Due December 2012 - 3rd trimester here we come

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Looks like PidjChick has nearly grown out of his ectopic heart beat - he's gone from adding to almost every beat to adding every so often :o Consultant on Friday morning, then they'll decide if i a) need to keep coming back every week and b) can go to the birth centre like i want!

Sorry to hear some people are having a hard time.
Spotty really sorry about your car accident. Hope you get the car you want on Saturday!

I had bad hip pain sleeping on my side last night. Already using dream genie pillow but will check my alignment tonight and make sure it's properly in between my legs. Hoping the pain doesn't get any worse.

NCT starts next week for me. 8-10pm, will be exhausted!
Pram has arrived, it's currently parked in the hallway under the stairs. Get excited every time I see it!

Hope everyone has better night's sleep tonight

Hi! Just discovered this forum and with EDD of 31st Dec I just about qualify! Am feeling guilty today for having had lazy day with DD. Did some painting together this morning then took her to gym club but rapidly running out of energy. She's currently tuned into fireman sam! Trying to convince myself it's okay to have day like today every once in a while!? My DH works away from home a lot and is not home till Fri morning. Then he has 2 ages of golf & 1 game of rugby planned for the weekend! Don't think he always realises how tiring this pregnancy lark can be!! Whinge over!

Should be games of golf not ages....although each game does take ages!!

Welcome lazza you sounds like super mum compared to me, I got dd out for some splashing in puddles this morning but that was it for today!

Pidj that's great news, fingers crossed on the birthing centre, it's sounding really positive though :)

10pm Naomi?! I'd be falling asleep before it finished.....!

Hi lazza!!

I had no idea pidj that must have been scary, glad to see everything is getting better.

We had an email from dd's nursery saying there's d&v in the school, an hour later she threw up....poor little munchkin! She said mummy I did a burp in the toilet! Might be a long night ahead but kind of looking forward to having her off nursery for the next two days with me.

Oh bless her Strawb hope you don't come down with it!

Pidj That's really good news

lazza Welcome

Strawberry Hope you don't get it too. I've had a terrible stomach the past 2 days and feel very worn down with it.

I'm so tired today and I've still got 2 Roald Dahl costumes to finish before Friday, but all I feel like doing is going to sleep. Maybe I'll feel more like it tomorrow, actually I'll have to, what with the day after being Friday

Oh Strawberry.

We're not long back from the doctors with DD, who has tonsilitis again. So 5 days of fun trying to get antibiotics into her.

spotty crossing fingers for your car! Still
hunting for ours..

pidj great news on your LO's heartbeat sorting itself out!

DH is working late so watching property programs as I can't watch grand designs till he gets home. One of the cats has decided he's a parrot recently and is watching with me, perched on my shoulder. I feel like (pregnant) long John silver..

at your cat! I'm looking forward to Grand Designs! I hate car shopping, it would be OK if we were mega rich and could just buy what we wanted without having to consider tax/insurance/petrol/repairs oh and buying it in the first place!

kate I want to hear more about Roald Dahl costumes!

Cant help but feel completely overly stretched in the belly at the moment. It didn't help that I wore non-maternity clothes to work today, and then had to stay 2 hours late! They almost fit but maybe not enough any more.

Totally ravenous - still waiting for my husband to get home from work so we can eat!

Tonight's job - make a list of baby-related stuff we need to do and buy. It's going to be a loooong list...

Hello ladies

Have been distracted today by a nutty thread about swimbabes on AIBU... But have torn myself away. Dr signed me off work again for the back/hip pain. He agreed that the support belt was really for pelvic pain not lower back pain and mwah I did notice that the baby kicked loads after I put it on so I dont think he liked it either! He said belts for lower back pain aren't really suitable for pregnancy. so am waiting for a physio referral.

Baby seemed fine, though! He kicked when the doctor examined me.

Well I've been feeling dodgy for a couple of days but I don't tend to throw up..famous last words.

Hope your dd gets better soon barbeasty mine seems to have fully recovered already and has been putting the sick bowl (that she hasn't been sick in) on her head, asking for food and tickles and wanting to make things from her new brave magazine whilst being a general monkey and trying to jump all over me. I am still going to keep her in bed with us or I won't sleep and I like the cute cuddles anyway.

Yes what Roald Dahl costumes are they?

We are currently trying to sell my car we bought when dd could get herself into the car which is ridiculously impractical but no one is buying it, eeeeek.

msmapo that's how I feel, my bump is so tight all the time, even when I yawn it hurts as its already over stretched......and still got 13 wks to go

Eek, i have a job interview

6 hours a week youth work (already do 3.5 for another borough) but they don't know I'm pg. Wtf do i say, assuming they're too polite to mention it?

Am assuming, being local govt, that it'd start after Christmas so not a big deal on a 30/11 dd...

Sorry to hear about I'll dcs, poor little things!

Welcome newbie (already forgotten your name!)

Have had an awful uncomfy evening this evening. Mum was looking worriedly at me bouncing on my gym ball, as I couldn't get comfy anywhere. She reckons I didn't get like this until the final few weeks with the others. Here's hoping LO is not trying to make an appearance just yet, I may have everything organised, but I'm not ready!

I hope everyone sleeps better tonight!

Hello all,

Sympathising with everyone feeling uncomfortable/ in pain. I think I've actually reached a stage where it's not a case of a comfortable position but just how much discomfort I can stand in any one position. I need a gym ball! However recently nannying witnessed a mum on one which popped with baby in her arms - scared me!!

Massive rant now! I'm sooo fed up with being judged for being a single mum on benefits!!! I did not plan this or choose it. He left!! It was a planned baby and I didn't work because I was a fulltime step mum and house wife and once pregnant was too high risk to work!

My parents have just told me they have no faith in me when I asked to borrow some money so thy wouldn't lend it to me. Granted I was paying some money back until EP left and haven't been able to since although thy declined my last offer of payment! I wanted to put 6 months rent down on a property so that I didn't have to be in council accommodation and an raise most I this myself (£5k) I was asking for £1k which I would've paid back as can still cloak housing benefit but they still said no and then went into a huge rant about how I'm selfish for not letting them buy baby things (I have everything already, mostly donated) but I have said they can buy toys etc if they want an also that I don't want to travel at Xmas down to them with a tiny baby, a dog and all our stuff, but again have invited them here!!

I will work as soon as I can, I'm not lazy at all, I scrimp and save wherever I can and never buy anything for myself. They make me feel totally inadequate! Also recently have my brother £12k towards his new house!!!!

FYI the reason I need to leave current house is because EP currently pays for it and has said that he can't afford that and maintenance so once DD is born he will cease to pay for house so I'll basically be evicted (with a newborn!) so desperately trying to get out before hand!!

Ok rant over - I feel like I'm just a spoilt brat now

purple are you planning to be available for the job as soon as it starts after Christmas? If so, then if I were in your position (and given it'll be blindingly obvious that you're pregnant) I'd simply say "I'm due in November and will be available for the intended start date of x" just to get it out of the way, in the open and so that nobody is sitting there wondering about it and worrying about how not to ask you! Also they may not be able to tell how pregnant you are and may think that the due date is after the start date. good luck!

flumpy sorry to hear of all your troubles. I don't really have any advice, just wanted to say that I hope things improve.

Welcome to all the newbies, and sorry to hear quite a few people are down with illness and pain. Hope everyone is feeling better soon.
I've been skim reading lurking when I've had chance but feel so overwhelmed with the move. Our new house is a town house and my legs kill from running up and down stairs so often. I've been feeling so low because of the pressure of it all and I really enjoy my own space and haven't had that with so many people here helping. I just wanted to pay someone but DP insisted his family would be just as good. They're not.
I'm with everyone else on the big and uncomfortable though, I don't know when it happened but suddenly I'm feeling properly pregnant, there aren't as many pregnant ladies walking around stealing my bump thunder! I also realised I'm 28 weeks tomorrow, I've been saying 26 for ages and really just feel like time is escaping me.

Awake the last hour grrrr.

MyDaydream it flies once you get to 28! I'm 27 weeks today.

mwah sorry you couldn't sleep dd was in our bed from 12 and was kicking me in the back

flumpy if you're eligible for housing benefit they can help with the deposit can't they?

Morning all!

Flumpy that sounds like a horrible position to be in, is there a possibility of an emergency loan from an authority or other friend/family member? Fingers crossed you manage to get some help!

Spotty don't say it flies from 28 weeks! (I'm 27 today too :) ) I'm terrified enough as it is although not of the birth (I can accept that as something unknown and slightly scary but rather necessary to get the baby out ) it's the whole becoming a parent thing that I'm scared of!

Hope all those feeling poorly or achey have a good day today! And all get well soon wishes to all the poorly DC too!

Morning.

Flumpy, also no real advice from me but I wish you good luck sorting it all out. You have so much on your plate.

Purple, I think you definitely should bring up your pregnancy and how it would fit in with the job plans. Otherwise, I imagine that the interview panel will sit their afterwards discussing it thoroughly (and probably awkwardly). Let them have the opportunity not to have to talk about your pregnancy but how well you did at interview and how happy they are to be offering you the position!

Gosh, I'm 29 weeks today. I think. How do you guys keep track of your actual weeks+days? I am forever losing track. Off for my appointment tonight - it's been 5 weeks since the last, and so so much feels like it has changed. It's such a weird difference to finally feel pregnant.

So, does this sound too much for next week? I work full-time, not overly long but long enough days (min 8 hours, often 9) in a very emotionally draining job. Anyway, as it stands next week will have 3 hour NCT classes on Monday and Wednesday, I'm planning to go to a friend's house on Tuesday after work for a craft evening (fun!) and then go to a trial class on pregnancy yoga on Thursday night. Too much? I want to do everything!

:( failed in my plan to make the Master Baby-Preparation List last night - instead, my husband and I caught up with Great British Bake Off. Love that show - especially as it makes my husband want to get into the kitchen and bake more.

I just mixed up 'there' and 'their'. Unforgiveable.