Due DECEMBER 2008 - just over a hundred shopping days to Baby

[LadyThompson]

New thread, people, unless someone else has started one...

Euw. That's bad Effie. I don't really mind having blood taken. Wouldn't actively seek it out, but by same token, it doesn't really worry me too much.

Wow I'm hungry. Trying to give up chocolate as bad for the little beast, but someone just offered me minstrels and I had to have 6. damn! Dried mango just doesn't have the same satisfaction factor...

oh poor you! I still have a massive bruise from a week ago - one needle went in fine, the other they couldnt' find the vein and I bled a gorgeous blue bruise the size of a 50p piece.

Morning. Much love and thoughts to Snowwombat at this difficult time.

I think I've got the best pregnancy brain story but if anyone can beat me, please make me feel better. One of my tyres had a slow puncture last week so got my Dad to help me change it (I can do it myself though!). A few days later I had another flat, and couldn't beleive 2 in one week. Anyway, it turns out that I had got my Dad to change the wrong tyre in the firstplace - doh! He was quite grumpy about having to change them again. I guess it is only going to get worse from now on.

Yuck - on all the bruise stories...makes me feel a bit queasy!
LOL for Katies tyres. That sounds like just the sort of thing I'd do at the moment. I don't trust myself with anything! I have to write everything down.

have fun Arti your very organised, cookbooks!!!

oh Effie your poor veins. they get this nursing assistant to take bloods and blood pressure, she is ok at bloods but my veins are pretty good, but crap at taking a blood pressure, i could see what my blood pressure was by looking at the gauge on the sphygmo but she was listening and couldn't get it she had to try a few times. I had to bite my tongue i wanted desperately to show her what she was doing wrong and how to get it without listening but didn't want to be an annoying nurse-patient. The MW was saying to her well if you can't get it i will have no chance, which was a little worrying.

LOL at tyre story Katie i would have acted surprised and said i cant beleive 2 flat tyres what are the chances. well done for owning up.

beans I read recently (in a newspaper, so it must be true) that something in chocolate is actually good for the development of the central nervous system and brain, particularly dark chocolate. I love dark chocolate, so am obliged, entirely for the sake of my baby of course, to have some every day. Minstrels are pretty dark too, so they're practically a superfood to pregnant ladies in my opinion!

LOL at katie's pregnancy brain, I'm waiting to do something that good (I forget my shoes today, so slopping round the office in flipflops!!)

Good luck to those with scans today and tomorrow (there seems to be lots of you!)

Z.x

Hi all
Sorry sorry sorry to hear snowwombats sad news, lots of love if she is still reading...

Re doziness, I have done two stupid things recently - went to homebase, got home and realised I had brought home the actual basket that I had shopped with?? Doh! Is still in the boot of the car ready to be taken back.

Then went to sainsburys, forgot the plastic bags to reuse as usual, but managed to load my entire shopping back into the trolley after paying for it completely loose, not packed into bags!!! Felt sooo stupid, and had to then pay and go off and repack.

Many many more things that I have forgotten too, DH says I am making excuses though as I am dozy normally anyway.

Oh and my scan is tomorrow too (at 8:30)!

It's scan-tastic. I'm nearly 22 weeks now (sunday is weekly changeover!) so feel like it's long overdue. Gasping to have a look at it!

Is this the last scan we see?

oh Beans you are in a bouncy mood, today good on you.

I just made 2 amazing salad sandwiches literally with the lots, so healthy and bursting with vitamins and ready to fill me up as i was starving. I bit into one and it tasted like dirt then i realised i had been lazy and not washed the baby spinach and i tried to take another bite but it tasted like dirt so much that i dry retch and then that was it i ran to the kitchen sink and lost all my breakfast and my apetite for my sandwiches. DH (working from home today) is making me some noodles (just the quick ones) and i have had a yoghurt but i was so looking forward to the sandwiches.

oh and dark chocolate is good its a scientific fact...i think.

Scan not till the 12th (sigh)

Beans: I think that's the last scan unless you have any specific problems, or go overdue, or there is an issue with the baby's weight. Only had the 2 scans last time.

maybe there should be a RDA for dark chocolate? i think my apetite is back.

effie I stopped feeding DD at around 13 months and the hormone changes were something to behold, even though at that point I was only doing one early morning and one bedtime feed. It's a big change - for both of you. I'm glad your DS is fine with it though.

Feeling massively better today - thanks to those who asked! Has not been a nice couple of days.

Good luck with the scans those of you who have them coming up.

As for placenta movement - I always thought it sort of 'knit' itself into the lining of the womb. I know it can sort of drift gradually as it grows but I don't think it can suddenly move.

I must try the DVD trick btw. Hilarious!

i'm off for the arvo now taking DS to a big soft play place. it is a bit wet here today but DS has loads of energy to burn.

I was told that placentas don't move as such - they just shift in relation to the cervix as the uterus stretches.

The analogy someone gave on here was to imagine a piece of sticking plaster on a deflated balloon. As the balloon is blown up the sticking plaster will get further away from the neck of the balloon (and from the top as well of course) but it won't actually "move" from the bit of the balloon it is stuck to.

veggie I wish it was wet here - I am roasting and very uncomfortable - have both fans going in the living room and almost wishing I was at work where at least it's air conditioned!

Brave you going to soft play - I never seem to be able to persuade DS to play solo and always end up crawling through rope tunnels and ball pits while he shrieks "come on mummys" 2 metres ahead of me.

There's no way I'm doing that with this bump...

oh effie I wish my DS would take a leaf out of your little one's book! I am still feeding him - mostly his choice - and it's bloody painful. When it gets too much I say "milk gone" too, but he generally reacts by throwing a huge tantrum and scrabbling at my boobs until DH drags him away.

It's still the first thing he shouts when he gets out of bed in the morning - I hear him stamping up the stairs shout "muuummeeeeee, miiiiiiiilk, muuuuuuummeeeeeeeeee, miiiiilk!"

YV: I cut down radically first, first to morning and evening feeds, then evenings (my choice not his). I will miss it though, esp as he had taken to smiling at my boobs and saying 'ello' before settling down for a feed...

I was just dreading each feed and I think DS picked up on that, hence feeds getting shorter (sure my milk supply was dropping as well). It is a shame as I wanted to get to 2 years, but I also think we've done pretty well to get this far

Doozie glad all ok now - that must've been scary - were they Braxton Hicks and if not how could you tell ? I had BH at 17 weeks but I think dehydration caused them as have been pouring water dowm my neck since and they haven't returned.

This thread is amazing as it seems to calm my worries at exactly the right time - I was also concered at lack of movement - had a few kick 2-3 weeks ago but now am only getting a teeny twitch once in a while. Glad others are experiencing the same - I expected the movement to get stronger and more frequent within a few weeks but no ! I'll go and try a dvd Oh and ditto, the only time I manage to talk to the bump is to ask it to please kick me !

Veggie good job doing Erin ! I did her on Tue night and I got another amazon delivery yesterday (load sof PG and baby sleeping books we dicussed before and the Tara Lee Yoga dvd !) I did the 70 min yoga practise - very relaxing and good for stretching - I have to say I prefer getting a bit sweaty with Erin (ooer missus !) but I reckon as I get bigger I may prefer the yoga
Actually just had a thought, Veggie are you actually going to do the dvd or just sit it on your belly ?

LOL at tyre story Kate ! My best so far was at about 6 weeks ago when I bought baby pressie for my friend's new baby - bought loads of lovely pink stuff then remembered as I left the shop that she'd had a boy !

ZJ loving the chocolate theory

Oh and am sleepiong like a log - need to try and sleep more actually as exhausted in the mornings and b00bs stopped hurting weeks ago, thankfully.

Back from holiday and house move!

Summary anyone?

In brief here- ds is a star, I am well and truely pg all day long and old maternity tops no longer look baggy, had 20 week scan there were 10 toes, 8 fingers, 2 thumbs

you've done bloody well!

We've been on 2 feeds a day for quite a while now, but no sign of dropping either of those two - and the problems when I have tried to engineer it have put me off forcing him (problems with night waking and stuff).

I am pretty sure I have next to no milk left as I've always been able to hand express quite a bit and now I have to squeeze pretty hard to get more than a drop or two - but it doesn't seem to be putting DS off - he's still plugging away!

I suppose it's not helped by the fact that I am pretty ambivalent about weaning him - I would be pleased (though a bit sad too) if he self-weaned but I can't bring myself to force things.

My scan isn't until a week on Friday, does that make me the last one? I'll be 22 weeks by then which seems quite late.

Sorry, pregnancy brain again, just remembered Effies is on the 12th which is after mine, please ignore me!