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

choudru- A55- I'm intrigued.

I know the book you mean choudru- I've read them- they're so funny

Yeah Choudru-the books are by Gervaise Phinn, he's great (but there again I'm a teacher!!)

I've just troughed a huge curry . I think we can safely say I'm over the sickness for a bit. It's def worse when I'm busy and tired.

Choudru - mm Mangoes . I want one know you've mentioned them and we've run out hope the packing goes well.

Loopy - great news about your house

Just wanted to take a little straw poll. I constantly feel like I've been booted in my bits and get v sore lower back/ bum if I'm on my feet for more than about 10 mins. Is this a pg thing we all just have to get on with or am I a freak?

Loopy - Yay, well done you. Which one did you go for in the end? The cottage?

Choudru - I think I might check out Gervaise's books as they sound like a laugh. Thanks for the author name Josie.

Hi Superloopy!

The MW was brill today. We booked my pool and chatted about stuff. I was quite keen to discuss what her thoughts would be re. delivery a breech baby at home (DT2 was breech) and though she said she didn't have a lot of experience she would be happy to deliver my babe at home if she's breech. We chatted about bringing DP up to speed on aromatherpy for my labour, all sorts of things really. She's just lovely and really supportive. I really trust her! I can't believe my luck this time as last time the only medical professional that I trusted was a MW but not one that delivered babies anymore. I just hope it all comes off.

Glad it all went well easy. your MW sounds like a real star.

been looking at hypno birthing- think I'm going to buy the cd's and try it- anything other than the traumas I had last time and the 5 day hospital stay. Also looking at a birthing ball

Morning everyone

Pixie, I know a few people who have tried/ are trying hypnobirthing. it's a bit of a crap name which put me off at first but actually i thnk it makes a lot of sense. Of the 3 people i know who have done the full course (about 300 squids i think) one had to have a section, but the other two absolutely rave about their births. they both did it at home and their babies are little contented things that don't seem to cry a lot - the mothers are both convinced it was because the births were relatively calm experiences and free of too much panic, fear and drama.

My other friend is due in two weeks so i'll let you know how she gets on. It's her first baby and for someone who was quite scared about the birth she's positively looking forward to it now.

It makes sense to me that if you go in with less fear you'll be less tense and the whole thing will be less traumatic.

.....just have to convince DP we can afford it now!!

If you buy the cd's and do it at home you can do it a lot cheaper than that ara. the preparation and birth cd are £26 or you can get the full set for £50.

manchester is too far for me to go and that is the nearest place to me that does it

We've got a woman here in Edin so I think I'm going to try and go to her - the friend of mine who's doing it at the moment reckons she's really good. i'm just so bad with hosp i'll try anything!!

Hi everyone!

blimey, so much chat last night - typical as i wasn't online coz of packing etc.

Glad you are all doing well and so glad we have another boy on the thread. I'm also convinced my bump is blue, but my scan on 26th July will reveal all bites nails

Well it's utter chaos here at home at the moment. boxes upon boxes everywhere!! We're just off to buy yet more sodding boxes, but at least we'll be moving on Monday, so that's summat to look forward to!

Also, Choudru - i'm sympathise re the net loss!! i'm so lucky as my provider is coming round on the Tuesday so i should only be without the net for a day. Yayness to the max!!!

Anyway, must dash. The box shop calls.

Laterz everyone. Keep eating and keep well.

Everyone seems to think i'm carrying a little boy too - it's v strange!! They don't tell us where we are so we couldn't find out if we wanted to, but DP, my family and all my colleagues at work are convinced it's a boy!
It's at the stage now where, although i don't have a feeling one way or the other, i'll be blooming amazed if i have a girl!
My mum even blurted out that my Dad should come and have a look at his 'grandson' when i showed them the scan pick. sheesh!

awww Dd2 just felt the baby move, her eyes lit up and you could see she was amazed

Aw how nice - is your LO moving about a lot? i just started feeling mine a couple of days ago. DP is desperate to feel something but can't from the outside yet!

I have been feeling it moving since about 13 weeks, DH has felt it once last week. Its now kicking hard enough to see my stomach move, am now 22 weeks. Its always moving, which is uncomfortable and distracting when I am driving.

Please to hear it SGK!!

I just wish mine would make more definitive movements!!

*pleased

Mine's only just started this past week now and boy do i know about it. Very sharp at times, especially when I'm doing something with dd close to me

Don't know what my LO is doing in there, its has been wiggling and pushing all day. I even felt hic-cups earlier..

Evening All,

My LO is jumping around in there like nobody's business. I can see bump move as well but then I am just over 23 weeks now so it's about right for this stage as far as I remember.

Thanks for the name of the author Josie - Gervais Phinn - that's the one. Didn't know he had written more books, must track them down.

Today we have been packing so sympathies for you movers out there. Completed the bookshelves which is no mean feat in our place.

Also decided to post some photos at last. My scan pics are not as impressive as what I have seen from others on the thread - very blurred and I thought the stomach was the head for ages

So I decided to post some henna patterns instead he he

Absolutely shattered now so going to put my feet up. Got to visit the in-laws tomorrow. Made the mistake of suggesting I bake a cake to take with us.

I haven't baked a bloody cake for about 2 years so why I suggested such a random thing I do not know.

Hi Choudru!

All i can say is W O W ! ! ! Your henna art is very impressive and so beautiful!! I'm really impressed!!! You have a great gift there!

Dont talk to me about packing. Urgh!! Got one more day of making sure that everything is packed, i.e. including the kettle etc, all ready for the big day on Monday. I'm sick of the sight of cardboard boxes!!!

lol @ you offering to make a cake. Are you completely bonkers?!! Talking of cakes tho, i made one a few weeks ago for the first time in absolutely years and although i got all the ingredients right etc, the oven i used was different so they turned out a bit like really fat biscuits Oh well, maybe the oven in my new place will be nicer to cook with, as it's one of those big 6 burner range thingies (sort of!).

Any of you TV or film buffs? During my commute to and from work i sit and watch DVDs so i've watched practically every series of everything you can think of lol. Have just finished watching Hot Fuzz tonight and recommend it to you, it's quite funny! It's made by the same people that made Sean of the Dead and stars the same guys in it too. Really funny film!

Anyway, enough of the rambling, i'm off to watch more stuff for a bit.

Hi everyone! I haven't checked in on this thread in ages, and haven't read everything, just the last few posts. I just realised that my due date is only 4 months away! Suddenly it seems really, really soon, besides which about a month of that time is going to be lost to packing up and moving, then going to visit my boyfriend and meet the rest of his family in Ireland. So I really only have about 3 months in which to get everything done, to get ready. Yikes!

Mine (probably a girl) is kicking around like crazy, especially after nice sugary caffineated drinks and when I am trying to go to sleep.

I'm thinking about hypnobirthing, but I'm just going to get a book and CD as there's no way I can afford the course.

I was also looking at the Phil & Ted strollers -- they're getting bigger here in the US, too. I'm glad to hear that they also exist in the UK... and therefore probably in Ireland, too.

I'm feeling like it's all pretty overwhelming, particularly with moving (back to my parents' house) in a month or so, then planning to move again in January or thereabouts, probably to Ireland, to do this in more of a young-family way than just on my own. But we'll see.

Aikigypsy, osunds like lots of moving aorund for you in the next few months...hope it all goes well.

Choudru, your henna art is spectacular, wish I was that artistic ...always got high marks for effort and low marks for result in art classes at school

RG I liked Hot Fuzz but much preferred Shaun of the Dead - one of the funniest films I've seen in last few years..trying to think of other good films I've seen lately...and hope you're not worrying too much about movements. I was still getting really faint movements till about 20-21 wks, so faint I didn't know if I was imagining them. And they weren't very often either. They're getting stronger now but I still go most of the day without feeling anything - she seems to wake up in the evening when I'm lying down watching TV.

Had great news last night as went for dinner with friends who lost one baby at 12 wks pg, then couldn't conceive for last year and a half, were just about to start IVF lst month and got positive pg test the day they were meant to be starting it...so happy for them as they're the kind of couple you look at and can imagine with about 5 kids. Saved themselves about 4 grand on the IVF too!

morning everyone!

choudru - wow!!! amazing - you should def be setting up some workshoppy things. they would go down a storm!!

RANT WARNING
had an interesting day at work this week - asked when i was 7 weeks pg about the possibility of working at home for a day (due to getting up 5.30 and having to commute 700 miles/week - v tiring) - they FINALLY called me for a mtg about it. Am 21 weeks today - only took them two and a half months!

The upshot is that i have to write them a work plan from no till nov, and can unofficially work a day per 5 day week at home if it fits in with everyone else (ie my manager)

---i'm pleased about this as thought they were going to say no, but the meeting was almost as though i was being reprimanded...v strange feeling. They were saying that they wouldn't normally consider this if it wasn't for my tiredness, and that it was my choice not to move over there (i do see their point but it's not just my choice - dp has a say too, and to move there would mean we would have no family/friends around us when LO is born) - BUT, by the same token they knew where i was based when they offered me the job and being a young-ish woman presumably they knew there was the possibility of me becoming pg at some point?!!

i'm just feeling a bit pissed off about their attitude - in the time it's taken them to get into gear to actually discuss it with me, (their initial reaction was - 'no-we won't consider that till you're about 7 months pg), i've had to do 2 sharp stops on the motorway because i was so tired i wasn't concentrating well enough and my doc's told me if they didn't agree he would sign me off sick.

I regularly work from 7.30 till 8pm (with commute on top) for them in order to get things done in short timescales and am so disappointed they don't feel that it's reasonable to show a little flexibility to me. They are an effing local authority for god's sake, with a work-life balance policy that includes the option of home working. Why am i being made to feel like i am skiving?!!!!

i'm going to bloody leave after maternity and they can flounder along by themselves like they were before i started there. hmph.