November 2011. Bumps, kicks and less feeling sick.

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Thought I'd take the plunge and go for it.

Hi all

Just back from a fab week of caravanning by the sea - lots of fresh air and sunshine, kids off playing with new friends, crabbing, lots of long walks. We all sleep like logs and sleep in till after 9am so not quite sure how they are going to manage to get up for school tomorrow morning!

We will not be finding out what sex we are having cos I like the surprise at the end. Also find it a real anticlimax when you know what friends are having and what it will be called, then you get the call... X has been born, no surprise there then!

I've got Sky recording all the Baby Story and Desperate Midwives and other baby programmed and am sitting here peacefully watching them this evening whilst dh is at the pub!

Hope everyone is feeling well and past all the sickness etc. I'm still doing my yoga DVD every evening - the Tara Lee one is great, would really recommend it.

Well, I just need to vent.... again....

DP finished work late, so had to drive to Manc City Centre to pick him up at around 11. Set off an hour before, plenty of time to drive the 10 or so miles in from Glossop.

WRONG

All of eastern Manchester was overrun by Take That traffic. I arrived 45 minutes late, with a boyfriend pacing up and down the streets of Manchester worrying that I had had an accident.
No traffic management in place, rarely saw police directing traffic (and when they did it was away from the city centre, so I ended up absolutely lost), it was all one big clusterpoop of cars, tempers, people in the road and my car overheating.
In the end I rolled down my window, tears streaming down my face and managed to wave over a man in fluorescent yellow, sobbingly asking the best way to get to the Arndale Centre. Poor man told me not to worry, that it would be ok, and tried to tell me the way (he was wrong in the end, but it's ok, he was nice and comforting).
He asked me if I had been to the concert and I said "F* no, I hate Take That now, if anything." "Me, too" he laughed, and patted my car goodbye.

My DP sobbed onto my shoulder when I finally showed up - he's one of those who think the worse and stresses out. I rewarded him with a Pepperami and some Ribena.

Sorry for long post - just had to write it down and get it out!

knocked up how exciting! A little boy! I agree about the 4 of the same sex but as long as they are healthy:)

caz can't wait to hear what you are having! good luck with the scan, hopefully bow is feeling cooperative

Hi Pandia and Tjuice!

went to a baptism this weekend and there were tons of babies/little kids! All adorable! Made me really broody (very glad I am almost halfways to my own or not sure how I would have coped!)

Hope everyone has a great week!

Caz thinking of you and hoping for a good scan and cooperative baby :)

Good luck today caz cannot wait to hear if bow is pink or blue, hope you manage to enjoy the scan x x

I just have to ask if anyone started to be like really hungry around 17 weeks? I've just finished my third breakfast...this can't be normal!

Hope everyone is getting on brlliantly :)

Caz best of luck with the scan today, hope you have a well behaved babs so you get a gender.

We will find out when the amnio happens, if it ever happens! He wants to know, I don't but I can't have him know and me not. It will help him get closer I think so I'm happy to compromise that one.

I have mw this morning, my questions are thoroughly depressing me. Heyho.

Oi, I have four of the same sex! It's not that bad, really! I would like to have a little girl but tbh, it's probably more likely to be a boy, given past history and I am trying to think of him as a boy and that I will have a five-a-side team. I was glad for Posh to get her girl too. Worse for her because she's in the public eye and people will comment on every aspect of her life.

Caz Good luck for the scan today. Hope Bow is in a good position to check gender

No more bleeding - it was just a one off day. V bizarre, but no cramping so tried not to get too worried about it and have been feeling baby move every so often.

We'll prob find out the sex, but not tell anyone (we did this last time as well). It was still a surprise when DD came out and I loved trying to work out who she would look like.

Could today be going any slower?!! I'm meeting DH for lunch in just over an hour and then our scan is at 2:20!

We are having a little boy! :) Having such a happy day! Really clear picture of winky. I will update blog properly later. So Bow's name is Alexander Jon. Cancer for short!

Xander... Bloody auto correct on phone!

Aah Caz that is fantastic news, good scan, good name (it's our shortlist too).

A blue bow....

Yay for a blue. Here's hoping Xander has a safe journey for the next few months caz

Kind of jealous of those finding out pink or blue, we're going to stay yellow until november!! We both have moments when we would like to know but then remember that neither of us wanted to know beforehand and always said we wouldn't find out!!

I started of having a really bad day...went to see GP, very helpful but is still wait & see re:need for treatment for antenatal depression (though she has advised I research the common ones a bit)... Went to training to find out my boss had told me wrong dates & it was so busy friday I didn't check...got into work and not a lot to do!!!

BUT am now home & doppler has arrived, can hear hb really clearly at about 120bpm!! Could here baby moving as well which has confirmed me feeling baby as could hear & feel at same time :D. Just off to collect DS then he can have a listen once he's completed his homework

Hey guys, sorry I've turned into a lurker. Not sure why but have been feeling a bit insular recently. But Caz's news has brought me out of hiding. Congrats, lovely lovely to hear. Althogh was a bit at Cancer for short. Glad you clarified!

PamSco how are you feeling now? much better?

I'm having a helluva stressful day at work today and can feel the tension in my stomach. Not good.

caz what great news! Love the name... did read 'cancer' a couple times and wonder before seeing the next message:) More so wondering how Alexander shortened to Cancer

moosey glad that the bleeding was just a one off. We are thinking of finding out gender (DH wants to) but not telling anyone - not sure I have the will power.

ziggi I am having my second breakfast. I am 17+6 and eat all the time (but I also still have times where I feel sick and not like eating at all - getting rarer)

chip I hope you get whatever gender you want. Did you try to 'time it' or anything?. a girl would probably be very well looked after with all those brothers:) When do you find out?

Who is next in line for the gender scan? Mine isn't until June 15th

Caz He he at auto correct - was wondering how Alexander could be shortened to Cancer. It's a name I really love and started to worry me if that was a nickname I hadn't heard of!

Gold I'm absolutely rubbish at secrets but no one guessed as I referred to bump as Baby (initial of surname). Also the sonographer was not 100% sure so I pretended that we couldn't find out. Loved keeping the secret between DH and I.

My scan is on 16th June. Excited and scared at the same time.

Keep on meaning to add some tips on the other thread but didn't want to sound patrionising. It's just that when I was pregnant I knew nothing. I was the first of my friends to have a baby and it was so overwhelming. I remember going to mothercare and having no idea the difference between a baby grow and a bodysuit and if baby would really need both

Great news Caz really pleased at your scan news. I am feeling a bit stressed and worried. I'm not sure I've felt the baby move. I might have but because I don't know what it should feel like it might not've been. My next scan is not till 6 July and it just seems so long to wait. I would like to pop back to the MW to ask her to check heartbeat on Doppler again but she is only at the GP surgery for three hours on a Thursday and it is not easy to try and get there when I am so busy at work.

I spent lunchtime looking at dopplers on amazon but have been a bit put off by the comments about how you might just be picking up your own hb or even sound of placenta blood flow and mistaking that for baby hb and thinking everything is fine when it isn't.

I was sick with diarrhoea over the weekend, which is really unusual for me, and I think that has made me panicy that something is/could be wrong. I don't even like talking about being pregnant at the moment.

Well perhaps I should go and be a bit insular for while and just get through the days until 6 July.

I don't know diff between baby grow and body suit! Eek!

Mash I haven't felt baby either but think
Like you don't know what feels like. The books say many dont feel baby until 20 odd weeks so try not to fret x

Goldmaple I don't believe in the timing theory at all because all the boys were conceived well before ovulation and in particular with ds3 we were actively trying Shettle/Hazel Chesterman-Phillips. I did try to eat more dairy and less salt this time but most research shows it's 50:50 whatever you do. I have decided not to care this time but it is hard!

mashpot I have barely felt anything with this baby but I do remember talking to one of my SILs years ago who was pg with her third at the time and she hadn't felt much movement at all. Her ds2 is now a very healthy 13 year old.

I really haven't felt much from this baby at all, which was worrying me a bit as my others were quite active, and when I talked to my other SIL, she said she never got any movement till 22-23 weeks. I think it depends on the position of the placenta and the position of the baby. Try not to worry!

Mashpot - with my 1st I definitely didn't know for sure I'd felt movement until after my 20 week scan so don't worry it really isn't unusual not to be feeling it yet.

On dopplers - your heartbeat is around 90 and baby's is more like 120-150 (old wives say low end of this for boy, high end for girl which would mean girl for me) so if you get one that shows beats per minute it would be obvious or you can feel the pulse in your wrist whilst listening so if the 2 match you know you've got it wrong

Body suit / body gro.... has one got feet? I have no idea.

Went to see my family this weekend, sister gave me loads of baby and pregnancy book. I'm reading the pregnancy books but I don't fancy reading the baby ones yet. I only like reading the pregnancy ones about stuff that is relevant to me right now for some reason.

We've decided we defo don't want to find out the sex until it's born, now I'm wondering whether I'll be able to tell if the babies in a certain position?! How easy is it to tell, I know I'll be trying to look even if I don't want to know!

body suit vs baby grow?? No clue what either is. Would love some tips moosey

chip I had my doubts about the timing method too. Esp since based on bding dates I thought we had missed the mark in Feb (go figure) so I thought for sure it will be a girl but now I'm not so sure. V excited to find out.

Hee hee - I am sure I am not the only one on here to have experienced wearing a body myself in the 80s with the lovely poppers in the crotch!