February 2014 - We've got big bumps and we cannot lie...

[DawnOfTheDee]

You other mothers can't deny,
When a girl walks in with an ever expanding waist
And a round thing in your face
You....'d better give her some cake....

etc, etc,

New thread! Enjoy!

Anyone having bad acid at night needs to buy some tums. I have a box stashed under my pillow so if I wake up with acid, I munch one and I drift back off. They are a sleep saver! Settles the acid for me pretty much straight away.

I'm sleeping later and later also, I go to bed cream crackered, then suffer with restless legs for a few hours. I've decided a pillow between the thighs helps for me ")

With you on that lyndsey I take one after every toilet trip...so about four a night at the moment!

Harlem you definitely need to get sorted and work from home! I'd be v unhappy after that commute at the best of times let alone non pregnant.

Good luck with the jabs and appts today amd welcome naomi!

Welcome naomi :)

All the insomnia sounds absolutely rotten. I get up a few times in the night to use the loo but luckily tend to drop back off quite quickly.

jazz/loves thanks for the encouragement! The deadline is 14th Jan, so I have plenty of time, but it's been put off for so long now that I really just want it done and dusted. Can't bear the thought of baby arriving early and needing to postpone it again! It's an analysis of the marginal in the short story (airy fairy arts MA :) ) but most of the research is already done so the words should really be flying out at this point...

Eeyore that sounds like a fantastic last day, hope you feel heaps better by this evening.

Good luck for the last few days to all those still working and commuting!

Hello, Im 30+4, due around the 20th Feb.
Feeling very unhappy with the size comments Im getting lately, I don't want to go out anymore Had a rant on the rage thread.

Good luck to all with their jabs, I had mine recently and was fine at first but after the next day I had quite an achy arm for a day or two. Had my anti d jab a week or so before that, started feeling like a pin cushion.

guymartins welcome! We have a stats thread somewhere with our info on and if you want to join our top secret Facebook group PM one of us with your email address you use to login to Facebook.

marzi if it's any inspiration I wrote 10,000 words in 12 days to finish mine so it is possible! Not sure I envy you trying to do it over Christmas but my tip is to write a timetable for the days you know you have free and put a target word count next to it - then you feel like you're getting somewhere. No point trying to work on days you know you'll be busy but it helped me to tick off 1000 words each day. (oh and block MN on those days...) Remember to keep at least 2 days free at the end for editing and printing.

On the insomnia thing I am usually getting sleep from 10pm-3am then wee break then a couple of hours between 4am-6am. Not good and as everyone keeps telling me it's my body getting me ready for those night feeds!

champagne it's worth seeing the gp if acid is an ongoing problem - I was prescribed omeprazole for heartburn last week. One tablet a day and not a hint of heartburn (as long as i remember to take it...) - it's made life 100% better

Bump seems to have hiccups - feels like it's still head down. Really starting to notice its presence in my ribs this week though. Little bugger just won't stop wriggling/kicking/squirming/stretching.

Dawn I just spotted you went to a Suede gig at 25 weeks - me too! Last time round with DS. He loved it (I think), had a right old dance around to the music!

I haven't been to any gigs this time :(

Three things

1. Welcome new girls
2. Suede still exist??!! Amaze.
3. If, after complaining of my lack of sleep, another person tells me to "get used to it" I'm going to ram my maternity pillow so far up their arse that I can pull it out through their eye socket.

Shropshire I'm hoping baby wakeups will be preferable to preg insomnia for many reasons:

1. No need to then get in the car and negotiate crazy drivers and traffic hazards while sleep deprived
2. Ability to nap during the day rather than prop yourself up in meetings during 12 hour work marathons with no time for lunch
3. Babies don't wake you up by inflicting pain on you
4. Babies actually need something when they wake you up
5. Babies love you a lot more than heartburn
6. Partners can change nappies and help soothe screaming babies. They can't pee for you.

(disclaimer: i might have changed my opinion on this in 10 weeks time...)

15 days left at work. Can do attitude has upped and left me. Has been replaced by a cold. No food in the fridge for dinner and Sainsburys is a mad house this week. Can I just go to sleep and wake up in february?

lastnight Well we booked the tickets before we found out i was pg! Stil had a fab night - they were on top form. Brett looked in better shape than when I last saw them 10 years ago!

Shrops My dh is a big fan. The 90's are back I think.....quite a few bands reforming here and there. Shed Seven are playing Leeds next year....anyone remember them?

Yes! Shed SevenGoing for Gold etc. the 90's coming back is probably my doing.... I was rocking a velvet scrunchy recently.

Who are suede? I thought that was a vegetable...

I'm taking my mum to see lindisfarne on Sunday... Were they 80's?

I was meant to be going to see shed seven in Northampton earlier this week, but we didn't book in the end as I realised I'd be too pregnant. They are very good live.

Brett's vocals are much stronger these days.

I was a nineties indie kid and still am.

Ps a swede is a vegetable!

laura0000000000007 how old are you? I didn't think I was old at 29 but I frikkin feel it now. In my defence I have older sisters one of whom played at being Indie for a year or so. I was more interested in the Spice Girls. Heard of them Laura?

Yes now the spice girls I have heard of! I'm 27 but I'm the eldest of my siblings so maybe that's why!

I was more of a britpop/electronica girl in the 90's. Adidas gazelles, baseball t-shirts and a stinky leather jacket from kensington market I found a load of photos from when I started uni the other day and, after laughing at my 90's styling, realised I still have and wear some of the clothing and haven't actually updated my make up technique since then either. Oh dear.

Still on the blue eyeshadow and a spritz of Charlie Red before leaving the house eh notone?

I was more of a body shop white musk kind of a gal.

evening ladies & welcome newbies

I too am feeling heavily pregnant... I'm starting to get very uncomfortable!!! saw the mw yesterday & she said measurements are all spot on and I'm on track for the baby to be about 8lb 10oz..... that is MASSIVE to me, freaked me out a bit!!!!

I'm so jealous of those of you who have finished work or due to finish soon.... I still have 23 working days left

I was at a Bon Jovi concert on Tuesday night, here in Brisbane. It was fantastic, I was dancing away and singing and swaying! Very stiff and sore next day though! It was worth it.

Loving the talk of all the indie bands. Rick the lead singer from shed seven worked at the same sainsburys as me for a few months before he hit the big time - I was 17/18 at the time. His brother - who was the better looking one - worked there as a manager as well.

Yay for 90's indie kids!

Have to say that at the Suede gig me and dh were at the younger end of the demographic. Seriously, I saw someone wearing a waterfall cardigan!

People still mauled Brett when he went into the crowd though....apart from one hand I saw stroking his hair like he was a kitten or something