January 2012 - Thread 3

[ParsleyLion1]

And we're back......

Change of plan - Permission to join the Hairy Belly Club?!?!? Please....
Hadnt noticed in artificial light, but dd just pulled up my top to talk on my 'tummy telephone' and it was very obvious. Fortunately blonde too.

Thanks Knittie, we wont know until we start the physio and im wearing one of those belt thingys.
I feel the same with spiders - horrible creatures. When possible Il suck it up with the hoover and leave it running until im satisfied that it is dead. Horribly cruel I know but it serves the spider right for making its presence known to me.

knittie - I'm with you on the spiders. I'd adopt the shonno technique, except DH is vegetarian and doesn't like to kill anything! Our garden is full of them at the moment, so I've ended up leaving the tomatoes to die as I can't bear the idea of walking through all those cobwebs to get to them! Actually, haven't actually got any tomatoes on the plants - first attempt at growing them a big fat fail anyway!

shonno apparently if we haven't registered the baby within a certain amount of time the mayor can come round and pick a name for you! Not sure I'd trust Boris with that job.

Just remembered! I had a dream about this girl with a hairy belly! You lot have a lot to answer for. I'm developing a luvverly love trail of dark hairs despite being blonde... am more bothered about the similarly dark beard I'm growing under one side of my jaw! Have got so paranoid about it I even carry tweezers in my handbag now!

knittie Yup, spiders are on the march here too. DH is borderline phobic, I hate them. I'm only grateful that someone regularly drops me a yellow pages through the door...this is the usual method of dispatch (though I would like to use flame-throwers). I figure I'm inadvertently helping the species by killing off the ones stupid enough to pass my doorstep/windowsil - survival of the fittest. I never trust hoovers to do the job. They need to be 2d.

makescakes oh no! I carry tweezers in my handbag too...mainly for my slightly Fernando Alonso style eyebrows...but I have 2 of those under jaw hairs too.

Fryn the idea of Boris naming anything freaks me out, leave alone my baby! Just incase this harsh regime is implimented throughout the country me and DH will be making a shortlist of names tonight...

Ergh. Still bloody sneezing. Not good. Usually over sneezing phase after a couple of days, day 4 now. Meant to be going to Ikea with MIL tomorrow evening, and I'm trying to get well enough to go to work.

Yolkis is kicking (or headbutting as she was upside down) the lif eout of my bladder. Not really making me need to wee, just weird. Just a shame I can't feel it externally for DH...

I'm off for a snooze/sulk...again...

Spiders: everyone back in the UK should count themselves lucky! (although I'll admit that cardinal spiders are no joke) When it rains here the local spiders (very large, very hairy) like to crawl up on to the underside of the car (i.e. in the wheel cavity) where it's nice and dry. Result: driving down the motorway at 80 m/p/h one is confronted by a giant spider hauling itself Terminator-style across the bonnet of the car, i.e. directly in line of sight. Another favourite manoeuvre: clinging to the wing-mirror. Absolutely terrifying. Have been known to vacate car through passenger door and run away screaming (really!)

capybara - where the hell are you?

I'm guessing aus?
I have a spider sat in my dining room in my cake stand box waiting for dh. I'm upstairs with dd and don't want to go back down!
nanny dd is 10 months old and keeping 1 baby warm was easy enough, not sure how well manage next year with 2 but it'll be fun!

I don't mind spiders too much, as long as they don't land on my face (yes, that happened in the middle of the night once. Ick) but mostly I just set a cat on them.

Possibly a good reason to get a cat!
I had a spider land on my head when I just got out the shower. I was screaming running round the house in a towel with the spider sat on my head refusing to move. My mum who is also scared of spiders was running screaming with me! It was awful!

The daft cat we had when I was a girl was scared of house spiders and friends of my parents actually gave up being '£10 pommies' in Oz in the 70s because she couldn't cope with the spiders in their flat! Shame about your tomato efforts Fryn but I'm impressed you tried! I can't squish spiders cos of the noise and mess makes me heave. I already check the bathroom ceiling addicted just in case and you've so reinforced that!
I was in Euston Square earlier this year and Boris nearly walked into me pushing his bike. He was walking straight at me but looking in a different direction (just like my dd does) and swerved away just in time with a charming smile. I was heading for a meeting and couldn't help but wonder why he wasn't behind his desk at 11 in the morning!

Despite a nice nap I still feel all jumpy. That first 1000 days programme is just on radio 4 again - oh the guilt, I've had such a bad sweet tooth recently, much worse than usual. Maybe meatballs in Ikea will be medicinal Oeisha? They'd stopped selling cakes in the shop when I went last week and I was crushed.

Congratulations on all the lovely scan news Girlies.
Fingers crossed you don't have GD fish a friend of mine is in hospital having just had her little one at 35 weeks weighing 6 odd pounds. She has had a right hard time controlling her sugar levels and only ended up gaining 7 pounds during pregnancy meaning She actually weighs less now than pre-preggersness! ( that side effect I could cope with)!
He is in neo-natel as need a bit of help with being early. I reckon they would have found something in your urine/blood by now?
I dont have a name for bump, it is just bump.......

Oh the thought of Boris naming your baby is positively frightful!!

worm hope your friends LO grows up to be big and strong

Wormshuffler

as far as I know the only way to tell for sure if GD is a the GTT test at 26 weeks. I didn't have it last time even though DD was a big baby and I am high risk due to being a fatty. I am also 5ft 11 and the women in our family are not known for producing fae little children. Being of fine cornish and scottish mixed heritage!

knittiekitty - I Love Ikea to especially the meat balls. We don't get over there much as we have to go to Swindon. However next year Reading will have it's own ikea so me and babe will be spending more time there I feel.

I think they will make me take a GTT to, last time had to eat a huge stack of things. I had normal results.

Any idea on total numbers for teams blue, pink and yellow would be interesting to see the %.

How much truth is there on this whole 'sleeping on your left thing?' I've read you're not to sleep on your back or right side because baby can compress blood flow. I'm subconciously worrying about it and everytime I roll over, I'm waking up. Considering a dreamgenii.

Also, hear flutters anyone? I get them randomly. My heart starts beating in a weird rhythm and sometimes makes me slightly dizzy and nauseous. Only lasts for less than a minute. Normal anyone?

makescake I am still laughing myself silly as I read your post as 'growing a dark BEAR under my jaw'.....hihihihihihi I actually imagined that and thought it was extraordinary and cute at the same time

Welcome to all the newbies and for the perfectly wonderful pink and blue scan!

redhead I would definitely make a super fuss and talk to MW and GP to arrange your scan, that is just horrid!!!! To be quite honest I have been quite disappointed with my MW appointments. First you do not see the same MW, which I think is quite sad really.

First appointment the MW said 'I won't remember you if I see you next time, so remind me of this and that', wow, way to make you feel cared for.

Second time the other MW had the room in such a mess and could not find a glove to take blood sample, plus she had dried 'boggie' on the outside of her nose and looked in a good need for a wash and a visit to the dentist.....

Don't know why I shared the stories above, but just felt for redhead for being messed around and did not want you to feel alone in the shenanigans we have to go through....ah, not to mention when they booked me for a day when the health centre was closed.... ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Hugs all around xxx

Mumtobe - in the book I read last night it said that you can sleep on your back until it makes you feel uncomfortable and that it's OK to sleep on your right, but much better for you to sleep on your left as the veins aren't compressed, so your kidneys can process toxins better and you don;t suffer from swelling in extremities and stuff, oh and baby might get more nutrients... basically - it's best to sleep on your left, but won;t kill you or baby if you don't do it all the time. That's the idiot's interpretation of it, anyway (I'm the idiot, in case you were wondering)

knittiekittiy I'm hoping meatballs are good for Yolkis too. Not going to be too bothered about the cakes. Yolkis seems to want me to be a health-freak - lots of fruit, no cakes...

mum2be it is about bloiod flow. makescakes is right with all she's said, though I had dizzy fits when you get up, and a lack of blood going to your legs etc mentioned to me. The dreamgenii is expensive, but wonderful! It's helped me stay on my left a lot more than without and my back hurts less. Though there are some mornings when I've wiggled about lots it ends up on the floor/on my head.

As for the heart flutters. I'm definitely getting bouts of feeling my pulse more, often in my belly. Sometimes it feels like it's beating faster too, but I wouldn't describe it as fluttering. Might be worth ringing your MW for reassurance?

green ergh. Bogies...what a nightmare...

A quick look on the stats thread declaired as:
Team Blue: 4
Team Pink: 3
Team Yellow: 8

I've had the odd bout of flutters and palpitations too mum2be and will mention it when I see mw next. I also get dizzy if I get up or down too quick but have always had low blood pressure so presume it's usual.

I have a lovely bump pillow that is two wedge shaped pillows connected by a flat bit that I lie on so it stops me sleeping on my back. I got it from Blooming Marvellous with dd and was gutted to see from their website that they were taken over by Mothercare ages ago. I bought 3 pairs of black cotton jersey trousers from there which I treasure - polyster trousers = thrush yuckness.

I'm also shocked by how badly Redhead has been treated, start making loud noises and if it comes to it hassle your MP too as they seem to get results

I'm just about still awake.

Took dd into town to choose a present for some friends who had a little boy on Monday, got some gorgeous soft dungarees.

It doesn't seem to matter what side I go to sleep on, I always seem to wake up on my back.

OOh so exciting.

I forgot to mention I had an extremely erotic dream last night, but thankfully it was DH who was in it. He doesn't know about it yet, maybe I should see if he wants to live it for real :) It was all a bit kinky involving the bath and different water temperatures in "places" SORRY probably TMI!!

Trouble is DH doesn't think that kinky sex is a suitable activity for a pregnant woman and he's probably right. :)

ive been feeling baba kicking alot quite low down,

has anyone looked into the nub theoroy baised on your 12 week scan picci, according to that im having a boy so will see what i find out next wedesnday when i go for my scan.

our sex life has drastically improved now, dp is having to restrain him self a lot as he dosent want to hurt me or baba.

x

nub theory?

My friend with GD was diagnosed at around 15 weeks, not sure why/ how though, I guess she must have had syptoms. Good news is her little one is now down on the ward with her now, still being tube fed but not needing help breathing or an incubator now :)
How can you have forgotten to tell us anout your dream fish !! I always want to wake up DH when I have one of those, but he wouldn't appreciate it, think he prefers his sleep!