March babies (due March 2027)

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Just received the call yesterday to say I’m 4 weeks and 4 days pregnant with my first baby at age 36! (conceived via IVf so still in shock!).

Due date on March 3rd so would love to meet some other mums at the same stage as me! I’m a mix of anxiety and excitement!

Congratulations — 36, first baby, after IVF? That is huge, and the anxiety-and-excitement mix you described is so real (I am right in it too). I am an American who moved over mid-pregnancy with my first and I am due just a few weeks ahead of you, so I am figuring all of this out from scratch as well. Wishing you a lovely boring nine months.

Hi! 👋🏼

found out on Tuesday I’m pregnant with baby #3, due date calculator says 9th March!

tests up until today have been super faint, but confirmed with a CB rapid & digital this morning, feeling excited but very nervous!

Wishing everyone a happy and healthy 9 months 🥰✨

Congratulations! That early excited-but-nervous mix is so real — I'm right in it too. I'm an American who moved over mid-pregnancy with my first, due just a few weeks ahead of you, so I'm figuring everything out from scratch as well. So glad to have a due-date buddy — wishing you a smooth nine months. x

Oh amazing!! Great to share this journey with you!! Absolutely hope the nine months go smoothly for us all!

Congratulations wonderful news xxx

Congratulations all 🥰 I’m 38 and 4w 6d with my first. Partner and I started trying in May thinking it might take a while due to age and severe endometriosis (I’ve had 2 separate surgeries to keep removing it) - so shocked (and over the moon) it happened for us so quickly, but now constantly anxious and can’t quite believe it. Due date is 7th March 2026 according to the apps but I’ve got a dating scan next week.

Oh that quick surprise after bracing for a long wait, what a gift. Congratulations 🥰 That anxious, cannot-quite-believe-it feeling is so familiar over here too, I keep half expecting my app to change its mind. Hope your dating scan next week lets you breathe a little easier after.

Hello ladies - I suppose a bit of a vent, I guess I would
usually relay this sort of thing straight away to my friends but we haven’t told them about the pregnancy yet, so sorry for the vent / rant!

Went in at 8am this morning for the dating scan that the hospital had requested; I had received a call from the antenatal admin last week asking me to come in today - she had said that they would send me a text as it wouldn’t be on the NHS App as they were on a different system. Nae bother. But the text doesn’t arrive.

Regardless my partner and I toddle down there for 8am today - and I try to explain that I don’t have an appointment letter but an admin called me etc. The sonographer just starts barking questions at me - how far along, where’s my blue book etc and I’m trying to explain but he’s not really listening. After some huffing he calls us in and tries to scan - can see a wee sac on the over-belly one and then tells me it’ll need to be an internal scan as “I’m too early”. Fine. So we get going with that - and he’s searching and probing for my little sac all the while commenting I’m too early as if I had just wandered in off the street and harangued him for an ultrasound.

He finally finishes and lets me know that he’s transferring me to the Early Pregnancy Unit as his team doesn’t take referrals until 10-12 weeks. And to expect another scan in about 10 days.

I’m an NHS nurse by core profession, and whilst it’s been a while since my training I’ve got a pretty good grasp of women’s healthcare - it’s not like I was expecting to go in and see a baby or even a heartbeat this early, but I was looking forwards to setting a good baseline and understanding where I was in the pregnancy. I’m so sorry for the long post but I just feel like crying now and felt really humiliated by the whole experience. I chose this hospital specifically because all my endo care and surgeries have been here and I’ve always been treated so well, and I just feel like I’ve made a mistake.

Honestly the admin side of all this can be its own special kind of stress, the text-not-text NHS app runaround would have had me refreshing my phone all morning. So glad you made it in and got it done though. Vent away, that's exactly what these threads are for.