Due March 2025

[Zuzu2020]

Hi, just making a thread for babies due March 2025...

Its early I know..
Tested positive this morning at 9dpo.

Looking at a due date of 5/3/25

@Melusina123 I feel like I'll be the size of a house before 12 weeks at this rate! Haha

Hey All

I can't get on the facebook group either - I do find a group easier to keep up with than Mumsnet so fingers crossed I can join :)

Sorry not been online much this weekend - crazy toddler keeping me on my toes!

ref vits - I'm taking these and they are on offer on Boots today and I think buy 3 for 2 in sainsbury - https://www.boots.com/seven-seas-pregnancy-vitamins-with-omega-3-dha-and-advanced-folic-acid-duo-pack-28-capsules-and-28-tablets-10341638?cm_mmc=bmm-buk-google-ppc--PLAs_HeroCompare---_-PMax:+UK_Smart_Shopping_Healthcare_Other&gad_source=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIqt_K4p29hwMVT11HAR19Egq5EAQYASABEgIx8_D_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

Thanks for the BMI thing, I'd better up my folate.

Fellow IVF mum here too - current pregnancy is a surprise after what I went to get my 1st, I think my body is a comedian!

Feeling rough now as I enter week 7 and doubts are starting of will this process, will I be able to cope with 2 etc.

Probably going to get an additional scan in week 9, then I will safer to announce to family - what's everyone plans for doing this? I am thinking of plonking a bottle of wine on the family table with a witty message.

Sorry for those who have seen worrying symptoms, the likely thing is that its just a part of pregnancy and nothing to worry about. Easier said than done.

My last period was on 14th of June, date of conception was about 30th of June.. I'm a bit worried that I'm not experiencing nausea or morning sickness... is this normal?

@Mrbay with my daughter we should my in laws the scan photo after the dating scan. In a check out this sort of way. We told my bil a few weeks later at a family meal.
I told all of my family on the same day at 17 weeks. My cousin had highjacked my grandparents birthday to show off her new kitchen so it was a deliberate semi-bitchy call on my part to out trump them! We saw my parents first and just handed them the scan picture and I messaged my sister's with the scan photo and no message 10 minutes before meeting them and put from bump into the birthday card to my grandparent.

We have our scan at 12 weeks and we will tell in laws after then. I would like to wait as long as possible before telling my parents but I feel so rough and see them much more than I did when expecting my daughter so not sure how long I can hide it.

We have nursery photos of my daughter and I was thinking of waiting to give them to the grandparents until we are ready to announce and putting a copy of the scan photo in too.

All levels of nausea can be normal don't fret too much.

Mine started at 5-6 weeks but has been so much worse since 7 weeks so there is still time to get some nausea.

I had a hard time with sickness with my daughter and I made sure to eat my favourite meals from finding out I was expecting until the nausea really started. I found it put a positive spin on the wait for potential nausea and occupied my mind from the fretting about lack of nausea

I use a barrier cream for allergies - nowhere near as good as the meds but maybe a bit of placebo?

@Superscientist - very cute! I don't think I could wait until 17-weeks, I am too excited!

My mother's unbearable!! If I have a day off work with a cold she will then ask every time she sees me for the next 6 months if I'm feeling better yet. We don't have the sort of relationship where I can safely share things unfortunately.

We had a bad car accident at 16 weeks I was so happy she didn't know I was pregnant she fussed and fretted enough just knowing it was me and my partner in the car

I am always in the odd situation of having to tell my employer straight away so work know from 4 weeks but family are in the dark.

So glad I found someone else who has the same type of mum as me lol. She's incredibly overbearing, worries about anything and everything despite my big age (33...), and expresses her anxiety in a weaponised way. She does live 300 miles away, but she's coming to visit when I'll be 11 weeks and I've been so unwell with the pregnancy recently I don't think I'll be able to hide it. I really would have put it off as long as I could otherwise - just another source of anxiety 😫 how are you planning on managing your mum?

Tentatively joining - feel like I’ve known forever but I’m only 6 weeks tomorrow (I think?). So I believe I’m due around the 19th as it stands.
I had a miscarriage at 9 weeks last year and I think what may have been a chemical a few months ago, so feeling very cautious about the whole thing at the moment.
I'm trying to hold off scanning until 9ish weeks as I feel like it won’t help me to scan before the date of my miscarriage last time but I’m also itching to know if things are ok, currently trying to talk myself out of an early scan this week.
I’m also going abroad with work next week and a bit nervous something is going to go wrong when I’m there (plus no idea how I’m going to get out of the various drinking activities when I’m usually the first one at the bar! If anyone has any tips please send them my way).
Sorry for the long first message - thanks for reading this far!

@veggiebuns I self referred at about 5 weeks. Had my booking appointment by phone at 6 weeks. And have heard nothing else as of yet.

Update link
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Hoping it works for some

Hi there all, I found this thread today and found it highly comforting. I'm 5+2 so due 23rd March, first pregnancy. I spent the week after BFP elated, and am now over-analysing everything. I have a scan booked at 7 weeks for reassurance. My friends with kids are either about to give birth or have had recent MCs so no one I can easily chat to.

The main thing sparking anxiety is the fluctuating symptoms: I consistently have swollen breasts, heightened sense of smell, frequent peeing, and CRAZY bloating after each meal. My breasts were sore for a week solid at the start and now it comes and goes, as do the twinges, which were more frequent early on (maybe that was implantation).

So despite all the info out there and reality that each pregnancy differs, the waiting is tough! Trying to remind myself to be kind to my body and grateful to even have had the BFP. Solidarity with everyone feeling the same and whose body is doing a wonderful thing.

@Zuzu2020 this one worked 🙌 thank you for sorting. So much easier to follow a conversation thread on FB (and I always lose track of everyone's usernames here!)

I contacted the midwives today and registered the pregnancy, they've tentatively put me at 5 weeks 1 day, which I wish was the case! But I know that I have longer cycles so I'm definitely closer to 4w 2. Did make it feel a lot more official though!!

I keep her at arms length these days information only goes one way. We are close so see her regularly but for short periods. Not sure how long I can hide it. I was pretty nauseous when we saw them at the weekend but passed it off as a migraine which I'm prone to anyway.

I am quite good at being secretive. When my daughter was little I managed to have a 10 weeks stay in a mother and baby unit without telling them. They don't know I'm bipolar. They knew about my depression as a teenager and nearly 20 years later all I hear is how hard it was for her to have a depressed daughter. No comment about how it might have been difficult for me to be depressed at 18

It's nice to speak to others that get it! My sisters see her more frequently which usually means I get a bit of a free pass to be more distant.

I’m 5 weeks today and am having a similar experience with symptoms - though I should probably say ‘symptom’ as it’s pretty much just tender boobs at the moment! It comes and goes whereas I got my first positive at 8dpo and only tested because they were sore all the time.

I think I’m a bit more tired than usual and occasionally maybe a bit nauseous but that could just be me reading into things…

If it helps, with the two children I do have (and with the one we lost at 14 weeks) I don’t remember having any real symptoms until around 7 or 8 weeks when I started feeling sick (and then actually started throwing up daily). I also have friends who’ve pretty much had no symptoms at all throughout their pregnancies. It can be so different person to person and even for the same person, can be different pregnancy to pregnancy. Try not to worry too much.

The upside of this is that you might get your scans a bit sooner. Always a silver lining 😉

Not sure if this is helpful but, if you don’t mind a little white lie, easiest way to get out of drinking is to say you’re on some kind of medication and that your GP has told you not to drink while on it… lots of moaning about what bad timing it is always helps too 😉

Also, totally get your cautious approach: I’ve had multiple chemicals in the past year and can’t quite believe I’ve still got decent lines at the moment! We’re going on holiday at the end of August when I’ll be 9 weeks and I’m already having a bit of a worry about how I might feel and what could go wrong…

I can't remember the name of the antibiotics but there's one that makes you projectile vomit - normally given to alcoholics

metronidazole!

Our frozen transfer was on the 8th July. I've found this time round very strange as we haven't told anyone we're trying for a second whereas first time round everyone knew just not precise dates. Even though we've now had that positive test I'm feeling a bit disassociated with it and not ready to tell anyone yet! 5 weeks tomorrow so still very early!

Anyone else with silly insomnia? I keep waking up with a bang around 5am and not being able to get back to sleep. Sometimes also waking at 3 or 4am. It feels like waking up on the morning of an exam!

Yep! I don't know if it's a pregnancy symptom itself or just linked to general anxiety/overthinking about the pregnancy but I've become a voluntary early riser for the first time in my life! Also feel like my bladder is going to burst first thing in the morning so that usually stops me from getting back to sleep!

@InvisibleDragon awake by 5.30 every day. I'm usually quite a good sleeper. But I'm also so knackered I'm going to bed quite early so that might be why I'm rising early as well.