Due July 08 - Second Trimetster :)

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Hello all sorry to start this without warning but feeling terribly left out as my pc is broken and dp's crashes at the sight of such a huge thread
So here we are!
Cant even get the register to do a 'roll call'!

As we are paying for a 20 week scan we will ask the sex then, have known with the DDs.

Not bothered either way but would like to know if we need to redecorate and buy new clothes.

I think this one will be another girl.

isaidno - we could always swap

Interesting what you all have to say about finding out sex of baby.

Isaidno - I also found out with number 3 and like you had 2 boys already....I also was desperate for a girl and got myself convinced that it had to be...was very upset when found out it was another boy...then felt guilty for feeling sad! OMG what we put ourselves through eh?

However, got dd on 4th pg but and then another ds so you just never know....all babies are lovely no matter what!!

Exciting to think about though ...although if this is another boy I will need some serious help with a name....

evening all,
Well i have been to the NE and back to pick up new car
Not sure about finding out the sex of the babies,we have boy, girl, boy so who knows???one of each would be good We have never found out before so we might leave these two as a surprise as well
right must go and sort out DS1 as he has tonsilitis
twinkle

hippo - sending good wishes for you and your baby

hello all

fingers crossed for you hippo

I've been feeling very cliche pregnant over the last few days - getting incredibly hungry immediately, then feeling sick if i don't eat straight away, when I need to pee I need to go NOW and then about 15mins after I've fed I get very sleepy! it's like I AM a baby, not carrying one!

I keep telling myself this means it's a girl as i'm sure I didn't have these symptoms before.. Which I should stop doing as DS is lovely (except for earlier tonight when he did a big poo just before dinner and then massively tantrumed because I changed him rather than letting him sit in it for the duration - not easy trying to wipe it all up with major leg-kicking going on!!) and is essentially the reason we are having another, so another little boy would be great, and I don't want to get myself so convinced it's a girl that I'm sort of disappointed if it's not.

We found out at the 20-week scan last time and it definitely made me feel more of a bond with him, thinking 'we're having a little boy' rather than just 'we're having a baby'.

Apparently there is no such thing as a genetic 'tendency' towards one sex or the other in families, it's always 50-50. So I've heard...

How much are those 4-d scans anyway? (roughly)

The place near me in West Sussex is about £150 with photos and DVD.

Plan to have one done towards the end.

I'm desperate to find out the sex of baby No.3 my scan was at 13+4 and i was told thre was no way of nowing as all feotus will have what looks to be like a boy at this stage and if it is a girl it changes over the next few weeks....I was very dissapointed she wouldn't even have a look for me

Oh well have to wait 6 weeks to find out now!!

Hi Ladies,

LAZYHIPPO - sending you great big giant sticky vibes and lots of positive vibes - God it so draining emotionally so I hope you are managing as best as you can [hug emoticon]

ISAIDNO - not GAY but transvestite? My pal's son is gay and he hates all that camp stuff!

PTIYPASI - where are you? What happened at your scan - please tell us good news.

We had our scan today and all is well - thank God - I am always a nervous wreck but they took us immediatley and LO was jumping around like mad!
Just one thank goodness - I was beginning to worry about twins as my DD is only 15 months and I don't know how I would manage if we had twins too. I still don't know anyone here yet and won't be making friends for the forseeable future as I feel to crap to socialise. Still sick and horrid. Insomnia here is awful too.
My due date has been changed - brought forward - hoorah! Now 20th July. I thought I felt LO move last week but I definitley did 2 nights ago. I always feel as though I am having palpitations but in the centre of my chest, not near my heart IYSWIM.

With DD I first felt her move at 15 weeks, with this one it was 12 ish - am now 12 + 4.

My breastydumplings are just beginning to grow now. I think we are cooking a blue one this time as my boobs were hard and swollen form 5 weeks before and I am craving protein like mad this time. We don't mind either way, although my Mum is desperate for a Grandson! I told her in no uncertain terms that when this littly is born and happy/healthy that is it - I hate being pg so much. I just want enjoy my kids and life again. Am feeling for my LO as I am rubbish Mommy at the mo'. Miserable and irritable.

SWEETKITTY - I ended up putting ear plugs in at 4am the other night 'cos of the wind - it reminded me of living in the Shetland Isles - I hate the wind - it makes my very anxious.

I like the rain though - I find it very restful, although it was snowing again here today.

SCOTTISHSUSAN - I think you are soo allowed to have a crabbit day - your life sounds mad!
How are all the schoolies treating you?

Welcome to MISSCHIKA AND NANNYJO.

1 -26JUN TJUICE (FIRST BABY)
2 -01JUL LIBRALADY (DS 3.8)
3 -01JUL MISSCHIKA (FIRST BABY)
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20 -10JUL MINNIE1 (2DD 1.10 & 11MTHS)
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Well since everyone seemed to have been relieved about lots of us having the same pains when sneezing and coughing. I thought id ask if anyone is experiencing or previously experienced what i am now.

Keep getting a terrible shooting pain in my right thigh and short sharp pain in my bum (IFYWIM) If im sitting down it kinda makes me jig about abit. Have started getting backaches the past few days too.

Anyone else or is it just manky me?

that sounds a bit like sciatica pigleychez, which is related to pregnancy, but can happen to anyone. It's when a nerve is being pinched between vertebrae, and sends a kind of shooting pain down one leg.

I suffer occasionally, but pg plays havoc with weight distribution etc which often aggravates it.

Glad to hear scan good Rumpel!

lazyhippo - thinking of you, hope all goes well.

pigleychez - sounds like you might have a bit of SPD (when hormones cause your ligaments to relax and then your pelvis isn't as stable as it normally is) I had it last time round and have already started getting pains this time (though mine doesn't go down my legs), had physio this aft and was told what I expected; don't open legs if aggravates it (??!!) - including when getting out bed/car, no breaststroke legs when swimming, bend when lifting and try not to lift if don't have to ect. Have been given a pelic support, but if gets really bad they can give you a belt thing (nice!), though a front ended up on crutches, but is rare for it to get it that bad. Is something to mention to your midwife, a lot of people get it, but sometimes there's things they can do to help. (try a hot water bottle or bath to calm it).

All went well at our scan today and just one baby in there!! DH was visibly relieved and asked them to double check.

I can relate to it even more having had DD and am far more excited this time around. I'm thinking it must be aboy because I have felt so utterly exhausted with this one which I didn't with DD...

Congrats on the scanPutThatInYourPipeandSmokeIt

Thanks for the advice girls. Hope it doesnt get too bad

Rumpel and PTIYPASI - great news about the scans, always a relief and great to get first look at the baby

pigley - I agree sounds like it could be the start of SPD. Everything loosens up in pregnancy though and you will get all sorts of weird aches and pains. My SPD hit at 15 weeks both times and I have twinges just now. Mine affects my sacro-iliac joints (thats your bum ones at the back) which feels like someone is shoving a broom handle up your bum and also the front which is more of a dull ache, also radiates down from my hips as well one leg more than the other. I have a support belt but I found a birthing or exercise ball good as well as taking a deep bath every night.

Hippo - hope your hanging on in there x

Rumpel - Great day to have a baby, my
birthday .

Hippo - So sorry you are having a rough ride, you sound like you've got a strong little baby in there though.

Congrats to all who have had scans - I've got mine booked for 31st Jan, will be 14 weeks. Not too bothered about it being a bit later as we had a quick scan over Christmas (to rule out ectopic) so we know there is a baby and a heartbeat which is all that matters

Morning all! I am eating jellybabies at 9:07am.

Well a growing baby must need a good supply of sugar and gelatine mustn't it?

Morning all!!

Feeling great today....god it's so confusing feeling so different every day!

Rumpel - the staff at work are all great and are making sure I'm ok. I know some of the parents are aware as I work in a village only 10 minutes from the village I live in and the villages use same gp's - you know how gossip gets around

I'm not ready to tell class yet especially since they are 10 and 11 yrd olds who are about to do sex ed with school nurse this term - can you imagine the looks and questions I'll get - "We know what you've been doing Miss" Ha! Ha!

Hope everyone else is having a good day xx

Morning all!

Glad it's Friday and I can leave work early today! Since having my scan and having told a few people at work my motivation to actually do any work has completely disappeared!! Does anyone else have this problem!?

Morning all

Lazyhippo - thinking of you, hugs. X

Had midwife appointment today and she is fab. She was appalled (sp?) cause doctor had forgotten lots of stuff and didn't pass on my notes to her and i'm 15 weeks. To be honest as its my first didn't know i was missing out on anything!

Had a few rough days again this week, thought i was over it!

Also sure i felt LO move the other day, sort of a fluttery/bubble movement. Only happens when i'm lying flat in bed and not all that often. Am i'm going mad??

i told my work today and now i am even more paranoid about proving that i am not sick or whatever. maybe its because i am the first women to be pregnant here and they don't have an official policy on maternity yet. once i know what deal i get, maybe i will chill a bit.

Morning guys

I thought I would share a good thing thing that has happened to me during pg - after 10 years of unexplainable adult acne (tried absolutely everything out there but it has always come back), it has completely cleared up, and I am spot free for once! I can't believe it!

Hope everyone well - nearly the weekend... xx

mummywannabe - you are not going mad - that sounds like baby moving. You will feel it more often and with more force as the weeks progress.

TJuice the statutory maternity pay is now for 9 months and companies now have to be very careful about how they treat pregnant women beecause of Sex Discrimination laws. Have you been working for the company for quite a while?