May 2025 babies

[BlueberryPoppy123]

Hey everyone. I can't see a May due date group yet. I am in the April 2025 chat as DD based on LMP puts me due at Apr 15. However I have varying length cycles and think I didn't ovulate until CD 30ish. Guessing I'm actually due May 2nd based off temps. Everyone in the April chat are much further along and hoping to find some people earlier in their pregnancies to chat to :) x

@Poster57 i was really worried when I had my second, we had hoped for a smaller gap but actually my 2 boys requested to share a bedroom! They have their moments where they will fight but most of the time they are fine and just play!

@Poster57 we found the jump from 1 to 2 so hard. But the age gap and COVID did not help we have 8 years between our 2 boys and they fight almost always. Mainly because the 4 year old always wants to be with the 12 year old and he doesn't want him there 😂 hoping a new baby will ease the rows and he will have a little person to play with instead. Hoping this addition will be much easier 🙈

@BlueberryPoppy123 I think 1 to 2 is a shock to the system but I always hear that people that found that find 2 to 3 much easier as that acclimatisation has already been done 🤞

@Poster57 I have a 4 and 3 year old (18 month difference) and never felt done with just 2 but now we are having a 3rd it's freaked us out and just feels crazy. I personally found 0-1 harder than 1-2 so hopefully the transition 2-3 will be ok too. Plus in September both will be in school so the second half of maternity leave will be nice as weekdays will be quiet with just me and the baby.

@Sunflower2244 i get this more than you could even realise. I think with a 3rd you worry and think about thinks you’d never even have considered with 1 or 2 (or maybe that’s just me 🙈)

it will probably lessen the shock of them both being off to school as well by having a little one at home still. It feels such a different thing with the slightly bigger gap doesn’t it. I’m sure it’s amazing in its own way but alien to what we’re used to

Congratulations! I also had a miscarriage a few months ago which was my first pregnancy and also had a feeling it wasn’t to be. We got pregnant our first month trying and it felt too easy.

Hoping this one is the one 🤞🏻 I am feeling nauseous this time round which I wasn’t really last time so fingers crossed that’s a good sign!

Are you feeling any different this time?

Hi @Dojo13! Sorry, I didn't see your first message on the first page. Congratulations and I'm sorry to hear what happened earlier in the year. It's a strange feeling the second time round, neither of us have got excited yet, it feels a bit tentative. I also don't have any symptoms apart from fatigue, but I have almost given up coffee so maybe that's why. Breasts were SO sore last time (maybe because it was twins), but this time nothing. Tests were a lot darker this time at 12DPO than they were last time at 17DPO... you can't help compare everything, can you!?

Do you think you'll book for early scans or anything? Have you registered the pregnancy yet?

So good to have this thread, especially when lots of us probably haven't told anyone yet and all we can do is chat to strangers on the internet!

Definitely! It can be an isolating time. We aren’t going to book an early scan this time. That’s when I knew something wasn’t right last time because I was measuring 6w at 8w but there was a heartbeat so in the ultrasound technicians eyes there was nothing wrong. I didn’t have any miscarriage symptoms at that time either so it was a horrible wait just knowing something was wrong. I don’t want to go through that again.

I’ve just this week self referred for my midwife appointment and it’s booked in for 27th September. I’ll be 9w2d then which is actually the exact date I was last booked in for my midwife appointment but I ended up miscarrying that very day so I’ve not been to one yet.

Feeling pretty anxious about it. I don’t want to go through that whole appointment but then get to my 12 week scan and find out something is wrong. But at the same time I can’t do an early scan again. If it was an NHS one I’d probably feel differently.

It’s just sad past experiences make us feel this way about what should be a really happy time isn’t it! I’m trying to be more positive this time round but I still don’t feel like it could actually happen. My husband and I are still using the term ‘if’ rather than ‘when’. Don’t think we will change that mindset for a few months and know things are going okay.

I am exactly like that. It's not like we've been trying for ages (less than a year!), but I was getting obsessed with the idea of maybe I'm infertile, and I'm quite used to seeing a negative result, when I first tested positive on Tuesday, I laughed at the test for a good 20 mins and then drove to Sainsbury's to buy a bunch of new tests 😂😂😂 now peeing on a stick is my favourite new hobby, just to see that I'm preggers ! 🙄🤣❤️

Very shocked as I got my positive test today (roughly 9 DPO) after our first month of trying for a second baby. We thought it would take at least 3-6 months from what friends told us but we are over the moon it’s happened so fast.
We already have a beautiful nearly 15 month old son so this will make us 2 under 2 for 4 weeks all being well. Wish us luck for that haha 🤞🏼 😬

@CheshireMummyy 2 under 2 is the best things I’ve ever done. You’ll be more than fine ☺️☺️

@WildWhirlwind my 2nd pregnancy was a mmc. So for my 3rd I booked an early scan and I've got one booked in for Friday next week when I should be 6 weeks. Hoping to see that heart beat!!

@Vavamum I think even though I've had about 20 positives I still am not believing it! Everytime I took a new one I was expecting it to say negative. We were trying 5 months and was convinced I had secondary infertility despite that only being 3 cycles with my stupidly long cycles 🙈

@CheshireMummyy congrats and welcome on board! I'd have loved babies close together but it wasn't to be for us. Lucky my husband agreed to any babies. He'd have been happy childless 🙈 I'm pretty sure he loves them though 😂

@Dojo13 that's such a difficult predicament, as I totally understand not wanting to wait 12 weeks and though I've not been to an early scan, I've heard mixed stories because I've heard the NHS won't take their word for it... @BlueberryPoppy123 maybe you can shed some light here as well. How upsetting the miscarriage was on the day of the appointment. I think with MMCs it's just so difficult after you find out, thinking how long you thought you were pregnant when you weren't. I wish the NHS would do early scans after just one miscarriage.

Hoping we all get through these next few weeks, then the ones after, etc. until we have our babies!

On a more positive note, I love how encouraging everyone is of a small age gaps! I (maybe naively) want to spend the next however many years having children...

@Poster57 I just hope all being well that this little one is as good as my first was as a baby 😭🤞🏼

@BlueberryPoppy123 he took some convincing on baby 2 😂 and I did say I thought it would take months maybe even a year because I genuinely did! The look on his face when I told him first month I was pregnant 🙈😂

I knew something wasn't right although I had horrendous morning sickness and I was so tired all the time but just had a feeling something wasn't right. I found out at a scan I paid for though. I had said for weeks I just didn't feel right so my partner said let's just pay for a scan. I was 9 weeks and baby was only measuring 4 weeks. They tried to reassure me I could just have dates wrong but I knew my dates weren't wrong. I contacted my midwife and epu and they rescanned me almost a week later and confirmed baby had died just after the 4 weeks mark. It was 10 years ago now and I'm pretty sure we had a chat about having a d&c but I started bleeding after I left the app like my brain finally knew to let go. 2 weeks later they rescanned me to check nothing was left and everything had came away.

I just couldn't wait that long again to find out. I'd rather know sooner.
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@BlueberryPoppy123 I’m so sorry to hear this 😢 ❤️

So mentally I am still in the same thought zone my anxiety has wore me out this week haven't slept well atall too many thought's running through my head. At the moment I am still continuing to try forget the fact this is happening and getting on harder said than done. Hope everyone else is doing OK x

@GunesM hope you’re ok, I’m feeling pretty anxious and alone too as I have t even told DH I’m pregnant yet. It’s really difficult when a positive test should be a time of such happiness but they just hold a lot of dread for me as I’ve had a lot of different losses so I just end up thinking what’s next. I have two little ones to keep me busy and that helps. Hopefully the back to school rush will keep you busy and take your mind off your anxieties.

Is anyone else having crazy vivid dreams. They aren't even long or in depth, random stuff but so vivid I feel like I've been awake doing stuff half the night 😂
Also got up about 4 times to pee in the night. Symptoms are just begging to show up for me I think!
5 weeks today 🥰

Yes, I’ve had vivid dreams in all my pregnancies, I’m some cases it was what caused me to take a test! Unfortunately mine tend to be nightmares but hopefully yours are of a nice nature! Have you felt sick at all?

@Herewegoagain8 yes I've had them with each pregnancy too. I remember being told they aren't a symptom by a midwife but I defo think they are. Mine can be random things last night I trying to be sly cutting my neighbours bushes 😂 so random but felt so real to the point when I woke up I was like omg what if he saw me 😂😂😂

I have had nausea in waves so will come on really strong but goes away just as quick it isn't lingering. Except work last Sunday I had to run and throw up but not been sick again since. I've had bad nausea in every pregnancy but never actually been sick until this one which is odd as the nausea doesn't last long if that makes sense

Hello ladies! Tentatively joining as I just had a BFP 🤩 according to online calculators due date would be 8th of May. We already have a 20 months old boy. I don't have many symptoms except being pretty tired. Previous pregnancy was quite straightforward (except a few episodes of SVT in 3rd trimester) so hopefully this will be similar!
I don't remember having vivid dreams until later on. For the past week I mainly feel like I sleep like a log 😆

Hey! Joining if that's ok.... Also due 8th May! 💕
The tiredness has kicked in (although could be the lack of coffee) but no nausea as yet 🤞
Getting heartburn before I go to bed, so going to try and eat a bit earlier and hope it helps 🙂

@Dullblue1234 I'm feeling you with the tiredness just snuggled up with my boy to take a little afternoon nap 😂 I've needed one the last 3 days!

Do you have any other babies or will this be your first x