The official cerazette missing period support thread!! *NAME CHANGE*

[Abbi808]

Jake likes to eat his books....

x

 

[annanouska]

aww all these babies are so cute! sorry for the TTC people who have been caught by AF but atleast it is a new start-for those still waiting try to perservere it iwll be worth it.

LOL at Betty and Samie- i was really driven as a young (er) person loved academics and still do. THe swimming started when i was about 4-i had swim group that went on to joining the club and i worked my way up the ranks in the club. I started teaching swimming at 14 and took my exams at 16 and 18 as i made money to support studies. As for working in a call center for an energy company....i couldnt hack teaching secondary and needed a job! nobody would employ me due to my 'limited skills' or i was too over qualified. i took the job as i was desperate and that was 4 yrs ago now! now we have got to that time when your lucky to just have a job but i do know i need to sort something out one day. i feel like im just starting to get my life together-the weight loss (or gain right now) and getting the things i really desire- nice home and a family

i dont panic about stretch marks, saggy boobs and wobbly bits- got them all already!! i was never a slim build but broad and athletic- i piled the weight on at 18 when i quit swimming left home etc.

if you do get some stretch marks i do recommend bio oil it takes a while to work but really does xxx

 

[Diddums]

Aww Jakey is too cute!!!

Day two of taking vitamin C and had Parsley infusion today, was ok, didnt taste of much. Hopefully AF will arrive early next week but not getting my hopes up xxx

 

[betty14]

aww abbie he is so lovely, ive been told my oh was a book chewer

and spaniels ears are a def here lol, ive always had big ish bbs so never perky

anna, could you go back to teaching swimming? my friend has just started taking her little girl who is 15 weeks and they have a special instructor

didums hope she makes an arrival soon

x x x

 

[AmeliaLily]

Hi I haven't been able to post for ages cos back at work I'm so busy and so tired in evenings!
Diddums I'm fine thank you for asking! Just sore bbs and craving melon but other than that pregnancy is ok.

Sinn I asked nurse at family planning centre what to do when I wanted to TTC and she said stop taking cerazette when you want to and take folic acid in its place! Yay for your AF now you can start opking

Kateface I went to Santorini when I stopped taking cerazette too!

All the baby photos are lovely so cute!!

I was going to say more but I've forgotten now I'm so tired lying in bed ...... Zzzzzzz

 

[kix11]

I have lots of stretch marks too only got them when I was about 37 - 38 weeks a few on my tummy and just one side of hips weird. The ones on my tummy are fading but the ones on my hips are really red I hate them gutted about them but keep slapping on bio oil and palmers cocco butter hoping they will eventually go!

My boobs are so much bigger too I was a 30D before I was pregnant now I am a 34E! Although sure they double in size first thing in the morning before Aaron's first feed and shrink to nothing at night time! Ha! I am happy with my boobs though and my figure has gone back really quickly it's just the bloody stretch marks! Oh well all worth it and I would like another 2 kids hopefully... not yet though!

Anyone got a jumperoo? I am thinking of buying one off preloved for Aaron they look amazing.

Abbi I have an Annabel Karmel book too my mum bought it me, haven't really looked at it yet but I am determined to make as much as I can too. Are you planning on still breastfeeding? I can't decide what to do as have to go back to work unfortunatley. We have tried Aaron on bottles of expressed milk but he point blank refuses the bottle he goes crazy upset its a nightmare have you tried expressing?

xxx

 

[Honeybear1976]

Amelia you will be that tired, its like no other tiredness in the world, your body is making a baby hence working very hard! It does get better though
Diddums really hope it works and af comes soon
Anna I think you are so right, we are in a state of take any job you can get Im trying hard to steer the children towards things that are going to be called for. Sofia wants to be a music teacher, if she doesnt teach in a school etc I guess she could make a living privately teaching. Brandon I think will do something with English (journalism?) or computers. He did say for a year or two he wanted to do pharmacy but dont think he will.Once they reach Grade 5 piano they can teach younger children so maybe as teenagers like you taught swimming they can earn money from piano. Its a tough job market out there.
Abbi Im sure they will stay that size for you. No absolutely no more little ones in our house I think we have made our contribution!! Annabel Karmel is fab and I would definitely hang on as long as you can with the allergies in his family.
Kix I have done lots of expressing when youngest 2 were in scbu. Best bottles for bf babies in my experience are NUK or MAM. You can buy them from boots. I have carried on bf whilst weaning, with my first I went back to work when he was 8 weeks old and he had one bottle while I was gone then I bf the rest of the feeds. How many hours you going to be away?
Betty I cant believe its nearly time for you to have a baby, Im so excited

 

[Samie18]

We have a Jumperoo but at the min its sitting in her room because she doesn't seem interested to my disappointment! I thought id get 10 mins to myself with it lol they take up a lot of space but most babies love then just Sophia is very demanding of all our attention =o)

 

[betty14]

Amelia that tiredness is like nothing else eh! It does get better tho like honey said when I was about 6 weeks I had a terrible cold so went to the pharmacy to ask what I could use and he told me that we make a thousand braincells a second in early pregnancy!! Explains where the tiredness comes from eh!!

Kix babies r us have a Disney jumparoo!!! I am thinking we will prob get it for lo for Xmas all my friends swear by them!

Honey I know just under 9 weeks to go!!!! Her movements have slowed down now too I get lots of rolls and limbs poking have growth scan on 8th may so shall see how well she is cooking for arrival

X x x

 

[annanouska]

glad everyone is ok-the tiredness does go, keep eating well and rest when you need to

had a 'fun' day yday! Long day at work which was the end of my 6 day week (why did i do overtime???!!!) Then all evening in hospital!!

Little Bean was really weird yesterday, he was moving about ok but the movements were very faint as if struggling to move or far away / muffled. it was jsut really odd never hd anything like it. i thought he must have moved to lay on my back or somehting so rang my MIL who said babies can sleep for 3 days (ummmm ok!!! lol) rang my mum who went into a flap and started telling me about her friends grandchildren who were stillborn etc (she really knows how to support somebody who is a natural worrier!) i tried asking people at work who looked at me like i was mad! i was justr trying to get advice from people as i didnt think it needed to be a hospital call.

anyway I rang the MW team about 7pm (id monitored him for 12 hrs) tried everything to move position but nothing worked! they made me go in checked HB on doppler was perfect then she had a feel of tummy and he decided he was quite fine and kicked her hand off! they made me stay until 11pm and went on a monitor which was funny-he kept moving away form the monitor bit! the graph was all fine and he seems to be moving normal now. I felt such an idiot

they were really kind though and so nice I think they all should get a pay rise (you too samie!) have to say the labour room was really nice and posh and the bed was super comfy! xxxx

 

[Abbi808]

Honey - I intend to, I have decided to wait until 6 months - better to be safe I think! Thanks for the advice!

Anna - don't feel silly! It's best to get checked, the hospitals expect you to go in so please don't worry about it!

Kix - I think I will be stopping breastfeeding at 6 months...I will wean him off slowly by introducing formula at 6 months and by 7 months I hope to have stopped completely. Jake had loads of problems with the bottle but we have finally cracked it. All I can say is practice all the time. What I did was get a bottle ready and hand express just enough to practice with into the bottle and try him with it. It took a couple of weeks & the first time he did it I had been trying for an hour but now he uses it fine. I just let him play with it in his mouth without trying to force him to eat kind of thing and he eventually just latched on. It's best to do it when he isn't starving. He has about 3oz of expressed milk every morning now just so he doesn't forget how to do it. It was driving me mad pumping loads of milk just to throw it away so I found that method a lot easier. You don't mind throwing away a few mouthfulls either. We use Dr.Browns bottles, I used these Nuby squeezy bottles but he didn't like them so went back to my Br.Browns. Just keep trying - you will get there. Oh and another thing, when we practised I would turn the TV off so that he wasn't distracted & I would play white noise to calm him - it seemed to help!

Diddums - hope AF arrives for you soon too! Have you tried agnus castus?

Samie - that is a shame about the jumperoo! Maybe try her again in a few weeks?

Thanks for the nice comments about Jake everyone - took him swimming this morning & he loved it! I am going to take him every other week I think, me and my oh can't believe that we have gotten up, gone swimming & got back all by 10am! How times have changed! haha!

xx

 

[Samie18]

Yeah we keep trying her, she will like it eventually lol

Anna glad they were nice to you and 'Marcus' was fine =o)
Pay rise...whats one of those lol

Have you got a good support network in for your anxiety or even mentioned it to your Midwife so they offer the extra support? I don't want to see you get super anxious when he's here and you get down =o(

xx

 

[annanouska]

ive not really mentioned it to them to be honest! thing is in chaos and panic i am very calm and am fantastic in a crisis or emergancy. I think its because im so excited and its something i never thought would happen that im so afraid of something going wrong (we have had a bad 3 yrs lol) but i am trying hard.

hes gone back to the weird movements this afternoon and i had a bit of back ache so im thinking he is near my back or something. im going along the line of hes still moving about ok at the minute so il jsut monitor him

thanks to everyone on here who offers so much support- i really appreciate it and thanks for putting up with a butcase now and then hehehehe

 

[Samie18]

As long as you know were all here for you to share your fears =o)

 

[MrsHopeful]

Does anyone else get no line at all on opks? I only get a very faint 2 lines or mostly no line, so I can't tell it the test line is as dark as the control line as they are both either very faint or the stick is blank. Not sure of this is because I bulk bought loads of cheap Internet ones?

 

[Samie18]

I always had the control line there. You should always have a control line and not nothing they sound faulty....

 

[Diddums]

I've always got a control line, sorry the batch you have sounds faulty

Still no AF I'm going to ask outright if I can have provera at my next appointment. I'll be cd91 by then!!!!

 

[Samie18]

There is no harm in asking hopefully you will get it =o)

 

[Honeybear1976]

Anna a pregnancy is a time where you will be naturally anxious because you so desperately want to protect that thing that is the most precious thing in the world to you and you cant quite believe you are lucky enough to be sooo blessed. Hopefully by airing your fears to us you will manage to stay sane! Luckily we have Samie too to advise you
Samie Ollie has the leapfrog entertainer which he loves but debated for ages about getting the jumperoo as it looks fab, reckon she will love it in a while.
Mrs Hopeful reckon those opks sound dodgy, I bought ours ih Home Bargains if you have one near you, they were cheap and worked
Diddums sorry to hear still no af go and demand something be done.
Abbi, you are welcome - anytime
Betty saw your pics of your shower, how lovely. You had some fantastic presents What stood out in the pics for me was how fab you look. Havent seen that many pregnant women look that good, it suits you.
Hope everyone else ok?

 

[annanouska]

its certainly worth asking- maybe say how stressed and down it is making you feel?

i always had a control line on the opk too- mine were cheap form amazon.

LO gone back to moving weird again-i am pretty sure he has moved positon and thats whats causing it as he still bumbles about just not as much or a bit softer.

hope everyone is having a nice evening. im pretty worn out looking forward to early night xxx