Rats Successfully Smacked, the 'No Brookers' uneventful pregnancy and pain free birth thread :)

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Hello :)

Oo I love Autumn. I don't think it matters about being a spring baby either. DD1's name is often used as a Christmas one and I have only been asked 2-3 times so far in 20 months if she was an xmas baby (she was March).

I like Freya as well dream. If we'd have had a boy it would have been Samuel but my personal favourite for boys is Warwick. I like Lochlan too.

I have put on over a stone already at 24 weeks. Bit worried now about how big I'm going to be by the end!

Omg at Coventry is £10 for one picture!!!

Bartlet I've been thinking about you loads, I hope you manage to sleep a bit better tonight.

Scream that's fabulous news! Autumn is a beautiful name.

I love all of the girls names you guys are coming up with. I have a long list of girls names which I will struggle to choose between if we do have a girl. I still feel though that I'm having a boy and we have no name whatsoever for him. I look through the baby name boards on here sometimes for inspiration and can't work out if some of them are for real

£4 for 1 photo at my hospital which I think is ridiculously expensive.

Scarlet we're the same on names - lots of girls names (Isabelle, Mia, Bethany, Abigail spring to mind) but no boys names. Really struggling.

And I think we're having a boy too .

Bartlet thinking of you - take care xx

Thinking of you Bartlet, lots to get your head around but it sounds like you are in very good hands.

Congrats on the pink news scream and you were so sure it was a boy!

Ive always always said i wouldnt find out gender, love the idea of a surprise at the end of labour, but wow its getting harder to stick to now other people are finding out! A little bit of me is very tempted...

Thanks Meconium, it's great to see you! I was completely bowled over by the news when the sonographer told me! I was TOTALLY convinced it was a boy! I'm just soooooooooo excited now!

Biscuits Isabelle and Mia (when it's spelled Mya) are two of my absolute fav names! DH is really keen on Serena for a second name though, and I like it as well (altho not as much as those other names!) so I think we'll probably settle on that.

jaggy, DD tries to lift my tee-shirt in bed in the morning when I've got her in for a snuggle, and would be keen for some milk, so I offer her a beaker of cows milk which is always rejected. She doesn't cry, but I feel mean!!

I have now put on 2lb from my original starting weight, but my bump is quite big, and my rings and normal jeans are loose, so I don't think I've put it back on me, just the babies growing so far- or am I deluding myself?! I'll be whale-like by the end, I know.

meconium, for your first I'd wait- I LOVED not knowing with DD and finding out when she was born- a real reward fro me. I've only changed my mind because it's twins and DH is saying threateningly that this is my last pregnancy, so I'd love to buy nice baby things and won't be carting all 3 to the shops When's your 20 week scan? I wavered in mine, even though we'd definitely decided not to find out.

I think I'm having 2 boys, and I really, really, want to call them Sebastian and Toby. I don't actually think I'll convince DH though. pomme, I doubt she is, but if your DD is called Holly I love that, would have it in an instant but DH refuses to consider Holly, or Lily each of which I've suggested. I had a dream I was having triplets, quite imminently, and needed names urgently and called one Faith, and now I've got Faith in my head as a name- DH won't give that the time of day either! I like Lochlan too, but it would please DH's mother too much to have another scottish name so it's OUT!!!!!

biscuits, DD was nearly an Isabelle! I thought she would be til DH turned up the day after she was born calling her one of the other names we liked!!

Right, biscuits (or anyone), you said you had a vague interest. I have put 2 bump photos from last time on my profile, and 1 from this time. Please give an opinion on how whale-like I will become judging that that bump from first time became 96th centile by the end and now...

I wish I'd taken photos last time- I lost interest after those 2 and have one from 40 weeks, and one from 38 and that's it!!!

btw, I think I will make my page un-public again soon, I dont think anyone needs to see my bump really, I just seem to have an obsession interest at the minute...

I love all these names, and I think Autumn is lovely- I don't think it would matter that she was a spring baby.

We are hopeless at deciding on names. We sort of had a name for a boy but of course DD was a girl and wasn't named until the morning we left hospital! It was a bit of joke by the time we left- I was in for 3 nights after the section, having already been in for 4 days beforehand, and each shift change the midwives would ask if the poor girl had a name yet!

How many boys and girls have we got so far? I still think we aren't going to find out, but I am not as sure as I was before now that so many of you know!

I have put on about half a stone before and I am 17-18 weeks. Does this sound right? It feels like a lot to me. I don't have a neat bump either, just a wider, bigger tummy! (can you tell I am not feeling particularly attractive at the moment )

Dream I can't see your page...

Nice bump!

It is holly dream! I have always liked the name and dh was easy to persuade.

Fish - I'd put on nearly a stone by 18 weeks! I had with dd too though so trying not to be too worried. It all disappeared quickly post birth with her so am hoping it's the same second time round - whatever my mum says!!

I should have dried my hair.... lol, check out the vanity... quite a sizeable bump, or is it in my head?!?!

sigh, love Holly. Pretty, and girly, and no possible horrible nicknames to worry about... blooming DH!!!

Lovely neat bump you have there dream. I have bump envy now. Mine just looks fat

yeah, that's excatly how I was at 17 weeks last time- that's why it was a bare-tummy pic at 16 weeks- I didn't look pg, just fatter!!! That's why I'm bricking it nervous about impending whale-ness, as it's so bump-y already... I did take one that shows it more, with top pulled up, but \i don't think I dare expose you to my awful tummy....

I am sure your tummy is not awful dream.

Your frame suggests that the only thing that will get bigger will be the bump which of course it should do and even more so with 2 in there. My friend who had twins is tiny. (The one who I mentioned had 18 month old DC when twins arrived) Very short and very slim. By the time she got to 36 weeks she looked like she'd topple over, but it's amazing how your body accommodates.

I agree Dream - your bump looks great! There's definitely more of it this time round, but my bump is bigger earlier this time and there's only one in mine! But it looks lovely and neat - you'll look fab! And maybe you'll treat us to a photo later on in the pg too?

yes, I was lucky last time that it was only my bump and tummy that got enormous, but I was indeed enormous... Maybe I'll get to actual toppling over stage!!

Has anyone else had any nosebleeds? I've had a few the last few days. Yesterday's was awful, really heavy. Was right at the wrong time when I had to rush out to collect DS. Had to drive with tissue hanging from my nostril so I wasn't late for him. Got some strange looks at traffic lights.

Also had a lot of wind . I woke at 3am this morning in agony thinking something terrible was happening. I was shouting at DH for panicking me, he was asking a million questions about what time of pain I was in. I honestly thought I was going to need an ambulance. Then I started parping and once I'd started I couldn't stop. The relief was almost instant.

Please someone tell me it's not just me?...

No nosebleeds but I have been farting my way through life since about 4 weeks. At my 8 week scan the monographer pointed out all the wind in my tummy on the screen...

I have been having wind at nighttime! Only a bit of blood from my nose if I blow it, no proper nosebleeds.

dream, what a gorgeous bump you have! My bump currently looks a little bigger than yours with your DD at 15wks (and poss. at 16 weeks) - but I think there's still some bloating in there at times.... esp as I've only put on about a kg (is that 2.2 lbs? Something like that? ..I work in lbs normally but my scales are broken, just working off of what the sonographer told me!). It does actually look like a bump now (according to DH, who told me before I just looked fat! charming!), which I'm pleased about.

Also have found wind a bit of an issue - though not constantly, just every now and again. Actually finding it's getting better... but I'm not holding my breath!

Also having problems with boys names. Loads of potential girls ones (none that we've decided on, but nice to have a list!), but struggling with the boys. I therefore suspect it's a boy :P

Restaurant tonight was good, but not amazing - not as good as some other non-starred restaurants I've been lucky enough to be in (again, when being treated by the same in-laws, or my parents!). Managed a starter and main, but not a pudding - sad.

They did give us our first baby presents though - yay! :D

Am still up because DD has been miserable- think she is getting a cold.

I have been getting shooting pains down my right leg. What could this be? It happens when I stand up or change position. Admittedly I have been sitting with pretty poor posture all evening, until going into to DD, so it could just be that but its really sore. It feels kind of niggly in the joint above my right bum cheek even when I'm not doing anything. Thoughts, anybody??

Musical yes, 2.242 pounds in a kilo (I used to work in a greengrocer!) What were your presents? (if you don't mind me asking!)

Fish that sounds a little like my sciatica. Usually it's preceded by several days of achey tired lower back pain, but then the back pain fades and instead I get lightning bolts of pain down my left leg when I move it into the wrong position. When I'm in the right position there's very little discomfort, but it's almost impossible to change position without getting a bolt of serious pain. The pain starts at your hip and shoots down one leg. Is any of this sounding familiar?

I'm up because I'm unable to sleep as usual, plus it's just been the worst day of arguments with DH. Is it just me? I honestly can't tell if I'm just tired and hormonal and therefore being unreasonable, or if actually we are completely incompatible and will never agree on anything EVER. I'm just so drained. It started out as such a good day, now everything is ruined and I'm not even sure if it's all just my fault. I haven't had a full night's sleep, or a full meal, in SO LONG. I feel like if this is what we're like during the pregnancy, how will we survive the first year?!?! I miss just being happy and NOT arguing all the time!