I have a bump. It seems to have sprung from nowhere. This weekend, due to being on a basket-making course rather than needing to be vaguely presentable for work purposes, I wore jogging bottoms instead of my jeans (which are still fine size and comfort-wise as long as I keep the top button undone). My belly now reaches out as far as my breasts and ( Read more... )

It's been a strange few weeks. On the one hand, I've gradually settled in more and more to this being pregnant thing. Both P and I have completely failed to get any closer to really and truly believing that we'll probably have a baby by the end of this year, but I've begun to get more settled into 'being pregnant'. As yet, 'being pregnant' and ' ( Read more... )

All the signs are definitely saying I'm pregnant. We haven't done a test for a while but there's been no sign of a period, or, these days, of much of a premenstrual symptom. I've been getting days in which I only manage a few hours of functional waking time before needing to nap, and nap some more, and over the last few weeks I've been getting more ( Read more... )

Today we had our scan. Over the last week or so I've begun to relax more into the idea that yes, actually, I might just be pregnant. It's amazing what a constant dose of exhaustion and nausea can do in that regard. Having some very definite pregnancy symptoms has certainly helped along the way to having faith that at least something was going on ( Read more... )

Wow, I've managed to go a whole week without writing more about this pregnancy lark. I'm now six weeks pregnant. The tiny person inside me has now been in existence for nearly a month. They're now half a centimetre long and they've got a beating heart, the beginnings of eyes and buds that will become the arms and the legs. They also have a tail, ( Read more... )

Things have been a little stressful over the last few days. I started getting some light spotting two evenings ago. I did some checking online and on several forums I had other women tell me that they'd experienced the same and, although scary, everything was fine. After it happened last night too I rang my clinic this morning. They assured me it ( Read more... )

We have our date through for our early scan. It's on February 28th. That's two weeks tomorrow when, all being well, I'll be 6 weeks and 5 days pregnant. From everything I've ready there really should be a heart beat by then, and if there isn't then we can assume things aren't going well. That's what it boils down to really. A heart beat or no heart ( Read more... )

Today, following advice from our clinic, we went to see our GP. As it was three of the regular doctors were off sick so we saw someone we haven't seen before, but he was very lovely. He took all my medications off my repeat prescription list - the Metformin was only there to get me to ovulate and I hopefully won't be needing to do that for a while ( Read more... )

We're feeling more positive. Yesterday morning the second line was twice as strong as the one the day before, and the test we did this morning showed one that was stronger again. At least we've now progressed comfortably beyond the point we reached last time. In fact we've never been close to this far before. So far, so good. Only another 250 days ( Read more... )

We did another test this morning. It was still faint, but it was also still positive ( Read more... )