The 30-something preggos have stopped drinking & smoking but are still foul-mouthed. Come and join us!

[Fishandjam]

A grads thread for the 30-something TTCers. All stages of gestation welcome. Come on in, pull up a birthing ball and have a Becks Blue.

Hey hey all!

Welcome crisps your symptoms sound just lovely, in particular the greasy thing - I had this with my hair for a while but it seems to have gone for now.

I've woken up with a 'hangover'a few times, I think it's my wine levels slowly decreasing

fish loving the slang, must think of one to add! (I'm shite I know) how are the cramps? feeling any better? 1st June will be here in no time!

jewels hope you're ok lovie

How is everyone? Anything interesting to report?

I'm 24 weeks today so now legally viable whoop! Osteopath worked her magic so back much better now - been replaced with feeling a bit sick in the mornings but no biggie.

Am mainly baking this weekend (new passion to replace wine drinking) so will report back with chocolate raspberry squidgy brownies and banana muffins shortly!

Happy Easter weekends all, may yours be filled with chocolate and a wine ration like mine!

Hiya crisps welcome!

ok fishter, what about...

round-toed shoe: EPU
spray tan: early scan
cheesy feet: heart beat

Speaking of which, I got meself off the shoe yesterday for a spray, and they saw a little cheesy, so me and the mister are made up.

wino have sent you a PM. Now hand over the squidgy brownie things immediately and this can still end well.

Happy Easter my fouled mouthed amigos!!

Crisps...do you have salt and vinegar? I was like that until about 15 weeks, i hated that I felt like I had a hangover when I didn't!!!

Fish I am not loving the idea of episiotomy....my friend had one 4 weeks a go and still cant sit down! I am due 26 June

Tea I think I am doing better with the constant day dreaming of what was happening inside of me... I think until I had the first scan I was pretty useless at work!

So whats the thing you are most looking forward to?

Peace

Frog x

[busmile]

hi all , nice to see a normal chatting, gloves off group.
Crisps - I know peeing every 20 mins is a pain but it's better than the alternative! - first pregnancy had acute retention and catheter for a week. Same signs started this time around at 13 weeks and only just managed to stave it off by standing up to wee in the bath on midnight loo-trips.
Now 28 weeks gone and back to the frequent pee routine- ain't life a bitch

Blimey, Monkey! That sounds intense. I shall savour every drop of wee I have from this point on.

I have every flavour of crisp possible other than the awful mustard flavour and chilli con carne ones OH brought back the other day. Poor show.

I am on my hols so I can revel in my greasy, bloated, knackered, nauseous self. The French sunshine is quite healing (if not their crisps).

OH is enjoying the local wines - the white wasn't bothering me but by god, the red smelled good

Back to work on Monday. Booking app on Tuesday and hopefully scan following week so should have plenty to keep my mind off my own self-pity

I am very impatient about the scan. Want it now! I wish actually that I had booked a private scan. Seems pointless now though.

I am looking forward to that and to gettingan actual bump - that should make all of this worthwhile!

but which is your favourite flavour Crisps?
Is this your craving then?
Mine was spaghetti bolognese for ages, settled now but still regress sometimes.
More into sweet stuff now like waffles and ice-cream, cake, fits with having a girl!

Whazzup?

Nice to see yet more new faces!

More rhyming slang:
Caribbean cruise = ventouse
Garden gate = due date

frog, don't fear the episiotomy. At the risk of making you all run for the hills, the one I had scared seven shades of shite out of me - ran from fanjo to within a millimetre of anus . I remember getting in the shower for the first time after the birth, feeling gingerly down there and thinking "WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO ME????" (I also remember lying in the delivery room, numb from the waist down, with DS still on my chest, my feet in the stirrups etc and two midwives armed with needle and thread peering intently at my growler - one said "I can't find the beginning of this episiotomy". I thought "Ooh, that doesn't sound good... achtaehellwi'it, I'll worry about it when the epidural wears off.") But it healed completely without any noticeable scarring, and I was back to normal within around 3 months. (Zita West's Comfort Down Under cream really, really helped.) So, panic not. Yes, sitting down is unpleasant for a bit, but look on the bright side - you have a cast-iron excuse to stay lying down in bed

crisps, red wine tastes like vinegar to me at the mo. White wine is OK. I am gutted, though, GUTTED that my local Waitrose has stopped stocking the weissbier version of Bavaria. Bastards. at your "savouring every drop of wee"!

So, the gardens that we have so far:

Friedfrog: 26 June
Fishandjam: 1 July
Impatientwino: 27 July
Anicecuppatea: 23 November (TBC)
Jewelsandbinoculars: 24 November (TBC)

Any more for any more? maizie, you must be roughly the same time as me?

Can I join you ladies, just fall into the glam 30-summut club... I wish I had food cravings. I wish I wish I wish. Coz I just don't want to eat anything at all, grossly unusual for 'cuddly' me (quote m/w at booking appt). Eating shreddies and bananas. anything else just makes me shudder.

Alarmingly, all booze smells make me feel sick as well, hoping for a full reversal post-partum. In the meantime, enjoying the extra money. Have banned DP from drinking as well, can't see why SOME should have fun whilst I suffer.

No scans booked yet - 7 wks tomorrow, but have a super duper special optitian (can't spell the correct word for the guy that does baby stuff at hospital) appt tomorrow morning and will flutter my eyelids for an inpromptu peek at my little Dot.

Any ideas for recipes involving bananas, shreddys, apples and milk? No eggs or flour please, bluuuurrrggghhhh :) also no potatoes, no meat, no veg, no savoury snacks, defo no chocolate or ice cream...

Ooooh oooh ooh this sounds like my kinda thread - am I allowed in? Will you banish me because once a week I'm having a (hugely guilt ridden) 125ml glass of wine on the basis that otherwise you will find me face down in a vat of whiskey at 8 months? (Seriously - does this mean I'm ALREADY a bad mother?)

I'm due in June; doing reasonably well except a little put out that no-one warned me about the constipation (all ladies should be issued with a pack of prunes at their first ante-natal appointment IMHO).

Welcome coops and pie! (Mmmmmm, pie.....) I seriously doubt that a glass of wine will get you chucked out. Maybe just some envious glares from those of us who have gone right orf wine.

Pie, hopefully your weird food aversions will settle down in the second tri. Oteherwise, bananas, Shreddies, apples and milk sound like they have the potential to be a balanced diet - better than the toast & Marmite and the cheese sarnies which were all I could face in DS's first tri (no fruit, no veg, no meat, no anything else).

Coops, make sure you drink plenty of water with your prunes or you'll just make it worse (this is the voice of bitter experience talking here)...

Monkey, I always love crisps - upduffed or not. I have very strong desires for certain foods but nothing specific. Also have strong aversions with little or no warning.

Today the hormones have kicked in with avengeance. OH decided we would take a wander into town, visit an art gallery and have a spot of lunch. So far so normal. However, what he didn't bank on was my sudden attack of misanthropy towards all modern art (I actually thought I might tear one of the installations off the wall I was so enraged by its artistic dubiety). We followed this by a visit to a nice authentic French cafe. However, they had no menus and I was so overwhelmed by being expected to make my mind up immediately by a waiter telling me the specials that I cried all the way home. On getting back to the flat I flopped on the sofa and sobbed watching animal planet. OH must be havig an awesome holiday!

However, he did go off to get me some peanut m&ms and a gigantic chouixe pastry and chocolate delight! While he was away, I was watching meerkats and thinking "sob, sniff, I really fancy chicken kiev hiccup"

He arrived home and said "I'm going to make chicken Kiev for tea"

How awesome is that!! Psychic! I should note that chicken Kiev is not something regularly on our menu. I think he is sharing my cravings.

coops I am jealous of your wine! Happy mum = happy baby. Yes?

pie bananas are awesome. So is shredded wheat. Who needs more?

BTW, due date is 8th Nov TBC

Xx

hello hello all!

Nice to see some new faces and the older ones of course :)

I come bearing aforementioned chocolate raspberry brownies as dictated requested by jewels.

pie - erm here is a banana and shreddie one for you :)

I seem to have ballooned over the easter weekend, it absolutely must be the HUGGEEEE baby not the tonne of chocolate I have consumed - must get my bigger arse to the swimming pool....

coop I'm on the vino too so don't fret, my midwife said a glass a week is fine so until she says differently I'm enjoying a little weekly tipple.

Besides the thing I am learning about pregnancy is that it has preeeeecisely fuck all to do with anyone else! I've had it up to chuffing here with advice from people I may or may not know. Woman in the post office asked me when I was due and then told me I was massive the other day - I felt like responding by saying 'oh when are you due then' that would have shut her up, didn't have the nerve though!

the cheeky witch was a good few dress sizes bigger than me too!

frog the thing I am most looking forward to is having my son in my arms and knowing he is safe and seeing our little family together for the first time.

Oh, and being able to drink a dustbin full of decent New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc

Equally :)

oh forgot

Speaking of fanjos...

Hi all, sorry for the long absence. Been ever so busy at work & university but am sneaking a lie down.

I'm off to catch up, but can I have a pint of red high 5 for a hugely rotund 33 weeks here?

Updating...

Openerofjars: 28 May
Friedfrog: 26 June
Fishandjam: 1 July
Impatientwino: 27 July
Anicecuppatea: 23 November (TBC)
Jewelsandbinoculars: 24 November (TBC)

Hi & congrats to people I don't know yet and a huge snog of gratz and a multipack of crisps for jewels .

I am going ahead with whale music & paddling pool in the living room home birth as have had the all clear re dodgy placenta position. Yay!

Openerofjars - pleased for you about the placenta thing. I've got a low-lying one AND a fybroid so going for a 32 week scan in the next couple of weeks. Fingers crossed all will be well because nothing on God's green earth is getting me into a hospital.

Impatientwino So glad it's not just me. In order to avoid opening a bottle (DH is more of a beer drinker) I'm going down the pub and having my glass there. I am convinced that every person in the room is staring at me and quietly judging me.

I also had a complete stranger commenting on how big I am (I had convinced myself that my bump was reasonably proportional but apparently not!). Wouldn't have minded except that she was trying to get money out of me for her charity at the time. Being a wee bit fragile, I didn't demand my contribution back.

passmethecrisps I agree - Happy Mum is v important. Must stop feeling guilty. :-)

Hi all,
Fishandjam my due date is July 3 - you are spot on.
Does it feel to you like now is the " here's where things start to slide a bit" bit in the pregnancy as we hit 28 weeks.
Just worked out I have 8 weeks working left ( include this one started)- counting them down.
openerofjars i think you have cast iron balls for doing the home birth bit- respect!
I would love to try water but I cannot as this one will be a vbac and need constant monitoring as I had pre-eclampsia in last labour and then EMCS.
sunnypie is the embargo on flour and eggs an absolute - could all go into a nice cake or muffin with the apples, shreddies, bananas and maybe a few sultanas too? Sorry, in love with cake ( preggo or not)
Re wine I have a glass every now and again but not much lately- easier job at work means less stress and I had felt a bit guilty last time i had some. BUT I have already scheduled my own private bender at Xmas 2012 with husband since last one was totally alcohol free.

Yay Hi Jars...not long for you now then huh? Me 1st nov TBC . Far too long away...Im sleeping and puking for England.

I feel sick, I have just got in from work and to console myself inhaled a magnum something, I couldn't even tell you the flavour....oh for a big fat glass of Chablis :(

Jars my kindred spirit.... I have also planned a paddling pool in the living room! Aaaannd my placenta (or omelette as OH calls it) is not behaving!

Fish, you have made me feel better, designer fanjos!

Wino, I can not wait to hold out baby which ,out if curiosity what do you call your bump, OH calls ours Gary because he thinks it's funny....a it's a crap name and b everyone else is calling it Gary too FFS!

Pie , I virtually ate nothing but cereal for the first 3 months, I hated it as I love food but then out of nowhere I liked food again (except paprika and porrk?!!)

I hate people that no longer acknowledge me but feel its appropriate to say god your massive etc. I lost my temper with the facilities man in the office last week, he said "I will get the jigsaw so we can get you closer to your desk" chortle snigger, without even thinking I said (he is a large man) "bet I can still get closet than you" Jesus I am super bitch!

Gpeace my friends :)

Friedfrog What an excellent come back. Why do people think it's ok to say these things? When I was about 22 weeks my bump had a sudden growth spurt and one of the TAs at my school said I looked obese! I think she meant it as a joke. Ha. Ha. Ha.

I'm a little horrified that two weeks ago I weighed myself and I was 12st 2 (when I started my pregnancy I was 11st - a bit dumpy but not actually overweight) and this morning I have gained an extra 1/2 st. I don't know which is worse; the thought that this is me or the thought that it's my boy getting progressively more sturdy. Since I'm pretty certain that he managed to push me off my stomach in my sleep last night I'm beginning to think I'm going to give birth to a monster.

On the naming of the bump topic, my DH started calling ours Squirt. I pointed out that there was more than one possible interpretation to this but it has stuck.

Oooh and FishandJam you're right about the water; I have also discovered Dorset Cereals Super High Fibre muesli. Not cheap but yummy and VERY effective. That's probably enough detail for now.

This bump is called Pip (after a Google search at around 6 weeks - when an early scan had revealed diddly squat, to my alarm - which said that the embryo was about the size of an apple pip, and therefore not to worry if it didn't show up on ultrasound yet). DS's bump was nicknamed Bert by DH, for no apparent reason.

And at the risk of outing myself.... if we follow previous form, this one will therefore be called Philippa, as DS ended up being called Robert (we disagreed violently on all other name choices). So watch it frog, in case Gary ends up sticking as a name...

On the weight gain front, I have put on about 1.5 stone so far. One consolation is that I know I'm not as fat as I was in DS's pregnancy as none of my maternity clothes from that time fit (all too big, which actually pissed me off considerably as I didn't want to buy new stuff). I've had to rearrange my work desk as I can't sit as close to it as I used to!

An update on the garden gates:

Openerofjars: 28 May
Friedfrog: 26 June
Fishandjam: 1 July
Maiziemonkey: 3 July
Impatientwino: 27 July
Donnadoon: 1 November (TBC)
Anicecuppatea: 23 November (TBC)
Jewelsandbinoculars: 24 November (TBC)

Oh yes - to maizie as a fellow pre-eclampsia sufferer. No home birth for me either, sadly (ironically it was when I was being assessed for a home birth last time, at 38 weeks, that my pre-e liver failure was actually identified ). Though I avoided a c/s so maybe I'll get to use the midwife-led suite if the pre- e doesn't recur. If they want to have me strapped to monitors and flat on my back this time then it's an epidural all the way, thank you so very much (the last time it REALLY FUCKING HURT and I couldn't even roll onto my side to ease it).