Due November 2023 - part 2

[MooseWL]

New thread 😀

@jennybb right in the middle of my pubic bone, at the top where it just gets fleshy, I feel tender. I only really noticed it the last few days! Not swollen at all but just feels more firm & tender to touch! God knows if I’m imagining it though 😩

Yes that's what I'm feeling. It's such a bizarre feeling, I feel like it comes and goes. It's not painful just slightly uncomfortable

Hello all, I didn’t even realise there was a November thread yet!
I think I’ll be due about Nov 4th but based on the discussion with the midwife about my last pregnancy it will be an earlier delivery date because I’ll be having a c section.
No scan booked yet; nipt blood test booked though as I’m an older mum.
I’ve got horrendous all day sickness and low vitamin d so I’m not doing great.

it will all be worth it in the end!

@jennybb oh I’m glad someone else feels it , I’m driving myself mad! I noticed it in the shower the other day. It just feels like a small area that’s firmer than the rest down there & defo new! It’s not painful but it’s just more firm & noticeable 😂 pregnancy is driving me insane so far!

Hi all went for my epu scan today I'm dating 6+4 heart rate was 124 so all looking good thank god so the anxiety has eased slightly unlike the vomiting 🤮 so date due 12 nov she said I have a tilted womb whatever that means lol hope everyone doing ok xx

@Noneyerbuisness11234 depending which way it's tilted could determine how soon you start showing. I went for my scan today and I have an anteverted uterus which means tilting towards the abdomen so I would show earlier than a woman with a retroverted one. I never even knew it was a thing until today, does it say on your notes which way it tilts? They've put my due date forward to the 11th of November the day before my daughter turns 16!

@Sb86 tilted bk the way I think she had to play about to see the baby couldn't reall get view of cervix xx

Is anyone else eaten up with anxiety? I had a scan Tuesday, heartbeat there and all good but I can't help thinking every day what if something has went wrong, i had a MMC in December so I know that's obviously made me super anxious. I'm obsessed with symptoms and because I'm not being sick and completey wrecked I'm super nervous.

I have fatigue, sore boobs and twinges so I try to content myself with that, I just really want all to be ok and 12 weeks can't come quick enough, I'm only over 6 weeks now! Every day seems like a week

@Sb86 so glad the scan went well and reassured you! Great you've finally got your progesterone too! Fingers crossed all keeps progressing well.

Sorry that a few of you are really struggling Abdul with the anxiety. It is such a weird time isn't it, I don't think there is anything else quite like it. It's the complete and utter lack of control that doesn't help! I've found myself being a bit more zen with this pregnancy that I was in my first - not sure why but I'll take it! One thing that really helped me first time round was to keep a pregnancy journal and just write out all the feelings/worries etc and sort of give myself pep talks through it as well. I was looking back at it the other day and it was quite emotional to read it all safe in the knowledge that that little bean is now a healthy 2 year old and all worked out well. Anyway, although this first trimester does drag a bit, we will all be through it soon enough and at least we can keep ourselves a bit busy with these chats while we wait!

*not sure why my phone thought Abdul needed to appear in the previous comment 🤷🏼‍♀️

@38andtrying absolutely with you - I posted a few comments exactly the same as yours earlier today! I had a scan on Sunday showing a healthy heartbeat too, but now my symptoms have all gone so I am so panicked. I emailed my EPU & they have invited me in for a scan on Monday to help ease my nerves & check all okay. I’ll be 8 weeks then, hopefully. It’s such a rubbish time x

@Mldn I have another scan booked for next Sunday 2nd April, so just over a week, its gonna drag, I hope I get really sick and every symptom going between now and then to keep me sane. I want to be so sick I'm hospitalised lol 😆

Hi ladies, joining you on this roller-coaster!
I'm calculating first week in Nov but I was over 3 weeks early on my first baby so who knows if I'll last this time!

I have first MW appt next week.

I haven't read everything but if it's not been mentioned - you do need to give a urine sample in most MW appointments. I didn't know that first time around so of course had a wee before I left the house!

@Mldn also good luck with your scan Monday, let us know how you get on x

It’s crazy isn’t it. Begging for the illness to hit us! But I just find it bizarre I had all the symptoms last week & nothing now. Hoping all okay! Sorry to hear of your previous miscarriage. I didn’t go to my EPU hoping for a scan, I just wanted some reassurance & then I’d have booked another private scan in a week or two. But they offered a scan straight away! Will of course update 🤞🏼 x

It's great they offered that, I believe symptoms can come and go so hopefully nothing to worry about, I wish I was as logical with myself lol

No symptoms is very normal at this point. I took months before I 'felt' pregnant last time!
Your body is doing what it needs to do.
I've had tiredness and moments of mild nausea so far. Nothing the last two days.

Anxiety is through the roof. Just keeping thinking worst case at the moment and can't snap out of it. Mild pain in shoulder, a bit like a pulled muscle, that comes and goes. More noticeable when I move my arm etc just keeps thinking I'm ectopic 😢 early scan booked for 2 weeks time when I'll be 7 weeks but just keep crying and feel so worried all the time. Any advice?

@Thack hello and welcome! Yes I think they want a sample pretty much every time! It's a tough juggling act with waiting times etc! Normally I was there long enough that I'd need to go again by the end of the appointment anyway.. it also gets easier to wee as required the further on you get. 😂

@hopeandpray1988 I had niggly pain in my shoulder and acan showed all ok, my sister had an ectopic and she said ectopic shoulder pain is very distinct, its at very tip of your shoulder, the shoulder pain only comes if there is a rupture so you wouldn't have it alone I don't think so try not to worry, easier said than done. If it's really sore and accompanied with anything else drfo ring EPU but of not try to content yourself as its normal

@hopeandpray1988 past knowledge: your body is releasing a hormone called relaxin. It let's your muscles/tendons stretch out so your pelvic floor etc can expand and make room.
That'll be what is affecting your shoulder and is why pregnant women get back ache and need to be careful lifting.

(I'm not medically trained, I read everything I could on my first and this is how I understand it)

Me! I feel so weird today and have to remind myself that I'm pregnant still. Well, I assume so.

@MooseWL My prescriptions are Spanish which nobody in the UK particularly cares about. But my GP has finally agreed to call me tomorrow. I think it will be a random non-local GP like last time, which is good, because random GPs tend to have a brain. 😊

Would anyone be interested in a WhatsApp group chat?

Hey another joining you if you don't mind!

I just found out this evening I'm pregnant and and still in shock. Not sure why as all the usual symptoms were there (my inability to park straight is a weird one mind) just not what I was expecting on a Thursday evening!

I'm ringing my GP tomorrow as I'm on beta blockers so need some advice.

My (current) youngest is not even two yet! How do you cope with a toddler and a newborn? I had a fairly large age gap between mine so it felt easier as they were at different stages.

All of you talking about the ‘not many symptoms’ or coming and going ones etc, it must be normal most of the time as so many of us seem to have the same thing!?
I’ve only had sore boobs, acid reflux and tiredness but nothing that’s really bad and some days I feel totally normal, 6 weeks tomorrow. Let’s hope we all have healthy little babas 👶🏼