October 2013 - Who is the least prepared?

[GTbaby]

just made it in time for last post on old thread... i hope

A chatty day ladies and loving the stories!

DH and I were introduced (read match making) by my best friend and her then bf, who was DH's friend. And it was hate at first sight! We went for a curry as a foursome and DH and I were verbally sparring all night. I thought he was an arrogant sod and he thought I was stuck up. That was 12 years ago.
In the intervening years, as our friends stayed as bf and gf, our paths crossed socially, but we largely ignored each other.
However, we both had some pretty life changing events in the meantime, which I guess knocked some of our rougher edges off and made us both a bit less full of ourselves
Six years ago, the same two friends that had tried to matchmake us were marrying each other. I was in the midst of an unpleasant divorce and swore I was staying away from men for a good couple of years.
Only it didn't quite work out that way...DH and I ended up propping up the bar, drinking tequila as the wedding celebrations were coming to a close and the rest is a rather hazy case of history.

We'd moved in together after six weeks

Love the stories!

We met through a sports club. I'd just started at his club. I remember some of the girls saying he fancied me but then he started going out with someone else. (I was all tied up with a complete fuckwit anyway and was completely heartbroken over it). He broke up with the girlfriend about 6 months later. I remember chatting to him on a night out & he refused to say a bad word about her (even though I heard she'd been horrible to him and I thought that was lovely.). After a bit of texting and facebooking (I was still sure I only liked him as a friend), I was driving along and heard The Twang Either Way and there's a bit where it says.....

And I really do feel so much better, I really do feel so much better.
And I've gotta find my phone to tell yer,
maybe even write you a love letter.
Eitherway I've gotta tell ya, eitherway I've gotta tell ya,

And it was like a thunderbolt. I realised I did feel better, I wasn't heartbroken anymore and he was the one and I had to tell him. I almost spun the car round to go and find him! Even though I don't even like that song that much I'm so grateful that it made everything clear. Been together 6 years now and he's the love of my life!

Lovely stories!

I've been friends with a guy, E, since I was 8. We went out briefly when we were 16 and had the odd drunken snog in years therafter. Not long after he met his now wife, he told me about a friend of his who'd be perfect for me, offering to set me up. I told him I wasn't remotely interested. Apparently DH had the same reaction to the offer!

Few weeks later, E invited me to a mulled wine Christmas party at his. I almost didn't go, was horribly hungover tired and really couldn't be bothered. E was always a bit of a posh git, so I assumed it was a dressy affair, turned up, bleary eyed but rocking a tiny little black dress, to find a living room of folk wearing jeans and jumpers. Mortified, I made the best of it and got chatting to someone who, I realised later, was the guy that E had tried to set me up with. We chatted for hours. I then pursued him, asked him out for lunch, lovely lunch and then our first proper date followed a couple of days later. That was almost 12 years ago!

Reading all these stories don't u think how sometimes fate just brings u and your dp/df/dh together. Its so sweet - love it :-)

falcon sorry I think I missed a post previously saying that baby was measuring bigger on a scan also. In a way it may be a blessing in disguise u are measuring bigger as sometimes ppl measure perfectly fine so don't get an extra scan and then end up with giant babies as it goes un noticed. Xx

Although just wondering if u pay for a private growth scan and it suggests baby is measuring larger does your midwife actually do anything with the info or do they not take it as seriously as its a private scan?

Clapham just on the 3rd episode of dates I have to say all these people are tad fucked up! It makes my dating experiences seem totally normal.

Soup your story made me chuckle turning up in a black dress when everyone else was in jumpers and jeans, love it. Totally something I would do as well....

I am loving the how i met stories too :)

natalie I think you take there finding to mw but not sure they do much maybe they would do there own scan, If i measure over by a lot at next appointment i will insist on a growth scan on the nhs....they might not listen though.

Also enjoyed all the stories! I met my DH over 13 years ago when I was just 17 at a house party. On our first date his dad called to say their dog had taken ill and we ended up in ASDA looking for junior disprol for the dog! How romantic! Anyway, second date was better and never looked back since. Moved in together after I went through uni etc. and we finally got married last year. He is truly my best friend. Soon we'll be a family of 3.
bridget I have PMLE and have used a steroid cream occasionally since being pregnant. Was told I would have to use a lot of it for it to be a risk so I wouldn't worry.
Had my 24 week appointment today. Heard baby's heartbeat and got measured. Was measuring at 25 weeks and hb was 144bpm (girl baby?).

Is that the measurement based on how many cm your bump is falcon? It always seems a bit of an inexact way of telling anyway but a growth scan later on to put your mind at ease at least sounds sensible. What percentile was the head circumference in at your scan? Is that more an issue in terms of pushing it out than how long the baby is?

I had a rubbish morning, the same child that ran in to my back a few weeks ago did it again at full force in the playground and it hurt my hips and back as I was shoved forwards. I went to sit down and started crying in front of everyone in the playground. It didnt hurt that much at the time to justify crying but I was just upset and worried I think. I was so embarrassed and my face stays red and blotchy for ages so all the children were asking about it in the next lesson. Been really sore for the rest of the day. Emailed HR lady again to as to be taken off playground duties, or at the very least I will be standing at the edge with my back to the wall from now on. The baby has still been kicking so no problems there but could do without walking hunching over and limping and not being able to get out of a chair without pain.

Oh dear Clapham it has not been your week!

We have to box everything up tonight as carpet fitted coming. Not quite sure where to put everything as they are doing the whole house. Hopefully they won't mind shifting things about. No way I can lift anything today, even my handbag hurts and feeling very sorry for myself.

DH and I met at university nearly 10 years ago and got married there in the college chapel last August.

Bridget we don't see Dans friend very much now as unlike Dp who got free from drugs after his first stay in rehab his friend is in and out of rehab all the time but he knows it's all down to him.

I still surprise Dp with my many layers Clapham. I always thought I was an open book.

I met my DH when I was 14. We used to hang around in a big group and he is a bit older than me. We got closer over a few months and then starting going out just the two of us. We moved into our first home together when I was 19. We got married and had baby one when I was 23. Had baby 2 when I was 25 and baby 3 when I was 29. I thought we were done with babies but Mother Nature had other ideas and now at the age of 38, we are expecting baby 4.

falcon With my second, I had a starting weight of 8stone 2lb and am 5'4" . I always measured big with him and had a growth scan (NHS) at 34 weeks. They weren't concerned at all about his size. He was born at 38+4 and weighed 9lb 13oz.

clapham I only work 2 days a week and have 4 weeks left before my maternity leave starts so only 8 working days left. I can't wait. With the SPD and housemaids knee, I am starting to struggle at work.

Is anyone suffering with heartburn? I could gulp a whole bottle of gaviscon a day. It is so annoying.

Just managed to read through all your "how I met" stories. Was at soft play all day and got told off for using my phone in there.

I'm not sure I trust growth scans. I wad told when expecting my first baby that he was dangerously small and that they would have to induce me as he had a better chance outside than in. The induction resulted in 19 hours of non-stop contractions with me only getting to 4cm dilated.

Eventually they decided that as ds was showing signs of distress an emergengcy c-section was needed and he was born weighing a very healthy 7lb 6oz.

Jelly has your "how we met" story been in a newspaper? As I've read it or seen it on tv!

Well I met DH at school. Lol he was my best mates cousin. Me yr 7 him yr11. I said hello to him and that was it. My aunt then introduced us. We met. Within a week he talked about marriage. I thought he was a nutter. 2 months later we were engaged with in the year (a year to the day my aunt met him and took his number for me actually) we were married.
Later we have had several ppl come forward and say "remember that guy/girl I tried to introduce you to? Your now married!"

It was all very "must be fate" type thing.

Right need to mk dinner for DH. I've just had toast and even that have me heart burn

GTbaby not seen my story on tv but I do have my P1 photo maybe someone has stolen our story and made a programme about it?

I'm sure it was a news feature x and y got married and they showed a pic of them in nursery/little class sat right next to each other. Lol

I've got awful heartburn today as well GT, about to eat the chilli I've made for dinner which I'm sure will help :o

Way tmi..... I've got horrible chafing from my underwear today. I was out on site (inspecting Hyde park concerts....) and got sweaty and obviously couldn't change my underwear. It's rubbed me red and I'm so sore :(

Heartburn here too.
This baby is trying to make me eat super healthily, anything that is even slightly less virtuous brings on raging heartburn. I'm also horribly flatulent just now

That sounds really owie pseudo

psuedo this has happened to me before, I put some nappy cream on at bedtime as all was resolved by the morning :-) also if u no u will have a busy day I can put some on before then it can reduce the amount of chaffing. Hope that helps a little. Xx

Has anyone seen the video circulating in Facebook of holly willoughby arguing with a woman on the 'this morning' sofa about not allowing your child to be friends with children who have certain names. Absolutely shocking! What am absolute snob the guest lady is (think she's an ex-apprentice contestant)

Enjoying the 'how we met' stories.

We met Internet dating. I wasn't expecting or looking for the love of my life, but DH was the first and only person I met! In some ways I missed out by not having any 'Internet dating weirdo dates' stories to tell, but hey!
There is an element of 'this must be fate' to it, we did pretty much the same job, but for rival companies, and on our first date discovered that we had both worked at the same tiny company in Cornwall (a 6 person company) and had missed meeting by weeks. I had a summer job there and he started his job there a couple of weeks after I left.
Been together 10 years now and married for nearly 8.

Same here Soup. I just ate a vast amount of dominos pizza for tea and no sign of heartburn, but I was in agony last night after a bowl of cherries and the night before after tomatoes and nectarines.

I've decided to cut out all fruit now as it's just too painful to eat it. Sniffle.

Strawberries are bad for me right now :(

Thanks Nat I'll slap on some Sudocreme :o

Heartburn here too, thank goodness for free prescriptions because Im drinking gaviscon like its water.
So so lovely to hear all your how you met stories

I met DH in my second week at uni, we were both studying physio he was in 3rd yr I was in 1st. There was a 3 yr physio social which was a 3 legged pub crawl and the 3rd yrs got to choose who to be tied to and he chose me lol. We got very lost but had a great night and he then added me on facebook (after accidentily adding a different Hannah in my yr first) That was in the October and we were pregnant and married by the following November and have been married nearly 3 yrs now

clapham sorry your having such a bad day, really hope it got better for you!

Had our research scan today, shes definitely a girl and is measuring on the 47th percentile for weight at 2lb 3 oz. Makes a nice change because DS measures huge at all his scans.

How many weeks are u pink I find it interesting knowing what they weigh at X amount of weeks

am 26+5 today.
natalie just watched that clip.on fb!! that woman is ridiculous!! makes me angry. loved the bit where Holly was actually laughing after announcing she didnt like names after geographical locations it turns out her child is called India!! Just mad!

I watched it too nat

I think most people hear a name and will make an assumption on their class/background but to not let your children interact with them is just awful! I feel sorry for her children. They will lead a very sheltered narrow life.