MARTIANS 2014 - Thread 9: Heartbeats, hormones and more Gregg's pasties than you can shake a stick at!

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Welcome Martians!

F&T, I am brutally intolerant of anything coming into the house which is not immediately useful including th'usband I'm glad your 'moment' has passed. I keep having worst-case-scenario anxieties about this baby, too, but they are more horror images of it as a teenager. I will be 58 years-old when this child is sixteen and I am afraid that I will not have the same capacity to strangle it at that age as I do now.

Ta Pirates that'll do me for half an hour

Jolls. I forgot to mention the added problem that I am limited in what I can eat (due to the sickness) plus DH has to do the food shopping and cooking (due to sickness) which limits what is available to be eaten.

F&T yes you are right that vitamin c is weed out rather than stored in the body. This is because it is water soluble (as are B vitamins). Fat soluble vitamins we can store.

thinking of it like that BWP it does sound quite restrictive. Does Nesquik have vit C added?

...can't imagine what we'd put in the fruit and veg bowls if OH did the shopping. Maybe mushrooms? He buys a lot of mushrooms for some reason. Just bog standard ones, in gargantuan quantities.

OH took me out to a chinese buffet for dinner, couldn't really be arsed but ended up stuffing my face, came home and drank 4 capri-suns that's another box gone! Now I'm lying in bed feeling awful and I can't even get any sympathy cause it's all my fault for being a greedy fat cunt! :(

Congrats on the baby girl news Rock!!

So is that 2 girls and 1 boy in the Martians club so far? And who's next for the reveal? :)

I don't know whether nesquick has vitamin c but you'd have it with milk and that would inhibit the iron absorption. (Calcium, zinc, tannins and phytates all inhibit iron absorption.)

Kara, I was like that the other week when we went out to a ribs restaurant and I are so much I was groaning with discomfort for the rest of the day.

I'm wearing skinnies today, normal ones, and I'm so uncomfortable that I'm craving a onesie. But I just can't buy one. I could change into something looser but I cba to get up off the sofa. Idiot.

BWP - you have officially beaten me...I bow to your superior knowledge (yet feel sorry I can't be more help )

Come on Lyra, up you pop. That was all said in my special 'mum' voice by the way.

Congrats Rock! It must make it all so real to know.

My next scan is on 10th October. Feels like forever.

Yes mum!

Rock Congrats! .

My mother is here using our washing machine (theirs is broken). She's got two loads to do. Is it awful if I go to bed and leave her watching DP play GTA?

Aw Jolls, it wasn't a competition. And I do appreciate your efforts to help - it makes me feel cared about.

It works, it works! (capers around living room). I'm going to try my 'mum voice' on my colleagues next.

I've changed into a loose and shapeless skirt. Aaaaaahhhhh!

I care about all of you BWP...I told you all I cried because drivers stopped so geese could cross the road and for some outlandish reason, nobody laughed at me! And people are lovely on my bad days

I've cheered up a lot today, feel kind of like me again. Hope it lasts.

I have a stabby pain in my left nipple. I have NEVER felt such pain in my life. Holy shit I cannot squeeze a baby out of my foo-foo! I am so pathetic nowadays, does being pregnant lower your pain threshold? Cause I cried last week when I got my eyebrows waxed. I am really worrying about childbirth, I wanted a NATURAL labour!

lyra I've been wearing my maternity jeans and leggins this last week, bump is nowhere nearly big enough to be lounging around in big stretchy keks but tbh I am wayyyy past giving a fuck! :)

to Imeg - we're all here for you.
Enjoying the 1940s tips but will definitely NOT be sticking baby outside for the night - co-sleeping all the way (well, until the need for a 3am feed stops). Baby can breathe in my stinky breath - never harmed DD2.

Kara, no offence but you're fucked when you go into labour.

Lyra, please will you describe the ribs you had when you dined out? Were they succulent, fat, juicy bastards? What sauce were they in?

Kara I think everyone has that panic. There's a long way to go before you need to think about that bit seriously!

Congrats Rock - so pleased I got one right!

F and T hope you're feeling a bit better.

Obediently drinking water and doing my kegels - thanks for the reminders everyone.

I'm watching Paul Gascoigne on ITV. Now that's a fucking train wreck

Pram, we want to Tony Roma's. I had a full rack of juicypork ribs in Carolina Honeys sauce, which is quite sweet, and lots of sides (onion rings, loaded potatoes etc). I was so full I waddled home

Yesterday DP and I went to a Wetherspoons for lunch and I had the worst fish and chips ever. Overcooked and more batter than fish. Bleurgh. Why do I eat out when I have a live-in chef?

Kara with the waxing! your blood flow is increased which can make your skin more sensitive. I think labour will be a whole different board game. But don't worry. You will cope

Lyra there's nothing like a decent rib. And nothing more disappointing than a shit one!

Pramstafarian how'd the house hunting go?