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Hello all and welcome to this month's thread!!
Let's all stop feeling sick and start expanding now

Hmm: the holsten pils alcohol-free (silver label) is indistinguishable from the real stuff....

We run a hotel/pub, and did a blind taste test with some regulars!

I too am thirsty all the time. A glass of half-and-half soda water and white grape juice is going down a treat.

Oh, and don't get too upset about the lack of a 12-week scan. Ours a 13 weeks is a blob as the wretched thing rolled over and presented its posterior to the scanner.

Very warm here in the Scottish borders today. The laundry is like a sauna with 2 washing machines, 2 tumble driers, 1 coke machine, 1 ice machine and 2 beer chillers.

Time for more juice, methinks.

thelady I shall send dh to buy some and then we shall see!

Thelady, I think you may have just saved me
How fab is that!!!

BB, lol at lush

Pecka, I would call your maternity dept and chase up your scan. I've heard of notes going missing before, so it could be worth the call.

About grobags, ds is 9 months and he's sitting ,pulling himself up and crawling but I'm still using one.
We stopped for a while but he is so wriggly and he would crawl out of the sheet and then wake up cold!
We started using them from about 2/3 months ish. Before that he was just a cute still baby that slept through lol!

Well I bought this on Friday and today I'm going to order these jeans in the darker colour
I sorted out my whole wardrobe yesterday and put away all the clothes which wont fit me till xmas (I wish). I found a pair of brown linen 3/4 trousers and a couple of plain maternity tops.
Still want to buy more though

Hello! Hope everyone is well -

Mad4girls - funny, I've just posted on the same subject on another thread about m/s. Mine keeps coming and going, but quite a few people have reported the same thing and have gone on to ahve healthy babies. Someone suggested keeping a food diary to see if there is particular foods that make it worse or better. But I'm fat too lazy!
I've gained about 5lbs since falling pg. Probably not good since I'm over 3 stone overweigth anyway . Will be joining SW again once baby is born!
Interesting thing I've come across, I read in one book that you should eat more or less the same calories as you normally would until the 3rd trimester and then increase by 200 per day. Just got a copy if Dr. Miriam Stoppards pg bible and in there she recommends 500 extra from early pg!

He he! As someone scarred by an early experience of Caliber and LA, I was pleasantly surprised by the Holsten. At the moment, beer isn't appealing at all due to my hypersensitive nose, and DH is torturing me by munching blue cheese with red wine at every opportunity.

Must start thinking about maternity trous again - wish I wasn't working so I could just swan about in stretchy stuff.

Wheres your pub?

Do you make lovely food?

See, food on the brain. Constantly!

Very yummy food - DH is the chef! I'm spoiled, I know....

We're only doing evening meals at the mo as food only started a month ago (major rebuild due to structural problems last year) and we wanted to break ourselves in gradually.

I'm updating the website with all the food info. Or rather, I'm supposed to be doing that but am actually mooching on MN instead. Don't want to advertise here just yet, as very few in RL know I'm expecting.

Well when you've outed yourself in RL let me know which pub it is and we can come if we're in the area

A quick question to all, has anyone experienced a sort of dull ache in their hip joints in the morning? It's gettin gradually worse, keeps me twisting and turning and wakes me up too early. Thought initially that been sleeping in one position for too long but it seems that it really doesn't matter which way I turn, ache is still there. Goes away whan I'm up and walking around but that's not the best solution for 3am now , is it...

hello everyone, nice to hear from Pecka - hope you're feeling better soon.

We've also decided to go for a 3D/4D scan. My first scan is next week and I'll be alone because dh is away with work and it's highly likely to be the same situation for the 20week because it's the busiest time of year for his industry. So we talked about it yesterday and decided we'd go for the 3D scan around about 24/26 weeks. I've been googling to try and find somewhere near us (we're near Preston in Lancashire) and the nearest I've found so far is Warrington, which isn't too far.

It seems a lot of us are slowly winning the battle with the nausea, thank goodness. I still feel run down and sickly every day but not a patch on how I was feeling only a couple of weeks ago, thank goodness. I've still got stonking spots all over my chest though, and my hair is still like Worzel Gummidge's

The only thing we're thinking about buying for this baby is a double buggy. I've been looking at the Marco one recommended on Mumsnet - has anyone got any opinions/experience of double buggies they could share?

Castanet: I've been told that sleeping with a pillow (or several) between your knees/ankles can help with discomfort.

Our joints/tendons loosen due to all the hormones sloshing about.

Good mornin peeps.

Peanutbutter -every time I read one of your posts I have the urge for peanutbutter on toast. Then remember I can't. Damn eczema and hayfever! Poor you with dh being away. Are you going to bring someone else with you to the scan? Don't know about those 3d/4d scans. They kinda freak me out, they're that detailed.

Castanet - I have bad joints (sound like a 70 year old but all my family do) and noticed a wee bit of achiness and stiffness in my hips when I'm out walking. I'm trying to find a antenatal yoga class to help.

On the subject of non-alcoholic beer been drinking Cobra or Becks which seems to do the job. Either that or lime and soda water - tescos do a lovely lime bottlegreen cordial which is yummy with ginger and lemon grated in it.

BeachBunni - when I registered with MN i just couldn't come up with a username that wasn't already registered (seem to remember that a couple of the ones I tried were registered and never even used). So I was sitting at the computer eating peanutbutter on a Krisproll, feeling a bit guilty because I was newly pregnant with ds, but had caved in to the craving for crunchy peanubutter.... and that's where it came from

Relaxin is the appropriately named hormone which makes your tendons etc loosen in preparation for pregnancy. I keep telling myself i'm going to start a bit of pilates or yoga...

Oh, beachbunni I didn't see your question about my scans - no, I'm going to go on my own: the only person I'd consider taking is my mum and she'll be looking after ds for me. I work at the hospital where the scans will be done, so I've got a nice early appointment before even 9am, so I should in theory be in and out.

Oh Castanet, I feel your pain lol.
My sciatica has started already and by tea time my back is aching.
Its all downhill from here

Afternoon everyone,

Glad the nausea seems to be subsiding, mine is too although I had a big scary faint at the weekend, all fine now though and have started taking spatone in case my iron levels are low.

Any more maternity wear suggestions? Still can't find anything I like...

Hello everyone
I don't want to tempt fate, so i'm whispertypiing this, but i think my MS is subsiding. I'm finding I don't need to eat the entire contents of the fridge in one go.
However, i think it's being replaced by a rush of hormones as I've been ever so weepy. But i've just spent the weekend with my dad who i hadn't seen for 15 years, so time to buy Kleenex shares! He spent the entire weekend telling virtual strangers that we had at last been re united and that he was going to be a grandpa. Thought he was going to spontaneiously combust he was so pleased.
My body, on the outside, the skin i mean, feels ever so warm today. I feel like like a mini nuclear power station. Anyone else getting this?
I am 11 weeks today and feel excited and relieved that another week has passed by. My scan is next Friday and I can't wait. I've got the following week off so i'll be able to hopefully gaze at a little picture for days at a time. I've looked up pics of what an 11 week old looks like and it's almost formed AND i can't believe how much it grows from week to week. It's so exctiting it's tiring me out!
I'm ready to leave the office now and go home and sleep.
luv v happy Neuro! X

I had my 12 week scan today! Everything is fine and my dates are exactly right.
I had got myself so worked up that someting was wrong that when the sonographer said all is well, I burst into tears. Mad!
I got five pics but all of them aren't that good as the baby culed up into a ball and turned its back to the scanner!

My friend had her baby yest after a 3 day labour . Its a beautiful little boy. I've just been into town to get present and looked around all baby bits for me too!

So exciting! Next scan 6th August! Dat after we get back from new forest camping!!

Bambino Great news about your scan and your friend's baby

Neuro - glad you're so excited! Feel a bit bad that I'm not - too busy coping with dd's teething and lack of sleep, plus we babysat a newborn last night who cried constantly which set dd off... how on earth will we cope with two????

Oh Skidaddle!
You ok now?

My anxiety started from when I fainted last year.
Am being extra careful now. If i get a bit breathless or anything I sit down till it passes.

Great news about your scan Bambino
Mines tomorrow so please everyone keep your fingers crossed that everythings ok coz ive got myself convinced it all going to go wrong for some reason

Fifi - I will have fingers and toes crossed but I am sure you will be fine just like I was.

Skidaddle - no idea what your style is like, but here are all the places i can think of for maternity wear:

Young/fashionable:
Red Herring (Debenhams)
New Look (some branches)
Top Shop (online/some branches)
Dorothy Perkins
H & M

General mix of fashion & classic:
Mothercare (obviously!)
Blooming Marvellous (online and a few shops in the South)
Jojo Maman Bebe (online & a few shops)
Pumpkin Patch (small range)
Marks and Spencer (online - I thought it was pretty crap)
Vertbaudet (online/catalogue)

Here are the OK bits I've bought so far! like this but pinstripe / casual trousers / in black & pink in dark indigo / posh frock / funky top / in khaki to go with posh frock

Skidaddle i'm sure you'll be fine! I'll be on my own having this baby which i'm excited but quite nervous about middle of night baby wont' stop screaming scenarios.
Is anyone's tummy sticking out yet? I think mine is but it's because I've eaten my way through morning sickness!

Neuro - mine isn't sticking out but I am definitely fatter - have had to put away half of my trousers already, yet have only gained between 1 and 2 pounds. I blame the hormones...