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

[DawnOfTheDee]

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....

Our move went well thanks thingy hope yours did too.such a pain having to change surgery, I was happy to stay at my old one but they had different ideas.

I have become annoyed by our neighbours already! I'm sure they've nicked our bins because they looked newer. Do we steal them back or just accept the older looking ones? I don't want to fall out with them as we're permanent neighbours now.

Hope you find a solution to the bed situation soon julietee

I handed my MATB1 in to my boss this morning. He has promptly shredded it by accident and now I have hot to get another one. I am loathing my job at present. Spend my afternoon being verbally abused by a customer who threatened to throw my computer at me and still stressing about a long-running problem which could cost me my job and which has STILL not been resolved two months on. I can't help but feel guilty that my work is having a detrimental effect on my DD who is clearly struggling with long days in school then after-school club, and the fact that I need the bloody job so much when I hate it so much. Sigh.
All I want to do is finish work and know that I can afford to bring my children up happily. 40 more working days till I finish for mat leave (assuming I make it that far) allowing for 4-day working week and half term off, finishing on 19th December.

I haven't got a Mat B1 from yet, must get on to it, and also let work know when I will start mat leave. I am really tired but think I could cope with a stint after Xmas. Need to sort out nursery, spurred on by pix on FB this week. We have most things already. I need a baby monitor - our trusted Tommee Tippee thing is not so trusted now. Anyone done the research on monitors yet?

And to add weight to the cockwombles on public transport thing, I (looking about 7 months pregnant) have just given up my seat on a packed train to a chap on crutches cos no other fucker was going to!

Oh please nick your bins back tinypolkadot. You won't fall out with them....they'll just nick them back at a later date.....then you can nick them back. It's nice to have a hobby...something like that would keep my entertained for months

I once had a long-running 'feud' with the guy who delivered our chinese takeaway. He used to sit in the street in his car so you'd have to go out to him to get it like some dodgy drug deal. The feud culminated in me physically holding back DH (who wanted to go out to get our chinese) and me proclaiming in a shrill voice "No! He WILL come to us!". I think me and the delivery guy both enjoyed it really. I was sorry when he left.

Cockwombles

But that kind if behaviour unacceptable...you definitely need to let some pregnancy rage out!

Scan this mooooorning :) :)

dawn that gave me a good giggle to start my day.

I was saying to dh yesterday that my idea of a good nights sleep has changed so much since having DS. When I was pregnant with DS, a good nights sleep was not ever had after 20 weeks because I was awake every 2 hours with leg cramps or needing a wee, or just needing to turn over.

This time round, if I manage to get any configuration of 7 hours broken sleep I am happy So I'm definitely finding that aspect easier this time around.

DS has brought a nasty cold home from nursery so we are all in various stages of that at the moment. Got my flu jab on 21st October, so hoping to avoid anything too nasty until after that

Thingy the other bus passengers sound absolutely awful. How can they be so selfish?

Aw I've been sent home from work, was exhausted, headache, feel sick dodgy tummy, didn't even teach 1 class... Feel really guilty now cos feeling a lot better now I am home.

Champagne thanks for the matb1 info. As I am my employer I guess I can stop fretting! Was worried it was a hmrc issue...

Champagne I'm freaking out about UTIs too! I don't know if increased bladder sensitivity recently is a preggo thing or a UTI thing.

Please do write to Metro with a public service announcement though!

I pee over my hand more than in the pot champagne! I can't seem to aim right

Is anyone else really breathless? I feeling and obese person climbing stairs. Even if I am just sitting down I just feel like I can't catch a breath. I felt like this when heavily pregnant with my other two but at 5 months? Really?

I can't pee in a pot to save my life. Last time they just gave me the dipstick to pee on which was groundbreakingly simple. Still managed to pee on my hand though.

I get breathless more easily than I used to before - especially when I'm starting to fall asleep and my body's relaxing. lazy daisy teacher said it's something to do with increased blood volume but your lungs can only keep filling it with the same amount of oxygen so you feel like you need more to get it up to its normal concentration. But obviously speak to gp/midwife if you're concerned.

Julietee I hope you've worked out a way forward with your friend. It might just be that she's had a few busy weekends in a row and hasn't had time to get in touch but am sure it won't hurt to clear the air so you know where you both stand.

Today my bladder has mainly been used as a football. I will be having words with this child if it doesn't start to behave by bedtime.

Somany - I sometimes feel breathless going upstairs or pushing dd in pushchair!

Sunflowered - how are you finding the lazy daisy classes - worth a go? X

Hmmm... More than I used to before... As opposed to more than I used to in the future?! I have a language degree and an english a level but I'm going to be incoherent after another 19 weeks of baby brain!

I've just signed up for a second block of classes. They're not exactly a workout but I really like the way the basic movements are all linked to things that will help in labour plus things that might help every day (never thought I'd be so keen to do exercises to relieve constipation!) It's all about making the movements intuitive so on d day you don't need to remember it, you just do it. Plus there's a theme every week which for a birth novice has been quite useful (so far, breathing, movement to support labour, and keeping adrenaline under control).

Somany - yes yes yes to breathlessness. Stairs, hills and fast walking are all becoming extremely difficult now!

Yes to the breathlessness too! I've had it for a few weeks now, even when speaking lots :( I'm asthmatic so was expecting it, but I'm really trying to keep it under control during pregnancy.

Thanks for the contract tips champagne - I sent yet another email yesterday saying 'are you working tomorrow and if so can we schedule a call, as emails clearly aren't progressing things' He promised we'd speak today but... Nada. So frustrating. I'm tempted to offer to just write my own contract (I have templates from when I ran a small company) and just present for a signature, but actually I can't be arsed and shouldn't have to be arsed. I'm only getting statutory anyway so I suppose I don't really need one but it's become a matter of principle now and I'm a stubborn old goat!

On breathlessness (which I also have) it's not just about compression on lungs and diaphragm, hence bein able to experience it when only small of bump:
"Another contributor to shortness of breath in pregnancy is progesterone. Progesterone is a hormone found during pregnancy. Progesterone has many effects on your body and helps to maintain pregnancy. It has a relaxing effect on muscles which helps to keep the uterus from contracting. This relaxing effect actually relaxes the muscles supporting the lungs. Progesterone also changes the body's sensitivity to carbon dioxide. Normally when you breath, as the carbon dioxide increases, you need to get rid of it. So as your body becomes more sensitive to it, you will feel the need to breath off carbon dioxide. Moreover, this can leave the pregnant mother feeling winded and short of breath."