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The We Will Brook No Argument for a totally boring and uneventful pregnancy, in which we shall bloom, and a pain-free birth thread, part 3!

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dreamfeeder · 13/11/2011 12:56

Hands around a mixture of V-shaped pillows, pregnancy pillows, and re-arranges the glittery vom buckets ready.

Gets the jelly snakes going, along with some Cadburys for good measure, and a strategically placed fruit bowl to disguise the unhealthy choices.

Flicks the duster round, sinks down into a comfy sofa and awaits the rest...

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TooImmature2BDumbledore · 28/11/2011 13:44

Generic, lots of Brooking coming your way from here! Hope your blood tests come back full of HCG, doubling nicely (or whatever it is supposed to do).

Scarlet, I was feeling queasy again this morning, grr! I think it's driving on an empty tummy that does it.

Biscuits, glad to hear Nappygate has blown over. On the boob front, I was a 34D before my first pregnancy, at about 10 stone. Then I got measured by Bravissimo for the first time and was suddenly a 34FF by about 7 months. I don't really think I went from D to FF, though - I think Bravissimo just measures properly, unlike Markies. I intend to lose heaps of weight and make it down to my target of 9 stone post-baby. I am worried about saggy boobs, but there is nothing I can do about that.

GenericDietCola · 28/11/2011 13:47

I totally agree with what you've said re telling bosses. I think he will have guessed anyway as DD is of an age where you might suspect I'd be trying again. Plus I'm getting old so time is not on my side!

I was being referred for an early scan anyway and my letter came today asking me to ring for an appointment, so I'll try to get a scan for when I'm 8 weeks or so as long as things are still looking OK at that point. That would be the week before Christmas, so hopefully I will brook no argument for good news!

Cheese on toast for the calcium?

GenericDietCola · 28/11/2011 13:48

Too thank you for the brooking. You are all so kind. I fell a bit better now but I think DH is really worried.

Biscuitsandtea · 28/11/2011 13:50

Glad you'll be getting an early scan Generic - which you willbe needing because I am brooking no argument about this. That bean is doing great in there. The blood tests will show it. The scan will be the icing on the cake!

Fact.

Like the sound of cheese on toast - cheers :)

GenericDietCola · 28/11/2011 13:51

Sorry to hear Too and Scarlet have nausea again - it's so tiring isn't it.

GenericDietCola · 28/11/2011 13:52

ta Biccies! I am consoling myself that I bled lots with DD and she was fine. Plus we got to have loads of extra scans, which although stressful at the time were a nice reassurance that she was doing OK.

NinjaChipmunk · 28/11/2011 14:45

generic I have everything crossed for you and am brooking extra hard. Very glad to hear your gp seems to be on the case with it.
Hope everyone else is well, will try to catch up later but have a meeting re a primary school for ds tonight so not sure if I wil have a chance.

dreamfeeder · 28/11/2011 15:04

generic, of course your scan just before Xmas will be lovely, mere bedding in bleeding, we are Brooking No Argument.

Now seriously, my dd's diarroheoa (sp but cant even figure it out now!) MUST be nearly over?! No nappy is a match for it. Dh has got her in a soft play area now while I recover from the trauma of the third change of clothes after more of it! Her and dh both still coughing too, but we still seem to be having a reasonable few days away, and dh was not for listening to said reasons as to why staying at home may have been a good idea!

Oh, baby handover time, will catch up later.

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GenericDietCola · 28/11/2011 18:13

Dream sounds like you're having a nice time despite all the poo! My DD often has the opposite problem and says 'I'm trying to poo' with a determined look on her face. Poor thing, something it takes her ages. We are giving her lots of dried apricots and she loves fruit and veg in general, so I don't think her diet is the problem.

Ooh Ninja primary school decisions - eek! Sounds scary and exciting all in one!

Thanks for brooking for me - I feel a bit more positive now. I was really upset last night, but a day of not bleeding gives me hope. Come on MiniGeneric!

scarletfingernail · 28/11/2011 19:03

MiniGeneric is fine. A whole day of not bleeding is very positive, but make sure you take things as easy as you possibly can.

I've been brooking for dream that your DD didn't have a diahorrea incident in the ball pit at soft play. I was with a friend who's DD did that once, it was awful. Not to mention the cats bum mouths on the other parents faces as they were desperately trying to get their DCs out!

Wants3 · 28/11/2011 20:14

Hi all! Another busy day over,Christmas card making,nativity rehearsing,trip to orthodontist for DS2, cooking tea and washing up. Now just having a sit down before I think about bath and bed!:)

dreamfeeder · 28/11/2011 21:24

Oh good lord, a diarrhoea incident in the ball pit would have finished me off scarlet!! I could only just cope with the scrubbing down a stark naked baby in rather chilly ladies loo at a hotel in mabie forest area where we'd had lunch, and restraining myself from throwing the clothes in the bin!!! If it hadn't been a new and very sweet outfit dh had bought her they'd have gone in the bin kind of incident...!!

Glad to hear Nappygate turned out ok biscuits, don't frighten your mother again minigeneric, good your boss knows and bra makers heed this call for bigger sizes!! Sadly, I will never need a big bra- still a C. Asked by 3 people when I'm due today- 2 openly aghast at how big I am already, one thought I wasn't that big, lol, mixed reactions!

generic my dd also super clingy. I think partly she Knows Something's Up as some started a couple of months ago, but then going back to work for me and this blinking long-drawn out period of illness for her all worsening it. Like she cries if daddy holds her not mummy quite a lot... So i have lugged her everywhere, as usual. Apart from worsening my back pain, seems to have made no difference- I'm getting braxton hicks with exertion, n sometimes at rest now, but picking her up doesn't seem to affect me braxton hicks wise, I presume as carrying our children is something we're so used to??? As a non-crawler, dd still can't do stairs, so i have no choice anyway. Long blurb there, but all I was trying to say was I will avoid lifting heavy things I'm not used to, but not worry about dd when there's not much you can do about it anyway.

ninja, how exciting and nerve-wracking about school choices! We live in a village with a good church school and I'm already worrying about dd not getting in- its very popular and criteria is church-based from any parish before catchment and we don't attend. I'm almost tempted to start...

Long post, all sounds quite me-ish, sorry all!

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ScreamIfYouWantToGoFaster · 28/11/2011 23:48

Hi ladies, it's been a hectic couple of days over here! Just checking in briefly to make sure everyone's okay. I'll be No Brooking for Generic! I hope everything's fine. Glad you're getting good medical support.

Must try to sleep... Soooooo tired and my back's so sore. I already wish it was Fri! Fingers crossed my coach will take it well when I tell her my mat leave plans on Wed this week, esp the part about taking every Wednesday off in Jan & Feb (our busy season!)

I hope everyone else is doing okay!

RealLifeIsForWimps · 29/11/2011 00:12

Very impressed with the boobage on this thread. Alas, cannot compete. Was a respectable 32E but bf DS took me to a 34 C so maybe I'll be an A after the next one (sob)

Scarlet OMG- please let that NEVER happen to me. CAn just imagine the sign saying "Ball pit closed due to unforeseen incident" It was bad enough when 8mo DS had explosive diarrhoea in the car that soaked through all his clothes. I hadn't brought a spare set (yeah, i know) and I had to go to the supermarket at the mall as was having people for supper, so I had him in the sling naked apart from a nappy, trying to pretend that this was all perfectly normal.

Generic Glad it all seems to be settling down and agree it's hard not to pick the existing DC up. DS is only 14mo so doesn't have a clue about his usurper, but he's not walking yet, and I'm willing him to get on with it so I don't end up carrying an 18mo round with a bump.

I so want to go to see my Obs- just to make it more real-, but I know she'll just say "Yeah, you're pregnant. Come back in 2 weeks so I can see a heartbeat and do your hospital forms" so forcing myself to wait until 6.5 weeks so we don't waste the insurance allowance. (we're expats so have some maternity insurance, but it doesn't cover all of it so I try not to have unnecessary appointments).

Went out at the weekend for my friend's b'day and remembered why I hate the first trimester- really tired+cold+ not drinking= not very scintillating company. Really want to yell "I'm not boring. I'm just pregnant" Grin

dreamfeeder · 29/11/2011 08:53

Lol real, I'm still boring !! And my 14 month old dd is a confident walker, just never crawled, but has been walking 4 months now and I still have to do loads of carrying- she doesn't walk the right way!!! Turning round quick and running off her speciality...

Lashing with rain here... Have persuaded dh to get dd dressed and breakfasted so goodness knows what the little tike will look like. Soon I will have to get up but enjoying bed with two wriggling babies!! tho I keep panicking its only one I can feel who just moves around a lot, and scan on Thursday will be bad

generic hope you had another bleeding free night and minigeneric behaving!

Hi to everyone else, and low bp vibes to purple

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NinjaChipmunk · 29/11/2011 09:10

dream banish those panicky thoughts right now young lady! Your scan will be fine and there will be 2 wriggling bundles there for you.
Our two first choices for schools are church schools but we don't attend church so I think we have no hope whatsoever with our first choice but we may be lucky with distance on the second choice. It is worth looking into if it really is a great school. Plus (I have been told) it can be very sociable for little ones as most churches have messy play groups etc. If I'd known then what I know now.......

generic hope you and MiniCola are good today?

I'd managed to block diarrhea incidents out of my mind till now....

scarletfingernail · 29/11/2011 09:13

Real I also learnt the hard way about taking spare clothes out with me. Funny enough it was also an incident in the car. I now take spare clothes everywhere even though DS is almost 3!

Generic I hope you had a better night last night and the bleeding

scarletfingernail · 29/11/2011 09:17

DS posted that last message before I'd finished.

Generic I hope the bleeding has stopped completely?

dream hope the weather improves for you.

I hope the mat leave conversation goes well for you Scream

I have so much to do at home today. The house looks like a bomb's gone off, there are toys literally everywhere and I have a pile of ironing bigger than DS!

GenericDietCola · 29/11/2011 10:14

at the idea of a Ball Pit Incident!

Dream my DD is just as clingy as yours. I work full time and DH stays home, so whenever I'm here (like now as I'm working from home for the next few days just to be careful) she is super clingy and mummy has to do everything.

Scream hope your work agrees to your mat leave plans. I think reducing your working days towards the end is a good idea. I may do the same thing.

Real you're not boring and it'll all be worth it! It's hard before you can tell anyone though. Are you going to say anything before Christmas do you think? We are planning to keep it quiet this time until after the 12 week scan, but I think family will guess if I'm not drinking over the holidays.

Thank you everyone, I think the brooking has worked! No more bleeding here (yay!) and I'm starting to feel a bit nauseous, which must be a good sign. Am going to get my flu jab shortly and will ask if my blood test results are available. I also need to book a repeat blood test for Monday to check the levels are soaring (please). I'm glad I haven't travelled and can work at home instead, but I do feel guilty about letting people down. It's not like I chose for this to happen though, so I should try not to feel bad!

Biscuitsandtea · 29/11/2011 16:59

I took DS shopping in town today - I feel much older than I did this morning.

I don't know why I do it? He's not really naughty it's just so time consuming since he doesn't go in the pushchair any more. I just get fed up of having to do a constant commentary of 'put that down, hold my hand, we don't need that, put it down we're not buying it, yes if you have one already at home then we don't need to stop and look at this one do we?'

And inevitably, you get to the thing I need to look at in the shop when he decides he needs the loo so we have to go all the way back to the loos, and then all the way back to where we were in the shop. Oh, unless I'm kindly letting him have a little play in the play area and then he just does a wee right there so we then have to clean all that up before we can drag everything off to the loos :(

AND I got a catsbum face off the cleaner man that I told about the accident. It's not my BLOODY FAULT!! He can't wear nappies FOREVER! I had mopped it all up and wiped it all with baby wipes and then was heading off to the customer services bit to confess when I saw a cleaning man who looked thoroughly put out at having to do some actual cleaning!

I would gladly have swapped with him if he wanted an overtired 3 year old for 10 minutes.

I'm tired.

Hope everyone else is in fine spirits though :)

Biscuitsandtea · 29/11/2011 16:59

Oh and super glad that bleeding has buggered off generic :)

GenericDietCola · 29/11/2011 19:42

Oh Biscuits sounds like a tough day! Fancy the cleaning man being uppity about doing the job he is paid to do!

Hope DS is in bed now and you can have a bit of a rest.

Bleeding definitely stopped, flu jab done, arm sore and nausea is here, so I'm feeling positive. Until tomorrow when I will be fed up of nausea!

Biscuitsandtea · 29/11/2011 19:48

Awesome news Generic Smile

Well I mean a sore arm isn't good news but good that you're flu-repellent now.

Did you get your blood test results back?

DS is currently in the bath but I am feeling much rejuvenated after he had a nap! Will be in bed soon though and then I can spend some quality time watching crap tv Smile

dreamfeeder · 29/11/2011 21:12

Keep losing posts through no signal, gay.

Speaking of losing, lost the Great Bedtime Battle again when cuddled dd to sleep after well over an hour and a half...

Biscuits, brave effort, silly man in wrong job
Generic, how old is your dd again?

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Biscuitsandtea · 29/11/2011 21:44

Oh Dream your dd will get back to her winning sleep ways. I'm sure of it. How is she doing in terms of still being poorly?