We're BROOKING NO ARGUMENT for easy and blooming pregnancies and pain free sneeze births (part 9)

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Here we go again.......

It really varies from area to area what is on offer. I was offered 1 physio class which I couldnt make, parent craft which books up really quick and a breastfeeding class. I might try and go along to the breastfeeding one once I am on ml just to refresh my memory!
Jen you will just do a lot of things naturally eg picking baby up. Newborns are surprisingly robust and remember they are learning too! Look into your local children's centre, they have loads going on for pregnant and new mums.

I've figured out why all my labour signs have vanished - it's all DH's fault! It only just occurred to me to ask him what weight he was born at (up until now I'd been stupidly assuming everything would run according to my family history and I'd conveniently managed to forget that this baby is 50% a different family!) Well it turns out he was 10lbs!!!!!!!! ARGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! I accused him of withholding this vital information prior to me agreeing to marry him!

So now I'm convinced that this baby is going to sit tight until my elcs date on the 25th, whilst growing at an exponential rate! So I'm pretty sure I'm going to lose the baby race - Scarlet's definitely next, then Jaggy and with all of Wants' signs I think you might go as soon as your DH gets home! (Not a moment before though! The No Brookers will not allow it!)

Jen the NHS mw asked me at my booking in appt whether I had signed up for any classes, and I'm pretty sure if I hadn't already signed up for the NCT ones she would have put me down for the NHS ones at that point. Now is pretty much the time for classes (if not before) so I'd contact your mw asap to see if you can squeeze onto a course at the last minute.

Scarlet I think I might be nesting too! Well, at least my mind is trying to nest although my body can't quite cope. I spent an hour this morning tidying up the master bedroom (after DH assured me he had 100% completed the tidying yesterday - we have very different ideas of tidy!) Our bedroom has been a bombsite for weeks, ever since DH cleared all our crap out of the 2nd bedroom and dumped it by the main bedroom fireplace I did manage to get the room pretty clear, but the stress on my hips of getting up the stairs, and bending down repeatedly to pick stuff up, has totally crippled me for the rest of the day! So I lay down with a hot water bottle for an hour, and then became overwhelmed with the urge to cook lunch for DH because I knew he'd get back from his triathlon super hungry. So even though I know I can't stand long enough to cook, I got up again and spent the next hour in the kitchen! [crazy lady emoticon] I'm hoping this irrational behaviour will be short-lived, my hips can't take it!

I keep finding I don't really have anything to say on here. I don't feel pg yet, and though I'm reading and getting to know you all, I don't have anything to offer in the way of experience or advice. So, I'm still here and lurking, but will probably stay quiet for a while.

Stacks you'll quickly realise that we mostly just take it in turns to stress out about various things! Next time you want to vent/stress out about something you'll have something to say! In the mean time we just do lots of No Brooking for each other. As a successful Rat Smacketeer you'll get the hang of it in no time!

I spoke to DH via Skype again today. My iPad was right next to my bump and the baby just wriggled the whole time! DH is counting down the days until his return now. I told him About all the bh and niggling aches and how I think b might come early so I have probably jinxed it and I will still be here at 40+14!
I think it is lovely that we seem to have our babies in batches on here. A couple of days of excitement and the time to take a breather before the excitement builds again :)

Thanks for your replies. The spotting proper has stopped but all is not as per previous normal. Couldn't get hold of my mw today so will try again tomorrow. I am a rat smacketeer and a brooker so nothing to worry about. That and the fact that for the first time in I can't remember I actually feel hungry!

Hope you get your classes sorted Jen They don't appear to do any at all round here.

Hope everyone else is ok :)

Not long til he gets back now Wants, hang in there.

jen definitely ask the MW. I went on the NHS one last time and was offered it again this time. I have to say though I didn't learn anything about looking after a baby on mine which was what I was hoping for. Mine focussed on labour, childbirth and pain relief and then breast feeding. If you don't get to go on a course, they will show you in hospital how to look after the baby anyway. I had someone show me how to change a nappy and bath the baby and I'd say holding it will come naturally. You'll be surprised. Also check out your local Surestart Centre, I found a great new parent group at mine purely for first timers where someone came in every week for a talk. We learnt baby massage, about immunisations, first aid and child health. It was fab.

Stacks don't worry about being quiet, let us know when you're mentalling and we'll all brook for you.

Popcorn I reckon you'll have a boy. Am I right in thinking you conceived while using the Clearblue fertility monitor and only SWI at peak time? If so that is exactly how my DS was conceived

That's so sweet wants :)

I'm glad the spotting has stopped cakes and your appetite's returning!

Yes scarlet we only dtd on ovulation day which I think the old wives tale says it will be a boy? And the Chinese calendar reckons boy too. My dad reckons it'll be a girl - either way we'll be dead chuffed after ten months of trying! and we can't wait to find out :)

Just remembered something I wanted to ask Dream - did you ever find out if your twins are identical or not? I recall there being some confusion as to whether there was 1 or 2 placentas?

Hi all, just marking my place. I don't want you all to drop off "threads I'm on" or I might miss an important announcement! x

Ooh, good question biscuits I wonder if dreams boys were identical! I have looked after quite a few twins over the years ( we have 3 sets ATM!) luckily for us they are not identical but identical ones in the past have responded to the others name so we got very confused!
DH is going shopping tomorrow so hopefully he brings home some goodies for us all:) I know he picked me up several bottles of perfume as he went through the airport so I have got that to look forward to.
I really wanted to clear out a cupboard today but it would have involved climbing on a chair so I just looked at the contents and mentally rearranged them! Virtual nesting:)

Could I just request a bit of no brooking spirit for my nephew? He goes up to GOSH tomorrow for major surgery on his skull on wednesday. My sister is so nervous! TIA x

definitely wants, hope he gets on ok. :(

i am liking your virtual nesting btw!

feeling v tired but must do more ironing. yay.

maybe I'll get a second wind and not fall asleep face down on the board.

zzzzzz

Oh wants I remember you telling us about your nephew a while back. Brooking big time xx

Lots of brooking for your nephew wants. I've got mine visiting at the moment, he's 3 years old and adorable. Currently going through a Buzz Lightyear phase, shooting everything with anything that looks (not much) like a gun. I am however exhausted from having such a hectic household, went to bed at 9:30 last night!

Well Buzz Lightyear is amazing

I'm 14+3 and still knackered. Is this normal or should be worrying about my iron levels? I'm taking pregnacare daily so I can't see why I should be deficient? But I'm also really breathless atm which is bizarre, but some pregnancy websites seem to think this is normal

Hmm, when I was anaemic I was very breathless from small things, like a short hill or running for the bus. My post-exertion recovery time was awful too.

You should maybe go see the doctor, or do you have a routine appointment soon? I was anaemic for a couple of years without getting it checked, so it's not dangerous normally - no idea during pregnancy though.

Hello brookers, good to see you all and a few of us newbies.

cakes I am sure its just a bit of old blood, esp as you have no cramps, can you go down to the EPU and get a scan just to check?

stasi totally normal not to have any symptoms at all at this stage. pop my friend says not to expect to feel that much better until 16 weeks (nice), the tiredness is crippling! I also can't stop eating!

I am 10 weeks now, canlt wait for 12 week scan am feeling nervous again, I don;t know why, I wonder when I will be able to relax (errr never probably!)

Brooking hard here wants.

Pop what were your iron levels like when they were tested at your booking appointment? Mine were really high for some reason, no idea how as I was being sick so much that I doubt anything was getting absorbed :)

Stacks you were saying that you don't feel pregnant, the tiredness is a big pregnancy thing so you have something now :)

Met the HV today, she was really nice and now I've got my red book. She was pleased when I said I planned to breastfeed and told me that it is usual for babies to lose weight after birth and that even though the charts are for breastfed babies, she isn't worried if they don't follow them. She is more concerned whether we are happy than if Spud does as the Government thinks it should.

Wow far time flies! I feel like you got your BFP yesterday! Not long til your 12 week scan, then? Are you still having to inject every day? :) tired til 16 weeks? sob...
I was a bag of nerves the weeks before my 12 week scan, I think that's totally normal. I felt so much better after my scan though, I've not been nearly so anxious since :)

I've no idea jen - it's one of those surgeries where they don't contact you if everything's ok so I assume they were fine, but that was 7 weeks ago?
What's the red book for? I have a yellow one... :)

My surgery don't contact either, I didn't even get told the results of my GTT which is one of the few where you should be contacted either way. I was told my iron level by my MW at the next appointment so thinking about it, you probably won't have had that yet

The red book is to record all the baby info, they give it to you in advance so that you have it all ready for after the birth. My maternity notes are in a green folder, don't have anything yellow.

Don't panic if you don't get your red book until after the birth though - I got mine after the birth both times. They must have given it to me in the hospital? I think? Maybe in the birth room or on the ward? Can't remember.....

Forgotten what everyone else has posted - hope though that you're all well.

Far - I never stopped feeling nervous but it does ease off a bit I think.... That 12 week scan will be here soon though - brooking for it to arrive quickly for you.

Pop - sorry you're tired - hope you can get some rest.

Cakes how are you doing?

Stacks it's so tough in these early weeks when you either don't have symptoms or those you have feel like AF symptoms - its so mind bending!! But you're a brooker and we're here to help you through it - just keep ticking those days off.

Scarlet, Scream, Jaggy how are you all? Hope you're all not too uncomfortable.

I'm tired today - was almost falling asleep reading DS1 a story .

He's tired too (not sure why) which is making it hard work today

Oh yes, of course, brooking for your nephew Wants - hope its all going ok x

Also sending lots of No Brooking to Wants' DN.

Apart from that I'm just trying to keep my negative vibes off the thread for now. Not sure why but I'm in a foul mood, all morning I've been trying to think through my bad mood in a rational way to determine exactly why I want to rip DH's head off - but so far all I can see is that my hormones have gone crazy! DH has wisely left the house for a bit to get some "shopping".