April 2015 Babies Club

I won't be going semi private or private, so I can leave it a couple of weeks yet?

ainy wrote: »

hey spottybananas,
just popped in from the march 2015 thread, wanted to let you know that your first appointment should be free with the gp, it was for me anyway, once the gp is happy to care for you for your pregnancy your appointments up to 6 weeks post partum are covered. they will fill in a form and send it off and they get paid through the state for maternity services, (I think this is right anyway!)
its also nice to get the ball rolling on the hospital appointments because it gives you something to focus on, its such a worrying time the first few weeks!
anyway sorry for butting in on your thread, congrats to all the new mums to be!

Thanks ainy! See for now because my period was due yesterday (and I have as stash of cheapie tests) I'm ok with waiting because things are going fine, I know with me that it will be in about 2+ weeks time that I start thinking...what's happening in there??, and that I can last until then if I need to I'm really busy with work until the end of this month so I might leave it until the first week in September when I can make it to an appointment on a lunch break. It's all so scary and real!

Also, what do you mean once they're happy to care for you, can they say no, I have to pay for appt anyway, and have to find another gp? I don't have a gp where I'm living, well, I suppose I do have a particular medical centre I have gone too a few times in the past, but I have no real history with a particular doctor for a number of years or anything.

Glad to have found this thread, it's tough trying not to tell anyone. Congrats to everyone else btw

Edit: Just read this though on an Irish Maternity advice website - A lot of women assume that this visit to the GP is covered under the Mother & Child Scheme (M&CS) and they won’t have to pay. However you will have to pay your GP for this visit. I'm so confused already...

just read your edit! maybe my gp was just being nice so!!

On my first I didn't go to my GP until after 7 weeks even though I knew I was pregnant from 4 weeks. I was busy at work too plus so much can go wrong in the early daya that I just decided to wait awhile.
One this pregnancy I haven't been to my GP at all, you don't need a doctor's referral for the Coombe so I just registered online myself & got my appointments in the post on Monday.

Im pretty sure i pay for my first appointment and then all free after that. Congrats to all

Hi all,

I'm joining this thread also as I'm just eight weeks pregnant and am due on the 3rd of April... I've just came off the Due Nov 2014 thread and can't believe I'm here again.. Had my first on Dec 5th... My little one is not sleeping well at all, wakes about 5/6 times a night, sometimes more, couple that with pregnancy tiredness, I'm feeling the pressure at the moment.... Any of ye experienced Mums have any advice on sleeping problems with babies... We are both at the end of our tether with the lack of sleep... Thanks in advance

Gonzp wrote: »

Hi all,

I'm joining this thread also as I'm just eight weeks pregnant and am due on the 3rd of April... I've just came off the Due Nov 2014 thread and can't believe I'm here again.. Had my first on Dec 5th... My little one is not sleeping well at all, wakes about 5/6 times a night, sometimes more, couple that with pregnancy tiredness, I'm feeling the pressure at the moment.... Any of ye experienced Mums have any advice on sleeping problems with babies... We are both at the end of our tether with the lack of sleep... Thanks in advance

congrats and I feel for you im due my third at the end of april please God but im one of the annoying parents whos kids are great sleepers but I have such a fear of how I would cope with a baby that doesn't sleep hopefully your first settles before number 2 arrives

Hi ladies, I got my appointments in the post! My booking apt to meet my midwife is the 17th of Sep (I'm doing Domino) and my dating scan is the 24th. I'll be 12 weeks 2 days then and I can't wait!! Still so exhausted all the time but I'm taking regular naps which helps. Finding it hard not to burst with excitement these days :-D

Hi All

Just wondering if any of ye are experiencing cramps? I'm 6 weeks and the last week I get them once a day they last for less than 10mins feel like period pain. This is my first pregnancy so have nothing to compare it too. I have no bleeding or spotting so fingers crossed it's nothing bad.

mollycasey wrote: »

Hi All

Just wondering if any of ye are experiencing cramps? I'm 6 weeks and the last week I get them once a day they last for less than 10mins feel like period pain. This is my first pregnancy so have nothing to compare it too. I have no bleeding or spotting so fingers crossed it's nothing bad.

I've not had too much cramping this time round but on my first I had a good bit, I presume cos everything was stretching in ways it never had before.

My new lovely (not) symptom is a really bad taste in my mouth that I can't get rid of, makes the nausea even worse. Is the first trimester over yet..........:(

My husband was asking yesterday how I was having stretching pain for something the size of a poppyseed. After a minute or two wondering I said well I suppose imagine what it feels like when there's a tiny speck of dirt in your eye, or a tiny blister on your tongue, it feels huge in comparison to where it is. A poppyseed (appleseed today at 5 weeks ha!) could be big and irritating too!

Another question!! I plan on flying to the UK when i am 8 weeks.....do ye think this would be a problem?

spottybananas wrote: »

No, there are no problems with flying in pregnancy only that they don't want you giving birth on a plane! I'm flying at (hopefully) 12 and 14 weeks, not worried about it.

I've no extra back pain, I just generally have back pain anyway

Thanks Spottybananas, i was thinking it would be ok but just said i would check.

Hi everyone - another first timer here. Went to the doc with suspected iron deficiency at the end of July, came out with a positive pregnancy test! Going for a dating scan next Friday, when I reckon I'll be 9 or 10 weeks, but doc reckons its sometime around next April.

Only thing is, I'm overseas, and have been for the last two years. Moving home shortly so I have my family and friends around me, but no idea what to do next. Pretty sure no one's going to want to hire me.

Technicalities aside, I am so very very excited, as is my boyfriend. Stressing over the looming scan though in case there's nothing there. Have been nauseous, peeing, exhausted, hot, short of breath, pain in back, cramping and windy since literally the end of July (hencewhy I went to the doc) which is reassuring as this means, touch wood, all is normal?

Have told my 3 best friends, my family (who are over the moon considering I'm in my early 20s and still feel like a child myself) and my boyfriend has told his mother and 2 of his friends. But they're all in Ireland, so I have no one other than himself to discuss this with, hencewhy I've decided to chip in here.

Sorry for the long winded intro, I'm excited to share this experience with you all!

Mmmm day time nap :-) I feel better!