Due February 2007 - 2nd Trimester

[CurrantBun]

For those of us due February 2007 and moving from the first to the second trimester ...

We've made it this far - only another 6 months to go! (Gulp!)

lol about the "nipple squirting" discovery..!

Another point is that no matter how on the ball you are about nipple pads, I ALWAYS seemed to have occasions where I ended up with wet patches . Not the best look when you don't notice until you are in a crowded supermarket .

Cadbury..The quad test..Is that the alphabet test.? I had this around 16 weeks and was told you will only get results if they are any concerns. I never heard anything. They told me result can take anything from 3-10 days to come back.

No way, DCMY! I thought it came out in one stream as well - watering can; great!

What's this alphabet test? No-one's mentioned anything about that to me.

hi all havent posted for a while 18+1 not getting much sickness now just a lot of back pain. had my first consultant appointment at the hospital last week and had my medication changed and given aspirin and calcium tablets. and due to my blood pressure and kidney problem have to have 4 extra growth scans starting at 24 weeks. started buying things so i can get a few things each week and brought my pram already couldnt wait.
fingers crossed now for the 21st that the scan is ok.
sorry for the long post hello to any newbies speak soon xx

forgot to say i have started feeling movements about a week or two ago xx

Been away for the week so I'll catch up this evening... but for whoever was asking about the Buzz...

we bought the Buzz for DS. Fab pushchair. Sturdy back and great with the car seat on it (highly rated car seat too). A little heavy but great if you aren't on public transport. Not sure if things have changed, but when I bought it the pushchair part was suitable from birth - I actually contacted Dorel (the distributers) to confirm this as I was a little confused. Having said that, I didn't put DS in the pushchair part until he was a couple of months old - and only in the lying down position. I never bought the carrycot as I didn't see the need. DS was only out and about for short walks for the first couple of months and so I just put him in the car seat part. A friend had the carrycot and her DS grew out of it within 8 wks.

Anyway, I'd recommend it. definately worth buying the shopping basket for it. Not sure I'd jog with it - I think you'd need an inflatable front wheel for that and a hand brake.

Have any of you had a pregnancy massage yet? I had one this week at the very swish Triyoga in Primrose Hill. Luckily they do a concession morning for the POOR (not an anacronym) and so I got to indulge for an hour for the London-bargain price of £35. Waaaah it was good. You lay on your back if you can, otherwise on your side and just drift away whilst experiencing a firm yet almost-start-drooling-on-the-pillow-relaxing massage. So lovely. The masseuse kept congratulating me as well which is nice when you've got this far and the ecstatic responses and presents from friends have dried up and you've started just 'getting on with it'. Afterwards I felt like Super Pregnant (my superhero alter-ego) and am going to book in for one every month - it's best for baby. Excellent what 'best for baby' can be used as an excuse for these days. Think baby might be feeling a long bath and a bucket of Maltesers is going to be the best way to spend this evening...

Have any of you had a pregnancy massage yet? I had one this week at the very swish Triyoga in Primrose Hill. Luckily they do a concession morning for the POOR (not an anacronym) and so I got to indulge for an hour for the London-bargain price of £35. Waaaah it was good. You lay on your back if you can, otherwise on your side and just drift away whilst experiencing a firm yet almost-start-drooling-on-the-pillow-relaxing massage. So lovely. The masseuse kept congratulating me as well which is nice when you've got this far and the ecstatic responses and presents from friends have dried up and you've started just 'getting on with it'. Afterwards I felt like Super Pregnant (my superhero alter-ego) and am going to book in for one every month - 'it's best for baby'. Excellent what 'best for baby' can be used as an excuse for these days. Think baby might be feeling a long bath and a bucket of Maltesers is going to be the best way to spend this evening...

Agh! What happened there? My brain is shrinking yet my posts are growing...

DCMY - your posts are very entertaining!!! i was shocked about the watering can thing first time round... but would never have had the nerve to mention it / share my shock with anyone but dh!!

Peachygirl - you work in lush? how on earth are you coping with the heightened sense of smell? my flatmate used to work in lush and she had this aura around her when she came in from work, and our bathroom always smelled of the shop due to the amount of products...

Hiya all,
Welcome to all newbies
Baby kicking crap outta me and demanding various chocolatey things from the aisles in Sainsbury's, so it must be obeyed.
Btw I think you'll find that Sherbet Fountains are one of the major food groups when you're pg.
I would be interested to hear why soya is not good DKMYM, cos we think cow's milk is evil and don't have it.

Oh sorky I am so with you on the sherbet thing. I've taken a total addiction to Dip Dabs (and if I can't get them, I buy fountains). I bought another 5 yesterday and am eating one now! I seem to be having the same notions as I had with DS so far... I'm just hoping the poppadum one doesn't kick off in the 3rd trimester as that was highly embarrassing!

cb, the alphabet test is where they test your blood for levels that are linked to downs and spina bifida. Usually offered at 16 weeks and it's optional.

Hi folks! Logging on on Sat night as the DVD player has just packed up halfway through a film .

Quick low down on soya wd be welcome here too - although already wary cos there was a pretty damning piece in the Guardian a few weeks ago.

sorky have you tried goat's milk stuff? I can't bear soya milk, yogs etc, but we all have goat's products without any probs.

Haven't had a pg massage yet, but have been to my third pg yoga class and still really loving it.

Totally agree re Lush - one of my blacklist shops, can't stand the smell. Earlier on in pg, I couldn't wait for the bus if the queue was too long as I ended up outside our local branch and it made me want to heave. The Pier is the other place I never go into cos of the awful stink.

Take care all.

Loving the sound of those pg massages... would every day be bad?

Just a quick note to extol the virtues of my new Doppler ultrasound device - I was getting increasingly anxious at my complete absence of symptoms or bump at nearly 19 weeks, and had convinced myself there must be something wrong. Midwife tried to reassure me but said 'listening in' could be tricky and might throw me into panic, but for just £30 I thought the little Angel Sounds device sounded like it was worth a go... and it so was. The best £30 I've ever spent, bar absolutely nothing. I didn't even realise how stressed out I'd become until I'd heard him/her chugging away. The headphones they supply with it are fairly low quality, but if you switch them for ones you've probably got lying around the house, you can be almost deafened by the noise in there. You don't need jelly stuff - water or massage oil will do to make it easier to slide it around your belly. There are two headphone ports so you and DP/DH/sis/mum can listen too, and there's a cable so you can record it for posterity, or record your own heartbeat to soothe the baby when it's born and kicking off in the middle of the night.

I'm amazed and a much happier bunny. Highly recommended for paranoid pregnant girlies like myself, but probably best not used all day every day!

Hi, can I join y?all?
Actually I have been lurking for a few weeks and have loved some of your conversation, but have only just worked out how to disable some of the virus protection my husband installed after we got wormed last year so I can allow cookies on our machine and hence post.
Due date is 07/02. It is our first. We found out on hols in St Lucia slighty quicker than we expected. We were just waiting for my period so we could go diving, but after purchasing a local pregnancy test, I have had to hang up my wetsuit now for who knows how long.
My first trimester wasn?t great, although I didn?t vomit much I felt permanently seasick, only better with eating (so I think I?ve put on more weight than I would like.) Nevertheless me and my bump have just about coped with my travel schedule (I fly most weeks in Europe) and certainly the last 3 weeks or so have been much more comfortable.
I have pestered every midwife/consultant/medico that I see about my travels, about pressure/radiation/dehydration (and anything else I can concoct) risks and so far I have been told that as long as I am not overdoing it, and I wear support tights I should be fine. (I have taken to wearing light control tights low, plus the Scholl knee high tights-material flight socks.) This seems to work, other than my slightly too big maternity trousers cannot seem to stay up with all that underneath, so trying to look business like and professional is a bit more challenging when I am permanently hitching up my knickers.
Probably not the best picture to end with. Hope to get to write more soon, if the cookies allow????..

Hi all no I don't work in lush, I was just thinking of trying the henna, but I agree it is a overpowering smell filled shop I even find the aisle with the candles in, in sainsburys at bit much at the moment. Nothing massive to report with me.
My Tummy is feeling harder but I don't believe there is a bump (except in the evenings when I'm a bit of a bloaty fish) everyone at school say they can see one despite my claims of a flabby belly and no movement either.. roll on week 17.

I'm the one who used to work in Lush - and I remember the reaction of people to the good / bad smells wafting out of the door... some shoppers would almost faint at the entrance and pull a cat's-bum face before retreating to the nasally safer environs of Superdrug. I for one liked the smell, and it made a nice change to come home smelling of lavender (and orange and honey and musk and coconut etc) than when I worked in a pub and came home stinking of fags and beer. Don't shop there so much now, but their 'Big' shampoo is the only thing helping my pregnancy-flat hair these days.
I shall ask the OD (my anacronym for Organic Despot) tonight about Bad Soya, though he has also waged a campaign against cows' milk - apparently it's harder for the human stomach to digest (goats' milk is easier). Plus he has a theory that cows' milk actually takes calcium away from the body. Rice milk, nut-derived milk and quinoa milk are ok though, though quinoa milk tastes vile and makes the oats in your muesli go wrong. I'll go ask him for the lowdown once I've finished this contraband bag of Wotsits and masked my breath with mints. Watch this space...

I'm not too worried about the recent 'scientific studies' banded about tbh.
It's important to think before you come down on either side, that, as with many issues, people will have their own agenda; every study is funded by a party with a vested interest in the results. The big soya companies (many of whom advocate genetic modification) obviously want us to think of their product as a good purchase, and have very powerful lobby pushing for official endorsement of health claims. While on the other hand, equally powerful pharmaceutical companies are loathed to have any natural (and unpatentable) products reduce the need for drugs such as HRT. What with dairy producers, who certainly don?t want trends to shift from milk to soya - there is little room for unbiased research and information. (patrick holford's site)

Hello All

I'm reading the soya/goats/milk debate with interest, but am resigned to sticking to the usual semi-skimmed. I've got a mild milk phobia, in that I only have it on cereals on the day it has been bought....possibly the next day, then only in tea after that. I won't touch it if it is nearly past its date and am guilty of pouring it away and sneakily opening a new one.... It drives DH mad. Must have had a bad experience with it once. Anyway, the thought of full cream, skimmed, long life or milk from another animal scares me to death! Silly eh....

Hope you are all ok. All is well with me, though still feeling pretty low about work. Having blood tests tomorrow - not really looking forward to them, as I'm a bit squeamish, but this is obviously nothing compared to impending childbirth, legs akimbo etc.

Bump is doing well - quite chunky out front. Not sure I am feeling much though. 17 weeks on Thursday....hurrah!

Hi all
I'm with you on the milk maazaa. we have wapped to organic as my free 'pregnancy superfoods book' said if you were going to make one organic swap milk is a good one.
I have been desperate for chilli all afternoon in school and am really enjoying coleslaw too although that sort of of the menu isn't it? It is M and S so I think it can be trusted.
I was supposed to go to swimming tonight but traffic on the way home was terrible and it got really late. I have got a terrible headache, and am out the next two nights too, so came home instead. I'll go next week.

DCMY - i was away for w/end at oasis and got a pregnancy facial/massage for a bit of pampering...oohhh it was bliss (but that may have been that it was the first chance all day I'd got to put my feet up !)

HOORAH!! Sorki and Suzi so glad some others have succombed to the sherbet craving, discovered the type with a "swizzlestick" and 2 pouches of flavoured sherbet, while on hols. Not had it since i was about 7yrs old probably!!!DH thinks I'm mad.

Work tommorrow and suddenly no clothes will fit me but maternity stuff drowns me at the moment...aarrrgghhh what to wear ?a bin bag!! Am off to search through entire wardrobe in hope can find something suitable.

DCMY - i was away for w/end at oasis and got a pregnancy facial/massage for a bit of pampering...oohhh it was bliss (but that may have been that it was the first chance all day I'd got to put my feet up !)

HOORAH!! Sorki and Suzi so glad some others have succombed to the sherbet craving, discovered the type with a "swizzlestick" and 2 pouches of flavoured sherbet, while on hols. Not had it since i was about 7yrs old probably!!!DH thinks I'm mad.

Work tommorrow and suddenly no clothes will fit me but maternity stuff drowns me at the moment...aarrrgghhh what to wear ?a bin bag!! Am off to search through entire wardrobe in hope can find something suitable.

Hello all - DCMY, LOL at some of your posts: 'contraband Wotsits'!!! Think I may be forced to gorge on all manner of bad things as hospital are obsessed with my size (or lack thereof). Had to see consultant yesterday to see whether they would approve me for a midwife-led birth, but typical NHS, I got palmed off on the registrar instead (after being made to wait over an hour past my appointment time). Registrar had no clue why I was even there, so explained that my BMI is slightly low but I want a midwife-led or home birth. She basically told me that they'll need to see me again at 20 weeks to see if I've put on an "appropriate" (whatever that consists of) amount of weight and has referred me to the dietician!!

Feel like a recovering anorexic whom no-one believes is eating! Registrar even had the cheek to ask me if I had a history of eating disorders! Thing is, if you saw me you'd be appalled at her asking this - yes, I'm very petite but am in no way skinny. I have a very small mother and an even tinier grandmother, both my mum and myself were small babies (but perfectly healthy) and DH is also very lean so the odds of us having a large baby are not high. I understand the risks associated with low birthweight babies but there's only so much I can eat in a day and if my body doesn't naturally pile on the pounds I can't force it to. All very annoying. DH reckons I should photograph my dinners to show the dietician exactly what I eat! As a marathon runner I'm very aware of nutrition and I don't consider 40z (dry weight) of spaghetti with almost half a 400g pack of mince (home-made bolognese sauce) a small amount of food!

Bloody NHS!

I officially have a bump! It was noticed by lots of people at M&Ts today (forst day back after summer). It's also noticeable because I have succombed and gone into maternity clothes - just a nice denim skirt I got half price in H&M- reall comfy

hi all - i have not posted for a long time as been on holiday from work for the summer (work in a college) and have not been near a computer. I too must confess that i have a sherbert craving (wierd) i like the flying saucers with sherbert inside - Yum!!!
I've been getting headached too but they seem to be easy a bit now (18+4.
I bought a fetal doppler on ebay (Angel sounds) and i love it just for checking in to see if the little ones ok - Yes i am a bit paranoid - but its nice to hear all is ok.
My 20 week scan is on the 25th and i can't wait - i can't decide whether to find out if its a girl or a boy?