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Shelli · 10-07-2007, 13:31

Well I felt totally cheated when I heard your preggo for 40wks!! All our lives we're told 9 months of pregnancy until you get your bundle of joy....then all of a sudden when you get pregnant they tell you it's 10mths, and probably a week or two more on your first!! LOL

I had a really easy pregnancy compared to some of the stories I'd heard and I was thanking my lucky stars until about wk 36, then all the rotten symptoms seemed to hit at once

Still though, I can't complain too much, I had a pretty easy run up until then.

As KtK said, "you forget how horrid it was once you have your baby", it must be true, otherwise people would never have more than one

Nevyn · 10-07-2007, 13:35

Now ladies please remember that being preganat is not just a phyical state of change but also an emotional one and we may have to give some toughts to splitting this thread into two, one for the early stages and one for those who are
close to the end.

**Oryx** · 10-07-2007, 13:56

Anyone in the last stages of your first pregnancy, do something nice for yourself. Whether its a quiet meal out, a walk in the sun, a pampering facial. Just be nice to yourself. Youre life is going to change, and therell be a lot of fuss in the next while, so now is the time to look after YOU.

Elen · 10-07-2007, 14:19

I think it is good to have a moan as well. There are many good things about pregnancy like I never felt like I had done something so important as I do now everytime I go to bed. I tell myself: 'today, as well as my daily job, I have made a bit of my future son, and now he is a little closer to be born'. Now, that feeling is worth living for.
But it would not be fair to lie to new mums and tell them the pregnancy is absolutely marvelous... you can be more or less lucky, but you have to be ready to go through physical and emotional changes. Some people look great pregnant and other look disastrous, some have nearly no aches and others are in bits.
Personaly I had my fair share... I had a miscarriage, but very lucky I was pregnant three months later. At the begining I felt sick, I had sugar lows in the train (and no, no one gives you a seat even if you are on the floor), I got a good few spots and looked in bits... My bump does not look like in the models, I have actually widened everywhere and my arms look prety big too.
And now, that I was starting to accept myself and look a little better (spots are going and I felt less tired) surprise! I get this sort of SPD (though I cant complain cos it is not that bad).
All in all, I would do it all again, just for the moment when I saw my baby in that 3D scan... seriously, whatever you go through it is more that totally worth it!!

templetonpeck · 10-07-2007, 14:28

Quote:

Originally Posted by Elen

I think it is good to have a moan as well. There are many good things about pregnancy like I never felt like I had done something so important as I do now everytime I go to bed. I tell myself: 'today, as well as my daily job, I have made a bit of my future son, and now he is a little closer to be born'. Now, that feeling is worth living for.

All in all, I would do it all again, just for the moment when I saw my baby in that 3D scan... seriously, whatever you go through it is more that totally worth it!!

I like the sound of these two points!!

Now I'm gonna take my freaked-out self outta here before I change my mind and buy a puppy instead

Good luck ladies !!!

**silja** · 10-07-2007, 17:31

Well ladies (and gents

), we had our first scan today. It al went well... doubly well! We are having twins! I am delighted and overwhlemed and happy and shocked... we did UI, not IVF, so our chances of twins wasn't that much bigger than normal, but there they were, twin 1 at 10.6 and twin 2 at 10.7mm, so exactly on target (am 7 weeks 2 days pregnant). Fraternal twins, so less chances of complications, but I am still concerned. Glad now we decided to go private for this first pregnancy!

Have a GP appointment at 9 weeks 5 days and then first consultants appointment at 12 weeks 3 days.

siochain · 10-07-2007, 19:46

Thanks Folks,

Thaedydal, perhaps there should be a new tread started each month for those due in 9 months time.

**embee** · 10-07-2007, 20:41

Hi ladies,

I'm not pregnant but I do have a 17 month old daughter - good luck with your imminent deliveries!

Shelli - you were saying there about pregnancy being 40 weeks, but that your doctor said you might go early. Well, don't latch onto that idea that you might go early. My doctor told me I might go early as the babys head was engaged from around 30 weeks onwards, but lo and behold, I delivered at 41+5 (12 days over!) and I only delivered at that stage because I'd had induction of labour. Those last 12 days of pregnancy were just nightmarish as I had clung on to my due date too literally. Don't expect anything on your due date!

I'll be interested to read all of your birth stories - I'm off to college in September to become a midwife

littlebug · 10-07-2007, 21:49

What a lovely thread

Given that I'm all done having babies

I love to hear other peoples preggy/ baby stories. Good luck to you all, looking forward to your stories (if you don't mind non- preggies nosying in).
Agree with the due date advice though my first came at 34 weeks and my second at 38 weeks so my advice is pack your bags early!
Embee good on ya!

Nevyn · 10-07-2007, 22:50

siochain that might get a bit messy and I don't think we have that many expectant parents atm.

I always found it easier to think of it as 10 lunar months, as it is 280 days roughly.
It can also depend on who long a cycle you had before hand as it can be between 27 and 32 days.

End of the day it is up to the babe to decide when it is done.

My first came 2 days before the hospital date, a week before my gps date and
on the day of my calcultions.

My second was 9 days over due in a sweltering hot july and I had to be induced.

It's like a cake, each mix is different, each oven is different but when it's done it's done.

Trinity · 10-07-2007, 22:53

Quote:

Originally Posted by Thaedydal

It's like a cake, each mix is different, each oven is different but when it's done it's done.

LOL

Silja

I'm really happy for you, put the feet up and try not to worry!!

Shelli · 10-07-2007, 23:08

Aw Silja, I'm really delighted for you, thats great news!!

I don't think there's any need for more than one thread really, I think even if you split it in two everyone would just end up reading and posting on both regardless of when they are due, I still love hearing early pregnancy stories and I know when I was in the earlier stages I liked to talk to people in the latter stages and those who had recently given birth.

I'm in no way sticking to my EDD at all, or even think I'll go early (although I would love to at this stage

), all my family have been at least a week over and have all had fairly big babs, the smallest I know of being 8.5lbs, I myself was 9 and my bro was 9.5, my OH was around 8.5 he thinks, so I'm kind of expecting a big squatter LOL

Trinity · 10-07-2007, 23:44

LOL SHelli

My son was 8lb 6. That Doesnt seem huge but his frame was huge and tbh his head! He never had that really new baby look about him. He has just turned 7 and already in age 10 clothes

Think this ones a big one too, possibly not as big but they put me a week ahead of my dates with the scan and and at the 3d one she said he was quite chubby which is unusal at 24 weeks as normally they have little or no fat on them at that stage.

Think i am correct with my dates though cos have been having scans since 6 weeks pregnant and they could have seen if he was much older at that early stage!

Elen · 11-07-2007, 09:12

Well, first of all congrats SILJA!!!! that is great news! double the fun.
I am delighted that all is well

My mum was always on time, so I hope to be too... I was about 7 pounds, but my brother was nearly 10 (and now he is over 6ft), and my little baby looks like a very tall fellow too.

How are all the preggers today?
I am feeling a lot better from my pelvis and I am sooo looking forward to Friday to be off for two weeks.
I still get no seat on the train, even though I do look nackered and my bump is big enough

BTW do you have any names for the babies yet?

And I do agree we should all be in the same tread, the more veterans can help the newbies

Trinity · 11-07-2007, 09:39

We have been calling ours Mikey from day one. But NO-ONE likes it, and this has put me off, even though out of habit i still call him Mikey.

I'm stressed up to the eyeballs looking for a place to live. The rents are crazy! Went to see the first one i have even been offered a viewing last night and its a shoe box, 1400 per month.

ALthough the location is just what i needed, i am very pressured into taking it as have been sleeping on my mothers couch 2 weeks and my back and sciatica are killing me

As well as that i dont think i will get anywhere else to take kids, dogs etc.

11-07-2007, 09:12	#44
Elen Registered User Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 48 Adverts \| Friends	Well, first of all congrats SILJA!!!! that is great news! double the fun. I am delighted that all is well My mum was always on time, so I hope to be too... I was about 7 pounds, but my brother was nearly 10 (and now he is over 6ft), and my little baby looks like a very tall fellow too. How are all the preggers today? I am feeling a lot better from my pelvis and I am sooo looking forward to Friday to be off for two weeks. I still get no seat on the train, even though I do look nackered and my bump is big enough BTW do you have any names for the babies yet? And I do agree we should all be in the same tread, the more veterans can help the newbies Last edited by Elen; 11-07-2007 at 09:14.

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10-07-2007, 13:31	#31
Shelli Registered User Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 900 Adverts \| Friends	Well I felt totally cheated when I heard your preggo for 40wks!! All our lives we're told 9 months of pregnancy until you get your bundle of joy....then all of a sudden when you get pregnant they tell you it's 10mths, and probably a week or two more on your first!! LOL I had a really easy pregnancy compared to some of the stories I'd heard and I was thanking my lucky stars until about wk 36, then all the rotten symptoms seemed to hit at once Still though, I can't complain too much, I had a pretty easy run up until then. As KtK said, "you forget how horrid it was once you have your baby", it must be true, otherwise people would never have more than one

10-07-2007, 13:35	#32
Nevyn Closed Account Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 42,870 Adverts \| Friends	Now ladies please remember that being preganat is not just a phyical state of change but also an emotional one and we may have to give some toughts to splitting this thread into two, one for the early stages and one for those who are close to the end.

10-07-2007, 13:56	#33
Oryx Made of Ticky Tacky Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: On the hillside Posts: 12,947 Adverts \| Friends Mod: Health & Fitness, Paranormal, Sex & Sexuality, Spirituality	Anyone in the last stages of your first pregnancy, do something nice for yourself. Whether its a quiet meal out, a walk in the sun, a pampering facial. Just be nice to yourself. Youre life is going to change, and therell be a lot of fuss in the next while, so now is the time to look after YOU.

10-07-2007, 14:19	#34
Elen Registered User Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 48 Adverts \| Friends	I think it is good to have a moan as well. There are many good things about pregnancy like I never felt like I had done something so important as I do now everytime I go to bed. I tell myself: 'today, as well as my daily job, I have made a bit of my future son, and now he is a little closer to be born'. Now, that feeling is worth living for. But it would not be fair to lie to new mums and tell them the pregnancy is absolutely marvelous... you can be more or less lucky, but you have to be ready to go through physical and emotional changes. Some people look great pregnant and other look disastrous, some have nearly no aches and others are in bits. Personaly I had my fair share... I had a miscarriage, but very lucky I was pregnant three months later. At the begining I felt sick, I had sugar lows in the train (and no, no one gives you a seat even if you are on the floor), I got a good few spots and looked in bits... My bump does not look like in the models, I have actually widened everywhere and my arms look prety big too. And now, that I was starting to accept myself and look a little better (spots are going and I felt less tired) surprise! I get this sort of SPD (though I cant complain cos it is not that bad). All in all, I would do it all again, just for the moment when I saw my baby in that 3D scan... seriously, whatever you go through it is more that totally worth it!!

10-07-2007, 17:31	#36
silja Moderator Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Arkansas Posts: 2,139 Adverts \| Friends Mod: Canada, USA & Canada Travel, United States	Well ladies (and gents ), we had our first scan today. It al went well... doubly well! We are having twins! I am delighted and overwhlemed and happy and shocked... we did UI, not IVF, so our chances of twins wasn't that much bigger than normal, but there they were, twin 1 at 10.6 and twin 2 at 10.7mm, so exactly on target (am 7 weeks 2 days pregnant). Fraternal twins, so less chances of complications, but I am still concerned. Glad now we decided to go private for this first pregnancy! Have a GP appointment at 9 weeks 5 days and then first consultants appointment at 12 weeks 3 days.

10-07-2007, 19:46	#37
siochain Registered User Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 1,485 Adverts \| Friends	Thanks Folks, Thaedydal, perhaps there should be a new tread started each month for those due in 9 months time.

10-07-2007, 20:41	#38
embee Moderator Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Ardee's sinister underbelly. Posts: 2,652 Adverts \| Friends Mod: Parenting	Hi ladies, I'm not pregnant but I do have a 17 month old daughter - good luck with your imminent deliveries! Shelli - you were saying there about pregnancy being 40 weeks, but that your doctor said you might go early. Well, don't latch onto that idea that you might go early. My doctor told me I might go early as the babys head was engaged from around 30 weeks onwards, but lo and behold, I delivered at 41+5 (12 days over!) and I only delivered at that stage because I'd had induction of labour. Those last 12 days of pregnancy were just nightmarish as I had clung on to my due date too literally. Don't expect anything on your due date! I'll be interested to read all of your birth stories - I'm off to college in September to become a midwife

10-07-2007, 21:49	#39
littlebug Registered User Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 4,661 Adverts \| Friends	What a lovely thread Given that I'm all done having babies I love to hear other peoples preggy/ baby stories. Good luck to you all, looking forward to your stories (if you don't mind non- preggies nosying in). Agree with the due date advice though my first came at 34 weeks and my second at 38 weeks so my advice is pack your bags early! Embee good on ya!

10-07-2007, 22:50	#40
Nevyn Closed Account Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 42,870 Adverts \| Friends	siochain that might get a bit messy and I don't think we have that many expectant parents atm. I always found it easier to think of it as 10 lunar months, as it is 280 days roughly. It can also depend on who long a cycle you had before hand as it can be between 27 and 32 days. End of the day it is up to the babe to decide when it is done. My first came 2 days before the hospital date, a week before my gps date and on the day of my calcultions. My second was 9 days over due in a sweltering hot july and I had to be induced. It's like a cake, each mix is different, each oven is different but when it's done it's done.

10-07-2007, 23:08	#42
Shelli Registered User Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 900 Adverts \| Friends	Aw Silja, I'm really delighted for you, thats great news!! I don't think there's any need for more than one thread really, I think even if you split it in two everyone would just end up reading and posting on both regardless of when they are due, I still love hearing early pregnancy stories and I know when I was in the earlier stages I liked to talk to people in the latter stages and those who had recently given birth. I'm in no way sticking to my EDD at all, or even think I'll go early (although I would love to at this stage ), all my family have been at least a week over and have all had fairly big babs, the smallest I know of being 8.5lbs, I myself was 9 and my bro was 9.5, my OH was around 8.5 he thinks, so I'm kind of expecting a big squatter LOL

10-07-2007, 23:44	#43
Trinity Registered User Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Dublin Posts: 4,391 Adverts \| Friends	LOL SHelli My son was 8lb 6. That Doesnt seem huge but his frame was huge and tbh his head! He never had that really new baby look about him. He has just turned 7 and already in age 10 clothes Think this ones a big one too, possibly not as big but they put me a week ahead of my dates with the scan and and at the 3d one she said he was quite chubby which is unusal at 24 weeks as normally they have little or no fat on them at that stage. Think i am correct with my dates though cos have been having scans since 6 weeks pregnant and they could have seen if he was much older at that early stage!

11-07-2007, 09:39	#45
Trinity Registered User Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Dublin Posts: 4,391 Adverts \| Friends	We have been calling ours Mikey from day one. But NO-ONE likes it, and this has put me off, even though out of habit i still call him Mikey. I'm stressed up to the eyeballs looking for a place to live. The rents are crazy! Went to see the first one i have even been offered a viewing last night and its a shoe box, 1400 per month. ALthough the location is just what i needed, i am very pressured into taking it as have been sleeping on my mothers couch 2 weeks and my back and sciatica are killing me As well as that i dont think i will get anywhere else to take kids, dogs etc.