July 2009 buddies wanted!!

[TigerLady]

Wow, stupid internet down for 2 days and I miss SO much!

:wave: to all the new ladies!

Geogem - so great to hear the HB!!!

Thanks for that site link - amazing!

Shellylu - I'm glad your beanie is still doing so wonderfully and that you feel a little better.

Nikki - sorry you got so . So much for wishing for symptoms! LOL!

As for me, I think beanie is on UK time with the most of you! I don't have many symptoms, but the one I do have hit me in the evenings. I wake up in the morning feeling perfect and completely NOT preggers (which actually worries me quite a bit). By about 6:30 pm, I am completely exhausted and feel very blah and icky. I have slept for 12 hours both last night and the night before. Still, on the whole, I don't feel nearly as preggers as I did last week, so I am worried. I am very very anxious for my scan on Wednesday. I SO SO SO hope they can find a HB!!! FX!!!

to everyone and their beanies.

 

[shelleylu]

Morning lovelies!

Honey - You're going to be just fine!! Look at all us nutcases worrying for nothing all of the time. We've all got our fingers crossed for each other, lets hope all our beans are ok - but in the mean time, try not to worry sweetie - big hugs xx

Bekkiboo - You caught nice and quickly too! Bit like me to be honest, I did m/c in Sept at 10 weeks, but I'd fell pregnant the 1st month of trying. We left it a month after m/c and tried again, and we were lucky enough to get our BFP on the first go.

I noticed youre in Birmingham.. Where abouts are you?? I live near Bearwood - know it?
Dont worry about the rants - thats what this thing is here for. As for not going to work, I wouldnt worry about that too much either!!! Being pg is the perfect excuse!!

Tigerlady - poor you hun!! TBH I am pretty simialr though - maybe we have the wrong beans? I wake feeling a little sick, but as long as I eat Im good. I onyl then really feel sick when Im hungry during the day. Come night time I am a wreck! I havent eaten my tea in around 2 weeks now. Last night I finally thought I was well enough to cook the long awaited curry. OH even ran down to our local curry house and got me a bag of poppodums and yogurt dip. I cooked it all and ended up eating only the poppodums!!! All the rest went in the bin. No wonder Im losing weight really! Think I might mention to m/w tomorrow..

Niki - how are you this weekend? Hope the sickness has stayed off a bit for you xx

Well apart from the sickness and not eating a lot, everything else is ticking along quite nicely. Symptoms are pretty much all back - minus all the pain which mysteriously just vansihed. Stilll have our FX for our bean.

Hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend (hope most of you are still in bed - not woken up before 9am by a busy 6yr old zooming around the house...!!)

xxxxx

 

[TigerLady]

I think we just might have the wrong beans! I have heard of "switched at birth," but never of "switched in utero!"

 

[shelleylu]

I think we just might have the wrong beans! I have heard of "switched at birth," but never of "switched in utero!"

 

[TigerLady]

ugg! I have gone from sleeping two nights in a row for 12 hours, to being a complete insomniac tonight! Anyone else have this problem? This sucks! I want some sleep!

 

[NikiJJones]

Tigerlady: my insomnia has turned into insomnia from hell since !!! I gather it is a first tri thing and will soon pass, and then comes back near end of 3rd tri often. Don't worry about the dip in symptoms. Mine were so strong at 4/5 weeks. Then vanished, then came back. I know how badly I panicked when they all went. I even do now if I catch myself feeling normal for a while, but I'm sure it is perfectly normal.

I felt icky, but not as bad yesterday, but then took my prenatal vits with evening meal, and by bedtime felt AWFUL! Felt so sick the room was spinning, but couldn't be sick. It was awful! I think the vits are actually making me worse, so have packed them in for a few weeks I think. Will just take my folic and B6 for a while.

Today I just feel PANTS. Not really that sick, but I just feel like I can't face doing anything. House needs a good clean, and I can't face it. Can't face work tomorrow. I just have no motivation at all. Don't even feel like eating. Roll on 2nd tri and the "blooming stage".

 

[SJK]

hi everyone,

can i come in?

due july 10th

there is a bit about me here:

https://www.babyandbump.com/pregnancy-first-trimester/76169-7-5-weeks-miracle.html

good luck everyone

sam x

Hi and welcome sam xx

 

[SJK]

I get to take a year off. English schools are very good about maternity. I get 90% pay for first month, then 50% pay for months 2-6, statutory maternity for 7-9 (which isn't very much, but better than nothing) and then nothing for months 10-12, but I started saving years ago for maternity leave, so I definitely have enough to see me through. Also: all going to plan, I will go back to school only 2 weeks before the end of next academic year, and then will be off for another 2 months over the summer hols, so apart from the 2 weeks back in July 2010, I will pretty much get 14 months with baby. Sooooo looking forward to it!!! I would LOVE to be able to give up work completely and be a stay-at-home Mummy, but we just couldn't afford the mortgage sadly.
What sort of maternity pay do you get in the US? What's everyone else due to get and how long are you all planning to take off?

Hopefuly if everything goes to plan, I will be taking a year off, in my work we get 6 months full pay, then 3 month half pay and 3 months no pay, which I have already started to save for xxx

 

[SJK]

hi there girlies - my goodness you have all been chattering whilst I was away.

Well here goes - yesterday I started getting a few pains in my right hand side of my uterus/ovarie area!!
I went to our local surgery - who all had a go at poking my belly and checking my urine -which had sml trace of blood!!
They then preceeded to tell me that they thought I had an eptopic!!! I was then rushed to local Gynea ward and prodded and poked some more!!
(Inside and Out!!!!!)
to then get rushed to maternity for a scan!!

At this point I was totally ready to lose my baby as the whispers from doctors/nurses just outside the room told me to expect the worst!!!

But then I got into the Scan room and there it was!!

My little peanut in the correct place and with a really strong heartbeat!!

I burst into tears - as did DH!! and was told everything was fine they just think I may have a sml cyst on my ovary which is causing the pain but it is too small to see on a scan - so no-one really knows!!

Peanut is 7.8mm long and doing just fine!!

So now I am going to relax and enjoy the fact that I have no sickness and no tiredness or anything else!!

so pleased all turned out ok in the end xx

 

[SJK]

Heya im due on the 24th july!!!! going so slow tooo

Hi and welcome xx

 

[SJK]

WOW, how much av I missed, so much has happened its only been 2 days since I last looked on here

Well I had more Red blood yesterday, so yet another trip to hospital had another scan and not only did I see little bean but also a heartbeat at 6w2days

The bleeding has stopped again FX and they dont need to see me again until my next scan 10 to 12 weeks

glad all ok xx

 

[SJK]

Hi
Im due July 10th, just figured that out yesterday when I went for a date scan! So exciting to see the baby and know its actually there and see its heart beating!

Hi and welcome xx

 

[SJK]

Hellooo ladies...

Well havent we been busy again??!!!

Firstly welcome to our new mums to be - Tabbybartley, Babybooties and Soliloquise (or Sam?)

Congratulations on your BFP's and welcome to our lovely thread. Always full of dicussion and panic!! I will add you all to the front page. If you have any dates of important things you'd like me to add, drop me a line or a post and I'll add you x

KKSarah - So pleased you got yourself sorted out today, and that you've stopped bleeding now. FX it stays that way!!!!

Gem, congratulations on seeing your beans HB!!! Its so exciting isnt it?! I have a cyst on my ovary (thats what caused all my pain - leading to scans bloods etc. They thought it might have been ectopic too. They are very thorough these hospitals!! My cyst is currently around 4cm which they are watching. It can be bloody painful at times I tell you...

Niki - Hope you're not feeling too sick tonight. Good plan regarding the vits!!

OK. So my drama continues today....

I went to bed last night feeling weird. ALL my pain in my tum had disappeared, no backache, no migraine (yay - after 6 days!) no sickness, no nothing. So I woke up this morning and felt the same way. Completely symptom free. Ive gone from the full works, to nothing. I also felt empty and just wrong.

I had the number for the epu specialist nurse at the hospital who said call her anytime. So I did, only to find she wasnt working, but her replacement told me to come down anyway. I had a scan (the sonographer wasnt massively impressed as I'd only had one Monday) she reluctantly gave me one going on my loss of symptoms and my history of this weird internal bleeding thing.

Well an obdom scan showed a very big and healthy HB and a much bigger bean than on Monday. The bleeding is still the same (me and OH were convinced the bleeding - which looks like an growth of some discription - actually looked like a face! - well OH said the moon...)

I saw the nursey lady after, who was wonderful. Taked to me like I knew what I was on about (you know when you do know a bit about babies and bodies and they disregard your comments as though you dont count because you're not one of them?) Well, she wasnt like that at all. She seems to think I might have released 2 eggs and the internal bleeding might have been a twin of my bean that hasnt made it. Not too sure how to think about that at the minute TBH.. She said she hopes the bleeding will not interupt the development of bean, but she cant be sure what will happen. Waiting game again...Good news is that there is a HB, and when I had my bloods done on Monday, my HCG came back at 80.000 - which is massive!!

I have my next scan in 2 weeks, so fingers crossed I'll get that far (my last oregnancy ended at my 10 wk scan after no HB).

Well the symptoms have slowly made their way back today - although not completely(I am not moaning - I actually got to eat tea tonight!!) I now have the worlds worst backache, and Im going to have a bath.

Hope everyone is well. Looking forward to the snow Sunday!!

xxxxxxxxxxxx

glad all turned out ok xx

 

[SJK]

I've just updated the front page girlies - any dates remember to post them if you so desire!

Welcome Bekkiboo - congrats on your BFP!! Have you been trying long (if at all)???

Niki - glad you're abit better today. I have had the right dizzys today. Meant to be out and about, but spent most of the day making Christmas dec's with my son and OH! We went to our local woods yesterday and picked loads of holly and twigs. Ive made a thing for my front door, and a hanging thing for my porch. (when I say things, I mean ivy and twig creations...lol)
I cant wait to put my tree up - I love Christmas!!

xxx

what a great idea, I love xmas too

welcome beckiboo xx

 

[SJK]

shellylu, I have a funny story to tell you about b'ham, I will pm you, you will never believe it

 

[loopylew]

hey girls, sorry ive not been on for a bit, my routines gone to pot with this nausea in a morning and tiredness after work. How we all doing? Ive only been sick once but the nausea is awaful in a morning, takes me about an hour and half to get ready for work so time on pc has gone out the window. Glad to hear some of you got to hear bubs heartbeat, its so amazing! We saw it at 6w4d, had my first midwife appt on the 26th and im back on the 10th Dec to do a loada questions etc, the first appt was just like a meet and greet etc, gave me a loada pregancy paperwork etc.
NIki- My nausea is far worse on a workday morning, don't think my bean wants to gets up at 7am either!

 

[Shazzy]

I was nausea last night.... yayyyyyyyyyyy. sorry my first time had to share it.
Nothing since then though.

 

[geogem]

hey girls - guess what hubby back on nights!!

Just another quick update, still feeling good, no sickness or anything else to report!! - hubby actually says I have a lovely glow!!
think he's seeing things tho!!

He actually admitted to me earlier tho that thursday (eptopic scare) absoloutely terrified him!! He acted so cool all the way through telling jokes to the midwives etc but he said today he's never been so terrified in his life!!!

Nice to know he cares tho - bless him, big hard man showing emotions!!

sorry to hear a few of you are feeling it though!! - sounds awful.

Just had some bad news about hubby's work though!! He's just found out that his company is in trouble and they are having serious financial cutbacks!!

nothing has been said about his job yet but this is a seriously bad time to lose it if the worst comes to the worst!! He's terrified he's not going to be able to support his new child!!

Anyway going on to the maternity leave thing - I get 9 months off paid leave - full pay for first 6 months and then £117 a week for other 3 months. Can take a further 3 months off unpaid but dont think I'll be able to afford it - Not too worried about it though as my mum is a childminder so I know I'll have great childcare services!!

anyway ranted enough - ttfn

 

[honey08]

soliloquise , babybooties & tabbybartley n welcome !!

hope all is ok ?!?! im fine, wk 2moro im bk at me own docs then he guna get me my scan....few days after then ! AAHHH so so scary uknow, all went awfully wrong last time,but PMA PMA PMA different pregnancy etc pls send me sticky gorgeous HB vibes ladies !! ! !

keep well bye for now xx

 

[TigerLady]

Good luck honey!!!! I am sure it will be fine!!!

I'm so envious of all these ladies with SO much time off! You are so lucky!