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?

Happy birthday phlossie sounds like you have a lovely evening planned.

happy birthday phlossie

Happy Birthday Phlossie, have a lovely evening

I am so unbelievably tired. Baby keeps me up all night kicking and wriggling. Im so glad its the weekend. Hopefully DD is going to my mums to stay tomorrow night so il get a bit of peace and quiet!.

I have some mississippi mud pie in the fridge.. Its getting demolished as soon as DD is in bed :D

Oh and still waiting for my physio appointment. And still in agony :(

20+4

Happy birthday phlossie! Have a lovely evening

Happy Birthday Phlossie!

I was right about the bronchitis. GP called me back yesterday and had me go in imediately without an appointment. Narrowly managed to avoid being shipped off to hospital on the spot, mostly because I had DS with me and DH was over an hour away at work, but am under strict instructions that I have to call an ambulance if I start to wheeze again.
Have a big stack of antibiotics, inhalers and steriods to try and clear it quickly so am sitting very quietly and taking my pills like a good girl.

Happy Birthday Phlossie!! Hope you've had a wonderful day!!

I second (or maybe third) all that has been said about bump bonding! I certainly have never made the connection between bump and baby in terms of feelings until very late in my pregnancies and with DD not at all! Even after she was here it seems that everything up until she was 6months was a blur, it was as if bonding had been put on hold whilst I dealt with having two under 18 months. Even after that it was slow going as I had PND, but it all works out in the end and it cripples me to even think about thinking about her not being here!

I know it's easy with hindsight to say 'don't worry about it, it will come' but I truly believe if you tried not to put so much pressure on yourself to feel what you think you should and just go with the flow. Of course being a public commodity as soon as you fall preg doesn't help, everyone feels they have the right to comment and want to know 'Oooo, are you excited?' (No, most of the time I am just bloody terrified!) 'Aren't you a bit young?' '4!? You are going to have FOUR children' (Um yes... and they all only have one head so could you stop looking at me as though I have two!). Only YOU know how you will feel in pregnancy, as helpful as talking to other people who have been/are going through things at the same time as you, we will all be feeling different things. This thread is a good illustration of that, how many different degrees of sickness/cramping/tiredness/anxiety are there between just us lot? It's all pretty normal! And all you want in pregnancy is ''normal''!

DS2 had a Orthoptic appointment today as he has a Ptosis, he was very brave! He had to have eye drops and a vision test and he didn't cry or complain which the Dr said was very rare for an 11month old [Proud Mummy] and his vision is perfectly fine so will just be monitored every 6 months.

Been having lots of thumps low down today and my bump has pretty much disappeared so I guess titch has had a good old wriggle around to my back and is concentrating on working those limbs!

20+2 - 5 days til scan!

X-post Devon - That sounds really nasty! I hope you feel better asap and your various pharmaceuticals kick in right away.

Happy birthday Phlossie :)

diedandgonetodevon I am glad you are getting the treatment you needed, I was a bit worried about you after you described your wheezing.

Wow so much to read through! And here's the first post for Saturday. Today has been the first weekend in 2 months DH hasn't been stuck in Pips room prepping or decorating so went for a meander in town. I did the inevitable bra fitting and shopping. Was allready to have an arguement over maternity/underwire ones (i was just in one of them moods!) but that wasn't required as at 18+6 i STILL don't look pregnant!) The whole experience was like getting a new pair of shoes and asking if it was OK to wear it home cos my old ones were SO ill fitting in comparison! lol

Also had a look at the baby clothes in H&M. DH fell in love with a t-shirt and HAD to get it. Baby pip is now the proud owner of an AC/DC shirt! If we have a boy and call him Dexter DH has said he also has to get this shirt so they can match as AC are his initials and DC will be pips! lol Loser!

Mellie love the ac/dc link!

Xavelli please why do people think it's mad to have 4! I get those looks comments all the time.

Littlemonkey yay a fellow northerner!

You all must be out havingfun, hardly any posts today!

lol queenfee he only noticed this when he got home and sat down looking at it! i haven't even had one yet, but me and dh want a big family and have always said 4, but like i say, not even had this one yet!

Also whilst out and about i have had a major strop and issue with Boots. Joined Boots parenting club, got the 1st lot of vouchers and realised they needed to be used by 31st October so went to use them today. Absolute JOKE!!!!

Stretch mark oil voucher was for 500ml, they only stock 250ml.
Voucher for free Avent baby Bottle or Breast guards - They don't stock either. Asked if i could order it to collect. They said they can't do that on this offer. Oh and you can't order it online either.
Voucher for £1.50 off Shampoo. Couldn't use cos the head and shoulders was in a 3 for 2 offer and you cant use the voucher in conjunction with any other offer. Well i don't want 3 bottles of shampoo. I want ONE and i want my £1.50 off!!!

Whats the point in sending stuff if i can't bloomin use it. Where i live there are 3 Boots as well and the one i was in was the main HUGE town center one! I did get my 2nd Bounty pack though. Alot more bountyfull compared to the 1st one!

Ooh, might have to venture forth for my 2nd bounty pack now you've said that!

queenfee hooray for (far apart) northerners!!

I am currently in bed, having a "lie in" - NOT!! Woke up about an hour ago, with mild but very intrusive hip pains

Its not just ligments either, its like I can feel it rigt through the joint have put cushion there but still feeling it. I goot similar yest, but today's worse

I guess I'll sit still a lot today, and have a soak in the bath later... Undigging this!!

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littlemonkey if you are now sleeping on your side this is quite common, could be a bit of sciatica (caused by pressure on the sciatic nerve).

When sleeping on your side are you putting a pillow between your knees to keep your hips in line, if not this can help a lot. Also put one between your ankles if it is really bad.

Also at this stage you can swap sides from left to right while in bed giving each hip a break.

Sitting down for a long period of time is not the best thing if it is sciatica, it will put more pressure on the nerve.

Stretching and moving around improves it. Try some of the stretches here there are also other videos on youtube if you search under sciatica exercises.

Do not lift anything heavy and bend knees if you do have to lift. Try not to lift and twist in same motion. Bend down to pick things up using your knees not from waist.

Hope you feel better soon.

Thanks Zhen, I am using between the knees, will try ankles too! It doesn't feel like sciatica, its tjust the hips and it feels like the joint and muscles, rather than nerve.
I'm good with lifting etc (getting better too as was feeling abdomen stretch pains recently) Also, been switching sides (and waking DP in process!) Lots, but I think that's why I'm hurting so much on both sides.
I might sleep on the couch tonight, as I get propped up nice and comfy and get the TV all night!!
I'll have a look at those stretches later on my pc, currently on phone! I do yoga, and yoga based classes, so possibly similar stretches anyway. I'm quite a bendy betty!! My instructor was laughing at how bendy I still am, and still one of the only ones in class making a few of the poses properly (star pose, bird pose, swan pose and butterfly pose!)

Anyway, today is going to be the Grand Prix, yummy tea, bath, dvd and relaxing!! Ahhhh!

Hope everyone has a fab day!!

Oh, and making my pear and almond cake!! Yum!! I love our pear trees!!

littlemonkey yes that doesn't sound like sciatica, when I was pregnant the last time I bought a thick mattress pad to put on my side of the bed to help cushion my hips.

They do get sore, there were nights I was grateful for my bladder waking me so often, so that I could get up and move around a bit otherwise I would get dead legs and painful hips!

Enjoy your cake, sounds yummy :)

Hello everyone - have been lurking for a while and not posted...in fact haven't even properly lurked because it seems I have about 10 pages of the last thread to catch up on. Three cheers for half way through and all the lovely scan news. Mine's not til 11 October so a little while to wait yet.

Right - that's the place marked and a bit of a wave at everyone - off to get the shopping and housework done...

19+1 or 2 I think

Horrible and rainy here today so I've been having a sort out. I've packed up any clothes I can't fit into and they won't be seeing daylight again until at least March (or Jan 2013 in the case of work clothes - woooo!!). Then I've gone through some baby stuff that lovely friends have given me, and started putting it away in the chest of drawers all ready! As a confirmed non-broody person, even I'm getting a bit excited about the teeny tiny clothes!!

Keep forgetting, 18 weeks today.

sugar I'm the same with the clothes. The few we have are in our bottom of out chest of drawers. Every once in a while I get them all out. Have an awww and fold um up and put them back!

mellie - we bought our little one an 'AB/CD' baby grow in the style of AC/DC haha! RE Boots, did you go to the one in the centre of Preston?! You must have had a bad day, I got the free bottle and I used the shampoo voucher on Pantene even though it was in 3 for 2! Try again with a different cashier!

welcome hermione!

19+1

Hi Girls,

Just back online after a hectic time since my last post. Haven't read the whole of the new thread yet ut will catch up asap.

Unfortunately my lovely Dad passed away on Thursday morning. We have had a hectic few days and buried him yesterday so today is the first day I've had a chance to sit down really. Had my in laws over for the funeral as well so extra stress with them staying.

We were told on Tuesday that he had a couple of days left so we all spent time with him and he was himself up to the last - joking with the nurses and slagging us all off. He was moved to a hospice room so we were able to have 2 or 3 of us with him at all times.

It's s still a bit surreal but I'm ok for now - I think organising things over the last few days has been keeipng me going so am now taking a week off work as have loads of holidays left and I need to just relax and unwind. Porr bump probably doesn't know what's going on.

Will be back to post personals soon. Thank you to all of you for your messages and thoughts.

So sorry gonerogue, thinking if you. xx

Gonerogue so sorry to hear that you dad has passed, I am glad you all managed to spend so much time with him.

Take it easy on yourself, now that the funeral is over it will all start to hit, it does feel unreal for a while. My DH lost his mum at the end of July and still has days when he can't believe she is gone and it all hits him again. If he could say one thing to you it would be that it gets easier with time.

My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family at this difficult time x

Welcome hermione, don't worry too much about catching up we are so chatty on here you will be there forever. Is this your first bump?

Sugar I had to put away my clothes a month ago as bump was already too big to squash into most of my clothes. I admit it did feel good packing away work clothes although as I am still working I have some maternity work clothes too.

Just waiting for dinner to finish cooking, soooo hungry. We have been out in the park all afternoon with DD. Had a great time kicking a football and running up and down hills :)

I am finding it harder now to lift her in and out of the swings, as I have to hold her away from my body which is not so good for my back.

I am reducing lifting as much as possible, but we live 3 floors up with no lift so when DH is not around I have to lug the buggy up the stairs, plus sometimes carry DD when she has fallen asleep. Bit worried about what I will do if I end up having another CS, will have to cross that bridge when we come to it.