August 2011 differs.......eating, puking and weeing our way into the 2nd trimester

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New home for us ladies!!

oh, and I seem to have lost the ability to type or I've become illiterate!!

KTisPG you can have my appetite. Seriously. Take it.

Today I bought a jacket potato for lunch and then added a side of fries. Fried potato with baked potato. That's like rice with a side of spagetti.

I put this ill-disguised raw greed down to a pregnancy carb craving. Then got to my desk and only ate the fries.

So now a cold abandoned plastic cheese covered jacket potato peeks at me accusingly from its polystyrene prison.

And that just made me think of eating satsumas.

I love to labour in the water but (and I know this is irrational) I can't help but think thatsince we are land mammals that breathe air being born underwater is risky.

Ds2 was posterior and born face up. It took a good few minutes and one mighty shrug for him to turn around before his shoulders were delivered. I would have been paranoid if his face had been underwater in those crucial moments.

Bear in mind that I will be so delighted to make it to term that I will deliver standing on my head if need be.

I'm home from my scan and... everything is fine - yay!! I was so desperate for a wee mind that she was hurting me touching me and the first thing I did when she had finised was run and I mean run to the loo. I was having trouble walking to the place never mind getting on the bed!! Any way they have sadly brought my date forward so instead of being due 3rd Aug I am now due 28th July. But if its ok with you I'm going to stay here... I may go over (hope not and didnt with my first two like) and I like you all... they may not be so friendly on the July thread eh?? Just waiting for my blood results now, should be about 2 weeks they reckon and they I can shout it to the world!!

Yeah LittleBeat!

I don't know how that part of my post got struck out...

*Cadmum I'm not 100% about this, but I think if they are born in water they don't take their first breath until they are lifted out. Seem to think it is something to do with them being in water in the womb? I may however, just have made this up!!

Rehune I've got plenty of appitite, in fact I'm being a complete pig. Nevermind eating for 2 - I'm eating for about 14!!!

you're being very restrained in waiting littlebeaut!!! glad everything went well and def stick about!!

just wondering if in previous pregnancies anyone's seen a consultant and then been able to give birth in a midwife led unit (mine's attached to the hospital!) As the guy has said natural birth ok, am really hoping I'll be allowed, do NOT do well in a medical setting and the midwife unit has loads of birthing pools. (appeals to me as makes moving during labour easier)

In all honesty daisysair I'm not really sure what to say. But my youner sister had a few problems last year (21 she was) and had to terminate a pregnancy at 23 weeks so to save any unplesant memories I just want to make sure all is A-ok you know??

Oooh my was with me today and is coming to the next scan on 18th March too... and think now she has seen and everything is fine she is coming around to the idea a bit more. And was talking to my sister today about how when I'm in labour they can just sit down in the cafe cos its now a Costa - gee thanks!! ha x

Beaut fab news lively x

Sorry that's supposed to say lovely

Good your mum is pleased also! They don't always approve of decisions we make, but come round eventually :)

wow that must've been tough for your sis.. fingers and toes definitely crossed for the next 2 weeks for you then! (and for all of us really...) LOL @ costa sitting-they'd at least have a massive caffeine high to help you out afterwards ;)

Ps you are a spring chicken compared to me! I will be just 35 when this one arrives assuming everythings ok. Like cadmium I will be so pleased to get to term I don't really give a shite how it comes out, just as long as it's ok !

Great news LittleBeaut and exciting!

See I cant move to July posts can I?? No one knows me there and how mum was, how I was having kittens this morning and how I have 3 times as much ear wax (and other fluids!!) than I usually have do they?? And in all honesty... I cant be bothered telling them!! haha

I will be 31 by the time I'm having bubba - eeeek!! Which reminds me that I nearly asked the nice lady that was doing my scan today if she was old enough as she looked so young. I said to mum "I really am going to have to face facts that she isnt young... I'm old arent I??" She said "Yeah!! Your defo cracking on a bit now" But she was laughing, so think she was kidding haha

I've booked in at long last (10 weeks today). It was the same community midwife who I had for my DD and DS, and she's cared for my two best friends as well, so there was lots of catching up and banter, and she filled in half the form without even having to ask me the questions! She is really trying to persuade me towards a home birth - I've had two relatively easy labours which were very quick so I'm low risk...oh and she loves delivering babies! But DS's was my perfect birth and I just want a repeat of that - went in to hospital at 4pm, lovely waterbirth at 6:45, home eating fish and chips by 10pm. She's arguing that there wouldn't be the three hour wait for chips if I give birth at home, and said she'd bring her own cillit bang for the tidy up afterwards! Still, I feel safe in hospital, I know the drugs and doctors are right there if I ever needed them.

cadmum your baby will have been in water inside you for 9 months, they're not stimulated to breathe until they reach air, some babies 'swim' to the surface, I opted for the hoiking him out for a cuddle option though! I delivered the placenta in the pool (and things had to be fished out with a seive ) then they drained the pool and were like ok you really have to get out now! I loved the freedom to move around, freedom you don't get much of in pregnancy! But I know its not for everyone :)

Thing I'm annoyed about from my booking in....my notes are sent off to the hospital to be put in the system, and I get them back at my scan. Previous pregnancies I've had a letter from the hospital saying "you're in the system, you may now phone and book your scan". Now the procedure is just that I phone after 10 working days to book it, so I'm not even allowed to phone til 4th Feb, when I'll already be 12 weeks. Goodness only knows when I'll finally get to see my baby :(

Sorry that was a) long and b) self centred!

littlebeat I'll be 31 too when I have this baby, but 30 is the new 21

Capp I couldnt agree with you more!!

Capp glad you got booked in at last. I called today to chase UCH as have still heard nothing and was told that they processed the referral yesterday. My booking in apt with midwife is 4th Feb when I'll be 12+1 and my scan is 9th Feb when I'll be 12+6.

As a first-timer it just feels like such a long time to wait to meet a midwife but you guys are covering so many of my questions that I think I'll survive. Am following the water birthing with interest as am keen to give this a try and I could do this in the hospital at UCH which would be a good compromise for a nervous first-timer. To be honest would probably be a straight case for pass me the painkillers usually as am a total wimp and v scared but my mum had a bad allergic reaction to the epidural when she had me and ended up with a pulmonary embolism and other DVTs so am not sure if they will even let me have it. Water birth seems like a good way of avoiding that risk ... sieve or no sieve!

littlebeaut You are NOT an OAP mum hun. I'll be 31 in October, so of a similar age, and I'd smack someone if they called me an OAP.

My boss is expecting her first in March and is 38 already... so you're a long way off x

hi all,
apologies for lack of posting, have been busy with work and just about managing to keep up with reading all the posts, not much time for my own.
capp i feel the same about dealys for booking appointment, i have booking on monday when i'll be 11+5 and scan the following week at 12+5, which is all fine if your LMP date is correct, i was starting to flap (sounds like a few others on here doing same which is reassuring) that if i was further ahead than this, if scan was left much later, that nuchal fold wouln't be possible after 14 weeks! had to throw bit of a fit to get appointments booked and have found local midwives less than helpful. luckily midwife at my previous doctors practice (moved just before Christmas) was wonderfully helpful and booked everything in for me!

i also am watching water birth info with interest, having met local midwife last thing i now fancy is homebirth with rick of her turning up, but i quite like the idea of water birth, my sister in law has had two, and seems to think they are great, and i have to say best advert was OBEM, especially if i could also look like that in a bikini? (will not happen!)

As for OAP mums, i'll be 31 in April next year, so am rather hoping that i'm not an OAP! certainly don't feel like one.

Firawla: i know how u feel my 2 have not been sleeping great this week, and if its not the dc's the dog has been barking to go out at 3am!!! My ds (2.2yrs) is always saying that something is roaring in his bedroom and we have to take different toys and even pictures out at nights as he says they are roaring!!

i feel much better after moaning on here so thank you all for being here!!

cant wait to eat my own body weight in chinese tonight im sure that will lift my mood!!!

LittleBeaut-OAP???? I am going to be 33 when (everything crossed) this one makes an appearance and I am considered a teenage mum amongst most of my peers.

Firawla and Rehune I am now really inspired by the thought of a family trip to Sri Lanka. My DP did loads of travelling pre me and I really don't want to wait until my retirement years for some more adventurous trips.

Someone asked about consultant care and then birthing in a midwife led unit. I can only talk from my experience (major london teaching hospital). I had consultant care due to a big bleed at 37 weeks and previous treatment to cervix and he was happy for me to deliver in midwife unit. I think it was considered a compromise as I had really wanted a home, water birth. In the end I was induced, so apart from a csection I was as far from a home water birth as humanely possible . I would love, love, love the opportunity to labour in water, I think the weightlessness and mobility must be so helpful.

Capcarrie fish and chips-mmmm! London fish and chips are a bit hit and miss but seaside ones....I need them now!

Just googled 'best fish and chip shops' in our part of london and have found one recommended as excellent. That is supper for tomorrow sorted. Now everyone STOP mentioning food.

bellamysbride thank you so much for sharing yor consultant - midwife led unit birth experience, it's really helped put my mind at ease :D

i've been watching children's hospital and reading emails from friends i've just told about the pregnancy-am an emotional wreck-a happy wreck.

Fish and Chip shops in London?? Hmm... bellamysbride there odd arent they?? You dont have owt moist with them do you??

Thank you everyone for making me feel better about my age. Am going to spend all night looking at my scan picture and reading all my Emma's diary and Bounty stuff now the boys have gone to bed