September mums-to-be - the bumps get bigger and we all get more excited!

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Here we are ladies. A shiny new thread for us all. Let the chatting continue!

Ooo will join Facebook grou now, I'll be the one with the photos of my misspent youth as a profile pic and my now 7 year old boy when he was one!

Joining the group on FB has made me finally decide to out my pregnancy on FB cue a thousand nice messages saying hurrah. That's quite nice.

Someone said to me yesterday I have a very tidy bump and it was all up high. Even better, she didn't follow that with an old wives tale about how it must therefore be a boy/girl/whatever.

purple, I don't think joining the group will show uup because it's a closed group. But I can't be sure.

Trying to catch up - you lot are fast - I was only away for 2 days and feel like I've missed loads!

Welcome Geesescareme!

FB page a brilliant idea - have signed up (mine's the pic of a romantic saga book cover - doing these pictures was how I funded myself through my PhD, and I look nothing like it in real life).

YY to swollen feet. Mine are enormous. Flew back from Galsgow yesterday and completely lost my ankles. They don't seem to have re-emerged today either.

Had GTT this morning at hospital, so was up at 6.30 and didn't get to eat anything until just now (11.30). Made me feel very odd/lightheaded. I compensated with a full fat latte and a cinnamon swirl. One is never enough though, I find...

Also thinking about what to wear in labour. Maternity nightdress sounds perfect, but they seem to only come in 'pretty' colours and really I'd like black, charcoal, or navy at a push. And since I'm not a nightdress wearere the rest of the time, I really don't want to spend very much. Bit stuck for ideas.

Yikes! Have just agreed to do some work for a cient I REALLY want to work for that involves running a workshop when I'm 37 weeks and finishing the report by the time I hit 39 weeks.... Oh I REALLY hope he doesn't come early or I am going to be emailing in labour and on the post-natal ward!!!!

I will only be working around 2-3 days a week in total from 35weeks onwards but I just have to squish this in as I want to go back and do the next phase for them next year....

thanks all for advice, I'll try and sign up now...

Facebook is a funny thing isn't it :) it's not the end of the world if people know now and all my friends already know - I've just been really lazy about it - just checked and I've made a few comments that hince about being preggers and I'm in a photo with preggy friends so noisey ppl would probably have guessed already :) I'm the one with motorbikes as my profile - I know - very random, but it is TT week :)

So true that it really comforting to see everyone else's bumps. I've been told for months how massive I am by everyone I see-I got a bit of a complex. So nice to see that Im just the same as everyone else who's 6 months prg!

Will post a bump pic

No one has commented on my bump - they must be too scared! I was a size 16 pre preg. I think for a while I just looked bigger, rather than bumpy. I'll brave it and put a pic on the fb page later. Visiting family at the end of the month, they're more likely to comment! I'm proud of my bump, don't mind if folk say its huge, we're growing little human beings, we're supposed to be big.

Ooh hello everyone! Just catching up! I've requested to join fb group too, will be lovely to get to know everyone better... Another cankles sufferer here, got v bad varicose veins in last 2 pgs so think I am prone to old lady legs on general :( I'm booked in for WC at 29 wks nxt wk, really looking forward to the dead arm now then?!? Also got another growth scan nxt wk and GTT...may use the image of placenta munching to stop me wanting to eat during the test!! Boak!! Am off camping in sunny peaks this w/e with 2 v excited little boys, hoping I can get comfy on my air bed??

I'm the opposite fozzie I'm starting to realise that mine is still small even though its grown massively in the last couple of weeks!

The only thing is can we make a pact to not mention exactly how many lbs have been put on? Every time I read about the lbs it makes me freak out.

Good plan!

That sounds like an excellent plan Joskar! I'm assuming weight gain is all in the boobs and stoically ignoring the scales... and eating pizza & chocolate!

I've weighed myself once this time around. Wasn't too bad but would rather not know! I weighed myself regularly in first pg and my app kept saying I was on track, but doubt it would this time!

I covered my eyes today when the midwife cattle prodded me on the scales! Also, have the cankles y DH keeps filling a bucket of cool water for my feet. On a different note I appear to have fallen in love with marmite....

I'm totally out of the loop after a week's holiday and the thread is sooooooooooo long! Hello to new people!

Sorry to hear about the loss of ankles. I still have mine and instead am suffering from the worst cramp of my life. Woke at 4am 2 nights on the run feeling like my calf was being twisted from the inside! Horrible. Ok last night and wonder if it's because I spent all yesterday stretching it during the day and got some exercise my riding my bike to work?

Anyone else had these leg cramps?

purple I think it may well, so sorry about that! I'd I'd made it private then no-one would be able to see it to join :(

Hi all, it's been a while - have had a few manic weeks as well as 2 weddings, a week in Spain and a camping trip! Great to read through (most of) the posts and hear how everyone 's getting on.

Haven't really mastered mumsnet enough to post pcs or view anyone else's but will hopefully be better on Facebook!

All is well here, still got my ankles - had a couple of swollen days and a few cramps but largely trouble free.. My biggest complaint is a permanenct stuffy nose, which is apparently common in pregnancy (though my midwife had never heard of it) which is causing me to snore really badly and driving my husband and me mad! Have bought some (really sexy) nasal strips from boots which do work but keep peeling off in the middle of the night! Anyone else having this problem and got any solutions?

Holiday was fabulous and heat was no problem, but I did miss my body pillow - now booked in for physio next Friday to sort my hips out!!

Oh and one more thing.. How much movement is everyone getting? I'm 26 wks now and feel something every day but it varies dramatically and I sometimes barely feel her at all. Also there is no pattern to it or response to loud noises/cold drinks/ prodding etc like all my emails keep telling me.. Not really worried but wondered if I'm the only one?

I went through a phase of very little movement a couple of weeks back - I'm now 28+3 and it's more noticeable again. The community midwives were crap and said 'oh, as long as it is moving a bit, we're not worried', which my midwife sister said was an awful response and when she mentioned it to the other midwives & doctors at her hospital they agreed & said to be sure to demand an appointment to listen to HB if I was ever concerned again. They even said they'd do a cheeky scan!!
My lack of movement was due to an anterior placement and it being in a well cushioned position, and like you didnt seem to respond even to ice cream - it was a fairly stressful couple of weeks but all is ok now baby has shifted a bit.

I have less movement today and am trying not to be concerned - had the usual first thing in the morning kicks and then just the odd single wriggle.

Had WC jab yesterday and my arm is really tender today, like I've been given a manly shoulder punch! DH is doing absolutely everything around the house to let me simply go to work then come home and relax and I still manage to feel perma-tired...

giraffe and rakea I'm the same - 26+5 today and have actually booked a 4d scan for tomorrow (cheapest way to get a reassurance scan as I swore blind I wouldn't have a 4d one!!) to check everything's okay. I feel one baby regularly, but the other one is quieter (she has an anterior placenta though) and causes me a lot of worry. Lying on my left after eating and drinking always seems to work to get the more active one moving though.

No worries fl0 it's about time anyway :)

Dietcoke - this may seem like a silly question, but how do up tell which ones kicking, my kicks come all over so I just wondered? Must be amazing having two in there

Just caught up and sent a request on the fb page too, great idea