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!)

Haven't posted for the past week as have been off work and haven't logged on much. Glad to hear everyone's doing well.

Glad I'm not the only one with belly hair issues! Was feeling like a bit of a freak and wondering whether I should remove them, but if plucking encourages growth of forest plantation proportions I think I'll steer clear. What about depilatory creams?

Am really pleased this week as have been for my appointment with the hospital dietician (you may recall that I was being harassed from all directions for being slightly underweight). Dietician confirmed my own conviction that my diet is pretty much 'model' - she said if all her patients ate as well as I do she would be out of a job! - and there's absolutely nothing wrong with my weight as I have gained about 5lb since conception (am now nearly 18 weeks). She said she would write to the consultant to confirm that my diet is perfectly healthy and there is no issue with my weight as far as she is concerned. She also told me (as did my GP right at the start) that there is no need for me to gain more than 10-12kg during my entire pregnancy. And no need to eat any more than usual until the third trimester, and then only about an extra 200 calories a day.

Feeling very relieved as was stressing me out being treated as though I was a closet anorexic. Hopefully this will help me in getting the birth centre birth I want - although will bear in mind previous comments about this and keep an open mind in case it doesn't happen and I end up having to have the baby in hospital.

Hi all! Hope you're all ok.

Had my 20wk scan this week...was fantastic saw loads this time as opposed to scans with ds and dd, perhaps becuase consultant did it this time. Unfortunately hospital policy is not to tell the sex so it'll be a surprise (although dh is convinced he saw a huge willie...personally not convinced!!).

I'm happy to report sherbert addiction has passed and seem to be favouring savoury things again HOORAH! Especially home made soup...so far this weekend have made my way through a pot of courgette and mint and there is a pot of parsnip, ginger and lemon awaiting me for supper yummy yummy

oh and welcome to gigglingoblin and moosma and anyone else new I've missed!

This is the 1st time I've been told my child is breech. My other two were always either side or head down, either by palpating or on scans.
This one hoofs me big time in my bladder, never used to wee as much with other two pg, or feel the kicking in the places this one kicks.
Does anyone know if he'll stay this way or is it likely he'll turn the right way around?

I've heard that they can turn right up to the last second. Now that they automatically do c-sections for breech babies, apparently they scan you just before as a few times they have opened up and found the baby the right way round after all!

If you're due in Feb you've got plenty of time left for lots of turns!

Good luck and I hope he/she flips and stays...

Deb

Sorky - they can flip around loads up to 36 wks +. And if it's not your first, then I think they can move head down later as they don't tend to engage as early. If he/she is stil breech at about 28 wks I would suggest you try a few things to encourage them to shift - if you google it there are some ideas out there. Things such as staying upright, not letting your feet go higher than your hips, not slouching, leaning forward, spending some time on all fours etc etc. I wuldn't worry though.

As for the c-section thing... at my hospital they usually advise c-section if it's your first. However, they are often happy for you to have a breech delivery if it's not your first and they know your body can delivery a baby so to speak. Again I'm on a mission to not be told to do anything lol and I would always consider a natural breech delivery.

I'm glad your hospital do natural breeches suzi, round here it's all "That's impossible, so we'll section you. You can't have a breech baby naturally, they don't fit that way".

Sorky, if you google for optimum feotal position you'll get a load of stuff like suzi mentioned, it worked well for me when E was OP although I did leave it a bit late before I started it.

One of the few things my local hospital will 'let' you do lol! My gran was a midwife (about 60 years ago!) and delivered many breech babies naturally at home. It's just lately that the medical profession have got all strange about it being a possibility!

Hi all
Nothing big to report from me.
I'm off the a travel lodge on the outskirts of birmingham later as I'm on a course tomorrow.I'd rather not be going wanting to stay at home with my DH.
Soundbites are we still thinking about the baby show?
Would anyone else like to come?
baby show
I haven't booked a ticket yet.

hi all. no particular news from me at the moment but thought I'd briefly check in.

sorky, hope the baby turns - I'm sure it will, it seems very early for your hospital to be worrying about positions. There's still lots of space in the uterus and plenty of things you can do to help turning if need be.

If it doesn't turn, and you decide to go for it (and the hospital let you) it is absolutely possible for babies to be born breech! It's only the obsession with c-sections that mean that delivery staff don't always have confidence in natural delivery. My cousin had a breech baby naturally 3 years ago, and I was a breech baby myself.

hello babydriver. I'm off work - headaches literally doing my head in!!!

hi all - just to let you know i had my scan yesterday and it's most definitly a boy!!! No mistaking it - he was lying there with his legs open for all to see!!!

Just need some advice as well. I'm feeling really wierd at the moment like one minute i'm really happy and the next i can't stop crying and worrying and thinking everything is really awful (which it isn't really) i feel really insecure sometimes about mine and my husbands realtionship (which again i have no good reason too) and i just wanted to know if anyone else felt like this and it was a normal side effect of being pregnant or if i was wierd - any thoughts?

Hi everyone.

Sorky - At my scan last week the sonographer said to me the baby was at that moment lying across, but she said by the time I get home the baby could be in a completely different position as they still have quite a lot of room to move in the womb. So don't worry about the position of your baby right now. I'm sure he/she will enjoy swimming around and doing somersaults for quite a while longer yet.

Lucyb9384 - I beleive you are quite normal. A girl at my DH works felt exactly the same way. He went out to do some shopping and she was conveniced he had gone and left her. She phoned his mobile in a terrible sobbing mess. Hormones have a lot to answer for.

I keep burping alot since being pregnant. Does anyone else have this problem or am I alone on this?

only 12.5 weeks until christmas, whoo hoo! Sorry to sound like I am wishing my life away, but have just come back from a long weekends break and did not want to come back to work. I'm working up to Christmas and then take 4 weeks hols before starting my maternity leave, roll on!! I'm on a huge countdown.

Sorky - I meant by he had left her, her husband not mine!!! that did not read very well did it. Opps!

wicky - I'm really looking forward to Christmas too this year. Not sure why exactly, just feeling all festive already which isn't like me at all! I guess that last year DS was only 20wks old and we were still in shock and the year before I had morning sickness. This year I'll be big and bumpy and everyone will do everything for me and I can eat as much as I like

Lucy it's normal. I was quite stable with DS but this time I've been all over the place. I sometimes feel that the world is about to end but there's nothing wrong at all. I'll warn you though that for a few weeks after the baby is born you are worse - all over the place. Loving them, hating them, wanting to go back in time and not do it etc etc! But that's normal too. At the moment it's the crying that's embarrassing. I forgot to take a gift voucher out shopping with me on Saturday and cried the whole 20 min car journey about it.

Thanks its nice to know that its normal to be emotional 99% of the time!!! Thanks for reasuring me.

I'm back in the internet cafe and everyone is behaving. Spent the weekend in Cornwall where DOD was catering a pagan handfasting ceremony in a tipi park. I was the only waitress and got lots of sympathy from the pregnant guests when I was collecting glasses at 11pm as they were resting their bumps on the morrocan sofas. One woman was 6 months and heeeuge - I guess I have a lot of growing to do in the next 6 weeks cos I still just look like I've been at the Cornish Pasties a bit.
Also I have my 20 week scan on Thursday and as my Mum and stepdad have decided to come down for the event I'm just wondering are there any restrictions on how many people you can have in there with you?

our hospital sends a stern letter with the appointment saying you are only allowed 1 person in with you and not to bother asking the sex as they wont tell you! Scary!

Hi another question - after my scan i was told that i needed a glucose tolerance test - is it really necessary as it involves a lot of fasting which will make me sick - any ideas

Forgot to say theres nothing actually wrong scan is fine - no sugar in my pee etc so just wondered if its really necessary?

Forgot to say theres nothing actually wrong scan is fine - no sugar in my pee etc so just wondered if its really necessary?

Only one other person allowed in to witness scan. Unless you went private I suppose and then I wouldn't imagine they could argue the toss.
They'll also make your other person wait about 20 minute outside whilst they do all the measurements etc, then call them in to give them a little look.

Hello all

Peachy - having said I was potentially up for the baby show, I am not so sure now. I went along to the NSPCC Baby and Toddler show which was being held locally on the weekend with my Mum (my parents were visiting from Yorkshire and I wanted to do something with Mum to include her in the baby stuff as she is feeling a bit left out, being a 4 hour drive away) and a rep from The Nappy Lady was there and answered all my nappy questions. I have also gone and bought almost all I need already and the week before the baby show I am going to the NCT sale and hope to pick up what is left then. Could I let you know after this sale whether I think it is worth my while? Sorry to let you down.

I had my second scan today! All is fine - the sonographer looked at the brain, the heart (going very fast!), the stomach and kidneys (to make sure there is water in then, therefore they are working) and finally persuaded it to turn over onto its tummy to look all the way along the spine. She was pleased with all she could see. Tomorrow at the midwife I ought to hear a heartbeat on her doppler machine. As it is lying across me at the moment it is classified as 'breech' but it is early days yet and nothing to worry about - it probably changes positions frequently. So hopefully you too have nothing to worry about, Sorky.

Unfortunately DH has been doing the whole vomiting and diarrhoea thing since Sunday (he has suspected food poisoning, a gift from the conference he was on at the weekend) and was too ill to be there with me, but I gave his stepmother an SOS call (they live an hour away) and she came along and was as entranced by the whole thing as I was. (BTW DCMY there is only one chair next to the bed in the scan room - looks like they only expect one 'guest'.) I went with DH to the doctor this morning, worried about any risk to me, but she said if I did get it it would be unpleasant but would not harm the baby - she had it at 28 weeks and her baby was fine. Just have to be good about washing hands and keeping loos disinfected. Luckily we have two loos so I have restricted the poor man to using only the one while he is sick and I have exclusive use of the other!! And Lucy I did the whole emotional thing of almost blubbing on the phone to MIL and then bursting into tears in front of very poorly DH because he was missing the scan ? like it was his fault!

No worries soundbites.
I still haven't heard from my friend so I'll try her again. Great news about the nappies for you and for the scan.
In fact great news for lots of you about your scans!!!
We have decided to put the house on the market and Dh rang the agents today to say we would go with them after the valuations at the weekend and at the end of the day I found a text saying someone was coming for a viewing later tonight!!! I'm hurriedly making the place look respectable which is more than the last owners did when we looked at it!

thanks for all your reassuring words about knowing I'm having a boy. I'm coming around. Buying an amazingly tiny babygrow and getting the nursery ready have helped, although I did wince as the boybrats round the corner kicked the life out of nearby trees, parked cars and each other.

The thing I'm coming to realise about mumsnet, and parenting in general, is that whatever your worry, you're unlikely to be the first to feel it.

No longer feeling like a fraud and a freak... until next week probably.