December 2010, where we waft about in mat gear eating icecream

[Miffster]

Yo December 2010 ladies, here we go - the mid-point of our pregnancies...and beyond!

Hi, just waiting for boys to get home.

I had a right old scare yesterday. Thought I was going into labour. We were up at PILs, was feeling a little uncomfortable so started moving about to try and get more comfortable then a contraction came on. A real proper contraction. Exactly like it was when I went into labour with the boys. The same burning across my back and in the sides of my lower belly. Nothing eased it . Went into PILs bedroom and leant over bed which made it easier to cope with, but boy did it hurt! (And that's coming from someone who had no idea I wsa in labour before as it didn't hurt). So there I am leaning over the bed, tears in my eyes, asking DP what he's done to me! Scared stiff. It lasted about 5 minutes before it tapered off, and have had nothing since. So after having 2 easy pregnancies & 2 easy births, I'm having a pregnancy that I'm struggling with and scared that it's going to hurt and be long when I have the baby.

I've googled Braxton Hicks (never had them with either previous pregnancy) and it wasn't that. Unless the descriptions of BH are totally inaccurate.

This is definitely the last one for me. No more babies here!

japhrimel Try and get some rest - I used a really good system when having some rehab for my ME, it's called Pzizz and if you have an iPod you can dowload it off iTunes I think. It's a form of relaxation, timed programmes from 20 min to 90 mins - need to use it somewhere quiet and it takes a couple of goes of getting used to it but it lets you "wake up" from a quick power nap feeling refreshed. Are you going on the IOW ferry from Portsmouth - if so give me a wave as you go out of the harbour My room in the block is right on the harbour wall and I get the "pleasure" of seeing all the ferries go past when I am there! Once you get to Southsea castle on the left look right and I am in the block there!

93pjb thank you for that pattern link, my mum is really crafty - I might ask her to hve a go!

cheryl sounds scary. i'm having nightmares about going into labour early with this one. don't know why! i'm also worring about easy pregnancy = nightmare labour

my bh have been much more painful than i remember them being in last pg's, and alot earlier.

back in work tomorrow after having a lovely week off just as the weather seems to be improving aswell.

Cheryl hope you are feeling okay now.

I've found a couple of knitting patterns for wraps too but none that are free though.

cheryl, hope you haven't had any more scary contraction pains. Have you told your MW? She might want to do a urine test to rule out a bladder infection.

I'm really in denial about this pregnancy, I think. For a start, I'm only checking in here every 2 or 3 weeks. I really want to have more than one child and was so pleased when we got pregnant again so soon after trying. But there's very much a sense that I don't want to 'rock the boat' with DS. Even though he's very sweetly into the baby-in-mummy's-tummy thing and keeps on talking about babies! I think a lot of second-time-round mothers feel like this, though.

I had my 16 week appt a week or so ago (am 18 wks today) which went well - BP nice and normal, heartbeat good. I think I'm developing a bit of SPD though. The baby's really started wriggling around a lot more these last couple of weeks. We've decided to find out the sex, though I'm still a little sad that I won't get that surprise, but I think it'll be easier for DS to get his head round if he knows if it's to be a sister or a brother.

Apart from that, I haven't thought much about this pregnancy. Last time, I was obsessed. I read everything I could get my hands on. This time, I've opened my favourite pregnancy book maybe three times! Really, I should be starting to read the books my MW's been pushing towards me, about home birth and hypnobirthing. But I feel like I'm in a bit of a bubble still. Haven't bought anything (aside from a couple of maternity tops and dresses on ebay!) because we have most of it already, and a friend's giving us her Moses basket because mine is all musty from the loft. I suppose we need to think about a buggy... I'd like to give washables another chance too, but first I have to sell the (One Life) ones I really didn't get on with first time round! Feel like I should be knitting like mad, but my knitting head seems to have deserted me too.

Most of this is probably because we're engrossed in finding a new house. Not going well.

Sorry, this is too long and self-indulgent!

pjb thanks for the wrap link but I think making my own nappies is beyond my skills, I did make dd a couple of taggies blankets and washable changing mat covers, but I tend to stick to square things.
Sorry to hear you're stressed Japh, hope you get a break soon, sounds like you could do with one.
I sold all my motherease nappies last time as we originally planned to only have 1 dc, but we decided to let our hearts rule our heads instead and are looking forward to number two, which means I get to buy lots of new nappies, and there are new types out there now (dd is 5)- so exciting! Imanaged to get some free little lambs and a bumgenius through magazine offers and have been getting others cheap through mumsnet or reduced on websites - kittykins does very good prices and free delivery, got some minki huggles from them, cheapest i could find but limited colours. Just hunting for more wee notions as I found they were v absorbant last time and great for nights and long car journeys/shopping trips etc.
Reshape, like you we hope to find out the sex so we can tell dd if she's getting a brother or sister, I think it will help her to bond with it. Shes being very good and is very excited about it too!

Underage & Pregnant. You have to watch it! Welcome to Portsmouth!!! The sonographer the girl from Portsmouth has at her 20wk scan is the one I had for my 12wk scan.

I've had a few more twinges today, not as bad as yesterday but similar, so maybe it is BH. DP has told me to phone mw, so I suppose I'd better do as I'm told.

Sorry need to RANT! On way back from N London to Portsmouth, waiting at ferry (yes cherylannetweedy the ramp by the station on the Pompey side) and some idiots cycle down there at top speed screaming and shouting and one of them hit me Admittedly only with handlebars of his bike onto my elbow but it still shocked me - should have seen the look on his face when I pointed out that a)he had hit me b)I am nearly 5 months pg! Sorry just really annoyed me! Rant over

Hi all, had a blinding migraine since thursday which finally eased lunchtime yesterday. It's horrible especially knowing that if I could take my normal triptans it would be gone within an hour.

20 week scan went really well, everythings fine. Found out I'm having another girl. Can't wait to get some cute little dresses. Don't know if DS will be happy about having another sister though.

Morning all

Morning OWO - another day I should be working and I seem to be on here already - haven't even bothered to get into my work clothes yet!

Morning all. So, another week...sigh. I am really struggling with work - not only the general getting out of bed, daily energy levels and motivation, but also remembering what I have done and where I am on different things. My brain is really not on top form. At this point it seems like forever until December.

Reshape, I think it is normal to be a bit more ambivalent about the second pregnancy - I think it's a function of a lot of things - you have less time generally to obsess about focus on the pregnancy, you have all the emotional and logistical issues of introducing a second child into the family, and also, it's not quite as new and surprising like it was first time around. For me, this pregnancy has up to this point gone much quicker than the first one did. It's slowing down now, probably because I'm starting to feel big and slow myself. Oh, and because I am dying to be able to share a bottle of wine with my DH again!!

Morning. Slightlytired I'm with you on the struggling to work thing and like you, December seems like it's years away. However, I'm working from home today and I got more done in the last 3 hours that I'd usually do in about 3 days, although I've found out I've got to go to the annual board meeting tomorrow afternoon (eek!) as my line manager's going to be off. I've never been to one so I'm hoping our director is going to take the lead as, having been on hols, I've not even seen the report being presented. Nothing like a bit of pressure on your first day back.....!

Bit of a dodgy tummy this morning but I've got my belated 16 week miwive appointment at lunchtime so hoping that goes well.

maxpower I too am working from home today - it is brilliant as I find I get loads done, and still retain some energy for bathtime and story reading at the end of the day. And, I just whipped up some pikelets - took literally 5 minutes - and am eating them as I type, slathered in butter and strawberry jam. Mmmmmmm. (There are no biscuits in the house and I was having a blood sugar moment!) I figure everyone at work would have had a coffee break by now, and I have warm pikelets in less time than it would take them to walk to the coffee shop!

Good luck with your board meeting tomorrow - nothing like being thrown in at the deep end.

Happy 5th month to most of us!!! Do you guys remember when we were nervous new pregnant women afraid of admitting or telling anyone so that we don't jinx it? Here we are! Round, happy and showing!! How exciting that most of us know now that what we have!! My 21 wk scan is tomorrow and can't wait to see the LO again and find out if pink or blue... I have been in such a good mood in the last 3-4 weeks and smiling all the time. Not sure what hormones this baby is releasing but I like them!! I just wished that could get enough sleep and boobs would stop aching and growing then the life would be actually fun Lol...

Want to hear about weird dreams? I was dreaming last night that I am Russian (which I am absolutely not) and it is 1917 and I live in my parents? house and the new Russian communist government is at our door since my parents house is too big for only 5 people to live in and we needed to share it with others!!! How weird is that!?!? Then I woke up and went back to dreaming that my sister can see through my belly and tells me ?it?s a boy? I can see his testis! hmmm...

MrsSnaplegs AUCH!!

Cheryl I went for a long walk on Saturday and had contraction like pains too. Burning on my lower back starting on right side and going across. Called a friend who is a doctor and got the response that it is possibly my uterus stretching or BH. Reading from google BH didn?t sound painful but I guess this is what it is...

slightlytired + Maxpower I can?t get out of bed in the morning too and have been constantly late at work... I am sleepy all the time and energy levels are crap... Maybe we are low on Iron?? I you two working from home. I can do all my job from home but boss doesn?t like it... and again...

thanks slightlytired I don't know what pikelets are but the invovlement of butter and strawberry jam has got to be a good sign

enjoy the happy feelings pjen being miles behind most of you, I'm only 17 weeks pg and more flabby and fat looking than round and showing. I'll get there though!

off to the midwives....see you later

PJen my boobs are still acheing too! I sort of remember them not being so twingey last time - the nipples are still really painful if I brush them accidentally. (Or if DS grabs one by accident...)

DH and I have a conviction that the baby is a girl. Not sure if it's wishful thinking or not, but I had a really strong feeling when I had a scan with DS at 10 wks that he was a he, and I felt the same at the 12 wk scan this time - that it was a she. Who knows?

slightlytired I'm finding this pregnancy is racing along too - already 18 wks - how did that happen? At the moment, DS is being very trying (he was a model toddler until about 3 weeks ago, and then suddenly started being more of a typical two-year old. At 2.5, I thought we might have got away with an angelic toddler!) and that, along with the house-sale stress, is making me wonder how on earth I'll cope with a newborn as well! Still, with any luck at least we'll be settled in somewhere by then.

I know time is flying Pjen! I struggle with how far on I am! The wierd dreams are a strange side effect to pregnancy . Most of the time I quite enjoy them! I've had loads of sex dreams as well - not with DH - but not sure who it is! I'm never really sure.

Re-shape - Its perfectly normal I thik to find it a bit more run of the mill after your first PG. I remember being so guilty about DS1 thinking that his little world would get disrupted after DS2 came along. I remember saying to DH that he could do most of the care when he was around for DS2 so that I could spend as much time as possible with DS1. I didn't quite believe it when he told me that I'd adore DS2 just as much! And of course I do . Funny, I haven't learnt my lesson because I'm now wondering how I can get DS3 looked after by other people so I can dedicate my time to DS1 and DS2. Also with this pregnancy I've not been as sure about what week I'm in . Just figured out I'm 21+4 now .

I am so with you on the work front.... I have such a lot to do but no motivation or interest to crack on and do it . I spent about half an hour earlier looking at all my holidays and figuring out how early I can go on mat leave .

Had my full amnio results this morning and all is well with my LO! Hooorraay!! They also confirmed the willy situation . But we're not telling anyone we know. I feel bad lying when people ask if we know but I reckon its OK to have some things you keep back. Feel bad when my mum / MIL come up wit girl name suggestions though .

We had an amazing trip down south for the air show and visited friends. It was so brilliant and the boys were angelic! Very good despite the long journeys in the car... We did hear the dreaded words "I need a poo poo" at 10.30 last night as we're bombing up the motorway. It was DS2 and he's only just out of nappies as well so doesn't give much warning before the event! Fortunately a false alarm but not before we had already pulled off the motorway, jammies stripped off, and I'm holding him up. Grrrr!

Right, I'd really better summon the energy from somewhere to do some work...

maxpower and slightlytired - very of you working from home for obvious reasons! Would probably get more done as well, so demotivated at the moment - can't seem to want to do anything. I have just suggested to one of my staff we work a 3 1/2 day week and then I might get more done. This morning I have mostly been reading the thread on Horror Wedding Stories in Chat (11 pages!)

also at home made pikelets - will make do with the little pack of biscuits from my packed lunch!

Good luck to everyone having scans this week - not sure why but can't see myself or some familiar names on the stats thread, will try and update it with my bits later - I will try not to break it

Right off to find another long thread to waste the afternoon reading do some work

Sorry meant to say, thats very strange cheryl - hope you are feeling OK now. I've had BH before but nothing that painful. defiately worth a call to the MW who can just check all is well...

back from the midwives - the new children's centre was hidden round the back of a school I've never been near in my life so was having a bit of a panic about being late! Everything was ok, heard the heartbeat (yay!), next up, 20 week scan....

I am knackered.

I have to -

paint banisters
pack rest of house
sort out garden
look after DD

and all on my own - DP not back til Thursday and we move on Saturday.

It's my birthday on Friday

owo i'm tired just looking at your list of things to do. i'm knackered just working part time!

Slighty tired can I please have the pikelets recipe? I was feeling v when reading your post. I am off to Cornwall on Thursday and am going to definitely indulge in some cream tea's yummy

OWO I need to take a leaf out of your book and get organised, there is so much to do and I'm over halfway already!!! I'm actually a bit scared.

TMI question - does anyone have leaky boobs already? is this normal, it's not milky, more like clear liquid? it's not a lot but have stained my bra

I'm off for my 20 week scan this afternoon, I'm so excited but nervous at the same time. I can find out if we're having boys or girls today!