The Brookers are ready for a 2014 sneeze-birth fest. Come and join us if you think you're hard enough...

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Here we go brookers. At least three of us will be sneezing on this one

Purple I had terrible spd and still suffer now. Seeing a chiropractor has made a huge difference though, the only thing that really helped

Solars am also thinking of you for tomorrow lovely. Though I'm really hoping you are already having newborn cuddles

Boo my dear! How are you? I'm like a woman possessed if I'm honest. I can sit still. If I'm not cleaning I'm walking miles. Nesting me thinks.

I had a rock solid core before being pregnant, but unfortunately I'm hypermobile which hasn't helped matters. I'm probably going to try some reflexology as its been recommended. I'm sure ill be fine once she is here though!

littlefriend I still suffer from Sacroiliac joint dysfunction, however I know so e exercises that helps alleviate the pain, I also have an anterior pelvic tilt I need to be mindful of as that throws everything out :/

maybe sorry to hear bout hyper mobility :( I was signed off from 17weeks last pregnancy and was really very restricted in my day to day life so I just tried my best to help myself. I guess that is not an option for you? :(

Ah, I'm fine Purple, it's just night time I really struggle with. I only have 4 weeks till EDD, so I can't complain

I think most people struggle at night time that far along :) 4 weeks is exciting!

Lovely to see you Pomme! Congratulations! How are you, and how have you been?

Purple, congratulations on quitting your job! (if congratulations are in order, that is!). What made you decide to, if you don't mind me asking? My hormonal melt downs tend to be chocolate related too . And normally heart over head - head saying we should be eating super healthily, but head wanting chocolate

Maybe, I'm hypermobile too! Eeek, 4 weeks until EDD?! How exciting!

Solars, I'm brooking lots and lots for you lovely :)

Dino, been thinking of you. Was your scan this weekend?

Still ridiculously bloated here...

Hello everyone! Just a quick one as I need to get to bed. There is a baby! Measuring bang on, so cautiously optimistic.

Will be back tomorrow to read all about solar's sneeze birth!

Music it was the place I have worked for the last 7years, I had reduced my hours down to just a Saturday. So it is quite a wrench!
DH is travelling 2 Saturdays a month for tutorials so I need to look after the children. I really missed the family time, especially since DD has started school. Also I think the job contributed heavily towards my PGP problems and actually after my shift on Sat I had a bad back :( So many, many reason really!

Dino I am so very pleased for you! Thank you for updating :)

Sounds like the right decision then Purple, even if it was hard. Tough when DHs travel - mine is doing so a lot at the moment making my work commitments hard. We're just looking at the feasibility of buying a place a bit further from the office - would be lovely, but would mean on the days he did travel I wouldn't be able to teach at all, argh!

Dino, so so pleased! :)

That's brilliant news Dino, so pleased :) I think we're in need of a round up of who's due when.

Solars hope you're managing to get some rest.

Music the travelling isn't as bad this time, it is nearer so will be done in 6hrs I think. last course it meant a night away! and it found that really hard as I didn't get any down time, that was monthly/bimonthly and more expensive.
Oh and I can't sleep! Darn.

Brilliant news Dino, really pleased for you

Good luck today Solars x

Brilliant news Dino!

Come on sunbeam

Good luck today Solars! Brooking hard for the fastest sneeze birth ever - and we've had some really fast ones!

Dino, yay for a baby being all present and correct! Lovely news.

Pomme! Come back in at once! Congratulations, lovely - 10+5 already! Squeee! Look at the Old Brookers Reunion happening all around us. This should be giving hope to all the newer Brookers that a second baby might come along faster than the first did, with all the examples on here.

Little, I still had SPD and sciatic pain for months after DD2 was born. Probably close on a year. The physio last week said that ongoing sciatic pain (caused by SPD and not by a slipped disc) was probably caused by me doing eg nappy changing leaning right forward. I have changed M on the floor since approx 2 months old, so yes, kneeling and leaning forward over her. I'm trying to work out a nappy changing station that will be at chest height - physio said any lower and I'd just bend over it again. I need something I can kneel up at that comes to my chest. Dining table perhaps? In the end, what got rid of 99% of my symptoms was to start Shredding - seems strengthening my core/bum muscles did the trick. I'd only have to stop for a few weeks and start to feel the twinges again, though.

Purple, sorry to hear that you'll miss the job. If it aggravated the SPD, though, it's maybe a blessing in disguise. Did it involve lots of standing?

My most embarrassing hormonal moment (so far) was about 4 weeks ago when I was in absolute and total floods of tears at a book that wasn't even meant to be particularly sad. The narrator was describing the Blitz and mentioned that her next door neighbours got killed by a bomb - she didn't even like these neighbours and said the baby was really ugly and snotty, but it was a mother and baby who died together in bed, cuddled together...I howled. And howled. And howled. DH was alarmed at first and then started laughing at me because I just couldn't stop crying for ages and ages. It was totally disproportionate to the event. I calmed down after about half an hour's meltdown and started reading again, but I just kept welling up and in the end I had to put the book down and go to bed.

Btw, what is the difference between PGP and SPD? I always thought they were the same thing.

Heehee too - with dd1 at about 6 weeks dh caught me crying into some mashed potato because i'd put too much milk in it.

I'm 10 + 5 today actually, counted wrong (oops). My scan is next week, the day after purple's. Am hoping all is ok as have had no nausea this pg which is odd for me.

SPD sounds very scary, Im always very in awe of the people who deal with it. Brooking for no spd at all around here.

Thats sad about your job purple. Its so hard to get the balance right for everyone in a family - and dh and i work together so we're quite lucky in that respect!

Sounds like I came back at a very exciting time, just before a sneeze birth!

OBEM starts tonight as well, that is ALWAYS on when I'm pregnant!

(Thanks for being so welcoming all)

Waves to all, lovely to see so many second/third time brookers! And lots of brooking for all those with pelvic/back problems - good job these babies are worth all the aches/pains/sickness etc that's involved in growing them! Really nice to see you too pomme, how have you been? So glad that scan went well dino
Am I right in thinking that solars is being induced today? If so I'm brooking that sunbeam arrives with a super fast sneeze!!
It's mine and DH'S wedding anniversary today - no celebrating today though after a horrendous night with poor little T who has strep throat as well as ear infections, poor little fella has been boiling all night Just brooking he's all better for Wednesday when he'll be a year old! Not sure where that year went!

Thinking of you Solars. Hope all is going well!

Happy anniversary Olives! Brooking T is much better by Wednesday. Can't believe he's a year old already!

Pomme, how exciting that your scan is next week too. Very jealous of both you and Purple . Hurrah for OBEM starting tonight! DH isn't best pleased!

Purple, I also can't sleep the majority of the time. Waking up in the middle of the night, then not getting to sleep for a couple of hours. Infuriating! Also full of yet another cold (I've had them constantly since being updiffed I think). Such fun..

Another one here who ticks the hyper mobile and dysfunctional sacroiliac joint boxes (right side only) plus SPD and carpel tunnel syndrome too...and a crappy pelvis that turns my babies 91st centile heads back to back ....so this one will be my third cs and I wish there was an anti-relaxant pill too!

Musical, snap, I can't sleep either, every pregnancy it has been one of the biggest/earliest signs that I am pregnant. At the moment it seems to be the only symptom I have, so I am a bit worried as I just don't feel like I did in previous ones, not a hint of queasiness and I am 6+3 now. Expecting a frantic midwife call this week as the GP went by my lmp and not my ov date so they will be freaking about I booking me in and arranging a scan when there really isn't any rush yet.

Solars am hoping you are all done and dusted and having cuddles in plenty of time for OBEM tonight. Love that show ;)

Yy to OBEM always being on when I'm pg! I had forgotten it was tonight - three guesses what I'll be doing at 9 o'clock!

Loopy and Pomme, maybe the lack of nausea means the new babies are a different sex to your older two!

too - everyone keeps saying that...! I then in my hormonal state get all upset and defensive about my imaginary dd3. I think dh is quite hopeful of an ally though. Are you going to find out the gender again in this pg? When are you 20 weeks?

Hi green - good to see you, how are you? Hope T feels better soon poor little fellow, that sounds painful. All good here, lots of work and some house decorating which is fun as Ive never done it before so there's a novelty factor!

Soon! Am 18+5 today, 20 week scan is on 7 March. I can't wait - am going to find out the sex, yes, assuming baby cooperates.

Thinking of you Solars, hoping you're away having baby snuggles!

Lovely to see you Pomme!

Great news on the scan Dino!

Not long now maybe, hope the spd gives you some rest.

I've been busy finishing off craft projects. A bizarre form of nesting? Finally did the last bits to a jumper for DH which has been 2.5 years in the making. I'm not sure he likes it though! Made DS a cute hat yesterday too, though again, not sure if he'll agree to wear it.
Having awful trouble with a sore wrist though. I guess it could be carpal tunnel, but it's just pain, no numbness or tingling. Think a trip to the dr is in order, though I suspect he won't do anything.

That is soon, next week in fact! How exciting. Brooking for a legs wide open baby!

Too, that's so close - how exciting!

Pomme, I'm sorry, but there's something wrong with you being back..

...weren't you all lowercase before? Your username looks wrong, but that could just be going mad...