May 2014: The Maybies are growing humans - what's your superpower?

[moominleigh94]

We are superheroes

Sickness and scans galore in the latest installment of the Maybies' journey through human-growing.

What size is your baby? Find out - m.thebump.com/pregnancy/pregnancy-tools/articles/how-big-is-baby.aspx?MsdVisit=1

The Stats Page - ready for your due dates and baby names! - docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AvygwA-EKhURdDMwQWNNWGt0cHhmVkloazVVQ0hYNUE#gid=0

Cake, chicken nuggets, Shloer and whatever else we're craving is on the table ready

I've decided to hang fire on calling the midwife, I feel much better today. I'll see how I am overnight. I really do think it's a wheat thing How am I going to survive without crusty bread to dip in my soup?! lol

Oh and my ms seems to have vanished! Only this time a week ago I was hugging the toilet in work. It's weird.

Hello! Sorry have not posted in a while, real life got in the way how dare it My pushchair is a silver cross 3d travel system number! Always felt good but the brakes are awful. They pop off at random intervals but you learn not to trust it on buses/train platforms etc.

I keep getting intolerable 'day nightmares' like I'll be walking along a pavement and suddenly think what if the bus crashed into me and I was pinned against the wall and DD was just so sad that she didn't eat anything and was really poorly. So I end up in a weeping mess

Congratulations alyss and ilove on your twin news! and also congrats on all other scan news that I've missed.

thistle hope you feel better soon

squiffie don't be worried about being of later people, I was exactly the same with DD and you just end up being so bloody annoyed that everyone is talking about sickness ending/ midwife appts/ tightening starting etc that you get the right royal hump! Tis natural :)

Saying that, I am 14+2 now so I am on the other end - but very sympathetic :(

I have a busy wtime coming up too moomin - Consultant appt on 13th, 16 week appt on the 20th, and then hopefully nothing until December 23rd when it's the anomaly scan!

Ah congrats ilovemy

Hope you're feeling better thistle

Alyss Try not to take your mum's reaction to heart, my mum has said several times that she didn't think it was a good idea for us to have a 2nd, if I'd found twins at my 12wk scan she'd have said the same as yours!
She wasn't that interested throughout the pregnancy last time, but soon perked up when DS was actually here, hopefully your DM will come around soon, or at least when your DTs arrive.

All the parents of twins I know reckon they're amazing, but all have run into a lot of anti-twin feeling, which seems to boil down to people's own parenting insecurities. If people are negative about your wonderful news, try to think about it that way, instead of casting aspersions on your abilities, they're imagining how they wouldn't cope.

When does the sleepiness pass? I'm sat at my desk at work and can barely keep my eyes open!! x

Alyss I'm sorry your mum was so unsupportive. I can never understand why people react this way it won't change anything and only causes bad feeling.

I was a live in nanny ( read almost 24hours5days per week) for newborn twins, their 5 year old sister and a very naughty puppy. Those few years were some of my favorite years as a nanny.

nanny I had the same today only it was because I was thinking about taking DS to see the river and there is a high bridge and I thought what if I held him to it and he crawled onto it and then fell in and I had this image of me gripping his trousers and them coming off and him falling and dying it was so horrible :( I seem to be in a perpetual pessimistic mood this pregnancy whereas was the opposite with DS and its quite disconcerting.

Anyone else's DH doing Movember? I hate moustaches with a passion. He ain't getting any til December. Not that I'm exactly liberal with my givings right now anyway.

I was and am one of the further on ones and last time I remember being jealous of all the later in the month due dates because they knew what was coming from all our chat whereas I would be all like WHY IS THIS HAPPENING...?!

Good point hamncheese I'm due 25th May and I just know I'll be jumping up and down SO IMPATIENTLY whilst everyone else has babies and I'll be one of the last! However I now feel upbeat that at least I'm not first! Never happy me

DP doesn't appear to be doing Movember yet so he probably isn't this year... Last year he did it for about 2 weeks but everyone laughed at him so he shaved it off!

I think baby thistle is going to be born in April! I'm swaying towards elcs

Today has been a bad day. On my way home from work I couldn't pull over fast enough and ended up being sick all over my car and myself. I'm feeling miserable :(

Congrats on all the great scan news I'm secretly hoping for twins too

Bump is now definitely there, despite only gaining 1 or 2 lbs, so will be teaching bootcamp in a baggy top and hoping they're too knackered from me being mean to them to notice. Though I could be ultra mean and if asked say that I've deliberately bloated out to demonstrate what will happen to them if they slack off on their fitness regimes!

Scan tomorrow, so we'll have a better idea what we're dealing with then. Though #1 was asking last night if there'd ever be any more babies in my tummy Maybe she has some weird kind of sixth sense thing going on...

12+4

I'm leaning towards C-section too, would love a natural birth but already have issues with my scar so uncertain of how far they'll actually let me get to be honest... hopefully the consultant will be able to help a bit with easing my fears. My scar was supposed to be a temp fix as they thought I'd need a colostomy bag, but they never actually re-did it and just left it as is. It's been ok for 19 years but now that I've started to grow I'm starting to have issues with it. Plus the issue that the muscles in that area are virtually non-existant thanks to them chopping them up!

But it saved my life so if it means I have to have a c-section, i guess it's a small price to pay.

Hey all

It's been ages since I last posted. We have moved house, had birthday parties, weekend away in Windsor and generally been flat out at work... V v busy. It's helped the time go by faster though...

Congrats on all the good scan news. We have our 12 week scan tomorrow so fingers crossed all will be ok. I am mahoosive ...it's basically a crusty bread and jacket potato bump. My MS is easing a little so I hope I'm coming out the other side! I'm still looking out for some blooming (not holding my breath though )!!

Finally found HB on Doppler (borrowed from friend) this morning 155 bpm which is spot on so feeling happy ahead of scan. I might be dreaming but I am sure I have felt some flutters too. Hardly anything but it seems so early! Maybe it's just wind!!

moomin I can't bear the touchy thing but you do get used to imbeciles and their inappropriate comments/touching. When I was about 16 weeks pg with my son one girl asked me if he was a planned pregnancy. What a bizarre question!!!

squiffy I completely sympathise with you and understand how it feels (I was at the end of the month with my son) it won't be long before we are all in the 2nd trimester limbo all together... Just getting fatter

cbeebies and nanny I think if I remember right from earlier posts you are both in worcester? I am in droitwich... Went to Worcester 6th form college

Love to all and I'll report in after scan tomorrow
Chops 12+3

I've already had the "was it an accident"? question so many times Choppa . Is it a common thing that if you're younger, people see fit to throw manners out of the window and treat you like a piece of dirt, or do I just hang out with a bunch of twunts?

I have my answer prepared now; I got pregnant by accident, but having the baby is my choice. Unless I'm feeling really moody in which case I'll tell them to fuck off mind their business.

Choppa I reckon you're feeling kicks - I noticed the first ones around 12wks this time too! Very intermittent then, but I'm now feeling them more clearly, they feel more kick-like and less like popping bubbles, and easier to tell them difference between them and gas. 'Tis bloody brilliant!

I don't think I properly recognised them as kicks until around 18wks last time, 2nd timers advantage!

14+3

choppa I agree with long no three for me and felt what I knew to be baby at 11 and a half weeks.

If your off sick from work regularly because of pregnancy, can employer make u take mat leave early ?

Hello, back after a hen weekend - brilliant fun and no one minded that I was the first to bed each night! I'm one of the bridesmaids so have been busy organising but keeping up to date with the thread. Congrats to those having twins! My DH would like that - it took us that long with the first it would have been nice to have two in one go :)

choppa. I've twice been asked if the pregnancy was planned despite being in my thirties and married for years! I find it a very odd question (along with 'have you been trying for long?' Well yes actually, and bit of a touchy subject...)

Glad to hear others are popping and feeling better. To those a wee bit behind, hang on in there ....it does honestly get better x

thistle think if your off with pregnancy related sickness in the 11 weeks before your EDD then your employer can start your mat leave early, pretty sure I've read that somewhere

thistle they can

thistle they can only start mat leave if your off sick after 36 weeks. I was signed sick off in last pregnancy from 26 weeks. They may try and encourage you to start may leave early but they can't force you to.

Hi All,
Congratulations on all the lovely scans and twins wow thats amazing, i have best friends who are twins I was alway they always had there best friend with them were ever they went

Told facebook and everyone at work, apparently I must be in the glowy stage as keep beging told, you look so well and happy, I must have been really misreble before hehehe
Oh im so excited I could burst
I'm going to take my happy bouncy self off now before i anoy you all
I prob have bad birth as being pregnant seams to suite me
Sending you all happy vibes xxx

Good luck to those having scans today!

choppa, minions, moomin I have been asked too many times to count if this pregnancy was planned. It's really shocked me. It's a very personal question! I wouldn't dream of asking someone that. And I'm 30 too. Nosy fuckers!

You wouldn't believe the comments we've had this time. 'Who is the Dad then?' Seems to be a favourite, as most people know DP had the snip.

Am I right in saying getting DH to get a vasectomy after this baby is pointless seeing as there are several on here who have gotten pregnant anyway?

I have no idea what I will do about contraception after. I just can't be pregnant again I would have a breakdown. I really don't like hormonal contraceptives either... Wish I could get myself sorted but am led to believe they won't when I am still young (26)... Any ideas?