Due March 2007 No2

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I thought I would start a new thread as I came to this thread late and am not sure who is and isn't around.

I'll start

2dd's
due 30 Mar
living in Australia

I'm sure I felt a poke in the old tum today. Might not have been, but I was sitting still which is almost unheard of for me and it def wasn't wind.
V early but I'm such a worn out old sow who knows
12+5

only one large glass onilly? Come now don't let the side down.I dream of gallons of the stuff!!

Awww - you have sussed me - whats the use of opening the darn bottle if you don't finish it ?

Going to meet my consultant on Thursday to discuss all the screening options. DS2 has developmental problems and there is a query about whether thisis genetic or not, so I am tempted to go for any test I can get. Thanks for support here.

Sending hugs to those feeling low. I have been there and understand. (I am taking prozac currently).

Slightly hacked off that I did bloom for the last 2.5 weeks but its worn off already. Doh.

13.5ish

HI ladies

First of all, onilly, aches and pains are very normal. I think that we are all much more sensitive to everything physical in early pregnancy and the stretching etc can be very painful. I went to hosp last weekend as my cramps were so bad, and it looks like I have had a vaginal infextion which needs antibiotics to get rid of it. If yours is still around, it might be worth getting it checked? More likely is just the general aches of pg but if you have a discharge it might be worth a call to the MW. Just a thought.

Piffle - I have my nuchal tomorrow morning too. Am very laid back this evening. Have told myself that I will start worrying only once they tell me there is something to be concerned about. Hope yours goes well.

To all the ladies not feeling good - big hugs. I feel very emotional and tearful but otherwise OK. Look like shit though. Very grey (no hairdying until I can stomach the smell of the chemicals), white as a sheet, huge eye bags, spots, neck like a turkey etc. It's not pretty down in S london. I bloomed last time around 16 weeks, but it may just have been the comparison with how shitty I felt before rather than actual blooming. Hope everyone has a good day tomorrow.

My MS is a bit better today. Hoping to fancy some supper shortly. The chocolate cure sounds like a good one. When I can murder a glass of wine, then I'll know I am finally cured.

Take care XXXXX

Sorry, meant to say good luck for Thursday themum. Hope you manage to get some answers. And thanks for the link to the Threelac, Kitty. Will buy some tomorrow. You should be on commission .

Onilly, glad you're feeling a little better. Another thing no-one tells you is how bad the cramps are after the birth. I was in agony and on really strong pain killers for a week afterwards.

I got really low during my last pgcy, all to do with the sickness and giving up work and not being able to do what I used to. It's quite over-whelming at times, but MN is the place to come for understanding.

DollyP - PMSL at your description of yourself

I'm no spring chicken myself

Good luck at the scan tomorrow

Piffle -can't believe I've never heard of noonan syndrome before. I'm glad its not too severe for your lo.

Onilly i had lower back pain last week. I've had cramps and discomfort at other times. I blamed it on constipation! I've been really thirsty and if i don't drink gallons then theres trouble!

I am starting to feel twinges in my sockets must do some research on spd. I get it really bad. disclocating joints right left and centre. Is there anyway of preventing or lessening it I wonder? my last pregnancy wasn't as bad as one before when I could hardly walk from 4 months.

I get really jealous of people walking fast.Ilove walking fast. But when pregnant can only waddle slowly. I don't feel like a beached whale yet though. I wonder would yoga help. Then I can keep it up and look like madonna this time next year! hee hee.

rosylilly, I get spd pretty badly. I thought I was doing really well last preg up to about 6 1/2 months when I walked just a tad too quickly down tyhe road and "ping" I felt it go and there I was hobbling around like an olod lady until a while afterdd3 was born. I was so cross with myself.

4 days after dd2 was born dp and I went to a craft fair and I was so immoblie and slow with the effects of spd that a group of very elderly ladies, one using a zimmer frame actually over- took me. It was then I realised I needed to get it fixed!!
No doubt it'll come back this time too.

kitty-thanks i will read that book when it finds its way out of the carrier bag.im still reading a book i got from the library at the moment called 'going mad'

themum-im on prozac again this pg,i wasnt going to wait till i hit rock bottom b4 i asked for help this time.

ive totally gone off wine in this pg.i still had the odd glass after 12 weeks last time(till the heartburn got too much) but now the thought of it makes me feel ill.
i didnt have a drink after having dd2 untill new yrs eve.she was born on 6th december but she was admitted to hospital at 11days old and was in for 2 weeks.i had half a glass of wine then fell asleep on the sofa,totally missing big ben on the telly!

i didnt bloom in my first pg,even though i was only 20 and wrinkle free then.ive just realised that if im induced at 38 weeks like i was with the last 3 then im going to be going in on my 30th birthday

you guys - thanks alot, the mums nutters. I have had my bath, eaten my supper and in my pj's reading your messages and feel supremely thankful for the understanding, chuckles and sense of humour. Dolly, I PMSL as well - what a hoot - gawd, you say exactly how I am feeling what a scream

Ladies with scans tomorrow - good luck, raising the fictionary bucket/glass of wine for you right now.
I am off to bed to my much coveted pillow and duvet!

Another day down....

Thanks anniediv
Think the MS is what's depressing me, I go from feeling really
happy to upset and low when the sickness kicks in again.
Come to the conclusion that my body is a out of control machine, busy producing a baby and I am now a backseat driver...with travel sickness.
Agree with the wine thing. When I want a glass I will know that I am cured too.
Might give the chocolate thing a go, but I still mad about oranges at the moment, Terry's Chocolate orange?

Hey Divastrop if I go 11 days early I'll be giving birth on my 40th birthday! Whens yours? Mines 1st march. I had been hoping to have a big crazy party. Oh well. We'll see about that!

Diva - dd was due on my 30th birthday last year. She came 3wks early - on the day I'd organised birthday celebrations with my best friends because I thought I'd be safe!

Hi Mumsnutters (lol).

Onilly: sorry to hear about your cramps etc. I'm sure it's fine, but if you're really worried, I reckon you should hassle your MW for a check-up. Us PG ladies must not be upset!

Anniediv: thanks for posting that depression link. Pennygaff: I've been feeling exactly the same as you. Exactly the same. My body's not mine any more, and I constantly feel somewhere between travel-sick and hungover.

I got to the stage a few weeks ago when I felt like there was a big strip of gauze between me and the rest of the world, and I couldn't even feel things properly any more.

I actually feel better now I'm back at work and having to focus on something outside myself. Makes me glad I'm a teacher - it's hard to focus on your own feelings when you're supervising lots of (someone else's) bouncing kids.

Sorry to hear some of you are on Prozac too, although good for you for getting the help.

It's such a relief to talk about this stuff. No-one in RL (apart from DH) wants to know. It doesn't fit their picture of a pregnant woman. Especially as some people know how long we tried for, and how much medical intervention we had to have.

Right: rant over.

btw, with regards to the fabled glow, thought my skin was starting to plump out a bit and generally start to look quite nice, until a Mum at work said "don't worry, you'll get your glow soon."

I didn't glow at all either, I think it's a myth, invented to make people have children. Pregnancy sucks!!!! I'm so looking forward to never doing it again.

Hi all, hope everyone is doing okay
I went to my first pregnancy yoga class this morning and now feel much much better. More energised and less sick

I am willing to bet that I will be the last one on this thread to give birth. You'll all be discussing your babies and I'll be rolling around like a fat maggot. I bet you.

hello again,
rosylily,my birthday is march 1st as well.i'd been planning to go for a big night out in blackpool before i got pg haha.

i never feel like my body is mine during pg,i remember saying to my councellor last time that i felt like an incubator and wanted myself back.it was ok then cos the pg was unplanned,this time no-one can understand why i put myself through it again.the way i see it its 9 months i have to put up with but its all worth it in the end and i do so want the end product!i just wish i was a man,they get the easy bits!

13+6

A Fat Maggot?

I feel rough today - bad tempered, resentful, exhausted, nausious, tearful........
Plus, have worrying cramps in lower abdomen. But that's because everyone else has been talking about cramps.

I could put up with feeling cr*p, if I didn't spend all day everyday worrying about miscarrying!

Just find it difficult today to visualise that lovely baby popping out in March - it seems such a long way off doesn't it?

Fatfox you know how maggots just spend all their time eating, but can't move about much? They just wriggle and eat. So I always feel like one of those, especially when I get stuck on the floor and I can't get up. I roll around until somone will pull me up.
You MUST have felt like that
I'm sure the cramps are just stretchy womb aches. I had some of those yesterday. Not cramps really but a stretching and slight soreness.

I'm laughing at the fat maggot image rolling around the floor and the idea of ladies on zimmer frames speeding past. hee hee. all of this discomfort will make us really keen to go into labour and give birth! We'll be longing for the labour to start and welcome all that agony with open arms/cervix.

I have not had any of the cramping this time. I assume it's because my innards are stretched like a windsock after 3 previous large (ish) babies twirling around in there. Sympathy to those of you who are getting them.

Kittywits, I bet I will be one of the last to give birth too, as my dh is due away for work on 4th April (I am due 23/03). We can be fat maggots together.