Due Feb 2009- Posting Queens, See The Bump, On The Facebook Screen, oh yeahhh...

[MarkStretch]

TinkerbellesMum DC3 (3rd baby. Lily-Hope born 20 weeks 28-29/9/05, Tink born 31 weeks 17/7/06, age 27, Birmingham) Official due date 01/02/09 but expected from early December
florrieandme DC2 26/01/2009
laidback DC4 27/01/2009 (age 34, North Devon)
nkweto DC2 30/01/2009 (age 34, West London)
oooggs DC4 30/01/2009 (age 34, Cornwall)
MamaGoose DC3 30/01/2009 (age 32, Spain)
MissMitford 31/01/2009
Plethora 31/01/2009 (age 37, East London but moving soon)
Ethelredtheunready (age 40, 2nd Baby, Tilly born 19/2/06, DC2 01/02/2009- Currently Chichester, soon to be Epping)
AngelDoll DC1 01/02/2009 (age 31, Sheffield)
Supersteph DC2 01/02/2009 (age 24, Torbay)
jenandbean DC2 02/02/2009
ruthmollymummy 02/02/2009
Tummytrouble 03/02/2009
jamescagney 03/02/2009 (aged 33,Clare, Rep of Ireland)
Pregnantpopcornprincess DC3 04/02/2009 (pregnant with twins)(age 31, West Sussex)
MsLucy Boy 04/02/2009 (age 38, North London)
PinkTulips DC3 04/02/2009 (age 24, Roscommon, Ireland)
Davidsmom DC2 04/02/2009 (age 39, Cheshire)
MissDelighted DC1 05/02/2009
m2alyssa DC2 05/02/2009 (age 30, Isle of Man)
idontbelieveit DC2 06/02/2009 (age 31, Leeds)
Jelliebelly DC2 06/02/2009 (age 37)
Swampster (HasAWarmFuzzy) 06/02/08 (age 40, south London)
Guitargirl DC2 07/02/2009
Aila DC2 07/02/2009
Littlemissnorty DC2 08/02/09 (age 39, Kent)
Biscuitytrousers 08/02/2009 (age 31, Thames Ditton)
MarkStretch DC2 07/02/2009 (age 29, Norfolk)
KT1983 09/02/2009
Tinasan DC2 09/02/2009
Herbgarden 09-11/02/09 (age 38 Berkshire)
Ewemoo 07/02/2009
Singingintherain DC3 10/02/2009
KazzaL DC2 10/02/2009 approx (age 34, Ciren, Gloucs)
littleboyblue DC2 due early-mid Feb (age 27, Surrey)
Jenniferturkington DC2 11/02/2009
thehouseofmirth DC2 11/02/09 (age 38, Wimbledon)
Clarabumps DC2 12/02/2009 (age 27, Glasgow)
BumpVLump 12/02/09 (age 29, Surrey)
Louisebunny 13-15/02/09
Mapleleaf 13/02/2009 (age 38, Cambridge)
Nadssss 13/2/9 (age 29, living w. london)
Jelliebaby DC2 14/02/2009 (AGE 29, Cheshire)
Loopylula DC2 14/02/2009 (age 28, Sussex)
Francesrivis 15/02/2009 (age 38, Devon)
onwardandupward DC2 second week of Feb (age 35, south west)
Americas 16/02/2009 (age 32, London)
MrsThreads DC1 16/02/2009 (age 36, Cheshire)
shubiedoo DC3 17/02/2009 (age 37, Canada)
NervousMouse DC2 17/02/2009 (age 36, Berks)
Pluto DC2 18/02/09 (age 38, Kent)
Fruitstick DC2 19/02/2009 (age 32, London)
Imaginewittynamehere DC2 19/02/2009 (age 32, Cambs)
McDreamy DC3 19/02/2009 (age 37, Cyprus but will give birth in Bucks)
Dinkystinky 19/2/09 (age 31, London)
Rachrox DC3 20/02/2009 (age 28, Glos also!)
Calico1 DC2 21/02/2009 (age 40, West Herts)
Mentalpup DC2 21/02/09 (age 30, Glos)
Rosieposey DC4 21/02/09 (age 36, Wilts)
Winemakesmummyclever 23/0/09 (age 34, Lancs)
Neeerly3 DC3 23/02/09 (age 31, Mansfield)
LardyBump 24/02/09
Spottyshoes DC2 24/02/09 (aged 28)
Chilledmama DC2 25/02/2009 (age 31, Hampshire
Nellstar TBC
zikel DC2 TBC (23, Coventry)
Cocodrillo DC3 26/02/2009 (age 34, south london)
MrsBick DC2 26/02/2009 (Age 25, living in Surrey)
charlie7 DC2 28/02/2009 (Age 33, living in the Inner Hebrides)
dd1ofcolandgerry DC2 25/02/2009
theSuburbanDryad DC2 (age 26, living in South Bucks)
Babyignoramus DC1 27/02/2009 (age 27, Brighton)
Blinamouse
Elkiedee
Questionkid DC1 3/2/09 (age 33, living in Wallington, Surrey)

Love the new title Well done.

Singing- must do some work but just wanted to say good luck for tomorrow and sorry you're feeling down today x

see that girl, watch that scene, bring on the posting queens...

(tra la la)

Nice new title ladies!

Mrsy - dont forget to add yourself to the list (copy and paste it and stick in your details then repost).

ooooh, so shiny and new. wonder how long this one will last us?

have just had to text dd's teacher and ask her to drop dd home as it's bucketing down andi have no car

thank god we're friendly or i'd really have been stuck as the only other mom there i really chat to alot who'd usually do it for me has run her car into the ground and can't bring it more than 10 feet anymore witout bits falling off it

have just had to text dd's teacher and ask her to drop dd home as it's bucketing down andi have no car

thank god we're friendly or i'd really have been stuck as the only other mom there i really chat to alot who'd usually do it for me has run her car into the ground and can't bring it more than 10 feet anymore witout bits falling off it `

pmsl, ds just looked a the screen and asked 'are these my mommies?'

think he was talking about the emoticons, not that that's much better!

have just had to text dd's teacher and ask her to drop dd home as it's bucketing down andi have no car

thank god we're friendly or i'd really have been stuck as the only other mom there i really chat to alot who'd usually do it for me has run her car into the ground and can't bring it more than 10 feet anymore witout bits falling off it `

pmsl, ds just looked a the screen and asked 'are these my mommies?'

think he was talking about the emoticons, not that that's much better!

whoops, internet cut out and things got confusing!

I too have no car, but I am lucky that my children can catch a school bus. Although yesterday morning we had the most terrible thunderstorm and the sky was pink. My eldest DD has a chronic phobia about storms and had a panic attack which set the youngest off. We just managed to stay under a tree during the rain until the bus came. They would not even let me have an umbrella up.

lol, poor thing. my 2 are a bit funny about storms too but we rarely get proper thnder in ireland so thankfully not something i have to deal with much.

oddly enough the days i find most annoying are the drizzly days that i actually don't mind walking and the kids enjoy too. every 3 seconds someone will pull up and offer a lift and none of them have carseats so i don't like sending dd with them unless absolutely necessary (it's only round the corner but still) but they look at me like i'm deranged and cruel to my poor drizzled on kids for wanting to walk [sigh]

last week ds threw a strop because he didn't want the buggy so i said 'fine, but i won't carry you at all' and we toddled off up the road. every single person who passed us stopped and offered a lift as i must be torturing the poor child forcing him to walk and i must be going mad walking so slowly, etc, etc.....

NO! i actually ENJOY walking with my kids and looking at bugs and plants..... just because they don't and feel the need to drive 1/4 mile to playschool even on nice days in their giant SUVs doesn't mean i'm crazy!

PinkTulips - I know what you mean about walking. If I can, I love to do it and the DD's like it too. Sometimes I can not be bothered to get the car and face having to sit in traffic for such short journeys. I used to laugh at the people who used to drive to school on a small estate in Enland and force residents to leave their cars at the end of the road as their drives were blocked by parents.

The school my children go to is in a remote part of the town although very close to us is it up a steep hill and the road is dangerous. Nearly all schools here have buses which is much better, but you do get parents that drive their children to the bus stop.

We walk to school most days - but today is the first day this term I've actually enjoyed it because NEWSFLASH - it wasn't raining !

Great pictures of your scan mrsy. Have just found out a friend has had a girl after having 5 boys ! She is in shock !

Singing - I hope it all goes well for you tomorrow and baby is all A ok.

Thanks. Just trying to get some rest to see if I can feel any kicking. I am sure, I felt something, but did just eat a handful of marshmallows.

singingintherain - hope scan goes well tomorrow

we walk to school - its easier than getting dts in and out and in and out of the car

oooh, i almost forgot! i had a lovely surprise last night, went to weigh myself and while adjusting the scales realised the kids must have been messing with it and the last time i weighed myself it was 10 kilos higher than it should have been.... so i haven't gained the scary amount of weight i thought i had (was bugging me as i didn't think i'd gained that much!)

am 62.5 kgs now, which is 5kgs more than at this stage with dd and 5kgs less than at this stage with ds so i'm happy and feeling alot less like a whale today

told dp and just got the 'i told you you weren't fat' yes well you told me that when i was absolutely fecking massive after having ds too so i'd hardly believe you would i?!

I was looking at my wedding photo the other day and realised that on that it was about 23 weeks. You could hardly tell at all, just a little bump. I am nearly 20 weeks and look massive. It was so obvious as school that everyone was doing a double take. Thonly thing is, is that I have only put on 2 kilos, but have managed to loose three stones in just over a year without dieting.

and I should really do some work for a change. I've done very little today except chatted to different people... What happened to my ambition and work motivation...

Guitargirl no one ever tells you and it took me doing the peer support course to find out, but colostrum comes in teaspoon amounts. I felt terrible that I couldn't get anything from expressing, but apparently it's normal with colostrum. Your blood won't actually harm your LO either, the nurse could have at least took the milk and told you you'd done really well and chucked it when you weren't looking. i made sure that however much I expressed I gave it and tried to smile because I didn't want to put myself off. I'm glad it all worked out for you in the end.

PT, I also know someone, an MNer actually, who managed to pump till six months. Her son was premature and they aren't very good at looking after premature babies at that hospital (local to me and one I know quite well which is why my children haven't been /won't be born there) and she never established breastfeeding. I'm sure any mother who succeeds in exclusive expressing will tell you it's really hard work and takes up a large portion of the day.

I'm laughing at descriptions of sleepy jaundiced babies, I think they would have liked Tink to be sleepy, she kept pulling her goggles off and getting quite cross under the lights. Looking back at her, her personality shone through, she has always been a fighter, independent, stubborn... The sweetest child you could meet, I can't believe it's really the child that's lived with me for the last 2 years! How did I not break her

Now to the new thread:

PT, each one is lasting less time, last one was 29 days, so I'm betting 23 days... I'm off to start a new thread!

I used to live opposite a school and they used to park on our drive to get out. It wasn't a very big road, just a normal residential road and there was a crescent that went around the back. My aunt (who always walked to school) used to live furthest from the school at less than a mile, but the road was always rammed full. There were cars, school trips and my brother went to a special school so had a coach to take him to school. The school paid someone to walk up and down with a camera then called a parents meeting and shamed the parents by showing the video

I weighed myself this week and I'm the same weight I was before I got pregnant, so I think that means I've lost some! I'm very pleased!

florrieandme DC2 26/01/2009
laidback DC4 27/01/2009 (age 34, North Devon)
nkweto DC2 30/01/2009 (age 34, West London)
oooggs DC4 30/01/2009 (age 34, Cornwall)
MamaGoose DC3 30/01/2009 (age 32, Spain)
MissMitford 31/01/2009
Plethora 31/01/2009 (age 37, East London but moving soon)
Ethelredtheunready (age 40, 2nd Baby, Tilly born 19/2/06, DC2 01/02/2009- Currently Chichester, soon to be Epping)
AngelDoll DC1 01/02/2009 (age 31, Sheffield)
Supersteph DC2 01/02/2009 (age 24, Torbay)
jenandbean DC2 02/02/2009
ruthmollymummy 02/02/2009
Tummytrouble 03/02/2009
jamescagney 03/02/2009 (aged 33,Clare, Rep of Ireland)
Pregnantpopcornprincess DC3 04/02/2009 (pregnant with twins)(age 31, West Sussex)
MsLucy Boy 04/02/2009 (age 38, North London)
PinkTulips DC3 04/02/2009 (age 24, Roscommon, Ireland)
Davidsmom DC2 04/02/2009 (age 39, Cheshire)
MissDelighted DC1 05/02/2009
m2alyssa DC2 05/02/2009 (age 30, Isle of Man)
idontbelieveit DC2 06/02/2009 (age 31, Leeds)
Jelliebelly DC2 06/02/2009 (age 37)
Swampster (HasAWarmFuzzy) 06/02/08 (age 40, south London)
Guitargirl DC2 07/02/2009
Aila DC2 07/02/2009
Littlemissnorty DC2 08/02/09 (age 39, Kent)
Biscuitytrousers 08/02/2009 (age 31, Thames Ditton)
MarkStretch DC2 07/02/2009 (age 29, Norfolk)
KT1983 09/02/2009
Tinasan DC2 09/02/2009
Herbgarden 09-11/02/09 (age 38 Berkshire)
Ewemoo 07/02/2009
Singingintherain DC3 10/02/2009
KazzaL DC2 10/02/2009 approx (age 34, Ciren, Gloucs)
littleboyblue DC2 due early-mid Feb (age 27, Surrey)
Jenniferturkington DC2 11/02/2009
thehouseofmirth DC2 11/02/09 (age 38, Wimbledon)
Clarabumps DC2 12/02/2009 (age 27, Glasgow)
BumpVLump 12/02/09 (age 29, Surrey)
Louisebunny 13-15/02/09
Mapleleaf 13/02/2009 (age 38, Cambridge)
Nadssss 13/2/9 (age 29, living w. london)
Jelliebaby DC2 14/02/2009 (AGE 29, Cheshire)
Loopylula DC2 14/02/2009 (age 28, Sussex)
Francesrivis 15/02/2009 (age 38, Devon)
onwardandupward DC2 second week of Feb (age 35, south west)
Americas 16/02/2009 (age 32, London)
MrsThreads DC1 16/02/2009 (age 36, Cheshire)
shubiedoo DC3 17/02/2009 (age 37, Canada)
NervousMouse DC2 17/02/2009 (age 36, Berks)
Pluto DC2 18/02/09 (age 38, Kent)
Fruitstick DC2 19/02/2009 (age 32, London)
Imaginewittynamehere DC2 19/02/2009 (age 32, Cambs)
McDreamy DC3 19/02/2009 (age 37, Cyprus but will give birth in Bucks)
Dinkystinky 19/2/09 (age 31, London)
Rachrox DC3 20/02/2009 (age 28, Glos also!)
Calico1 DC2 21/02/2009 (age 40, West Herts)
Mentalpup DC2 21/02/09 (age 30, Glos)
Rosieposey DC4 21/02/09 (age 36, Wilts)
Winemakesmummyclever 23/0/09 (age 34, Lancs)
Neeerly3 DC3 23/02/09 (age 31, Mansfield)
LardyBump 24/02/09
Spottyshoes DC2 24/02/09 (aged 28)
Chilledmama DC2 25/02/2009 (age 31, Hampshire
Nellstar TBC
zikel DC2 TBC (23, Coventry)
Cocodrillo DC3 26/02/2009 (age 34, south london)
MrsBick DC2 26/02/2009 (Age 25, living in Surrey)
charlie7 DC2 28/02/2009 (Age 33, living in the Inner Hebrides)
dd1ofcolandgerry DC2 25/02/2009
theSuburbanDryad DC2 (age 26, living in South Bucks)
Babyignoramus DC1 27/02/2009 (age 27, Brighton)
Blinamouse
Elkiedee
Questionkid DC1 3/2/09 (age 33, living in Wallington, Surrey)
mrsy first baby due 22/02/09 (24, Maidstone, Kent)

Blimey, I've missed a lot today! Unfortunately I've had to do lots of work as things have suddenly got very hectic in the office. How annoying to be distracted from MN!

I plan to join the Facebook group but will have to do it tonight as my office have also banned the site.

Lots of little flutters from my little visitor today, makes me smile every time I feel it.

evening everyone. I am very of all you ladies not putting on any weight. I have put on a stone already (not sure of how many kg that is) and I am only 16 weeks......

About 6.35

I needed to not put on any weight, I started this pregnancy at 32 BMI

I've dropped a BMI number (just checked) between 8 weeks and 19 weeks pregnant

Hello all - nice new thread name :-)

Well ive sufficiently recovered enough from the shock of being told that the child i am carrying has a willy at that scan this mornng to tell you all! Lol i just burst into tears as i was so happy

My daughters and DP came with me and it was such a lovely occasion but i think i need to go and buy some blue clothes now for the first time ever just to get my head around it. Everyone says that little boys are very loving and im really looking forward to the experience, dunno about Christmases though thats going to be a first with all those scalextric!

Followed the scan with a visit to the hospital where i saw a consultant who specialises in diabtetes and they gave me these awful eye drops to check for diabetic eye disease (because he has a suspicion that i have been diabetic for a little while now and that it hasnt just come on in this pregnancy) they dialate your pupils in about 20 mins and it lasts for about 4 hours and its only now that everything is getting less blurry - they sting too - owchh didnt enjoy that at all. Anyway got all my insulin and stuff and they said that they would be inducing me two weeks early (i begged to differ yet again and reiterated about the c section) but at least it means that either way i will have a baby boy (a boy!!!) early Feb as opposed to late Feb - Yay!