Still blooming and getting bigger

[littleoldme]

Decided we were getting to full. Hope this works.

Hmmm.... maybe i should be grateful of my small bump so far then? Dont know if i've already mentioned it but i found a pic of me on my last day at the office with 6 weeks to go before i had DS and my bump is really small and neat! Maybe i will be a small carrier or summat.

ooh sorry about my typos in last post. Knackered and going to bed now.

Hello ladies, I'd like to join too, if I may . I am due Nov 30th with my first. I don't know which flavour though, as in my local authority we only get one NHS scan at 10-14 weeks and they had a bunch of signs up saying 'DO NOT ASK US THE SEX AS WE WON'T TELL YOU' - lovely! I guess I could fork out and go private to find out...

Is anyone on here planning a home birth? I am hoping to go for it as hospitals scare the bejeezus out of me!

Hi all and welcome to newbies! I have been away to Northumberland for weekend, was lurvely, stuffed my face and had lots of hot showers (our boiler has conked out and can't be replaced for 2 weeks). Congrats to all those who have found out the sex of their baby - how exciting!
My bump is exploding! But I can't stop eating - I feel hungry all the time. When I read that you only need an extra 200 calories in the last 2 months I nearly choked on my chocolate hobnob ! I also get the weird heartbeat thing but was too freaked out to mention it to DH so glad is not just me!
Absofruitly - I would love a homebirth but DH would be nightmare so going to lovely midwife led unit - v.chilled, almost looking forward to it - ha!

Morning again,

RG - totally agree with you about buying new stuff - just got a bit of a shock at some of the prices and can quite see the pair of us buying expensive everything just to be sure it is the right thing, and it would be nice if just some of it was free . On the other hand I am just starting to feel excited about buying things and since there is no free stuff on offer I don't have to feel guilty about all the shiny new things!!

By the way - my boobs are still growing at about a cup size per month - anyone else experiencing the exploding chest? It is starting to get on my nerves!! I was a C cup already - it isn't as though I really need to be an F surely?

Hello ladies,

Welcome all newbies - what on earth took you so long to discover us?!!

Can't believe the list has gotten so huge either - Feb/March must have been very busy indeed! My excuse is that it's my birthday and valentines both in Feb. But i do actually remember for a fact that there was no hanky panky on either night. I was annoyed with DH on birthday (because we had just moved and I told him not to buy me a present this year to save money, but when he actually didn't buy me anything I went into a strop).

Am logging in from mum's today but should finally have broadband installed at home today so can get back to feeding my mumsnet addiction.

Littleoldme - did you make it to yoga or is it too painful to contemplate right now? I haven't been for a couple of weeks because of working but think I will be going on thursday.

As for the whole debate on whether or not to splash out on the LOs - I think you should spend what you can afford on baby if it makes you happy or baby happy. After all - you don't add a new little member to your family every day so you should be allowed an indulgence here or there if that's what makes you happy.

We will be getting loads of stuff (cot, changing unit, clothes, bouncer, sling etc) from my sister and my SIL. Plus lots of things used by DS which can be reused - toys, steriliser, breast pump etc. So we won't have very much to buy new. Which is why I have decided to treat myself to a new Phil and Ted double buggy for £399.99 (cheapest price so far) because I'm not going to be buying much else.

Also, I have justified it by earning extra money to pay for it rather than dipping into existing funds. So my conscience is clear

I wouldn't worry about it too much RG.

Better go jump in the shower - have my neice's 5th birthday party to attend this afternoon. She has recruited me to apply glitter henna on her and her little girlie mates - FOR FREE! Cheeky little minx

Sorry about it being a long post - and great to here about all the healthy scans!

Hi everyone and welcome to the latest newcomer, Absofruitly, who i have added to our list!

FCH - due 1 Nov, SURPRISE
Choudru - due 2nd Nov, LITTLE GIRL
Seabiscuit - due 2nd Nov, LITTLE BOY
Dawn2820 - due 3rd Nov, SURPRISE
GeekInPigtails - due 4th Nov, SURPRISE
pinklady 82 - due Nov 4th, LITTLE BOY
Muppetgirl- due 5th Nov, LITTLE BOY
purplepants - due 5 Nov, SURPRISE
Annainnz - due 6th Nov, LITTLE GIRL
Tonysmum - due 6 Nov, SURPRISE
LizzieO - due Nov 7th, SURPRISE
Silkcushion - due 7th Nov, LITTLE GIRL
Pixiefish- due 8th Nov, SECRET
Sparklygothkat-due 8th Nov, LITTLE BOY (next growth scan on the 8th aug)
TheHun - due 8th Nov, SURPRISE
GermanGal - due 9th Nov, scan 27th June
NYKate-due 9th Nov, LITTLE BOY
MrsJ - due 10 Nov, LITTLE GIRL
Aikigypsy -- due 11th Nov, probably-a-girl
Easywriter - due 11th Nov, LITTLE GIRL
Jetgirl - due Nov 11th, SURPRISE
Mimi - due 11 Nov, SECRET
GoodGollyMissMolly - due 12 Nov, SURPRISE
HollygoHeavily - due 14th Nov, SURPRISE
Revelyell- due 15th Nov, LITTLE BOY
ZoKe - due 15th Nov, LITTLE GIRL
Mrss2006 - due 17th Nov, scanned 14 May (no more scans)
Muckers - due 19th Now, LITTLE BOY
Sarahloumadam - due 20th Nov, LITTLE BOY
Bearus - due 21st Nov, LITTLE BOY
Fingerbobs - due 22nd Nov, SURPRISE, next scan?? they say 34 wks owing to placenta previa but will be making enormous fuss to get one a bit sooner
Jossiejump-due 23rd Nov, SECRET
Ara - due 24th Nov, SURPRISE
RGPargy - due 27 Nov, LITTLE GIRL
Superloopy - due 27th Nov, LITTLE BOY
bunnybaby - due 28th Nov - SURPRISE
Littleoldme - due Nov 28th - LITTLE BOY
Loopymumsy - due 30th Nov, LITTLE GIRL
Absofruitly - due 30th Nov, SURPRISE

I think alot of us are planning home births here and quite a few home water births too (myself included).

I dont feel so bad now re the shiny new pushchair thing. I think once baby starts really kicking all the time I will hopefully feel more willing to shop for her but all the time she's small and being cushioned by my high anterior placenta, i dont really notice she's there so much (except for my non-existent waistline!).

Everyone feeling fine and dandy today?

Choudru - have fun at the birthday party today. Glitter henna sounds great!!

hi all

hope the osteopath works for you silk, good luck..

Zoke, my heart goes funny most evenings, either beating really hard against my ribcage and sometimes feeling fast and uneven too. MW said not to worry tho, so im not.

I keep walking in and out of shops empty handed! cant seem to bring myself to take anything to the counter! cant work out if this is sensibleness, superstition or just plain cowardice

Loopy - I've been feeling bubbles since about 14 weeks. I'm just desperate to feel her kick me more often than once a month or so lol (i'll regret saying that, wont i?!).

A friend of mine asked me to send him a photo of my "bump" today but i had to tell him that unfortunately i just look rather thick around the waist and tummy area so no pics were going his way!!!

I get out of breath going up the steep, hot, stuffy, but really not very long flight of stairs to my attic room. When I get there I always feel I have to lie down. That said, I seem to do all right (apart from the acid reflux) when walking outside. I also went to aikido last night for the first time in about a month. I wasn't sure if I was going to do any more, but it felt fine. I took about 2/3 of the falls lightly (would not recommend this to a pg aikido woman with less than about 7 years' experience, though), and walked out of the rest of the throws. In the last 10 minutes of class, the baby woke up and started kicking me in the crotch, which is a very strange senstation especially when you're trying to concentrate on throwing someone.

So yeah, out of breath, heart occasionally racing, but not really out of shape. Odd.

I think if I were in a less isolated place (going to be staying at my parents' place, way down a long dirt road) I would think about a home birth, but the local hospital there has a great midwife, and if anything needs serious medical attention, they have to airlift you (and/or the baby) off-island anyway, so it would just be too much. Besides, I feel a bit old (I'll be 37) and this is my first one.

Those of you that are breathless have you had your iron levels checked. Breathlessness is a sign of anemia.

I have breathlessness due to my ITP playing up but having had tests at the hospital last week they've decided to leave me as I am for now.

Saw midwife today- everythiink ok considering the blood situation

Pixiefish - deffo not my iron levels. I'm still taking my pregnacare so i'm probably ok. I'm just incredibly unfit, which is the price you pay for being a pie-eating gym-avoiding lazy couch potato laptop addict!

RG. Just a thought

on the buying stuff front I can't seem to stop myself - the only shops I seem interested in are baby ones! I htink I'm gettign addicted though I'm trying not to buy too much crap as having worked with under-2's for the last 8 years I know a lot of the stuff they try to flog you is unneccesary. So I have my list of what I think is essential/useful.

A mum of one of the children I look after phoned today to see if I wanted "a few" bits and pieces she was going to get rid of. I said yes and she turned up with a massive box of clothes aged from about 3 months to 2 years, there must be about 60 items of clothing there! So generous of her. She has good taste too and it is all really cute stuff. Dont' think I'll need to buy any more clothes now! Think the baby has more clothes than me now...

Pixiefish

Anna - i think if i worked near some high street baby shops i would possibly be tempted to go in there and buy something but as i work in the city, the only shops up here are mainly bloody food shops and £1,000 shirt shops.

It's probably easier for me to have bought nothing so far because i have to go out of my way to the baby shops etc to actually buy anything at all! All we've done so far is had a look at a buggy (and not bought it). Oh and i looked in a shop on Saturday (but bought nothing).

I bought some bits in the next sale recently

Also bought my pram months ago far too early really

Bought first babygro at 6wks pg.

Knew it was WAY WAY WAY too early but couldn;t seem to stop myself, being pg seemed to have tutned me into hormone-filled softy who went all mushy at small items of clothing. Hmmm, bit worrying.

Hi, Thanks for the reassurances, revelyell, sarahloumadam and all - feels better knowing a lot of people have got thumpy hearts ! It calms down OK soon enough.

Pixiefish, Know what you mean about possibly anaemia, but iron levels are fine....though this should make you laugh - before we knew I was pregnant, went to doc's complaining of tiredness, breathlessness, gums bleeding a little, nausea throughout the day and told him I'd self-diagnosed and suspected it was anaemia...he asked was I positive I wasn't pregnant, to which I said yup, so sent off the bloods...before they came back, we decided to do a test and we were 8 weeks along !! Derr - felt like a right muppet !

Choudru - how did the party go ? Glittery henna - brilliant - I'd be right in there !

RG, Loopmumsy and absofruitly - how go the home birth plans ? Midwife didn't bat an eyelid when I mentioned I'd like one (said she was reassured that I was prepared to transfer if needed), plus they have a pool at the hospital, so at least they know about water births. DH is v supportive and we've chosen the pool....but am pretty worried about telling my M and D this weekend! I think they'll freak a bit and think I'm putting the LO (is that Little One ?) at risk, but we're only 8 minutes from the hospital, driving normally ! I've researched it loads, but does anyone know any great websites where I can just print off the facts and take them along with me, so they can read through them ? Not one for arguing and haven't got the energy for it either !! Don't want to feel guilted out of going for it though.....

FCH - re: boobs - am lurving having those 2 bumps growing too ! Got measured the other week and about 2 weeks later, put on bra and burst out of it - the middle plastc strap broke, so yeah, reckon got a coupla cup sizes to go yet - currently DD !

AnnainNZ - those babygros are sooo cute and irresistible, aren't they ? Have to say tho', the clothes are pretty much the only thing we haven't got yet (even got high chair, which won't need for aaaages - how OCD am I ?!) Buying clothes seems to be where my weepiness comes in - have been v practical about everything else and then go to the clothes section and the floodgates open ! Too embarrassing !

Pregnacare/diet question - umm, I took folic acid, but should have taken/be taking Pregnacare too ? I do worry that I don't eat the 5 veggies/fruits per day....

Apologies for the huge post - quiet work day and needed to have a rest with feet up, so have time to read everything properly !

Loopy- next two!!!!!!!

There will be NO MORE babas in the PF household. For one thing I'm getting too old IMO and for another I can't risk another pg like this one. Plus we only have a 2 bedroom house (will extend but still not big enough)

Zoke - the home birth plan so far is: I want one, with a pool. Ta very much.

My midwife knows i want one (well, i mentioned it to her at my last meeting with her two months ago) but i will obviously tell her that that's my definite plan when i meet with her again next week.

As for the boobs, well i have no idea what size i am, although i suspect i'm growing out of my 40D stretchy bra type things that i got from matalan! Might have to go back and get some more hammocks!! My DP is loving the norkage growth!

my MW also didnt flinch when i said i was wanting a homebirth... and, i was seriously nervous of taking it a step further and bringing up hypnobirthing in case she wrote me off as a complete hippy nutcase, but she's seen all that before too and said in her experience it was a good thing. so yay!

very of you all with your cups running over. was flatchested before, am still flatchested, except now my belly makes them look proportionally even smaller!

this is the site that always gets recommended by lulumama on the childbirth thread..
www.homebirth.org.uk/