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

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

I get lots of random aches and pains too - had a really painful one the other day, but it was very clearly a stretching pain! Baby feels like it's swirling around in my tummy, was moving so much yesterday. Feels very different to anything else I've felt in there before!

For 3 weeks I've been getting very sudden, sharp stretching pains high up at belly button level. Seems to happen more during physical activity and is over as quickly as it starts but its enough to make me stop moving and make an involuntary, weird noise.

v quick update after scan. All fine, placenta at front which explains lack of movements. baby eeyore was very fidgety still team yellow

Glad to hear the scan went well Eeyorish.

Aww, yay! Hope that has eased your fears a bit.

Oh meant to ask, is anyone being woken up by baby yet? I woke at 3.30 feeling strong movements and noticed my stomach was sticking out at a very weird angle. God knows what baby was attempting to do in there but I wish it would wait until morning.

Tiny I'm going to buy the ASOS parka as soon as they email me a deal, which they will anyday. I buy 75% of my clothes from there and they send so many discounts through you can end up with a steal. Hold tight Tinypolkadot. It's totally not my style, but thought it looked cosy and might give me a cool edge that I really lack.

Looooaaaads of random tummy pains, just assumed it was all normal though so haven't worried too much. I worry far more about what my first baby purchase will be.....

Good tip Shropshire thanks, I'll hold off for a bit longer. Not my style either, but it just looks lovely and warm!

Not been woken up by baby thingy but it was kicking away this morning when my alarm went off, I wonder if it heard and didn't like it

Oh tiny I love the ASOS one!
Bit pricey for my too.
But if I got a discount...?!
shropshire how do you get discount details from them?
Join up to their email updates maybe?

19+5 today. Spent the day at home with DD throwing up and I have flu. Hard going..

Good news eeyorish ! I've been having loads of random aches and pains too, mentioned it to mw yesterday when she asked how I was feeling and got a very condescending "well you are pg" so assume it's all normal

Good idea 212 I've just signed up to their email. Never mind a baking meetup, we'll have to have an ASOS pregnancy parka meet up

Yup 212, but also I have paid to be a Premier account holder which means I get free next day delivery on everything which for someone like me who sees something and needs it within 24hrs otherwise il explode, it's handy. God forbid I go overdue. They also send me extra discount codes which I will of course share on here with everyone that hasn't said Henrietta is a horrible name joke.

On an unrelated and sad note, I keep thinking about all those people that were in this group pre 12 weeks that have stopped posting. I know that you're not out if the woods til after 12 weeks but its still sad. I don't take it for granted that my baby will make it, but I just keep remembering the girl who had twins who lost one but was so upbeat about the other one surviving then she disappeared. And the girl who was a midwife. I hope they're all healthy, happy and pregnant and just couldn't bare reading what I had to write so joined netmums. We are lucky. Especially all of you who get to hear my daily thoughts and musings.

Shropshire that's so true, I feel so blessed after the scan and feel for those for whom it hasn't worked out for this time. It's not the sex=baby we were taught at school.

Henrietta is a gorgeous name, I also like hermione (sic) but I wouldn't use it after harry potter.

I was planning to invest in a maternity coat but I don't see much point unless my bump starts to grow! The new look snood one at £29 is a very tempting bargain though.

Just back from my scan! All fine and I'm TEAM BLUE!!!

Yay, good news Laura

Congrats Laura!
All fine babywise here but feeling so grumpy and stressed.
It's not like me to argue but have managed to fall out with husband (resolved very quickly) and sister this week. I still feel upset by some things said by my sis, and I've never fallen out with her before.
Work is very busy and I'm not quite full time. My only day off a fortnight is tomorrow and I've got so much work to do in it. it sucks. All I want to do is swim and cook - not work.
Sorry to whinge but this feels like a good place to do it!

Ah laura that's brill, you knew he was a boy!!

I can't bring myself to buy a coat that I might only wear for one winter... am planning to wear my current coat open with several jumpers and scarves!

Shropshire that ASOS model looks a bit like you, no?

And yes - you are so right about how lucky we are. I'm still beyond nervous about something going wrong...I know it's statistically unlikely at this point, but (okay, innermost crazy workings of my mind here) sometimes I feel like I've been so lucky with other things in my life that I don't deserve this luckiness too. And then you see women on MN who have had children die and I just think, how do you carry on after that? I'm so amazed by them all.

Anyway - depressing/mad interlude over. DH back tomorrow after a week away and I CAN'T WAIT.

yes you are so right that we should count our blessings. 2 of my closest friends have just let me know they're expecting, one after suffering a miscarriage earlier this year. It's early days and I'm so happy for them.

Apparently we are in for a bitter winter, so I think we will all need very warm winter coats.

On my August 2010 antenatal thread we suffered loads and loads of miscarriages. And a very early stillbirth :(

I'm hoping a lot of the people who don't post just haven't had time etc. I know everybody's different but when I miscarried in march I wanted to be taken off the November list so I let the girls on the November thread know. I couldn't bear to have the details left on there.

We are all lucky to be having healthy pregnancies (although some not feeling so healthy at times I know!)

Great scan news everyone. Has everyone's hunches on team blue or pink been right so far? I can't wait to find out next Friday!

I heard another theory on scan pics and sex of baby. Apparently you look at the forehead. It's supposedly more pronounced on boys. True for my 2 when I compare them....

Thanks girlies
I'm very happy, I knew all along he was a boy I just knew! Must be my maternal instinct kicking in!
Shropshire I'm with you on the ladies with losses. It's really sad and I'm really grateful we have all managed to get this far! Lets hope for healthy pregnancies for the last few months.
Glad your scan went well Eeyore

Oh laura I am sooooo happy for you. Are we going with Leon then? And can I please have custody of your girls names?! Although I want a boy now...!

Marzi have I ever told you how much I love you? unless you're just buttering me up for a discount code But on a serious note, get yourself to Specsavers love.

Sorry to put a downer on the day with my last post, just feeling philosophical. may even consider Socrates as a boys name but don't think Percy Socrates Seward has much of a ring to it

So on summary, and on Vix warning of a bitter winter, the coat is a deffo, as I think is Hetty. Just need to run it past DH.

I'm so jealous of all the scans - I still have several weeks til mine! Well, 3 weeks. I have got my 16w appointment on Thursday (when I will be 17+5) but I don't think the MW will listen for the heartbeat

On a brighter note, loving the asos parker but I already have the h&m one which I think could be worn post maternity as it hangs quite nicely without a bump. It doesn't have the lovely sheepskin lining though but I'm thinking it will be good for autumn and in spring? I still have my grey wool new look maternity coat from ds so I will hopefully be toasty warm this winter.

I'm going to bed soon as I want to write today off (DS got up at 5.30am, I smashed my phone against a wall and the house is a wreck) and start again tomorrow!

Well we had the scan today. All was well and we're team PINK!! I am absolutely ecstatic. Another boy would have been wonderful as I know what I'm doing with boys, haha, but am really excited to be having a girl, and I had an inkling (as did DH though he wouldn't say beforehand) just because of how very differently I felt this time, and how I couldn't get girls out my head. My boys are extremely excited about the prospect of having a little sister, which is fabulous.

Congratulations laura and eeyore on your scans :)

The NewLook coat is a bargain eeyore - mine came today and is super cosy and comfortable as well as being fairly smart. Also due to the hidden buttons being near the top and the wraparound style, I'm reckoning I can use it beyond the pregnancy. I'm already glad of it as it's been freezing today, and apparently we're due snow in October

Shropshire I think about them too. I've been on many antenatal club threads and often it's been me, sometimes I've told others when I MCd, sometimes I couldn't even face it and just disappeared from the threads. I am constantly paranoid that something will go wrong still - I don't think I'll relax til I have a baby safely in my arms.