Graduated elderberries

[janey1234]

Hello all..,
Let's clog up a brand spanking new club over here

(By hello all, I guess I mean hello hazle. Hopefully the others will join us soon...)

What healthy meals for one can I eat while DH is away? Any suggestions?
I usually live on lazy easy snack-type meals pizza while he's away, but I feel like I need to eat well this time with a baby on board and I'm lacking inspiration. I lived alone for 5 years and I haven't got the faintest idea what I used to eat! Most pack sizes are geared up for 2 or more people and I only have a dog and a foetus for company this week's meals

I just made spicy pumpkin soup, healthy and helps with my cold.

Are you feeling any better Hazle?

Mmmm, sounds lovely. It's definitely soup weather, I never thought of that. I do have a very good and under-used blender.
I had a boring jacket potato with salad. Again. I will get some exciting soups and meals going for the rest of the week

We just had a rather delicious white bean, tomato and bacon soup. Is a jamie Oliver recipe and bloody gorgeous if anyone wants to try it too!

thanks Rach I'm a bit better, will probably survive.
Jamie is a good recommendation, his 30- and 15-minute meals are totally suitable for one as well.

At work, feel better. Look horrible but oh well. Just too much to do, but will try to go home a bit earlier.

Boss is acting funny. Sent me a couple of really nice emails, that of course I should relax and thanks for not coming to work when infectious. Normal, you would think - but she has previously given other colleagues (who were in fact very ill and infectious as determined by the doctor) a hard time, actually telling them that if they can walk, they should come to work and taking sick days is unacceptable. She also sent me some funny email about pregnancy. Odd. Very odd.

Got one of those pregnancy pillows, you know the long ones - can recommend, made sleeping a lot more comfortable.

I'm glad you've said that Hazle, I was wondering about the pregnancy pillows. Some of them seem very expensive for what they are, but if I get a good nights sleep I will invest.
Have you got a specific pregnancy pillow like this one?
After getting pins and needles from sleeping on my back, I have spend the last few nights on my side wedged in between two normal pillows, which has been better.

Glad you're feeling better

*spent

Rach mine is something like this, got it from a friend, so no idea if it was an expensive option or not:
www.amazon.co.uk/Theraline-Original-Maternity-Nursing-including/dp/B0030UHCWG/ref=sr_1_22?s=baby&ie=UTF8&qid=1358848330&sr=1-22

How you feeling today Hazle? I'm an absolutely germ ridden snot monster and I have to go and give a 20 minute talk to pregnant people this afternoon with my voice going. Fun! I sound a bit like a teenage boy who is having some serious voice breaking issues. Poor pregnant ladies having to listen to me squeaking away about tax credits and the like.
In other news, it seems I have a wriggler, felt some possible movements on Sunday but wasn't sure it was definitely that but today, it's definitely doing some sort of dance, possibly giving thanks for the kit kat we ate for breakfast. I did pause today to consider how all my high ideals about healthy eating have completely gone out of the window and that if I were feeding a child that had actually been born this diet, someone might call social services, which would be bad and embarrasing as they all know me from work anyway...

Purple, I'm still snotty, but feeling better. Bit of cough that comes and goes, have to teach a Bodypump class on Thursday so it better be gone by then. I don't think anybody will believe me when a sick instructor with what looks like beer-belly is telling them how effective the class is and how good for your health

Yes I'm pretty sure I feel movement too. Either that or the lunch is very active.

Oh purple and hazle, how bloody exciting! Does it feel nice and reassuring, or just a bit weird? I think you're only a week ahead of me purple? Is that right? I'm due 9th July. I don't think I've felt anything yet, but maybe in a week or so I might...

Glad you're feeling a bit better hazle. Sorry to laugh purple but your teenage boy reference really made me laugh! Hope this afternoon goes OK and you're not feeling too rough.

16 week appt this morning. All pretty routine. She reassuringly told me that I wasn't HIV positive (which I knew from giving blood) - which did make me think it would be a bloody awful way to find out if you were!! She explained that they have a policy to only listen to the heartbeat from 20 weeks onwards, as it can be hard to detect at 16 weeks and can cause more stress than necessary. However, I think she took pity on us when she saw our disappointed faces, and given the small amount of blood on Sunday, she agreed to try as long as we PROMISED not to be disappointed or stress if she couldn't pick it up. Anyway as soon as she tried, there it was (she seemed very surprised at how easy it was to find, and how loud it was!) beating away perfectly. Such a relief after the weekend. Now just the 20 week scan to start worrying about...

ps where is lol? I'm not sure we've seen her for a while...?

Oh that must have been a relief indeed janey

As for the movement, in my case it's mainly weird as I don't really know if it's actual movement yet or I'm imagining it.

Great news Janey, that must be such a weight off your mind.

Purple I am also having diet-related guilt issues. I have been making a massive effort to eat as much fruit and veg as possible..... but am still loving sweets, chocolate and fizzy Fanta Orange. When the Midwife checked my urine sample last week I was half expecting her to say it was pure Fanta.

I sound like I'm just jumping on the kicking bandwagon now, but I'm having some strange abdominal sensations which I don't think can be explained away by anything else. It doesn't feel like I was expecting it to though (based on zero previous experience, what the heck was I expecting??) It kinda feels like trapped wind escaping, but much lower down.

I have ordered a cheap(ish) V shaped support pillow with an accompanying wedge to stop me from rolling onto my back. I feel like a pensioner.

Oh great I want fanta now. I never drink fanta.

Fanta! That's a bloody good idea!
I, too, never drink it, but that bright orange pop is JUST what I fancy right now. You, rache, are a frickin' genius.

I am eating bloody well - in terms of 7 or so portions of fruit and veg, all home made food (eg home made bean soup last night (Jamie's), got up and popped a bolognese with loads of veg in it in the slow cooker before the midwife appt this morning) with lots of healthy carbs. BUT the result of this is that I am SICK of healthy food and am really, really craving crap. For example, pizza.... Yum....

Right, off to get a fanta.

Oh rache what have you done?! This is DELICIOUS!!

Errr.... oops, sorry guys! I hope one can is enough and you feel satisfied enough to go back to your healthy juices which you were no doubt drinking before unlike the gallons of Fanta which I am getting through.

On the other hand it could mean you are also expecting girls?

My 'movements' if that is indeed what they are, are akin to what I can only describe as someone poking you in the stomach with their finger but through a bowl of jelly or possibly jelly bubbles popping. It IS a little bit like when your stomach gurgles and you get that bubbles in a water cooler thing going on and yet, totally different as well. I am aware that this makes no sense AT ALL.

Yes Janey, I'm due 2nd July so we're pretty close but I really only felt those odd sensations Sunday night and this morning and I've had nothing else before that and only when I'm sitting still for a while. I've got my '16 week' appt Thursday (obviously more like 17 weeks then but they said it doesn't matter). I really hope they do the heartbeat, I was looking forward to that bit!

I used to eat healthy meals but at the minute, I'm really struggling to eat actual meals, I just don't want MEALS at all, just crisps and chocolate/ snacky crap food, I do feel bad about it but I figure a kit kat for breakfast is better than no breakfast right? and I am forcing some fruit and veg down me but not eating anywhere near as healthily as I was before I was pregnant which seems ridiculously backwards.

Laughing at the image of you all sitting around your computers slurping down cans of Fanta! I'm on the Ribena in the desperate hope that the vitamin c will help rid me of this germ infestation or at least will stop another virus riding in on the coat tails of the last one as I'm convinced happened last time. 5 weeks of constant cold symptoms is not normal!

Oh, I've gone straight in at the deep end with a 500ml plastic bottle of fanta! And it is YUM.

The other thing I'm addicted to is Elderberry cordial, love the sugary sweetness. So I'm not being that healthy!! But so far today have had a crumpet, a pear, two plums, some black grapes, a kiwi, a chicken and pickle sarnie (sounds odd but really fancied it when I was making it last night) and some fanta. The fanta, unsurprisingly, has been the most pleasing part...

Oh and purple I love your description of what the movements feel like! I have no idea whatsoever what I'm looking out for now but sounds very intriguing!

Yes that's a very good description, jelly-bubbles popping.
I've been eating lots of clementines and drinking orange juice, so Fanta will probably be nice indeed, too lazy to go buy though.

Hi girls
I disappeared for a while as I was trying my best to relax before the scan.
Well I had it today and it all went well!
Turns out I'm 13 weeks when I thought I was 11/6. Not sure how that's possible as I don't think we shagged when they think we did! But baby is jumping about and I'm in a bit of a daze at the moment!
Haven't read back to see what I've missed and hope all is good.
My new Edd is 30july. Eek!