December 2012 - Halfway to our Christmas elves and fairies!

[WeeJo08]

Hi everyone!

I think I did this correctly! Eeeek! Probably not I think we still have a few messages to go on the old one, so it's here for when we're ready :)

WeeJo

congrats on the boys acj and eggs :)

cookies you take care of yourself, they wil lhave given you a, ad that is fine for the baby.

Not all AD's are bad in pregnancy.

bubbles sometimes i can only find the placenta but the way i see it is there needs to be a baby to be a placenta so that makes me feel better!

take away curry tonight, naughty but nice!

Welcome utopian

Strawberry - another one thinking of you and keeping my finger crossed!

Congratulations on the scans!! :)

cookies I hope you're ok, definitely don't waste time feeling guilty at all. You need to take care and rest. Have a word with your dp...sometimes they just don't understand until you can't walk for the size of the bump!

bubbless you are so funny and right, my mum was with me at the scan and when the sonographer left I said to her 'I'm going to punch that woman in the face in a minute' (disclaimer - I am not a violent person and it's all talk). I remember when the midwife put a pessary in for my induction last time and I said to my dh 'get her off me or I'm going to kick her' but that was actually in front of the poor woman.

I have been called about a scan for next Tuesday and my bloods are back in but only mw can talk me through them. Unfortunately her phone has been off all day but drs receptionist said if they were bad I would have been called immediately so fingers crossed they're ok. The condition is polyhydramnios and can indicate a problem with the baby or just be one of those things which corrects itself. I'm feeling more bright than yesterday.

Mean woman in marks and spencer just made me cry nothing to do with hormones :(

Strawberry- that's sounds a bit more positive and glad you're feeling brighter :)

Cookies, what's best for you is best for the baby. I'm signed off work ATM and feel a bit guilty but I'm tonnes better here than stressed out at work. You just need some time to yourself and to get back on track.

Bubbles I've had "your carrying my baby so your the most important person to me right now, but once that baby comes you'll be knocked down to number 2".
My mum came over today and gave me £80 worth of high street vouchers my step dad had won at work that can be spent at Mothercare! It's her birthday and I'm getting presents.

DP finished work early tonight since he's somehow managed to do accidental overtime so is taking me out for dinner so I can get my something and chips fix from last night.

bubbless what existing stats list??

And Strawberry that does sound promising if she's not called yet (although understandably frustrating). Fingers still crossed.

Aha found the stats list! here it is in case anyone else wants to add their latest details.

I understand those dps saying baby will be more important. My DH doesn't get why my dcs will always come before him. I hope he understands when this 1 is born. He kept telling me how his parents love each other more than they love him and his brother your offspring will always be number1

Hi everyone, welcome utopian!
Blimey it's hard keeping up with this thread!
Stawb so great to hear you got some results back. Hope the MW can explain it too and make you feel more relaxed; fingers crossed for your scan!

Re: belly touching - I have one friend who insists I'm growing every time I see her and gives my belly a rub, I really don't mind because she is a good friend and just a really lovely person. But if any stranger tries it my first plan is to rub their belly back :o if that fails I'm going for a boob grab!

Well done minipie I was going to try that for my next post :)

Stacey I'm hoping the way I feel towards DH/DC will be equal but different. DC obviously I will feel more protective towards and have unconditional love for but on the other hand DH is someone I have chosen and who has chosen me and we will be living together till death (I hope) whereas DC will leave home at 18 or 20 something. So yes I would put DC first in the sense of looking after their needs first (because they need looking after more than DH does) but that doesn't necessarily mean I would love them more, just differently, iyswim.

Well not sure if its wise or not but i will be enjoying a can of pear cider tonight im feeling majorly rubbish the dd's have done their best to wind me up all day and i really just need somwthing to ease how tense im feeling :( id get dh to give me a massage but he wont be home till gone 9

strawberry im glad the results came back so fast, but grrr that the midwifes phone is off all day especially on a bloody friday! sounds good that if it was serious you would have got a call right away. I had a friend with lots of waters around the baby, her body was just good at making amniotic fluid. I hope all goes well on tuesday.

honey what did the mean lady do?

ellie i think a pear cider will do nothing but good! I had a glass of wine on my birthday and I felt so tipsy, it was great, i wish i was such a cheap date usually!

my baby loves curry he's kicking away like crazy!

I'm really looking forward to DP being able to feel the baby kicnk, I have some extra padding chub so i guess it will be a little later than average.

strawberry- tbh, someone is attacking your belly which is already tender due to stretching with a plastic stick rather brutally.. i think your allowed to feel partically violent towards them, even more so if they are shite less.. tactful!
i bet mw's get it all the time, they are probably used to it! whenever i feel bad i watch 'once born every min', its amazing, just women screaming at their husbands to get the fuck out, then the next min crying for them to come back.. bless them, they have no idea whats going on.... mw's are in the same boat!!

well thats okay then, if it was serious then you would know.. so its not serious! have a nice cuppa and put your feet up and if its a problem with baby, then its not a serious problem, as receptionist said.. you would know by now

daydream ive already said to DP that baby will be priority in both of our lives, but i want to be equal!! ohh, lucky you, mothercare vouchers + dinner! were having chilli for dinner tonight, but i really want fish and chips :( unfortunatly moneys too tight

nutella im going for the boob / crotch grab technique too, i want to know who puts this into play first!!

sorry for mamoth posts!

ellie drinking is fine, in moderation!!

Mini - maybe you will but if I was ever made to choose between my DH or my kids (through no fault of their own obv) I would choose my kids every time. Even if they were adults. They came from my body, I carried them for 9 months and I love them more than I love myself or my DH. This doesn't mean that he doesn't mean the world to me, but for me personally I do love my children more.

Have added my stats to the list (just had to rewrite that cause it came out in SHOUTY CAPS LOCK, whoops) so nice to be able to read and speak to people in the same boat as me, I don't know buckets of people who've had children from my friends..

on the DH/DC debate I'm really paranoid I'll end up coming second. I'm selfish and want to come first!! I'm sure i'll love him/her/it hugely, but as a child and like minipie said I chose him specifically, whereas the crumb (our current name for it until we know the gender) could be any one of a number of versions of us, some probably better than others!

on a totally differnet note, we're all in more or less the same boat due date wise, but some of you can feel yours already? Jealous. Morning sickness has gone, so would like to know it's lurking happily in there.

And didn't know you can buy your own doppler??

i was exhausted and nipped in to m and s food to grab some milk on the way home and was going through the self-service checkout. I hadn't seen the sign on the side of the till saying that there was no cashback at the min as machine wasn't working properly and i hit the button for £10 cashback, at which point the woman who was supposed to be on duty at the self service tills gave me an awful look, then finished putting price labels onto some things and came over to me and started shouting at me telling me it wasn't working and couldn't i read the sign? i apologised and said i hadn't seen it and then just kept apologising and she just kept sighing, tutting and asking me why i hadn't read the sign. and at that point i burst in to tears.I know it was my fault for missing the sign, but she seemed unable to comprehend that i'd made an honest mistake and was apologising. Then the machine gave me the money anyway which seemed to make her more angry.

Oh honey how rubbish of her!!

Hello all, not posted for a while but have been following. Welcome to all the new mums. Been feeling a bit low, money, work, maybe moving after the birth...,,life in general. Congrats on the blues and pinks
. I'm not going to find out, DH is dead against it and I don't mind really either way. Can anyone tell me where and how I add my stats?

Also, not finding out will curb my spending (for now)

Emily there is a link a few posts up from minipie for the stats list :)

Honey she sounds mean! I would probably have just given her an evil stare or leaned over her a bit (I'm 5'8" ish so I usually can)... When I'm in the mood I can manage a great put down but not when I'm tired...

Wow lots of posts..... Chinese tonight!