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I had a scan yesterday and all is well :) I asked if they would consider telling me the sex and she said she thought it was a girl.

Now obviously there is always room for doubt until you get to check for yourself but I just wondered how accurate their guesses are. I know she's told to say she thinks and that it could be wrong and Ive read some stories about people saying it came out the opposite as expected - I just dont want people out buying girls stuff and out pops a boy. y'know?

This isnt worrying... more funny but I just wondered if anyone else experienced something similar.

Im 26 weeks pregnant and the past few nights in bed every time i turn from side to side Ive noticed I hiccup just the once followed by a burp.

As I tend to wake when i turn Im rather aware of doing this and my partner finally heard it last night and laughed too.

Anyone else get this? Any ideas why only one hiccup?

Am i the only one who gets sick and pissed off with peoples insensitive comments?

Some people tell me i dont look pregnant at all and others tell me im bigger than their friends who are one/two/three months further on than I am. Im nearly 6 months

This has me swinging between worrying im carrying some kind of monster to some kind of midget.

I do have a bump and a layer of lard that wasnt there prior to pregnancy. The docs say its normal size for duration although comment on the soft abdomen which makes me feel unnecessarily fat. The babys heart is beating strong and its kicking like mad - its all very reassuring - until the well meaning people you meet stick their oars in.

I never before understood how annoying and upsetting ill thought out comments made to pregnant women can be. I always kept my mouth shut on things like size and told people they looked well or healthy or whatever fitted the situation but it seems people are hellbent on criticising or making you feel like **** or making you worry about things not being normal.

So today im feeling really really fat and i know i still have 3 months of growth to go.

Do others feel like this? What are your good smart *** responses to such comments?

Im 5.5 months pregnant and very superstitious about buying stuff for the baby too early. I have said since day one I wanted to wait until closer to the time before looking or shopping for things and that in the first instance i wanted only the bare essentials.

However my mother is really pressuring me into looking at things and buying stuff early.

I can appreciate that she's excited about her first grandchild but I just dont want to be buying things yet and I dont want to be looking.

I am not able to find out the sex of my baby until its born (where i live youre only entitled to a 12 week scan) and with everything being pink and blue i dont see the point in looking. (i refuse to dress a baby in beige/brown)

I know what is needed when the time comes so its not as if im totally unprepared.

So Ive tried the nice approach with her and she just wont listen. Ive told her she can buy what she wants but not to involve me to try and appease her but she wants mother / daughter shopping sessions that I just do not.

Does anyone have any advice on how i can get her to understand i dont want this yet?

btw - im in my mid 30s not some teenage kid.

Im 17 1/2 weeks and suffering incredible lower abdominal pain. I heard the baby's heartbeat on fri and it was fine and strong - no more scans due to where i live so thats the best i get. No spotting or bleeding.

I sent off a urine sample for culture and results this morning were that its clear.

I do have pain on emptying the bladder but not burning - more like muscle cramps in my lower abdomen. I also have quite a lot of non pee-ing related pain and cramps in my lower abdomen and back.

I have asked midwifes and doctors and they say the baby is fine... but what about me? I still exist as a seperate entity and im stuck lying on my side all day every day due to discomfort.

So if the baby is ok, and there's no uti and round ligament pain (which is everyone catch all excuse on this) should be easing off every so often and this isnt - does anyone have any idea of what this could be?

And just so you know its NHS so I dont have the same choices as american consumers in my healthcare.

im 11 weeks pregnant and havent had any spotting at all until today. I have had two scans one at 7 weeks and one at 10 that both showed normal healthy pregnancy and a good heartbeat.

Ive not had sex and ive been resting the past three weeks due to extreme exhaustion. The only difference today is that ive been sneezing all day quite violently.

I dont have cramping today but i did have pain yesterday.

I know what the major worry is - i dont need to be reassured of that - i would appreciate other alternatives.

I cant see a doc til tomorrow and probably wont get seen or rescanned until monday at the earliest so please... can people give me some hope to cling onto

i had reasonably bad nausea until week eight then it started to ease off at week ten it returned worse than normal... Ive had a week of not being able to do anything for feeling sick, im lucky in that im not vomiting tho i often wonder if this would ease it off a little. It lasts all day and i can barely eat or drink (tho im forcing myself to!)

Is it normal for it to go away then come back worse than ever? Could i be deficient in something?

Doc appointment in a few days but they never tell me anything... just looking to be armed with info when i go in there.

I had both an ultrasound and transvaginal scan today. My date of LMP suggest im 8w 1d but the ultrasound showed only a tiny wee sack that measured at 6w4d and you couldnt see anything in it. They did a transvaginal US and this measured at 7w2d and there was a wee heartbeat going strong.

Im a bit confused tho - do the U/S dates correspond to when you concieve or are they related to estimates based on your last period?

There were only two occassions i could have concieved and neither match up with the dates given and while i know theres always an error of margin it just kinda confused me.

Every website and book says i should be peeing more than normal now (7 weeks) - thing is im not really peeing much more than normal. All I notice is that when i need to pee it feels a little different but theres no urgency about it.

Stupid I know but it worries me that perhaps things arent growing right in there and that the uterus isnt big enough to push on my bladder.

Then again im prone to UTI's and am used to urgency being just that - like you get when you have cystitis. Perhaps im expecting too much.

I know its yet another silly question - believe me my head is full of silly ones at the mo.

Did anyone else not need to pee?

Im 6 weeks pregnant and halfway through a ceramics course at college.

I obviously dont want to harm the foetus in any way but i'd hate to be kicked off the course. Im speaking to them tomorrow about it but wondered if anyone knew the score with working with ceramics during pregnancy.

What additional measures need taken?

Ive had many different opinions on this and while I know that a pregnant woman obviously has to use extreme caution while working with ceramics, surely it doesnt mean they have to stop altogether.

So whats the deal? Can it be done? What are the restrictions?

Im midway throught a one year full time college course and im loving it so much id be so upset if i had to give it up.

My period is usually guaranteed on the same day every 28 days, I can practically time it to start at 2pm in the afternoon im that regular. But this month im late. I took a pregnancy test today that came back negative.

Two/three weeks ago i got sensitive breasts and minor cramping. I assumed it was ovulation but they never went away. The cramping and discomfort (its not always painful sometimes just horribly uncomfortable and stitch like feelings too) havent really gone away tho its not really there in the morning and it does get worse from about 4pm. I get quite nauseous in the evenings too from about 11pm thro til about 3am. Im finding that im experiencing insomnia.

All this has been happening consistently for the past few weeks.

PMT ususally only lasts a day before my period and the first two days of my period but ive not had the weepies yet.

If its not pregnancy and the period is showing no signs of turning up yet - what else could this be?

Short of my body preparing for an alien invasion im stuck. Due to christmas and hogmanay i havent had the chance to get to a docs