Due Oct 2007 ~Little Piggies turning into Porkers!

[FloriaTosca]

Thought I'd get the new thread started as no one objected to my title suggestion

Hi everyone, welcome unicorn glad everything is ok and you've decided to go public, do you know what flavour bump is yet?

well, i went for my antenatal apointment at docs, had no sign of any protein or dodgy other things in my urine, although the doc and his student both thought when the felt my stomach that i'm more consistent with 26 weeks rather than 24, but baby was doing acrobatics in there at the time and i think she was just having a stretch, making me seem bigger. he also took blood to check iron again, and it spurted everywhere, no wonder i keep going anemic, taking all my blood. going to get takeaway soon, can't wait - am starving!

sorry to miss people out, food on the brain, am off to browse the menu's now

Hello all. Congrats on the scan Pheebe and nellie - although sorry the experience was marred somewhat for you nellie.

On the subject of kidney stones, I had one a few years ago, and yes the pain they cause is as bad as labour pains. Mine started reasonably gradually with a vague ache over my ribs. I assumed it was because I strained myself cleaning windows the day before! By the evening it was much more painful and I couldn't lift my arm up to undress for bed. My dh had decided to go out that night and was staying at a friends so I was in agony, alone with a 4 year old and 1 year old. I remember trying not to cry in pain because I didn't want to scare them. I saw the out of hours doctor the next day who diagnosed viral chostochondritis and gave me some codeine. Within an hour I started being sick so I phoned up again and saw another doctor. I said to her that the pain was as ba as labour pains and wondered if it was an ectopic pregnancy. That was when she tested my urine and it was full of blood and protein. I had a scan a few days later but there was no sign of the stone so it must have passed.
I'm prone to UTI's and constantly have blood in my urine which after loads of tests has been put down to me having a leaky blood vessel in my bladder. I am watched quite carefully by the GP though and it's always a worry that I'll get another stone - so my sympathethies to your dh inzi. How is he now?

Evening all!
Inzi I'm with you on the fruit thing, M&S have had a fortune from me recently. I feel it balances out the junk crap thing I also have

Welcome Unicorn, glad to hear all is well, add yourself to our stats..i'll post them in a second

Can't remember who was asking about the pram but I too like the idea of baby being able to lie completely flat. Think we'regoing to go for the Mamas andPapas Pilko pramette. It does pram and then pushchair mode and folds quite small.

Hope your Dh is feeling better Inzi. Hope everyone else is well too.
x

Here they are unicorn!

MrsFish - 15th May (20wk or thereabouts) (little boy) 41"
j20 15th May, 10 am(20 Week) all fine (little girl) 36"
Kezza - 16th May (20 week) all fine (little boy)
alicet - 21st May (20 week) healthy little boy 37"
Betsycoe - 22nd March 9.30am (21 weeks) Little girl 39"
ejt1764 - 22nd May 2pm (21 weeks) 42 1/2" - wriggling little girl
greedy - 23rd May (21ish wk) 42" (strawberry flavoured!)
Kittiwake - 23rd May (19ish week) all fine(surprise)
FloriaTosca-23rd May (20wks +5)all fine (surprise) 42"
Apricott - 24 May (just under 20 weeks) healthy surprise
Mumpbump - 30 May (22 weeks) healthy surprise
Jersey - 1st June (23 weeks) Healthy little boy
Tallis - 1st June (20 weeks) All fine, healthy surprise
WinniethePooh - 4th June 10.20am (22 weeks) Girl
HonorMatopoeia- 4th June 2.30 pm (20 weeks)Healthy little girl!
gemmamc - 8th June (20+4 weeks) all fine, little boy
buffythenappyslayer-7th june (22 weeks)healthy little girl
Karlou - 12th June (20 weeks)
inzidoodle - 12th June 11.30am (20 weeks) all fine, healthy little girl
Pheebe - 13th June (20 weeks) I fine bouncing boy
PolarMummy - 20th June 6pm (25 weeks)
Honeyapple- 22nd June 11.20 am (22 wks)

Evening all ...

I have been madly sorting out my baby stuff (and everything else!) to put on ebay for the past couple of days - am just about to upload 50 lots! If you see anything on there you fancy, just let me know - am happy to finish auctions early for MN friends! (my ebay id is the same as my mn id - I am a bear of very little brain, and couldn't think of a different one!)

Karlou & Pheebe - great news on your scans!

for those who have ben talking about M / MIL attitudes, on another thread, somebody suggested that it may well be jealousy - and especially with MIL - you've got their DS - AND your own DC too ... I will try to bear that in mind!

In fact, my mum had an idea about what to do with regards the nightmare PILs - DS's birthday is just about the time that madame bean is due, so we're going to have an early birthday Sunday lunch for DS, and invite both the Ps and the PILs - and my sister too. Then, when everyobody is there, we'll tell them exactly what we want to happen when Madame Bean turns up ... that way, we don't have to have a heavy discussion with MIL - and she can't possibly think that we're getting at her - my mum thinks she's totally unreasonable too - DH is quite taken with the idea too - especially as it lets him off the hook!
Whether it'll have the desired effect or not, I've no idea!

Floria - with you there on the lady lotion (much funnier term than CM) - and ditto the panty liners - I never use tham otherwise!

J20 - I really hope you get a cooker soon!

buffy - if you can't keep tablets down, then ask for suppositories - they're not the nicest thing to use, but at least there's no sickness!
Glad to hear that DS's new school is lovely - am completely at current school not letting him keep an inhaler in school - I'm sure they're actually in breach of the Disability Discrimination Act by doing that! What is he supposed to do if he has an attack?

inzi - I sincerely hope that dh is better soon. I'd be frogmarching my dh to the gp ...

HMP - hope you manage to wade through your reports - I've been struggling with staffing today ... no matter which way I work it, we'll have to have split classes ... not great!

Unicorn - hi and welcome!

Right, going to do battle with ebay turbolister, see if it'll let me upload my stuff ...

Hi All. What a day! I gave the hospital midwife a bell and told her about the cm..she said just come in for a swab to make sure...I ended up there from 10am 'till 6.30pm!..they did the whole history thing, took a swab and then sent me for a scan...everything looked fine but, oh no, they still weren't sure that it was cm, they suspected amniotic fluid so admitted me and made me lie on my side for 3 hours to collect the liquid, only then to say its ok its just cm! I went in feeling fine and within 10 minutes was in full panic mode!...I'm now emotionally exhausted! Had to phone and cancel all my pupils for the day too!(thank goodness I'd got their numbers in my mobile!) But at least LO is ok
Sorry to hear about your DH inzi...how dreadful for him ...but he's braver than my dh, mine would have been screaming for A&E and morphine immediately!!! Hope he recovers quickly.
Welcome Unicorn...call yourself ancient if you want, but there is at least one person on this board older than you!!!! Glad you have managed to get this far (difficult for us old gals.. but at least you have done all this before, it the 1st time to 24 wks for me!) an dhope the rest is trouble free for you
Congratulations on the scans everyone, sorry yours was spoiled a bit Nellie
Hope ebay brings you a fortune ejt

MrsFish - 15th May (20wk or thereabouts) (little boy) 41"
j20 15th May, 10 am(20 Week) all fine (little girl) 36"
Kezza - 16th May (20 week) all fine (little boy)
alicet - 21st May (20 week) healthy little boy 37"
Betsycoe - 22nd March 9.30am (21 weeks) Little girl 39"
ejt1764 - 22nd May 2pm (21 weeks) 42 1/2" - wriggling little girl
greedy - 23rd May (21ish wk) 42" (strawberry flavoured!)
Kittiwake - 23rd May (19ish week) all fine(surprise)
FloriaTosca-23rd May (20wks +5)all fine (surprise) 42"
Apricott - 24 May (just under 20 weeks) healthy surprise
Mumpbump - 30 May (22 weeks) healthy surprise
Jersey - 1st June (23 weeks) Healthy little boy
Tallis - 1st June (20 weeks) All fine, healthy surprise
WinniethePooh - 4th June 10.20am (22 weeks) Girl
HonorMatopoeia- 4th June 2.30 pm (20 weeks)Healthy little girl!
gemmamc - 8th June (20+4 weeks) all fine, little boy
buffythenappyslayer-7th june (22 weeks)healthy little girl
Karlou - 12th June (20 weeks)
inzidoodle - 12th June 11.30am (20 weeks) all fine, healthy little girl
Pheebe - 13th June (20 weeks) I fine bouncing boy
PolarMummy - 20th June 6pm (25 weeks)
Honeyapple- 22nd June 11.20 am (22 wks)
unicorn - 6th June (21 weeks) fine.. surprise

(hope I have done that right!)

Good Morning All
Hope your Dh is feeling better this morning Inzi, my Dh was told he was at risk of getting kidney stones but has so far been lucky and avoided them...something about a diet too high in protien and salt and not high enough in whole grains and calcium, plus the fact that he doesnt drink enough and he has a pretty sedentary life style (lots of time sitting on planes or at computers)..I shudder to think what he would be like if they caught up with him!

Well we had an early night last night,both exhausted, me from being frightened and asked loads of questions about losing Robyn and thinking it was all happening again, the nurses were lovely but the comment "well, your cervix is still closed so it doesnt look like you'll be giving birth today anyway" wasnt exactly reassuring! and DH because he was flying back from Barcelona via Frankfurt and knew I was in hospital and wanted to be with me and the plane got delayed so he nearly missed the connection..what sort of state he would have got into if he had known I was on the delivery ward I dread to think!!! We both got 9 solid hours sleep!! We never sleep that long...but we must have needed it!

I suppose I'd better go and get the waterproofs out and give the dog his constitutional despite the dreadful weather. Have a good day everyone.

morning all!

went to the new school again this morning to take the forms back.ds is sooooooooooo excited and keeps asking if he can go now!!drove by the building site and our new house now has an upstairs!!so dont think its going to be much longer before its finished!

ds's school atm wont let him keep his inhaler with him during the day and its locked in a cupboard in the staff room.i went mad after he had gone to ask for it as he needed it and one of the teachers told him to go ad play as they were all having their dinner!!ds went and found dd1 (who is now at senoir school) and she stormed into the staff rooma nd asked for the key as ds had started going blue around his mouth.she ended up getting detention for trying to help her brother!i was so that i went into the school,tore ten strips off the crappy teacher (who as it ahppens has asthma aswell so she shouldve known better!) and then i complained to the education welfare oficer and the school nurse.but they still wont let him carry it with him,its locked in the cupboard.so i'll be alot more relaxed knowing that when he is at the new school he'll have access to it all the time.

cant remember who said about kidney stones,but when i had dd3 (last baby) i had just come out of hospital with her and dh got out of bed one morning screaming in agony.he went to the doctors then i got a phone call saying he'd been rushed into hospital!my friend drove me and dd there and he was kept in for a week.they put a stint in and he actually came out of hospital the morning of dd's christening!!!(i wasnt cancelling it-we had family come from all over!)dh had kept saying he was getting sympathy pains all the time i was pg,so when he had kidney stones i said "well,you might have some idea of labour now aswell!!"

still havent decided about the pram,was looking online last night.dd said she wants a double one so she can sit next to the baby,so might end up getting one for the car.i like the m&p pliko prammette.dd had one and it was lovely.(wish i had kept it now,only sold it in march as it was the pink and black one and i was convinced i was having a boy!!)also like the m&p ones with a carrycot.but tehn i dont want to end up with a carrycot stuck in teh loft after the baby has grown out of it!!arrgggghhhh!!!too many prams to choose from!!

ejt head is better now thanks,but will keep in mind about the suppositories if i get it again.was reading my bounty book last night and probably shouldve rang mw when i had migraine.says in there flashing lights,headaches,dizziness can be a sign on pre eclampsia.so i think when i see mw again (at 29 weeks) i'll mention it,unless it happens again and then i'll just ring her.this time it was a migraine,but dh was tehre saying next time you ring her straight away!

anyway,off to do some ebay browsing!!

have a nice day everyone!!

oh hi to the newbie!!

Morning!

As usual, shouldn't be on here (at work) so rushed.

Floria - so sorry to hear about your day yesterday - v pleased all okay :0.

Actually feeling a bit on the queasy, might faint in a moment side after reading about teh kidney stones! I'm such a wimp. Hope your DH feels better soon.

Welcome Unicorn!

Was someone else saying the other day that the tiredness had come back. I'm tired, tired, tired at the moment.

My 12 year old saw my bump moving yesterday, baby was having a kick - her reaction 'ooh, that's gross!' in the valley girl pseudo californian drawl so favoured by the youth of today. She's funny about the baby - with everyone else she's all excited about it - with me she does a very good affectation of utter lack of interest. I know she's going to love it to bits when it finally gets here though.

Whoops, gotta go - have to be somewhere...

ft-sorry about your scare and the wait at the hospital, glad your ok and got some much needed sleep.

buffy-how old is your ds? can he be trusted to have an inhaler hidden in his coat pocket? how dare they say he's not allowed it idiots! glad your house is coming along, hope you don't get any problems!

hi to evryone else

has anyone been flooded? i went to work and the whole carpark was flooded, and the water was rising and coming into the building so we had to turn customers away and i got to leave a little bit earier, although i had to tramp accross the carpark in a pair of wellies i borrowed, that where about 8 sizes too big for me, which was fun!

i'd better go, got the nice electric man here doing my cooker and better make him a cup of tea

I'm glad you've got a nice electric man J20; my Mum has just phoned, she waited in (for the 2nd time) all morning for the electric man to come and change her meter and at 1pm decided to phone to find out where he was...the report from the electrician was that he had "driven down the avenue at 9.40 but there was nowhere to park so he had gone on to the next job"!!!!! She has a driveway that will fit 5 cars !!!! What was wrong with driving onto that? The hospital is at the end of the avenue and people park on the avenue rather than pay the car parking fee...what is she supposed to do? stand outside waving everybody off the spot outside her house all morning because she has an electrician coming?!!!! They cant send anyone for another week now (this bloke has skipped one job today...why cant he come back and do it when he has done the others on his list?)and she has to wait in yet another day to get it done!!! . I cant believe how incensed I am on her behalf! Is this the hormones making me over react?

stupid man! i'm suprised he didn't use the excuse of flooding, round here apparantly, all the electricians are being called in for emergencies due to the rain, but once i had him in, he wasn't getting out well my cooker is working, but the oven isn't, so i'm going to google and try and find some instructions, hope it isn't faulty or i'll cry!

Oh! I'm sorry about the oven ...I hope you get it working...I once moved into a furnished house where the timer on the oven had got stuck and stopped it working.. the repair man just disconnected the timer (I wouldnt have used it anyway). Hope the trouble is as simple for you.

got it working :0

rung the belling customer care and he talked me through it, just needed to set the clock and it works-whopee! very chuffed now

ft, meant to say, my hormones have been crazy the last few days, maybe we're getting a bit of a surge of them, i feel like killing certain people sometimes!

j20 ds is nearly 8.his inhaler is in a little bag.he is really sensible with it,so i didnt understand why the school kept saying he couldnt carry it with him.one of the main things that worried me was that the schools football field where they do all the pe,is a good walk away from the school,and ds usually has an asthma attack when hes been running around.so if hes on the field it would mean someone running back to the school to get his inhaler.

i'll just be so glad when we move.the new headmaster was really understandable.he said as long as ds does know how to do his inhaler himself then if he is away from the classroom he can carry it with him,in his own words "best be safe than sorry"

i'd be livid! did you complain?

oh yeah, you read your post again, maybe just leave it hanging on his peg or in his pocket anyway, surely if they're that fussy about it then they should let him have it when he needs it, stupid school, what if he has a bad attack! roll on sep, when he can get in his new school

sorry, meant to say, oh yeah you did!

Hello all! Haven't been around much due to work pressures compounded with leaving early to pick ds up from nursery and pg exhaustion. Feeling better since I had some G&B dark chocolate so thought I'd post quickly.

Sorry you had a scare, Floria, and pleased to hear that all is well. I said to dh at the start of this week, now I'm 24 weeks, the baby could survive if it arrived soon. You'll be there pretty soon too and it is comforting, even if slightly macabre to be thinking like that...

Hello and welcome to Unicorn!

Can't believe we're almost through all the scans! Bit disappointing in a way as I think it has certainly made things go quicker over the last few weeks and there aren't any more scans(hopefully) from now on! Still, we can compare our bump sizes - must find the tape measure - and before we know it, we'll all be packing hospital bags. Yesterday, it was 3 months until I finish work... Scary...

Have a good weekend everyone!

Hi ladies
Floria - sorry to hear about your mammoth hospital trip but pleased that all ended happily. I hate that feeling when they say 'We'll just check it out' and your heart sinks.
Does anyone else (or did you at 21 weeks - know most of youare ahead of me!) get confused about baby movements? By which I mean, I think I've been feeling her move for many weeks but sometimes I wonder if it is just muscle spasms as that is what it feels like. I've never seen a movement, is it too early for that? I know I should remember from Dd1 but I've drawn a blank!
Also been having stretching 'pains' again, especially at night or when I've (miraculously) managed to sit down for a while.
Think I'm just panicking again, as someone said (sorry can't remember who!) I'll be pleased at 24 weeks when at least she's viable. Sounds like an awful thing to say doesn't it?
Hope everyone is well

HMP - I hit 24 weeks on Tuesday - and it was such a relief... Madame Bean has settled right down now, she's nowhere near as active as ds was (mind you, I had a major caffeine habit when pg with ds - could only drink diet coke without throwing up, which may have had a lot to do with it!)

sorry to hear about your hospital trip Floria - it's emotionally and physically draining, isn't it! Here's hoping everything settles right down for you.

Mumpbump - you take it easy!

J20 - we should re-name you WonderWoman!

buffy - I can't believe school telling ds he can't carry his inhaler - they are on really dodgy ground here - what if there's nobody in the staffroom when ds comes to get it? I think it's a really good thing that your ds is going to be moving - and your house has got an upstairs - how exciting is that?

Waving madly at everybody else ...

I have had the nicest day ...

I was booked in to have my waxing done (finally, I had to cancel because that was the day I had the horrible bleed), and just before I left my credit card bill came - and I'd got a late payment charge. When I checked my bank account, the money had left my account in plenty of time, so I phoned up to tell them I was not going to pay it. They agreed, and have taken the charge off the bill.

Now, while I was checking my account for the payment, I found out that I had won £76 on the lottery (I have a subscription - so any winnings get paid directly into my bank account.

I decided to ask at the salon if they could fit me in for some other things ... and they could, so, today, I have had:
*waxing done (ouch) - was going to have that anyway
pedicure
back massage
*half-head highlights
*cut and blow-dry

wow!

My hair was really bugging me, I've been so sick that it's got into a terrible condition, and it's just very thick, and very long, and just hangs there, so they've cut a good 4" off the length, and have cut lots of lovely chunky layers into it - I feel like I've lost about 1/2 stone! I've had copper / gold highlights (I'm quite fair-skinned and have green eyes, hence the copper)

Wonder what DH will say ....