Feb babies 2011 - We may not be glowing but we're definitely growing!

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The old thread was getting quite full so I took the liberty of starting a new one, I hope nobody minds! I thought I'd keep in with our glowing and growing theme (I'm not very creative, sorry).

Morning. I am huge too and people love to tell me so. They better watch out cos im really loose tongued at the moment and may make a cutting remark.
Am soo excited cos i have worked out my mat leave. As i work mon tues and wed i will end up with most of xmas off so would be a fool to leave before.I have about 4 weeks leave left so am going to take two weeks before xmas and then "return" until end of Dec but will only have to work 3 days in total.I can then take the other 2 weeks before actually star leave in 3rd week of jan and baby will prob be delivered in last week of jan. I feel so much clearer now. I have 24 wk check up with Dr next week so i can get my form and tell my boss my plans.All i need to do now is get some baby stuff haha.

Morning angels, and everyone, have just dusted off my glasses and can see you now , sorry about before.

My bump is already massive and I keep bumping it on the edge of my table when sitting down to eat, oops!

I'm a little concerned about how low down my bump is though, I can feel the top edge just above my belly button but everything is really low down and most of my baby's movements are down low too (might be due to lack of muscles to hold it up ). Has anyone else found this?

byronic- I think it's obligatory to blame mistakes on pregnancy, this is the one get out of jail free card we have so use it as much as you can!

Been too scared to join before now after 7mc's.

I am 28, mum of two boys and expecting our third and final boy! I have had hyperemesis this time round really awfully, still being sick most days now. I also have SPD, reflux and heartburn, tie that in with daily nose bleeds and Ithink we can safely say this is the Last!

Due Date is 14th Feb, but baby boy will be born by section around 38 weeks! Have bought a few little bits, still have my quinny buzz from DS2, so just big things to buy now like car seat, carrycot, cotbed, crib!

Julez 20+4 (Wow!)

Hi julezboo welcome and well done on your little boy after all that tragedy. I have 3 boys all grown up now and they really take care of their old mum and soon to be 2 little sisters.
need to sleep-yes very low bump me.ts no 5 but i always carry low. It is apparently the reason i have spd so badly. Kicks and heartbeat all very low down. On the plus side i only have some small stretch marks low down on my tummy which dont show under a bikini...wonders if i will ever wear a bikini again after 5 kids.

Hello Julez!

angels, if you do need to do the GTT you could probably drink the drink (which isn't particularly big) with a straw to avoid your teeth (it's what dentists recommend children doing to limit contact of drinks with teeth anyway). You'd probably need to bring your own, though. In fact if you are having trouble with water now it could be worth using a straw more routinely.

So jealous of the toilet tissue game. My bump is there when i stand and disappears into a layer of flubber when i sit down so still not convinced its the real McCoy!

Got to go to docs this afternoon, been having severe stitch like pains on my right side. Cannot work out what it is, midwife did her checks and said everything seemed fine but go to see doc as could be bowel related...mmm nice!

anyone else suffered with stitch pains? They are constant and don't go until i lie down!

genius prof - had never thought of that but now you've said it it seems so obvious . prof you don't know anything about buggy wheels (see my earlier post) do you? You are now the unofficial fount of knowledge about everything don't you know?!

it's not ligament stretching is it pinkiepoo? Btw my lump is really wobbly when I sit down too, but standing up and lying down it's much harder . It's always pretty hard above my tummy button but a bit jellyish underneath, but I think that's just my fat from my tummy prepg as I can feel a bump under the fat. But even when I'm standing it's sometimes much harder than other times - it's so bizarre.

maybe its so weird, its so on/off. Got in from teaching last night (dance) and i could barely walk! But had dinner and it went. Woke up and its there but in the background and not crippling yet. Just praying it is ligaments as it is really low down by the knicker region!

angels lets embrace our hard and wobbly bumps, ha ha!!

hmmm pinkie maybe all that jumping around teaching dance is messing around with the stretching of the ligaments - I always remember my friend telling me she'd be in agony after just a mile or so when going for a gentle walk about this stage of pg - she'd have to sit down all the time the pain was so strong. She said any excercise/physical activity made her ligament pain alot worse

Hello all,

Been quiet for a couple of weeks as been mental busy at work, with no signs of it letting up for the next month or so. Fully intend to put my feet up when this project is done though! One bonus is that I work in a chocolate factory so I'm increasing my chances of GD with every afternoon treat!

Good to see everyone is growing well (if not glowing), sorry to those with SPD and other niggles. I've been getting backache in bed for the last week or so, when I wake up in the middle of the night it's so bad I can hardly turn over.

Started making a big spreadsheet of all the things we want to buy for the baby, it's very long! Doesn't help that the only thing I've actually bought so far is a very cute SnowSuit from John Lewis. May need to focus more on breast pumps and cots now....

Anyone else been shopping? What prams are you all looking at? Any top tips on what not to buy?

I know nothing whatsoever about buggy wheels, I'm afraid. It's the trade-off for being able to bore for England on the subject of slings...

Angels - you can get bottles of 'slime' from Halfords (cycle section, so I guess bike shops will have it too). You inject some into each tyre through the valve (dead easy - instructions on bottle), and it stops you getting punctures as it, apparently, fills up the holes before the tyre can deflate. Seems to work, or at least I have been puncture free since putting some in our buggy.

I'll get back to lurking now!

Hiya fellow Febbers,

Sorry I have been gone for so long, think I missed the whole of the last thread, promise to try harder on this one!

Had 20week scan last week, everything was good, found out that we're having a little girl and she looks like a total cutie, but we may be a little biased!

Hope everyone is well and starting to look pregnant and not just plump and finding clothes that fit and coping without booze and generally enjoying what I'm reliably told is the best bit of pregnancy! We've got a couple of months left and then it's downhill from there!!!

Congratulations Cordiality

Has anyone who is expecting #2 started thinking about a double buggy yet?

I was looking at someone's P&T Vibe in the park yesterday and it looks fab but is £500. For DS we have already had a Pliko, a bugaboo and are now using a maclaren buggy but I think we're going to need a double or tandem....

ArriettyClock, Come out from lurking! Don't be shy, haha!

Glad we have had some more good scan news!

Welcome to Julez. I hope that you're managing to enjoy this pregnancy after what you've been through!

Tarlia, sounds like that GTT wasn't too bad. Good that you don't have GD!

Shh! I'm not here, I'm doing housework

Girlafraid, the P&T looks fab. Feels really lightweight! The Baby Jogger (I think that's what they're called) look good too. There are a lot of Childminders around my way who tend to have them as they seem to have a lot of space for older children.

I had a Graco one for Childminding but it can't be used for a newborn. DD can walk a fair way now and is growing out of pushchairs now (she's 3). We still use a pushchair occasionally but I think I might get a buggy board for if she gets tired.

Hello ladies,

I've just got back from my scan and it's all looking good so far - the first image we saw was it sucking it's thumb which was about the cutest thing I've ever seen - it made me laugh then actually cry a little!

Nice to see people coming out of the lurking and some new joiners!

Also on the note of glowing I was told that I was definitely having a girl by a client because (Lithuanian saying) girls steal your beauty! (ie my skin is so crap and because I've chunked out!) haha so much for the glow! she meant it in a nice way. Any time I'm looking awful DH just tells me I'm looking radiant which is lovely of him!

Good afternoon ladies, I'm back from my travels (angels1 it was Zell Am See, we have a little apartment there as I worked in Austria for a year during uni and fell in love with it so we had to keep going back!), and all feeling relatively good at the mo.

Had a realxing couple of days, and a couple of less relaxing ones doing little jobs (that always turn into big jobs) on the apartment - decided we needed to re-paint the inside, and get a couple of new flatpack items to update it a bit - cue me being really pathetic at assembling flatpack stuff - "but I am pregnant you know" to DH when he is laughing at how cr@p I am!

Got scan and consultant appointment on Tuesday so starting to feel a little apprehensive about that as well as looking forward to it of course.

Since I went away, it looks like people are really starting to focus on buying things and planning for new baby rather than many focussing on the pregnancy. I think I've been a bit nervous until 20 week scan coming up on Tues, but I will probably go mad after that!

Have decided I hate the one maternity blouse that I have. I have 3 T-shirts which I love and they make me feel pregnant and 'bumpy', but the shirt makes me feel like a reall old-fashioned pregnant/maybe actually just fat person, so it's going in the bin and I'm getting something else! DH said he doesn't mind it but he doesn't think I look as happy wearing it, and he's probably right, I tended to cover it up more and hunch over and hide bump whereas the T-shirts make me feel like showing it off more.

Glad people are on the whole well, and sorry for those suffering with SPD, must be horrid. Nice to hear about people's exciting scan news, can you believe we're half way!

Have a great weekend everybody.

Dx

By the way, had reeeeeaaaally sensitive teeth from about 3 weeks ago for about 2 weeks, to the extent that I was only eating things that were at room temparature, but that seems to have magically cured itself, so if anyone else is suffering from that, don't give up hope, it might not last long!

D

PS Why did angels1 not bold itself in my post above I wonder?

Grigglepuff, ah that explains it! DD must have stolen my beauty when I was expecting her and I still haven't had it back! .

Deliaskis glad you had a relaxing few days! I feel like we've got loads to sort in the house too - DD's room needs repainting and she needs new furniture as the stuff she has was her nursery furniture and it's getting too small! We need to sort out the baby's room and repaint that and put DD's old furniture in there for the baby.

Hi all

pinkie with the last pg I had horrid pains under my bump if I walked any faster than an old granny, went to my midwife in a panic, she told me to walk slower. Huh. I was the slowest slow person ever, it drove DH mad!

julez welcome and congratulations on getting to 20wks- must be such a relief.

We're not bothering with a double buggy, DD (now 18mo, she'll be 23mo when this one is born) prefers to walk and we rarely have massive days out. We'll get a buggy board and the newbie will probably spend much of its time in the sling.

Toilet paper Tuesday sounds good- just hope DD doesn't notice, her latest thing is unravelling toilet rolls....

I had to have FOUR GTT's last pg (3 were overseas), I became quite a pro! Not fun, but nowhere near as bad as childbirth...

Wandering I'm sure that's not true! just repeat after me 'I'm looking radiant, r-a-d-i-a-n-t'! :)

Afternoon all and welcome new people :)

I'm trying to keep up! Hope those with SPD and other problems are doing OK, we're halfway there now!

We're not bothering with a double bugger, DD will be 2.4 when the baby is born and I shall be carrying the baby in a sling a lot of the time anyway.

I am trying to restrict my jelly bean consumption, I just keep craving them though