August Due Date Crew (Thread 4)

[AnnieApple123]

Here’s a new thread for the upcoming new year.

I think we’ve got all due dates covered now but newbies are still of course most welcome. We’re a friendly, chatty bunch so do feel free to join in.

@Createcomet i feel like I could have written your post! I’ve spent half my day obsessing and googling ‘symptoms fading at 8 weeks’ etc. I need to walk away from google. Lots of posts say it’s very common so I’m clinging onto that and trying to get myself back into a positive and excited mindset

@BCxx I've been in moods like that more days than I haven't the past 3 weeks, just starting to feel more human the past two days (last two days of my holiday, gutting!) But trying to be compassionate to myself and remind myself it's for all the reasons you said, and it's bloody hard growing a human!
very much recognise the just wanting to go to bed and wake up in spring💙 Wish I had more to say that might help, but all I can really offer is solidarity!

Glad to see so much positive scan news.

I found on New Year’s Day that the friend I’d been TTC cycle buddies with miscarried, so I’ve been feeling quite down and not been online much. Hope to be back again soon though.

Those talking about struggling with toddlers a little while back, I hear you! xx

Welcome @Narwhal88 What a journey you’ve had. I can’t even begin to imagine. I complain that it took over a year to get pregnant this (second) time around but that’s obviously no comparison at all.

Welcome @santastolemycat It’s such a personal thing when you tell people. Last time I told my dad as soon as the second line appeared pretty much but then this time waited for Xmas and 8 weeks. I still haven’t told my brother who also knew early last time.

@somuchtolearnabout yeah it was cleaning the pump and having to take it to pieces and put it back together, as well as all the bottles that was the final nail in the coffin last time for me. I’ll give it another go and try to find some easier ways of doing it but it wouldn’t be something I could see myself doing for months and months I don’t think. Just want to know I’ve given them a bit to start them off!

@BoodifulGoose thanks, ‘glad’ I’m not the only one! It’s like I just haven’t achieved anything today and have so much I should have got done then it was half 9 tonight and I decided just to go to bed rather than attempt anything so I’ve lay here in a bad mood instead 😂 I think you just end up taking everything on yourself, when you’re already not feeling good and I just ended up so frustrated tonight that I’d achieved so little today! Tomorrow’s a new day and all that 🙈

I need to give myself a shake on nights, think I've eaten my weight in absolutely anything I've found 🫠

Night before starting work and I've figured out two things;

1. My cats are c**ts, they've been so well behaved overnights for 3 weeks and the one night that getting a good sleep matters, they've been up fighting. Finally shut them in the living room, hopefully partner gets a decent sleep now but I'm screwed.

2. My 'pregnancy insomnia' is 100% stress related 🙃 I was really bad with it before the Christmas break, waking up at every hour from 1am and then really struggling to sleep from 3-5, but I've been absolutely fine over the break, sleeping right through. Tonight? Every bloody hour I've woken up 😭

@BoodifulGoose oh noooo nothing worse than not getting enough sleep. I’m the same but up for a bloody wee every 2 hours on the DOT. Driving me mad!

omg your cats🤣. My dog has been equally a little shit the last week or so with the bloody barking at nothing… maybe they know things are gonna change soon 🤣

Booked in a scan on Friday, really hoping it is positive news, I'll be roughly week 8 I think. Feeling nervous as I had a MMC in Sept at week 7, and my mind has been playing tricks with me with no pregnancy symptoms. Are my breasts sore? Are they not? Is it still there? Feeling quite anxious and struggling to sleep with worry. I just want Friday to come already.

@mamabeeboo Hope all goes well on Friday xx

@mamabeeboo I hope all goes well for you.

I had a scan this morning due to a cyst and some spotting, and my breasts no longer feeling tender.

But all looks fine, they measured at 6+6 instead of 7+1. But I am trying to not read anything into that. No explanation for the spotting... just going to be one of those things in my pregnancy I think.

Although I don't envy those of you with really bad nausea, at this stage I think I would take nausea as a standard symptom rather than the spotting because my anxiety goes through the roof every time I go for a wee 😂

@mamabeeboo im in a similar boat, first scan is Sunday I feel sick even at the thought! My mmc was 7 weeks too. Hope all goes well, will be thinking of you☺️

@MinnieFirstTimeMum glad all looked good on the scan!💕

@MinnieFirstTimeMum glad all is okay on the scan 🥰

Thank you @Sjw30 and @ChloeN

@MinnieFirstTimeMum wooo thats amazing so glad it went well!!

symptoms are a minefield…. i have no idea whether I’m thinking myself into feeling sick or whether I actually do feel sick 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️. My stomach is starting to feel hard thoigh so i’ll focus on that for a while!

Will be thinking of you on Sunday. Pray all goes well!

I know exactly what you mean about thinking up your own symptoms
😂I thought I felt sick on Sunday but I don't know whether that was just my mind making it up, my rubbish cooking or the pregnancy. Hopefully the latter.

I agree with you all, symptoms are such a minefield. Especially because everybody's is so different, causes unnecessary worrying.

Yess totally - have to remind myself to take a breath and not being horrendously sick is actually a positive 🤣 I would be absolutely miserable if I felt nauseous beyond being able to do anything. Mine certainly clears in the afternoon and might come back in the eve sometimes but generally eating reguarly does keep it at bay but then AGAIN the mind goes to IS IT ME CONTROLLING IT OR HAS IS JUST DISAPPEARED. Gosh this is all fun and games isn’t it 🤣

@AnnieApple123 thank you. I have learnt to try and not compare journeys. We are on our own paths and we are entitled to feel what we feel, that first year was probably the hardest!

I also feel like I have been making myself feel sick as I keep wondering if I am 😂
My nausea seems to be just an underlying current of 'hungover' feeling. Then it ramps up if I'm hungry or have just eaten. But I expected it to be worse as I get motion sickness.

Have a scan booked for Friday due to the pains I’ve been having. Nervous!

Two weeks today until my scan and my nerves are kicking in already 😬😬 I feel like I want to panic book a scan, but also don’t want to because if something is wrong I don’t want to know.

feel like I’ve no symptoms now that my boobs are no longer sore and the mild occasional nausea I had hasn’t been around since Christmas. Have to keep reminding myself that this was the same with my daughter, but feel like I could put my own head away 😩 seems like I could write off the symptoms I do have as something else. I’m tired because of my daughter waking, my jeans are getting tight because of Christmas, and I’m hormonal and emotional because my daughter started childcare today + I’m not ready to go back to work after Christmas!

@Mulner88 Exciting that we have the same dates. I’ve actually just got my 12-week scan date through - for the 24th, when I’ll be 13 weeks. Annoying, as I was hoping it’d be closer to 12! Longer to wait!!!

Hope everyone is having a good week. Sorry to read about your friend @AnnieApple123

Good luck @PumpkinEverything and everyone else with scans coming up! My early scan (7 weeks) is Friday. Nausea is getting worse everyday - unbearable.

I had awful cramps last night that lasted about 5 minutes then disappeared. It was extremely painful to the point of me sweating and gripping onto the sofa. I have had no other bad symptoms though so I assume this was a strange one off? The pain wasn't to one side. Has anyone else experienced this?