April 2007 - approaching 3rd trimester, the one where we start to get ready.........

[EllieK]

new thread as other one getting very long, again!

so, anyone else got photos to share? i'm trying to find a way of getting them from my mobile to the computer as i don't have a digi camera.

hey katy44 - our local taxi firm used to deliver achohol carryouts for folks - maybe yrs does the same for chocolate and pg ladies? where is yr dp/dh??

ta for askign about the beans movements - still not a great deal but i have been told by the hospital to keep a chart. i have been moved to 2weekly antenatal appts and have to call in to go over it with my MW on friday after A.N.D. clinic. maybe she is just a quiet one..

Homework for pregnancy
Hope you get a gold star - I'm sure you will - just lots of movements you can't feel.

DH is off playing football, on his way back, think I've missed my chance there. Oh well, if I can cut right down on alcohol then surely I can go one night without chocolate. Surely...

I am dreadful. Becky gets lots of chocolate, esp at Xmas, and we hide it away and eat it ourselves! Obviously thinking of dd's teeth!

Hope you get something sorted.

ROFL cadbury drip

Have just had curry and off to bed soon.

WCL - sorry you won't be able to make weds - must go check the thread to see who is going

Dh looked at wall and thinks have done a good job - horrah - wouldn't hear end of it if he didn't!

Good night

OMG - SOl - That is exactly the same as me - in fact I have just polished off part of a Thorntons selection box that I had hidden from James (sorry Katy44!!!)

• I have been so good recently but today I have been possessed by the chocolate monester and polished off god knows how many quality street at work and then the selection box stuff earlier and I am now craving caramel snack a jacks and chocolate spread.....

Eugh poor you and the cat sick...fingers crossed Jasper has never been sick inthe house but I have had several dead and decapitated frogs and mice on my kitchen floor recently....
Sorry to hear your DH is being naughty...I am in the huff with mine as he is going away with work - I know he can't help it but the thought of being onmy own to do everything and look after James is exhausting me never mind actually doing it! I don't know how I'm going to keep us occupied as I am also skint

WCL - hope you and yours are soon better - bugs bugs blinking bugs eh!

re clothes - I think we are quite lucky you know as I don't remember being abe to find as nice stuff in my last pregnancy as I have this time round...I think we are lucky that tunics are "in" but agree about the smock tops. On Boxing Day one family member came in a smock top and my cousin cornered me to tell me that I looked fab and that the said family member looked even more pregnant than me!! yikes!

hi all
those of you going to the meet up, don't forget to take photos so we can see you all together!
on the smart wedding clothes issue, try ebay, i saw some lovely dresses in the maternity listings when i was looking at clothes last week, and best bit is, they don't cost as much so you can get a few and have a choice
having a bad day, things not great with my man. i can be a bit of a nightmare a times and he can't always cope with it

MIAM, Becky had a Thorntons xmas selection box, and I ate all the fudge from it! It was delicious!

Bloody dh's - I don't mind him going away (well not too much) but it is the fact he never spoke to me about it. Had he spoken to me, I could of suggested dates when my parents are around. They only live half an hour away and I am more than happy to camp out there for the weekend with Becky. But the weekends he came up with they are away in Singapore (which he knows about!)

I just couldn't cope for a long weekend without him, also on limited funds, and particularly when the weather isn't grand.

Grrrrrr!!

Bristol meet up - is it just me, runny and birdie? Any more??? Three of us is good - maybe we should swap mobile numbers just in case the others (i.e. one of us 3) can't make it!

If anyone is interested I have a size 14 bias cut dress from coast with a wrap and shoes in a plum/raspberry colour I bought for my sisters wedding when was 32 weeks pg with my last - never worn since! I am normally a size 12 - the bias cut meant it just hung nicely over bump - anyone welcome to borrow or even have! I did shorten the straps slightly as my Jordan lceavage was too much to bare! The shoes are from Next, Size 6 closed toe heels with strap across in same colour - worn once! If interested - will take a photo so you can see - happy to post them to you.

another grrr about a dp. he has just forked out 350 each on tickets to a gig for our fav band. normally i would be over the moon but it on the 10th april - i am due on the 18th. not a seated venue - and i can just see me moshing it down the front.

he then announces that he has invited 5 people to stay overnight on st paddy's night after another gig. we do have 2 spare rooms - one to be a nursery so now he wants to delay the nursery redecoration so they have a room to stay in. put foot down on that one and said no. have i been unfair?

FFS, why do men just not think! They just carry on regardless. Either they have short term memories, or are just bloody stupid. I don't think you are being unreasonable. It is time to start thinking about the baby.
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr for you WO.

I would be hopping mad! Tell them they need to bring blow up beds, sleeping bags and a present for you - preferably chocs - you could be more specific and give them a list of 5 favourites e.g. Green & Black Milk Choc Bar, any Booja Booja box, large tin of Roses, After Eight mints - white and dark and a box of Bendicks Bittermints - Yes that would do the job for me - and breakfast in bed.

Did dh ask you about the gig on the 10th before he booked it? I assume not! You could have a baby by then - what was going through his head???

sorry forgot ggggggrrrrrrr!

Elliek - sorry bout troubles with your man, is it something you want to talk about or not really? We're here if you want to

Cant remember who's said what now as i read it all earlier but only just come back to post (not been taking notes today!) but have looked at coats in primark but they were all in size 10 or 12! Think i could just about squeeze into a 16 at the mo but not for long. The top and bottom buttons on my coat do up is just in the middle i poke out but will have to put up with it i think!

Meant to say this before when someone mentioned something about us having our babies at start of summer, is anyone else concerned that that gives us no time to lose our post bump tummys before its hot and we cant cover ourselves up with big jumpers and coats or is that just me being incredibly vain?! Ds was born in august and when i went to register his birth when he was about a week old someone asked me when my baby was due But it was only couple months before i could start wearing coats and its ok when you have a very dinky new born. We will have all of summer!!
Sorry have just distracted myself with lovely thoughts of 'very dinky new born'!! Cant wait now, stuff big wobbly tummys, who cares?!

Ok so me a little bit but ill manage!
And can i just say now if anyone is back to their pre pg weight within weeks of the birth I DON'T WANT TO KNOW!! Tell me all you want about leaking boobs, baby vomit in the mouth, incontinence, episiotimies, diarhoea in labour that's fine but 'Im back in my size 10 jeans and babies only 2 weeks old' really is TMI ok, keep it to yourselves!!!

Oh yeah someone said something about sex life not being so good after having a baby. Dont know about anyone else but mine has been soo much better since having dd! Mostly to do with splitting up with xp when she was 9 months old and having a year of enjoying being single and then meeting dp. But not in any way negatively affected by having babies

And having gone off completely on my own little tangents i cant remember anything else i wanted to say. Oh except BBCFK was pmsl laughing at your plastering exploits, well done on completing it so quickly and getting man approval!

weeonion - NO! - is he mental? lol
Oh dear...they just don't think do they!
What band is it? I am v nosey sorry!
My friend has just mailed me a nice pic of me and Phil from the wedding reception we went to on Saturday
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Shame you can't see the rest of the dress as it was a bargain from Tesco - £15! AND V flattering for us preggie bods.

SOL - I ate the fudge on Friday it was gorgeous...have just eaten half a fresh pineapple to try and make up for the chocolate and now feel v sick!

Off to bed with hot milk and new book "Getting Rid OF Matthew" about some woman who has affair with married man and he actually leaves his wife for her and she then decides she doesn't like him after all....only 3 pages in but good so far!
Please god let me get some kip tonight!!!!
x

EllieK - don't you have a new man or is that someone else?

Must go to bed now!

You can't see any of the bloody dress....sigh
pandphil Jan07

Sorry!

(((((good sleep vibes to all))))))

Grrrrr- I am just sooo rubbsh and shattered all the time, just fell asleep on my bed for 45 mins and now feel like trash, but know it'll mean I'll wake up at 12am and won't be able to get back to sleep again and then Bean will starting kicking .....

Argh!

Going back to P&T Q (AGAIN!!) - Mudguards are smaller than I thought they would be and my DD's push their fingers under them anyway - They do stop them pulling off big bits of mud and eating them though and it does stop most splash-back, so worth investing in, IMHO.

muminabigtumi - Thanks you for your sympathy about the sleeping! I am also a big scaredy cat when DH is away (sleeping with the light on etc) so it is not just you honey!! Hope the time goes super quickly ......

[[hugs]] to you 1B3 - hoping you get over this yukky cold soon, poor thing. xxxx

LOL @ all this choc talk Katy - What a nightmare for you. My every sympathy. Can't believe Emergency Services were so bloody rude -Low Priority, my arse!!

SOSPL - DH and I also steal all the DD's Christmas choc and eat it ourselves - Much better for them in the long run, imho.

Well I am feeling all wobbly so think I should go and try to get some sleep, after doing about ten trillion jobs that need doing while DH sits on the floor of our messy (his) study and looks at an old Magic Eye book. Grrrrrr!

Pesha - second that - I also will not want to hear of any skinny minnies in May!!! lol
You have been warned! x

MIAM, I am so glad it isn't just me! I feel sick now too. I had a large hot chocolate and a bowl of Jordans Country crisp having eaten a yummy stir fry. Feel yuk! Want to go to bed but the thought of lying down whilst so full is not good. I hope you get a good nights sleep. xx

Meant to press preview not post so apologies for the last post being abit all over the place and not very clear.

And agree GGGRRRRRRRR at WOs man, men are so rubbish, nice thought, completely inappropriately timed! (Who are your fave band btw?)

Oh yeah - bristol meet up - been meaning to say for ages that i would love to come but would be difficult with playgroup and school and dont think i can afford a day out at the mo, all my spare money is having to go on clothes (me and baby!) and furniture and paint and everything really!

I had chicken korma and rice for tea followed by lovely yoghurt (which i thought was healthy till read the side and it also contains whipped cream and is nearly 8% fat) followed by banana toast sandwich and then 4 miniature dairy milk bars and now I also feel sick!

have to share this with you all, made me laugh at just how useless it is to try to be tactful, always comes back to bite you on the bum!

i have always been (and probably always will be) a very different figure shape to my sister. She is a size 6-8, no hips, no bust, and at least 5'10" tall! I have curves. when relatives visited as we grew up, she would get the usual, 'oh my, aren't you getting taller' while i'd get, 'ooh, your hips are widening aren't they'. I'm a 10-12 (i know, hardly huge but try telling that to my family!), only 5'4", with hips and a bust.
At 23 she has already had 2 children, the first in August 2005, then another in September 2006, and yes, i do believe she is certifyibly (sp?) crazy, only 54 weeks between them! She very kindly sent me some maternity clothes, and as i lost weight in early pregnancy and requre size 8 maternity clothes, and as size 6 is impossible to get so she wore size 8 too, and altho i'm short i require a 33" leg at least in trousers, they were perfect fit and much appreciated. She also sent some 'going out' tops and they fit my bump, but barely cover my tts, squashing them down and out the sides!
anyway, decided that as she's always been a little senstive about her lack of bust (my mum makes it worse, she always took the pss when we were teenagers at how flat-chested we were, i grew, sis didn't) i'd keep quiet and just send the tops back when i sent everything else back after baby is here. was pleased at how tactful i was being, but then my mum rang on sunday. they were about to list my sister's maternity/nursing bras on ebay but thought they should check whether i wanted them first, they're 34b! i burst out laughing before i realised what i'd done! told mum that it was a lovely offer but as i was bigger than that before pg and i'm up to an e already, they wouldn't really be much use to me! so much for sparing her feelings, mum immediately came out with 'at least one of you takes after your mother', which i'm sure made my sister feel worse than if i'd qietly told her the tops wouldn't go round my ever expanding chest weeks ago!

oh well, at least i tried, even if it was in vain

bloody hell, in the time it took me to write that there are loads more posts!
i do have a new man, but unsurprisingly, as i am pg and have raging hormones, things are great for weeks, then shitty for a few days! we'll sort it i'm sure