April 2007....bunnies lambs and babies!!!!

[geordiemacminx]

Here you are girlies!!

MIAM with dd i gained at least 4stone, so i know for a fact that I was absoloutly massive. Just hope that with this one I don't gain as much as I started off a stone lighter with dd. IYSWIM

Oh I REALLY hope that I don't have anymore nose bleeds 1becomes3.... I'm a hypercondriac(sp) as it is without nose bleeds.

must go now and see to dd.... post tomorrow... bye
bubblez
16+4

Hi everyone

Welcome newbies!

SOL - Fantastic news about your results. You definitely deserve coke and noodles

Geordie - My step daughters weren't too impressed with the whole idea of having another brother or sister 1st time around. Then when he came early and quite poorly I don't think they had time to think about whether they liked it or not, were just glad he was ok. Not suggesting that you want an early baby or anything just saying that once it arrives they'll have no choice but to face it.
Still it's not nice for your DP, but really it's his problem not yours...sorry if that sounded harsh didn't mean it to.

I too am in maternity clothes they are so comfortable not tight and restrictive like my normal clothes.

I can definitely feel the baby moving now, which is lovely

Got my 16wk scan on thurs also seeing the consultant so hopefully i'll get more of an idea of what's going to happen this time. Can't believe it 16 wks already only seems like yesterday that I had the nuchal scan, another 4 wks and I'll be half way through!

Oh by the way I have been rationed on MN. My DP said that housework etc has been suffering since I found you all. So i'm having to make sure I don't use it as much when he's around and make sure the house is presentable when he gets in from work.

Hope everyone's ok. Sorry can't remember what going on with everyone, but I do think of you as I'm catching up with the posts! I need a big pad of paper and a pen to note down what I want to say to everyone as I catch up...not that organised though - sorry

16+2

Hi new peeps,
Been feeling tickles/kicks/gas this week which is definately earlier than with ds. Helps that have posterior placenta rather than anterior I guess. But it's still many weeks earlier.
Had my 'booking in' appointment with my mw cancelled this am as one of her charges has had to be induced - so had to confess to her about dates mix-up by text
I understand about dh's being USELESS unless serious firmness is used. Have a groin strain and am desperately trying to rest as really don't want it to be SPD. He however is aching a bit from a bit too much exercise(or just an unusual amount - like any). Until I pointed out to him Very Firmly that this was NOT the same and he was unlikely to end up on crutches for 6 months as a result. So HE ought to get up & sort out ds for bedtime. So Nur.
SoL - I'm waiting for blood test results back too over the next couple of days - should be able to really enjoy this pg after that (fingers x'ed)
Have my parents staying this week as childminder's off to Eurodisney for the week. I can really put my feet up which is just great, dh is doing a good job about coping with the intrusion so far (only Tuesday!)

Hi - DH is in the bath with the DD's so just catching up quickly!!

With you on the emotional rollercoaster shoeshopper - I am soooooo emotional atm, it is silly - I am apt to cry at anything, deary deary me!!

Wonderful news about the low risk result SOL - Crack open the coke and Super Noodles!!

Good grief at your Step Chldren's reaction Geordie - poor you! Like everyone else has said, she is just going to HAVE to get on with it and I am sure that she will, just give her time.....

Hi 1becomes3 - great to see you!! Hope you had a lovely time away!!

I'm hungreeeeeee!!!!!! (Where are those Super Noodles!!!? )

Hungreeeeeeee too CD. What can I eat, nothing is appealling right now although am quite into guacamole and avocados in general. Really fancy a Pot Noodle thanks to you lot, but nothing vaguely similar in the cupboard.

Am I experiencing my flutterings very early (I'm 13+6?

Mmmmmmmmmm, Pot Noodle - must invest in some ....

Hope you got food ok emmymummy!! I think I've been feeling flutterings too and I am 13 + 5 so quite possible - I can't remember if it isy our 2nd or 3rd??

Pot Noodle, Pot Noodle, Pot Noodle, Pot Noodle, Pot Noodle .............

sexonlegs - great news on the scan/ blood results. its a relief isnt it

geordie - i think i posted this b4 but i myself was that little witch when i was 14 and my mum announced she was having a baby. i was youngest up to that point. soon came round when it became news of twins and they were born. LOVED tehm from that second and now 21 yrs alter - the three of us are very close. talk every day.
maybe she will come round when she realises it'll be better all round if she gets her head and act together over it. as you sy - not so nice for dp tho' - small consolation but our happy wishes winging it to him

no flutterings here but have picked up horrible tummy bug and any movements tend to be when i am about to chunder (TMI)

my bump is actually sore - it feels a bit tender but i am not stressing - i reckon it is just the fact that it has got SO big cant wait til i'm the size of a house!!

CD - OK am about to have a beef in red wine pie (from Farmer's Market, so had better be good), with gravy. No veg, never mind!

Is my 2nd bub, active little blighter!

Yummo! Can I join you??

Evening All,

Just thought I'd show my face as I've been neglecting this thread and haven't been around lately to try and catch up with everyone's news.

SOL-Great news on your results.Won't get mine til I see the midwife in about 3 weeks time.

Have been really busy socialising and meeting up with lots of other mums,which has been nice,and not had much time for my daily dose of Mumsnet.
Getting larger by the day and have now put on over a stone in weight which is quite alot,so need to be careful,especially as I'm on the large side to start with.
Still really tired and very constipated,but have stopped taking the Lactulose as the side effects were horrendously smelly(sorry if TMI).

Hope everyone is keeping well and I will try and keep up with the thread-you lot certainly know how to talk,lol!

Hello fellow due date buddie - was wondering where you have got to!

CD, was pretty yummy, nice flakey pastry on the top. Am now stuffed and looking forward to retreating to bed to read my book (dh working tonight). Bliss!

Just debating whether to start ranting about my mother on here, but not sure I can quite bring myself too....

What is it with Noodles? I would never normally buy them but I've got 3 packs of 98% fat free Chicken and Herb Supernoodles in the cupboard as I can't get enough of them!

Emmymummy - I am 14+3 and I think I've been feeling the "quickening" at night now for over a week...like you say it seems v early but I remember the feeling so clearly from last time...

Spent this afternoon having a mega sort out of DS's room, I swear the amount of clothes the boy has is totally obscene - that many he could not possibly wear them all. I have 4 big black binliners full of baby boy clothes....was staring at them fondly this afternoon and thinking it would be great if I have a boy so I didn't have to buy anything! lol - bet you any money I have a girl...so if I do I will send out parcels to all of you that have boys!!! We could do a big MN April Club baby clothes swap!

Bubaloo - good to see you!
Weeonion....when you are the size of a house we shall remind you that you said that

MIAM 14+4 x

emmymummy - rant away girl! Better than going to bed festering!
x

Emmymummy, definitely have a rant! I actually find it quite therapeutic and my MIL doesnt even know I utter such things behind her back! (How two faced am I)?! I am quite nice really, honest.

SOL, lovely news about your results. I had my bloods done last Wednesday and was told that if they were high risk they would contact me within a couple of days so I am taking that to mean they are ok. If I dont hear then they just post the results which will take 2-3 weeks.

Hope everyone is having a good evening. I am watching Holby City with feet up, ds in bed and dh out so total peace and quiet - bliss!

OK, I don't want to go into all of it, but my good old ma just can't seem to say anything nice. I really feel like saying to her, 'if you can't say something nice then don't say anything at all'. Latest phone call with her she starts off going on about dd's hair....my little dd is 4 and she has beautiful blonde/brown hair that naturally falls into ringlets and people are always commenting on it. All my female cousins have really course afro-type hair, and mum has always been saying to me that one day dd's hair will become like that. Then in latest phone call she tells me she's checked with my aunt and apparently my cousin's hair was 'really quite pretty' until she turned 6 (at which point it presumably turned really quite ugly). It's like she can't face that fact that maybe dd hasn't got the dreaded family hair and maybe it's just going to be a combination of the family curls and my soft straight hair for the rest of her life. At that point in the conversation I changed the subject.

So we started talking about holidays and I said that next summer, when the new baby is around 3 months old we're planning to go to stay in a lovely family friendly hotel in Cornwall (we stayed there this year so we know what to expect). The evening routine at the hotel is that when all the parents go down for dinner in the hotel restaurant, the kids stay up in the room and the hotel provides a baby listening service. We have used a similar service several times when holidaying with dd and it's always been very good (and for God's sake, we'll only be downstairs in the hotel). Anyway my mother's comment was that we couldn't possibly leave the new baby in the same room as dd, as dd might smother it!!!!!! What, does she think dd is some sort of psychotic loon?

There was something else, but I just got to the too angry point in the conversation and tuned out. It just brings me back to her comments when I told her I was preg this time (was it planned, you're going to have your work cut out for you...), when we moved into this house (blimey, good job you've got vision), when I started my degree (I don't think you'll do the work [I got a first btw]). You get the drift.......

There that feels much better

HUG
Oh crikey - if it's any consolation I would want to throttle her too!
What is it with Mum's that they think they can just say what they like without thinking??
I think you did very well if you managed to bite your tounge....
Without meaning to sound like a football commentator...at the end of the day, whatever she says just try and let it wash over you because the stress will not do you any good.

I've started to get the horrible panicky possessive feelings that I had in my first pregancy ,,for example my MIL will casually say something like "When I take the new baby out in the pram"....and I think who are you to assume that you will be taking MY baby out??!!!
I know I am being totally irrational and it is Pregnancy hormones as my MIL is just excited (and I normally don't have a problem with her at all) but god it gets on my wick!
Does anyone else get like that?

or am I just a loon

Hiya ladies, MIAM, I know exactly how you feel. When dd was born, my MIL drove me to insanity with her constant fussing over dd. It got so bad that I fled the house and tried to drive off, but their bloody car was blocking me in.
I was bonkers! She made me feel possessive as hell, and I am not like that at all. I only felt like that with MIL - no-one else.
I haven't had any of these feelings rear their head again yet, but I am sure they will do and am dreading it!
Lovely to see you again Bubba.
Weeonion, sorry to hear you have picked up a bug - so many people have been poorly.
Hello to everyone else too.
Sorry not to acknowledge everyone, but am heading to bed soon.
Have a good night all.
Hugs and kisses xx

On the subject of noodles, I was so into them up to about 12/13 weeks but now I've completely lost interest. Cheesy wotsits on the other hand....

Emmymummy - how far away does your ma live? You can't beat a bit of distance cos' you can always put the phone down and take a deep breath. Both my MIL and my Stepmum live in Ireland and as I'm not sure which is the more annoying I'm very grateful!

I was hoping to start feeling better at 14 weeks but yesterday and today I've been sick more than once - there aren't that many things I dare to eat but I'm convinced it makes no difference now. I wish I felt up to having weird food cravings - I've lost more than a kilo since my scan at 12 + 2 and my first appt with midwives yesterday (13 + 6) - it would be the one time when I'm not happy about it! And that was mostly from, I think, not eating enough, not even so much sickness.

I know lots of people get it worse, but I'm just feeling so grotty, and this evening it hit without much warning, just as I was finishing up my toast. (yep, toast - if I can't hold that...)

Luci

Oh Elkie, am also 14wks today and still feel dreadful too. Am now getting a number of friends confiding that their ms continued to 20wks with 2nd babies. Gulp, not fair. It affects everything doesn't it? Going to work is hard, have to plan every move to ensure a supply of sugar, cakes, apples, lucozade is nearby, struggling to cook anything (can just about manage to reheat food, and only if it doesn't smell). Dh came in last night and cooked a potato which stank the house out, then he couldn't understand why I was hacked off with him. It is a nightmare. Oh and my mum tells me that she never had ms with either me or my brother (well she would, wouldn't she?).

Elkiedee, do you think you may have a bug? I know a few people here have had sick bugs which they thought were ms.
Anyway, hope you are feeling better soon.
Morning to everyone else.
Dreaded fil is coming down today and staying the night - sure he will state his opinions about our house (have had an extension and done a lot of internal work/painting)- he is soooo annoying.
Anyway, will be back on here for a rant later on!!

Bye for now xx

God I don't know whats come over me this past 2 days - I've done more cleaning and tidying than in the last 12 weeks thats for sure!

MS seems to have subsided (cringes and waits for it to return now I've dared say that) and I definatley have more energy. Even managed a long brisk walk with Mums dogs and pram yesterday...though paid for it after and had achy back and pelvis last night [sad. Just GUTTED our bathroom - even washed down all the woodwork and skirtings and doors.... feel smugly satisifed with myself lol! It's amazing what you can get done when your 2 year old "helper" is making cups of tea in the sink as you clean! (I bought a £2 plastic tea set in Instore the other day....best £2 I've spent!!)

SOL - hope FIL is not too unbearable...if he starts parping on just remember he's probably just jealous of your lovley new extension!
MIAM 14+5x

Hi everyone,
As I'm sure everyone has been I've been reading up about pregnancy/childbirth and having children for a while. One book I bought off ebay is absolutely hilarious (but not meant to be) full of patronising and weird advice. It's aimed at husband/partner, so for example, it recommends avoiding your usual soap and beauty products, and suggests:
"Bring home a beautifully wrapped package of glycerine soap...ideal for washing her skin and undergarments."
Can you imagine coming into the kitchen in the morning, a bit sick, seeing a sinkful of your knickers which you then handwash with this soap, before taking it upstairs to use in your shower?! I think that would result in my dh being hit on the head with a "beautifully wrapped package of glycerine soap"!
It also recommends fruit should be limited to 3 servings a day - well I'm OK with my chocolate pop tart for breakfast!

That book sounds very similar to an old Miriam Stoppard one I had given to me when I was pregnant with ds!

Can highly recommend the Haynes Manual on Babies - Conception to 3yrs. Bought for for dh as christmas stocking filler before ds was born. I bought it as a jokey gift, and found it funny, but because it was written in "man language" dh really got into it, and properly read it. Cover to cover. Think it I got it from Jojomamanbebe (they do free delivery on everything!) And to be honest, it was quite nice being able to buy something for the new dad-to-be