November 2014- thread 4- 12 week scans and blooming in the second trimester!

[barmybunting]

Hi everyone, we have run out of posts on our last thread so hopefully we'll all find this one easily enough.

Here is to more positive 12 week scans and enjoying our second trimesters, all feeling more human hopefully!

Love the fistpumping baby scan!!

I thought I was done with the puking but this morning I had the barely-out-of-bed voms. That's the first time DP has been around for it as she usually leaves the house an hour before me. Part of me was horrified to be caught with my head over the toilet but part of me went "well, at least she knows I'm not exaggerating now!" Not that she has ever suggested I was.

Amazing pic Miskate! Love it.

Good luck those with scans today

Hopeful - yep I keep getting kicked off on the app too, but at least we're a very chatty bunch so this thread is always near the top!

So much for my plans for a relaxing bank holiday - was my sister's 30th birthday party on sat and didn't get to bed til 2am after playing taxi for the parents and DH! Then Sunday visiting DH family and friend who had just had a baby (teeny tiny 6lb-er, so adorable!) and up to the in-laws til late and spent yesterday visiting my family and got home just in time for Game of Thrones and bed! Ready for a break now - too bad work's getting in the way!!

Back from scan and are celebrating with a sausage sandwich.

Have attached picture. Saw baby wombat wriggling and moving around which was lovely. Don't remember DS wriggly so much at his early scans.

Had to have scan at the hospital in our borough which is 30 mins drive away rather than our local one where we are having baby, which is 15 mins away but in a different borough. It's some political/budget thing. Will also have to go back there for my VBAC appointment and 20 week scan. It's where DS was born but the maternity unit is an empty building awaiting demolition now, and women's ultrasound and the ANC are in the main building. Was really sad to see the empty building.

Baby is fine. The NT seems fine but have to wait a week until the blood results are back. DP doesn't want to tell anyone till then. They have also moved my due date forward to 10th November.

Good luck for everyone having scans shortly!

good to hear about healthy scans!!!

I have to tidy today grump grump.

Yay wombat for a wriggly scan. We're due date buddies!

Great news MrsWombat

Good luck to everyone else having scans this week- hopefully will be lots more good news on here over the next few days.

Hit a new low today and was sick on my way into work whilst driving . Can't complain too much though as it has definitely improved- now only sick a couple of times a week compared to every day previously, and the all day nausea has lifted significantly too!

Aww such cute pics today. This seems so real now

Gosh, don't come on for a couple of days and there's a whole novel to catch up on! Haven't read it all but had a quick glance.

DD was about 2 when she piped up FFS in the back of the car when I was waiting at a junction and no one would let me out - realised I say it every day at that junction. Oops!

Re tantrums with DD I wouldn't acknowledge them at all. I was not about to teach her that she gets attention for screaming like that or gets appeased with food or toys, I would literally completely ignore it then when she eventually stops and says something calmly I'd go overboard with praise and explain that I can't talk to her when she's screaming like that but I'm happy to when she's calm.

Lovely scan pics and news! I've booked one for 3 weeks to find out the sex and taking DD so she can see it too.

Getting lots of kicks here, enough to wake me up last night! 14+3.

Been slacking off a bit over the weekend, eating a lot more snacks and junk instead of good healthy food and going to bed at stupid o'clock instead of proper times so going to get back into healthy living again today. Feeling mummy guilt!

Random - what software did you use to create your lovely announcement pic? I would like to copy you/make mine an homage to yours :)

Glad to hear all the good scan news - this stupid app means I can't see the pictures annoyingly.

I have some good news for anybody suffering from the bloody misery that is hayfever....
After despairing at the weekend having read everywhere that (unless you are a really bad mess) antihistamines are to be avoided, unless prescribed, I went to Superdrug expecting to leave with nothing, except perhaps a bird-flu mask!
BUT, joy!
I found Prevalin Allergy Nasal spray (contains no steroids or antihistamines) and is safe in pregnancy.
It's not as good as taking Piriton and a Sudofed washed down with a Lemsip and some Beconase but it's a lot better than nothing at all!
Was £6.66 and it's made a big difference to my scratchy throat and blocked nose, after about an hour.

Hope it helps someone else too...

Miskate I'm almost embarrassed to admit it was snapped on my phone and edited with Instagram!! Nothing fancy at all! If you look on Pinterest there are loads of ideas and similar photos with shoes and different interesting angles etc.

Oh gosh, my DP's nephew is 4 now and has an 8 month old baby brother (who is on his FOURTH hair cut already! ) The older boy is acting out like you would not believe - we had him yesterday and he threw a tantrum because I was holding the baby to feed him. When I put the baby down, he walked over and started smacking him!!!

I was so appalled I almost didn't know what to say. He has a very difficult home life as his parents (DP's older brother & girlfriend) are not a very happy couple & there was very little effort made to accustom him to the idea of the baby being around. Is it awful to look at a child & think 'my baby is not going to turn out like that'? I feel so sorry for him, but at the same time he's old enough to know that he's being a little shit, he just doesn't care.

Random, I had no idea you could do the kind of stamp date effect on instagram! How useful!

I'd look at it more like I'm not going to turn out to be a mum like that. They've clearly not prepared him or managed his feelings about it, they obviously don't use positive reinforcement and reflective listening and they're only giving him negative attention. It's parents who create little shits, they're not born like that.

More good scan news here. Due date confirmed at 6th November.

Baby was going absolutely mad in there, enough for the sonographer to repeatedly say 'ohhh stay still will you!' followed quite quickly by 'and now we're being given the finger' yep, tiny 14 week old fetus managed to flip us all the bird. So embarrassing.

Miskate the only effects I used were lightening it up and adding a standard border. There's no date stamp on it. Are you sure it's my picture you're looking at? Mine is 3 pairs of Converse, mine, DDs and baby bootie ones, with 3 slate hearts underneath with 1977, 2006 and 2014 written in chalk on them.

I was informed that loratadine is ok in pregnancy if you don't over use it? I've had to use it a few times or I wouldn't have been able to leave the house!

Random - yeah, that's what I meant by date stamp, the clever thing you did with the hearts. I must have thought you had added the slate hearts on in postediting?! BABY BRAIN.

Alita - I've also been told by my doctor that I can keep using loratadine for the same reason.

Twiglet my neighbour just told me this morning that she was 4 when her sister was born and she was so put out that when the baby was asleep and nobody was looking, she snuck over and bit the baby's hand!

Perhaps its just being 4? It could be a super-jealous age.

Luckily cos of my advanced years if I'm lucky enough to have a second it'll have to be so soon that there'll be barely a year between them!

Twiglet I think 4 is a really difficult age for a child to get accustomed to a new sibling anyway - old enough to remember having parents to themselves and resent the loss of attention, but too young to do anything positive with the baby and feel like they're being "helpful" big sib. It must leave them feeling like a spare part. Hope he finds his place again before he ends up miserable.

I think that you can try and make the idea of a new sibling very positive for a 3-5 year old but it must still be a big shock because the reality for them is that this little one they got used to being hidden away in mummies belly is suddenly there and taking up most of mummies time, especially if you're breast feeding, and many 4 year olds aren't quite ready to be of much help it may be hard to include them in those first months. And then everyone else who comes round now doesn't want to play with them, and wants to see and hold the new baby, and Daddy comes home from work and helps out so Mummy can get some sleep... even if they do get attention in the middle of all this, it won't be as much as they used to have, when with Mummy or Daddy...

I also took Loratadine this morning. I was told it's ok, but the sprays are the recommended medication in pregnancy. I don't get on with them at all, they make my sinuses feel like they're filled with cement or something! I was a snotty mess till I took the Loratadine this morning. Hayfever makes me feel terrible all day if it gets a handle on me and I can't cope with that at work at the minute!

Lovely scan pics today! Mine is on Thursday, getting increasingly nervous now...

Urgggghhhhhhhhhh I've just been told by a disability rights activist friend that UKIP are promoting compulsory abortions for Downs Syndrome.

As though expectant mothers aren't deluged with enough shit about what we 'should' do already. I know they said it about a year ago, I hope it's just a revisit of the old story and not another attempt on the same thing.

whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat???
UKIP are basically promoting a return to nazi eugenics then?! Christ.