Thread #6 - TTC#1 Grads - Sun roasted pregnant ladies

[PotatosMum]

Summers here and bumps are busy growing. Scans photos are coming thick and fast and team pink and blue are rampining up their numbers.

We have new grads furiously POAS, second trimesters eager for their bumps and veterans about to embark on trimester 3 and contemplating baby size with mild terror apprehension.

The weathers to hot for comfort and our pregnancy aches, pains and symptoms are getting on our tits literally in some cases !!

All are welcome to TTC#1 grads thread #6

I'm feeling a little off today. Really sluggish, and even managed a good hour nap this afternoon. Poor OH is getting an earful, as everything he does is winding me up No more spotting at least!

Lisa I envy your decision to stay Vanilla. I think I may ask for the sex to be written down and sealed in an envelope. We'd probably open it before leaving the hospital... I hope you get a good profile shot tomorrow!

Potato glad you're still liking the house! The first one OH and I picked out was horrible on the second viewing. We're on to the third one now I think!

Lara that's fantastic! It feels like I'll be at the is-she-pregnant-or-just-fat stage forever. One of my close friends was giving my belly some strange looks today!

Lauren you're definitely not being silly. Currently my OH is more baby-excited than I am, but I'm fully expecting that to pass soon..

Bunch yay for T3!! And Miley congrats on the half way point!

Glad you're feeling more like yourself now Stark. I'm so happy you've had such a positive experience with your scan

Indi that sounds like an amazing experience! Hopefully the start of many

shelb I had an Indians. Followed by a double choc cookie and banana milkshake and now I'm so full and bloated I can't get off the sofa

maya I worried incase I'd crumble and ask to know but baby helped our decision to stay firmly vanilla by refusing to uncross it's legs

Shelb I ate my body weight in Chinese food at a buffet. Amazeballs!!

Bunch You're killing me, I've been craving Chinese all pregnancy but OH doesn't like it!

Yum miley, that sounds immense.

I've gone with pizza, with jalapeños on.

X

Shelb was fish and chips tonight followed by eaten mess ice cream and a bag of haribo

August
11 Mor (Team Vanilla)
13 Bunch (Team Blue)
16 New (Team Vanilla)
27 Potato (Team Pink)
30 Pink (Team Pink)

September
1 Shelb (Team Pink)
2 Taz (Team Blue)
4 Nev (Team Blue)
8 DrWhy
12 Danni (Team Blue)
14 Soda (Team Vanilla)
28 Leonie (Team Blue)
29 Laurenrl (Team Pink)

October
3 Lisa (Team Vanilla)
6 Irregular (Team Pink)
8 Miley
12 Indi (Team Pink)
13 Co5mo
15 Planet
23 Lillian (Team Pink)
26 Lara
30 First

November
19 Canters
25 Stark!!!!!
29 Elle

December
9 Feef

January 17
4 May
13 Ni (Team Vanilla)

Thanks Potato!

May - I also got a bit curious and tempted and it crossed my mind if I did want to know or not. Glad I managed to stop myself from asking though.

Well it's only taken 2 weeks. I've got fed up of keeping the count the kicks app up to date. Seriously every period of movement and I'm panicking looking for my phone to log it rather than enjoying the moment.

Preg rage - told asked OH to get me a jalepeno pizza, and whatever he wanted. He returns, with a tiny margarita pizza - TO SHARE, and NOTHING ELSE!!!! No food in house. Starving.

X

Ah yeah - just enjoy them bunch x

Shelb, that does not sound good! I hope you ate the entire pizza and sent your OH back out for more

How is everyone this morning?

Morning everyone! Some lovely sunshine over here in the South-East/London. Hope it lasts.

Shelb - my DH is loving the food situation right now. I'm eating loads but I have to only have small bits at a time and spread it out throughout the day (i.e. I can't do big meals anymore, as I get full so easily), so he often gets to finish mine off if we go out for dinner, or if we cook too much. He's quite chuffed about this new side effect of pregnancy!

Hope you managed to wrangle more food last night!

Off to the hospital soon to give the sonographer another go at seeing a Wiggles in profile. Essentially the fourth attempt, so I'm hoping the little trouble-maker behaves.

My DH is the same Lisa he's quite tall and slim but so far has put on as much weight as me! (3kg) and is loving it! I can't wait to hopefully feel a bit more normal towards food! No cravings yet but aversions to almost anything at any time.

Hi all 18w today time seems like it's flying now and I'm getting rounder by the day. Every article and app is telling me I'm meant to be gaining weight so I'm not holding back on the eating now! My manager commented a work event this week 'you look beautiful but you a bursting out of that dress!' lol she's Italian and says exactly what she thinks. I haven't had strangers comment yet though Lara but I'm sure soon!

potato congrats on the 26 weeks! Hope you enjoy seeing the potential new home. It will be sad to leave the old flat but new house new baby will be very exciting!!! I sadly said bye to every room in our old flat when we moved out... "bye room, bye kitchen, bye bathroom... we had good times." It was very sad!!!

shelb that would have been grounds for dismissal! Sharing a small pizza!! Have the whole thing and make him have cereal lol

Glad to hear no more spotting maya

My eating had stayed the same so far, apart from ice lollys! I'm obsessed with ice lollys!

Good luck at second scan Lisa!

Cat has suddenly decided he is very interested in my bump/his baby sister ;)

My Dh has lost weight! He looks like a bloody bronze adonis! I've lost a lot of the initial bloat/water weight but Im convinced that's just because I've cut out salt and am drinking gallons of water for fear of headaches.

I'm just obsessed with salad at the minute long may it continue i had ham and cheese salad with ceasar dressing. Tonight is Dad's Sunday roast, tomorrow I'm going to have chicken salad. But I woke up at 5 am and was absolutely determined that before the end of today, I would have a can of Dr. Pepper. I told Dh and he laughed!

God it feels so nice to have my sense of humour back! I didn't realise just how tightly wound I'd been!

Awww lauren that's so cute!
potato I always want to call you Spud. Eton mess ice cream sounds delis!
shelb definetly not unreasonable to murder him, with a jalapeño signature up the bum hole.
may dh is already convinced he knows, so I'm saying the opposite just to even it out. But we won't find out. We were wondering about waiting to do a baby's room till after its been born.

Lauren my cat of 3/4 years has sat on my lap for two days in a row...for the first time ever!!! She is not a lap cat! She must know something!!!

ni I don't have cats but my best friends cat was the same! Lay on her tummy the whole way through pregnancy and she isn't a cuddly cat either

Just spent the morning at the beach with my friend, godson and the dogs. Now we're about to go gruffalo hunting in the woods bbq this afternoon to make the most of this weather. Hope everyone else is having a good day!

Just to let you ladies know, I bought a pair of (ex newlook) maternity jeans off eBay for £12.99 + £3.50 postage. Thy arrived yesterday and are a brilliant fit if anyone is looking for some decent cheap ones

Just checking in, had my best friends from home staying all weekend which has done wonders to lift my mood! Also ate a full meal today for the first time since getting pregnant so think finally I'm on the up!

Starky im so pleased all is OK with your scan. Congrats! It was obvious you weren't feeling great as all the spark went out of your posts, glad to have you back!

Has everyone had a good weekend?

Bunch I'd just enjoy the experience. You know roughly how active your baby usually is and you can always use the kick counter if you're worried.

Shelb I hope you thanked your OH for your dinner and asked him what he was having?

Lisa how did the repeat scan go?

Stark enjoy the salad cravings. For a little while all I wanted to eat was salad and fruit... But then that went away and all I wanted was crisps and sweets

My OH has just fed me into a coma. He cooked a roast with all the trimmings and it was lurvly now just want to sleep though zzz

Oh Lauren that cat picture is adorable.
My DH was putting the weight on with me but the 11 days I've been away he's lost 3kg (6punds). I'm clearly a terrible influence on him. I'm back home now with my boys and home comforts. It's lovely. Midwife appointment tomorrow, looking forward to seeing how I'm measuring.

I've had two days now not using the kick counter and feel much better for it.

If anyone is wanting to know the tips I've picked up spending the past 9 days with a 7 month old here they are:

Babies need ALOT of bibs and Muslins. Like 10 a day
Babies cry, a lot, most of the time for no reason at all. It's no where near as scary or awful as I thought it would be. In fact I found myself laughing at him a lot of the time.
Bouncing chairs are life savers.

I've put in another order for bibs so I'll now have 30 and I've already got the worlds hugest supply of Muslins. I'm currently researching bouncing chairs.

Bunch i need your advice on the old pelvic/hip pain. Since about ten weeks have struggled with burning pain in bed at night but its been manageable with my dream genii/changing positions etc. Last week or so I physically can't get in a pain free position laying/sitting/standing. The pain is so bad i struggle to turn over in bed and walking has been difficult this morning. Do you think its time to ask for a physio referral? Feeling fed up of this pain

Thanks for the advice bunch. I need more bibs and muslin squares in that case...

We have a swing/bouncer already as have been told several times they're life savers!

My friends husbands friends partner (keeping up?) was at the same bbq today and is a few weeks ahead of me in her pregnancy. I'm not one for being a judgemental arsehole but she had a few more glasses of wine than I think she ought to. I know some people have a glass here and there every now and then, but I'm talking half a bottle or more I did my best scowly disapproving look I could whilst drinking my cloudy lemonade