Due in June - big tum, spreading bum

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hello

Ouch - time for the tubi-grip!

Oh dear bumper...sounds like the start of spd! My pelvis does that, it's a nightmare. Try and move slowly and don't open your legs too far (hehe)!!

I said don't read it tallulah!

PMSL at the 5-a-day!

Nothing wrong with Weston-Super-Mare Bumperlicious - had many a donkey ride on the beach during my childhood

am watching the biggest loser - now I don't feel so bad about what I've just eaten (a perfect combination of all food groups combined, carbs -choux pastry, dairy - cream, protein - cream and veg - the cocoa bean in the choc sauce)!

I love you guys!!!

Potatoes are veg in my book! They come from the ground from a plant, that means they are veg. In my growing veg book it talks about growing them...not veg? Pah!

I have an ante natal physio appointment tomorrow (if I can find out where I've got to go, left the letter at work!) so I'll ask them about it there. I might see if they can give me some kind of spare tyre type thing too as my sacro-iliac joint, or sciatic nerve or whatever the damn problem is is killing me too. V pissed off as wanted to be walking and stay fir whilst pg and instead am becoming a beached whale!

Anyway, going to have a cup of tea then go to bed. Sleep well all of you

oh my baby has hiccups!! i'm off to watch last nights ER and eat some of my fruit and veg!!!
later chicks x

Bumper - try and get support belt from physio, not tubi-grip. Its too itchy and belt helps back lot more, I think.

Anyway - off to bed with cup hot choc - calcium & veg methinks- and new book. Nighty night.

DS1 used to get hiccups at 7pm every night, both before and after he was born. weird.

night all xx

You lot have got verbal diahorrea tonight! PMSL at the 5 a day I need not worry about my crappy diet any more! I only went to watch an episode of 24 on dvd and sea of souls on bbc1 and its taken me 15 mins to catch up! And SWMNBM girls!! This were I am on that - sold mine at the car boot 2 years ago for 20p

No, haven't sent my shower gift yet - might hang on so that I my lady doesn't guess!!

Hail Super Duper Voucher Queen Holly yeah! am onto Vertbaudet tomorrow

Night night girls keep up that 5 a day in the morning xx

Humph. Up in the middle of the night again! V p*ssed off. Back to work day after tomorrow (actually tomorrow now), wanted to be all refreshed and lovely and back to being myself again, but woken up by pain in hip and pelvis, and here's a new one, have a kind of dull ache in my uterus, kinda like period pain (remember them?). Not had that till now. Does anyone know if that is significant? Feel a bit nauseous with it too.

I'm going to go and have a bowl off cocoa pops. They seem to be the answer to all my problems at the moment! It's funny - I've been off work for two weeks and the only two days that I have a had really bad nights are the two days where I have set an alarm and had to be somewhere in the morning. Psychosomatic perhaps?

Hello

Can I join back in again? Posted a couple of times months ago and then got caught up in work. Am feeling a bit desperate ATM - don't know whether I need advice or a clip round the ear...
Am 32+4 & had scan yesterday (monitoring size of baby due to dd being small, my having PE first time etc) Was told that baby has big head - measuring at 34wks size! Has gone from 50th percentile to 95th in 4 wks. Babe has put on a kilo but I weigh the same as at 28 wks. Have been completely knackered during last couple of weeks i.e. having to sleep during the day - helps that I'm not working of course. Asked for blood test to see if I'm anaemic but turns out that I didn't get my 28wk bloods done anyway.

A long & dull story but I stopped seeing my community midwife after my triple test (she doesn't appear to have noticed) but now I feel like I'm falling between the cracks of shared care. Hosp have been great to date (have been consultant led due to previous issues and am also geriatric at 40!) but now seem to be pushing me back to comm MW for rest of antenatal checks. What do I do?? Help!!

Hi Westcoaster, I remember you, you had an amnio like me right? (I'm a geriatric too BTW). Sorry I can't help with your NHS issues as I'm in Itlay and there's a different system here. But it sounds like you are doing well, maybe so well they are lightening up IYSWIM.

Morning all!

Bumper - you poor thing - I hope you got back to sleep!

Sending you lots of hugs Westcoaster. FIrstly, don't worry! Can you speak to your midwife or consultant about it? Sizes and measurements do change and are not hugely accurate. Also, weight gain can fluctuate a huge amount - with DS2 I didn't put any weight on from 30 weeks.

It is okay to be a bit pushy and ask for the care - especially the blood tests - there shouldn't be a reason they can't take them now.

Good luck and please come back and moan any time you would like.

HELP, MY MIL IS TRYING TO POISON ME

Well it's probably not deliberate but she has a very shaky idea of what constitutes food safety. She served up some rice and lentils yesterday, I'd nearly finished when I found an almond, and asked her about it as it's not normally in the recipe "Oh, I used the rice from lunch on sunday" which, knowing her she prepared on saturday. Anyway, I woke up feeling pretty sick in the night though it passed eventually.

I just googled and discovered that rice should never be kept at room temperature. It's unlikely she had it in her fridge as there's no room in there cos of all the unopened packets of lentils, raisins and other stuff which needn't be. The offending rice and lentil mix is sitting on top of the stove now and she's going to expect me to eat it for lunch too ! Bugger that.

So, do I give her a lecture in food hygiene? She is one of those people who gets offended if you don't compliment the food several times in any given meal. I already caught her trying to serve up some smoked salmon she'd opened 2 weeks previously.

Westcoaster, welcome back... I'm in slightly similar situation in that am under consultant care (have blood disorder whcih could affect growth) with scans at 28 and 34 weeks... (am 31 wks now). Community midwives where I am seem really rubbish - haven't had my urine tested except at first visit and they forgot to do the blood test my consultant specifically requested... But do you have anohter appointment with consultant booked? If not, request one. I just figure so long as I'm seeing him every so often and getting scans, I'll be looked after properly...

Pleased to hear LO is growing well. Am hoping mine is too - just measured bump and I'm about 38.5 inches. Not huge. But then again I'm quite small boned... Trying not to think about it too much.

And finally, pleased to know others consider choc orange to be one of your 'five a day' . Bump, hope you get some rest today...

Sputnik, you have the perfect excuse. Roll your eyes and say that usually you don't listen to those food hygeine fascists, but now that you're pregnant you feel like you need to do everything by the book for hte sake of her precious grandchild and you really hope she understands. Then reel off a whole list of things you can't eat (anything dodgy plus anything you don't like) and another list of things you can eat (hygenically produced fayre and Lindt chocolate). If she gets upset tell her it's a nightmare since you love her food, but you'd never forgive yourself if those interfering midwives turned out to be right...

Bumper, contractions feel like really bad period pain. Don't want to worry you but I had a bit of mild pain like that along with a tightening sensation, the famous Braxton Hicks.

My uterus is still hanging on in there, thanks. A friend told me yesterday about someone she knows that was 8 cm dilated and confined to bed like me. Made me feel a bit better.

Morning Annobal, glad you got your rats sorted.

Thanks Marylou, that's kind of how I approached the smoked salmon incident. Think I'd better bite the bullet and tell her about the rice or she really will poison somebody one day. She is just clueless.

Thanks so much, guys, for the welcome back. You are a lovely lot on here!

Sputnik - sounds like your MIL has reached a similar age to my Mum. I can be quite upfront with her about mercilessly clearing her cupboards everytime I visit. Think I've got all the stuff with pre-decimalisation prices now! Think your 'hygiene & pesky midwives' approach is best considering you're dealing with an outlaw situation. Rice is really dangerous though - I think it's Listeria that's the risk - so you could always say you're concerned for her too.... Just thank your lucky stars that she's cooking lentils and not chicken & shellfish.!

Oh and while I'm here just wanted to contribute on the parenting guru debate...

Never read "that woman" but have read Tracy Hogg who seemed to say some sensible stuff (along with some stuff I didn't agreee with too) but I didn't read her until DD was about a year or so. Basically I'm a play it by ear type of person and would say don't follow any advice that goes against your instincts. Actually someone gave me a great book in Italian called "Mothers are never wrong" (was written by a male child psychologist IIRC), I have no recall of the content but find the title very reassuring. Like "Don't Panic".

I can't fault the MIL on the spotlessness of her kitchen, that's probably the only reason we're all still alive But she cooks in industrial quantities and hates to throw stuff away. Never checked her sell-bys, but know for a fact she still uses catering packs of herbs bought 12 years ago, not dangerous, but why?

Marylou - sorry not very slick with my messaging yet. Sorry you're having similar probs with community MW - you're not in Somerset are you??! I've got another scan in four weeks and think I might just phone up the antenatal clinic in two weeks and ask if I can come in to get my BP checked, if everything else OK.

Am going to bite the bullet this morning and speak to my GP's practice manager about the CMW - she's just so scatty I'm sure she's potentially dangerous for someone less hormonal and demanding.

morning all. Eventually managed to get to sleep. Pelvis doesn't feel so bad today, maybe I just triggered it off by getting in n awkward position (don't tell me all this yoga could be making things worse? ) Hip still hurting, though that is pretty much constant at the moment, hope it goes when baby is born.

Sputnik, good luck with the MIL. DH mum is not too bad on the hygiene front, but she certainly has a pretty old fashioned idea of cooking - she uses lard, and when she cooks veg for a roast she puts them on about 3 hours before it's all ready!

I'll ask the physio about pains at my appointment today.

I've bought some raspberry leaf tea, but haven't yet tried it. Is it really vile?

Morning all! Lovely day again, honestly all this sunshine is getting tedious!

Welcome back Westcoaster! Hope you are ok this fine morning! Sometimes people do slip through the NHS cracks (or giant crevices) I think you just have to shout and scream a bit and make yourself heard. I did with my dd and didn't get booked into mw until 18 weeks even though I'd seen the dr at 10 weeks! I moaned a lot and it got sorted. Put your whinging hat on and go for it!!

Bumper hope you got back to sleep, bloody insomnia!

Sputnik I'd go down the "well the mw has told me to be extra careful about food" route too. Blame someone else, that's always the best policy in my eyes! Hope your cervix isn't being too naughty today.

Hi Westcoaster by the way. Sorry to hear about the problems you are having, but I'm sure everything will be fine. My MW care has been sporadic at best (seen a diff one each time) so I'm relying mostly on my dr who has seen me from the beginning. Good luck!