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!)

Hi Guys - just wanted to let you know about a new aqua natal class in Essex - at Belfairs pool in Leigh on sea. Its great exercise with bumps on board and good muscle strengthening for labour too !!

hey pumpkin20 glad to hear its not just me with the hairs appears on the stomach!! plucked the first few with tweezers which wasn't a good move as now there is a little forest of them!! maybe its to keep the stomach warm...

Sorky, I had my scan today too, also a boy, apparently. We must be due about the same time - I'm slated for Feb 3. We're in shock as we had both only really thought of the baby as a girl. I'm trying not to be disappointed, health is the main thing, and there are pros and cons to either gender, blahblahblah, but I have to admit I'm a bit fazed, and feeling guilty about being fazed. Is that really bad?

Thats quite normal sally. Don't worry about those feelings at all. Of course the only important thing is that the baby is healthy but the mind doesn't always work like that and I think most people hand on heart have a preference either way. Once he is born you will wonder why you ever wanted a girl! I am not going to find out the sex for this reason as I think once it is born I won't care either way, but at the moment we both have a slight hankering for another girl, so I would feel exactly the same if a scan revealed otherwise. It won't make any difference in the long run and by the time you have been out and bought lots of bits for him you will not want it any other way I am sure

Flowertot - me again. Don't worry, you haven't scared me. I really value having an honest opinion from one who has 'been there, done that' and it is good to be aware that I won't be able to control what is going to happen and need to be prepared for various senarios. And the idea of going back there after birth if it happens elsewhere is a great one ?Thank you very much!

I have my scan on Tuesday - will be almost 22 weeks then. We have decided not to find out the gender. I have this feeling it is a girl and if I found out it was a boy, Sally, I'd feel the same as you - so you are totally normal! We think we'll leave the surprise for the birth when I know I will just be so thrilled to have a baby in my arms ?

Hello Everyone! Hello to the new ladies and bumps!

Congratulations on scan results - don't worry Sally, am sure it is totally natural to feel the way you do - it's like at Christmas, when you really thought someone had got the hint about a present you've been wanting and you get a different present which is great but not what you had thought, you feel funny and then end up feeling pleased once you've got your head round it. Gosh, I really have lost my ability to write coherant sentences....

Anyway, I am a misery-arse. Have been suffering from really, really bad migraines in evening. Been to doctor today and blood pressure is fine, urine is fine etc, so only explanation is work pressure which is just HUGE. Any advice for stress relief would be much appreciated....

Plumpbump (love the name by the way!), there are lots of pregnancy relaxation DVDs on the market, or pregnancy yoga/pilates which some people find very relaxing. Or you could try swimming, which I find very soothing.

My other top tip is a bath with REN Rose Otto bath oil - expensive stuff but makes you feel like a million dollars.

I know what you mean about being disappointed when you find out the sex at a scan. I would prefer not to know, because I think the moment of birth is so wonderful that you can't really feel disappointed about anything for very long then. On the other hand, Vicky Iovine in the Best Friend's Guide to Pregnancy says that she always wanted to know the sex beforehand, because she found the whole birth process surprising enough and could do without one more surprise!

I was going to recommend pregnancy yoga too for de-stressing - I have my second session this evening and last week I really enjoyed it and came out feeling very relaxed! So much so that on the way home after class when a nasty driver tooted at me for no reason I just sweetly carried on when normally I would have got into a state!

Would I cope with pg yoga having never done yoga before or indeed much exercise (hence my new screen name!)

Plumpbump - I too suffer badly with headaches especially during pregnancy. I find swimming helps loads as it relaxes the neck and stretches the muscles - plus back neck and shoulder massages. Have had 2 now and she massaged away so many knots in my upper back that I felt so much moer relaxed and comfortable after. Swimming is great to strengthen up for the birth too I'm told. I swam everyday last pregnancy and sure it helped in labour!

I had never done yoga before last Thursday either! It is very gentle (I did not even feel stiff the next day), with lots of emphasis on breathing and stretching. I think a class is better than a dvd (although lots more expensive in the long run) though because it can all seem a bit airy fairy if it is not demonstrated to you. Swimming sounds a great form of excercise - if only I wasn't so shy about being in a swimsuit ?

plumpbump I'm suffering really badly with headaches this time (wasn't so bad with DS) and am having migraines about every 10 days or so. My current headache has been with me almost 2 wks, minus one day when my osteopath cleared it. I've seen the docs a few times (having other trouble too... but will go into that once I know more) and he reckons they're hormonal. I've been treated for upper sinus infection but it doesn't seem to be that.

Only things I can recommend is ostopath to sort out neck muscles of they're locked and Kool n Soothe forehead strips give me a touch of relief. You have my sympathies.

Plumpbump - I've just started yoga and I'm so unbendy I can't even touch my toes without dislocating my hips. It's fine, the stretches are pretty simple and you just go to the level you're comfortable with. I tried to 'push' myself doing some downward dog action the other week and wound up with a thigh as hard as a tree trunk for the rest of the week, which made lugging me and the bump up and down stairs very tiring - so take it easy. The most important thing with Pregnancy Yoga is getting the breathing right, so you can ride through those 'surges' (cos calling them 'contractions' triggers negative connotations and makes you fight rather than work through the [insert alternative word for 'pain' here]).
On the baby gender subject, I have become a bit fixated on the idea of a little girl and am glad I'm not the only one. I don't feel I can talk to anyone as they'd just trot out the 'as long as it's healthy' cliche but I'm feeling really nervous about next week's scan and the 'It's a...' moment. And I absolutely can't not find out. But I'm getting fixated. AND - just now I walked into the internet cafe only to be confronted with a monitor full of graphic and very close-up porn. Now, I don't want to be subjected to that anyway but what if I was going in to check my emails with a wide-eyed toddler in tow? I'm already dreading trying to bring up a well-rounded, confident, respectful boy or girl in a society where the depiction of women as undressed generic wankdollys is the norm from TV shows to newsagents' stands... The guy in question saw me fuming and minimised his porn screen - he was disguising it with Google Earth! - whenever he saw me cast an evil eye in his direction. After about ten minutes of evil eye tennis I called out loudly "Excuse me...EXCUSE ME... it says up there on the wall NO PORNOGRAPHY" to which he muttered a "sorry" and concentrated instead on a detailed map of China. Yet I bet his mum thinks he's a little angel with the highest respect for all women. Irrational as it may seem incidents like this make me so worried about next week's scan.
And breathe...

Hi all
DCMY.. sounds like you need to do some of that breathing and relaxation before you go check your emails!!!
I have the opportunity to go to both swimming and yoga but both are in the neighbouring borough so I need to make a bit of effort to get to them and at the moment I am very very tired so haven't made it to either.
I would like to find out the sex, I'd be happy with either, but we do have a small hankering after a boy as we have two nieces.. My dad says the 'celestial voices have told him it's going to be a boy and called Johnathon but I still have about 3 weeks to go before my second scan.

Had my second scan today too, due date 3 Feb so the same as you sallyn. All OK. We didn't ask about the sex as we both didn't want to know. Know what you and others mean though worrying about having boys. I was worried about that too first time round but then DS arrived and I've absolutely adored him from moment one. Rumour has it that boy babies are more cuddly, certainly DS is really affectionate.

plumpbump, most pg yoga classes will let you have a taster session or two so you can check out whether it's for you. I have to say that I've been loving my class. Might be worth trying a second if you like the idea but don't like the style of the first - some are more 'spiritual' than others and not everyone gets on with that. (We had a replacement teacher last week who did lots of chanting and stuff and it wasn't really my thing, I just wanted the exercise.)

Hi All, I've not posted for a while. I had my second scan last Wednesday. All is well. My DH and I did not want to know the sex of the baby although were oth trying to make it out on the screen. I feel that after all that hard work of labour it would be nice to have a surprise to look forward to. Lets just say, I feel labour is not a nice surprise. To me it would feel like knowong what the christmas present is before you opened it and feeling a little dissapointed becasue you already knew.

Anyway, good luck to all you mums who still have there second scan to come.

Mine is a week today and we'll definately be finding out if possible. We did with DS. I'm crap at waiting for surprises lol! And we're both kind of boring and practical and want to get the gender related purchases done!

Saw my friend with her 5 wk old today. What a lovely placid baby. Makes me all confident about handling two. Although DS was NEVER that placid so maybe this one will be bit wild too. Mind you, I can't believe how easy newborns are in a sense. They sleep loads and if you lay them somewhere, they're still there when you go back! I don't think I've been quite so shattered as I've been since DS started walking

Feeling very lucky to be pg again and very happy to be blessed with this baby and DS. Getting all gooey and soppy about a little vulnerable newborn too. Anyone else have out of control soppy hormones???

Hi ladies

Haven't been in here a while! I felt the baby move (finally at about 4.45am on Wednesday morning and the good thing is that my partner was there and he felt it too. It wasn't a kicking but just moving about, a little fluttering.

I had a scare today, I went for some work training today and nearly slipped and had a bad fall. It really freaked me out and I just started crying and got so emotional that I had to leave.

Suzi2, I feel exactly the same - awash with hormones. I'm not normally a baby-cooing sort of woman, but when I see newborns at the moment I just want to burst into tears.

Don'tCallMeYummy, I loved your story about the porn in the internet cafe.

I was shopping in the high street today when I felt a really big pain across my stomach, just like a contraction. It made me stop and double over with pain. Then 2 minutes later I got another one. Could they be Braxton Hicks? I never really felt BH contractions last time, but I suppose all pregnancies are different so maybe that's what it was. I was really scared for a few minutes that it might be real contractions and the start of a miscarriage, but it's 9 hours ago now and nothing has happened since.

I've woken up 2 nights this last week with BH but none when awake, maybe they start earlier with subsequent pg.

2 people touched my belly today. I don't mind it so much, I understand the urge to touch a pg belly myself, there something mesmerising about them .

I have a very neat bump atm, it looks like I've got a football up my jumper lol

good luck for all peeps having scans soon!

I've had a few BHs too - really freaked me out as I was at least 32wks before I noticed them with DS. MW tells me that the uterus contracts loads it's just that you don't notice it until later on in pregnancy - and often earlier in subsequent ones.

Completely unrelated I know, but aren't pickled onions lush?!

My only craving is for mature cheddar cheese. I couldn't stand pickled onions before, and I still can't now!

Interesting about BHs starting earlier in subsequent pregnancies. I never felt them last time, but I went into hospital for monitoring when 5 days overdue and the midwives were saying, Oh look, can you feel those big contractions? I could see them on the monitor but could feel nothing.

I'm new here and thought I'd introduce myself. I'm due on the 17th feb so am 19 weeks today. I've got my 20 week scan on the 2nd Oct and can't wait as we've decided we're going to find out the sex this time (we didn't last time). Only 9 days to go until I know what colour paint to buy........

All's been well so far (I didn't have the double test) so I'm looking forward to the scan!

Deb

havent been on this thread yet, just seemed to forget for some reason. still dont feel very pg yet which is odd as i am 19 1/2 weeks now. think i have a bit of a bump but its hard to tell as i am fat but have lost a stone since finding out. think shape might just be changing a bit but no one has asked me when its due yet despite several people guessing at 10 weeks last time

will be asking sex at scan next week, best advice i can give people who were surprised at gender is to buy something, made me feel lots better. i have 3 boys, have hoped for a girl every time except this one!