January 2012 - The one with the heartburn, kick counting and bump-gropers losing their hands...

[shonnomanom]

There we go, a nice new thread.

The BIG Question??? Will the first baby arrive during this thread???????

Makescakes I get very annoyed with the 'you should only put on x amount during pg' from the mw and drs. Every person is diffrent and every baby is different. Sometimes no matter how healthy you eat you just put on weight.
Andria mclain (the one from gmtv and then loose women) put on 4 stone with her 1st pregnancy and during her second ate really well stayed active and followed all the rules and still gained 4 stone.

I'm a strong believer in your body knowing what its doing and as a result will put on as much weight as it needs to. As long as your diet is relitivly good (and having cake for breakfast counts as relitively good, if it stays down and stops you feeling sick!) Ignore the guidelines and do what your body is telling you to do.

Thanks addicted. To be fair the GP reassured me and was very nice, didn;t say anything about it that made me feel bad, I was just taken aback by how much I had put on.

On the other hand my bump was measuring a week or 2 small for dates and last time it was a week or two ahead, so the whole thing is basically baloney, isn;t it? Now, where's that cake you mentioned...?

Woohoo. In-laws are coming over tomorrow and DH is cleaning again. Just to clarify, I'm excited about the cleaning, not the in-laws.

I'm 5ft 3ins, my BMI was 31 on booking in and my weight was 12 stone 7lbs. My weight at 34 weeks is 12 stone 8 1/2 lbs?!?

MW says it's fine as baby is taking from me - NO KIDDING!!! I'm going to need a new wardrobe after giving birth as I don't think anything will fit!

I too think that our bodies will put on the weight that it needs to. Now I had been trying to lose weight before pregnancy. If this is how easy it will be for me, maybe I should consider becoming a surrogate and be pregnant round the clock!

green There is a therory that the clicking is something do to with babies sucking their tumbs, and possibly releasing a vaccum...or something similar, when thumb comes out...still not really known why. But as long as you feel ok otherwise and LO's all acting normal, then it's probably nowt to be concerned with.

fish re pain, but at least LO's ok! Abi was breech, head down at 31wks, but now have head and bum shapes allover, think there's still plenty of wiggle room.

bellakins if you learn how to put the Peach together, let me know. Mines arriving 5th Dec so I'll expect you to be an expert by then . You could always ring John Lewis and see if they can help? Also, if you mastered cots and tumble driers let me know.

cakes

mum2be Hehee. Also 5'3" with a BMI of 27. I'm looking at a new bottom-halves wardrobe too post-birth. Some of the 14s I had pre-pg are currently falling off my hips, so def going to need some new stuff. I hate clothes shopping at the best of times...so not looking forward to it at all.

Grr! Really friggin sore ribs thanks to no bra (couldn't be bothered to re-shod post DTD). It's only been 90 mins! Anybody want some excess boob?

Finally found a nightie today that I don't mind ruining with blood and gunk, so have purchased 2. Am slowly getting together my bag. Only problem is dryer isn't arriving until 5th so it's all having to hang dry.
Also found a load of pop-ins seriously reduced (£5 each), so now have 7. They're meant to be good for long-legged newborns...who knows. Either way, they were reduced enough to not worry if they don't fit....also hang-drying.

Think I'm going to spend most of dec. washing and drying stuff!

hello everyone. i have had a terrible day so I'm sorry for not reading everyone's posts properly, i just need to vent.

my OH had his willy operation today, don;'t know if you remember me talking about it a while ago, but anyway, we were in hospital for 8 long hours and it nearly killed us both and now we both can't stop crying at stupid things. It is a BAD IDEA for one's husband to go under general anaesthetic when one is pregnant!!! just kept thinking he was never going to wake up and i was going to be left with the baby!!!!! really stupid but i've not got much experience of hospitals and they freak me out at the best of times. and i wanted to really look after him but i was just tiring out so easily and wanting to sit down all the time. have done my best making him drinks and food all day but now i just feel terrible because I've had weird pains in my belly and bloody flecks in my knickers, and I can't even SAY anything about it to OH because I'm trying to not moan about myself when he has been having a horrible operation. So I've been holding it all in and crying in the bathroom on my own and generally feeling AWFUL!!!!!!!!

I guess if it carries on I will have to tell him, and probably go back to bloody hospital!!

AAARRRRGGGGHHH!!!!!!

And I stupidly accepted a gig tomorrow when I know I'll be really tired, and now I really don't want to do it but it's too late to back out. I am an idiot. I really keep forgetting to slow down and take things easy

sorry for everyone else that is having a bad time of it, I WILL catch up with the posts soon I promise.

red def. tell him and ring MW for advice, or at least ring MW asap and take it from there. I know my DH would be very cross with me for not sharing and worrying by myself. Is there anyone nearby that could take you/you both in? I hope everything's ok, but please ring, for your own sanity if nothing else.

Red hope your feeling better and have rang the mw to get advice. tont stress in scilence, its not good for you or the baby.

Oeisha - where did you find those pop ins for that price? I wouldn't mind a bit of that action, I've heard they're excellent for newborn poo...

I am awake because I am having gut wrenching cramps that I would normally associate with diaorrhoea, but nothing in that line is actually happening. Oh well - it's giving me a great chance to practice my 'surge breathing' and it does seem to work, so that's something. I wish I could just crap or go back to sleep. Sorry if TMI.

cakes alas, it was my local Waitrose. Often, with the reduction they had it means it's a store specific reduction, but you never know. Might be worth looking!

I'm having another IBS attack, but also have been a little bunged up, so am in denial hoping it's "just" this and a glass of prune juice will sort me. It won't. Have taken some codeine as before I've taken paracetamol at this point, and a few hours later I've been vommiting with the pain, and thus can't take it then. So I feel bad as it's too much for the pain now, but potentially won't be enough later. I'm also hugely reluctant to take the buscopan prescribed for some reason. Just doesn't feel right.

Gizzard's nagging me to be let out (they're shut-ins overnight). And there's a giagantic slug near their food bowls that I can't reach to get rid of because it hurts my tummy too much...I shall call him Harold and I shall live with him until DH is up.

DH is meant to be having a relaxing day today (it's about the only day he's gonna get off for a while) and I now feel terrible because if the IBS gets bad again, he'll insist on taking me to hospital again. Silly, I know as getting stressed about it's only gonna make the IBS worse.

I'm also going away next weekend and am just so paranoid something like IBS is going to happen whilst I'm at my brothers. They've got a newborn in the house, so the last thing they need is ambulance calling (boys will be drinking) just because I'm having an attack. Can't exactly ask a BF SIL to drive the 40mins in the middle of the night can I!

Gizzard's trying to climb anywhere he knows is naughty in an attention seeking effort to be let out.

Oh dear. Harold's gone AWOL!

At least I don't have work to contend with...

Ah cakes I somehow deleted the bit where I was commiserating. Here's hoping both our cramps ease soon eh! You could join me with the prune juice? If your feeling mental enough. The stuff is G.R.I.M.

...oh great. Now my indigestion's back.

Harold's still AWOL too. Still intrigued as to how he got in. My cats are too dim to use the catflap properly, but not Harold apparently.

oiesha cakes hope things managed to ease and you got some sleep
red how are you this morning? Please don't hide from your oh, he'll suspect something is a matter and it will make him worry x

I stupidly fell asleep on the couch for nearly 2hours last night. Needless to say im aching all over and have had a very broken sleep as a result.

Happy Saturday everyone! X

Morning all,

Sorry to hear of your worries and woes red please tell your DH about your worries, the frenuloplasty is painful and nasty but it's very minor compared to potential things that could go wrong with you-who said pregnancy is easy huh girls?

I had a lovely evening with some friends last night who came up for a take-away and my darling friend is the beauty therapist, did my feet, nice shaped pedicured tootsies :). I feel for her though, her DH is my oldest male friend I have known him for 20 years, he's a selfish idiot at times and always has been. She really wants a baby, and the plan was to start trying once he'd finished his PHD, she was telling me last night he extended it by 6 months without even consulting her. Gggr I should give him a clip round the ear! He's always been the same and shes a bloody diamond he doesn't know he's lucky to have.

One glass of wine and I have thick head though.

Dh and I have a day or sorting baby stuff ahead. DD is away at granmas. Sending him up in the attic like a victorian chimney sweep boy today :)

PIL have been over and MIL has washed and dried all the baby's clothes and bits and bobs. She's so organised (I guess I would be too when retired) that she's even put all drawer stuff on hangers and put polythene bags over them and labelled them!?!?

I can now get restarted on the hospital bag once and for all - especially as I'm 34 weeks tomorrow.

fish My DH has decided in the past week that he wants to do his Phd and he has a meeting next week with York University to discuss it further. At least his work is going to pay for it as they were thinking of bringing in someone to do a Phd study and they'd rather it be 'in house'.

Oeisha My IBS seems to have sorted itself out during pregnancy (as has my asthma and psoriasis). My toilet trips are as 'normal' as they should. Only 6 years ago I was laid up in hospital with the prospect of my entire large colon being removed as I was that sick.

m2b that sounds incredibly organised, what a great idea!
fish how lucky of you to get your toes done. Mine are feeling rather neglected these days.

Dp has been rearranging and organising our room all afternoon. He started off really grumpy about it but cheered up when he started finding things that we had given up for lost. Like my brand new never been worn spare glasses for one.
Note to self; when things go missing check under the bed first!

A very productive day all round-I at least have a mental itinerary of the the baby stuff we do have. Which is loads. Theres nothing we need at all that I can see. Maybe a few new muslins.

EG: I didn't think we had any baby toys but once i'd been through all the boxes and bags we have entire basket full!

mum2b thats it exaclty re PHD-lots of people combine babies and PHD's theres no reason for him to be delaying other than the fact he's not brave enough to confont the issue head on. His DW is 33-it's not as if she has all the time in the world and plus when she married him it was on the grounds that children were on the agenda. He's really annoying me about all this!

Red I hope that you've slowed down a bit and that the flecks have gone.

Greenlady just to let you know that I've put on 11kgs so far and am now officially heavier than DH. But the breastfeeding got rid of the weight for me last time round so I'm happy to not worry about the weight until after the baby is born. The doctor was telling me that I only could put on 4 more kilos. I didn't know what to say to that than 'Great, thanks'.

Got the baby clothes all sorted out now. Washed and folded and ready for use.
I just can't stop thinking about the birth and baby now and feel like it is all I talk about.

Ugh. In-laws have been here since 10am and only just left. I was awake from 2.30am and I have the galloping trots. I feel so grim and it's my bump party tomorrow which I have sooo been looking forward to and now I just feel miserable.

Also (and feet haters look away now) I had a couple of verrucas before I got pregnant and what with this suppressed immune syetm they've got lots worse and I have tonnes of them and nothing is making them go away and my feet hurt and I'm ashamed of them to the point where I feel emabrrassed about having a waterbirth because of them. I just feel so ugly and disgusting atm and very little of it has to do directly with the bump. Sorry. Tired and miz again. Trying to let it out here so I don;t make DH feel bad with it all.

thanks for all the support ladies. you're all very kind. i haven't told OH because it all seems fine today and was probably just the stress of yesterday. Obv if anything gets worse I won't hold it in any more. He'll be better soon anyway and back to looking after meeeee

sorry i ranted all over the thread. I'm feeling much better today after a LOT of sleep, and despite stupid annoying stressful gig, that mercifully was quite close by and very short, so i was back home by 5 and eating a big curry by 7

hormones make coping with things very hard sometimes don't they?

stupid hormones.

anyway.

Have just watched incredible video - Orgasmic Birth!!! It's not literally people having orgasms (well not many, a few seem to!!) but just discussions about how to have a better birth with the possibility of some pleasure. It's amazing. We both cried our eyes out. I highly recommend you all get hold of a copy if you haven't already. I would pass mine around but it belongs to my doula.

mum2be jealous of your psoriasis going in pg, mines definitely got worse although I can definitely eat more weird stuff than i used to be able to - i don't have IBS but i get a wonky belly sometimes in normal life from eating too much white bread or pasta - now, not a problem. I am a human dustbin.

shon - i love it when you force yourself to do a tidy and you find loads of great stuff!! I'm hoping that will happen when we clear out the nursery in a few weeks time... at the moment it's a bombsite...

fish jealous of feet and wine

sorry x-post cakes. Sorry you're feeling so grim I'm sure nobody else would care about your feet, and the water in the water pool will make everything murky and distorted anyway so you won't see them. And you can have the lights really low. That's what I'm going to do for just basic general body embarrassment!!

try and enjoy your party tomorrow, you might feel better after a sleep.

Morning ladies! Hope you all had a good sleep.
According to my phone app my edd is 42days away!! Although starting to feel better about this not that the house is taking shape.
Plan for today is a trip to b&q for the wood for the kids wardrobe and also to pick up the cot.

Next weekend involves a trip to IKEA and I'm 80% done on the Christmas shopping.

Bags are packed.

This time next week we'll be ready for the baby!

Have a good day x

Ps red glad your feeling better. nd

Hit send too early. cakes hope your feeling better in yourself x

Thanks girls. Still a bit glum and tired, but I'll be OK. Just need to get my head on straight. Congrats on the xmas shopping success shon. I have bought one present. That's it. Oops.

Hope you have a good day today cakes and that you have enough energy to enjoy yourself :)

I got married yesterday :) It was the relaxed happy day that I wanted, I can't thank enough for the dress assistance.

YAY for Parsley!!!!!!!!! I totally didn't realise it was yesterday, did you have a brilliant day? Well done!!