hello everyone and welcome MrsB!!
Just wanted to pop in and say hi. I'm in the middle of an insane urge to paint every single surface in my house. I'm currently doing the bathroom, but I'm going round wielding a paintbrush covering up bits I think the painter missed last week! Is this nesting? Prob but not the traditional get down and clean the skirting boards kind.
Penny I am envious of you buying loads of clothes, I can't even contemplate it until what we laughably call the nursery is finished. Currently it's a pretty scary place with a huge heap of junk piled in the middle of the room. When we get back from France at the end of July we're having the big push (well, not THE big push, that comes later!)
I'm v impressed at all the dh/ps giving foot rubs. Mine won't go near my feet, but to be fair I do have a verruca on one which I can't get rid of until the baby's born (damn that over protective pharmacist!)
My ice cream fetish continues... have discovered a great way to up my calcium levels, a milkshake made with 2 bananas, milk, fresh strawberries and a scoop of coconut ice cream. OMG it is amazing (and so slimming )!!!! Oh and I wouldn't worry about the egg thing in ice cream, the stuff you buy in the supermarket is all made using pasteurised eggs, and so long as it hasn't defrosted and refrozen it should be fine. I'm such a naughty girl because I had a sausage and a burger from a barbeque yesterday, and although they were both piping hot throughout, it occured to me that I should have cut the sausage through and cooked the middle, and... oh well, too late!
Sorry to hear you're getting kicked about a bit pennypops... Is everyone else getting kicks and movements around their rib area? I still haven't had the slightest kick or wriggle above my belly button. In fact I haven't had any movement above a point about two inches below my belly button. I'm thinking it's one of three things...1) I'm quite tall, so everything's further apart in there iyswim (although I don't really have a very long body) 2) I have a pelvis as wide as the grand canyon and he's sitting really low in there, or 3) he's breech, but if that's the case he's always been breech as I've never had any movement higher up, which is odd as my 20 week scan definitely said position was cephalic, and I'm pretty sure that means head down.
HIWBB - I hope your dh's arm is feeling better soon.
Sophus - awwww I'm quite jealous of your kitten, my cat is such a cantakerous old moo, 17 years old and does nothing but sleep and try and bite me, which is funny cos she hasn't got any teeth!!!
I've had quite a few of what I think are Braxton Hicks... they started out like a band tightening across the bottom of my bump, like a band joining my hip bones tightening up, now they feel either like someone is pressing down on my bump or the top of my bump is being compressed downwards and squeeeeeezed. They're not uncomfortable, but they do feel like I've done a few sit ups.
Right I'm off to finish splattering paint everywhere, have a lovely day everyone, it's lovely and sunny here in London, but there are biiiiig fluffy white clouds which I'm sure will turn in to showers later.
Take care xx