Due in June - Thread 8!!!!! Boy can we chat!

[Lua]

All right, a brand new and fresh thread...

Lua, that was one thread in particular that obviously made me sad. There are other threads where the thread has 'gone bad' and comments have been mis-interpreted and people have been upset. Or threads with people bragging a bit. Their right I guess, I don't post on those threads and keep comments to myself, it's a free world.

KVG, I don't know many people with a raclette machine! Or is the name of the machine a 'raclette'? and therefor no need for the word machine at the end??? Anyway. We were introduced to them years ago from our Swiss friends, my parents have it somewhere, in the loft I should imagine!! I might re-claim it!! It used to be really hard to find the cheese 20 years ago, but I think I've even seen it in Sainsbury's these days!

Lua/Lippy I'm glad you've both mentioned the thread - I too have been following Bubble's story pre birth and couldn't stop crying when I read it, but also didn't want to bring the mood down It certainly makes you realise how we can take things for granted.

What is a raclette?? I feel like I'm missing out on some great eating experience - and that just isn't on!

I can't stop thinking about Bubble - it's just shocking and terribly sad.

I do know what you mean about the other threads as well Lippy, and that's why I don't post very often anywhere else (and certainly not on any of the contentious threads). I think on here we are prepared to be nice to each other, get to know each other and therefore treat each other like you would do in real life. 'Out there' people can be extremely rude, quick to take offense, and seem to love starting arguments. I am too scared to post on many of the threads - there is definitely a mumsnet 'clique' and if you don't share their beliefs it can be tough. Just my two-penneth.

I admire you Uwila, you're prepared to stick your neck out for what you believe in, wish I was as brave.

Mrs W - couldn't agree more about the clique...I actually tend mostly to follow the 'becoming a parent' boards...and only very occasionally check out the others, you know if Charley posts an interesting new thread [wink, wink, nudge, nudge]!!

KVG bubble's husband posted on the birth announcements board...'good news & bad'

I agree with your twopenneth Mrs W. I do tend to have strong views on various issues, but I think online is the worst place to air them. Things are too easily misconstrued, confused, posts cross etc etc. Plus, I believe my views are right for me, what others choose to do is their right in this free country.

Tea, I didn't mean to suggest I don't want people posting about sad things on this thread. If you felt you wanted to say something about Bubbles loss, of course that's ok. It's more the bitching threads and the " hey, guess what? I'm having an 8 grand holiday" threads (sorry I had to mention it !!) that I like to get away from in here.

I didn't know Bubbles at all, didn't even recognise her name I'm afraid, but stil so sad to hear about her son.

And, God! The awful MN clique

Oh Lippy that's ok - I didn't know her...just there was a thread on the pregnancy board coz she was having twins and one was breech and she was gonna try for normal birth rather than c-sec...I just got caught up in following it - I'm just nosy me! But when I saw today's thread I just couldn't stop crying - stupid as I don't even know her...and I only didn't want to mention it coz we're all so happy mostly and this is such an exciting time for everyone, IYSWIM??

Other threads?? How do you have time! it is a full time job keeping up with this one. Once in a while I go to the preganancy board to find a cure for constipation, so since the linseeds I have only been here. I did go to the bereavement board a while ago but it makes me shiver.

My boobs have been outsized for quite some time. When I have a jumper on you can't even tell I am pregnant because the jumper hangs off the top shelf They are the most uncomfortable and unsughtly inventions known to man. I have to part with £30 for s decent bra that I don't actually pop out of. An F is rather too nip tuck

That saying I have put on over a stone now but it seems to have slowed down. I think I have only put on 3 pounds in the last 3/4 weeks. Wierd though apprently you are supposed to put on most of the weight at the end. Bubba seems to be growing fast but I quess I had padded out so much it just evened out. I must confess though I see no physical need to put on any more I am sure he could live off my hips I only seem to be one dress size bigger than before but the bump and boobs are unruly. Though I must say when you have worried about your weight so much in the past it is really daunting. I simply couldn't stand it if I ended up the size of a bus

afternoon all

just got off the phone with my midwife and i'm immune to DD's virus! yeah! stress over!!

Pink - hi ya - with ds I put on the most weight between 20-30 weeks and then it tailed off. You won't end up the size of a bus - I've nabbed that one!! you'll just have to be happy to take a mini mpv!

...yeah Katz great news!

i know

think DH will be more releaved them me , he stresses a lot more!

Great news Katz!

Katz - thats great news

It seems my bump is like small Oh gosh I am all worried now. Bubba was all the right measurements at the scan but Gosh he doesn't even come out from under my boobs. He is kinda a small mound on the bottom of my tummy just above my belly button. Well not small but a good deal smaller than the pictures I have been perusing From what I can tell he only looks like 22 weeks just. My mate Elly commented on how small he was the other day Has anyone else looked at the belly index?

Yay - great news Katz. You must be so relieved.

I don't post or read on many other threads - I find the bereavement ones just impossible to deal with. Rather unfair but I assume it's a self-defence mechanism. As I'm at the end of June, though, I hope I won't be left chatting on my own whilst the rest of you have had your babies! Given my due date (24th) I should really be making nice with the July thread just in case

Great news Katz!!! What a relief all round.

Pink - are you tall? I'm sure that makes a difference as to how much you 'stick out'. Honestly, I wouldn't worry though. When I went to Pilates the other week one of the girls there was 28 weeks and she was hardly showing. Everyone carries differently.

PInk, I tell ya, I have pretty small boobs, but my god I am at the price of bra's!! It's flippin disgraceful. In the summer I can get away without them, but if I was that big that I couldn't I would be pretty at the cost. The bigger you, are the more you pay it seems?!!

Don't worry about the size of your boy/bump. everyone is different. As long as he's growing at the right rate for dates, don't worry at all. All women carry differently.

Katz What a relief about your bloods!! What drama that would have been. I haven't had anything quite so dramatic, but my niece, who we saw last week, has chicken pox. There was some conjecture as to whether I had actually had it or not. When my sister got it, I was sent off to Grandma's for the week, and only ever got 1 or 2 spots to my memory. Anyway, mum re-assured me I have been exposed to it and have had it. I was almost panicking! Still dd could still get it I suppose.

Pink how many weeks are you?? I'm 26+3 and I'm much bigger than alot of those on that link ...like Mrs W says it depends on so many things; length of torso, tummy muscle strength, quantity of food consumed, natural frame size...don't worry about what others look like - if he's growing and happily squirming around then I'd say all is fine ...and remember you will have growth spurts (just like he will when he's actually here) and for a while nothing seems to happen and then all of a sudden kazam! giant tummy!!

Oh yes I am 5'8 Mrs W. Its just I had been thinking how huge I was and well Gosh I was a bit mistaken. Not to mention I have a tyre of flab around him too. Perhaps he just has more room to hide He did turn over the other day and sit with his face in my lungs but then he decided he didn't like that and went back to lying with his fist in my bladder and legs poking out the edge of my tummy. Perhaps its cos the little bugger is lying sideways most of the time. I have worried alot lately though - he has been stiller than usual but he perked up a bit yesterday. I have midwife tomorrow so I'll listen to his heartbeat and stop having heart attacks.

oh Pink to get him moving have something sweet...they really like that - mine certainly does, and does a little jig everytime I have something sweet...or alcoholic!

Trib and KVG, we're all due at the end of the month and someone else is due on the same day as me, 23rd. We'll keep the home fires burning

Meant to ask, what do you girls call your parent's, if they are still around?? In the last post, I was going to write what I actually call my Mum, which is never Mum Yes, I'm in my early thirties and still call my parents Mummy and Daddy. Although when I refer to them in conversation I tend to automatically say Mum & Dad. How is that!!??

I hope my children call me Mummy too, don't know why, just like it. God help em if they ever call me Mother Although, I think that tends to go with the territory when they are teens, usually in a huffy tone

Lippy - don't usually call my mum anything - too busy shouting at her! ...ha ha ha, when not shouting at eachother I call her mum, or Anyu (hungarian for mum) when I want a favour!