December 2005 'club' - thread no 8

[Thomcat]

Need ed a new thread.

So how's it going with everyone.
Mole is moving a lot more these days, or I'm feeling it move.
was spooning in bed with D last night and he felt the kick in his back,

SH, what a lovely message.
Back to finishing at 5.00pm so I will travel home with a mushy smile on my face now.

oh sh you're so right (she sniffs, emotionally)
bless you! and thanks for listening
Take care everyone hope I have more time to slack tomorrow xx ninah

ninah - did you book one of those scans at the baby show. Dh and I are thinking about going and I'm temted to book one. I'll be 34 weeks by then and it says between 28 - 33 weeks. Do you think it will matter???

evening all!! iv just got back from dp's mums where we invited ourselves for tea! it was nice
chicken in white sauce with potatoes, peas and sprouts!!mmmmmmmmmm yumyum pigs bum! i fancy some cake now tho!!lol
sh, it sound like youve got a little haematoma- collection of blood under the skin- it feels sorta like a bruise and will go in a few days- like a bruise! did the nurse who took your blood press on the needle site once she had took it out? if not that may be what has caused it- i bruise like a peach so i know from experience that- tho painful they arent going to do you any harm so dont worry! just get the nurse to press a bit harder next time!!

ei -as you can see, from my post times, every night I am simply NOT tired- or sleepy enough- until about 1am. so I potter about on the internet, mess about with digi photos etc, til my eyes hurt and i cant stay up any longer........MUCH preferable to going to bed and lying awake forever!!! HATE doing that. the only prob is dh gets rather narky that I dont come to bed until almost dawn. WHY i dont know hes always snoring in moments, but he has this 'thing' about me staying up.
we had a fight this evening.....me being tired, him being wellrested I should of seen it coming. ugh. hate feeling like the housemaid, which unfortunately is how my lot can make me feel. I am hiring a cleaner I think, the house is getting too much for me to keep up with -that sounds so feeble wrote down, but it is! my lot are messy buggers- and I keep finding myself in floods of tears because i cant do it all......(you know the story I'm sure, if i do the whole ironing pile, I dont have time for all the hoovering, if I do the hoovering I dont get time to dust.........ETC ETC!!!) and I really really wanted to stay alittle more cheerier for longer in this pg. its not happening, I am sad/low quite often last week or so.
s/h -we are toying with booking that scan also. we are thinking about going on the friday. I suspect my urchin will be in the 'wrong position' and hiding its face tho!

lovely message SH! yes I understand what you're saying DQ - my dh had a 4 day weekend and managed to mow the lawn, that was it. no diy, no cleaning, washing etc. & this after I get to clean up after him and his drunk friends on Sat and Sun mornings after their benders at our house - grrr. So I had a small go last night and he started to get stroppy until I pointed out that if didn't want to do diy, fine, but how about a load of washing or cleaning the bath etc. No further comments heard after that
Frustrating though isn't it, if they want a break from diy etc, then fine, but if we take a break, then there's no food in the house, no clean clothes, the house is filthy etc. Think I've finished moaning now

I'm really losing the plot here, ladies. I don't know how many weeks pregnant I am anymore. I'm due 18 December. I didn't make my follow-up midwife appointment at my 22 week one b/c I had to go for an emergency scan. I know I need one at 28 weeks, though.

Oh cripes! I don't know when that is anymore!

I usually do the DIY too in our house!!

It's TP Tuesday!!!
Did I / we miss it last week? Seems ages since I've measured but I have and, I'm still 8 sheets. No change for a month now. I think that it is the bump replacing some of my fat (now my appetite has gone back to some kind of normality!)

I slept like a log last night. First time in ages & it was lovely. How did everyone else do?

Everyone filled up with fuel today? Chaos at our local petrol stations. One has run out & the other has massive queues. At least I can get through the rest of the week now.

expat - I'm due on the 4th and I'm currently 28 weeks + 2 days

Does that help - or is your brain too mushy to work it out too - I'd try but my brain cells all died off weeks ago

You are 26+2 Expat.
This site is quite useful for dates

expat your 26 + 2 today!!!

George - am quite asshamed to admit I did fill up with petrol today. Not so much a panic buy as my car was on red - but I only normally put in £20 a week, today I filled my tank!!!

I haven't called the scan peeps yet, sh I have to say. my main interest is in the other end! What I really want to ask them for is a nice presentation pic of my baby's bot! but will do if I get a mo. Sure they can tell you if 34 weeks is too big. I will ask about this as well when I call and post the answer. I'm like you expat, lost track completely. No chance of that on here tho! blimey george and sh you don't miss much do you!
I am thinking of panic buying petrol at lunchtime. Then again, I could have a sandwich and come on here ...

We panic bought yesterday. Well, DH did b/c he is home during the day. Said there were lengthy queues even at 10AM yesterday morning. A colleague of his went to ASDA and said they were limiting folks to £20/car.

we did forget tp tuesday last week.....I think i remembered sunday! am measuring 8.5sqs now..but bump firmer/harder and lower...so must be replacing at least some nutella with baby I think indeed George. I am eating all the time recently, just picking but constantly!
expat, i have a pg counter on another site which I keep seeing and going 'omg! am i really?' isnt it crazy how we counted it so intently at first and now keep losing track?! I know I go 'up' a week on a sunday so try to keep counting in my head...
scully, hmmm, seems to be a man thing! my dh for example will sleep in the afternoon , get up go for a mad bike ride, come home have a bath and saunter downstairs in time for dinner he has no idea why I freak out sometimes over this! I keep warning him, when the baby comes there is NO NAPS for anyone other than me and baby!!!!
as I had bad PND with my last baby I am being 'watched' for any signs of it returning and its hard to know if I am getting down or if dh is just a lazy git sometimes!!

There was a half hour queue where I went today. They said they will run out of petrol as people are panic buying and with the blockades their petrol delivery will be unable to get through.

Dh is a lorry driver so he is keeping his fingers crossed for a few days off work!!!

I have a lovely purple arm from my blood test yesterday - and am milking it for sympathy at home!!

Spoke to my sister last night (who was at dinner on Sunday) who agreed with me that our mum had behaved badly and I wasn't the worlds worst parent!! So off I went to the pub with a smile on my face.

Ninah - cheers for the scan info, perhaps you could ask them to have a little view down there to see if you can draw your own conclusions. They don't have to pass comment - they must know how to use the equipment though mustn't they?!?!?!

Just measured and I'm still only 8 3/4 sheets of TP.

Just looked back and I was 8 1/4 on 28th June!!! Thats 11 weeks ago!!! How can I have hardly grown in 11 weeks!!

I'm going to speak to my mw about it later today.

oh, thumbs up to your lovely sis sh! glad about that. YOu have more jabs today, don't you?
We just booked work's Xmas lunch - 20th December haha! well I'm having the lamb ... and bringing my hosp bag!
dq I SO know what you mean. Is it hormones, and 'am I being unreasonable' or is dp being a git! I am cutting him loads of slack as I know I freak out about stuff atm, but sometimes I do wonder if I am in the right a lot more than is acknowledged!

yes ninah - two lots of jabs today - one to take blood and one for injection

DQ - I think your a saint for putting up with dh napping - I'd be pretty cross. Be careful you don't get too down, have you mentioned how your feeling to your dh. I'm sure he doesn't want you developing PND again.

I've decided I'm going to speak to my mw today as I don't get nearly as much feedback as some of you ladies. I want her to show me how to feel my baby. Tell me how I'm measuring for my dates and also what position the baby is in. I'm sure it's all in my notes but how the hell am I supposed to be able to decipher those!!!

ohh, just got asked (for the 1st time) if I'm expecting

I would be really chuffed but I see the woman a few times a week and shes only just asked - she obviously though I was fat up until now!!!

DQ, I'd go with lazy git I think it's a combination of them not thinking & hormones making us more vocal about it, at least is it in my house anyway! SH, I have no idea how to feel which bit is where with this baby either. I see my mw again on 30/9 and want to ask about the baby's position, as will be almost 29wks then and will need to start watching if this baby manages to go head down.
Expat, I'm due on 17th, and also regularly have to count what week I'm up to!
10wks Friday until I finish work, have so had enough already - having a hormonal day I think....

Oh, I think that's sweet! pple were asking me at 10 weeks

s/h midwives are very busy ladies arent they? but sometimes you really have to ask about everything as they dont promtp info alot. mines exactly like that! there are lots of sites with 'what your notes mean' articles and I am abit of an expert at reading mine now if I can ever help you
I think we are at a stage with tp tuesday where baby is now putting on fat and not growing outwards bump wise, -it will grow again tho, after all by wk40 we will all look like airships! infact those of us going to the meet up may well do by then too! (we should take a picture of us all measuring with tp at the meet up!)
dh is very aware of my PND and askes me 'do you feel down today' far too often. what i say is no, not really, what i SHOULD say si no, nto down just like a bloody maid to this family sometimes! (he would of course then mentally note 'hormones' and brush it off) sometimes lately I ahve noticed i run out of get up and go, i find it hard to get motivated or excited about the fifty thousand things to get done, and i am aware this can often be the start of a depression for me. but annoyingly it can also mean I have just run out of steam for abit.

glad someone noticed your lovely bump s/h, how lovely, mine sticks out lots and makes people nervous now -LOL, cant tell you the number of times people in stores etc say 'are you okay?' in a nervous sort of way whenever i creak and groan and sit down somewhere for a moment.......v funny.

DQ - in my notes last time she wrote "obligue" it's crossing between the Presentation/Position column and the Relation of PP to Brim column so I don't know what it relates to - do you? Anyway, I have a post-it stuck to my notes today and she won't know whats hit her when I get in that office

I think it's really important you make time for yourself DQ. Could you not point out to your dh that your feeling a bit run down and need something to cheer yourself up. Even if it's just going to Superdrug and getting a face pack. You can lock yourself in your beedroom with a trashy gossip magazine and face pack for half an hour or something?

I think men find it really hard to cope with the hormones/emotions. When dh and I went to bed last night I was saying - Are you happy? and Lots of "I love you's" I was also trying to explain how terrified I am at the prospect of being responsible for another child and going through labour and stuff.

Dh's reply was - Turn over and go to sleep, your getting all hormonal on me!!!! Bless him - think he was terrified I was gonna start crying!!

whoops - oblique (not obligue)

right i have just read through and cant remember a single thing I am enjoying a toddler free day today which has not happened since ds was born. Dhs parents have taken him out to a bird sanctuary and for a picnic and bless his heart he sobbed getting into the car when he realised mummy and daddy were not going. Tears streaming etc i had to go inside cos I started crying..lol Apparently he stopped at the top of the road..lol Dh and I went out for lunch which is just unheard of here and now house is tidied...need to put some washing on and then may have a snooze...its soo weird not having to think about ds and what hes doing...lol
Take care