Due August 2007 - Part 3

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Here's to a succuessful new thread!

Link to the old thread just incase!

Morning - I am so happy for babymad with your lovely 4d scan.

I woke up at five this morning with the same sore hip that sent me home early and some stretchy nasty pains in my abdomen. This woke the cat, which woke the man, which turned into me moaning about how sore my hip was and keeping myself awake. Grrrr. After he left for work the sensational quiet of a London street when all have fled on holiday lulled me back to sleep until 9.30!!!

Happily my office is all but deserted so I expect an early day as well as a late start. If you can't be easy on yourself now, when can you be.

Sorry - I hope that was not insensitive growingbagpuss, as you have to work half the easter weekend. I hope your headache improves with the sunshine anyway.

I don't really get the beef tomatoes thing. There cannot possibly be a connection can there?

Well I think I had my easter and christmas and summer breaks while I was off for 2 months with MS - not much fun though! I'm off tomorrow so I think we're going to the coast with friends but then back on nights all easter weekend - can't really complain though as I'm enjoying it (think it's all the bump attention!) and am so glad to be working again.

It's annoying - I just realised you lot are able to chat all day as you're at work - now I'm feeling good I'm out of the house and doing stuff during the day if I'm not sleeping so can't join in - can't you all stay up one night to keep me company? oops - just realised that alot of you are awake in the night - and not for work reasons!

I'll add my stats - we've decided not to find out the flavour - although we might still change our minds when he's bouncing about on screen...

surnames - I spent my whole weeind day saying as I'd had my surname for 38 years i had no intention of changing it. moved back to the uk and changed it - but it's a terrible terrible name - at lest mine was just boring and common. it's a really difficult one - i felt a bit liek i'd deserted my family and joined dh's

Mrs Shuvel - went to Greenwich aquaaerobics on monday - were you there? I felt very very old but it was a better workout than I expected (god, this from someone who was running 3 times a week till um 5 months ago!)I'll go back sometime but took me an hour to get home. Still trying to find antenatal yoga - do you know if there is any of that in greenwich?

oh my god - I've killed the thread!!

Peanuthead - no no, just feeding starving babe and checking washing. now trying to convince ds to Go TO SLEEP!

Forgive me -MS (means?) and night work - nurse/ hc prof??

just looked at dates thread - corr lots of you are good aren't you? lots of suprises - I have no patience and am impressed by those of you who do!

Peanuthead I think you will find lots of us on long lunches and out the door early today!

Sorry you also have to work but I am glad your MS have subsided! Mine has not yet. All I have to do is go a couple of hours without grazing and it is back with a vengeance.

hi all, took a while to read all the news. How exciting. So sorry for everyone who's feeling rough. Especially with m/s that's really pits.
Kiteflying- sorry for all your pains too, are you sleeping with plenty of pillows? I didn't realise how great pillow under knee would be.
It's need to pee and powercuts waking me up here when the airconditioning stops.
Can anyone recommend a good pregnancy book/manual? I forgot to buy 1 in UK and there are just too many to choose between on amazon.

Itchy - Lesley Regan's book is my bible. You can get it on Amazon. Was particularly comforting in first trimester. Lots of pictures of baby at different stages of development and really good medical jargon-busting info on scans and scan results and different blood tests etc.

We also are reading Janet Balaskas "Natural Pregnancy" for yoga breathing and positions. Actually I should say I am reading - my man talks a lot about "catching up" and never does.

agree with the lesley regan book being great.
I am work - on the internet browsing though..
Question for all you non-first timers out there..
Do I really need a changing table/chest of drawers with changer on top etc?
We have a single bed already in the room that will be the nursery. I don't want to move it so space will be a bit tight when have cot etc. So many people say they end up changing on the floor etc. anyway, wonderered if I could just change them on the bed with a mat?

Jem, I am also a first timer but got some advice on this earlier and I think the general consensus is you don't need one and it is space-consuming. People who have had C-sections are more in favour of them because it saves bending over at all, but we have a normal height table in our room currently in use as a desk and I am proposing to just convert that if I need to. I think your single bed would be fine.

durr - just worked out MS - I am SOOOOO thick!!

It used to confuse me as well as my neighbour has MS - as in Multiple Sclerosis, and I just could not read MS as pregnancy sickness no matter how I stared!!

Hi Peanut, i was the one at the deeper end with the black and white striped cozzie. That's a shame it took you so long to get home - did you get the bus? I hope you go again and we can introduce ourselves. I think they do have pregnancy yoga there. I'll look it up for you.

thanks kiteflying- thats what I thought. If I end up having a c section i will just change them on the dining room table if i can't bend - or better still, get DH to change them!

Peanut, pre-natal yoga is on a Thursday 12.00 - 1.00. I can't go to that as i'm working. I think i'd be pretty useless at it as well actually

Jem and Kiteflying - my mum and dad gave me a brill contraption - it is a bath board - a simple square of varnished wood which sits on top f your bath. room for baby mat, nappies etc etc.

When babe was small, the inset bath fitted next to it which was great.

It is a bit of a pain when you want a bath -and we have the worlds smallest bathroom but it has saved my back.

Hi everyone. Been busy this morning so didn't have time to post.

growingbagpuss - I'm with you about 'The Night Garden'. It's such an awful program but dd loves it. She saw an advert the other morning and couldn't understand why she couldn't watch it.

Agree about the changing table. Changing mat on the bed/floor is perfectly fine.

I'm working tomorrow but that's my own choice. I could have been at home on call but I wouldn't get any extra money unless I had to come in or spend a long time on the phone helping someone. I opted for the extra 2 days holiday so I could add it to my maternity leave. I'm off Sat, Sun, Mon though. I have to try to think of something to do with dd on Monday as dh is off playing cars with his uncle and I hate staying indoors all day. I might get her to help me out in the garden. It needs lots of weeding.

Don't you have to be careful doing gardening? That's my excuse for not doing ours anyway, i hate gardening. Wish i could afford a gardener. I'm very good with pots though

You do have to be careful in case cats have been to the toilet but it should be ok if I wear gloves and wash my hands well. I'm not green-fingered in the slightest (got that from my parents) but I want dd to be able to use the garden now it's getting warmer. There are so many weeds in between the paving slabs and on the patch of dirt that we want to turf.

I guess everyone's gone home now. Hope you have a nice easter break if you're not working. I'll be checking in tomorrow from work in case anyone's around.

Haven't got time to catch up with all your messages now as I should be cooking the tea! Have just seen the stats tho' and Conkertree, we are due the same day. Am hoping for an early bird this time as the stork came 2 weeks early last time.

Will catch up with everything later, when things are a little less mad around here.

Hi everyone, hope you're all outside enjoying the sunshine. Had the day off for the scan/dentist/doctor but I've been lounging around in between.

Scan was fine, and we have another boy to add to the list! He's a really uncooperative little bugger, it was taking her ages so I was worried there was a problem but she just couldn't get a good look at his heart because he was wriggling so much. Got there in the end though.

And we'd already settled on a boy's name, so the bump will be known as Logan from now on (unless we change our minds later!).

I've been having problems with my gums bleeding, but the dentist says I just need them cleaning more regularly, and I don't need to use a soft toothbrush. Is this normal? They bled so much when he cleaned them, I feel like he's butchered me.

We're off to France for a week, really looking forward to doing nothing! Hope everyone has a lovely easter, even if you're working hope you manage to grab some sun and chocolate eggs!

Cheerio everyone, have a lovely easter hope the bunnies bring something nice - we saw easter bunny in local shopping centre, DS took choccy from it, and said "thank you piggy" and ran off chuckling!

No august twins yet then!

Hope everyone's having a lovely easter so far, my job finished yesterday, so I celebrated by indulging my friends and going sober-clubbing! Actually had a really nice time (although I wouldn't want to do it every week) The smoking ban has come into effect in welsh pubs and clubs so the air was clean, which was lovely.

Baby kicked along to some of the songs, but I only stayed a couple of hours in case he didn't like the loud music. Spent most of the night sat with a chilled lemonade, but had a bit of a dance when I couldn't resist any more. Had my first bump-touch, too, but it was by my best friend so I didn't mind too much.

I have two tiny stretchmarks above my bellybutton already. I had thought that because I already had a fat tummy I'd have room for the baby to grow without stretching. No such luck!

Anyone else spotted any?

Hi bananabump,
well done on night out, I was dancing yesterday too, in the house though! Yeah I agree the smoking ban is going to be brilliant.
On stretchmarks, my whole stomach is a mess of vertical stretchmarks from ds1, they all appeared during last 2 overdue weeks. I was only 19 and dedicated to skin oiling but ds was 9lb 8 and the skin seemed literally to split leaving horrible red streaks which took a couple of years to fade but the skin was destroyed for good. My midwife advised post-natally mind that I should have eaten more oily fish. I'm taking pregnacare supplements with omega 3 fish oils this time. But the damage is already done in my case so maybe this will be helpful to you.
I also have umbilical hernia returned. Oh joys of pg!