Due in Jan 2007 part 4: Sex?! Don't make me laugh! (When I laugh my back hurts MORE, and I wet myself)

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Whaddya think?!

zHi welcome to the newbies Michelle24 and Sasizi. Just in case I dont post till the weekend good luck for saturday UD hope you have a great day.

Havent been having many vivid dreams but DH says my snoring is unbearable but I remember waking myself up snorin in my last pg!!

Nemo hows your dd doing now?

i also meant to say, poppynic, yes pregnancy DOES affect your eyesight. i know that your eyes are a lot dryer during pregnancy, probably due to the same hormones that make your gums very spongy and more prone to bleeding. it doesn't matter for most women, unless you wear contact lenses like i do, and then you feel like you have a piece of sand in your eye all the time! i don't know if that would actually affect your vision though. i suppose, that if your eyes are very dry, it could affect where the light falls in relation to your retina, but i don't actually know. let me know how you get on at the opticians! xxx

My eyes are terrible - sure I'm more shortsighted than usual, and I wear glasses. I thought maybe some of the vast quantity of extra fluid swishing around inside me had ended up in my eyeballs and temporarily changed the curve of the lens or something. Any optometrists on here who can confirm that is true/complete nonsense?

dude, that's nonsense. your eyes dry out when you're pregnant, not the other way around. at least, that's what my textbooks say!! if you feel like your prescription has changed i would go and see the optom especially if you're a driver and feel it's affecting your ability to see signs/other cars!!!! it sucks, cause you don't get free eye tests on the maternity exemption certificate.

Well actually, the optician told me the fluid retention of pregnancy can involve fluid retention in your head!!!! and affect your eyes!! In my case it's brought on by tiredness coz I'm sitting around on my arse reading too much. (could possibly involve too much computer but I didn't confess to MN)

Well actually, the optician told me the fluid retention of pregnancy can involve fluid retention in your head!!!! and affect your eyes!! In my case it's brought on by tiredness coz I'm sitting around on my arse reading too much. (could possibly involve too much computer but I didn't confess to MN)

i've never heard that! you didn't go to specsavers by any chance did you?

Have you seen the due in November ante-natal thread's new title? Makes my effort look weak! Thinking caps on for the next one!

Happy you got in there first though with he title...

Becks where in south africa are you going I used to live there we moved there when I was 5 and came back when I was 16.

Jane yes you win on the madness front

Hi everyone, I'm new to this thread, but do read it during my lunch break - can't post at work.

I'm 25 weeks today, and flew back from the US last week. Also had problems with travel insurance. Have a year long policy with Nationwide but they only covered me to 24 wks, and flew back 24 + 1. Try Tesco's or Nat West - but can't remember what their time limits were.

Felt lots of movements on the flight too - especially when we landed! It was really hard to get comfortable and ended up bolstered with lots of pillows and blankets.

Have just seen the title of November's thread - I have to admit to being a bit naive here and although I realised that labour is really painful, I didn't realise that when the baby is coming out that your bits burn like someone has taken a lighter to them

JaneNZ - I don't know about at the time, I had an epidural (I posted on the previous thread about my nasty birth story), but they sure felt pretty sore afterwards! Like the world really had fallen out of my bottom (hmmm, getting ideas for thread titles here )
UD - I was thinking of you today! I got some photos back - we had a pile of unfinished disposable cameras left over from our wedding that we've slowly used up and I finally got round to dropping off to be processed last week, so have spent some of this morning looking at wedding photos Enjoy this weekend! And remember, dp/h didn't get any choice in his parents, but he's chosen to spend the rest of his life with you, hope the mil just relaxes and doesn't give you any grief x

Nuts. Just realised I forgot to buy gaviscon at the shops today. Anyone else's heartburn getting out of control??

No heartburn here happily but ..... tmi warning ... my (I've never actually used this word before, I think this is the name for the bit I'm referring to!, "vulva") feels all engorged and uncomfortable - anybody else???

UD - Hope you have a fabulous, fabulous day and that we get to see a picy or 2 on MN....
Can you give your MIL a point or two for creating and/or raising a marriageable boy?

For people who don't have cars (and aren't having home births) how are you planning to go to the hospital. That book they give you says to go in an ambulance but that seems a bit ott? Wouldn't a taxi do?

poppynic - my friend got a taxi with hers. i think it depends how drastic you feel it is. i mean, if labour's imminent and yuo just have to push, personally i would rather be in the ambulance! but if you're quite chilled and calm about it all then i'm sure a taxi would be fine. although some of the drivers round here are really mean, so would no doubt charge you extra if your waters broke en route!

yes, i suppose i can give the mother-outlaw points for raising a marriageable boy, although he was in boarding school for 7 years, so exactly how much raising she did is debatable! the whole family is quite funked up to be honest, father ex-alcoholic etc etc etc.....i was thinking about what i would say at MIL's funeral (wishful thinking? me? never.....) and the only thing i could think of was "she gave me my husband".....obviously i wouldn't add, "kicking and screaming like it was the end of the world..."

well, it's all sorted, anyway. now i just have to try and relax and enjoy it (yeah right!!!) and not let my best friends get too out of hand tonight! they were all aghast when i said i wasn't having a hen night...so we're having a DVD and chinese takeaway round my best mate's, nostalgia and vodka (for them, natch!).

wish me luck girls! i'm totally petrified!!!!

Lots and lots of luck UD!!!

G O O D L U C K !!!

There's been a few more people joining (hello ) so I'm just going to quickly link to laughalot's gender stats page

Sleepycat - if you are very worried then go and see your mw, at least that will stop you feeling so stressed. If it is any consolation, my baby has really active days and days when I just feel a bit off fluttering down low and a sore right kidney - I think there is a foot lodged there somewhere. Try some of the techniques listed on the pregnancy threads to get him/her moving i.e. hot then cold drink, lying on your left side etc.

Have decided my mn name is way too boring, made it up on a day when I was really tired and couldn't be bothered using the brain. Thinking about changing it to MotherBeaker (bit of a science geek), or chocolateondemand, or calamityjane, so if you see one of those, I'm not new, just changed.

Liked this one

Good luck for the Wedding UD

Mother like the new name, all I can say about the birth and I to had a epidural at the time is afterwards it feels like you have squeezed a melon through your arse dont want to put you of but my bum felt worse and even at that I had stiches in my you know what yet my bum took the brunt of the pain. Just remember every birth is different I had a long labour back to back delivery and at that he was born by vontouse however this time im more positive and want to be more natural, however dh says I will be wanting a epidural as soon as I get in there.

Poppy I had the same thing with the vulva about 2 weeks ago but I ended up with cystitis which I had antibiotics for and then the antibiotics gave me thrush so just be carefull in case it a start of infection.

Urban I keep saying it but GOOD LUCK XXX

Just heard someone today describing giving birth as being like shitting a hedgehog. Just thought I should share

Good luck for the weekend Urban, have a fantastic time

My baby appears to be growing at an alarming rate - the hospital measured me at 30 weeks today , so back there in 2 weeks for a growth scan and another appt with the consultant. Your 'fattie' comment is even more applicable now laughalot