PG after MC - the Posifrickingtivity gathers pace, the Laura Ashley skirt has been returned

[Bakingtins]

New thread ladies, let's hope the good luck continues!
Shall we start with stats?

Sunday 19th May - today we are pregnant!

GaryBuseysTeeth: 1DS, 1MC, EDD 10th Aug
Pentagon: 1 DD, 2MMCs, EDD 31st October, next scan 14th June
BumpKitty: 1MC, 1DD, EDD 12 Nov, next scan 29th April
Shellshock7: 2MC 1DS EDD 12 Nov Next scan 28 June
Bodicea: 0DC, 2MC, EDD 16 Nov. Next scan 25th April
Ibelieveinpink: 2mc, EDD 17 Nov next scan 7th May
Lucky13: 1DS, 1 chemical, 2MC, EDD 23rd Nov, scan 11th May
Janielovescake: 1MC, 0DC, EDD 25 Nov, next scan 11th May
Vocalista86: 1 MMC, EDD 30 November. next scan (12 weeks) 20th May
Vixjane: 2 MC, EDD 30 Nov, next scan (12 weeks) 21 May
Aoifebelle: 1MC, EDD 1st Dec, next scan 20th May (NHS 12 weeks)
Jmf294: 1 DS, 1DD, 1 MC, EDD 10th Dec, scan 3rd May
Zeux 1DD 1MC EDD 14th December, first scan 24th May
DIYandEatCake: 1dd, 1mc, EDD ?16 dec, waiting for scan date
Booty: 1chemical EDD 19 Dec (Xmas baby!) next scan 25th April
pumpkinsweetie: EDD 26 Dec
WillSantaComeAgain: 1DC, 2MMC, EDD 30 Dec, 6 wk scan OK. Next scan ?w/c 17 June
Bakingtins: 2 DSs, 3 MC, EDD 6th Jan, scan 23rd April
Mummytothearkbuilder: 1DS, 1 MC, EDD tbc (Jan 2014), scan 24th May

Ha ha garden NO!!

Ooo all these girls on the way I'm 99% sure it's another boy but were not finding out

Yes yes and yes again re fizzy sour sweets

I hate moaning too cos I love being PG the feeling of having the baby inside is amazing (and pink i love being massive makes me feel more pregnant if that make sense?!) but last time was tough with the PGP and birth so I think moaning is inevitable sadly

I have a massive ginger cat too. He is my baby xxx I had a dream that I couldn't breastfeed had no pram and was walking around a massive shop looking for formula I couldn't find with baby under my jumper - but it kept morphing into my cat! Didn't appear to find strange in my dream though.

Santa it is hard but I guess you just get used to it. When i am working i the epau i sometime have to give bad bews 3/4 times in a morning which can be emotionally draining but i honestly don't think about it much anymore as would go mad. i also get to tell people everything looks fine when they are expecting the worst which is awesome. Totally love my job. I am very privileged to get to be part of such a special thing.
.I did mention to my boss that when I become heavily pregnant maybe I should stay out of the epau as it might be a bit hard for patients to receive bad news off a heavily pregnant woman. she looked at me like it was an odd request and the issue had never come up before .

Oh damnit I googled. I shouldn't have done that. The comments on the bump are getting silly now, so I googled what a big bump means.

Someone needs to take google away. It is a very bad thing.

Pink it means nowt! (other than you are preggers!) STEP AWAY FROM DR GOOGLE he's a fraudsters full of old wives tales and other peoples rubbish. If you could meet the people who posted whatever you have read you probably wouldn't give them the time of day....do I sound like an Internet parental control function?!

Pink remember that dr googles qualifications are rather dicey!

I know all this, yet every time I think if I read something good to justify things I will feel better. :( useless.

I do like the idea of dr googles crappy qualifications though! Ha :)

...he bought them on the Internet! Boom Boom!

Actually just laughed out loud in the middle of the office! Not helping my discrete blatant abuse of mn during work!! :)

you guys have some really weird dreams!! Pregnancy side-effect!

shell I love having a big bump too - I find it very reassuring and I proudly show it off

ibip noooooooo, don't do that (as my DD says ) anyway, having a small or big bump doesn't mean anything at all... it depends on each woman and her body

bod I bet having to deliver bad news is very hard and emotionally draining but most of the time it's good news (right?) and therefore wonderful! It's very nice (and sensitive) of you to ask not to work at the EPAU later on, I hope they can accommodate your request and I'm sure patients will appreciate it!

Not much to report here, I can feel the baby move quite often which is lovely; and getting excited about all the scans on Friday, I look forward to the good news!!

I now have a proxy Googler. Whenever I want to search for something pregnancy related I ask my sister (nurse) and she has a look for me and tells me only the good stuff she finds.

My bump is different sizes every day - it depends what I'm wearing and where they're lying and how much I had for lunch

Hi ladies. Thanks for making me smile re: funny dreams! I started off having some corkers- wish I'd written then down! Haven't dreamt for a while now though (that I can remember!)

Feeling deflated now after my fab news yesterday. Firstly I've been googling (yes I know- slap with a big smelly gush!!) large nuchal folds and studying my pics for absence of nasal bone.

Secondly, work is utter shit (and that's all I have to say on yhe matter!) want to quit.

Grr sorry for the negafrickintivity!! Hope you're all good xx

Lol! Don't slap me with a smelly gush!! I meant fish! Haha that's made me smile- good old autocorrect!

other people commenting on your bump is something you are going to have to block out ibip i've had 'wow, you're massive' and 'god you don't look x weeks' on exactly the same day - both said harmlessly but with the power to throw a pg women into a blind spiral of panic! Seriously, unless it is your mw saying it to you you have to ignore it.

I read a story to DD last night called something like 'When the baby gets here' i couldn't even get to the end I was crying so much! I've just listened to DH reading it to her over the monitor and it's getting to me again. It is nice though - for those of you with toddlers.

gary here's a 'worst sex dream ever' award just for you
bod I think you have an amazing job, I sometimes have to give people (less) crap news too but usually they are cross rather than said (cryptic!). I hope they listen to you about the EPAU.
pentagon yey for the lovely movements :)

That is cryptic bump. I want to know what you do now

bump thanks for the recommendation, I meant to get a "new arrival" book for DD!

black sorry to hear work is getting you down...you'll be on maternity leave in a few months' time, hang on in there! And stay away from Google!! The NT measurement is within the normal range and I'm sure they would have told you if they hadn't seen a nasal bone!

jmf I mean to ask: how was the Harry Potter studio tour? I'm dying to go!

not that exciting i'm afraid bod civil service level of dullness in fact! Good maternity policy though

Glad I'm not the only hairy one! . I didn't know it was meant to mean a boy - that's interesting as where I am at the moment we are having a huge spate of boys being born hmm.......

Janie & Bod - I also have a fat ginger cat & adore him!! He is going to be AGHAST when baby arrives as he hates kids!

Another one with a big fat ginger cat (and a teeny tortoiseshell/black one). Despite them being from the same litter they couldn't be more different, and DH managed to stand on the little one's head when she was a kitten and we were moving in. As a result she's a bit 'special'. Doesn't bode well for the twins' welfare

Oh blackholes step away from google images. At my 12w scan they couldn't do the nt measurement and I had to go back after the weekend for a rescan to have another go. I spent the weekend comparing my scan photos to those on google images convincing myself I could see massive NTs on the photos. They'll ring soon if there's a problem, in the meantime try to forget about it xx

Wow so many big fat gingers!! My guy will be totally put out when bambino arrives (see the posifrickintivity there...when not if!) but I like the idea if him having a little human brother or sister!!

I don't have a fat ginger, but I do have a giant silver tabby. He is going to be MOST put out when baby comes along, partly because his space on the bed will have to be given up when baby is in our room!
I have tried to explain to him about the baby. He tends to just turn his back on me.

Our cat was aghast when we bought DC1 home. (Actually, the first time, he was totally nonplussed. It was the second time, after we'd been out, he looked at us as if to say "WHAT???? You bought THAT thing BACK again????") But now he is amazing and will happily subject himself to hours of torture*

bod - that is really thoughtful of you. I hope your boss listens. Perhaps he/she needs reminding that you do (sadly) know what its like to go through and therefore you can speak from experience at saying it would be miserable to be confronted with a heavily pg woman.

I feel such respect for anyone who has to routinely deal with the worst bits of human life - EPAU staff, funeral directors, A&E staff, Macmillan nurses. But then you/they are probably also constantly amazed at how people cope. I'm a wuss though, I work in a profession where I could have gone down the dealing with crap everyday route, but instead chose to become a pen pusher who rarely has to speak to other humans (unless I choose to!!)

Having emotional hormonal overload at the moment. At least I hope its that because today I am feeling like my marriage is dying and will never survive another DC

*Disclaimer: We don't actually allow the toddler to torture the cat. But toddlers do have a habit (when they're learning to stand/walk) of using anything and everything to hoist themselves upright with. And the cat would keep coming back for more.

Oh Santa. Sorry you are so down :( is it the stress of tomorrow sneaking up on you? It can do funny things to people. Feel free to rant if ranting would help I always do!

I really don't know what is wrong with me at the moment. I should be glowing - my nausea is fine, my tiredness levels are OK, I've had it confirmed twice already there is a viable pg, but I am miserable. Ungrateful little sod that I am (and feeling guilty about being so miserable too).

Keep hoping the misery will pass and I'll start to be excited, but then all I can think about is how hard it is. (It really isn't that hard - but I can only remember the bad bits at the moment).

I'm being so negative!!! I'm usually a positive person. At what point do you stop blaming hormones and start worrying about ante-natal depression? I don't feel particularly depressed, just like I've got a massive sustained bout of PMT (which I used to control with herbal supplements).

santa what's wrong? Why are you saying that about your marriage? Has sth happened? Sorry you're feeling down and like ibip I hope it's the stress of tomorrow speaking...

So you two have scans tomorrow - who else? I know it was mentioned recently but please remind me