March 2013 Mk II - anyone for a wotsit?

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Did it work??

Old thread:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/antenatal_clubs/1499521-Due-in-March-2013

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www.mumsnet.com/Talk/antenatal_clubs/1499519-March-2013-stats-thread

Okay, I'm an English teacher perhaps not as bad as zoo keeper or editor, but still a bit embarrassing all the same! I blame it on the hormones!

I went to bed when I was tired, DH worked his wicked way on me and now I'm sat here wide awake with him snoring! What's that all about?! I thought dtd was supposed to make you more tired, not awake?! Never mind - at least I had a 2hr nap today!

Hopefully jojo you feel better after the rant. It all sound very stressful

Glad it went okay sunny

Hope you had a good holiday chef I have hardly any symptons either. Don't even have sore boobs. I'm counting it as very very good luck.

that mw sounds great three

welcome anni

tiddley it definatly made my eyes water and DP fainted and didn't have a clue what was going on (not being able to speak German)

Thanks for all the re-assurance ladies about the c-sec. Don't really know how DP will cope with that. But it has dawned on me that I might be leaving you ladies when I get my date for c-sec. EDD in March 4th so guess they maybe getting baby out late Feb. But I'll stay with you all till I know for definate.

4DCs sounds wonderful (well DP wants lots and lots so we will see)

lol pips you can spell possum, but my usual username is mossop, but when I registered on mumsnet, it wouldn't let me use that. So I went backwards

Completely missed your post before JoJo, but I'm not at all surprised you needed a rant! Surely they (anyone) can see that whoever you are and wherever you live, you need to at least be offered that NT scan ASAP as part of the NHS maternity care that we are all entitled to?! I know there is another test they can do - a triple blood test I think - if you miss the scan window, but I always thought you'd be a candidate for that if you found out you were pg really late or something, not because the NHS can't be bothered to sort it out because your circumstances are a little more complicated than usual! Could you write or urgently contact the hospital manager or someone higher at Aberdeen and plead your case, or complain to the drs or something? Even tuesday sounds a long way off!

Fingers crossed you get something sorted.

Hahahahaha!!!! Now I feel doubly stupid! I love your ingenuity though!

Hi, I'm interested to know how everyone else is going with exercise. Still running,, spinning 4 times per week (plus Olympic opening ceremony in friday). Want to keep going as lOng as I can. I've now got my mw appt, but not for another fortnight.
Vivee

Why are so many of us up so late? Surely we're all supposed to be exhausted and desperate to sleep...unless you've all been dtd too...?

I always get a massive rush of energy between 11 and midnight. It's weird. Then I'm knackered all day the next day... sigh

Hello everyone - just checking in before bed after an uneventful day (well, apart from my computer crashing, losing some work and spending hours trying to recover it, giving up and doing the work again, then DH coming home and finding the original version, grr!) Also tried on some maternity trousers in the sale and they were sooo comfy but I couldn't bring myself to buy them in case something goes wrong with the pregnancy/ies (is it plural if its twins?!)

I think this is going to be a bumper post to catch up on everything I've missed over last day! Here goes ... !

Welcome back from your hols, ThreeForTea (and thanks for the congrats!) Hope you had a lovely time ? and, yes, you missed the fleeting bit of summer! Ach, bad timing! Happy for your early scan! Welcome back to you, too DameFlamingo and Chefette! I must admit to liking doing the 'Actually, it's Dr?' thing too but then I often have to follow it with, 'Oh, but not a useful one!'

Welcome, rotelefant, Zoey, Anniblue and AuntieJu - always room for more peeps! Wow, Ju and DameFlamingo!, I didn't know they moved so early! Our two didn't do the dance for us (bit jealous!) but hopefully next time! Oh, and reading your last post, rotelefant, my twins will no doubt make an appearance in Feb, I'm told, not 5 March which would be 40 weeks, but I'm definitely staying here cos it's all homely and nice

VixJane, keeping fingers tightly crossed for you.

Glad you had a good booking in possom and well done on the early scan! You too on the appt, Sunny. I usually have no trouble at all with my bowels (since you ask, possum!) but I have been a little bit constipated per the past week. I'm ignoring it as the last thing I want to do is strain and encourage piles any more than I'm going to be at risk of getting them through pregnancy, hehe! Hope you're not too uncomfortable with the poo/nausea situation! (Any advice Tiddley can offer on the piles front would be welcome!)

Well done on reaching your 8-week milestone, Sarah. Fingers crossed the next week passes quickly and you get excellent news on the scan next week

JoJo, I'm sure you were very polite with all the receptionists and health professionals today, but I would have been fuming! I hate that kind of ridiculous, bureaucratic situation! Surely your case is far from unique and someone's had to find a work-around before?! You have my sympathy! Have you tried googling 'pregnant and temporarily resident in two cities'? And the village sounds gorgeous - a really wonderful environment to bring up kids in!

Hmm...that's frustrating. I'm normally asleep by 11, but if I'm being like you tonight, then I have 5 minutes left. What to do...? Wee, and maybe a cheeky little bite to eat?

PS pipsicles I suspect we should have been DTD since it's actually our 1st wedding anniversary today but after DH came home with flowers (yay!), we opened our cards and a fab pressie from my DM, I cooked a curry, we watched Grand Designs and the unexpectedly brilliant BBC4 documentary about motorways (who'd have thought it?!) and then DH fixed my stupid computer. I'm now Mumsnetting and he's watching Breaking Bad (we started series 1 a while back but I've got a real aversion to violence on telly at the mo - prob pregnancy related?) SO I fear this is it for our sex life, if we can't manage it on our first wedding anniversary! Hehe!

I mostly feel sorry for OH he was on a promise tonight... Guess I'll have to set that back a day!!
manda I really should get more cross with people but I don't find it helps and usually when I get angry I get upset (as things were my BP had already raised dramatically from last week). I'll call the MW on thurs as she isn't aware of my problem getting registered. Kemnay is wonderful, I'm a little gutted it's only a 2-3 year plan though. All part of the grand plan so will be worth it!!
vivee I was jogging prior to pg but not regularly so made the decision to take up swimming instead. I do 4 sessions of about 45-60 mins every week and we take our 'imaginary Clocolate Labrador', Oscar out for daily evening walks by the river.
pips if things aren't sorted on Thursday I will start demanding to speak to people higher up, for now I will trust the MW to try her best and get the situation sorted.
elephant much better thanks... Can breathe again!!

I'm amazed at how many of you are up!! I like to stay up a bit later if I can as I feel rotten in the mornings so prefer to sleep through them :)

Ooops. Just read last couple of posts and feel equally guilty; is OH's b.day tomorrow and he was trying to get fruity, but I just couldn't. Been in a bit of a grump this arvo and little things he is doing really are getting my back up...

One case in point:

Does anyone else agree that it should be men who wax their nethers if they are going to vigorously towel their bits EVERY MORNING all over my bathroom floor. For the last two weeks I have been getting down on my hands and knees whilst giving DD a bath and using not 1, not 2, but 6 baby wipes on the floor trying to pick up his strays.

Maybe he is going bald and I am being mean

Am I the only one having such a aversion to their OH? Didn't happen 1st pg so quite surprised as my sex drive was sky high and didn't feel the need to point out that shaking his toothbrush around his head after brushing only gives me more to clean up every day when it goes over the mirror, both sinks, sideboard, shelf and glass jars and shower doors. He grinned inanely and said 'Oh I SEEE!'...que me wanting to stab him with a fork.

Yes. My bathroom is apparently the source of all of our problems :(

Bet you're all sleeping now though, lucky sods :o

I have been up with DS since 5.45 - grim time of day but he's a delight first thing after a long sleep so I don't mind really.

'backwards possom' I like it!

10 weeks today. 2 more till my scan back in Brum - and then I can register here in Shropshire - I daren't before then to avoid the bureaucratic PITA that you've suffered jojo (sympathy).

No big symptoms but boy do I feel full all the time. Not food full, just, well full full (no, I am not an English teacher, nor a Dr).

Please all, avoid piles!! Lots of water, fruit etc in pregnancy to avoid constipation then even more after birth plus lactolose. Natural deliveries may well cause temp piles (all that pushing) but if you look after your precious bowels you'll avoid permenant ones. Take it seriously - my poor DH had had two failed ops on his and they cause so much discomfort.

this is your mother talking :o

vivee i go to the gym 4 times a week but they told me not to do my 5k runs or spin (which i love most) Im doing swimming, cycling, cross trainer and aqua. They said i can't do free weights either.

Have a good day all x

Jeez all so fit! I too am up at 5.45 every day-but to go to work unfortunately; I get home at 6pm usually. Told DP that he could help out by coming on walks with me, he's not so keen maybe in the yukky rain!! Saying that, he has fixed my bike, and MW never said cycling would be an issue?

I too am in a village, well hamlet really, a dozen properties, no street lights, the noisiest things are the occasional train, the cows going crazy mooing at 4am, and the "raucous" cream teas held every Sunday in the summer at the national trust property 3 doors down!!!

JoJo why only 2-3 years up in our neck of the woods? You have intrigued with the allusion to le grande plan!! Sorry if that's too nosey, a big failing of mine

Have a good day all

Morning all,

chefette and elefant - be glad for lack of sickness. Mine hit majorly yesterday, didn't actually throw up but 3 near misses, one in the airport (travelling for work), one in the middle of my lunch, and another during a teleconference! Felt so terrible and couldn't tell anyone so got no sympathy!

Vivee - when I went to the gp, she said as long as my body was used to the exercise I could carry on - as long as I feel comfortable. So I e been carrying on running ( up to 7 miles), cycling, free weights etc. however I have reduced the intensity, only because I'm lazy though!

Have a good day everyone and FX for less sickness today!

Insanity I've been having a similar sense of dislike towards my DH and have been feeling very strange about it too, so am very happy to hear I'm not alone and that it must be a pg thing, as suspected. With DS, I was so chilled out I felt like a better different woman! With the baby we lost, I turned into a crazy mood swinging banshee, and now I think I have fairly 'normal' pg mood swings. Obviously I was devastated after the mmc, but I think we're both glad the banshee has gone!

Yesterday, he was preparing DS's bedtime milk and, as always, took a sip of it from the bottle to test it was okay. I always hate him doing this (some kind of deep-seated issue with him supposed to be the head of the house and my family's protector etc and then watching him resort to babyhood I think - I'm weird, I know!), so I said something along the lines of "is your nasty Daddy stealing your milk again?" to which he stopped and handed it to DS. Then he came back through after DS had gone down with a bottle with a massive lump of cheesy stuff at the bottom - clearly not good! I realised we'd given him a bottle of milk that had been out all day and not drunk, then put back in the fridge to see if it would be alright. It clearly wasn't (note to self!), but I was furious with DH because he said "but you said to just give it to him, so I did"! Grrr! After I calmed down, I ended up having a chat with him and told him that I love and married him because he is an intelligent man etc etc, but that I hate when he doesn't use the brain in his head and shifts the blame on me! He apologised and we talked about a few other niggles too and the mood was considerably happier between us last night, hence dtd I think! Sorry for rant, I didn't mean to go on for so long

What I'm trying to say insanity is, maybe you should take a deep breath and talk to him about it? I find complementing him first usually helps to soften the blow!

I'm a little envious of all you Drs and gym babes on this thread...I am nowhere near close to either! I managed to loose all my baby weight from DS by the time he was 10mths and was really chuffed, as I'd given myself a year and then I'd managed to slowly but surely lose more, which is great, but I am by no means fit and healthy! I do yoga once a week and run around after a toddler, but that's about it really. I enjoy swimming and must try and take it up again - I swam 10 lengths yesterday whilst DH played with DS and felt good, but tired too.

Thanks for wise words of advice tiddley I have had problems with piles for a while and was really worried about them during pg at first, but found I had no problems - but did drink excessively and had cravings for fruit and veg. Then I had piles from childbirth and NO ONE TOLD ME!!! 10 days later, I found myself in excruciating pain even trying to sit down and had to rather embarrassingly book myself in for an emergency appointment to get them looked at! My dr was lovely about it, but his words were "you do have a couple of small piles, yes"! SMALL?! They felt like Everest! This time, I am a bit more stuffed up, shall we say, so I am trying to glug water and eat apricots to 'keep things moving'. In my hospital bag, I will be packing haemorrhoid cream so that I can be fully prepared this time! Why don't they give you a bit of warning that you might have them - I had so many pains and stitches etc down there that I had noida what was going on! (sorry! I've just remembered that there are quite a few first timers on this thread!)

I've just looked back at my mammoth post - sorry! I'll shut up now.

Jojo, we should meet up sometime once we've had the babies. I'm not too far from Kemnay. :)

DS allowed me a 7:30am lie in today... Zzz

Having a lazy morning here! Got my appt with the nurse at 9:15 for the next set of hcg blood test, will get the results tomorrow. So not going into work till after the appt.

I've told DH that DTD is off the cards till we know what's going on, he's been very understanding!

jojo sorry that you're having trouble getting through to the doctors you're living situation, hope you get it sorted!

I've been missing the exercise this last 2 weeks as the dr's said to rest so that's what I've done! Before the pregnancy I was playing roller derby and rolling skating 3 times a week but have had to hang my skates up due to the risk of falling! Will hopefully be able to go swimming soon.

insanity I think DH are just designed to get on our nerves at times!

morning all yaaawn

ooh yes jojo, tell us all about your grand plan! ideally DH and I would like at some point to move home to the NW but life in Oxford is too good and all the jobs for what we specialise in are down here too. but very, very happy here so can't complain.

I haven't yet? developed an aversion to DH. instead I'm grinning and gurning at him with love at every possible moment which I think is beginning to freak him out! We are normally quite affectionate but this is getting ridiculous! again, I'm sure it's the hormones! He does say he likes seeing me so happy, tho!

tiddley I feel full all the time too. And although I'm getting increasingly insistent hunger pangs (must eat now!) I don't think I'm eating excessively overall. It's getting more difficult to finish my full plate of evening meal, which for me is unheard of!

insanity, my Polish friend told me that it's usual for men in many other European countries and she has done impressive international experiments so I trust her judgement to trim or wax their nether regions! Perhaps you could threaten him with that and see if he picks up after himself!

thanks for the piles tips! and scare stories, eek!

sunny did they say why no weights? I've bought some hand held ones to go with my pre-natal pilates DVD (and I use them with the yoga ones too) and I've taken to gaffing around with them every time I'm waiting for the kettle to boil etc. If my body is going to go to pot I've decided that one thing I will (finally!) have again is toned upper arms!

xposts vixjane good luck today - thinking of you

Morning all and hi to the newbies

I had a little giggle last night pip, was catching up with thread while dh was snoring and I was wide awake after DTD, only I was too lazy to post

I'm afraid my piles from my very quick labour with dd2 are already niggling me, and even though I'm eating all the right thing last few days I've just been feeling all full up

jojo how fustrating for you

Fingers crossed for scan dates today again, my SIL is due in Feb and her scan yesterday so I know I'll have to wait a few weeks I just WANT THE LETTER (small pregnancy tantrum)

X posts good luck Vix
Morning Manda

Morning - I have woken with really bad pain in my right shoulder all round the bottom of the shoulder blade so feeling rather sorry for my self esp with being in the office all day having to use a computer :(
The tiredness finally took over last night I went 'for a lie down' around 6.30 and didnt get back up till 8.55 - had a glass of squash, showered and was back in bed fast asleep by 9.45 so DH tells me!
Am hoping after scan next week I can relax a bit but cant see that happening as he will book me in for my operation which is going to be fun hiding from work ESP as my bosses IVF attemp failed yesterday. today would like to sit and eat rubbish andno move my shoulder as it agony but as it day 1 of month end and I feel a bit sick its not really an choice goes off to sulk