June 2013 thread 2 - Are your jeans feeling snug yet?

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New thread for June 2013 :)

It's very weird, isn't it Sarah?! I'm assuming it is normal, though I do have a bump, so look pregnant, even if I don't really feel it like I did.

Roll on the 20 week scan and being able to feel baby, eh? :-)

Sarah I was talking to DHs family on Sunday and they all have such different experiences, one auntie didnt have any symptoms and barely a bump just a baby at the end of the 9 months, others stopped feeling sick dead on 12 weeks. His sister was sick until about 18 weeks and showed after 6 weeks with her second!!

I think every pregnancy is different so we just have to assume that everything is ok. Ive been having the same worries but then my sickness has come back over the last couple of days!!

As for buying stuff, we're in two minds, we've seen a set we'd quite like to buy and is over 50% off BUT its storing it because I wouldnt want it in the house and even if I did then the room the baby will be going in to is absolutely full of our junk, so we're a little stuck really!!!

I cant wait till 31st!!!

Merry Christmas everyone, I'm now 16+2 or maybe 3 and I am so bloated. Each morning I can see bump in a nice curve but completely unnoticeable under clothes, but by evening I am round and heavy - really uncomfy, this pg has been a lot harder already than my first.

I can feel baby now, couple of times a day, and it also doesn't like milk chocolate which it a real shame - prefers dark chocolate. DH is rubbing his hands together in glee as Santa bought a lot of chocolate.

We bought and kept our pram in our house from 38 weeks (I went to 42), put it together almost immediately and it used to stand by the door, when DD was born she was in NICU critically ill and I sent DH home even typing it makes me cry to hide the pram and the cot and all the baby clothes. He admitted later that he sobbed doing so. I'm not superstitious but this time we will paint the room baby will go into, and hang the curtains but the moses basket and baby things except for a few babygrows will remain at someone elses house until baby is home safe.

I to am feeling seriously less pregnant no sickness or anything mega tired still but this is like limbo time I think after 12 weeks and before 20 weeks when no one can really know for sure fingers crossed tho wow what does it feel like to feel baby? I'm 16+1 and nothing yet I don't think

For me it's like a nudge, over in a second, felt DD at 18weeks exactly (average for first) and she was more active from that first movement.

Just caved in and bought some bedding in the Mothercare sale. It's very cute, but gender neutral as we aren't finding out what sex the baby is. Couldn't resist it, and it was better than half price too.

Is anybody else feeling really weepy? Poor DH has had to put up with me bursting into tears over nothing all day. :-/

I've been getting slowly closer to the verge of tears all the time for the last week. Arrrgghhhh!

bri I had a full on melt down yesterday because I thought my cracker didn't have a joke in it! Totally irrational!!!

Ha ha...fail, Sparkly! :-)

Apparently I've started to talk utter nonsense in my sleep on a regular basis too. Most weird!

Would still prefer to feel baby than just feel mental though!

Hello and Merry Christmas!
Fidget- well done on keeping your dinner down! I managed it too and was soooo happy Nausea back this evening but haven't been sick for couple of days now and hoping it stays that way. Fingers crossed!
Redwelly that made me get all teary. It must have been so hard. Glad that you all got through it ok. I had a tough first labour but DS was fine and with me pretty much straight after in hospital. I'd sailed through pregnancy with hardly a a symptom. This times much harder though. Hoping that means I'm in for an easy labour!!!
Looking forward to feeling little one now- still not sure if its wind or movement at the moment as its early days!
Lovely to hear about you buying furniture and bedding! Exciting times ahead x

Forgot to say- yes me too to the weepy question- hormones are making me loopy!

Merry Christmas all! 16w tomorrow and m/w to see, excited :) definitely starting to pick things up in the sales, not many paydays to go until the little one appears!

That's a very good point forgetmenots I think 5 if you count may as some babies might show early though

Awww now you've bought your bed set I don't feel so bad for buying bits only stuff I have to have tho I bought a baby gro in asda yesterday that is again gender neutral as we don't know yet but it said new to the world had to have

:D I just know how bad I am with money! So if I spread out the buying I hope I won't be too bad by the time baby arrives! Wasn't sure if I would feel superstitious or uneasy about having things but I don't, I'm trying to be very practical in thinking about purchases. The sales are too good for me to pass up...

...16 week appointment today so I really hope I get a wee listen of the heartbeat! I've been feeling some fluttering a but dismissing them (this is dc1, so I think it's usually later?) - would love it though if they were baby movements.

A but = but

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Damn phone!

I want to start buying stuff too i am contemplating paying for an early gender scan so i can snap up some bargains in the sales lol was trying to wait to even consider buying stuff but my friend was moving her child into a bed from cot today and asked me if i wanted the cot for £20 its beautiful couldn't turn really x x

While we didn't want to start buying stuff we just took a trip to mothercare to play with the pushchairs and think we've picked out the nursery set we like, over half price so tempted to put a deposit down on!!

To first time parents I've a piece of advice 're cots. We got the basic JL one with no drop sides. We knew we would move but our old house dudnt have room for a cotbed.

DD is now two and flatly refusing to sleep in a single bed, but lifting her up and in and out of the cot is crippling my back and having spent an obscene PFB amount on the mattress though (green sheep organic) we can't afford to give to a hotbed which we now have room for!

Argh!!!

Considering buying some maternity gear since there are some things in the sale. Only issue is I don't have a bump. In fact I haven't put on any weight at all - boobs are bigger and jeans are feeling a tad snug but definately no bump. Do I just buy some of these floaty dresses and hope that they look good without a bump??

I will buy some bras after my 20week scan but have just been given a pummeling so I hope all is well in there

Good advice redwelly thanks. Wasn't sure whether a cotbed was worth it.

Had a wee listen to baby at my 16wk midwife appointment today! It was lovely, just another reminder that even when you can't see it, things are happening. It was great.

Arlandria - I would say hit the sales now and just get gender nutural stuff, that way if you have a second, you can use again! We didn't know what we were having with DS and we realised even if this one is a girl, pretty much everything is white, pale yellow, pale green and lots of 'Noah's ark' and 'zoo' themes so it works either way! (Plus, you get to be all middle class smug and say "oh, we've decided we don't believe in strong gender sterotypes" if anyone questions the lack of blue/pink).

Hope everyone had a great Christmas!

Agree with Dontmind on gender neutral. You'll get given blue/pink as gifts anyway. We will find out gender with this one (#2) but even so, I realised I only need to buy a couple of things as almost everything we bought for ds was gender neutral.

Sunny I'd definitely buy clothes in the sale. You'll grow into them at some point!! Get things made out of jersey material then they can stretch with you. I had great maternity jeans last time but it was good few months before I was big enough to fit them. I wore leggings till then and trousers with adjustable waistbands.

hmm in fact, maybe I should go and do some online shopping....

sunny some of the mat wear out there is designed to grow with you, I picked up a nice dress from debenhams earlier which isn't obviously maternity! That being said you may not need to buy anything, my sister stayed small throughout her pregnancy and most of her second and only really bought clothes a size bigger, nothing specially maternity!! You may get away with it!!

forget yay for hearing the heart best that's great, I have my 16 week appt on 7th January, I hope I get up hear it too!!!!

Am currently battling insomnia despite being really sleepy but seem to only sleep hour bursts max!!!

I sleep badly too, Sparkly :-/ It's frustrating, isn't it?

I seem to be suffering from an almost permanent headache too. I'm just trying to establish if it is blood sugar or fluid related. Or something else. I'm not sure it is dehydration as I drink 2 litres of water at work alone, plus about another 1.5 litres at home.

I've got to make my 16 (17 or 18!) week appointment yet. My surgery isn't very helpful as I need the last appointment thanks to working an hour away, but I can only have that appointment when the rest are full. So I just have to take a chance and hope I'm lucky when I ring and it is available. Stupid really. I'm aiming for 7th at the moment too, Sparkly :-)

I'm convinced I can feel quickening. Bit early for the first baby, but I'm sure it is. I get the occasional tap, but it's mostly like a popping bubble sensation. I was quite slender before I got pregnant, so maybe?

Hope you're all OK. I'm glad it is Friday as I'm working in between Christmas and new year and it is manic :-/