Due in June part 3 :: Entering the 2nd trimester, bring on the blooming!

[NattyandThomasandBumpandSanta]

new thread as old one once again will not load in the time it takes me to make a cup of tea so as far as i am concered thats too bloody long!

keep this one full guys!

N&T&B

N&T&B, sorry to hear about GroupB Strep. There's some useful information about it here \link{http://www.gbss.org.uk} It's not as bad as it sounds from what I gather, although I've got no personal experience.

I'm so jealous of all of you already having your 20 week scans. I'm nearly 20 weeks (will be on Sunday) but where I live they do scans at 21/22 weeks so I have to wait another fortnight before I get to see my little one.
Not sure if I've felt any movement yet - sometimes I get a feeling a bit like a caterpillar is wriggling around. Is that it? No idea as this is my first, but I guess it must be! Have been using my doppler quite a lot so know that everything's alright and the hearbeat's very strong.
Anyway, must get back to work but just wanted to say hi. I don't have computer access at weekends so won't be around again until Monday.
Hope you all have a great weekend

SC

NT&B - sorry about the strep B. Glad you've already been given lots of advise. Sounds as though it doesn't have to be a serious problem as long as it's monitored and treated right. Hope the posts on the pg thread can put your minds a little at rest.

Still waiting for baby to kick. Maybe he'll start this w/e when we're relaxing in Belgium. That would be cool.

Hope you all have lovely weekends.xx

D'you think the booby fairy will do pick ups as well as deliveries? I'm a 32G when not pg and believe me, Jordan has nothing to worry about! I'm up to a 34G/H at the moment and heading for the second half of the alphabet at speed. Wouldn't be so bad if they were pert but you know you're in trouble when DH refers to them as the 'sow's teats' and you seriously worry about DD kneeling on your nipples when she climbs into bed beside you!! Anyone know where you can get pretty but strong boulder holders??

Ouch! Westcoaster that doesn't bear thinking about! Maybe I should be careful what I wish for. Sorry I'm no help on the bra front as very much at beginning of alphabet.

NT&B - was tested for strep B too, MW said just needed course of antibiotics if tested + and then retest and like you say antibiotics on drip during labour. Think if detected easily sorted type of thing. Also sure saw some info in bounty book about it or was it the NHS pregnancy book? Sorry bit forgetful at mo. But help links suggested help you not to worry too much.

Sputnik - glad DD is feeling better, glitter glue is a sure sign she is! Pretty as the stuff it is a nightmare DD had it hair at xmas and on my fabric seated kitchen chairs!

wow, we are a poorly lot! Sending healthy vibes to all those and their kin suffering!!

Afreind of mine had group b strep too, I'm no expert but she had a drip during labour and her baby is perfect and healthy, she did have to wander round the labour with the drip thingy trailing after her..........

Westcoaster....try Bravissimo if there's a branch near you. They do big sizes, but limited on the maternity front. There's lots of websites too...people mentioning figleaves as one potential. I had a quick look there and they seem to have quite a nice range. I've been through it all recently looking for E/F cups...the mind boggles at G?!!
NT&B...sorry about the strep B. My sis had it, and apparently its a bug that lots of us carry around in either our throats or...hmm elsewhere... If you are fit and healthy it isn't an issue under normal circumstances, but the bug can pass to the little one at birth and cause all sorts of nastiness, hence the need for anti-biotic drips. I'm sure there'll be a thread on here somewhere...or if you start one you'll get some helpful advice.

Mytwocents....I'm heading down the anaemia route already too . I have coeliac disease and one of the side effects is inability to absorb iron properly...so I know the signs. Putting off going to the doc about it cos iron tabs are, as you rightly say, vile. I also know exactly where you're coming from with the constipation angle, inspite of a diet of prunes for breakfast and lots of satsumas!!

Thanks for all the words of sympathy re DH....I'm putting off going home as we are going to 'sort it out' tonight. DH at his grandparents till tomorrow so no worries about upsetting him with our shouting (and believe me there will be shouting). DH is meant to be away this weekend, but has postponed till tomorrow so as not to have it hanging over us. He's also bought me a huge bunch of exotic looking flowers so it's difficult to stay angry at him. Maybe I'll just ravish him instead...actions speak lodere than words after all

Have a good weekend all, and I'll catch up on Monday.

Thanks Daisybump - will try them for something to stuff my enormous mams into. Am hoping not to repeat my first attempt at breastfeeding from dd - managed to smother her with my own boob and was just congratulating myself on my expertise in 'latching on' when the midwife rushed up to me, pulled dd off me and sprinted off to give her oxygen... Maybe I could get a reduction on the NHS on the grounds that they're hazardous to my children...!

Just wanted to say, ladies, that I've been a bit down in the dumps after having amnio yesterday. Being able to 'chat' with you guys has been so good. Realise that, of course, I'm not the only one with probs and I should get a grip.

Hope you all have a good weekend and that we're all more chipper come Monday. (Incidentally, if anyone feels up to a bit of a laugh, check out the thread on funny childbirth stories. Not difficult to make me pee my pants at the moment - managed it several times reading this!)

Hi Westcoaster, just wanted to say you're not alone feeling down, I had an amnio too this week - don't know if it's the stress of waiting for that, DD being sick all week, raging hormones, feeling suddenly huge or my very rapidly approaching 40ness (2 weeks to go ) or combination of all - anyway, not feeling too cheerful either. Here's hoping we all have good weekends.

Hi all, re Group B Strep - I tested positive with DS2 and had antibiotics in labour. NHS do a really good website that will give you the facts - the other web sites can tend to show worst case scenarios as they have been organised by parents who have been affected. The baby will only get an infection if you are positive when in child birth so you can be tested closer to your due date. The chances of the baby contracting an infection are really quite low. There are a couple of current threads on either pregnancy or childbirth that will give you a lot more information. I think I'm still going to try for a homebirth - best thing to do is your research and find out what your options are. I ended up strapped to a bed on my back for DS2's birth and it wasn't too pleasant.

btw DS2 was fine and didn't contract GBS.

Hope you are all okay and have a good rest this weekend. Have a good one!

Yes daisy!! ravishing always a good idea, easier to see things clearly after and more relaxed i find....
I have to have blood tests every two weeks to keep an eye on the iron levels in my blood, I have taken fluxowhatsit before and other healthfood store remedies in the past as well as cornflakes, green leaves apricots etc. However midwife and doc said must take the pills, 4 times a day before the level goes up to normal - normal is 13, during pregnancy is 11, mine is between 8&9....Bring on the prune juice!!
Happy sunday ladies!

Hello everyone - can I join this thread? I'm due on 8th of June and a latecomer to mumsnet. Do any of you live in North London? Could use some advice on non-NCT antenatal classes as NCT ones are full in my area....
Thanks!

hi Beav and welcome...

Hope everyone had a good weekend... Feeling a bit crappy, actually - not so much Monday morning as one of those weekends. DH hardly around and when he was we ended up arguing, largely down to me I think - it's like I've got PMT combined with exhaustion and it really frustrates me (plus I keep bursting into tears over the smallest thing). I thought the tiredness thing was meant to subside in second trimester? Am wondering if I'm iron deficient as everyone keeps telling me how pale I am (obviously, because I've got pregnancy PMT I told them all that I was feeling fine and not pale, thank you very much... God, I'm a nightmare). Maybe I'll cook a chili tonight and see it I feel better.
Sorry for moan - hope your weekends were better!

ps, 19 weeks today, and just over 7 sheets of loo roll around the widest part of bump/fat stomach...!!

Hi Marylou, was wondering how we were supposed to be measuring these bumps!

Sorry about your crap weekend, I was feeling like that last week and it sounds like some other people too are feeling a bit emotional lately. Insensitive DH's/DP's don't help either, mine came out with "well you're pregnant so your completely mad anyway", when we were discussing something the other day, luckily it wasn't a heated discussion.

I'm feeling better thankfully. I found a glass of wine (1 is not going to hurt) and watching a DVD that made me laugh helped.

Westcoaster and Daisybump, hope things are going better for you too.

Hi Guys & welcome Beav123. Have just rushed into loo to measure my bump Marylou - 8 sheets at 19 + 2. Had a little giggle at image of women all round country wrestling with loo roll...

Sputnik - glad things are better for you this week. I get my amnio results later today or tomorrow so on tenterhooks but am keeping busy to keep my mind off it. Very sad but I now have a tidy drawer of tupperware in my kitchen. Gawd, I need to get out more...!

Daisybump - how are things with you? Hope the frolicking was fun & did the trick. I seem to be able to generate any number of absolutely filthy dreams but can't work up the enthusiasm for the real thing at the moment!

Maybe it's our 19/20 weekish feeling that we're all suffering at the moment. That blooming must be due any day now!

Thanks Sputnik - wine and DVD sounds like v. good idea! Re. loo roll, I just wrapped it around me pretty much at the belly button level which is where I'm widest.
Westcoaster, good luck, fingers crossed!

Hello

Feeling better, thanks. Couldn't quite manage to ravish DH...we went out for a meal and after a curry was feeling too bloated to do any ravishing! We've talked it all out and things much better. The flowers were to say 'Happy Half Way' and not cos we'd been arguing, bless him. How is it possible to want to kill someone one minute and then be bursting with love the next?!!! He's been away all weekend too, so that's give me a bit of time to think about things. For one reason or another, we've not had the easiest start to our marriage, and it's only been eighteen months since we tied the knot (split up when I was preg with DS, then re-kindled it when DS was 2, so lots of history!!)
sorry to hear I'm not the only one feeling pooey (I wish...ha ha) and I hope we're all feeling a bit better. so much for this being the bionic trimester...it's hard to feel upbeat and smiley when you feel like a beached whale, are tired and constipated and hormonally a little bit wobbly...try to keep smiling and think how we'll all laugh about this when its over
Had quite a good weekend with DS. Did lots of fun things together including the local park and tropical world (butterflies, bats, creepy crawlies), went for hot chocolate and cake, stayed up past his bedtime watching vids, and had breakfast in bed on Sunday and slobbed in our pjs till after lunch. Great stuff. Hope DH not pissed off that no housework has been done, but DS been upset by events last week, so I wanted it to be all about him for a while.

Happy halfway (or nearly halfway) to one and all

Okay, so it isn't just us. Apparently, today is meant to be the most depressing day of the year (something about lack of sunshine, debt after Christmas, lack of bank holidays, self assessment deadlines yada yada yada). Am going to retreat into my pjs early this evening and dig out the Ben and Jerry's - surely the best way out of any gloom?

Hiya, to cheer myself up I'm trying on different girls' names (our bump is 90% likely a pink one, found out Friday!). What do you think of Sienna? or is Charlotte better?

Back to buggy shopping...

or if you need cheering up, try this for a laugh. It really is funny... link

Hi all- feel like a total stranger after not posting for weeks- It even takes a while to catch up on thread no 3 but glad to see all the old and new names doing well. Trace, Juicy, Sputnik etc. Got a compassionate leave day today as my Grandmother died yesterday, but sent DS to day nursery anyway so I could "indulge " in a little catch up on the MN site. Good to see so many EDD girls same as me, Daisybump and Sleepychunky. NT&B I have GBS too(discovered after a high swab aftr MC last May ) - it'll be Ok, they will closely monitor you throughout the labour - it is quite common as 1 in 5 /20% of all women have it and many midwifes too due to their work ( which doesn't seem too reassuring - does that mean you can catch it as well as have it congenitally ? -anyone know?) Also rather envious of all you in MN who can find out the sex at the 20 week scan. We get a sole scan at 21 weeks here in my area and they don't tell you the sex. I'll be blown if I have to pay for another private scan just to find out the sex of my baby
(I wonder if I could persuade a the sonographer to tell, or bribe them ?)

Things really have been too frantic to keep up with posting anyway as we are having major building work done on our house, which bodes well for mid - to late stages of pregnancy ! Hopefully all will be finished in time for the new arrival , bring it on I say! Now DS is also settling into a morning state nursery and has someone to escort him after that to another nusery for the rest of the day whilst I am still working ( roll om Matleave, so I can do it )I might be able to dedicate a bit more time to staying in the loop. Hope we are all settling into the blooming part of our pregancies happily , more like ballooning for me , I am eating for England at the moment, which is a relief after all the weeks of mega sickness -apologies again for the mega post x

Hi all, thanks for the link Lilkel - very amusing . Am also just over 7 sheets but at almost 2 weeks less - can I put it down to being 3rd baby??

I just had a talk with my midwife (indpendent) about the Group B strep thing. She was saying that the stats are about a 1 in 7000 chance of baby contracting a strep b infection. Based on those odds I think that I am going to forego the antibiotics and try for a home birth. Unless of course I go into labour before 37 weeks or my waters have broken for longer than 18 hours. Am I mad?

Glad to hear most people feeling a bit better. I've had a great day - we left the house with DH and met a friend and walked through Greenwich Park to catch the DLR to Canary Wharf for the day. Both DS1 and DS2 slept as did her 2 LOs on the way back so we stopped for a coffee (decaf of course) and a chat. These moments are rare so need to grab them when you can .

Hi everyone,first time here,& thought I'd join in,you all seem like a nice bunch! wink Just realised my 'big scan' is in two weeks. The date was set ages ago,& suddenly it seems to be fast approaching. Don't really know what to expect,so any advice on anything basically would be good. First pregnancy,so I seem pretty inexperience to most of the women here,or even on this site to be honest.
PS Has anyone else's skin suddenly transformed into the spotty teenager I thought I'd left behind ages ago?!

Hi Snacky - welcome, and don't be fooled; lots of us are completely clueless (I certainly am...!) - we rely heavily on the second/third/more (!) timers for all our info. Haven't got spots (yet) but have certainly developed teenage grumps again - have started huffing around the house moaning that no one understands me. Maybe I need to lock myself in my bedroom and play Duran Duran records very loudly...!!

Hi Ladies, Sorry to hear about your Grandmother K1K2.
Annobal your afternoon sounds blissful spent with a friend to chat all about girly things!! and sleeping LO's!!
I am 19+4 and have the detailed scan next week- as we don't want to know the sex we need to warn the sonographer not to go into any detailed area before we look away!! Have started to feel fluttering and tapping movememts which has been very exciting
Has anyone else started to have slight clearish fluid from their nipples? guess it must be clostrum? Its our first baby and all these strange things just need one of you experienced Mummies to reassure me!
Not much more news, paid a visit to Mamma's and Pappa's and Mothercare in the weekend....the buggy purchase is a whole new game!! Oh, there is a Baby Show for those in London at EXCEL 9-11th March, good chance to see all things Maternity and Baby!!??
xxx