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

I've noticed rib pain this week, also mainly on my right hand side! I'm wondering if it's because I still wear a couple of underwired bras and maybe they're pinching a bit. Don't think it's as bad with my non wired ones.

Sosorry Somany!

Where did I get that from? Maybe I'm psychic?

Are you pink or yellow? If you post it on the stats il update next time xxxx

I am praying to be on team pink. If you are psychic I will cry. That's awful isn't it, hopefully I won't cry and at least I will have a while to get used to it. I will be happy by the time baby comes whatever the sex. But now I have fallen in love with my daughters baby clothes all over again I have to use them. So if it is team blue he will be wearing pink clothes for the first 6 months. I won't be so mean as to put him in a dress but he may wear a fair few flowery babygrows.

little, bugsy, I initially thought the rib pain was indigestion, but after googling it seems like it could be the pain as our ribs stretch out. I'll try a different bra, all of mine are underwired. It's putting a stop to my eating though, which may not be a bad thing!

Somany none of us are judging you, I'm happy to swap if I have a girl? I can't make up my mind what I'd like.... I come from a family of girls, all the nice baby clothes I've seen are for girls, apart from Henrietta I have no names and I don't think I've changed a boys nappy before. BUT I would love to have the first boy, and I feel I need to have my Percy now just to prove a point!

On another note, I have my 3yr old godson for a whole day next week. He lives in Cyprus so although I FaceTime all the time I never really spend much time with him. Apart from a dog walk with blackberry picking I've got no plans or idea. Anyone got any suggestions? I'm not averse to spoiling him x

I went to pregnancy yoga for the first time last night. It was a bit woolly compared to the yoga I went to on and off before, but it was unexpectedly lovely to meet other pregnant ladies (except then my anxiety kicked in as I walked to the car because I had dared to do something new and I trembled involuntarily for a bit. Frickin anxiety).
If the lady who was 25 weeks is anything to go by, I should have a properly pregnant bump in 7 weeks!

I've booked a midwife appt today, hopefully she'll take a swab and I can find out I've only got thrush.
I also hold out hope that she'll let me hear the heartbeat again as I get paranoid even at this early stage when I haven't felt any little kicks for a while :)

I wish there was a pregnancy yoga near me, it sounds really good - especially the meeting people bit! I've ordered a dvd so hoping to start that soon.

I've turned into a proper clumsy pregnant lady, can't stop walking into things or knocking things over. Just grazed my knee walking into the washing basket!

Might have to get to Aldi later, hope they still have some stuff left!

Sunflowered.....I was on a sober girlie wkend last wkend, initially on the Friday night when they were all getting smashed I was jealous I wasn't drinking........Saturday morning when the hangovers were in full swing I was secretly smug (ok outwardly smug!!!)

Aw. that's a shame that you don't. But yay DVD! Doing it apparently has some statistically significant positive outcomes for length of labour.

I tried pregnancy yoga once back when i was pregnant with dc2 the teacher thought it was amusing i didn't have a record of due date yet as periods still hadn't sorted themselves out post dd and 'oop north you only used to get one scan at 20 weeks so no dating scan. Fair enough but then when she mentioned it when the paper interviewed her i got a bit miffed probably over sensitive but i never went back.

Good luck with the mw Julietee fingers crossed it's just the thrush seems weird to be wishing that on someone

Somany I will admit I was in tears when i found out dc3 was a boy at scan it took me about a week to get over it I did and of course by the time i was due i just wanted to meet him and he is wonderful but that first week post scan i was very upset.
We've been getting proper kicks for a few weeks now and they are starting to be felt by dp. Can't wait till they are much stronger and I can snuggle up to him and then little one can hoof him in the back. Well sharing is caring they say
I'm going to have to dap over to baby names at some point now we know the gender

durk - I definitely don't miss hangovers Will be up bright and early on Saturday irritating everyone else with my chirpiness!

On an unrelated note, so far today dh has left his lunch at home, forgot to put his trainers into his gym bag, then left his gym bag on the train. I'm not 100% sure I'm going to trust him to remember the baby every time they go out...

...but am starting lazy daisy preggo tai chi hypno yoga on Monday, so by feb i'll be so chilled out I probably won't care.

Now my bump has popped out I can see where baby is! It's so cool, this morning it was clearly lying to one side.

Morning! Am absolutely going to have about three of those Tigger outfits for Bean, I can see. So long as I can get a range of sizes, we'll be good

Plus, getting back to caffeine - I've found M&S decaf tea to be really good - very tasty, and the right texture, somehow. Might be worth a shot if you're worried about caffeine :-)

Sunflowered - please will you let me know what the lazy daisy yoga is like as considering joining a class here

Will do sassy I've never got into non-preg yoga before but after hearing about a friend of a friend's recent yoga-assisted dream birth (not even on gas and air right til the end) I'll give it a go for a few weeks.

Well, the midwife made me cry. Not because of any bad news, thank god, just because she was mean.

I forgot my notes (wasn't a routine appt and I didn't have time to go and get them from my mum's) and she almost wouldn't talk to me.
She did the hearbeat (yay!) but refused to do a swab and treated me like my appointment wasn't valid, despite my having booked it the normal way, and she didn't want to answer any other questions I had before hustling me out the door with another telling off.

She repeated the 'go to a&e if you have any concerns' thing - which, I'm sorry, wtf? I'm not sitting through a&e whenever I have a question. This is because they can't keep up with their questions answermachine, I assume.

julietee if you have a question that you can't get answered on here phone the antenatal ward number on your notes that's who i have to phone out of regular hours so presumably they are used to answering questions.
I'm sorry you had such a bad appointment today I've forgotten my notes before lost them once in a previous pregnancy only for the mw to take up another booking appointment redoing a set and then found them again but my mw at the time wasn't ever short with me at least not to my face. So you didn't deserve that at all.
You can still see the doctor even though you are pregnant so if you don't fancy doing the rounds with her over the swab thing you could get an appointment with your gp or even explain what it is your worried about to a gp over the phone and they might just book you in a quicky appointment with the nurse to get the swab done but you are best trying to get in soon before flu jab season hits.
Talking of flu jabs when are we supposed to do those do we have to be a certain date I need a gtt which isn't for another 7 weeks yet but as it will take place at doctors and involves being a human pin cushion i might as well get the flu jab at the same time if they will let me mw i saw at hospital seemed to think it would be ok.

Bunny I asked about flu jabs at my scan on Tuesday. Midwife said you have it after 28 weeks and they don't start doing them until October anyway

You can have the flu jab as soon as possible, I booked mine this morning for when I'll be 26 weeks. It's the whopping cough jab that's 28 weeks.

Just went for a little nap, woken up two hours later! Oops. Back to work now!

oh dear... my gp practice have booked me in for early october when i'll be about 20 weeks... They didn't ask how many weeks I was so hope it's ok to get it done that early. I worked in a big hospital at the height of the swine flu outbreak so after seeing the impact that had I'm a bit over-keen to have the jab as soon as they'll let me.

oops - x post eeyore

I'm Team Blue! Absolutely delighted that everything is ok and I get a third little boy. He worried us for ages as we couldn't see his stomach so we had to go back later but everything is fine. I feel so lucky and really blessed.
Time to buy cute blue things. DP has his eye on a Superman sleepsuit as well as a Forest kit. Poor kid.

congrats thingy