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[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...)

Holy.... Who hogged all the boobs! Want to share them out a little ladies?

I'd love to! Honestly it's not as much fun as it might sound, I'm starting to look ridiculous.

I'll share too! 34dd to 34F already, and that's getting too tight now too. Think DP would be very happy if I could give a cup size or two away

Oh and horrifyingly, someone told me that when your milk comes in and your boobs are engorged they double or triple in size. Please, for the love of god, tell me they were lying?!

Oooo Janey I hadn't thought of that! I hope for your sake it isn't true and for my sake it is! My camera will be on overtime before they go back down again

triple?? what kind of cup size will I need then, a Z? Or a wheelbarrow?

Bags me the wheelbarrow hazle. Or maybe I can rig up two huge mixing bowls on my chest. Because they are not going to have scaffolding in my size if I go up two more sizes!!

We'll have to go to some camping shop and sew 2 medium sized tents together.

I might have to consult Dr Google at lunchtime to see if it's true. I can't bear it if it is!

Nosebleed on the tube this morning. Thankfully always carry loads of tissues with me, just in case, since the coughing up blood incidents. Yet somehow managed to get a few splashes on my top so now have to look grubby all day in the office. I am feeling VERY glamorous today

Wheelbarrows! On refelction, you can keep them, I don't think my poor little size 3 feet could hold me up if I was carting those around on my chest!

Lol at all the boobage envy going on... I have gone up a bit, but have been disabused of the notion that they are 'loads bigger' by firstly OH and secondly seeing some huge norks on a terrible film last night, where I realised that 'compared to those I really have nowt to write home about. Not that I would. Write home. That'd be just weird...

Sorry to hear about your nasal dramas Janey tho surely a nosebleed is a surefire way of a) grabbing a seat on the tube and b) creating the otherwise unknown concept of 'personal space'?

On another note... Just got back from 16 week appointment and... I heard the baby's heartbeat! so exciting!

Everything else was fine and the mw picked the heartbeat up straightaway but said 'I can hear that and everything's fine, but let's see if I can get it so you can distinguish it, too' which was lovely, as it seemed to take an age!

Also discussed weird due date and said I was worried in case they forced me to induce too early on basis of dates alone and she said no-one will ever force you to do anything - there is always room for discussion and it's ultimately your choice. So all-in-all a good visit!

Although, was rather surprised to be handed back a full pot of wee to take away with me and re-use.

very exciting about the heartbeat Brave!
Um..how exactly are you supposed to re-use wee?

My due date is also odd, doc insists it's 28th of June, but all the online calculators say it's 21st. Guess you're supposed to be pregnant for an extra week in France.

Hooray brave. We're all progressing nicely now I think

I do think that post 12 weeks time has gone slightly less slowly. That's not so say it's going quickly, it's just not as ridiculously slow as it was....

Two weeks to go to 20 week scan and starting to get the fear though!

Honestly it's daft how happy I feel this afternoon, even with a pile of work to do. I was so busy this morning that it didn't hit me til I got there how nervous (and hungry ) I was.

Now I'm into the next four week wait til the next scan, but hopefully between then and now I'll start to feel baby bear kicking. That should make it go quicker, I'm sure.

Lol at re-using wee - I think my face must have been a picture when they handed it back to me wrapped in a paper towel. 'Is it empty?' I asked. And the student midwife said 'no, you have to do that'... Still haven't achieved that particular procedure yet

Ah yes, the pot full of wee for you to take home and rinse out, I'd like to say that you get less grossed out by it as time goes on but they've done this to me twice now and I still couldn't help the wtf face the second time even when I knew it was coming! You have to take the pot back with you with a fresh sample in it to each appointment, apparently it's standard procedure but ewwww.

Just over a week until my 20 week scan now and I'm really fretting about, stupidly, not whether they will find anything wrong but whether they tell me the 'wrong' gender and that I'll be really upset so somebody please give me a slap until I come to my senses because I know I'm going to love it equally either way and it doesn't matter at all. I think it's just the nerves of finding out and having to get your head around whatever the answer is, tbh, I think I'm not worrying ABOUT what the gender is, just that I might not like my reaction to it. I reckon I'm going to cry either way. Doesn't take much these days.

Don't get me wrong - more than happy to reuse the pot, but they could throw it down the sink first!!

I'm a few weeks shy of 20-week scan but understand the worry. Had a look at this thread earlier which was all about the same thing.

I've always said I don't mind, and I don't... In fact I always saw myself as being the mother of a boy (tomboy all my life). But since being pregnant I really think it's a girl and have started to fall in love with the idea that it is a girl. Of course, I'm sure it won't make a difference - inf act we're planning not to find out so won't know until B-Day, but I'm starting to 'worry' in case it is blue flavour and I don't react well... How will I feel having started to bond with the idea of a she-bear if it's a he-bear?

There again I had a similar feeling about falling pregnant in the first place, we were actively trying, but I had no idea how I'd feel when it came down to it. I only knew my reaction in the moment - pure joy and excitement. I think I hope that my instinctive reactions will come through no matter what - and I'm sure it'll be the same for you too purple

I'm finding out, so will have time to get used to and excited about the "other" gender.

That's what my DSIL - knew she would prefer a girl, so found out the gender so she could get excited about it being a boy, if it was.
Anyway, he is a little boy, and sure enough she was VERY excited about having a boy by the time he arrived. And not surprisingly, he's 5 now and is perfect in every way
I think if I didn't have him in my life, I'd still really want a girl, but as it is, I'd marginally prefer a girl but be very happy with a boy, so I don't think I'm going to find out...

I definitely want to find out as then I've got time to get used to the idea either way, I think I'm just afraid that the sonographer is going to tell me the news and I'm going to weep and wail and be all distraught and then they'll phone social services or something! I know once I've had time to get used to the idea either will be fine but in the heat of the moment I'm just worried I'm going to be disappointed and upset.
Oh lord, these hormones are really sending me mental.

I wanted a girl but had convinced myself it was a blue one, so when the Sonographer said it's a girl I am sure my expression was almost that of disappointment because I was so shocked!
I hope the private scan woman got it right, it will throw a spanner in the works if the 20 week Sonographer says it's a boy!

Aww I'm sure it will be fine Rach! I'm sure they were right, if not, it's going to be too small to object to pink shoes anyway
I was fine with the idea of a boy up until about two weeks ago and now my hormones have made me crazy and all rational though has gone out the window. That and the whole effing world and his wife keep telling me I'm having a boy. Grrr stupid people.
It doesn't matter! I know it doesn't matter, I'll love a boy just as much it's not like I'm particularly girly and yet, every time I think about it this week I cry I think my OH thinks I've actually lost my mind (it's those times when he asks me why I'm crying and I sob back 'I don't knooooowwww') it just seems terribly disloyal to the child you're going to love and adore to be disappointed about its gender before the poor little sod is even born. Bloody hormones poisoning me, I used to be rational and un-emotional too...

Purple it's unbelievable how the whole world thinks a woman's pregnancy is fair game to voice their (mostly unwelcome) opinions isn't it? What on earth makes people think you want to hear it?

I am also waiting for the bump touching to start as well. Previously pregnant friends have already warned me about it and how virtual strangers think it's ok to grope your belly because there's a baby in there. I read a funny thread on here once where a pregnant lady grabbed the groper's boobs or crotch every time someone did it to her and innocently said, "Oh sorry, I thought inappropriate touching must be your thing."

Ha yeah I've only been groped by family so far so I don't mind that too much but anyone that knows me at all knows I'm really funny about being touched by people I'm not close to. How about yelling 'Nooooo!!! BAD TOUCHING!' At the top of your voice? Bet they back off pretty quickly then

All you guys are so far ahead! jealous. Should have my 12 week some time in the next three weeks. Called the midwife and they have again faxed over details to the hospital today.