Afternoon all - hope you've all got nice restful weekends planned.
alice - hope ds isn't too grotty with the chickenpox - my ds had it at 18 months, and lathough he was a bit ill, he's at least got it over and done with young!
mumpbump & mrsfish - hope you've both recovered from your horrible dreams.
nezi - hope you feel more positive soon - I hate dh being away too - he has to work away quite often, for 3 - 4 days at a time. I suffered from hyperemesis as well, but it eased off sooner than with you. I'm still getting sick, but it tends to correlate exactly to just how tired I am. DH was away for a whole week while I was at my sickest. DS ate junk all week (stuff I could throw from the freezer to the oven and onto a plate), as well as watching a lot of tv!
I'm really glad they've been supportive of you at work. My work haven't been quite a good ....
floria - welcome & congratulations on getting this far! I'm sorry to hear of your losses. Here's to a long, boring and uneventful pregnancy for you this time around (if such a thing can exist when you're a human pincushion!)
buffy - you take care of yourself. As for your dates - I'd seriously consider playing my face and getting stroppy over your dates - especially as there's some discrepancies, and you may need an early induction.
Apricott - good luck with your cleaning - and with mil! I couldn't face living with mine for 3 weeks - 3 hours of her company just about does me in. They came to stay (uninvited) when ds was born, and stayed for 5 days. My abiding memory of that time is the fact that I was banished to bed, fil was told to watch over ds, while dh was told to get himself in the back garden and help her hack my garden about. He wasn't allowed any time to get to know his new son. No wonder he went back to work to escape ... leaving me alone with them. mil even wanted me to give up bf so she could feed him.
We've decided that nobody is going to be allowed to stay when this one is born. Everybody can visit - but maximum 1 hour.
j20 - the regular iron I was given last year played havoc with my digestion - I was advised to try floradix or spatone - I took floradix, which I found much gentler on my stomach. Problem is that it's not available on prescription ... although when I went back to my GP and told her the effect it was having on me, she changed my iron tablets for the same type as floradix. Give it a try.
Now for my news.
I went to see dephead today as I needed to tell her that I may have to go to physio with very little notice. Her response: "Can't you do this outside of school time?" When I answered that I would try, but that I had little choice over when my first appointment would be at least, she sighed and said: "well I hope it's only a one-off" - I couldn't say anything to that ... I'm seriously considering putting in a complaint against her now.
I've measured my "waist" - it measures 41" - my stomach comes into the room 5 minutes before the rest of me! Before this pg, I had lost weight, and was in size 12 / 14 trousers ... I'm going to be enormous!! mind you, I am only 5'2", so there's not room for it to go up much - it can only go out!
Have a good weekend all ... I'm singing with the choir at St.Fagan's tomorrow ... hope it doesn't rain!