January 2012 - Thread 3

[ParsleyLion1]

And we're back......

supa - what pattern are you using for tunic?

congrats deesus

I now feel unfettered in knitting little hats/stitching tiny boots/buying stuff in general... he he he he!

We had a super busy weekend at the wedding I'd been dreading but it turned out really well. I ate an alarming amount of wedding cake - had forgotten how much I love Christmas cake! DD is usually asleep by 7.30pm and at 10.30pm we finally hauled her off the dance floor. She was horrible on Sunday though so we did pay for letting her groove the night away.

Congrats on all the scans and solidarity on the rubbish sleep. I also keep waking for no reason. We stayed in a Premier Inn on Sat night and it had a vast super kingsize bed - it was utter bliss, as though no-one else was in it. Sadly we've worked out that we can't fit one into our bedroom unless we roll over it Dukes of Hazzard style to get to the wardrobe. If we ever move house again we've decided it's a criteria for the size of the master bedroom, the best sleep we've had in weeks.

tigana it's a butterick one (there are only 2 maternity ones i could find and I got both

Lots of girls today, congratulations deesus & tigana!!!

Hi everyone! I got back from holiday at the weekend - guernsey was lovely!

There's a lot to catch up on - glad to hear everyone's having good scans. :) I didn't post when I came back as I hadn't felt any movement at all yet and I was starting to worry and didn't want to be a downer on the thread. However, in the last week I've felt some 'bubble' type sensations. at first I thought they were muscle twitches (as I occasionally feel something similar in my leg) but at 5am yesterday they were going crazy, so I think it could be the baby after all.

I had my scan today and all was well and it confirmed they're still definitely moving in there, thank goodness! I really wanted to find out the gender but they had the cord between their crossed legs, so no way to find out. I'm a reluctant Team Yellow! :) It will be fun to find out when they emerge though.

Congrats on the scans ladies, how lovely! Tis all so exciting!

moobee - you know ehen your eyelid twitches? When I first felt bubs it was like that, but in my stomach, so I bet those twitches you're feeling are deffo your baby getting going! We'll have to meet up for that coffee next week and compare bumps :-)

Congrats on the scan - so exciting. Wonder if our little one will be as disobliging?

knittiekitty - we have a super king size bed. It's the only thing that has preserved our marriage! lol - hubby is 6'2" and constantly rotates and I can be a real wriggler, esp when I'm dreaming and we both get horribly grouchy when tired. We adore our bed. We bought it with some money given to us for our wedding, it breaks down into two singles (essential for getting in and out of rooms) and is piled with goose down bedding and egyptian cotton - all either wedding gifts or bought at sales. Our bed is pretty much the only thing I condone spending money on and I love it.

On the downside it (along with the cats) severely limits the properties we can consider, but oh well! Worth it!

Right - time for some more of my mum's homemade strawb ice cream (god I love coming home - she did a full pork roast for me - on a tuesday!)

Congrats Moobee :)

Got home to a thick layer of dust from building work throughout house. No idea how it permeated through as they've not knocked though into the main house yet! Yuck, had to vacuum & dust everywhere before I could sit down. I can still taste it in the air tho :(

Evening all, congrats on the latest scans! V impressed with people knitting and making clothes! I have a sewing machine, but has only been out once since ds was born! I just realized yesterday, that since these babies are being born in january, we will need some sort of a coat?

DS was early November, so I got away without a maternity coat, just wore some thick jumpers and DHs fleece for last couple of weeks, but if we have 3 cold months we will need something proper I guess. What are you all doing? Seems like a waste to buy a big thing like a coat to wear for so short a time.

My OH has a huge Barbour Stockman's coat. I'm thinking of that with jumpers underneath. He hardly ever wears it.

I should probably clarify that the bootees were my first successful knitting venture and the only thing I have ever finished :)

The book I used has a pattern for hats, and a cardigan that you knit all in one piece so not too much sewing together. Might have to buy some more wool!

Congratulations to those finding out at scans.,

Dh is stripping wallpaper as I type, Dd needs to move into bigger bedroom so Bump can have the smaller one, would be ok had I not painted all the woodwork (think windowsill and everywhere) and the radiator pink when I redid dd's room in March. Oops!

Gosh you lot are making me feel inadequate-were doing absolutely nothing on the nursery/spare room til oct. We have to move dd into the big room which has a boiler in it which has no surround or cupboard. I am relying on my dad coming over to do the work and he can't commit to anything until Oct. Then the nursery will just need a lick of paint.

TBH they dont use it for 6 months anyway!

Evening all, congrats to those who have had scans and know they are expecting boys or girls!

Had my 20 week scan and still in Team Yellow, despite a last minute wobble before we went in the scanning room! Everything healthy with baby.

fish I haven't bought anything for baby yet either, think I'm going to hold off till October as we move into our new house then. It is soooo difficult to resist urge to start nesting!

Spagbol looking seriously at a coat from JoJo with pleats in the (high) waist so the coat expands with you and, I suspect, would still be pretty wearable when not pregnant any more. Am happy to wear DH's jumpers and coats for scruffy everyday stuff, but do want a decent coat for some occasions.

Our baby won't have a nursery. It will be sleeping in with us until we move, because we don;t have the room. I feel very sad that we're missing out on the 'movie' experience of doing up the nursery together, but what can we do? We're making a mobile together instead, will post photos when it's done, and I'm knitting up as many things as my very slow knitting will allow. 1 cardie and 1 hat done so far - now I'm working on the cardie to match the existing hat and then, I don't know, I'd quite like to make this knitted cat toy I saw, but we'll see. Once I know what it is I'm going to make some more gendered items, too (ie with crocheted flowers on or butterflies or planes and rockets) and sew a patchwork quilt for the buggy. At least we can take all those things with us...

That coat sounds nice cakes I must go and have a browse on their site.

If it makes you feel better, our nursery decorating experience with ds was not like any movie I have ever seen. I was large, tired and grumpy, we were team yellow so just used the same green paint we had in another room. And then I got some stickers for the walls, but applied in a very slapdash manner and somehow never corrected :o

This baby is getting a portion of our spare room, which is also convenient green. Decorating the nursery will consist of a mobile, some more stickers, and shifting the computer downstairs to make space.

But as someone said, most babies are in with parents at least for a while, or longer, and if they have a bed, a mobile, and some soft toy friends, then they will be just fine :)

Evening all! [It turns out I've ranted a fair bit, so feel free to skip!]

Lots of news I see! Congrats to all the 'scanners'! :D

Commiserations to all those feeling shocking for one reason or another.

My lovely short 5h day turned into a 9h day today. Not all of it on my feet (risk assessment for all pg says 5h in my work... ), so I did get some time to do 'other stuff', but not my stuff, bailing out a collegue that boasted about how on top of stuff they were in a meeting, and berrating others for not doing 'their fair share' to then find out it was basically all lies and she's left us up to our necks in it. That and some muppet well:
"I know I said I'd work the late, but I can't now. My Mummy's planned a girly night out for me as she know's I'm low at the moment, I didn't know but I can't say no..." Bloody grow up. Yes you can. Or that would have been my response, but someone else okayed it, and that left me having to do it as there was noone else...

Anyway, I spent a significant part of this morning barfing (4 bloody times, 10minute sessions each), seem to have pulled the muscle in my back some more, and thanks to having to close on one of the counters at work (lots of dashing about, cleaning, bending/stretching) my hips hurt too. Gonna have to take paracetamol before bed as there's no way I'm gonna get to sleep otherwise.

...so I'm grumpy.

On the plus side, I think Yolkis is back at the front. Got what I think is Yolkis bashing about a lot in there today. Or is it that pesky tapeworm again?

One of my work collegues got me a pressy from her holidays! It's the most adorable baby-grow (yellow) with a bunny on the front. Poppers in the usual places, but also ones sort of in the small of the back. Ultimatly useful for nappy-checking. :D Love it. I think she was confused by my reaction though. My family know I don't want to really get stuff, (somehow the more directly baby related it is the stronger I feel, clothes are just a little too 'real'), until gone 24wks, so they're kinda used to my 'lack if interest'. But it is sooo cute. Not sure I could charity shop/sell it if all wasn't well at my scan/everything went wrong. The other stuff I have, I could.

Having been commited to 'team yellow' DH has come back form a weekend of geekery and smelliness (all blokes...all geeks) and now might want to find out! He think it might help him bond. As he was the one dead against it to begin with I now don't quite know what to think. Though I'm now a lot more 'team yellow' than I was before. I think I might just go with what he wants though. I imagine it's difficult for him to not feel all the utter shiteness that is pregnancy stuff I feel...if he thinks it might help him bond, then, well I can't really deny him that.

Thanks for 'listening'.

Oh, that was it (it's happening right now)
Is anyone else getting wellL: You know when you sit on your leg and it goes numb. When you relieve the pressure you can feel the blood rushing back. No pins and needles, just that rushing, slightly tingly feeling? I seem to be getting that a lot just round what I imagine is the bottom of my womb and over my bladder and pelvic bone. It's really weird.
Usually when I've been sitting for a while, but sometimes at other times..

I keep getting a tingly slightly tickly feeling across my lower tummy. Does that sound like it?

Spagbol - JoJo coat in pretty pink!

I think bubs just kicked out at my cervix - now that was an odd sensation...
Eurk - did it again!

Hi all, glad to hear everyones scans are coming out positive - I hadn't considered LO might have it's legs crossed or something and we may be a reluctant team yellow! 21 week scan is 2 weeks today :)

ParsleyLion I'm also having work done on the house at the moment. We moved into a 1960s house with many "period" features shall we say! We're in the process of a full rewire, replaster, new staircase, new bathroom, new doors and windows etc- all before bubs appears in January! Our families think we're mad but I'm really so determined to make this our home and I couldn't live with the wood chip even 1 more minute. I'm sure like you all the dust, mess and work will be worth it in the end... :)

Thank goodness for MN and you lot keeping me sane!

X

makescakes eek! Does sound very odd, exciting though. Just dont' tell my DH they do this. He's already paranoid about sex and baby being able to feel what's going on... One of cats walking in mid-groove freaks him out. Alas, they don't stop humping when we walk in on them, so I don't see why I should stop for them (they're both boys cats, they look very confused).

parsley could be. It's a definite tingle. I can't tell whether I'm just paying more attention to it when I'm sat at home (rather than rushing about like a loony at work - physically or mentally), and it's happenign more frequently...

Oh and whilst I think I know what 'LO' means (as in it 'meaning')...what does it ACTUALLY mean (as in stand for)? My poor brain's too dim to work it out.