekend. Going to be 10 weeks before I know it!

DameIce, you're not alone, I am pretty stunned by how tired I feel, and didn't post on here for a long time because I was feeling very down about everything, but I'm glad to be posting again, it lifts my spirits!

Off to Pilates now, first time in 3 weeks, so expecting to find it hard, then home for lovely dinner of sausages, mash and onion gravy and steamed veg courtesy of lovely husband, who also bought me today just because. Sigh. I am lucky and feel very happy today.

Wishing everyone minimal farting, great big poos, non-nauseating smells, stable hormones, growing bumps (but not growing too much!) and a lovely evening xx

Evening ladies, gosh you are all so funny. It is such a tonic reading your comments and seeing my symptoms are all normal. It's killing me not being able to talk to anyone about this though - bring on the scan day when I can finally tell everyone!

The sickness is getting better and I'm not quite so tired. Although I can't bring myself to go to yoga in the evenings, I'm asleep by 9pm. DH and I drove to the Pyrenees yesterday for a day's skiing and although I was fine during the day, by the end I was exhausted and this morning I could barely drag myself out of bed. That's only one day of sport - I admire any of you who are managing to keep up any sort of exercise regime.

On the, er, digestive front I have one word for you ladies suffering from constipation: Linseed. It's amazing. Sprinkle two tsp on breakfast cereal and drink plenty of water. It's been my lifesaver and doesn't seem to bring on the, ummm, 'noisy' qualities of dried fruit!!

32, 9 weeks tomorrow, #1

PS Scan booked for March 30 - think I'll only really believe I'm up duffed when I see the little bean

I know how you feel Smorgs I'm still waiting for a scan date and until I see it I won't 100% believe it. My DH laughs at me when I say that, he's the one that has to put up with the crazy raging hormones

I'd love to have the scan booked in but it's a bit tricky because we're trying to move house into a different health authority area. I had asked the GP to refer us to the hospital in the new area (which is near both our jobs, anyway) so that we might get continuity of care. But tonight the midwife called and said it's really not ideal as we need to be registered with a GP in the area (which obviously we can't do as we haven't moved yet). Sigh.

She was actually really nice about it but it's obviously not ideal for them from a budget point of view. She's going to ask her supervisor if they can make an exception. Fingers crossed.

And now we just need to find a new home!!!

PS is it too early to go to bed? I've been shattered since about 2pm.

londonlivvy, I'm off to bed at 8 :)

Hi DameIce, good to see you back! Was wondering if you were ok.

All I want to do, ever, is lie in bed. All day, all night, just lie in bed. I have insomnia but I'm knackered, and dragging myself out of bed in the morning is the hardest thing I do all day. Lying flat just feels so right. Any other position is wrong. Should change my name to dameflatasapancake.

hello ladies

I'm shattered too

Today went on forever, I feel like I'm giving everything to the patients right now and have nothing left of me at the end of the day

It's the boyfriend's birthday today though we're doing something proper with mates at the weekend. He said I don't need to do anything, but I was determined to do something, so I am valiantly trying to stay awake cooking some nice stuff that I honestly can't bear to eat!! (sausages and lentils, followed by a banana cake which smells nice but is collapsing, I also tried to put icing on it just now and it melted - PATIENCE! I am a great cook but a crap baker) (I might try and eat some lentils... meat and sugar make me sick though!!)

He is out interviewing bands and stuff (he writes for magazines, not professionally, he has another job) and I am expecting him home sometime between 10 and midnight... MUST STAY AWAKE!

londonlivvy I'm also considering bed. As early as you need is late enough I say

Thanks to those wishing me well with my epic trip. I'm now safe in London & totally knackered.

turnwest - I sympathise with the big comment. I've also had a not dissimilar experience. Having just spent 3 nights in hotels/on the road, I have been delighting in telling all my hosts that I'm pregnant. I'm well aware that my belly is entering rooms before me. The 2nd person I told exclaimed 'oh you're pregnant?!??' (as if to say 'we just presumed you were really fat'). I thought I looked really pregnant (and so does DP) so to be mistaken for obese was gutting.

Still, maybe time to get some 'bump bands' etc, start huffing & puffing & permanently rubbing my belly or supporting my back & saying 'ooof' .

Hope you all had great weekends

Nearly hurled my risotto back up at Pilates. Teacher made comments about how big my boobs are already and that soon they will be in my face. How rude. But accurate.

Must be something in the air today. Beyond tired. Thanks for the linseed tip Smorgs I may never pooh again unaided. angelico hope you aren't anaemic as I am and 3 iron tablets a day ontop of preg vits and preg hormones takes constipation to a whole new level. I started to feel better though pretty much as soon as I started on them though so hope you do too x

Hi all! A friend took me for dinner to a local pub tonight. We walked in and he was chatting away and all I could think was "where is that smell coming from? Awful. Jesus" and friend was talking on and we ordered food and drinks and went to a table toward the back where... simultaneously, a man approached us and I spied plaster work happening... and I said, basically to the man who was now directly in front of me and has no context upon which to base my comment, "oh, that's where that awful smell is coming from" as if I'd identified him as the source. And then I reaslised my faux pas and made it worse by laughing at myself. So thought I'd offer that up for your amusement!

And I came home to a lovely letter offering me a scan March 29th. How exciting! I only hope I've still got someone in there as I've been on an emotional high for days now. I can still cry but it's more in sympathy rather than at random crap. I have 11 week envy, 12 week envy, etc., I want the bump.

10 weeks today (39 years old and 1st), s/he has finger nails and is moving and kicking an is the size of a lipstick case - amazing. Goodnight ladies.

One more thing, I just tried to take my bra off forgetting that I hadn't yet taken my top off. I no longer have my feet on the ground!

Evening all! I don't really have much to say other than last night I made an entire lamb roast dinner, when all I wanted was minty gravy. And today I did yoga that made my baby bloat HUGE. WTF?

Roll on actual bump!