Due in Jan 07 part 5: Ladygarden reaching your knees? Welcome to the 3rd trimester!

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If you could actually see it, that is!

Thanks lulu, itcould be BH I'm getting then

Braxton hicks are uncomfortable and painful IMO.

But nothing like labour pains, there is a definate and obvious differnece between them.
Labour is painful pain, BHs's are uncomfortable pain

BH's don't make you beg for pain relief either

Initially, I found BHs to be mild, just felt like I had a tight tummy. But the further on I got the more uncomfortable they got until by the end I did sometimes wonder if this was "it" (but as you know, I was desperate by the time it happened ).
Bananas and kit kats too are good for leg cramps. Or drink a tonic water, but I think it's got to be schweppes as not all tonic water has quinine in these days.
Hello and welcome, annieapple. What are your other 2 kids?
It's my df's 60th birthday this weekend, so we're off for a family shindig - at the rate this thread's going it'll take me all net week to catch up, lol! Hope you all have good weekends x

Aaaaaaaaaahhhhh! I hate teething!! DS miserable with it and not sleeping properly. His gums are massive and he is still crying despite teething gel and medinol!!

Thanks for the voucher Loubie. Will def come in handy.

Welcome annieapple!

I agree with LTH, BH do kind of hurt me. Also take my breath away a bit and make me feel dizzy. I think they feel higher up than real contractions, but I guess everyone is different. You can def feel the difference when it goes hard.

Hope everyone else is ok. xxx

Aahhh, hugs for Dh's DS. Us first timers have it all to come.

Had to post as I've got a waterbottle on my back and I have an overwhelming urge to chew the rubber, it smells lovely. LMAO

there's a name for that daisypops - pica. there was a conversation on the pregnancy thread about it. apparently it's more common than i was led to believe - i've just had mad cravings for curry and lemons, two things absolutely destined to give me heartburn! oh, and rum....think i may be giving birth to a pirate...

well bleargh - we are in surrey AGAIN this weekend, mil going on about all this stuff she has for us like a trainset (horribly tacky, it looks like a christmas decoration!) and a rocking horse and a potty and all sorts of things we just don't need yet. and she keeps going on and on about when we're going to buy a house and doesn't seem to understand WE CAN'T AFFORD IT!!!!!

ok, rant over now...

i'm also getting horribly horribly bored of pregnancy now...i can't seem to catch my breath and my pins and needles are crappy and dh keeps asking how i am which is sweet at first but gets really annoying after a while. whinge.

dragonhart - some friends of ours used a homeopathic teething remedy which took the form of white powder, but stopped after some well-meaning middle class daily mail readers almost called social services after seeing them rubbing white powder onto their small daughter's gums! apologies to the daily mail readers among you....

UD, I'd savour ever minute of attention your DH gives you while Pg because from personal experience after the 1st PG it never happens again.
They just let you get on with it....

My Dh sometimes gives my belly a little pat or rub but thats as far as it goes. When I was PG with DS3 I was 28 weeks before he touched my belly without being asked (or forced!!) too.

I'm sooooo fed up with wearing the same clothes now. My bump is really really low so everything is uncomfortable, I'm constntly pulling trousers up and tops down to cover the bit that keeps getting exposed to the elements.
None of my coats fit, and I refuse to wear DHs because, quite frankly they are the most unflattering coats for any woman to wear....and with a huge low slung PG belly I look ridiculous in them, so whenever I leave the house I have to wear coats that don't go anywhere near doing up and it's bloody cold living at the seaside. This baby will come out with icicles hanging off it's nose!!
I had a few twinges yesterday that almost felt like very early labour pains and I was almost joyous at the idea of going this early....just so I wouldn't be PG anymore.
How mad is that....8 weeks early and I was pleased!!???

and OMG my belly itches soooooooo much because the skin is being pulled so tight.

AAARRRGHGGGHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhHHHHHhhhHHHHhhHhHHHHHHHhhhHhHHH.........I want to have my newborn NOW!

2nd what lth said about atention first time. When I eas expecting DD everyone was excited and DH was alays asking about me and bubs but this one occasionally he'll ask or give it a rub but not often!! Nearly died of shock last night as picked dd up from MIL after work and she had a present for the baby (she never bought anything for dd when pregnant and bought a blanket when she was born!) I had said the other week about those fleece polar all in ones in jojomaman bebe but think they were around £30 so thought it was alot of money and shes only ordered it and given it to me so bubs can come home all warm i was so i kept saying thankyou!

Well DH announced last night he is working again toay (8 days in a row now!) so just me and dd again I know he is doing it as ovrtime ad triple pay but be nice to have him home as well (he is doing it to make up for the crap money when he has paternity leave!) anyway I am going to attempt to be a fun mummy and goin to buy the bits so DD can 'make' xmas cards for her grandparents & great grandparents. Wish me luck!!!

awww...your mil sounds a lot more use than mine elliep. i mean, what newborn is going to want a trainset? i tried to tactfully say that maybe it might be more use kept here, so that db has something to play with when he visits grandma and grandpa.....fil didnt like that though, think he doesn't feel old enough to be a grandpa!

i had a crappy night's sleep, mainly cause not in my own bed (i get very territorial, like a cat!) but also cause when we stay with pil we stay in the little cabin in the garden cause i don't like staying in the house with them. it's comfy enough but no running water so when i need to "go" in the night i have to go outside. not exactly the ritz-carlton but dh is like, "it never bothered you before".....ended up shouting "IWASN'T PREGNANT BEFORE!!!!" grr...men....they never seem to get that it's so much harder for girls to pee outside do they?

DS screamed for hours in the evening then suddenly stopped at about 10 then slept all night! Unfortunatly we had friends round so stayed up til 1 so I dont feel anymore rested than before.

I did eventually get around to buying one of those body pillows (actually bought a bolster cusion as it was longer and cheaper) and it really did help me sleep. Much more comfortable on the legs and you can move your legs more than with a pillow (it kept slipping out for me). It did feel like having another person in the bed though and as we only have a double, it was a bit of a squeese but DH was been really good about it. WHat with me being higher than him from all the duvets under me and taking up most of the bed, I let him have the winter duvet on even though it means I wake up in the night dripping with sweat! What a good wife I am!

Urban - sorry did you say you sleep in a shed when at you PIL rather than sleep in the same house!! You really must not get on!

yes, we sleep in a shed...

to be fair, it is a shed with heating and electricity and a fridge freezer and a widescreeen tv....so it's not all bad...!

Fu*king hell UD...did you say earlier in this thread that you walked up the long man of willmington??

We went today and it's almost vertical...I took one look at it and told DH to keep on driving.

It would have killed me so I'm not surprised you had pains when you did it. It was nothing to do with any new age stuff from your friends, just your baby shouting "OI!...mother.....What the bloody hell do you think you're doing climbing this hill!!??"

yeah it is a bit steep....you can't go right up to the long man though cause it's all fenced off by english heretics (sorry - heritage )...it's really not that bad once you get going....!

(tries to sound hardcore)

btw - meant to ask before but didn't want to sound stupid...what the hell is spinning? i've asked loads of friends and they don't know....or perhaps they're stupid too....

UD, i was in the dark about spinning too until MN enlightened me.

You'll never guess what it is.

I thought it was some new fandangoed exercise with some new exercise machine.

Ohhhh no.....

It's cycling.

A glorified cycling class.

Ok admittedly a bloody hardcore, extreme cycling class but cycling nonetheless.

Another MNer said her Dh is a gym instructor and they take bets one who can get someone to stop in the class top stop first.
It's an exercise cless thinly disguised as a form of torture was the way they described it....

...with disco lights and motivating music, in my gym anyway, where it is called "revolution" to make it sound even more hardcore (i would like to point out that gentle swimming and plodding along on the cross-trainers watching GMTV is more my thing).

psml at "extreme cycling"

presumably this is static cycling? on static exercise bikes?

i used to do a lot of cycling....but it wasn't "extreme cycling"...just your everyday run-of-the mill getting to school/work/friend's houses cycling.....

i suppose if you live in london then that's not so possible (unless you want to take your life in your hands each time of course!)

Can you eat clotted cream when pregnant? Just seen it on another thread that a pregnant woman avoided it? FFS, I ate scones and clotted cream quite a lot a couple of months back. Paranoid now. Anyone?

i thought so long as it was pasteurised it was ok?

but then, i've eaten pate and stilton and prawns so this baby will probably have three heads or something....

LMAO Urban! I would luv a prawn cocktail, pate and toast and some brie and crusty bread.... mmm!I might have to get DP to prepare some for me for after bubs is here. All the restrictions and scare stories on what you should and shouldn't eat do my head in.

I'm breathless too. I've got to take deep breaths all the time. I wanna chew on stuff too which is weird.

chew on stuff? like a hamster?

to be perfectly honest - i'm not so sure about all the restrictions on eating. italian mothers and french mothers don't have all this barminess....they look at us lot quite strangely....

having said that, it's up to the individual isn't it? if anything does go wrong now i know i'll be gutted

just read my post back

i didn't mean that you should chew on a hamster

i meant that hamsters chew on things too

could've been ambiguous

although now i have this mental image of someone chewing on a hamster which is making me chuckle!

If the pate, stilton and prawns haven't made you ill your bub will be ok won't he? Isn't it all about the risk of food poisoning?

Are you curled up in your cabin Urban watching your plasma TV Urban?! Why don't you take a bucket in there with you to stop you having to pee in the cold?!

Yes I wanna chew like a hamster, just got myself some chewy mints, they might shift my indigestion too.

no we're in the house atm

wireless doesn't go as far as the cabin unfortunately

although i think we're off to bed shortly to watch battlestar galactica