MARTIANS 2014 - Thread 8: Scans done, bumps showing, first flutters

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sunshine I've no advice I'm afraid, hope you fell better soon tho.

I've bought a set of totsbots but no idea if they are any good or not!

Feel not fell

Given the choice, I think we'd all rather poo in work time than free time Jolls

maybe baby shows?! i want in! haha yes i couldn't think of a name and looked around the room, saw the grey goose and thought greymoose, that'll have to do haha!

thanks f&t those links look really helpful, so confusing!

pram yes to the lactulose - we're def allowed, i quite like the taste of it too!

i thought id really like a corner sofa, we have one in here as our one (my favourite thing I've ever owned) wouldn't fit through the door and is sat neglected in storage, but i always feel a bit odd sitting on this corner one. might just be the room though, as big open plan rooms make me feel a bit uncomfortable for some reason!

Liking your thinking Grey

Baby shows are where it's at!!

Random question...can I breast feed normally with my boob that until about 6 months ago had the nipple pierced?

Jolleigh, it's sometimes called fifth disease because it's the next common childhood rash illness after measles mumps rubella and chicken pox.

The risk is mostly prior to twenty weeks (I am 14 weeks) and it can cause complications with the baby with a 9% risk of it causing the baby to die. There are some interventions they can do to improve outcomes though so if you are exposed they test for immunity and then if you aren't immune you are tested a month later to see if you caught it. Then if you did you'd be referred to foetal medicine for monitoring.

PiratesMam, I'm on ondansetron for the sickness. I've had most things but none of them have been effective except for this and cyclizine made me more sick.

Oh and slapped cheek disease is no concern at all for DD - it's made her rather grumpy and she's sleeping more than usual but it's nothing at all to worry about for her. (And I guess a good thing for her to have now as it then avoids potential worry in pregnancy!)

nomaybe what is a baby show?!?!?!? I've tried looking it up but all I've found is pageant type things! I'm guessing you don't mean this, is it like the wedding things where they have a load of stalls?

DH and I are off to the Baby Show in London at the end of October. Haven't bought anything yet so that will be when we check everything out. We should plan a mass mnet visit to the show!

We were looking at that one too sunshine . We haven't decided if we're going yet though.

We went to the baby show in the NEC. Everyone seemed to be buying sterilisers. Was quite good for seeing all the different prams etc.

Grey, 'baby show' was probs a typo. MarbieDoll's proof-reading has gone to shit since she got diffed

Fucking hell, Lyra, you can't still be having sex surely?

I can't think of anything worse than having no money and going to a baby show

In fact...I can't think of anything worse than going to a baby show

Grey moose, we do elimination communication and I use bambino mio nappy wraps just because they were what I happened to try first due to stuff being sold off in Boots and found them good. Then, while newborn I just used a flannel inside instead of a prefold until wees got too big for one flannel at which point I started using either two flannels or the first size of prefold. (Well actually with DD1 I started with terry squares and plastic pants and then moved on to muslin squares with plastic pants but then discovered the other stuff in time for DD2 and it's much quicker and easier for taking on and off and creates less washing.

Sunshine I have gone days without food in some of my pregnancies without it causing harm to the baby. However, if you continue to not keep anything down, you may become dehydrated and need IV fluids - the last time I was admitted to hospital for hyperemesis gravidarum there was a lady admitted with a sickness bug and she was given similar treatment to what I was (although because hers was just a bug it cleared up nicely unline mine).

Joll yes you can, I only took both my piercings out when I did my pregnancy test, my friend breast fed with her piercing still there (taking it out each feed and replacing afterwards but said it was difficult keeping the piercing clean this way). There's not much research into it but lots of anecdotal account of successful breast feeding with nipples that have been pierced.

thanks thanks thanks for your kind words peeps. Just feeling sorry for myself and panicking at two of these Went to garden and phoned a friend...great distraction (I did of course check on little darling intermittently before anyone thinks I'm being too harsh! ). I am sure his head was rotating at one point ...He now sleeps angelically. Hope all those other littledarlings are asleep too . off to watch last night's breaking bad now

oh you had me until you said london. i am going there to see jay-z (seated tickets obviously) in october and that fulfils my london quota for the next year or so.

am looking into whether they have the same sort of thing either cardiff/bristol/southwest but no luck grr

prambo

jaysus smiley overkill there sorry!

Thanks owlinatree - I know it's fifty fifty whether I'm immune already and then if I'm not fifty fifty whether I catch it so overall the risk of anything bad happening is low but having lost a baby at five months pregnant before it makes me worry more and I really do not want to have to go through that again.

i also was thinking the same re: lyra hahahha

thanks poem i am hoping theres a nappy library type thing locally or something!

grey, how can you like lactulose? I'm on the maximum dose and I have to force myself to have it every day. It's only the fear of the consequences if I don't that keeps me taking it. Yuck!

haha poem i don't know it tastes like toffee or something! i also still take calpol. now benilyn, that makes me gag. vile.