August Due Date Crew (Thread 5)

[AnnieApple123]

We look like we’re heading towards breaking some records with threads here!

Newbies still most welcome to join in as always.

Fingers crossed you're ok @AnnieApple123 🤞

@BCxx ah I'm excited and terrified! Original due date from LMP is 2 August but interested to see if it changes after Monday. My cycles were a bit odd so hard to judge. Ha yes it's funny when people talk about babies and pregnancy and you're sitting there with this little secret inside you 🥰 Thanks - my dad is 82 and his health has just been getting worse and today he was bleeding pretty badly when he went to the loo so all a bit scary. It's crossed my mind a number of times whether he will meet this baby - not trying to be morbid, just one of those things that creeps into my mind.

Yes to batting hands away! 😂

@DesertSnow ahh bless him, very normal to worry about these things though. Fingers crossed he recovers and he does 🤞🏼

Hopefully from the scan measurements you’ll get an exact date. I think it feels a lot more real after that! Haha I know, I came home and sat smirking at how well I played it 😂 I think you’re actually best just addressing the topic of babies/pregnancy so people think ‘well she’s hardly going to talk about that if she’s pregnant’ 🤷🏼‍♀️ I think I just think mine could be quite predictable because we got married 6 months ago

@BCxx Ha we got married in November and I got pregnant from ovulation 5 days after 😂 Everyone is definitely going to think we were pregnant at the wedding! One guest actually asked me 3 times on the day if I was pregnant. Bit rude!

Thanks guys for your speedy responses. I feel so at home in this thread already.

For those with scans coming up this weekend, I’ll be thinking of you all :)! ❤️❤️❤️

@Firsttimemomma1 welcome to the group and congratulations 🥰

Right back at you on the congrats front @MinnieFirstTimeMum !!

I’ve had a serious talking to myself tonight to find my positive pants and trust the process so if anyone needs some positive vibes I’m throwing them all your way :) xxx

I dont know/see many people and I doubt the ones I do would touch my bump without asking but I am not above slapping their hands off me, or saying "You did not ask me, and I did not consent to being touched like that by you" so they can think about how weird what they've done is 😂

@DesertSnow that’s a good bit of luck! I do remember that ☺️ Very cheeky! I think even asking someone if they’re thinking of having another child is so rude, so many people seem to think it’s acceptable. I’ve been asked twice since being pregnant and had to do my best to play it down like ‘yeah not yet though’ 🙄 How do these people know something awful hasn’t just happened?

@Firsttimemomma1 trying to give myself the same talking to! I think I’m just overeating and not giving myself a chance to feel sick 😅😂

@BCxx you’re fine until you reach the point of overeating that I was at yesterday and your only choice is to go get laxatives… turnes out chocolate croissants, monster munch, toast and filet burger from KFC do not smoothly go through the system.

I thought I got my sickness and tummy cramps back but no, I was just being a pig with constipation lol.

@BCxx goodness that response was full of grammatical errors. I’m not as illiterate as I just made myself out to be - I had slippy fingers from the chocolate fingers I’m currently demolishing.

In all seriousness though, I can’t even tell if my boobs are sore any more as I’ve got implants and I just think they’re sore because I keep poking them all the time to check if they’re getting bigger.

I was in the car earlier to my other half’s aunties for some dinner and was talking to myself like a loon whilst driving. “It will all be ok”, “I’m worried about nothing”, “I know you’re in there all settled”, “the odds are in our favour”. It has kind of worked, sometimes my mind can run away with myself if I don’t have a conversation with it.

I’ve now passed the window for food poisoning. Phew!

I’m so sorry to hear about the worries with your dad @BoodifulGoose . That must haverem very scary today, especially with all the negativity in the news currently about the ambulance service. Not surprised you feel a bit of a mess.

@BCxx There was a toddler group we used to go to where the woman in charge was constantly asking people when they were going to have more babies. Loudly and publicly too. There was one occasion when everybody except me and one other lady was visibly pregnant and she drew this to our attention saying, ‘Ooooh, you two had better watch out, it might be catching you know!’

I thought of emailing her afterwards to tell her how inappropriate this was and I wish I had done so now. Quite apart from the obvious that people may be struggling to conceive or have just experienced a loss (or several)… maybe their relationship is on the skids and they don’t think they’ll be together long enough for another… maybe they’re struggling financially… maybe they and their partner can’t agree on whether to try again and this is already a source of friction… maybe there are other health concerns which are none of your business. Or maybe they plain and simple just don’t want another and are sick and tired of other people’s expectation that they should for goodness sake.

@Firsttimemomma1 😂😂 I swear mumsnet causes me to have sooo many grammatical errors! I read back my comments and think ‘what?!’, just words missed out completely 🤷🏼‍♀️ I literally polished off a big bag of monster munch tonight 😂 such a random crisp choice but so good! Had a glass of fresh orange before it, as you do. Hoping to avoid that issue though 😩 it’s a miracle anyone makes it to 12 weeks still sane. There’s so many mind games involved in the whole thing and you’re the only person properly going through it all. I keep saying to my husband about not feeling sick, almost like I really want to plant the seed for him in case that does mean anything so he’s not completely shocked but I think I am just being ridiculous. The odds are in our favour, it’s just easy to see it the other way round when you hear of so much bad news! Even found myself today feeling really jealous of celebs and normal people on my Facebook who have announced they’re pregnant, like yeah it’s alright for you and your baby that’s fine!! I have absolutely nothing to suggest I am not in the same boat 🙈 it’s just a big waiting game

@AnnieApple123 omg that’s awful! From someone who runs something like that too, why wouldn’t she know better?! I think it must be people who have never had a bad experience themselves or with anyone close to them, they then just think it’s acceptable to use that as some form of entertainment! The amount of comments that just roll off people’s tongues without a bit of thought. I remember a harmless enough friend of my husband’s telling us they were expecting again when out a walk and said to my husband ‘you better get your finger out’ when I was in the tww and had already had a few months of negatives. I just had to laugh along like ‘oh no, no thanks’! Another woman I met out a walk with her newborn, toddler and her mum. Her mum asked my son’s age (her kid’s are very close together) then said ‘oh itl be time for number 2 then’! My aunt asked ‘when’s the next one then?’ Woman in the post office after we got married asked ‘so yous for trying for another one then?’

I just don’t get it at all. What do these people want you to say?! 🙈 If I wanted to tell you I was pregnant I would so there is no way your comment is anything other than cheeky!

Have you sent it back yet?
If not ask them for another vial and explain it was contaminated! Prick your wedding ring finger at the side no lower than your nail bed and milk from your palm up to finger and it should be a lot easier :)

I haven't done one outlet because 2 boys and 2 male dogs that are in every inch of my home would likely give me a male result either way too haha!

@BCxx you literally sound like me in the past few days. I don’t want to take happiness from your anxiety but my god I’m so glad I’m not on my own haha!! Sooooo many celebs seem to have announced their pregnancies recently and I look on their scan pics to see if it’s resembling of a 12 week scan and when I see it is I’m like god damn, I still need to wait haha.

We deserve this too!!

I’m definitely not coming out of the first trimester sane. I only did the test to shut my SO up as he was adamant I was pregnant and I wanted to prove I wasn’t. That went well… haha! Finding out so early has been a curse in some regards as you are left alone with your mind for too long. Those who are so laid back deserve a medal!!

So glad you get it about the toddler group woman @BCxx as I felt like I got a bit carried away ranting last night. Some people’s comments are just unbelievable. I’m so sorry you’ve had to put up with those things being said to you.

@somuchtolearn tried the Sneak Peek test I think but got an inconclusive result?

Placemarking new thread. I'm 10+5 and had my midwife appointment yesterday , she couldn't have been lovelier 💜

That’s really good @Animallover87 . It makes such a difference when people are nice. I was disappointed in the first obstetrician I saw who was rather lacking in bedside manner.

@sally16 yeah I sent it back.. just waiting for my male result email to arrive 😂 it actually might be a boy but I’m not going to believe it is because I’m just going to assume it’s from my nail! I’ll wait and see what comes back 🙈

@AnnieApple123 no such thing as getting carried away ranting in my book 😂

@Firsttimemomma1 i assume everyone feels like this as they’re going through it but when you see people putting a smiley 12 week scan picture on you just assume they haven’t experienced any of this. It’s so annoying! I found out way before 4 weeks as well and feel like I’ve known I’ve been pregnant for years 🙈 It’s like it’s gone on so long I’m now a bit concerned I accidentally slip up in a conversation with someone because I’m almost like how can I STILL not be 12 weeks! We shouldn’t moan when there’s people one step back from this who aren’t even pregnant yet but it just feels like time stands still. I don’t even know if im
going to tell everyone at 12 weeks this time, was hoping to wait til 16 to know the sex first but I want to know that if it comes up or a friend tells me they’re pregnant I can say I am too!

Lay in bed trying to think myself into making myself sick this morning but I really just don’t feel sick anymore. Went to the parkrun because I thought if anything bad has happened running isn’t going to change anything! I think the sneak peek email will come back on Tuesday if it’s 2 working days but I’m not opening it until I’ve been for the scan at night just to make sure everything is okay 🤞🏼