Due April/May 2012 Thread

First appointment in the Rotunda tomorrow, excited and nervous!!
I must remember to wait to drink my water for the full bladder after I get there, nearly exploded on the bus to town whilst pregnant with my daughter!

Saggy Caggy, how did you get on in the Rotunda with your first appointment? Hope all went well and you had a scan to see baba

Neyite that's brill that the doppler is working out so well for you! The one I have can take a bit of fiddling to find the heartbeat, baby seems well snuggled in right down the bottom of my tum

Brill also that you're not suffering sickness either, long may that last!

Staticdoor71, its funny, when you put it in terms of weeks left it doesn't seem long at all really, does it??:eek: 24 odd weeks here.
The next 8 weeks til Christmas will fly no doubt then that's me down to 16 weeks :eek:

The tiredness has finally abated for me although I have the joys of ridiculously bad constipation. I'd take the tiredness any day!
Stupidly, when at the GP recently I asked him could I take Laxose daily/every 2 days in order to manage it (I'm eating fruit/fibre/drink water til its coming out my ears - it doesn't help) and he said yes, fine.

Went to the hospital and the Doctor there said no, I shouldn't take laxose, I 'just need to increase my water/fibre intake'.
Cue an utterly miserable fortnight where I feel like a wagon, I'm in constant discomfort and ratty with people, now to cap it all I have desperate piles that prescription remedies are not helping.

Anyway, sorry rant over. Just goes to show all doctors aren't right and sometimes you best know your own body. If I'd just listened to my gut (literally!) and stuck taking the laxose I would have been fine

Anyone getting an identifiable bump yet? I'm none as of yet. I can feel the thickening in my waist alright, there used to be curves there, now its a bit straight up and down! bit of a pudgy belly but doesn't look like much more than I had been pigging out on the mince pies early

I was exactly the same last time Neyite regardless of how much I drank. I did a similar raid on the Tesco fruit dept down here & drinking water/oj til it comes out of my ears

Only one more week til you tell the family, are you all excited?

Hey all. Oh Neyite its so exciting telling everyone. I love telling people i havent seen in a while that dont know yet.

I deff feel like i am getting a bump. 2 People in work have comented that i am starting to "fill out" as they put it. Had to buy new trousers for work last week as my normal ones wont fit. Scratch that none of my normal trousers fit..

I feel like the tiredness easing also. Find myself a little restless and past few days have gone to visit friends in the evening after work. Also started to clear out the spare room which will become the nursery and was picking paint colours.

Caprilicious i suffer with my bowels also. Had adhesions and had to have an opp last year. I drink a nice big glass of prune juice every morning with my breakfast and find this helps alot and if you remain constipated drink it in the evening too. Also i snack on those little boxes of raisins and avoid bananas and try get a bit of a walk in every day if at all possible. So if you can stomach it try it, works for me most of the time and i was on medication before i got pregnant. Careful not to over do it with the juice as it might work too well.

Sucucee/Implausible I have tried and tried prune juice but it's the one thing I just can't make myself drink.
I tried dilute it with water/orange juice etc but it just makes me gag!

I'm fine once I take the laxose every 1-2 days, so I'm just going to ignore the hospital doctor and go with my gp's advice.

How is everyone getting on? Can't believe I'm over the 4 month mark already, the time seems to be flying!
Hopefully this pace will continue

Suucee, so exciting preparing the nursery!!

Congrats Angell & Anne Other

Saggycaggy, that's brill that your scan went so well! Hopefully that tiredness will ease off soon, its so difficult to get anything done when you're so tired isn't it?

I'm nowhere near as bad with the tiredness now as I had been, but I still take advantage of taking a nap when my daughter does on my days off

Angell that seems like such a big gap between scans doesn't it it seems to vary so much between hospitals.
That said, I had an early scan at 8 weeks, when I asked when my next scan would be, the midwife said not til 20 weeks, but they did give me another scan at 14 weeks. Hopefully they might give you an extra scan or two between now and 32 weeks

Neyite only 4 days til you spill the beans to your mum & rest of the family, I bet you can't wait!

Welcome Angell and Anne Other and congrats.

Angell i would hate to have to wait that long. I had first hospital appointment in oct and not due back until jan hope i get a scan then. But have 3D scan booked for dec anyway. cant wait.

Is anyone gettin head aches. I have gotten a few and OMG they are bad. Had to stay in bed yesterday as it was so bad even made me sick. I tried a panadol but didnt do anything and to be honest i dont like taking it but the head ache was so bad.
I've been told it is probably dehydration so trying to drink more. Also the heartburn has started .

On the plus side energy levels are great and hormones seemed to have eased a bit as i'm in great form and not as narky or hormonal .

Hope everyone is keeping well..

so lovely Neyite, sounds so emotional for you and your family and yeah what a lovely way to tell her!!

How's everyones bump coming along, I feel pretty small in the morning but by late afternoon and evening I feel like there's no hiding it!! I'll probably have to start looking for looser dresses and tops for work but i'll try get through as long as possible without!
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I don't feel like I have a bump as such just yet. I still have a flat tum, but the whole thing protrudes out equally from my navel to under my bust, so I just look bloated

Its funny, I've only felt very very faint movements so far from babs and at the mainly when I'm in bed, just a little twitch.
My husband startled me the other night (he had been in bed, me up watching tv, I didn't hear him coming down the hall until he opened the living room door, nearly had a heart attack!), I jumped out of my skin, but so did baby! Good to know he/she is capable of quite a bit of movement

Oh girls the pregnancy hormones have kicked in with a vengeance!
Went grocery shopping after work, bit of a head cold on me so walking around with my head in a fuzz most the day.
Got into the car and couldn't disable the immobiliser. Tried for 10 mins with alarm going on/off/on/off.
Ended up ringing my husband, started bawling with frustration so he had to hop in the car with our little girl and drive over to try rescue me.
I got thick with it after another ten minutes of not being able to get it working when I finally got the right sequence of alarm on/off key in ignition etc and got the car started.

Felt like such a tool having to ring my husband back and tell him to go home.

Got home and put a pizza on for dinner, took it out of the oven and dropped it straight on the floor.

Finally watched Emmerdale and bawled (again!) at the story line about the girl having the baby.

I thought having a baby would make up responsible adults, I think I'm going the other way and turning into a kid

Hope you're all keeping well. Are ye all getting a bit of movement out of your baba's now?
My little munchkin has started to do a serious bit of movement and start wiggling up just under my rib cage, I love the feeling