Third trimester here we come! Better start shopping 'cos in February we're popping! Feb 2012 Baby Bus

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5th thread? I'm lost off with all the chat! Lovely to have a nosy at everyone on facebook, if you haven't been added yet, get yourself on there!

Old thread is here, as you were ladies

deardear we are holiday/ maternity leave twinsies lol

Pam that is pants :( think you should complain about that to ECHR!

Currently sat with an Aldi luxury chocolate and cream desert. I dont care in fact I am past caring about the size my ass is going to end up lol.

Cot is coming tomorrow - yippeeeee! cant wait.

Bloody hell get to the office and no one was in to sort maternity stuff. And it was supposed to be handed in on Friday. Well I can't give HR what I haven't got so that's pissed me off. Due on the 19th first day of mat leave I've put as 13th feb. But have 13 days leave to tag onto the beginning so finish last week of Jan on a tuesday. Get in!!!

Just had my first erratic hormonal break down I'm doing an anatomy and physiology course but it's a distant learning thing with an exam in December. So every 2 weeks I get a phone call support where they quiz me on a certain topic. Today was muscles and muscle actions. I hadn't read it, I've not had time n I've been Ill. Had a quick shuftie through it before the dredded call but Just couldn't get my head around it. So poor lad doing the phone call got the full brunt of it. I starting off having a go, getting it all the answers wrong and then having a go at him saying "their course manual has no diagrams and is written as if people only learn by reading. They don't. I learn by seeing things and all I'm seeing is words n it's just gobbldey-gook" followed by me crying down the phone that I can't afford to fail and I just can't remember it, I can't get my head around it and I'm rubbish! Hung up and cried for half an hour then suddenly thought wtf?! I have 4 weeks to learn this Just get a bloody grip! Thank god I never have to meet that poor person! Lol. Ah well the dogs come to give me a cuddle cos he knows something was up.

On a nicer far more interesting note weve finalised our names for both teams. Our team blue names are Dexter, Arlo, Jesse or Stanley with Philip as a middle name cos it's similar to pip. If it's pink it's either Laila Emily or Daisy Emily yey! 4 weeks and 3 days till we find out what team were on. Fingers crosses!

I have 7 working days left . Have three weeks holiday to take and then start maternity leave in early December. Can hardly wait!

26+4, I think

Hi all - I wrote a really long message with personals and everything, but I lost it. Bum.

Thanks for the encouraging messages re names. I'm quite chuffed with them - and the fact that we agreed at last! My name's Rowan, Pam - I love it. Think it works just as nicely for a boy.

On another note... we had our offer accepted! My DH is a very clever salesman (his job) and got it for £75,000 less than the asking price.

Phlossie I love your name equally for boys and girls, its so beautiful and ethereal.

Mellie I love Laila, so feminine and strong.

deardear I SHOULD complain to Europe about that, I'm fortunate enough that my husband can work for me too, we work together and I'm lucky I can bring my baby to work too, but for the first few months he is all mine at home :)

deardear and phlossie, you are right, that is exactly why the first day of summer hols is my return to work date - I be back on full pay :)
Love all the name choices... Laila is a beautiful name, my work colleage called her baby girl Leila and it really suits her! And I love Stanley for a boy. We're trying to do a shortlist for our baby girl... DH's top pick at the moment is Annabel, mine is an Irish name Aoibhinn (pronounced Eve-een), plenty of time left to decide :)
Going to book a 3d scan tomorrow for beginning of Dec... anyone else getting one done?

24wks (viability at last!!)

Hey goosey we have a 4d one on 8th december and can't bloomin wait. The suspense is killing me!

Ooh exciting all this maternity leave talk! I finish 9th December, but am using annual leave, so I dont start Mat leave until 25th Jan!..Can't wait, I work 2 days, so I have 10 working days left :) :)

Thanks for the mat leave advice guys, I can't believe some of you are finishing so soon! Very jello! I'm going to count how many working days I have left now...

...only 44 more working days left! Woohoo! Christmas in between will help. I so can not be bothered with anything other than baby, home, friends and family right now.

25+2 :)

queenfee, i started using Lilypadz about ten weeks in (they're not recomended until about 8 weks I think, as you need a v regular milk supply. I started using them because i found pads just rubbed my nipples and fell off the bra etc. Good things about the lilypadz - none of the nipple rubbing! not much leakage.

Bad things - even with careful washing with lilypadz own wash they only lasted about half the time they were meant to (they just don't stick after a while) thus were FAR more expensive, in the end, than disposable pads; they don't prevent milk coming out if you miss a feed or are a bit late, and get full up with milk. Being non-absorbent means they hold a certain amount of milk, then it all explodes down your front, not a good look! ; i found it really hard to know what to do with it when i took it off to feed - as soon as you put it down it picks up dust. ; They say they prevent mastitis - this may well be true, i never had mastitis with them, but as soon as i tried to stop using them, i got mastitis, so stuck with them for fear of it happening again. Overall, i won't be using them this time, unless I really can't stand the nipple rubbing (will be trying different brand this time)! I hope that helps, negative as it is.

Hormones -yep, same here, keep crying about things. The latest is worrying about what will become of DD while I@m in hospital. We don't live near family, and will have to leave with friends, but i'm so worried that she'll feel totally abandoned because i never leave her. If i have aplanned induction, my mum and dad will be here, but if i go into spontaneous labour....eek.

Am really tired, was going to watch tv all evenign and knit, but i can't face the screen or sitting up in bed any more. Night night!

27+6 (3rd trimester starts tomorrow!! Cue total exhaustion!)

Loving all the names - very cute. We have short lists for each but haven't discussed for awhile so no nearer to a final choice.

monkey I don't think you are being at all unreasonable. IMO the name has to be something you are both comfortable with. Middle names rarely get used so I don't see what the issue is with adding another. I lost my mum 11 years ago and DD has her name as a middle name, it means a lot to me even though it never gets used.

Wow phlossie your DH must be some sales man! Will you be in before the baby arrives?

I have similar worries woowa. Our family are a 2 hour drive away and all work apart from my dad. We hardly see him though so I don't think DD would be happy being left with him. Am starting to contemplate giving birth alone - eek!

I'm finishing work on 20th Jan but have 3 weeks leave to take so mat leave starts 13th feb. Got tons to do before then though.

Is there a point at which we just become whales who can't do anything? Or is that just the perception that other people have?

In the last week I've bought some wedge shoes after at least five people (including my mum) told me I can't keep wearing heels. Work are taking bets on when I'm going to start waddling. I've had several people ask if I'm still riding, and look concerned when I've said yes. And I slipped over in the mud in my front garden on Sunday and had one of my oldest friends telling me I should be taking it easy - what, like not set foot out the house?

All of the above has irritated me (can you tell?!) as I don't want to be some feeble woman who can't get off the sofa "because I'm pregnant". But... am I being unrealistic? I've struggled to clean out the chicken house this morning because the bump is getting in the way - I can't bend down and reach into the back any more! Am I going to have to get my head around giving in gracefully??

24+2

Just checking in, off to the anaethetist today to discuss options, it's all becoming a bit too real now! Having said that, maternity leave doesn't start until 28 Jan, which seems a very long way off!

26+4

sugar i am still riding as well = i rode till i was nearly 8 months with DD2 which probably explains why she is horse mad! i know my limits and my pony is safe. does rile me when people say ooh you shouldnt be doing this/that/t'other. as long as i am comfortable and it doesnt hurt then why not?

sat on ebay for over an hour last night and still didnt see anything that took my fancy for christmas presents, clothes for kids or me.

OMG i shouldnt google!

DH has had a blistered rash on his back which got really bad last night so have packed him off to the doctors. just googled it and its come up with shingles and it looks amazingly like his rash - identical in fact. my mum had it when i was first pregnant so it could have come from there. he is type 2 diabetic as well and has been feeling off colour. he has been under massive pressure at work as well which has lifted somewhat.

just tried ringing him at the doctors but no answer. i banned him from going straight to work afterwards.

hope its not but on the plus side i have had chickenpox myself so should be immune. DD1 aged 14 has never had it though (DD2 has when she was 18 months old)

deardear glad to hear you're still riding too. I have the safest horse in the world and am only hacking out - no jumping or doing anything too strenuous - so I don't think I'm taking any risks at all.

Think I'm just feelig generally frustrated and irritable this morning!

Midwife appointment was fab
Totally healthy, baby wriggly and bp etc fine

Heard her heart beat for the first time and it was lush...

although I do feel like I am being used for training purposes lol. Student was in there, not that I mind but have had students in 3 appointments now lol.
Not much to learn from me, most boring straight forward pregnancy ever!!!

I'm very jealous of you two horsey people, sugar and deardear. I rode every week, often twice a week for 8 years. The school my dad teaches at has a stables (big private school) and we got to look after and ride the school ponies. I rode a gorgeous 17hh ex-polo horse for almost a year, safe as anything, really responsive and she and I had an understanding. Then the school got an amazing new cross-country course, which we got to go and try out. But one day Hayleigh (awful name for a horse!) got spooked going over a fence, did one of her beautiful polo-pony turn-on-a-sixpence moves (in canter), I fell off and fractured my pelvis in two places. I haven't rode much since, and I miss it! I did start lessons again a few years later somewhere else, but I'd lost it - I fell off on a small jump and fractured my coccyx!

Boring, straight forward pregnancies are the best, Kayano!

People are really going on about how huge I am at the moment! And the waddle has started. I'm definitely feeling it. I do love being pregnant though. I feel quite sad that this will be the last time, so I'm trying to enjoy it.

Sugar - I went shopping for a friends birthday present when I was 8 days overdue with DS. I had to go slowly - his head was engaged and it felt, well, like I had a massive, hard head between my legs. The girl in the shop was terrified. But I was up and about and waddling at that stage! You do keep going to the end!

26 + 2

My ribs hurt soooo much :( It feels like a pulled muscle on the right side at the back, quite high up. Its so painful ive had to take painkillers (i hate taking medicine when pregnant - even paracetamol) so im not a happy bunny.

Oh and weve chosen a name for our baby girl. You lot are the first to know - were not telling anyone til shes born Its Halle (pronounced hal-lee). DP chose it and ive grown attatched! Were still to decided a middle name though. DP wants Starr but im not sure..

Sorry for lack of personals, im sore and grumpy -will catch up later!

27+1

Aww that's such a lovely name babycarmen

Hope you're feeling better soon and the pain goes away quickly

Just found you!

24+5

Thanks, got a call back from GP and they think it could be my gall bladder? Have to go in tomorrow to see someone. Its probably nothing though.

i like Halle.

DH has shingles :( i have managed to stop him going to work for a few days. He is employed now but has spent 40 odd years of his life self employed and its hard for him to shut down. he admits he feels slightly ill this afternoon!

good luck babycarmen with the doctor and gall bladder. not nice. fingers crossed it isnt that and just muscular.

welcome back to those that lost us lol.

I'm freelance as well and was due to finish this current job on 28th Nov, but they want to keep me on part-time til middle of January. Never thought I'd feel annoyed about being offered more work but I was looking forward to dossing around til mid-Feb. _

Definitely definitely hormonal at the mo. DH has had to go abroad for work this week and I found myself imagining plane crashes etc etc - pathetic!! Doesn't help he's been under a lot of pressure at work and I've not felt very close to him over last 10 days. We were talking about that the other night and he said, "all this stuff going on at the moment will be finished at the end of the month, and then I think in December I will be super horny and probably won't leave you alone."

Well, if anything he knows how to make me laugh.... :-)