February 2014 - the one where we start to find out if we're team pink or blue!

[jazzcat28]

So I used the magic 1000th post in the last thread... ooops

Just wanted to share this....DH was getting DD ready for bed and before taking her up came over so I could give her a kiss which she rarely does but I like to plant one on her sweet round head anyway then said "Are you going to say night night to the didi (what she calls babies)" and DD kissed my tummy, patted it gently, waved and said "Night night!"

Aw just writing that made me tear up

Ah Dawn that's sweet. DS likes to kiss my tummy and told the cat to 'get off my sister' yesterday when she sat on my lap

mmmn muffins sounds good. I'm thinking jam and then something baked. tarts would be amazing but I won't have the energy to make gluten free pastry after work tmw :( I might do muffins because they're so easy.

Or crumble. I love crumble.

Would it be bad to eat crumble for dinner?

This is what I make with blackberries, it's very good!

www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1967/blackberry-and-apple-loaf

oooh that sounds nice too. So the plan is jam, loaf and muffins my kitchen aid will be overworked tomorrow and my work overfed on Wednesday!

Sounds super yummy Eeyore! Very jealous

Hello,
Really sorry some are feeling pants. I really can't complain. I feel pretty much like me, maybe a little more tired than usual, with a round belly that kicks from the inside...
Of all the boy/ girl indicators I've only noticed one or two - no sickness but no blooming - and much keener for sweet foods... so can't be sure (and won't be finding out yet either!)
Just had a text from a friend saying she's 8 weeks pregnant. Funny as I hadn't yet told her I'm 20 weeks! Haven't been brilliant at sharing the news - can't work out how to drop the bomb at work - to colleagues and students... I decided to keep it quiet til after 20 week scan, which will be Weds, but think it may be becoming 'the elephant in the room'! Hard to hide but hard to drop into conversation! Looking forward to it being common knowledge though.
Hope you all start feeling better soon.

Have you tried blackberry crumble muffins? My local bakery make them and they are heavenly!

Mine is another cross gender child according to that!

I've got 9lb of blackberries from last weekend in my freezer awaiting being turned into wine. Also 12lb of raspberries from the PYO farm for gin and jam. Just waiting for sloes (for gin) and damsons (for wine and jam) to be ready now! It's no wonder I'm tired.

Oh petty they sound amazing!

Just checking in with a scan update. All perfect today at the anomaly scan so the previous scare is well and truly behind us

We're staying team yellow so no big reveal I'm afraid.

19+4

Great to hear that all is ok Amicus x

Ok who lives near by me and is making cakes? You have all made me so hungry and now I am just daydreaming of cakes and muffins. I have absolutely zero energy for baking but I might have to give that microwave one a try.

I have doubled my iron dose now. I am not sure if I am allowed to do that I might have to check with the doctor. But I am so exhausted by about 4pm each day I feel like I am about to drop down dead. Unfortunately it is my busiest time, picking up DD from school, making dinner, homework, bathing children, bedtime stories and then my DD does everything she possibly can think of to avoid going to sleep.

Does anyone else that is this tired feel a bit guilty about the lack of time spent with your DH. Once my DH gets home from work he is usually just in time to help with bed time. Then once DC are in bed I have to go to bed to lie down. I feel like we never get that time we used to have in the evenings because I am just too tired these days.

Ooh my baby has just woken up and is jumping around as I write this. I am carrying this one much higher up than my other two. Even from 10wks the doctor was surprised how high my womb was and asked if I was having twins. All the times I have had heart beat found with Doppler it is quite high also. Maybe I am having and extra large baby. I hope not! My husband was a 10lb baby. Probably lucky both my two were prem as I do not fancy giving birth to a baby that big.

Sassy so glad you have been given time off work. I hope you feel better after some rest.

Hi everyone,

Have been catching up on the thread - normally by the time I've caught up I've run out of time to post anything myself!

Great news on the latest scans, still waiting for mine at the end of September. Sorry also to those feeling poorly, all I can say is that it really will be worth it in the end so stay positive and get whatever help you can.

Love the boy/girl myths. I think mine are about 50/50 so either it's a load of rubbish or I'm having a he-she . I had a dream last night that I was having a girl, told all the family and everyone was upset as they wanted me to have a boy, so I had to keep apologising. I also dreamt last night that I missed my train to work, and I really did miss it this morning, so now am thinking that maybe the baby part will become true too! I'd be happy with another girl or a boy but don't want my family to be disappointed either way (I'm sure they won't!).

More people at my work know now - one guy came up to me today in my large public open plan office and said 'when's it due then' whilst looking at my tummy. I don't really mind people knowing now as I think it's pretty obvious looking at me but it forced me into telling the guy sat next to me too! Apparently another guy guessed after seeing me talking to two of my friends in an office one after the other a few weeks ago! Hate office gossip! The good news is that my boss is thinking about poaching another guy in the office to cover my maternity role who I like so will feel reassured that all will be left in good hands, and that I will also have a job to come back to. His birthday is also the same as my due date so it's fate!

I'm feeling really well at the moment but I have really itchy boobs a lot of the time! Does anyone else get that? It's like that regardless of what bra I wear and is impossible to itch in public!

we need to have a Feb babies baking meet up, shame we're all so scattered across the country.

bedtime for me soon. I've decided 9 pm is the bedtime for me

I'm rubbiish at baking, but am good at the eating bit

Somany - I feel guilty about lack of energy I have to do interesting things with my dd. My dh is resigned to the fact that I've no energy for anything but luckily/unluckily he works shifts so often isn't in on an evening which is bad in one way - no help with dd bath and bed etc but good in another - I can watch as much Corrie etc as I want once got dd to bed! I've also made him sleep in spare room at moment as he keeps waking me and vice versa! X

Somanychanges I know exactly what you mean about feeling like you're abandoning your DH a bit. Once I've managed work, commute, nursery pick up, bath/bedtime for DS (and all on top of his delightful early bird days starting at 5:30am), I'm ready to crash. I'm hopeless with getting food sorted for me and DH at the moment (the sickness makes it hard to food shop and I even struggle trying to focus on doing an Ocado order without feeling queasy) so often have to text him to pick bits up from the shop on the way home. Then I'm no company after we eat - just lounge for a bit then head to bed (where I am now - this is way past my current bedtime so must get to sleep!)

milkandtwo , laura & jazzcat Nutella hot chocolate is the easiest thing in the world. Heat a mug of milk in the microwave or on the hob if you prefer, then stir in about a tablespoon of nutella until it's all melted and mixed in. Divine. I'm guiltily looking at the large almost-empty nutella jar which I have single handedly consumed over the past couple of weeks....

I'm loving the sound of blackberry crumble cakes. However, I have a shedload of cooking apples to use, from my friend's garden, so need to make something with them.

I need to go to bed now, all my cleaning today has worn me out! Plus my mum has come to stay, though she's a fantastic help and generally makes life easier, though I feel like I have to eat at normal-ish times instead of my usual grazing

Just checking in-been on hols for a couple of weeks so will take me ages to catch up as theres a new thread snd everything! Will try and post a bump pic too as seems to have massively grown in the last week!

Got a bit of a cold I think from flight home which is rubbish and still soooo tired and have headaches but no more sickness-yay!!
20 week scan next Fri and can't wait!

18+1

Sugar you are my new hero I actually could kiss you right now .... wanders off to the kitchen in search of milk and Nutella

A baking meetup, excellent idea. Those that don't bake can just eat!

I'm sitting here trying to stay awake and converse with DH when I'd really like to go to bed, as DS isnt sleeping great at moment so is coming in with us at silly o'clock. last night he was a whinging fidget bum too. DS not DH.

I had also forgotten the joys of heartburn and indigestion, back to the big boxes of rennies then.

Loving the idea of a baking meet up :-)