Nov 2011 - Mat B forms are in and time is flying not long now

[PamSco]

Sorry just went for a new thread as I couldn't see another.

Hope you are all well this morning

Popping in to say Hi and sorry for those having rubbish doctor's comments, inconsiderate commuters etc.
I do tend to confront peple in parent & child parking spaces who don't have kids - not getting cross and staying polite works for me. If they shrug, I just tell them I think they are rude and lazy people!
only one time it went Pete Tong - I confronted a middle aged man who then apologised and produced the disabled badge he was about to pop on the windscreen........
Sorry guvnor

Thing it will be a 2 breakfast day for me too - had blueberries and natural yoghurt with DD and now fancy a crumpet with marmite!

PMA - booked a 4D scan for a week on Saturday. Can't wait to see my little one again!

Trying to catch up and apologies if I miss anyone out.

H007 - lots of lots of good luck. I had a biopsy without anaethetic and my boob and arm killed for a couple of days. I stupidly tried to sleep without my bra on the 1st night! I hope it all just pregnancy stuff and everything is fine. xxx

Cali - what an absolute arse! Clearly positive thinking isn't a cure for depression otherwise no one would suffer!!! I haven't ever suffered but my Mum has and despite refusing to seek help and generally been a nightmare it is plainly obvious she doesn't want to feel like she does at times.

Hmmm - please no one make my mistake and order anything from Mamas and Papas - I am discovering their customer care is absolutely shit. Furniture so bust up and broken when it was delivered I just sent it back. 2/3 weeks to replace. Dreadful inflexible delivery systems. Claim they can't improve as they are only a small company trying "their best". Rubbish, don't ask people to stay in all day to take receipt of goods marked as damaged by the driver as he picked them up!

I just found out from a friend she was left with an unusable expensive M&P pram which had major faults as she simply couldn't get them to exchange it after just 6 weeks of use, it is going through small claims now.

Anyway PMA - also just booked a 4D scan and only 21 days left in work!!! I finish Sept 9th (end of week 33)for a 2 week holiday and then another 1 week of holiday at home, then proper maternity leave begins. I can't wait.

Off for my Hobbitt breakfast. I'm huge already, given up!

Hi All, finally had my physio appt for the pelvic pain and numb thigh. Hope it helps. In a very very apathetic mood, went home to get changed and supposed to be in work but really cannot be bothered. Seriously would love the day off.

Hope everyone has a good day today.

Katie I totally second your comment about Mamas & Papas. Their clothes are OK and we bought a rocking horse for DD from their shop that has stood the test of time, but so often whilst I've been in the shop I overhear parents bringing stuff back, especially prams, complaining they have broken or are not fit for purpose and the poor ladies in the shop have nothing to do with the centralised returns/customer servces. I also get the impression they are slower than a slow thing on a slow day.

IME Jo Jo Maman Bebe are much better - good delivery, excellent customer servcice, if a bit pricey.

Afternoon all. Hope everyone is having a good day.

My boss asked me to stay longer to help with a transition for a colleague and as it will work out in my favour re pay etc (and at least mean that I get my normal salary til Jan) I have agreed it pretty much in principle so am now not on Mat leave until eeek end of October (due date 8th Nov!) Means I will have 10 days or so before due date. I did go over by nearly 2 weeks with both other kids so hey we shall see. I feel like I am actually insane but what else can i do!

Sick of the rain and not having much PMA today. Cancelled an activity tomorrow due to the rain (which I pretty much wasnt looking forward to anyway!) also cant take next Monday off when I wanted to go shopping all day with my dd and woke up to the news that this next series of Spooks will be the last ever! Gutted! Ah well, hope everyone is having a good day.

I must say we went to M&P in the Trafford centre and were really underwhelmed with the stuff in there - most of it over priced for what it is.

Can only say that John Lewis has been excellent so far - excellent delivery and lovely customer service in store!

Aww thanks for being so understanding of my long rambling rant. Knockedup I too get cross about people parking on the drop kerbs. But then I fume at all sorts of things. Tis my personality, the one thing I don't want my kids to inherit .
And oh good grief the rain. I'm slow cooking the biggest baddest sausage pasta for tea with an apple and mango crumble because as far as I can tell it's autumn out there.
PMA is I'm officially third trimester today and celebrating in a 99p pair of new maternity leggings from eBay, so comfy! Pamsco I loved your PMA about talking to the baby. Lovely.

bump I'm really sorry you've been having a tough time at work but very glad your manager has been supportive. It's in her interests at the end of the day to have you in doing something slightly different, than off sick. Shame not all people have this foresight though, like your miserable colleague!

HOO7 I'm sorry about your scare and that your still in limbo. Can I ask what prompted you to get checked out-was it a mark on your boob? I've got red blemish/bump on the outer edge of my nipple. Only really noticed after my bfp, so don't know if it's a symptom of them growing. I thought it might go/fade but it hasn't. After reading your post I meant to mention it to my mw at my apt today but forgot. Did you see your mw or gp?

Cali your consultant sounds like a bit of an arse! I would def seek out a sympathetic mw or see your gp. Depression doesn't just go away by thinking happy thoughts! Pillock!!

tuffkin your break sounds lush! We're off to Cornwall next week (pray for sunshine please) but nothing quite as fancy as we bought a vw bay window camper this year so we are going in that . But when we get back we are booked into an Eco-spa in Huddersfield for a day and night for our anniversary which I'm really looking forward too!!!

Katie I'm about your experience with m&p!!! Small company??!!! There are about 3 large stores within 16 miles of me AND at least one independent store I know of which stocks their stuff!!! And at their prices I'd expect more. Prices are comparable to JL and you get an outstanding service there. We've seen a cot we like in M&P we want and it's very expensive so I'd be disappointed with a crap service.

Can't believe people are in their 3rd trimester already! I'm 26wks on Sunday so getting there. Had my 25wk mw apt today, but mw didn't measure me for my fundal height. But, when looking at my belly listening to my hb, she told me to try not to put too much weight on....!!! So was that comment triggered by my excessive weight gain???? And why not measure me?! Came away totally stressing about weight gain, so went home and stuffed face with a bar of hotel chocolate!!!

poppet ooh sausage pasta sounds lovely, how do you do that?

I get really bugged by people parking in parent spaces when they don't have kids, some don't even have a child seat so can't even pretend. oh and another one is where they park in the parent space but only 1 adult gets out leaving the kids with the driver in the car, what is the point of that???? the parent spaces are to provide space getting in and out of the car so we don't bang other cars and have the space for pushchairs trolleys etc.

I just realised I have 80 days left. 11 weeks.

Do you remember when you were 11 weeks pregnant, not being able to tell everyone, and panicking about the dating scan? I do!

Crazy mad.

CollieandPup from your description, the blemish beside your nipple sounds very similar to what I have. Its been there a while, maybe a couple of months, but isn't getting any bigger. I showed it to GP at last antenatal check up and he said 'don't worry about it, its not a cancerous growth or anything like that' but then he said to keep an eye on it anyway, and let him see it again after the birth. As I have mentioned in previous posts, I suffer from terrible anxiety, so the 'keep an eye on it' threw me into a panic. I plucked up the courage to go back and see him about a week later, and he talked me all through it again, and this time it did put my mind at rest much more. For starters, he examined it again (closely, with magnifying glass, torch etc!) and said he thought it actually looked smaller than when he first saw it. And when we compared with the other nipple, I actually have a couple of smaller ones there. But, anything to do with the breast is automatically very scary, I think, and we always fear the worst. Having said that, my way of coping with it is not to look at it - I keep my eyes closed in the shower, and get dressed in the half dark. I know its probably not the healthiest approach to it all, but its my coping mechanism.

Cali I know what you mean. I'll be hitting 27 weeks at the weekend and I can remember getting a scan at 6 weeks (due to pain & bleeding) it seems like yesterday.

Just getting used to my giant belly tubigrip (same as your's Poppet) it feels comforting at the moment - very supported.

Pam where did you get your giant tubigrip from? Can you buy it from the chemist, or did you get it from your physio? I had a support in my first pg and it really helped with the pain. It was provided by the physio dept of the hospital, but I was told that this time round, due to budget cuts, I can't get one. (I know I should have kept it, but its over five years ago, and I wasn't really expecting to ever need it again). But I've never seen them to buy anywhere......Actually, what is really 'grrrr' about the whole thing is that first time round they gave me two supports and I only needed one (obviously). I tried to give the second one back to the hosp (unopened, still in the plastic packaging) and couldn't get them to take it!! How ironic, when they constantly complain about shortfalls in budgets!

From the physio, I've a trapped femoral nerve on the right due to belly pressure down = numb thigh.

Yikes, Pam a trapped femoral nerve sounds nasty. I've not got anything like that thankfully, just ligament pain, the usual sort of thing.

What about the gallstones by the way?

Nah, it's annoying not painful. Just means the thigh goes numb when I stand up. Main issue is if I walk for more than say 20 mins then I get cramp in the thigh and have to sit down. It should mostly right itself after the birth.

[Whispers] Gallstones seem to have calmed down... Nothing anyone can do if they kick off again.

I've got an agreement with The Boy that if there are any blockages he'll give them a kick and get them moving again :)

80 days left- arghh that sounds so scary!!!
Cep It was a bit of a use up tea tbh, so I fried up the sausages and the left over 1/4 of a packet of bacon then kept to one side, then added two onions, half a leek and about a dozen mushrooms to the lovely pig grease and fried those really, really, really slowly but for a long time, then added half an elderly red pepper, some chorizo (I know it's kind of banned because its cured not cooked but I'm addicted so am using it in recipes so long as it gets cooked) and some pimento peppers in oil I found lurking in the fridge then a carton of passata. Simmered that gently while the pasta cooked and nom nom nom!
Other than that it was a quiet wet day, but DS Jacob enlivened it for me by teaching himself to jump today. It's been like sharing a house/going for walks with Tigger. V funny to watch him learn. Baby humans are just so funny.

Just google imaged breat cancer nipple moles!!! Aghhh!!! Why would I do that?!!! Along with many other scary images, some things do look like what I've got (although appreciate it probably also looks like a multitude of other things too) so panicking a bit now! I suppose I need to make an apt with the gp, as the mw is unlikely to know anyway. Going away next week so I hope I can get in before then!!!

snoozle until now that's pretty much been my way of coping, ignore it, pretend it's not there. But I suppose if it ever did turn out to be anything then that's really not the answer!

Collie step away from Dr Google! Do the sensible thing and see the GP, but don't panic in the meantime. (Easier said, I know...)

Had a nice treat today and my brother and his family (who live a 4 hour drive away) popped in on their way to Drayton Manor. But their two kids are exhausting! I feel like I've regressed into abject terror at the thought of having this baby. It will pass, I know!

I agree with Buffy - step away from Google! Make an appointment and speak to the doctor. And step away from Google AGAIN!

Braxton Hicks... odd much? I had totally forgotten what labour was like until today/yesterday! I can soooo remember now!

The bump booted my dd in the face today :) was very very funny and dd and my 2 beautiful nieces, who were visiting for a few days, were tickled pink. Thus making me tickled pink too!

Am off to bed. Been a pretty rubbishy day weather and work wise and OH and I well... Not great. Not fun.

Night all x

Loving the countdown beginning! 68 days approx until I'm induced now. Wow.

Sorry to hear of all the worries going on for some at the moment.

I'm finding myself struggling more and more at the moment. I didn't find pregnancy this physically hard with Belle. I think possibly the enormous emotional strain is taking its toll a bit and I'm not sleeping very well at all. Between the heartburn, numerous toilet trips and bad dreams I'm feeling a wreck this week.

Sorry for the moan.

buffy do not worry about your brother's children. My nephew is a terror and I was so scared that my 1st born would be like that and I would be so exhausted. But when it's your own, it is totally different. Still tiring but in a good way - you'll see, don't fret :)

Caz Big, sympathetic hugs. 68 days and Xander will be here! Treat yourself to lots of relaxing things, and allow yourself to let those emotions out (which I'm sure you do anyway).

I am getting more and more impatient - I want to meet my Sprout!
Found somewhere that her feet are now about 2 inches long!

Breast bumps do they look like this? Sorry about the crappy image. I struggeled to find a better one. If so, they are Montgomery tubercles, which are normal in pregnancy. They are the saliva receptors that will determine how the next batch of milk shall be produced for the baby, ie milkier, more watery, etc

Caz sorry things are rough. I agree with Cali, treat yourself as much as possible and let all the emotional stress out. I hope you have a good support network in RL for hugs and comfort.
Are the weekly checkups still helping?

Hope you all have a good Friday.

I have a very busy day ahead and a very busy Monday with a mandatory exchange upgrade and I must say I am not looking forward to that. Anyhow, 12 work days left for now

Hi collie it wasbt really like that rather a soft fleshy lump at the bottom of my breast, I have limited sensory feeling over it and when you squeeze it the skin turns orange peel like.