To bake or not to bake, that is the question...

I'm just hoping having a dh with ginger hair is the same as eating ginger biscuits.

Its like that at my mums house, whenever I go round the toilet seat is up. Dh is very well trained and never leaves it up.

Hi kayzisbroody how amazing about the ginger thing!! I've never heard that before. I also would like a dd this time despite the morning sickness. Had my first boy and girl with hubby number one would like same with 2nd (and last ) hubby, so far have ds Also have two lovely stepsons so unfortunately the toilet seat is permenantly up in my house if you know what i mean

^^Gosh I dont have ramble sometimes!!

Hello Lassie(I was going to to call you Wee but decided it didnt sound right).
Ah Blossom Hill, wonderful stuff.

I'm hoping for a dd this time round but everyone on here says that they had really bad morning sickness with girls.

Diege, you are so brave. I have Trypanophobia or needle phobia and could never have acupuncture. But Dh is ginger and loads of people said I didnt have morning sickness because of it, so hopefully I'll never have it.

Hello ladies, may i join you? I'm an habitual lurker on these threads and i'm feeling brave after a few glasses of blossom hill I felt the need to add my tuppence worth. Diege I have 3 chidren (2 boys and a girl) and have to say that i only had horrendous morning sickness throughout with my dd. Also 2 out of 3 with the poo thing

Signing off here too!! Off for an early night with my Martina Cole .
Absolutely NO buffy allowed in the diege household I might add!!! dh has a thing about her, and had posters up in the house before I moved in . So it is banned .
Thanks for sympathies on the sickness front - I am really trying to think positively for no.4 and see if I can just struggle through. Will def book acupuncture, even though GP was very doubtful of it all last time (as I was of his 'ginger biscuits' suggestion, pah!!)
Working from home tomorrow, so will be on throughout day hopefully (other than having my roots done in am). Oh it's a hard life

Kayz - congrats on DS, that is fab, each milestone is so exciting. Are you ready to start running round after him - as soon as DS found his feet, that was it, he was off everywhere!
Diege - your MS sounds awful, shall keep fingers crossed for you this time, but I know others who have had the same with each pregnancy too. Mine was nowhere near that bad - sounds a bit like yours was with DD1.
GJ, hope you've enjoyed your Buffy DVD. I'm off to bed, as have to be in work by 7am tomorrow. Night all.
xx

Oh I dont know, I like the second one when Angel is all evil as he is so funny with Spike!

Diege that sounds horrible!!

GJ Buffy DVD sounds good to me!!

Hi Moos! Sorry to say this, but nothing seemed to help . And I tried the lot! With dd3 I was signed off work for 6 weeks or so, as even sitting up in bed made me sick (I couldn't even read as the smell of ink on paper made me heave, even the noise of the doorbell!). I kept the acupressure bands on constantly, but they made my wrists really itchy and sore, so got rid of them (made no diff to the sickness). Got the Morningwell CD that had an effect of sorts. First time I played it after 30 seconds I have never been so sick! So obviously triggered something!. Pregnancy 3 was the worst of the 3 (I have 3 dds). No 1 was all day constant vomiting, but I could walk around etc. DD2 the extreme of normal I think (ie, sick in plastic bag on train, but then OK).
I think by 10 weeks or so I could eat a dry bread roll (before then a rich tea a day; chicken soup - brought back up, but stayed down 20 mins or so). Then in the following weeks hot chocolate and thick cut ready salted crisps were a god send!!
Sorry if this isn't what you wanted to hear . I think you have dds too? (some say it's linked)This time I am going down the hardcore route: I'm getting acupuncture and will also request drugs. I think I slipped into a mild depression with the sickness, and don;t want to be in tyat place again this time! Sorry for going on - my sickness stories are like most people's birth stories - I can't stop talking about them when I'm asked .
It will really help to talk to you guys about it this time to get me through! Strange to plan a pregnancy around sickness, but I think there are others on this thread too doing that (Teuch?)

I didnt have any morning sickness so I just put loads of weight on.

Me too Diege, that's one thing that's almost put me off having another, did you find anything that helped?

Kay, I have the (not that it seems it at the time) bonus of dropping a stone in the first 3 months of each of my pregnancies, due to hyperemesis). However, by the end of each pregnancy I have gradually put on more and more, so that now I'm about 10 pounds over my usual weight. So yes, I'm going to keep on sort of dieting, but for first 12 weeks will just aim to keep something down!

It was fantastic!!
I'm still dieting until I find out if I'm pg. But I'm still going to eat heathily.

I was actually terrified I was going to poo.

Oh and I think that's 3-2 on the poo front

Ahh, how cute Kay, it must have melted your heart . I love lo's expressions when they realise what they've done!
Star, I'm still trying to lose a few pounds too before ttc. This is it now (I told myself on Friday!) - it's now or never. Really trying to be 'good' - not denying everything, but sticking where possible to Slimming World 'guidelines'!! That parika chicken sounds wonderful!
I think re pregnacare guidelines it doesn;t stop it working iyswim if not taken after a meal - just kinder on the digestion I think! (Like taking paracetemol on an empty stomach - still works, but can 'repeat' on you a bit!). That's what I'm believeing anyway -I usually take mine last thing at night just because that's when I rememebr I've forgotten to take it!
Arsenic hour now, so catch up later!

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ds pulled himself onto his feet today and took a few steps while holding onto his lion walker thing!!!
He then fell on his bum and looked confused!!

Hi Ladies - 5 pages to catch up in 2 days ! Diege and Moos I'm in your company, not Nat & Kayz - I had a water birth so there was no escaping the fact that I'd pooed! Only thing that consoled me was that I had heard about it beforehand and SIL told me story that when her DD was born, she had her DH in a headlock and his head was quite close to the action!! He is now ex-DH and a complete and total loser - obviously he got what he was due in advance !

Playing, thanks for lovely suggestions re. lunch yesterday. I found a lovely recipe for paprika chicken with lemon rice and everyone enjoyed it. I did make two desserts though, but managed to stick to one slice of lime cheesecake (made the choccie brownies with wheatflour, so I doubly couldn't eat them, as am intolerant to wheat and given up choccie for lent). Still felt quite virtuous as everyone else had cheesecake and brownies with ice-cream.

LL - don't worry about typos, I didn't even notice them. Have seen lots about the fact that apparently as long as you get the first and last letters right, people will read what you meant without noticing the errors - aolng teh lnies of tihs ralely - so it doesn't matter if you mistype occasionally.

Diege, is it really only one more cycle til TTC - think you're April/May like me? Still persisting with weight loss here, and this weekend won't have helped much, but I haven't totally overindulged. I am still expecting AF next weekend and then it will be one more cycle til TTC - how exciting! As predicted, I did get really broody when my pg friend was over yesterday and know I'll be even more so when DC arrives in April. Plus DS is so cute at the moment! And am feeling on a high as I've realised I have enough meals frozen for him for probably next 2 weeks, so no immediate cooking needed - yay! It is so sad that I get excited about that!

LOL at TV births though! I can't complain, as I was only in hospital 3.5 hours before DS was born - and to think they told me to wait at home for longer, but I said "I don't think so!" - maybe I'll get a TV birth with DC2?

Can anyone tell me re. Pregnacare, do you always take it after main meal as per packet instructions? I keep forgetting and remember at other times of the day - is it better to take then than not at all?

Right, another long waffly post from me -sorry .

Just been sorting through ds's baby clothes. We're giving some of the stuff to charity and keeping the really nice stuff. Only problem is that I wanted to keep everything!

Thank you and WELCOME Moos . Yep, just Kay and Nat who are 'anally (sp?) retentive' .
Very sick of Cbeebies here too. Off to Blue Planet Aquarium this afternoon (probably with the rest of the North West looking at the weather!
Have been reading with interest the thread in parenting about going from 3 to 4 - very encouraging! - although I'm having one of those mornings when I would happily give them all away!!!

Hello Moos,

NJ maybe its just us that don't poo!!!

I have been watching Cbebbies all morning and its driving me mad now!!

Doesn't everyone poo in labour?! I had DD2 at home so at least it was only mw and DH to witness!

Good morning (5am this morning, I wasn't impressed, especially as I hadn't been to sleep by then )

Welcome Moos You are in fine company here (well all except Diege, she poo'ed in labour ) LOL Sorry, couldn't help myself, you want me to poo, I will expose!!!!