Due August 2023 (Thread 2)

[AnnieApple123]

Can’t believe we’re onto a second thread already. Hope this doesn’t put any newbies off, as I don’t think we’re even halfway through possible due dates yet. Anyone welcome to join in.

I wanted to start off by reassuring TheBirdintheCave that I have no nausea either and had none whatsoever all through my last pregnancy. Thinking of you and hoping your current fears turn out to be for nothing. xx

@PumpkinEverything I didn’t know that! I already have a feeling it’s a boy though so wouldn’t surprise me if it ends up being true 🙈

@DesertSnow me too! I haven’t even eaten my advent calendar the last few days as I just don’t fancy the chocolate. But give me a packet of crisps or toast and I demolish it!

@AnnieApple123 I think when the first one is your whole world and you can’t imagine anyone else in it, it does feel really weird at this point. I also feel like I had sort of separated the idea of having an actual baby from ttc.. I just so wanted the test to be positive, now it is and now I’m just so hoping il get to the next stage and the next stage that I can’t really imagine a second little person being here 🙈

If I had the willpower I’d love to not bother with an early scan. All it does really is gives you reassurance for the 5 minutes you can see them on the screen but it could be a different story the second you leave there and as I’ve seen on here, they seem to cause so many people such a lot of worry when there’s a growth issue or no heartbeat yet when they could be unnecessarily worrying. Hopefully you can just live in a positive bubble without any of that! I’ve ended up booking one for new year but it’s only 3 hours before we’re going for dinner with our friends so not sure how I plan to hide my excitement (or hopefully not the alternative) from them!

@ArcEnCiel2022 that’s the problem with these things, because sooo many miscarriages happen and so many are unexplained it’s very easy for them just to say it was unrelated but it may come to light in years down the line that you were right, in the case of some people anyway

@Nic2908 7+4 today :)

@BCxx Yes I do really identify with that. The whole process of TTC can feel quite detached from having an actual baby. Plus, once it’s started to drag on a while, you can reach a point where you don’t quite dare think ahead to that time in case it never comes. Getting that second line to appear becomes the goal without much thought about what’s beyond it.

As you say, I know early scans are often referred to as ‘reassurance scans,’ but I’m not convinced I’d necessarily find one reassuring and that it wouldn’t just give me more things to worry about. Having had high and trebling HCG with my son, I wonder now whether he maybe had a vanishing twin. If so, I’m honestly glad that I never knew about it as it would have caused so many mixed emotions and all for nothing.

@buttercupbee same here! I think I’m 5 days behind with my advent calendar too, and actually all month I’ve been eating a few days at a time instead of daily🙈 I too have a feeling I’m having a boy!

@sally16 I find scans so addictive too 🙈 with my daughter I had a private one at 7 weeks, EPU at 9, normal one at 12, private gender at 16, normal at 20, private 4D at around 34, and then I think 3 additional growth/breech scans as well 😂😂 so around 9!!

@PumpkinEverything your on par with me I had the same 😂 then I had polyhydramdramnious (sp?) with my son and I had weekly scans from 30 weeks with fetal medicine and while it was nothing to worry about in the end I loved seeing his face all squished up on the screen 😂

@DesertSnow we have the same dates 😁
I'm 8 weeks today, first scan today and booking appt on Monday 😊

It would definitely appear that my nausea/morning sickness is hunger related.

Kept popping up yesterday but was solved by eating, even when it felt like eating would make me sick. Got up this morning at 6 SO nauseous but managed to eat a tangerine and trek bar again, and I'm so much better now. Think I need to be eating every bloody half hour at this rate 😂

@AnnieApple123 I shall reply properly to your message later today after scan! X

@BoodifulGoose i hope your scan goes well today!

I’m currently 7+5 and have a scan booked for Tuesday morning

@BoodifulGoose I’m 8 weeks today too. Will be interested to see how your early scans go. Mine is booked for 30th December.

Hi all! Have just found out I'm pregnant with my second. DD is 2. Think I'm about 4+1 due 26th August. Have found it very therapeutic reading through all your posts and have decided to join too! I had a miscarriage at 10 weeks before having my daughter so definitely feel a bit on edge, but trying not to let that take away from the happiness of being pregnant.

@MsRT thank you 🥰 @LS888 I shall update!

This being my first pregnancy I think I feel the need for the scan to convince me this is actually real 😂 the nausea has helped with that this week but prior to that it's felt so surreal!

I forgot how much I hate early pregnancy, send help! 🤣🤦‍♀️

Welcome @RebelliousHope

I hear you @Createcomet . It’s mainly just anxiety and feeling physically rubbish at this point. It gets better though!

I know it doesn't help you, but I'm so glad you agree and we're not alone. My husband keeps asking me what's wrong and I'm just like "I'm pregnant".

Anxious about EVERYTHING at the moment.....is the pregnancy okay? Why do I feel so fat? Annoyed I can't go outside because its just sheet ice, want to go for a run but like...how? Where am even going to put another baby? Why is cereal suddenly repulsive? ARHHHHHHHHHH 🤣🤦‍♀️😭

@RebelliousHope welcome!

@BoodifulGoose good luck for your scan!

@PumpkinEverything @buttercupbee @DesertSnow I'm the opposite! I eat so much chocolate these days, and that's not like me: I don't eat much sugar usually. Maybe mine is a girl? 😊

I still marvel at how confident you all sound. I just spend every day wondering whether this new feeling or that twinge or that momentary drop in symptoms is signalling the end 🤦🏻‍♀️ I can't imagine ever getting to a 12 week scan again.

@BoodifulGoose Good luck today!

Morning everyone,
Is anyone into fitness/ fitness exercise/ training/ whatever you want to call it? It would be fun to exchange experiences.
I’m a pretty “ dedicated hobby exerciser” and I do anything and everything, I continued pretty much like normal ( less intensity and removed certain exercises ) with my son. I did a half marathon at 16 weeks then stopped running to save my pelvic floor, it takes such a beating with just a pregnancy anyway.
I trained up until the day I gave birth, 42+ weeks, my water broke when I was doing wallballs 😂

I’ve got a scan today too, I’m only 6 weeks though so maybe a bit too early but I’m going away for over 3 weeks and I can’t wait that long for a scan.

In both my pregnancies my mum has had the attitude of, ‘For goodness sake, you’ve got what you wanted! Can’t you just be happy now and stop moaning?!!’

She was just like this after the birth of the first one too and had zero sympathy for the physical discomforts, lack of sleep and newborn worries. In her eyes it should have been ‘happily ever after’ from there onwards.

@AnnieApple123 yeah it almost becomes a game to see if you can get a second line. Last time I found out I was instantly delighted, shaking etc. Obviously I was nervous but everything couldn’t have gone more straightforward and I almost feel like what if I’ve used up all my luck? This time I saw the faintest hint of a line but not enough to tell whether it was even real then when I got the actual line I still wasn’t sure what to think and started bleeding the next day (some sort of weird late implantation bleeding) so I had ruled it out then back in again when it stopped. I feel like I haven’t really sat and had a moment of being delighted yet this time and I actually feel guilty for that because there’s so many people desperate to be where I am now and everything appears to be fine. I think you do just have to take it in the smallest steps and appreciate each day until you can start getting excited further on!

That’s so true about the scan, I definitely wouldn’t want to know if that was the case. I think it would tinge every future milestone with a bit of sadness and you’d end up feeling guilty for being happy when they were born

Good luck to @BoodifulGoose and @Olofsdaughter for scans today.

@TheBirdintheCave I definitely have negative moments. I’ve had a lot of thoughts about whether I could go through active TTC again if this doesn’t work out. I can’t really seem to help them.

Good luck with all the scans today! Hope everyone has great news to share later 😊

@BCxx Yes it’s crossed my mind that in both my pregnancies, the moment of sheer joy on seeing a positive has quickly been displaced by anxiety and fears. Which is a bit sad when it was so longed for and anticipated.