Ding Ding! We're halfway there on The February Baby Bus 2012.

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good morning my lovelies, as requested, a shiny new thread old thread is here

Good luck with scans today, phlossie are you off for yours?

Thank you zen & wicket. Have been asleep & am now wide awake thinking about my baby boy & scratching my very itchy right foot! I'm feeling all excited now like I can see squiglett as his own little person & may just watch the DVD of my scan again really should be asleep!
Sorry about your sad news, hope your dp is coping ok x

HOLLIBOBS!!!!!!!! Back on Friday! Morethan likely no reception in the middle of no where to keep up on my phone

Good luck to all those with scans this week. Hope everything else goes perfectly

And for the rest. Don't write too much

Enjoy your hols Mellie x

Enjoy your holidays Mellie

Congratulations to you ladies on all the boys joining the blue bus!

So sorry to hear your sad news Zhen

I hope that the hyperemesis starts to ease for you soon wicket. Did you have it this bad in your first pregnancy? Just wondering if there is a possible end date that you can focus on to help you get through it. My chiropractor helped a bit with me though I've heard that what you had done works better so may not be any help to you at all. Hope you feel better soon!

Kayano - Another in the big boobs club here! I've gone from 32FF before pregnancy to a 34g now. I'm dreading getting any bigger because for some reason the bra manufacturers seem to think that we only ever go up to DD which is ridiculous since the national average is now DD and we only get bigger in pregnancy! Mothercare seem to go up to 32H in some styles though and I think Bravissimo do some maternity bras too (though I'm not 100%!).

No news here really, just checking in. Scan on Friday and we STILL can't decide if we want to find out the sex. On the one hand we'd like the surprise but we keep seeing lots of gorgeous gender specific clothes!

The sister thing from my last post sorted itself out too but only after I intervened and told her it was unacceptable to ignore my dad. She's been texting him now and he is much happier.

All normal with my scan - hooray! And my baby appears exceptionally well hung. Yep, it's a boy, as I suspected somehow. I'm not telling anyone though (except my parents, and, well, you guys) as I don't like gender-specific clothes/toys etc - which would have been worse if it was a girl actually. I am allergic to pink, butterflies, unicorns, princesses etc. Too much of a radical feminist I guess! This would have been my dream daughter. Now I have to make sure my boy grows up understanding male privilege, which might be even harder!

Congratulations snoozing

I am feeling remarkably UN PREGNANT STILL

I feel fat, and bloated, I have no movements still (after my early movements a few weeks back) and my hips are still playing silly buggers. Last night I could only sleep comfortably with my long pillow doubled over between my knees so it looked like I was sat on a space hopper!

How glad am I that the weather turned yesterday !! Ahhhh cooling breeze and damp autumnal smells. Wonderful! I was so hot on Saturday I felt yucky!

Hope we're all having a good day... sorry to moan... it's not even big moans, I just feel really niggly

cake it is then!!

Hello everyone!

Still not managed to get on a computer and catch up, been so busy with work and then went away for the weekend! Feeling nervous now, got my scan at 14:10. Lovely to hear all the boy/girl news and surprised so many little ones have been shy!

Thanks mummymccar - unfortunately it went on until delivery the last time . I felt absolutely AWFUL and was puking/dryheaving every day. I then just felt really nauseous and felt well at last when I started mat leave, but only for a week or 2 and then started throwing up again towards the end. I felt magically better once DD came out.

So, had my anomaly scan today and all looks great! There was a wee minute of worry when we coudn't see the stomach, and I got sent off to have something to eat and drink to try to encourage baba to do a bit of swallowing, and after that there was a beautiful stomach. This baby was much better behaved than his/her big sister was at her 20 week scan - hope that bodes well for the future, as her jumping about everywhere has continued for 2.5 years since she was born. I was particularly pleased to see a beautiful wee heart!

Still firmly in Team Yellow - the sonographer promised not to look, and whenever we were near the "danger zone", I looked away! I did think at one moment "oh well, that's that then", but thankfully the ultrasound beam was just catching the cord at a funny angle!

20+1

BTW, can you believe we're a third of the way through this thread already!

Lol we all talk so much!
Spent saturday on the stand at the baby show in Llandudno then the afternoon in the sea lovely!

I am obviously pregnant now but was very jealous to meet a mum at the show who was 23 wks with a washboard flat stomach! Turned out she was in the army so had muscles of steel :D

monkey I feel fat and bloated no noticeable 'bump' just extra fat. Also I feel flutters and maybe they are 'movements' or maybe its me concentrating to hard on wanting to feel something, there is no consistency except I feel them more when I need to go to the toilet.
I had three dreams in a row, in all the dreams, the baby was a boy, in one my breast milk was tinged with blood and I couldn't feed him, another he was early and I couldn't get to the hospital on time and the other one the baby kept biting me leg...
Any one else dreaming about the baby yet?
19+3 (nearly half way there!)

Congratulations on the boy snoozing and on a good scan wicket!
Not dreaming about the baby much but keep dreaming being pregnant or having the baby but I always seem to be on a 'day off' in those dreams so only seen the baby once as a 4 year old girl. She was very pretty and that dream still brings a smile to my face.
I have a bump but I'm fairly sure that it is 50% baby and 50% chocolate biscuits. Really embarrassing when people touch the bump or comment on it - has anyone else had this?
wicket - I'm so sorry you've suffering. Are you speaking to any of the support groups? There is a great one on Facebook which is run by a nurse. They're doing a lot of fantastic work to publicise the condition. Are you managing to work or are you a SAHM? (So many threads that I've lost track!). I hope you are getting the support you need and if you feel the need to slap the next person who suggests ginger then go ahead, I'll back you up.

Hope you are all enjoying this nice breezy sun. I just sat outside in it for an hour reading a book - was lovely. Unfortunately the book I was reading is not good. Well written but it is a biography of the man we wanted to name baby after (middle name) if he is a boy. Turns out the guy kept torture chambers, executed anyone who bored him and is the most likely person to have ordered the crucifixion of Jesus!!! We shall be having a re-think now. How is everyone else coming along with names now that we are starting to find out sexes?

Not a SAHM, mummymccar, have a fairly full-on job as a cardiologist. I've had to give in and take some sick leave this time. But TBH, I reckon it would be harder to be a SAHM and have to deal with DD all the time feeling like this. It's a public holiday where I work today, and not on-call but DD at her grandparents' as usual for a Monday so I am having a much needed lazy afternoon!

No baby dream for me, but chasing/hiding dreams a plenty!!

Last night I was hiding under a bed from MI5 types, properly on the run... waiting for lift doors to shut etc... even wearing a hat as a disguise!!

The previous night I was on the run but in a foreign place (unknown)where my DP and one other (unknown, but "known" to us in the dream) were in a boat, and I had to hide underneath to escape. It was murky muddy water, and I kept having to pop my head op to catch breath. I was fully under the boat. Then they had to speed up as we reached crocodiles!! I then got out, and ran along side... IN A BIKINI! all very surreal. I was about a size 10 in my dream, and in reality BEFORE Pregnancy a size 20..... I think I liked that dream

Do you think I'm in denial about pregnancy??!

mummymcar anyone touching my stomach and commenting on it would be very out of order and I would have no problem telling them that. I think its rude to just go up and touch someone because they are pregnant, you are not a relic. I'm a bit militant about my body actually, paws off me!

monkey a dream were you are a size 10...now thats a nice one :)

snoozing well done on the boy!

If I have my scan and I'm told I'm having a girl I'll be (I have no preference I'd love either) but since I've been pregnant I've 'felt' like I'm carrying a boy

Great news on your lovely scan news. I think we might even be beginning to tip the scales in the other direction with the blue team taking the lead?!

I look very pregnant. Slightly embarrassingly so. I've already had one 'have you got much longer' comment. Er, yes, about 4 1/2 months to go. That's third baby, no muscle tone and being a total pie-face for you.

DD's birthday today. She perked up a treat and got some lovely presents. I so wish I was 4 again! Snoozing, I rally against the girls = pink thing too, but it's very hard when you have a 4 year old daughter! The Disney princess thing is impossible to avoid! She got some make-up for her birthday, ffs! She loves it. She also got a pink princess dress and lots of other glittery stuff. I let her go with it, tbh - it's a phase (though I have hidden the eye-shadow). And she's currently playing with the Playmobil safari truck her brother got her, so we definitely balance it out.

Talking about boobs - I caught sight of my boobs in the mirror yesterday and was actually shocked. They're huge (for me), but it's more that my nipples are ENORMOUS and brown. They're stll really tender. I'm sure they weren't like this the last two times! I spent about 10 minutes saying 'but look at them!' to my DH, which he thought was very funny.

Loving all the scan news. Go team Blue! Pambeesly I was absolutely convinced I was having a girl, and even all the indicators were there (Well Old Wives tales) and then I was so surprised with boy!

Wicket sorry you are still suffering! I am guessing you have being offered buccastem? Worked wonders when I had gastroenteritis, don't know if it would work for you.

Happy Birthday Phlossie DD

I had my bump touched for the first time on Saturday at work (i must look very PG because it is a big baggy polo shirt and I show!) I was more shocked than anything else and just gawped at her as she left!

I'm here at home with a red cross on my front door! I have flu, and a rotten case of it! I have never had it before and now I just know what it feels like! Shortness of breath is worrying me slightly but I will see at the doctors tomorrow. Everything hurts, except my bump, well it has shrunk, as he has shied away into my back, poor thing! Will update when feeling better, only on computer to check flu in pregnancy.

20+2 (back to my original dates)

Phlossie I also really don't like the pink or blue 'gendered' colours for children, I really never have. There is an excellent book called 'Cinderella Ate My Daughter' here is a link today.msnbc.msn.com/id/41192486/ns/today-books/t/does-she-have-be-princess-live-happily-ever-after/

I read about it on one of the feminist threads. The thread was really interesting about little girls being pink, glittery and princessy.

Innocent I felt awful for the past few days, I just took paracetamol (once a day) and made hot lemon and honey, I also stayed in out of the cold. Hope you feel better soon
(I'm not sure if its cold where you are, I'm reading the UK is basking in a heatwave, it cold and wet here)

I love people's interest in my bump, I don't mind it being fondled at all. I think most people find it intrusive though.

I think I have more issue with DD being 'pink' than DS being very 'boyish'. We bought him a kitchen, but he gravitated towards wheels and Thomas the Tank, which we didn't fight and didn't make me as uncomfortable as all the princess stuff does. I suppose it's the feminist in me! But what I really can't stand is the sexualisation and growing up of girls - high heels, make up etc for small girls.

DD loves climbing and swimming. We let her try ballet, but she prefers gym which she does in a mixed class (which includes her bro) and we encourage their joint love of animals. Thanks for the link, Pam.

Rubbish that you have 'flu, Innocent. I think you're more suseptible to these things when pg. I have a sore throat and I'm hoping it won't develop.

I don't mind being fondled by people I know, but not complete strangers!

Oh, and Pam, it was really hot, but it's cold and wet now - don't worry!

Innocent, I'm on regular cyclizine AND regular buccastem! Hope you're better soon.

I abhorred my bump being grabbed last time. It's bad enough when it's people you know, but patients kept doing it last time and not even longstanding patients - people I was seeing for the first time! It's so rude and intrusive. My secretary ended up making me a 2 sided badge on a lanyard. One side said "please do not touch the bump". The other side was for particularly hormonal days and said "You touch my bump, I punch your face" . I cannot tell you how tempted I was to wear it. In fact, I think I may still have it about somewhere...

Wicket - Hope you enjoyed your relaxing afternoon and that you are feeling a little better for it. Wow! A cardiologist! I imagine that would be pretty full-on, glad work are being supportive though. When I was at my worst a few weeks ago a woman contacted me on Twitter and was encouraging me to smoke weed to help it! I was .

I've only had one bump fondle so far and it really made me jump. The woman actually apologised! I don't mind comments though - I'm quite proud of my growing bump.

Happy Birthday Phlossie's DD!

Sorry that you are feeling poorly Innocent and Pam, I hope that you both feel better soon.

I don't know if anyone saw my thread on chat tonight but I'm really, really angry. My 80 year old nan tripped over on a busy shopping street today and nobody helped her up. She was very shaken and upset and badly injured. Nobody helped her. It just boggles the mind. I can't understand how dozens of people could walk passed whilst my Mum struggled to help her up. In the end my Mum had to go and beg two men for help. They didn't even offer. she begged them they were vocally quite reluctant about it. I just can't understand how someone could ignore an 80 year old woman crying on the floor. Why would someone do that?

Bump touching - first timers, get used to it. i really hate it, i even refused to let my mum touch it a couple of weeks ago. Makes me so cross. My MIL is coming to stay tomorrow and i'm fairly sure she did it last time, but i feel even more difficult about her this pregnancy (last pg put me right off her, weirdly). so i'll be trying to stay well away from her. My poor SIL when she went for lunch with my granny (so, her granny in law), my granny spent most of lunch time at the table with her had on SIL's bump. I would have moved, but SIL not blood related and too polite, but my mum apologised a lot when they got home. Note to avoid my granny at christmas when i'll be huge!

WHY do people think it's ok? one of life's oddities.

On pink stuff and feminism, i'm not a feminist AT all, but i don't do princesses, fairies, unicorns etc. i don't think it's a feminist issue, i have a traditional idea of family, husbands and wives etc (in a totally non judging way!), so i don't think princesses etc is part of a traditional view of women either. It feels more like a disneyfication of girlhood rather than a traditional view, girls through history haven't been pink and fairylike but strong and outgoing. As you can probably guess, I don't do disney either! Yuk. Anyway, DD wears a mixture of clothes, like i do, and i try to dress her in cool and unusual stuff, though some of it is pink, none of it is fluffy iykwim. She LOVES her pram and dolly, but she also loves her fire engine. I am totally against sexualisation of girls though, and lots of clothes make me shudder. I'll be hiding her away once she reaches 11.

Anyway, that's probably all for another thread!!

Dreading MIL coming tomorrow, need to get a grip.

Date with Downton Abbey and knitting now. yay!

mummymcar i'm about your granny! I run when I see people fall - towwards them - yes she had your mum, but it certainly takes more than one person to lift a struggling person to their feet. I'm not sure where David Cameron thinks he's going to find his Big Society!!