September 2013 - Definitely in the third trimester now!

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New thread... will try to find the stats thread and link...

frog can you just take the things you bought for them in the first place?!

Yet another night of awakeness at 3am. After two of sleeping through, three sleepless nights is a bit boring, and annoying as it is leaving me totally shattered in the morning and disrupting my opportunities for exercise :(

I have also lost a bit of appetite, except where ice cream is concerned! Have been having much smaller meals, but eating more regularly through the day to prevent reflux, so that might be part of it, and the heat; I always eat less in hot weather I think. Probably not a bad thing all round for me as I edge towards my 20kg weight gain mark ...

Knackered here as up half the night with poor DS1 who has growing pains.
Heartburn v nasty here too, had forgotten how sore it can be.

Random question of the day - are kilos either different to our kg or measured differently in Europe? A fb has posted how she's only put on 2 kilos so far at 30wks - surely that's not possible?!

frog I'd be, ahem, politely saying sod off to her too!!

wee sorry you've had a rough night - hope you've not got anything too taxing planned for today

Kilos and kgs are the same - 2.2lbs approx. that doesn't sound like healthy weight gain to me!

Flipping eck my baby weighs 1.2kg on his own!

Yes. According toy app my baby is 1.7kg already, not to mention his placenta, amniotic fluid, plus my breasts and at this stage 50% more blood than before!

If somebody has a total overall gain of 2kg then I'd really really hope it is because she was overweight before and has been losing fat while gaining baby.

I can't see the 2kg comment. . Aww, I want to reply! Was it from the same lady who seems to think a "natural" birth means no pain relief?

The woman who seems to have had lots of drugs in labour and yet still 'did it drug free'...

I still can't see it. When did she post it?

I can't see it either, was just commenting on the terrible drug free thread. Perhaps kitten meant on a different board she reads?

Have to share a comedy work email with you:

background - I secured this work (consultancy) on 27 June 2012 and spent money travelling to three meetings on the other side of the country then suddenly from last August onwards heard nothing..... eventually gave up. They then suddenly got in touch in July THIS year to say 'ok, let's go ahead'... to which I obviously had to say 'well, erm...'

So this is the response:

"I have posted off the attached contract and will try and see what we can arrange as a meeting where we can all get together to set out some groundwork and guess at a tentative programme incorporating your confinement."

'confinement'
Is it the 19th Century again???

My midwife reckons that a natural birth = no pain relief, and pain relief= complication. Nice lady.

first uncontrollable hormonal tears this morning... to be fair I am at our local primary school for the induction morning and DS is my PFB... not even 4 yet, waaaahhhhh

Kitten-It wasn't me but I have only put 5 pounds on and I am 26 weeks. I am told that is just over 2 kilos. So it is possible.

Disclaimer-I am a large lady so I assume I have lost weight elsewhere as my bump is huge!!

Jammy Arrgh! This anti-woman crap really pisses me off. Obviously we all want to have a straightforward labour without any major intervention but it might not be like that. I can't bear the assumption that if you have pain relief you've "failed" in some way. You could have a tooth pulled without drugs - it would be "natural" to feel pain then too - but you don't. So stupid. An open mind and a healthy baby is what I'm aiming for.

Judging by looks alone I'd say just one of my ankles has put on at least a kilo. I don't look at the rest of me. Maybe she missed a zero off?

I know Joskar, it's really unfair and unprofessional too. She told me that if I go into stage 1 labour with the right mind frame I should be able to get through stage 2 on my body's oxytocin alone. Cause ill be so psyched, apparently.

Sorry 29 weeks not 26 lol!!

Only been a couple of days but lots to catch up on...

Pregnancy massage sounds divine running, plan to book one and a pedicure when on mat leave. Had to chuckle at digging a hole in the beach for bump cheese

On the subject of sneezewees, was walking with luggage to hotel on Weds eve when my sandals broke. Then had to ungracefully bend over to unpack spare pair from luggage, along comes a hayfever sneeze attack and a sneezewee didn't trickle but gushed out. Cue clothes and knicker change at hotel. Mortified DP found it hilarious - at least I didn't piss on the pavement...

ION New MW No. 6 has referred me for a late GTT and also a growth check at my 32 wk scan for placental location because I'm measuring big for dates - 33cm at 31+5. On the plus side baby is still head down. WC jab today too which so far doesn't hurt...

Ok, so not a good day. So far I have:
Spent £130 on a 4d scan which I failed to notice didn't include any useful diagnostic checks, just pretty pictures, but after two visits, babybear still won't cooperate so have only half decent pics.
Acquire a gigantic scrape on the front bumper and wheel arch of my car, whilst in a car park, def wasn't me
Park in the wrong car park fir the swimming pool thereby spending £10 on parking instead of £1.30
Spill 1.5 litres of water in the back footwell of the car.

I think im going to spend the rest of the afternoon hiding in case i accidentally kill someone through my lack of attention!?

On a positive note, i found string laundry bags in Decathlon for £1.99 suitable for nappy bin liners, and i have enough gels and bars for an ironman race/12 hour labour :D

Rake-first proper hormonal tears for me too... Had parked in a side street to pick up a parcel from post office, and woman came out of her house to tell me it was residents only.... The street was empty...and my massive bump should have told her I wasn't planning on a 7 hour shopping spree! Anyways I said I was only popping across the road to the post office and would be back in 5/10 mins, she then started a bit of a rant about how they all pay for residents parking (there isn't actually anywhere to park which doesn't involve a large hill...which I'm not tackling in this weather!). I ended up driving to the next street and parking and then sitting in tears for ages... No idea why she bothered me that much... Sodding hormones....

It seems the minor things tip me over the edge....

I know what you mean about minor things tipping you over the edge Fozzie. My DGM has just brought DS home from school. It was the last day of term. She sees all the school gear hanging up and says "Do you want me to store that at my house?" I say "No thanks" but she keeps pushing it saying I've got nowhere to store it. I have plenty of places to store it and every time she comes here and we are not in she takes clothes and other things from the house. If we ask her she denies it. Months later she turns up with them all!!

After that she started to complain about our back garden, asking when we were going to sort it out. It was sorted out last week. She knows this but still felt the need to complain.

I wouldn't be so annoyed about it but I am stressing about how much needs to be done in the house before the baby is here. The back garden is the one area we felt we could cross off the list of things that needed sorting now.

I always feel like a failure when she leaves. Of course, the hormones have made me feel 10 times worse.

I'm the same about my house, we're moving house and I'm practically crazy about making sure the garden is re-turfed before the baby arrives... Honestly a young baby doesn't care about turf! It just wants food, clean nappy and a nice bed...

Hormones are evil!!

I'm so irrational...

Fozzie, speaking with my gardening hat on, this would be a bad time of year to re-turf. Too hot and dry, you'd have to have a sprinkler on twice a day for about three weeks. You should wait until the end of Sept at least (I am assuming you are not doing it yourself, getting someone in to do it or family?)

I've washed some more muslins today and taken delivery of more babygros...

Sorry, busy day at work! The 2 kilo comment was from an old school friend on my Facebook, not someone on here . I haven't commented on her post as we're not close and I didn't want to make her feel like I was calling her fat! She's not, she looks perfectly healthy and has a normal looking bump, which made me wonder if measurements were different or something

Sorry to all the ladies feeling hormonal and weepy - hope a nice sunny weekend will lift your spirits a bit!

DH and I are doing a 2 hour infant first aid course tomorrow afternoon - will report back!

Can we use deepfreeze for cramp? The one in the blue can?