Due May 2007 - Thread for w/c 06.11.06

[Juicylucythe2nd]

Here you go.

I'm in New Jersey, USA.

Hello and welcome Cinnamontam, good to have another May 07er on board. Who's going to explain toilet paper Tues to her then?!

Been to see Saw III with DH tonight. What a violent, offensive, unnecessary two hours of my life I'm never getting back. And it was so loud, I tried to go to sleep, but no luck I'm afraid.

I'm in a bit of a bad mood tonight, trying to calm down but to no avail. My brother sent me a text this afternoon at work saying 'I know you're working but you need to ring me urgently'. Cue me desperately trying to ring him, my parents, anybody who knows me to find out what had happened. I was panicking that my Dad who is not in wonderful health or my 83yr old grandma were ill or God forbid, worse. No answer. I rang and rang and rang. Eventually he got back to me and said 'oh I was lost and needed some directions'. Cue me asking (very politely I thought) not to tell me that something is 'urgent' and then not get back to me for two hours. He is currently angry with me because I don't appreciate how urgent him being lost is. Urgent? It's his bloody day off. And since when is it 1985 and we're bickering children again? I was just so panicked and petrified and I'm three months pg, the stress was very unwelcome. Plus, he'd left the same message with my Mum who thought me or the baby were in trouble. I know it's ridiculous and trivial but I was so worried and he doesn't seem to understand. AAAARRRRGGGGHHHH!

OK rant over, sorry about that. Mummymelling, sorry to hear about the ex, sounds like he's a prize twonk.

Moomimin (Frenchfry?!), congrats on the scan, fab news that the baby's well, fingers crossed that the placenta pulls up a bit and if not, as everybody said at least you'll be prepared.

Going to watch the end of Braveheart and then go to bed!

Night all

Faced with an important report to write I have just spent the last 3 hours reading up on the threads!!!
I was just about to ask about 'Toilet Paper Tuesday'. Do tell. I haven't a clue what it is except maybe you wrap it around yourself to see how much belly has expanded?

Your brother was definitely out of line on the panic call. What a horrible few hours for you.

Congrats on your scan Moomimin. I've got mine this Thursday and I'm quite nervous but hopefully it's all ok.

I'm off to bed...

Morning all.

Cor, no flies on you cinnamontam, gonna have to watch you. That's it exactly, wrap it around your middle, belly button to belly button every Tuesday and count the sheets. I'm still 7 today at 12+5, Oh I forgot to say yesterday they shifted my due date earlier as all the scans showed I was 12+4 yesterday. So now due on the 18th May.

Going to post a thread on the prenancy board about my Nucale fold measeurement. Have a look for me please and see if you have any advice.

French lesson again this morning. Grrrrrrr

Hi there Moom. Just read your thread in pregnancy. I'm annoyed on your behalf that the measurement and risk analysis wasn;t fully explained to you! That's why we go for these scans- to find out what our risk rate is, not just to be given a measurement and left to work out what it means!

I'm afraid that I'm not all that informed with regard to the actual measurement - I'm having a nuchal scan for the first time next week - and so I've been searching around on the internet for you. All I've been able to come up with is the usual info about how a number of factors are combined to come up with an overall risk (say 1 in 150, for example) and not anything that indicates a risk using just the measurement alone. I know that's not very helpful, although the replies that you've had on the pregnancy thread have been quite positive and encouraging.

The only thing I can suggest, if you really want to put your mind at rest, would be to talk to your doctor and ask outright what your risk rate is and whether the measurement you've been given is indicative.

I'll be thinking of you - I'm sure there's no need to worry.

Morning. Have somehow shrunk from 8.5 sheets to 8 this week... Strange.

Morning all, hope we are all feeling good today, no ms, tiredness, stress or is that too much to ask

Moomimin, cant help with your scan as im still waiting for mine but if you are worried you should either talk to your midwife or dr and make them explain.

Remember the other day i told you all how horrible dh was being, trying to hurt me on my big spot (which has gone now by the way) Well i got my revenge yesterday and i didnt even have to resort to violence. Dh is a bit of a joker and his latest thing is to make sticky labels and leave them stuck everywhere, normally saying something embarassing about me. Yesterday while he was on the bath i made a few of my own and stuck one, with the words 'Im a w*er' on his debit card just below his signature. I thought he would see it when he went to the bank but he did one better. He went into JJB Sports to buy soem golf balls and used his card to pay. At first it wouldnt work so the boy behind the counter took it out of the machine, looked at it and put it back in, well he obviously read the note as he started laughing. Dh was oblivious as to what was going on and as we left the shop i heard the boy telling his friends about the card. Anyway he then went on to Sportsworld, Argos and a a shoe shop, using the card in every one. A couple more people saw the sticker and laughed but still DH didnt twig. In the end i had to tell him, i was having trouble keeping a straight face. He thought it was hilarious and has decided that I win, he would never have thought of doing that. Might sound childish but thats the only way to beat my dh, shame i had to tell him, i wonder how long it would have been until he noticed

By the way i have just measured myself and im now back down to 9 sheets, i went up to 9.5 the other week Look bigger than last week though so i was expecting to be 10sheets, never mind im sure that if i measure myself again in about 2hrs i will be back up to 9.5, i just havent had the chance to stuff myself with food today

Morning all and welcome Cinnomantam.

I've gone up about 1/4 sheet to 9 1/2 sheets at 15 weeks.

I'm feeling a bit in between - not really pregnant yet although I think I have been feeling flutterings for a few days.

Blood tests on Monday - anybody know how long these results take? Next scan 8 December (20 ish weeks)

PMSL pebblemum on you trick on dh, that is soooo funny, I may steel it sometime.

Thanks for your replies on the Nuchal thing. I'm not really worried about it, and am having the combine bloods done to give me a risk factor in a couple of weeks. I really just wanted to know if the measeurement it's self has any bearing on it's own as an indicator of a problem and it looks like it doesn't.

Hello Ladies. Welcome Cinnamontam.

Sorry your ex-h is being such a pest mummymel. Sorry if you've already been through this. Am I right in thinking your new partner wants to adopt your kids from your previous marriage? I suppose it is a huge thing but SO incredibly frustrating for you when he's already agreed and is now looking like pulling out. I wonder could you come to some sort of arrangement whereby your new partner has some sort of guardianship, without your ex having to give up his actual parental rights? Men often don't want anything to do with their kids until it looks like they'll be taken away. It's so unfortunate. And I can't believe your ex is with your mate. Well, I can, but how awful for you. And your ex DEFINITELY needs to be contributing if he wants anything to do with his kids. In fact, your children have a right to it, even if you'd rather not be in contact with him for any reason. (My mum was told this when she "waived" her right to maintenance for me in exchange for the family home. Lawyer said I could sue for maintenance when I was older or something.)

Hoping your placenta moves moomimin. Always better to know of any potential issues than not, but it would be better again if the problem moves or goes away!

SOH, I would have been cross about that text as well. The word urgent should be reserved for things that are so.

Loving your work pebblemum.

Feeling sorry for myself today as I came off my moped yesterday. Very low speed, but the front brake locked and I skidded. Buggered up my shoulder. Had it checked today and they said it's just muscle damage, but it's mightily painful. Also got a fright as if the bike had fallen on me, things could have been bad. Going to get the bike fixed and stick it on ebay. Would have done anyway, but have been ordered by DH and also work colleagues not to arrive in bike gear again. Quite sweet of them to mind.

Finally have somewhere to live, as you know, but managed to fall out with DH last night over it. We've taken this place on, but he decided last night it wasn't good enough to stay in for Christmas or to have his parents. I've been wrecking my head looking for places, bearing in mind his parents and my dad were coming for the holidays and then he tells me he told his parents ages ago not to come? Didn't think to share that info with me. And basically told me my dad could bugger off as we were going to his parents instead. I had a fit and told him I was not under any circumstances going to move house twice in two months only to have to pack up for a week again to go away for Christmas nor tell my father (who is on his own) to find somewhere else to go. Not so D-H told me the temp accom wasn't our "home" to which I said we might as well be in a B&B if it's not going to be treated like a home. Nnnggh. Anyway, he apologised for that and said he'd reinvite his parents.

Then started talking about getting storage for some of the furniture that's in the temporary house and that I should hire a van (he can't drive) so he can move it. As if it's not bad enough that we have some of our own stuff moved to a warehouse, have some things moved to the temporary house and instruct the movers about which items in our current place that belong to the landlord; he now wants to complicate things by getting ANOTHER storage locker and giving ourselves a further move to do by moving the stuff from the temporary house. Only my bad shoulder stopped me from thumping him, I think. I AM going to have a nervous breakdown if he carries on with this?

I'm not being unreasonable am I?

Good morning all

Great news moomin on the scan, im sure the placenta will move up its so early.

[GRIN] pebble you did very well not to die laughing in the shop, it must have been hilarious.

Sobash your bro was totally out of order, how cruel. Men just dont think sometimes. Hope you having a better time today.

Mkg i too am sooo jealous of those birth announcements, i always said if the stork dropped the baby on the doorstep id have loads by now its just the prg thing that puts me off. I know i have 5 and a bump but i would be in to double figures by now i reakon!

Mummymelling your ex sounds like a prick, i have one of those. The courts are such a stressful option, how do they get away with it? My sympathy is with you totally

Have not measured yet (i trundle of to toilet, and discover ds has been in there and put entire toilet roll in it, gahhhhhh)

Oops. Do I get some sort of prize for the longest, rantiest, most drivelly post on the tread?

Thats ok TYG its a good place to rant on hear, and no you are not being unreasonable. It must be stree city for you at the moment, does the world not know you are trying to grow a little human being in there?!

Im so sorry i forgot to say welcome to Cinnamontam! Welcome to the mad house Still havnt managed to measure myself but have eaten some yum hobnobs

TYG - Men, they just don't think through how complicated their brilliant plans are sometimes.

SOH - your brother WTF?? Men think only their problems are urgent while we juggle 10 other problems for them. You have every right to be cross.

MMelling - poor you. What a hassle. The last thing you need when you're pg.

Moomimin - Don't you needs bloods, age + nuchal fold measurement to give you the risk factor? Have you had bloods taken - I think you only get the result when you go to the midwife 1-2wks later? Could be wrong. Anyone know??

Am 7 3/4 on waist and 8 on tummy. Never know which to measure

This bog paper thing reminds me of measuring for a bra, which I don't think I ever managed properly on my own. Has the tape measure / bog roll ridden up my back and given me a smaller / bigger measurement? Will the measurement be bigger if I stick out my belly / boobs? Do I want to do either of those anyway?! That said, still in the region of 6.5 sheets here.

TYG - rant away. Important to get it out of your system I reckon. Relations and Christmas is never a good combo, let alone a new house in there too. Nearly fell out with DH recently because apparently I am not expressing enough enthusiasm for having the inlaws here for Christmas. Grrrrr...

Back to my dull job for a bit. Sorry I don't contribute much here, DS wants to me to play "toddler" computer games with him if I switch on the box at home (gets that from his dad), DH wants it in the evenings, so it tends to be a "work only" thing for me.

Thanks jucylucy you are right, I am having the bloods etc.... in a few weeks, I know I need the rest of it to work out a risk, that wasn't really my point. It was about the fact that this measurement is higher than dd's was, but have since found out that actually it is not as this baby is longer crown to rump than she was and generally - the longer the baby the higher the nuchal fold measurement.

Still, promise not to compare the results from this pg with dd anymore .

Oh and it's belly button round to belly button JL for the loo roll measurement. Everyone got that now!!! lol

Rant away tyg, we love it. YKWIM not the fact that you are having a crap time but the fact that you can shed it all off on here.

lg&t I LOVE HobNobs, Ummmm making my mouth water. Just had yummy pitta's with tuna, mayo and sweetcorn and not forgeting the dash of saladcream, all mixed up into a mess and stuffed in a hot pitta. Yumm Yumm

Ooh pitta bread sounds lovely moomimin. Drool... Did a big online shop yesterday and it's being delivered tonight. Yummy. Must remember to hide gingerbread from DH as it arrives...

Well, I'm 7.5 sheets belly button to belly button, same as last week, but I feel much bigger. And I certainly look pg as this morning one of our security people at work asked when it's due. He said I look 'lovely'. Aah bless the slightly short-sighted security chappie.

TYG, your poor shoulder. Take it easy. And your not so D H should know better. I don't know what's worse, not telling you when he changes plans, insulting your father or failing to appreciate the trouble you've taken just recently to find a 'home' for the short term. And yes it is 'home' because that's where you'll be even for a very short time. Grr at him, though silly to incur the wrath of lots of pg ladies on the web. We might all get together and wallop him.

The baby's causing me some gyp today. I think everything's having a renewed stretch. I feel like I've pulled a muscle in my lower abdomen, but it comes and goes at random. I know it's just the ligaments accommodating etc, but it's quite breath-taking at times. I'm not sleeping properly either, keep having the most surreal dreams. Pregnancy is such a joy!

Hope everybody's having a good day. I'm at work doing not a lot of work so should probably bugger off and get on.

Chat later!

Thanks ladies.

at SOH hiding the shopping. I have to do that as well, as otherwise DH will confiscate the bad stuff. He tried to "hide" my Kinder bars the other night, except his hiding place was on top of a dresser, which just happens to be right in my line of sight when I'm in bed. (Bedroom is a mezzanine). Durrrr... Lulling him into a false sense of security that they will lay undiscovered and then nab them.

He's a cheeky bugger. I can't booze to relax so no harm in having some choccie bars, IMO. Don't see him giving up boozing in sympathy. Actually, I was drinking white grape Schloer by the bucket last night and was getting accusing looks for ages until I told him what it was. Feckin eejit.

TYG Schloer is the closest thing i could find to wine when pg with ds2, its the bottle,lulls you into thinking you are drinking the real stuff. I did try non-alcoholic wine with ds1 but it was disgusting and vowed never to let it touch my lips again, cant remember what it was called but it began with an E. Avoid it at all costs

I just want to say that I love my dh. I know that he is not always the most wonderful person but last night he showed me that he really does think of me. Last night he bought me cookies. Not just any cookies, but oreo cookies, my favorite. He also bought me my favorite vanilla flavored milk. He stopped at the store to buy ds some milk (my car broke down so I'm house bound as I live in the middle of nowhere). Anyway he bought lots of fruit and cookies.

On to a TMI subject, does anyone else have to worst gas in the world. I have nearly debilitating gas where I am curled up in pain. I'm willing to admit that I am generally a gassy person, but this is ridiculous. It only happens at night. After 6pm I am a bomb. The running joke in our house is that I should go to Iraq, because my gas is like a weapon of mass destrution.

MKG lol at the gas, im the same but was embarassed to admit it Ive put mine down to all the fruit ive been eating, cant get enough fruit salad (Im so glad its not pork pies or curry sauce this time) Luckily Dh is at work so its only me that witnesses it (and the boys but they dont make a big deal out of it like Dh would)

Your Dh sounds lovely, yesterday i really really wanted a Subway Sandwich and even though we were only 5mins drive away from one my dh wouldnt take me He did offer to buy me flowers though but i expect it was only because he knew my one and only vase got broke last week so i had nothing to put them in

Yup, fart city round my house. Not that you'd notice with the smell of the sewers coming up through the house.

Feeling slightly less deranged than earlier. Moving company are coming on Fri morning to tell me what I need to do. Will basically need to put stickers on things that are to be left/ stored/ moved. Boss said to take as much time off as I need. Palpitations subsiding. Desire to maim DH is subsiding slightly.

Did I mention that he left me to struggle cooking on an eye level grill with my bad shoulder last night because he was "too tired" to do anything? Wouldn't even sodding make the salad dressing. Think I might have to kick him in the nads to make myself feel better.

LOL so very loudly indeed at your shloer drinking, may try that one on my Dh as he shows no sign of giving up with me. I think you are right about the choc eating, what pleasures do we have left?

Moomin your pitta sounds so yum, i may have to shop dash later...

Poor you MKG with the nast gas, ive had trapped wind before and thought i was dying, it was so bad.

TYG just where does your hubby work.......

Oh dear MKG. Wish I did have a gas problem might help with the constiption.

I still have a dd for grabs BTW. Love her really but if someone else could have her until these back teeth are through it would be great.
How long do they take it's been a week now? Grrrr Ds didn't suffer with teeth, although he was generally moanny anyway so not sure I'd have noticed. Dd on the otherhand is soooooo good and quiet usually that when something is wrong, it really hits me hard. Not used to her noise and it grates me.

Nice boss TYG, shame about dh. lol