Due March 2007 - Heading for the third trimester

[Booboobedoo]

Thought I'd start a new thread as the other one's about to run out.

Harktheheraldfoxessing I will ask her when I next see her! I hope she says yes. Not only will little baldy fat man be so but I will be able to spend more time with Baby Bertie!! I'll be seeing her in about two weeks so wish me luck!!

Anyway we have been let out of work early so I am not staying a moment longer!

msrlmoss - I'll keep my ovaries crossed for you

Thanks foxy it does help to hear these things 'cos when you're in these situations you feel that you're the only person in the wrold to be experiencing this don't you? There's also an element of shame that I'm in this situation. I'll text you tomorrow

hello.

welcome msrlmoss

kitty-sounds like things are difficult for you atm.i dont have a clue whan it comes to relationships-my longest was 4 years and that was abusive so i dont know what 'normal' relationships are meant to be like.all i can say is i hope you can work through it cos i get the impression you do love him.
have you tried that bepanthen bum cream on dd3?thats the only one i use on dd2,she has had some nasty rashes when shes been on antibiotics and thats always cleared it up in 24 hours.

callie-unless a miricle occurs and i dont get high bp in this preg,i will most likely be induced at 38 weeks.technically,after 4 vag births,this baby should fall out,but i somehow doubt it.

i have spent all day running around buying carpets and phoning gas companies and buying stuff i need while dp has ran backwards and forwards to the new house with boxes etc as he's determined there will only be furniture left here on friday

trying to think straight enough to organise a move when one is in mid-pregnancy is virtually impossible and my brain is about to explode.
plus ive been getting bh's and heartburn all day.must be another hairy baby.

22+6(girl)

Bepanthen is amazing. I used to use it on dc's excema! Pity you couldn't plaster some on the pain relationships can cause at times!

Diva good luck with the moving, your dp is putting loads of effort in which is just what you need, even if it does sound like your last couple of days in the old house will be totally uncomfortable! I've got rotten heartburn today too.

Fox, your story is amazing and heartening, I love it when a plan comes together.

Kitty - text me tomorrow and I can either ring you or e-mail you, whichever you prefer

Diva - I love hairy babies.

hey ladies, just checking in with you and waving big hellos all round ..

well i couldn't accuse everyone of being blissfully happy right now could i ..

kitty i hope you are ok and fox it was consoling to me to read your story also..

i been really low the past few days so haven't trusted myself to be anywhere near the computer (bit inconvenient when i'm meant to be working on it!) however i'm allowing myself a bit of MN tonight so long as i don't go anywhere near my email. dd and i have had horrible gastric flu so boo i totally sympathise and it made my morning sickness come back too! yuck. always makes you feel grim even at the best of times.

does any1 know about the flu jab and whether you are allowed /encouraged to have it in pregnancy? i'm sure i've read something (here??) but it's gone out of my cotton-wool-head

diva hope the packing/ move is going ok - i should be moving after xmas tho i'm dreading it.. quite like the idea of being in the new house but not the effort of getting there..

piffle hope you're healing up ok and that the pain is a teensy bit less, you are one brave woman i don't know how on earth i would deal with all that, what a nightmare, big hugs

haven't investigated the doula yet by the way kitty but it is top of my list of things to do, because otherwise it looks like i really will be alone in the birth, and that's the last thing i want. does it make me sound weird and friendless to say that there is nobody apart from dp who i'd actually want to be there???

hope you're all ok anyway

xx

rainbow-no it doesnt sound weird to me!a couple of my friends actually offered to be at the birth with me but i had to say no cos it would have felt really strange.and people asked if my mum was going to be therei could have just imagined that 'clare,watch your language!!' 'clare,why have you shaved your fairy?thats disgusting!!!'
no,for me its either got to be the man who put the baby there in the first place,or somebody whos there because theyre being paid to be.

Good to hear from you rainbow girl

Rainbow I don't think its wierd at all.Its nice to see you back on here again, we were a bit worried about you.

I was offered the flu jab a work. Apprently last year, PG women were being advised not to have it, but this year they are being advised to have it (confusing or what?) I was in a dilemna but then decided to abstain, because I thought well if I don't have it, then no harm can be done to the baby.

You could ask the Doctor who is doing them what s/he thinks?

Am off to bed now, have to get up at 6am

Anyone see Proff Winston prog. just now??

Diva - your "fairy" ????

diva ikwym about having your mum there.. people keep asking me that too.. it's like, to be frank, she is the last person i'd want there! (altho i might want her nearby if anything went wrong).. glad i'm not insane

I would much rather have someone who is paid. That way I don't feel I'm putting any friendship/relationship under stress. With my doula I feel happy when we talk endlessly about ME and what I want and how I'M feeling, it's fab, She's totally focused on me that's her job.
I know that come ds' birthday I'll call her and baring some major accident she'll be there. I could never rely on friends in that way.
For me it's knowing that that support is there 100%, that makes all the difference.

shame men aren't so reliable huh?

i still have fantasies about dp being at the birth but i'm going to try so hard not to actually ask him.. there is a long old road between here and there anyway..

will definitely call about the doula tomorrow

hiya to newbies

had a good appt with consultant yesterday anddo not need to see him or go back to hospital until 36 weeks. My care will be under GP until that time. fab - gp is about 5 minutes away - hospital up to an hour in peak hour traffic.

My baby (dd2) is 2 today - she is all grown up.... she got a doll with a pram, car seat, swing, high chair etc and she is not letting anyone within cooee of that doll or buggy. Get close and she screeches that it is dd2's baby and buggy..... bought it for her so she would stop fighting with dd1 over her pram BUT now it looks like they both want the new buggy - ahhh kids - gotta love them.

really knackered at the moment and think I am fighting dd2's stomach bug - been a lot of d + v in our house since last Thurs - tired of washing puky clothes, towels and so on. Dh is away and can't wait for him to come back tomorrow night. Was in bed by 8.30 last night. Totally unheard of for me.

Morning ! Happy birthday to your DD2 Eidsvold !

Diva - Glad your DP is shifting loads of boxes and you can concentrate on carpets and 'fairy' maintenance !!

I am constantly amazed at how real life is nothing like the picture mothering/parenting books portray (which is why I don't buy them !) It would be so helpful for there to be info of the stresses and strains of pregnancy for all women so we don't feel like freaks when things go wrong. Domestic Violence increases threefold and often starts during pregnancy if I remember correctly from some training I have done. I suppose thats what mumsnet if for... to tell the truth !

Laidback - that's really shocking about the DV

Morning to everyone else

Morning all, golly you lot can stakc soem messages up in 24 hrs!
I can only log on 1-2 x a day for 5 mins as sitting upright is ARRGHH.
Happy birthday to Eidsvolds dd, my dd also got doll for her 4th and is addicted to it. Joy!
Hope all the tummy bugs are going away.
On the plus side, today I sneezed and it only hurt 6/10.
I said to MIL yesterday, now it feels like I've been punched not stabbed, so that's improvement right?
Came off paracetamol yesterday, but had to take 2 this am.
Am petrified of what these drugs are doing to the baby. Anyone any experience of this at all?
Baby is moving like mad, so fingers crossed that's a good sign.
1 week on, feeling things healing slowly...

Morning All..

Piffle - I hope you can get back to some normality ASAP!

Kitty - Tried to reply yesterday but this thread kept locking. I hope you manage to sort things out, either way make sure you and yours are happy with the decision. I'm still bitter inside about something that I let happen a few years back, I'd hate that to be the case for anyone else.

Rainbow - I too have a cotton wool brain, I made myself a list for tesco's.. Deodrant, Razors, Bin Liners and Food.. yes I had to remind myself to get food! LOL It made me chuckle though!

Diva - I too would not have my mum there, she was a nurse and I could just see her getting in an argument with the staff about how things were done 20 years ago when she was a nurse! LOL

I hope everyone else is well. I'm actually touch wood feeling pretty "normal" at the moment. Just find moving while in bed really hard work, and I'm getting breathless doing everyday things.. oh and this morning, It was like my Tooth Brush Bristles were made out of razors and cheese wire the amount of bleeding my gums did!

Morning all,

Kitty, hope all starts to go better for you and family soon.

Diva, I like to ask my mum if she'll be with me at the birth just to see the look of sheer panic on her face. :0) She's fond of telling me she didn't even want to be there for my birth, so she's certainly not coming to this one.

Eidsvold, Happy birthday to DD!

Hope everyone else is well today!

Rainbow...Its names I keep forgetting. Very embarrassing.

Happy lunchtime ladies.

Having a bit of a mare at the moment.

Briefly, DH and I borrowed a big chunk of money against our mortgage recently (over £30,000) to build our extension in January.

I opened a new savings account at the Yorkhire Building Society and sent them a cheque for most of the amount. The money left our account on November 1st, and they're now claimung they never received it.

We now have to wait for our bank to send through a copy of the cheque, which should have a record with it of the account it was paid into. Until then, £31,000 - gone.

Was distraught yesterday, but trying to stay calm today for the baby.

Hope everyone's feeling ok today.

EDD 3/3
24+3
Boy

Good Lord BooBooDeBoo! that must be awful... we;re still waiting to hear from bank regarding DH's Card cloning. I hope you hear some good news fairly soon! I have no idea how you're managing to stay calm... but glad you are!

Bit OT.. any of the first timers on here had any thought on antenatal classes? or any of the ladies who have experience have any knowledge to pass on? My DH and I are "Debating" the NHS V Privately Run ones.. of that's what they're called.

Booboobedoo don't panic! I'm sure it'll be sorted in no time and you can relax again. It'll be the silly old banks fault anyway!

Piffle its great that you can feel there's some improvement even though you are still in pain you poor thing, I hope it really starts to feel much better soon.

Labour with ds1, first husband was there (flirting with the nurses of course)
And as mentioned before my labour with dd was ludicrous, dh refused to be present at the birth bit, though he was glued to me in the lead up, so mother was to be there but in the end she was gathering my bags while I gave birth in the company of whoever happened to be in the corridor.
With ds, mother babysat and dh was there for the birth!Yay!
No idea who will be my audience this time....

Boo what a nightmare!! you need to stay calm. the money hasn't gone (it can't have!) so just relax the bank will sort it out (easier said than done i know..).

AmieR- i did the NCT classes when i had my dd (now nearly 4) and i actually just called up about them today, because of the situation i'm in and because i had an emergency c-section 1st time round, i'd like to do the NCT again. it does cost a bit (my course is going to be £134 for 6 sessions) but it is a fantastic way of meeting people you can hook up with after the baby is born, some of whom stay real friends usually, and the groups are typically no bigger than 8. personally i'd recommend them.

Eidsvold happy birthday to your dd; we've had the v&d bug too,not nice, i'm sick of changing my dd's bedsheets and pjamas

kitty how's things? hope you are ok

noodle hiya

piffle about the paracetemol i've had really, really bad headaches and have taken it maybe twice or three times a week in the 2nd trimester, according to my GP it is the safest painkiller in pregnancy and many women in chronic pain take it most days and their babies are absolutely fine. i think if you took 8 tablets every day for 40 weeks there is a small risk to the baby's liver but you would have to take a LOT and even then the risk is only quite small. hope this helps and hope you are feeling better today

i called the doula and the NCT this morning and saw the health visitor so am feeling proud of myself .. small steps

LOL at 'audience' rosy.. it is a bit like that huh? i'm thinking to line up a good friend to be on hand in case i need her and to focus on the doula idea... if dp turns up he can wait outside