*** October 2015 Mummies ***

[Baby2sky]

Sorry you're feeling this way fliss but like bb said, strong symptoms are a great sign for your scan! Im sure all is fine hun, remember these meds have worked for you before xxxx

Hows everybody feeling? I've been struggling a bit this week, thinking about coping with 2 children! My 2 year old is a nightmare atm. Really struggling with these terrible two's, hope shes calmed down by October! Thinking of starting her in nursery soon as I will want some 1:1 time wirh baby and want S all settled in a nursery before the change of baby arriving, but feel awfully guilty about putting her in nursery when I don't need to! Atm i work part time and hubby looks after her whilst I work.

Also its half term yay so I have a week off. I had so many plans but can see myself just napping and being in bed by 9 as exhaustion has really ramped up!

 

[petchy]

Morning all

I hope you get some ease from those symptoms soon, fliss!

I'm still POAS It's somehow very reassuring to se that second line getting stronger and stronger as the hcg levels increase. The test line is about as strong as the control line now, so I should probably stop

Symptom wise, not much different. Mild nausea and really off my food at times. A "hollow" feeling in my tummy despite having just eaten. Nipples are getting more and more tender. I don't have as much uterine cramping now, just the odd twinge. I shall remember to enjoy this time before the round ligament pain sets in

Can't remember if I already said, but I've booked my first appt with the mw on the 12th of March, when I'll be approx 9+2.

Have also ordered a doppler off eBay (since we don't get a scan until about week 18 here!). I wanted one in my last pregnancy as well, but we were kinda strapped for cash then so never did. Happy to be much better off financially this time round - there's something to be said about being ten years older and further along in my career Curious to see if my extra padding will make it harder to detect a heartbeat, or if it will be easy to find. Will wait impatiently to be far enough along to be able to hear it!

Missing my OH like crazy. He's been away for 6 days, and has 12 still to go I'm not usually clingy, but the pregnancy hormones have me in tears just thinking of him. Man, I love that guy SO much!!! Had a proper meltdown on Thursday, as had to go to the vet with our dog with what I thought was conjunctivitis, but then turned out he had a deep scratch on his eye ball (damn that cat!!!) and might even lose his eye. It's still touch and go, I have eye drops to use for the next week and then we have to go back for a checkup. Poor thing! But yeah, that was enough to turn me into a sobbing wreck for the rest of the day, to the point OH couldn't understand what I was saying over the phone...

 

[MayBMore]

Morning ladies happy valentines day

Baby2sky - I know how you feel about putting your little one in to nursery...I'm just grading mine in and she's 2 in May ..but I feel that she really is ready to go now, she loves playing with other children and doesn't have that opportunity at home as I'm expecting baby2. She's going for her first full morning on Weds so will see how it goes

Petchy - hope you get your O/H back soon! I have found myself daydreaming about mine when he is away haha before being preggers I couldn't wait for some space! Sorry to hear about your poor doggy too x

PS every one what's your fav baby smiley? Mines this one aaaaah

 

[flisstebbs]

Petchy, so sorry to hear about your dog. Thats a really long time to be without your oh too.

Baby2sky, my lg went to nursery at just under 6 months, as I had to return to work then, and she absolutely loves it there. She loves playing with the other children and is great at sharing now, so no probs when we have friends over to play. Her development has been amazing too, which I credit a lot of to the nursery. She goes 3 days per week which is a nice compromise as she's knackered the next day and we tend to have quiet rest days between work/nursery.

Fed up of sickness now, but know I've probaby got another 6 weeks of this to go, arg!

 

[petchy]

You know you're preggo when... you take the 9-year old to the cinema and CRY at the end of SHAUN THE SHEEP!!!

And then I came home to find flowers outside my door, from OH - which set me off all over again!

 

[MrsS143]

21st for me! X

 

[MrsS143]

I might aswell introduce myself

My name is Gail, I'm 27 from Cumbria, UK
I'm a process engineer for a very large local company and love my job
I've been married to my wonderful hubby for just over 2 years now (we got married on our 3 year anniversary!)
I currently have 3 cats, 1 dog and 6 chickens

We got pregnant about a year and a half ago but that ended badly
It was a few months after my dad passed away and at the time I worked as a care manager and literally every month one of my favourite elderly customers passed away. My cat was also shot and another disappeared and I had to get my 7.5yr old rabbit put to sleep
I was a mess and put a lot of weight on

A few weeks ago we decided that if I was to miscarry again then time will really press on in terms of having a baby. My hubby isn't old he's only 34 but doesn't want to be an old dad and I kept putting it off in fear of it happening again
I do worry it still will but I don't think there's really anything I can do to stop that. 2013 was the worst year of my life and at the end of it all I'm still here, still standing, and I'm okay. I'm really happy with life atm. I love my husband and pets and family. I have a nice house car and job. I get nice holidays occasionally and do nice things. To complete that picture is a baby and unless we try (with the risk of it going wrong) then it'll never happen regardless what the risk is!

So anyway I'm still heavy. Obese in fact. And really wanted to lose weight and get fitter before conceiving. I really didn't think we'd catch first time after dtd once!

I think my last period was 14th January, we dtd on the 28th, got our bfp on the 9th feb!

I've already been to the doctor as wanted to check I was ok on my medication (I have an underactive thyroid). All is well there. GP was happy as I don't drink or smoke and I eat well nutritionally (just too much of it plus treats plus sluggish thyroid not helping )
So we are now awaiting first midwife appt on 4th march. Still need to go collect the pack from the GP to fill in to take with me

I'd have loved to lose weight and get fit before falling pregnant. But as I say we caught first time. So I'm just gonna have to do it sensibly and FX for a smooth pregnancy!

Within days of dtd I just knew. I had heartburn, cramping, sore boobs and tiredness straight away. I've started turning my nose up at food so hoping that's the worst it gets lol. Although I can see the heartburn continuing. I've also had a really sluggish digestive system this last week. Lots of attractive bloating and classy flatulence!!

 

[MayBMore]

Welcome Mrs S congratulations and here's to a happy and healthy pregnancy x

 

[flisstebbs]

Hi Gail. Hoping that this is your sticky one. There's quite a few of us here who have had losses, so you're in good company, its hard being pg when you've had a loss /losses and tri1 sucks!
I think I remember your mc ordeal in 2013, so sorry it put you off for so long. Xxx

 

[MrsS143]

I felt so bad for hubby. I literally didn't go near him for months and months on end at a time
We caught after dtd 1st time last time too and thought I'm just not ready if it's a whoopsie pregnancy

I have the midwife in a few weeks so looking forward to that
Aside from heartburn and cramping all the time it'll feel more real then!

I have the urge to buy more tests and poas just to check it's still there lol x

 

[KHTW]

Welcome Gail

Wish you an easy and pleasent 9 months

 

[MrsS143]

I ended up going to Home Bargains earlier
I picked up 3 of the dip test sticks for 79p
Bargain!!
POAS tonight and it came up dark straight away. Woohoo x

 

[ChloeSmith]

I couldn't resist poas this weekend either - did my last clear blue and got my 3+ . Will try to stop now...

Had awful nausea the past couple of days, how is everyone else getting on? Xx

 

[KHTW]

I couldn't resist poas this weekend either - did my last clear blue and got my 3+ . Will try to stop now...

Had awful nausea the past couple of days, how is everyone else getting on? Xx

Congrats on your 3+!
I am also fighting nausea. It was really bad toward end of week 5 and it seems a bit better now. What I really struggle with is eating. Nothing looks good, nothing tastes good . If I could I would go all day without eating! Obviously I know I have to eat so currently I am force-feeding myself small portions of foods and snacks every 2-3 hrs, it's a nightmare! xxx

 

[Georgesmum]

only dipping my feet for now as bfp only this morning. I will be due 30th all being well.

 

[KHTW]

only dipping my feet for now as bfp only this morning. I will be due 30th all being well.

Congratulations and welcome

 

[littletwix]

Welcome Georgesmum and MrsS/Gail!

I hope you all had nice and relaxing weekends. I got a baby name book as a Valentine's present

That's so crappy that you're suffering so much with nausea KHTW, I hope it subsides soon.

Anyone tell any family or friends their news yet? I've been a complete blabbermouth and have told so many people. I am useless at keeping a secret, particularly one that's so exciting!

We were out with friends on the weekend and I more or less had no choice but to tell them because it would've been so obvious to them if I wasn't drinking (they know the 'real' me likes a glass or two of wine!).

Then I freaked myself out yesterday because I was getting sharp stabby cramps...i thought I was going to have a miscarriage and I was beating myself up for telling so many people (we've now told both mum's/grans-to-be and I've told another 5 friends!). The cramping seems to have subsided now, thank god. Hopefully it was just the dot getting more comfortable in there

 

[petchy]

We've told pretty much the whole world We've gone official on Facebook even! We are RUBBISH at keeping things secret, plus IF something bad should happen, I'd rather people know why we're feeling sad. I don't like this taboo that surrounds pregnancy loss, as it is something so many people go through - yet so few people talk about it. Why shouldn't we be allowed to grieve openly after a m/c? No waiting till 12 weeks for me

 

[KHTW]

We told our closest friends (4) and my mum also knows. We are waiting to get the scan pic before we tell oh parents and siblings. I just want to see the look on their faces when they see the picture, it should be a special moment .

We chose not to tell anyone else because we are both quite superstitious. And if something should go wrong (touch wood!) I would rather explain it to 5 people than to 105. But it is just me. The pregnancy news are so amazing that you really just want to get out there and shout 'I AM PREGNANT, PEOPLE!'. So if you feel like it, go and do it!

 

[littletwix]

Fair play to you petchy, you know in a way you have the right attitude. There shouldn't be such a stigma attached to having a miscarriage. It might be easier for women if they realised that other people understood what they were going through, having gone through the experience themselves.

When I had my miscarriage in October I didn't tell anyone and my reason for missing work sounded so lame that I don't think anyone believed it. I was thinking maybe of telling my boss the true reason for me missing work when I'm ready to break the news of this pregnancy.

But in agreeing with you petchy about how it's good to be open about it all, I'm more in your camp KHTW! When I was freaking I was miscarrying yesterday the thought of having to tell people I wasn't pregnant anymore was horrible! I've a friend visiting from the lovely Scotland very soon and I'm going to tell her when I see her. The rest can wait until closer to 12 weeks.