Due May 2007 - Thread for w/c 20 November

[charleymouse]

Morning ladies
Hope you are all keeping well. Just thought I would start this weeks thread (I am still catching up with you guys from last weeks).
TPT today and I have dared to measure I am 12+6 weeks and currently meaasure 9.5 sheets. I can't imagine how big I am going to get with two in there.
Anyway I have decided to go for the Nuchal scan and have the last apt on Friday afternoon. HOpefully hti swill all go okay and nothing else to worry about, if I come back as high risk I think I will go for further testing (that's todays plan anyway - subject to hormonal changes )

I will endeavour to catch up with all your news later but just a quickie - DH was helped out of his cot when a baby by his big sis who accidentally (cough cough) dropped hime down the stairs. He broke his knee and still has occasional trouble with it now, so not overprotective at all to get checked out. Sensible in my mind

Cheers Have a godd TPT.

maybe chatting on mumsnet keeps us all sane and the little ones only pick up our happy vibesheres hoping for lots of happy chilled out may babies x

ds2 as just come out of his room and given me a big cuddle and said "im cuddling the baby too"aaaaw he says the loveliest things

I have a theory about how ds got so happy. When I was pregnant with him I got so depressed. I just laid in bed and thought about killing myself. Well he comes out and is all smiles from day 1.

My theory is that I was sad because he took my happiness for himself. When he was born he brought it all back, because as soon as he was born all my depression went away.

[crying emotion]

oh Mkg thats sort of sad, but I know what you mean.

how are you feeling with this pg mkg ? if you dont mind me asking x

Hello
havent been on this thread yet but am due May 17 so thought Id get in touch. I agree calm mum makes calm baby - I did yoga in 1st preg and DS is v easy going (bit too lively to be called calm). Have been v tense with this preg (came after three miscarriages at 12,8 and 11 1/2 wks) so maybe this one will be more uptight. Must get going on yoga again...

Welcome anneme. Congratulations on your pregnancy.

I feel great with this one.

Last time, my father died a week after I found out I was PG, dh and I were on the verge of splitting up, I hated my job you name it it went wrong. I spent the whole pregnancy worrying because I had never changed a diaper or held a baby for more than 2 minutes.

This pregnancy has me feeling good, and I am so excited about this baby. I feel guilty because I was never excited about ds though.

being a parent seems to be about guilt most of the time - even before baby is born.

Welcome anneme. hope you are ok now, you must be feeling a little better to have got past the 12 weeks. Hope you enjoy yourself here we are all a bit...well bonkers really. We blame the hormones, but i bet when we have all dropped it will be still be the same...

MKG i hope you are ok in this prg, it sounds like a baby is just the tonic you needed when you had your ds, they change our lives in unimaginable ways. You cant tell someone about it they have to go through it.

Im having a stella, my throat hurts and i can feel a headache coming on. The mini demons are being a bit demonic. Im just so tired of it, i want someone else to do something, even if its to change a nappy, empty a bin or decide whats for tea/brekkie/lunch etc etc... Think its time dh came home. Only have 2 weeks left to go...hey ho.....

Sorry dont mean to be so doom and gloom, im normally fine. If there was a KK round the corner it would solve all my problems....

Anenneme, you are so right about the guilt issue. As a mom you feel guilty about everything, down to leaving them to go out for an evening to the fall they had in the park! It just gets worse, dd is suffering at school at the moment, falling behind, so now i feel guilty that ive not done enough with her. Its daft i know but you torture yourself for every little thing. I think if someone asked me what is biggest tip to give them in parenting it would be 'let go of the guilt' Easier said than done though....

Charleymouse is having a very rough time on another thread she started. She may ned some support. Its on the multiples under dont read if hormonal.

Awww poor love just put a note up for her, did get choked tho, what a worry

Charley if you are about huge hugs, Lisa

Feeling soooo upsett for charleymouse. We can be dealt some tough cards in life, hey!

lg&t, has the e-mail arrived?

Hello everyone, bet you can't even think who I am it's that long since I posted! 14+2 now, and haven't been sick for a couple of weeks but I wish this terrible tiredness would stop and I would bloom!!! Went back to bed at 10.30am and slept for two hours this morning while dh took ds to the park, still been knackered all afternoon and now! I'm putting it down to teaching Infants in the run up to Christmas!

I have been (mainly) keeping up with the posts on the thread and finding them very reassuring. Glad all seems to be going well for everyone, and looking forward to hearing about all the 20 week scans coming up, starting to get a bit worried about that, but pushing it from my mind.

MKG know exactly what you mean about feeling sad about your ds and then happy that there's going to be another one. I feel that my ds has never been sweeter or more gorgeous since we fell pregnant with this one.

I'll try not to make it too long until I post again!

Hey, In theseshoes. (waves) I actually thought about you today. Glad you are well.

Hi there ladies!

Moved house on Friday and currently living in box central. House was filthy, my mum has washed the paint work downstairs (living in a town house - 3 storeys). She has bleached both bathrooms and downstairs loo. Had to empty hoover 3 times and was still picking up dog fur etc! Dh managed to get all boxes out of the lounge and into the spare room (nursery to be), so at least we have a living room! Got the cat back from the cattery today and she is very confused and has spent most of the day crying!

Sorry i missed your fashion show TYG. Just a shame that your ball is before the wedding i am going to.

Will try and pop back in when i can this week. DH has a dial up connection on the laptop and isnt getting broadband set up til friday. At least we have sky working!! Means i can keep upto date with Lost

hi.
i have not caught up on all the gossip but i just wanted to say hello. hope you are all doing well. i just read a bit about charleymouse's situation and my heart is filled for her. i hope she pops back on here soon so we can offer up support.
i got my quad screen tests back and am thrilled with the result. 1:20000. my nurse said that is as good as it gets. we are so pleased. i have to go back to the doc this week to get this darn shoulder fixed. i have been in constant pain for a week now and actually had to go to emergency in the town we were visiting because i couldn't stand the pain. they prescribed codiene and i took it. not worried about it at all. now i have to go get an mri or something to suss it all out.
hope you are all feeling great.

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Morning all

I've just posted on Charley's thread, will be thinking of her and keeping fingers and toes crossed for the best possible outcome.

Reading it made me realise how lucky i am. Ive been having a lot of hassle from ds1 lately. He's 9 going on 19, he seems to have developed a bit of an attitude and to get him to do anything is hard work. Now i realise that no matter how much he annoys me im lucky to have 2 healthy children and one on the way, there are so many people out there with worse worries than how to get ds1 to do as hes told. Also ds1 is normally so good that its probably just a phase he is going through, he sees the neighbours kids getting away with it and thinks he can do the same but im sure it wont take him long to realise that i wont put up with it.

I had a strange day yesterday, i made the most of dh and ds2 being out and managed to perm my hair straight without anyone moaning about the smell, i did a bit of housework then managed to fall asleep for an hour without realising, one minute i was about to watch a film the next i woke up and realised id missed most of it, oops! Then we went to IL's for dinner where the men were having a tough time fixing the car ( a lot of swearing and moaning and blaming each other, quite funny actually) Ds2 was filthy, he had been 'helping' them ie pretending to fix things with his plastic tools then he had beengiven a big ice cream complete with sauce and sprinkles so that was down his jumper too, he was handing the men the tools so he had black hands and face, i think he thoroughly enjoyed it (not sure his light blue sweatshirt did though)Im back off to MIL's tonight for dinner Its my SIL's birthday so we are having a 3course meal, theres going to be 12 of us so it will be like a trial run for christmas dinner complete with crackers. Another day of not having to cook, im being spoilt

just a quick hello as its taken me sooo long to read the thread and catch up with everything, just going to read cm thread xx

Pebble i know exactly what you mean about being thankful. I too have been having a very frustrating time with the dts age 8, they have always been so good and helpful but have turned in to lazy little beasts who i have to yell at to get them to do anything.

Its been getting me down, but reading about Charley just puts it all in to perspective, i had such a rough time with them when i was prg, and got told all sorts of awful things until i was about 22 weeks prg. Then they arrived at 29 weeks and were about as small and poorly as you can get, and here i am whinging at them for not tidying their room.... madness i fear....

I am struggling with all of them and i dont say that to anyone because basically there is nothing anyone can do.. All my family and dh family are 200 miles away, im having another baby by choice (what would they say if i told them i was struggling with the ones i have already)and i moved here in july just naively thinking it would all be ok. Im sure it will be, it just takes time to make friends and learn about the area, but monday mornings suck.

But im only finding it tough, its not as if any of them are in mortal danger and im being faced with life or death situations. They are all happy (i hope) and soon dh will be home. Poor Charleymouse, now that is real stress. I hope she comes back soon so we can all give her cyber hugs and support. If your lurking Charley just know we are thinking of you and hope that it all works out. My dts are well against all odds and it was rough but they are here now and very healthy/loud/noisy/smelly etc, etc

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