Due in December 2012 - here we go!

[rosa7]

Hi all,
Hoping to snare a few of you who has just found out the great news like me, to share the journey and have a big moan about all the lovely effects pregnancy has on us!
It's no.2 for me!
Rosa xxx

morning ladies hope everyone is feeling ok....wish i was just feel constantly sick so not looking forward to working for 15hours at a polling station on thursday can see it far enough now. Cant even stomach a normal day at work never mind polling station.

was looking at pram last night and dont know what to do lol i was looking at an Oyster pram and the reviews have been great but ill be out £430 really need to make up my mind so i can start to save :)

oops spelling mistake!! Have just checked German spelling of the name and its Cecilia or Cecilie (pronounced the same)

queenof i dont know if i've put on weight as i don't weigh myself, but i have been quite restrained with my eating and i have still been exercising, yet my belly has popped out! I look about 4/5 months at least, i'm putting it down to the fact it's my third and my body is 'remembering' what it's supposed to do. I can fit in my normal clothes but they aren't comfy so i am investing in some good quality maternity clothes that i like, through my last 2 pregnancies i had really frumpy stuff that i got given but this time i can buy new (spent £56 on a pair of jeans a pair of maternity leggings and a top the other day ) it was great fun though!

I'm feeling the best i have so far today. I think exercise agrees with me as the day after zumba i don't feel as sick and tired, which is great!

I've started feeling like I'm falling apart. My boobs feel like they're pushing into broken glass whenever I touch anything and I've been really crampy this week, I feel nauseous all the time unless I'm eating, but as soon as I stop it comes right back, I'm getting travel sick too. And I could now sleep for England. I was awake 6 hours yesterday before I needed to go have a long nap. I can't wait for this bit to be over. I'm going on holiday next week and am worried I'm going to be too tired/sick/uncomfortable to enjoy it. Rant over!

Arranged my booking appointment today for the 22nd when I'll be 8+5, I'm a bit jealous of all you people who are much further along and will be getting scans around that time.

Scrambled that's brilliant news! Good luck with everything and pop back to let us know how you're getting on.

Cherrypie I'd go for M&S. I had them last time and they were very very comfy.

Still really really super hungry and just had my third breakfast. I'm trying to keep it healthy so it's been muesli and yogurt, a banana, toast and a massive bacon roll with ketchup a very healthy lean ham sandwich with tomato.

Warning: the following contains self indulgent moaning.

Not a happy bunny, feeling closest to actually being sick ever and living on a building site with the temp kitchen in the sitting room is exaggerating bad smells, hating washing up in the bathroom and I want to kill the fridge for its noisy groaning and smells. Had diligently told work id do some bits n bobs while waiting to go back to work but staring at the computer making me more sick - I suppose they haven't actually asked me to do more than planning but feel so guilty!
the laundrette washing powder is really making me puke.
pregnancy equals an undulating hangover with grated nipples.
Want bacon, no cooker :(

Sorry, much better now, our grandparents did all this during the war and with rations or much much worse so am sure I can cope :)

Morning sickness is a killer! Tried making packed lunches this morning (never ever again) kids were 5 mins late to school as couldn't move away from the loo! Lunches will be made the night before from now on. Sickness just carries on unless I constantly eat and I have a whe house to clean and a pile of washing to do! Poor ol me!

But only 2 sleeps til booking in and a little closer to scan date so all good! :)

Breakfast reappeared earlier, so I'm now officially into morning sickness as opposed to nausea!

Smoked mackerel pate on oatcakes with homegrown salad for lunch

Clarella, do you have camping gas? Bacon is fine dryfried and smells less if you cut the fat off first. Just do it next to an open windows to get rid of smells and carbon monoxide :)

Sick count today-7 times, have had to come home from work considering I spent most of the morning in the toilet working from home isn't an option as I'm a vet nurse which is not a good job to be in when you are nauseous!!

Smoked mackerel pate just nearly made me hurl again purple! that WILL NOT taste good coming back up!

Clarella, if you have a microwave you can nuke bacon! It makes it very crispy, but it's still good. Wrap it in a couple of layers of kitchen roll first.

Mmn. Want bacon now.

DS slept till 6.30 this morning which is a farking miracle, he's usually our 5am wakeup boy. God I hope this continues, I feel SO much better than yesterday, when he tried to get up at 4am.

DH is ill (quite a nasty cold) and spent yesterday telling me about how ill he is. I felt like braining him with a toaster at one point, but managed to only calmly point out that I have the same cold as him. I didn't add "AND I got up at 4am today AND I'm in my first sodding trimester!" but I think I might next time!

He's such a great partner in all respects - shares work in the house, equal parenting of DS - you name it. But I do look back wistfully to my first pregnancy when nothing was too much bother for him and he'd do anything and everything if I said I was feeling a bit tired or sick. This time around I think I need some kind of klaxon or neon sign: "I'm pregnant! Tell me to take a nap!" Seems like he's forgotten!

well i had booking in today quite boring although we did toucg a little on tbe subject of home birth so i think ill be researching that lots tonight alsovi have to call the hospital for my scan date so will know that on thursday :)

i feel for those of you who are struggling with morning sickness and having to go to work. i am not suffering yoo bad to be honest thank god as im a childminder i am much more tired than usual though

Bollocks, didn't think of that, Chloe55!

DP is allowed to whinge all he likes as long as he remembers that I'm Growing A Whole New person (phrase of the moment) and therefore everything is unimaginably worse for me than it is for him... But then, thus is our first so it's all breakie in bed and sympathy for now

Oh dear chloe that sucks. At what point does it count as hyperemisis? (sp?)

Amazing self control blackcurrants my toaster would have been quite damaged.

First trimester definitely worst trimester hate the fact can't tell anyone, everyone at work thinks I've had a nervous breakdown!

Thanks for the bacon tips, microwave cooking is very new to me - didn't know could do bacon! DH will be v cuffed too!

Now craving almonds, which thankfully have a lot of (ta costco) and eating as I watch a preggo fitness dvd which been lent and highly recommended - actually a blooming good work out! (usually hate those things) even has a 'pee pause!' Figure it needs to be watched first. Yup, to prepare n all.

Reward for a pile of paperwork earlier. (resisting the black hole of day time tv)

Cupof - I'm not sure of my dates as I am still BF so haven't had a period!

Cloe - you shouldn't eat pate when pregnant because of listeria - sorry!

Sorry chloe you're probably screaming it is hyperemisis poor thing xx

My favourite phrases are "but blueberry really needs it" "outvoted 1.25 to 1" and "think what you're like with a hangover and your nipples don't even hurt"

But only for emergencies :)

It's me eating pate, Narc. 4 fillets smoked mackerel, 2tbsp Greek yogurt, lemon juice and black pepper. So not really pate and I know it's ok because it's homemade

Sounds yummy Purple

It is And you're supposed to eat oily fish twice a week not that I need an excuse

oh that does sound good, Purple. Mind you, I have been craving smoked salmon for weeks. If only I could persuade DH that it's the sprout that wants it, and not just my usual smoked salmon craving! mmn lemon wedges and mmn a little grainy mustard and some cucumber and...

Clarella I don't know much about microwave cooking either, but bacon in the microwave is one of DH's tricks for when you have the kettle AND the frying pan already on the 2 ring stove :)
You can do a surprising amount of cooking (even something that looks like baking, sorta!) in a slow-cooker too, which will set you back about fifteen quid at Argos, if I remember rightly. If you're going to be without a stove for a while, I'd suggest it as a purchase - if you've got one hotplate, a microwave and a slow cooker you can do a lot. (grim student cuisine now thankfully behind me, but I learned some good tips!)

I love "Outvoted 1.25 to 1" as well - I'm yoinking that! My favourite preggo DVD workout was Erin someone - least annoying, proper workout, she's actually pregnant, that sort of thing. I should start really, just can't find my trainers [excuse emoticon]. I always feel better when I do exercise, and I haven't for aaages.

the homemade pate sounds lovely purple, it's got me thinking about food again, maybe a second lunch is calling. blackcurrants is smoked salmon ok? i would LOVE some and the whole cucumber/lemon/granary bread caboodle.

really sorry for all those suffering ms. I'm 8+4 and still no show bar the mildest of nausea, is it unlikely to start so late on or could it still conceivably kick in?

booking in sorted today, all paperwork and no blood tests - seems those are done immediately after the dating scan. and that exciting news came in the post this morning - they've sent me an early date - i'm being scanned at 10+6 by my reckoning, obviously hoping that like scrambled they'll tell me i'm way more than that - is there anybody who isn't wishing away the weeks?

heh, I'm not, but that's because I have to submit and defend my PhD dissertation before this baby shows up at the end of December. I might end up doing the defence/viva while 39 weeks pregnant. That'll put the fear of god into my dissertation committee! (standard Ivy league professorial setup: 2 childless women in their late thirties, 2 men with children in their early forties who've managed to combine career and parenting somehow, fancy that )