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....

thingy that's excellent news, what a relief.

I'm feeling a lot better today, although I've still got random back pains at least the cramping has eased. I just have that tenderness that comes after the cramps. I'm going to take it easy today, and if it starts to get worse again I think I'll call the midwives rather than 111, I really don't need ambulances!

Ooh hello can I join? Didn't realise there was such a section to be found

Im due end of feb (am 22 weeks today) with my 3rd child, a son. Im pretty much permanently pissed off lately and feeling pretty chunky... I'll have a good read through asap, dh is on his way home and says we can go maternity jeans shopping but tbh Im not sure I can be arsed. Bristol on a Saturday afternoon? Hmmmm

Glad you're feeling a but better Eeyore! Fingers crossed it continues to improve and you're right as rain by this evening.

Welcome Guy! Shopping on a Saturday afternoon does indeed sound like a bloody nightmare! Maybe put your feet up and get on Asos!

Awww I just had a nice experience. I only just managed to post my bloody prescription exemption cert last week (after I lost the first one which I had got ready with a stamp for posting) but I've had prescriptions I need to pick up (woo hoo heartburn and thrush!) so thought I'd try and get em today. I took all my maternity notes with me in the hope it would be okay and started explaining to the man and he just stopped me and said "don't worry, you look pregnant" made my day!

Hello guy, come on in and make yourself comfy love. You've just missed all the poo talk. And sod Cabot circus on a Saturday, you'll never get a park - put a brew on and get online instead.

Ooh lovely welcomes! Thanks!

Well Id been wearing maternity jeans from New Look for a while and theyd got too tight around my hips. They weren't helping with the general feelings of hugeness that Ive been having. Dh came home and tbh I was that desperate to get out of the house (and get a potential Bristol trip out of the way) that I decided to brave it. We went to mamas and papas by ikea, and I bought a pair of jeans, a changing mat and a verrr cute bunny. The jeans are a tad long (most are, Im a shortarse) but theyre narrow leg and now its this time of year I'll be tucking them into squishy boots anyway. So hopefully now I can stop beating myself up that 'Im putting too much weight on no matter what - my mat jeans don't fit' cos now they bloody well do fit

Glad its done tbh, didn't want to spend Friday doing it. I hate that horrible roundabout bit and shut my eyes (no not me driving lol) when we have to do that bit

Hope you've all had a good day, cake sounds good!

Ive got a few weirdy twingy feelings going on but think that's just cos of the somewhat hectic afternoon Ive had. Got to m+p and opened the car door, dd pukes all out the door onto the carpark, sorted her out, found jeans, start driving home. Stop a few miles from home cos now ds is feeling sick. Park by side of road so he can get out and get some air, move his car seat to front passenger seat and I sit in back with dd. Dh and dd walk to nearby tescos to buy a few bits for kids tea (sushi and raisin and lemon pancakes. Random but that's dh for you.) Continue driving home, on our road ds complains hes going to be sick, pull up right outside our house, cue ds puking all over the aforementioned bag of groceries that dh put in the passenger footwell....

You know when things like that happen, and you think 'and Im having a THIRD?!" Well that was me

Big welcome to guy and jen - sorry I missed you before, jen. Welcome to the month of HG sufferers! That makes four of us on this thread now. Is February cursed or something?! I thought it was only meant to affect 3% of preggos...

Shrops I think Betty must have passed away while I was on hols, I'm so sorry love. Poor Loulou and poor you and DH.

Eeyore hope you are feeling okay?!

Sorry - I'm a bit half up to date with things. Have been feeling pretty dire since getting back from holiday. Jet lag has made nausea come back with a vengeance, and my energy for the day only kicks in around now, just when I should be winding down and trying to sleep. Not helping that DH and I are stuck in the spare room which has quite a small bed as long as the house work is going on. Oh well, woe is me :)

Welcome newbies!

I've also had flu jab today and well surprised that I literally didn't feel it! Tiny bit sore now, but only when I press it (I know, I know, so don't press it but what can I say, I'm A numpty).

Also have nursery painted today, just needs stuff to go in it, which is coming at half term and border and stickers put up. Although the 2 pots of paint (which resulted in the crying fit on Thursday) were actually 2 different colours... Not my fault, I hasten to add, they had stuck a label over real colour and wrote wrong colour on it. So had to take one of them back, to which I found out, there was a shop right next to where I had originally gone shopping... Brilliant for today, as much closer, rubbish for me getting lost on Thursday and crying!

Feeling quite excited though!

Yay for nursery decorating - we are almost clear of junk from our nursery meaning I shall be painting hopefully next weekend. Love painting!

Welcome newbies!

Getting more and more exhausted. Had to have several sit downs whilst shopping with a friend in town today. Felt like a big lump and still so many weeks to go!

Went into next and fell in love with their baby clothes. Starting to wish I'd not been so insistent on team yellow now but I know my credit card will thank me in the long run.

Hey there, yeah I don't know what it is about the HG, but it is a horrible thing. I am having a bit of a relapse, just had a full on whinge on the HG board.

We are going green with the nursery. I need to clear out a bunch of stuff, and am planning to do a big chunk of it over half term if I can. Then OH can get to painting and so on, and I want new carpet as well.

I have bought 2 pairs of mat trousers from New Look, black skinny jeans and work trousers. I am still in my pre-pregnancy jeans, cause I lost over 2 stone with the HG, they are only starting to get a bit tight across the belly now.They are high waisted jeans so they are perfect for pregnancy, lol. Shame I am not allowed to wear them to work! (no jeans policy boo)

Do you guys get people gushing at you about how exciting it is to be pregnant? I mean, I don't want to be a grouch but we are pregnant every minute of every day - I can't be excited permanently! Mostly I just get on with things! Not gonna lie, though, with the HG etc I am not enjoying being pregnant as much as I thought I would.

hey ladies! missed you all... been so busy with work ive not posted for ages!

I went shopping last week and bought some amazibg maternity clothes from new look. just need a coat and im set!

Also my mum gave me some little dresses that were mine... 80s retro dresses covered in frills!!! hmmmm!

finishing off babies room today hopefully... im getting very impatient! Cant wait till febuary!!!

Good morning, can I join this lovely thread? almost 25 weeks, due 5th Feb with a baby boy

Hi hope and guy (and jen if I didn't say hello before). Welcome

I've just seen kicks for thw first time - very exciting. Dh is yet to even feel anything though - think he thinks I'm making them up.

Had a fairly unproductive trip to kiddicare yesterday to test drive buggies. So much choice but so little information! Even 'suitable from birth' (or not) would have been useful... Was meant to make dh feel less overwhelmed but think it had the opposite effect. Out of interest though, has anyone got/tried/heard much about the new-ish oyster max? And if anyone's got a phil and teds, do you find it particularly heavy (I was sold on them based on recommendations, but it felt really bulky even while empty)

Hi sunflowered, I haven't heard of the above you mentioned, I'm sticking to a safe bet and getting the Bugaboo Buffalo. I got overwhelmed with all of the choice too so I really sympathise.

Champagne I'm impressed with your organisation of having a buggy spreadsheet. I think I got the babies r us and mothercare catalogue, then did a trip to both and John Lewis to make my decision. I did remember to include, will it fit in the boot of my car, which friends didnt check. Doh!

Any thoughts at all would be really helpful champagne - other than price and weight I'm not really sure what to look out for. the pros for me of the oyster max are that it's forward and back facing, plus the tandem option which the reviews say seem to allow you to get 2 fairly substanial children into the one buggy - we're quite keen not to have to splash out again if we're lucky enough to have a dc2 in future. I thought I'd go for a 3 wheeler though as they seem a bit more manoeuverable, so interested to see what you felt (have been back for another test drive this morning and my quick lap of the shop made it feel ok - once I worked out how to take the front wheel locks off as well as the brakes...). have also ruled out the phil and teds - feels really heavy in comaprison to other models, and that was just in single mode and no passengers!

This is harder than buying my first car last year!! Finance + economical + warranty + nice colour = deal in that case. Trying to resist the urge to impulse buy when I see an offer this month - sti have.plenty of time to decide will still be saying that in january I think

oh - and will def see to a baby spreadsheet. The scraps of paper are starting to take over the house and making less sense as the weeks go on.

sunflowered I had a Phil & Ted and absolutely loved it. My first two were 21 months apart so it was great for me as a double and the even better when I could just make a quick change to single. I didn't find it bulky it's extremely easy to manoeuvre. I lived in London then and even managed it on the buses. I think the cocoon was fantastic too it was so handy to be able to bring baby out of the pram without having to remove from the cocoon so sleep did not need to be interrupted.

I have no idea about the other pram I haven't looked at any others. I just decided to go with an I Candy this time as know a few people with them and I love them. But as I am getting it second hand online I have avoided going to the shops to look at all the prams I might want that I can't afford.

I woke up last night and had been sleeping on my back. It was so comfortable compared to sleeping on my side which makes my hip painful. But I reluctantly went back into my side as we are not supposed to sleep on our backs are we? Oh I really can't wait until I can sleep on my tummy again.

I was also quite pleased that my arm did not hurt from the Flu jab at all. So this did not effect me sleeping. I am just going with the constant waking at night now. It was really upsetting me for a while but I am just seeing it as perpetration for sleepless baby now. I am making sure I go to bed extra early too so that I am not a complete Zombie in the mornings.

My little girl is off for half term now but my son is still at school until next week. I am going to make sure we have a really lovely week of one on one time. As once baby comes its going to be so difficult to spread my time whilst hourly breast feeding.

Going to be a tiring week too my DH has just left for America for work. My son who has SN gets really bothered if my husband travels. He was a nightmare at church this morning so I know it's going to be a challenging week with him.

Champagne those spreadsheets sound great. Gosh I am so unorganised and my husband seems to think we can wait until last minute to get the things we need. He still has not even given me money for maternity clothes, I am lucky I got a few from someone at church but I don't think I can get by in my current bras any longer I can hardly breathe. Husband swap anyone?

Shopping around is always good, we saved £150 on our pram that way, especially if you aren't set on a specific colour. We have a black Quinny but bought a red carrycot as it was half the price.

I had checklists last time, and so far a short list of stuff I need to buy.

However I havnt looked at the clothes we still have, and need to sort out the boys stuff I definately cant use for a girl and sell it.

I had a very full diary full of dates and post its! I feel a bit like I'm slacking right now, but hey ho it will all sort itself out in time.