November 2012 - reaching the six-month mark

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MissMummy I think the trick is to arrive at the job centre looking like you will do them an injury and they'll get you seen and sorted asap

sorry garden such sad news....

im very jealous of the ladies that are going on maternity leave soon! i'm waiting until i'm 37.5 weeks.... just want to spend the most time with baby when shes here.

Getting panicky on money front as will only be on SMP so literally halving our household income for 9 months! We've never been the type to watch what we spend but now suddenly i am very aware of it and trying to reign it in. DH hasnt got there quite yet and have been going olympic crazy and spending way too much money on tickets!! Had to talk to him and remind him that we're having a baby soon :D

Yay baby is kicking right now! shes been uncharacteristically quiet since last night and was getting worried at work today. Probably paranoia after reading about Gary Barlows sad news :( .....

I've requested to join the facebook group... it doesnt allow you to attach a message, otherwise i would have put my screen name.... room for one more ?! Intrigued to see what ur bumps all look like as i feel huge but have noone to compare with

hows everything diets going?? i've been saying that i'd eat healthily for months... but havent quite managed it... feel slightly guilty....... i havent taken any pregnancy supplements either (I did so pre pregancy and also for the first 3 months) is it too late to start it up again for the last 3 months???

Oh garden such horrible news! Thoughts with you and all of your family x

Congrats on the plaster coming off

Was going to have a moan but bad news certainly puts my day into perspective!

I've finally built the cot! Huzzah.

I really want to put the blankets I've made in it and "make" it do it looks lovely, sadly my sensible side says leave the mattress in the wrapper and store the bulkier items in the cot until little shrimp arrives

I've put a piccy on the fb group so people can see its only a tiny cot for our tiny room, [need a bigger house emote]

Still no pics of my bump, I was going to take one in the full length mirror but we had to sacrifice the wardrobe it was attached too otherwise the cost would have ended up in the hallway.

Bump really hurts tonight :( all along the lower half feels like its pulling and stretching. I guess that what the pain is, just where it's growing? Hurts quite alot for just that though.

Rest up DH and monitor it. Have you had enough to drink? Do you need a wee? If it continues call triage just to be on the safe side. Hope it soon eases x

Sounds like what I had the other day DH - sharp tight pains just under the bump? It helped to literally lie down & rest. Think it was ligaments because in the night it felt tight & almost bruised into my groin/top of my thigh area. Hope it eases for you soon.

chunky that's what I have. Sore on inside of thigh as well. Laying down now. Just rubbed in my bio oil. don't think it will make any difference to all the red marks n trying to unwind.
Starting to worry about how I'll cope back at school in September! Didnt really do much today, GD testing, short walk to dentist, helped mil with some cooking.

But feel so tiered and achy don't feel like I will sleep well at all. And fraggle is moving SO much right now.

Wishing u a good night x

tits maybe take the cot mattress out of the plastic and let it breathe a bit, this is recommended so that any nasty chemicals can dissipate :)

I went to bed and laid on my left with my preg pillow ( thank god I've got that it helps so much!) and the pain eased after a while. Enough to have sex
I think it was from where I'd been quite active in the day going to the beach, walking alot and hauling ds up and down and in and out his buggy. Then was sitting on his bedroom floor for ages trying to get him to sleep last night.

Talking of bump pics - we have lost all my ones from DD :( We had a laptop malfunction a while back & lost loads of photos, including some of DD first month. Thankfully many were recoverable (they were saved as RAW files not just jpgs, so could be reconstructed) but ones taken on my basic digital were lost forever :( Apparently, that includes my bump pics (although these were RAW file ones too) so I can't say whether I'm bigger or smaller than before!! I think I'm a bit bigger (its highly likely afterall) although not MASSIVE for being 3 days off 6mths, despite what my DSis says...

Glad its better DH :)

My mum asked me what I thought the baby would look like and I had to say no idea. Does anyone have a picture in their head or clues from their scans? I think I'm more excited about that than I was about finding out the gender. I'm mixed race an my husband is white so we have a lot of different options in the gene pool from dark skin to light skin, curly or straight hair, blond through to black hair, blue/green/grey/brown/black eyes in the families (my mum has the blackest eyes you've ever seen!) My hair is very dark brown, nearly black so it was a complete shock when DS2 popped out with blond hair. I'm secretly hoping for blue eyes and daddy's dimpled chin with this little boy. Either way, I can't wait to meet him in 90 days(ish)!

Yeah I keep wondering what he'll look like. Might book a scan!! Just unreal how fast time is going!!

Last night dh was out and got a lift home. I felt really dizzy so went to bed but heard him come in with friend and they were chatting. This morning I asked why he'd come in with him and not offered him a drink! He said oh go downstairs and you'll see. There was a box full of baby toys! Said bloke was going through them with dh but they're all in great condition and how generous? I wanted to get some toys as I realised we'd not got any!! But now I think were ok. Think there's even a play matt!! Going to have a good look tonight. People are really kind aren't they?

stunt I think the brown eyes will win out as I believe they are a stronger gene. As for skin tone, I think that further develops over the first few days. When I was younger I was friends with two boys who had the same parents of mixed race. The boys looked nothing like each other, one being really pale with blond hair, the other being dark skinned, with black curly hair.

On my fathers side there is mixed race several generations back, and my father has a dark skin tone, but his parents were very pale skinned.

Saying 90 days makes it sound a lot sooner! Aargh!

Omg, i have had a shock this morning, I was curious about my weight gain so I thought I'd fill out the app thingy, I've put on 10lbs on my 5ft frame that's never going to end well at the end of a pregnancy. I don't eat a lot ( mainly because I can't) although my activity is very limited at the moment. Damn Marsbar Milkshake craving I'm blaming.

Oops that should have read 17lbs not 10. all of a sudden up until about 3 weeks ago it was only 7lbs.

Tits I'd take the plastic off to let the fumes from the mattress dissipate - ahhh I see pasties has beat me to that advice.

Morning all!

Has anyone else bump stopped growing - I was mahoosive really early on but seem to have been pretty much the same size (if anything I seem a little smaller?) for a fortnight now. The bellydweller is kicking like a good un' so I'm not worried, just wondered if it was unusual to whack on a ton of weight and then grind to a halt?

Tits maybe my weight gain is heading for you instead - given that I've stopped putting on for a fortnight?

tits Im in similar boat.... 5ft 2 (1/2... Yes the 1/2 is very important at this height !) and Ive put on 17lbs exact as well!

My weight gain was very slow at first then suddenly put on over a stone in the middle and now kind of slowed down again.... So yellow ur experience is also similar to mine

tits a lot will be water, and the baby itself weighs 2.5lb at this stage. Might be best to lay off the milkshakes though

Maybe there is still hope then! I don't feel huge and I haven't got any extra chub on my arms/face so hopefully its all bump and boobs and will slow down now.

Yes, the milkshake is out the window from now on. :o

stunt I am mixed race as well so I wonder a lot about what baby will look like. I'm White and Black Caribbean and DP is Persian so it will be interesting to see which genes are stronger.

I'm debating whether to book a 3d scan. I kind of want one but they are quite expensive round here and I'm not sure if I can justify paying it when we will meet him soon enough.

Yellow I put on 14lb over the first 24 weeks then nothing over the past three. I think there's the point coming up where baby starts to put down fat deposits and it's possible for mum to gain a pound a week at that point (sorry Tits).

VQ brown eyes are dominant over blue eyes but my DH has blue eyes so my kids get the blue eye gene from him. My dad has grey eyes and my mum has brown eyes so I have one brown eye gene from my mum (as I have brown eyed) but recessively carry the blue eye gene from my dad. So it's 50/50 whether my kids get a brown or a blue eye gene from me. DS1 and DS2 both have brown eyes but it's a 50% chance that this DS3 will have blue eyes. The situation is made more complex in that there are two other genes for eye colour that are inherited in a more complex way that account for the range of eye colours so green and grey occur much more randomly. DH and I both have a brother with green eyes and my dad has grey eyes so anything's possible with this one. Can you tell that I'm a Biochemist?

My DSs are strikingly different, DS1 has dark brown hair, brown eyes and naturally tanned colour skin giving him a Mediterranean look. DS2 has blond hair, brown eyes and pale skin so he looks white but with a lovely contrast of those big brown eyes with his pale skin. I'll put a picture up on the FB page so you can see although they're both really tanned at the moment from being out in the sun.