Due in Sept '07 - part 3 - The Blooming Stage !?!

[canadianmum]

Due to recent sad news and at the suggestion of others, I have started this new thread. Let's hear everyone's news.......

Thanks Lisa. Kind of easier to talk on here than real life

ccpink,sorry to hear about your mum,know what you mean about it being easier to talk on here.My brother had cancer and I found it very hard to speak to people face to face.Sending postive vibes your way xxxxx.

MrsMar I never had the nuchal but wish now that I had.I have to phone for the results on friday and speak to that sonographer that I saw last week and she will see if they are back from the lab.

Hopeitwontbebig,its not a wisdom tooth but one of the large molars on the bottom.It had been filled years ago but finally decided it had had enough and it cracked off below the gum...nice!

Had a bottom wisdom taken out when I was about 16 with a local,took them 2 hours to get it out cos it wouldnt freeze,aint going through that again.

ccpink, SO sorry to hear about your Mum's cancer diagnosis, how awful for her, you and your family. My Mum had breast cancer, but she's totally free of it now, she was only 34 at the time. It's amazing the treatments they have now, I do hope her outlook is positive. Poor you I second what Lisa says, stay positive. You'll get lots of support here... hugs.

Mmoomar - oops, confusion over tooth thing. Ouch sounds v painful.

Good luck sparks and lou for your scans tomorrow

Poppy34 this is absolutely disgraceful and I am so sorry for you. I absolutely agree with TeeCee and think that you should right to every MP and minister that you can especially as the government have just announced there new guide for every woman to be able to choose where they give birth by 2009. I know it's not yet but as it's such a current subject then I'm sure it could embarrass them for you to show just how bad the NHS is.

On the worst case scenario I was meant to be working in Edinburgh a few weeks before my due date and I was worried as to what would happen if I went into early labour. My GP told me that once a woman was admitted into any hospital when she was 5cm dilated then they had to admit her. This would obviously be a worst case scenario but there is always this to fall back on.

I really feel for you as I am so emotional today for no reason and I don't know what I'd be like with this situation. I'm glad you gave the horrible practice manager what's for. Make sure you relax tonight and eat lots of chocolate!. xxx

ccpink -that is horrid news for you and your family. Really feel for you.

Nicki -thanks for that (has crossed my mind to do nothing and just pitch up!) -feeling a lot better than I did and do appreciate the help/support.

ccpink, your message brought tears to my eyes. sending lots of love your way.

Morning all,

can I have a moan??? Anyone else here have IBS? I've had it for nearly 13 years. It does normally get a bit worse for me during pregnancy, but last night I went to bed with the worst chronic pain I have EVER HAD. I was lying there until the small hours in agony, I couldn't even roll over in bed [bottom lip coming out emoticon]. It seems to have eased loads this morning thank goodness. I'm praying this isn't a sign of things to come. There moan over. Think I need to look closely at my diet, and try to avoid stressful situations.

Baby was kicking away inside this morning.. lovely.

Morning - Two more scans today [scan] good Sparks & lou031205. Good luck

I have just been hit in the face by a flying water bottle - nose has stopped bleeding thankfully. That's what you get when you work opposite a school, I suppose! Got all hormonal and scary and rang school to complain.

ccpink - sorry to hear your news. My thoughts are with you and your family.

Hopeitwont - Sorry to hear about IBS. Thankfully never have it but sounds nasty - poor thing. Anything that stops sleep is bad (except our lovely babies to be, of course). Haven't forgotten to write on other thread, btw. Trying to lower my angry levels before writing about DH's new bike - no change from £2500!!!! enough said at this point.......

Aw, sprakly, bleeding nose, you poor thing. I'd have flipped my lid tooooooo! What did school say when you told them?

sorry but OOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMGGGGGGGGGGGG £2500!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! [gulp] Does the bike make you breakfast in the morning too?

Hello everyone, like J20 I am crashing from the October thread... My due date is 1st Oct, but it could come early so I thought I would say hi here too.

My 20 wk scan is on the 15th May - can't wait.

I can empathise on the boob growing front, I've gone from a B cup to a D cup , when I had my first ds I went up to a DD, so I am expecting more, DH thinks its great

tried reading the thread but like the Oct one there is just too much to read, especially with a toddler wanting my attention

Thanks Hopeitwont

School were very prompt in calling back and apologetic. I'm actually seeing the funny side now

a group of 13 year old school lads on the receiving end of my almighty hormonal wrath! A picture to behold.

They play football with a water bottle on the roundabout outside my work and this morning they hit me bang in the face with it. I totally lost it (without swearing, which I'm impressed with!)

Mind you if it was hard enough to give me a nose bleed, I think that is fair to shout a bit. They play right by the road and the bottle often hits cars or goes in the road. Can they not play in the playground? Is this not the purpose of a playground?

Anyway - think I have scared them half to death.....They were REALLY apologetic due to the vision of a scary crying, shouty fat lady! I was like the incredible hunk but less green!

I'm now getting flashbacks to their faces whilst I was ranting and trying to staunch the blood flow. Must have been quite a sight to behold.

I was like...'RANT, RANT, OH AND ANOTHER THING - I'M NOT JUST THINKING OF MYSELF YOU KNOW - ONE OF YOU COULD GET HIT BY A CAR!!!!'.

And, oh the shame, I think I also said, 'If I look back and you are LAUGHING about this BEHIND MY BACK, I will personally come back and take you ALL to the headteacher myself - I'M WATCHING YOU!'

...And off I waddled into the sunset.

I think the thing I am most shocked about is one of them said, 'I'm really sorry, madam'

Madam?! MADAM? Dear god - I'm old!!!!!!

No the bike sadly only sits there being bright red and expensive ....

PMSL Sprakly, I can see the headlines, 'Crazy woman covered in blood launches verbal attach on schoolboys, said schoolchildren are now receiving councelling for the events that unfolded, they say they will never play football again'. [spray emoticon] Madam he he he he he!!!!!!!!!!!

PS Lots of sympathy going your way too

PPS £22222222222222222222222222222225555555555555555000000000000000000 on a bike????????????????????????????? bloody hell!

sparkly, your rant made me laugh, reminds me of last week when i caught 4 boys(about 10 or 11 yo) nicking, of all things, the banners that i'd put in my front garden for dd birthday, well i flew out the door, chased them up the steps, screeching and shouting at them, something along the lines of if they came near my house again, i'd teach them a lesson!

my brother, his partner and all my friends where chasing after me, didn't know what had happend, thinking it was a life or death situation by the way i was carrying on and telling me to calm down, don't i know that i'm pg?

err yes! why else would i be running round the streets screaming like a banshee!

flaming hormones!

Ta Fio - I am being very brave

Hopeitwon't -You have to laugh really
Giggling!
I know £2500!!!

J20Baby - LOL - these hormones are funny aren't they? I have prided myself about being rather serene and even tempered so far but spent over 2 hours crying for absoulutely no reason and being totally vile to DH last night and then this.

Mind you - I feel SO much better now, as a result. lovely and calm now. and also had fun making up with DH this morning (cheeky!)

Hello everyone. Hope we are all well, a few of you haveing scans today and tomorrow - good luck!

CCpink, I hope you are ok. My mum had breast cancer last year so I understand how you are feeling. It still makes me cry to think of it. I hope it is an easily treatable kind? Good luck to you both.

Honey, lovely news about your scan, our first little girl. IIRC correctly in my last due in thread it was predominantly boys - I wonder if this thread will show a strong girl/boy theme?

We hope to find out next week, all being well with baby. I'm totally convinced it is a boy, so very sure. Part of me hopes I am wrong but I very rarely am! Not the thing to admit to I know. As long as baby is well after all my nightmares I will be pleased. Am going to have to take DS with me to the scan, despite leaflet asking me not to, in case we 'are told bad news'. however, I could ask people to sit with him, but we would have to go and collect him after anyway. He isn't 2.6 yet, so i don't think he'll understand much at all. Feel like I am tempting fate by taking him though.

DP got up in the end, and passed the breathaliser test! I got cross with him in the end as he was such a state. I forgot to mention he fell out of bed, didn't I?!! Seeing DS again was lovely, he was out playing in the garden and had a collection of stones at the bottom (a la Makka Pakka!) which he was very proud of and wanted to show off. Am thinking about taking him somewhere nice today, just the two of us, but lacking motivation and inspiration.

TeeCee, lovely news about your garenteed home birth!

Does anyone have their MatB1 yet? The midwife didn't give me one at 16 weeks and as this is my second pregnancy I don't see her again until 28 weeks, too late for MatB1 to be handed in. Worth a GP appointment???

Poppy, I hope you get some good news RE hospitals soon. Agree to take it to anyone and everyone who will listen - it is ridiculous that you can't get in to a hospital to give birth. Its hardly an exact science either is it? Really annoying.I hope C and W accept you. Is a home birth something that appeals?

moomar - good news about the amnio, hope the results come back soon and are more good news!

HIWBB - I have suffered with IBS and have had times where I am on and off the loo this pg. I thought at one stage I have infection - then just as I started to do things about it (ie ring GP!) it got better. Typical eh? I hope it gets easier for you - don't know if there is anything you can take for it in pg.

Morning girls.

Sophus - promise to keep that humour throughout the pregnancy and the hot summer, i have a feeliong I'm going to need you. You made me LOL withthe gnome thing!

MMooMar - your songrapher sounded superb. What a lovely, sensible woman.

Hopeitwon'tbebig - so sorry to hear about the ibs, you poor thing

spraklynewthing - not funny about the nose but you made me laugh with the 'oh and if you laugh about this behing my back bit'!
I must have missed this thing witht he bike, what's that about?

Hi everyone,

ccPink - sorry to hear the dreadful news about your mum, I do hope she gets the best care possible and makes a swift recovery.

Sprakly - I am impressed at your dealing with those kids, I'm such a wuss, I'd have slunk off saying "its ok!" and gone and sobbed in a corner somewhere! And you're being so calm about the £2500 bike, I was pretty peeved at DH spending all his money on a Wii and loads of games, but that's nothing I guess. Thank God we really don't have any room for more bikes (he's got two already, in a tiny flat!)

HIWBB - sorry to hear you're suffering with your IBS, can't help I'm afraid, just hoping you are able to find something that helps.

Sophus - blimey are you the luckiest woman in the world? My dh is terrible at leaving things lying around and putting off til tomorrow what can be done today. I'm normally chasing him around getting him to do stuff he'd promised to do, but now I just can't be bothered. There's a massive pile of stuff in the spare room (also, future nursery, so far untouched!!!) from our holiday 4 WEEKS AGO which he promised to put in the loft. Ho hum!!!

mMooMar - good luck with the results tomorrow, keeping everything crossed for you!

Welcome MrsFish - I must pop over to the october thread sometime soon, I have a sneaky suspicion I might be joining them. No real reason, but everyone in my family is late, so I can't see this one being on time for his birth (will probably set a pattern for his life, we're terrible in my family - never manage to have sunday lunch before 5pm most weeks!!)

I hope everyone manages to get out in the sunshine if they've got it, I went out during my lunch break and had such sun induced sweats I had to have an icelolly!!!

Take care xxx

hopeitwontbebig - i have IBS and at beginning of pg i had to take time off work it was soooo bad, spent time at home crying in pain. dh could do nothing right (not much change there then! ) and i could not be consoled. i was eating practically nothing as well cos was feeling so sick, so have no idea what made it so bad.

still have bad days but they are just the same frequency as before, just a bit more painful. warm baths/heatpads/hotwaterbottles work for me as they take edge off pain.

the only good news is - no constipation as yet!! hoorah!!! (i think i have just tempted fate )

good luck to all who have scans - is everyone finding out the sex? i didn't. have a feeling i'm having a boy though. is there any evidence to suggest i might be right with my intuition?

Kerri I was right last time round. My mum thought I was a boy though so who knows!

ccpink

I am so sorry to hear your news too. How awful. My DH's Mum found out a few months back that she has a brain tumour and it has been really tough, but finding out that I am expecting her first grandchild has cheered her up quite a bit - so remember that wee life growing inside you and take good care of yourself. Hugs.

Delighted to hear that you are my scan buddy though! Where are you having yours done? Are you going to find out the sex. At 12 weeks they said they were 70% sure it was a boy, so I guess I'll find out if they were right...

lots of love, take care

Hello all,

Not posted for a couple of days as been having a bit of a traumatic time. The midwife rang me on Tuesday evening with the results of the triple test. Not too good at 1 in 50 risk for Down's syndrome, so decided to have the amnio on Weds morning. After a few sleepless nights we just got the results through and it turns out that everything is fine. times a million all round in our house tonight. Gonna have a glass of wine to celebrate I think!

On the plus side the consultant did a bit of a mini anatomy scan before the amnio and said that everything looks hunky dory and also told us that it's a boy!!. Plus I got to see a lot more of the baby than at the last scan, he was yawning and scratching his face and jumping about all over the place. Amazing!

On the minus side we'd sort of half agreed (thinking that we had until the 20 week scan to find out the sex) that if it was a boy dh would get to pick the name and if it was a girl I would. (And he hasn't forgotten either, will keep you posted on further developments!)

Just gotta take it easy for a few days now just to be on the safe side and then can relax a bit. Though I'm sure there'll be something new to worry about before long!

Haven't had chance to catch up on all the new postings yet (there's so many!!) but glad everything went fine at the midwives MrsMar.

Changing the subject completely does anyone know any threads about different sizing of maternity clothes (particularly from catalogues/online). I'm usually a size 12, from say Top Shop, Dotty P's and Next but I just bought some trousers from Mothercare and had to get a size 10 (I'm sure they do it on purpose to make you feel better about getting fatter!) so any advice gratefully received. Bye for now, off to get that celebratory drink