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....

Don't be silly, I reallllly don't care, I have no idea why I found it so embarrassing!! It's bad enough that I have make believe friends and a pseudonym on MN but that also I go by a different name from that on my Facebook!! I'm a conundrum wrapped in an enigma smothered in mystery.

Next thing I know one of you will find out that I'm not actually pregnant and that I'm just here researching for a role in my next film. And that you're going to sell my potential thrush outbreak to The Daily Mail. But then you have actually all seen me. And probably realised that I have a face for radio.

My rich friend who is due a week today has just sent me a photo of her completed nursery. It has made me feel sick with jealousy. Proper bile accumulating in my throat. Imagine Prince George's nursery on acid. I would post her photo on fb but honestly it would make you all cry. And I'm not that mean. It's all whiter than white with accents of Peter Rabbit. It's like ACTUAL Beatrix Potter has gone in there and thrown up. Life is unfair sometimes. Obviously I'm joking and I'm really pleased for her and her beautiful life and her size 8 figure that is totes going to come straight back once she's sneezed this baby out into its whiter than white cot with smatterings of Jemima Puddleduck.

Aw Shropshire, you just have to post a pic of that now - one has always wondered what prince George's nursery would look like if one was on acid!

I am also exhausted, have to nap constantly but then am awake at this time of night... Grr...

I spent all last sat tidying th house, absolutely killed me but have at least kept on top of it - mainly through raging at husband to tidy things as he goes or I will kill him... Have a particular displeasure for plates being left on the floor - we have a dishwasher for beep sake, it's not difficult to take things into kitchen and open the door and place plates inside... He is slowly getting it!

Although bless him, I had a rant about school and marking books and he said it wasn't my fault I wasn't up to date, as I had been before I was pregnant and now was just to exhausted and that the school must take that into consideration - if only it were that easy!

hehe, I have images in my mind about what this nursery looks like. I think you might need to post that picture.
Saying that, these might be being made worse by a general lack of sleep and too much in the night garden. The toddler got up at 2.30 and I have achey joints.
Back to curling up in chair hoping he might settle down some hope

I had bad news of the worst kind last night. My sister took her life earlier this week in a particularly awful way. Still reeling and numb but might be absent for a bit while supporting my parents. Sorry to bring such heavy stuff to our lovely thread. See you all soon.

I am so sorry vix. Hope you have lots of love and support around you right now. Take care of yourself.

So sorry to hear your awful news Vix. Please take care and we're all here if you need to talk. X

Vix, I am so sorry to hear that. Take care xx

Vix sending hugs to you and your family at what must be a horrendous time

Shropshire you've got me worried about my Pooh nursery now - just what was it that was so offensive about the beatrix potter?! I am having a wall of pooh paper and pooh curtains with white furniture . I need to see the photo so I can avoid the 'on acid' look!

Thanks for all the responses the other day re rear facing car seats. I am now hunting for a little mirror for the headrest.

Am feeling baby kick and wiggle now but only when I lie down in bed at night. Guess that'll change over the coming weeks.

Am working from home today and good job too as I've slept for 12hrs and really don't think I could have driven for 90 mins there and back today.

Almost the weekend everyone!

22+6

I'm so sorry to hear that, my thoughts are with you and your family at this sad time. Big hugs xx

Oh vix what awful news. Take care, I hope there's lots of support for you and your family

Sending you hugs Vix, can't imagine what you are going through

Xxxxxx vix xxxxxx

Jazz not bad 'on acid', good 'on acid'. I was just being dramatic. I tend to go a little over the top. DH hates my exaggerations "shall we hear what really happened now darling?".

vix what awful news - take care of yourself and your family. And we're here if you need to talk

So sorry to hear your news vix. Thinking of you and your family.

Oh Vix, how awful. So sorry to hear your news. Sending you and your family gentle hugs.

22 weeks today, knackered as I've been awake since 4 but have a presentation to give in a moment (very nervous that the question of whether or not we will get funding for HomeStart relies on a presentation given by a tired, hormonal wreck)

That's awful Vix, I'm so sorry.

I'm off for a weekend away with a group of a dozen girlfriends this weekend, in the Peak District. We've got a cottage and have been planning for a year. It's going to be fab, but all I can think about is that I won't see DD again till Sunday and she wouldn't let me hug her goodbye when I dropped her at school this morning in front of all her friends. She's growing up too fast, only 4.4 and already too big to give mummy a hug :-(

Oh, and Shropshire - the imaginary friends thing? The 12 girls I'm away with this weekend all met on an Internet forum in 2007, met for the first time in 2008 without even knowing each others real names and we still use our forum user names most of the time. They're some of my best friends now and definitely not imaginary!

Ps.. iPhone autocorrect turns Shropshire into Shropshite [big grin]

So, so sorry, Vix. Wishing you strength and support of your own

Really sorry to hear that vix. Lots of hugs being sent your way xxxxxx

Just had a letter from gp surgery to say they've cancelled my midwife appointment next week and they've rearranged it for the following week. which I can't do I've tried the community midwives but no luck so far. my work/travel diary is finely balanced and it's really tricky to move things around.

Does it matter if we miss an appointment? The only thing I really want to ask about is my rib pain, which I can do over the phone I guess.

I guess they'd be doing wee protein and blood pressure checks, which you may not want to miss.

Also, I've been wanting to make a post about TMI.
I quite strongly believe that the notion of anything being TMI is damaging and stops us communicating properly.
We're all - everything being well - going to try to push a small human out of our vaginas (or have 'em caesarean'd out). It's likely going to be really hard and quite unpleasant at times.
I think with that in mind, discussing wee, poo, various discharges and bodily discomforts is perfectly fine! Our bodies are doing weird, crazy things and I think we need a safe space to talk about it all without feeling embarrassed :)

I agree Julie. In not afraid of poo, wee and other bodily functions (apart from being petrified of the part where something the size of a watermelon is being squeezed through something the size of a grape!)
I've got my 25 week appointment in 45 mins! Doesn't seem 5 mins ago since I was going to my 16 week appt!

I agree Julietee. It really is a case of leave your dignity at the door when you go into labour anyway. It was pretty embarrassing having a midwife demonstrate on me to 3 students how to perform a cervical sweep though, in the cold light of a Tuesday morning , and with only a curtain between me and the rest of a busy ward, without even contractions to take my mind off it! Girls worry about the oddest things - I remember worrying in case I poo-ed in labour. Then, when I actually did, the midwife just wiped it away like the most normal thing in the world, and nobody even gave it a second thought. My biggest worry last time was how could my DH ever find me attractive again after watching THAT. But he does! Hence baby no.2. He actually said he found it amazing how strong I was and that made him love me all the more.