Mumsnet members get a 10% discount from Boden (including free returns and free delivery), The White Company, sweaty Betty, Luxury Family Hotels, JoJo Maman Bebe, Siblu, Blooming Marvellous, GLTC, Bump to 3 (the official online shop for Grobags) and more. Click here for more info Join mumsnet here.
Thanks for the info ellideb Hoping she is wrong about the size. Don't fancy another 9lber, or worse.
imoscarsmum - Try not to worry too much about coping with new baby. You just somehow get on with it lol! I was so worried about coping with 2 after dp went back to work but I was plesantly surprised. Even mopre so when number 3 appeared.Not quite sure about this one though, maybe I've pushed it a bit there
You will, hopefully, find that baby will tend to fit in better than expected. I agree with Starlight though about trying not to have a set routine. Then you will drive yourself into the ground trying to get things done by a certain time to fit it all in and that's when things start to go wrong.
A lovely new thread, Thanks Starlight for taking control. Love the title womb "Ellideb" so glad your on your way out from the dark sickness place too. I understand what you mean you think everything is great then wham sickness appears again. But I must say its sooo managable now. Now I just need to find out what to do with all these burst blood vessels I have as a result from all the heaving . I am not vain but it looks like I have a contagious rash on my chest. baracoo dont worry about the stretching pains. Its your ligaments and perfectly normal. Have a good evening girls x
Hello all on lovely shiny new thread. I'm on hols, staying with my parents in west Wales which is bliss. I can get 11 hours sleep a night, plus an afternoon nap! And my two girls are loving it - we've just been on the beach - blowing a gale, but sunny and bright.
Bump is expanding astonishingly fast. Hope it slows down at some point! As one of the due late September folk, I still feel I can only dream of being half way there, and I fear I will look about 8 months pregnant by that point if I continue popping out at the current speed.
Pidge: I think the idea is that everyone will be half way there at some point during this thread! I'm early Sept, - and I'm not even half way there yet !!!
However, I think someone mentioned that 19 weeks was half way, - in that babies are born anywhere from 38 weeks (when they are considered term)!
Had a dark chocolate magnum after my tea.... REALLY wish I hadnt!!!
Quick foot related question....is anyone else getting moderate/severe pain (so they have to limp) in their feet?? I am putting it down to plodding round legoland for 6 hours on saturday, but it really hurts!!!
Could be the extra stone I am carrying round of course!
25/08 - Excitable - age 31 - North Lancashire - first baby 25/08 - Oopsacoconut - age 32 - Wiltshire - first baby 26/08 - Micromum - age 33 - N W London DD 7, DD 5, DD 18m. 28/08 – Michtenstein – Cape Town, S. Africa – DD1 4.5, DD2 2.5 30/08 - Gracie14 - age 26 - Berkshire 31/08 – Sunshinemummy – age 37 – South West London – DS 22m 31/08 - Sassafrass- age 31-east midlands – DD 3 01/09 – Kathryn77 – age 30 – West Mids – DS 17m 01/09 – MimisMama – age 31 – Milton Keynes – DD 5 yrs 01/09 - Talia1 - age 29 - Leeds/Buxton - 1st baby 02/09 – Fandango – age 31 - Cheshire - DD 11m 02/09 - expatmom2be - age 28 - London - 1st baby 03/09 – Debithescot – age 26 – North Hampshire – DS 21m 03/09 – Jenpet – Brittany, France - DS 6 03/09 - KashaSarrasin - age 38 - N Yorks - DS 2.10 04/09 - Lollipopmother - age 25 - 1st baby 06/09 - Potxola -(Aprox. C-Section date)- Age 41- Exeter - DS 3.6 06/09 - Kagey - age 30 - Kent - first baby 08/09 – Shell84 – age 23 – Southampton – first baby 08/09 - Worthog - age 36 - Harrogate - first baby 09/09 – Hopefully – age 25 – West Sussex – first baby 09/09 – Kirstygem – Norfolk – DD 19m 10/09 – Starlight – age 32 – Herts – DS 13m 10/09 – D0gsbody – age 33 – West London – first baby 10/09 - Lollyheart - age26-basingstoke-dd3,ds17 months 10/09 – Workstostaysane – London – DD 17m 10/09 - MrsElle28 - age 28 - Hull - first baby 11/09 – Meglet – age 33 – North Hampshire – DS born Nov 06 12/09 - Mustsleep - age 26 - ds 6, dd 2.6 - yorkshire 12/09 - mumofdjandp - age 29 - central scotland - 3rd baby 13/09 - Lulu15 - 1DC 13/09 – Skimty – DS 16m 13/09 - mumiyumi - DS 2 1/2yrs 13/09 - mama2bee - age 34 - South London - first baby 14/09 - Crabby - first baby, Cambridge 14/09 – Claire7471 – age 36 – DS 20m 14/09 - ipanemagirl age 43 - N London. ds 6. 14/09 - kel78 - age 29 dd1- 3, dd2 8 15/09 – Biglips - age 33 - Liverpool – DD 3 15/09 – Bogie – age 20 – DS 2 15/09 - ellideb- age 24- North Wales- 1st baby 16/09 - Surelyyoucantbeserious - age 30 - s. London - first baby 16/09 - babybump08 - age 29 - S.London - First baby 16/09 - AHLH - age 37 - W Yorks - First baby 16/09 - SprogletCooking - age 31 - Reading - 1st baby 17/09 - SuzyFloozy 17/09 - MelT76 - 31 - Staffs - 1st baby 18/09 - Becaroo - age 35 - ds aged 4 - derbyshire 18/09 - lou222 - aged 41 (but don't look it!!) west yorkshire - first baby 18/09 - mamamufin - age 28, Yorks - DS 3 18/09 - theowlwhowasafraidofthedark - SW London - first baby 18/09 - Spango - nearly 34 - 1st baby 19/09 - Naturalblonde - age 28 - N. Somerset - DD 1.4 19/09 - LeonieD - age 31 - Sutton Coldfield - DD 4.2 19/09 - barnpot - 27 - west yorks - 1st baby 19/09 – Lilypink – age 31 - Suffolk DD 19m 19/09 - kiskidee kinda old - dd 3 - Durham. 20/09 - amitymama - London - DD 21m 20/09 - izzybiz - age 31 - Winchester - DS 15, DD 3.8 20/09 - Treadmillmom - aged 36 - West Midlands - DS1 4, DS2 2 20/09 - HannahMTW - age 27 - Kent - first baby 20/09 - imoscarsmum - age 35 - Cheshire/N Wales border - first baby 20/9 - emandz - age 24 - NW London - 1st baby 22/09 – slinkiemalinki – age 31 - West London – DD 23m - expecting a boy! 22/09 - Luboo - age 31 - Hants - DD 14m 22/09 - jearund - age 35 - South West - DD 14 months 22/09 - MummyToOneFOrNow - dd 14mths 23/09 - blimey age 40 - sarf london DS 5 DS 3 23/09 - Charitygirl - first baby 23/09 - digitalgirl - age 29 - North London - first baby 24/09 - Ninja - age 37 - Manchester - DD 4.5 24/09 - Jacwac - age 35 - Belfast - ds 21m 25/09 - kgirl - age 24 - 1st baby 25/09 - shauna72 - dd 14 months 26/09 - MissusH - age 35 - S.Derbys - dd, 5.8 27/09 - feelingpositive - age 31 - Edinburgh - DD 18m 27/09 - pidge - age 37 - London - 2 dds age 5.5 and 2.10 27/09 - manitz - age 34 - London - 2 dds age 3 and 5 27/09 - Inquisitive - age 31 - Berks - 1st baby 28/09 - LittleConnie - age 32 - North West London - 1st baby 28/09 - splishsplosh - age 37 - London - dd 2 28/09 - Carrieon - age 28 - York - dd 12 months 29/09 - WombFor1More - age 26 - Kent - DS 6, DS 4, DD 8months 30/09 - Ninja - age 37 - Manchester - DD 4.5 ??/09 - mumiyumi - DS 2 ??/09 - ktnixon - age 26 - Lincolnshire - DD 3
Ok, I've followed you successfully.
O.K. So I'm thinking of hiring a live-in housekeeper for a few months so I can bond with baby and learn how to do things while finishing my dissertation...my professors are great because they'll let me bring my baby in with me during the meetings and tutorials. Do any of you have experience with this sort of thing? I was going to be finished in the winter but because I wont be able to go for summer term I have to finish next spring. what do you guys think?
Cheers starlight right back atcha! I've got a chocolate fountain just warming up if anyone would like to join me, plenty of yummy things to dip too, help yourselves!
Hey becaroo I really wish you hadn't said anything about magnums, you've just triggered a craving I'm gonna go to the shop now and see if they have any grrr
imoscarsmum I think Starlight's advice was spot on. I was just going to say that you find you can cope because you have to. I was really worried about coping on little sleep before DD was born but I took the advice to 'sleep when the baby does' and had naps during the day. At night we did shifts: I went to bed after the 7pm feed and slept til 11 or 12 (it gradually got longer) then DH went to bed and I took over for the rest of the night, doing the 4am feed and 7am feeds and napping in between if I could. After that I went back to sleep and he took her until the mid-morning feed. I wasn't expressing at that point - I did later but always did the 4am feed myself as that's when your boobs are fullest and it helps keep up the supply. My advice would be to get DH to take as long off work as he can (mine was off for 6 weeks which was just as well as I had a c-section) and by the time he went back she was already sleeping for longer. Actually I think she was sleeping 'through the night' (ie not waking for 4am feed) by about 2 months and it seemed a lot easier then! Oh and forget the housework - it can wait! Sleep is far more important!
Carrieon I had restless legs last pg but I didn't realise there was anything you could do about it so I just put up with it but it was very annoying - I just couldn't keep my legs still in bed! This time I've had it a couple of times but not for a while.
Mustsleep and Elliedeb so pleased the sickness is easing off. I had a bout of retching while doing my teeth this morning but it's down to once or twice a week now which is so much better! I think this morning was because I was tired as I woke up early and couldn't get back to sleep. Have you noticed it's always worse when you are tired? Last pg I was on shifts and I think that's partly why it was so bad then as I was always exhausted!
kirstiegem I also wake up twice or 3 times a night and have done since early pregnancy. It was the same last time. It's usually because I need to pee! I'm also having the vivid random (and sometimes fruity!) dreams. I often have vivid dreams but I have them more often when pregnant.
posted this on the other thread before I'd read all the other posts but thought I might as well post it here to give a bit more reassurance to you imoscarsmum. Although you've had lots from other people so hopefully you're not too worried
imoscarsmum I had exactly the same worries as you 1st time round and now have them again but even more so! It was the lack of sleep thing that really worried me. I used to need at least 9 hours but it was amazing how quickly my body clock adjusted. But I've got used to getting a bit more sleep again now as am very fortunate that ds usually wakes about 7.30 and dh usually virtually always gets him up. So I'm getting morried about those early mornings again.
imoscarsmum you are so normal and you will be a brilliant mum because you've thought about things in advance! I was suprised that once we were passed the newborn stage (6ish weeks) I could go anywhere and do anything - mosey round the shops, have a coffe. Its now that dd is on the move that all that has stopped as she hates her buggy and of course won't let me enjoy a nice starbucks! So I found it eased me in gently coz I had a little bit of my old life back for the first 6 months or so, and usually whoever I met for coffee just loved to hold the baby, which gave me a double break! The routine/wing it debate is one that will never be resolved as it entirely depends on the person. We instigated a routine from week 2. Of course the little darling rarely stuck to it, but having something to aim for gave me a sense of purpose and direction every day. Dh loved it which surprised me, but from his point of view, if the baby was crying he could look at his watch and know whether it was time to feed her or put her down for a nap! Hope that helps.
Thank you to whoever mentioned calcium for restless legs, I'll look into that. I can't believe how many of us are getting headaches, especially eye related ones. I don't remember that from last time but perhaps I have a rose-tinted memory.
Personally I am not thrilled to be clicking on a thread about public hair when I am logging on at work but maybe it will encourage me to desist from spending all day clicking in and out of MN!
When it comes to headaches I have to say ... co-codamol is good! Got the prescription today and poof went the dreadful headache. I hope I won't need to take them much but it's nice to know that when a killer headache comes on I have something that will help instead of having to lie on my bed and suffer.
was working with another lady that is more superior than me the other day but still under my boss iykwim, and she cannot beleive the areas they have still got me cleaning and the the fact that i am having to lug everything up and down the stairs whilst she and her mate are doing the easy areas, she said she would have a word and say that se thinks that i should just work on the flat indoor bits where there is minimal lifting involved
ayway yesterday at work had top do all upstairs and all outside which is up and down four steps per class etc, and make loads of trips back and forth etc, whilstthey did the easy side and worked together!!!!!! so obv if the other lady mentioned it it was not taken seriously
i might make out that i have back prob but would prob need a docs note fpr that
Is co-codamol ok to take then? I ended up not taking anything yesterday because I couldn't face staring at the computer while I googled which remedies were ok during pregnancy. Headache was absolutely ridiculous by the time I went to bed - literally couldn't move without it thumping, but slept for 10 hours and it appears to have gone this morning - hope it doesn't do an encore this afternoon!
Well, today is quite exciting. I have decided that I may actually look pregnant, not just fat. The bump at the front is sufficiently big that it stands out from the side bumps (love handles), the boob bumps and the fat arm bumps.
I am 19 wks on friday and am due Sept 12th with my first baby! We've been trying for 4 years and been through IVF once (failed) and this happen out of the blue so as you can imagine we are very very excited!!! Can't wait!! Hope you are all well and I look forward to getting to know you all better!!
Am at work at the moment - so need to go but wil check in with everyone later on xxx
Hi everyone Welcome nelli and congratulations on your pregnancy!
Fabulous new thread name... i love it
Great to hear the sickness is finally settling down mamamuffin and the rest of you that have been suffering - about time too! And congrats on feeling the baby move carrieon, it's so lovely isn't it?
Off to see the midwife this afternoon to hear the heartbeat and have a few more bloods I think.
mustsleep the way are you are being treated at work is outrageous. surely it's just common sense to have you on lighter duties and not doing heavy lifting? I do hope you manage to get through to them...
Bit of a momentous one for me today too - somebody offered me a seat on the tube this morning! I was gobsmacked and very chuffed
Hopefully, my gp said it was ok in small does but some does pass through the placenta. The one I have is 8mg codeine and 500mg paracetamol. Might want to call your gp and ask.
Hi to all! Nelly32 Welcome to our lovely group. I am almost 20 w preg. with my second baby, a girl. I already have a 3 yr old ds. Looking forward to knowing you too.
Slinky Congratulations on the boy!!!!!!
I don't have much to say, I a getting bigggggg. My tummy is a different shape that with my first pregnancy and my baby girl is making me very tired, BUT I love it!!!!, because it means things are still ok.
StarlightMckenzue I love the tittle. It is another winner. Thanks!
eandz a friend of mine finished her MSc whilst pg and then deferred her dissertation for a year and wrote it whilst her ds slept. My mum qualified for the bar from scratch whilst having 2 children (and two steps to look after) - she found out her was pg with me at the end of her first year and was 8 months pg with my little sister when she took her finals. She had a couple of years out in the 3 year course. I'm hoping to write up my reports to become a Chartered Engineer whilst my dc sleeps (might be a bit optimistic)! I'm sure you can do it!
Hi folks - invested in and borrowed a load of scary maternity clothes at the weekend. Bump is deffo a bump now, not just a bit of tummy flab. Quite exiting (is first baby). Also found out that my sister in law is 2 months pg, so by Christmas, my PIL will have tripled their grandchildren!
sorry havn't posted much, it takes me a while to catch up as the thread moves soooooo fast.
I'm 21 weeks today and baby has started to get really active in the past week, i have my scan on Thursday and still trying to decided if i should find out the sex or not?
Nelli32 Welcome, wishing you all the fun and excitment the next few months will bring.
wombfor1more I know what you mean, i'm in the same boat as you and on my 4th but your children are a bit younger than mine. I assume this one will fit in like the other ones did and that you just get on with it. Feed/bath one child is not much difference to Feed/bath three, then they just entertain each other.
Question Has anybody bought clothes from Melba maternity, is there clothing nice ? They have a sale on at the moment and not sure if i should buy or not !
Hi all - great new thread title. Loving being past the half way mark.
Has anyone heard from Bogie or have I missed her update?
I'm still off work (four weeks now) with cough/chest infection. Dr may send me for chest x-ray next week if no better. Feeling very guilty but my boss is great.
DP is now away for three weeks. Hopefully my FIL in coming to visit at the weekend and help out a little (although he has a morbid dread of poo so won't change nappies). DS is such a good boy though so I'm really lucky with him and he's at nusery full-time so I'm sleeping a lot during the day!
Imoscarsmum I really wouldn't worry about the lack of lseep thing. Firstly the adrenalin gets you through, then the love takes over. By six weeks it all gets a lot easier (I didn't believe this but it's true). You do have bad bits but I'm a great believer in rationalising that these are a small blip in the great scheme of things.
Hopefully - I don't think you can take co-codamol. I've been told only paracetamol. I'd be tempted (if you're not drinking it already) to have a caffeinated drink as well as a lot of headache cures have caffeine in them.
Hi all - love the new thread title! I had my 20 week scan today and all looks great. Looks like I'll be adding a girl to our september group so am very excited. Doctor was only 85% sure though, because although he was able to identify what look like girl bits, the baby had the cord between its legs, so there's always a chance the penis was hiding behind it... Not sure if 85% is strong enough to buy girl clothes and suppose we'll need to keep thinking of a boy's name jsut in case, but very relieved in any case that all is working and measuring as it should.
Think we'll go for a 3D/4D scan at some point in the next couple of months because it just seems to long to wait for my next official scan at 34 weeks.
Yay, how exciting expat, must be such a relief to know everything is good. Although v unhelpful of baby to be hugging the umbillical cord!
I just had a fright as I somehow managed to turn on the voice recognition software on my computer and it was trying to type everything I was saying while on the phone. think the poor chap on the other end of the line thought I had gone insane. Needless to say it was crap. Am v glad I don't actually have to rely on such things!
expatmom - Glad scan went well, another possible GIRL to add to the list thats great
Well feeling knackered and have had a headache since yesterday, had to give in and take a paracetamol half an hour ago as I need to get through the rest of the day running a massage group this afternoon and need to be on form
Woke up in the middle of the night with a shooting pain on left side which was really painful and started to panic, it seems to have calmed down now but I can feel it lingering. I'm hoping that its just the stretching and checked baby's heartbeat with doppler this morning and that was fine. Feeling more movements as well so thats helping to reassure me - will I ever stop being so neurotic!!!!
another girl!!!!! dh should be gald with these odds ours will prob be a boy, although i am gtting strong girly vibs although i am notorious for being rubbish at predicting these things!! have gotton ridden of all baby stuff after dd so will have to buy new anyway, butthe bedroom arrangements would work out better woth another dd but we will see in 8 days!!! excited
i have been having awful headaches too to point of them making me feel quite sick not as many now as before but still at least a couple of days a week my head feels like it's in a vice
I've just realised, our birth announcements thread will have to be subtitled 'I can see my pubes again'
I'm seriously considering changing my guess to a boy, as I have more of a rounded belly than the neat bump I had with dd. Maybe I'll leave it a few weeks and work out what is bump and what is bacon! Talking of which...see you later...
becaroo I have also been getting some pain in my feet. It also happened last pregnancy (around 14 weeks) and I wasn't aware of anything I had done to trigger it. The GP suggested ibuprofen gel (ok as just externally applied to that area) but it was very painful and I was really hobbling. Not quite sure what it was maybe ligaments doing funny things? I am getting very similar twinges now. I haven't put that much weight on but do walk a fair amount.
all this talk of bikini lines has reminded me I need to have a jolly good tidy down there . I'm not giving up without a fight! ((marches off towards bathroom armed with hot wax))
Still no baby movements here (19 weeks) but think baby might just be a bit more chilled than my last one who spent months kicking me very hard. Scan next monday so I am counting the days!
i found out last night that although i have felt some butterfly movement nothing solid or frequent the best thing to do is wait until you are absolutely bustung for the loo and the lo with boot you in the bladder thus making you uestion the strength of your pelvic floor
lol mustsleep. My pelvic floor strength has been tested a few times too. Does anyone else almost have problems if they sneeze unexpectedly? Or is it just me
Ds is at the childminders today even though I'm still off work (Easter hols). We have to pay her a 3 day retainer fee over the hols so thought we might as well use a couple of them. I woke up at 11.15 and have done virtually nothing since then. Great! Then doing shopping and lunch in Reading with a friend tomorrow which'll be nice.
my pelvic floor seems to be having the odd leak too .
Last pregnancy I was wearing shorts and standing on the laminate floor and laughing about something when some pee leaked down my leg and made a little puddle . DP thought it was the funniest thing he had ever seen.
We have to do our pelvic floor exercises lay-deez!
While I was having my stitches (by the junior OB, who was a real moaner) after my daughter was born the MW who had delivered announced to the room that she had come down the birth canal with such force, "it must have shattered her pelvic floor". I demended rather vehemently a bit less detail please (my husband was in the room but fortunately preoccupied with his new daughter). To add insult to injury, the next day I could stop the flow dead as before and so far I have had no problems whatsoever! Don't they make you mad when they treat you like a piece of meat!
Can anyone tell me how often I should be doing pelvic floor exercises? - several times a day? Repeat how many times? Being a first time mum it's not something I've really had to do, and there's an awful lot of conflicting advice out there! Thanks!
I've always done them, not just when I was pregnant. Just do a set of squeezes whenever you remember - set of 10 x 3 times a day is enough but I often do them whenever I remember! More's the better!
Just goes to show that the exercises work as slinkiemalinki has shown. I don't do them very often at all, only when I remember when I am reminded by something happening or someone talking about them (I am doing them as I type) and wish I had done them more before ds was born.
Hi guys just checking in. Welcome nell what a lovely surprise your pregnancy is. Lol with regards to the Leakages when sneezing. Its happened to me on a few occassions now. . I made an appointment to see my doc again on thursday. Lots of friends and even my husband (who does not normaly notice these things) have commented on my rash on my chest. It is a total burst blood vessel mess. New ones are popping up everytime I heave. I am worried what I will look like by the end of this. Also what the strain of childbirth will do to my obviously weak vessels . The doc already thinks I am mad but what the heck. I am worried my blood is too thin or something. I am definately allergic to pregancy this time around. Feeling like a moaning old miserable had. Sorry guys. No bump or movements so far to show for all of this. GRRRRRR.
Just checking in so new thread is on my threads list!
Love the new thread title!
Think I felt a few more flutters last night and today, cant wait to be booted around the ribs by this baby, at least then I will know its there and OK!
Scan in 3 weeks, hoping they will be able to determine sex, Dd is desperate to know!!
I'm loving the new title . Have tiny pathetic bum (18+4) and am looking forward to having to view pubes in mirror. I think...
I seem to be getting very boy vibes, as is DP. Had already picked out boy name, whereas girl name more contentious in out house. Will be thrilled with either - scan at start of may, so fingers crossed will knw then. There does seem to be a heavy girl weighting this september!!!
izzybiz it is very cool to be kicked by the baby (as you know from dd) but with ds he kicked me behind one of my ribs so much that for about 2 weeks after he was born I could still feel the pain! he must have bruised something!
crabby don't complain about your "tiny pathetic bum" Most of us would kill for a tiny bum! LOL at wanting to have to look in the mirror to see your pubes
Had our scan last week and we have a flasher!!!!! She showed us exactly what to expect at nappytime with the first touch of the scan probe!!!! Legs wide open, 'hamburger' on view. still waiting for my bump now 21+2 and feeling fluttering - it's easy to wake her up when i worry, couple of glasses of OJ and she's wriggling.
Had my first coughing leak tonight ran to the loo so fast dh thought i was going to be sick - i couldn't bring myself to tell him what had happened. just said had a sudden urge. And he knows better than to argue with a pregnant me!
louiseAnn Wellcome to our great group. I am size 18 and I have problems finding maternity clothes too. Try Dorothy Perkins strechy jeans, I have just bought them in a size 16 and they fit really well. For tops try H&M maternity clothes in the XL size.
DTS - the tiny bump is all well and good, but not so good for the sympathy vote - not putting out the rubbish etc. Also, unfortunatly the cough leak thing may be inversly porportional to bump size - less bump visible, more uterus pushing down on your bladder. That's my excuse ad I'm sticking to it!!
just been out to dinner with a friend and have eaten so much I fear I'm squashing the baby...have actually had to undo my elasticated, over the bump maternity trousers.
anyway, have just been having a catch-up after a couple of days away from the thread. congrats to slinki on the boy and to all those who've had successful anomoly scans.
imoscar on the days when I wake up feeling absolutely zonked I too wonder how I'll cope feeling like that and with a crying baby...but as all the wise ones have said, somehow women have coped. Am fully expecting DH to muck in as well.
Have been feeling a few flutterings of movement in the past couple of days. I'm 17 weeks today and looking forward to the day I can share those moments with DH.
Also, properly filling out my maternity bra now. Reckon I might only have another month's wear out of them if I don't stop expanding.
I haven't had those embarrassing dashes for the loo...but equally embarrassing, on weekends I might pad around the house till the late morning in my nightdress and no knickers - I occasionally get a little trickle of CM run down my leg at the most unexpected moments. Panicked once and thought it might be amniotic fluid leaking - that can't happen yet can it??
Hello ladies, just got in from watching 27 dresses at the cinema. Very predictable but highly entertaining, although a little embarrassed at best friend shouting out 'he's her lobster!' when the right people kissed eventually. Do I really trust this woman to be my birth partner?!
So glad other people have brought up the pelvic floor issue, I was going to put something on here for the newbies but didn't want to scare them, but the fact is ladies, you need to know! I had no problems with my pelvic floors in first pregnancy, and even after birth everything was fine. I was laughing all the way...until I got pregnant again. Oh my goodness I wish I had listened and done my exercises before it mattered! Please newbies, learn from our mistakes.
Hello everyone i'm still wating to hear from the doctor about my blood tests. I have decided this one is going to be a girl as it is very different to when I had ds so I thought I would put it on the list
Hardly slept last night as had such painful leg cramps, couldnt move one leg to try and wiggle it around as was so damn sore. Anyone know anything that helps with these?
ok i officially need to read this thread every day for the sake of my pelvic floor it's the onlytime a remember to it
didnlt get much sleep last night woke up and not only was dd in bed with us but so was ds!! he had had a bad dream and dh is such a soft touch he had put him in our bed which is all well and good but number 3 on the way we will need to buy a bigger bed!!
i don;t suppose anyone knows how much it costs around about for a loft conversion on a two bed semi costs do they with or without dormer? am going to get some quotes but the bedrooms are in such a state that i need to have a complete tidy out at the weekend before anyone can go up there
have ordered my buggy decided that the bugaboo was too expensive and hasslesome seeing as ho i cannot drive and would be getting a taxi with dd (2) and baby and buggy seat and chassis would just be too much, so have opted for a loola (they have redesigned the basket on the 2008 version so you can actually get to it and got the carseat brand new half price so am a happy chappy, and it should be here by tomorrow
exactly a week until i find out what flavour my bump is and cannot wait!!!
now i really should go and do something useful like tidy away the huge piles of ironing i did yesterday
Kirtstygem - I've had leg cramps though not at night. I'm told it is common in pregnancy and can be a potassium shortage - so try a banana before bed. But if you google pregnancy leg cramps or some such you'll probably get more ideas.
Crabby - bloody brilliant theory. This explains why I'm still peeing constantly and don't have much of a bump
Think I had some round ligament pain yesterday - woohoo, symptoms! ALSO, twice in the last two days I've had this weord 'nervous tummy' feeling - a BIT like the butterflies people say are the first movements. But am not getting too exited as am only 17 + 3 and its my first. Probably imagining it.
I try with my pelvic floor, but am not totally religious - I probably do a couple of sets of 5-10 squeezes a day and every few days I do the 'ascending lift' type exercise. Got to be better than nothing though!
I think I actually want to be demoted at work - am hoping this will happen when i come back from maternity leave. How tragic am I!? I used to love ym old job, and I could definitely do it part time, but my current role is more managerial, and I don't think it's really very 'me'. Going to be an interesting one broaching that with my managers when I want to come back from mat leave! Although hopefully my colleague is going to be 'acting up' in my absence and he'll be so good they'll want to swap our roles... Sorry for the ramble, just thinking out loud!
Another boy eandz - congratulations! Did you decide whether you are going to stick with Portland or go home to deliver? I read a nasty story in the Eve Std yesterday about a British actress who was VERY unimpressed with Cedars-Sinai... but given your contacts in Texas I am sure you'd get royal treatment! They have just started to renovate and massively extend the ward I am going to deliver on at Chelsea. I just hope it is ready by September...!
Hi all Firstly, thanks for all the positive comments about how we'll all cope and be fine - much appreciated. Think it's cos most of my life has been ordered and 'in control' IYKWIM and I just don't know what to expect. Feeling OK today though.
hopefully know exactly what you mean - I love my job and will return to it after flumpet arrives but it will never be same again. I now have no wish to move up the ladder, I get paid a fair wage for what I do, it gives me satisfaction but that'll do thanks - no extra responsibility for me!
Can't remember who mentioned it, but my feet get quite painful too. If I've been sitting for a while, it feels like they are stiff for a while down the sides. Put it down to ligament pain.
Feeling huge as just look fat, bump yet to appear properly. Getting very strange looks from other people at my gym ("why is that fat person excercising and not losing any weight??!!").
Finally, off to London on Friday! Last chance for a weekend away - doing the touristy thing, seeing a show, eating out, plus it's DP birthday. Can't wait (although, & sorry to those who work in London, visiting London always reminds me why I'd hate to live/work there).
And wise advice carrieon - have many friends who report that the pelvic floor situation is not so joyous as #2 gets bigger, having had no problems first time. Although I have always done my exercises, you can never do too many and reminds us all not to be smug after just one baby! (I always remember my mum telling me when I was smaller that her friends with 3 kids had a leakage issue when the keep fit instructor made them do starjumps - pelvic floor awareness not so good in those days...)
your having a boy too right? it's going to be such an adventure!
i have a feeling i might deliver at chealsea and westminster because it looks 1000% cleaner than the portland and looks and feels like a decent hospital. I would be really comfortable in tx, but I'm not sure If it's right for me to have our son in tx without my husband...which would mean I would have to have the circumcision and all related celebratory events there instead of in london...plus i have issues with my placenta (he keeps kicking it). so i guess it's just better to not worry about traveling and dealing with family.
but still i feel like it might be a mistake. no clue whatsoever if it's the right decision.
Glad someone feels the same as me imoscarsmum! And in other news, I work in London and I get reminded everyday why I don't want to be here!
Am contemplating making a home-made bump band. Am quite a good sewer, and am thinking I could just get a length of stretch jersey and sew it to be a band. I don't want it to conceal anything, but it has become apparent that a couple of my maternity tops are going to be far too short by the time I'm about 30 weeks, so I'm thinking this could be a solution...
. I am not vain but it looks like I have a contagious rash on my chest. baracoo dont worry about the stretching pains. Its your ligaments and perfectly normal. Have a good evening girls x 
but maybe it will encourage me to desist from spending all day clicking in and out of MN! 
of ur chocolate fountain elideb. Mmmmm
