Due August 2023?

[AnnieApple123]

It still feels very early but I’m taking a leap of faith and starting a thread here.

Just found out yesterday that I’m due at the very start of August.

Anybody else yet?

@BoodifulGoose Cloth nappies, yes: happy to chat about them if you'd like to :) My son had been exclusively cloth bummed from birth :)

Thank you all for the warm welcomes and welcome to anyone else new too! We weren’t trying hard all that time - we were kind of not avoiding it but assumed after so long it just wasn’t going to happen and happy to take whatever the outcome was. But after the chemical decided to give it a proper go!

Hope everyone is feeling ok - I’ve been a bit crampy just reminding myself it’s all normal and trying to be as chilled as possible. X

@ChloeN @PumpkinEverything My due date is also the 3rd taken the risk and booked an early reassurance scan for the 23rd in the hopes I can send my daughter to my mums wearing her Santa's making me a big sister jumper on Christmas day 😂

@Loudmouth1 I've got a scan booked for the 22nd to do the same! Want to go "...has got me the best present actually" and hold up a scan picture. Hoping that an 8 week one will settle my nerves.

I love the idea of surprising family on Christmas day. I’ll see how I feel over the next week or two. Honestly this all feels so surreal and I feel like I’m actually dreaming 🙈 my hormones still haven’t settled from my last pregnancy and birth so I’m all over the place!

@Loudmouth1 @heand2022 love those ideas!

my dad wants us to visit for a big family gathering at NYE and it will definitely raise suspicion of I’m not drinking. Going to have to try and be sneaky and just pretend I’m drinking when I’m not if we go!

If I had more self control we could have surprised mum and dad on Christmas day as they're coming to stay but I talk to my mum every day and I just told her as soon as we knew 😂

We're telling my husband's parents on Sunday as they're going away for Christmas to give their Ukrainian guests the house to themselves.

I don't think we're doing it in a particularly special way though. I can't think of anything exciting as we won't have a scan pic by then.

@TheBirdintheCave We told my mum (who came round the night I found out, or I would have told her anyway as we also talk every day 😂) by putting a bun in the oven 😂

Stood in the kitchen getting her dinner and I said "Can you please just let me know what's in there?" and pointed at the oven. So chuffed she said "bun" and not a roll or a softie😂

We did the same for my fiances brother and girlfriend, he was the one who opened it but he didn't know the phrase, so his girlfriend started crying and freaking out and he had no clue what was happening until I said "it means I'm pregnant" 😂

My mum is my best mate and it's killing me not to tell her - she's already suggesting boozy afternoons for when we're both off too . Hopefully we see what we're looking for on the 22nd and it feels right to tell our parents then!

I’ve not had a lot of symptoms other than cramping and sore boobs. Have fallen down a rabbit hole learning about chemical pregnancies. Is it true that they all occur by week 5 or could this happen even afterwards?

The long ass wait for first scan just feels so cruel.

@Chocolotandtea i think chemical is up to week 5 and anything after that would be a miscarriage. Not that that’s very reassuring it’s just a different name for the same thing really xx

@ChloeN it does sound like that!

@BoodifulGoose That sounds like fun! Unfortunately we'll be at a Christmas market so I can't do something similar :(

@UsernameNotPresent Yes, I think you summed it up perfectly when you said:

‘I am very crampy this pregnancy, have this funny feeling of 'stuff' happening in my uterus (I am not nuts, I promise, I just don't know how to describe it 😬)’

That’s exactly how I feel too and I and I also find it hard to put my finger on it.

Welcome @sinloutox ! ‘Nother POAS addict here.

@ew9018 I could do with advice n all those same things to be honest. I’m afraid I’ve not found any magical tips. Keeping busy and distracted is probably my best one.

@DesertSnow I have a lot of bad associations with our most local hospital. Even more so after an A&E trip this summer. I’m tempted by a home birth but the fact that I’d end up there if I had to transfer in an emergency feels very off-putting. Hence I’m thinking of booking to go into the hospital 40 mins drive away. I just hope it doesn’t turn out to be too far.

Welcome @user1201 What a lovely surprise that will be for Xmas Day!

@Daisy1992 I’m the exact same. I constantly feel as if my period is about to come and would assume it really was if I hadn’t tested. It can bloody scary sometimes if I’m honest. Let’s hope this phase passes soon.

Welcome @PumpkinEverything ! It’s so hard to get the timing just as you’d like with a sibling, isn’t it? This one has taken over a year to conceive (having tried on and off since 15 months) so we’re now looking at a bigger age gap than anticipated.

I feel like I’m describing my uterus as like a small brick that’s there that’s stretching 😂😂 it’s really weird and hard to describe! With random cramps both in the middle and sometimes to the side. I’d got it a few times last week whilst walking and had to slow down!

@AnnieApple123 you just can’t plan these things can you! I’d literally said to my best friend recently I was paranoid I’d have secondary infertility and it wouldn’t happen for us, and then this 🙈 I’m seeing her tomorrow and I don’t know if I’m going to be able to keep it in! But is it terrible if she knows before my husband 😳🙈

@PumpkinEverything So ironic! Conversely I was really worried about it happening before I was quite ready.

Is anyone else finding themselves throwing away far more food than usual because they’re suddenly so paranoid about use-by-dates? I actually hadn’t realised I’d become so lax about them until now.

@AnnieApple123 just thrown a load out this evening 😂 but would depend on what it was for me and how long - I’ve always been VERY lax about use by dates. If it smells ok, and looks ok, I’ll use it as a rule. But feeling a little more cautious at the moment!! I used my last FRER this morning and I’m not buying anymore! I’ve got a CB how many weeks that I’m going to stretch to the end of this week with so I hopefully see some progression 🤞🏼

@PumpkinEverything im the same with the cramping/stretching. Just keep trying to remind myself that whatever is going on in there is out of my control now

@AnnieApple123 Our chosen hospital is 40 mins away but then... so were our other options too 😂 We used to live ten minutes from the hospital where I had my son, which was very reassuring. I am a bit nervous that we won't make it this time. We cut it a bit fine with our son 😅

As to food, we meal plan so there's very little wastage anyway BUT if I get really bad morning sickness again then I won't know what I want to eat in advance so I'm not sure what we're going to do with food 🤔

I was terrible with food last time and so much got thrown out as I didn’t want it anymore. We’d been doing hello fresh and I took a real dislike to overly seasoned food. I’ve actually noticed it happening already before I even got my BFP 🙈 going to try to force myself whilst I still can to try to eat some vegetables with my dinner haha.

Girls I've had such a restless night. Both the boys have awful coughs and colds and the 3yo was really upset at about 3am and wanted water, then I couldn't get back to sleep. Found myself on here on a thread and somehow convinced myself I was going to have a chemical. Sat shivering in the bathroom doing the CB digital weeks test that I promised myself I wouldn't do yet.
It's fine - pregnant 2-3 weeks which means I'm obv progressing. By my calculations though I'm only 12DPO if I ovulated on day 14, which I normally do (wasn't tracking ovulation so can't be 100%) so does it sound like I ovulated early?
I don't remember being this anxious with my first 2 pregnancies.

Really really sorry in advance if anyone finds this triggering / hard to read. Please don't take this post as insensitive but I just feel so terrified and don't have anyone to talk to about it IRL yet. I've never had a chemical pregnancy, or a miscarriage. I've been pregnant twice and I've got two children. It almost feels like I've had it too easy and there's no way I can be that lucky a 3rd time. I'm convincing myself that it's my turn for something to go wrong, and it's such a selfish and thoughtless notion to even think that, but I just can't help it and it's completely ruining this whole experience for me.

My husband is away and I haven't told him yet as I want to surprise him and make it really special, he's back Saturday night, but now I just keep feeling like something is going to go wrong and I'll have to deal with it all alone. Why can't I just enjoy it for what it is, I have no reason to believe things aren't ok, but I just can't help feeling so much anxiety.

Sorry for the middle of the night ramble, just felt like I had to get that off my chest 😭😭😭