NOVEMBER 07 - Part 2 and we're blooming !

[purplepants]

well, I hope we are anyway. I just feel blooming huge!. My beloved white linen trousers split right up my backside last night

I seem to have become addicted to full on chick lit ever since being pg with DS - I don't think my brain can cope with anything remotely realistic or tearjerky.

Dh finally got home at 1.30 this morning with our new P&T I didn't realise they were made in NZ!!!

Bloody hell!! Did he have to GO to NZ to get it???

If you are after a good read i can highly recommend The Kite Runner and anything by Sarah Waters is amazing.

SGK lol at your new name!

Laugh today. Was driving home from la leche league meeting thinking to myself- our anniversary is soon i hope I haven't missed it- eek. Looked at the date ont he phone and it's today. Rang dha nd said- guess what today is? He didn't rememebr either

LOL Pixiefish! Good thing DH forgot as well

I recently read 'A Prayer for Owen Meany' (John Irving) and 'The Time Traveler's Wife' (can't remember author) and LOVED them both. Both fiction. Loved 'My Sister's Keeper', but wouldn't rec. during pg. I kept having to put it down because I was crying so much!

read my sister's keeper, very sad

Today the girls room is sorted but now the other 2 small rooms look like a bomb has hit, luckily DS is still away.

Hi November Mums

Been lurking for a while as my dsis told you a few weeks back(Mrsjaffabiffa)from the May thread.

Anyway, thought it was about time to introduce myself.

Joined Mumsnet last year but then had 2 early miscarriages, Feb and Oct, so never really got into talking on Antenatal threads. Got into it again when spending a week with dsis who lives in France and gave birth 6/7 weeks ago.

I'm 41 and EDD from LMP is 24/11/07 although NT scan moved me on 5 days so anytime from the 19th unless baby decides to make an earlier appearence. Results from 13 week scan was a high risk of DS, but this was mainly due to my age.
Anyway DP and I decided not to have CVS or amnio test but just to see have things progressed.
Had 20 week scan yesterday at 20 weeks + 2. Everything was present and correct and that was reasurring. My DP was desperate to know the sex of the baby as he wanted a little girl as he has two boys from a previous relationship, however another boy it is!!!
During the scan the baby spent most of the time lying face down and the sonographer could not get a very good look at the heart so i have to go back in two weeks so they can take another look and finish ticking all the boxes.

Hope you dont mind me gate crashing the thread, time to go stuff my face with casserole.
Muckers

I know it will be Loopy, I can't even get into the room that will be the baby's. And Ds' new room is still upside down. The girls are happy with their purple room though

RG - no, he was in the states & so got it there (it's soooooo fab! with a 5 point harness that even stumps DS' Houdini tendencies! - result!)

Welcome Muckers glad you decided to join us for hopefully a worry free rest of your pg.

Another vote for My Sister's Keeper here (and anything by Cecelia Aherne), 5 People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Absolom (sp)is another goodie and anything by Paolo Coehlo

Loopy - Well done on more fabulous pinkness.

We're gonna be a 4 women/1 man household (unless dp gives into my wish for another. I think it's great too , very Marian Keyes!! Now there's a good chick lit author!! Little in the way of tears to be found between her covers, she's v. funny (imo).

Agree with most of the book recommendations but I think the alchemist by Paolo Coehelo should really be given a wide berth.

Hi to you muckers.

So, would I be justified in asking dp to go out on this rainy night to get me a mars bar given that today I have consumed a portion of summer mouse, a portion of cheesecake, some toffee popcorn and a handful of cheese and onion crisps?

Summer mouse was good, summer moose better, but summer mousse rocks!

signing in and out- shattered and sick again so off to watch the bill, Big Brotehr and then bed.

See you all tomorrow xxx

Sweet dreams Pixie, sorry to hear you're sick.

Hi Muckers!

Welcome to the thread!

We're quite short of boys so far on this thread so it's good that you've gone one on the way!!

Hope you feel better soon, pixie!

Easy - hope you got your Mars Bar! Ooo think it's cake/chocolate time now. I've been sooooooo bad today

Rest well, ladies. See you tomorrow.

Yes, Phil + Teds is a NZ company, they just won some award over here for most successful exporters. I didn;t realise they were so popluar in UK till I started reading MN!

HOpe you're better soon Pixie.

Easywriter, summer mouse sounds interesting...taste cheesy?

I'm in an incredibly good mood cos it's Friday morning and I'm at home not work...my manager has overbooked staff and I think she's in trouble with her boss about it so she asked me if I wanted to take a day off and put it down as sick leave. I'm not sick at all but have about a zillion sick leave hours owing to me so of course I said yes...amazing how happy an unexpected 3 day weekend has made me.

I had my first weird birth dream the other night - had to have a tooth filled while I was in labour and they wouldn't give me an anaesthetic (for the tooth) because I was in labour! Thought this was highly unfair and shouted at everyone in the dream about it. Bizarre...

Annain NZ - You wait till you're in labour and someone offers you paracetemol for the pain.

I'm rather assuming that when this was said to me my face adopted it's WTF? expression.

I still can't believe it's an appropriate thing to say to a woman in labour.

Well done on a day at home, it's not even 11pm here yet.

I see my midwife tomorrow, I'm really excited as I'm hoping for a HWB and my brain has decided to start processing how this is going to work during the last week to two weeks so I actually have questions for her.

I really hope it comes off!

RG - Did you get that choc cake? Only raisins for me. So virtuous but SO pants.

Hello all I am back online. Haven't really been on this thread as I didn't want to invest too much time until I knew baby was ok as I had a MC last Oct.

Anyway since I last posted I have had 2 scans showing baby is perfect. Yay!! I have also moved house from London to Melbourne, found somewhere to live and furnished it (rental houses do not come urnished at all in Oz) and now want to do nothing.

My baby stats are due 27th Nov and having a boy. Very excited about this as I have a DD already and will get to shop loads as all her baby stuff is pink!!

I am feeling soooooo tired all of the time and seem to be able to eat like there is no tomorrow! The joys of pregnancy!!

Hi superloopy nice to have another southern hemisphere person on the Nov thread.

I'm a few weeks ahead of you (nearly 23 wks) and am not as tired as I was a few weeks ago but i'm still eating like there's no tomorrow, typing one handed as am eating ice lolly with other /(despite it being winter!)

Greetings superloopy - we could do with a few more boys. I haven't had my 20wk scan yet but I'm convinced mine will be blue too.

Loopy hope you manage to make a decsion on the house.

All is well in little land; I've been quiet c'os I have so much work to do and have been feeling v sick. back o the carbs big style

Easy let us know how you get on with the mw.

For some reason I've got a desperate craving for mangoes.

Morning ladies,

Another couple of days of frantic chatting I see. I have realised that when we move I will be without internet for 7 TO 10 WORKING DAYS!!!!!!!!!

panic I demand you all cease chatting for that period in honour of my absence.

Have had a busy couple of days - 2 henna parties in one day yesterday. One in Leeds and one in Llandudno!!! What possessed me to accept 2 bookings at least 2.5 hours drive from each other in one day while 5 months pregnant i don't know.

Never doing it again - although it was as fun as it was tiring.

You house-movers sound like you're making progress.

I so know what you mean about it being boring to watch packing but not be able to help. Not because I always need to be on the go - more because I am so fussy and would be biting my tongue if DH packs things in the 'wrong' way. Going to get my sis over next week to do the kitchen stuff for me.

As for books - Lovely Bones is so sad but I agree - strangely uplifting in parts. Didn't get on with P.S. I love you (mind you I had it on audio book for the car which might have made it a different experience).

If you have or are expecting a boy - do NOT read Kite Runner. It's an amazing book but so touching I could hardly bear it. You will cry and it will haunt you for weeks after you have finished it. Fantastic story though - can't wait till Khalid Hosseini's new book comes out in paperback so I can devour that.

I am reading Empress Orchid and the Historian at the mo. 2 stories about as far removed from babies and pregnancy as you can get.

On my trecherous journey on the A55 yesterday I was listening to book of the week which is some book by a Yorkshire Dales school inspector (forgotton the title).

Had me crying with laughter.

A teacher was reading chicken little to her class and asked them 'what do you think the king would have said if chicken little would have told him the sky was falling down?'

Little boy answers 'bloody hell, a talking chicken'.

I nearly wet myself.

Littleoldme - I am eating about a mango a day right now. They are packed with calories but I think they must be better than the mint cornettos I was gobbling before.

Sorry you're still feeling sicky. Hope work gets quieter soon!