January 2014(Thread 10) - Getting out of breath!Don't forget to squeeze when you sneeze laydeez!

[Toothfairy78]

Diddle-leee-deeeee. Diddle-lid-did-deee! It's the finaaaal countdown!

Oh yeah third trimester!

Hoping we bring space and idris with us....

toby & book I have had scans etc at Canterbury but will be having baby at WHH like I did with dd. So yes we might all be bumping into each other lol. When ru both due? I'm 4th Jan x

Hi Space! Haha good on Idris! How's he doing?

Oh, loulou, I had no idea! Due 5th Jan :)

space go Idris!!! Great to hear things are going ok - thanks for the update and the advice! You are so right, its very easy to feel like you are bothering people!,I know I do!

Thanks for asking ladies. Got a good nights sleep last night, but definitely needed more. Just waiting for my mate to text and trying to stay awake! Was meant to meet up 2 hours ago but her 1 yr old DS has been having a mega nap! Am so jealous! Hopefully going out dog walking if it doesnt piss it down....

book I had my fundal height measured by two different midwives on the same day and their measurements were different by 3cms. It's bollocks.

Nearly the weekend!

Great to hear Idris is doing well space!

My midwife didn't bother to do any measurements at 25 weeks, I don't think I'm seeing her again until 31 weeks (which seems ages away!)

Yay for idris and weeing on docs! Clever chap.

I celebrate each week 'anniversary' lalunya - mine is today .

Last night at my colleague's leaving do, I had my first slightly insensitive questions - hadn't experienced this before. They were (verbatim):
'Was it a planned pregnancy?' (married 1.5 years, 32, um, let's see, what are the odds...)
and
'Have you had all the tests done, is the baby healthy?' (no, we thought fuck modern science, let's go in for witch-doctor-style woo instead. Dick).

I wasn't offended, not really, but taken aback that people think these are the normal things you'd ask!

It does seem very odd that people would ask those things. They are legitimate things to wonder, I suppose. Particularly the first thing. DD was unplanned and I'd been married for 3 years by the time she was born. But also rude to outright ask.

People generally have a stock list of things to say when someone is pregnant. "Was it planned?" seems to be one. See also "do you know if it's a girl or a boy?" and associated questions whatever your answer to that is.

And when it's born, it'll be "doesn't he have nice eyes/a lot of hair?". The one that always gets me is "is he good?"

Like newborns are naughty :o

You become entirely public property when you're pregnant. People think it's fine to tell you what to eat, what to do, and what they think of your choices. It's so hard not to tell them just to fuck right off!

God yeah, the stuff people tell you! I have had people at work that I've never spoken to before (big department) telling me all their fertility/gynae woes, and asking me if I'm happy that I'm pregnant. Like I'm going to say "No, thanks for asking, I'm not. In fact I'm planning to get shot of it and I will absolutely tell some random, total stranger this fact." WEIRDO.
I'm going to totally ignore the fundal measurement thing then and just be chuffed with the extra free scan :)
And nice work Idris

I think people feel they have to acknowledge that you are pregnant in some way and therefore find something to ask. How acceptable that question will be depends on the quality of their social skills!

I think those examples are just like my inappropriate belly touching episode, I knew it was wrong but it just happened ha ha

Woo well done idris sounds like he's doing really well

I think people forget that they aren't the only person you will speak to that day, so forget that you will already have had several chats about when it's due, boy/girl, planned/unplanned, being the size of a house.

Have just come back from a physio group session, which was really good, but one of the women seemed scarily uninformed about pregnancy. Almost 30 weeks and hadn't heard of a pelvic floor, seemed surprised that high heels wouldn't exactly help with pelvic pain etc. poor love looked completely shocked by the whole thing :(

Hello, yes humpty I also got asked by 3 work colleagues if the baby was planned when I announced it. Took the wind out of my sails a bit! Only been married for 3 years so don't know why people would think it is unplanned - plus I felt a bit annoyed that people suddenly just thought i must be crap with contraception!

toby, book, tarka, MrsV and enjoying yeah, I guess they are just finding something to say, but it did make me raise my eyebrows!

enjoying you are so right about people not realising you will have had the same conversation eighty times already. I don't mind - I like people being interested - but it does get a bit repetitive!
Your woman sounds a bit odd - does she not have the interwebz? Surely you google pregnancy as soon as you get a +ve test?

I'm searching cookie recipes... Not sure I should just make some shortbread (all-time favourite - and dead easy), or whether to make something a bit more challenging? Like this? Any other ideas? Something which doesnt require me to hit the speciality shops, ideally.
Baking time tonight, oh yeah!

Those cinnamon ones don't look hard, but do look like too much of a faff for me to be bothered with! They look delicious, though.

Shortbread would be my choice. It's delicious and, as you said, dead easy :)

Or peanut butter cookies. Love them.

I have a great recipe (at home) for oat cookies - basically butter, sugar, oats, flour and custard powder. If you have all those (poss eggs? too) I can PM it to you tonight. It makes DIVINE cookies. I luffs them hard.

They sound delicious, Humpty. I'd like the recipe, please!

toby I've never had peanut butter cookies...could you share the recipe??

My only problem with the cinnamon cookies is the fact that you need to peel the almonds. Very faff-y. Plus you have to wait overnight after you've made the dough - how annoying! I'd just end up eating it raw.

humpty yes please! I know lots of different cake recipes (family tradition to make a cake a week), but am teaching myself to make cookies. So please share... Not sure I know what custard powder is, but can find out during my next supermarket trip. Can it be replaced with anything?

Custard powder is basically cornflour and (delicious) flavouring. I'm sure you could leave it out without too many problems in a cookie recipe.

I just google 'peanut butter cookies' recipes when I want to make them. Pretty sure I've used this one before.

Mmmmm... COOKIES! Even though I find him very annoying on TV I like paul hollywood's choc/ raisin/ nut cluster recipe... here Very yummy and easy to make. And the hairy bikers Diggers recipe here
humpty I would like the custard powder recipe too as I have a big tub that needs using up.
It's the weekend- yeah!
X

I made cookies a few days ago (they didn't last long!) I don't think I can justify making any more this week!

I'm still getting a lot of pain in my lower back but today I've also had pain at the bottom of my bump. I'm not sure if it's worth ringing my midwife as I only saw her Wednesday but I'm a little worried.

thanks toby. i have cornflower! I guess if I add a bit of vanilla it should work.

mrsg - i've had pain in my lower bump a couple of days ago. it basically felt really tight, as if my muscles were too short to accomodate the baby or something. is that how yours felt? mine eased off after a hot shower and some massaging...

oh, the diggers look amazing mrsa...mhmhmhmm, spoilt for choice.

I don't think you ought to need cornflour in cookies. I'd probably leave it out entirely unless you were using custard powder for the flavour. But yes, add vanilla :)

I have pinned that Diggers recipe -- they look great!

The baby is hurting me today. It's actually sticking parts of itself into me and it's not pleasant! It was doing it last night too. We could work out head, back, bum and then a foot right up by my ribs. Bloody hurts!