December 2011- over halfway there!

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Welcome to the new thread ladies!

Funnily enough "she's like the wind" is quite an accurate description of moi today :o

Gary Barlow is the mayor of Mingford...

I've been lusting after Jarvis Cocker between weeping fits though, so my view may be somewhat skewed.

Can I have Matt Smith and whatshisface that plays Eric in True Blood please?

Although I'm not sure either of them would want giant bellied, alternately raging and crying me at the moment!

You ladies are more than welcome to Matt and Jarvis!!! (the world has gone crazy). And as for your wind Kristy ... well, I can probably give you fair competition!

aethelfleda I'm with you on Johnny Depp.

Lusting after Jarvis Cocker is just plain wrong.

buggy you're welcome to Matt Smith but Alexander Skarsgård & I have a deep & meaningful relationship I also have my eye on that floppy haired Rob from the Great British Bake Off...although he's probably a bit young for my tastes.

Just spent the afternoon at the Newlyn Fish Festival; I am stuffed...I've had a fish curry, half a seafood paella a couple of hot doughnuts & a mahoosive Cornish ice cream. Haven't felt a peep from LO; I'm guessing there's not much room to move :) Definitely time to retire to the sofa.

Hi all

Bit of a mixed weekend here. DD finally got brave and took her first steps without holding on but has also been a bit poorly, which has been exhausting as she's barely slept today and has been very out of sorts.

All seems fine in the bump department. Nothing much to report here at the moment, which I guess is a good thing. I had no Braxton Hicks or afterpains with DD so hoping for the same again.

I must confess I'm with several of you - I've lusted after Johnny Depp since the 21 Jump Street days and have been a Take That fan since the first time around, although (slightly contraversially?) it's Jason Orange that does it for me!

Morning all, it's very sweet to hear about little ones taking their first steps kate. :) Especially when I think, in a year or so from now, that'll be me watching Gingerbaby's first steps!
Well, I'm in work this morning. So you can guess that the pains have subsided enough. Hurrah! But... I found a lump in my breast last night. And I could see it this morning - although it's very small. Is this normal? As we prepare to start making milk, do these things happen? I'm just waiting until 8.30 or 9.00 when I can ring to ask/make an appointment... I'm not a hypochondriac honest! I'm never ill. Until this last week! I'm not worrying about it, not really. I've had my Rice Krispies, so what could possibly be wrong in the world?! Coffee next.

ooo msbuggy and hunny mmmmm Alexander Skarsgård

Ok i typed that about 10 minutes ago... and have been swooning ever since!! A friend has the new series downloaded for me, so i shall be watching that next week or the week after I CANT WAIT!!!

And msbuggy i'm more of a david tenant fan!!

kate yayyyy for DD :) i can't wait for moments like that!!

vanessa i think its pretty normal to find lumps now?? I could be very wrong though, so it'll be good to here what other people say! But i would prob ring my mw anyway... but thats just me lol, glad your pains have eased off :)

I agree, David Tennant is more my bag than quirky Matt. :) I don't know Mr Skarsgard. I'm was still swooning after <a class="break-all" href="http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/12_02/RupertPenryJonesES_228x462.jpg&imgrefurl=www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-502129/Explosive-end-nigh-Spooks-spy-Rupert.html&h=462&w=228&sz=30&tbnid=Por8DFNkmNQINM:&tbnh=91&tbnw=45&prev=/search%3Fq%3Drupert%2Bpenry%2Bjones%26tbm%3Disch%26tbo%3Du&zoom=1&q=rupert+penry+jones&docid=np2cWYVrM961cM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=7YZcToCTCIWy8QP1w63HAw&sqi=2&ved=0CEQQ9QEwBg&dur=2562" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rupert Penry Jones from Spooks, when he was replaced by another hottie. When is Spooks back? Oh, and can I admit to being a huge Downton Abbey fan? I know it's all a bit ridiculous, but I can't help it.
Just called the MW at the hospital, she said the lump could just be hormonal changes, but that I should see my GP and get it checked out, so I'll call at 9. :)

That's good hun, there is no harm getting it checked :) i'm sure it'll just be hormonal :)

Stupid annoying comment on the day from someone ... "wow you really look pregnant now", my answer "what, rather than pretend pregnant?"

I must be in a bad mood today!!

I snapped at my niece yesterday (Stuart's niece - but mine now) and earned myself a glare from Stuart. We went around two weeks ago and she said, "oh there's hardly any thing there!" with typical teenage disgust. - Which I ignored, but it hurt, and Stu said that I was being over sensitive. She's 19. She's very excited about the pregnancy, just has problems when she opens her mouth. This weekend she put her hand on my tummy and said, "Oh it isn't even hard yet". So I said that I was sorry to be such a disappointment, etc... the whole room went quiet... Ahem. (And my tummy IS hard, it must have been the way I was slumped on the sofa...)

i honestly don't think people realise how we take offence to comments!!

And next time just explain that you are "smaller" than some people as your stomach muscles are so strong from all those classes you did!! thats a good thing!

My bump is hard if i am stood up, but when i am sat down i can pinch huuuge amounts of flab on my sides!!

I don't know why I did take such offence, both times, but I did. She wasn't meaning to criticise my body, or my ability to "grow" a baby, ...but it is incredibly personal. And so on the way home I felt like crying because I knew I shouldn't have snapped (hormones!) ...but then she shouldn't have said that ...and now she won't criticise again ...and I'll be buggered if I'm gonna apologise! So there!!
(She then wanted me to start poking my belly and squidging it to make the baby kick, I explained that at 6 months it wasn't so easy to feel the kicks yet externally. Grrrrr!)

OiMissus the lump could also be a blocked duct, in which case keep a very careful eye on it. If you feel fevery, extra-tired or get a red patch on your breast it could have become mastitis, which needs antibiotics.

All the talk about lovely men, does that mean I am not alone in my rampant hormones?! DP actually told me I wasn't allowed to jump him this morning as he has a 9am meeting! (DDs sleep later than he leave for work usually!)

Updating on my Granddad, he has a brain tumour. Waiting for test results to find out what kind and how it will be treated. The amazing news is that because he is so fit they are happy to use radiotherapy/chemo if necessary which they wouldn't normally do for a 78 year old.

Aww msbuggy i am sorry to hear about your grandad, but that is fantastic news about how fit he is!! It is def a postitive thing!!

Jumping your DH?? I wish i could manage that (not your DH obviously lol, but you know what i mean! i have lost all interest! Most prob due tot he fact by the time he gets home at 8-9pm i am ready for bed, and then i get up at 4.30 lol

vanessa let us know how you get on with the GP :)

Also quick question... can a MW sign you off work, or only a GP? just a thought as i am at the MW tomorrow, and my GPs are useless, and i wont get an apt for like 10 weeks!!

Thanks msbuggy, I knew you'd have some good advice!
As for being rampant, err...no. I have rampant dreams . But when I'm awake, I'm busy, and don't think about it. And like kristy, in the evenings, I'm so tired I go to bed before him. :(
...I've been making the effort to try and remember at weekends, in the afternoon, so the poor boy doesn't feel too lonely.
Got an appointment with the doc at 10:30am. (Impressed!)

I feel very bad... i can't even at the weekends as he works them too!! hmm he has half a day on thrusday, so maybe when he gets home at 3pm.....

I will pencil it in my diary!! lol

Aww good luck at the docs hun x

That's bad, isn't it? When we have to make notes in diaries and "make the effort"!!! ha ha ha!
Thing is, when I did give him the wink for a bit of "how's yer father", his face was half-excitement, half-fear. He thought he was going to hurt me, and was a bit wary. - He soon got over that. :)
Right, packing up now... 8 days out of office, then I come in for a couple of hours...!

Thanks ladies, I'm such a proud Mummy, it's lovely to see her walking at last. She's 16 months old now and has been walking around holding on since 11 months. She was just too scared to let go of our hands until this weekend. I'm also slightly relieved - she's been getting really heavy to carry around along with the bump!

Kate really pleased to hear that your DD is walking!

oimissus hope you get on ok at doctors later, let us know how it goes.

msbuggy sorry to hear about your grandad, although good that he's so fit and at least now they know what's wrong they can start treating him. When my grandad got ill he was in hospital for 8 weeks before they found out he had cancer. Sadly he died a couple of months later but I always wonder whether it would have made a difference if they'd have found it sooner.

Hi all, the doctor was pleasingly thorough. She gave a good examination and was not overly concerned. She said that it had all the right characteristics of something benign and was probably pregnancy-related. She said that we should keep an eye on it, and if it changes at all, I should come back straightaway. Otherwise, I should just make an appointment for in two weeks (at the same time I'll make the MW 28 wk appt) when she'll have a look again. I'm happy with that.
msbuggy sorry about your granddad's diagnosis, but certainly good news that they are willing to treat it. I hope that all goes well.

Oi glad it sounds like another of those "funny" pregnancy symptoms, they are very random!!

I had a friend say to me at the weekend " you are going to be maaaasive".....well thanks for that!! And she has had a kid so should know better!! Am very bored of being pregnant now am still greatful for my symptom free first trimester but god cant believe still have 14.5 weeks to go.

Am going to stop weighing myself i have decided it is making me beyond depressed as to what i am going to weigh at the end and have to lose afterwards. I always said i wouldnt be one of these women who just let it all go the minute they are pg but apparently i am oops. AND my boobs still not grown but they are sore and nipples crusty, we are a no action zone in our bedroom I cant be arsed and he doesnt ask which then puts me into a "you dont fancy me anymore waahhh" spiral which i am sure makes me irresistible to him. For the first time i am starting to feel tired coming to work today after the Bank holiday I am shattered i feel like i need a real lie down. God i am a miserable cow today!!

I'm worried about how much weight I'm putting on although I know it's not that much. I just remember how hard I found it to lose last time and told myself I wouldn't use pregnancy as an excuse to eat whatever I wanted but it's so hard! I also feel better when I eat regularly so use that as an excuse! :)

We're not allowed to have sex as I am classed as high risk. It has been a bit weird as I don't really fancy it at all (am feeling very protective of my body at the moment!) but obviously DH is as raring to go as usual! It makes me feel very guilty but he is being lovely about it and I can't help it. It is odd though.

Figgygal - in my first pregancy my boobs didn't grow at all until my milk came in and then they went from an A to a C. This time, I'm already a C at 23 weeks! Not sure what's going to happen when my milk comes in this time! Very strange for me to actually have boobs - although compared to how big my belly is they look small!

Right, lunchtime :)

kate contgrats on the first steps... so cute :)

msbuggy sorry about your grandad... I hope everything goest well with the test results.

Oimissus It seems there is no end to the symptoms!!! As for pencilling it in... between my sleep needs and trying to do up the place... I not only pencil it in... I even have to re-schedule!!!

Completely off topic... I spent much of the weekend reading up on parenting styles and I was just wondering about how people make a choice... or if they make one at all. After reading a few books it seems really confusing because all sorts of different things appeal to me. I like the idea of a routine, but not of a timed schedule, I want the baby to sleep in its own cot but I am not averse to rocking it to sleep (before it gets too heavy), I want to breast feed, but I'd rather mixed feed so that I can have a break and let my hubby do some work. However, all my thoughts seem to be contradictory. If I pick and choose... will I just end up making things harder for myself in the long run???