October 2012 - where we all bury our heads in the sand

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Thunder I wondered about the sheet size too when I measured 8 squares with aldi toilet roll, i'm measuring exact to number of weeks too although baby is following 90th centile on my growth chart.

Oh my with the November babies already arriving.

5 days left at job number 1 which is my full time SMP paying job.

Beeble, that sounds horrible! hope you're feeling better now.

I like the logic of Pinpan kicking off first, as it were

I have had my scan this afternoon - all still looking good, still bang in the middle of growth scale, still measuring a couple of days short of actual, which is fine. Still transverse lie and wriggling like a wotsit.

Hurrah for jobs nearing their stop point!

One of my friends was due to have her first baby 2w after I was due to have DS; but hers came over 2m early and DS was 2w late, so in the end, she beat me to it by quite a long way!

I still haven't done a hospital bag - must sort that out! Am so convinced I have weeks to go yet.

Thumb did you get to see much at your scan? I've only ever had 12 and 20 weeks. Is it harder so see stuff the bigger baby gets?

Well, I'm back from an eventful trip to soft play. We had a few toys near our table whilst we had a snack and a drink an I bloody tripped over one of them, right onto DS who was pulling me at the time. I didn't bang my bump, but I did scare DS by falling on top of him (didn't crush him as I put my arms out) I did really hurt my toes though. It was one of those toys with the metal and wooden blocks that you thread around... I got my toes caught in the wirey bits I'll definitely lose at least one nail and I think I've broken one, if not two, toes It's so painful, I could barely drive home! Now I'm just praying DS has a long nap so I can sit with my feet up.

Not harder, no - some of the structures are still completely unintelligible to me (like the kidneys, I can't work out how they know that's what they're looking at!!) and they do a 3D shot of the face for me, but today Wriggler had the cord across its nose/upperlip, so that distorted it a bit. In fact, they tell me to look away when they're around the lower end so I don't accidentally see what sex it is.
Oddly though, I've not had a decent profile pic of this baby at all - it doesn't stay still long enough, or always has a hand or something in the way - I only had 2 scans with DS and got 2 lovely profile shots of him!

Ouch! re toes - that sounds horrible :(. I'm so scared of falling over onto the bump or DS, because I'm getting occasional vertigo (neck's going out from funny sleep positions) but my osteopath is keeping it pretty much under control; only trouble is I can only get to see her every 3 weeks.

Awkward boy...?! It must be nice to see close ups. Although I'm the same re the sex and would be paranoid about finding out after waiting so long!

Poor you Newton. That sounds really sore. Hope they mend quickly.

Have had such a rubbish night's sleep. DH was out last night and not home until 1am so came up to have a big drunken chat with me so fully woke me up. It took me about two hours to get back to sleep. He then went downstairs for tea and toast and must have fallen asleep on the sofa as he didn't come up to bed until 4.45am - woke me up again and I couldn't get back to sleep .

I also had tea with DS last night - a light tea eaten early - so have been starving all night and thinking about sausage sandwiches and mugs of tea. I'm waiting until 7am and then going on the hunt .

Will definitely be going for a nap when DS has his nap at lunchtime.

Ooo MissPolly that would hurt me - I get really bad acid if I eat anything before 11/11:30am, so I tend to eat later at night to avoid the need for breakfast. I'd be falling over!

Flippin' drunken DHs, eh...

Oh misspolly Do you have a spare room to kick him into next time? (Assuming there would be a next time.....) I've told DH there is no interrupting my sleep for anything. In fact, he's staying at his parents tonight as he is out with friends. Although, his parents also live closer to where they are going so I don't usually kick him out of the house, just the bedroom!

I'm really struggling with walking, bending, walking down the stairs at the moment. My toes, well one, is still really sore and I've got awful heartburn whenever I do too much. I've sat here the entire time DS has napped and bought all his birthday presents online and done a shop so productive without having to move

Hi girls.
Hope your enjoying your weekend.
Finally some respite from the heat.

Everything here is just plodding along. I want to decorate the house, every room lol I only have 5 weeks left! Dp has gone fishing today on his dads boat but I've made him promise to get started tomorrow.
ive got 36 sleeps til my elcs!!!

I've finally got the pregnancy glow - or at least, my face is glowing. Turns out spring is here and the NZ sun is just as powerful as ever. Must dig out the sun cream. It's going to be a nightmare keeping the baby safe from the lack of ozone layer here. Bump feels enormous, and got really heavy and awkward today after I walked too far around the mall and the park. It's a lot better after a snooze though. Pretty much 36 weeks now, and 5 days left of work.

Hope your toe is beginning to feel better newton!

Hi all. Hope you're enjoying your weekends? Am a bridesmaid today so I get to waddle down the aisle looking massive!!!

Happy BH everyone! (except those who don't live in UK )

Have decided at 31 wks that I'm getting a bit cheesed off with pregnancy now. Thought this feeling would come a bit later than this so feeling quite

Fed up with not sleeping, hip pain, bump pain, wrist pain, difficulty moving around generally, hot sweats, cramp, etc etc etc. Am doing things to help counteract some of these things but they don't seem to be working...can I just hibernate for the next 9 weeks please?!!!

Ignore me, I'm a self-involved plank & I just needed to rant...hows everyone else???

Happy bank holiday!

Love an extra day off work

Loopy you're allowed to be cheesed off! It's hard work. Maybe you'll get a boost of energy in a couple of weeks and started nesting?! Until then, moan away

Have a great day elvis make sure you take lots of pics!

DH has taken DS to the park this morning. Thy have been up since 4:20 but I'd made a big deal of not getting up today so I got my lie in and got up just after they'd left

We're finally (have been saying it for weeks now!!) going to pay of the pram today. So excited! They've got the new single version on display in the shop, so am going to have a little push and there's a housey shop attached to it and a nice cafe. Might make an afternoon of it!

In toe news, I've definitely broken the end bit. It's still bloody painful but at least I can walk now. It's all red and fat.... Hope it doesn't rain as I've only got flip flops that fit my feet!

Stretch marks! Appearing overnight! That is all.

Arghhhh!!

I've got some at the bottom of my bump where I can't really see unless I look. So I just don't look!

Mine are on the underside of the bump too, so I only noticed them because I was admiring the bump in the mirror! They're not very big or noticeable yet but they've got a look about them that says "I'm just going to get bigger and longer and more purple every day." Oh well! I said to DH, "I was never a big bikini wearer anyway," and he said, "you'd definitely need a big bikini at the moment." But then he did ALL the washing up while I wallowed in a bath all evening so he's forgiven.

Boo to the broken toe!

To be honest, mine looked worse last time when I lost my baby weight... I wet to weightwatchers and lost 41lbs from my pre-pregnancy weight and went to a size 8 but my bloody stomach looked awful!! Then when I got pregnant again, it actually looked better at about 10 weeks as I "filled out" again. I'll comfort myself with the fact that I'm not a natural size 8.... Pass another cake please

Eeeek! to overnight stretchmarks. I don't think I have any but I haven't looked that closely.

I am really suffering with the acid though - last night I was woken up about 1.5h after falling asleep by a massive acid rush - despite being propped up on my beanbag in bed!! It was so bad I was nearly sick with it. I had to take double-dose antacid tablets to knock it on the head. I couldn't take the gaviscon because I was so tired I needed to go back to sleep and you're supposed to wait half an hour after taking the Gaviscon before lying down again.
I suspect it was the Pringles that caused it

Pinpan - I was out in the Aussie sun last Thursday and had gone out completely unprepared (fool, you're thinking) - one arm was in the sun the whole time we were at lunch and then we went to the playpark, where I was bareheaded for a couple of hours - I was expecting to have picked up a little colour (vit D deficient again so not too worried) but NOTHING. Not even a hint of colour change. Not sure when it starts getting worrisome again, or whether there's much difference between Aus and NZ?

Newton - hope your toe gets better soon - have you had it x-rayed? only asking because a friend of mine busted his big toe playing football and it was swollen and purplish for ages; turns out he'd dislocated the joint as well as busted it, and he needed corrective surgery because he trashed the joint through not getting it looked at for ages. :(

Oh and Loopy - I feel the same way as you do. I just want to be able to lie down in my bed and go to sleep for a decent night's rest - not faff about with friggin beanbags and pillows, trying to make sure I don't do my neck/back any damage, especially when turning over every couple of hours; not needing to get up to the loo 3 or 4 times a night and so on. I can't wait to just be able to fall into bed again!

I have loads of stretchmarks, sob!

Loopy I got a cot protector from IKEA, it was about £4 iirc.

Oh, and can I join the FB group pwetty pwease? :)

Another one here who'd quite like this to all be over now! 35 weeks today and totally had enough. I'm uncomfortable, I can't sleep properly because my hips hurt too much, and little lady's movements are becoming way too uncomfortable as well - not helped by the fact she still hasn't decided what position to get in and stay in yet, so it's arms and legs all over the place.

Had loads of uncomfortable braxton hicks the other evening as well, those are really starting to get on my nerves!

Ok, quick rant, then will try and properly catch up.

AIBU to expect that my husband could help out around the house without having to be asked/istructed/bribed like a 5 year old to "do his chores?"

Seriously. I spent 2 days cleaning our kitchen, and only asked him to do the dishes that i left in the sink (innards of the toaster oven and our george forman grill - i just can't do the smell) so the fist day he filled the sink and tossed the stuff in.... left it there. In the morning (the day i was feeling totally terrible and stayed home from work) I asked him to drain the sink because the whole house now smelt like rotten meat drippings. He drained the sink, rinsed the parts (i don't dare look into the toaster oven to see the state of the parts) and the george forman is STILL sitting in the sink about 4 days later.

also asked DH to fold the towels that i had spent all evening washing... so he folds them and leaves them on the couch. Do i have to spell everything out. Honey can you please fold these towels, then pick them up, carry them to the linnen closet, open the door, put the towels in and then close the door... and once you are done ALL THAT you can have some ice cream!?!

I have much more to rant about,, but perhaps i will spare you and hit the other october thread for that. lol

Beeble ... Do you live in my house?!

I have the same thing. I leave things at the bottom of the stairs to be taken up, plus DS can't reach them because of the gate. We had some bits there (new toothbrushes and definite "upstairs" stuff) Out of principle, I left it there...3 day before he noticed and even then it was "what are you doing with all this stuff?" ME?! What am I doing with it??

Anyway... I'd say no ice cream for at least a week and now I refuse to even start things. I just say "I've done x, you need to do y" and then don't do y myself. I obviously pick the jobs for myself that would annoy me if they weren't done. I allocate DH the jobs I can't see- feeding the cat (quite hard to forget!) sorting garage-y things.

Thumb No I haven't had my toe checked out. The NHS website told me I didn't need to... It still looks the right shape, albeit swollen. I'll wait another couple of days but will keep an eye on it, thanks.

We got the Moses basket, cot and play gym out of the loft this afternoon I'm not setting it up til I finish on mat leave as we'll just end up walking round it for a month (at least!) We've also fully paid the pram off at last!! I'm so excited bit worried as they are still saying "early October" for delivery... I just hope I have it on time!

Sorry everybody is so uncomfortable. Apart from being tired, I feel ok. Got my birthing ball out now...they are good for sitting on of an evening rather than the sofa if you have one. Big love to you all