Dec 08: but that doesn't mean you can touch my bump!

[rosmerta]

New thread with bisou's title suggestion

Veggie I love Brown Brothers - red's especially a Shiraz!
Quiet on here today.....

oh yum i have just eaten my own weight in roast potatoes, sooooooooooooo full and very satisfied.

mmmm kmp i am really feeling like a nice full bodied brown brothers red right now. Watching last night at the Proms and with a full belly one would go down quite well now.

Found a new bed rail for DD that actually fits the bed! Was almost by accident - I saw the box propped up in the corner of a shop (yes I was in looking at baby clothes ) and realised from the picture that the hinges were in a slightly different place. IT FITS .

Anyone else's baby doing serious Sportacus impressions at the moment? I think mine has spent this week trying to get out!

Had fun and games with the GP and my wee test yesterday btw but I'm not going to start writing about it now as it will make me cross and I will be heading to bed shortly... but I may have a grumble about it tomorrow. (Be warned!)

yes veggiebaby is doing late night somersaults and having quite weird feeling low down like the baby is pulling up on my cervix (weird i know but that is the only way i can describe it), can actually be quite difficult to have conversations with people if he does it during the day as i am trying to hold a conversation whilst having quite weird feeling in the old lady garden.

Verso quite looking forward to seeing how a GP can cause stress over a wee test, won't be surprised of course but looking forward to the story anyway.

hello all!!

I'm a 23 yr old first-time mummy in Staffordshire....due on Christmas Day but hoping the little man could manage to be fashionably late!!!

Anyone else around my area?

xx

Hi mybumpsaboy - I'm in Cheshire so not a long way away, I think most people on here are from London.

There is list somewhere further back on the thread if you haven't added yourself.

hi mybumpsaboy mine is too, it will be my 2nd DC and first is a boy too. I am in Derby so not far either, maybe we need a midlands meet up though think it would be small.

feeling very lazy and sleepy today but having spurts of domesticity. I think my nesting instinct has kicked in but where as other mums to be get orgnised and clean out cupboards or sort out nurseries i seem to just get the urge to cook muffins and cupcakes. The result is that yesterday i cooked 12 blueberry muffins and there are exactly 0 of those left. I'm now thinking of making butterfly cakes and muffins tonight. I have however washed DS's old maclaren pushchair cover and had down all the washing (most of which should have been done days ago) and cleaned out DS's clothes drawer, he has considerably less clothing now but at least it all fits him, instead of pulling stuff out which he would have worn a year ago.

right time for butterfly cakes.

Hello everyone

I am finally back from our lovely two weeks in Sicily. It was a fab fortnight - very hot, but we had a gorgeous medieval villa with stunning pool and gardens. We were there with friends and we all got along great. The villa's caretaker had loads of animals which enchanted DD and one afternoon he shot and killed a wild boar that wandered into the garden. We saw the shooting, hanging and skinning before he cooked it for our dinner! DD was not scared at all, in fact she still tells us "Piggy is in my tummy".

My bump has grown alot and the baby is very active. Luckily I did not get any swelling from the heat even though it was 34 degrees most days. Have others got oedema yet, I had it terribly last time but cannot remember when it started.

I am afraid I haven't had time to catch up on the 500+ posts since I left. Any headlines?

Hope everyone is well.

hi Arti nice to have you back, no swollen ankles here mainly because the weather has been appalling. I am happy to let you know that while you have been enjoying great temps we have been a little cool and witnessing some serious rain.

Welcome back Arti, where did you visit in Sicilia? A place I am very fond of...

I have hideously swollen ankles and feet (and in fact, half the time, legs) most days. Even with support stockings on. It's a bit depressing and makes me feel like a granny.

Dinner on Friday was a bit grim - I felt really frazzled and overtired and the nosey hostess kept going ON about how "huge" I was for 29 weeks and how tired I look. I was polite and batted it off but it made me feel really crap and I couldn't get to sleep afterwards as I was cross out of all proportion Also everyone was sozzled apart from me and it was a bit wearing.

But went to another party on Saturday night and it was fab and everyone was lovely, and a friend of mine turns out to be 8 or 9 wks pregnant, which is ace (I wouldn't go back to those anxious days for anything though!)

Anyway, just cramming madly for driving theory test tomorrow. If I pass it will be a farce. Hope everyone is having lovely weekends. Veggie's baking sounds nice.

Hi mybumpsaboy im in birmingham so not far from staffordshire either.

Hi and welcome back Arti, my mom has just returned from a week in Italy and the weather there was gorgeus, very jealous.

I have just received half of my new (second hand) quinney pushchair and carrycot set that i bought on ebay so have been excitedly wheeling it abound the house, it is the first bit of baby organisation i have done yet so very exciting!

veggie i know what you mean about clearing out the kids clothes. I removed all summer and grown out of clothes out of my three kids wardrobes this week and it was a shocking amount of clothes. And thanks to a ridiculously poor summer half of the clothes have hardly been worn. I have also had to buy a nearly a whole new wardrobe for dd and ds1, although poor ds2 survives almost completely on hand me downs!

Hi LadyT - We were in the mountains about thirty mins behind Cefalu on the north coast. It was bliss (although the crazy mountain roads re-awakened my pregnancy sickness a few times).

Sorry to hear about your oedema, that sounds just like me last time. Nothing helped and I know how it makes you feel. I am back to work tomorrow and the office was always where it was worse so I hope it contines to hold off.

LadyT: good luck for your driving test tomorrow

Speakig of nesting, I have finally bought some baby stuff - a nice snuggly blanket and a couple of posh babygros . It's a start at least...

Hope you have all had lovely weekends and enjoyed the (relatively) decent weather. We actually managed to have a decent walk on hampstead heath for almost the first time this year...DD loved it, must say, my hips suffered afterwards.

As you might guess, I am looking for distractions from my Sunday night homework - somehow I never seem to have got away from those school days.

Arti glad it was a lovely holiday!

LadyT - good luck for the test

mybumpsaboy - welcome

V impressed with those of you nesting. I have spectacularly failed to do anything much yet!

Take care and have good weeks

LT you clearly needed to go on maternity leave now put your feet up.

DH and i have overindulged on both sweet and savoury muffins. DH got so excited about them he ate 2 blueberry ones before dinner. Made some cheese savoury muffins to have with a soup i made.

Reban now i have cleaned out DS' drawers he appears to have almost no clothes, hopefully whatever comes off the line from the washing will do for this week, but need to get some more winter gear for him. Luckily now at nursery he wears a uniform so no worries about what to wear for school anymore.

Arti welcome back - am very of your lovely holiday, sounds great !

LT what a witch the nosey lady was - no wonder you were so angry

welcome mybumpsaboy, another xmas baby !

Veggie yum, your baking sounds fab

reban hurray for pram pushing around the house !

I had to go and look up oedema - not getting that yet but my rings are very tight on my fingers.

Did anyone see 'Dawn gets a baby' on BBC3 ? The journalist girl was hilarious (a bit like me a few months ago.) and it was really interesting to see all the 'equipment' and of course to see a waterbirth, am still scared but I prefer to know what may happen - forewarned is forearmed .

Also, I was told last week that baby is transverse - has anyone else had this with previous PGs ? Am worried I'll have to have a c-section now - although I know there is still time for baby to turn...

Hi reban ...yay Birmingham's not far at all!! How old are you & is this your first??

veggie...that's actually hilarious!!! You could go into cupcake business as a sideline to maternity leave! I love baking but everything I attempt to make miraculously comes out as cookies!

mibbes get em off, i once asked my midwife of last pregnancy what would happen if i couldnt get my rings off would they have something that could remove them and she said yes a ring cutter, so i popped them off there and then (with the aid of cold water & soap) and put them around my neck on a chain. have done so already for this one. For some reason my ankles don't swell up too much but fingers def do.

I just watched Philadelphia, very emotional.

Hey, loads of people posted, which is ace. Cefalu - very nice...glad to hear the weather was smashing as it's been so duff here. Apart from this weekend.

Mibbes - babyLady is transverse so I'm going to get on my hands and knees and things (Rosmerta posted a link a few days ago for getting them into a better position before the birth) - I'm having a cs anyway as you know, but I don't fancy them having to delve too much for the baby like poor Chutney's #2 so I'd still like her to be head down. But I think they only start to fret about it past about 34 weeks so time yet to turn.

I've got that homework feeling, Invisible Hand - my theory is ok now and I'm in with a chance with that but my hazard perception seems to be a bit ropey.

I love hearing about what people have bought. It's like shoppijng by proxy. As for Philadelphia, it's a great film but given that I got choked watching Benny from Abba pick up a tacky film award the other night, I don't think I could watch a film like that at the mo. Right, STRICTLY no more posting for me until last tomorrow afternoon when the theory test is over!

Ok - so the wee test thing was like this:

1. LOts of Braxton Hicks, oedema (!) in my feet and ankles and fingers, spots in my vision... went to out of hours doctor (poss pre-eclampsia)
2. BP fine - but while there he did a urine test and it was off the scale. Sent it for culture and gave me penicillin. Said v important to treat 'silent' urine infections in pg women as can trigger premature labour. Sent for culture because might be antibiotic-resistant infection so need to know what it is. Results from local GP.
3. Took anti-bs... nothing from GP
4. Two weeks passed. Phoned GP for results.
5. "Test possibly contaminated. Redo if symptoms persist."
6. Asked when they were going to share this information with me since I'd had to phone for it - "oh the doctor obv doesn't think it's urgent"
7. As I had NO WEE SYMPTOMS before how am I to know whether to "redo" the test?
8. Also don't know now if was antibiotic-resistant infection or not.
9. Eventually got them to say I could speak to doctor at 6:10pm - end of surgery

10. Phoned at 6:10pm - answerphone.

Well, today I have my GTT at the hospital - so am working from home - but will also phone GP to get emerg appointment and go and speak to them about the above. I know all is probably fine - but they shouldn't tell you "silent" infections can be problematic and then be so laissez-faire about the results.

Catch you later...

Verso that's appalling, to worry you like that and then ignore the results. Sounds like a(nother) communication breakdown between the GP and the hospital. Good luck for your GTT today

That is crap Verso but it is very similar to what just happened to me. I too had a wee infection about 5 weeks ago. I went to the doctor and got antibiotics and he sent off a sample. Yesterday I got back from Sicily to find a letter from GP sent three days ago (5 weeks after test) asking me to make an appointment as the strain was resistant. The difference is I had symptoms and now they are gone so hopefully there is nothing to worry about but I have an appt tomorrow. Good luck with yours.

Verso how infuriating! It's enough to give you high BP even if you didn't have it before ... Hope it all turns out okay despite their shoddy treatment.

LadyT good luck on your test. I don't know if you've been practising with a CD-ROM but if you have you might find that the hazard perception test is actually clearer and easier than you're used to - that was my experience anyway.

Umlellala no, that wasn't Effie (unless she's taken to wearing a wig to pop down the shops! pics on her profile). Effie how would you be fixed for meeting up with me/us either the weekend after next (27th-ish) or the following weekend for a sling frenzy? Or would the next meet-up be better, whenever that is?

mybumpsaboy welcome and congratulations!

Welcome back artichokes - Sicily sounds fantastic. Knocks my soggy week camping in Bexhill into a cocked hat anyway ...

PD: weekend after next sounds good - Sat or Sun? We could meet in Clissold Park if nice, if not in a cafe somewhere

Effie either is good for me - shall we say Sat? Clissold Park or nearby cafe sounds perfect - in fact I might even combine it with a trip to the pool if you fancy joining us. Umlellala how does Sat 27th sound to you?