November 2012 Duebies Part 3 - <insert cheesy name of choice here>

[FoofFighter]

The Stats:

madasahatter EDD 31/10/11
GTBaby [29] DC1 EDD 01/11/12
GingerBL [34] DC2 EDD 01/11/12
Belgrano DC3 EDD 01/11/12
Howiwonder DC2 01/11/12
Wellieboots DC1 01/11/12
LittleLolly [28] DC1 EDD 01/11/12
Hellobear[33] DC2 EDD 02/11/12
Little9 [38] DC1 EDD 02/11/12
Wifey6 EDD 02/11/12
Tomatoplantproject [34] DC1 EDD 02/11/12
PetiteRaleuse [32] DC2 EDD 02/11/2012
CrazyKat [24] DC4 EDD 02/11/2012
Horseylady [30] DC1 EDD 04/11/12
AbsToni [29] DC1 EDD 04/11/12
Cacacaz (29) DC1 EDD 04/11/12
Tiago [28] DC1 EDD 05/11/12
WestWingCJ DC2 EDD 05/11/12
ValiumQueen [43] DC3 EDD 05/11/12
Stabiliser15 [29] [DC2] EDD 05/11/12
TheDetective (27) DC2 EDD 06/11/12
Haywire [38] DC2 EDD 06/11/12
Peaky1 [32] DC1 EDD 06/11/12
Sam86 DC3 EDD 06/11/12
Katuk82 (29) DC1 EDD 06/11/12
Pipsicles (28) DC2 EDD 07/11/12, Surrey.
Schroedingersdodo DC2 EDD 07/11/12
Cherryjam [31] DC2 EDD 07/11/12
ENSMUM DC2 EDD 07/11/12
Blonderthanred [35] DC1 EDD 08/11/12
Debussyhead DC2 EDD 08/11/12
Eversomuch [39] DC2 EDD 08/11/12
FoofFighter [38] DC3 for me DC1 for DP EDD 09/11/12
Gardenpixies(33) DC1 EDD 10/11/12
StuntNun [35] DC3 EDD 10/11/12
YellowWellies [32] DC1 EDD 10/11/12 Orkney (China = B, gut = G)
jaylee89 [23] DC2 EDD 10/11/2012
MsBlueberry [29] DC3 10/11/12
daisychain76 [36] DC3 10/11/12
GsyAutumn [33] DC3 EDD 10/11/2012
ShushBaby [31] DC2 EDD 11/11/12
Ditsygem [27] DC1 EDD 11/11/12
Onamission [28] DC1 EDD 12/11/12
Donnadoon [32] DC4 EDD 12/11/12
Elizadoesdolittle [37] DC2 EDD 12/11/12
Kyordz 12/11/12
Kydravia DC3 EDD 13/11/12
IHeartpasties [31] DC2 EDD 14/11/12 Sydney (from Cornwall)
Desperatehousewife [21] DC2 EDD 14/11/12
justonemorecake [28] DC1 EDD 14/11/12
Ellesabe [29] DC2 EDD 14/11/12
misschord [33] DC2 EDD 14/11/12
igglepiggleiggleonk DC2 14/11/12
Victorious03 (29) DC3 EDD 15/11/2012
Evilwater EDD 15/11/12 or possibly any time in October!!
GreenDragonfly DC4 EDD 15/11/12
Brockle [33] DC3 EDD 16/11/12
Bimbledorf [32] DC3 EDD 17/11/12
TitsalinaBumSquash [25] DC3 EDD 17/11/12
Sooty [34] DC2 EDD 18/11/12
Bryzoan (37) DC2 EDD 18/11/12
MadeInChinaBaby, 29, DC2, EDD 18/11/12
WaitingForMe [29] DC1 for me DC3 for DH EDD 19/11/12
Superpenguin [32] DC2 EDD 19/11/12
ChunkyChicken [32] DC2 EDD 19/11/12
Funthatisfunny [32] DC2 EDD 20/11/12
applepieinthesky (25) DC1 EDD 20/11/12
Misslaughalot (35) DC1 EDD 20/11/12
Lilliana (31) DC1 EDD 21/11/12
EssexWelsh [29] DC1 EDD 21/11/12
nutellaontoast [29] DC2 EDD 21/11/12
ComradeJing [26] DC2 EDD 21/11/12
Thechick (38) DC2 EDD 21/11/12
Soandsomum DC2 EDD 21/11/12
FruitSaladIsNotPudding (31) EDD 22/11/12
Magicrabbit (38) DC2 EDD 22/11/12
mcsquared EDD 22/11/12
FatimaLovesBread (26) EDD 23/11/12
Shinyblackgrape (34) DC1 EDD 25/11/12
Bottlered76 EDD 28/11/2012
Tallulahstar (31) DC1 EDD 28/11/12
rosie0000(36) DC4 EDD 29/11/12
KatherineUK2003 DC2 EDD29/11/12
JessieEssex (35) DC2 EDD 30/11/12
MissTriangle DC2 - EDD TBC
Hoebag EDD TBC
Thereistheball EDD TBC It's twins!!
ItalaItala EDD TBC
Issimma EDD TBC

If anybody on the list needs taking off please pm me and I'll sort it x

I'm really lucky on both the weight & Mum thing I think. My Mum knows she has issues about weight & has tried hard to ensure I have a healthy attitude to it. I think it helps that I inherited a balance of both parent's metabolic rates (DF skinny has a racing snake & eats like horse, DM overweight & tries hard not to overeat but has tendencies towards binging) so I'm a healthy BMI, size 10-12 although short & hippy, & have never dieted. I think that's key though - you can really mess up your metabolism & understanding of your body if you diet. I don't really weigh myself (although am now as want to ensure I don't get too heavy whilst pg) and if I think I'm putting on weight, I cut back a bit on treats etc but I NEVER say I can't have something. I just try to balance it out, iyswim. My Mum told me I looked too skinny when I lost a load of weight after my appendicitus, but actually its more her attitude towards her health that I can't stand at times, but that's irrelevant & far too complicated to go into here... I like food too much to diet to be honest!!!

That's unlucky & bad timing MissLaughalot. Hope you have a better day today.

Does anyone have a scan date yet? Just got mine through-20 April and they combine nuchal/bloods and dating all in one scan. V nervous as had a v high risk of chromosomal problems w my last pregnancy. He is fine but it was 1:40 for downs and slightly lower for Edwards and Patau's.
I'm still in bed (on a glorious sunny day!).
I have a tricky mother but no weight issues to speak of. Still i'm not enjoying the sensation of jeans being far too tight as we progress through this month. However big you are, it's just not nice busting out of your normal wardrobe is it?! I remember last time buying 2 sets of mat clothes- some for this middle bit when my fat bum and general splidge made ordinary clothes impossible and then more (and waaay bigger!) around 25 wks when the BUMP suddenly demanded accommodation!
Anyway- please talk to me if anyone's there so I don't feel quite so alone in the world-DH has taken kids away for whole wkend....anyone there...helloooo??!

Hello Belgrano - I don't have a scan date yet. Got booking in appt on 10th April - no idea when scan will be. At this rate, I'll have missed the window for having my bloods taken to get the double/triple test results.

Feeling beyond rough - hoping my symptoms ease off sooner in this pregnancy than the last one. cannot bothered to do anything.

Belgrano, my booking in is tomorrow and my scan is 11th May...Ages away!

Has anyone ordered clothes online from Simply Be? They've got some nice stuff and I was wondering if their sizes were small or generous! Or has anyone got any other online shop recommendations? Finding it hard to get out to the actual real life shops at the moment and really need some new clothes!!

bloody hormones, am in the middle of another meltdown. am convinced my partner and I won't last and I'll be left alone to cope on my own again, have been alternately crying and stomping round the house

Still in bed. barely slept again, I knew that sleeping through two nights (pee breaks adside) wouldn't last. Was still awake at 6.30am.

grump grump grump moan moan moan.

that is all.

Good afternoon!

It seems a lot of us suffer with crazy mums . I am so used to it, I just ignore her. I know I don't look my best right now, but I know how to lose weight, I just haven't the motivation AT THE MINUTE!! And despite the vomiting, my weight is within 4lb of my normal weight at any one time... le sigh.

Today is a very very good day. I have had no vomiting, and no nausea. Yet. DS is at his Dads tonight, so if I still feel good later, me and DP are going to attempt the rather amazing chinese buffet we have here, and a trip to the cinema if there is anything worth watching. I can't help think this is all going to go tits up, but I feel so sorry for him putting up with me right now. I think I am an utter nightmare!

My scan date is 25th April, when I will be 12+1. Its coming around a lot quicker than I could have imagined, especially as it was booked when I was just 5 weeks! I have no other appointments other than this.

I am still in my regular clothes, but the leggings are feeling a little tighter, the boobs are busting out, and I feel a little bloated. Hmmm. I dropped from a size 10 to an 8 in the first 20 weeks when I had DS, and didn't get a bump for a long long long time. I was 32 weeks before anything was obvious, and 36 weeks before people actually noticed I was pregnant. I never bought any maternity clothes at all. From 36 weeks then the bump just grew massive lol! I think I piled weight on in the last 6 weeks as I was a size 12-14 afterwards, and never ever lost it and got to my pre pregnancy weight. And that was 10 years ago. I did at one point get to with in 1 stone of it, but I couldn't sustain it. I was also only 16 at the time, so I probably never have been meant to be a proper skinny minnie. I also have a horrible overhang from the c/s which despite a lovely slim waist when I do lose weight, means I have to have bigger sizes on my bottom half. Grrr. This is also the reason why I wear lots of dresses - to skim the problem area!

So glad I have this thread! Its reassuring to know I am not alone here!

Today, I am pregnant, and I WILL enjoy it!

Meant to add, to those who are size 16/18+ when at your booking don't be surprised if you get told to take a double dose of Folic Acid like I was.

I wasn't foof. I forgot to ask too. As I haven't been on the community since I qualified, I have forgotten a lot of this stuff! And things change, well, they have in the last 5 years!

Not that I have kept much folic acid down

Hugs to everyone with crazy parents and sickness! I'm still feeling sick but it's tiredness which is killing me!!! I can't do anything for being exhausted!! I look White as a sheet too :/ it's odd. I think I'm just an ok size!! 5'8 size 10 lol I don't have many hang ups but I keep fit and eat well! Mum was the same but is now a size 18 ;/ oh well. If people are happy that's all that matters. Keep smiling!! The suns out and in my world things should really get better now!!

Sit in the sun or house work? Such a tough choice to make lol apparently someone said we could get snow next week I'm hopeful their wrong!!

I feel for everyone who's feeling poorly with terrible MS!! I'm feeling quite good today but debating what to have for lunch and think that snacking on a chocolate bar is not the right way to go :( boo

Earlier in the thread there were talks of BF and FF. I will try BF but would like to express aswell so partner can get involved night duties but have heard how some people really struggle with it so am trying to keep an open mind to FF so if it happens then it's not some big huge deal to my emotions :)

Nervous, you just reminded me of a dream I had last night!! I was trying to breastfeed, and had the baby hung upside down on a peg, because I was convinced that was the only way it could latch on without hurting me!

Also my SIL was using a breastpump and was getting off 9 oz bottles every hour, and every time I tried it, I'd get like 0.1ml.

All this was in cartoon 'Flinstones' style vision!

Freaky and weird!

Ooh folic acid. I can't take my vits at all at the mo- please detective is that ok? I know from 1st yr lectures it's not great (am a Stmw) but they make me feel even worse. At 9+4 I'm thinking the neural tube bits are done by now aren't they?? (hopes baby ok on diet of dry cereal, fruit juice and the odd baked potato w cheese....)

I couldn't really use a breastpump unless my DD skipped a feed - she obviously used to suck me dry!! I did leak LOADS when I fed her, so I used the breast shell collecting things & occasionally tried to pump while feeding, so over the course of a day, could collect enough for a bottle feed, by putting each oz or 2 on freezer bags. Worked for us!!

I honestly can't remember when I started to show with DD, but I remember putting my new maternity jeans on for the first time, as it was a very cold day & I was watching DH play hockey. I think it must have been late Nov/early Dec, so roughly 4months gone. It will be trickier this time I think, with the potential for needing clothes earlier & over the summer. Perhaps some of my post-baby size 12 summer stuff will do?? Have got a voucher for Verbaudet, so may have to do an emergency maternity clothes shop with them at some point.

hello

I go away for a few days and the is 9 pages on a new thread!!!!
We went to stay with my parents so told them our news. DM said "Oh no, not again. How will you cope?" thanks mum. i think she is just getting ver negative in her old age as when i said DD1 will be in school by then she said "hopefully". Well there is no hopefully about it - we hear which school by the end of the month grrrr.

hope everyone is feeling better today. To all those who are worrying about easing symptoms try and relax - I have none (apart from heartburn) and didn't with the other two either.

Clearly spoke too soon. My body is taking the actual piss. I will never eat another cheesestring again as long as I live. 4 cheesestrings coming back up was actually disgusting.

All possible plans for today are now cancelled. Great.

Belgrano There isn't much you can do if you can't take them. In same position here. I've attempted the odd folic acid on a good day, but that is it. Neural tube development is complete by now, yep :)

Itala that's harsh!!! Did she not expect you to have any more then? I mean, unless you have some major health problem & literally might struggle with 1 let alone 3, 3 isn't an unusually large number of children & its not like you 3 month old twins, if DD1 will be at school!!! Poor you.

I've got my booking in appointment 12th April at 8(+3)wks, so usual for around here, & assume I'll get a scan date around the 12-13wks mark. We had the combined nuchal & blood test thing done with DD, which I was led to believe wasn't offered as a matter of course in all health authorities, but is now.

Detective think our bodies are enjoying taunting us, afterall I was feeling 'great' until I vomited!!!

I'm decidedly grumpy again. Once the floodgates are open, that is me screwed for the rest of the day. May as well go to bed. Once it starts it doesn't stop.

I haven't got a booking app or scan date yet :( hoping the mw gets in touch soon I'll be 8 weeks on wed.

Sickness hasn't been as bad, still waves of it every now and then. The main thing is the rage I feel over stupid little things and dh is getting the brunt of it

aw detective this ms thing is so strange like that, the way it comes and goes. I am sure DH thinks I am exaggerating because one minute I can't move and the next I am up and about, like I forgot to feel sick any more.

I am incredibly hormonal today and DH is driving me up the wall. I empathise with you foo :( I actually think Dh should just leave the country and never ever come back. Although he has been a bit dickish I don't think that is really a very mature feeling by me, and I have stomped up to my office in a hissy fit... but as soon as I had opened my laptop I couldn't quite recall what I was angry about. this is not a good sign, I am going actually mental. I really wasn't like this last time, I just cried a lot! :(

MS all day and DS poorly so we are spending our week away thus far laid on the sofa in a little cottage 25 metres from the sea, and doing nothing at all! I am KNACKERED and totally understand the hormonal anger issues (although partly the stress/anger may be connected to serious anxiety about how my mum will react )....I keep getting proper cross with DP and no idea why. Booking in appt in 10 days, and scan is on 16 April. At least I can spend a bit of the non-vomit time giggling at my 6 year old DD who seems to be spending her days reinventing the concept of modern dance. Peculiar doesn't come close to describing her! Hope you get some appts through soon Desperate

For people having trouble keeping down folic acid- is it a whole pregnancy vitamin like Pregnacare, or just the individual folic acid pills? Pregnacare made me feel ill in my last pregnancy, so I started taking them at night before bed, which helped. But the simple folic acid pills wouldn't have the same effect at all,
I think - harmless things.

Mine is just the regular folic acid. Not bothering with the other stuff shite.

Still being sick. Nowt is staying down :( Might get DP to take me to gynae ward again for some IM. I just can't get this damn thing under control with the oral meds.

Will try our dinner this evening - home made soup - and see what happens then. Be gutted if it comes back up, as its lush - and I do not want to be put off it for life!

Hope you feel better soon detective and not get put of soup in the future!

Taking folic acid on an empty tummy can casue upsets, always take it after your main meal if you can.