November 1014 - thread 5 - the rainbow collective romping (and limping) into 2nd trimester!

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hi folks - thought we should have a new thread!

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/antenatal_clubs/2101041-Sunny-Surrey?msgid=47537502#47537502

Hopefully that will work! Surrey (or anyone who wants to come down to Surrey) thread.

Ignore me Alita has started a much better named thread so let's use that

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/antenatal_clubs/2100925-November-berks-Surrey-and-anyone-else-who-isnt-too-far-meet-up

Morning all!

Hope everyone's enjoying some sunshine this morning.

So our doppler arrived yesterday and I managed to find the HB, though Bean kept moving away from the machine DP listened but wasn't very enthusiastic, 'Oh yeah, cool.' kind of thing. I was a bit miffed but never mind, have decided I just won't use it when he's around now if he's not that bothered! Men.

Congratulations on your DD-to-be, Random

Has anyone got scans/appointments coming up this week as well as amylou's?

Morning, I have been toying with buying a Doppler but have just managed to hold back, THEN I found an app on my iPhone which uses you phone as a stethoscope!!!

It's called Tiny Beats and it was only £2.99!

You put your phone on aeroplane mode, put earphones in your ear then position the microphone on the bottom of the phone on various places on your tummy and eventually (after getting nervous) it will pick up your baby's heartbeat and show you a graph of it on the screen and the beats per minute (mine was 145bpm).

Best to find your own heart first so you know the difference.
You can also save and email recordings!

I have to say it wasn't very clear to actually hear, I'm sure a Doppler is far better at this stage (app says best from 30 weeks) but as it identifies the heartbeat and bmp for you, you know when you find it.

Also, because it's technically to early to be able to hear it, I think it being hard to locate panicked me much less than if it was a Doppler!

I got really excited and bought the app as soon as you mentioned it Elliekins, but didn't realise you could only use it with headphones that don't have a microphone attached. WEEP. I have microphone headphones. Cue rage at my husband and the world. He's gone to mow the lawn to get some peace from me :/

Is there an app for android too? My doppler doesn't show bpm!

No app for android, I downloaded it to my ipad

Ohhh! oh well I've got a doppler anyway :p

I'm an idiot anyway, didn't consider the possibility of not using headphones and using the speakers instead. DUMB.

We've (well, my Mum has) put a deposit on a pram! - Somehow it makes it feel all the more real.

Plus my Mum's managed to acquire a travel cot from a relative so that's something else we won't need. Am feeling so grateful for eveyone that's helping us out.

Yay Toni. What pram did you get?

OK so am having a bit of bump anxiety. I work around a ton of different people every day, and the comments about how HUUUUUGE I am for my stage are getting out of control.

So much so that I have started to fib and tell people when they ask that I'm due in October. Even then sometimes they still insist on asking me "jokingly" if I'm having twins.

Honestly I wouldn't have thought twice about my size if I haven't had all this, cos my DH and my parents love how I look. But apparently I'm an elephant! It doesn't help that I have a collegue who's a week ahead of me and is still just in the "slightly tubby looking" phase. So I have a lot of "C isn't half as big as you! Gosh!"

So here is my bump. 19 weeks tomorrow. Am clearly carrying it all in the bump as my persistent lack of arse testifies to. And I had a scan at 17 wks which said my fluid was fine and baby wasn't any bigger than average. But I am bloody huge for 18-going-on-19-weeks, aren't I??

Anna rose don't worry! It is big, but I don't think it's a hell of a lot bigger than mine (18+3) and I'm enjoying being massive :)

I'm having the opposite problem and keep convincing myself it's died. Ie, the grass is always greener or women are never effing happy!!! --

Annarose you look fine! Excuse the bad paint job but this was me at 18+2.

I would much rather have a big bump out front than my ever expanding ass. I have no excuse... just giving in to my daily choc cravings.

Anna - I've just had to go and load the thread on the PC solely to check out your bump .

I don't think that is especially 'huge'. I am probably similar to you (although 3rd baby and no stomach tone left ). How big someone is depends on so many things. A friend last year was pg and was frankly enormous. At birth the baby was only a 6lber - it was all fluid. I girl I knew from NCT was not obviously pg at 8 months apart from a tiny pot belly. Her baby was about 6lbs too.

As for what other people say - ignore them. If you can't ignore them (as I once couldn't with MIL), I found a polite, "Don't you think that's a rude things to say?" quickly shut her up.

Someone asked me yesterday how long I had left. When I pointed out that I was only 20 weeks their response was 'well you're just all bump then'. It's amazing what people think it's acceptable to say when you're pregnant!

Hi ladies. I can't see the picture at the moment on my phone but will go on the computer to look later. I have just got in from a 5 hr journey. I was a passenger and we had a minor accident. The seat belt jerked so I wew forward and then it jerked me back. I feel fine. Should I go and get checked or am I being a hypochondriac? Also I'm rhesus negative so worried if I need a injection

Annarose, you have a lovely bump, and it is fine!

Anna, you don't look huge, you look great. It's the other people that's the problem, they shouldn't be so rude. Everyone carries differently. Honestly, don't worry about it.

I am having to get used to people staring at my belly when I see them, who know I'm pregnant. I automatically suck it in and then think 'no, I'm pregnant, it's fine!'

Hopeful, I'm sure everything is fine as the baby is well cushioned, but I would just give the midwife a call who will know what to do. It will ease your mind too.

Hope you're ok hopeful, not sure if you should get checked, though I think seat belts are totally safe for pregnancy?

I think most people think an average sized bump is massive because they aren't used to seeing you with a bump! Plus it depends how you are carrying. Ignore silly comments, I've only had nice ones personally but still plenty of time!

I'm thinking about changing my belly bar to a maternity one, it's looking stretched already :/

Kantha, glad it's not just me who felt the need to do that!

Anna, I am envious of your bump. I am two weeks behind you and I seem to be spreading outwards As in I now have no waist or ribcage definition, just one wide column from shoulders to hips. Even my boobs appear to be spreading across my chest, not growing outwards/larger! Ignore the rude people or go with the classic 'Did you mean to be so rude?' You look lovely and though your bump is noticeable, I think you look very slim elswhere too!

Hopeful, I would definitely consult your MW just to be sure; she may want to check you over even if you feel fine.

Praise be for supersensitive pregnancy skin! An hour in the sun this late afternoon and I look like I've been in it all day. 2 more days of this and I'll finally have that pregnancy glow!

Thank you all so much, its such a relief to have people just say "its fine" cos I have nothing to compare myself to except that colleague and that just worried me.

I gave my friend a lift home from work yesterday and it turned out he hadn't even realised she was pregnant and she's 20 weeks! So between the constant flow of comments from both staff and patients alike ("this can't be your first baby, surely?!") and comparing myself to her I was starting to feel like a heffalump!