February 2016 - Boobs are growing, sickness is going, and some of us are finally showing!!

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Had flu jabs before loads, owing to line of work and the immuno-compromised people in the family. Not whilst pregnant, but will definitely be doing so.

Calypso, if the idea scares you then go solo/ have someone else, then just update him. Whilst in an ideal world it would be both of you there and a happy co-parenting experience, it sounds too early a day your feelings are the most important.

Glad the scan went so well banana.

My appointment for the birth choices was fine, as I had an elective before and was conversant with the various risks. The MW was fine, so will have consultant appointment end of next month and will be booked in at 34 weeks for something around 39 weeks. The joy of HCPs actually listening to and respecting your wishes

...too early and your feelings...

Yay banana great news! And you too chinchilla!

calypso you just need to do what makes you comfortable, put yourself first.

I did lots of ice and peas and the swelling has gone down just got a bruise the size of my hand now. The peas I was using at work decided to leak pea juice everywhere though so all I could smell this afternoon was peas and had soggy trousers. It amused everybody else though!

northern I feel your joy re medical staff listening to you! I was so happy to see my Consultants name on my letter, having had him for my previous two pregnancies, no raking over my PTSD/horrendous first birth, no faffing about whatsoever with him.

Oh good arrow, glad to hear that. It's one less thing to worry about overall, and having fewer things to worry about is certainly the order of the day for you! Is it still all weird with STBX/his work/breakdown?

Yay for good scan banana!

Sorry, I haven't been on here since the hack thing weeks ago, couldn't change my password at first then gave up! Will try and read through what I've missed. I'm nearly 20 weeks, scan next Tuesday but have had a gender scan and know that we are having a boy!

I am so in love with my baby already and can't wait to meet him, just needed to share that.

Watched a couple of the BBC episodes of countdown to life tonight. There was a baby with a hair lip who was laughing and so happy and it made me cry, even DH thought he was adorable. Don't watch it if you are a worrier as it is basically a catalogue of all the things that can go wrong with your baby!
It did have some really interesting stuff though, they had genetically identical mice and implanted the embryos into different mothers and feed the mothers different diets. It caused obesity and changes in fur colour, the 2 mice looked completely different despite their identical genetics. They also had a theory that nutritionally deprived mothers had babies that were geared up to eat nutritionally poor diets their whole lives, so then if they ingest a high calorie diet are more likely to be obese. Therefore we should all eat like pigs throughout our pregnancies

Flu jab, I'm not having. I had it last year and had a very sore arm for a week. Then found out it was completely pointless as they had picked the wrong flu strains. There is a study that showed if you take 100 people and vaccinate then against flu and take 100 people and don't vaccinate them. The vaccinated group only had 1 case less of flu then the unvaccinated group! I just think everyone should make an informed choice and not take everything that medical professionals say as fact. I personally don't want to put anything unnecessary in my body and have gone to great lengths to not expose myself to chemicals as much as possible.

I've found that if I sleep with my knees parallel to each other and therefore my hips are parallel I don't get half as much pain in the night. Also stretching before bed is a must for me now. I do have a huge maternity pillow which takes up half the bed, particularly when I kick it in the middle during the night, it is like a 3rd person in the bed!

Things are still very weird with STBXH. He's been an absolute star this last week though

I'm wonky on flu jab. I've only had flu once - and it was Swine Flu. Honestly thought I might die, it was horrendous and I don't fancy having that on top of pregnancy. But OTOH, is it futile to have it done?!

Morning everyone.

That's great news about your appointment Chinchilla, and cool that you'll know when baby is arriving!

Arrow I saw a thread about pros and cons of vaccinations in the pregnancy board that you might want to read through. It's a personal decision at the end of the day but that might give you some interesting insights from both sides of the fence.

Clumsy what did you do?!?!? I must have missed it...

I've not been swimming for a few weeks due to holidays etc. It will be interesting to see how I get on now that the bump has popped. Lighter gym workouts are still OK although baby kicks me like 'what the hell are you doing out there?!?!?'

I have the flu jab every year due to asthma so i'll probably have to get it this year.

On the swimming front I go every week. For the most part I am the same. If I let myself float though my position in the water is different now .... plus the boobs are keeping my chin out of the water if I'm in a standing position (well almost). My current swimsuit is stretchy enough over the tummy BUT getting a bit indecent (fine when standing on the side, much more buoyant in water!) and I'm looking at a maternity swimsuit that actually covers the top half.

arrow are you going to have an elective C-section? glad STBX has been helpful :)

chinchilla what is a birth choices centre and how do you get an appointment?

I really must start swimming, might treat myself to Coral Reef (Bracknell) for my birthday next week :) sighing New Look does maternity swim stuff.

I'm off to the scan in a bit. I text Mr Narcissist yesterday, just said "I am going to the scan at 12, let me know if you want to come" but had no reply. Oh well. Figure I probably won't here from him now, I think he's on a life long sulk.

Loving this sunshine and blue skies!! :)

Calypso, that'd be the best of both worlds- moral high ground for having invited him, but not having to put up with the sulk! Good luck for the scan I've not been to Coral Reef- is there much there other than slides? I always assumed it was similar to Waterworld in Stoke, or Center Parcs without the trees!

Loving all the good scan news and photos- can't wait til ours on Friday...

Calypso Consultant will ask (again) and I'll say no (again) and we'll have a middle ground of - any signs of anything going fucky during labour and it'll be an emergency section rather than ventouse/forceps (the causes of my PTSD) and I'll be keeping my fingers crossed that this birth is as easy as my last two birth is never easy but in comparison they were a walk in the park

My scan is tomorrow morning DSis is planning to video some of it on her phone! MIL is dropping some money off later as apparently she wants some scan photos too Ffs... The woman hasn't spoken to me since March this year, no congratulations, nothing And now she wants scan photos. Not sure how I feel about that or if the sonographer will print them! It's £10 for 3, they tend to do them from different angles too and I'm not giving away any of them if they won't print extras.

Everything fine at the scan. As predicted he didn't show up but I had a lovely friend (with 3 week old baby!) as company :)

At one point I thought I saw a willy, but then later I thought I saw a fanny, so still firmly Team Yellow.

Coral Reef is amazing, I am probably extra fond of it because it was a special treat when we were kids (it's very expensive), but yeh there's a whirlpool, (jacuzzis and steam rooms which we probably shouldn't use), an outside bit, a pirate ship and stuff for the tots. The slides are the best bit. Check before you go tho because I keep hearing people say it's closing for refurbishment at some point.

Arrow good luck tomorrow!

That's great that everything was fine at the scan Calypso and heartened to hear that you had some support in the room too!

yay great news :)

Thanks Calypso. I've been looking around and I think I'm going for a Zoggs one. A bit pricey, but hey, swimming is good for baby I am sure

Thought I would add my pics to the mix. All was well, team yellow!

Great news mamaberg!

arrow we are scan day buddies!

lovely pictures calypso and mama

clara I managed to hit a blood vessel with my injection on Sunday morning and caused a bleed under the skin.

Congrats calypso & mama!! Beautiful pics :)

Speaking if birth, we went to our first hypnobirthing class on Sunday and apart from there being the obvious triggers (no one minded me going off and having a little cry), it was amazing! I've since devoured the book (Hypnobirthing by Katherine Graves) and the majority of what she says is fascinating. If anyone is vaguely interested I'd highly recommend it!

Yay for healthy scans calypso and mama!

haquoi I'm on it like a car bonnet!!

clumsy how's your leg???

yay mamaberg scan high five :)

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