Due May 2007 - Thread for w/c 13 November

[peacemakerukuk]

Morning all, Am very surprised I'm the first around this morning. Re. krispy kreme doughnuts, the 3 Tesco's nearest us have been selling them for quite a few months now. I don't see the attraction in them myself - thank goodness, I have enough extra weight as it it

Yay - thanks, Lupin!!

Do I need to start a 'kk addicts support thread'?

lol, it's looking that way, SOH! I've just asked my husband if he could drive via Birmingham on his way home from Reading tonight in order to get some KKs from Selfridges. He's not keen.......

look where i went yesterday. sorry. i ate enough for us all. this one was particularly delicious.

This thread is turning in to a weird KK fetish site. Im drooling at the thought of one, i can see myself doing the 100 mile round trip to get some this week.....

Alas am off to cook liver, bacon and onions with mashed potato for tea. I know, i know its banned but once in a blue moon cant up the vitamin A levels that much surely?

All i want for xmas is a Krispy Kreme donut......

hello

thanks for all your kind thoughts. I dread this time of year, while im excited by the thought of christmas/buying presents it also has many bad memories and we always seem to receive bad news at this time of year too. Perhaps i should hibernate like the squirrels do then i could blissfully ignore everything

I have just measured myself and im still 9 sheets yet i look twice as big as i did when we started Perhaps the squares on the loo roll are bigger than the first ones i used.

Is anyone still suffering with the tiredness or is it starting to ease. Im 13wks now and still feel the need to nap. I was hoping ti would be getting better by now. I have so much to do but just havent got the energy to do anything. I fell asleep watching a film with ds2 this morning then again this afternoon after lunch. Its as though im 98 not 28.

Reading all the posts about men crashing cars/hitting deers just goes to prove that us women are better drivers (we'll pretend scootermum didnt crash hers). My Dh reckons im a good driver, im always driving him up the wall, isnt he funny ha ha (sarcastic emoticon)

Does everyone know the date of their 20wk scan? Im counting the days until mine (2nd Jan) I really want to know the sex this time but dh doesnt so im going to send him out of the room while i find out. Im 90% sure its a girl but i keep calling my bump 'little man'. Im hoping its just habit after having two ds's. Whenever i dream about the baby its always in pink, i cant seem to look at boys clothes (a sign my sister had when pg with dd) but im getting paranoid now that maybe its more wishful thinking than instinct. I will still love it whatever its sex but i would love to know that in 8,9,10years i could have a conversation with this one that doesnt involve football (thats all ds1 wants to talk about)When i was pregnant with both ds's i found that everyone around me seemed to be having girls and so i had to be different. This time im hoping that anyone i know who is pg will have boys so that maybe it will work out i have a girl (strange logic but it may work). So far my neighbour has had a girl, my cousin had twins (one of each) and my other cousin has had a boy so its even odds at the moment.

Right down to business, have toilet paper in the house now so hear is my measurement this week at 15+5, 8 bloomin sheets! Have been the samr for 3 weeks now, have perfect excuse to eat KK donuts now

lg&t, your liver tea sounds delish. i have always liked liver and onions. i thought i was the only one. it isn't a common thing to eat here.
i made a proper meal for the first time in weeks last night. it was so nice. dh just called me on his way to work to thank me again and to say that he would eat it again for breakfast if he was at home. nice man.
i hope you are all feeling better and that this krispy kreme thing isn't plaguing you. they are pretty damn good though. definitely worth craving. are any of you out of the ms funk yet? i feel like i finally am coming out of it. i am now 16w5d so i would think i would be done with that by now. sleep has been a struggle for a few weeks and i plan to ask my doctor for some advice tomorrow. also, i can't wait to hear that little heartbeat again. it is the sweetest sound. i have had the worst feeling that something has gone terribly wrong in there. i haven't felt the bean moving around in a few days and i feel like my bump has gone all soft. my appointment is tomorrow afternoon so i am going to try to take it easy until then.
if there was anything i could do to help you all with this kk thing i would. believe me. i totally understand.

Before i go off to do tea i just wanted to let you know of a great deal i have just found. My SIL and her fiance liked going to a spa on holiday so i went to buy a spa voucher for them for christmas and found that if you go to Buyagift.com/sun you can get the voucher as a buy one get one free offer therefore only paying £20 for two. Each voucher allows two people to visit a spa for the day so im giving one to them and as the voucher is valid for 10 months im going to save the other one as a treat for myself once the baby is born. They also have the BOGOF offer on a few of their other vouchers. Just thought i would let you know in case any of you need ideas for unusual gifts.

Am going now,bye!

Gagh! Just wrote a long reply and lost it before I hit Post. Tch.

Scootermum, I feel really sorry for you. You haven't had any luck with that car recently. I hope it's ok when it gets pulled out of the ditch.

Thanks re: the names, Creena. If you like Gaelic/ Irish names then go for it. DD has fully Irish first name, which has no Anglicised version and her surname is the Irish version of my maiden name. She went to an Irish speaking primary school before we moved here so we had passport and all that stuff done in Irish. It barely looks like it sounds. Seems like a pain to keep spelling it to people, but then my married name is two quite common surnames together and people just don't get it. Even when I spell it out, it invariably gets mis-spelled anyway. Go for what you like best. All the "foreigners" in the country (including me!) cope ok.

My packers were great today. Arrived at 7.30 and were done before 12. Camden council were completely unhelpful about parking dispensation for the movers tomorrow so will have to risk fines/ clamping. Islington were very good and I have a yellow line waiver for right outside my temporary house.

Temp house has a bath. Huzzah! Have had just a shower for last 13 months. I bought myself some little tea light holders and candles whilst I was out today and am going to have a lovely long soak tomorrow.

And I feel like I'm a step closer to January, when I can move into my gorgeous new house. I just can't wait. I love it so much and I've only ever seen it for 10 minutes. We're going to ask the vendor if we can go round again next week to have another look. DD hasn't seen it at all!

just found out that KK's Head Office for the UK is in Camberley! Thats like a 10min drive from my house!!

Take it easy Jess and try not to worry, I' m sure all will be well tomorrow it just these pregnancy hormones playing havoc with our feelings. I feel just the same if I haven't felt movement for a couple of days!

I am still 9 3/4 sheets but def feel bigger and bump is harder and clothes are a lot tighter

aprilmeadow,

Is it the corporate office or the factory. My Cousin lives near the Ben and Jerry's factory in Vermont. They offer tours and samples. I live close to M&M Mars (30 minutes) although I have never been, and the crayola factory is like 15 min. away.

Jess, it's probably you're head going crazy. It's really early to feel the baby move consistently isn't it? I almost never felt ds. Apparently he like to hang out near my back. I was always so jealous of my sil who was 4 months behind me, but could feel her bump, and her husband could feel too. My dh never felt ds moving.
Don't worry and I'm sure you'll be fine tomorrow.

Can you ladies really manage to keep the sex of the baby from dh/dp if you find out and he doesn't?

As we have one of each already, we have no preference. We didn't find out with the first 2 but I would quite like to with this one. Dh will not have any of it. He likes the suprize at the end and says it adds to all the excitement. I would never in a million years be able to keep it from him. I would have to get clothes washed and ready etc....
I admire you ladies for being able to keep it from them. I think I'll just convince myself to stick together with the decision not to find out. Don't want to spoil it for dh as he is so set against finding out.

Thanks creena, just found your reply on last weeks thread from yesterday. Selfidges sounds fun, I will visit whilst we are in brum. I agree with the leafy bit about Mosely.

Thinking about you JL, hope your scan went OK. (hugs)

Oh scooter poor you and your car, maybe its time to gets new one! Glad your Dh is ok. My email is [email protected] and i will send you my address and any costs for posting. Thank you so much.

Thanx for the voucher tip pebble, fab deal!

Hope you are ok Jess, try not to worry im sure its ok. You could have an orgasm, would make your little bump go solid Sorry if TMI!!

April, unbelievable you lucky thing. You too MKG, although even crazed me couldnt eat a whole crayon Iive next to the bloody sea, pah!

Where are you Juicylucy hope it all went ok

Im in serious danger of scoffing marsbars, i bought 4 today to make (i think it was you MKG) the fab crispy cake recepie left on the last thread. I have not made them yet and they are calling me ......am doomed to be roly poly podge

thanks for all of your kind words. i am trying not to dwell on it because the more i think about it the more convinced i am that things are going bad in there.
largeginandtonic, no sex for me at the mo. i have a little yeast infection (thrush is what you call it, right?) and am medicating. so lame.

Jess, the thrush thing is the bain of my pg'cys. I had it right through wth dd and it has started already with this one too. Don't know if you are a swimmer but I was told by my gyn when pg with dd that swimming is not good if you suffer with thrush. The bacteria love the chlorine in the water and they grow and grow. We have a pool in the garden and I was pg with dd right through the summer, it was a nightmare not being able to cool off. Grrrrr. Should have timed this one better, the pool is normally swimable by end of June so hoping I'll get full use of it this summer, in between feeding etc..... Oh no, milky pool, just thought. Wonder if you can get waterproof breast pads. lol

lol at milky pool.

Of course now you have me thinking about breastfeeding which has probably been the worst experience of my life. Oh well 28 weeks to try to gear up for another try.

Did anyone see Robert Winston on BBC1 at 9? Im still blubbing from it. Am thanking my lucky stars for my 5 lovely kiddies and growing bump, it seems so unfair that others cant have it too. I knew it would make me cry but couldnt help but watch.

Am off to bed now to stop myself eating...ate a healthy yoghurt....followed by a mars bar

Car complety mashed.I had to persuade a farmer to get it out wtih his tractor in the freezing dark as dh too 'traumatized' by accident to come and help.I have told him a dozen times not to drive around country lanes so fast!Now who is just nagging?Rant rant, sorry!
I hope it will be written off actually as we were planning to sell it on ebay next week anyway so we can get a new one.Well, not a real new one but a new second hand one.Wasnt looking forward to trying to stuff two babies, plus paraphernalia, into the back of a Ford Ka anyway...

Will get onto it largegandt, but will have to email you from home as my work blocks hotmail.Pah about post costs-dont worry about that..It might not fit anyway.I hope it hasnt been got at by moths!
Its not been up there long anyway.Have only just put my mat clothes up from before.Trouble is they are totally wrong season.When I was 13 weeks with dd it was coming up for summer so all my 'this size' mat clothes are floaty.Then all my 'bigger size' ones are for winter so will have to go and get a whole new set anyway.So much for saving money!
Off to S and M cafe for luch now.Cant wait!Very handy as the no 73 bus stops right outside my work and then right outside there.Lovely.

Its S for Sausage and M for Mash by the way-nothing as dodgy as it sounds-Im not sure if they have it outside London?Ruddy nice anyway!

Just popping in to say hello to am!

Didn't you know am that your mil used to work at KK in Frimley. My dh used to do a collection there and always got caught talking to your mil.

Anyway, highjack over
BYEEEEEE!

Morning everyone, it seems quiet today!

So these Krispy Kremes - can you enlighten me? - they seem like a particular brand of donut, like Dunkin Donuts? But Tescos sell them too? I don't think I've ever seen them - what makes them particularly good?

LG&T - I didn't see the show last night, what was it about? Was it couples with fertility problems? Robert Winston things usually draw me in but I was knackered and went to bed early - that was lovely except I woke for the day at 4.30am, something I remember from last pgy.

Had nuchal scan yesterday and all looks normal, lots of bouncing and waving from the bean, and a lower risk than with DS. We showed DS the pictures and told him "properly" - he took a short glance and said "that's very good" and ran away to find some cars... I'd previously mentioned in passing that "mummy is tired because she is growing a baby in her tummy", at that point he'd rushed over to look under my top, very sweet, but of course there was nothing much to be seen poor love...

JL - I hope your scan went well and that it's just that you haven't managed to get to a computer yet.

MKG - I could have written your sentence about b/f myself. I get very mixed emotions about it for this baby-to-be. Some days determined to succeed, some days thinking perhaps I won't bother after all. But today is a more rational day, and I feel I'll give a decent shot but not let myself suffer as much as I did last time with it.

TPT - did this yesterday, was somewhere between 6.5 & 7 sheets. I'm feeling much more spacious in that region, seems weird (but nice) that I am not putting on that much girth, or weight.

For those of you a bit worried about Breast feeding your second. Obviously I can only talk from my experience, but I felt just like you when I was pg with dd. I struggled with ds and only managed a very painful, upsetting 6 weeks. I was devastated that I could not continue with him, but neither of us was benefitting from it. Anyway, i thought I'd give it another try with No.2 and see how it went but made a promise with myself that I would not beat myself up if it didn't work again.
But it was a doddle, she went on beautifully, I was relaxed, calm, felt in control which I never did with ds. I believe for me it was the fact that I had been there, done it before and new what I was talking about, new what to feel etc, and just didn't generally panic like I had with my first. Dd and I enjoyed a wonderful 6 mths complete breast feeding. She made the decision to stop when she discovered solids were far more interesting. OK it may have just been a fluke or I may have been lucky but I think you are generally more confident and relaxed with your second baby anyway.

Ohhhhh sorry for long post, just wanted you to know that just because it was not a good experience first time, it may well be spot on this time.