Week 12

11+4

I'm feeling much better these days. No constant nausea. It's only the whiff of certain things that will turn my stomach and even then I don't always heave (although I did have to run to the loo all of a sudden a week ago and be sick).

I'm not so tired now either. It's nice. Even though Noah's been unwell and unsettled at night I've been getting to bed at a decent hour and sleeping well when asleep. It'll still take me an hour to get back to sleep when I give in to the urge to wee though!

I just feel so much more relaxed after seeing baby on the scan. Safe almost. It still feels early to tell people though. I don't know why. It seems strange thinking about telling people again but we have told a few more people. I'm not looking forward to all the 'Bet you'd like a girl' and 'what would you prefer?' comments. I honestly don't mind!!!! I'd love to have a girl as, after me always saying I'd like lots of children, I think this'll be the last one. It'd be nice to have a girlie daughter friend and to do the whole pink thing. At the same time I'd love another boy - we wouldn't have to buy too many clothes and money's tight, lol!! Also we have chosen a boy's name that we love and is almost definite (just have to ask somebody's permission, lol!!) but are still struggling with girl's name. I don't really want to call a child a name I just think is ok but will have to because I can't think of anything else!! I have my 20wk scan on 20th November and I just don't know whether or not to find out. Simon wants to but I can't decide. We found out what we're were having when expecting Noah but only as Mum was so poorly and wasn't sure if she'd survive until the birth and wanted to be able to bond with her grandchild while she could. Because we knew he was a boy, everything we bought for him is blue and boyish! We have very little neutral clothing! I don't want to buy stuff I don't need but I don't want my little girls first outfit to be an aeroplane babygro!!! Aaaaaaarrrrggh. It's hard!! If I did find out I'd want to keep it a secret from all the sticky-beaks but don't know if I could!

Week 11

I had my dating scan today!

Phew, there's a baby in there! Phew, it had a heartbeat!

The whole thing was sooo quick this time - I was in and out of the hospital in ten minutes!! Baby is measuring 4cm and I am EXACTLY the number of weeks/days I thought I was! But I can still hardly believe I got a positive result 10 days after conception!!!

Anyway, I'm 10+6 and due 8th April (although they never even mentioned dates, or filled in my notes - just scanned me and sent me off with my photos!).

Noah was in a stunned silence watching the sonographer (or 'snog'rapher as she called herself!) squirt (hot!) gel on my naked tummy and prod me with the scanner - he was good as gold!

Next scan is 20th November. I'm happy to know everything's ok so far but still hope the 20wk goes ok as that's the biggie for detecting any problems.

Week 10

9+1

I had my booking in appointment today. I've got a really friendly, bonkers MW called Jules who was lovely and made me feel so proud as she said how good Noah's speech is for his age! So I did my wee, had my bloods done, went through all the boring forms with her etc. They do all these additional blood tests now (without having to take more blood) as lots of diseases are cropping up. She also said she'd test me for Chicken Pox immunity as an extra as I work with children and it can be dangerous for pg women. I don't think there's a time we DON'T have chicken pox at school!! Hope I'm immune otherwise I'll be having loads of time off!

They're quite big on home births at my new surgery. They can't 'encourage' it but give it a huge amount of support - even have birthing pools you can borrow for free. I'm not sure it's for me but I'm not ruling it out yet. We'll see. I like the safeness of being in a hospital!

I've declined the extra screening again this time for Down's etc. And hopefully I'll be getting a scan in the next 2-4 wks due to my mad cycles and how my due date varies by 5wks depending on whether you go by my LMP or when I reckon I ovulated.

Still feeling grotty. I had a couple of days where I felt fine, which really worried me, lol but then it's hit me back with a vengance since. I also had some funny little crampy niggles last night which I'm putting down to things stretching.

I think that's it. All still very non-eventful!