ok so who wants to get pregnant in 2011? (closed group)

[flyingduster]

I've cut my caffine down, to nothing now, but I did it gradually as the headaches were KILLING me when I went cold turkey! lol! And I only had 2-3 cups a day, it wasn't a huuuuge habit like some people have...

I cut down to decaff during the day (so I can still have my coffee when I wanted one, but it was decaff!) and just had one cafinated coffee in the mornings to get me going. When I was used to that (within a week it was fine) I started having a mocha in the morning instead; by adding hot chocolate to my coffee. And then I just started reducing how much coffee I was putting into my mocha, until it was basically just a hot chocolate in the mornings. Yes, hot chocolate has caffine too, but it's sooooo much less than a coffee! And I've cut that down now too, and don't always have a hot choc in the mornings now, and don't even have much decaff during the day at all (maybe 2-3 a WEEK) but I'm chowing through bottles of water!! hehe.

I looooove coffee though, and while I've managed to cut the habit, I'll still have the odd one when out. I'm not gonna remove it totally from my life, but I am very glad to not be reliant on it now too.


I have been having some ginger beer lately to ease the nausea though, and it contains caffine, so I'm being careful I don't over do it at all...

I think that yes, cut your caffine down, yes if you can stop it then that's great, but don't obsess over it too much if it's making you feel worse!!

 

[sarahincanada]

No, I am having no caffeine. Was told with my daughter 7 years ago its best to have none in 1st tri. SO, i go off it completely. I crave my favorite frozen coffee drink very bad. And it does NOT come in de-caf! How aweful....I beg my OH to let me have one just one but he says nope. sheesh!

hey you should make one at home with instant decaf coffee, probably would taste similar. find a receipt online for the real thing and sub with decaf!

 

[MummyCat]

Oh I cut caffeine out when preggers with Lottie... but I'm more relaxed this time... so allow myself one cup! You are allowed caffeine, just a limited amount...

She's struggling to breathe (snotty Lottie)... she's fought going to sleep too! little madam!!

babyhopes.. all sounds good those symptoms hun!!

Sarah hope the 2ww will be a quick one... tomorrow you'll be having your op THIS month!!

 

[sarahincanada]

Ny, dubai is known for trying to upstage other countries. i dont know if youve heard about burj khaleefa, the tallest building in the whole work with 157 floors. and manmade palm islands in water. i live on one of them, got a great deal.. dubais knows for lets say oil and gas business tycoons.. and yea i guess you gotta come visit. itll be like a long summer holiday !!

religion is not as bad as saudi.. the max population in dubai has now been over taken by indians and brits.. lots and lots of brits who want to work here tax free.., because theres no tax in this country and if you earn lets say 50,000 dirhams a month, you get every single penny and your not taxed. so you can save a lot, but going out is expensive and so it depends on the kinda life you wana live !

sarah, youve seen me ! i had my wedding pic on as my avatar before.. but ive gained so much weight now its ridiculous. doc has warned me not to gain anymore and says this entire pregnancy, you should gain a max of 8 kilo and not more.. :doh:

im having bad cramps all day today and some white discharge, am so worried about spotting.,. nothing yet, thank god for that.. but am obsessively checking my underpants everytime i go to the loo !!

i need somebody to reassure me tenfold everyday !


hope mummy and NY are not stressing as much as i am !!


sarah yay for you FX'D the spotting is normal !!

i still have milk tea with sugar every other day, just a tiny cup.. ive started on this bad habit because of my DH. sarah i think you know too well, how much brits like to have their cup of tea , scratch that CUPS OF TEA during the day !! mine can go upto 5 easily.. its crazy.. but he tries not to.. i can always bribe him with that.. everytime i ask him to wait longer somewhere for some reason i say.. "oh we can get a cup of tea"and his face brightens up as though ive mentioned something fantastic"

haha.. its funny but its only after i went to the UK and experienced the bitter cold weather that i understood the brits obsession with tea.. and now, im kinda hooked myself !

have a nice night ladies.. sleep well..xxx im off..xx

haha thats so funny!! i easily drink 6 cups of tea per day and thats with milk and 2 sugars. when I did weight watchers one time my teas took up about a 1/3 of my daily allowance! no wonder I cant lose weight! I have tried to cut down to 3, then will cut down to 2 etc. I try to reduce the sugar but it tastes awful so would prefer to have less but have my 2 sugars.

and no tax....amazing! I knew someone from the uk who did hairdressing in abu dhabi. she had to stay on the compound a lot of the time and it all sounded very exotic!

oooh would love to see where you live, the photos ive seen of dubai always look amazing. its definitely on my list of places I want to visit, along with south africa. we went to australia last year, other places on my list include hawaii, fiji and bora bora.

i do remember your old avatar, but I want to see a proper photo of everyone with their hubbies!

have a lovely sleep and try to relax and not stress your body out. keep a positive mental attitude (you will be telling me the same thing in a couple of months when I get my bfp!!)

 

[sarahincanada]

Oh I cut caffeine out when preggers with Lottie... but I'm more relaxed this time... so allow myself one cup! You are allowed caffeine, just a limited amount...

She's struggling to breathe (snotty Lottie)... she's fought going to sleep too! little madam!!

babyhopes.. all sounds good those symptoms hun!!

Sarah hope the 2ww will be a quick one... tomorrow you'll be having your op THIS month!!

ooooh I like the sound of that, roll on tomorrow!

poor snotty lottie

 

[sarahincanada]

I've cut my caffine down, to nothing now, but I did it gradually as the headaches were KILLING me when I went cold turkey! lol! And I only had 2-3 cups a day, it wasn't a huuuuge habit like some people have...

I cut down to decaff during the day (so I can still have my coffee when I wanted one, but it was decaff!) and just had one cafinated coffee in the mornings to get me going. When I was used to that (within a week it was fine) I started having a mocha in the morning instead; by adding hot chocolate to my coffee. And then I just started reducing how much coffee I was putting into my mocha, until it was basically just a hot chocolate in the mornings. Yes, hot chocolate has caffine too, but it's sooooo much less than a coffee! And I've cut that down now too, and don't always have a hot choc in the mornings now, and don't even have much decaff during the day at all (maybe 2-3 a WEEK) but I'm chowing through bottles of water!! hehe.

I looooove coffee though, and while I've managed to cut the habit, I'll still have the odd one when out. I'm not gonna remove it totally from my life, but I am very glad to not be reliant on it now too.


I have been having some ginger beer lately to ease the nausea though, and it contains caffine, so I'm being careful I don't over do it at all...

I think that yes, cut your caffine down, yes if you can stop it then that's great, but don't obsess over it too much if it's making you feel worse!!

that is a great way to cut down! and I agree, its probably more stressful for some people to cut out completely than have a little bit. Im sure for years people drank coffee and everything was fine

I dont drink much coffee, I sometimes have a milky coffee before bedtime where I boil milk on the stove and I use decaf coffee for that. My teas are very weak so I think I will be able to have a couple (dont like decaf tea).
I also love coco cola when I eat in a restaurant so think I will cut that out. I will feel bad giving my baby a rush of pure sugar, chemicals and caffeine! funnily enough I dont care putting it my own body

how are you doing in general?

 

[NDH]

Well I'm on to cycle #26 (in my mind - DH thinks it's been a lot less, and it probably has with not enough BD. But it's been 25 cycles unprotected, and an additional 6 or 7 when we were in different countries since my chemical/early mc). AF arrived this morning. So now I'm on my last chance for a 2011 baby and a baby before my 27th birthday. And then I unreliably have next cycle too, if I hope to be a week or two early lol.

 

[sarahincanada]

Well I'm on to cycle #26 (in my mind - DH thinks it's been a lot less, and it probably has with not enough BD. But it's been 25 cycles unprotected, and an additional 6 or 7 when we were in different countries since my chemical/early mc). AF arrived this morning. So now I'm on my last chance for a 2011 baby and a baby before my 27th birthday. And then I unreliably have next cycle too, if I hope to be a week or two early lol.

awww sorry to hear that
well the good news is you are still young...12 years younger than me. but I know its so hard when you have been TTC for so long.
who knows, perhaps you and I will be popping out our babies Dec 31, 2011!!

 

[babyhopes2323]

haha sarah yes... no tax is brilliant and ive always wanted to go to bora bora and thats mostly after watching that movie couples retreat !!

im more than simply looking forward to telling you to relax and cant wait to fill up the thread with those dancey smiley faces when you get your BFP sarah.. it would be simply simply awesome.. will try to get a piccy of us together on when i get home. am staying at my mums for a couple of days and getting pampered !!

DH loves his weak teas too. and im not much of a coffee person but i love the occassional vanilla bean latte from second cup (canadian coffee place) with whipped cream. plus i only ask then to add half an ounce of coffee so that should be ok? considering its a weak milky vanilla flavoured latte?

please say yes as ive been craving one for so long and have been putting it off !

Cant wait for your polyp and my 8 week scan !! xxx

 

[sarahincanada]

haha sarah yes... no tax is brilliant and ive always wanted to go to bora bora and thats mostly after watching that movie couples retreat !!

im more than simply looking forward to telling you to relax and cant wait to fill up the thread with those dancey smiley faces when you get your BFP sarah.. it would be simply simply awesome.. will try to get a piccy of us together on when i get home. am staying at my mums for a couple of days and getting pampered !!

DH loves his weak teas too. and im not much of a coffee person but i love the occassional vanilla bean latte from second cup (canadian coffee place) with whipped cream. plus i only ask then to add half an ounce of coffee so that should be ok? considering its a weak milky vanilla flavoured latte?

please say yes as ive been craving one for so long and have been putting it off !

Cant wait for your polyp and my 8 week scan !! xxx

21 days for me, 22 for you!
i dont know how much caffiene you are allowed when pregnant, I would think half an ounce would be fine but the experts on this thread would know more. do they use coffee, as espresso would be stronger.
and you have second cup in dubai??!! thats so funny.
enjoy being pampered, Im flying home to england in a week to see my mummy

 

[sarahincanada]

Sarah hope the 2ww will be a quick one... tomorrow you'll be having your op THIS month!!

did I mention Im having my polyp removed
THIS MONTH?




EVERYONE...I PROMISE AFTER MY OP NEVER TO MENTION THE P WORD AGAIN!!

 

[flyingduster]

hahahaha, wooot! It's already the 2nd of march here, I forget most of you guys are a day behind me! LOL

I'm hoping my first scan will be 4th April, but am just waiting to hear back from the hospital if that's ok... It better be cos it's the only day I have time to take off! lol!


But otherwise I'm keeping pretty good. Nausea pretty much all the time, and my appetite is NIL. I really don't care about eating!! BUT if I don't eat much the nausea is soooooooooooooooOOOOOOO much worse, so I'm forcing myself to eat as much as I usually do just to keep my stomach happy. And when I'm full I'm actually feeling pretty darn good. But ugh, it's SUCH a struggle to eat food!

 

[babyhopes2323]

Haha sarah, we have second cup, starbucks, costa coffee, TGI friday's british pubs and brunches, you name it.. dubai is not a desert with arabs on camel backs !!

its totally vamped up and is more cosmopolitan than ever ..


WOOT WOOT.. SARAH IS GETTING HER POLYP REMOVED THIS MONTH !! YAY and then none of us will have to say the P word... im all up for that because ime xcited and cant wait for you to get rid of it.. by the way, please show me how to get that dancey smiley on ! - whats to fill in between the column signs ?

 

[babyhopes2323]

just trying>

 

[babyhopes2323]

nope. still didnt get your smiley sarah !

 

[sarahincanada]

Haha sarah, we have second cup, starbucks, costa coffee, TGI friday's british pubs and brunches, you name it.. dubai is not a desert with arabs on camel backs !!

its totally vamped up and is more cosmopolitan than ever ..


WOOT WOOT.. SARAH IS GETTING HER POLYP REMOVED THIS MONTH !! YAY and then none of us will have to say the P word... im all up for that because ime xcited and cant wait for you to get rid of it.. by the way, please show me how to get that dancey smiley on ! - whats to fill in between the column signs ?

I will tell you so you can use it when I get my bfp!!
the word is dance between the signs
if you look on the right when you are doing your message you should see all the smilies, click on the word more and theres loads there, including my special guy

and I knew dubai was very modern and probably more advanced than other places, I was just shocked second cup is there as I didnt think Canadian franchises expanded much internationally and they are not in England from what I know. its fairly popular here but I always go to starbucks if I go, which is never!

 

[sarahincanada]

hahahaha, wooot! It's already the 2nd of march here, I forget most of you guys are a day behind me! LOL

I'm hoping my first scan will be 4th April, but am just waiting to hear back from the hospital if that's ok... It better be cos it's the only day I have time to take off! lol!

But otherwise I'm keeping pretty good. Nausea pretty much all the time, and my appetite is NIL. I really don't care about eating!! BUT if I don't eat much the nausea is soooooooooooooooOOOOOOO much worse, so I'm forcing myself to eat as much as I usually do just to keep my stomach happy. And when I'm full I'm actually feeling pretty darn good. But ugh, it's SUCH a struggle to eat food!

hello other side of the world!!

ooooh first scan is exciting! let us know if they confirm the date!

I suffer from nausea very easily now, so Im not looking forward to that part! Im very sensitive in general...to foods, get sick in cars etc.

I remember my sister could barely eat during her pregnancies, she said it felt like something was pressing against her stomach the whole time and she couldnt face anything including tea which she drinks all the time. she didnt put on much weight, just her bump and thats it. I will probably be the opposite and eat all the time

 

[flyingduster]

Another hint for the smilies is if you see one that you like that someone else has used, hover your mouse over the smilie and a word comes up; that is usually the word you use to make the smilie too!!! Just note that if there's a space in the word when you hover over it, there is no space in the 'code' you put in to make the smilie.


And yeah, I am really struggling to eat so far. I don't feel like anything is pressing anywhere (yet!!) it's just my appetite is totally NIL! Even when I'm starvingly hungry, I can't decide what to eat cos I simply don't feel like eating... it's bizarre! But sheesh, the other day i didn't eat much cos I didn't feel like it, and omg, the cramps and nausea had me writhing on the bed I was in such misery!!! It wasn't until my stomach gurgled that I realised I must be hungry as well as nauseous and went to force myself to eat something, and within a few mins of starting to eat I was FINE! Stupid hormones. So since then I've made sure I KEEP EATING!!!! I'm snacking a fair bit cos a full meal is just too hard to get down when I just want to spit out the mouthful and snooze! Apples have been my new best friend, I can munch on freshly cut apple slices quite happily and they keep my stomach happy too.

But in saying all of that, I have yet to actually throw up! I'm HOPING that I will be one of these ones that doesn't get the full blown morning sickness, as I can cope with this nausea if that's all it comes to! I'm at 7.5 weeks now so I'm hoping it just doens't get much worse... lol. I gotta admit though, I'm quite happy to have the nausea too, it's sorta like confirmation that I'm pregnant ya know? Like, if I wasn't feeling crappy, I'd be wondering why I don't have such a common symptom! lol.


Sooooo tired too. I am a dog groomer and I actually took a nap on my grooming table yesterday! During lunch, I closed the front door and curled up on my table!!! lmao. I can see myself doing that more and more now too...

 

[sarahincanada]

Another hint for the smilies is if you see one that you like that someone else has used, hover your mouse over the smilie and a word comes up; that is usually the word you use to make the smilie too!!! Just note that if there's a space in the word when you hover over it, there is no space in the 'code' you put in to make the smilie.


And yeah, I am really struggling to eat so far. I don't feel like anything is pressing anywhere (yet!!) it's just my appetite is totally NIL! Even when I'm starvingly hungry, I can't decide what to eat cos I simply don't feel like eating... it's bizarre! But sheesh, the other day i didn't eat much cos I didn't feel like it, and omg, the cramps and nausea had me writhing on the bed I was in such misery!!! It wasn't until my stomach gurgled that I realised I must be hungry as well as nauseous and went to force myself to eat something, and within a few mins of starting to eat I was FINE! Stupid hormones. So since then I've made sure I KEEP EATING!!!! I'm snacking a fair bit cos a full meal is just too hard to get down when I just want to spit out the mouthful and snooze! Apples have been my new best friend, I can munch on freshly cut apple slices quite happily and they keep my stomach happy too.

But in saying all of that, I have yet to actually throw up! I'm HOPING that I will be one of these ones that doesn't get the full blown morning sickness, as I can cope with this nausea if that's all it comes to! I'm at 7.5 weeks now so I'm hoping it just doens't get much worse... lol. I gotta admit though, I'm quite happy to have the nausea too, it's sorta like confirmation that I'm pregnant ya know? Like, if I wasn't feeling crappy, I'd be wondering why I don't have such a common symptom! lol.


Sooooo tired too. I am a dog groomer and I actually took a nap on my grooming table yesterday! During lunch, I closed the front door and curled up on my table!!! lmao. I can see myself doing that more and more now too...

LOL that is too funny! wow those are good symptoms for 7 weeks, sure theres not more than one in there? just kidding, I know nothing and those could be normal 7 week symptoms. The hungry but not wanting to eat thing is a hard one, those apples sound good though yum. Please keep updating, its interesting for me to read while I patiently wait for my bfp

 

[sherylb]

I am getting a bit concerned. My expected O day is tomorrow and I should have watery but have creamy.