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mopsytop · 21/07/2011 16:48

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.

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mopsytop · 14/08/2011 16:59

hi everyone, had a lovely relaxed weekend. Baby has started squirming big time though, keeps waking me up at night :( It is having a good old time wriggling round as I type.

Very sleepy now. Think will have a lazy evening reading, watching iPlayer and scoffing pasta! Hope you are all having a nice chilled weekend!

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NorthernChinchilla · 14/08/2011 18:23

Hi mopsy, weird isn't it? Don't know where they got this 'butterflies' nonsense from, as it feels just like something squirming around in your belly punctuated by thumps of varying degrees of enthusiasm! Bit of a bugger if you're getting woken up at night though...

Just sent DP into kitchen to cook stir fry after watching football- have barely left house all weekend and it's been great.

And whoop! scan on Friday, finally, so will hopefully confirm all's well and find out if it's a boy or a girl...so will be practising low grade worrying til that point.

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mopsytop · 14/08/2011 18:30

Yeah butterflies schmutterflies. I know what you mean about the worry, it is constantly there in the background. I was having plenty of baby-related nightmares before the scan, which miraculously stopped when I found out all was well. So I hope your week isn't too stressy!

right must heave self off sofa to go and prepare said pasta!

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figgygal · 14/08/2011 21:40

Baby kicking away at the moment I definitely have more activity in the evenings just had hand on tummy and felt it kick thru FREAKED me out. DH sickened by if and wants to be nowhere near it I've always been sickened by idea of it after my dad going on about it when I was a kid it's making me jump all over the place.

I finally picked up my mum to be pack bounty pack today what a load of old guff chucked most of it out straight away.

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mopsytop · 14/08/2011 22:21

Why is your DH sickened by it figgy?

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mopsytop · 14/08/2011 22:22

p.s. didn't sign up to bounty, seems like loads of shite, and also just so many leaflets! What a waste of paper!

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figgygal · 15/08/2011 07:46

Prob my fault for squirming and yelling ew ew ew everytime it happens will start chasing round the house shouting touch the bump !!!

Agreed on bounty pregnAnt women must be a marketers dream constantly getting emails from companies I just set up a new email address at start of year as old one was clogged with spam and now I'm being baby spammed. Need to start deregistering from everywhere I joined for freebies

kri5ty · 15/08/2011 08:15

That what i did figgy .. registered for freebies and now i mark all the emails as spam lol

kri5ty · 15/08/2011 08:16

ps i am with you on the being freaked out part... although its more the idea of it that freaks me out, i have't reallt felt that much, other then a few kickes the other day, i think he has moved again

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mopsytop · 15/08/2011 09:22

I think it feels really weird, but it doesn't freak me out. I kind of like knowing it's moving and therefore it reassures me if you see what I mean.

I signed up for one baby thing in Mothercare and immediately regretted it so haven't signed up for anything else. Get enough spam as it is and don't want stupid marketing catalogues especially as I don't intend to buy much anyhow! The amount of useless crap you could buy if you were made of money!

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LondonGirly · 15/08/2011 18:31

You can now see my stomach move when he kicks, which is quite funny. I have two cats and keep waiting for them to pounce on my tummy. At the moment they are being very cute and keep padding at it.

I got the matress for the carrycot at the weekend, glad I did, it does not smell particularly nice at the moment - too long in plastic wrapping!!

Has anyone started looking at car seats yet?

NorthernChinchilla · 15/08/2011 20:54

Hhehehhhehehe! That's brilliant figgy, but instead chase DH shouting 'let the bump touch yooooou'!

I'm in the 'find it reassuring' camp, but agree that it's when you start to think about it - ie there's a miniature human punching me through from the inside of my belly area- then THAT'S freakout time. So I just don't...

But v impressed that you can see it move londongirly- think that will be when I will be wibbling.

NorthernChinchilla · 15/08/2011 21:01

But oh God, the Bounty and related crap!!
I was horrified when given all that shite by the hospital- since when did the NHS become the conduit for marketing?

All of it went straight in the bin (will admit to reading the booklet/Emma's diary once or twice) and haven't signed up to anything, as I don't want to drown in spam.
Was on another thread also raising the issue- and thank God for MN, otherwise I wouldn't have known- about this thing called the Bounty woman, who apparently swans round the hospital demanding to take pictures of you and your baby- wtf?! Am having rotten tomatoes in my hospital bag for the eventuality...

Not looked at car seats yet, although first review of travel systems including car seat is booked in for weekend after this!

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mopsytop · 15/08/2011 21:03

Yeah me too! I got given it by my GP. surgery The NHS shouldn't have anything to do with marketing. And as for the waste of paper, don't get me started! Not impressed I have to say.

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mopsytop · 15/08/2011 21:03

Also if the Bounty woman comes anywhere NEAR me with a camera she will be sorry, that's all I can say!!!

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figgygal · 15/08/2011 21:08

I've started taking fybogel as a preventative measure oh my god id firgotten how disgusting it is. I used to take it and lactulose every night for years when a kid as had serious bowel problems now managed thru diet but feel ill/full/bunged up a lot quicker now there's a baby taking up all the space in there. I feel like a little kid again having to take medicine I don't want Sad

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mopsytop · 15/08/2011 21:11

Ugh figgy sounds grim. Pregnancy is just the most unglamorous thing ever, isn't it?

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figgygal · 15/08/2011 21:45

On the plus side childhood medical interventions has meant I should be used to poking prodding blood tests and being exposed from waist down not gonna make it any easier to go thru. Avoiding Losing control and maintaining dome dignity is something that's really important to me in labour so I'm trying to think of best ways to give birth without ending up flat on my back with legs akimbo but they all seem to reduce painrelief And I am gunning for an epidural Sad

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mopsytop · 15/08/2011 21:48

From what everyone says, once you are in labour you couldn't care less about dignity ... I am not so sure about this, I feel like you figgy. Would rather maintain some dignity and calm. I also don't want to be flat on back. But will wait and see what happens on the day! Not making any firm plans as I don't want to be disappointed then if you see what I mean. I may end up totally losing it!

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kri5ty · 16/08/2011 07:38

Early epidural for moi... so hours of being flat on my back and wishing i could get up and walk around/ change position

Also the bounty photographer does not come to the hospital i am in :o result!!! (although i think another one does!)

Sorelip · 16/08/2011 09:16

24 weeks today. I'm disgustingly excited :o

Sorelip · 16/08/2011 09:22

Is anyone else getting bump ache? It kind of reminds me of period pain, low in the bump.

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mopsytop · 16/08/2011 09:36

Yes I am getting it in both left and right sides. Like a really bad ovulation pain. I think it might be womb stretching though?

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Sorelip · 16/08/2011 09:51

Hope so. Back and front ache...not fun. I read that it could also be the body preparing itself for The Big Event. Also, bubba seems to be kicking me in the bladder. Is that even possible?!

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mopsytop · 16/08/2011 09:54

I could barely feel the bean last week and now can feel constant wriggles/kicks, it feels a bit like you know when you go down in a lift really fast or over a bridge really fast in a car and your tummy sort of drops? That's what the kicks feel like to me. It is making me feel constantly like I am really nervous before an exam or something but then I realise it's the bean!

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