Due December 2012 - third thread, moving towards the second trimester!

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Well, our nattering on the previous thread has used up 1000 posts and I can't see a new thread so here we go!

The list is below, please add yourself if you're missing!

Clarella - due Nov 28-30 DC#1
BigRedIndiaRubberBall - due 29 Nov DC#2
Quills - due 1st Dec DC#2
smongesmonge - due 1st Dec Dc#2
pleasebethismonth due 1st Dec DC #2 i
QueenofMacaronicheese - due 2nd Dec DC#3
ssimma - due 2nd Dec DC#2
DKNY123 - due 2nd Dec DC#1
AceOfBase - due (approx) 2nd Dec DC#3
PurplePidjin - due 2nd Dec DC #1
KMBatfink - due 3rd Dec DC#1
TeaJunky - due 4th Dec DC#2
M0naLisa - due (approx) 4th Dec DC#3
StrawberrytallCake - due 5th Dec DC#2
Yikesherewego - due 5th Dec DC#1
mummycox - due 5th Dec DC#1
queenofsiburbia - due 5th Dec DC#1
ItsMyLastOne - due 6th Dec DC#2
kalidasa - due 6th Dec DC#1
Wittywhirl - due 6th Dec DC#1
SeymoreButts - due 7th Dec DC#3
ivanapoo - due (approx) 7th Dec DC#1
prunelladeville - due 8th Dec DC#1
Brenau - due (approx) 8th Dec DC#1
Chloe55 - due (approx) 8th Dec DC#2
minipie - due 8th Dec DC#1
lauraloo09 - due 8th Dec DC#2
acjfluff - due 9th Dec DC#1
Rosa7 - due 9th Dec DC#2
gilsbubbles - due 10th Dec DC#1
walnut - due 10th Dec DC#2
cashmere - due 11th Dec DC#2
Stacks - due 12th Dec DC#1
Cherrypiew3 - due 12th Dec DC#4
Cookiesandcream06 - due 12th Dec DC#2
Barbeasty - due 12th Dec DC#2
VegemiteSandwich - due 12th Dec DC#1
CODwidow - due 12th Dec DC#5
backwardpossom - due 13th Dec DC#2
bellaboo123 - due 13th Dec DC#1
brooke89 - due 14th Dec
ddas - due 14th Dec DC#2
Margie32 - due 14th Dec DC#2
FriendofDorothy - due 15th Dec (ish) DC#1
QueenandKingMum - due 15th Dec DC#4
Dillydollydaydream - due 16th Dec dc#4
kateand2boys - due 17th Dec FF or due 20th Dec LMP DC#3
roseandroli-due 17th Dec DC#1
ChangeMyHappy - due 18th Dec (ish) DC#2
Whatmess - due 19th Dec DC#2
Shangers - due 19th Dec DC#2
StaceymReadyForNumber3 - due 19th Dec DC#3
nasara - due 20th Dec DC#2
blackcurrants - due 20th Dec DC#2
annelid - due 20th Dec DC#7
CupOfBrownJoy - due 21st Dec DC#1
Chipsandmushypeas - due 24th Dec DC#1
sicilianlemons - due 23rd Dec
JingleBellBaby - due 25th Dec (?) DC#2
Magic69- due 26 December DC#2
MyDaydream - due 27th Dec DC#1
SpottyTeaCakes - due 27th Dec DC#2
LolaAnn - due 28th Dec DC#2
livismum - due 29th Dec DC#3
NaomiRuth - due 30th Dec DC#1
Mama2threemaybemore - due Dec 31st DC#4
KMR281 - DC3 due end

Thanks ladies, I've had a really tough day! My skin is dreadful, more spots than I've ever had and I'm so moody tonight, poor DP has just been banished for an hour whilst I have some time to myself.

Did anyone here smoke prior to realising they were pregnant? I've managed to quit but all I am craving is a cigarette! Though the cravings were supposed to go not get worse!

Have u tried an ecig? U can get zero nicotine ones that will cause no I'll health to you or baby. I had mine for 6mths (albeit with diminishing nicotine) then managed to totally stop last October - I never dreamt I could fully give up smoking, aside from being pregnant I have smoked since I was 14!

Well done Brooke and Chloe for becoming non smokers - fortunately I never smoked v heavily but still found

I will be 33 at EDD. Only two good friends out of say 15 have kids, although I think a few are TTC. I think that's quite low for our age (although some friends are younger admittedly)? An amazing work friend has an 11 year old and their relationship is brilliant - makes me wish I'd had kids when I was still cool...

My mum was 34 when she had me and when I was a kid I always thought that must have been too old as my folks seemed quite knackered.. Now I think that's just what happens when you have kids

Sorry MASSIVE holes in posts... Should say still found I felt really proud on stopping...

And that my work friend is same age as me

I blame pregnancy brain

That's pretty terrible brooke.

My little sis was 24 and found it hard, she'd only just finished an MA and found one of the hardest things was that lots of mums through nct she met were in their late 30s and had careers etc behind them. But it was much better when she met other mums a similar age. On the other hand I really so don't feel 35 or feel I 'act' 35 (neither does DH), no-one ever thinks I am over 30 (can be funny at work not so funny buying cava) and I'm certainly as shit scared as I would have been at 25! I think the only slight difference could be that friends with kids keep giving / offering stuff - I will also be conducting a pram poll during the summer!

Despite having a very fulfilling and 'successful career' and can't really get any higher without becoming a deputy (no ta!) I've felt for many years slightly unfulfilled and think I probably was clucky in a way I didn't recognise - my work became my baby which wasn't necessarily always very healthy. I only get clucky over dogs but that's probably cos I've never had a baby.

Craving pork scratchings after watching blooming GBM.

I'm a youth worker and most of the kids think I'm about 23 on first meeting - no problems with uncoolness over here thanks :o

What I meant to say is if I'd had the chance to have children in my 20s id have definately done so! (and then had a dog! )

My niece just had a baby last week at the age of 23, and I think she's going to be an amazing mum. I'm 44 (I have a DS aged 8) and this pregnancy was not planned and I still feel a bit in shock to be honest. You always get people in every walk of life who will make stupid thoughtless comments - there's a whole lot more to parenting than age, and I think having a baby at any age brings ups & downs. Seems like we have a real variety of ages on here!

Accidentally used dp's toothbrush this morning I won't tell him especially as I was nearly sick whilst brushing!

Ha ha spotty on the toothbrush! I wind up DH all the time with that one pretending I've been ill. Will everyone hate me if I say I've only been sick twice and once was sea sickness? Might be because I have relegated categories of foodstuffs to history due to terrible overwhelming nausea.
Im still getting 5 a day, protein & complex carbs and choc, crisps, cake etc in case anyone panics on my lime's behalf but cannot go near roast meat at all, or winter veg, including roast potatoes. Even now that I feel abit better, those things still revolt me, it's a mental thing. DH not impressed, he's a beef farmer !

In case of straw poll I'm 32 and on my first and have friends who have 3 DCs and are my age, and others who are nowhere near yet. Interesting isn't it? I cannot believe that dreadful woman in your office brooke. Nice retort!!!

Going to docs later with funny rash on back. Any fellow itchers out there?

Agh brooke I know how you feel. I was 24 when I had DD and had just graduated from uni, I had a few similar reactions. I looked much younger than 24 though. I remember after DD was born I had her in a pram in the queue at the post office. An old gent behind me whispered (not very quietly) to his wife "she looks about 15". I could have lamped him.

Even now when I tell people I have a 6 year old DD they say "you don't look old enough". To which I reply "I'M 31!!!" I'm always amazed how many people say it, and they never apologise after!

My skin has been horrible recently, it's calmed down a bit now but last weekend I had 3 mahoosive spots and I've got so many scars now. I wanted to hide but I had no choice, it was DS's birthday on Sunday and we had lots of people round.

Spotty I have to say so far I am finding the antenatal care here more thorough and better organised. But I do have to pay for GP visits and prescriptions, all the hospital treatment and midwives visits are free through the public healthcare system. I had my first 2 DCs in different London hospitals. The first hospital experience was dire and the second was a dream. It will be interesting to see how my birth here compares.

well i have woken.up feeling utterly exhausted this morning :( had a fab fay yesterday and got out and about with the girls but right now im laid on my bed listening to them play in their room (:( i feel like such a bad mummy when i have no energy :() hoping i frel better this aft as promised them a trip to an art gallery for a print making session

good luck to those of you with scans today xx

Sat waiting for my scan

Queen I actually haven't been sick at all (am now 12+4) - felt quite nauseous from weeks 6-9 but no actual throwing up. I am pretty terrified of throwing up, so this has been a blessing! Although at times I actually felt that being sick would have been a relief! My Mum didn't suffer from sickness at all when she was pregnant...don't know if it's a hereditary thing?

COD I have my scan tomorrow - am equal parts nervous and excited! How many weeks along are you? Let us know how it goes!

I can't believe how mean and judgmental some people have been about ages (I mean strangers, not you guys, obviously!) Brooke in particular, what a horrible comment for that woman to have made! I would like to say I would have had a snappy retort but realistically I would have either done my best goldfish impression or burst into tears.

I am 29 and this is our first - we started trying in Sept 2010 (or rather we stopped preventing then) so I suppose ideally I would have liked children a little sooner, but have had to go with the flow :) Hmmm, that was a bad metaphor, sorry.

So happy to hear all the great scan reports....I wish it was tomorrow afternoon already! My scan is at 14:40.

J x

Good morning all, hope you're feeling good today!

Sorry but I'm also in the lucky 30% not to get morning sickness, and Queen my Mum didn't have morning sickness either when pregnant, maybe it is hereditary?

But she did have awful indigestion and heartburn... little bit worried since I was thinking awesome no MS and my Mum was then happily telling me "my heartburn hurt so much I couldn't move!"
So... something to look forward to for me ....keeping my fingers crossed.

I have also avoided stuff I'm just not interested in eating... perhaps that has helped?

Nutella Apparently bad heartburn can mean the baby will be born with lots of hair?? Just heard that one yesterday....

Jo it's actually a joke between OH and I that I am having a monkey because OH is pretty hairy (not thick hairy but well... he doesn't get too cold in the winter ;) ) so I might spend the first few weeks with my baby at home... hiding it from the cruel world and crying into my nutella jar.... :(

Nutella haha we have a joke that I am going to have a baby orangutang (as DH is ginger) so we can hide our ape babies together!

Question: What is everybody wearing at the moment? I don't have a proper bump yet but all trouser and skirt waistbands are very tight and have to be undone after a meal. I have to wear smartish stuff to work so that limits me a bit but I don't really feel ready to buy maternity gear (and it would mostly be much too big anyway). Any ideas?

I would have been wearing jumper dresses and tunics, sports kit when its PE.
There's a smart black cotton shift/'flippy' dress for 20 quid on topshop maternity website, been eyeing it cos probably could wear post baby :)

Prune juice worked, no discernible bump, just a bit of podge ;)

Thanks Clarella - I don't have any jumper dresses or tunics unfortunately (all my clothes have fitted waists as that used to be my slimmest feature - gah!) Will have a look at that topshop dress, as I'm keen to only buy stuff that would do post baby as well.

I've got the podge-not-bump too! unfortunately it's too much podge for my poor straining waistbands, and it doesn't look great either. Can't wait to have a proper bump instead of a spare tyre!

minipie that sounds great! And no worries I'll bring an extra spoon (for the nutella) with me as well :o

Anyway, clothing - I'm ok and can still squeeze in one pair of smart trousers and two normal jeans and have bought a couple of t-shirts in a bigger size because of growing boobies. Luckily I lost weight last year so still had some larger stud but wish I'd hung onto another pair of bigger blue jeans

meant to say stuff not larger stud (phnar phnar)

Scan went well baby measured exactly for dates so still 12/12 was amazing

Yay! Great news COD

I feel so ill today and I'm at work. I just want to go to bed and cry

Hello ladies, mind if i join?

Im 12+3 with my 2nd. DD is 14 months old so im under no illusions, this is going to be hard work! But the rewards im getting from DD more than make up for it.

I had scan yesterday, everything is as it should be at this stage & due on 17th dec

Im 34 & live in sunny (well, very rainy at the mo) Shropshire.

Good to meet u all & looking forward to this journey!