Due In DECEMBER 2006

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I would imagine I'll be the first to post here for a little while - I just found out today.

Look forward to hearing for you soon

Sorr y..me again. Forgot to say. Told DS about baby. He's really excited to have a potential footie player arriving. I tried to explain...

Anyway he's told everyone at nursery today and when I went to pick him up, he lifted up my top to show his key carer and told his best friend's mum that "Mummy has a baby in her tummy and it's my baby brother or sister" before I had a chance to say Hello to her. Tell me, experienced mummys that this level of sibling love continues!!

Exactly what is stretch & sweep? I've never known, and think i ought to have asked for 1 last time. Must say, I got blasé about having various people put their gloved fingers in my private areas, and needles stuck in. But know what you mean spinamum.
Saw m/w today but she is not to be my midwife as apparently (after an hr) I am not in their area. As I'd got lost 3 times getting there & had to be redirected, was rather annoyed I have to find new place as am congenitally incapable of following a map. And won't meet new m/w unti 29 weeks anyway unless I have triple. Still, she's referred me to a CPN & made me take Edin.depression scale which I felt reassured by (well, not the result, but the fact someone was listening).
Feeling very happy today, and not angry or frustrated either, hormones have subsided & I am patting bump fondly. Thnks again for kind messages .

Ooh, I hope so, my ds same age as yours! He's got a baby in his belly too & wanted me to take a photo of it after he went to the scan with us! I'm not really commenting, hope he forgets about his baby by time I give birth...

Yep, baby in DS's tummy here too. My friend who's 24wks pg says that everyone in tesco's is also shown and told about baby in mummy's tum.

I'm really glad he's so excited at moment. I hope I got the age gap right for them and they get on.(Ahoy, Spina gets ahead of herself again)

DS has started speaking to his bro or sis through my tummy button, but it's really funny because you can tell he sees it as speaking to a real person and he's says "Hello.. um... Baby. Uhhh... I'm (insert DS' s name).. ummm. Hello"
Hope by the time Beanie has functioning ears the level of conversation picks up!

My ds had a baby in his tummy when I was pregnant with dd, as did daddy, the binman and his best friend . He also developed a very embarrassing habit of lifting up my top in really public places - Tesco was a particular favourite - and shouting 'me see baby'
This time he keeps lifting up my top to peer down my tummy button and saying 'there's a baby in there mummy, I'll poke it', and sticking his finger in. Don't think he'll be as keen when it pops out and looks all freaky though!

Stretch and sweep, in answer to your question AQ is where the m/w does an internal exam but runs her finger around the edge of your cervix to try and separate yur waters a bit. It doesn't pop your waters but it's supposed to release hormones that trigger labour. I had 4 with dd and none of them did anything! Glad you're feeling more upbeat again at the mo, and that someone's listening to your worries. Bummer about the midwife though.

Oh god, just re-read my last post and I mean my belly button looking freaky, not the baby. Imagine what a shock poor ds would have if the baby did pop out after a quick prod of my belly button?!

Morning all,
Its been a while since i was on due a demanding 6 months old! Hope your all doing well, have to catch up so that may take a while.
All well here have a doctors apt this morning so this really has to be quick.
At the start i had bleeding but thank god it has all stopped and bubs is doing well. Its such a scare. I am back to work in 10 days god 6 months really does fly. DD is getting so big and everyday there is somthing new.
Feeling great at the mo dont feel pregnant and i got the best comment 2 days ago. A lady said god you would never think you had a baby 6 months ago and another on the way.. I know she was telling porkies but it made me feel dame good!

Hope all you little bubs are doing well.

have to dash but i will be back later.

minnie1, I applaud you. Pregnant with a 6 months old and still smiling

accessorizequeen
I dont think i have time to fret about it, I think if i sit and think about what i am letting myself in for i will run for the hills!!! How is your pregnancy getting on? Any weird cravings? I have a terrible thing for curry!! And i really am not a massive fan normally. As for my poor DP he is nearly afraid to get into bed some nights! I pounce and that is extreamly not like me!!! So i think this pregnacy is totally different from DD.

Well, i'd continue not thinking about it if I were you seems the best thing. I was analysing a lot at the beginning and utterly pointless. Ds will deal with it as he deals with it & so will I. Lots of people on mumnset have very positive things to say about small age gaps. Cravings for sex and curry, nope, maybe by week 38. I'm just pleased to be feeling reasonably happy again.

Bit bizarre I think, but . . . I am getting a constant dull pain in my coccyx (i think that's how you spell it!), it is pretty uncomfortable and gets worse when i get up from a chair, am walking my little puppy on uneven ground etc. have heard that this can happen but 16 wks seems really early to get it. Any ideas what it is anyone?? or what i can do about it? ta.

Beep beep.

I have had it in both my preg's at about 12 weeks on. Nothing to worry about though, it can be the baby lying toward s your back. My preg's both started with severe backache...stretching ligaments etc.xxx

Thanks for that, is there anything I can do to ease it at all?

Not really, but it will probably only last a week or two and then move onto something else. I found sleeping with a pillow in between my knees helpful for my coccyx and hips. I am also turning 16 weeks now.
The reason it's sore, is just pressure all around down there. The baby is probably moving too,so you just have to wait for him/her to shift a little.

Don't use creams or hot water bottle.
A warm shower is always good.?

Talk later

will try the pillow thing, warm showers certainly do help, have been staying in for ages! hope all is well your end.

Thanks, all is good..just tired. Doing a lot and got my lower backache back again.
My DD 22 months, keeps me very busy and running around, bending over etc all day.

Just for a giggle- one of her favourite things to say is 'BEEP BEEP'

Another backache here. It's been going on all week and I'm getting a bit depressed that it's started so early. Tylenol helped, but I hate to take it too often. I've started to feel a bit weepy wondering how the next 6 months are going to be as this pregnancy has already been so much more difficult than with ds. Called to talk to the nurse about increasing my zoloft as it feels like my depression is really kicking in again.

Jabberwocky-what country are you in??

Hi jabberwocky, sorry you're not feeling so good. And the backache just makes it worse doesn't it? I've spent all week walking like an old person. And you're running around after a small child as well, it's just exhausting anyway without being pregnant & I think lifting them everyday just makes the backache worse. Debbsy said it got better for her at 16/17 weeks, maybe you're just around the corner from energy burst in the 2nd trimester! I certainly felt a great deal worse before I started feeling better this week. Hang in there & hugs.

another vote for the pillow, I used one last night and was so comfy. Esp one of those huge long ones you can buy on mothersbliss etc. They do rather take over the bed, tho.

Thanks, everyone. I had been using the pillow as it really helped last time but it almost seems to make things worse this time around. I'm wondering if there's some kind of pinched nerve thing going on as I have this weird pain running through the middle finger of my right hand that's been going on all week too.

The doctor's office was total crap, so I just left work early, took another zoloft and went to bed. Of course, now I can't sleep...

cr - I'm in the US, btw

Hi all,

Hope those sore backs are starting to feel a bit better. And AQ glad you are starting to feel a bit better too, although make sure you tell the midwife if things don't carry on improving. Have had some bad news here in the RW, friend who is pg (20 wks) has been diagnosed with cancer. It has been found really early because of all the tests associated with pg, so she will be fine. But will almost certainly lose the baby. Have found it really hard to cope with the news and really want to send her a card, but don't know what to say. She knows I'm pg, and not sure how she will react to me now. Really is a dreadful business. Can't help thinking about how precious this whole business is. And just when I was starting to relax and enjoy being pg. Sorry to vent on you all, but just needed to talk to someone who would be able to understand how I feel about it all. Obviously friends are all concerned for her and for her losing the baby, but very few of them have their own kids, so don't think they really appreciate how attached you get to the pg. I think I'll just say she's in my thoughts and leave it at that.

Have a good weekend everyone.

oh no, that's just tragic. What kind of cancer is it? Will the treatment kill the baby?

How terrible. It is good they found it now though. The hormones from pregnancy can cause rapid growth in cancer

Jabberwocky-

Thought so, the Tylenol gave it away!!!

My parents live in the US too, and thats what my baby sister uses!