July 2015 Babies Club

A positive test is all anyone has to 'confirm' pregnancy until the first scan, which is generally around the 12 week mark. Most women opt for what's known as combined care which means pre natal appointments are split between your GP and the hospital. It sounds like that's what the doctor was explaining to you. There was obviously some crossed wires with your doctor but you need to now contact the hospital your partner wants to give birth in and find out how to register with them.

I had my baby in the coombe and as detailed above I sent off the form available on their website and they got back to me quite quickly with a first appointment letter. As Dolbert said, she needed to ring hers.

Either way your partner needs to contact the hospital, they're not going to contact her

Still so sick. Eating has become such an ordeal! Off lettuce, eggs and any meat or fish. The mere thought of eggs makes me queasy! Ugh.

Just over the six week mark so hopefully half way to feeling normal. Fingers crossed. A relative kindly told me yesterday that on her first baby that she didn't stop vomiting until 10 hours after the baby was born. 40 weeks and 10 hours of solid vomiting! I nearly started crying!

Haven't even had the heart to post, I am have been feeling so crap. Hope everyone else is doing a bit better**

Wholeheartedly wrote: »

Still so sick. Eating has become such an ordeal! Off lettuce, eggs and any meat or fish. The mere thought of eggs makes me queasy! Ugh.

Just over the six week mark so hopefully half way to feeling normal. Fingers crossed. A relative kindly told me yesterday that on her first baby that she didn't stop vomiting until 10 hours after the baby was born. 40 weeks and 10 hours of solid vomiting! I nearly started crying!

Haven't even had the heart to post, I am have been feeling so crap. Hope everyone else is doing a bit better**

Lettuce?? Oh god you poor thing! I cannot even entertain the thought of being sick for 40 weeks so I'm trying to laugh it off as an impossibility!!! Not sure that's an effective method of avoidance!

Chin up everyone! Most of us wished for this madness! Oh sweet lord help us!!!

I am sooooo so so nauseous ALL the time. Its terrible. I cant put anything in my mouth and i start gagging. Im just gone 7 weeks. Id settle for a few hours of feeling someway normal a day.

My nausea has eased off the last day or two. This has happened a couple of times and just when I get worried it comes back with a bang. I've had the rotten taste in my mouth for weeks now. Unfortunately during my last pregnancy it lasted for ages. Think it only stopped when the sickness/nausea fully went away so about 18/19 weeks. For me it's not a metallic taste more like I haven't brushed my teeth or something. And the funny thing is I've been brushing my teeth even more than normal to try and get rid of it!

Went to a party last night. I was home and in bed by 12 and had a bit of a lie in this morning and I still felt hungover even without drinking!!

greenorchard wrote: »

The only thing getting me through this is telling myself I'm going to be one of the lucky ones whose nausea only lasts a couple of weeks so I'll be fine in another week or two. I'm not even entertaining the thought of being one of those people who have it well beyond 12 weeks. Lalalalala, not gonna happen me!.

The power of positive thinking! I will start this line of thinking too! Just a few more weeks, not months, definitely not months!! I know it can be difficult but I find the days I keep active & sort of busy are much easier. Maybe it just helps me forget about it. I have no idea but am just so much happier when it eases up! My OH joked this morning that if I start keep walking for the next six weeks I should be right as rain.

Us July mamas are sick sick sick! Just to add insult to injury, my son's vomiting bug caught up with me last Friday. I initially though it was a really bad day of morning sickness but I was vomiting for 18 hours I was really worried about getting dehydrated so I rang the out of hours doctor and spoke to one of the nurses. Worst case scenario was being brought into hospital and being put on a drip. Thankfully it didn't come to that and I'm back to my normal nausea ugh! I haven't had a proper dinner since last week and I've actually lost weight instead of putting it on.

Best of luck with your early scan Drdoc.

kkcatlou wrote: »

Hope the morning sickness eases up soon! Real nightmare for the time of year that is in it! How are you managing the Christmas lunches, dinners, drinks? When I read this, I definitely consider myself lucky to have avoided the worst of it!

I had my second scan today! Exciting - could see the heartbeat. Such a relief.

Really want to start telling people next weekend and that was our plan after the 8 week scan.

How are those of you with kids and hectic Christmas schedules managing the "taking it easy" thing?? Especially without other people suspecting. I slept for 12 hours on Saturday night (despite the 6 or so trips to the loo) which was amazing. Felt like a new woman Sunday! But I can't be doing that every day, or even every weekend unfortunately!

Ahh. So lovely that you had another nice scan. I have one for the 15th of Dec. Very excited. It will make it all feel real and it just still feels surreal that something in my tummy has a beating heart.


The spotting must be really worrying. haven't had any myself, but even so I still find myself checking all the time. I keep getting cramps, that feel just like period cramps and I am half convinced I must be getting it. Although with the insane level of nausea I have, I am trusting I am definitely still pregnant. Got up this morning for a pee and half way through peeing I just had to throw up, so suddenly I was violently throwing up into the bath while I was sitting on the loo.

I thought my body was trying to get rid of some of my internal organs the retching was so strong. Ended with me just crying into the bath.

Sorry if this is too much info. Just need to get it off my chest.

We have told one friend each and some close family. Disappointingly all but two had already guessed, based on the fact I was so sick and we cut our trip away short. It's not so exciting when you tell someone and they say 'oh sure we knew that'. His mum said Ah I have known for weeks (claims to be a bit physic ..) so I said 'that's amazing, we have barely known for weeks!' haha.

It's interesting how people already seem to think it is fine to tell you what to do, what to eat, etc etc... Especially people who have never been pregnant!! In the space of 20 minutes I got told I can no longer eat any mayo at all, not even shop bought (rubbish), can't use any essential oils, not even a few drops in a bath, etc (more rubbish) and definitely not eat peanut butter, as I will have a child with an allergy to peanuts if I do. (triple rubbish) I was fine, I think I was prepared for people giving you their unwanted opinion but my OH was going mad. It was his sister so left them to it. Family fun!

I keep thinking about the mums-to-be with little ones already. Heroes! I can hardly even keep myself together, never mind anyone else.

God girls. I haven't been physically sick yet although I've come close a few times. I really feel for you guys

Is anyone else really uncomfortable in bed already?!?! My boobs are killing me and I usually sleep on my stomach but it gives me a weird sensation. Tossing and turning all night! Feckin exhausted!!!

First day wearing a maternity bra today...boobs seem to have grown overnight and I can't cope with the underwire anymore :rolleyes:

greenorchard wrote: »

I spoke too soon when I said my vomiting had eased off. I spent all day yesterday being violently ill :-( I couldn't even keep a little bit of water down, everything came back up and I spent the day in work running to the toilet to be sick.

Went to the doctor this morning and she told me to take the rest of the week off and rest as much as possible. I've a lot on in work though so I feel really guilty about taking so much time off, but I'll definitely take tomorrow and then see how I feel on Thursday.

I never in a million years thought I'd be this sick, it's horrible.

You poor thing. This sounds the absolute worst. I feel very lucky to be on scheduled time off at the moment, I really don't think I could work through this. Even without the sickness I have such low energy at the moment. I feel useless!

Hope things are a bit better for you by now.

Hi everyone,
I'm new to this thread, am 7 weeks today, due 27/7 and, after reading about what you're all going through with morning sickness I'm feeling very lucky - have definitely been nauseous but am keeping it under control (so far, at least) by just eating small amounts regularly. Can't say the same for the exhaustion though - the only way I got through work last week was by taking Wednesday off and my god I needed it - can't wait for the Christmas break! Also, was happy to get through my first Christmas party on Saturday without anyone sussing I wasn't really drinking (had a few sips of wine) - it was a meal so was worried it would be obvious (I'm normally a BIG wine fan!) but I don't think anyone noticed - I think the trick is not to say you're not drinking and not draw attention to it. Have my big xmas party this Fri and think I'm going to skip the meal part (won't be able to eat most of the starters anyway-pate etc.) and just go to the dancing, thankfully v+t is my usual so soda+lime won't look out of place!

One thing I wanted to ask you guys - has anyone been feeling pressure in their lower abdomen? The best way I can describe it is it feels like someone is pushing a thumb (gently) into my left lower side near my hip. Haven't had any pain/spotting or anything so am pretty sure it's fine, just wondering if anyone's had anything similar?

Thanks

angeldelight wrote: »

Just saw your post - am in the due May 2015 thread myself. I had the most horrible pulling stretching crampy pressure feelings between week 5 and week 10. One day the pain in my lower back was so bad I was 100% convinced I was miscarrying but all normal apparently! 19 weeks along now and all healthy, consultant said its a combination of ligaments starting to stretch and placenta developing so try not to worry too much

Thanks angeldelight, was reading in my what to expect book about round ligament pain and it sounded exactly like that except that it is way too early for the time frame they were giving but the more I'm reading boards I'm getting the idea that every pregnancy is different! It gets worse when I've been sitting in an uncomfy chair for any length of time so that def made me think it was more ligament/muscular related than anything to worry about - 1st pregnancy though so every little twinge sets off a new bout of 'oh god, what was THAT about??'