BROOKING NO ARGUMENT for pain-free sneeze births and an abundance of empty birthing pools - pt 12!

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I think this is the first time I've ever started a brooking thread!

Glad to hear that it is just miniwhim being a cheeky monkey

Phew indeed! I'm so glad miniwhim is ok. Yes, I think rest will definitely be diagnosed, not the best of times for that I know. Hope you can get some help now with the packing and the move.

YAY! I'm so relieved for you whims! You definitely need to take a back seat on the packing and make your DC do it all and knit knit knit rest rest rest :)

Oh Whim thank god!! What great news. Brooklng strikes g

gold again

(thst's the second time I've accidentally posted an unfinished post today. Annoying)

Fantastic news whims

Whims so pleased to heAr mini whims is ok. As the others say, rest, rest & more rest for you

Phew Whim glad all seems well. I know it is a scary time though. Hope you can get help with all the packing and have a rest!

Right, back at home and self administering cold pizza and repeats of Mock the Week. I might even branch out to watching an on demand film. They didn't actually say i needn't rest, but I'm not taking any chances. And who was it that suggesting my children do all the packing? I'm taking you up on the challenge. I'm going to give them each a big plastic box, and tell them to put lego in them. Lego not in the boxes doesn't come. What could possibly go wrong?

i have a fun game of 50 shades spotting which I like to play. I have renamed the Farrow and Ball catalogue 50 shades of greige (and did enjoy painting our new bin with our street number in 2 different shades of grey). However, my favourite spottings came today at the EPU where not 1, not 2, but 3 women were reading it. I mean I know everyone there has had sex, possibly even more than once, but there's no need to advertise it.

Hope you're all well and had good weekends. I'm pleased to report it's raining again here. I mean, the gardens really need it.

So very relieved. Have been thinking of you all morning. Do they know what caused it? Will they see again before you go?

The lay person's reply bartlet would be 'just one of those things'. The technical response is small subchorionic haemorrhage, inferior to posterior placenta and superior to cervix. I don't think they can know what caused something like that can they? They just happen, and then hopefully stop happening.

There's every possibility I've been a bit melodramatic

Whims What a scare, thank goodness everything is ok! I'm sure the kids will do a fine job of packing

Little Great news on your scan!

Sorry for radio silence, we were on hols last week in rainy Hayling Island and internet access on my phone was somewhat sketchy! Still managed to have fun though, DS particularly loved the historical dockyards at Portsmouth and is now obsessed with Nelson and the various naval ships!

Had another scan this morning and olivebean is still there and still has a heartbeat which is very reassuring! I am really suffering with side effects from the steroids (worst of which is insomnia and headaches) as well as nausea if I don't eat every 2 hours so it's good to know that so far it seems to be doing the trick - still can't imagine feeling relaxed about this pregnancy at any stage but I'm hoping that I will eventually chill a little!

Hope all the poorly ladies are feeling better today and much love to all.

Olives I used to get a lot of nausea (no sickness though) and I found keeping a bag of kallo rice crackers (a bit like the big snackajack ones) in my massive handbag was a lifesaver. Your DS sounds like a sweetie :)

They should absolutely be packing their own lego whims - you can just "supervise" from the setee

PS, absolutely not melodramatic whims, I can't imagine anything scarier atm!

Baby just had a ten minute fidget and it proper hurt! well it was very uncomfortable and I'm a wuss. Is that normal? Does it get worse as s/he gets bigger?

Great to hear your scan news olives. Remind me again when you're due?

How reassuring to have a wriggler fluff. I think once they're really wedged in it gets a bit better, although you'll still have the odd monster shove. Sometimes into your bladder which can make you wee if it takes you by surprise. I remember being in a meeting in hot summer (remember them) and really upsetting the woman sitting across from me as the baby scraped an arm or foot very visibly across my abdomen. She seemed to think I should be able to stop it doing that as it was distracting her. Needless to say, she does not have children.

whims that is funny. I'm getting the water-bed effect on my belly a lot nowadays, and I can't decide if it freaks me out or if it's just really funny :o

Whims I'm only 8+2 so due date is 24.2.13 (our wedding anniversary )

I just had a small panic at the dentist. She asked me for payment so I explained that I'm pregnant but don't have my exemption card yet. She said that was fine and I didn't need to pay, I could just bring my card next time. I then felt all panicked in case I have another miscarriage and and would have to explain to the dentist in 6 months why I wasn't heavily pregnant with an exemption card to boot! What a ridiculous thing to worry about - fish slaps gratefully received!

Olives that sounds really normal to me :) I'd have the same sort of worries and mini panics!

I'm trying to figure out how to tell women people I haven't seen in ages, but I know really want to start trying... I suppose I better hurry up, I'm almost 17 weeks.

Hello brookers so sorry I have been MIA have been away loads and just back from amazing 2 week holibobs in Italy, lush!

So pleased by all the brilliant scan news on here gen am so pleased all is well and green and whim hooray!
Am going to catch up properly now. All well here, had a midwife appointment this morning and heard the heartbeat which was lovely, I have bought the first thing for the baby, a little romper suit from Gap, I am feeling very brave!

Hello far. Welcome home!

whims I am so pleased to hear you and the baby are ok. How far gone are you now? And you are not being melodramatic at all.

far great to see you too

And you olives. I'm due the day after you btw . Glad to hear what you told the dentist as I've got an appointment with them next week and won't have my exemption card, was thinking I would just have to pay. I'll try and get away with it!

When did everyone stop feeling so ill in the first tri? I have been feeling dreadful, wishing the body-wrecking tiredness would go, then felt a bit better today and started panicking! I can't win

Whims So good to hear you and mini whims are all good!!

Littlefriend I'm 16 weeks and find I get tired easily. I used to go jogging but haven't managed to keep it up at all today I cycled to meet a student, cycled home then cycled off to a Dr's appointment and then on my way home my legs were really worn out :(
But I'm nowhere near as tired as 1st Tri! Although I.m not sure when it really changed, I'd say after 13 weeks I started to have more energy.

Good to hear the bad news wasn't bad after all Whims. Feet up please.

Over the moon for you Olives and sympathise that you will never feel relaxed until the baby is with you, but each day/week/month is an achievement meaning your baby is growing away. Hope you get some respite from the steroid side effects.

Fluff - hopefully you won't get too much discomfort - it usually is the odd one-off assault. I sometimes wondered if DS was going to come out with half my insides under his finger nails but actually each 'ouch' was always over pretty swiftly.

28 wks is too early to discuss breech or other positions Cakes. My DS was breech at 38 wks (!) but turned for a straight forward natural birth at 41+1. I used acupuncture to help as I didn't like the sound of going to hospital to have him turned by manipulation. I've heard only 1 in 2 babies turn this way and it can really hurt.

Nutella - we are about a week apart with our due dates (are you Christmas day?!) I wouldn't worry too much about lack of jogging! Sleep and relaxation is more important at this stage in our lives. Humble opinion.

Little - hope you feel better soon. Just gotta plough through tri1 hopefully.

Must get my dental exemption card too - can't find the form, annoyingly.

Pretty sure I'm getting flutterings rather than wind this week. Plenty of wind too.

Big waves to all I've missed - Smegs, Bartlett, Dream, Loopy, Imps, Sweetie, Gen, Jen - and welcome back to Far; you really are glowing, lady.

little I remember those days well, grim.com
I started to feel a lot better at about 13 weeks (which might make you panic, just warning you) and completely myself again by 16 weeks. I still get tired if I overdo it but compared to those early days I have so much energy. You are almost there, hang in there and try and get plenty of rest, I felt much sicker if I was tired.

Hello tock how are you getting on? I am so pleased there are so many of us updiffed on this thread within a few months of eachother :)