Due June 2007... the new thread!

[NattyandThomasandBump]

got sick of how long it took my poor computer to load that mammouth page so i have started a new one!

oh and can i stay?

Doggus - think the blood test your friend mentioned is the Triple Test. I have been offered this and my m/w told me it's done before 18 weeks with the best time to do it being 15 weeks.

I totally sympathise on the flat chested thing - I've always been tiny bee-sting woman. But in the past few weeks they've made it all the way to a 34C (just), and what does DH say? That they're sexy? No. He says they freak him out because he's not used to me having breasts and thinks they look out of proportion! Yeah, thanks for that. (But tell me, one evening with underwires is okay isn't it? Have a party coming up and am desperate to wear a wonderbra, just to experience the cleavage thing for once in my life...!!!)Am going to visit Topshop website now for stretchy clothes - I am at that lovely stage where my trousers are too tight and I look like I've been eating too many pies. Okay, so maybe I HAVE been eating too many pies, but hey, there aren't very many pleasures available right now!

Triple test is about 16 week mark - don't know if we'll all be offered it though. Apparantly the Nucal fold test is the more reliable, but both is ideal I guess. I think if you're +35 you'll be offered both - I'm borderline and so want both!
Re: small boobies - I think sports bras with chicken fillets is the way to go. My mum is 27AA and wears 2xsets of fillets. Only problem being that they do tend to go astray in potentially embarrasing situations. I myself v.loathe to give up padded underwired bras, but I guess its got to be.

Okay, here's a question. Is anyone planning to find out the sex of their bean? I've heard you can tell as early as 14 weeks...

I'm definately going to try to find out. With my first i found out at 34 weeks (had extra scan for placenta previa), with my second i didn't get to find out, she was in wrong position.

This time though, as i am moving after xmas, i would like to know sex so i know if i need to put dd1 in bedroom with dd2 or if she can have her own room. And also if i need 2 pink rooms or 1 pink and 1 blue! Knowing my luck they won't be able to tell me.......

I am definutely finding out this time! Partly because am desperate for DD (so we don't have to go again...) and also because DS had v.serious heart condition, which is more likely to happen again if we have another boy. Girls don't seem to get the heart problems.
We have fetal heart scan at 14 wks, but not sure they'll be able to tell us sex, will ask anyway though! If they can see sex very easily, it means its a boy - girls are harder to spot on scans apparantly.

Poor you. And him. I'll keep my fingers crossed. I think I'm going to find out, too - partly because I'm curious, but also because my sister has three DSs and my DH comes from family of all boys, so as soon as we announced our news everyone was saying 'ooh, maybe it will be a girl...'. I'd be delighted either way, as would DH (it could even be one of each) but I kind of want everyone to know what they are before they're born because the idea of anyone being disappointed when they come out, even in a flippant way, would really upset me. My sister was the same when she had her third (boy) - she announced the sex really early on to prevent all the 'maybe it'll be a girl this time' comments.

I hope you all get the sex you want....(oh, you know what I mean).

We are not going to find out, my local hospital, Poole, doesn't tell you. I think it could be a nice surprise after all the hours of pushing so I'm quite happy. The baby's room is yellow anyway!

Hi Ladies, Its been a while, but I think I have caught up on most of the posts from the regulars and hello to many newbies! I also have my first scan on the 1st Dec, having it done privately as the NHS was going to make me wait till week 15! I seem to be over most of the nausea, tired still but apart from that I am feeling great. I too am a bee sting boob girl, I am sure I have grown though, but the thought of having a fitting and the lady saying, 'no dear, now you just fit that A cup properly!' Hope you are all keeping well xxx

LOL Doggus - more like DH gets the sex he wants IYKWIM!!

Sarah - what is your strategy if you will have two girls together? Am probably going to put our new baby with our DS (will be 15mo when new one arrives so maybe just under two when we move them in together). We've only got one kid's bedroom at the mo...

Also LOL Kiwi, am also loathe to confront the truth at an M&S measuring session and face the fact I'm just now filling out the bras I bought years ago...!!!

Taffin - Underwires should be fine for one night! Just don't fall asleep in it - that apparently is a real no-no.

I need a good dress for 9 Dec xmas do - on the hunt for empire line but sexy. yeah, right...

Oh and yes def finding out if it's pink or blue. Just no patience here whatsoever

Sputnik - thanks for making my day with your lovely comment . I can recommend taichi for all sorts of reasons if you fancy it. It certainly changed my life physically, mentally, emotionally for the better and I just started doing it initially to relax a bit in my lunch hour. Now I am thinking of teaching it as a career change and will certainly introduce next generation of mine to it. Nice an gentle for pg women too.
I bet my kids will just want to play with guns and playstation. Kids have a habit of rebelling don't they!
Good luck with scans and triple tests everyone. I am definately finding out the sex when the time comes.

Hi all, bit of catching up for me to do as have been away for a week. I'm starting to show to but I'm sure it's more of a kit-kat belly than a baby belly! Glad to hear it's not just me though!
I have had an up and down week. Been on a residential course in a hotel the other side of the country, which I was really worried about as I have been so funny with food lately (obviously haven't fancied anything healthy! Just pies and sausages etc.!) but actually ms started to clear up, had a few really good nights sleep, then my trapped sciatic nerve which I've been suffering from on a off for a couple of weeks flared up really badly. Couldn't move my leg without being in agony. Nearly got stuck in the bath and thought I would have to get someone from the hotel to rescue me naked! Managed to get out (would rather have passed out from the pain than be recued naked!). Called NHS direct and local oncall dr who were all v unhelpful and unsympathetic. Ended up having to get my mum to come and rescue me so left the course a day early. Back home now and feeling better but still not gone away, so worried it might flare up again, plus I was in such pain and distress worried it might have damaged the baby .
Also, is anyone else feeling freaked out about the baby thing? I've barely been refering to the fact I have a baby growing inside me and when my mum and DH get all goey and look at my tummy it make sme feel really weird. I'm a bit freaked out by the whole thing to be quite frank, it makes me feel even more nauseous. MY mum said she hated being pg and felt like she had an alien growing inside her the whole time. I feel a bit the same I was really looking forward to being pg but not having a great time of it.
Sorry for long post but had a tough week. Just want to be back to normal again (if anyone says I'll never be normal again I might cry!).

Hi bumperlicious. I do identify with how you are feeling, I know what you mean about the tummy thing, I keep thinking of Alien which is pretty grim I know. However, I am more just plain scared, of having taken such an irreversible step in life; even when you get married you can get divorced, change your job, move to a different country but having a child is irrevocable and for ever. I am worried that I won't feel anything, and all the hard work and effort will be a chore with no reward. I think it must be partly hormonal, I swing from positive to negative and back again all day.

So you are not alone in your concerns, and if you read the Pregnancy forum archives on Mumsnet there were and are quite a few others feeling like this.

Lilkel - have absolutely no idea what i'm goging to do re: bedrooms. At the moment both my girls are co-sleeping, its good during the week as dp works away so means i don't have to sleep alone but at weekends gets rather crowded! Dd1 has slept with us since she was tiny and dd2 since she grew out of her crib and we just let her! Stupid mistake really and there isn't enough room for any more!

I just got my scan date, its on wednesday, which also happens to be the day of my driving test and dd2's first birthday. Going to be busy busy busy!

Hope you all had a great weekend...

Doggus & Bumperlicious - I felt the alien growing inside me thing when i was pregnant with dd1. I think for me it was because i knew very little about what was happening to me.

Hi All

Haven't signed in for a while - have had visitors.

I'm 10+1 now - weeks 8-10 were a bit weird; dog tiredness, ravenous hunger and one incident of ms. Hopefully coming out of the other end. Roll on 2 weeks today, my scan.

Been pondering whether to find out the sex of this one. Didn't with DS; just knew he was a boy, confirmed by the huge willy and balls that flobbed onto the screen at the 20 week scan!

Fully expect this one to be a boy as well (lots of boys in DH's side of family), so will have to get our thinking caps on for names...it was bad enough coming up with a boy's name first time around...girls names are much easier IMO.

The only reason it would be good to know the sex is for practical reasons obviously, i.e. do we have to get the hand-me-downs out of the loft!

So we may decide to wait for the surprise. Would be totally happy, whichever we got!

Hi Doggus, just crashing the thread from the may thread to say, please wave to all in Poole for me. I am originally from Bournemouth and now live in France, poole was my Hosp when I was pg with ds. missing all my friends and family there so couldn't resist a post when I saw where you were from. hope you don't mind. Sorry June Girls.

Waves at Frenchsmallfry across the Channel! Poole is a lovely place to live, I hope you had a good experience at St Mary's. I don't have family here - I am from oop north originally.

Waving back to doggus. I loved living in the south, but house prices are just stupid round there. My parents moved to France and ds was neally 2 so we dicided to follow.
I miss everyone sooooo much but we do have a far better lifestyle out here. Ds is now nearlly 4 and we have a dd who I had in the french med system and am 15 weeks pg with no.3. I have to say I didn't actually have ds at St Marys in the end, I was supposed to but he was very late and we went away to stay with my sister, but thats another story. My ante-natal care there was good and my sil had a baby there 4 weeks ago and was very impressed with the care. It is a very busy unit though, I've heard mixed reports about it, some say it is a bit of a conveyer belt, get in, get out IUKWIM, but others are really happy. Thay do have a fab SCBU unit so god forbid any probs you and lo will be in very good hands.

Best of Luck, I'm going to lurk occasionaly to see how you are getting on. xxxFSF

Hi All,
Had my first scan today and there is something in there!!!So not a figment of my imagination after all. I now have a new EDD of 8 June so 2 days earlier, yay. And m\w gave me the green light to eat as much peanut butter as I want - double yay! She also gave me a mega bottle of Maalox which is what they recommend for heartburn. Took blood for screening for Downs, results back in couple of weeks and need to go back in 3 weeks for more blood tests this time for spina bifida. Didn't give me any info re sex of the baby, am hoping that means a girl cos could see hands, feet etc clearly so surely a wee willy would show up too

FSF - good luck with number 3, and glad you are happy in France, I certainly know what you mean about house prices here...

Hi all
Haven't been on this thrad since way back when when it was started as I have been so bloody ill that I was convinced I would lose it... but had 12 week nuchal scan on Friday and it is there, it is healthy and more importantly with two dds already it is alone!!! Also Down's risk was the lowest of all 3 so far so great news. I haven't read all the thread but good luck to everyone with scans coming up- and Tallulahbelle, don't think it's possible to tell sex at 12 weeks- no bits yet on either sex- only way they can tell, sonographer told me, is the length of the pubic bone and even that is not an exact science and noone would dare to hazard a guess this early as it's a 50/50 chance- I know this to be true as when the sonographer I had last time at King's said "I would guess a boy" when I begged at 12 weeks to know, his colleague looked and said "well I would bet a girl".. she was right!

thread, sorry.. never check these things!!

Congrats comebacksummer! Are you feeling less ill now - was it ms, and did it clear up? (she asks, hopefully). I have my nuchal on 13th December, but beforehand I am going to ask for the triple blood test too. The nuchal is offered on the NHS here, or maybe it is free because of my age (38).

Oh dear, it's started, the official cravings I think... just had to have some achovy-stuffed olives today. Guess it's a good sign, right? I'm having some major last-minute panics because my first (nuchal) scan is Friday morning and I'm just dreading the screen turning up nothing, or worse, some horribly deformed and stunted thing...it's terrible of me isn't it??

Hiya Comeback and all the others...