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

[geordiemacminx]

Here you are girlies!!

Weeonion, what nightmarish hours - what job do you do?

And Body Balance - Maveta, you are good! I can barely manage walking up and down the stairs!

hi sexonlegs( that name still makes me smile!)
Like you - i have my own office and at the minute there my weekend music is blaring out!

i manage an HIV prevention project to cover all of scotland - my hrs are a nightmare cause its all funding bids and application deadlines at the mo. my boss (joy oh joy!!) has never ever had a pg lady in the office before so isnt sure what mat. package i will get - probably just the bog standard.

ah well - its friday :-}

Can I join the dry skin club too? Not so much spotty, more like very dry flaky patches. Boss is out so just me on my own hence ebing on mn

Advice needed - how do stop well meaning people from patting bump? Can't remember how I handled it with ds. Mil is the worst, but I know that when it starts getting too much I can have a "quiet" word iyswim. I mean, where do people getting off touching your body would they still do it if your boobs or bum suddenly grew?????!!!!!

Have finished for the day (yippee) so am going to pick ds up from nursery, do a bit of shopping, and then home. Catch you later x

runnyhabbit - i agree with you. i have never had anything like this b4 and given that i have never even had a massage as i dont like strangers touching me - i really hate it. how do you stop it without appearing rude or actually groping them back to let them know how it feels!

Weeonion, you sound as if you have your work cut out! If your boss is lost in all the maternity legislation etc. he/she should go on the ACAS website or something. You don't want to lose out due to their lack of knowledge.
You should start another thread about "bump patting" as I am sure there will be hundreds of postees. I have to say I never had anyone pat my bump with dd - I obviously gave off a "don't touch me vibe" from forty metres!
Perhaps you could invest in a slogan T Shirt - Hands Off!!

hiya,
Georide, glad to know that everythign went ok. Its sweet seeing the baby dancing!! i felt the same as well last time when i had my scan done.

I got a emotional and beening worrying alot lately, losing sleep last night cos my hushand went done to London for work...( I will hv my blooding screening test on 6 Nov...i hv been thinking about it last night,,,what if they say i am of high risk??? maybe i am worrying too much..honestly, nothing in the world matters more than my baby now.

Turns out it was yoga, oh well, very relaxing indeed. Will try to make body balance tomorrow.
I'm just trying to keep at it while I have the motivation and the energy, I know both will fall by the wayside soon!
I barely have a bump yet and people STILL stroke my stomach, I never expected it to feel so invasive. I think getting a t shirt printed is a great idea, and you'd probably make a few quid out of them too!

I can't wait for a stranger to come and pat my bump so I can turn round and say "I'm not pregnant" [deeply offended emotion] that will make them think twice before doing it again.
As for family and friends doing it I don't think there is any way to make them stop apart from having a quiet word in their ear.

at the bump patting - I might just start patting all the tummys of the fat blokes at work and asking them when it's due - they'll soon get the idea.

The other thing that's really annoying me is people asking me if the baby was planned when they find out I'm preg. Like it's any of their business.

Also glad others are having spot problems (in a nice kind of sharing way of course) - I have the most enourmous boil on the side of my forehead. Luckily I can hide it with my fringe, but ouch, I keep banging the bleedin' thing and it's sore!

Am hoping for a very good night's sleep tonight - we've just had a posh new mattress delivered today, specially chosed by me for its delightful squigyness. My little girl is banned from bouncing on it as she treated the last one like a trampoline and I'm sure that's what ruined it

Chosed??? You know what I mean

I haven't posted for AGES because this thread is so huge that it just makes me tired to even think about reading it.
So- only read the last few posts. runnyhabbit, if I saw someone reaching for my bump last time, I'd get in there first with a big 2-handed stroke that kind of covered the whole bump with my hands, that way (unless they wanted to stroke my hands) they would back off.

HTH!

Evening all!
The thing that annoys me about other people is that when they hear (or rather, see now, as I'm so fat!) that I'm pregnant, they say, 'Bet you're hoping for a sister for DS' or some variation on that I just want a healthy baby, ffs, and even if I did have a preference (which I don't), how do they know I wouldn't prefer another boy??? Do they think that if DB is a boy I'll be disappointed? Poor little bean, all that weight of expectation.

Have made a decision: I am going to stop treating my mouth like a dustbin. There was some excuse while I felt so dreadful, but am okay now so why I need 74 little treats each day is a mystery. Especially since I'm hardly exercising, whereas last time I was and kept pretty fit. I'm never going to be one of those preggers peeps who watch what they eat as such, but after this weekend (visit to my mum; compulsory being spoiled), I'm going to aim for just a couple of treats a week and being a tad healthier. Wish me luck!

My god don't even talk about healthy eating, I am hooked on hula hoops, Naughty me been eating a few more packs than just one most days! Worse than that due to the ms I have beeen unable to eat any veg what so ever
Although today I was left to do dinner as DH went to the pub and there was avocado peas and onions added to it first veg in months, which all goes on to lead me to believe that (touch wood) the ms is over!

Whoop! Whoop! 1becomes3 - That IS good news!!

I do not mind the Bump Rubbing too much unless it is a complete stranger and then I feel reeeeeally awkward ..... liking the idea of a slogan T-Shirt - Perhaps we should monopolise on the idea?? I'm happy to have them made up if anyone is serisously interested in having one?? Let me know.....

Great news about the lovely healthy dancing baby at your scan Geordie!!

Also annoyed at people asking if it was planned (YES IT WAS!!!!) and of course I MUST be desperately hoping for a boy cos I've got two girls - obviously - NOT!!!!!

Grrrrr!

Anyway, feeling hungreeeee and knackered, so going to find some non-dustbin affliated munch (!!) and hit the hay ......

Oh Emmymummy, you made me laugh -particularly about your boil - not laughing at you I promise.
Also, cannot get over people asking if it was planned! Cheeky beggars. I have to say no-one has asked us that, nor have people assumed we want a boy as we already have a girl. So, just waiting for them to do so!
Anyway, hope everyone has a lovely evening and will catch up soe time over the weekend.
Hugs to all. xx

So glad I'm not the only one with issues about the bump patting. Like CD, I don't mind when close family do it (in fact when bean really starts moving, I'll be the ones telling them to feel) but mil does it every single bloomin time I see her! I think the worst culprits are people you don't know that well, like my mums work colleagues. Tried putting my hands on bump before they get there but it doesn't stop them. God help a stranger if they tried to touch any part of my anatomy!! Am def interested in the t-shirt

Totally with you all on the "was it planned" question! Although it didn't come up with too many close friends & family - they all knew that we wanted about a 2 year gap. If the due date is right, there will 23 mths between them. Oh yes, and "you'll want a girl, seeing as you already have ds" of course, I'll be asking for a refund if I don't have a girl

Lol at the dustbin vibe. I'm the other way around. Could only face salad and veg in first months but today for lunch I had spag bol, followed by 2 packs of quavers, followed by 2 jam & cream doughnuts mmmmmmmmm I'll have to leave it to you guys to eat healthily for me.

Night all and have a lovely weekend

x

Helo everyone!
Welcome new ladies too - taken me aggeesss to catch up!
Spots - my face is like a dot to dot puzzle - I am never bothered with them normally but they are hideous at the moment and like you say emmymummy - big painful boily ones too ....

Bump patting.....well to be honest it doesn't really bother me too much, I'm quite a touchy feely person and am probably guilty of being a bump stroker of other pregnant ladies myself!!! I will have to stop myself now that I know how offensive it can be

I am so tired am off to bed in a minute...have been feeling so much better this week but then at half nine this morning at work the wave of sickness washed over me and I ran to the kitchen where all I could find to eat was a slice of dry bread but anything to stop me being sick....when will it ever end!!

I'm not going to find out the flavour of my baby as I would like a surprise, particularly as I am probably going to have a planned c-sec so I would like at least one unknown in the mix! I am wrestling with the practical part of me which like you SOL wonders what to do with al the clothes etc. I am shameful to admit I would love another boy but don't get me wrong if I have another girl it's not like I'd be disappointed...can't exactly send them back anyway can you! lol

Hope everyone is well, off to bed

Night
MIAM 15 weeks today
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Morning everyone! xx

Bugger just wrote a long msg, tried to find page for link and computer buggered up so had to turn it off and lost it all . Anyway will try again..

I am also suffering with spots on my chest and shoulders which is horrid and my face is spotty and dry at the same time. I've found boots skin clear body wash/scrub (cant quite remember sorry) seems to be working really well tho, spots not all gone but def clearing up. Doghouse I dont remember having spotty body before or not as bad as this but did have bad face and i cant remember exactly when it cleared up but i do remember suddenly noticing when i was about 5 or 6 months that my skin was really good so shouldnt be that long now (fingers crossed!). As for breast feeding i dont remember my skin changing much at all but with the total lack of sleep i was getting my memory of that time is pretty hazy! I just got really fat!

My emotions are all over the place at the mo, not just crying at things (was almost crying at eminems 'cleaning out my closet' yesterday ) but all my emotions are heightened. I was reading this last night and was literally crying with laughter tears streaming down my face, i tried to read it out to dp but I just couldnt. I remember being like this with dd, when i was around 7 or 8 months pg i watched a film with tom hanks (the money pit?) that id seen several times before, theres a bit where he falls through a hole in the floor and is stuck with just his hands and head poking out and i literally pmsl (just a little bit mind, 1st time ladies give it a few months and you'll understand ). And around the same time i also watched blair witch project, on my own at night and i was terrified and it stayed with me for weeks, i just couldnt get the film out my head. I've seen it since not pg and wasn't scared at all.
I am enjoying the over the top laughing though even if dp does keep looking at me as if im some kind of simple baffoon!

Have to say my laughter at the link was at the 2nd post and the fact that its exactly the sort of thing i would do, i was not laughing at UCMs predicament, im silly not cruel!

Hi all. Just tried that link but it is telling me that the thread no longer exists. Gutted, could do with a good laugh.

Ok try this one and then charliecat has done the same link but hers works! Its on wed 21st june 9:22 and the links called 'online pelvic floor test', near the start of the thread.

(And do some pelvic floors an' all!! )

That thread is hilarious!! Poor UCM, I would have been mortified if it was me but she took all the laughs very well!