September 2013 - The Beginning of the Bumps

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Creamtea, I'm happy to report they are candied peal feel. Just yummy chunks of chocolate. Mmmmm.

I can second the 'big up' for the m and s choc cross buns, we got some Saturday, gone within the afternoon...not just me, kids ate them too (grrrrr)

*candied peel free.

I blame hormones for my poor typing ability. Ahem.

Just getting ready for 5 days at centre Parcs. Tried on my swimming cozzie .... It's not a great look. I've been hiding behind jumpers for so long that I'd forgotten how god damn pale I am! ... This (rather attractive) complexion combined with my "who are all the pies" belly is not what you might call "the perfect bikini bod"

Glad to hear coconut and jam cake was a success and thanks binary for hot cross bun confirmation :) I will add those to this evenings shopping list. Even though I stepped on the scales this morning and have now put on a stone I think it's 3lb in the last week alone! Feel massive. A bump is now there but it just feels fat!
Midwife appt at lunchtime today.

Morning!

creamtea I also made the jam & coconut cake on saturday and it was delicious! Wish I'd brought a piece to work with me now....

frog how are you doing today? Is your DP being a bit more supportive?

kim I'm feeling your swimming cossie pain - I've not been swimming in weeks as just felt too self conscious in my normal cossie. Ordered a maternity tankini from Next, went to put it on on Saturday morning, only to find that they've sent me the top half only - no bottoms! Double checked my order and it turns out you have to order the two pieces separately, grrrrrr. Very annoying.

Had a lovely weekend, apart from being told by my dad (over lunch!) that the problem with my stage of pregnancy is that I don't look pregnant, I just look fat. thanks for that dad!

I shall have to make the jam and coconut cake when we can get out to a shop, Buxton has been on the news as 'the town that is cut off'! At least I don't have to try to get to a hospital to give birth in this! Kids gone to school, we slid doŵn the road and the poor little poppets were all trooping in...they'd dug them a tunnel like path in through the drifts...so they were walking in dwarfed by the 5 foot drifts either side of them...I feel like I live in narnia!

Well at the other extreme, I am writing this from a v sunny lanzarote! Booked as main family hol this year before we knew we were expecting but perfect timing as wont be able to make our usual French eurocamps expedition in the summer holidays.

All you can eat buffet a bit dangerous, am sure i will come home double the size but all v lovely, we needed the break and a bit of sunshine is amazing! My maternity cozzie is on its 8th pg (my 2 plus loaned to friends ) so a bit saggy, I have to remember to hoist it up before I get out of the pool!! No time to shop or borrow summer clothes before we left so I am wafting around in my mum's old kaftan half the time looking beach ball-like!

I have only had chance for a quick read through thread whilst in a wifi hit spot but I just wanted to say I really feel for you frog we were in a similar position with 1st 2 pregnancies, my age risk was v low, nuchal fine but bloods really bad so given a high risk DS result both times of 1;120 and 1:100. We had v similar reactions and thought processes to you but in the end decided (and again, this was entirely a personal decision, I'm not advocating it for anyone else necessarily) that for us, the risk if miscarrying a healthy baby after amnio was something we just couldn't live with whereas DS we could adjust to with help, in time. So we didn't test but we did request a more detailed 20 week scan. We were in there for 45 mins with a consultant who pointed out every marker to look for and took a detailed look at each one. There wasn't anything worrying found and we managed to enjoy the rest of both pgs without it being at the forefront of our minds.. And had 2 v healthy little boys. So, that was my experience for what it is worth. But the 4 weeks of worry and indecision were awful so I really feel for you. Good luck whatever you decide.

As an aside, my bloods were fairly rubbish again this time, although am over the arbitrary high risk cut off for the first time. I have lupus SLE and wonder whether some conditions like that 'muddy the waters' a bit on the bloods? I know you mentioned your DH has a health issue...just a thought?

Will prob catch up again back in blighty, hope the snow clears soon and everyone has a lovely Easter

Thanks kips....lanzarote, grrrr.
I think that's what I'm going to do. The nice people at arc have advised that maybe I could request a slightly earlier 20ek scan referral at a different local hosp with state of the art stuff to look at markers. This might put my mind more at ease or push me to get amnio. Still the wait is killing me. But well see. Thanks kips xx

Oh, and its me with the medical Condition... I have ms although its not treated with any medication and my life is normal with it. I'm hoping wondering if this can skew the bloodwork?? Clutching at straws maybe :-/

kips I bloody love Lanzarote, we go there most years and have family living out there. Hope you're having a fab time!

Just been to 16 week midwife appt, got to hear heartbeat (eventually!) which was nice. She wouldn't tell me the bpm, said it was a load of rubbish theory!!
BP was 146/86 which I thought was high but I think as I'm flagged for high BP they are not worried about it at that level.
And no weighing woo hoo! :)

Jammy congrats on the kick! We definitely felt (me from inside, Husband from outside) some movement (I think baby turning over) at 13 weeks which was hard to believe, but was so definite and different to "wind" feelings!
Creamtea good work on the mw appt and hearing the heart! Yay!

I've reached the "hungryasallhell" stage, and am stuffing my face, but with the lingering sickness, it made a reappearance at work today :( bah. Busy week. Must slow down.....

I am feeling "something" really low down on the right hand side. Can't decide if it's baby or not yet, exciting though.

PS I was 20 weeks plus last time before I felt a definite kick.

lol at your dad kittenkatzen! Family, aren't they great! I may have been surprised at how much weight I've put on already but my mum claimed not to be at all, she said she could see I'd put on a fair bit!!! I should know never to mention my weight in front of my mum, pregnant or not, I never learn.

manoodle I am with you there - mine is exactly the same. This is the woman who passed not a single comment when I dropped 3 stone in 7 months - a quarter of my body weight - but went on and on about how 'gill from holiday' had lost 1.5 stone which was SO amazing
It must be a bad day for weight comments - on school run just now I was asked (by one of my friends) the following 'did you get really massive with ds1 and 2', 'have you actually got a bump then?' and the best one 'well some people just get wider don't they rather than get a bump'
Have an effing why don't you, friend

My stepmother said she can tell I'm pregnant as she 'can tell by the size of my face'...

I do have a bump but don't think I have a moon face.... Well not yet anyway

Flobot- I thought I felt something the other day too, but dismissed it because its so early (13 weeks).

I'm quite short and lightly built so my bump has been showing since 11 weeks, seeing as there isn't much space for it or my organs to fit! Don't know if that will make it easier for me to feel movement or not.

Laughing at these ridiculous comments!!
Have had a bit of a think today as opposed to general irrational googling and crying and I think I've decided that I'm completely 50/50 with regards to having or not having amnio.....while this is no shock and was pretty obvious, I've decided that being as I need help deciding, I'm thinking of having a marker scan which may show certain markers for downs. If it shows some (there are many, so enough to make me further worried) I will go for amnio. On yhe other hand,A lack of markers will help me to deal with the original risk and according to the clinician will change my risk score. This seems like my best option being as I can't afford the harmony testing. I really wish I could...:-(

That sounds like a reasonable and sensible approach frogchops - good luck.

In my (far less important) news - I am nauseous again what's that all about? I must be having a bit hormone flood again... pah! What happened to the 'glowing' 2nd trimester eh???

Sounds like a good plan frog. Have you found somewhere already that can do it? How soon can they fit you in?

Oops posted too soon...

to everyone else who's been suffering insensitive comments along with me - what with that and people laughing at our name ideas I think I'm going to just shut up about this pregnancy from now on!!

Yes I know somewhere, and although I've spoken to them, I'll ask again to tomorrow when I can get in...I'm assuming that if you're paying privately theres not much wait!

Oh! Having just got home.... I've had a letter that says my bloods have been rejected due to an error with either the form or the sample. The letter was sent a day before the phone call. I'm sooooo confused.