First-timers due December - new thread!

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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.

That's too bad for your SiL Chinchilla I hope her birth went smoothly aside from that. I think it's a fairly common tactic as they expect you to be vulnerable in labour :( I'm not a militant homebirther or anything like that I just don't like hospitals much but if they tell me I can't stay home or I have to go to hospital it's like a red rag to a bull. :o

I feel HUGE can't believe my body could possibly get any bigger than this. If I get up too quickly my bump presses up into my lungs & I have a coughing fit that can't be right can it?

I'm Thinking of doing picture Xmas cards this year with me dressed as a very pregnant Mary and DH as Joseph. I love dressing up and missing my best mates annual fancy dress bday party this year so might make up for it.

he he he! Good idea.
Now, where did I put that donkey?...

Oh God yes, and another nine weeks of working as well.... I've noticed the bump seems to put on growth spurts, so that one day it's OK and the next I can't bend down/breath/do anything useful.

I remember someone posting that they were really sorry they'd not got pictures of themselves whilst pregnant, and so I've got my OH to take the odd one on anniversary, or on our weekend break, etc, just to have as a momento of looking so odd!

LOVE the idea figgy (although I'm feeling more like the donkey than Mary at the mo...)

hey girlies just catching up, i have been so lazy recently. I should have been doing cousework, but as of yet i haven't... feeling dumb as its only at the same level as GCSE english, but i haven't got a clue! Why didn't i apply last year, my GCSEs would have been under 10 years old and i could have skipped this part lol

hmmm non pregnancy rant there!!

Still dizzy, but used to it now, its annoying i can't jump in my car but never mind.
Now we have a wardrobe full of newborn and 0-3 month clothes all washed and ironed!

at the washed & ironed clothing Kri5ty, our baby clothes are currently in a v.organised unwashed & smelly pile (new stuff still in the wrappers) at the bottom of DH's wardrobe. We got our last eBay bundle yesterday, I've not counted how much 0-3 stuff there is, but there are deffo over 30 babygro's!

DH turned to me last night and said 'You've gotten really, really big the last few days'. After that I tried putting on a pair of pre-preggo knickers (size 8) and couldn't get them over my fat arse! He's taking me shopping tonight to make me feel better

figgy, that's a great idea! Although Northen, I see your donkey & raise you...I feel like the fricckin stable.

Anyone know when we are supposed to get measured for nursing bras?

Sorry you still have while to go AWCH... still gonna get bigger! Only supposed to get measured for nursing bras post week 37!

So ladies I am in Moscow at the mo and it is pretty cold. Good thing the lil baby is keeping me warm. It is pretty amazing and managed to squeeze some sight seeing in between work! However, my work collegue who I am here with is starting to annoy me. Not anything in particular... I think just spending too much time with someone else who is not really a friend.

Everytime I feel super big... I just think of the poor souls carrying twins and think - thank god! hehehe...

Wow kri5ty that is organised- everything's piled into the corner unit that's being magically transformed from something that had a TV on it to the baby's changing table and storage unit. Am saving up the washing for 'something to do when on maternity leave'! Mind you, if you've been off work for a while that would explain it... can't believe you've still got the dizziness, have they found an actual cause or is it just 'pregnancy'?

That made me laugh AWCH- to be fair I don't feel too bad, it's mainly the heat that's getting to me. Hope you start to feel less like the stable! And funnily enough, my OH has just said to me 'you've gotten really big' and then started outlining my bump, but in a kind of dead proud way, which was weird but sweet....

Hope you do have an amazing time in Moscow lala- dead impressed that you've made it out there, and hurrah for bumps as central heating systems! Lots of pics of you in furry hats in Red Square with bump?

Right, waddling off upstairs to get changed and speak to friend who's coming round to dinner and in the middle of divorce no.2....

Oh, and by 'baby's storage unit', I of course mean 'thing we'll be using to store things for the baby in', not that we'll be putting the wee man himself in there... slight fail there....

wow Moscow lala -what's it like? do you feel nervous e.g. in the metro or does it feel safe? I always imagine I would be on edge ...

northern they say its vertigo, which in my book is to do with my ears... but they said 'pregnancy related vertigo' I think they just said that because there isn't anything they can do really, there is medication, but I can't take it due to pregnancy. Back at the doc on Tuesday, hoping they will let me back to work, but I doubt it, I still can't drive and walk in to things!

awch I hope its a nice stable with a door and lots of hay... maybe a nosebag too?,and not just a horrible one? My size 8 knickers won't go over my bum either!

lala I'm jealous I have always wanted to go! Although I picture myself wrapped up in a (fake) fur coat!

Blimey, of all the things that you worry about/expect/read about, vertigo is not one that had cropped up! What a thing to get...and it's so rotten when you get something where there's no visible signs, because you get less sympathy too.

Think we'll have to use that now, in honour of AWCH, "I'm feeling like a real stable today"

lala I am both envious and sympathetic! I did my last trip two weeks ago, and celebrated "No more flights - no more airports!", but I've always fancied Moscow. If you are with customers, you are probably very lucky being pregnant, as you're less likely to be forced to down copious amounts of strong vodka! And like Kristy I'd want to visit it in a big furry hat a la Dr Zhivago.
I want a big furry hat now.
I have a craving for a big furry Russian hat. (My first craving!)

awch and kri5ty, I had to buy SIZE FOURTEEN knickers! 14! . Can't wait til this baby is out and I can get back to exercising and back into my 10-12s.

lala, glad you're keeping warm in Moscow, sorry you have to spend time with co-worker!

Northen, by baby storage unit...you could always be referring to yourself!

kri5ty, I think you take the oddest pregnancy related impairment prize, how bloody annoying it must be for you!
Feeling like a wreck of a stable today, stupid heat wave isn't helping (probably the only person in the country complaning about it)!

Oi, I'm not sure that counts as a real craving?
Although if it does I'm craving some new perfume (as our taste buds/general bodies are messed up during pregnancy....could my taste in perfume be affected? I don't want to buy some perfume now & not be able to use it next year)!

mopsy, I've gone back to wearing DH's old boxers. Mmmmm elasticated waist. Really missing exercise (cba to do anything, since we're not allowed to do much in the way of abs/weights), never thought I'd miss doing crunches!!

AWCH I would not buy perfume while pregnant; my sense of smell has definitely been affected by the pregnancy...I practically have an orgasm when I use Lime Source Shower Gel & it never did that before :o also, it gives me the strongest cravings for Lime Opal Fruits

at honey and your orgasms! DH uses the Lime Source Shower Gel & I can't stand it atm (dawns on me that my sense of smell is really off), also a big unmumsnetty for calling them Opal Fruits still! Wtf is a starburst anyhoo?

Oh God, my OH uses the mint stuff from Source, and I would warn against washing personal bits with that as the first time I did it made my eyes water...God knows what it would be like in pregnancy.

Nyom nyom Opal Fruits.........mmmmm have been enjoying those. My boss brought it a big tub of Celebrations today, and barring immediately eating all the mini Twixes himself (every. last. one.) it was much enjoyed.

AWCH I'm feeling a total stable today because of the heat too. My IQ's in single figures now I've got home as I've used up all my brainpower being productive at work (and dealing with some abusively odd people) and now I'm a drooling heap. However, Indonesian curry is coming my way in 5 minutes, can't wait!

Just had my eyes tested as well, and they are incredibly dry, which backs up the fact I've not been wanting to wear my contacts as they've been too uncomfortable...yet another thing to add to our list of odd bodily changes that somehow no-one tells you about

They do an amazing chocolate mint shower gel too it smells so good!!!

Baby been a little less active today assuming it's the heat cooking us bothjust had some Ben and jerrys that might get him going!!

Although my eyes have gone off, sense of smell's not really changed...although things make me want to barf more.

Was on train to work opposite a 16 yr old girl who likes to dress and act like an obnoxious boy, and completes the look by drowning herself in Lynx. I spent the next hour burping to get rid of the sick feeling, urgh. Took me right back to High School and 6th Form...

I'm sat reading my mumsnet pregnancy book finally feeling brave enough to read the labour section and having allowed myself to remember what I've let myself in for feeling very anxious

Great, now I want an Indonesian curry (mmmm curry brunch) Northen! How was it?
Sorry you spent yesterday feeling like a stable, and then sat next to a girl smelling so fine. My school memories of Lynx are of the boys setting fire to their trainers with the stuff.

figgy, I shall hunt down this chocolate mint shower gel you speak of, AVON used to do a gorgeous white chocolate bubble bath but they knew I liked it so discountinued it. Swines.
I've watched a few shows where people give birth...and now I don't ever want to be anywhere near a woman giving birth, what parts are you feeling most anxious about?

Funny cos when I watched some one born every minute it made me feel a lot better about everything think it must be seeing things like episiostomy written down made me go green

AWCH the curry was marvellous thanks! Lots of red pepper in it, which I love. I've always been a curry fiend- not massively hot ones as I like to taste what I'm eating- as I grew up having curries weekly in Rusholme on the curry mile in Manchester, and one of my greatest fears was that I wouldn't manage it in pregnancy.
I will cheerfully order extra saag aloo, and then eat it cold for breakfast the next morning

Never saw the trainers trick, Jesus! All I remember is that in certain corridors you gasped for breath like something out of WW1 trenches because of the damn stuff.

figgy haven't got the mumsnet book but (as someone previously terrified by birth) I can thoroughly recommend "Ina May's Guide To Childbirth" by Ina May Gaskin...it has lots of really uplifting birth stories that made me feel much better about the whole process & it's a bit less lentil weavery than her first book "Spiritual Midwifery". Also Grantly Dick Read's "Childbirth Without Fear" might help you...I've just started it but it's recommended by Ina Gaskin, Marie Mongan & Michael Odent so I expect it to be good. Personally I would avoid watching OBEM...I'm a closet addict but I've had to curb my habit for now & I've found watching hypnobirths on youtube really helpful . And don't worry about an episiotomy; none of us will need one as we're all going to do our perineal massage & won't even have tiny tears