Still blooming and getting bigger

[littleoldme]

Decided we were getting to full. Hope this works.

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
iris66 - 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 5th sept)
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

RG - you are not alone, I too have noticed a recent "darkening", in fact (TMI warning)I was having a bit of a prod at them the other night, as you do, when some drops of milk came out. I was so shocked and a bit wierded out, that I then promptly bust into tears like a proper psycho preggie woman. Seems way to soon - a very odd sight !
Mine haven't got much bigger lately but I am sick to death of them looking like deflated balloons, I can't find an underwire-less bra that makes them look anything other than distinctly floppy. I went to a wedding last week and treated myself to an underwired one just for a few hours - so nice to be perky again !

Loopy - thanks so much for your HB rallying cry. I'm actually feeling a bit better about things, cos went to visit the hospital (Whipps Cross, London) at the weekend and was pleasantly suprised. They do actually have two birthing pools, but they're so new, they weren't on the bumpf I'd be given. Think I'll go for hospital water birth this time (as first one and DH is clueless)- then HBs if I'm blessed with more !

Aftnoon all

Hope y'all fine and dandy, like RGPargy also starting to feel tired, altho' up until about 14.00 i feel like superwoman and have loads of energy, and then zap its all gone.
completely stuffed myself last night with chips, fishcake, curry sauce, rounded off with cheesecake. then pulled up comfy chair (seriously getting painful bum bones, anyone else ?) to watch DVD and was snoring in chair 30 mins later like some old codger after sunday lunch then went to bed but couldn't sleep bloody mossie in my room made a complete meal of me, hapless thing flew into my path this morning tho' and boy did it get squashed, must have been a pint of my blood come out if

LO is a particularly wriggly little thing, does this mean i'm in for hyperactive baby who'll never sleep

Well done Sparkly!! Knew you could do it!!

Iris - yeah DS worked like a little trooper yesterday - he had to unload summat like 3,000 tiles from a lorry. That must have HURT!!! They dont have work today tho as it's raining and roofers dont work in the rain lol. I hope it's sunny tomorrow!

Seabiscuit - you are still OK to wear underwired bras during PG, but they MUST fit PROPERLY. I'm wondering at what stage i will get leakage. Think i got it with DS but i really cant remember tbh

Lizzie - i wish I'd come round yours for tea last night!! Fishcakes, chips and curry sauce sounds like heaven!!! [drool] I know exactly how you feel about falling asleep like an old duffer tho - i think i'm revisiting that stage now. Bugger!

oh my good god....look at this ladies bump

www.mumsnet.com/Talk?rn=90789&topicid=49&threadid=370084&redir=90789

Well done for injecting yourself SGK

LizzieO - that's pretty special, poor woman! She seems amazingly chirpy about it tho! And btw, I reckon I've got a hyperactive one cooking in here too, seems like every day the kicks are more frequent and more dramatic - I'm just glad the baby's so strong tho

RGP and Iris - sorry I haven't posted in a while, please don't sack me?!

I've been trying to keep up with you all, but haven't posted much because everything's pretty quiet in the geek household. Baby's growing and kicking, we're making snail-like progress on sorting out a room (v of everyone who said they'd already mostly sorted out room/hospital bag/life in general). Just coming to the end of a week in which the in-laws have been down to stay. It's mostly been lovely - they've washed up and weeded the garden, and paid for a trip to mothercare, and MIL has a life-time of childcare experience which she's fairly gentle about sharing with me... But I'm looking forward to having the house and DH to myself again now Actually had a bit of a moody-pg-lady evening yesterday, when I got home from a hard day at work and they were nattering away in the lounge - had to leave DH to cook the tea and hide upstairs for some 'quiet-time' and a bit of a nap

Mostly I've been really lucky so far with side-effects - no significant aches and pains yet, no stretchmarks yet (sorry to those who have!), and was sleeping really well. But last week I started to get heartburn at night every so often, and I think it's getting worse. I've never had it before, so no idea what to take - keep forgetting to go into a pharmacy and ask too. It's starting to affect my sleep enough that I've felt a bit rubbish at work yesterday and today

Still, feeling pretty proud that I'm officially third trimester now, it's very exciting And all the activity from the bump makes it seem more real and immediate that we're actually going to have a little person in our house soon!!!

Hi Geek. [waves]

Dont worry, we wont really sack you!!

Sorry to hear about your heartburn. Go get some Gaviscon! It's perfectly fine to have during pg and you can even get your doctor to prescribe it for you (and then it's FREE!!!).

I've got a massive bottle at home and a small one that i keep in my handbag so i can swig away as necessary.

I guess it was my turn to sleep last night, the first time I've slept through in at least a week. Maybe it's the change in the weather (cooler here now, at last) or the fact that I actually started making progress on the packing last night.

I have been wearing underwire bras all along. Haven't found a non-underwire bra that's worth the bother yet. I am looking at BF bras now, though, in hopes that I don't get too much bigger. Do you know, bras are made up to size L (that's an L cup, as in A B C D E F G etc.) Those poor women.

Hi all

Wanted to introduce myself and join in. My name's Nicola and my little boy is due 28 November.

I'm finding it pretty tough to sleep at the moment too. It's making work almost unbearable. I'm a solicitor and my hours can be long, and the idea of getting up everyday and not knowing what time I'll finish work, is starting to finish me off.

I'm beginning to think I should have opted to take maternity leave a bit earlier. I'm supposed to be working up to 35 weeks (my midwife's suggestion) but I don't know if I can take for that long (I'm now reprimanding myself for sounding so dramatic). Anybody else struggling with long variable hours?

Anyway I am looking forward to watching this board and geeting to know you all.

Hia nicola. You can finish any time you want to after 11 wks befroe your EDD you know. Just means it's shorter the other side. With dd I worked till I was 34 weeks but was lucky- teacher and finished just before the Christmas hols and dd was due in january so I managed it like that.

I on;ly work part time now and I'll keep going I think till the week before if i can- 3 hrs a week teaching and i can sit down so not a problem

Hi Nicola and welcome!

We're quite a fast moving chatty bunch so i hope you're ready to stick your voicemail on and keep up!

I also work in a law firm (although i'm not a lawyer - thankfully) so i know how hard you guys have to work. I've seen far too many people crack up under the pressure put on them by the partners so make sure you're not one of them. Take care of yourself and your baby boy and remember - YOU COME FIRST!

I've added you 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
iris66 - 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 5th sept)
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
Nicolatabb - due 28th Nov - LITTLE BOY
Littleoldme - due Nov 28th - LITTLE BOY
Loopymumsy - due 30th Nov, LITTLE GIRL
Absofruitly - due 30th Nov, SURPRISE

hello all and welcome Nicola! Long hours sound crapola, I am a teacher but have been on hols for 3 weeks and no students just yet so trying to rest while I can - not looking forward to hectic start of term in a few weeks. My colleagues are great - are yours sympathetic/supportive at all?

Can relate to sore bum bones LizzieO! Also getting stitch-like feeling in side which I have read is ligaments stretching but combo of sore bum and stitch means I can only get comfy if lying of sofa with knees spread out - v.ladylike . Breasts are still under control but in general starting to feel like a baby elephant. Went for a bike ride the other day and tried to tie my cardie around my non-exsistent waist!

That woman's bump is amazing!

Just remembered I have a growth scan 24th August so have added that

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
iris66 - 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 Growth scan 24th August
Sparklygothkat-due 8th Nov, LITTLE BOY (next growth scan on the 5th sept)
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
Nicolatabb - due 28th Nov - LITTLE BOY
Littleoldme - due Nov 28th - LITTLE BOY
Loopymumsy - due 30th Nov, LITTLE GIRL
Absofruitly - due 30th Nov, SURPRISE

DH sorted out the baby's room today and put the cot together, so thats done, he needs to fix the wardrobe though, as the kids were playing hide and seek and MIsdee's dd2 climbed into the wardrobe and broke it [whoops] so thats need fixing..

What a busy day on here. Well done on the injection Sparkly

Sarah - I teach too. Aren't holidays brilliant. I keep wondering how I would have made it to work somedays am so buggered.

Welcome Nicola - Long hours sound complete pants Finish early and look after yourself and LO. Hey we are due on the same day. I envy you going for a bike ride. We've got 6 and I can't ride any at the mo c'os of SPD . Or as I like to call it , fanny falling off disease.

We've had new carpets fitted today. When I was 18 I used to dread the day I'd get excitied over soft furnishings and decorating. Now the time has com I'm really rather enjoying it.

RG LOL at the thought of you sacking people. I like the idea of our thread having a human resources dept.

Off for a nap.

oh my, we're having hte builders beginning to knock walls down tomorrow, so god knows when ill have anything like a room full of baby things.

welcome nicola! kind of different, but i can sympathise with the hours. i am freelance, plus work from home, so the self discipline i need at the moment to keep myself off mumsnet, facebook, baby clothes sites ad infinitum is ... well, i dont have it. which means about every three days i have massive panic that im gonna miss my deadlines and do something like a 14 hour day and STILL miss my deadlines. really really hard to get myself up in the morning and not flop on the sofa for half the day when the tiredness (yes its coming back to me now too) hits. although im not really trying to equate that with hauling myself via commute early every morning. sympathies!

Geek, i echo RG- Gaviscon is your new best friend.

Well done Sparkly! very brave

Ive woken up with one swollen and really tender gland under my right ear/at my jawline. hurts to eat! no idea what this means, no idea whether its worth bothering the midwife about. maybe a quick GP visit in the a.m. i think im being a bit neurotic as of course a google search brought up 'toxiiplasmosis' (sp?) immediately. argh!

Littleoldme - I think i would be dead excited about new carpets too! We only have two carpets in the house - one in the conservatory and one up the stairs and those aren't great either. I would be wooping with joy if i had brand spanking new ones!!

Sparkly - glad the cot's finally up. You are lucky - our baby's room doesn't even have a ceiling atm!! However the plasterboard is coming tomorrow so at least i wont have to worry about stray spiders falling on my head on the rare occasion i take a peek in there!

Revel - i dont envy you with builders in. It would stress me out seeing all that mess. i hate stuff like that and prefer to be out of the way. Oh and never use google for medical stuff. it always comes back with a load of tosh. I've lost count of the amount of times my DP has put "sore toenail" into Google and it's come back as testicular cancer! lol!!!

Right, better stick the steaks on. [drool]

youre very right RG. on both counts. i could do with a google amnesty and also a builders amnesty. and they havent even arrived yet! (delayed til monday!) it does stress me out. even washing up not done makes me freak like some crazy kim and aggie character. i lived like a student before i became pg. now, i feel like im about to explode if the bath isnt cleaned every day.
scrap amnesties from google or builders, i need an amnesty from myself...

wooooo!!! Loopy!!! yay @ keys!!!

Incidentally, do you have to get a letter from the PCT agreeing to a HWB?

Revel - just chill yourself and turn a blind eye on the mess-to-come (if you can!).

Hello!!

Just survived a week in Wales with the extended out-laws and it is sooo good to be home!

We have started doing some actual organising for the baby and I am relieved to see that we are starting at the same time as the rest of you - I was wondering if I was getting a bit too excited! We are moving the study to turn that room (the second biggest after ours) into the nursery. The preps are almost done in the room it is going in to except for the carpet, which is going down on Thursday morning.

I have ordered loads of stuff - prams/ car seat/ cot/ matress etc, and it is just brilliant!!!

I am now having to start up a list of things I have done as my memory is becoming distinctly sieve like!

I went to see SIL and her 10 day old DS on Sat and I am so jealous that she isn't pregnant any more - can't wait for that to be me!!!

Also - saw her pool - I was really surprised how big it was although I am not sure why - I am trying to decide about having a pool. DH is now very on-side with the HB thing as his brother waxed lyrical about how well it went for them.

By the way - anyone else lost their apetite? I just don't seem to fancy food much which is really not like me!!

Hope you are all well

hi FCH

Glad you survived the week away! Excellent that you're getting organised.

I'm the same re food. going off it lately. Very odd for me too!!

Uh-oh! Rant alert!

I am so angry (well as angry as you can be with the three most beautiful girls in the world!)

Today (as I mentioned) my two DD's had their best firend for a sleep over.

Everything was going too well, everyone ate their dinner, brushed their teeth etc etc.
Got into bed, mucho, mucho giggling (well, it was never going to be any other way).

Then there's the elephant like thumping of feet every now and again, still normal fare for a sleep over, (why would you be in bed just because you were put there with every intention of you going to sleep at 8pm??)

Downstairs DP and I start watching The 'Trevor Eve shouts at people for no good reason show' (Waking the dead) and about 20 mins in we hear running water. Three year olds and water not being the best mixture DP pegs it upstairs. At his cries of 'this is totally unreasonable girls' I follow to find

a) the three of them naked in a bath which has about 3 inches of water in it.

b) cream smeared on almost every surface of the bathroom (loo seat, floor, shower cubicle, ottoman you name it). This turns out to be a 3/4 full tub of diprobase (Ar*e!!) and half of a £90 tub of sun cream (There's a lot of sun exposure going on in our life and we're pretty picky about sun cream)

c) the wash basin is blocked with a mixture of facial tissues and water

d) an empty tube of childrens toothpaste and dove conditioner

e) the ottoman (an ikea job with square holes in the top) has had a mixture of shampoo, toothpaste and water poured over it. This is where we keep our bed linen, I estimate in about 6 loads of washing everything will be clean again!

Grrrrrr!!!

I told them off in my sternest voice, I was really angry (I'm not sure it worked though one of my DD's was smirking a bit) and made them all go to bed without another word lest they be put in time out.

And the total bl**dy cherry on top is that my bump is sore from trying to jump out of a swimming pool to save another friends daughter who'd managed to climb out of the pool and was trying to stand on a wobbly table. I forgot about my extra girth in my haste and launched myself out of the pool only top be rudely arrested by the lip of the pool. I felt sick afterwards for about an hour, still don't feel great.

Three year olds take the p**s don't they? Just cos they know they're cute.
I know I may not sound it but I'm so annoyed with their behaviour tonight.

I guess I should say don't respond as I'm just venting, but I'm not gonna!! Give 'em hell, they deserve it (and don't dare be so brave as to venture that I actually should have made them sleep at 8pm, life's too short )

By the way, we were checking on them regularly right up until about 5 mins into waking the dead