Due Feb 06 - Our coats won't do up!

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Here it is then ladies - our shiny new thread, named without reference to jumpers, sweaters or cardis!!

Stats to begin - hope they're all up to date!

Teuch, Due 28th Jan, Baby # 1, Age 27, Lives West Lothian (Inner Hebridean Island from Jan), Surprise flavour, mm/c previously
Hotmama1, Due 1st Feb, Baby # 2, Age 38 (DP40), Lives Nottingham, Girl flavour,
3K, Due 2nd Feb, Baby # 1, Age 28, Lives Gravesend, Kent, Boy flavour, IVF conception
Tabs, Due 2nd Feb, Baby # 1, Age 32 (DH40), Lives N Herts, Couldn't see flavour, mm/c Oct 04
Kando, Due 3rd Feb, Baby # 3, Age 32 (DH35), Lives Holland, Girl flavour, DVT last time. Heparin injections.
Lulu68, Due 3rd Feb, Baby # 4, Age 37 (DH40), Lives ???, ?? flavour,
Yeahbut, Due 4th Feb, Baby # 3, Age 30, Lives Holland, Girl flavour, IUGR in previous pregnancies
Mimi5, Due 6th Feb, Baby # 5, Age 37, Lives ???, Boy flavour, mm/c previously
Popadopolis, Due 8th Feb, Baby # 1, Age 26 (DH30), Lives Bedford, Girl flavour, hyperemesis early on - tablets to control
JuA, Due 9th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 31, Lives Chorley, Lancs, Both Girl flavour, 1 m/c prior to DD. Expecting twins!!
SmallHouseDragon, Due 9th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 39 (DH 37), Lives Devon, ?? flavour, induction then emerg c-sec with dd
Womba1, Due 10th Feb, Baby # 3, Age 30, Lives Eastbourne, Girl flavour, Baby 1 stillborn
TicTac, Due 11th Feb, Baby # 1, Age 29 (DH 42), Lives Horwich, Lancs, Girl flavour,
Ixel , Due 11th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 31 (DH 42), Lives North London, Hospital won't tell flavour,
Spacecadet, Due 11th Feb, Baby # 5, Age 33 (DH 37), Lives Cambs, Girl flavour, m/c in March, underactive thyroid, dvt after delivery of last dd
Popmum, Due 12th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 32 (DH 40), Lives Broxbourne, Herts/Essex border, Secret flavour,
RachelRog, Due 12th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 33, Lives Chesterfield, Derbyshire, Surprise flavour, mm/c in March
Chloe55, Due 13th Feb, Baby # 1, Age 24 (DH 27), Lives West Yorkshire, Boy flavour, 2 previous m/cs
Jasnem, Due 18th Feb, Baby # 3, Age , Lives , Surprise flavour, 5 and 6 yo girls already
MrsDoolittle, Due 21st Feb, Baby # 2, Age 32, Lives Oxford, but soon to be Newbury, Boy flavour,
Morgan, Due 22nd Feb, Baby # 2, Age 37, Lives Hitchin, Dubai from Jan, Surprise flavour, Ectopic Jan 05. Heparin injections
Flamesparrow, Due 24th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 24, Lives Bournemouth, Surprise flavour, Waterbirth for no 1. Hoping for homebirth.
mum22soon, Due 24th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 26, Lives Eltham, South London, ?? flavour,
Frizbe, Due 28th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 30 (DH40), Lives Ripley, Derbyshire, Girl flavour,
Thell, Due 28th Feb, Baby # 1, Age 26, Lives London, Girl flavour,
angedemarche (Jangus), Due 1st March (c-sec 14th Feb), Baby # 2, Age 27, Lives NI, ?? flavour,
poppyh, Due 3rd March (c-sec earlier), Baby # 3, Age ??, Lives South East London, Girl flavour,
Scotsbird, Due ???, Baby # 2, Age ???, Lives ???, ?? flavour,

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Tabs - last week I didnt have any fizzy drinks in, popped to Sainsburys on way home and bought about 8 2ltr bottles of all different sorts. The lady at the checkout shook her head at me as I had all that and 2 pints of milk!! I didnt need to do a shop though so only needed a few drinks.

Chloe - full fat version for me, I seem to like full fat coke, was drinking diet before I became pregnant!!!!

Baby keeps poking feet or something out, not seen it yet but I can feel it. It's very odd!!

Chloe - Don't worry hun, Pepsi Max for me! Which is a trace of sugar and 1 kcal per can :-)

The twirl I seem to be eating at about 14:00 each day however makes up for it

Oh my word! Just read on another forum that I use that a lady who was due 5 days after me had her baby last week!!!!!

We were due to have our first babies within a few days of each other, but I miscarried and she had a stillbirth at 31 weeks, and then we ended up due for our second try at motherhood within a few days of each other too. Hope this doesn't mean that I can expect an early arrival as well!!

OMG Tabs - same day as me too!!! Is the baby ok?

She's in scbu, and expected to stay there until mid Jan, but sounds hopeful considering. Here's an extract from what the mother has written:

She's had a few wobbles, but not as bad as we've been told to expect (as yet!). There are still chances she won't make it, but every day she gets a little stronger.

She lost 110g but has put 40g back on, which is a relief, and she's now taking 3ml of my milk every hour. She's breathing for herself (although sometimes she forgets so has to be nudged back on track!), and generally she's doing well for one so early.

Yikes!!!

jeez - you are feeding my 'premature' obsession! For reasons best known to my irrational mind I have been convinced this baby would come early...

sounds like they are doing well considering, but it is still scary as hell!

On another note, although I wake many times during the night and cannot get back to sleep because baby is busy, last night is the first time I have actually been wakened by baby's frantic early morning martial arts practice!! God only knows what position has been adopted but there were bits poking out both sides of my tummy...

I was looking at the belly-mapping techniques yesterday but I think this baby is still too busy spinning around to make any sense of it!

Ahhh, hope the baby is ok, you will have to keep us informed Tabs. Why did she have her early - was it just premature labour or some other complication?

She had placenta praevia, so had been told to expect bleeding, but she started to bleed so heavily, combined with having some contractions, that they had no choice but to do an emerg c sec. She lost 5 pints of blood in all .

The full story is here if you want to read all the gory details!!

Poor woman, I have had a read. It's good the baby is doing well and fingers crossed she will continue to do so. Scary to think she had the baby 13 weeks early - we have 11 to go but even now I would panic if they said they had to deliver.

Stories like that make you feel all protective of your bump don't they? Can't really imagine what she is going through
ixel- I'm in Rugby so not too far from southam, if your friend wants someone to have a coffee (or water/fizzy pop/glass of milk)with sometime let me know. prob not able to do anything this side of christmas tho as life a bit mad with one at school, one at preschool and various christmas parties/ concerts etc coming up. Not to mention ds1 having adenoids out on 28th nov, watch out for me getting stressed as it gets nearer, we've been waiting for a long time for someone to listen to us about his problems but I don't really like the idea of an op
Hope you are all feeling well today, are your memories as bad as mine? I nearly went to get ds1 from school but then realised he has golf after school on a thurs mind you would be better to go an hour early than late.

How was lastnights fairydancing and do you have pictures?

What a day!!!!

B got up with DH and he set her up with a bottle and Nick Jr... then went to work and left me to sleep for as long as she would let me! Twas heaven, til a phone call at 8am from my friend...

She is recovering from hospital last week, and her friend had come to stay to help her with the kids. A dodgy curry last night led to food poisoning and anaphylactic shock - and a night in hospital. My friend was left with her 5 children, the friend's 10 month old, and still poorly herself. No car (can't drive again yet), no car seat or baby coat (in the friend's car and she had the keys in hospital with her). Time for Super Flame !!! I managed to get a spare car seat, found B's old snowsuit, and got over there to get us all sorted and over to the hospital to take curry samples to the lab, and find out how Alison was doing.

Then some babysitting until her sister came to take the baby home with her.

I then had to head to the shops (my original plan for the day). B has been on cr*ppy food for the past couple of days, along with lack of fresh air, and today was meltdown day apparantly!!!

I let her walk round the shops (she is normally a star) - she tried to climb on everything, in everything, she knocked things over, and then the ultimate - we got to Boots and she ran away By that time, my body gave up and started hurting - back and tummy pains. Not contractions, but very very annoyed with me and complaining about it . We abandoned hope in Boots, and very very slowly made it back to the car (stopped with me needing to sit to stop hurting, and B throwing a tantrum and refusing to stop laying on the floor!!!).

Home now, aching sooooo much. B is eating fruit and only fruit until she is 12. No sugar or sweetners or colourings of any kind ever again.

Well I'm back from the midwife appt. Apparantly I too am measuring on the slightly large side for my dates so I hope that means the dates are wrong and that it's not a big baby! She is going to check again at my next appt. He is also lying transversley at the moment which is what I thought because I get battered from both sides of my tummy at the same time! Oh and she has referred me to the physio because she said my pains sound sciatica related which was a relief because I didn't want it to be that pelvis thingy we had been talking about, still sciatica isn't pleasant either!

Helen - can't release the fairy piccies, they're too graphic

Shame about those pics!

Chloe I wouldn't worry too much about a big baby, how big they measure your bump varies from person to person, last time i was told by midwife i was big then a dr made me have a scan cos thought was small, he was about 8lb 9oz when he was born which is the same as my first so doesn't sound big to me. Anyway it's the size of the head that counts! DS1 had a huge head

Tabs, I will get a sec to read that story, but yikes, that's scarey isn't it
Glad to see all are well and FS is slowly recovering from day from hell, get an early night girl!
DD seems to have lost the potty plot this afternoon, suddenly?! missed the last two wee's and a poo.....think she was having too much fun with her mates one time, but the other two we were at home so no excuses! Fingers x'd tomorrow is better!

Morning girls,

How cold is it outside ! It's read hot at work though so I am dressing for summer indoors and winter outdoors, nightmare!

Just read the full story on the prem baby - it really brings it home that we are all (I think) in a position to give birth now and our little ones could battle through.

Talking of battling I feel like a punch bag these past couple of days, it's like he just can't sit still at the moment and doesn't ever seem to sleep, is this a sign of things to come? I hope not!!

Anyway hope you are all well.

Morning!

I am hiding in the office at the momment. Today is children in need and the children were allowed to go in to school dressed as what they want to be when they grow up, I have a builder, nice and easy check shirt and jeans and a fireman not so easy involved sewing and silver button making.
Anyway, finished fireman outfit late last night, got very excited children dressed this morning, we were just about to walk out of the door when got fone call to say that the school is shut as the heating is broken I rushed to tell nextdoor who was also just leaving with her small policeman. So no i have my hyper 4&6yrold boys and her hyper 5yr old boy charging around my house as she had to go to work. So........ I am hiding I may be in here a lot today it feel safer than out there! Waiting for it to get a little warmer and will send them to run around outside.

How is everyone today?

morning,

I completely forgot children in need, so we got to school without teddy bears, but my two weren't too bothered.

I've had a rubbish couple of days, I don't cope with anyextra stress or any unexpected events at the moment. I spent yesterday trailing round London for DP because he lost his car keys on the building site at work and needed the spare set. By the time I got there someone had handed his in but I had no more money for a taxi home and had to wait for him to finish. 3 hours sat in a car park did not help my mood at all.

Helen - it's not so much my memory as my entire brainthat's going! W ith each pregnancy I lose a bit more - I used to be reasonably intelligent, very organised and pretty much together. Now I dither about all the time.

Prembaby story was pretty scary! I am notready to have this one yet. Glad she seems to be doing so well so far though. That is quite reassuring.

I wish the heating had broke in here! I'm flaking big time, they can never get it right (or am I just never happy [blush!) I bet the kids are happy that they can play all day instead of going to school Helen, I used to love it when the bus didn't turn up or there was too much snow to get into school.

I've got a very boring day ahead of me at work, I have one busy week out of the month where it is just mad and then nothing for 3 weeks - it just goes painfully slow, can't wait to leave and then when do come back to work part time I will definitely go back to my original chosen career path as a vet nurse, office work is just not for me - what was I thinking when I thought it was my best option?

I am going with head in the sand for the full details of prem baby story ... I think if I read all the details it will fry my brain right now!!!

I was talking to DH last night, and I get braxton hicks when I have done too much - we are both now starting to doubt whether I will make it to full term (odd considering how late DD was). I think it is really just a sign for me to listen to my body - at the first twinge, I need to stop completely. They could be nothing and just us being paranoid, but I'd rather err on the side of caution. We've decided that we don't mind a couple of weeks early - valentines baby could be nice .

Jasnem, don't even get me started on the memory front, I have become the dippyest woman I have ever known at the moment! DH laughs at how stupid I have become so don't worry, you are certainly not alone.

Flame, I seem to be getting an awful lot of Braxton Hicks too and I do get them more often when I have done too much, so much for all these heavily pg women who go swimming everyday and do light activities in the gym - my body feels like it is falling to pieces! I am turning into a fat blob and I have never encountered so much cellulite on my thighs, I loved wearing short dresses/skirts and was always reasonably happy with my figure, I don't feel like I'll ever be capable of getting that back I nearly hit DH last night, I was in the bath commenting on my big bum and thighs and can you believe he actually said don't forget about the fat back you are getting then he immediately apologised, I was very hurt because I thought it was just my bottom half getting big and thought his comment was uncalled for - bastard!

They say that you loose brain cells with each pg..... think I'm beyond help now

Morning all. Just back from seeing midwife.

My GTT results were fine, so no GD for me - hurrah!
Iron levels have dropped to 11 (were 12.4 on booking), but she says that doesn't need tablets - just to increase my dietary iron a little. Measured 29cm, which as I was 29 weeks yesterday is spot on, so feeling very proud of my little girl!!

She said that my pain does sound like SPD, and just to take things easy. She said I can still go to yoga, but must tell my instructor, and not do anything that requires opening my knees far enough that it hurts.

Chloe - you can do some of my work if you like! I was supposed to be taking today off completley, but have been so busy this week that will have to log on for a couple of hours to catch up.

Ah well, off to take ironing and dry cleaning in now - back later. xx

Flame - definitely go with listening to your body, and resting as much as possible. Did you manage to get someone to take your DD for an afternoon, so you can rest in the day. I was in touch with a charity called homestart (I think) when DD2 was very small. They support parents with children under 5, and came to me when I was finding things hard with mine Maybe they could help if you have noone else. I know you can self refer and will find out more for you if you want. Their volunteers are all mums, who could stay in with DD while you had a lie down.

Chloe - I wouldn't worry too much about your body. You are quite young, and it will probably come off quite easily. I am 10 years (+) loder than you, but naturally quite slim. I try not to look too much, but I know I lost most of the excess flab after the last two. I was actually quite underweight before I had them so I didn't want to lose it all.
I remember the shock of not being able to get my jeans past my thighs when DD1 was 2 weeks old. I didn't realiseI'd put weight on everywhere til that point.Does your Dh have a beer belly that you could point out to him when he's so insensitive. If he does it'll probably still be there long after you've got your figure back.

Hee hee have to chuckle at your post Jas because yes, DH has grown a beer belly whilst I have grown a bump. Thing is he has more of a hangup on his weight than I do on mine! Sometimes he gets really annoyed with himself and I think he tries to make himself feel better by dragging me into his we have both got fat now lets get fit rigmarole which he will go through once in a while and then head back to indulging in his chinese and bottle of wine I'm a stubborn cow though so the more he comments the more I will go and buy a big fat chocolate cake and eat it in front of him until I can't move just to prove that I will not listen to him ranting!

Oh and Tabs, I'd gladly take some work load off you at least it might make me not look at my watch every 5 mins! Bring on maternity leave!!!!