"Does anyone else not test early" Refugee Club

[plastikpony]

Nimbec, I'm sure we've all been there!! Try to relax, but I'm glad you're getting an earlier scan, it'll help chill you out a bit

Well ladies, a bit of tmi, but I've had my first bout of proper diarreah, and it is NOT cool!! Poor dh is never going to get any action at this rate! Every night I'm either passing out, nauseous or on the loo...

 

[justmeinlove]

Doh!!! Big big hugs!!!

 

[nimbec]

Oh no PLastik YUK!!! hang on in there hun! Thankyou for your kind words!!

I have a scan date - thursday 10am YEY i'll be 6+3, when did you guys have yours and i know plastik saw a hb but did anyone else?

Hope you are all ok and gave a lovely start to the weekend!!

 

[nimbec]

Oooops i'll be 6+4

 

[justmeinlove]

Scan date 30 August

 

[plastikpony]

YAY! JustMe for having a scan date!!! How far along will you be then? I have another appointment on 22 August, when I'll be 8+1. My gynae wants to see me every 2 weeks until 12 weeks, and then every 4 weeks after that. My friends who have had kids tell me that's quite often (goodness knows its quite expensive too since we're paying for it ourselves!!) but I'm happy to go with it. I guess it's because of the op and taking a long time to actually get pg

How is everyone doing this week? Happy Monday!

 

[justmeinlove]

Er counting on my fingers, imo 13+2, acc. to lmp, 12+6

Am feeling blah today. Firstly as I am REALLY missing my hb today (stupid evening work shifts, in fact stupid work!), secondly as I'm avoiding my mental ex-boss atm so ended up having an egg sandwich and crisps for lunch. BLERUGH! Also I can't quite work out if I look bump-y in the jeans and top I carefully chose today, so I am hiding slightly too

Hmph. Am going to go home after work via the supermarket, so I can find SOMETHING to cook...no idea how as cooking still seems like a very remote concept...! Then do one thing that's driving me mad about the house and have a go on the wiifit.
(am still irritated about having to give the gym another £70 for this next month, when we're blatantly not going to make it...)

So yes, as you can see, I am currently a little ray of sunshine Skiing sounds awesome! (well playing in the snow, eh)

 

[justmeinlove]

Very exciting last night - I managed to cook food and go to the gym! It's almost like being human again! AND I slept without a top on for the first time in about six weeks - before now my bbs have been SO sore I haven't been able to.
Also made it through from breakfast to lunch yesterday without having to eat a small pile of humous and tomato sandwiches. YAY!

 

[justmeinlove]

Also, gosh my ticker appears to have hit lime!

 

[plastikpony]

Hi Ladies!!

JustMe, you're a LIME today!! And I'm a blueberry!! I can't believe you are 11 weeks already, I'm so jealous! I really want to get to that 12 week mark, just so that nagging little worry in the back of my brain that I keep squishing down and ignoring will go away!

Nimbec, according to my LMP, I was 6wks 3 days when I went for my first scan, but the scan showed 6wks 1 day, which is apparently quite normal, since we don't actually know when implantation occured. It's an approximate date really, and can go up or down by a few days between scans. The heartbeat that we saw and heard was nice and strong. The doc didn't tell us what the rate was, but he said it was great and that everything was as good as it could be at this stage. Really looking forward to Wednesday next week for our second scan!

Hope that you are feeling better JustMe! I'm sure bouncing around on the Wii Fit did just the trick. I definately don't have a bumpy yet, way too early, but I do have a roll! So between feeling fat and having teenage exploding skin I'm not feeling too fabulous.

 

[flamingpanda]

Can't believe how far along you guys are getting now, time seems to have flown! How are you all feeling?

I know you're a way off yet but will you be finding our the gender at your 20 week scans or are you planning to leave it as a surprise?

Not much news from us (or nothing exciting at least). We finally only have baby things in the spare room, still have furniture to build and things to buy but at last all our own junk has been moved to the garage. Every time I nip to the bathroom (literally every 15 minutes these days lol) I pop into baby's room to have a look. I even found the dog in there yesterday trying out the nursing chair we bought.

My OH's family took us out on Saturday to buy the pram. That was fun! They also ended up treating us to the car seat which means we can use this month's pay for something else. It's made such a huge difference. We went for the Quinny Buzz in black and the Maxi-Cosi Pebble in Sparkling Grape. Turns out we didn't have much choice due to limited boot space in our car (a Fiat Punto) but we were still really pleased with what we got. We go to pick it all up on Saturday. We were told we could have it delivered closer to the time but I felt that the dog would benefit from us setting up the pushchair and taking him for a walk with it. He doesn't like things with wheels - bikes, prams etc when we go for walks so he needs some time to understand it's not an enemy.

I also went back to the doctor about my back pain as the painkillers I had been given had run out. She was SO nice. She says she thinks I have SPD and the only cure is to have the baby but as I can't do that yet I'm probably going to have a miserable couple of months. I appreciated her honesty because I felt like crap at the time. She has referred me for more physio (one on one this time, no more of this group session rubbish) for a proper diagnosis and has given me more codine for the pain. The biggest surprise was that when she was doing her routine checks she found I had a water infection! I had felt nothing, so she sent off the sample to the lab to double check and told me I MUST call on Monday for results as it was important it was treated. After I'd taken the painkillers for my back at the weekend I realised I DID have an infection. I think the pain I'd been experiencing with SPD had been masking the twinges of my UTI. Went to get the results yesterday and literally had to argue with the woman on reception to see a doctor. She kept telling me my doctor wasn't in until next week. I had to go over and over about how I was pregnant and if I did indeed have a UTI I needed antibiotics and that it could not wait another full week or I could end up in hospital. Stupid woman. I won in the end but I feel really horrid today. I feel sick, warm and tired. I presume it's just the pills working to flush out the infection but I really could do without this deadline at work.

Roll on the weekend!

 

[justmeinlove]

The gym really helped me feel good I will say. And 11 weeks does seem to creep up on you - it's not Fast but it's cumulative ;-) 7 weeks is practically 11!

 

[justmeinlove]

Hhugs, panda!! I hope you feel better soon!!!
As for the distant scan two, we might find out but then won't be telling people as I find gendered clothing Deeply annoying ;-)

 

[flamingpanda]

Speaking as someone who has been given pink knitted items from "well-meaning" relatives already, I sympathise. We try to tell people, it's not that we don't like pink as a colour, we just want her to have lots of options. I hate it when parents buy nothing but pink for their girls and tell them they're princesses all the time. I want our little girl to be more spunky than that. She's going to be climbing trees and skateboarding if that's what she wants to do.

Thankfully my mum totally gets this (afterall, she had me as a child lol) and she has been buying us some really lovely clothes.

 

[plastikpony]

OOo, nice choices on the pram and car seat Panda! Wow, that really seems like a LONG time away! We will most definately be finding out the gender if we can! I was a suprise. My mom says she KNEW I was a boy just like she KNEW my sister was a girl. So I was John Forrester right until I popped out. They did try to see my gender on the scans buy apparently I never cooperated!

Pretty sure we'll tell everyone too, I'm not too phased about the clothes. Mind you, I do have a little italian greyhound that wears pink bling collars and whose name is Princess Tiffany, so I'm probably going to be that parent that you two despise (Don't hit me!)

 

[justmeinlove]

Lol! It's not despising at all. I just want any child I have to grow up being as girly or boy'y as it wants, and a lot of the time it seems that pink/blue is just the first step in being pushed into gender stereotypes. Don't get me wrong, I like pink and glitter in general as much as the next person! :-D

 

[flamingpanda]

Same, if when she can talk she turns around and says "mum can I have that pink sparkly dress please?" then that's what she'll have. Up until that point though I'll throw as many colours and styles at her as I can. I just don't want her to think she has to like something because of her gender.

The dog is different, he gets what I pick. When he learns to speak up and object then things will change. Until that point I will continue to buy him a silly costume every Halloween.

 

[plastikpony]

Haha!! I like that! When the dog can speak up

Ugh, I'm so over work. I wish I could just retire. Sadly don't think that will be happening for quite a while.

 

[justmeinlove]

I think of things in terms of how long to maternity leave

 

[nimbec]

Hi girls gosh bring on the maternity leave i'm SHATTERED!!!! ugh propper yukky today and had to stand out teaching in the scorching sun nearly chucked up on them then had to sit down so didn't pass out oooooops!!

Really excited and nervous for scan day after tomorrow I'm a sweet pea now and can't wait to be a blueberry and wow a lime seems an eternity away !!

Hope your all ok ladies!