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

Sex is supposed to be a good way of starting labour! What do you do freelance? I'm a freelance copy writer, but I'm employed as well so I get SMP and proper dates for leave. I was freelancing only with DD and worked until I was about 3 days overdue!

Haha phlossie, all that registered for me from your last post was 'sex' and 'freelance' can't stop giggling!

In other news I've had to turn the heating on as I was beginning to think my nipples were about to fall off!

Film/tv production management, for my sins!

DH was a bit worried I'd go off sex while pregnant, and it's been rather the opposite so where is he when I need him?? :-D

Love the name Halle babycarmen

MIL has been round n given us a stethoscope so gonna see if we can pick up pips heartbeat

Halle is a lovely name. Makes me think of the beautiful Halle Berry.

We are no further ahead with names we have agreed on the one so aparently that will do! I am not convinced I love the name Jacob enough but I do like it. I would prefer something more unusual.

Sorry to be MIA rl has been getting far too busy! Ran my local sling meet this morning and it was lovely we filled the room :) May start searching for a new wrap for bubs.

25+6 (I think )

have you seen google today? its the Halleys comet mans birthday as well! good day for Halle's

Have to vent as I am going to explode if i don't. My so called best mate is being very off at the mo, I'm sure this is because her partner is being a complete knob & mine who has the same issues is trying hard to fix them for me. But anyway I just checked fb & her status is 'I just saw a csection on tv & it seems so medical & unnatural, I feel blessed to have had all natural deliveries' . Now she knows that I will be having a elcs as my dd was an emcs after 52 hrs of labour & was born blue so if I hadn't had cs she would have died. My ds was elcs & the epidural didn't work so I was put to sleep half way through & I am crapping myself about this time & do have some guilty feelings about having a cs but know that a live baby is more important to me than how it gets out but I think her dig was aimed at me & was bloody nasty & unnecessary!

Aww squiglett that's a bit pants Is she jealous of your pregnancy?! Hopefully, she's just been a bit blind to it, and it isn't meant.

I have had 3 people posting that they're sick of people putting scan pics on FB... Or jokes about it... One being my brother, and one is DP's relative! Well bloody block me then dickfaces! Funny thing is, I had 12week scan as profile pic, but I've kept 20week to just family and close friends.

Anyway... DO NOT feel guilty, every pregnancy is different, every birth is different, and isn't it bloody wonderful what medicine can do for us hey?! As long as a healthy bubs comes out, who cares whether it's via the sun roof or out the boot?

Oh and current FB profile pic is of japanese cherry blossom!

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Thanx monkey. She is just being a bitch in general at the moment & knows that is a sore point but I'm sitting in costs with a big fat black forest hot chocolate taking a break from baby shopping so all blissed out :o)
It's funny how pregnancy brings out different reactions from different people but I am amazed by the negativity a scan pic etc can provoke! Reflection on them rather than you I am sure I'd be tempted to change fb pic to a photo of my bum, lol x

I think people's reactions to your pregnancy say more about them than about you. The people who are ecstatic are the broody ones, and the ones who are non-plussed aren't. DS's teacher nearly cried when I told her I was pregnant... broody, me thinks!

C-sections are amazing and save hundreds of thousands of mothers and babies every month. It's scary to think what could have happened without it, but don't let anyone feel bad about it. I'm always a bit when people beat themselves up about medical intervention - baby out safe and healthy mum is the aim of every delivery. I was induced, and for a short time I was very sad that my body hadn't gone into labour natural and kept saying 'what's wrong with me?'

Pah to natural delivery, I say. There's no such thing as a 'perfect birth'. My births were perfect in that I had two healthy babies and am alive and well to tell the tale!

Oooh, that was rant I didn't expect! I just get really pissed off with people feeling pressured to do it in a certain way to the point that they feel like failures if they don't.

ps, suiglett - those I know who have had elcs after emcs have said it's the most amazing, tranquil experience ever.

And yes, freelance sex all the way!

Squiglett DO IT!! I think I might also do a bum pic for profile... and tag the ar$eholes that keep posting pregnancy negatives! HA

Maybe just a pic of an actual hole...

Or two pics... a willy and a head...

I could go on (clearly!)

HAHA @ the freelance sex mention again

squiglett She sounds very small minded if she thinks c-sections are such a bad thing, yes im sure it would be much better to put the babies and mothers lives at risk ignore it or you could send her a message saying that what she said upset you if shes meant to be a close friend, but either way dont let it get to you too much :)

Well ive been to the docs and they reckon it is gallstones, she gave me gaviscon to try to help with the reflux and heatburn but if the pain is still there by Friday i have to go back and she will book me in for a scan to check my gallbladder. In the meantime if it gets really bad i have to go straight to hospital. I might need to get it removed even before i have the baby which i dont even want to think about :( but hopefully it will all be ok and im hoping the pain goes away. Needless to say im feeling pretty rubbish right now and run down.

Thanks for all the comments about the name :)

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babyc that's rubbish. Poor you. I hope you can cope with the pain, and that they can hold off doing anything major until after bubs arrives.

26+3

Squiglett how unbelievably rude, I wouldn't be able to not say something....I'd email her or meet up if she is a very close friend and just say, you are aware of my situation, I am fortunate enough to have the option of having a SAFE birth, and your FB status was very insensitive and tactless. There is nothing unnatural about the birth of a child in any instance.
Isn't she just so up there on her high horse! I'd be at anyone who said that especially a so-called friend.

Babycarmen I hope the gaviscon gives you some relief, hopefully the gallstones will disolve themselves (I think they can)
I also love Halle its so pretty.

Monkey I don't understand why people feel the need to comment in such a passive aggressive way about a baby scan picture, I find it pathetic, some folks are real idiots. At least you get joy from your lovely scan pic :)

I'm at the amount of people who are so interested and affected by the lives of others on facebook, how very sad to be making comments/remarks with the intention of 'making a point at you' they are so full of their own bull.

Right, I'm not going to try and catch up with everything but will just do personals for what i remember. Seem to be catching up more on FB than here.

BabyC-I love the name Halle I hope the meds work and you manage without needing surgery!

Squiglett-Your best friend said that? I'm afraid I would have commented with something along the lines of 'would prefer all the intevention in the world if it saves my babies life TBH' or if I was feeling really evil something like 'prefer to have a CS rather than an saggy fanny' ((Note:I am not saying natural birthers have saggy bits, just something to be bitchy back about. My two labours where vaginal, wouldn't say they where necessarily natural though tbh!))

Deardear-Hope your DH is ok and not too poorly with the shingles.

Ha at the bum pictures, good idea

Grr re c/s comment. Its just one of the list of many that people like to voice their opinion on.
Breast v bottle sposies v cloth and some of the first ones you will come accross. Sadly it doesn't stop. Current one at the school gates ooh would you let you kid out alone at x age I wouldn't...

Each to their own. My brother wouldn't be alive if it wasn't for c/s and he wouldn't be disabled if they had done one earlier.

I'd do personals but my laptop has broke. Very pissed off so having to use my phone. So cue funny spellings and me looking like a complete thicko!

RE Facebook statuses. There was one going round amongst my 'friends' that went along the lines of 'I'm not getting married and I'm not having babies. I'm spending my time getting more awesome' right whatever. Grow up. There have been a few about the sudden abundance of scan photos. Well thats life isn't it. Were all at that age where were starting to settle down. A couple of years it was the same, then it went quiet and now there is a mini baby boom. That's life, it goes in cycles if you don't like it you can bloomin block people of grow up and ignore it! When I see statuses etc like that it makes me want to just go OTT with baby stuff just cos I can and like to make a point! Sod everyone else I'm happy and that's all that matters!

And as for the CS being so unnatural. I can't really comment with this being my first. But it's not a bloomin competition! So long as there's a healthy baby and a healthy mum at the end of it that's all that matters surely! Every birth is unique and special to u and yerr nice happy baby at the end who cares how the hell it got out! So whoevers friend was being darn right rude should be bloody told!!!

In other news, using a stethoscope to listen to pip was an epic fail. All we heard was my tea going down and I think we angered the pip cos it went kicky bonkers!

I always think 'I would do personals...' but then my answer would have to be 'but I'm a lazy bitch' lol

i can't cope. I have tried to spend all day being normal but I cant do it. I can't put this on facebook for everyone. Im managing on the outside, but on the inside I am crumbling. You all know what has triggered this but it is just everything getting on top of me now. I have being crying, running to the toilet to cry and snapping at DSD. DP at work and DSD BM has refused to take her back now, she is going back home tomorrow, because that is more suitable for her and she 'doesnt need this tonight'. Well I dont need this tonight, I cant see me being the same in the morning now, I cant get through this

Thank you everyone for your support on my bitchy friend & cs comment.
Innocent just wanted to say I am sorry you are having such a shitty time, no advice but a big hug & feel free to inbox me on fb if you want to rant & rave at someone xxx

Oh innocent I'm sorry
Hope you feel better soon. When is your DP home?

Innocent I am so sorry for you, you don't need this stress now or at anytime. When is your DP home? Try if you can, to just do some deep breaths and sit down and think of your little baby. xx