Due March 2009 - 3rd thread - Aches, cravings and... is that a bump I see?!

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Brand new thread ladies!

Hi everyone!

Long time no post. Still here, and have managed to reach 16 weeks and 2 days.

Goldmother it won't be any consolation, but I had an appointment on Thursday similar to you.

I forgot my wee sample (left it on the table at home!!). I asked if we could hear the heartbeat as it was this time last year that we lost our first pg. With it feeling like limbo between scans I'm going slightly dotty! She had a quick go but couldn't find it.

I don't think she realised that it hasn't helped my nerves! I've still got just over 5 weeks until my almost 22 week scan.

I was a bit (understatement) cross that she didn't try a bit longer, but have resolved myself to thinking that I can wait.

Great that we already know the first flavour of bean on here! I will be finding out. DH thinks it's a girl, and I am convinced it's a boy, so one of us will be right!

Does anyone else at the 16 week stage feel like they're in limbo too, or is it me? I feel pretty good, no bump, no movement. If I hadn't seen bean jumping around at the last scan I wouldn't think there was one in there...

Congratulations on hitting the 20 week mark Slickbird! I'll be there on Monday. Such a surreal feeling.

Grinningbee I felt a bit like that at 16weeks. By 17-18weeks I had a definate bump and also had an extra scan at 16weeks so put my mind at ease a bit.

Gold I'm sorry to hear about your appt. They really should be checking your urine but if they called you late and you were the last one sounds like she wanted to get you out ASAP. I would have a quiet word with someone about her attitude.

Excellent news for for twocute and meep Glad that the good news is picking up a bit recently.

Boy that's a lot of news for one day.

Meep and Mandy--I'm so happy that you are both getting good results.

Twocute-Prepare to get peed on! But seriously boys are so wonderful, and I wouldn't mind if I only ever had boys.

Ellora--welcome!!

No news on my end. In fact it's been fairly slow lately. I have my 20 week ultrasound in a week and a half and I still don't know if I'll find out what it is. Although everyone wants to know.

Hi Girls

Thankyou so much for all you well wishes the news of LO being a boy is just started to sink in!! im really excited to have one in a differant flavour LOL !! i orderd loads of blue things in the M&S Sale yesterday.....cant wait for the delivery .

We told the girls wednesday evening and they are so giddy its unreal!! bless em, they give the bump a kiss at every opportunity.

MKG Must admit im not looking forwards to getting peed on LOL i alway let my girls have a good kick around with no nappy on they loved it, but i dont suppose thats possible with boys ??

It's possible. I found that putting a wet wipe over them as protection prevents a spray. Boys love being naked and don't be surprised if as early as 8 months they become fascinated with their own penis. Ds1 is 3 and still checks to make sure it's still there. ds2 (16 months) grabs his during diaper changes and laughs to himself. I think they are programmed to be fascinated with themselves.

meep I'm grinning from ear to ear. Wonderful news - we'll do our damndest to enjoy the present for a bit now after all these days lost to worry, right?

Congrats on the boy 2cute - how lovely!

Goldmother what a cr*p MW. And she's blatantly wrong lying about the heartbeat.

Thanks everyone for your kind words. xx

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Hello babbintot - welcome and congratulations!
Btw, can I ask those of you with experience, is it definitely easy to spot the sex at the 20 week scan? Thing is, we'd rather get a surprise in March...

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Thanks Lolianja! Am pleased to have reached half way mark. I got a hell of a hoofin' today when I was helping my 1 year old down a slide (she's not old enough to go herself) and I felt like the baby was saying to me 'Stop! That's too heavy! Sit down!' (Oh, God, there I go with my explanation marks again...) So I sat down. I thought I'd actually done something cos it was such a twang! But after tea, I've been lying on the couch and the baby is really going for it so I think it must just be getting stronger. Which is nice!

Welcome all newbies! Let's see if we can get this to be the biggest list of 'due in..' ladies on MN!

It really must have been the bad weather eh?

Slickbird My little ones kicks have definatly got much stronger over the last week, i can now tell where his feet are .

Mandy The sonographer look upwards (like babbintot has described) and said to us that they can never give you 100% but she did say that she would godsmacked if our LO wasnt a boy

babbintot Dont count your chickens LOL i was convinced that DC3 was another DD (i also have 2 girls btw) and was totally shocked to be told otherwise .

Morning all!

Mandy - if you tell them at the 20 week scan that you don't want to know the sex they will tell you to look away when they are having a look down there! The sonographers here always refer to the baby as he!

babintot - am very jealous of your dd1's hair - my wee dd still has hardly any hair so thatpeople think she is younger than she is. Poor thing takes after me - I had no hair for so long that I would actually say to people "me no a boy, me a girl"!

Well, I have sort of conquered my 4am wakenings - by making myself not think of my bladder and just go back to sleep. Also helped along by the fact that my stress levels have gone down just a bit !

Hello and good morning to everyone new!

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Afternoon everyone !

Welcome Babbintot !!

Mandy - we didn't find out the sex with dd and had about 10 scans between 20 weeks and her birth and although I didn't want to know I kept looking but never worked it out (had she been a boy I don't know whether it would have been more obvious later on or not though). I don't think we're finding out this time either ..... but have almost 4 weeks to decide (scan is at 22 weeks).

Not much to report this end - was being properly booted this morning in the tummy which was odd but nice !

Babbintot - On that subject - Nookie in pregnancy, am interested to know if everyone else is carrying on as normal (whatever that may be!!) or if they have gone right off it or even want more. Unfortunately for my DH, I go right off it as apart from the SPD not helping, well, and the sickness for 21 weeks, I can't relax, worried I'm going to hurt the baby somehow (despite being told a number of times that I won't) and also slightly feel like there's someone else in the room! Does that all sound daft? How can I conquer this, because it's a long time without it and it's been the same every pregnancy. Any advice welcome!

Meep said> "Well, I have sort of conquered my 4am wakenings - by making myself not think of my bladder and just go back to sleep. Also helped along by the fact that my stress levels have gone down just a bit !"

Same here!

Thanks everyone for the advice on not wanting to know the sex.

Slickbird don't blame you for not being up for it. We're carrying on as normal - hooray I say, I'm well up for it - but you just never know how you or the other person will feel do you? Getting slightly uncomfortable so must experiment a bit more though. Hopefully soon the blood flow in your bits will increase, the sickness will pass and he'll have to fight you off. x

Hello everyone!

Have been away for past few days so have just been catching up on everybody´s news.
Meep - that´s fantastic news, am so happy for you.
Twocute - congrats on the boy, you must be thrilled.

I also found out last week that I´m expecting a girl .. I had been hoping for one as DD is a dream and DS is hard work at times (sure yours won´t be Twocute!). And I already suspected it was, as have had and am still having terrible sickness like I did with DD.

Problem is DS still insists it is a boy as he really wanted a little brother so am a bit sad about that (well as there DEFINITEY won´t be a next time then he´ll just have to learn to live with two little sisters!)

Slickbird - if it makes you feel better the last time for us was conception!! Combination of exhaustion, MS that gets worse in the evenings, heartburn well one thing after another.

xx

Last time for us was conception too. Dh says I use him for sex and then leave him alone which is true because once I get pregnant I have no desire for sex at all. But we are so busy with work and kids that there really isn't time or energy for sex anyway.

I have a week before the ultrasound, and I am so torn about finding out the sex. I don't really care if I know or not, but everyone else wants to know. I'll probably find out, but I really don't want to.

I've got lurgy! Honestly, I don;t think I've had a day in this pregnancy where I've felt well. Got a blocked nose, sore throat, and couldn't sleep last night. I really don't want to go to work today as my co-worker who works Monday and Tuesdays is as much use as a chocolate teapot and I know I'll end up doing all of her work as well as my own. And I had a crap weekend, MIL has started interferring already. We were in Mothercare looking at pushchairs, I'm being fussy as want a rear facing one so I can talk to the baby. She slapped my hand away from the pushchair I was looking at (), and told me that I should get a forward facing one or the baby will get bored of me! If I hadn't already got my heart set on a rear facing one I would now, just to spite her.
So, yes, generally I'm a mood today.

Sex has reduced a lot, but we're still managing twice a week (Sat and Sun, generally)and every day we were on holiday in France for a week. I was so tired during the first 12 weeks that I couldn't muster the energy, and it's still hard to get excited mid week as we are both working full time jobs and have a dog that needs walking as soon as we wake up (which always seems to preclude morning sex) so we're a bit behind out normal routine (which was about 4 times a week pre conception).

DH grumbles a lot about it, and I don't blame him, but I think he's coming round to the fact that we're not going to be at it all the time like we used to now babies are featuring.

Has everyone got there MATB1 form (or whatever it's called) to show their employer yet? When are you supposed to get it?

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ANA you mil, I know how you feel, mine can be a bit like that.

Me and dh are managing twice a week so far, which is good as I never normally want to after being at work and looking after the dc.

My scan is not untill the 4th nov which seems forever, I just want to feel the baby kick in the meantime.

I have also just been offered a new job which I went for in July so now don't know what to do about that, got to ring her today and let her know. The money is much better than what I get now but I only work 2 nights now, this job is 35 hours a week but term time only which would be ideal but also means I'm out 5 days a week in school time, meaning dd would have to go in nursery 5 days a week rather than 2 half days. I don't know what to do,I think I will ring her today and explain Im having a baby and that it's probably not the best time. Had this come up another time I probably would have taken it and a bit worried that another opportunity won't come along again...oh the dilema!!

We have managed twice since conception. Not for my lack of wanting to but DP. Don't know what he is worried about but not in to the idea at all .

Have scan on thursday but not finding out sex. DP away for 2 weeks as of this morning and I could bare finding out without him!

It hasn't quite sunk in yet. We havent spent a night apart since we got together 2years ago !

Good Morning Ladies!! I just experienced one of the perks ofbeing pregnan...I got to jump the waiting list for a dentist and just had my free check up and a scale and polish to boot!!

As for sex...well poor DP hasnt had any for quite sometime!! I gave in at about 8 weeks pg but I had bad cramping the next day...dont know thw cause...but it really put me off! Plus the fact that Im so tired and my body hair seems to grow at a rate of knots so I have just lost interest in keeping it under control...yes...Im a hairy mammoth!!!

Scan on friday!!! I want to know the sex but DP doesnt...so Im going to have to go all spy-like! Im thinking of asking the sonographer to tap me once for girl and twice for a boy!!

Anathema I know ho wyou feel...I havent had a day where Ive felt good! And I have the lurgy too! I had it a couple of weeks ago but never properly shifted it and now it is back with avengance Unfortunately I have to battle through work as I have a customer meeting...Of all the days! I am an office based account manager and therefore never have to meet with customers...apart from the day when I feel like crap...typical!!!

Not massively into sex atm either, once or twice a week maybe? Think DP is a bit frustrated - but he is very good and understanding (especially since I STILL have MS!!) about me being utterly knackered. Bit or a turn around for us though, as we used to be at it all the time! oh well!!

My house is full of baby things. Honestly it's crazy - went to a friend's house at the weekend to sort out all of the things she's lending me (ie everything) and there is SO MUCH. I counted the clothes - and there are 97 outfits for 0-3 months. I don't think that are 97 days in 0-3 months... I suppose it's quite cool, because I don't have to be stressed about cleaning clothes all the time when they're little, and can always put them in 'nice' outfits instead of cheaper boring ones!