March 2013 Mk V: Lumpy bumpy witty knitters (patiently) await the bloom!

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New one marchers sorry on phone and can't link! Will post title in our old thread x

I too love my cleaner, but she has just moved away so I have a new one starting, I didn't like her on the phone, fx she will work out.

My bad day continues, heartburn, backche and now a migraine. I have one of those cold things on my head, not really cutting it!! Can't think straight, boo.

Zoey lots of wishes and backstrokes from me!

We are going to the RSPCA to look at kittens this evening, our beloved boy was killed a few weeks ago and we feel so lost without a miaowing furrbaby.

Kitten shopping, oh that sounds like the perfect antidote to a horrid day. I hope the migraine lifts soon...

Hey everyone!

Those of you who have had babies before- is the weight gain each week steady or did you find it went up and down? Since falling pregnant I've gained only 0.8 kilos and given my history of over obsessing about this kind of thing, can you reassure me that at 16 weeks this is ok? I'm seeing a consultant about my ED and how it will impact on my pregnancy in a few weeks, but nothing I can find on line says how the weight gain will be paced out over the nine months.

Thank you!

Are you feeling better, JoJo? I find a bit of a nap helps. Which makes me sound like a toddler. In fact, I think I am regressing, perhaps in awareness that for the rest of my life I'll have to be super responsible and able etc!

Pink, thanks for the encouragement re cleaner! I think it's going to happen. As is a dishwasher. And possibly a washer-tumbler. All of which are totally against my principles! But I'm not going to be a martyr about anything, I've decided! I've been reading a lot of stuff about women with twins who continue to function as academics through maternity leave (as I plan to a little bit) and back to full-time work 9 months after - and all recommend shortcuts, quick fixes, cleaners and the like.

Tiddley, thank you for the most welcome gender prediction and please find yourself reinstated to the role - you do it so well! So it could relate to gestational age as well ? ah, interesting. I've been dated on the size of the largest twin. The other is a couple of mm behind, and that's the slower heart-rate one too. I wonder if I popped two eggs out a few days apart? Oh and antenatal swimming class sounds nice! Good way to meet potential new buddies?

Tramp you are completely awesome providing all that brilliant wardrobe advice!

Poor sundae: hope you can take something that helps with the migraine and have fun picking a new furry friend at the RSPCA

Funny I'm no expert but from what I've read I don't think it's out of the ordinary even to lose weight in the first trimester because of feeling off food etc, and what I've read suggests you gain the bulk in the third trimester. But I guess there's no hard and fast rules, and as long as you feel reasonably confident that you're taking on enough calories for yourself at the moment, and then some extra as the pregnancy progresses (not sure from when), plus pregnancy vitamins to cover all nutritional bases, you should be okay? Good luck figuring it out. It can't be easy if you have a history of food and weight-related worries, but just trust your body to tell you what it needs to look after yourself and baby. Great you're getting some advice from the consultant soon and that this helps to put your mind at rest.

Zoey, hope tomorrow goes well for you - and do let us know how you get on when you're feeling up to it. We'll be waiting with a +

So today I went to the library to chase up some odds and ends for the Damn Book. And I bought some Big Pants. M&S, size 16, full briefs. Oh yes, my DH is going to find them such a turn-on! Also got eyebrows waxed, which makes me feel a little more together. Oh, and I had to promise the lady who advised me on pants in M&S and the lady who did my brows that I would bring in the twins to show them - crikey, the world is a lot friendlier when you're pregnant! Is anyone else finding this?!

Hi everyone

Sorry for not posting earlier. Everytime i caught up on the post and gone to post i got distracted. Still not caught up though but thought id better mark my place.

Congrats to those who have healthy beans.

Paris was lovely but i struggled with food. Very envious of thosue feel better. Turns out i have low iron as predicted.

Now its time for me to catch up.

Turkish - everything I've read and everyone I know suggests weight gain differs from woman to woman. So fret not. As long as you're not calorie counting or denying yourself you should be grand. There's some good food advice on the NhS and I've just ordere a book Annabrl Karmel, Eating for Two - that had some great recipes and EASY to follow nutritional advice. Too many books just batter you with stuff that just makes my hea spin.

Manda - loving the big pants. I bought some the other day, god help me but I feel like I'm wearing my mothers underwear. I was bemoaning fact that I'm finding the ugly undies and fact that my bras and briefs don't match really tough to deal with to some friends. They find it hysterical that I only ever wear matching undies. Hey, we all have our weaknesses.
Can't say I'm finding the niceness yet, but then I think I'm still looking more chunky than preggers - unless of course you know me. Something about being tall. Also, I'm not carrying twins. Seriously how are you coping, I've been 7 shades of useless all day today and retired to bed at 4pm.

No I'm not a personal shopper & to be honest I'm not the worlds greatest dresser - but I do do black tie and glam well. Lord knows how that happened because I'm a total tom boy and never wore dresses til I was in my 20s but there's just something about glamour that I find irresistible. An addiction to all things 1920s from a v young age I think. I'm rubbish at hair & make up though - lord praise the free makeovers if you buy a lippy at the Givenchy or Benefit counter of your local department store and hair straighteners!

Sorry to hear France wasn't food tastic. Ya know it just means you'll have to go back once baby is born :)

Thank you tramp and Manda!

I'm eating when hungry and having small regular meals. Making the most of school lunches! They are yummy.

My bump is seriously popping out- and I live it now. My normally very deep belly button is way more shallow and I can touch the back of it. Weird!!

Newsroom tonight! Anyone else addicted?

manda I sobbed myself to sleep after 2 hours of uncontrollable crying over 'getting some porridge on the bin lid'.
Woke up at about 2pm, the OH came home from work and bought me some full cat coke and cadburys - from then on the day started to improve!! I just find it so hard to eat in the mornings no matter how hungry I am so it can't help my mood!!
Anyway I've just had hotdogs and onions and have some apple donuts too :) eeeeh that's better!!

Oh my word! Don't seem to have had time or energy
(or a look in on the computer) to MN for about a week and half adn I think I've missed an entire thread, plus the end of the one before that adn 13 pages on this one! I can't hope to catch up - got to page 4 on here and have given up!

Hope everyone is well, or as well as can be. I am flippin fed up of fefeling sick. OK, it's better than at 7 - 10 weeks when it was bloody awful, but improvement has totaly plateaued (clearly not spelt correctly but can't get it right). 15 weeks tomorrow and really want it just to go away. And what's with all the spots, I never really had spots as a teenager and now I'm covered in them. And I thought hair should get thicker, mine is all falling out. This is NOT how it was with DS1. Herumph.

We had lovely weekend with lots of friends this weekend and got to tell them in person, though due to size of bump now there was really no announcement required. We were last to arrive and someone shouted, 'wow you're having another one' before we'd even said hello (which was lovely actually).

Had appointment with the consultant on monday to go through my concerns about previous birth and it was awful. I was kept waiting for 2 1/4 hours, and stupidly spent the whole time thinking about last birth so was not in a good sate by the time I was seen (not to mention feeling horribly sick as it was past lunch time by then and I'd only taken an apple). Cue hopless and endless crying. Worried the poor doc who started talking about how worried she was about me and if we needed to consider medication. I'm honestly not that traumatised by first birth, just feel it would be useful to deel with it a bit more now rather than panicking later, but really got myself worked up so it was all very stressful. Still felt exhausted from it this morning!

Well, sorry for the very 'me' post. I will try to catch up a bit better so I can think of others and not just my self! DH out tonight so might get a chance, though I do need to do an absolute mountain of washing up, adn will probably then fall asleep!

Turkish I didn't put on weight for ages with dd, maybe till about 6 months, and then it was steady. Have put on quite a few pounds already with this one, but have quite an earlier bump.

So my first day back at work was good today :) DD had a lovely time with dsis, they went to a farm so lovely treat for her. My boss explained my new role and it sounds fine, a project I should be able to get my teeth into but that shouldn't be too much. Was so nice being back in the office and seeing everyone. Lovely to be able to share the news as well.

Ah I love Paris KF!

Flowery you poor love you have been through the mills. Hope life feels better soon

Turkish I don't know when you should start to put on the weight or how much at each stage but if it helps I do have some info on the overall weight gain and how it is broken down such as baby weight, placenta weight, extra breast tissue, increased blood volume, amniotic fluid etc... All of these add up to be the overall weight increase which obviously varies for woman to woman but might put your mind at rest!!

jojo gimme some apple donuts!! Never had anything sounded so tasty to me!! I have seen that break down, thank you. Think I will just relax until told otherwise.

flowery massive huge soothing pats on the back- it will go, I promise!

three that's good to know- thank you for sharing that. I will not worry about my lack of gain- my tummy is round and bumpified and so that's reassuring me!

I really really want cheesy Doritos. Really want them. Salivating thinking about them. Mmmmmmm cheesy...

Nothing to add really but need to mark my place had a busy weekend/start to the week & feel really rough. Was hoping for an early night but just had a call saying Grandad rushed to hospital so waiting up a bit for news.

ood hope all is okay with your grandad and it's not too late a night for you!

Someone mentioned bagels and cream cheese this morning. I bought bagels and cream cheese to try and tempt my taste buds in the morning :) I'm almost looking forward to breakfast!!

Ood hope Gdad is ok, do you know what is wrong? :(

Very jealous of those who have not put on much weight. I've put on at least 5kgs so far. That's even with running 20km per week with spin and boxing classes. Hate to think how I will go as I slow down.

Excited about my scan tomorrow. Am now 13 weeks so belly is coming out. Have to hide for another 3/4 weeks at work for any hope of maternity leave. Otherwise will get my redundancy notice first. Fingers crossed my boss continues to be unobservant. I'm expecting her only to bark at me once she finds out.

Good luck for op and scans tomorrow.

Good luck tomorrow Vivee, mine is 8.30, when is yours?

Flowery that all sounds rotten, poor you!

Ood, fx things will be ok.

Our furrrrrbabies come home on Saturday, 5 months old and very scared little things, one ginger and white and one longhaired tabby, both boys and brothers :)

Just that he collapsed. He's in a home so they are used to minor stuff. Mums gone to the hospital & will let me know what happens. She's an only & I'm an only so not a lot of support other than my Dad/dh.
He's 90 and only been in the home a couple of months but is frail although rarely ill. He has been enjoying the home better than he expected and is looking much healthier than he has for ages.

Thats good he sounds fairly sturdy in general Ood let us know how he gets on.

Vivee your exercise regime sounds amazing ! You can be in charge of the postnatal work outs, I know i'm going to need it, have been sat on my bottom for 3 months so far!

Flowery I was really pathetic at the children's centre midwife drop in last Thursday, was just the culmination of so many weeks of feeling shit with no seeming end in sight. Real sympathies and it will happen, even if it takes a few more weeks, and with any luck you'll get an amazing sleeping-through-the-night-at-one-week-older to balance it out :)

Vivee good luck with scan and the hiding

Ood - hope your Grandad perks up and is back to his usual self soon

Hurrah for kittens! My two old cats have clearly
Missed us at the weekend. Even MrM is getting meows and leg rubs and I have two cuddle limpits - silly cats :)

Sundae, mines at 10:20am. I've got no notes with my appointment letter. Am I meant to go with a full bladder????

500ml of water an hour beforehand is all you need. With all your exercise you must be lovely and slim so you probably won't even need that! (well jel of slimmy people, I feel blimp like and have put on tonnes!)

Definitely a well padded belly here. Have aunt and uncle coming to stay so cleaning up and doing huge clear of all my clothes that now don't fit. So far about three large ikea games to garage... Hope to fit them again one day.