Due Jan 2008.......................Asleep on our feet..............zzzzzzzzzzz.....................

[MotherofZ]

Hello
am over here...!!!

Bettymama - think I mentioned below with my first pregnancy had a lot of discharge to begin with, so the m/w took a swab and it came back positive for Group B Streps. At that time the regulations were you would only be administed antibiotics if:
a) you had a high temperature during labour
b) you went into labour before you reached the 37 week mark
c) your waters broke and you had not had a baby 24 hrs later
I was never given antibiotics in labour and non of the m/w seemed to bothered that I have GBS even though I was screaming it out to everyone!

Have not been tested for it this time, just noted in maternity notes, but as mentioned below, am going to ask m.w if she will test me for it when I see her in a couple of weeks.
Mrs McJnr - don't think I will be given antibotics in labour as m/w has not mentioned it to me - but will bring it up with her when I see her.

I've been checking out the recipe section on here - I am SO hungry and there are so many good ideas on there. Will def be copying and freezing them in December!

Motherofz - quite amusing that you were screaming this out to people in labour - its amazing what they ignore! Actually - I was going on the other day about being strapped down to the bed on my back and being continuously monitored even though I didn't want to. I have spoken to my dh about this and he has reminded me (because the brain likes to forget these things) - that I arrived in hospital 91/2cm dilated but with quite severe bleeding. On listening to the heartbeat dd seemed distressed and when they broke my waters (cos she was coming out in them) she had pooed in them. SO - yes it is not normal to be strapped down on your back and that is why I was. Sermon has ended!

Mixedmama - I would like to see camel and oil wrestling - or even both together!

Naetha - I have 2 middle names and its ok but people think you are posh....

Hi girls, trial ended early today so have had time to catch up with everyone's news. Wasn't it wintry this morning - woke up to driving rain against the window and just wanted to stay snug under the covers and start maternity leave NOW! Sadly have trials booked up to the end of the 1st week in Jan - with due date on 15th feel I may have been a tad unrealistic

Awen - we should definitely meet up in Soton then - am likely to be there on Friday this week and Mon-Wed and Fri of next week. Any good for you?

mum2sons and mixedmamma - my mum had bad PND too and I am worried I will as well as depression has blighted her life but I have so far been exempt. I get scared that it will all be such an immmense change for me I will be overwhelmed. I think it helps to think we will all still be monitoring each other here and can say if things are getting too much without feeling judged as we might by people in RL,

Nicky6 - hope you had a cool party. Feeling for you on the nursery front - I had a breakthru with dh at the weekend when after a stroll thru JohnLewis looking at nursery furniture he accepted (without me saying anything!) that his vinyl collection wd have to go up to the loft.

On the general man front - why can they never find anything in the fridge - seriously, it can be right in front of their noses and they cannot see it and you have to find it for them, or worse they open a new bottle/whatever because they wd have had to move 1 thing to find the open 1!!

Lilyloo - we were also in mothercare at the weekend and I stole a brochure by mistake!! I had no idea till I left the shop with 1 in hand they were a £1 each - mind, I think that is really cheeky for a brochure. Like you mixedmamma I thought the nighties were a smidge pricey for the kind of wear they will be getting. Thought I'd wait a little to see how much more huge I'd be getting.

On that note - I seem to have suddenly doubled in size in 24 hours - either beannie had a growth spurt or a muscle in my stomach just gave up trying any longer. I was getting into bed and dh said (less than flatteringly) "Hell babe, what on earth has happened to your belly?!" On the plus side we went to a party on Friday at the funky Skylon place overlooking the Thames and I wore my maternity party frock and got so many compliments for my apparently blooming state (far more than my less than glamorous unpregnant self would have got) I felt positively babe-like. Mind there were a couple of "Can I ask, are you pg?" to which I managed not to aggressively bark "Of course I bloody am - I'm 6 months, did you think this was fat, bitch!" Cd've blamed it on hormones I suppose!

Ooof - immense post, sorry! Take care all xxx

Meant to say - Mrs McJnr, had made a mental note of your first due date and was going to say next week, but you will fortunately be away - at least you'll be able to take the day as you need to without getting in the way. Must feel very strange. big hugs to you both.

Bad days the last couple of days.

I haven't eaten anything proper since Saturday afternoon cos it just gets thrown up. I didn't sleep last night due to stomach cramps and a bad dream that the baby was dying in me but the hospital wouldn't operate to try to save its life.

I've been off work today to try to sleep and Ive had a couple of hours but still nothing staying down. S/W hospital last night about cramps who suggested going to the MW.

Went MW this afternoon and baby's heart is beating fine and been told as long as can feel movement then cramps shouldn't be worried about but if I'm still cramping tomorrow or it gets worse they're gonna want me to go in to check i'm not in early labour?!!?!

I've been so bored at home all day and feel really paranoid. I spent yesterday changing the bedroom around so panicking that i've overdone that and hurt baby but every kick is like a big reminder all is ok.

Just hope this has gone by tomorrow so I don't have to go back into the hospital.

Oh Jenwish does sound very scary to you. Hope you have a quiet night.
Mrsmcjnr I meant to post this earlier but I think I had Gremlins in the pc today . Ofcourse you can get pg while bf. Thats exactly what happened to me with ds2. I remember my mw wagging her finger at me saying'breast feeding is not a form of contraception'. ds2 is the proof. Mind you 15 months is a nice age gap I think. Thats what ds4 and this one will be
Oh barristermum you do make me laugh. Glad you got some lovely compliments from the guests at the party. I hope you gave DH a poke in the eye. I agree totaly on the men cant find anything thats in front of there nose comment. In fact I have learnt over the past 13 years that its all of the male species. I have a gripe on the dh front just because I can. My dh drives me nuts at dinner time because as soon as he has finnished eating he gets up and starts washing up without any regards to weather any of us have finnished or not. It drives me crazy. I have told him time and time again but I guess Ill just have to live with it.
I saw Michael Palin last night too and felt a bit sick at the oil wrestling thing. My Mum said exactly the same about the camel wrestling too. Shes been to Turkey a couple of times and doesnt recall seeing any camels
Well thats the end of my long thread. Eastenders soon then a long soak inthe tub I think. My backs been a bit twingy today.
Hope you all have a good night. xxx

evening all hasd a quick scan through
Jenswish hope things settle down on the cramps front
Can't believe how many of us went to mothercare at weekend and lol ata Barristermum 'stealing' a brochure
Awen hope you not too lonely!
MrsMc that must be really hard, love the name though would be my choice if dp agreed.Go for it Beller.
Love Lola too bettymama.
Wow Gingeme on the vests your little one won't be cold then
Naetha using Garteh would be lovely tribute to your brother, i used my mums middle name Francis for my ds middle name.
Hello everyone else
Hope all ok. Just filled in my maternity stuff today to send off. Will finish with MrsMc on the 21st when school breaks up for xmas but my official start date for mat leave will be my due date the 5th si can squeeze in as much mat leave as i can. Don't have to return then until the 6th Jan !

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Jenswish - hope the cramps settle x

bettymamma - i got a fan last time! ds in my bed right now. no starfish impression for me tonight

barristermum - def would love to meet but next 2 weks are out as....

hosp called just before 4pm to ask if ds can go in tomorrow! he is excited as wants his brave boy present. I am worrying like anything. Am staying ib with him . Have to be there for 7.30.

I am sorry that I am not very good at keeping up with this thread. LOts on mind.

Awen wow all the best for tommorrow. xxx for your ds. Hope hes ok.

hi all,

I'm fresh back from the most relaxing long weekend ever, staying at a friends place in Italy. I could have stayed there for weeks.

On the way home, for the first time ever, a man on the tube offered me his seat. Wow. (More amazingly still I didn't take him up on it because I only had two stops to go and I was feeling fine).

We spent much of the weekend discussing names for the sea monster, unfortunately I don't think we made as much progress as many of you have so far. Current contenders include 'Thunder' and 'Falcon'.

(No, don't worry... I'm not serious. Just letting DH have his fun and we'll get the books out soon!)

OK. Now I have to go back and catchup on four days of posts!

hi all i havent been on here for a while anyway im 22wk now and baby is kicking me like mad now
we had our 20wk scan on monday 17th and we found out the baby is a little go had her legs wide open lol
so we will have 3 girls we have chosen the name Layla Chloe Leigh for her but who know might end up changing it but might not

hope everyone is ok

Morning all,

NAetha - Think Gareth would be a lovely idea fo a middle name. I want to use my mums name as middle name if its a girl,she died 16 years ago, although her name was Robina, so not sure if its fair to inflict that? What do you lot think? And im asking for honesty!!

Bettymamma - Could be!!!

Mrsmcjnr - I didnt know that was your angels name..it is really beautiful, must be tough time coming up, will be thinking of you xxx I read in the paper this morning about the cutting of credit limits, bad timing! x

Jenwish - Hope you feel better soon, try to take it easy xx

Barristermum- Glad you enjoyed yur "do" and looked glam! Tut tut for "stealing" the brochue, but im with you..cheeky to charge in the first place!

Lillyloo - I think it would cause too much troubel to use Ava....she really is serious..has chosen 2 girls names, isnt even pregnant and dosnt want a boy! hahahaha oh the reality.........She is one of my best friends though, so I did laugh at her and try to put her right x

Awen - good luck today, will be thinking of you and DS xx

Mummy2littleprincess - Congrats on your little pink bean!! Glad the scan went well, sounds like she put on quite a display xxx

Hope everyone is well....i slept slightly better last night, but still wake up alot and have seriously weird dreams........
xxxx

Morning all
Good luck with your DS operation Awen. Let us know how he gets on.
Mummy2 - I love the name Layla - that's was actually our second choice after Hannah. Still trying to decide on a boys name.
Jenwish - Hope you feel better.

Nothing much going on here, just starting to feel very tired in the evenings when I come home from work and want to collapes on the sofa (not quite when DD is on her 'wreck the house' campaign or wanting me to read Dora 20 times in a row). Keep saying to DH that I wish I had house-help!

Hope everyone is ok.

Ohh by the way DD was so sweet yesterday. Took her in the garden and she saw some of the leaves falling of the trees and said 'Mummy leaves broken!!'

Morning everyone,

Just been catching up.

Jenwish - I had to be checked out for early labour last week due to cramps, luckily not early labour for me but really put my mind at rest and funnily enough actually made the cramps (which I now suspect were BH) feel less, thinking they felt worse cos i was stressing over them. I really hope you feel better soon.

Barristermum - at you booking your trials so close to due date. Glad you had a nice evening out, unfortunately i just dont seem to have had a glowing stage this time, so congrats.

Gingeme - I hate it when my DH gets up before dinner is finished. I like dinner to be social but he just eats and that is it, very strange. We even get invited to peoples houses for dinner and sometimes only DH and I sit at the table for like 10 mins and eat by ourselves, very strange. In my family we sit for about 5 hours sometimes.......

Awen - good luck with the op.

Beller - I think middle names dont matter so much, in terms of what they are as they are not really used, so i think Robina would be fine. We used FIL name for DS1 and will use my dads for this one, neither of which are particularly flattering, but they will never really use them.

MoZ - so sweet of DD. i wish my DS would say a bit more. But, we are trying to get him to speak 3 languages all at once, so I guess we have to cut him some slack.

Morning to everyone else.... hope you are all fine and dandy. Good luck for any scans, appointments etc that are being had.

Oh [extreme effing and blinding].

I wrote a huge big post and then for some reason the internet just disappeared, my post with it

To briefly summarise:

Beller - in all honesty to me, Robina is a "whoops we wanted a boy" name, could you modernise it with Robyn, or your mum's middle name? Having said that, as a middle name it wouldn't be the same

Sabinar - I'm very of your long weekend - sounded lovely! Don't worry about names either - before we came up with Ben, Thor, Hrothgar, Beowulf and about a million names from fantasy books we read were on the list!

Awen - good luck for DS today - hopefully everything will go swimmingly and he can get his brave boy present AND be rid of those godawful tonsils

Jenswish - sorry you're feeling so awful - hopefully its a bug and you'll get over it quickly - the worry really doesn't help though does it

Barristermum - I had a few comments yesterday saying I'd got bigger - they only saw me on Friday as well so I must have had a major growth spurt over the weekend!

As for me, well I'm chilling out a bit after getting a massive job delivered on time last week. Unfortunately I've got nothing to do this week, but I still have to look busy (and can't trawl the internet all day) as the big boss is in today! Eek! I might start writing some lists...I feel this is something I should do at this point!

I love lists.... I am a real list maker if not a list follower.

MM - same here, trying to get DD to understand two languages. It's good that she spends 2-3 days with in-laws as they speak to her exclusively in our second language choice where as at home DH and I speak English all the time.

It is so diffcult because so few of us speak Turkish (just me and dad) so remembering to do it and trying not to exclude everyone else is diffcult. When he is 5 he will be going to Turkish school anyway, so that will make up for it.

ILs dont speak english so he will get bengali hopefully relatively easily.

are you going to teach your children to read and write begali as well? We are just going teach the speaking part of it and not bother with the reading and writing.

Not sure with the Bengali, leave that to DH (altho he cannot read and write). I doubt it to be honest. With Bengali I guess it is as much or as little as DH and his family want to do, I feel certain he will speak.

With Turkish I can read and write as well, so I will try to teach him that as well. He has Turkish books and things, and Turkish school will teach him writing. Plus it is really good for cultural learning, they provide music lessons in traditional Turkish instruments, Turkish football league in UK for kids.

The thing is we have loads of Bengali friends with children and also lots of DH family are here therefore he will get almost everything he needs from them culturally, but because my family is more mixed it takes more effort on our part.

oh my goondness has taken me 45 mins to catch up.

The weekend was great fun, my mum and stap dad surpassed themselves my mum in catsuit as bananrama and my step dad came as boy george with wig makeup the lot - they were wonderful - bit annoying not skating and nearly gave in but thought not worth the aggro. Was in quite a lot of pain though and by 12.30 01.00 I was tired and getting very irritable on the drive back home then apologised the next morning and had a few tears - idiot - but my brother laughed at me which made it all ok. SO after cooking my dh's side of family breakfast and everyone went i was vv tired. DH lovely stripped all beds washed all the stuff remade all the beds - he is sooo good on the domestic front ( much better than me)

Minor breakthrough on nursery - we may have found an alternative and i think everyone he has spoken to ( including some of his female friends ) have said he needs a reality check so I think the problem will soon be sorted.

We have not looked at a single item of any kind of baby wear, pushchair buggy car seat etc.

I did go on john lewis website but all too confusing, how on earth do you choose, i thought i was being good with new car with isofix but loads of the car seats dont seem to have it - , anyway i must remember i am up to 4 weeks behind some of you.

Our 23 week scan is this friday and we have our first antenatal class tomorrow - very scary.

barrister mum you are nuts - return that trial in january. Our job is ridiculous at the best of times you have to finish at christmas and then chill in jan until the big day arrives. I have a murder that runs up to christmas (hopefully not over) and some of my friends think that is oerdoing it and I'm not due til 28th jan. so return it.

I have black tie do next month and a wedding (evening only) any suggestions for party wear???

weighed myself today and touching the 2 stone mark

havent weighed myself since i saw my mw at 17 weeks and had put on half a stone - suspect it is much more now.

weight gain seems to have accelerated over the past few weeks weeks, seems to correlate with my sudden bump growth spurt....