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

[Bewitched]

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,

(The preview of this message is looking very odd and spaced, but hoping it looks ok when posted!!

Hello all! As usual, I dont have time to catch up on all the stuff Ive missed on this thread! Its hard having your mother in law for a week so you cant get online much!
However, a bit late, I'd just like to gloat that... I went to the baby show in the end! My friend called 1/2 hr before it began, to say she had two free tickets and didn't want to go, so we set off immediately!

I'm feeling so huge now... I certainly wasn't this big at this stage last time. I have a feeling its all suger, not baby. Eek.

We've been trying to work out the look round the delivery ward, but we have to do two sites (incase of c section or not). And the one we have a time for so far is rubbish... when ds should be asleep. And not sure if we can take him anyway? Oh well.

Speaking of the new site Flame...

For all those intrested in posting pics, yesterda i set up a photobucket account but some people showed concerns about posting pics up on a non password protected site, so i thought id change it and set up the more traditional yahoo site which i can password protect should we have any problems..... was just thinking of all you guys really.
Its dead simple all you have to do is go to this link;

health.groups.yahoo.com/group/mumsnetpix/

and join the group, then you can access and add pics til your hearts content, some links there too.

Sorry again if this is bother to anyone i should have just done it first off but i got so excited about it i didnt think properly...or is that just becasue i am pg...

i will periodically post the site during today so that everyone gets to hear and i will be removing the photobucket site ( as it has my email detials on it) at some point today)

Should be starting a new thread entitled mumsnetpix, will let you all know when!

Hope all are ok!

J

One thing I did want to say with the yahoo site... at the moment we're not vetted to join - just sign up and your away, so still any random person can join to see the pictures. I think you can change the settings to approve people, but then that will involve you needing to know every member's name.... I'm not sure what you think is best.

I'm not bothered either way

yeah , thanks for that Flame. I thought about it and i think that for now i will leave it as it is. If for some reason there is any bother with new members then i will change it. It just means that i have to email to check if the person joining is a mumsnet member... i dont mind, i dont have anything ese to do for the next 9 weeks!! If anyone does experience anything untoward just let me know via this or the group.
OH BTW there is a calender there to, i thought mayb if people had time they might want to enter their due date on it??? just a thought

Jay - it's not so much that I'm worried about 'trouble' - I just don't like the idea of everyone on mumsnet being able to see me, when I can't see them! That's why I've never stuck a pic in member profiles. Could we not maybe just let you know on here if we want to join in, and then you could CAT us a password?

Just checked out your pics Flame - they're lovely! I may well get round to joining you at some point.

Chloe - If you go back to your doc to complain further about your back pain (and I don't think you should just suffer with it), maybe you could ASK to be referred to an osteopath or chiropractor. They do do it, and it means you shouldn't have to pay. My sister is having recurring problems with bad lower back pain and regularly sees an osteo. It's helping her get through her preg.

Sorry flame - I meant to say lovely pics too!!

Frizbe - think you've just decided for me about my bath dilemma - I'm getting one with a changer on top if it will stop me getting those lovely callouses that you describe!

Ixel - which day did you go to the babyshow - please don't say that you were there on Sunday and missed out on our meet up?!

Can you ladies who are not on your first pregnancies tell me whether I should expect Chip to move more or less or the same as the weeks progress? He was very active yesterday, and seems to be again today, and just wondered if I should expect this to continue, or if it's just a brief flurry of activity!

hiya, Bewitched i dont htink that you can have individual passwords, but i can set the joining option so that i approve or deny everyone that attempts to join, that way we know that the only people joiing are mumsnet members...anyway i dont want to take up yuor thread so heres the link to the pics thread thats been set up , shout me there if you need anything at all!

have a look atthis

J

It will start to even out over the next few weeks (movement that is) - for the time it will probably stay a bit random with some very active days, followed by very quiet... I think its from about 30 weeks onwards that things really start to balance out. You then start noticing that it is normally awake at the same times of the day (you might be already - Spark wakes up for a quick wriggle at 10.30pm).

One creepy thing I have noticed though... DD hated my grandparents house - if I went there, she would kick like hell until we left, and when my Gran was alive, she would cling to me and whinge until we left too. This time round, if there are people about that I get negative feelings about or from, then Spark goes completely still. I normally do a sort of protective energy bubble thingy (yes I know I sound insane ) to stop me absorbing it, but yesterday the scary woman showed up without me having had time, and Spark didn't move the entire time I was in the same building as her - he wriggled when I escpaed for a drive halfway through, and then started wriggling frantically when she went home.

Hello ladies
Have been lurking but haven't posted for a while. All is good with me - am deciding whether to have the anti d injection on account of being rh negative, my anti bodies are fine so am tempted not to bother as I am concerned about it.
Re movement - last time i was working and a chap at work had a very deep voice, my baby used to go mad at that and wriggle loads. I couldn't tell him cos it seemed a bit personal but told him later and in RL they met and my DD was still transfixed by his voice. Weird hey! Musthave been later on though than i am now.
I think the movements get more regular - on some notes i have it says after 32 weeks there should be a regular pattern and you should tell midwives if it changes. My bun is very active pretty much all day now, slightly more at night. In fact yesterday it nearly knocked the remote off my tum!!
Glad to hear everyone is doing well - apart from the odd bad sympton.

Hi popmum glad to see you back!
Bewitched, you'll still spend that much time crawling around on the floor playing, you'll end up with them anyway
Womba happy birthday for yesterday!!

My little one wriggles loads at 4am, 7am, everytime I eat and then at about 9pm. He was particularly active for most of yesterday but I wonder whether that was because I was stressing and crying for much of the day, he is much quieter today - probably knackered from yesterdays acrobatics

Thanks ladies - it's good to have an idea what to expect.

Frizbe - amazing how quickly I can go off a person you know

Now can the rest of you ugly lot get your pics up on the yahoo group thingy please. Need some new darts targets

Am I talking to myself this afternoon??

My pushchair just arrived

Thanks for all your birthday messages girls! If one more person asks me if i feel older today, i swear i'll shove their teeth down their throats! And actually, i feel about 60 today. My mw has diagnosed sciatica and it's playing up a little today. She has said she'll refer me to a physio if it gets worse but she warned me it would hurt like buggery (her exact words!!) I think therefore on the basis of that, i'll put up with the pain!
Bewitched, we've also had our pushchair delivered today... i can't wait for dh to get home so we can put it together and i can stroll around the lounge..

whooooo hoooo , new toys!! i was so excited when my pushcahir came ( few weeks back now) but its still up in the kitchen and everytime i go by it i kinda rock it, saying ' shush now go to sleep' i know i know, its an empty pushchair i am just getting into practice!!
Your pics look great good on you for posting them, Where is the second pic taken of you and DH ? Looks a bit Devon / Cornwally, but then i am rubbish at guessing these things!!

Well observed - it is indeed Devony Cornwally! It's outside Wembury church, near Plymouth, where my brother was about to get married.

Womba - I'm trying to resist opening the pushchair box until I've got the house tidy, as we're having the NCT class here tonight, but it's calling me! Grr - too much work to do really to stop and play properly at the mo.

Yeah - I've added a piccie! I am a cat in my secret life!

Purrrrfect!

meoooow!! Chloe, great pic!

Bewitched only reason i kind knew is becasue i got married in Hope Cove, Devon in August (pix here - www.peanutmonkey.co.uk) and recognised the lovely countryside! Such a beautiful place!
J

Gorgeous dress and loving the bouquet Tabs!

Off to look at photos in a minute.

Can I just do a big

Party food is evil! Why can kids not just be happy with sandwiches, apple, carrots etc, why do they need additives, and colourings and sh*t??? B reacts strongly to all the bad things - it took me a while to work it out, but when I did, it meant I was forced to start eating and feeding her better . I keep her on a fairly even keel, but then something like a birthday party comes up, she eats all the junk food (which I don't mind so much really, its a treat and she likes it), but then I'm stuck with her the next day when she is alternating between bouncing off the walls, and a sugar crash of whinging and tears. I'm aching a lot today - considering aquarobics tonight in the hopes that the water and movement might help it.

Just really in an ARGH mood.

Oh, switching to calling DD "B" - DD has always confused me, and I'm guessing you'll work out who I'm talking about

Feeling like cr*p... even started my very own whingey thread.

Can someone send me some crisps down a storymaker style shute?