Due April 2009 - Time to dance the light scantastic.....

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New thread as the old one was full!

Hello - so glad you all seem to be as addicted to this as me - I am currently avoiding work - well actually avoiding looking at research data in to how much it costs to die in the UK (no joke!)

Springy - I completely agree with you, so far I have just eaten whatever my body wants / lets me eat - if that is nuts then so be it! it's either that or vomiting and right now I am choosing the bad food

re sugar and big babies - I am petrified I will have a big baby - a friend of ours just gave birth to a 10lb baby and said she has never felt pain like it!

Odd eyes - glad the birth looks good to go and FreshHell very very please that is all sorted!

I can't believe it is still only Tuesday!!!

Hello again! Ds is ill so we're watching Finding Nemo on the sofa under a blanket - bliss.

OddEyes - good news about the vaginal birth. Also, when pregnant with DS I caught gastro enteritis and didn't eat for four days - DS seems to be fine! The doctor I saw said that the baby can live very well off our fat reserves (cheeky!) and that the baby gets first go at any nutrients going, so you'll feel dreadful but the baby will be fine. You have to be seriously undernourished for the baby to suffer, apparently.

Springy - hope the essay's going well - reminds me of doing my degree, I'd love to go back!

mathsmummy - I'm not listening to your tales of organised Christmas lalalalalalalalaaaaaaaaaa

electra - I, too, am crying at the drop of a hat. Started crying at Tess of the D'Urbervilles the other day. Tsk.

Freshhell can I come under the blanket too please? Am bored of working now and just want my sofa!

Of course!

Would you like a biscuit?

just found online catch up - watching desperate housewives and heroes starting to feel better.

Yay for Desperate Housewives! hope you carry on feeling better OddEyes

Essay? What essay? I'm going to go & bury my head in the sand over here...

However, I have just found my first Christmas present! I was buying a couple of other things (including a hand blender for pumpkin soup on Friday!) & needed to spend a little extra to get my £5 for spending £50 voucher, which, like the corporate slave that I am, I couldn't resist. So I was browsing & found the perfect thing for my little (just turned 7) cousin who's obsessed with Doctor Who: he thinks the Adipose are the cutest things ever & despite being a 7 year old boy is the sort who will run around clutching the thing to his chest & regaling everyone within earshot with relevant dialogue. Plus it won't break when I post it, so that's a bonus. Yay, I've officially started!

Hi all,

Sorry, I have not posted for ages but am still signed off sick from work after 4 weeks. Wow, triplets, how wonderful!! Sorry to those who have had to leave us To update you I had brown vaginal bleeding for about 3-4 weeks which has seemed to stop now. I have had really bad low down pelvic pain like period, heavy pain with some sharp pains which feels horrible and scary. It tends to subside a bit with paracetamol but it still scares me and keeps me up at night worrying as due to the bleeding at increased risk of miscarriage. Has anyone else had strange, regular pains? I know I am always moaning on here but I do feel I have been pregnant for ever and it has not been an easy conception or pregnancy so far and feel a bit fed up!! I am seeing consultant weekly currently to check me, wish I was glowing!! Anyone out there who can sympathise??

Is there room for me on the sofa under the blanket?

Something must be wrong. I managed to get myself out of the flat because DD really needs a hat and set of mitts. I went to Woolworths and whilst I was there I treated myself to some pick'n'mix which I keep fancying from time to time (will probably make me sick but I don't care!). Then I managed to nip into Sainsbury's and picked up a load of healthy things and now I'm sat here eating a bowl of shreddies and dried apricots instead of my pick'n'mix!

hopeful - that does sound stressful - afraid I've not been in that situation but I can try to imagine how difficult it must be.

hope you start feeling better soon - want to join us under the blanket?

Swaliswan - all welcome, it's very warm under here as DS has a raging temperature, poor lamb. want a biscuit?

Springy, why don't you get under here too, there's no such thing as essays under the blanket!

Hopeful1 I have been similar pains like a dull throb that lasts a while and then painful twinges really low down, normally to one side (although the side alternates),

I have been a bit scared about it all but still sick so hoping that is a good sign - (roll on my scan next week). I wondered if it was some sort of growing pains - as this is my first (and yours to I think sorry if I got that wrong!)

The good thing for you is that the bleeding seems to have stopped so that is a good sign and the consultant is looking after you - as for the glowing part - I am yet to see even a warm fuzz of light! glowing is definitely not on my radar (and I am almost half way through the second trimester!!!)

Swaliswan - you spurned the pic n mix?! How could you do that - I love pic n mix!!!

Springy when exactly is your essay due? Well done on the purchases!

Hopeful found this on babyandpregnancy.co.uk

During the third or fourth month of pregnancy, women frequently get a sharp stabbing pain in their groin or to one side. It may come on at sudden intervals, might be worse if you suddenly get up, stretch or move and it might disappear then reappear a few days later. It can be really worrying to suddenly get pains like this, but usually it's due to the ligaments or muscles around your uterus in your pelvis stretch and thicken as they support your growing baby.

From what I can see, the period pain is fairly normal too - so fingers crossed these are all just another horrible side effect of the growing bump!

Hope you feel a bit better soon!

room for one more?

Isn't adipose fat tissue???

I have ordered pressies rather than actually shopping so it doesn't count..and wrapping pressies is one of my favourite things to do ao its more like an addiction. I once had a job which involved wrapping presents..as perfectly as possible..with unlimited access to amazing wrapping stuff...mmmmmmmmm ))

it's a problem.

re: stabbing pains - i've not had bleeding but certainly some pain, eough to make me wince during conversations and squeak last night in the cinema.

i've brought some popcorn btw for us all...xx

WhatFreshHell No essays under the blanket? Why didn't you say so before? I'm THERE!

BabyBolat It's not due for another 3 weeks, but I'm meant to be able to prove that I'm making progress on it tomorrow morning at my seminar, which I will be able to. I've done enough for that, but I want it out of the way as quickly as possible really - you never know what's going to happen next with this pregnancy lark & it seems to be a good idea to achieve what I can when I can.

hopeful I'm afraid I've not had anything that scary, but I know it must be awful. But as BabyBolat said, it seems to be normal. I guess that's all any of us can keep reassuring ourselves with. Also, the fact that it's brown blood is a good thing - that means that it's old, from what I've read. I hope you're okay Make sure you come on here whenever you start to have a panic - MNers are really helpful & I already don't know how I'd have coped without them all!

Hi Hopeful1 - I've had strange aches and pains (some of them quite period like) but I put it down to growing pains. I remember having quite a lot of aches last time around 4/5 months. And for the bleeding - well the good news is that it has stopped. I was kept in hospital over night with heavy red bleeding when I was 35 weeks pg with DD. They did all sorts of tests and monitored DDs heartbeat for 24 hours and then discharged me saying it was "just one of those things". Apparently it's not uncommon to bleed during pregnancy and often it cannot be explained.

As for glowing - yeah right! I'm getting to the spotty stage. Anyone else getting hormonal pregnancy spots or is it just me?

The blanket is magic. There are no essays, no work, no bosses, no MILs, no responsibilities, and CERTAINLY no aches, pains or broken night's sleep under the blanket.

I might stay here for ever.

I'll join you if it has a built in commode. I live on the loo at the moment.

FreshHell I think poor DS is going to get sick of us all under the blanket pretty soon! Poor thing!

Springy you are very organised, I am impressed - I was never that organised at Uni, always had really good intentions but they never actually worked out!!!

mathsmummy yes it is and google reliably informs me that in Doctor Who they were in fact also blobs of fat!!

I worked in The Body Shop during A Levels and loved the Christmas basket wrapping!!!

Lulu - yes I am there also (although think I am just making my way out of that particular hell - had really bad skin for ages but touch wood is clearing up slightly!) the most annoying thing is the back pain but only on my right side, comes about once a week and literally turns me in to a 70 year old!

Oh the glamour ! x ! x ! x

DS has gone to bed (not without driving me mental first though see here) so the blanket is ours, all ours! mwah hahahahhahaaaaaaaaaa!

Springy - I'm sure I wrote that essay too a few years ago! I'm well impressed at you starting it so early tho', I usually started in a panic the night before deadline and then worked thru the night.
I'm very of everyone doing this xmas shopping lark so early, I've not even thought about it. I'll be the mad pregnant woman running around as the shops close on xmas eve

oh dear, i just finished watching the final episode of Tess of the D'Urbervilles, and now I'm in floods of tears

I hate it when half way though watching something you remember, dimly, from your A level English, how it ends....

........and really wish you hadn't started.

Oh dear FreshHell - still at least it is over now!!

Do you ever wonder what it would be like for people who are not pregnant and therefore accustomed to our conversations to catch a glimpse of some of the stuff we say. They must think we are slightly insane! DH occasionally glances over my shoulder at home and just looks more and more confused!!!

BabyBolat - am relieved I'm not the only spotty one. Seems v. unfair when I am so clean living at the moment - all herbal teas and broccoli spears (oh, ok the odd chocolate biccy too).

Sorry about the back pain. I had to walk with a stick at times when I was pg with DD. How very unglamorous that was.

On the plus side you mentioned fear of having a big baby earlier. I found giving birth to a 9.1 baby less awful than it's cracked up to be. Had a completely natural water birth. All went well. I don't mean to come across as smug to those who have had difficult births but it honestly didn't hurt as much as I thought it would (although of course it did hurt). Anyway, hope that is reassuring.

I can work a walking stick!!! I hear they are all the rage for the winter / spring collections! All the cool kids have one!

Thanks LuLu - am keeping my fingers crossed it's not as bad as everyone says!

great! dh just found out fridge been 'cooling' food to 12 degrees C! No wonder I am ill! Had roast 'been warm in the fridge' chicken on Sunday. No one else ill though.
Also spent the last remaining pennies on huge tesco food shop at weekend now all in bin
Think this maybe ds first attempt to harm sibling! Either that or we need a new fridge which would be our 4th in 6 years, sooo hoping it starts to cool properly and was ds pressing buttons.