October 2013: Almost halfway!

[cherrycherry41]

Thread 8 of 1,000

I've been feeling little one properly squirming away this morning (eating left over sugary cereal from my nephews visit,think they like it!!)
glad your feeling better cherry!!

I'm jealous of all these movements :-( I think I have felt a few little movements over the last few weeks I wouldn't say I'm 100% sure though but at my 12 week scan the sonography said my placenta was anterior but I'm gunna ask them to check again at 20 week scan.

Had my first orquad belly pat this morning? Why do ppl think its ok I mean it was my landlord who patted me lol

And he's a male landlord lol

natalieand I don't mind my DH or family putting their hand on my tummy unexpectedly, but when my FIL did it it caught me off guard and surprised me, so I can only imagine what it must've been like to have your landlord do it!

My Mum and Dad have just bought a Silver Cross 3D on eBay to keep in their car! I told them they needn't bother because they can use whatever buggy we buy, but it was local and I don't think they could resist a bid and ended up winning it for £40! It's practically new too, because it was bought by the previous owners new for the same purpose (to keep in their car for when their grandchild is staying with them). I think Mum and Dad might be getting a little bit excited about being grandparents (this is their first grandchild). Dad has even started sanding down an old wooden rocking chair so he can paint it up and put it in my room at their house, and mum is making some cushions for it. Makes me smile that they're so excited!

I fainted twice in my 2nd pg with dd1 - I had low bp too.
1st time was at 10wks and was very scarily carrying ds1 downstairs at the time..... I remembered being at the top and then i was laying in a heap at the bottom and he was shreiking the place down! We both got checked out and were fine, but was very scary.

2nd time I was in a massive queue in a chip shop and it was very weird. I could hear them all talking about me, and ringing an ambulance and I wanted to say "don't, i'm fine!" but I couldn't. It was like i was half concious cos I could hear them but i couldn't wake up.

Must be a common sensation. I found a man collapsed once and when I rang the ambulance I was describing him, his age etc and told them he was about 40 and the first thing he said when he woke up was "I'm only 32!"

roxvox They'll soon regret the silver cross 3d once the baby is past the newborn stage as it is so heavy.
I had it with my youngest and bought something else a few months later.

That would have annoyed me too Cazboldy I'm only 32 and everyone thinks I'm atleast 40.

Just checking into this thread, sorry to hear about you fainting cherry, glad you're recovered now though! Hope the sun comes out for your holiday!

GTbaby - I get you, I hope I have one of each eventually...

I think my bump is going to come out properly now, I've had stretchy pains for the last few days and I'm 16 weeks as of yesterday. A bump would be good because I'll know everything is going along ok in there, but bad because I'm going camping for a few weeks soon! Going shopping for a fancy inflatable sleeping mat today

Afternoon all,

I went for my Iron transfusion and they could not locate my notes the consultant is supposed to have them so I came home have to go on tuesday now to get it done. Mw were lovely and i got to hear Willows heart beat again so not too bad. I have a cold though so i think i am going to hole myself up in bed with a book!

Roxvox your parents sound so sweet, bet they will be lovely grandparents! My dad brought me round details of the pregnancy massage treatments they do at his gym- just need to tell him when to book for

Has anyone thought about going to pregnancy yoga or started already? I've never done yoga before but thought it might be helpful as I'm already getting occasional back pain and am not as healthy/active as I should be. I also don't think we're going to do NCT classes so this could be a nice way to meet local mums...?

Anan. I'm also considering a sling (check out a sling library to try them out) as I don't want to buy a double buggy. So am looking at buying a rack sack. You can hook it on to a pram n carry with ease. Will be looking into fashionable rack sacks no need for style to suffer at the expense of practicality.

Hmmm I've just checked out the local sling library and it looks very good. I just want to make sure I have something in time for the birth.

feminist I'm doing pregnancy yoga. It's very gentle and focused on stretching, strengthening back muscles, arms, legs etc... and very calming. I've done yoga for years and carried on with my usual ashtanga practice throughout the first pregnancy. However, with this one, my body feels much more fragile and refuses anything strenuous! So I find pregnancy yoga lovely and very gentle. Also a great way to meet other local mums to be.

You live in London right? where exactly? I'm going here: www.theshala.co.uk It's in Clapham North.

ps. what a day... DS has over 39C temperature and DP also sleeping on the sofa the entire day, clearly coming down with something... a proper hospital!

Anan- I bought two online n neither seemed right when I bought them. But advice I've been given is you really need to try it with ur LO. As they might not like it. Then you may end up wasting money. With the library you can borrow a few, try them out at home for a few weeks then invest in whichever you prefer. Before the birth you can visit the library n get a short list of which ones you like. This is what I'm gona try and do, but my best laid plans usually go tits up.

I am planning to start pregnancy yoga once I feel I can't do my normal Pilates classes anymore. I have already stopped the parts on my front and do exercises on all fours instead.

I am a bit worried about all those with spd saying don't stretch. I presume they wouldn't do it at the hospital if it is a problem.

That's a pain that they lost your notes and couldn't do it falcon! And sorry to hear about fainters.

My baby has gone from avocado last week to apple this week according to sprout app. Hmm shrinking baby

Must be a huge apple, orange!

I started pregnancy yoga last week and really enjoyed it. All the others in the class were a lot more pregnant though and seemed to all know each other pretty well so I'm looking forward to some more newbies joining. They weren't unfriendly at all, but not particularly friendly and I'm very shy - especially when walking into a room of people who all seem to know each other. The class was great though and I've been practising the breathing. It could be my imagination but I thought it really helped my sinus pain when flying this week - didn't do it on the way out and did on the return and it was much less painful.

I'm relishing not being on a diet for the first time, probably in my adult life (I'm not overweight but have to work really hard not to be). I've just made a a banana, walnut and chocolate chip loaf and it smells divine!

GT: that's really interesting. I was hoping if I used it from birth the baby would be used to it!

orange why does the no stretching for us with SPD worry you? Do you know something or do you mean as yoga is offered at hospital and makes you wonder if its a good thing? Stretching in a normal pregnancy is one of the best things you can do and toning your core muscles too, but if you have SPD your pelvis has split way too early and everything is loose so rule of thumb is to keep your knees together to reduce pain.

soup enjoy the banana bread, yum! I love to bake and made the most amazing chocolate muffins yesterday.

Claphammama I'm in Sydenham so a bit far if I want to stick at it- looks really good though! The leisure centre I used to do swimming lessons at does it so will look into it there.

That's really helpful Soup I'm not very shy but would definitely feel uncomfortable if it seemed a bit cliquey. Think I'll leave it until after the scan in 2 weeks and have a look on YouTube for some pg yoga clips in the meantime so I don't look like a fool when I start!

Tarlia I wondered if it was caused by doing too much stretching?

I did wonder if that could be a worry orange. I think SPD is something you'll get or you won't and staying as agile and fit as possible will help in labour, hence they encourage yoga for pregnant ladies. I have joint hyper mobility syndrome (one of many on the thread which is fun as never met anyone outside my family!) so even without all of the relaxin hormone from pregnancy I can easily over stretch eg my wrist came out of place 3 weeks ago getting into bed.

I have taught a couple of children with hypermobility. Sorry to hear it gets worse for you in pregnancy.

I always worry about whether I am doing the right things.

Checking in and I need to catch up.