Pregnancy's Best Kept Secrets

Just_Jo

Oh god Im never having kids !

nicola1982_2

I'm 5 weeks pregnant and so far I've learned:

Boobs grow immediately, and hurt too
You get period pain and more discharge than usual so you constantly freak out thinking it was a false positive
People seem to think its acceptable to discuss how many people they know who miscarried upon hearing that you are pregnant (within seconds).

Thankfully OH had child with ex wife so alot of my pregnancy niggles are explained immediately. I think I'd be at the GPs 24/7 if it wasn't for him!

Curious_George_2

nicola1982 wrote: »

I'm 5 weeks pregnant and so far I've learned:

Boobs grow immediately, and hurt too
You get period pain and more discharge than usual so you constantly freak out thinking it was a false positive
People seem to think its acceptable to discuss how many people they know who miscarried upon hearing that you are pregnant (within seconds).

Thankfully OH had child with ex wife so alot of my pregnancy niggles are explained immediately. I think I'd be at the GPs 24/7 if it wasn't for him!

well now you have us too

and FYI, false positives are not possible, false negatives can happen (like when you test way too early) but not positives, the pregnancy tests pick up on a hormone your body only produces when preggo (and its the hormone that causes morning sickness too... blergh!)

nicola1982_2

Curious_George wrote: »

well now you have us too

and FYI, false positives are not possible, false negatives can happen (like when you test way too early) but not positives, the pregnancy tests pick up on a hormone your body only produces when preggo (and its the hormone that causes morning sickness too... blergh!)

TY - I thought as much, but you always have the question in the back of your mind

I've been lucky that I haven't been physically sick yet, just feel like I've a wretched hangover. Managed to catch a cold too! And what is with the weird tomatoish taste in your mouth? And being able to smell everything? Even with a blocked nose?

Curious_George_2

nicola1982 wrote: »

I've been lucky that I haven't been physically sick yet, just feel like I've a wretched hangover. Managed to catch a cold too! And what is with the weird tomatoish taste in your mouth? And being able to smell everything? Even with a blocked nose?

all through my last pregnancy i felt sick for the first 12 weeks but was only actually sick once, i thought this one was going the same way until my nausea left at 13 weeks and only then did i start throwing up! :rolleyes:
baby doesnt like me drinking anything but water past 9pm

heightened sense of smell is a very common quirk of early pregnancy, i think its all tied in with the nausea, cos its mostly strong cooking smells that turned my stomach

and the nasty taste in your mouth...? thats mother nature taking the p!ss
you will find she does that a lot in the next few months

Justie

Curious_George wrote: »

and the nasty taste in your mouth...? thats mother nature taking the p!ss
you will find she does that a lot in the next few months

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

oh so true!

Nicki

Curious_George wrote: »

well now you have us too

and FYI, false positives are not possible, false negatives can happen (like when you test way too early) but not positives, the pregnancy tests pick up on a hormone your body only produces when preggo (and its the hormone that causes morning sickness too... blergh!)

This is a particular bugbear of mine, because it isn't true, yet has been posted on these boards many many times. There is even one poster (not Curious George) who has posted in response to women who have told of their experiences of false positives due to medical conditions to tell them they have in fact had miscarriages, despite what their own doctors have told them.

False positive results are rare but they can happen. The most common reason is a "chemical pregnancy" where the egg is fertilised but fails to implant. As most people consider a pregnancy to be an implanted egg with the potential to develop into an embryo and baby, I feel it is fair to call this a false positive. You can also have a false positive if you read the test after the recommended time, if you are using certain kinds of fertility drugs, if the test malfunctions and displays an evaporation line in the results window, or if you have certain rare kinds of cancer.

Here is a link to one article which describes the possible causes of a false positive test http://www.justmommies.com/articles/false-positive-pregnancy-test.shtml If you search using google you will also find a number of peer reviewed scientific studies backing this up, and if you read the instructions which come with your test kit most of these will also refer to the fertility drug, and reading it after the designated time scenarios.

For those who want to post that there is no such thing as a false positive, please could you also state your qualifications for being able to make such a sweeping statement, and if you are neither an obstetrician nor a medical researcher who has carried out work in this field, could you think carefully before you post that it isn't possible. Most people who get a positive result are indeed pregnant, and the false positive rate is less than 1%, but for those who have experienced this and have been advised by their highly qualified medical practitioners that this is what has happened, it is hurtful and distressing to read the many posts that this is not possible.

daisy_doughnut_2

hi all well im trying for baby i allready have DD who is 13 i know im mad but i allways wanted more just took me this long to find a fella i feel i will be with for life

any way

i am panicking like mad over morning sickness
i suffer attacks anyway but can live with them only these ones now are worse
they get worse with me thinking im going to be sick
i mean i may be lucky an have no sickness but then again i may not be
at first i thought my anxiety was that i didnt really want a baby but i really do
it really is the thought of morning sickness again thats freeking me out

so what i really need to do is fully prepare my self
i had sickness with DD but back then it didnt bother me

so what are all the best kept secrect on morning sickness

DD x

Curious_George_2

Nicki wrote: »

This is a particular bugbear of mine, because it isn't true, yet has been posted on these boards many many times. There is even one poster (not Curious George) who has posted in response to women who have told of their experiences of false positives due to medical conditions to tell them they have in fact had miscarriages, despite what their own doctors have told them.

False positive results are rare but they can happen. The most common reason is a "chemical pregnancy" where the egg is fertilised but fails to implant.

I get where your coming from but in all fairness i would say a chemical pregnancy is still a positive, the egg has been fertilised and the HCG hormone is present hence the positive result, but the baby doesnt attach. (technically a miscarriage, but people dont like to call it that)
My doctor told me that this happens a lot, more than we realised but until home pregnancy tests got so good nobody was any the wiser,
if you had a chemical pregnancy the body would expel the embryo and the woman would assume it was her period,
I know a lot of people on a pregnancy message board im on that got a very early positive but tested again a week later and got a negative and they were all told that they were pregnant but are not now and they unfortuantly must of had a chemical.

For those who want to post that there is no such thing as a false positive, please could you also state your qualifications for being able to make such a sweeping statement, and if you are neither an obstetrician nor a medical researcher who has carried out work in this field, could you think carefully before you post that it isn't possible. Most people who get a positive result are indeed pregnant, and the false positive rate is less than 1%, but for those who have experienced this and have been advised by their highly qualified medical practitioners that this is what has happened, it is hurtful and distressing to read the many posts that this is not possible.

fair cop, im not a doctor or a medical researcher but as i said i know of a lot of people who have been through a chemical pregnancy and despite the fact that there is no baby now they dont deny the fact that they were once pregnant, therefore the positive result was correct.

fertility treatment is a completely different beast, the women are quite often injected with HCG so of course it is present in thier systems and will cause a test to turn positive, but these women are aware of that and have been given a definate time scale in which they should not test as they will not get an accurate result.

if false postives can be caused by cancer or other conditions then i more than happily stand corrected, but for now i stick by my original comments.

scruffy96uk

daisy_doughnut_2 wrote: »

hi all well im trying for baby i allready have DD who is 13 i know im mad but i allways wanted more just took me this long to find a fella i feel i will be with for life

any way

i am panicking like mad over morning sickness
i suffer attacks anyway but can live with them only these ones now are worse
they get worse with me thinking im going to be sick
i mean i may be lucky an have no sickness but then again i may not be
at first i thought my anxiety was that i didnt really want a baby but i really do
it really is the thought of morning sickness again thats freeking me out

so what i really need to do is fully prepare my self
i had sickness with DD but back then it didnt bother me

so what are all the best kept secrect on morning sickness

DD x

I have just posted on the pregnancy forum about morning sickness. I'm 7 weeks now and was suffering really bad sickness all day, it was horrible. I was searching for cures when I came across the NHS direct site, they suggested trying travel sickness bands. So that is exactly what I did straight to Boots yesterday and have had no trouble since. Yes they are uncomfortable but I have got kinda use to them already. Good thing is if you only suffer morning sickness you can wear the bands to bed and hopefully you wouldn't wake up feeling/being sick. Then you could take them off later in the day.
Good luck and enjoy trying for your baby!!

Scruffy