I know! It's so great to have people going through it at exactly the same time. Kind of makes it even more exciting! Xxx

I love Calculus as well! It's my favorite math so far. As for doing to much I'm trying to take it easier. Normally I would work out 5-6 days a week and I think I'm going to cut back to 3-4 days for now. Honestly, running makes me feel so much more energized in the morning...but by lunch I'm done!

Fortunately that's not something I have to worry about this time around; however, Emma, I'm sure you are going to be a fantastic mom to both of your babies!!!

You're right! I know I definitely feel like a zombie! I'm so tired! By 10:30 in the morning I'm just exhausted. It's a little frustrating because, as a teacher, I feel off my game. I had to literally sit in an empty desk group and have the kids come to me with their questions as I was so tired! I feel like they think I'm being lazy and I wish I could tell them why but its just way to soon!

As far as your friend, I agree with Emma. She sounds absolutely bonkers! And you were totally right in distancing yourself from the drama and stress.

I really want to tell people, I'm excited to, I'm just scared. I don't want to have to deliver the news that we miscarried after we tell people we are pregnant. I just mostly want to tell my family...I just don't want any leaks on facebook. I'm starting to not like that thing very much!

I'm waiting until 12 weeks to tell most people as well. I have a list of when I'm going to tell particular people...I know I'm crazy. I just don't want to forget the people that I want to tell myself so they don't hear about it on facebook. My family is at the "after our first ultrasound" mark. The rest of my close friends and family are at the 12 week mark and facebook people are at the 13 week mark.

I'm also super excited to see ultrasounds!!!! As for finding out the gender...I kind of wanted it to be a surprise but DH says no! He wants to know what to expect. And with the silent nervousness he has going on right now, I've decided to go with it.

Haha jbell 'silent nervousness' sums it up so well! My hubby is excited but very quiet the last week :-)

I really want to find our gender! I want a boy personally, but will obviously be overjoyed whatever happens. Bonus of having a girl though means I have tons of hand me downs from family and friends as seems to be girls everywhere!

Feel so stupidly tired, I go to bed at 9 every night atm!

Don't worry hun! It's just hormones. You will get double the love. I bet when you had your DD you got a rush of love for her that's stayed ever since? The same will happen when you have this one, he/she will give you their own personal 'love rush' so you'll have more than enough to go round xxx

What a horrible dream.

I won't be telling anyone else until at least 12 weeks.

When I was expecting DD I had convinced myself I was going to have a boy. We wanted a surprise though and when I went for my scan the doc just told us she was a girl before I'd even got comfortable - for her it was a reflex action - barely anyone in Spain goes through the pregnancy without finding out. I was absolutely shocked, I managed to get through the rest of the scan, then left the building and burst into tears. The thing is I didn't mind either way but I'd spent the first half of the pregnancy imagining a little boy! I will probably find out this time too so that I am mentally prepared and can daydream!

I compromised, when I bought vests, babygros and things I bought 1 pack of neutral and one girly one (not that I am a very girly person but I found I couldn't resist!). I didn't buy a lot more than that for the first few months and was glad I didn't, they only wear things for a few weeks before they've grown out of them. All the bedding, pram, cot, etc, are neutral so I can easily use them again.

I'm impressed you have that much energy!

"Silent nervousness" LOL! When I finally got pregnant with DD, my DH went absolutely crazy. i don't mean shouting and things, but huge mood swings, never good, going from "Oh, woe is me, I have to grow up, I have lost my youth", to not wanting to talk about it at all. It was really horrible and really weirdly almost broke us up. It was at 16 weeks when my bleeding started and I was ordered to rest, not drive and not travel to Spain immediately that all of a sudden he came around. I was staying with family in Bristol as he'd been on a stag weekend and he made his parents who had just driven from Sheffield to pick him up from Norfolk and driven back (a 5 hour return trip) come and rescue me from my family (who as much as I love them really do my head in with fussing), which was a 6 hour return journey.

This time he is much more interested. He blames his strangeness last time on the fact he was working away in Spain already, so missed almost all of the first trimester. He couldn't be a better Daddy though!

I went to bed at 10 pm last night but am still exhausted, today I have a stinking cold and a migraine as well which isn't helping my overall mood.

You're right of course! Thank you!

Emma I'm so glad your DH came around! It's amazing how men react differently to finding out their lives will be changed forever. He did seem to save himself quite well by coming to rescue you! How chivalrous! Also, I can't believe your doc just blurted out the sex like that. I would have been quite perturbed.

I do want to find out the sex and I'm hoping for a boy. Not for any reason in particular other than I can't find any girl names that I truly love and DH and I have had a boy's name picked out for as long as I can remember. But honestly, I really don't mind which. I will be excited either way.

As for the bedtime, I went to bed at 9 last night as well. That was after falling asleep on the couch at 8:30! My gosh I feel so ridiculous being so tired all the time. It's hard to remember that our bodies are working overtime on a special surprise for us I'm trying to be grateful for the symptoms though. A lady at school found out she just had a miscarriage. Its sad business. She was a co-teacher with me last year and she is just wonderful. I feel very sad for her.

I'm scared too, my heart is consumed with my daughter how does it grow more?

Have any of you ladies contemplated midwife vs. OBGYN?

I def see the pros of both.. I will be having both! If I had to pick only one though, I would prob go with the OB.. what do you think!?