December 2011 - She Canna Take Much More, Cap'n...

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Betwee 8 and 12 weeks to go...and we're giving it all we've got!

I went through my three wheeler phase with my first

Right. I'm off to see if my inhaler has done the job. Just loving the fact that the air is saturated with water at the minute. It makes for some beeeyoootifull asthmatic interludes

Hope you're all fast asleep

Morning lmF, hope the asthma is better!
I'm well and truly hung-over this morning- not due to booze, ut cos of a late night last night helping the other PTA girls get our school Christmas Card project ready to post. Yawn. Where's that disturbingly weak black coffee??

Had a flaming nightmare last night, DP had not encouraged DD1 to go to bed, so she was still awake at 10.30 when I got in. I made a random comment about going to forest school today and she freaked out and screamed for two hours before she fell asleep!

Bless her, it turns out that she and a schooled friend had had an argument (I remember it, it was about 6mths ago, DD1 lets things stew!) where he told her that Home ed was silly and that everyone has to go to school, so the word 'school' has made her feel very anxious and not want to go because she is worried that it is a school (regardless of how much I've explained that forest school is totally different and I can stay with her). Oh the joys of a child with ADHD...

Anyway, LMF I'm not looking forward to my main asthma trigger (going from cold outside to warm indoors) kicking off while being very pregnant, you have my sympathy.

aethel same feeling here, but in my case due to nattering too late with the home birth group women. Am propping myself up with black filter coffee with more sugar than is sensible!

Baby woke me up last night with the hiccups!

Hope your asthma is okay LittleMiss. I haven't had to use my inhaler much at all recently but increasingly short of breath all the time, even in bed. It's not asthma so it must be squished up lungs due to bump I suppose. Have started sleeping with 3 pillows to keep me a bit propped up which helps. Right off to library. Have a good day everyone!

Well based on Tyel's list I have my own set of highs and lows:

Highs...
I bought a pair of Hunter Wellies for £10.00 at a sample sale
Our ottoman bed for the second bedroom delivered and assembled yesterday
DH called in a cleaner for the flat today to give us both a break
My sister is coming to visit from NY for a week with my 2 nieces

Lows
Iron tablets have made my digestive tract stop in its tracks [hsad]
Feel very tired and sleepy but it is only 9:40!!!

I was just about to ask you girls if I could use my inhalers whilst preg :) thank you

Have had an awful cold, which is now on my chest and have an asthmatic cough, will the gp be able to prescribe antibiotics for my chest? I'm worried as I have changed doc, they don't even know I have asthma and I lost my inhalers, so now I have to go and ask them nicely for them lol

I really liked the highs and lows idea, but yesterday I couldn't think of any highs. [hsad] All my excitement about the house happened on Tuesday.
And now the bank won't let us start arranging the valuation/survey until after the mortgage application is complete and accepted. Grrrr! Wasting precious time! I have to pay for it, so it's no loss to them! hey ho!
High: DH will be back home tonight [hgrin]
lala Congratulations on getting a cleaner. I treated myself to one a few years ago after a good promotion/pay rise. I hate housework. I hate ironing. Having a cleaner makes me tidy up - which is great discipline. That alone is worth the money!

Kri5ty My cousin had asthma and used her inhaler while pregnant and I am sure your new GP will prescribe antibiotics if you need them. There is no rule per say that you can't take antibiotics while preggers.

Also while I [hsmil] love the hsmileys what is with this one... [hbiscuit]

oops :) [hgrin]

Haha Oi - your cleaner makes you tidy up. I told my cleaner to put everything in a big heap on the bed, the dining table, and the kitchen table and then clean around it. Then I push it all back onto the floor [hgrin] Still miss my old cleaner who yelled at us in Portuguese for being slobs ("eeeguughh, much mess!!") but then tidied it all for us...

I had a bad night last night again (cannot wait for that bloody support belt to arrive!!) but I did manage to sleep long enough to have a really, really incredible dream - about one of DH's colleagues [hblush] I saw him walking up the street this morning on my way to work, and nearly died with shame as I would never never ever...I mean, I would if we were both single and I had never met DH, but certainly not now!! We are supposed to be having dinner with him and his lovely partner this weekend as well [hblush] Please tell me this is still just pregnancy hormones...

Argh! Just lost a post!

• also getting excited about the cleaner idea: we're going to book one for 2 months in December/January, to give me (no-one else, sadly) some "highs" to look forward to! Postpartum period with DS was in no way a "babymoon", so I need non-cleaning to look forward to!

and

• sympathising about all the asthma worries. I understand autumn leaves are another trigger, so hope you are not all worrying about the changing autumn colours!

lalababy, that [hbiscuit] is, quite evidently, Eye of Newt (with a hat on). Duh!

Tyelperion, I've had such a dream about someone with whom I would certainly not (thankfully, no deed, just aftermath), and think it was just my mind upsetting me for fun . Not even perverted, just perverse! Don't worry about it, really.

I am feeling the exhaustion too. It has just suddenly hit this week and is almost like that first trimester knackerness again. I am hoping mine is partly due to a cold that I can't shift which keeps me awake at night and the fact it is nearly half term! All teachers are knackered by the holidays, despite the myth it is a dossy job.

I had some very surreal dreams in the second trimester but seem to have normalised a bit now!

Builders started today. Arrived before we were out of bed - bit embarrassing and seem to have got a lot done for day one. Even better is that they have bought their own tea and coffee and kettle and had a portaloo delivered so dont even need to come into the house really or hassle me! DS is very excited about it all - particularly the digger coming on monday.

Excited about the weekend. DS is off to the inlaws for two nights and DH are off to a spa hotel in Cardiff as a birthday treat for me, including an hour and a half pregnancy pamper session for me - sounds bliss!

[hsmile] at all the dreams. I just have dreams about finding lost treasure and old/biblical artifacts - i must be boring [hgrin]

I had my second growth scan today and i'm really worried now. The baby is fine and following the groth line its on so thats good but its already 5lb 5oz and i'm only 32 weeks. I'm messuring aweek a head but the baby is doing good.

Consultant told me if i go full term 40 weeks the baby will be 10lb when born [hshock]. If the shoulders get stuck this will mean intervention and a huge cut or if that does not work a C Section

I have a huffer baby girl, but i saw her face on the scan and she looks so cute i can't wait to meet her [hsmile]

I also have ashma and a cold so i'm taking my purple inhaler more at the momment but i normally up the dose in winter as cold and then hot sets it off and i find it hard to breath anyway at the momment.

I'm also tired all the time even more so that the first 12 weeks. Even with early nights and spending all day yeasterday in bed i'm still tired today - pg and cold = grumpy sleepy mummy.

Hello ladies! Asthma is being subjugated with high strength purple inhaler. Yay for drugs! [hsmile]

For whoever wondered about antibiotics, there are ones you can have safely, so please do not worry. Go forth and be seen by the medicin!

Cheep Purple inhalers rule! You on the 125 or the 250? [hgrin]

Totally jumping on this thread - but very excited as I am due on the 16th - 9 weeks to go! Hope everyone is hanging in there!

125 but i still have a blue one for when i have an attack. The last attack was in april from staying too long at my inlaw with their dog and i had to go to the walkin centre at 8pm and they put me on the nibuliser (sp?) [hsad]

And yep purple inhalers rule [hgrin]

forgot to say that the MW told me that pg makes asthma worse most of the time! So its important to keep a peck flow chart to monitor it more closely incase they need to up the meds or not.

Blah! Had a letter this morning from the hospital telling me I'm borderline anemic. So, today I have eaten stir fry for lunch that involved kale and am having bolognaise for dinner, with beef mince, lentils and spinach in. Will be going shopping tomorrow to buy iron rich stuff and spatone! Anything but the tablets from the GP!

On dreams...I keep dreaming that I have her really quickly (DD1 was 7hrs, DD2 took 4) and have to shove the DDs in front of a DVD as no-one can get there in time. I'm not revealing the almost nightly Dr Who related filthy ones...nope.

Msbuggy - what is forest school? I have not hear of it before, sorry for being nosy

Welcome anewstart!!

Feel free to tell us about any embarrassing dreams you've had so I feel better. Quite pleased Oi and plu understand my plight... except my dream included the whole shebang, as it were, and it was with someone I know and we see socially and who I totally would in another life. What is my subconscious trying to say??

I am taking tomorrow off sick, I have decided - too tired, too many mistakes (I now have my trainee proofreading everything to make sure I don't mess up again - pretty sure she has lost all respect for me [hblush]) and I just need to sleep and wait in for the delivery of the SPD support belt thing which I pray will be the answer to my prayers and let me sleep through the night without waking up when my hips feel like they're falling to bits.

mrsbuggy and others, sorry to hear about all the anaemia - I thought I was for a while and for a week or two we had beef various different ways, creamed spinach, pasta with chard, kale gratin etc. Last Hb reading was 12.5 which is good apparently so it must be working. Helps that I love chard and kale though, especially as we are getting bags of it in every veg box now with the changing seasons.

Oh question for you mrsbuggy as you are the breastfeeding guru (right? if not I will go elsewhere).

Physio told me that as long as I am breastfeeding, relaxin will still be produced and I will still have SPD after the birth. I didn't hear about this at the breastfeeding workshop on Monday and haven't seen it in any books - is this true? If so it will be very difficult to carry on breastfeeding as long as I want to [hsad]

Talk about crazy dreams... I dreamt I gave birth to a litter of golden retriever puppies in my bathtub. [hhmm] OnceI was done... the baby was still in there!!! [hconfused] Then all the puppies were yelping coz they all wanted to breastfeed.

So yes... i really DO think it is the pregnancy hormones