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I hate to leave anyone out..Hopeful..how are you doing today? I hope I haven't forgotten anyone. :) Kristin

Perl...was it a sharp stabbing sensation? It may have been your round ligaments stretching. People seem to forget to tell you about those but thaty hurt like a son of a biatch! I would still call your Dr. as it may be a tad early for this. Have you had an U/S and confirmed that you pregnanct is uterine. Oh this just came to mind also...you may have had an ovarian cyct that may have also ruptured. How are you feeling now?

Hi ladies! Had an exhausted weekend - all pregnancy related - I slept for most of it. Last night at the in-laws I even fell asleep on their couch! The nausea does seem to be getting better, but just like you, Perl, I've been having lots of cramping - also a lot on the right side. Also if I'm sitting or lying down when I stand up my insides hurt a bit. I think this is all normal, just the little one growing a bit, so not too much to worry about. At work and gotta go - more later! : )

Hello again all. Sorry if I've been a bit slow on the uptake recently. Along with everything else I've been trying to finish my University degree which you'll be pleased to hear is now printed and ready for submission. Thank goodness - it's been a really long 3years but very rewarding. And what a fantastic graduation prezzie I've got!! All is well with that by the way - only some weird sensations and still the requisite hunger. Also - Kristin - you'll be glad to hear that my b___sts are sore again!!! LOL!. So I'm feeling back to "normal"!! MellyMel - glad all is well and the nausea is subsiding a bit at least. Perl - I'm sorry to hear that your announcement wasn't all brilliant but at least your husband's family sound supportive and of course your dad. I know exactly what you mean when you say you're glad that breaking the news is out of the way. I felt so tense leading up to it all (along with trying to finish my studies by Easter!) and so now I just feel relief all round. Highly recommended to anyone not sure about announcing - believe me it takes a weight off your shoulders and you can start to relax a bit more. But Perl - I'm sure that your cramps might have something to do with that tension. Don't worry too much and don't forget, you can always call your doctor and speak to them on the phone without having to book an appointment and it may make you feel more confident. Also I think MellyMel's sister has it right - there's nothing we can do about any of it so it's just safer to just a__sume it's natural and nothing to worry about. Kristin - I'm glad your doctor has told you to take it easy. I agree! We should all put our feet up whenever we get the chance during this first trimester. When we get past 14 weeks we can start to feel a little bit more energetic. My plan is to start swimming and some pregnancy yoga as soon as I'm in my second trimester but before then I'm just concentrating on eating well and resting as much as possible. Christa -glad to hear from you - let us know your news. Daffy - WAKE UP - your boss is watching! (LOL!!!!) Right now I have your attention - make sure you keep me posted with how you're doing. Remember we're due the same day? I'm going to ask at my next appointment whether my due date is still the same so I'll let you know if there are any changes.

Good Mornining November Mommies, hope everyone is glowing today. I'm feeling well today thank God the morning sickness is kinda letting up. I will be 10wks on tomorrow and can't wait to get out of this 1st trimester. Well i just wanted to say hello and i'll check back later. And have any of you thought of any names? Can you all believe we will have our sweet little babies for Christmas!!!!!!!

Hi Everyone! KRISTIN: I'm so glad that you're doing alright--you had me scared, I'm sure you weren't feeling too great but good to know you could hear everything was fine through the doppler!! *** I'm feeling better. Don't know what the cramping was but the right-side-only cramps seem to be gone for now. Last night the cramping was more centered on my uterus rather than just the right side. Somehow that makes me feel better. AALEX: I have been told I had fibroids in the past but not recently. Do they stay with you forever? My fibroids were on the outside not inside of my uterine wall and I have not had any bleeding which is rea__suring too. I'm sorry to hear you had some spotting but good to know everthing is fine with you. I'm following MELLYMEL's sister's advice. . .there's nothing that can be done to stop the cramping so I need to worry less. Strange things are happening to our bodies and I'm learning as I go along but I can't worry about every little thing. CHRISTA: I read all about that round ligament pain after you mentioned it, ouch! The things we have to look forward to. ***DAFFY: it's comforting to hear that at least one other person is experiencing pain on only the right side--makes me feel less abnormal. If it persists or gets worse I'll definitely call the doc. ***HOPEFUL: congratulations on getting your degree? How perfect to be pregnant right after finishing your degree work. I also just got a degree. Were you like us in carefully planning to not get pregnant until AFTER graduation? I took the California bar exam just a couple months ago (the last step before being licensed to practice law). I'll get my results in May and hope to God I pa__s or I'll have to re-take in July when it's about 100 degrees HOT and I'll be 5 months pregnant. I could have waited a bit longer to get my results before getting pregnant but I was tired of putting my and my husband's life on hold and figured as long as I had the degree getting pregnant had to take priority (my age was a big factor) Anyway, having a baby right after all that hard work sure is a great gift and reward. Now, we'll have a different type of hard work in raising a child but I'm sure it will be even more rewarding and fulfilling. *** AALEX AND DAFFY: my morning sickness is not completely gone yet but like, you, mine is getting better (you two are a bit farther along than I am though. I hope you all have a great and restful week.

Kristin~So happy to hear that your appointment went well and you heard the heartbeat on the doppler already!! Remember, alot of woman spot, and some, through their entire pregnancy. Hopefully, yours will stop soon and then you can be even more a__sured all is well with baby :) PERL~I'm glad to hear your cramping has eased up a bit and I still think you are feeling your ligaments stretching is all. AALEX~Nice to hear from you and that you are doing well and same with you HOPEFUL. No, I cannot believe we will have babies before Christmas!! I have been thinking of names, but nothing too definate yet. I will throw a few out - BOYS(Joshua and Dylan so far I like - for GIRLS(I can't imagine if I have a girl!!)Mia, Bree, Hannah or Raina. Those just to start, but we still have 7 more months to think of more!!! xo

Hi Aalexand - glad you're doing well and sounding so positive. Already thinking of names!! Wow - yes, of course, we've thought of a few but nothing is set in stone. What is for sure is that we want to have one 'family' name (probably as the middle name) and then one which has a meaning which is particular to us. Still lots of time though and I reckon we'll probably change our minds a lot between now and November!! Then roll on Christmas - I keep envisaging our little one lying underneath the Christmas Tree - what a fantastic prezzie that will be!! Perl - Thanks for the congratulations. I, like you, still have to wait for the results though - hopefully before mid-June I'll know because then I'lI get to go to the graduation ceremony in July. I'm really hoping there won't be any delays with the paperwork though as the next ceremony will be in November so I don't think I'll be getting to that one in a hurry (LOL!) and then I'd have to wait until next July (2007!!) which would be a great shame and disappointment. Yes, me and the hub only started to try for a baby once the main part of my study was done and luckily for us we got pregnant when all I had to do was tidy up a few loose ends. It certainly is a great reward and I hope will come to some use when the little bean starts school and I have some time on my hands and the need to use my brain again!! At the moment I'm quite happy to let the brain cells go soggy again for a few years (LOL!) and just spend my time reading novels (how novel!!) in the garden and doing crosswords (in between nappies and feedings of course!!!) Actually, though, to be honest I'm hoping to re-learn Italian as I started it before my degree and now me and the hub go there quite often and I want to be able to speak the lingo!! MellyMel - nice names. Just up my street. Keep them coming!!! (Maybe then I won't have to think about them at all!!) Anyway, best wishes to you all. Looking forward to hearing your next installments!!

aalexand - I have been lurking on this post - my apologies, ladies - my little one is now 4 months old - born Nov. 25 2005 - and like you, aalexand, I had cramping, spotting, bleeding due to fibroids and subchorionic hemmoraghe... it lasted until the 16 week mark - I worried a ton and just want to let you know there were a lot of us last year going through it and all delivered healthy babies, so stay strong, and keep the faith! Best wishes to you all! :)

Hello Kris Al. thanks so very much for your words of encouragement; it really makes me feel better to know that someone else has gone through the same thing. Like i said i've read a lot about fibroids and pregnancy and the info i read eased my mind but to here from someone who has gone thru it is very rea__suring. I know you are enyoying your bundle of joy and can't wait until i can do the same. Again thanks a bunch!!!!!!!

Hi Ladies... I've decided to post an update (finally). FYI-I have always checked on everyone here...everyday. I am happy for all of you. As you know I have had some very ambivelant feelings towards this pregnancy. I have seen a counselor 2X now and seems to be helping a lot. A bit of history. I suffered many years of infertility. I have a 6 year old son conceived from an IUI (intra uterine insemination for all you newbies) and we have not used any protection since his birth. He is such a great kid. All those years I had hoped something would happen like this. It never did. I didn't stress about it however. Well November 05 I finally talked DH into doing the medical intervention route again and we had an appointment with the Dr. I became very scared at the things he was saying like the high risk of me having twins etc. I came to terms with only having my one son and made big plans for this summer. I am an xray tech in a cardiac cath lab and I could have taken a travel a__signment in California or Washington or Colorado (Phoenix is very hot in the summer LOL) It would have been a working vacation as the travel company pays for everything while you are away. My mother and son would have come with me and DH would come out on the weekends. It was the perfect plan. (I need to add the other reason I would do this is because work is very slow in the summer and they were asking people to perhaps make other arrangements or get cut) I was really looking forward to this as I had a place lined up in Santa Barbara (Perl, you know how nice that would have been LOL!!!...remember all expenses PAID!) I also really dislike feeling like c___p. I am nauseated all the time, constipated and swamp gas is oozong out of my b___t 24/7. It was so bad last night DH went to sleep in the other room LOL (payback is great) I also think that something horrible will happen to me because I am not all giddy with joy at my "condition". I so vividly remmeber how hard it really was. I am finally getting to sleep through the night! My son has decided to give me that now that he is 6. I am fatter then I have ever been even though I have trained for and run a marathon. I miss running too by the way. I'd like to get back to doing it but feel like c___p all the time. And seems that anytime I get even a bit of exertion, I spot. This is getting very winded so I am off now. I hope everyone is doing well, and from what I gather from the posts I read you are. :) Take care girls...more to come another time

Dear Christa. I'm sorry to hear that you are still feeling unsure about things. Don't panic - you are NOT alone! I have had some very strange thoughts about this pregnancy even though me and hub have been talking and planning it for years. When I got the test result I didn't burst into tears of joy or jump about laughing like I thought I would, I actually buried my head under the pillow and thought "Gulp!". It's such a responsibility. I also had a vision of the spirit of me slowly flying away or else changing into something else. (Does that make any sense to anyone?!! LOL!) I think it was just the idea that I felt that "me" would no longer exist as an ent_ty in itself and that I would always be a__sociated with the bean inside me - always be a "mum" rather than a "person" in my own right. It was a very odd sensation. I think it comes from having had 35 years of independence (not counting my 14year relationship which I am fully committed to but it's not the same as having a truly dependent child) and thinking that I will never get that back. However, I am feeling very different now. Every week that goes by and especially since telling my family I feel more and more comfortable with the thought of being a mum. It's still daunting of course, but it's beginning to feel more natural than it did in the start. Also - in terms of the fears of whether the pregnancy will go full term - I am much more philosophical about it now - I keep saying to myself "What will be, will be". It's out of our hands and as I'm usually a very 'controlled' person this has been a very difficult emotion to 'let go of' but I'm getting there! Thankfully my hub is very different to me and he balances out any unpositive thoughts I might have. Hope this helped and didn't just sound like a load of old tosh! Do keep speaking to your counsellor but also don't be afraid to talk here a bit more. You may find that expressing your concerns also helps other people and I often find that's the best therapy you can ever get - being a friend to someone else!

CHRISTA~Please do not bash yourself over this. I have cried at least twice to hubby and my sister that I feel so guilty about not being excited about this pregnancy. I have the SAME feelings you do but in a different way. When I got my ultrasound, I had to ask if she saw the heartbeat and she said didn't you see it? I didn't, because I wasn't even looking at the d__n monitor. I looked for a minute when she showed me the fetus, but then just let her continue doing whatever she was doing. I just don't feel the same excitement and I know it's because I really do not want to be pregnant. Do I want another child? Yes, but I do not want to be pregnant, but I know it's the only way to ever bring one into this world, besides adoption anyway, which is sometimes why I feel trapped. I have been getting better and am waiting a few call backs on therapist to see throughout my pregnancy. Please don't feel bad about how you feel; it is completely normal. I should know. Take good care of your son and isn't he excited to be having a little brother or sister soon!!! Mine definately is. xoxo

Hopeful & Christa & MellyMel - I totally relate to what all of you wrote about how you're feeling regarding being pregnant. (BTW - congrats to Hopeful on your degree!!!) It's OK to feel all the wierd emotions about having a child, and don't forget, the hormones are just making everything more pronounced! I've been frustrated lately because work has been very very busy, and there is a ton of yardwork to be done at home, but I am just so exhausted all the time that I feel useless. (And of course hubby won't let me do anything! - when I try, he yells "No, you're pregnant!" LOL!) I even had a hormonal day where I was freaking out about money, and even said out loud that I wished I hadn't gotten pregnant! - I of course felt immediately ashamed of myself, especially after trying so hard to concieve, but the point is, these feelings are all normal, and to not beat ourselves up about it. Don't forget, we are all almost out of the first trimester, and will hopefully all start feeling better soon! ~ I go for the nuchal scan on Wed. morning - I'll let you all know how it went, and give details on what they do if I can. (Hopeful - were you doing this? if so, this is the time they'd do it - between 11-13 weeks.) I'm both nervous and excited about it. I hope the rest of you are all doing fine! I usually post from work, which has been busy, so sorry if I don't check in as often right now. But I'm thinking of all of you and wishing you all the best! :)

Daffy~I'm glad to hear that you are doing well and best of luck on your Nuch Screen Wednesday. I've been going through the same as you. There is so much in the house that needs to be done and I have been SO TIRED that I cannot help so much and hubby is like don't worry, but I do. I just really wish I had the energy to keep up with the house, but he is fabulous and has been doing a great job with it and I'm so blessed to have him as my husband. He is so protective of me right now; it's so cute. CHRISTA~ How are you? I haven't seen you post for awhile. KRISTEN~My spotting kind of comes and goes intermittently. It's dark brown and it's almost like the end of your period, but only a little lighter. I will ask when I go for my monthly appointment on Thursday, but I won't worry. I still feel very pregnant. LOL. PERL and AALEx~ how have you two been?

Hello Ladies, hope all is well with all of you. I've been doing well, the spotting has stopped and the morning sickness is just about gone. Melly Mel your rhusband sounds alot like mine, he has really been helpful to me around the house and just very caring. He is so excited about hthis little one. Hopeful & Excited, Christa0120 what have you ladies been up too?