Fab Feb Fourth Thread: are we blooming yet?

[onwardandupward]

Here we are! This should do us for a few weeks...

Hey Laidback, we're huge (and about to get huger) and off the booze, stinky cheese and all other yummy things, so if we cant pamper ourselves now, when can we? DH treated me to a blissful pregnancy massage treatment for our fifth wedding anniversary - is my birthday coming up in November, am angling for another one for then!

Markstretch - those trousers sound an absolute bargain!

Dinkymum - no need to change your name if you dont want to! Am sure there are millions of dinkys out there - the more the merrier. Dinky must be a nottinghamshire thing as grew up near Nottingham and no one I know down in London uses the word "dinky"...

Morning all.

Loads of washing and ironing to do today and really need to catch up a bit with the housework.

We had loads of sales about a month ago so, I bought most of mine then. Some of the shops were selling with 80% off and one had buy one and get three free. I now have a full wardrobe and I really need them now. I feel huge and are sure I am bigger than yesterday. My family think that I look at least 7 months now.

Having difficulty walking at the moment due to bits and pieces stretching and been told that it will get worse yet.

Now trying to sort out some classes of some sort out here. I only have Doctor and Midwife care. I am worried about all the other bits. I know that things have changed in the last nine years and I am sure that I am out of touch with all the new stuff. I think I will have to invest in getting some magazines sent over if possible.

PS. I am a Nottingham person and I too use the word "Dinky".

Morning all.

Loads of washing and ironing to do today and really need to catch up a bit with the housework.

We had loads of sales about a month ago so, I bought most of mine then. Some of the shops were selling with 80% off and one had buy one and get three free. I now have a full wardrobe and I really need them now. I feel huge and are sure I am bigger than yesterday. My family think that I look at least 7 months now.

Having difficulty walking at the moment due to bits and pieces stretching and been told that it will get worse yet.

Now trying to sort out some classes of some sort out here. I only have Doctor and Midwife care. I am worried about all the other bits. I know that things have changed in the last nine years and I am sure that I am out of touch with all the new stuff. I think I will have to invest in getting some magazines sent over if possible.

PS. I am a Nottingham person and I too use the word "Dinky".

Singing - am sure it will all come back to you when the baby arrives, but agree it is good to be prepared, so good luck with your classes. When pregnant with DS, I found the "what to expect" pregnancy book quite helpful (particularly section on looking after baby and establishing breastfeeding) though some bits of it (like suggesting you take in a bottle of champagne to the labour ward to celebrate the birth!) needed to be read with a pinch of salt.

Hmmm I just weighed myself and I have put on 0.4 of a kg since my booking in app at 8 weeks.

I thought it would be LOADS more than that.

I'm huge! Maybe not drinking alcohol means I have lost fat and gained baby?

with you on that markstretch, although beware! at 13 weeks i was 3lbs (1.3kg) heavier than 8 week booking in....at 14 weeks I was 9lbs (4kg) heavier than 8 week booking in!

It sure landed with a thud!

I'm 17 weeks tomorrow! I am waiting for my arse to rapidly grow.....

Morning all nothing interesting going on here today bar a last minuite dash to the shops for school uniforms (its the only shopping along with grocerys that i hate)As DD2 and 3 will moan about their uniforms and the style that their trousers and shoes need to be in

Phoned community midwife who booked me in for a chat about that consultant and she said when i go in for blood pressure monitoring at the day assesment unit on Monday to have a chat with the midwives there - not quite sure what thats going to do but if it doesnt work she said to go to PALS so we shall see

Im too scared to weigh myself but im pretty sure ive put on loads! and only 15 weeks tomorrow so cant really blame it on the LO

I definitely find that when I dont drink I lose weight so must just be baby Markstretch!

Have given up weighing myself - as long as can fit into my maternity clothes from last time round, should be ok...

It appears that I have put on nearly two and a half kilos since my appointment four weeks ago, but only 300g since my booking in appointment at 4 weeks.

I was nearly 15 and a half stones last summer and beacuse of the two miscarriages and two loads of ms I have lost three stone since. It was not intentional, but really needed in order to premote a healthy environment to conceive and maintain a baby.

I look loads better or so I have been told. Although, I when I went back to England last week, I went to my hairdresser where my mother and I have been going for many years. He could not believe it when I walked in and did a double take. I felt great The main comment he made was that he thought I looked more like my mother now, who is actually a lovely size 8, very trendy and with it. (I hope I look as good as her when I am her age )

I am still not trying to loose weight, but I am watching what I eat. I can not eat anything that contains fat due to gall bladder problems and wind, which has got worse in pregnancy, but normal. I have had loads of blood tests and nothing has caused a concern.

I am going to look on ebay to see if there is anythign for sale in teh book or magazine section that the will post to me. I like magazines better as they are more current.

I love the idea of taking Champagne into the labour room though. In my opinion, I wonder what planet they are on. All I have ever wanted to to is get my voice back, go for a shower and then sleep. I know that some have wonderful labours and wish I could. Maybe a can of pop and packet crisps may be more like it.

What magazines are you looking for singing?

Maybe we can post you stuff if you need it?

Ive put on 1lb since my first weigh in at 12weeks - Im now nearly 17weeks. But ive still got no bump...
Im beginning to think it will just pop out over night!

I had my hand on my tummy last night and felt a 'flutter' - some people keep telling me it would be too early to feel anything....But ive been feeling these flutters ( just not with my hand ) for about a week or so.

Is it too early? For my first baby?

I have been feeling flutters since week 14, but this is my third pregnancy. My Consult was not convinced, but I felt one on the scan and saw it at the same time. It did stop a couple of weeks ago, but it has started again yesterday. I am thinking that maybe the area was tighter when I first felt them and I had loads of ligament pain with stretching, then as things became less painful I felt less. I have had several pains over the last couple of days and I can feel them again. I am not sure if this normal or true, but it relates to me anyway.

It would be great if anyone had any unwanted finshed magazines. I would be prepared to send payment for any costs. I have been looking and some are just too expensive to post over here. I have managed to download a copy of one magazine, but it is not the same as reading it in the hand.

excuse my ignorance ladies - first timer - should I feel the first flutters with my hand on top of my tummy OR actually inside my lower tummy where the baby is?

I thought i felt it very low where the baby is...
Not so sure now as everyone keeps questioning if im sure... :-(
Oh well...

I started to feel mine from the inside. But my DH says that he could feel my with his hand on my tummy. I could say that it felt like an air bubble, the ones you get when you have wind or are about to pass wind. I tried to think that if I did not pass wind after feeling one, then what I felt was probably a small movemet if you know what I mean.

Some of them felt like little tickles later on. When there was less room and the baby sat closer to the surface of my tummy then I both felt them on the surface and you could also see them.

Often in the bath I could see elbows and knees moving across.

haha - that must be very weird seeing body parts beneath your skin!

I think the first time that happens will freak me out a little...

KT - I felt flutters at 14 weeks or so with DS. Think have felt some this time round but could just be wind. Nadss - its lower down at this stage. Dont worry, we'll all be feeling them all the time soon!

Im pretty sure it was the little bean having a dance around

It was certainly a feeling ive not had before.
Very exciting!

I know ? it is ridiculous to be impatient to feel them when I imagine I will be moaning about it in a few months!

Also, are you all taking pregnacare etc vitamins? I took folic acid up to 12 weeks but then stopped but my mum has bought me a load of these vitamins. What do you think?..? I am a bit anti pills but she insists?

i felt my first faintly at 12 weeks and definite thuds at 14 so it's certainly not too early at 17.

the first movements i feel are usually felt best when i have my hand pressed very gently on my lower tummy, you tend to feel it along the inside but sometimes into the hand as well.

dp and ds have both gotton lovely kicks now but everytime i try with dd baby goes dead still and refuses to budge sisterly tensions starting in the womb?

am feeling alot more now though thank god.... although still nothing compared to this point with the others. had a kitten curled on my tunmmy last night purring and that seemed to intrigue baby... she kept prodding the kitten and the kitten kept prodding back, hilarious!

I took the folic acid up until 12weeks & stopped. I am also a bit anti-pills.

I think that as long as you are getting a good diet, variety of everything; that you dont really need to take anything more....but on the other hand, taking them will do you no harm and can only be a bonus I suppose.

singing.... neither of mine needed the bath for that. i remember after dd's christening being sat in a chair for 5 hours while my dad sat riveted watching my tummy do alien impersenations

haha - Funny with the Kitten PinkTulips...
Not sure I could try that with my great heffer of a labrador though!

lol, great mental pic though

i swear, cats can smell you're pregnant. the tom cat we had for the last 4 years would only even lie on me when i was pregnant, my mother had the same with their cat when pregnant with me.