Sneeze births please, and we'll BROOK NO ARGUMENT

[TheLittleFriend]

Over here Brookers. I'll stick a cake in the oven

Morning, just a quick one Sparks we told nearest family and best friends early on, everyone else can wait until after the scan (about an hour then :)) we chose who to tell early by those being the people we would go to if anything went wrong.

Don't know about the aches, sorry.

Catch up later.

Good luck with the scan boo

Yay sparks! We didn't tell anyone til after my scan either (about 13 weeks) because I was worried about it but in retrospect I think I'd have liked to have told my mum - but then dh would have wanted to tell MIL and she can't keep a secret for toffee :o

Hope you feel less achey soon :)

Good luck boo!

Scan went well, baby boo is 12+3 :) I will read back and catch up properly later.

Thanks ladies, I'm back in bed, still trying to get used to this eating little and often thing!!

Congrats boo you must be thrilled!!

Hullo. Boo congratulations on scan! Yay for you and baby boo!

Sparks welcome to updiffedness and all of the related delights . We waited till 12 weeks both times to tell everyone - it was difficult keeping it quiet the first time round, second time we managed just fine, no-one knew! It helped that I was a lot further along than we realised, of course

tock congrats and on babytock being head down! Goodness knows which way up spidersmegs is, but I don't think it's suitable for the traditional exit route, IYKWIM How is DS at the moment? I hope Playful Parenting is useful, I know it's very american in tone but it seems to work for us. Although DD is being very unsettled at the moment, poor mite. We're trying to give her loads of time and attention, but I worry that will count against us when the baby's here!

And in other news...I've got a thread in Discussions of the Day! I started it on Friday, forgot about it, clicked on just now and got a shock to see my own post! We really need a [smug] emoticon to convey how my face looks right now

PS at everyone else. God, I'm knackered. This 8 months pregnant lark is more tiring than I remember the first time round.

Congrats smug Smegs :) what was your discussion?

I don't think I've posted in a while, but I have been lurking :o I am shattered! Fast approaching week 31 and now that I can count down on my fingers (I do have the correct 10 - in total - fingers and thumbs before anyone starts wondering) I am really starting to freak out!
Probably not helped by the bean having recently subscribed to some new exercise regimen which involves squirming around when meet people or when I lie down on bed to go to sleep... I don't mind a bit of squirming and it's good to know the bean is good but blimey he (can't call it "it") has some stamina!!

Is it normal?? The other night I tried some humming from my pregnancy yoga when he wouldn't stop doing somersaults; it was brilliant actually. The bean seemed to settle, DP went straight off to sleep and so did I... We all had a really good nights sleep

Problem is I can't hum at work or a cafe or on public transport...

sorry, me me me post!

Hope you feel better Sparkle! Sounds like another normal pregnancy symptom to me! :)

oh, and I've just seen Boo's post, congrats on the scan!!!
x

Great news boo, congratulations

Nutella, I too have a disco-dancing baby . I've taken to going to bed a good half-hour before I would normally, in order to give it time to calm down and stop impersonating the chest-burster from Alien. That's really the only advice I've got! Your yoga-humming sounds like a good idea too. I used to sing quietly to DD but it doesn't work with this one.

My thread is the 'Parentbrain' one - although it's a slight misnomer as I did this sort of thing before DD came along too I thought I was bad, but some people have done some amazing things when their brain has been elsewhere. I particularly liked the story involving the french stick and the kettle...

Hi all, I have a bit more time to post now, what a day, we had our appointment at 9, at 8.45 on our way up a steep hill towards the hospital my car conked out, we had to wait (with my full pre scan bladder) until 10.15 for the breakdown fella to come and get the car, we finally got a bus up to the hospital after my car was collected (I just threw the keys at the recovery driver and pegged it to the nearest bus stop) and reached anti natal for 10.30, bladder full to bursting, they got me straight in for my scan, and would you believe it, baby boo was in the wrong position and I was advised to actually have a pee to get it to move, finally after 20 mins of walking the corridors baby boo co operated and the scan was very lovely, and wriggly, and baby is waving in the picture :)

I will have a read back and catch up as soon as possible.

Just a quick post from me, got my first preg yoga session tonight, but I'm feeling exhausted. Hoping there will be lots of eyes closed and relaxing happening

Sparks, early pg tiredness and aching are familiar though the aches passed quickly for me. Tiredness took longer, till about 8-10w when I suddenly noticed I could get all the way to 10pm without nodding off on the sofa

Boo, glad you had a good scan, though sorry to gear about the car! Hope it's not expensive to fix. Will you be putting your scan pic on your profile?

I also have a disco dancing baby bean, he's been pretty much in the same position for the last month or so, but I think he must be doing a kind of corkscrew somersault (or 10) every evening. He also has a good jiggle around when I lay down to sleep. Luckily he's not kept me awake at all though.

Posting from memory on phone, and have forgotten what else I read. So waves to all.

Congrats to Boo! Nice and dramatic.

Nuts - no idea how to calm these wrigglers. I too have the nighttime frenetics. Feels like s/he's been turning full somersaults recently. Smegs - head down for now but concerned that there's still plenty of time to turn the wrong way again.

Love 'Playful parenting' Smegs - it's been a huge help. Bit sad though as I realise that I deffo didn't have this sort of childhood which is why I was coming a-cropper with DS' more challenging behaviour. Sorry your DD is struggling. I hope things calm down for her. DS seems the same though he loves babies, so
hopefully that will stand him in good stead.

TTFN everyone else.

xxx

froot my midwife appointment is 12th November, I'll be 8+2, not sure she my scan is but I assume it'll be a couple of weeks after that!!

boo what a drama!! Glad all went well though

Hello everyone. I wrote a lovely long post earlier and name checked lots of people and all of that sort of good MNer sort of stuff, and the blinking internet ate it.

So now I'm watching Muppets in Space with my big boys and considering a trip to Ikea tomorrow after my scan. Good or bad idea d'you reckon?

So it looks like DD may have chicken pox...

Bugger.

Oh no smegs, hope she is ok. Brooking for a mild case. And of course hope you've had it?
It might explain her difficult behaviour you mentioned earlier though? She might have been feeling off colour a while if she's been incubating it.

Totally different topic but does anyone know when it is your supposed to stop sleeping on your back? I am more now than before I was preg

Poor smegs hope she's ok!!

I had a horribly awful night kept having hot flashes and feeling really dizzy, even while lying down! And I just couldn't stop panicking!!! I'm going to pop to the docs later and just air some of my concerns!! Currently lying in bed trying to decide if I want to go to work or not! Regretting wishing for PG symptoms now!!

Ok...DD is fine Last night she was very unsettled and I had to change her pj's as she'd sweated through them - hence noticing that her torso had some raised red bumps on it. They didn't look like bites, they genuinely looked like CP.

This morning - gone! DD was quite cheerful and went off to nursery as she clearly isn't coming down with anything apart from maybe some mild sniffles. I don't think I'll ever understand kids and their ailments.

My MW cancelled again this morning (HM somewhere else in London). I'm starting to feel like I won't actually see anyone till I give birth. I hope I see her soon, the last time I saw her I was 27 weeks and now I'm 35, going on 36!

Smegs thats crazy! I see my lady doctor (Gynae) every four weeks and they are about to bump it up to every two weeks - but I'm hoping to alternate between lovely midwife (who will come round to my flat and visit me - sounds cosy) and the Dr's.
The yoga humming worked again last night (thank goodness) :o although it probably takes about 8 long hums with the occasional break for a bit of normal breathing in-between it does seem to be really relaxing (also try and "visualise" both bean and I being very calm and feeling very relaxed) and gives me a really good sleep afterwards... I'm really not someone who would normally lay in bed and hum to myself... honest!

Little The Dr told me that after 24 weeks you shouldn't sleep on your back. At my birthing class a few of the preggos asked again because you will, quite normally, wake up on your back and panic ... the midwife explained that: even if you are way beyond 24 weeks and find you have been sleeping on your back you should be fine.
What happens (apparently) is the baby might be laying across a blood vessel. If big enough and in the right place the baby can restrict the blood supply to either mummy's brain or to itself, but there is a built in defence that if this is happening it makes you feel unwell and you will naturally turn over onto your side. Even in your sleep.
I'm not a Dr - or other medical professional - but that explanation was good enough for me :)

Oh smegs the two weeks is from 32 weeks onwards - currently edging into week 31