First-timers due December - new thread!

[mopsytop]

Had to start a new thread, as our old one got too big to post anymore.
yay figgy - your scan sounds great! A wee boy - now you only have to think about boy names. Woohoo.

mopsy there si nothing wrong with you... i am the one with a problem, i have to be organised and have thigs planned wayyyyyy in advance or i stress!

We went backpacking for 3 months, and i carried around with me every print out confirmation, i researched how to get to each place, printed off maps on how to get to local bus stops, how much the price should be so we didnt get ripped off, tour booking confirmations etc etc ... It was a full a4 file... in my backpack!!

Same here, I just get stressed very easily. I wish I could be more laid back about it all, but unfortunately it's just not in my nature.

I am usually not laid back at all! But the migraines forced me to stop worrying and chill out and it is helping me become more relaxed. But I am bizarrely completely unconcerned about preparing in any way. Is very strange for me!
I did buy the Mumsnet Guide to Babies though off amazon so I suppose that will help prepare me, maybe it will galvanize me into buying something. Also I got so much free stuff I guess I just don't need to buy much.

I haven't bought anything yet either. And other than decorating I don't intend to start buying till at least october! As long as I have the big stuff in place, the little things I should be able to pick up during one trip to boots and/or order online from tesco. I just like doing everything at th last minute to keep the excitement alive...!

mopsy I see where you are coming from... I need it to be a bit closer to the time for it to be "real enough" to be buying stuff too.

I have kicks!!! YAY

Yay kri5ty! I want more now

(also greedy for curry chips mmmmmm might have to get some on way home! It is Friday after all!)

Mmmm I want! But its a 10th min drive to the chippy .. may have to make do with oven chips!!

its the 1st time I have felt them, but I can feel it on the outside too!

I only had two and was only like a little shock. Can feel nowt on the outside. But placenta is at front so that may be why, also am a week less than you ...

God I am an utter slob!

Been in bed reading since got home from work at 5.45pm today. Have also just sent DH to MacDonalds for dinner...which I may eat in bed.

LOVE it littlelilou. Sounds like a brilliant Friday night to me!

I'm jealous! I have been on my own again since half 1, as we both work shifts, he has just got home and has now gone out for the night... the only seeing him for one afternoon a week is really getting to me now... must be the hormones!
I just want to go out for a boogie lol... also a coke zero but the shop is too far lol

Am with you on the Coke Zero kir5ty, am mainlining that at the moment as feeling rather knackered. DP is visiting family this weekend, but I'm going to cry off as I need a weekend of just doing nowt to recuperate. Since I've been 11 wks we've either visited or been visited every bloody weekend and with working full time I need some rest. Feel like joining littlelilou in bed for book and takeout (metaphorically)

Hence impressedness at all those moving home.

And am inbetween camps for organisation..have written lists of all I need, but gotten very little of it!

Just been round to work chums house for food and chat probably a whole pizza and 2 puddings later really wish had shown a bit more restraint. Massive fatty alert!!!

Nah,,,, it's Friday, popped out at lunch and bought slice of toffee cake which swiftly disappeared, and then had extra large dinner this evening.
Think at least one scoff day a week is a necessity to stay sane (and not try and eat pigeons/small children/unwary dogs on way home).

Enjoy figgy!

Is coke zero caffeine free? I've tried caffeine free coke but it's so RANK!

kri5ty, I couldn't cope with working shifts when DH & I used to work opposite 12 hr shifts, I resigned because my work/life balance was messed up so you have a big (non mumsnetty) hug & sympathy from me!
DH has been told it's 'likely' days off will be cancelled until September, so looking forward to not seeing him at all for the rest of the month :(

figgy, Northen, sounds like a good dinner! I've had a pot noodle
littlelilou, if I wasn't such a fidget I would've been in bed from about 3pm! Really considering getting a tv in the bedroom, just to keep me occupied whilst pregnant & suffering!!
Does anyone have a tv in bedroom? Does it ruin the 'relaxation'?

I think a tv in bedroom is a bad plan. If I watch tv straight before bed I find it hard to settle down to sleep. But each to their own!!! Maybe it would be okay while pregnant!!

AWCH nope, Coke Z not caffiene free, but IMO tastes like real Coke whilst being 'diet'. Caffiene free stuff is the work of the devil, brown fizzy tap water.

Sounds a bit crap your DH having days off cancelled- Police, I'm guessing?- and really feel for you and kir5ty not seeing enough of your other halves.

Have just discovered the NCT classes, which I wasn't particularly interested in going to, cost £240. £240!!! That idea's gone in the bin, and shall just ask MW if the NHS ones are available, not that I can find any info on local ones on the web. But feeling 'bugger it, what can they really tell you that's so vital that you can't learn from other sources' at the moment, so you're not the only one mopsy.

Day of newspapers, food, Time Team (no laughing at the back there!) more food, bit of clothes washing and sleeping stretches ahead, with good old Match of the Day this evening...marvellous

And I can't spell caffeine properly, despite it being in thread above...muppet

I have a DH at home today..it feels weird. He's tired though, so is just lying about on (my pregnancy spot!) the sofa.

Northen, I would never laugh at anyone watching Time Team, I used to spend my saturday mornings watching Scrapheap Challenge & the Time Team!
Just noticed that Sky Sports has come off our basic subscription & onto one of the pay monthly ones, money grabbing arses. Feels weird not having a season ticket (Championship team, not the most glamorous place to waddle about)!

Feeling the same about antenatal classes, really cba to go (think it would scare me more than help), £240 is crazy money!!

AWCH you can go for free with NHS antenatal classes. I am going every Monday for several weeks in Oct/Nov

Glad there's someone else who enjoys watching Tony Robinson get excited about ditches in Northamptonshire...

But DH is very brave to nick your pregnancy spot though AWCH! Tired or no, there is always one place in the lounge where a pregnant woman should have her throne specific relaxing place, and woe betide anyone who snaffles it! Mine's an 80 yr old armchair that's great for sitting upright it, a necessity thanks to the sodding sciatica...

Will be good and ask about the NHS antenatal ones, and give them a go: my stepmum somewhat put me off (my half siblings are only 13 and 7) by saying that at her first one, they mixed up formula incorrectly and used out of date stuff, and so she never went back!

Hope everyone's having a decent weekend, especially the impending/current house movers!

Back from Cardiff bloody shattered a day with 7 blokes drinking from 11 - 7 with a rugby match in between. Somehow managed to eat no decent food all day as was too busy to go anywhere properly so a greggs chicken bake, chips and gravy later on and a packet of crisps followed up by tea and toast at home. Did manage an apple mid afternoon and lots of OJ too.

Anyone else find that maternity clothes make u look more pregnant had a top on today and kept catching sight of self in mirrors had a properly huge bump. Taken to calling him little johnny as never had a bump nickname

awch I feel for you, its hard not seeing them, especially when the times that you do they are tired... I had Dan at home yesterday :o but he is on a 13 hour shift today.. I will have to go back to work part time as we both have crazy shifts... so at least I will see more of him then! I agree work/life balance is very important!

figgy did you have fun? Mmm I now want chips and gravy!!

Blimey figgy that seems like a tough weekend, no wonder you're knackered. I turned down the chance to go to the Community Shield the other weekend as I knew it would finish me off.

Although it has made me want a Gregg's steak bake... Did you burn the roof of your mouth as you bit into the molten lava centre of your bake?

With the clothes, I find that the nice tops from Topshop make me look massive, but if I wear a shirt that's pin tucked/empire line, it can be quite hidden. I have to admit however that I do love looking pregnant, and so go for the tighter tops (apart from when I have serious meetings at work which require shirt/trousers/stern look). I feel that I may only do this the once (may do it once more, but who knows?) so should enjoy every moment of it.

Always said my aim was to look like one of those 2 000 year old fertility statues from Polynesia or the like that they have at the British Museum, so bring it on!!