Pregnant (IVF) Worriers (part two)

[Shazzamattazzerly]

Hi everyone,

This thread is for all you incessant worriers out there, not necessarily limited to IVF-ers, although I get the feeling the people who have had trouble TTC are more prone to worrying than others! We have filled our first thread (www.mumsnet.com/Talk/pregnancy/1721178-Pregnant-IVF-Worriers) but there is more worrying to do so here we are.

A few of us graduated from the IVF thread (link below) and are having a go at our own thread to get out of the other IVF-ers hair! So get your roomy jogging bottoms on for some virtual hand holding, mutual symptom spotting and staying sane until the next scan date.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/conception/1691674-Excellent-Egg-Buddies-continued-Anyone-having-IVF-ICSI-in-Jan-Feb-and-March-2013-please-join-us

Crisps The breast pump is fully sterilised so am happy with that.

Mariana We started talking about pregnancy books and then she mentioned that she'd written a book.

dildals that's hilarious! She must have had twins? Presumably she did all the research and its definitely the best. Is it electric!

buzzy good luck tomorrow!

Back late from a work do in London but feel too wound up to go right to sleep and DH has dared to leave a half finished bottle of Sauvignon blanc in the fridge. I think a small glass for medicinal purposes is justified...

Good luck today buzzy. Have you considered acupuncture for the sickness? Also those sea sickness bands are supposed to help and they aren't too expensive. You might look like you are training for Wimbledon though with sweatbands on.

Dildals that is brilliant! I must read this bumpology book you are all raving about. Especially as I now practically know the writer by means of degrees of separation

Fairy you cheeky thing with your little tipple. A lady at work told me that she had the odd glass while she was preggers. And when she first went to her NCT social she was wondering whether to take a bottle of wine and what the host might think of that. When she got there the host opened the door with a glass of red in one hand and a cigarette in the other. Apparently she was French!

I've got terrible constipation this morning (TMI). I've had to get on the bus anyway. I couldn't do any more coaxing and I didn't want to have a MrsH experience. on the up side it had made my bump huge!

Nice Poo-bump shaz.....

buzz I'm glad the sickness is back, hope its reassuring. Good luck x

shazza I have somme of those bands I just keep forgetting them, not sure what i'd say to the patients well after doom and gloom chat with MW the scan showed a baby and heartbeat at this stage, feel reassured for now just hope it lasts

Oh yay buzzy!!! That's awesome. How many weeks are you? Try and relax now :) :) hypocrite

Brilliant Buzzy! Stop with the doom and gloom! Yay!!!!

Excellent Buzzy, now try to give yourself a couple of days off fretting.

Buzzy that is amazing news. I'm so happy for you. How exciting. X

Hooray buzz! I was thinking about you today and hoping all was well. The stats say once you have a heartbeat everything is 95%ok...97% by week 10 and 99% by week 12, so good going! Hope you can have a bit of a chill now and feel a bit more relaxed do as I say not as I do

I had some of the bands but can't say they did much. I have found was 8-9-10 the hardest, although I've been slightly better the last couple of days . Hopefully we'll be like those textbooks ladies that stop being sick and get all glowy and motherly at the dot of 12 weeks. no fucking chance in my case

Yay that's fab news buzz and I'm pleased to hear that you are feeling a bit reassured. I am beginning to mental again - most of my work colleagues now know and look at my like I'm mad when I say, well hopefully I'll go on maternity leave, fingers crossed it'll be born in dec etc etc. As one pointed out, my bump is now so big there's def something in there! Like you shazz I think today it is particularly big due to iron bowel issues..

Ha ha ha didals at the celeb pump! What a coincidence. I really enjoyed her columns and plan to download her book for my hols. Another great didals tip!

crisps I too found week 10 the worst MS wise. It was constant that week, whereas now I have some largely ok days, with nausea just in the evenings and/or first thing and then the terrible days. The bands didn't help unfortunately, but I got some druks from the dr to get me through the day at work. I was so pissed off that it didn't all disappear at 12 weeks!

I'm 18 weeks today and still waiting for the mother glow to start. What with spots, constipation and trapped wind I don't feel very glowy. I do have nice hair and long nails though! So many people commented on my expanded bump today. I can't win. I didnt tell them it was backed up poo though!

thanks ladies but I have miscarried at just over 10 weeks so the stats don't offer me comfort, I don't think I'll relax until i'm actually holding a live baby, they did discuss my gas issue again I have to remind them that I am on alot of progesterone, it looks like a big storm cloud on the scan, I also saw my lovely GP who is so very supportive, she has IVF twins herself

gin I am sick from morning till I go to bed GP gave me some cyclizine, Aussie at work told me to put a plaster over my belly button I did think he was taking the piss but at the time it did help a bit, the MS doesn't seem to disappear, I also have bad heartburn, GP advised a few days off work to recharge so might do that next week

shazza are yo telling me the 2nd trimester glow doesn't exist I can't keep farting like this at 18 weeks, i will have gassed half the country

keep I am only 7w2d, although I feel I should be into the 2nd trimester by now as it feels like its been forever

Pregnancy makes time stand still.

Same here for worst MS week 9-10. Something must happen then.

No mother glow here either except thicker darker hair. It started falling out as soon as I had her though and now is going lighter. Bizarre.

We had a colic free evening and my god the difference. I sat reading an actual book with her asleep on my lap.

Morning ladies

Mariana that's great. I hope the book was non pregnancy/parenting related!

Buzzy I'm afraid the farting has carried on for me. Possibly not quite as bad but maybe that's because most of it is trapped now! I'm also still burping although no where near as badly as around weeks 8-10. It was really bad then. Quite funny though. prunes were helping with the constipation but I'm not supposed to have them on this low histamine diet so even though I have masses of fruit and veg I still have problems.

I sympathise with you girls suffering from MS and thank heavens that I was lucky enough to escape. Although at the time I was massively fretting because I didn't have any.

The early weeks went so slowly for me but things have sped up abit. Except when you are waiting for a scan. Then time goes sooooo slowly.

Oh and buzzy definitely take some time off if you can. Even if you can't take long a few days might benefit you. And it's doctors orders

morning ladies, I am off today, due to waking up dry retching and a bit of a cold, I shall brace myself for the sickness to get worse then to be honest sometimes I fart with such force I almost propel myself forward

Oh buzz I'm sorry for laughing but im picturing a turbo boosted pregnant lady

Darn it, sent before I'd finished. Sorry you aren't feeling well. tea and toast and some sofa action with Philip and holly sounds like the order of the day for you. Look after yourself. X

Darn it, sent before I'd finished. Sorry you aren't feeling well. tea and toast and some sofa action with Philip and holly sounds like the order of the day for you. Look after yourself. X

Darn it, sent before I'd finished. Sorry you aren't feeling well. tea and toast and some sofa action with Philip and holly sounds like the order of the day for you. Look after yourself. X

Blinking heck sorry for the triple post. Bloody app playing up. I'll stop now!

cluster poster

I am 16 weeks and def feel better, though not glowing. I am like shaz v lucky to have escaped morning sickness.

buzz I don't think there's been any time slower that 4-7 weeks for me. Then my dh said, ooh, you're 8 weeks already. I was like W. T. F!!! I know stats aren't always helpful, but time passing is... BTW my farting was much better since I came off the prigesterone at nine weeks. I was bum in the air each night for weeks!

al what weeks are you now? I'm dense, but think 28? Woo hoo!

If you end up having a section the farting reaches it's peak post delivery. And I managed to have horrendous trapped wind at the same time.

I'm afraid I was reading 'How to talk so kids will listen' as I'm fighting a losing battle with DD1 and I'm sick of shouting all the bloody time. I've never read a baby book but bloody hell do I need strategies with a three year old.

The last few weeks go deadly slowly too, especially the countdown to finishing work.

We have 8 week jabs and development check today, there will be screaming. Development checks have replaced scans in my life - I dread them finding something wrong. I suspect this anxiety never ends...