Due March 2008 - we'd give in to our cravings, but we're probably asleep

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Welcome!

Preggersagain. - Is it you who is incognito? When are you going to reveal your true identity.

Anyone else actually in maternity wear yet, never mind just researching it? I seem to have gone to bed on Saturday night quite happily still in my size 12 jeans and woke up sunday morning struggling to get into my size 14's . so i finally gave in tonight and fished out my maternity jeans. OMG the relief . I can breathe again!!!

Derah, Spugs, HQ: cheers for the hospital info, most kind.

Dayinthelife: You beat me to last position -I'm due the 29th! Welcome and congrats Same here - not really feeling pregnant except, like Derah says, like an Activia woman, all bloaty and farty. And like you I can't remember what it was like first time around. I only got sick once in 1st pregnancy so hoping it'll be same this time round.

hello everyone loving the positive threads as well I am feeling SOOOOOO bloated its untrue, I think its constipation adding to it as well....any tips for er relieving this would be greatly appreaciated
FlossieF - When I was preg with DD the only thing i did different with my two cats were put gloves on when i changed their litter tray. I have never shut them out of the any room just because DD was in there (even as a baby) and from a very early age i encouraged interaction between them (teaching DD to stoke properly and respect them etc) DD is fanstastic around animals shes 2.6. Some of my friends have shut there cats out once they are pregnant poor things. Plus i believe from an old thread i seem to remember that if you have animals around the house children are less likely to build up animal allergies because it builds up there immunity or something? I shouldnt worry too much, I just used to let the cats wander around in DD's nursery only when I was in there, otherwise the door would be shut, of course i would never let them go on her bed and stuff. DD now thinks she has the best job in the world when shes allowed to feed them

p.s. anyone got a thirst that seriously cant be quenched!! argh!! I cant stop drinking water!

HQ: that Doctor Foster guide was a huge help thanks and didn't know you could use aromatherapy for pain relief during labour I think the beautiful aroma of roses and ylang ylang might just waft out the window just like the tens machine when push comes to shove!

Anyway, way too soon to be thinking about pain relief JUST yet!

Same here papaya, I'm on my 3rd pint tonight. Which unfortunately doesn't really help with the other problem of frequent loo trips!!

Papaya: now you're talking to THE expert on constipation and how to cure it...as my hubby says "does my wife s* in the woods", well yes she does (not scent marking just the only place I could pass one - you know "au natural" in a native squat whilst on my daily walk!!!!) Sorry about this but just trying to help out here!

I was constipated for 9 months last time and it's looking that way again and thehe only way to shift it instead of straining for hours on end for a tiny plotcher at the end of all that bloody effort is a glass of prune juice daily. It is my life saver! I cannot live without it. Also, when you are on the loo arch your back a bit and stretch upwards - this seems to release another one! (works for me) good luck

Hello all, L&S and imjin I have a terrible moth problem too. What did you use to spray? I'm getting desperate.....
Brazilianmum I used to carry a PREGNANCY MAGAZINE (oops caps lock, duh) and fan myself in a very pitiful way with it on public transport when pregnant with DD. It sometimes used to work.
Had a scary then wonderful day yesterday. Don't worry, I'm only sending positive vibes. Turned out I've been shagging too much and I have now been medically recommended to stay off it. I have a cervical erosion (sounds terrible but it's not that big a deal). Had an emergency scan yesterday and it was amazing to see everything is ok.
Hope all is well with everyone else. I've been out to dinner since I started writing this so I hope I haven't missed anything significant.

Hi all -

The choc raisins and all the talk of food on here this afternoon clearly started me off. I have been troughing food all evening... oops! Dh is out with his friends so I figured I'd treat myself - 13 inch pizza and mozzarella and avocado salad from Italian round the corner followed by a double caramel magnum. I now feel sick but it ain't cos of the pregnancy hormones...

Wendyredhead - i hadn't noticed anything about aromatherapy either but i think an epidural is more likely to be top of my list

Right off to scare myself silly before bed by watching Wire in the Blood (which I never liked until I found out I was pregnant - is it possible to crave weird psycho murder dramas?)

HQ xx

Dayinthlife, I had to buy some massive maternity jeans today. Got them in Dorothy Perkins.
Oh and I had a little bit of aromatherapy hand massgae in the early stages of labour. It was pretty good for relaxation alongside my blessed epidural.

rofl wendy TMI

sorry to hear your news rachel and pipsqueeke we'll miss you both around here.

glammarjoram, so glad to hear you're doing ok (well not the cervical erosion, but you know...)

I had a good laugh when I read about all the baking activity. there you are, believing you're an individual with your own feelings and opinions, but it turns out you're just a pregnant lady doing her pregnant lady thing.

I was feeling super guilty when everyone was talking about healthy eating. I am not doing well on that front. Usually I eat pretty healthily, but apparently the baby wants fat and salt. seriously, I'm all about bacon right now. I also had my first craving and made DH go to the shop for me - popcorn.

welcome yardette and dayinthelife we must be near our full complement now I'd say.

does anyone think soldering is something I should be avoiding? fumes etc.? the solder is lead free. I'm sure it will be fine.

Hi Everyone. Continuing the positive vibe I've felt much better today also, no cramps Went to my running club tonight and really enjoyed it, despite the swarm of midges following me down the street! Then got talked into going for dinner afterwards to undo all that good work...

Currently muching on a bar of tablet, not very healthy but yummy

oh yeah and another one rofl @ wendy RH

you so reminded me of a friend of mine. she's very proud of her regular bowel movements.

sorry that should have been 'munching'!

I also have a moth hovering as I type. Really don't like them after my Dad had an 'encounter' a few years ago. One flew into his ear and he couldn't get it out - ended up in A&E waiting for 4 hours with it wriggling around . They ended up getting rid of it my syringing water into his ear and 'flooding' it out, so just wanted to pass on that tip of the day!!

Thanks for that monthlymayhem. I'm sorry your dad had that experience but I wish you hadn't told us! It never even occurred to me that one could fly into my ear. Ear plugs for me tonight!

sorry Glam, glass of water by the bed just incase!

But a covered glass of water......just in case one falls in during the night and I drink it!! I'm getting so dehydrated in the night at the mo, possibly due to my ten trips to the loo last night.

Skidoodle & Dontlookatme: glad I could oblige And how did you guess Skid - I have been known to say "honey come and look what I did! Aren't I a clever girl!"

Monthlymayhem: wow, I will never look at a moth in the same way again after what happened to your Dad! that's the oddest thing I ever heard

right, I'm off to bed now Brothers and Sisters has finished. Hope you all sleep well. Personally I'm hoping for at least an hour and a half of sleep without my bladder waking me up! Night all.

hello all...been awake since 230 with constant trips to the loo and have now given up. It's very quiet at 630. For now!!

Ha - all this talk of constipation. Chocolate raisin anyone?

Ahem. Moving swiftly on - thanks for the cat tips Papaya and CriCri. The cats are incurably nosey and hate closed doors so barring them from the nursery completely would be futile. As for cleaning the litter tray - that duty was passed to DP as soon as I got the BFP. I'm hoping that after 9 months he will have forgotten that it was ever my job.

Anyway, Papaya - glad to hear that your DD gets on will with your cats. When 18 month old niece came to visit, ours freaked out. They did the dinner plate eyes thing, spat at her and then hid for the whole weekend. I'm hoping it will be different when they get to know the child from birth....

Hope everyone has a good day.

bloody nora, are you all pregnant or summat? mood swings from slough of despond to blinding cheeriness in two days I'm bumbling along somewhere in the middle, longing for the hormones to stabilise when the placenta takes over and feel human again. but i'm ok derah, thank you for asking! and you?

had my booking appt yesterday. was 1hr15 late starting. saw stand in midwife, as most had been called onto labour ward. talked mostly about how to manage the waiting list for the endocrinologist i need to see. she neever once asked how i was! i cannot see the community midwives, they do not operate so far north in their own patch!! i have to share care gp (oh god) and UCH. so at present more likely to hire independent midwife. overall, yesterday not heartening in either the quality or organisation of care. i just want someone who knows me to see me again. when appts are only 15-20 minutes in later pg, I've no desire to spend a wodge of that time explaining my thyroid issue, again and again. will decide after scan on 21st.

HQ - psycho killer dramas - yes, I mainlined on them last pg, book after book. dp was getting worried i would birth ted bundy II. it is a psych mechanism for dealing with worry apparently, hearing about outrageous stuff puts our smaller worries in more comfortable perspective. WOrked a treat for me. This time round I have tried them again, but seem to have read them all , so I am diverting myself with medieval history (the Cathar Inquisition anyone?) and histories of great epidemics (Pox! Plague! Syphilis!) which are probably fouler and certainly stop me worrying about labour units as places of pain...

plans for today: pre-holiday organising today, do the board stats tonight. my lovely brother in law who is a SAHD is coming over to play with ds this morning which we are all looking forwad to it.

oops ds is45 trying to89 typ89
as i d960o+. can you tell?