September 2014 - Holding hands and 20 week scans...

[BexBoo12]

New thread for our chatty bunch :-) x

Bex

missbright battery up the nose?! That's a new one! Not how you planned to spend your Easter though I'm sure, glad he's ok now.

As for the weeks v months question, I take the months from the first day of last period. So mine was 30th November so I say I'm nearly 5 months. Seems to work out right as pregnancy is about 9 months and 1 week so fits ok with due date. That's probably not the official method, but I find it much easier than trying to divide months into weeks .

Hi everyone been a while since I posted but been trying to keep up to date! Hope everyone is having a nice evening :)

Had to have a blood test today, my mW is concerned that I might have obstetric cholestasis :( my itching is out of control and nothing is helping!!!! I'm about to ready to cry over it tbh, my skin is in shreds due to the itching so its now beyond itchy and sore to itch and waking me up at night! Will get the results tomorrow. Hopefully its not OC but equally a diagnosis might mean some kind of relief but have been given some stuff already to try and help so will be going for a bath shortly!

Sorry just needed to vent a little bit! Please ignore me obviously many of you have much worse worries than I do, I'm just exhausted!

Xxx

Oh my gosh missbright glad your dc got sorted, how scary. My younger brother stuck a little plastic ball up his nose when he was small that was 'coal' from his Thomas the tank engine train set. We didn't even realise until he started snoring at night as loud as a lion! It's making me realise what fun I have yet to come!

First day back at work today and I am really knackered, and the children weren't even there today!

The cot bed arrived today but Mothercare hadn't even contacted us to arrange a delivery day. No sign of the wardrobe or changing unit we also ordered . Bit strange! Luckily my DH was off work to receive it.

polka were looking at the zoom pushchair too, looks like a good deal, also the xpedior from mothercare, anyone know how good that is?
missbright hope your DS is ok now! Things children get upto! Weve not had anything up the nose yet from DS considering he is obsessed with playdoh thankfully he's not attempted anything silly with it so far!

Getting quite nervous and excited, scan on thurs, I think we're having another boy, but this pregnancy is a log different to my other one, and bump different shape too, so we will see!

kt the deal is amazing with the zoom it almost swayed me! But my heart was set on the quinny!

ilove oooh glad you said that :)

Woooop, we've just booked 3 nights away in Cornwall next week as we won't be going away for a long time probably. We got a really good last minute deal and I'm excited!

Been playing around with baby names tonight too, I want to have a middle name, DH doesn't, he's saying 'boy', I'm saying 'girl'!

Glad to hear that we are not the only ones to have looked at the Zoom.

How are everyones bumps coming along?

Ladies can I ask a question about heartburn...I'm part of a Facebook group of friends in RL who are due between July and November who tell me I can get gaviscon or something similar on prescription...I think great, saves me some money in Asda, but they say only way to get prescription is to see a doctor...I cannot go to a doctor with heartburn, surely? Can't I see a nurse or midwife for prescription?! I can't waste a doctors time with heartburn!!

polka that sounds lovely :) I've got quite a large bump going on here already (this pic was this morning) - hazard of being only 5 feet fall with a short torso!

*tall, not fall

Bex I'd ring the doctors and ask the receptionists, they should know...

Thats a fab bump hippyjess. Im just paranoid because I know Im overweight and I am aware that I have a good layer of podge!

thanks ladies, the 3 older boys had a telling off! they know hes a mischievous 2yr old and needs watching if they play with him, so the fact they werent watching him made us really angry, imagine if he'd swallowed the battery or something, doesnt bear thinking about. but hes bouncing back to his usual self, has a very sore nose and constant nosebleeds, just glad its out now though cos its awful to see him in such pain x

this was my bump on saturday night when i tagged along to my OHs work, (he works at a Haven site)x

polka so am I, my bump is padded

I love these bump pictures! Glad your little boy is bouncing back now.

Oh my gosh!! All these beautiful bumps! Am I doing something wrong?! ;-) I have no bump!! Gutted!!

20 week scan today, I remember at least one person also has scan today, who are you lovely lady? We can hold hands while we wait, I'm terrified...

Hope you're all good today with your baby beans x

I was hoping my fat belly would be thinned out across my bump, but nope just a bump with a fat belly surrounding it!

Brightside glad your son is better now.

My bump is the same size as those posted on here but I look huge due to big bum too.

Still not feeling 'regular kicks' but more stronger than before and feeling them at least oncw a day.

how is everyone

ilove I'm rather huge of bottom too, at the moment it's still bigger than the bump but I look quite strange from the side if I'm wearing the wrong thing!

My scan's on Friday and I'm trying to focus solely on the gender aspect to stop myself from panicking... Wish I could be as calm as almost-DH! It's so nerve-wracking, isn't it? :(

I have so much anxiety at the moment - scan Friday, hen/stag parties the bank holiday weekend and then we're getting married! Far too much going on here for my liking

morning all, Loving the bump pics, might try and get one on myself.

Ive had my scan this morning and everything looks perfect. The lovely sonographer lady gave us an extra picture of the babys foot which is so clear and cute.

We did find out the sex and I know Ill get shouted at but once back in the waiting room, dh asked if I was ok with it and I burst into tears and he took me outside and gave me a big hug. This is where the lovely sonographer found us and she too gave me a big hug and as she was also pg she was almost in tears too, wafting her face!

I know all of our familes had the same preference, as did dh, ds and I which I know people frown upon but I cant help feeling the way I do. Now I feel they will be disappointed and not excited. I really wanted to experience having a girl and having an adult daughter. Yes I know boys are fab and very loving, My ds is the best.

I have no doubt Ill be shouted down about being disappointed with nothing other than a healthy baby. Your right on that but I just cant help the way I feel.

good luck to everyone else having their scans, you too bex xx

whiteblossom I read on another thread one lady said you grieve for the baby you are not getting - I guess you picture both to yourself, and then finding out one way or another removes one of those options, and you are bound to feel a little sadness to have one of your imagined versions removed.
With DS I was so adamant he was a boy, that when the sonographer said boy I said 'yes, I was right!' Not through a preference, just that I was pleased my instincts were right. I hadn't even pictured a little girl baby. This time round I have no strong feelings either way so I have pictured both options - I'm sure I will feel a little sad for the-option-that-wasn't-to-be, although like you I'll be happy to have a healthy baby, as I'm 99.99% sure this baby will be our last.
Be kind to yourself, you can't control your feelings. Congratulations on your little boy - I bet your DS will love having a little brother : )

Blossom I'm so glad that you have a healthy baby and I know you are, too. I'm sorry that the gender wasn't what you'd all hoped for, and I'm sure it's normal and healthy to feel a sense of loss for what might have been. Don't worry about anyone else's disappointment. Be kind to yourself, because you know those hormones are raging.

Thank you Katharine & IATESome I think your absolutely right, Im grieving, which sounds extreme I know. I did know going into the scan it was a boy but wondered if my head was playing tricks. Im feeling a bit more positive now (yes I know so I should!), I popped into Sainsburys and had a look at the baby stuff which was on sale and picked up a handful of things which were colourful and not just blue! My dh said that if anyone were to say they were disappointed then he would go and beat them up- he's not serious I should point out, he's the least violent person I know but he would be furious!

I think what also hurts is that I know DH is sad- not that he has said that, he never would and has denied it but I know he is. Its just that given that this baby was my idea, I know he'd have loved a daughter/daddies girl, I think it would have put a bit of spring in his step. Our ds was very much a mummies boy! That's starting to shift as he gets older though. sorry Im ramberling.

Hi, can I join you all? I'm due at the end of September.