Still blooming and getting bigger

[littleoldme]

Decided we were getting to full. Hope this works.

Morning everyone

Silk - I'm feeling tearful, aggressive and generally delighted! I'm finding my bizarre moods as is DH.

Avert gaze is easily offended.

Dh had me in stiches last night. I told him my fanjo was itchy. Through a sleepy fug he indignantly responded that " It's not a fanjo; It's a c*" Her really was quite incensed.

Hi all amazing what a bit of sunshine does to your mood! last week & over the weekend I felt really low and tired but feel loads better now.

Pixiefish - so sorry for your pants news but, as everyone's said, at least it's been identified early so you'll be monitored well over the rest of your pg (not long - 2/3 gone nearly!!) Meant to mention before..about the post natal hecticness..could you employ someone to help for an hour or so a day if you've no relis nearby (post natal doula?) Even an extra pair of eyes to watch one of them may help.

Muckers - wow - it makes it all so much more real when you get a weight too! My mum came with me and, like yours, was fascinated. It was a lovely experience for her to see her grandchild moving around. I felt like I'd done something really nice for her!

Anna - I'm not sleeping well either. I think I was about 7mths last time before my bump made moving around so awkward in bed (bigger bump through lack of muscle tone I think ) it's a right PITA. I comfort myself that at least it's me waking myself up rather than a LO crying & waking me from a deep sleep - that joy to come all too soon eh!

MW appointment later (it's 4 weekly from 24 weeks here)so fingers crossed she doesn't find any sugar in my sample. LO has been thundering around loads so know he/she's ok. Be interesting to see if she can tell me which way it's lying as I keep wondering whether I'm feeling a punch or a kick!

Oh god it's morning again.

Why when your on holiday from work do you wake up at 6am every pigging day and when your at work you have to force yourself to wake up when the alarm goes off!!!

I just want one lay in before Monday, any ideas, dont think getting ratfaced is allowed

Off to do the shopping and then finish hanging lining paper in the nursery with dear old mum huffing and puffing up and down the ladder, (wonder if I could get sued for sending a 64 year old up a ladder while I stand around wishing she would go a bit faster)...

Hi Purplepants

Hope the MW app't goes well.

Hi everyone

Feeling generally ok. I feel quite blooming really, but i still dont look pg to outsiders, just very fat! I have some tops that make me look more pg than others and the one i'm wearing today is very flattering and i dont look pg at all!! I suppose that's a good thing.... right???

It's funny tho, because i recently found a picture of me that was taken on the last day in the office when i was pg with DS. I had six weeks to go and from the size of me in the pic, i wasn't very big at all! DS was born 3 weeks after i left so i never got to full term, but my bump wasn't massive, like some people's i've seen. I wonder if i'll still have a smallish bump this time around?

Rg - know what you mean. I feel massive but looklike I've just eaten too many pies. I'm trying to wear stuff that makes me look a bit more pg as I want to feel pg rather than fat.

saying that though I'm about to go our and get a massive roll full of bacon and avocado scrumptiousness.

Hello all

Blimey this thread moves fast!

Littleoldme - you made me laugh out loud with your DH's fanjo comments!

Pixie - hope you're feeling ok about your hg results. Remember that knowledge is power so it really is better that you can get it treated - even though you'd rather not have to go through it in the first place. Thinking of you anyway.

Been also thinking lately how much I am relying on my body's ability to stay well and cope throughout this pregnancy without too much intervention. I don't know what I'd do if anything did go wrong healthwise but I know that I'd feel a bit miffed at my body for 'not trying hard enough'! Apart from these weird waffly thoughts, am feeling pretty good, very pregnant but a bit achy in the pelvis region. Now I know what it feels like to be old.

Hope you all are keeping well.

Bearus- I know what you mean. The physicality of the whole process has taken me by suprise. I normally gyming, cycling, hiking and all manner of energetic things. Five mins to the shops now and everything hurts. Talk about lifestyle change.

yay!! no sugar (despite me stuffing 1/2 bar of green & blacks last night )looking good for a homebirth

RGPargy/littleoldme - v of your neat/small bumps. I look ready to drop already

Booked in for a growth scan in 6 weeks now. Went to the consultant today, had a bit of a titter that everything is so differetn to last preganncy but I am so shattered. He siad blood transfusion only a short term option so more likely to be steroids and iron infusion.

Loopy- they've told me yetsreday that it's gone too far for iron rich foods and ferrous sulphate as it's to do with my ITP so they said I just have to sit it out till next Wednesday and see what the haeamatology team say. If I get worse I'm to go in though

Hello everyone.

Have just had 3 days of working in a high school.

Did enjoy it but I am SO exhausted today I can barely put one foot in front of the other.

We are moving house tomorrow and I haven't done half the packing.

And then working sunday evening while DH goes off to a family wedding in Leicester

I admire you teachers so much - I can't understand why you would submit yourselves to such exhaustion every day every week. You must actually enjoy it - exhaustion that is!

I am not worthy.

Will catch up on the thread when have a bit more energy. Right now I have to get back to having imaginary arguements with unsuspecting DH in my head. Don't ask me why but the thought of him is really peeing me off. He hasn't even done anything wrong but I REALLY feel like being annoyed with him.

Good job I'm staying at mum's today!

Pixie - this isn't making things easy for you eh. Lots of love from me over the inter super inter highway web.

Choudru - I bet the kids loved it. AND you've done the three days of work you were concerned about earier in the week. Now you join us teacher types in relief at the arrival of the summer hols.

Hope the move goes OK.

Ignore this it's a rant
I've been working finishing of my marking today and two lots of people have come to the door selling stuff . Or as the latest person said. We aren't selling we're giving free quotes. To 'Replace things like the rotten wood you have here' How dare he disturb me then come round with his over gelled hair and tell me my porch is rotten. Which it isn't C'os Dh treated and painted it. I thnk I'm going to start to to try and convert door to door sales beasts to Mormonism. Or maybe I'll do what my mate used to do - answer the door naked wearing nothing but a pentangle. I'm not a mormon by the way - hey I've just realised I'm ranting agin.

Feeling very

Got a call from the police this morning - one of my staff has had a very serious car crash last night.

She's in intensive care, her parents have been told to prepare for the worst. She's 24!

Luckily I was at home when I got the call but I was in floods of tears . Then had to tell the rest of my team and some of her clients. Have struggled to keep it together today.

Don't know if I would have reacted like this anyway or whether it's worse cos I'm pg.

Was due to drive down the motorway for a meeting this afternoon (same stretch as her crash). Couldn't face it so cancelled meeting.

Feeling really sh*t

Oh silkcushion, that's absolutely awful. how very very sad I do hope she makes a recovery.

Purplepants - i would much rather look pg than fat!!!

Pixie - As others have said, knowledge is a great tool here. good luck!

choudru - LOL @ you wanting to feel annoyed at your DH!! I read that bit to my DP and he said "oh GOD!! so it IS true that pg women are all mad!"

littleoldme - lol @ your rant. The cheek of these people, trying to make you feel bad about your home!!

Oh, silkcushion, it's perfectly reasonable to break down in tears! And probably better that you cancelled the meeting. I woudl not have been in the safest-driving frame of mind in that situation.

As for me, today I am having a headache and the acid reflux/heartburn/whatever it's called is driving me crazy. I have this new theory that it's all because my muscles are too tense and tight and not letting my bump go out in a nice, bumpy way, but rather squishing everything up into my rib cage. I do look thick and a bit fat, not distinctly pregnant. I want a nice round little bump out there!

have emailed you loopy

Silkcushion - thinking of you xx

Choudru - I now have 6 weeks paid holiday, and you wonder why us teachers do the job! (Actually, it is a great job, but I like perpetuating the myth that the only reason teachers do it is for the holiday)
Good luck with the move too.

Pixie and Littleoldme - thanks for the advice. I checked a lot of stuff out with my union (I'm a NUTter) and it seems to concur with the NASUWT stuff as well as the stuff HR sent me! Thing is I haven't actually been given my timetable officially yet so technically I don't know! My HoD only showed me so I could let my dds nursery know about her change of days. I'm meeting with a colleague who has done a lot of work in the same unit to get some advice from her. Her first words when I told her were, 'That will bring on premature labour!' How comforting...

I'm currently suffering a bit of heartburn down to the fajitas we ate tonight. They were worth it though! I'm also exhausted as, like many of you, the insomnia is beginning to hit. A couple of nights ago I was sound asleep until dd woke up screaming. Once she'd settled I was wide awake for the next 3 hours. She decided to wake up at 5:30 this morning and I had actually been asleep since I'd gone to bed. I pretended to be asleep and let dh go to her instead even though he was going to work today. I figured I'd be running around more than him today as he was just going to be at his desk all day, and I needed the rest more than him. I am creating life after all

Oh yes Choudru - good luck with the move!!!

I am suffering with terrible cramps in my legs at night, which stops me sleeping

Just checking something..

again

Sorry bout random messages. I was trying to get a profile going as I realised today our printer at work is also a scanner so I scanned in my 3D 20 wk scan pictures. Got them into the computer OK but can't seem to upload them to my profile. Think I may need to make the file smaller or something.

Anyway, carry on as you were.

Yay it's worked now!

So my 3D pictures from scan are on my profile now.

They're a bit small now...may try to re-scan them next week. Or maybe that's a bit anal of me.

Have a great weekend everyone.

Wow Anna, those pics are really clear!! Shame they're so small tho! Great pics tho!!