Wow - you ladies talk a lot! It has taken me hours to catch up!
Happy Birthday Melliebobs! Hope that you have a lovely day filled with lots of cake.
Gonerogue, I'm so sorry to hear about your dad. Thinking of you.
Innocent, Glad that your work seems to be getting their act together a bit more. Hope that you start to feel better about the anxiety soon.
Devon, I hope that you are recovering well.
Woowa Hope that DD feels better soon.
BabyCarmen Hope that your physio helps.
Bill, How are your palpitations now?
Congratulations on the boy and girl scans - fantastic news! Sorry to hear that some of you are still feeling sick. Fantastic bump pictures everyone, I'll try to get one up too when I'm not on my phone!
Feeling much better here - off the Cyclizine finally! Getting a nice, big, tidy round bump with no extra weight on. Apparently that may mean I'm having a girl? Our scan isn't until next week and I'm not sure that we want to find out but I'm not sure we'll have much control over it if baby wants us to know! Had my 17 week midwife appointment last week and midwife couldn't find the heartbeat for a very long time. We were starting to get worried when she suddenly found it. Baby wasn't too happy about being found though and gave the Doppler a few kicks for good measure. My cat cane and snuggled up to bump yesterday and put her paw down on the bump just where baby was - baby gave her a good warning kick which terrified the poor cat! She won't snuggle with bump anymore.
Had a bit of a hormonal day yesterday where everything just got on top of me and I spent the entire day crying. I've never cried so much in my life! Face and head feel awful today. My parents split up a couple of weeks ago which wasn't unexpected, but my parents aren't adjusting as well as we'd hoped, particularly my mum. My sister appears to think it is all about her though and has been ordering my parents to stay together for the sake of her birthday in December. She also hasn't phoned my dad at all to see how he is, and when I phoned to ask if she was ok she diverted all 5 calls and told my mum that she didn't want to speak to me because she was sure I only wanted to talk about our parents and she didn't want to. That's find but the 5th call was actually about my appointment at the midwife. I sent her a message but she hasn't bothered getting in contact so I'm going to leave it. Sisters, eh?!
Plus, I've been going out a bit more which has been great except for the fact that I keep encountering that breed of nab that thinks it is funny to tell a pregnant woman that they look fat. Nice.
Sorry for the moan!
On a lighter note, has anyone been using bio-oil? Expensive but it seems to really be working - my bump doesn't feel anywhere near as tight as it did a week ago before I was using it. Highly recommend!
Has anyone else signed up to the mothercare parenting nights? We've got tickets for next week and it looks great. Loving all of the cute clothes in there too - can't wait until after 20 week scan when we are going to buy things! A lovely mumsnetter gave us her unneeded pram too which was fab - a Bertie bidwell(sp?) that is very old fashioned and gorgeous! Not ideal for public transport but perfect for walks around the park.
Sorry for the essay and for any missed spelling mistakes/odd words (autocorrect!)
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