Thread #8 - TTC#1 Grads - stripy bump photos ahoy!

[PotatosMum]

Welcome to yet another instalment of TTC#1 grads. Warning! This thread moves fast so blink and you may miss a page or three!

All are welcomed with open arms and TMI whether you come from our sister thread TTC#1 or just want a safe and friendly place to share your journey.

we have ladies from all stages of pregnancy from T1ers, trying to go cold turkey on their POAS addiction, to T2ers wondering where the heck their pregnancy glow got to, to T3ers wondering if that funny feeling is the start of labour or just a fart building.

So jump on the boat, join the pink or blue baby battle and enjoy TTC#1 Grads thread #8!

Team P - 8
Team B - 8
Team V - 6

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 (Team Vanilla)
12 Indi (Team Pink)
13 Co5mo (Team Blue)
15 Planet (Team Pink)
23 Lillian (Team Pink)
26 Lara (Team Blue)
30 First

November
19 Canters (Team Blue)
20 Jam
25 Stark!!!!!
29 Elle

December
12 Feef

January 17
4 May
13 Ni (Team Vanilla)

February 17
15 Evergreen

Shelb Glad to hear you enjoyed NCT! My classes aren't until August. Really hoping I make some good friends doing it. Maternity leave is going to be pretty lonely otherwise - although I'm planning to go to as many local playgroups and classes as I can.

Bought my changing bag today! I wasn't planning to, and it's not the one I thought I'd buy, but it was a decent price in John Lewis and seemed practical with lots of pockets. I've bought this one - www.amazon.co.uk/Skip-Hop-Signature-Multi-Changing/dp/B00NFJM3MG - and it was just over £40 in the John Lewis clearance event. Feeling pretty happy with it! My list of things to buy is getting smaller and smaller - which is good as I'm six months pregnant in a few days!

I've also got some more bibs so I think I'm pretty much set on that front!

Some big stuff remains (a crib and nursery furniture...) but otherwise it's mostly just breastfeeding crap, nappies and wipes, a few more muslin squares, and a baby monitor.

Evening all,
Had a day at my parents seeing my Nana and aunt and wandering round a music festival. Spent hours on my feet and they didn't swell, got in the car, drove for two hours.... Balloons! Where's the logic?

Potato i'm feeling you, Pip likes to hoof me HARD in the left side. I don't know what he is kicking but it HURTS. I've actually yelped twice from it now.

Nev didn't you have your first NCT class recently? How did you find it? Glad you liked it Shelb.

I'm 33 weeks today, and harbouring a very lively Savoy cabbage .

Hi to everyone else.

Has anyone seen a Halo Bassinest in the shops anywhere? They are all out of stock online and I'd like to see one in person before I think about maybe pre-ordering one from Kiddicare.

Yes bunch we have had 5 of the 7! I am really enjoying it not sure I am learning anything the internet couldn't tell me but I feel much calmer and more ready for little one now especially the birth. Nhs hypnobirthing in a couple of weeks looking forward to that. Best thing about nct is all the couples get on we have a whatsapp boys/girls groups set up to keep in touch already and chat on there a bit between sessions.

Ah nev are you doing them too? Yeah I'm in it for support too really.

In bed. Tragic.

X

Yeah we are shelb.

I have eaten a tragic amount of food tonight. I shouldnt be left unattended for a weekend!!

I have just eaten a pie...followed by gaviscon and I've not got crippling indigestion! I am genuinely amazed! Pastry, I haven't been able to eat pastry without thinking I was going to die for about 3 months! It's like a fog has been lifted! 🍞🍔🍩🍰🍪

Thats great stark I can't find a pattern to my heartburn things like a plain cracker can set it off and a curry be no issue at all!

For dinner I have had: singapore noodles, 2 spring rolls, 2 prawn toast and 2 prawn parcel things. Followed by two toasted waffles and 5 scoops of mint choc chip ice cream on top. Oh and two alcohol free koppaberg.

I'm in bed too. Where have my Saturday nights gone?!

Feeling a bit deflated and generally crappy. My insides feel stretched and heavy and crampy. DH and I hadn't seen eachother for 2 weeks, was really looking forward to DTD and he did everything I usually love but I just felt so self conscious and couldn't relax. I'm consious of my body, feeling Beanie wriggle around and this horrible heavy/stretched womb feeling. Uuurgh think I need an early night.

I'm sick of waking up at 5 am everyday!

Indi - tomorrow is a new day n all that.

Good effort nev!

Mmmm, pastry stark.

X

Morning ladies, how are you all today?

Indi sorry you were feeling a bit crappy last night, are you feeling better now?

I was feeling a bit rubbish last night too. With all the pregnancy hormones going mental in my body I do find the children challenging. The teen is getting very cheeky to me which I would normally take in my stride but I'm finding it hard at the moment because I'm so over sensitive and the youngest is very me, me, me which is just the way she is but again, I'm feeling very over sensitive and things that wouldn't usually phase me are upsetting me.
The teen was talking to his dad and I yesterday and was saying "I would have thought you were bored of having kids now" and "I think you should have stopped at two" stuff like that, normally I would laugh it off but yesterday it just made me feel rubbish, as if I'm the only one who actually wants Potato and I know that isn't really true.
I really need to get over it because it's making me snappy and I don't want to be to be like that with the DSC.

I also had a tummy ache last night. At one point I have to admit I started to wonder whether it was a tummy ache or contractions

Potato! I cant imagine how hard it is with teens
Maybe OH can have a quiet word? I remember my dad once told me "you dont treat your mum very well" just that. OMG the disappointment in his voice and all if a sudden I realised it was true

I guess I was just mad at the world

On the other hand once potato is here is going to win everyone's heart

Morning all

Glad to hear you're with a nice bunch of people Nev. I hope you enjoy hypno as much as I have been.

Sorry you were feeling so rubbish Indi.
I hope you're feeling better today.

Aww Potato that sounds tough, the way my hormones are I would have cried so you're handling it very well. Have a word with OH, a teen can definitely be more tactile.

Aww potato. Agree with bunch - teens can be told to be more sensitive.

X

Thanks ladies. I don't think I'm at the getting OH to have a word stage yet. As I said, normally I would either brush it off or do the telling myself.
I think he's just having a bit of a rebel at the moment which is understandable considering he's just been forced to move to a temporary home with people he doesn't got on with well and is going to have move again in a month or so and get used to living in a new environment without his mum to look after him, which I think he will find harder than he and his dad realises. I think he's just trying to cozy up to his only constant (his dad) and reassure himself that he's still has the same position in his dad's affections despite the ever present girlfriend and the new baby on the way.

I understand him, it's just my hormones are so out of whack that I want to kill him sometimes

Morning ladies,
Feel better today, think hormones and tiredness took over last night.

Oh potato that must be hard. I was the same the other week when BIL said the idiotic comment to DH about 'shit sperm' because we are having a girl. Usually I would've ignored it and just thought what a d*ckhead but it really hurt me. I'm sure DSC will adore potato when she arrives, kids are just insensitive and pretty selfish that's all. They don't realise what affect they can have when they say stupid things. Hope you're ok

Morning everyone,

I'm in a foul mood this morning and would appreciate your views. So yesterday we were both invited to DH's friend 30th party. I was on a hen do so couldn't go but DH went. All fine. I was home by about 10pm and on the sofa and DH rolled in at 4.30am! I was furious! I don't sleep very well when I know he's out and I woke up at 3 and panicked because he wasn't home, phoned him (I hate acting like a clingy wife) and then didn't sleep again til he got home. Now I'm up and he's still snoring in bed and I'm raging but I don't really know why exactly! I just don't really think he should be going out that late and acting like a teenager with a pregnant wife stuck at home! Maybe he's just getting it out of his system and I should just chill. Maybe I'm being irrational and it's just hormones, it's really not like he does this regularly. Or maybe I'm just jealous as I can't do that any more??! What do you lot think?

Glad people are enjoying NCT. My classes start in August and we're doing it just to hopefully make some friends!

potato once the baby is here hopefully your SC will be totally besotted! But understand it's hard.

Hope everyone is ok and has something nice planned today.

Potato I didn't know that about the measuring. I guess their legs are folded and quite short to begin with! Hope you are feeling ok. It is understandable that he feels unsettled but not ok for him to make comments like that. Hopefully your OH will have a quiet word.

Indi I can't believe your BIL said that! What an awful thing to say.

Love the sound of your dinner Nev!

Has anyone found a cheaper alternative to the dreamgeni pillow? I went to our local mothercare event this week (unfortunately a bit rubbish) and was all set to buy one but nearly £50 !! Are they worth it? I stayed in a hotel recently which had a kind of special long pillow (like two normal pillows joined end to end) and that was good, but haven't seen anything like it in the shops.

Aw soda. Hmm tricky - I had similar with mine a while back. Yeah he acted like a dick no doubt about it when he got SO smashed, but, I let him off as I'm seeing these times as last blasts before the baby arrives?

X

www.johnlewis.com/dreamgenii-maternity-and-nursing-pillow/p230519017?sku=230519017&kpid=230519017&s_kenid=82a970a9-2ae6-4c54-98f1-c3ce2da4d37f&s_kwcid=403x456263&tmad=c&tmcampid=73

Don't know if that's the he right one elle but John lewis appear to have some for £34.99.

soda that's really annoying for you, and not sleeping well last night is probably doing the worst for your mood, I'm evil after a bad night sleep. Because of Dh's work this scenario is normal for us (I'm in bed by 11, he's doesn't finish till 4:30+) but I'd imagine for your Dh it's just a one off, it's a party, he got a but carried away. As long as he's home safe and alls well, make him take you out for lunch to make it up to you!

potato teenage boy? It probably won't be anything real for him until potato actually arrives. Dh told dss (13) and he went "oh ok, cool" and started talking about minecraft.

Yeah Elle my BIL is an idiot. He's older than DH but acts like a lazy teenager with no ambition whatsoever and has never really done anything with his life. He said it in a 'banter' way but it was really NOT funny.

Soda it is a tricky one. I completely understand why you're so angry, especially with no sleep. If it was me I would be waking DH up and giving him no sympathy all day and then probably ask him to take me for a nice lunch/dinner slightly petty I know. I don't think it helps that you can't go out and party and could possibly be making you feel a bit left out? I think that would be my biggest problem

I have the Mamas and Papas maternity pillow - I recommend it!

My dm is half decided on the silver cross wayfarer, she isn't sure about the cosatto, my dad likes the chameleon 3 or uppa baby vista. I'm under no illusions that this is my choice, it's my Mams anyone with any experience of these?

starky I love my chameleon 3 and am not ashamed to admit I often tour the nursery with it! my cousin has the lime green wayfarer and it looks unbelievably cool.

soda get DH one of those occasions where D doesn't stand for dear, it stands for dickhead out of bed and make him spoil you. You should definitely get something nice today after being up all night! Make the most of his guilt I get pissy when OH goes out for a few pints but that's because I'm so used to either going with him or having a prosecution lunch with my friends and I really miss it!

I'm off for bridesmaid hair trials and then to pick my mum up from the airport.

OH decided yesterday that he'd rather not stress me out and cancelled the dubai idea. I felt so bloody guilty about it though so am going to tell him to go! It's only 3 nights and I want him to enjoy himself because he won't be going for at least a year to see his mate. It's all because last year I had a horrible few months with anxiety and started to suffer depression just as he was sent away for work for 2 weeks and I really struggled with it. I'm past all that now!

Prosecco not prosecution 😂