January 2014 (thread 9) Pregnancy half time is over. Fast growing bumps, braxton hicks and we thought we would worry less!

[Frizz1986]

Hope its ok me setting up a new thread.
Couldnt see one, but if I am just being blind please tell me.....

enjoying I am deffinitely not sleeping well. Partly due to needing the loo and partly cus dh is offshore on nights and I subconcioudky know thats the only time we can talk as he sleeps all day.

nature that is very imoressive!!

I spent 7 hours at the hosputal yesterday due to bleeding. I kept telling them baby was fine cus he/ she was wriggling but I had to have anti-d as im negative. Was so fed up by the end of the day.

Aw, sarahl, that's scary for you. And annoying. Hope it's calmed down now.

How's your niece, by the way?

She's great thanks, awake now too :) still in bristol recovering.

I blead with all my pregnancies so I wasnt too fazed this time . I was more annoyed a woman came in , had her baby and walked out with hin un the carseat in less time than it took them to give me one bloody injection lol. All I heard all day was women screaming as they put me on labour ward triage. I am glad all is ok though.

nature I could never run a marathon. In fact, I struggle to run for the bus well, I would, but I've never tested it

sultana grim grim grim. Autumn is lovely, but the bastarding spiders ruin it every year. I actually hate them. I'm not just afraid of them (I am), but I hate them. They are such fuckers.

extra horrid cat! Have you seen Alan Davies do stand up about what his cats bring in? It's genius...

frizz can you get a star projection lamp, as a cheaper alternative? Like this
Or, could you do a sheet of mdf, with LEDs poked through drill holes and run off a battery (the mains? Not a sparky!) and hang that as a sort of 'false ceiling', IYSWIM? That way you could do real constellations! I love the idea, might have to nick it...

FRIDAY!!!!!!!!!!! Which, by my calculations means three things:

1. Two days off (three for me, as I'm off on Monday, visiting my old supervisor in Liverpool)
2. I have 46 working days until mat leave (minus 6 leave days = FORTY DAYS TO GO! Jesus didn't EAT for forty days, I can do this).
3. pelvic floors. *

*This is not specific to Fridays.

lovelilies - I am married to my OH but I don't have his surname, so I guess the question applies to me too. I think our baby will have his surname. He is a lot more attached to his than I am to mine, and I really don't mind - as long as I can have the final word on first names...

frizz When I was a kid my parents put glow-in-the-dark star stickers on my ceiling and I loved it. They're actually still in my old bedroom I think! It's a cheap solution too... I just realised that MrsA made the exact same suggestion, so I second whole-heartedly!

You are all being very impressive with your marathon runs and nursery decorations!

Still haven't bought anything at all for baby's arrival, and I think we won't be doing a proper "nursery" as we lack the space - but I can't wait to start getting some furniture!

I'm planning to go for a swim tonight after work...it will require a lot of motivation though! I haven't been yet this week, and my aim is to go once a week, so trying to get it out of the way before the weekend laziness begins.

Hi all!
Insomnia - yup... Had it last time too - apparently very common, though actually found last time it was really good practise for sleepless nights with baby. Pros and cons!

Frizz - you can get a star projector light that actually does accurate constellations. There are some that move with seasons too!

Sarah sorry to hear about your stressful hospital visit. Glad all's well though and great to hear your niece is awake. She's a proper superhero!

Lalunya we're the same - married but separate names. DS has DH's name but we're thinking of all going double barrel by deed poll before the big day so we all have the same family name!

sarahl was so busy writing my post, I forgot to refresh. Glad you're okay - and that it didn't worry you too much!

lovelilies I'm married to my OH as well, but also don't have his surname (too tight to pay £100+ to change passport, mainly! Also am Dr Humpty, and think Mr & Dr is weird sounding, plus am published as Dr Humpty, so for career reasons had never changed). Our kids will have his last name though, and I'll probably change mine, but use maiden name professionally. Mainly cos his is easier to spell than mine .

lalunya go swimming - it's SO NICE to feel graceful and light again in the water. I'm not even a massive swimming fan, but it's the highlight of my week now.

ugh, spiders. There's a daddy long legs in the downstairs loo, I've given him the room. DH is on his way home so he can try and reclaim it.

I'm another one have trouble sleeping at the moment, I'm waking up every hour or so. DH hadn't been very sympathetic whilst he's been away so tonight I'm going to wake him up each time, see if he can find some sympathy then!

The night sky ceiling sounds amazing!

humpty I've taken my husbands name but haven't changed my passport yet, I'm not paying full price when there's still 7 years left on it! Passport office says it's fine as long as I remember to book things in my maiden name :)

Nice to know I'm not the only one with bleeding. Hope the rest of you are doing ok

Now being utterly paranoid but is anyone else a bit 'damper' than normal? I'm needing to wear a panty liner but I don't know if it's pee or something else . Sorry, like I said, utterly paranoid mental hormonal woman over here

Oh & my dad did me a night sky ceiling. It was the exact constellations visible on the evening I was born. Bit nuts my Dad but I loved it

enjoying I'm sleeping really badly - just this week though. Takes me ages to go to sleep; I just can't seem to get comfy! Then I'm waking really easily. Was awake for two hours in the wee small hours of this morning - so annoying!

frizz that sounds so so cool! I love that idea!

I am today space. It is GRIM. I've been up since 2am with sodding Braxton Hicks and constant weeing - I think baby flipped over in the night and is pressing on all sorts of internal organs, which I think in turn leads to the increase in pregnajuice. Obviously by 3am I was fully crazy and had convinced myself that I was in early labour, but as yet the baby hasn't turned up so it was just early morning madness. Could do without it though.
Hope the bleeding stops soon space and sarah, even if you know it is all okay it must be pretty scary.
Today is shit. I am knackered and everything feels very heavy. And to top it all, a colleague asked this morning whether I'm sure it isn't twins because I am so massive. No, nobody's thought to check that yet you MASSIVE TWAT
Sorry. Rage day

Humpty - the strange thing is that I AM a massive swimming fan - I even did a swimathon (swimming-marathon - great name ah?) for charity this year... But that moment of getting into the water - after all those years of swimming twice or three times every week, I still HATE it. Any tipps??

extracrunchy - first of all, your name makes me want chocolate biscuits, which is very very bad! double-barrel is great I think, we've thought about it but also never got around to it after the wedding. Paperwork, expenses and all that. Besides, my surname has 7 letters and is quite "tricky" and his is also foreign-sounding, so it would be quite difficult to spell it out every time!

spacefrog I was literally about to write the same thing! Not sure if it smells sweet (like they say amniotic fluid does) or if it's just normal pregnajuice! I'm going to keep an eye on it and if I get really worried let my mw know!

Oh humpty what are you a dr of? I'm a dr of plants and soils probably not much of a suprise it's nature related ! I'm lucky though as I got married before I published so everything is in married name anyway. I only use Dr. in work though. It's like my alter ego, Mrs Nature by night and Dr. Nature by day! Haha

Still buzzing about getting into the marathon. My pregnancy dates mean I was technically carrying bubs when I did it this year . I'm putting my large weight gain down to the fact I was really fit before pg and had lost weight but obviously not possible to keep up that level of training!

space I keep having lots of what I assume are pee spots. Guess only time will tell. I didnt know that amniotic fluid is supposed to smell sweet. May have to do some sniff tests

Thanks for the ideas girls. Will most def have a look at stickers and projectors and investigate the mdf light idea.
I think it would be so cool....

So sorry people have had some really sucky sleeps. I managed to sleep ok last night but am normally awake at 2am flat on my back and in pain so it takes a lot of effort to get up to pee and then return to bed and sort myself out with my pillow.

sarahl so glad things are going well for your niece! but sorry about the bleeding.

humpty you have just forced me to calculate how many days i have left and it is 59!!! (12 weeks left)

And I have just completed some pelvic floors

Apparently it's meant to smell like hay Frizz!

frizz - how do you do your pelvic floors? the only excercise I know are in lying down positions - not very handy when in the office!

Pelvic floors!

Pregnajuice - I think there's supposed to be lots. It is hard to ignore though!

Just realised today if DD arrives when DS did (enormous and totally ready, despite being 36+6) I only have 10 weeks to go!!!! I

Wait pelvic floors aren't you just supposed to clench - as in you can do them anywhere? Have I been doing them totally wrong?!

MrsG ooh, so you can do it cheaply without buying a new passport? Did you change bank accounts/drivers' licence/emails etc?

space I have been for a while. Also different smell. Not 'bad', just way more... ahem... musky... than usual . NAICE.

book have a hug and a virtual . People are cunts.

nature I am a Dr of Egyptology, which is sexy-sounding, but not v useful or employable. It does, however, allow me to pretend that I am Rachel Weisz and that Mr Humpty is Daniel Craig.

lalunya I don't like the moment of getting in the water either! It's a shock to the system, even in a heated pool! As for pelvic floors:
clench your down below parts as if you're mid-wee and trying to stop the flow, whilst holding in a fart. If you do them sitting down, and you clench your bum cheeks/move you are doing them wrong; also do not hold your breath.

frizz I guess that assumes you know what hay smells like...

humpty this is brilliant - I can now actually try to do them every day. I've been trying to squeeze them (ehem) in every night before bed, but I'm usually too knackered to do it! I can do wee squeezes on my bicycle on my way to work now!!

space - your dad sounds brilliant

I had a bright pink artex ceiling space, so I love your dad a bit for being so cool :)