Due in the New Year - waddling our way past the half way mark

[mixedmama]

Hellooooo there

fluffymummy - re the finding out sex of baby, we found out. DP wanted to know but more importantly I wanted to prepare ds(aged 7) for little brother or sister. He had a strong preference for a boy, which we are having, but if it was a girl it would have given him some adjustment time.

Also means we can narrow down name search.

I also found out with ds tho and i didnt feel it took anything away from the birth experience as it was amazing to see what he looking like.

Ah poor you! Well dont' get stressed. Your plan for day care sounds brill, lots of luck with that. Worth it if you can spend more time with baby.

My pregnancy is going pretty well actually. Feel a bit self concsious about not saying how good i feel as other people are achey or sick (MixedMama - commiserations for that). I am blooming really, and enjoying looking so well. My skin is so lovely right now i feel sad it will change post baby!

Baby's dad is doing everything he said he would, leaving me alone when i want. Has started to give me money as he knows i'm not earning enough.

I am quite worried about the financial side, that's my only real big worry. I've got lots of maintenace stuff to pay for my flat, and i just don't know how i'm going to pay it!

Something will turn up i guess...

How far gone are you now? I am 23 weeks. Dunno what flavor i'm having as it was my local hospital's policy not to tell. Do you know yet?

Thanks Awen! One of them is SOOOO cute i am hiding myself away avoiding all eye contact. I really like the name Awen/Arwen for a little girl by the way. Is your name from Lord of the Rings? (I cried during each film what a wuss!)

Neuro - I'm deeply jealous ...my skin goes to pot when I'm pregnant! All the teenage acne I managed to avoid as a teenager (apart from the odd zit I generally had really good skin) has suddenly turned up in my 30's...lol . Oh well, probably better now (married, with kid) than then (self conscious, gawky etc)...!!!

I like the name Anwen as well as Arwen & Awen . Not from LoR tho, was from druidry - Awen - life force/flow.

Afternoon everyone,

I disapeer for an hour for lunch and the thread goes mad.

MotherofZ - I did start learning Bengali until MIL said why was i learning the numbers when that wouldnt help me talk to anyone - this was after one week of learning. I am very good at languages tho and can get the gist of what people are talking about alot of the time and DH doesnt believe in translating as he thinks I dont need to know - altho I translate constantly even the mosst mundane things when in Turkish company - not so important now that i dont really see his family altho i still keep up a little for odd occasions when i like to listen to people talking about me.

Beller - XP sounds like a nightmare. Hope he turns up and doesnt stress you too much.

Fluffy - We are going to ask the sex as i knwo DH is depserately hoping for DD so he is like a child and will prob need some time to get used to another DS if that is the case.

Awen - at me being a nurse. I am a PA but working as a switchbooard operator at the moment hence all the free time to post - I reckon I probably hold the record for the posts on here - as I have absolutely nothing else to do. My scna iis Friday at long last - cant wait, just hope baby cco-operates so we can find out the sex.

Neuro - ugghhh I cant stand LOTR, I am prob completely in the minority as in RL I seem to be. I just dont like all this fantasy stuff - cant get my head round Harry Potter either. Finished Wild Swans by the way, very hard going a I had to reread bits and google stuff so i felt that i had a full picture - made me actually cry on the bus like an blubberiing idiot. Read SOLD yesterday about two British sisters sold into marriage in Yemen - very strange book, a story that really should have moved me but so shoddily written, reading the follow up today. Sorry - book club moment over.

um well fluffymummy I have developed a LOT of small veins on the surface of my skin but on my legs and chest, AND at top of my thighs on the outside IE visible to everyone even with tan/fake tan on, so...despite face looking good, legs have been under wraps nearly all summer and i'm also having to put foundation on my upper chest! Am almost greatful it's not been that sunny. Am hoping they go away, but they run in the family so...you know, i am not perfect!

Oh AND i haven't even got a husband yet. I shall be attempting to find a life partner after i've had this baby, so next year is going to be all about lots of exercise and possibly laser surgery to remove all the veins!!! I can get a saggy bum/all veiny again when the ring is on my finger he he

I am seriously considering the name Arwen for a girl. I love it's meaning. I had a long list of girls names and then one by one gone off them. Got two boys names ready though.

Not that i'm starting a names thread...

Mixedmama are you a mixed up mama or a mixed race mama? I know your dad's Turkish? Or am I going mad?

Mixedmama - if you like that sort of read you should definitely check out 'Mao's Last Dancer' by Li Cunxin. Its waaay better than wild swans and much more true (its his own story, rather than that of his grandmother etc)....amazing book, had both me and DH really emotional. Must admit though, that science fiction, fantasy & fiction are my true loves!!!

LOL Neuro - a mixed mama - Turkissh dad and English mum, although i may well be a mixed up mama sometime too

Mixedmama - I admire your attendance on MM!!!!

Wild Swans - I enjoyed it, in a heartbreaking sobbing feeling desperately sad at some points kinda way. Found it really educational actually, and since then, if i want to understand any times in history, i try to read stories around it as seems to sink in more easily.

WADDYA MEAN YOU DON'T LIKE LORD OF THE RINGS???? HAVE YOU NO SOUL?!!!

Neuro, hon, you're just trying to make me feel better....its not working, but thanks for trying anyway !!! xxx

awen - 28 and hubby taking me out for a nice meal!

Thanks fluffymummy will put that on my list - have to work through my two shelves of books that i have bought and not read yet first tho otherwise i think DH may burn them all. i wish I could get him to read, never mind the same books as me.

ok, I'm bravely going to go off to get some lunch now....I may never catch up again!!!

I'm envious of your mixedness. when i was young i used to pray and pray one of my parents would say 'actually, you're not my child, you are in fact half xxxxxxxx'

It didn't happen, and so i remain a boring old mix of scottish, welsh and english. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

(I wanted to be half Romanian/Middle Eastern/Asian - anything but European)

If i wasnt on here I would just be staring into space answering the phone. This job has the ability to send me insane, but I take solice in the fact that it is temp and only until Dec.

Fluffy i bet you can wear shorts without cringing though

lol @ nuero mixed wishlist...

28 and at the nice meal bit too

Was 32 last month and DP was in Japan for it.

Mixedmamma - DP wanted DD but is very happy with DS beanie - he was just overwhelmed with scan.

Neuro - sometimes your posts jusst make me laugh out load at my desk.

Just think my children are/will be half bengali, quarter turkish and a quarter english - who knows who they will marry. I think at that point they will just be "Mixed". i love it i completely embrace it, i love people trying to guess where I am from and stuff - altho i have mixed friends who have the whole i dont fit type thing, used to lovee telling the teachers at school how to pronounce my name and stuff - hilarious seeing them stumble over it.

Love to go to Japan - one of my book shelfs is full of books on feudal japan.

Awen - I know he will be pleased regardless. Certainly want to to stop stressing about boys names so finding out will help that.

nothing wrong with being European - some people consider turkey to be european (altho they prob havent visited my dads village).

After my last post i did think hmm Turkey is Europe. What i mean is, I wanted dark eyes and black hair. I've got green eyes and brown/black hair so i'm halfway there...

Re: Japan i have been 3 times. On first visit ended up having a fling with a Jap boy and lived in Tokyo for 4 months. Was AMAZING. Spent so much money. Only bad thing which i got caught up in is it really is the ultimate consumer society, but Tokyo, like most capital cities is different to rest of the country.

I visited Hiroshima and fell in love with it. All the A bomb stuff terribly heartbreaking and i did sob, but afterwards i found a Tapas bar and drank sangria and smoked some fags (holiday treat). Got my haircut in a lovely salon where a small group of cute Japanese girls literally sat around by my feet trying to make conversation, apologising profusely to me for their poor english. Was a life enhancing experience going to Hiroshima. Cannot reccommend it or the people enough. They have tramcars too!

Ramble ramble

Well 9 cities at least and only half of Istanbul, rest firmly in Asia.

I have dark brown hair and blue eyes. My family were always very proud of my eyes, altho very common now so I am not the only one.