Less than 12 weeks pregnant club! Part 4!!

april87

Pidge, sorry to hear you've had a tough time as of late but I am glad to hear things are on the up.

Poodle, 2 days after my scan date. Just under 3 weeks to go. Time is passing, I can't wait!

Newthrift, I've been munching on Jacobs crackers. Nice and plain.

So I told my mum today. She asked me out to lunch tomorrow and I panicked. Asked her into the kitchen and she had guessed. My mums still quite young, well in her 40's and she had some issues earlier this year relating to pregnancy etc, so it's safe to say I was bricking it when it came to tell her. She was a lot nicer than I thought she would be, she said her and my sister had guessed, I've apparently been acting different. So yeah cats out the bag with my mum, and I'm relieved to say the least.

ellesbellesxxx

Hello all,
Been lurking for a few weeks but only just plucked up courage to join.
I was on the long term ttc thread as it's taken two years and a round of IVF... but we had our scan on Monday.. which showed TWINS!!!!!!(we had two embryos put back) I am 7 weeks today.
Been feeling as sick as a dog for last two weeks... new thrift today I discovered nutri grain bars worked!? Dry enough but sweet enough!

cats2012

Elles so happy to see you here!! I know you because I stalked the other thread as it took us 18m to conceive so really excited to see you on this one! Sending loads of luck for a happy healthy pregnancy and omg twins!!

penguingirl

Congrats elles! I am twin, so at our early scan we made sure a head count was done, but just one for us!

Newthrift- crackers are your friend! I found slightly salted ones best. And satsumas

newthrift

Thank you all for your food recommendations, I'm going shopping today so can pick a few up.
Elles congratulations!!! And twins blimey, double the fun
April I'm glad it went better than first thought with your mum x

sweetbabu

Omg Elle, congratulations!

New thrift, I've found chocolate Special K cereal bars help greatly. They're on offer in Tesco for £1 at the moment as well.

I've also recently rediscovered the multigrain ryvitas which I eat with a spread of dairylea cheese

And quavers.

I've genuinely not stopped eating the past few weeks; its the only time I get any relief.

snowscreamer

Congratulations Elles! You must be delighted. I am higher "risk" for twins as my mum is a non-identical twin. I can't work out if twins would be good or not! Hubby reckons it would be very efficient - ha!

7 weeks today and I feel like the nausea has peaked and flatlined at the peak over the last 4-5 days. Had 3 dreadful days Sunday-Tuesday which culminated in me taking Tuesday off work which costs me dearly as I'm self employed: so absolutely last resort! I just absolutely couldn't face the long drive when I woke up plus would have felt guilty charging my client as I would have been so unproductive! Yesterday and today have been better so far but I've put it down to better management rather than any improvement in symptoms.

My digestive system has ground to almost a halt - on Tuesday after the bare minimum in the morning and early afternoon I managed a cheese jacket potato and small salad at 3:30 only to throw it all back up again when attempting an omelette at 8pm. Just cannot believe that in 4.5 hours the previous small meal prevented me from eating again!

So now I seem to be having half my usual breakfast, then half my usual lunch plus the other half of lunch 5-6 hours later. Then a glass of milk in the evening. Must only be having 35-40% of my usual calories but my stomach literally can't process any more! Ate the second half of lunch too soon yesterday (3 hour gap) and then spent the evening feeling rotten so trying to delay that a bit today.

Also I got home yesterday and the kitchen had been cleaned and I was massively overcome to the point of queasiness with the smell of disinfectant. Never even noticed it before (kitchen cleaned in the morning) and OH couldn't smell it. So that's definitely another unwelcome symptom. Here's hoping tonight goes better!

Hope you are all doing well xxx

ellesbellesxxx

Hi all and thank you for the lovely welcome! ��

Cats hello!!!!

Penguin girl.. ah thanks. Just one will be busy enough

New thrift hope you are feeling better

Sweetbabu.. oh those sound good! (Mental note)

Snow screamer.. hehe well we said all along wouldn't Twins be amazing.. the reason they put two in (as usually at my age they usually wouldn't) is because they were a bit behind where they should be so we had 25% chance of twins, 30/40 of it even working with one. So we really were surprised when it came up positive and honestly thought it would be just the one... now... over the moon! Poor you sounds rough I have had to cancel a load of self employed bits too.

Hope you are all having a fab, non pukey day xx

susieq87

HELLO LADIES! 10 weeks in and i found myself last night worrying about what i was going to do once the LO arrives because its my first child and i have NO idea whatsoever what to do. i know NOTHING about babies, how to wash them, what to do if they're poorly, when to feed them (apart from when they cry but it could be something else couldnt it?) i will have the support of my mum but im scared that she might have forgotten herself!

where do other new mums get help from? and also any advice from everyone will be really appreciated!

april87

Congratulations Elles! Twins that is awesome, I'm so chuffed for you.

Thanks Newthrift, still so surprised how well it went.

Snow I hope you start feeling better soon. My nausea is starting to tail off a bit, I'm 10+3. I did find it a few weeks ago that it was horrendous. I haven't thrown up since last Thursday so hopefully that's it for me. So fingers crossed there is an end in sight for you.

Susie you will be fine. I know it can be daunting, but a lot of it will be natural instinct. I think between antenatal classes, family and the health visitor is where people get help from. You will get to know you LO and sense when they are hungry etc. Have you thought maybe about picking up a book to try put your mind at ease? I'm sure your midwife could recommend something?