Minsters Sidecar Bumping Along - ttc graduates thread 4

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Hey girls! I've gone ahead and created a follow up thread for us all. Let's hope we have some more ladies joining us from over on the other thread! ❤️

@larrythelizard @Juno231 @Minster2012 I definitely think I'm going to end up with not the best skin! I feel like it's gone quite dry today and have 2 sore spots on my chin!

@clolo that's strange on the serum!! I feel like around my nose is quite dry today!!

@becarefuloutthere Thankyou!! Hope your class goes well x

@feliznavidad2 aww amazing!! So happy everything was okay with your scan!! I know what you mean with blisters, I'm waiting for it to scab over so hopefully it starts to feel better!!

@Bea14 so sorry you still feel so shit!! I hope you start to feel better soon! Good luck for your scan on Thursday lovely! The sickness isn't too bad for me yet, just feel sick and a headache and I was very tired yesterday!!

@Sunbird24 wooo for a 3+

@bez91 it really wasn't a nice feeling!! At least pregnancy did the opposite thing for your skin and made it better🤣 very annoying that they're still processing your DH referral! They're useless sometimes aren't they!!

@Juno231 sorry to hear you're still constipated!! Not too rub it in or anything but I seem to have been okay these last few days, but it's been replaced with headaches, dizziness and nausea🤢

@2020mission it's funny you say that about the old wives tale because since finding out I've just had a feeling it's a girl, we aren't finding out though so it'll be a lovely surprise! So sorry to hear about how frustrating your growth scan was!! I wouldn't be happy with that!! Like the others said, try and contact your midwife to try and get some clarity!!

@blackcurrantqueen I don't blame you for cancelling things, nobody wants to be ill before Christmas!!

@larrythelizard sorry you're feeling shitty, I'm not feeling the best either x

@paintfairy oh amazing!! Has it sunk in more now?? Me and OH said the other day we still can't believe it, I don't think we will until a scan maybe

Well I feel a bit crap again today, still nauseous and a headache/dizzy, off certain foods, was supposed to have pasta for tea last night but the smell made me retch, got in bed at 9:30 and was fast asleep for 9:45 and slept until my alarm went off but still felt tired!! As my early scan gets closer im getting more scared, keeping thinking what if it's measuring really behind or they tell me there's no baby, and I keep seeing 1 magpie too!!😫

@paintfairy beautiful news xxx

Will catch up fully later but just want to say YESSSSSSSS @paintfairy you've got a real life frog inside you!! Amazing news

Yes @paintfairy I'm thrilled for you and your little frog, so pleased it all went well! X

Ahhh so lovely @paintfairy 🥰

@paintfairy yayyyyy little baby bean ❤️❤️

5+1 update! What a relief

Fab news @paintfairy delighted for you!

@Vil10 only just over a week for your scan. It is hard, probably more so that you've seen some of us go through rubbish even after a BFP but feeling crap is a really good sign though that everything is going in the right direction!

Yayyy @Juno231 fab news!

Oh good more good news @Juno231 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Yes @Juno231!

@juno231 amazing ❤️❤️❤️

@2020mission hope your appointment went well! I'm ok, although have been getting lower abdomen pain all day on n off n texted my MW but she only works weds n thurs so hoping I hear from her tomorrow. I think it may just be when I need a wee, I have to go straight away now or there's pain. 30 weeks today!
@paintfairy gorge wee scan pic, so happy for you but not your large ovaries ouch! My Dh said weeks afterwards that seeing that first scan made him love our baby, it was just a line on a pee stick before then so not real in his head.
@Vil10 class was good thanks 😊 straight into birth and labour, pain relief etc. i had to look away when they showed the placenta 😂 Dh stayed looking throughout, he was so attentive! The exhaustion is a classic early pregnancy symptom so I think all will be good at the scan, keep the positive thoughts 🧘🏻‍♀️
@Juno231 whoop! Think mine came at 5 weeks too so all is looking good my dears! So pleased for you ☺️

Loving the dye stealers and 3+ digis @vil10 & @juno231 😁

@2020mission so frustrating on the scan front but I suppose the small silver lining is if they were letting a trainee do it that hopefully means they can't be too concerned so that's hopefully a good sign. Did you manage to get any clearer insight from the midwife today?

@paintfairy glad to hear little froggy baby is snuggling in just fine, sweet of your DH I think it does take physically seeing baby on screen for things to hit home more with them.

@vil10 the scanxiety is very real, I have another on Saturday, this will be my 5th scan this pregnancy and I'm still half expecting to hear them say there's something wrong despite 4 fine ones before it. But just keep searching harder for that 2nd magpie or start pairing them up in your head 😉

@becarefuloutthere it may be the way your womb is pushing against your bladder, I get that sometimes when my fibroid is pushing against mine and if I don't pee right away it's really painful. But it might also be a UTI so chase up your midwife or GP to get checked just incase it is.

@DKDK123 thank you, could defo be that yes. My urine came bk clear from the appointment last week so I doubt it's a uti. Never had one in my life, touch wood! Hopefully she responds to me tomorrow anyway and in the meantime it's constant loo trips 😩
Good luck for Saturday! How many weeks will you be then?

@becarefuloutthere that's strange, still could be a UTI I suppose. Get in touch with her if she's not come back to you tomorrow! I've had something similar today went to the loo just before lunch, finished weeing got up and had the sharpest stabbing pain to the side of my belly button slightly higher up. Lasted about 5 mins was more debilitating than any contraction I’ve ever had 😆 anyway it stopped and ever since had been a real dull ache of my whole tummy. Spoke to midwife says to rest as no bleeding but argggh. Thought may be a UTI, I’ve had them before and there were other symptoms just weird as the whole tummy has a crampy feeling 🤷‍♀️ pregnancy is sent to raise anxiety 🙈

@paintfairy get DH that's so lovely, there you go it's real now!!

@Juno231 yesssss more great news that's fantastic!

Well ladies i went to check out matalan & didn't get a bra but did bring back some jeggings to try. But I just feel like I've been hit by a bus.
I'm exhausted

@Sunbird24 @Vil10 no, it doesn't! It's very surreal. Like it's happening to someone else?

Thanks everyone! And yeah i think for men it's hard. But seeing it makes it much more real. I had to laugh though. I did think (no idea why) that he'd be the other side of the curtain when I got undressed. But he was my side. Obviously I know the drill. I'm not sure he fully even knew what was happening as I probably wasn't specific. So as I started taking my pants off he looked at me like wtf? 🤣 But since I had a panty liner in, I was thinking god, this is so romantic. 🤣 I still feel a bit sore from her pushing about though. Glad I don't have to do it often!

I still haven't managed to catch up. You lot chat too much! 🙈

@bez91 yeah I will do. I just hope she's back to work this week as her dad died a couple of weeks ago and I had a stand in MW last time. I'll have to call the surgery for her number if my usual one isn't bk.
Oh wow that sounds so painful 😣 yeah I haven't got any bleeding either but haven't been doing anything bar wfh. Did walk about on the weekend but had my belt on. It truly is sent to raise anxiety for sure!! I hope rest helps you. X
@Minster2012 ah hun, you need to slow down a bit. Early night for you for sure! Hope the jeggings look good 😌

@Minster2012 your schedule has been pretty full on with seaside visits, village Xmas parties, work emergencies and that whole fireplace saga. Listen to your body and rest please, you're growing a human!

@paintfairy haha that's hilarious! He was probably expecting the kind of ultrasounds you see on TV and was wondering why the hell you were getting your pants off 🤣

Right. Mammoth post alert.

@bez91 omg. I would have cried at the very expensive sausage roll!
@feliznavidad2 @clolo I'm pleased everything looked fine on your scans. I think bleeding is common but then its better if it doesn't come! Who needs the worry. Fingers crossed it won't happen again.
@Lexber oh no. But you make me laugh. 🤣 I didn't take any lactulose for 2 days though and heavily regretted it. I hope you aren't crying still, and it's now working?
@Juno231 @Vil10 @kaylsd @Sunbird24 congratulations on the 3+ 🥳🎉 Its a relief to see them.
@Minster2012 respect to the massive boobs! 🤣
@bez91 I think my DH would have been booking his own funeral. What a worry. And right now feels like terrible timing for anything. But drs need to get their fingers out and deal with this stuff.
@becarefuloutthere I didn't think they happened that early either. I assumed it was a few weeks before your due date.
@clolo freaky about the friend! Tell them to stop being weird.
@larrythelizard shit about the thrush. I hope it fixes quickly.
@juno321 I want ham now! We'll have one for over Xmas.

As for the spot talk, I've had the odd one but nothing horrendous yet. I'm waiting for it....... And I need new bras too! Not because of this, just anyway. I'll check out matalan.
I also have magpies at my field. I see various but 2,3,4. And if I see 1 I frantically look for the others! I've seen 7 before in summer. They do seem to hang around.

@Bea14 sorry about the sickness.
@Kate105 I enjoy reading about the sleep demon! 🤣 Present failure all round i think. I'm equally useless! But you at least have a baby and have an excuse.
@minster2012 The dream! Not nice. I think I've had similar before. I actually dreamt last night that I slept with a guy from work. 😳 Awkward! Preferable to no teeth mind!
@2020mission that scan sounds shit. I guess you don't think until after, but you should have asked. That really wasn't good enough! You should have been the priority. Pereneal what? Do I even want to know? 🤔🤣
@DKDK123 good luck for Saturday. 🍀

@Juno231 he actually said - i just thought maybe you take your pants off for all of them, when I explained it to him after. 🤣

Trying @Juno231, I am sitting down now chilling. 2 Christmas trees decorated just waiting for DH to put toppers on Them so pics tomorrow.

Get yourself to matalan @paintfairy the bras looked good but they went to DD or then like L/XL so not quite right for me.

Forgot to mention DS smashed a huge bauble in matalan whilst putting it back after I said no, then declared he needed a 💩 (don't we all?!) having just BEEN to M&S toilets & then moved car to a different spot in the shopping bit away from anywhere with toilets.

Also on the scan /pants on /pants off, because I've never made it to an abdo scan (well the one I did wasn't good news) I'm more used to the internal so when I went for my scan at 8 weeks I went into autopilot & started talking my shoes off, the guy was like "you don't need to remove clothing just roll your top up & leggings down". Oh yeah, a "normal scan" I've heard about them 😂

Awwww love the little froggy in there @paintfairy! It is so reassuring when you get through the first hurdle!

That did make me chuckle @Minster2012, straight in there whipping off the clothing 😂

Nice one on the 3+ @Juno231! Hopefully the weeks don’t drag too much between now and January - do they not have similar services in Sweden where you could get in sooner? Of course entirely unnecessary but perhaps you are inpatient like most of us in here!

I’d wait a bit to do the 3+ @larrythelizard, there is such a wide range of acceptable HCG levels in early pregnancy and the digital is somewhere towards the higher end I believe. I did mine at around 22 DPO I think.

Covid is a real worry @blackcurrantqueen, I am working this week then two weeks off and back in January for two more weeks before mat leave but I think I will ask to WFH if things carry on as they are, I have too many appts before my section to risk it. The secretary was actually like 😦 when she saw I had F2F patients booked in.

Quick update from me, 31+4 went for a scan to check the placenta which was low at 20 weeks. All good, very naughty baby kept trying to bat the wand away with its fist 😂 measuring as average at the moment so maybe not having an elephant baby this time… 🤔 🙏 one more scan next month before D-Day 😳 it has come around so quickly I can’t believe it!

@Minster2012 😂 please remain clothed at all times, poor man. So what if he'd have turned around and you were starkers. I agree you need to take it easy!

@Haiyaa I'm sure if it's only 2 more weeks after Christmas it won't be a problem. You're Hardly asking for the world and it's very sensible.

Think my pain was start of a UTI coming on 🤦🏼‍♀️ haven't had one for 10+ years but know they can be common in pregnancy. Going to whip a wee pot down to the midwife unit in the morning and hope they can give me something quickly