April 07 - role call for the hormonally unstable !!

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Thanks Chilli

Thank you CT it's strangly (and probably selfishly) comforting to know that it's not 'just me'.

After reading through a few posts I see that there are a few more of us who have felt low. Now I feel like a fool for avoiding posting for so long .

WO I hope that the AND apt goes well.. {{{{hugs}}}}

HAPPY BDAY SSK - Chocolates/ spa treatment/ cd, wow very .... will have to tell dp so that he can have some ideas for my 25th .

DD's 3rd bday was last week monday.

Bramshott {{{{hugs}}}} to you too.

Emmymummy congrats on your pink bean. And Smole congrats on the all clear scan.

Oh and OPINIONSRUS snap!!! Leona is the only girls name that me and dp can agree on. (DP's dads name is leon) I like Sienna too but dp is unconvinced.

I think this means that I've caught up .

Sorry if I've missed anyone xx

bubblez-Just remeber that your not alone, I know I am constantly having thoughts that I feel I shouldn't be and worrying about relationship's etc.
So don't avoid us come and have a chat and we can all sit here and have a big old blub together.

(((HUG))) and hope you feel a bit happier soon.

Tomorrow will be a better day

I like Sienna - very sweet but very cool when older.

I am having a birthday glass of red wine - have eyed up bottle a few times wondering how many could really have though LOL! I do miss my wine in the evenings - pinot grigio or sauvignon blanc are favourites but none chilled! Have my alcohol free wine in fridge so may have a little bit more then swap over! I am going to get champagne for christmas day - good for pg women - lots of iron!

My friends daughters (age 6 and 8) have decided they are going to be lesbians when they grow up so can marry women rather than men - and are going to live in Lesbania !!!!!

Hoping for cheery worry free day tomorrow

Thanks for all your kind words girls. I'm feeling a bit better now, and have to ring the hospital tomorrow for my blood test results so I may try to talk to my consultant then (can you do that?!?).

Bubblez - sorry to hear you've been feeling down too.
Weeonion - glad you got your appointment, and hope you're getting some help with make decisions about the ADs.

Random question - the friend I saw today said that she thought I shouldn't eat homemade marzipan (i.e. on the Christmas cake). I hadn't even thought of this, but thinking about it, the recipie I have (and was about to make) has raw egg yolk in it. What's anyone else doing? What about shop-bought marzipan?

Happy Birthday SSK!
Hope everyone is feeling OK today. I am feeling a bit brighter and can't believe how many of us are having a bit of a low spot at the moment.

Like BBShot, I find the nights are the worst (once I am back from the inevitable loo trip, just can't seem to get back to sleep) and everything seems so much more worrying about baby/birth stuff etc. My DH will be away from from late April Katy44 for about 2 months - both sets of parents are brilliant but all work and live over 3 hrs away. He will be back at weekends but I worry about a)how I will managed and b) about him bonding with baby with being away so much.

Big festive hugs to everyone else feeling a bit low ... hopefully Christmas will give us all the boost we need to see us into the 3rd trimester. Can't believe how time is flying ... I am 25 wks tomw!

Happy Birthday SSK
Being a first timer I don't think there is anything that prepared me for the highs and lows, the varying extreme emotions, the worries and tensions. But sometimes I come onto MN, and read thru the posts and realise there are others going through this and its totally normal...I'm totally normal!!!! I really do feel blessed to have "cyber met" (is that a term?) you all
Oh BTW I had my scan today - baby is healthy and PINK!!!!

hello there

((((((((((big hugs to all the people feeling worried/low/stressed)))))))) It's good to know we're all in the same boat!

wo - glad app went ok today. Don't know what I'd say about meds. I guess you have to think about what you can cope with/without. Ultimately you need to be well and AND is like any other illness you might get. Whatever you choose, go easy on yourself.

Yvie - congrats on your pink bean! Lovely news and glad all the scan was ok.

I've had a crappy day. Think I've been paying for overdoing it going to London. Was really sick again yesterday and have spent today in bed. Oh well, I guess I know my limits now. Just trying to recoup so I can finish all the xmas stuff I need to do, 12 for xmas dinner! Gulp.

Hi lovelies, and really sorry to hear so many of us are going through a low period. As has been said before, the variety of emotions that we go through is huge and totally normal. I am going through a bit of a resentful stage at the moment - resentful that nothing really changes for dh, and a general feeling of being trapped.
It is great to get on here and know that we are not alone, and long may this support network continue.

Deca, 12 or Christmas dinner - how did you manage to get the short straw!!??

Yvie, congrats on your pink bean.

Nothing much else going on. DH away on business tonight, so I have eaten crap. Mashed potato and baked beans, and now munching some lovely crisps, although beginning to feel a bit sick!

Good luck to everyone with appointments/scans etc. and look after yourselves.

xxxx

Yvie
congratulations on your pink bean
Pleased everything is as it should be.
Dogin... that sounds miserable, although I bet the time will go quickly when actually here. And think how pleased to see him you'll be when he gets back at the weekends.
Can you invite someone up for a few days somewhere in the middle, or would that be worse?
Deca, sorry to hear you've been off colour, hope you're taking it easy and recover fully for Christmas

Hi all,

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SSK - Hope you've had a great day.

Yvie - Congatulations on your pink bean.

CD - Hope the move is going ok.

Sorry to hear so many of us are going through a low period at the moment. Bigs hugs to everyone. It is good to know that others are feeling the same way. I am worrying as others are that I'll lose the bond I have with DS.

Had a tough day today. Had my mum's group round today so spent all morning tidying and cleaning the house, DH took the morning off work to help me bless him. The house really was a mess, I've let it go a bit lately because it makes the SPD worse. I had 6 three yr olds plus siblings and parents here for a little Christmas party! Obviously had to do all the tidying up afterwards as well. It really was a great afternoon but I am really suffering with the SPD this evening, just got out of the bath and am going to try putting an ice pack on in a minute.

Love to everyone. xx

morning all

how are we all doing today?

SOL - we ended up with 12 coz I'm not travelling coz of the sickness and all families live 1-3hrs away. dh usually does xmas dinner and all visitors are under strict instructions to help out!

AngeG - phew!! That sounds busy. Hope you're not paying for it today with the SPD.

Brandy - hope you manage to get some info out of the people at hospital today. Pester, pester, pester I say. I wouldn't have got the top-up anti-d injection I needed if I hadn't called in to the hospital, found the sister and asked about it!! Doesn't fill you with confidence. Oh, and don't know about homemade marzipan, but I've realised I can't have my sis's xmas cake coz she uses raw egg white in the icing. I wonder if shop-bought marzipan would have pasturized egg yolk in (if it has any at all).

SOL now I'm thinking I fancy mash and beans!! How suggestible???? ANd it's only 9.30am!!

hugs to everyone. Hope CD is ok and not dissappeared under a sea of removal boxes!

Good morning fellow bump-mates!

Mash and beans is yum! And as for marzipan - urrgh!! Glad I have an excuse not to go near it - not that I would anyway.

Well I am also feeling as low as you go, no particular reason, "just everything"! So I agree, this is a wonderful thread to offload on and help to show us all that we're not weird/ungrateful/going insane, just pg women with lots of ups and downs!

Morning all! Another one here who thinks the support offered on this thread is great

Smole - excellent news! You must be so relieved.

WeeOnion - a friend of mine was on meds during her pregnancy, and puts her son's temperament (he's now nearly 4) down to everything therefore being correctly balanced: he is sanguine, confident and yet non-aggressive. I say if you need them, use them; depression at any stage is not good for the baby. But I do think meds ALWAYS ought to go alongside therapy, so I hope the session you had wasn't a one-off. Oh, and if it helps: I had some really horrible, dark thoughts when pregnant and in the first couple of weeks with DS1 ( - just realised soon I will have a DS1 and a DS2, all being well), thoughts that I wouldn't dream of writing here as IME such things can be contagious , but they faded clear away and proved totally groundless, thank goodness!

Gosh it's taken me ages to catch up! Had a manic weekend - lots of Xmas shopping, visiting friends and family etc - I don't know where it went and then yesterday at work was just the day from hell - busiest of the year and I was like a zombie last night.

All fine this end - feeling a bit less stressed now the majority of xmas stuff is done and on a wind down now after very busy Monday at work so thats all good. Even better I am getting loads of wiggles and kicks and love lying on the couch at night watching my tummy jump - even DH has managed to see a few good kicks although not been lucky enough to feel any yet. Back and Hip pain is a bit of a killer - especially if I have been trudging round the shops but I have managed not to do anything too embarrassing for a few days now!

Weeonion - big hugs to you - hope that you are able to come to the right decision for you and well done for seeking help, far better than struggling on alone.

Runny - I also gave in my Mat B1 and we are due to both go back to work on the same day - feels like such along time till Jan 08! lol

Nutty - I so sympathise with you over your hair - I was attacked by Edward Scissorhands last week and came home and cried uncontrollably for hours. I keep telling myself it will grow.....DH went out on Fri and treated me to some nice new straightening irons as to add insult to injury my old ones broke - meaning that instead of having apikes it was more like an afro.....it is a bit better now but you just don't feel right if your hair isn't how you want it do you?

SORL - poor you and your housefull of visitors - hope you get a bit of rest this week! and you to Captain Dippy - can't imagine how stressful your move must be!

Doginsantasgrotto - try not to worry re hubby being away after the birth. My DH had to go to his brothers wedding in Cyprus 4 weeks after DS was born by emergency C Section - there was no way I could go and I was really worried about it but remaning family and friends were so supportive and helpful and I got a real kick out of having coped for 10 days on my own - it was far worse for DH who missed us both terribly. I am sure you will be fine but I understand how much of a worry it is [hug]

Smole - really pleased to hear the good news about the scan - such a relief for you and Hurray to Yvies Pink bean.

Sparkly SFK - Happy Belated Birthday Hon - I am sorry I missed it yesterday and hope you had a fab time (bah to cheap nasty bath products.....am waiting for the Lush delivery of bath bombs as we speak which I have bought for the girls who look after DS at nursery...figured they wouldprobably all be sick of boxes of biscuits by now! lol)
Oh and Your MIL sounds like a total cow - don't rise to it and give her the satisfaction of knowing that she is annoying you.

And finally hi to Bubblez and everyone else I've not mentioned - I struggle to keep up with everyone but it's lovely when I manage to!!!

Much love
MIAM 22+4

MIAM - after I posted, I pressed 'reset watch' [NB - anyone else dislike the new look site?], and you know you get part of the first message you haven't read? I read you claiming to have had a man ! Blimey, I thought, that's brave when you're 22 weeks preggers...

Bugmum 22+2

Morning all. Hope everyone is feeling ok.
All well here. Dd looks awful though although there doesn't appear to be anything wrong. She has what almost looks like acne on her face, and under her eyes is pink and sore looking. She has no temperature, is eating for Britain and doesn't seem to be lacking in energy! Bizarre!!
I thought maybe it was measles - I read that even if you have been immunized, you can still get it! What is the point of the MMR then????
At work again today and sooooo bored - got so much to do as well at home which is maddening.
Anyway, better pretend to do some work.
See you later lovely ladies. xx

hello everyone,
no marzipan or icing! i don't think i can manage that, i love Christmas cake just too much. I think I'm going to assume that the drying out that happens with marzipan and icing will kill anything that might be nasty, and keep my fingers crossed. Oh, and use British free-range eggs!

This morning we were lying in bed me spooned into dh's back and talking about how cold it was and how long the baby would be in our bedroom for; I said I thought it might still be with us next winter, and which point baby gave a big kick - strong enough for dh to feel it in his back, pressed up against my tummy! He took this as strong support for his point of view, which is that 'baby needs its own space'! V funny.

Anyone else suffering from heartburn? I wish I knew why it's suddenly erupted, and I know it's only been a couple of days (since i was ill at the weekend) but oh it's horrible... Has made my appetite, usually "healthy", wither on the vine.

Hope those feeling gloomy are feeling less so today. and thanks for all the good wishes and sympathy about Christmas cooking!

Morning all

Just catching up with the gossip in an attempt to cheer myself up...and maybe motivate me to get stuff done.

I have read everyone's messages but my brain is fried and i can't remember anything .

Not having a good morning here...DH didn't do washing up last night and I came downstairs to find most of it is still waiting to be done...nor has he put any of his junk away or done any laundry. I wouldn't mind but it was 9.15 when he left the house (he's meant to start work at 9). He knows I have loads of stuff to sort out cos we're going up to my parents for xmas. I've also got to sort out the entire upstairs of the house cos we're hving my parents to stay in January (dad's hoping to finish the patio) and PIL are thinking of visiting. If I don't get all the baby stuff sorted they'll have nowhere to sleep.

To top it all off I'm a bit...ahem....itchy. so DH called at pharmacy to get some cream and they said "No, you'll have to get a prescription from a doctor". I don't have time to go to the doctor, DH doesn't really have time to take me and everything I can find on MN says CAnesten is ok to use while pregnant. I'm pissed off cos all the pharmacies round here won't give anything to pg women without a prescription and I can't get to doc's without DH...do you think I should just get DH to go to a different pharmacy and not tell them I'm pg??????

Hi Nutty, I would have thought if the Canestan says it's ok to use during pg, then you are ok. Can you ask your midwife, as I am sure you are not alone in your itchiness.
Good luck. x

Morning everyone

I feel sick - have eaten too many chocs at ds2's carol concert - have soup cooking but may have to yak before I can eat it!

I had a full nights sleep last night - have figured out ds2 has been waking because he was cold - now has extra covers on and we have sleep! Felt so much better for it.

My spd has been sore today - so planning to sit down for the afternoon and watch tv!

I have £10 left from this months money - but do have all pressies and petrol etc - just need to go food shopping - but dh can pay! Hopefully get paid on friday - so not too bad!

I can't keep up, I CAN'T KEEP UP!!! Aaaargh.
maveta says while dashing past the door and looking in
Hello hello hello everyone. Sorry to those of you who are feeling low, I definitely think we are all having moments, maybe it's harder at this time of year when it is so obvious how things are changing/ what we can't do etc etc etc? Above all it is totally normal I'm sure.
Have had terrible heartburn for a few weeks now but unfortunately it does not put me off my food as I find I can only forget about it while I keep putting things in my mouth
got to dash but i'll pop in again later x x

SSK, pmsl at your need to yak before eating your soup! I love that word! That and norks are hilarious!
I have overindulged on honey roasted cashew nuts, but cannot stop myself!

JUST FINISHED MY LAST DAY AT WORK - HOORAAAH!!!!!

Sorry for shouting - actually no i'm not - I am over the moon hee hee hee.............

Bubblez- yeah really like the name Leona.
Other variations:

Leonie
Leodie
Leoda

Not to everyones taste I'm sure but I like them. Mr freind has just named her little girl Sienna, like that too, will probably get more and popular ie Sienna Miller.

Has anyone get any concrete names yet, always a bit risky bringing up names threads but I am sure everyone on here would be polite enough.....????

Other girls names..Lauren,Lois,Mia, Charlotte are all favourites....

Hi opinionsrus

Yup, we have our name all picked out, notwithstanding our reserved right to change our minds at the last minute, and our wee one is called Noah.
This is for many reasons, including that both sides of our family (mine - british/ his - spanish) can pronounce it properly with no weird variations and everyone in both countries should be able to spell it without the poor lad spending his whole life spelling his name to everyone, as I have had to do!
But, of course, most importantly, we really really like it. And so far everyone has been lovely enough to agree (especially given that we have not floated it as a 'possible' but as a definite).
Not too common, not too weird..for us it ticked all the right boxes. Surprisingly easily actually.
Now all that's needed is for him to pop out looking like the most un-Noah kid in the world and we'll be in a spin!!!