October 2010 babies?

[FutureMum]

Hi, I am a first-timer Mum to Be and Baby has been given a due date of 1 October. Very early dates still, so nervous and excited I cannot think about anything else! Planning not to tell family and friends till the first three months are over, but it's going to be tough!
Anyone else expecting an October baby out there?

Tried the lent excuse for giving up alcohol but nobody took me seriously & either said "and the punchline to that joke is..." or asked if there was something I wasn't telling them!

I am missing a nice drink of a weekend. I get DP a beer & myself some boring water. I also keep having to make excuses to avoid social get togethers as I don't want to keep thinking up excuses for my lack of drinking.
Been invited for a girly wine night with friends next Friday, but obviously can't go.

Hey, I'm back from the EPAU and everythings fine, I've got a little jellybean with a flickery heartbeat. Midwife just told me to keep an eye on things to see how they go.

Nymph I had to go to another hospital to see the EPAU people as my one doesn't have one.

Hey Hermya, glad everything's fine with you. That heartbeat's just so cool isn't it?
VixStarr; I'm 22 and this is my first baby too. I had a scan at 8 weeks because I had a bit of a funny turn but otherwise, they don't seem to want to know until you're 12 weeks... but not even seeing you until 12 weeks is a bit weird I'd definately get a second opinion on that, I thought the latest booking in time should be about 10 weeks unless you don't know you're pregnant. Speaking of which, I'd love to know how you can have a hidden pregnancy! What with my obsession for cheese and onion crisps, practically having to bubble wrap my boobs and the whole no period thing it's a right pain in the arse

Hermya glad everything is looks ok, no more bleeding?

Hello All,

Thanks for the most excellent laughs!

mamjo we can have shellfish, just make sure it's reeeeeally cooked (though I couldn't have fancied a raw oyster even before I had ms!). I don't miss wine at the mo as I have such horrid nausea but I do miss a nice cold beer, o yeah! And brie...

Hermya well done for the scan - lovely news.

I'm definitely holding back on the emotion until 12 weeks. People who know about the pregnancy get so happy and excited and I am there thinking 'hmm...well, only if it sticks...' Bah! Not nice for any of us.

You'll get no 'earth mothering' from me, I tell you! I am thrilled but still myself!

Find a way round this one - my lovely friend has offered to take me on a spa day with her and treat me to all the treatments! But of course I can only have a very limited few as I'll be less than 12 weeks pg so now I have to say 'Ooh lovely thanks' and book quite odd little things. I don't want to tell my friend over email (she doesn't live in the uk) but wait until I can see her face to face. Bizarro situation - I thought it was just booze in social situations I would have to worry about!!

xx

BTW music o people are RUDE! As my gran'ma would say, you could spit right in their eye (or puke on them of course). Sorry for their horrible bad manners.

Hi to Vixstar & MrsSenior too!

Ah I love this thread!
Please more comfort guys... Thank you for saying that symptoms easing off is normal, but it's still driving me insane!
I have actually stopped being all bloated now too! My belly has shrunk so that I feel even slimmer than I can remember! It's weird!
Although my boobs hurt again now....

But waiting for a scan is doing my head in... everyone around me is getting so excited but I just feel so different and un-pregnant.
I'm hoping that no bleeding is a good sign, although missed MC scares me.... and if i do get a bleed I think i will actually have a heart attack...

I MUST GET A GRIP!!

Oh I must also mention that at my booking appt the other day the MW called me
"not a fit girl..."

great!

Dappymoo The cheeky cow!!! Thats really rude.

Nymph No, no more bleeding. I'm hoping it was a one off. If I have anymore I have to go back and they'll give me another scan.

Jazzie I would love one of those hidden pregnancies, it would be lovely to be blissfully ignorant than find out at 12 plus weeks once the whole danger zone is over.

I'm so tired, I'm already in my pyjamas and getting ready to go to Bedfordshire. My nausea has come back with a vengence. Well you can't have it all can you.

Rude, but kind of true!
I need to start some kind of exercise so that I'm not like that young girl on "One Born Every Minute" who was having a full on tantrum after one contraction!!

Just tried to eat some soup for dinner. Nice & bland so thought I could handle it...Wrong! Just the smell of it cooking was enough to put me off & I really struggled with it. When will I enjoy my food again?! Fed up of this now!

OH nomorewine it does truly suck.
I know people try and help but I am so fed up of "eat this, don't eat that, try to eat, now try not to eat too much... don't put on weight... why aren't you eating?" and so on....

hello everyone, haven't posted since I was last wfh - just can't do it at work, nobody there knows yet!

So am 10 + 3 today...that scan getting closer and closer and can't wait, FINALLY confirmation that I'm not imagining the whole thing (hopefully!!). As no sickness, so really hard to point to anything tangible to say it's real. Am extremely tired and hungry all the time, but keep thinking that could be psychological!!

Finally told my family this week, and they were all like 'oh yes, we guessed - you weren't drinking'!! Kinda ruined my big announcement, and made me feel like I'm some kind of alcholoic normally...! I'm not, honestly!

I have just come back from the doctors as had upset stomach again this morning. He felt my stomach, took my blood pressure (which was low), and took a urine sample. He said I need to drink more fluids as my urine was dark & concentrated.
He was going to send me for a scan to rule out eptopic, but on speaking to another doctor, they came to the conclusion it was probably a gastric bug, so have told me to see how I go & to phone back if worried. Best I get drinking more then.

Dixiebell - I think that is going to be the biggest give away for me too. Have tried to avoid situations where I will be offered a drink as people will suspect immediately. I have never been one to turn down a glass of wine!

Morning All

nomore hope you feel better - get your liquids up girl! (er..but not up in a vomitting sense!)

Sooooo excited - have my scan date for 8th April and MW coming to do booking in appt at my home (!) on 25th March when I'll be 10 weeks, hope that's not too late for blood tests and what have you.

Dixie very envious of your no sickness status but have to confess I'm in pretty good shape today.

Hi Dappy how about yoga/swimming and walks - perfect - builds strength and flexibility but not too strenuous!

have a good day everyone
xx

Hi Everyone!

Dappy - I'm the same! I think i'm going to start swimming in the hope of not ending up like the One Born Every Minute girl :p

Speaking of that show... did anyone find it strange that the very young father this week was amazingly supportive, whereas all the other fathers have been...ahem... not so good??

I've had it with the nausea! It lasts all day and night and puts me off all my food... boobs not quite as sore now!

The best part of pregnancy is the vivid dreams!! Was rudely awakened fifteen minutes ago from a fantastic dream where I delivered my baby in a painless 5 minute long sort of way, then practically everyone i've ever known filled in to tell me she was beautiful...

It was great

x

Dream births are the best! I have had many of those (although not while pregnant funnily enough) & they are always very vivid & painless! If only the real thing was!

hi everyone, this is becomming a great thread.

anythingwithagiraffe.. ur dream sounds perfect, it may b a premanition (spelling???)

how the hair looking??

well i had my first midwife app yesterday, which was very strange as it makes it feel more real.

she had done her homework on me!!! she knew all about my dd and my labour etc, which i found quite impressive, i had the dreaded weigh in, which to my delight i found i had lost 4 lb!! i have been eating none stop to curb nausea so felt as tho i had gotton massive, she said the bladder moves up and out quicker 2nd time thats y i already have a jellybelly!!!

lots of bloods etc, she does want me to see a consultatant midwife, to disscuss c-sect due to well lets just say things that didnt go to plan last time. recovery wise, not sure how i feel about that to be honest, a c-sec is not an easy option it invasive surgery and alot of recovery wen have 2 yr old and lots of stairs upto flat etc.

we will c not worth me worring about now, she went quite indepth into last labour, i came out thinking i could rule the world after that!!! hahahah

jazzie hows things with mum? is she getting more excited? i have brought some long steachy vest tops frm topshop size bigger to wear with long cardis and leggings seems to be all i wear, they also have baggy ish tunics that i have brought for work to hide the buldge!!

Hi Ladies,

had my booking appointment this morning so am feeling a little bit more pregnant than I have let myself before. I too got the lecture on fitness and my BMI being too high so I suppose I'd better make an effort to do a bit more exercise.

My mum is coming over from spain tomorrow for the weekend so I am going to tell her, I know that she is just go into hyper mode and want to sort out everything now. This would normally do my head in but I actually think that I will quite enjoy the reflected excitement (just hope I am not counting my chickens). On the down side it does mean that I will be surrounded by people drinking for the next 4 days which will really annoy me but I can't be a kill joy.

take care ladies.

Hi Ladies,

Just remembered, when I got to my booking appointment this morning the security guard on reception pointed me into the wrong waiting room where I sat for half an hour with 2 women in labour!!! oh my god, I went a bit hot, then a bit sick, then a bit faint. It all seems very real when you are surrounding by panting, moaning ladies, having a contraction every few minutes.

I know that I am gonna have to face the messy end of this pregnancy at some point but it really isn't something I like to think about. In this day and age shouldn't it just be easier!!

All pleasant baby dreams aside...

Ive been signed off work for two weeks with bad morning sickness and just now my HR department contacted me to tell me they want me to see a doctor they choose.

This makes me really uncomfortable! Can I refuse??

I think I would rather have gone to work and just suffered the sickness publicly, this is much more stressful.

anythingwithagiraffe I'm sure they aren't allowed to do this - surely a doctor is a doctor! What a horrible way to be treating you. I wonder if it's possible to find out more on the internet about your rights. I certainly wouldn't want the stress of seeing yet another person if you don't have to.

mamjo I try not to think about the other end! Weirdly, with both my two girls, I felt quite panicky over the birth at about 30 weeks but really calm and actually quite keen by the end. I think nature makes you so desperate to get the baby out - by any means - that you don't care!

I love dream births, all so easy! Mind you, I've given birth to a cat in the past, a teddy bear, and quite a few babies with a skin colour bearing no relation to mine - it's interesting how everyone coos at the baby/ cat/ teddy in these dreams without mentioning that it doesn't seem to be genetically related to me at all - even by species in some cases!

Feeling horribly sick today and yet still starving hungry, plus mildly crampy tummy that I had all the time at the beginning but I thought had gone. It's so easy to panic at every twinge.

Anything I want your dream birth, that would be fab! You've been signed off by your Doc, why would they need you to see their Doc. Thats very odd. I suggest you contact Citizans advice, my initial reaction would be that you could refuse due to the confidential nature of medical records etc. But seriously look into it and maybe get someone to sneakily look at their policys. Two weeks sounds like a very short time to want you to see their Doc. Normally you would have to be off for some time for work places to take a step like that.

Mamjo Welcome to the thread and good news re your booking appointment.

Sophie Your midwife sounds fab, can I steal her. Mine's a bit of a wet lettice.

Dilly My scans the day before yours, thats well exciting!!! I can't wait, can you?

Jazzie Yeah it was brilliant!!

Dappy Symptons do come and go, at least thats whats happening with me. I didn't have much sickness last week, this week I've had loads. I think it comes in waves.

Well not much to report from me apart from that I'm going to take up the sport of sofa surfing. Much of this sport involves me lying on various sofas sleeping on them. I'm taking my training very seriously and practice daily. It's a tough one but someone has to represent us at 2012 in London.

Hi! All

I have been lurking since the beginning, but had already joined the other October thread. But silly not to join both. So here I am.

I'm 10+1 today. But am being extremely cautious as I had a MMC at 15 weeks (baby died at 12 weeks after dating scan) at exactly the same time last year. I've already had an early scan at 7+1, but don't have my 12 week scan date yet, it's in the post Have had booking in appointment with Midwife (last Friday). I have nausea on and off throughout the day, but am never sick, also very very sore boobs. Am already in Maternity clothes .

I have 2DC, 1DD aged 8 and 1DS aged 6.

Do you have a list of everyone's due date on this thread?

Is anybody from the Cambridgeshire area?

Take care all.

xxx