Due October 2025

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Hello! Thought I would start an October thread as technically my EDD is 2nd October. Ivf pregnancy so I know very early at 5dp5dt which is equivalent to 10dpo.

Anyone else know they are due in October yet?

Prior to pregnancy with her I ran 3 times a week, pilates twice a week, cycled 20 minutes to the train station and back every day. Good balance diet.
I did 2 runs between finding out I was expecting and giving birth, stopped doing pilates replacing it with naps instead, cycling stopped when I was sent to WFH due to the start of covid and lived off tinned peaches and chocolate spread on toast. I was fully expecting her to come out as a peach!
I thought I'd struggle through labour as my activity had dropped significantly. For 5 months my daily activity was going from bed to desk to kitchen back to desk to sofa but I managed really well and labourer at home until I was fully dilated.

The human body is amazingly resilient! Your body needs calories, ideally from a balanced diet but the primary needs is just food and any food you can stand.

My second is sitting really high too. I have awful heartburn which has started making me a bit nauseous. I'm 19 weeks and felt like this for the last month. I'm sure it was more like 24 weeks that it started with my first and ended up on omperazole. On the plus side as the bump is higher I'm still fitting into my jeans!

Hi all! Can I join this group? I'm 14w 5days, also an IVF pregnancy. Due end of October!

Symptoms are constant nausea and food aversions. I thought they'd go away at 12 weeks but still struggling to eat anything home cooked or anything that I used to love! I was so healthy pre-pregnancy, feeling constantly guilty! But I know it's just about survival at this point! 😩

Hi @BellaRosex! I was on another thread with you in February. I’m glad to see you’re doing well and have made it to 14w5d! I’m one day behind you.

I am the same with food to the extent that I’ve lost weight! I think not being able to eat is not uncommon. I also hoped I’d be better by 12 weeks but unfortunately not. See @Superscientist ’s replies to me in the posts before yours for some reassurance.

My husband is very concerned so sent me to the supermarket to get literally anything I wanted. It was broccoli quiche, chocolate ice cream and milk. Quite random but they are the only things that appeal to me. Maybe you could do the same? Even if there are two foods you can eat, it’s better than zero!

Ask the midwives if you still struggle. I think there are special shakes they can prescribe to give you nutrients. Hope you feel better soon.

Hi everyone, I've just come across from the BFP after IVF due October 2025 thread.

I'm currently 18w4d with my second child - we found out at 17 weeks that it's a girl, which my 6 year old son is VERY happy with!

Both of my babies are IVF (ICSI frozen embryos to be precise!) despite the difficult roads to being pregnant, I've had relatively 'easy' pregnancies - so far!

This time I am being consultant lead due to an emergency c-section and complications with my son.

Despite the first few weeks dragging, I feel like they're starting to fly by now - especially being filled up with various appointments!

My due date is 4th October, but as I'll be having a planned c-section, I'm expecting that to be a week or so earlier.

Look forward to following and chatting with some of you on here over the coming weeks :) x

Hey @EEB1989 we found out we was having a boy Thursday and all old wives tales, skull theory, nub and even Chinese calendar all said boy for me!!

I had hyperemesis from 9 weeks - term with my daughter 🥲 was medicated/hospitalised and lost quite a lot of weight in my first trimester (I was only petite prior too) so very different symptoms this time around! X

Congratulations!

I find it so fascinating. I can’t wait to find out so that I can start buying stuff, there are some lovely gender neutral items but most things I’ve seen are one or the other.

Morning everyone! 17 weeks today and can’t stop thinking about the 20 week anomaly scan. We had a private Fetal Wellbeing scan on Monday just for some reassurance and everything looked “perfect”. They checked brain, kidneys, heart and stomach were all there. They checked arms and legs too but we didn’t get to see the legs as they didn’t want to risk us seeing the gender. I know these scans aren’t as thorough as the 20 week scan and they make you sigh something anyway to say it doesn’t replace the anomaly scan, but just wondering if anyone here has done the same sort of scan and then everything was also ok at the 20 week? Guess I’m just wondering if things look all good at this scan, what the chances are of something being bad at the 20 week.

I had a phone call yesterday to say there was an issue with the transport of my second trimester screening bloods so I need to repeat them today. Means another two week wait. I panicked when saw the NHS number on my phone as they told me I’d only receive a phone call if results were high risk!

At that stage where I’m desperate to feel movement as well. Even though only 16+1 I was feeling my son move at this point in my first pregnancy. Even though I know rationally it could be different positioning of placenta and my first pregnancy was soooo long ago. I think it’s just at the stage where other than stretchy feelings and sore breasts I can easily forget I’m even pregnant.

Hi all I’m having to have extra screening for a short cervix (possibly caused by a very late EMCS with my first dc) but wanted to say I am very grateful for the nhs and all the extra checks they are doing for me and baby x

@emmatcc1sorry for delay in replying. How are you doing?
yes from vanishing twin. Although nothing for a few days now 🤞🏻🤞🏻 private scan on Sat to find out gender! And yours is next week? saw my midwife yesterday who is going to ask consultant about whether to continue progesterone beyond the 16 weeks or not given recent bleeds and higher risk stuff.

@Givemethesunhello! I’m also having the extra screening due to emcs at 10cm last time. It’s making me anxious knowing there’s a risk of dodgy cervix, so hoping they will bring forward to before 20 week scan next month… when/what gestation will yours be?

Hope everyone is doing ok? The exhaustion and hunger are flooring me this week! Can’t stop eating, and feel so tired. Insomnia and discomfort at night is crap too. Got niggles of SPD creeping in already… can’t remember when I got it last time, perhaps close to 20 weeks but it was crippling!!

Also, anyone else having colostrum leaks yet?! Had a few times of waking up with it dried on my nips!! Remember it came early last time, but not sure this early?! Nearly 16 weeks now.

@CustardCream31 I’ve also been spotting free for the past two days now. Don’t know if its the progesterone on just a coincidence although they did say to expect more bleeding because of the location of the hematoma.
I’ve got my scan on Tuesday and I’m gonna be so shocked if it’s not a boy.
Also been leaking colostrum for maybe the past week now, was totally expecting this to come later on since it’s my first.
I’m 17+2 now still waiting for those kicks.

Hi @CustardCream31 sorry you’re in the same position as me, my EMCS was at 10cm too. I had initial screening at 16 weeks (they found I have a short ish cervix but not below the high risk threshold - although very near - so I now have screening every 2 weeks. I guess if they pick up that my cervix has shortened below the high risk threshold they’d consider the other preventative options). A bit of a concern but also I am just trying to remember that the nhs are screening to help and there are options to help if needed. How many weeks are you? I only got my 16 week app a couple days before! X

Eww I guess that explains the sticky stuff on my nipples. I had no idea that colostrum happened so early. I’m getting some breast pads. Pregnancy and breastfeeding are very much a means to an end with me; I don’t like the physical side of reproduction at all.

@HopefulSibling I’m an elective c section too!

@Livybaby apparently not feeling movement until 20 weeks can be normal, I’m 15 weeks and have no movement.

@pumpkinpatches22 I’d be very surprised if something went wrong between now and the next scan!

@CustardCream31 I hope SPD isn’t a thing for you this time around; sounds tough!

@emmatcc1 I’m really glad to hear the bleeding has stopped.

@Givemethesun and @CustardCream31 I'm also booked in for a scan at 18 weeks due to an emcs at 10cm dilation. I'm really hoping it's all okay, because I'm pretty convinced that the progesterone I was on for spotting early on made all my symptoms 100x worse! Since reducing and coming off it, I've found sickness and reflux more manageable, though almost certainly because I'm well-medicatec for both of them. If I have to go back on progesterone, I'm not sure how I'll manage...

So exciting that people are finding out the sex of babies already! I'm 16 weeks tomorrow, so we're going to a private scan on saturday. No idea what we're going to have, because I've heard so many people say they had different symptoms but the same sex baby in both pregnancies... I think I may be feeling some movements though, as baby was very active at our 12 week scan and there's been the odd sensation that isn't easily explained any other way! Thankfully, no colostrum - didn't have any in my last pregnancy either.

@CustardCream31 SPD and PGP are the pits! I've been sleeping with a pillow under my hips since quite early on as it was already uncomfortable, but hoping that'll be the worst of it (not likely, think I've got another giant baby as I'm already obviously pregnant if not wearing a hoody 😬)

@pumpkinpatches22 I'm sure everything will be okay at the 20 week scan. I know that the people at our closest private scan places are all fully trained/qualified obstetric sonographers, so I'd be surprised if anything was missed in a thorough scan. Having said that, I know a few people who's 20 week scans showed up really "minor" anomalies - kidney dilation, for example - and have wonderfully healthy 2 year old now with no issues caused. So if anything develops between now and the anomaly scan, it doesn't mean anything is actually going to be wrong x

Hi all!
EDD is 17th of October. Congratulations on your pregnancies everyone.
im struggling to understand pregnancy as my first and wondering when conception would have happened if I’m EDD on 17th.

Count 40 weeks back from 17th October and that should be the date of your last period. Fertilisation happens about two weeks after that and implantation happens about a week after fertilisation.

I've found this page helpful, it can back track from your edd for lmp and conception etc. I didn't have a period to date my pregnancy from and had no idea when I conceived just a date from an early scan.

www.calculator.net/pregnancy-calculator.html

Thank you very much!!

Thanks for your help! 🙂

Hope you don’t mind me jumping on, can anyone have a guess at my 12 week scan? I’m clueless at the nub theory and still waiting on my 20 week scan ☺️

@cw28 100% a girl

I think a girl too. If you remember update us when you know as always interesting to look back and see if guesses were wrong or right! X

Thank you!

Thanks for sharing your thoughts, I will update when I find out in a couple of weeks! x