November 2012 - please form an orderly queue

[StuntNun]

Previous ante-natal thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/antenatal_clubs/1602708-November-2012-its-here-at-last-were-ready-for-you-babies

Post-natal thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/postnatal_clubs/1579907-November-2012-babies-are-here-at-last

Stats list: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/antenatal_clubs/1485512-November-2012-Stats-List

Haha chunky! That really made me laugh. Sure fire way to put you in the mood!

Muchos chilli in my curry appears to have made no difference. Lentil soup for tea might not have been such a great idea. Any bowel clearing happening tomorrow is going to have to be pretty effective!

Watching Breaking Band and eating chocolate. I am a one woman eating machine.

I told DH our next baby will be sooo much cheaper because we've bought all the expensive bits this time round! He was speechless. We agreed a long time ago our next one is a puppy! (although not totally ruling out another in a few years time when I forget how crap pregnancy is)

I just know I won't feel finished after this one. I don't know why. Despite knowing i'll have another hyperemesis pregnancy .

I'm not a maternal person really. Other peoples children don't interest me. But I like my own! And want to build my own little family. With such a big age gap, I want 2 closer together. But not less than 3 years. I'd go mental with a smaller gap!

Although this house could not fit another person in it. Somehow it will have to. Fuck you negative equity .

I'm going to have my second tea in a bit Pass! I am in your club!

FEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED ME SEYMOUR... bahahaha!

detective I don't want an age gap less than 3 years either. Probably more. But I also know I don't want to take any kind of hormonal contraception again because by the time this baby is born it will have been over 2.5 years since I stopped the depo injection. So the pill, injections and all that are out and DP doesn't like wearing condoms so if it happens before then it happens. We will just have to deal with it.

Love a bit of grub, me. I bought bags of mini-chocolates as reassurance to kick start baby movements after my scan the other day. DH brings the bags through when we are watching telly and we just eat one after the other. I was telling him they would be good emergency food for breast feeding - ha! There will be none left! Oh, and I love a bit of Little Shop of Horrors.

Just been spying on the lucky bastards post-natal thread and there is lots of chat about shifting baby weight. I have put on pretty much 2 stone. And seeing and I am now expecting a doll size baby (all that chat about being all bump? What the hell is in there then?) more of it belongs to my arse than previously thought. If I carry on the way I am I will end up a big dollop.

MIL just been on the phone. Sooooooo excited.
Every bone in her body wants to be here for the actual birth. Thankfully DH and FIL have been able to quell her urge. Poor soul - must be torture!

I dread seeing my weight after!

Well, not so much my weight, but my figure! It wasn't exactly spiffing before hand. Sure as hell won't be after :( The plus side to pregnancy is, you pretty much look good in anything! Bump has been good for my self confidence (when it stopped folding in half!!). Going to think about it later. And wear lots of dresses that flatter the boobs, and hide the flab Aim to drop down to a size 14. I looked nice at a 14!

Still. I am hungry. So I will eat! I eat a mix, sometimes it is the right thing, somemosttimes wrong stuff, but I do try!

Apple I have no idea what I am going to do about contraception :( hormonal methods just don't work for me. I have no sex drive with them. I had a copper coil, and nearly bled to death every month even though I kept it for over a year, it never got any better, and the shitty cramps every month, 2 week periods and the embarrassing spillage in inappropriate places was just too much to suffer in the end. I did have regular periods though...!!

I think I might see how my sex drive returns. If we are only having sex once a week or so, then I might go with condoms and charting. We had a very active sex life until the stupid coil put paid to it for 2 weeks a month. Then I had hormonal contraception, and didn't have sex for the 7 months I tried it. Got rid of all contraception and some sex drive returned thank god! But then I got pregnant (we did plan it that way though!!) so sex drive whittled off again!

Guess i'll take it as it comes?! Wishing for a miracle contraception to be invented in the next month, please?!

OMG! DP clearly does not know me! He put my second tea on for me, just been out to check on it, and it is a half portion! I'm going to have to wait til they are ready, and put another portion on... gah!

How could he not know I want a whole tray of oven chips?! Seriously...!

I am fairly certain we're stopping at 2. I would like 3 (maybe, possibly, if we had a nanny or cleaner or something!!!) but I don't think financially we would manage.

As for contraception, DH will get a vasectomy as soon as we are sure our family is complete, but we'll prob just use the withdrawal method again . I know its not meant to be effective etc but for us, it works. DD was conceived after 2 shags (without pulling out obviously) and although this one took 3 cycles - the first cycle I hot cystitis so we didn't DTD at the right time, the 2nd cycle I got a BFP but it resulted in an early loss at about 5wks, then 3rd cycle, this bean. I wouldn't say we had to try too hard...

Think I've put on LOADS. Most is bump (although thighs & bum are amply source as 'breastfeeding reserves') and I weigh less than at the same point as with DD, & my face is thinner. Think I was back in my 'normal' jeans 10wks post birth last time, but my maternity jeans are very adjustable so happy to wear those a bit longer!!

Just worked it out, put on about 2.25stone. Not too bad I suppose, considering I eat my weight in biscuits daily...

Thanks detective! So if I couldn't reach my cervix the other day but I can today, does that mean its moving from posterior towards anterior/central do you think.

I liked the idea of the implant but had one put in and bled for about 3 weeks out of every 4. It was ridiculous. I don't want the coil either so I've got no idea what we'll do. Probably withdrawal. But I really don't want two babies close together so it seems a bit too risky.

Scandalous detective! Silly man. My DH brought out crisps and a glass of wine for me! Lovely!

Post birth contraception is an interesting discussion actually. I was on marvelon for years until they linked it with something or other. Then I suffered from a visual migraine and they took me off it immediately and put me on a progesterone only pill. This was a disaster as was the injection. Having the injection made me produce a milk-type substance. I was on a month long expedition with school pupil and thought I was pregnant - total nightmare! Then I went for the implant. It was awesome contraception in that I had an almost constant period. Literally bleeding for 2 or 3 weeks and brown discharge for a month.

Despite that I stuck with the implant and had it removed after 3 years in August last year. First try-for-a-baby-honeymoon-shag resulted in our current situation. Good to know that all the careful contraceptive use over the years was worth our while.

I am not a fan of condoms but I don't see what other option we have.

I don't know what it is about the coil that seems too grown up. Very odd. It might be because at school I deliver lessons on contraception and the coil is sort of glossed over as something for grown ups who have had babies. Looks like that's me, then!

Hi everyone, I thought I'd join the chat. I'm due on the 28th so I'm hoping for a November baby, very likely to be December!

I had my coil put in as emergency contraception but I did want to try one, was just scared to...! Turns out I was right! Although it was better than the hormonal stuff, if you can live with the side effects!! Having it put in was sheer hell though... and perhaps why I left it in for a whole year. Having it out was a nightmare, thanks to my stupid cervix (sense a theme here anyone?!) being too far back! It eventually came out mid cycle. Had to go 3 times for it out! But it wasn't too bad having it out in the end, aside from the length of time it took.

I had the implant, then Cerazette after that. I have some combined pills stashed somewhere which were given to me when I stopped Cerazette, but I never tried it because we decided to have a baby!

They did work wonderfully as contraception though, since we didn't have sex at all!!! I suspect that is how they craftily work!

Fatima sounds like it is becoming more forward, yep! What can you feel?

I had a mirena for 4.5 years. I wouldn't say it's the best if you want more kids as takes ages to sort itself out once you have it removed but fab if you are not planning on any more.

It will be condoms for us as I want another within the next 3 years and after how long this one took to conceive with a operation too I'm too scared to put anything in my body.

Tomanydicks I love your username!!!

Welcome! Get stuck in! There are some bastards deserting us for the postnatal thread. We need new blood .

I don't think hormonal contraception works for me either. It turned me into a complete psychopath for the 2 years I was on the pill, and despite obsessively taking it at the same time of day, every day without fail and using emergency contraception if I was ever sick (I am a bit neurotic) I still managed to get pregnant on it! Amazingly for the year or so before starting it when I was shamefully a bit more reckless when it came to contraception and just 'hoped for the best' I managed to stay pregnant-free! I'm a little envious of women who can track their fertile periods and plan their sex life around that. I have never been regular - can sometimes go 4/5 months without a period, other time I bleed for weeks. Serves me right for fecking about with my weight when I was going through puberty !

On the subject of weight - I've put on nearly 3 stone!! !! Admitably I was about a stone underweight when we conceived, but still! Doubt I'll ever get my figure back. Strangely though, this is the happiest and most confident I have ever been with my body image! (except the fact I now have a fat face, thanks mum for pointing that out... )

Well I'll be here to the bitter end, TheDetective. Hoping for an early birth but DD was a week late.

Yes, ditto MM I feel much more confident now, than I ever did before. Which is strange, because I spent my first pregnancy trying to look not pregnant . I thought I would have similar hang ups this time, but I haven't! I've felt pretty comfortable with the whole bump thing! I admit to not wanting to be huge, but the way which I have grown I am content with! I'm not looking forward to the flabby post pregnancy belly :( But I had one of those anyway!!

My mum tells me I am fat and need to lose weight all the time. She seriously knows how to fill me with confidence. GRR.

I think I need to be hormone (both contraceptive and pregnancy!) free to be 'normal'!

I'm a week past EDD today! I was 13 days over first time! I'm here for the long haul!

Welcome toomanydicks (fab name!) I'm due 29th! Loving all the newbies who will hopefully be here to hear my moans be with me till the bitter end!

Hmm well it feels softer. When I was TTC it was more nose like and firm, now it feels softer and bigger?

Bonjour manydicks!

mm I second feeling at my most confident pregnant. Although I am pretty past it all now and regard theist 9 months as being amongst the most emotionally and physically at peace I have ever been. It's been a bit like my body has been happy it is doing what it was always meant to do. Sounds really hippyish, I know and that is not really me, but that is how it has been.