Due in June 2006 - Part Two!

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Have a good holiday lilac bump !

Diddle have already been left on my own to care for impending baby so your nightmares are real for me.

My nightmares are therefore a bit different and involve him changing his mind and wanting to be involved after all........

Have a nice holiday Lilac. Are you going home?

Have any of you decided on names yet? I keep changing my mind. At the moment I like Daniel, Simon and Casper. DH would like a Scottish name like Andrew, Stewart or Cameron, but these just don't go very well in Denmark. We already have an Irish surname that we have to spell all the time, so don't want to make it harder than necessary for the poor guy .

lilacbump- hope you have a nice holiday

Diddle, I used to have those dreams a lot when pregnant first time. No worries about it this time as I know DH couldn't live without DS and sure it will be the same with this one.

Bubbly, thanks for the advice on wigs. They actually do these custom made and free of charge through the health system here. I think my mum is seeing someone at the hospital about it today while she still has some of her natural hair left.

Oh Kathryn so sorry my nightmare is a reality for you, that must be awful. he you're coping alright, you sound like a very positive person.

So glad i'm not the only one with paranoia, thought i'd lost the plot.

24 weeks today

im paranoid too diddle, i accused dp of an affair as he spent too long at the shops!

Hi all, haven't been on this site for a while so have some catching up to do! Had a few problems with DP but we're working through things slowly. Realise now just how much having a baby can put strain on a relationship. Kathryn I have so much respect and admiration for you. Use this forum to vent whenever you want to! Loving your humourous postings!

Slipped and fractured a rib last week so am laid up in bed on my one paracetamol every four hours for the pain so have loads of time on my hands. Little one is ok. Moved around loads the last couple of weeks but has gone v quiet. Have been told not to worry but am worrying so much! First pregnancies mturn you into a bundle of nerves! 25 weeks today. Hope everyone's ok and enjoying their growing tummies! xxx

The last posting should read 24 weeks today - am either getting forgetful or am just wanting the baby to hurry up! (or both!)

Hello All,

Sorry to hear about your ribs, Trinity.
For all of you mums to be that have genuine physical complaints ...would get down on my knees and apologise for being a hypochondriac off work with "stress" but fear I would never get up again... so instead, will have my ritual moan and feel ashamed for being lazy

There is something weird going on in the bump dept this week. Has suddenly gone huge. Although I am a paltry 22+4 weeks, I am getting kicks just below my ribs and fear I am going to give birth to the world's largest baby. As I am planning a natural delivery, this may mean I will be bandy legged for the next 20 years as a result... just as I read in the newspaper that leggings are making a comeback.

Am now having nightmares about me in "bandy legged leggings" type combo, walking the high street looking like the first case of rickets in the UK for 50 years.

Incidentally, on the leggings issue, DON'T succumb! You know it would be wrong in so many ways. Big belly. Little spindly legs. And you just know you would be tempted to wear white ankle socks and court shoes, or worse still, ankle boots. Nooooooooooooooo

Well, being the weekend, and the time when people traditionally do fun and dynamic things, I decided to be a bit proactive today and got out the fake tan. Am now David Dickinson & Judith Chalmers love child. Have tried soap, wipes and finally Domestos, but to no avail. Am no longer just pregnant and mad. Am orange, pregnant and mad. Am hoping it wears off by June or baby will have second thoughts about wanting me and claim sanctuary at the hospital.

Here is a poem for all us Junies...

belly getting bigger
baby kicking lots
Hair is lank and greasy
skin is full of spots
Boobs are now enormous
but wonderbras don't fit
Angelina's still size 8
And gets to kiss Brad Pitt
Summer is a-coming
But is taking fifty years
I'm glad that I found Mumsnet
to offload all my fears
So here's a toast to everyone
who's due the month of June
Relax,grow fat and chill a bit
It will be time for sit ups soon

xx

love the poem!! very good!

welcome back trinity, hope everythings going ok.

Kathryn love that poem, we all need smiles at the moment i fear fantastic. hope you're doing alright.

My bump seems to ahve grown over the last week yet again. can't believe how much its growing, i visited a friend today who is 42 weeks!!!!! and she isn't that much bigger than me, think i must behaving and elephant!

Morning girls

Great poem Kathryn...and love the image of the big-bellied orange woman in Wales

Trinity, sorry to hear about your fractured ribs. Hope you're better soon!

Glad to see that I am not the only one who seems to grow by the minute. I am a little bit concerned about how big I will be by the end of the 9 months. Oh well, no the point in worrying. Nothing I can do about it anyway....

Only 53 working days left and - apart from a one day trip to London - no more travelling before I go on leave .

Love the poem Kathryn. You really do make me smile.

I was wondering if any of you ladies are going to breast feed? It's just that this is my first child and if all goes well I want to give it a go. However I wouldn't want to do it for ages.

A couple of questions:
How long does the child actually need breast milk?
Once I stop breast feeding what would the child then have? Because I've heard they don't have solids until approx 6 months.

Any help is appreciated. Just being a worry wort first time mum ...

Hi all,

Worried and paranoid first time mum question which has been bugging the hell out of me all weekend - little one was moving around and kicking for England most of last week, now all has gone quiet since last Friday and I'm so anxious. The midwife can still detect a heartbeat but am completely fretting. Hope you all don't think I'm over-reacting. Any advice would be very much appreciated. First time pregnancy can leave you a nervous wreck! Have got 15 and a half more weeks of this!!! xxxxx

Trinity - i've got 15 and a half wks left too, and some days baby is much less active than others, i don't think its anything to worry about. I've bought a doppler from ebay so i can check if baby is not as active as i think it should be. Yours wil be fine, just resting or more active at night when you're sleeping.

trinity1 - I know how you feel being a first timer myself. My baby has more slow days too then really makes up for it. I've got a prenatal listening system which helps me relax when I hear baby's heartbeat and baby moving even though I can't always feel it!

trinity - Sounds like we are due around the same time. I'm due 06/06/06.

Trinity: me too: I'm quite paranoid if baby doesn't kick much for a day or two, and also I don't really know if everything I'm feeling in my tummy really is kicking. I saw the midwife at 21 weeks, and have to wait another 2 weeks until I see him (yes, him!) again and hear the baby's heartbeat, which seems a long time, but I try to tell myself that I'm worrying unnecessarily and there's no reason that the baby isn't fine.
That wasn't much help! Just letting you know I feel the same. She does usually kick me in the evenings and sometimes has a lively day after a couple of quiet ones. I think I read that they sleep for 20 hours a day, so they're only active for a short period. Also, the baby is definitely more active when I slow down and relax at the end of the day, so if you've been busy, you might not feel it move. Was it you that's broken your ribs?? So you mustn't be running around much anyway! Poor you! Hope you are better soon.

Vbab: I'm definitely planning to breastfeed unless there's any reason I can't, but I'm a first time mum too, so can't offer words of wisdom. I do know that at the moment, they're recoommending exclusively breast milk for 6 months, but that's an ideal thing to aim for, and they say any time spent breastfeeding will benefit the baby. If you finish breastfeeding before baby's ready to go on to solids, you can switch to formula...but she might not like it as much! Actually, a couple of my friends have switched quite successfully from breast to formula, so it should be do-able.
By the way, why do you think that you won't want to do it for long? Do you think it will be inconvenient? I'm just thinking that, apart from the health benefits, breast is better because there's none of that messing about with sterilising and heating stuff in the middle of the night, and it's free and always available!
But I'm not being a preachy "breast is best" person, because...what do I know? I'll let the experienced mothers have their say....

i breastfed my ds till he was 14mths, ideally i would have liked to have stopped by 12mths, once you get the hang of it, it really is a special bonding experience...i nearly gave up on the 2nd week cos they forgot to tell me about mastitus (blocked milk duct) which can give you flu like symptons, its horrible, but luckily midwife came to visit same day and knew straight away what it was.

if you get the support you need, its great, but not all mums can b/feed, so dont beat yourself up over it if its not possible.

i gave mine b/milk only up until he was 6mths then slowly introduced solids, but in my experience i found it very difficult to transfer him from breast to bottle, and formula was a definite no no for him, he just wouldnt take it.

maybe if i was going to go back to work, i would have introduced him to formula earlier on but since i knew i wasnt going, i didnt bother.

hope that helps

Thanks everyone, I find it so reassuring to discuss it with you all. After fracturing the rib (mrsbabookaloo that was me!) found out today I should have had an Anti-D injection because my blood type is a rhesus negative but I didn't know so midwife came to my home to do a blood test. Results Wednesday. Apparently its not too good if my blood group crosses over with the baby's. Sorry if its all so medical - I don't quite understand it either! Midwife has been so lovely in explaining everything. Am v lucky.

vbab78, am due 2 days after you, on the 8th June. Not sure if I'm going to breast or bottle feed yet - whatever the baby is more content with. When I told DP I was thinking of breast feeding the look on his face was classic - he scrunched up his face, looked at my chest and went 'yuk!' Just for that, when the baby is born I'm going to put breast milk in his coffee for a month!

I'm going to try and Brestfeed too, I hope i can, although i know i will have lots of support. i have a friends who's a BF councillor so i have on hand advice. This is my first too, so we'll see how it goes.
Trinity1 - i am due the 8th june too. can't believe how close its getting.

is anyone buying major stuff yet? we're just decorating the nursery, and i really want to fill it with furniture. is it too soon??

Trinity - I think even if your blood does cross over to the baby, it won't have any effects in this pg, it's later pg's where it might become an issue. Hope the blood test comes back negative.

I bf ds for 22 months (stopped last week ) It was a great experience, even though we had all the usual problems in the early weeks, you soon forget those after a few months. I definitely want to bf this one.

vbab78 - whatever age you stop bf, they still need milk for a few years (even when on solids). They can't have normal cows milk as a drink until they're one, so until then it would be formula.

Diddle - we've bought a few things, including a crib now A lot earlier than with ds as I didn't buy anything at all for him until well past my 20 week scan. Mind you, dh was away at sea, and I wanted him to 'buy' them with me, so I waited until he got back for some of it. I don't think it's too early though now, especially as some of it takes a while to come, and then you won't be worrying about having screws and parts missing at 39 weeks pregnant!

Had some bad news at my scan on Friday. The baby has one enlarged kidney. I have to go for a repeat scan in a few weeks to see if there is any change. It's quite enlarged already, so if it gets any bigger, it won't be a viable kidney, so hopefully it won't. Apparently they sometimes spontaneously go back to normal, so all my fingers are crossed for that

Third MW appt tomorrow (hasn't everyone else had more than that?), so get to hear the HB again. Although bump kicks enough now for me not to worry too much.

im not decorating a nursery, but if i was i would find out first if theres a new range of stock coming in for the summer. (from the shop you are buying from...eg mothercare do nice sets of bedding and curtains but is it the new range)

you would kick yourself if you bought everything matching and then liked something else that was out in the new range...just something to think about.

laura crossed post!

but had to post to say i have my fingers crossed all will be well in your next scan...a bit of a worry for you but like they say, hopefully it will go back to normal size

xx

Laura - hope your scan goes well.

Bubbly - we've conisdered that about the ranges and the mamas and papas puschair fabrics are changing this month so we're not going to even look yet for that.
But we might buy the cot this week. how exciting.