First-timers this year . . .

[TJuice]

I was just wondering how many are there of us . . .

I am due end of June and love my antenatal thread as there is so much good advice there but thought it may be nice to share a little with others who are new to this whole thing too.

Anyone interested?

Hey frogger - I dont get 20 week scans either but have my private scan one booked for tomorrow. Cant wait!

Hello Im a first timer too. Living here in Gran Canaria Nice idea to start a thread for all of us. Im due on 3rd June. And im expecting a girl.

Regarding baby stuff Ive ordered the travel system Quinney Buzz and have ordered cot and furniture which should be here in a couple of months. Weve painted the nursery and put up curtains But not much else Ive bought a couple of clothes and have received alot of presents!!

Hi All, I'm a newbie too so have added myself to the ever expanding list:

Loobyt, 32, due Feb 9th, Somerset
Fluffsuptheduff, 29, due 2nd March London/Herts
turtle23, 36, due 23 March, London/Surrey
Annieroo, 36 due 21st April, Monmouthshire
Missvicki, 24,due 1stMay, Launceston/Cornwall
Yellowflower, 30, due 4 May, London / Middlesex
Mumblesmummy, 22, due 11th May, Cumbria
Fleurie76, 32, due 23rd May, Kent
PregnantPenguin, 30, due 12 June, Wimbledon
bitofadramaqueen, 35, due 22 June, Edinburgh
Tjuice, 32, due June 28th, Copenhagen
MissChika, 31, due July 1st, London
CarrieHD9, 35, due July 7th, West Yorkshire
McChesers, 32, due July 12th, Glasgow
Pigleychez, 26, due 12th July, West Sussex
Gillythekid,34,due 14 July, Hackney, East London
Frogger77, due 26th July, Edinburgh
miamla, 32, due 29th July, NE London
Gracie14,26, due 1st Sept, Berkshire
PrePG, 31, due 27 Sept, London

Like others, I'm the first of my group of friends to be pregnant. Finding it all very exciting, but also nerve wracking. Whenever I think I understand something (eg: which pram) something else pops into my head (eg: routine feeding / bedside cot or moses basket, etc, etc). I'm sure my brain didn't feel like a washing machine on spin cycle pre pregnancy!

Oh hello again PP - have just mentioned you in the June Creme Egg thread.

Hi, just noticed this thread and thought I would add myself to it! Hope everyone is doing OK xx

Loobyt, 32, due Feb 9th, Somerset
Fluffsuptheduff, 29, due 2nd March London/Herts
turtle23, 36, due 23 March, London/Surrey
Annieroo, 36 due 21st April, Monmouthshire
Missvicki, 24,due 1stMay, Launceston/Cornwall
Yellowflower, 30, due 4 May, London / Middlesex
Mumblesmummy, 22, due 11th May, Cumbria
Fleurie76, 32, due 23rd May, Kent
PregnantPenguin, 30, due 12 June, Wimbledon
bitofadramaqueen, 35, due 22 June, Edinburgh
Tjuice, 32, due June 28th, Copenhagen
MissChika, 31, due July 1st, London
CarrieHD9, 35, due July 7th, West Yorkshire
McChesers, 32, due July 12th, Glasgow
Pigleychez, 26, due 12th July, West Sussex
Gillythekid,34,due 14 July, Hackney, East London
MrsHOP, 30, due 21st July, SE London
Frogger77, due 26th July, Edinburgh
miamla, 32, due 29th July, NE London
Gracie14,26, due 1st Sept, Berkshire
PrePG, 31, due 27 Sept, London

Hey MrsHOP you joined the first-timers too. Yay!

Indeed I have - think I need all the help I can get

btw, books-wise, I have a copy of the rough guide to pregnancy by kaz cooke - I was told it was the least terrifying of all the books and it seems pretty good... not that I have read much of it, mind...must crack on with that!

I have also got myself into the habit of moisturising tummy & boobs morning & before bed with palmers cocoa butter, many recommendations for this, and it smells like chocolate too which can't be a bad thing

Know what you mean re needing as much help as poss!

My sister gave me the Miriam Stoppard book (can't remember the title) and it's pretty useful but I haven't really looked into any other ones - I did see that rough guide one though. When you've had a chance to read a bit more let me know if it's any good.

I have also been moisturising boobs and tummy for a while now. I'm using an organic one that DP bought for me and have also got bio-oil which my friend's sister swears by and some emu (?) oil that a friend brought back from Australia!! Have only used that once though as it smells a bit odd!

Hello! I am about to turn 30 years old, in the Derbyshire area. This is my very first baby, and I was completely clueless. Mumsnet has really helped me. So thanks everyone here. Can I add myself to the list? I think I will.

Loobyt, 32, due Feb 9th, Somerset
Fluffsuptheduff, 29, due 2nd March London/Herts
turtle23, 36, due 23 March, London/Surrey
Annieroo, 36 due 21st April, Monmouthshire
Missvicki, 24,due 1stMay, Launceston/Cornwall
Yellowflower, 30, due 4 May, London / Middlesex
Mumblesmummy, 22, due 11th May, Cumbria
Fleurie76, 32, due 23rd May, Kent
PregnantPenguin, 30, due 12 June, Wimbledon
bitofadramaqueen, 35, due 22 June, Edinburgh
Tjuice, 32, due June 28th, Copenhagen
MissChika, 31, due July 1st, London
CarrieHD9, 35, due July 7th, West Yorkshire
McChesers, 32, due July 12th, Glasgow
Pigleychez, 26, due 12th July, West Sussex
Gillythekid,34,due 14 July, Hackney, East London
MrsHOP, 30, due 21st July, SE London
Frogger77, due 26th July, Edinburgh
miamla, 32, due 29th July, NE London
Gracie14,26, due 1st Sept, Berkshire
PrePG, 31, due 27 Sept, London
ThePFJ, 30 soon, due 1st April, Chesterfield.

hello, can I join in?

I'm 33 and due in June - first baby but had a missed miscarriage in June last year which was pretty crap - anyway, so far all seems well this time, although I am still being a bit cautious until we see the little dude
again next Friday at the 20 week scan.

Have no idea about babies - luckily lots of our friends seem to have just produced, so we are getting ideas of what / what not to buy from them and sucking up all of their advice like sponges!

I am 20+3 and my belly seems to be smaller in the morning, bigger at night and so far i reckon I've put on about 1 stone.

It's fascinating stuff. Really. Amazing.

Anyway, enough.......the list:

Loobyt, 32, due Feb 9th, Somerset
Fluffsuptheduff, 29, due 2nd March London/Herts
turtle23, 36, due 23 March, London/Surrey
Annieroo, 36 due 21st April, Monmouthshire
Missvicki, 24,due 1stMay, Launceston/Cornwall
Yellowflower, 30, due 4 May, London / Middlesex
Mumblesmummy, 22, due 11th May, Cumbria
Fleurie76, 32, due 23rd May, Kent
PregnantPenguin, 30, due 12 June, Wimbledon
tallbirduk, 33, due 20 June, Surrey
bitofadramaqueen, 35, due 22 June, Edinburgh
Tjuice, 32, due June 28th, Copenhagen
MissChika, 31, due July 1st, London
CarrieHD9, 35, due July 7th, West Yorkshire
McChesers, 32, due July 12th, Glasgow
Pigleychez, 26, due 12th July, West Sussex
Gillythekid,34,due 14 July, Hackney, East London
MrsHOP, 30, due 21st July, SE London
Frogger77, due 26th July, Edinburgh
miamla, 32, due 29th July, NE London
Gracie14,26, due 1st Sept, Berkshire
PrePG, 31, due 27 Sept, London
ThePFJ, 30 soon, due 1st April, Chesterfield.

Hey all,

Still coughing and sputtering, but it all seems to be calming down some.

Miss T, a girl! How exciting. I bet she'll be gorgeous, you and your DP make a handsome couple. That's so cool that your folks sent you a care package. I usually get something from my SIL in March with girl scout cookies.

17.5 and not feeling proper movements yet, but hoping in the next week or so. So far I still think it's a boy, but won't know for sure until March 6th. My sister wants me to have a girl because girl stuff is cuter. Obviously I am impartial. Weather here in Scotland is still wet and horrible...roll on Spring!!

Morning guys,

T-Juice how exciting you know you are having a girl! I am desperate to find out...my scan isn't until 10th March - I too think I am having a boy but I have quite a weird mystical stepmother and she keeps calling it a 'she' - so who knows?!

Obviously be delighted either way - and luckily the company I work for has just launched a big nursery range so I am spoilt for choice!!

Is anyone else finding their friends acting rather strangely towards them? I am the first in my group to get pg and was at a house party on Saturday - everyone was treating me as if I had a incurable disease!! At one stage I was a bit cold so I put my scarf on, then someone ran out of the room and came back with a blanket to wrap around me!!! pretty annoying but I guess they are just trying to adjust to the news themselves...

thanks everyone! i am chuffed. still waiting to feel kicks myself and I am 20 weeks on Thursday. everything makes me anxious . . . .

I am the last of my friends to have a kid, sHOP, so instead I get all this sage advice and that "oh, your life is going to change so much" blah blah blah. everyone has ?0.02 to put in and while i appreciate the practical advice, i am getting a bit tired of people saying how tired we will be and how much pressure it puts on your relationship. I only want to hear good things!!!!! (okay, i just read The Secret so am all positive thinking-ish - this week . . . )

Morning all (just!)!

Oh TJuice I have had so much advice from family and colleagues - usually the "just wait until you have yours then you'll know what it's like ..." variety. Always framed in the negative too!

Love the idea of your friends wrapping you in cotton wool MrsHOP!!

Hello, just seen this thread and thought I would add myself, so here goes:

Loobyt, 32, due Feb 9th, Somerset
Fluffsuptheduff, 29, due 2nd March London/Herts
turtle23, 36, due 23 March, London/Surrey
Annieroo, 36 due 21st April, Monmouthshire
Missvicki, 24,due 1stMay, Launceston/Cornwall
Yellowflower, 30, due 4 May, London / Middlesex
Mumblesmummy, 22, due 11th May, Cumbria
Fleurie76, 32, due 23rd May, Kent
PregnantPenguin, 30, due 12 June, Wimbledon
tallbirduk, 33, due 20 June, Surrey
bitofadramaqueen, 35, due 22 June, Edinburgh
Tjuice, 32, due June 28th, Copenhagen
MissChika, 31, due July 1st, London
CarrieHD9, 35, due July 7th, West Yorkshire
McChesers, 32, due July 12th, Glasgow
Pigleychez, 26, due 12th July, West Sussex
Gillythekid,34,due 14 July, Hackney, East London
BorgLady, 30, due 15 July, Essex
MrsHOP, 30, due 21st July, SE London
Frogger77, due 26th July, Edinburgh
miamla, 32, due 29th July, NE London
Gracie14,26, due 1st Sept, Berkshire
PrePG, 31, due 27 Sept, London
ThePFJ, 30 soon, due 1st April, Chesterfield.

Felt so rough in first trimester, was flat on my back for seven weeks and lost my job Luckily I'm feeling so much better now, though I lost so much weight my bumb barely notices at 17 weeks.

Got my 20wk scan on Feb 27th and really trying to imagine what it will be like to be someone's mummy.

TJuice I was 20 weeks last Friday and think I am only just starting to feel my little blighter moving around - felt a bit of 'wiggling' in my belly last night, but even then, still not totally sure it is baby and not wind!

I find a problem with the internet is that everything you read seems to imply that everyone else in the whole wide world has been feeling their babies move since 16 weeks (or whatever) and that makes you worry if you haven't. Just another thing in a list of things to worry about eh?

Hello and welcome to the thread tallbird, BorgLady and anyone else who has recently joined.

I was starting to think that almost everybody but me had felt their baby move and have been telling myself that there is nothing wrong with my baby (I am 19 weeks today). For first-timers it's actually more likely that we'll feel something tangible after 20 weeks and helpfully my sister told me today that she didn't feel anything until 22 weeks.

I've got a MW appointment tomorrow so fingers crossed all will be well with the little bubba. And I'll get to listen to the heartbeat.

Tallbird, I am the same - am not convinced I have felt it move yet, my wind has been pretty bad though

I know MissChika - I feel a bit guilty for being so irritated with my friends as I know they are excited but it was getting a bit silly!!

btw ladies - have a look on the discussion of the day section on homepage, there is a great thread on what to buy for the newborn, lots of good advice from mums saying that you don't need as much as you think/are told you do. I have copied the useful bits and emailed straight to DH - he was worrying yesterday about how much everything was going to cost!! In fact T-Juice, What is that secret book you were talking about, I think I need it for him...

Hi everyone - tallbirduk, I've read in a few places that first-timers often dont feel anything till much later so dont worry.

I had my 20 week scan yesterday (which I had to pay for) but it was AMAZING! We saw the LO yawn and get a burst of hicups. I also so it kick me which I felt at the same time. Fabulous.

Someone gave me the rough guide book - quite entertaining and covers a lot. I haven't found it as comprehensive as some others tho. I really like the 'what to expect...' book (but be warned, its a wee bit american).

MrsHop - so know where you are coming from re: friends. They keep gushing at me about how exciting it all is (I'm really not a gushy person) and asking me if I want a chair etc at parties. They are being lovely but its like I'm an alien to them. I can still talk about shoes, shopping, current affairs or whatever!

Oh, and I also really like BioOil but I do keep forgetting to put in on. A bit like the pelvic floor exercises I keep promising myself to do...

Have just had a look at the thread you mentioned MrsHOP - have now made a list of essential items! I am hoping to be as minimalist as possible but think it's going to be a bit of a struggle!!

It seems that my friends have just stopped inviting me out to things now that I'm pg!! [hmmm]. It can be very difficult when everyone is on a mission to get legless an you have no interest in it whatsoever. I sometimes feel really boring - until one of my friends makes an absolute drunken arse of herself and then I feel a teensy bit smug!!

MrsHop - your friends reaction made me laugh! I popped into a bar on Sunday for 10 mins and was asked 'how long can you stand up for?'

I'm 22 weeks on Thursday and have only felt what I think are real movements in the last week or so. Bubbles as opposed to pains. I've been advised the pains are the uterus/womb etc growing.

Regarding bump lotions/oils, First I tried palmers cocoa butter, but found the smell too sweet. Then Bio oil and Mamamio oil (expensive!) but decided against oils, they feel too greasy for me. A wonderful friend got me Mum to be body butter from the Sanctuary and it is wonderful. Fabulous smell and it feels like a mousse/souffle, in a good way. A real luxury, better than any body lotion I've ever tried. As it was a present, I don't know the price and am scared to look, but I'm not going to use anything else until I pop!

Just checked here, only £10!

Boots often do 3 for 2 offers etc on Sanctuary products. They do quite a few different ranges and all delicious (and affordable).

The other newborn list is good - I'm going to cross-check it with my own list (anally retentive planner, I cant help it).

Its really good to know what the essentials are but I'm quite happily going to buy some cute non-essentials too . I feel like the only time you can really be frivolous is with your first? (Dont get me wrong, I dont have money to burn).

Hi all, am feeling very confident in my maternal prowess as just made pancakes properly for the first time this evening, and have been assured by a friend this is an essential motherly attribute!

So far have bought baby a pair of trousers (too cute when was looking for maternity clothes for me) and a toy cupboard from Ebay (when was actually searching for a bathroom cabinet). No other items bought as yet so definately need to look at that list... Friends with kids say best shopping tip is to be scouring the supermarkets for offers and stocking up on nappies and wipes, but they aren't nearly so enticing as tiny trousers!

I've been using Palmers also, but a colleague said the absolute best is Clarins stretch mark cream, she swears by it and said she didn't get a single stretchmark. I have bought some but as it's 30 quid a tube it is high risk areas only, the rest of me is getting Palmers...