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?

@Mulner88 yeah was quite shocked at how quick! Do you have my pregnancy notes in your trust? Hopefully you’ll hear back soon.

enjoy the tour tonight @AnnieApple123 and hope you get some pickles 🤣

Hi hoping I can join? Found out on Saturday that IUI treatment has worked. Currently I'm 4+1 and due on the 9th of August.
This is my second pregnancy (first one resulted in my 3 and half year old dd) and already feels different to my first. I'm lucky in the sense that I know exactly when I ovulated and the fertility clinic did a blood test yesterday to confirm, though we already knew because we'd done about 12/14 tests 😂

With my DD I had an implantation bleed, severe nausea, was a little bit tired, constipation and that was about it until the second trimester when it all disappeared. I knew quite strongly with her that it had worked and that she was a girl, I knew a day after insemination (which is supposedly impossible but I was too sick to not believe it). Same thing happened this time, the day after I nearly threw up while out shopping 😂 but not feeling any strong 'knowledge' over whether it's a girl or boy. I'm getting a lot of headaches this time around and am super tired - our DD is adamant that there's two babies and they are her sisters so that's not at all nerve wracking 😂

Me and my wife are still in a bit of disbelief that it's worked if I'm honest. We always knew we wanted another and after our DD was born we talked a lot about when to try and the preferred age gap. We tried this time last year and that sadly failed - which devastated us. It's taken us this long to really feel ready to try again so for it to work is amazing, there's just a lot of disbelief!

@MsRT I have my booking appointment on Dec 16th- it's a face to face. I should get some pregnancy notes then but not sure how they do it, whether it will be written or electronic.

Welcome @Rowanandremy and congrats wishing you all the luck! ☺️

Welcome @Rowanandremy ! My son is 3 yr 4 months so roughly same age gap. Super jealous of your very accurate dates 🤣 xx

Welcome @Rowanandremy - it will be interesting to see if your DD is right 😂🥰

@Mulner88 Thank you!

@Amme18 Thank you! it's certainly an interesting age she is at! 😂 We're very lucky that she's very excited for a sibling but I have noticed she's been very clingy with me since we've had the positive tests. She has been putting aside some of her favourite toys aside and saying it's for her sister, very cute! It's funny really because I wasn't a fan of constantly weeing in a jug for the ovulation tests (I've been doing that for about 2 years) but I'm really glad we are able to know accurate dates.

@sinloutox thank you! I am super nervous at the thought of a twin pregnancy but this one feels really different to my first, everything is heightened and with how my first one was, I didn't think that was possible 😂 we've got an early scan booked in for the 22nd of December, through the fertility clinic so very nervous but very excited

Congrats @Rowanandremy - I also have a boy who's 3.5 years old, but I also have an 18 month old in the middle too. We also have an early scan booked on 22nd so hopefully we can compare notes in a few weeks!

Did I tell you girls that my husband doesn't actually know yet? I don't think I did?! He's away at the World Cup and where we weren't actively "trying" (we agreed we wanted another baby but wanted to "let it happen naturally" (which I ha ha'd at with my friends) but by some miracle just a few weeks later here we are! Anyway, he's home Sunday so I've bought a football shirt for him with "dad of 3" on the back and I'm going to give it to him to open. He did the test with me for both our sons so he knew the same time as me, so I figured this is probably the only time I'll ever get to surprise him. Watch him sh*t his pants 😂😂😂😂

@Mulner88 On Monday so not that long ago really I suppose!

@AnnieApple123 I have the same feeling but I'm also so glad that part of my life will be over 😂

Thank you @somuchtolearnabout it's a brilliant age isn't it? And a nice age gap for your boys. Ahh on the same day that's amazing, I've never had anyone to compare notes with before.

I think that's an amazing way to tell your husband! But then again I'm a bit of a sucker for those pregnancy reveal videos 😂😂 going through a fertility clinic, it's quite regimented so I've never been able to surprise my wife. It amuses me really because she's actually the one who, both times, dipped the many, many pregnancy tests and (if we pretend really hard that I haven't been really sick both times) saw the results before me. So she told me I'm pregnant both times!

Has anyone else had weird dreams? The last two nights I've dreamt I started bleeding which has made me a little bit anxious.

Welcome and congratulations to you and your wife @Rowanandremy ❤️

@Mulner88 Ah fab. Hope it goes well! Ours is electronic and is literally called mypregnancynotes which is handy to remember 🤣

@Rowanandremy sorry to hear about your dreams. I’m also having strange dreams too. I’ve got a blocked ear from a cold and I’ve dreamt that I’ve gone permanently deaf the past few nights

Has anyone had sore gums yet? Mine hurt really bad after brushing, as if I’ve brushed way too hard and made them bleed?

Thank you @MsRT it feels like we've waited a long time for this pregnancy and all being well, it will be our last. I'm a bit sad about that now I've typed it out! 😂

Sorry to hear about yours too, strange how pregnancy can affect nearly every aspect of life isn't it? I know with my first, I had strange dreams that would unsettle me but it wasn't this early and I don't recall them being about losing the baby (not in that sense anyway, I once dreamt I'd left her in a shop and woke up convinced it was real - despite being very pregnant 😂😂).

@MsRT oh sorry, I see now that mypregnancynotes is a system 😂 electronic would be handier!!

@Rowanandremy i dreamt last night I did a test and it said “embryo in the wrong place!”
counting down to the early scan so I know either way!

@sinloutox that's awful! I just keep dreaming that I wake up and I'm bleeding. I'm quite anxious with this pregnancy, even though I'm not fully sure why.

I'm really looking forward to the scan. To make sure everything is as it should be but also to finally know if there's one baby or two, DD is adamant to the point of arguing her point that there is two babies. I know it's said that children pick up on these sorts of things so it's making us wonder 😂

@Rowanandremy the dreams are horrible - but remember your hormones are doing crazy things! I am so keen to know if your DD is right - they so often are! 😂

Welcome @Rowanandremy ! I also can’t wait to hear if your daughter is right 😂 my 13 month old started doing a lot of downward facing dog poses in the last few weeks, which apparently is an old wives tale that there is a baby on the way! I’ve had a few waves of nausea the last few days and today I’m also extremely tired. I was just lying on her play mat at one point feeling like I couldn’t get up. I don’t think I ever felt this exhausted with her, and it’s hard to know whether it’s because it’s different, or because I also have her to look after?!
re dreams - both with her and this one I’ve dreamt I got my period in the middle of the night and woke up, right before I’ve got a positive test. Really strange!

@somuchtolearnabout That’s such a fun way to tell your husband 😁😁 these days must be dragging in waiting for him to get home lol 🙈

@somuchtolearnabout im so excited for you to tell your husband and what a cute way to do it!

5am pregnancy insomnia strikes. Is this my body preparing me for when baby is here? I love my sleep so much, I’ve always been really put off by the lack of sleep as you get as a parent but I actually feel so awake and full of beans right now I think I would happily get up for the day with baby now!

@Chocolotandtea We got very lucky that our son slept through from twelve weeks and has had no sleep issues since. He has a two hour nap in the middle of the day and then sleeps 7-7. We are utterly spoilt 😂 Not sure what we're going to do if this one doesn't sleep 😬

Morning everyone! Hope you're all doing well.
Wondering if anyone has experience of or has booked an early scan?

My NHS one not till late January and it seems like a lifetime to wait. I booked a private one for 7 weeks exactly on an impulse but now I'm worried, what if it's too early and just makes me more anxious. Honestly these early weeks are like catnip for my anxious, over-thinking side.

Anyone found an early scan helpful or thinking of booking one?

Thanks 😊

@Alpacabag22 ive booked one for 6 + 3 - mainly as it’s the day we could both go. But fully preparing myself that it might be way too early to see a heartbeat and we might need to book another a few weeks later. And remembering that if there is a HB we’re still super early and not out of the woods - but just want to be sure there’s something there before I start NHS care and tell my Consultant/IBD team (I’d tell them now but my Husband & I also work there and am conscious it will be round the department like wildfire - it’s a running Joke that there’s no way me and my husband will ever have kids so I think a lot of people will be shocked 😂)

@Alpacabag22 I had a scan with my son at 7 weeks and was told I was 6+2 instead. I spent ages thinking I was going to miscarry (despite seeing a heartbeat etc) and then realised that I ovulated five days later than average which would make their dates accurate.

This time round I get an NHS reassurance scan at our EPU and have told them my dates from my true O day to avoid the same problem.

@Alpacabag22 ill be completely honest with you with the early scans. My first pregnancy (that resulted in MMC), it didn’t settle me. I had anxiety from the moment I saw that positive test, like I had a gut feeling something was wrong. I have said before, but my cycles were crazy and all over the place, so my LMP had me at 9 weeks for my early scan. Me tracking ovulation meant I knew I was 7 weeks so we went for then. I measured at 6+2 and the sonographer was quite quiet during my scan but didn’t say anything, and honestly it all unsettled me even more! We saw a heartbeat but something just didn’t feel right with the experience. So for this instance, the early scan wouldn’t really have helped me!

second pregnancy (for my lovely daughter), we did the same again because it happened so quickly after my MMC that id honestly convinced myself that there were remnants of my previous pregnancy growing and causing the positive test, even though I’d got my negatives 😂 I was going a bit mad. So I needed the scan to confirm! All fantastic, measuring right on time with a heartbeat. The scan was a bit shorter as they were obviously content it was all okay. This was at 7 weeks again. I then had a scan at 9 weeks at early pregnancy as they said because of my MMC I could come back if I was pregnant again for reassurance, so I did at 9 weeks as that’s when my baby stopped growing last time. This scan also made me happy too!

at 7 weeks there’s just much to see, but you’ll see a heartbeat. At 9 weeks they start turning into a cute little shaped blob. It’s amazing seeing the difference in that short time 🥺🥺

so I’ve had two very different experiences as you can see 🙈🙈 so it’s hard to know what way it’s going to make you feel.

we’re definitely going for an early scan this time too. I just can’t decide whether to go for 8 weeks or 9. 8 has us at the week of Christmas and I’m terrified of something being wrong and ruining the holiday (my MMC was around this time of year and I was really upset around Christmas). But also it could make it even better! I need to speak to my husband 😂🙈

sorry for the long post!

@PumpkinEverything Im glad you wrote this as I’m in a similar blog it, except my early scan had no heartbeart so was obviously just a negative experience. I’m so undecided what to do for this time! I had the same bad feeling with that pregnancy too which I haven’t had with this one so I’m just trying to reassure myself with that