April 2007 - an Easter surprise

[Katy44]

Morning everyone!

Or not belated birthday... having just read the last message properly ! Talk about pg brain....

WCL happy birthday

• did you do that deliberately as I was feeling bad about not having a chance to say it yesterday?!

It's my scan today and I'm so Was planning to update stats when I got back (assuming I can) but I quite like the idea of everyone doing it say, on Christmas Eve as Bugmum suggests, what do we all think?

Could do that Kay44 - can we tell everyone the flavour before then, though? Mind you I might be too busy dismembering - whoops, sorry entertaining MIL on Christmas Eve !!

Happy birthday WCL (you muppet!!!!!).

Morning ladies!!

Happy belated birthday WCL,hope you had a nice day. Just think.. next birthday there will be a card from your little one!!

Feeling a bit icky and tired this morning and seem to have developed a pain in my back, around my kidneys... probably the little one stamping on them!!! Wish I was at home on the sofa!!

Hope everyone else is well.

Went off to the pram centre yesterday which was nice, I actually know the difference between 3in1's and travel systems and the like!! V expensive though!!!

Yes - we definitely want to know the flavour before Christmas Eve - can't wait that long!!

Good luck again to scan people for today.

I have left a msg to have a little phone chat wiht my consultant because I have been foolishly surfing again, and apparently anterior placenta greatly increases your chance of posterior labour, which I had with DS1 and which was a nightmare. Even though it is still likely to be easier than with a first baby I would possibly rethink opting for the midwife unit for the birth, which would be a real shame.

I'm also fretting about some of the scan measurements. Biparietal diameter was on the 5th centile and adbominal circumference was on around the 80th - which I don't like at all and need some reassurance. Bloody buggering technology!

I thought you meant you had been "surfing" as in surf board and wet suit... was thinking "bloody hell she's brave, surfing while nearly 5 months pregnant in novemeber!!!

lol ggf - i thought the same as gmm! i really dont understand those fugures you quoted!! where did yu get them or who gave them to you - and how come you know you now need reassurance???

gmm - poor you. do yu have a hot water bottle to hand? you managed to get to the pram centre ok? i nearly fainted when i saw the prices as well. the prams alone made me weep never mind £300 for a crib???????????????

Ah ha - I like the image of me surfing on the waves, hair flying!

WeeOnion - They put a page in your handheld notes after your anomaly scan with stuff on it like all normal, anterior placenta (or posterior for most lucky people) and they also put these 4 baseline measurements on a scale - 2 of which are the biparietal (head) diameter and the abdominal circumference. My BPD was at the bottom end of the scale and the abdominal one nearly at the top - the other 2 which I can't remember now appeared about average. So foolishly I googled it and a small BPD appears linked to microencephaly and spina b (which is me being silly again because they looked at the spine etc and all was well). Also not good to have a big discrepancy between those particular 2 measurements (can't quite remember why!), even though they are both (just) within the normal range of 5th to 95th centiles. So I want to speak to the consultant to be reassured!

Bet you're sorry you asked now!

MORNING ALL!
and a huge HAPPY BIRTHDAY westcountrylass!!
hope you have a lovely day!

late to work this morning - traffic is sh**e here today, so am behind before I even start! No skiving for me then ............boo hiss boo

....sorry GGF cross posted.
hope you get to have a chat with consultant. I'm sure if there was anything to worry about they would have said at the time, or made a further appointment. Can't say 'don't worry' though, coz that's what we do as mothers isn't it?

WCL - Happy Birthday. Have a great day.

GGF - When I had my anomoly scan the sonographer said that the measurements are not entirely accurate at this stage as they probably are not at any stage. They said as long as they were in range they would be happy. I'm sure something would have been said at the time if they were concerned. Not that it helps I suppose and always best to check with consultant/midwife if you're concerned.

Did you see the consultant after the scan?

Try not to worry.

You guys are sooo funny - we're as mad as badgers!!

Happy Birthday!! - For today WCL, you nutter!!

FIL has taken DD1 to his churches toddler group!!!!!! He used to do this regularly when DD2 was v.small, but then started work p/t (he is retired) and it sort of fizzled out - I am so so so grateful and v. Thank you Lord!! Hope she is good, doesn't eat too many biscuits and doesn't wee / poo herself!! Eeeeeek! Anyway, catching up frantically on stuff while she is gone and DD2 is in bed......

Hope scans go well today .......

AngeG - thanks for that and I'm sure that's what they'll tell me as well - re the measurements not being spot on etc. I do feel a bit better actually - I'm not completely eaten up with this but I'm the kind of person who wants to know everything which is probably not to my benefit!

Think I'll go catch some waves to get it out of my system.....

GGF - Another one here who thought you'd been physically surfing. Well, I remember that early on you hiked for 10 miles, so nothing would surprise me

Oh yes, I think we should tell flavours when we know them, as we've been doing, but to save muddly updates we could all do them around the same time once we've all had our scans?

Damn, there were other things to say. Oh, Happy Birthday WCL

I have been a bit worried, as I don't really feel much movement, and such as I do feel, am not 100% convinced really is the baby. Wasn't like this with DC. When I had my MW appointment (seems like a hundred years ago), she took ages to find the heart, and said she suspected an anterior placenta. While that wouldn't be the ideal, obviously that would take my immediate worry away if I knew that was definitely the case. Sigh. No point in trying to see my MW before scan and appointment next week, though, as it is soooo hard to get seen here. I hope I'm just being silly!

For DC read DS.

have very much enjoyed catching up on the weekend's news from you all - the computer at home is seriously f*ed so I am reading the thread on my blackberry. Posting is not so easy on that though so thought I'd best wait til I could use the work pc!!!

Anyway hope all scans go well today and Happy Birthday WCL!

Also pmsl at the "trimming" down there messages! Am a bit of a waxer myself but last time was total agony so not sure I will be bothering again!

Is anyone else still having weird dreams - had 2 over the weekend which were obviously "abandonment" of DS related, in the 1st he got left in the car at a motorway service station in the middle of the night and in the 2nd I "forgot" him and left him locked in the house. Clearly got guilt issues about expecting bean 2. DH is sympathic to a point but thinks I'm being a bit silly!

Oh, and GGF? When I was in late pregnancy with DS, my MW was worried because my bump didn't grow for two weeks, so sent me for a late scan. They measured everything and said no, he's fine, he'll be nearly nine pounds. Couple of weeks later he was born, and was indeed fine, but only 6 pounds 13 and long like a piece of spaghetti, which they hadn't predicted. So God knows what actually gets measured!

Hotlips - I am the guilt queen, so yes, I know exactly where you are coming from. Sometimes I WEEP at the thought that DS will feel betrayed

Hello ladies, oh what at terrible weekend!

I haven't had a chance to catch up on the old thread on what I have missed and have only breifly read this one so Happy belated B-Day WCL

I am feeling like utter shit today, both DH and I have taken yet an emotional battering from his kids.
They are so selfish you wouldn't believe.
We went to Bath on sat to go to the market, and booked a hotel there as our house in Wales is still under construction. Around 10.30pm (when we were in bed) we got a phone call from SS1 who had been on the piss all day, spent all his money and couldn't use his brain for an Idea of how he should get home.
He then kicked up such a fuss that DH being the soft touch that he is decided that although he had been up since 5am that morning and just driven all the way from London would drive the rest of the way into wales and to cardiff to pick up ss1, Who when he turned up and hour later had decided that he did know how to walk and had fucked off home anyway.
So DH had to drive for another hour to get back, I didn't get a wink of sleep as I was so worried that he would fall asleep behind the wheel.

The next day proved to be just as much fun, at least we got an apology from ss1.
We then went to watch SS2 playing Rugby (thank god evil x wasn't there)
On the way back in the car SS2 found some property papers that my parents had brough back from OZ for us, and well that was it, you think toddlers have terrible tantrums they are nothing compared to the one SS2 had, the little fucking arsehole has such a temper on him he nearly made us crash the car, he grabbed hold of the steering wheel while DH was driving, he started punching DH and screaming like a lunatic.
Poor DD was in floods of tears so was I (thought I was going to go into early labour!)

We tried to explain that we were only looking at the prices, but he wasn't having any of it, he got out of the car and ran off, and was then missing until 3am this morning, DH had a chat with him when he turned up and he was just evil. So although we had had no sleep we drove all the way home got in about 5.30am this morning.

I look such a mess. I just feel so depresses, can't stop crying and I'm still shaking from the whole thing.
Poor DH is just a wreck he has managed to go to work this morning. I feel so terrible for him
he does everything for his children, we don't have a life because we are constantly driving up to wales to see them and this is the way they treat us.

All good to hear, Bugmum!

How many weeks are you? I'm 20.4 and still am feeling nothing due to anterior placenta. According to other threads, the earliest I can expect to feel proper kicking is at around 24 weeks!

{Grabs her board and runs athletically towards the sea....}

I feel the same about bubba's movements too Bugmum - weird isn't it!!? I am convinced I have felt bubs moving, but somehow my brain tries to convince me I'm not - hope that make some sort of sense. V.much looking forward to my scan - I am SUCH a worry bug this time round, no idea why!!?

Definitely no "extreme" hair removal going on here, but I did get DH to give me a "wee trim" with a pair of kitchen scissors () before my last two labours ..... Can't BELIEVE I just admitted that!!

18 + 4 today. Just did a bit of Christmas shopping - so quick!!

1B3 - x-posted with you.

What a nightmare . How old are these 2 SS's? The way they are behaving at the moment if I were your DH I would just want to walk away from the (big) brats for a while. It sounds like they have him wrapped around their selfish little fingers .

HOW DARE SS2 - seriously, how old is he - grab the steering wheel of the car!!!!! I think you guys really need to find some way of laying down the law big time. Just think of your poor little DD and let rip!

Lots of [[[[[hugs]]]]] for you.

morning all!

now then, you be careful with all that surfing WCL!! lol

Happy birthday for TODAY WCL. Are you sure you' re not just wanting double the pressies and blaming preg brain ??

GGF hope your consultant puts your mind at ease. "So foolishly I googled it..." is probably a standard phrase on MN! Sometimes all this info we have access too can be a curse as well as a blessing.

Good luck to all the scanees today. BTW how long do these scans usually take? Are you in there a long time or is it quite quick? Just wondering!

no way! there were 11 new posts while i wrote that!