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November 2015 Thread - Teams Yellow, Pink and Blue selection has started!

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tootsroots · 10/06/2015 22:09

For all those lovely bumps incubating until last few days of Oct and all November, spilling possibly over to December for the super comfortable babies- come and chat, rant, vent, chant, glow, sweat, watch nails grow whilst doing antenatal pilates/yoga/sleeping/eating/navel gazing and over analyse to your hormones content!

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SnozzberryPie · 01/07/2015 22:51

Congratulations on the scans today.

I just had a midwife appointment, she found the heartbeat easily.

Hope everyone's coping with the heat, I just had a lukewarm bath.

Topsy34 · 01/07/2015 23:10

We are team YELLOW!

Scan was today and i am so relieved everything is looking good. Phew!

Hope everyone is coping with the heat. Read today that drinking icy cold drinks will make you feel,hotter as it tells your brain something.....tested the theory this evening with some warm milk and felt a little cooler....drank iced water all day and felt hot all day.....

TakesTwoToTango · 01/07/2015 23:14

Congrats topsey!

Sleeping - it's all a bit hit and miss here. Tend to go to bed about 9:30 most nights (up at 6/6:30) then will have an occasional later one. How well/long I manage to sleep seems a bit random. Sorry not to be more help!

NoMoreSashimi · 01/07/2015 23:32

Sleepless I was the same last week, early night, then woke up too early or in middle of the night and couldn't get back to sleep. I find it gets better after a few days when I focus on not checking the clock (so not count how long til I need to get up) and tell myself I don't have to sleep, just resting will be enough for my body. That normally sends me back to sleep quickly.
Probably our bodies trying to get us in the habit of not sleeping 8 hours any more...

AbbeyRoadCrossing · 02/07/2015 09:47

Good news on all the scans!

Luckily (for my sleep) DS did OK in the heat last night and only woke up once. I don't want to jinx it but hopefully he'll regularly sleep through before I do it all again Smile
I've decided October / November is a good time to have a baby as the weather isn't usually too extreme either way. Having a newborn in this must be really difficult. DS still isn't great at regulating his temperature, had him in a bath outside yesterday and he will still roasting, poor thing

Laura7010 · 02/07/2015 16:35

sleepless I wake up a few times in the night and usually at the same times! 1am, 3am and 5am! I can mostly get back to sleep but can sometimes take me a while and can be disturbed. I'm getting a little more used to it now. I wonder if that's when my baby will wake in the night!?

Unthoughtknown · 02/07/2015 17:26

I'm the same a couple of times a week have a good few hours of waking, normally 3-6.

I'm 21 weeks tomorrow, and I've just discovered I've put on the first stone! Eek

Gr33dyeggs · 02/07/2015 17:34

Lovely scan news ladies Smile and welcome to welcome.

I woke up in a bit of pain last night - Imust habe not moved off my side and my thigh was so sore! I've realised I've put over a stone on so far and am only 5 lbs off when I gave birth last time. Eek. gonna be huge

feathergirl1 · 02/07/2015 17:41

I've put on 15lbs already at 23 weeks! My fault for constantly picking when I had morning sickness in the first trimester!!

annatha · 02/07/2015 20:51

I daren't even get on the scales, I just feel hungry all the time these days.

Luckily it's cooler round here today, we had an epic storm yesterday with golfball sized hailstones and that seemed the clear the air. I don't envy ladies due around this time, I've really struggled in the heat lately. Amazingly dd slept through last night for the first time in ages. Wish I had! I'm finding that dunking my feet in cool water cools me down quickly.

doomclaw · 02/07/2015 20:51

I don't know how much weight I have put on as I don't know what I weighed before. I don't think I want to know now that I have developed a waddle overnight. I look like a fat duck!

Crumbelina · 02/07/2015 20:53

Congrats on the scan TakesTwo and everyone - fab news!

I haven't kept up with the thread as I've been so busy at work. Same for Facebook - that moves super quick! I've got a day off tomorrow to see the Alex Mc Queen exhibition (first bit of 'culture' in God knows how long!) and can't wait have a 'me' day with some browsing for baby things. Total sum of purchases so far: monkey and 1 vest. Smile

Sleepless, I seem to wake up at 5am each day (to the exact minute) and then drop off again about 6:30am. All very strange.

Abbey, I think it's a great time to have a baby. Like you say, no extreme weather (hopefully) and we have enough time to work things out before Xmas (especially in my clueless case). I'm then going into hibernation again and will emerge in spring with a perfect baby, routine and figure. Ahem ...

Right, I need to get over to FB and see what's happened. Will probably see all the purchases, talk of yoga and hypno-birthing courses booked and run back scared! Wink

Crumbelina · 02/07/2015 20:54

Oh crap, I should weight myself too.

annatha · 02/07/2015 21:47

Dd is a November baby (its going to be an expensive month) and I agree with Abbey its a great time. Admittedly I used the crap weather as an excuse to hibernate until the new year but as spring arrived I was much more confident and now she's a hardy little thing and loves playing outside in her paddling pool.

AbbeyRoadCrossing · 02/07/2015 22:10

DS was born in September but by the time we were out of hospital and moved house etc and I emerged it was October jumper weather. Which was great because people were like "wow you've got your figure back" errrrr no, I'm just safely in a big jumper! Grin
Not that figures matter if you're pregnant or postpartum of course, I don't want to sound vain. But jumpers hide everything, summer outfits not so much

AbbeyRoadCrossing · 02/07/2015 22:20

Oh yes and everyone on Facebook is super organised. I'll start buying stuff next week when I reach viability I think. I have a list, so that's something.
I did pick up some cheap girls clothes on a Facebook selling site, so those combined with DS's old clothes of which a lot are unisex, I should be sorted clothes wise. I'm not sure if people buy gifts for a second baby, and I wouldn't expect anything anyway, but clothes are a popular gift so my tip would be not to go crazy.

annatha · 03/07/2015 01:11

You know how I said dd was sleeping well in this heat? Bedtime started at 9.30 and it lost count of how many times I've gone in now Grin

I don't know why this has popped into my head in this weather, but ladies who plan to bf I found it annoying having to take a billion layers off to feed so I lived in dh's hoodies in the house. Sleeping in a hoodie was especially useful. Keep those nips warm in the early days!

WelcomeToTheBungle · 03/07/2015 06:10

Nooooo I dread to think what I weigh. Between work, ds, staying on top of house things and simply wanting to relax, I can't say I have time to exercise. I put on 3 stone with ds through eating junk and am determined to be healthier this time - but I still feel huge!

Ann we had a crappy bedtime too. Ds has a sniffle and his top back molars are pushing through. We put him to bed and he screamed until he was sick! Very unlike him. Can't wait for the comparative peace of a newborn.

I only bf for a short time with him, but he was born in March when it was snowing. I found I was still quite hot postnatally so I just wore stretchy vests under a normal jumper. Jumper went up, top came down et voila!

Gr33dyeggs · 03/07/2015 07:24

I double layered vests bf too for one up one down (bought a load of cheapie vests and slit the middle for the bottom one) wonders if boobs are particularly low Did that from Jan 09 through to September when I went back to work. I find I rarely get hot.

AbbeyRoadCrossing · 03/07/2015 08:48

Our bedtime was OK really, with DS up once. The daytime though is a nightmare because he won't nap and just gets crosser and crosser. He napped for ten mins yesterday in the car and usually has 2 or 3 naps of about 2 hours each. It's been one of those "if it's this hard with one, how am I going to manage two?" days...

annatha · 03/07/2015 12:53

Abbey I keep thinking that. We've been incredibly lucky with dd so when she has a bad night or an overly fussy day I worry about managing with another, but at the end of the day regardless of age gap I'd still have the logistics of two children. The people I've spoken to who've actually got kids with a small gap have all had positive things to say about it, the worry mongers often have just one or no children at all!

stace1986 · 03/07/2015 17:05

20 week scan all went ok today and we're team blue! :)

PinkaColada · 03/07/2015 19:17

Congrats Stace!

November seems like great month to have a baby for all the reasons mentioned above. Crumbelina, I feel like you have read my mind! Show baby off at Christmas without being too shell shocked, then hibernate and emerge like a butterfly in the spring!

flyingsprocket · 03/07/2015 19:58

Congrats stace

AbbeyRoadCrossing · 03/07/2015 22:46

Great news Stace

annatha I think you are right, no age gap is easy, it's more the logistics of 2 that will take some getting used to.

Today DS has been so easy! I was worried as we were driving to a UK holiday and he hates the car usually but he was great, even though we got lost, and had a poonami with no service station nearby and were just generally disorganised. So I just never know, sometimes the things I worry about work out great