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Due in July - Part 2!

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Chooster · 14/12/2006 14:52

Hello everyone - Just starting a new thread for this... Will send a message in a mo.

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3flightsofsleighbellsring · 18/12/2006 23:21

Wasn't going to post today but saw your post Chooster and had to send big hugs to you. What a tough day, hope tomorrow's better.

Had my CVS today, not feeling terribly positive either. Keeping my head down until we get the all clear. Or the alternative, of course. Oh god, here I go.

Keep well everyone.

wethreebodkinsoforientare · 19/12/2006 05:22

Hmm - insommnia already? Grrr, thought I wou'dnt get that til the last trimester. Booooo!

Chooster, just to echo what others have already said, thinking of you at this difficult time, and hope you can stay positive until your next scan ((hugs))

Saw midwife yesterday (hooray) and have scan booked for 5th Jan (double hooray) on DDs 3rd birthday, so am hoping it all goes well.

Cakehead, sorry to hear they're monitoring you for diabetes. But like you said, sugary breakfast would affect the result.

Poor you Doris, but glad to hear you are feeling a bit better.

Cazzybabs, your doctor sounds a bit unhelpful. Hope you can find something that relieves the eczema.

Right, might try and go back to bed now. Expect DD will be up in half an hour... [yawn]

snowytyphoonsmum · 19/12/2006 06:53

Not been on for a while. No reason really just computer been hogged by DD and Dsd.

MS is horrible, Having to eat breakfast, don't normally. I wish I could actually be sick. But yesterday wasn't too bad. Im trying to to think about it.

Have Xmas lunch in work today - if I can get cover on the ward that is. Have visions of not being able to eat it. Will get down there with all the big noises and consultants and eat a roast potato and go off it. That is how it works at the moment. I'm sure I prob lost weight instead of gained it. (DP decorating the bathroom so scales have been "lost" - shame that innit)

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Chooster · 19/12/2006 08:33

Thanks for all your kind words ladies - I never mention the losing my last baby to anyone except my husband, so its nice to bring it up here - you're all so lovely .

Doris - You poor thing, that just sounds awful but at least you're getting help now. A lady called Babymad (or a xmas variety) is on the due in August thread and she has suffered from hyper-emersis with her last 2 pregnancies - just thought I'd mention it in case she could give some advise!

3flights - I really hope the CVS wasn't too uncomfortable yesterday and you are resting up. Will you get some preliminary results by the end of this week? I've got everything crossed for you honey.

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firststar · 19/12/2006 10:06

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Groveregg · 19/12/2006 10:52

Firststar you are so good at remembering everyone's names and messages, I can only do one or two before my brain gets full!

Here are the two I did remember before brain was full:

  1. Cazzybabs, my ds suffers really badly with eczema and in the past when we haven't managed to get to a doctor, I've bought Aveeno lotion over the counter which is really good. We normally get it on prescription but when needs must... They also do a bath oil which helps ds a lot. They're both quite expensive (£10ish) but it's worth it.

  2. Chooster, sorry I am a day late but hope you are bearing up OK. Must be a horrible memory but hope the new little one will hang on in there until it's the right time to come out.

Hope everyone else is OK...

firststar · 19/12/2006 11:16

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Groveregg · 19/12/2006 11:36

Aah! Well in that case well done for finding both a pen and a piece of paper - I can't seem to manage both at the moment! I have various half-written Christmas food shopping lists all over the house and have to keep starting new ones because I can't find them. The chances of me buying everything we need aren't looking good...

firststar · 19/12/2006 11:53

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Groveregg · 19/12/2006 13:09

Last week someone gave me a joke Christmas present of a pad with a string on it to put round my neck! Might come in handy...

twoplusone · 19/12/2006 13:19

lol groveregg..

Firststar good luck for your scan tommorrow. The pen and paper is a good idea as I always forget what has happened by the time I start posting.

I am not the most organised person I know though..

have just finished buying my pressies this morning... DH will kill me said I wasnt buyoing anything else for the kids but I seen a few bits.... Wasnt until I got to the till when i though s**t I am in trouble when he sees the bank statements... I will just say he is upsetting the baby when he starts to rant...lol worked everytime last time!!

Need to do my food shop will wait till friday/ saturday to do that , I have the turkey in but that is it...

Think will sit to night with a glass of juice... and wrap the pressies uponce dd has gone to bed.

saf1 · 19/12/2006 13:24

Hi all... went for my dating scan last week waited for 2 hours as the usual consultant had sent someone else and she had been in theatre delivering a baby and was running late anyway to cut a long story short went into see her finally and she told me she couldn't do dating scans
then sent me to EPU for the following morning
Went to EPU on Friday got scan picture after a miserable nurse told me that I should have asked when she was in the process of scanning not afterwards and got a lovely picture of a blob.
All's well apart from getting terrible stomach pains which I think is trapped wind but last for hours and sometimes days
10 weeks and counting
Haven't had time to catch up with all the other postings yet so I'll read them now.

saf1 · 19/12/2006 13:31

Cazzybabs- Just read about your little one having eczema, my dd2 has had it since she was 2 weeks old she is now 22mths.
We tried every lotion and potion possible.
I have been taking her to a homeopath for 20 months and the treatment she prescribed has worked wonders.
Eczema is a deep rooted thing so no amount of lotion will get rid of it for ever.

The Aveeno products you can specifically requested on prescription.

One product that I found wonderful was for the bath was Aalgo (www.Aalgo.co.uk i think) it's a seeweed product and it stinks but my goodness it works comes with a money back guarantee.

Good luck

firststar · 19/12/2006 13:51

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JennStarOfWonder · 19/12/2006 14:18

Firststar am a pharmacist.

Cazzybabs, when I said oats in tights I later had visions of you sitting in the bath with porrige in your tights. What I meant was put a couple of tablespoons of oats in the foot of some old tights, tie them up and put them under the running water. It's quite soothing and oats are the main ingredient in the Aveeno everybody has been recommending. Sometimes (some) Drs can be so obtuse about prescribing (sorry if there are any secret doctors on the thread). There are hundreds of emmolient creams ointments and oils they can prescribe to ease the symptoms if they aren't happy about prescribing a tiny little tube of mild steroid.

justbeme · 19/12/2006 14:36

Now you tell us JennStarof Wonder! We've all been sitting in our baths looking right idiots!

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Chooster · 19/12/2006 14:50

Oooh, great to have a pharmacist on our thread! We can ask you for little tips! I'm an IT project manager so my professional contribution to our discussions will be seriously limited

Good luck with your scan in the morning Firststar - it'll be great for you to see Firststar junior! But what a negative experience you had Saf1 - Sometimes the manner of the staff in these places can be a bit gruff can't it!!

Twoplusone - Sounds like you are coping pretty well and are getting pretty organised. At least there's only a couple of days until your family arrive.

Funny a few of you are saying that you are having trouble sleeping. I think I'm the same as Firststar - I wake up in the early hours and then it feels like I'm just dozing / waking up between then and 7am. Having bizarre dreams too.... Just odd.

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twoplusone · 19/12/2006 15:06

Firststar- hopefully by the time he gets home he wikll be so ingrossed in seeing the kids andm aking up dor lost time with me!!!!! that he will have forgoten about the extra pressies.....
Or I will just have to take his mind of it!!

When we were talking last night i told him my boobs have already gone up a size ( to an E cup) his reply "defo cant wait to get home now!!"
he has been doing loads of phys up to two hours in the gym and running everyday!! so he is losing weight and getting nice and toned (told him Iwant a six pack when he gets back!) so whilst I am getting bigger he is getting thinner he already weighs the same as me now, by the time he gets back I will weigh more!!! not funny when your dh is 6ft 2" luckily I carry my weight everywhere so dont look to bad. Everything in proportion..

Chooster I am coping,Thank to having you lot to listen to me whinge.. it makes me feel better when I get it out. Dont like telling friends and family as dont want them worrying I am not coping etc.. just my house looks like a tornado is going through it everyday... ds is intent on wrecking everyroom in the house for the ful;l time he is awake!!..

DD just come in and asked me for money so she can go and buy my xmas card... bless her.. she must have forgot about the 3euros I gsave her for something yesterday that she didnt spend!!

snowytyphoonsmum · 19/12/2006 15:24

Got half a day off - for good behaviour he he

Only had 4patients and three members of staff. Claimed I needed to get to ASDA to get party food for DD (4yr old tomorrow)so I got the afternoon off.

Christmas Lunch was nice. A bit cold but you try cooking for an entire hospital. One of the cons was asking how things were at work when I was sat opposite FF so couldn't say much. She has been scarily nice at the moment. Don't trust her ONE LITTLE BIT!

Sickness has been ok today. At what point does it start to settle. I know it can last up to 14 weeks, when did most peoples stop.

firststar · 19/12/2006 15:47

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twoplusone · 19/12/2006 16:32

sorry whats ff.. or am I being silly!!
snowytyphoonsmum - Happy birthday for your dd tommorrow.

DO you all work am I the only sahm!!..?

justbeme · 19/12/2006 17:44

I only work 15pw - today was the only day I have to set the alarm for (started at 0830 )- Otherwise I work wed at 1800hrs and thur at 1500hrs - I looovvee my bed - guess thats going to change next summer........

AwayInAMeadow · 19/12/2006 18:26

I am a primary teacher, but I only work on Monday, and do the odd day here and there. Also I teach a wee bit of piano at home. The rest of teh time Im a sahm.

Chooster -[[[[HUGS]]]]to you at this time - try to stay positive. Theres no real reason to think you wont have a baby in 7 months.

ANybody else think they have moving sensations (not the wind kind in their tummy. I read that some mummies feel movement really early with 3rd, 4th, etc pregnancies. Or am I just imagining it do you think?

twoplusone · 19/12/2006 19:54

Aqay in ameadow - I am sure I have felt some sort of movement... but as you say not sure if it is in my head!!