February 2014. Bodystockings at the ready. We make pregnancy sexy.

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Ok we don't. We're sick a lot, cry at adverts, moan about back/hip pain and if we got a quid for each new stretchmark generated we could all give up work and employ a nanny.

In fact if you know any teenagers feel free to show them our threads...we are the most effective contraceptive since sliced bread don't ask.

Ladies...as you were....

Thanks for all the reassurance ladies. I'm going to speak to my boss again today and see what he says. I'm not doing a good job on any of the pieces of work that get thrown my way, then nothing ever happens with the outputs (someone yesterday came over to talk about what we do with the 'urgent' work I spent my evenings on before going on holiday in August!) so regardless of the exhausted emotional pregnant side of it, something needs to change! He's just agreed for my colleague to be seconded to another team without thinking about the consequences of giving away 20% of his manpower... [rolls eyes]

Got my asos maternity clothes delivery yesterday but sadly a lot of it's going back. Found that all the asos own brand stuff came up really big and was cut in a funny way. I was maybe overoptimistic about quality ordering a £5 dress and expecting miracles! Now have an overbump tankini though so can get back to the pool without bursting/falling out of anything.

Right... Time to wake dh up. Looks like he forgot to set his alarm again... (dh also in dog house yesterday because his response to 'I'm so stressed so much to do hate my boss aargh' was 'oh well. here's my shopping list for sainsburys if you're doing the shopping tonight'. He needs his mum here to look after him not his wife )

Morning! Cannot wait for you all to see how rotund I am on Facebook. Il get dressed first though, you guys havepuked enough already.

Handing my matb form and letter in today. Planned to finish at Christmas but still not feeling pregnant so will battle into January I think. misskat I'm the 1st, but have for some reason decided il be giving birth on the 3rd. No idea why.

laura sorry for all the questions yesterday, I think you're amazing. Having said that, DH does nothing around the house so I'm not expecting him to suddenly become a new man. Plus it doesn't help that one of his friends had to announce that he doesn't change his baby's nappy and never will. I seem to have built a rod for my own back in this marriage, wish me luck!

And sorry to hear that others are snowed under too. Only [insert number of weeks here] to go until we get to leave it all behind for a while

shrops exciting day handing your forms in. I sent my form to my boss as he needs to sign it, and he said yesterday he wants to discuss my leaving date with me. erm, I hope he realises it's my decision and he gets no say! I've got 36.5 days of leave accrued somehow, so I'm really tempted not to return after Xmas. I'm so ready to stop work now, but I think that's the tiredness talking!

sunflower I hope your talk with your boss goes well. I can't believe he moved someone away from the team when you're under so much pressure already!

I handed my matb1 form in 3 weeks ago but still haven't told my boss when I'm planning on going on maternity. I want to work until the end of jan if I can (I'm due 3rd feb) so then I get more time off after with baby! But it depends on how fat and waddly I am by then I suppose.
No worries shrops, it's nice for someone to be interested. All my real life friends are a bit 'well it was your decision to keep the baby so it's your problem' sort of thing and although I know they'll help me loads once he's here it would be nice for them to show they care slightly!!
I did prego yoga for the first time last night. It was good but not what I'm used to! Felt like throwing a few body combat moves in there to spice it up a bit. Plus baby was being naughty. How hard it is to concentrate standing on one leg when you have a baby booting you in the side
Looking forward to seeing bump pics will take mine shortly.

So I woke up at disgusting o'clock last night, and unable to get back to sleep had a gander at the MN app on my phone, and found a really interesting thread about breastfeeding and booze. Someone in the comments linked to this blog post, where a mum drank varying levels of booze and then forensically tested her breast milk for alcohol levels at intervals afterwards. (I don't think it'd pass an ethics test for a wider sample, but still, if you can't experiment on yourself who can you experiment on?)

I thought, in case anyone else was like me and missing a pint of cider/glass of wine every so often, I'd repost here

Original MN thread:
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/breast_and_bottle_feeding/1868659-Come-and-talk-to-me-if-you-know-lots-about-boobs-and-booze

Blog post where the scientist/Mum goes into her findings:
biologybrain-simonsays.blogspot.co.uk/2008/12/alcohol-content-of-breast-milk.html

tl:dr is that unless you are blotto, you are probably ok to feed. Whether or not you drop the baby is a different question...

gnittinggnome Awesome! Because the first thing I want after D-Day is a chocolate porter and lots of sushi :D

DH is coming down with a cold and I reeeally don't want it. Bah.

Great gnitting!!
I've told everyone they are under no circumstances to bring me flowers or chocolate after the baby is born. I will only accept prosecco.

gnitting dh and i both have the coordination of... well... I'm fairly sure this bambino is going to get dropped sober hopefully not very far

Have just (unprompted) had a grovelling apology from my boss. He's going to do the extra this week and refuse the other demands that are being placed on him. Will see how long it lasts but feeling much better about it now.

My bump is feeling huge today. I know this is a few months away from being an issue, but does it ever get to a stage where a big baby gets induced early because it's looking too big?! Really paranoid now about giving birth to a little sumo wrestler.

I would love a glass of really nice red wine. With some gooey brie and then maybe some smoked salmon. Bliss

Am not going back after Xmas either I don't think. And am seriously counting down the days. So nice to be be on the closer side to edd than half way!

I could murder a g&t right now too.

And gooey bree. My auntie lives in france so I'll be taking the little one for a visit next summer to get to know her great aunt and subsist only on smelly cheese

champagne I don't blame you not wanting to go back to work after Christmas. DS was due end of June and I went on holiday/mat leave at start of May. The walk to work was bad enough but as a retail manager I was on my feet most of the day and pretty miserable by the end of April. we were also staying with a friend between boat sale & house purchase There is no way I could have worked any longer. The time out was well worth it, to just chill out reading and watching crap tv/dvds.

Hmmm, not sure how looking after a toddler and being heavily pregnant will be much of an improvement.

I had a consultant appointment this morning where I would also find out whether she wanted to do growth scans, she doesnt, this now gives me a dilemma of shelling out for a gender scan I cant really justify the money on or not. Dammit.

I had some looovely champagne on the weekend and managed to limit myself to just one glass. I was pg at a similar time with ds and do recall my mum torturing me with winter pimms over christmas. Again, I limited myself to 1 per day for a couple of days only. It was such a struggle though!

Another wedding this weekend but I doubt there will be any decent drinks on offer so should be slightly less tortuous except dh will be blind drunk with his family but he can roll home to them instead

champs do share a bump pic, I'm sure yours will appear soon!

sunflower that's great of your boss, I hope he continues that way.

I'm really really tempted to finish before Xmas. I've had enough of work, and with a two hour commute each way I get so tired. I've already said I won't travel in December.

No movement from baby today. Nothing at all. What's the plan when I get home, I'm thinking ice cold water, some pregnancy pilates and then knees to chest?! I know it's too early to worry and baby is probably just tucked away kicking inside me. I've already tried poking the bump all over and hot drinks. Poor baby!

I have instructed DH that I want a chills bottle of hoegaarden (Belgian beer) ready for as soon as my baby pops out! I miss it so much! It's so strong I can't even have a half as it's still about 1 1/2 units really want some warbutons toasty white bread toasted with Brussels pate too! Dunno what I'll do at chrimbo as I usually spend Christmas Day drinking pink sparkly fizz - I guess I'll have to make do with a giant box of quality street instead.

Still waiting for work to confirm they'll pay someone to work whilst I'm still there for a few days I have a transition. Although they told HOD that they have the interview ready to go in the tes in two weeks and it says starting December. I've told them provisionally I'll be off from jan ago who knows what they're planning.

Awww one of my year 10s who is so excited about the baby exclaimed about how big I was getting today and started rubbing my belly! Lol! One of my 11s was being a dick too and all the girls just started shouting at him to stop as I'm pregnant - bless them.

Shropshire I keep accidentally saying I'm due on 2nd feb so maybe mine will arrive then (or I just need to actually remember the right date lol!)

Phew starting meditation classes tonight so better go and get ready. I've been before and they're great for chilling out and hopefully will be useful for calming myself down in labour! x

I've now handed in my mat B form at work and they've ok'd my plan to use leave (which I'll lose if not taken by next June) so my official finish date is 11th December!!! I then officially start my mat leave on 10th Feb a week before baby is due.