Martians 2014, thread 11. KEGELS!

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Shiny new thread, ladies :)

Yeah block I fancy a cuppa too but it tastes like dishwater no matter how strong I make it. Please bring back my normal tastebuds!!

Morning all. Welcome Findus!

Pain, I too have funny palpitations sometimes, was to it was just due to the increase in blood volume. I'm also always dizzy but my bp was on the high side the other day

My bump has also changed shape this weekend. Literally overnight it's popped out near my belly button.

I love gherkins. I normally hate maccy ds, but I've had cravings for their chips. I think it's the crunch and the salt. I'm all about texture in food at the moment. Very strange.

I had gone off tea, but am back on it now thank goodness!!

Sorry you're so tired grey. Maybe a sneaky power nap later?!

Gender scan next week. So excited about it!

I've been getting the palpitations too - it's very disconcerting! I've only recently started drinking tea again, as it finally tastes like tea again, and doesn't bounce back
I've got my 20 week scan on Thursday - can't wait to see my little girl again!
Good luck to everyone having scans this week.

Thought I would update you all on my '12 week scan'. They booked me in to have it done this morning then after two hours of waiting they called me in to tell me there is no clinical reason to do the scan after all. Because my midwife dropped the ball I missed the cut off point so they refused to scan me (had an emergency scan at 11 weeks). Had the blood test done to see what chance of downs while I was there.

Just gutted really, I had been looking forward to seeing my baby :(.

Morning all.

I spent most of the night awake in agony. I think it might be round ligament pain. I've had a little twinge in the same place since about 6 weeks ( probably mentioned before!) but it is utter utter agony today. Seeing the GP at 2.45 hopefully he'll have some definitive idea as I am worried there is something more seriously wrong!

Oh my god panto, that is completely unacceptable! I cannot believe how you have been treated. No clinical reason? How about to check the baby is actually ok?!

Bastard arsehole wankers tax credits sent me a letter telling me they have overpaid me and I have to pay back £75! I don't have fucking 75p let alone £75!

Oh panto how utterly shit.

Panto that takes the absolute piss. I would be fuming. Absolutely fuming.

Becca that sounds really painful. Good idea to get it checked by the GP. Could you have pulled something? Maybe a nice warm bath in the meantime?

I wish I could have a warm bath. I am sitting at my desk, with a corrupt laptop having had to do the minutes from our Monday morning meeting (despite lots if pain, and no sleep, thanks chums) and with no way of sorting them out!

Hello,

After a long weekend I now have an established cold. Yuck! Hope you ladies are all doing well.

My baby kicked me so hatd last night it made me jump. Few more weeks before my 20week (22nd October).

I spotted someone mentioning tracy hogg, love her books highly recommend. Also just recently come across a book called baby sleep solutions it talks lots of sense if you ask me and gives you different methods to try for the right solution for you. Tomorrow I'll add a couple more authors I rate.

F&T

Morning/afternoon all.

I'm still properly knackered and still being sick, although not with the regularity of former weeks. No idea how I'm supposed to manage working full time anymore. But if I took fewer hours I think it would affect my mat pay (struggling to work out when the period of work is that they base it on).

Had a fun filled weekend sleeping, napping & lying down. Oh, and I visited a bathroom showroom. Incredibly exciting, I know.

It's my 20-week scan tomorrow at 8.30am! Th'usband is coming, too! We're still not finding out the sex!

Fox it's based on money paid to you between weeks 17-25 of pregnancy, so for me last time it was the hours if worked between 13-21 weeks pregnant as we were paid 4 weeks behind. Does that make sense?

...oh, and still no movement here at 19+2.

Oh, Pram exciting! Mine's still 4 weeks off.

Thanks rock I'm paid on the 15th 2 weeks behind, 2 weeks ahead, so let me think....

I'm 17 weeks on Friday, so it's my October and November paycheques that count? Too confusing this. But then my thinking abilities have been going downhill since GCSEs.

So, Foxy, you've been doing fuck all all weekend but couldn't be arsed dropping in to see how the Martians are? How selfish. I stubbed my little toe on t'couch last night and could've done with some real support. You also missed a bomb scare at the chippy and me giving th'usband a posh wank with Bio Oil.

Haha! I have read back though and notice you failed to mention all of these events Pram

I don't really go on computer when not at work because, well, I spend all day at work on it!

Ha Ha Pram I was so confused then! (doesn't take much!)

• Excited for your scan tomorrow though! mines not until the 24th :(

Pram how exciting!! ManPram will love it!! The scan, not the wank....

Mine isn't until 5th November!!

Fox I too have no idea how I will cope working full time when I go back. I'm only entitled to SMA so irrelevant if I cut hours down

Foxy, but all those things did happen; I'm just uncomfortable with sharing things about my life. Pa hahahahahahahahaha!

Marbles, ManPram did love the wank but all the while I was thinking, 'this stuff is six quid a bottle'. It's Fairy Liquid tomorrow. Marbie, now that your pathetic half-a-pie bump has expanded to a full pie can we have an updated bump pic on faceache?

Those of you who will struggle on mat pay: have you considered down-grading to Morrisons and chucking your Boden catalogues away? Maybe not spending thirty quid on steaks? I'm 'orrible, me

Pain I get palpitations and dizziness although not so bad so far this pregnancy than others which I'm assuming is down to having been able to keep my iron levels higher as I've not been so sick. My last pregnancy hospital admission, the out of hours GP told the registrar that my pulse was so high that he'd be concerned if a child had one that high. Supposedly low blood pressure is more common in the first half of pregnancy because relaxin has caused your blood vessels to expand but your body hasn't yet properly compensated with a commensurate increase in blood volume. Anaemia can also cause (or contribute to) low blood pressure and can cause dizziness and palpitations and is of course common in pregnancy too so it could be worth getting your haemoglobin levels checked.

Panto that is outrageous! In my fourth pregnancy I declined the dating scan because I'd had a scan at six weeks in hospital and didn't want the Down's Sndrome screening so saw no need and when I had my consultant booking at 18 weeks they tried to give me a dating scan. (They said I wasn't far enough on for the anomaly scan.) I think aside from the question of whether or not you were entitled to one, if you were a) told you would have one and b) given an appointment for one and c) are supposed to be receiving extra care then they should not have been refusing to do it when you turned up for your appointment. I am so on your behalf at the treatment you have received!

Blockette mine's 24th too.

Pram downgrade to Morrisons? But there's me think Morrisons is posh - they mist the veg and everything.

Pram The pound shop have stuff that is just like Bio Oil. I've been using it on my stomach, but I'm sure you can use it on your husbands knob just as effectively as the real stuff.

Thanks for the support everyone. Well I was supposed to have a midwife appointment today as well, turned up and was told it had been moved to next week. The lady in front of me with my midwife was told the same thing. Feel like a total tit because I just burst in to tears in the middle of the waiting room because I am tired, I've been sick and I've been messed about.

When I asked about what happened to the original scan I was booked in for they said the referral must have got lost in the system, it happens apparently.

BWP
I was told I would have one, I was given an appointment so I turned up and got treated like I was wasting everyone's time. Just so gutted.