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Sept 2013 - kicks, prods and finding out the sex...

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LexyMa · 30/03/2013 17:25

here we all are... hoping for nice clear 20w. scans, not too much inadvertent weeing and getting that 'glow'...

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kimjayne · 13/04/2013 08:08

I'm over 19 weeks now and really wishing I could feel done movement. people have commented that my bump.is only small for 19 weeks which also makes me nervous. Gosh, Im glad I only have to wait til Tuesday for my scan. Fingers and toes crossed that all is okay with baby.

frogchops · 13/04/2013 08:13

I drink milk for heartburn....altho I do love milk! I hate gaviscon so much! And if u get it at night try an extra pillow and sleep on your back. Wink

TripleRock · 13/04/2013 08:26

Frog I'm so pleased for your good news!

2nd the suggestion to drink milk for heartburn and indigestion as well.

flipflump · 13/04/2013 08:51

Fantastic news Frog!

badguider · 13/04/2013 10:02

I have heartburn every evening and some afternoons. Doesn't seem to matter what I eat.
I'm on rennies just now (easily available from the corner shop) but considering gaviscon tablets when these run out. Just need to get to a proper chemist.

kipsonline · 13/04/2013 10:11

Great news frog!
We're all off to a local theme park today for end of easter holidays fun... We'll see what the baby thinks of that!!!

fl0b0t · 13/04/2013 10:25

Overall been feeling much less sick which is a huge relief :) although I'm reluctant to suggest I'm over it as it's never as simple as that..... I've had a busy couple of weeks with family party, lots of work, a wedding and getting a little exercise in between. That has left me pretty tired and nauseous but had a good lie in today, made hubby breakfast in bed (he usually gets up first at weekends as I'm lazy so tired) and rafting on the iPad listening to classic fm now :)

Picking up more second hand baby stuff this weekend which is a good excuse to visit friend with little babies.

Had a few moments the last week or so of absolutely shitting myself thinking about how our lives are going to change. Some of my friends walked the Pennine Way (all 20 miles) yesterday and I was thinking how I'd love to do that.... But realised that's likely not to happen for a further 2 years if at all. I'd have to do it without baby and as I hope to bf, I'd be unable to be away from baby for that long. It's the small things that scare me! I've always been quite independent and I guess all that will be changing. Anyone else had a burst of thoughts like this the last few weeks?

Girraferama · 13/04/2013 10:30

Hey Triple - last night I turned over in bed nd got the same pain you mentioned. It was horrible! Thank God you had mentioned it though or I would have totally freaked out, given what I had the other day. All seems ok this morning, I think it must just be all the growing and stretching going on in there!

Hope you've relaxed about it now.

Congratulatins frog - great news.

ION we took delivery of our new pram yesterday! So exciting, but quite weird to have it so early (we got it reduced because end of last years stock)

I'm 18+1 and not felt anything either... Desperate to after the trials and tribulations of the last few days!

JammyTummy · 13/04/2013 11:02

I take Tums for heartburn, I really like them as they actually taste quite nice. I can also recommend Rennie Orange- although I don't know if they still make it or not.

I've now painted most of my nursery, and was out looking for material for curtains yesterday.
The stabby pains have gone and I listened to buba's heartbeat this morning- the most soothing sound ever!

jennimoo · 13/04/2013 13:57

Flobot - get a bushbaby, you'll be walking like normal while the baby snoozes. We don't use ours much but with DD it did make us feel like our old selves!

Thanks for the suggestion to keep up the vitamins. Sickness has eased again although still fm feel pretty tired!

I let DD pick out an outfit for her little brother at the shops today, and I got my free boots change bag :)

badguider · 13/04/2013 14:47

flobot - I think my leisure/personal life has already changed about as much as it's going to. I can't mountain bike with all my normal biking buddies, I can't run properly and I can't hike long distances. I'm on easy bike rides on canal or disused-railway paths. But I'll be able to run and mountainbike and just be properly physical again after the baby is outside of me and DH can take his turn :)
DH is really keen that I should target some events after the birth to look forward to, something relatively easy like getting up to 5k parkrun fitness in 3/4 months and then targeting a biking event somewhere between 6 and 12 months. He's already keen to be 'daddy in charge' for my wednesday night mountainbike club night (as soon as the baby can do 2.5hrs without me) and for the saturday morning parkrun (they can come to the park for that so it only needs to be without me for 30mins).

My work life changing on the other hand is something I haven't really come to terms with. I don't think I want to work full-time but I can't imagine working part-time. And right now I'm gutted at missing some projects that will happen when I'm not working at all (I love my work). At least I'm self-employed so I can decide for myself how much to work (providing I can organise childcare).

Creamtea1 · 13/04/2013 16:52

Picked up free nappies today in sainsburys (free pack when you spend £50 on shopping) and got a lovely white quilted pram suit from the local charity shop for £1.
Re the free changing bag from boots, did you have to sign up all your details?

jennimoo · 13/04/2013 17:16

In boots if you have their advantage card you just tell those machine things your due date. Otherwise you'd have to sign up to get a card.

Creamtea1 · 13/04/2013 17:55

Thanks jenni will do that next time I'm in there. Love anything free or money saving!

Readytosettle · 13/04/2013 18:07

fl0 I had my first wobble this week, went to visit a colleague & her 6 week old baby. Loved looking after her while I was there, but as soon as I was in the car home I started freaking out about how constant it is- always trying to work out what's wrong, changing positions, jiggling, feeding, winding etc....a very daunting prospect for an independent woman!

To cheer myself up I made my first baby purchases in the gap sale....now's the time to be picking up cheap winter baby clothes so I got a few long sleeve vests & this super cuddly all in one with little turn-over mittens for the hands & a hood with little ears on it...

CharlW1 · 13/04/2013 18:11

Great tip about Boots - will definitely do that when I am next in there - which is going to be soon as the OH thinks I keep them afloat as it is the amount I buy in there

badguider I feel exactly the same about work - I love my job but am going through a level of acceptance that I now can't get involved in everything like I would have done. Saying that as soon as I said to work I was pregnant I have been given that much to do before I go on maternity.

Also last year when my OH did a cycle trip from Venice to Zagreb one of the group was in the early stages of pregnancy. She. has now had the baby and planning on joining them on the next leg this year from Croatia to Albania - although this time hubby and baby will be travelling with them by car so whilst the is living motherhood the isn't giving up on the things that the had always enjoyed doing Smile

CharlW1 · 13/04/2013 18:12

loving - not living and she not the Smile

jennimoo · 13/04/2013 18:37

Just a note on the boots change bag: you tell them you're pregnant in the store or probs key in the Internet then you get vouchers a few weeks later including 'free change bag if you buy pampers nappies' and '50p of pampers' which work together. So you so have to wait for the post. I did it about a month ago and my voucher would have run out in June so if you dont have room for the stuff hang on to sign up!

LexyMa · 13/04/2013 18:47

I've been gardening today and really suffering now. I'm in a lovely hot radox bath with the iPad, but I overdid it out there (again). DH says he'll help and then gets distracted, or needs too much of my directions to be re-explained, or he's trying to keep DS from trampling things and getting bored, so in the end I pick up the spade and dig whatever it is myself. Also, all the repeated bending over to pick things up (mind you that's not just the garden, that's all the stuff left lying on the floor around the house grrrr).

Still not much in the way of kicks here, better energy levels generally, bump is an ok shape with just a bit more lard sitting on top of it than I really like, and the day job is just about to get interesting. We will hear on Wednesday evening what school DS will be going to in sept which will give us a better idea of a lot of the constraints on our life like childcare options, commuting times, and so on. I start a new job a week on Monday, internal move with promotion, which is exciting and daunting - my new boss has been great but a good few of the other colleagues apparently can't understand how I can (morally or legally!!) go for and take up a new post, particularly on promotion, when I knew I was pregnant. I really feel I have to prove myself in four months, and be back there at six months. I am more conscious of what is realistic and reasonable than the first time though, so I am not going to be a slave to the job but I do want to be taken seriously and in my environment that will mean no more than 6m off.

The only thing we think we need to buy is a stage 0 car seat, and possibly some clothing basics (maybe just maybe I might submit to getting the odd girly new thing if its a girl), but everything else is in the loft, and will be sold/donated the moment it is grown out of!

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TripleRock · 13/04/2013 18:54

Wahoo, just won my ebay auction for the double buggy I really wanted!

This particular one seems so rare 2nd hand and loads of money new so really glad we got it!

Now need to think about selling my single pram, which I have loved and used loads, sob :( But there's no way we have the space for a single AND a double in the hallway...

redandyellowandpinkandgreen · 13/04/2013 20:48

How much weight has everyone gained now. I've gained 11 pound at 17 weeks which seems a lot so I'm trying to get a grip on it but failed today by making chocolate brownies.

redandyellowandpinkandgreen · 13/04/2013 20:51

PS I did ante-natal classes at the hospital last time and breastfeeding classes and not sure I learnt much but have made a group of four friends who I still meet at least weekly and they were amazing support in the early days. I am tempted to do classes again as I had a forceps delivery last time so didn't experience the pushing bit really, my midwife said I didn't experience labour which I bloody did though! I'm undecided, it can't hurt to go I suppose.

JammyTummy · 13/04/2013 21:00

I ordered my baby car seat today! Another thing off the list.

Question for those expecting DC2/3- has anyone used a TENS machine in their previous labour? What is it like? Is it something worth looking into?

weebarra · 13/04/2013 21:19

Used a tens for DS1's ridiculously long labour. Have no idea whether it made a difference but probably worth a try.

redandyellowandpinkandgreen · 13/04/2013 21:31

I think the tens was a distraction. I realise it wasn't working anymore when I'd had the boost pressed for ages! Was good for the early bit though.