Mid-August Testers

[Srbjbex]

Good evening lovely ladies.

Not been on for a coupe of days, so lots to catch up on! I'm still doing well, symptom wise... No nausea yet, but still some period type cramps, and just so so so so thirsty all of the time.

Bea - my doc appointment is booked for wednesday. Going to see the same GPas last time which will be nice. I feel like that will be the first hurdle to get over!

CH - so sorry to hear that the witch got you, , but how did your exam go? That was a very early start for you Hun!

Snow - how are you feeling today? I took 4 capsules of vitex a day, 2 in the morning and 2 in the evening. I think each capsule was 200mg, but I'll check in a bit. I also took 3 capsules a day of EPO. Both I only took until ov.

Hands - Thats so annoying that everyone keeps commenting on your size! Maybe you should comment on their size back...hahah!!

Nic - I would say schtum too! Funny, I always thought it was an American word! Obviously not! Exciting that you get to go shopping for maternity clothes, hope you are able to find some nice bits.

Lisette - how you doing today?

 

[CHDickey]

Wow!! That test was a booger!!!

 

[NotNic]

At least it's finished with now and you can enjoy the weekend. When do you find out how you've got on? X

Bex - Glad I'm not making words up! Perhaps it was my spelling! Maternity shopping was rubbish yesterday. There are tons of casual clothes but nothing smart in the shops. I think I'm going to have to order stuff online. ASOS looked like it would have some bits for the office, and the bits I got for Christmas look like they're cut quite small so should fit me well. Topshop's stuff are cut smallish too. A lot of maternity wear look like they are baggy, but I need to look smart for work. I can't turn up in leggings and a baggy tshirt, or with the necklines on things gaping, showing my granny bra straps!

Great news about your doctors appointment and those niggling symptoms sound spot on. I got nausea at what now works out as exactly 5 wks pregnant. Before that I was starving and had those weird cramps. Was a strange period though of not really believing it was happening. To be fair my indenial moments are still quite frequent! Can't wait to hear how you get on.

How's everyone else doing? Anything exciting for us to look forward to this week? Xxx

 

[InHisHands]

Bex - my 4th and 5th week i was extremely crampy and thirsty. Good signs!!! In fact i don't get them very often anymore, but im crampy this morning. teehee

Nic - Nothing much here. I do get to have an appointment wednesday to get the results of my quad and cf test... YAY!!!!

 

[NotNic]

Huff! So I've had to announce my pregnancy on facebook as my hubby couldn't wait any longer and insisted on posting. I know I'm being mean, but I really like people not knowing. I hate people talking about me.

 

[InHisHands]

I understand nic, but sooner or later they'll have to know. We are here when you need to vent due to stupid comments, but try to enjoy the excitement of entering motherhood the best you can.

 

[NewbieLisette]

Hey girls :wave:
Feels like forver since I've been on! Let's see if I can keep the last few pages straight! Lol
CH sorry the witch got u girl When do u get the exam results? FX crossed xxx
Nic sucks about the crummy people at work & having to announce of fb...hope people are much nicer & respectful! Awesome scan news from last week! How u feeling? Ur latest bump pic is adorbale!
Hands I can't believe the people in ur office! I mean the nerve!!! I'm sure u look fab & I would tell people to stuff it! Seriously my weight has fluctuated so much over the years people have guessed I was pg when I wasn't & it really hurt! I don't know how ill deal with the constant scrutiny! Maybe ill just say how I feel...I'm beyyonndd thrilled to be pg so please if u have nothing positive to say ZIP IT!!
Snow I'm sorry sweetie how many cycles since the mc? Have u heard POM juice helps from O onwards? I tried it & it seemed to work! Very healthy & stuff so no harm to try
Bea how u feeling girl? xxx
Bex starting to sink in sweetie? Totally normal not to have many symptoms right now! Enjoy xxx
AFM I've been loads better since my scan! Just sooo much more real now! Planning my cruise which is Feb.11th out of NY to the Bahamas! I'll be 12weeks while on it so ill take my first bump pic Plus I've got my bday & scan first (the 7th) so I can tell my family before we leave & also told H for my bday gift I chose a blk maternity tee-shirt which we'll print on next week "Worth the wait with little foot prints & August 2012 across the belly" Will be my first real anything xxx

 

[InHisHands]

Still no inside baby movement here... but wanted to share last night when i went to poke baby...
the baby's head/body was on one end and i could feel a tiny hard spot at the other end pushing out (though i couldnt feel it internally).... you could tell baby was all stretched out and when i pushed on the tiny hard spot (foot/leg), it pushed back... and then went all around inside... for a good 3 minutes i was poking baby and making him/her move. It was cool. Wish i could just feel him or her internally though. You would think if i can feel all that movement from the outside (the hard spots), that i could feel baby on the inside. I don't get it *shrugs* I have a really high pain tolerance, maybe that's why i haven't felt baby yet. I also had surgery last year on my intestines (removed 4 inches).. so maybe some of my nerve endings are dead?

----- promise im still waiting... impatiently waiting ... my time will come.

 

[NotNic]

Thanks Hands. I think part of the problem is that I hate attention and fuss, and I'm a really private person. I never tell people when it's my birthday, or if I've done anything that someone else would boast about or broadcast. I would prefer that people were told on a one-to-one, as it comes up in conversation kind of way, or just noticed rather then having to tell people en masse. I thought I would feel less worried about public annoucements once I had, had the 20 week scan but I think I was partly using that as an excuse, when in fact it's my shyness that is making an annoucement even more scary.

Lisette - I am so jealous of your holiday. It sounds amazing! We are hoping to squeeze a babymoon in at the end of Feb. In desperate need of some sunshine! Thank you for your comments on my bump. It's still very changeable! Sometimes baby is shy too and hides out at the back, and other times its more like it's Daddy and very happy to be the centre of the action! Mostly I feel fine, but the last two days the baby has been sitting quite high, or maybe it's moving round. Either way I feel like I need to stretch as there is a weird pressure underneath my bust and I'm getting a touch of heartburn. Apart from that totally fine here. How about you? xx

 

[Srbjbex]

Morning everyone! Been fairly quiet on here the last few days, hope everyone is doing ok!

On sunday, I went to an all day exercise class in Redditch. It was 5 hours worth of classes, with the trainer from The Biggest Loser! That was 2 days ago and I stil feel crippled now!! haha! Syptom wise, im starting to get a tiny bit of nausea, not actuallu being sick, but feeling a bit like I have a fragile tummy, and didnt want to eat anything for breakfast this morning. Im hoping these are all good signs! I have my first docs appointment tomorrow morning, I think after that it will all start to feel a bit more real.

 

[NotNic]

Yay on your Apple Seed Bex! Feeling delicate is definitely a good sign! My ms started when I was exactly 5 weeks and it started off feeling like a mild hangover, much like after one of those nights when you drank cheap wine at a work do. You didn't drink very much but your insides still feel a bit sorry for themselves in the morning! Do try sipping squash (experience has told me that flavoured drinks and slightly flat lemonade or fanta are much better with nausea than plain water) and nibbling on something. It does help to make you feel a bit better even though its the last thing you feel like doing! Can't wait to hear how your appointment goes tomorrow. xx

How's everyone else?

 

[InHisHands]

Bex- YAY for your apple seed and symptoms!! I'm so excited for you.

Nic - I understand shyness. To be honest i love being pregnant, but i don't always love peoples reactions and comments. I had another person out of the blue put their ear up against my tummy while i was sitting down talking to someone on break yesterday. --Grr, can't a girl get some space? I'm already sharing my body with another human being. -- But outside of the stupid comments/actions... i love it. I try to just focus on baby and me. I and hubby read to baby at night, and he'll give baby rasberries. I will also stroke my tummy sometimes in secret and other times in public. I find for me, shopping (even if it is window shopping) for baby helps put my mind at ease and i can just focus on baby.. which i LOVE. Try to ignore the rest of the world and go completely baby brain like me teehee (ignorance is bliss)

As far as pip kicking near the boobs... that's just funny. My baby tends to hang out right at the belly button level. Sometimes oblong, sometimes curled up in a ball, and other times horizontal.

 

[snowflakes120]

Hey girls. I'm doing ok. Just having a few hard days and having myself a grand old pity party.

I want to make an appt with my Dr. soon but don't really want to. AF only lasted like 2 days - yesterday was spotting and today nothing. Something has to be wrong with me - I just hope my OBGYN will start tests or something even though I haven't been trying for a year. There are just too many symptoms of things not right with my body. I am afraid she is going to dismiss me and just tell me to be patient.

 

[NotNic]

Massive hugs snow. You know your own body and you know what's right and what's not. Yes they might say you need to wait, but at least you know that's what you have to do, rather than waiting regardless. It does sound like your hormone levels aren't back to how they were before though. Are the supplements that Bex took something you might think could help you? I get all the names mixed up and can't remember what does what!

Sending huge virtual hugs to you right now xxxx

 

[NotNic]

Oh and Snow my doctor wasn't going to make me wait a year. He wanted me to wait 9 mths and that was only because he wanted 6 mths of tracked cycles and I didn't start tracking until my 4th mth of trying xx

 

[Srbjbex]

Oh snow, I know exactly how you feel! I'll let you be down for a little bit, but then I want you back to your usual positive self! you will get there snow, and I know more than anyone how untrue that feels for you right now, but you will

 

[MrsBea23]

Snow - I am sorry you are feeling low hun. Big . Was this your 1st cycle since the MC? I think Bex got her BFP on her 2nd cycle (I am right there?) so hopefully the same will happen for you. Or maybe your 2 day AF was IB? you never know, one of my girlfriends got a light AF the whole way through her pregnancy.

CH - Sorry the test was so hard, do you think you did ok anyway? When do you get your results? What id you TTC plan for this month?

Bex - Good luck for your appointment today I am sure all will be fine and you can start to get all excited wee hee.

Lisette - Wow your hols sound great, I am sure it will be lovely just to chill out in the sun and eat loads he he. You certainly have lots going on in the next couple of weeks.

Hands - Have you felt that movement yet? When is your scan? are you ready to go baby shopping crazy?

Nic - I know exactly how you feel, luckily I am very stubborn and if I say no to something DH knows not to push and I said we don't tell anyone until 20 weeks and even then we don't tell unless we see them in the flesh no texting no emails only in person. I am not sure why I am so crazy about this I guess I just really feel it is private and if I don't see someone then they can't be that good a friend so they don't need to know lol. And I find it sooo weird when I get a text from someone that has clearly gone to everyone in their phone to say they are pregnant.

AFM not to much going on I didn't have much movement over the weekend so I told my midwife at my appointment on Monday and she sent me up to the hospital for a non stress test and everything is fine.

Didn't sleep very well last night and I was out for dinner last night and out for dinner again tonight and then ante-natal tomorrow night I really just want a night lying in bed watching telly lol.

 

[NotNic]

Bea you're a Squash?! Wow!

Thank you for understanding. I feel a bit silly getting so cross, but I did a post in 2nd tri and I found that I wasn't alone in feeling self conscious about it, so I'm trying to be a bit more brave and to enjoy my bump while it's still relatively neat. How are you finding the antenatal classes? Mine start in April and I'm curious to see if I'm going to like them.

Snow - Bea makes a good point about IB. Do your charts suggest that was definitely AF? If it was then it sounds like a hormonal issue. When I first came off BCP I had a couple of cycles where AF was barely noteworthy. It only improved the last proper cycle before my super long squiffy one. x

 

[InHisHands]

Snow - Hang in there girl. My hope is that it was IB, but if it's not and you do have a hormonal issue, i think your doctor will help you out. I had a lot of anxiety about breaking down and going to a doctor for help, but once i did... i felt a lot better.

Bea - have you bought most of your items already? I can't believe you are a squash!!

Bex - good luck at your appointment today!!!

CH - How have you been doing?

Lisette - What symptoms are you experiencing?

Nic- How has your weight gain been going? I stepped on the scale today and it read 6lbs since BFP. I think im suppose to be at 8 or 9 so im doing good there, but i look huge!!!

AFM - I have an appointment today to get my quad results back. I still haven't felt movement. What if something is wrong? I'll bring it up in today's appointment. BTW does anyone else feel overwhelmed at times thinking about going from no baby to having someone there needing you 24/7? Or get skiddish about SIDS or not realizing your baby is sick (and not just fussy?). Anxiety is setting in.

 

[Srbjbex]

Well my appointment went fine - there wasnt really much to it, which i knew from before, so I have now been referred to the midwife, so I will expect to hear from them in a couple of weeks apparently. It was really nice to have the same doctor as before, though, she was very understanding of the nevousness.

I am feeling very very scared at the moment, this time next week will be the exact same point I miscarried last time, and its all I can think about, so many (external) things are he same as they were in that last week in September - we are planning visits to go and tell family, and hubby is going to the US woth work again (last time he went was just after my mc) - its just all a bit surreal and it worries me.

BUT I am thinking I am feeling more sympotms this time than last, although I couldnt tell whether what I felt this morning was nausea or nerves. I am also noticing I have a big bloaty belly - I remember you guys had that before, so that gives me some comfort. Time is going to drag so slowly.

Bea - I got this BFP after 3 proper cycles after my mc (Nov, Dec and Jan), so did feel like a while, my first BFP came after 5 cycles. also I am excited by your squash!

Snow - I checked my Vitex and the capsules are 400mg. so I took a dose of 1,200mg a day. I would say it was worth considering if you wanted to try and change something this month to make you feel like you are doing something!

Nic - Youre allowed to get cross, and you came to the right place to vent!

Hands - I hope everything goes well at your appointment, I'm sure there is nothing to worry about, let us know how you egt on please

Lisette - any more sickness for you?

CH - dont think hubby is coming back to Texas this time when he goes to the US, this time he is focussing on the rust belt, so I think that it Chicago and Detroit? Dust to you!!