October 2005 - time for nr. 2 !!!

[SusiS]

i always wanted to do that

mummygow-I'm following you now!
With the maternity clothes, I found H&M brilliant. They cater for most styles and a t-shirt costs as little as £5.99. I bought some great under bump jeans for £25, jumpers and cardigans. Don't think I spent more then £150 over my whole pregnancy. Places like Dorothy Perkins I found, in a word......crap. But that might just be me!S'poe it depends on your size and shape.

Mind you this time round all my maternity wear is sug as a bug already!

just came back from app with consultant! *grmpf - 35min wait to have a 10 min check! urin, bloodpr, babys heartbeat are fine though

then i had a little chat with consultant how i feel and stuff, and he read in papers that i'll try for a natural birth this time - 'very good' he said! omg, and i burst into tears
lol, he was a bit shocked and didn't know what to say first. then he asked about last birth 'if it brings up bad memories' - and oh boy, it does! he asked if i'd like to discuss it - i did not. - gosh, i just can't think of the last birth without bursting into tears. i better get a grip on that one!!

been to h&m too, got some tops and 2 trousers. and not too expensive
last year i got some nice things from dp, but nothing this season!

mummygow: you've got a sweet dd there
just keep reminding here to bother daddy from now on

Hey guys,

Sounds like we're all getting a nice bump now. I'm really beginning to enjoy being pg now with the bump and everything!

Going to my first aquanatel class tonight so quite excited.

I've been thinking about taking some vitamins as I've had a cold for over 2 weeks now and it's doing my head in! There's just so many on the market I don't know which ones to buy - I'm going to ask my midwife when I go for my appointment on Friday. I'm having a medical - is this normal? Has anyone else had a medical at 16 weeks?

Only 4 more weeks til my 20 week scan, can't wait to see the baby again. It's a bit scary though - I was thinking only 4 more weeks, then I get to see him/her again 8 weeks after that at the 4d scan, then there's only 12 weeks left! Doesn't seem long when I think of it like that.

has anyone started buying anything yet? I'm waiting until my 20 week scan but finding it hard to walk past baby clothes without buying something

You lucky thing Jolovett for having booked a 3d scan. I so want one but my DH doesn't! Also, I don't want to find out the sex and I have a feeling if I do that scan I will. So after 1st June I don't think I'll see the bump until Oct 6th! Far too long to wait! I have my first booking in appt on Sunday - and then scan 5.5 weeks after that at 22 weeks - I seem to be later than everyone - not fair!!!

I've been taking pregnacare and have also got some chewable calcium to take as hate milk, cream, cheese etc so not getting much calcium in my diet. I talked to the pharmacist about it but will also check with the mw on Sunday.

I finally got some new bras yesterday - what a relief!!! At least preganacy makes you appreciate all your new clothes! I have never been so excited about buying bras before!!

How much does it cost for a 3d scan? Pretty expensive so I've heard.
I don't know whether or not to buy this time, because ds is still only a baby, his clothes are all in really good condition. Or am I being a stinge?! In a bit of a selfish way I suppose I'm hoping it's a boy again-cheaper on the clothing!

Where did you find good bras mishmash2? I got mothercare last time, but they're not exactly "pretty"

SusiS,
what went wrong during your first birth?

I got some clothes from Blooming Marvellous and they are really nice. Dorothy Perkins ones last time were rubbish and so were the mothercare ones. They do some nice bras at BM too, Elle Macphereson ones are gorgeous and really comfortable.

I bought some work clothes from Formes last time (must be the last time I had any money!) and they were really good quality. But I don't work in an office now so I don't think they are going to get much wear .

Sorry to hear about your unresolved birth trauma Susi. As far as I can tell nobody has ever reported two similar birth experiences on mumsnet so you may be lucky and go into labour two weeks early and have a perfect painfree birth.

Mummygow I think Jessicasmummy found out she was due in September - you may find her on that thread.

I know I should not be wearing underwired but I just couldn't face having them bulging out at the sides so have just brought a bigger underwired bra from M&S. I also picked up their maternity bras which are not underwired but have a feelign I'll take them back as it is just too depressing to be fat and have enormous boobs (I reckon I am now bigger than Jordan!!). What are all of your views on underwired bras etc etc?

3d scans are around £650 as far as I can tell. Definately a luxury.

I'm paying £190 for my 4d scan at the Mums clinic in Birmingham. Seen good reviews on some of the discussions here for them. You get a dvd with the footage on and some wax images printed along with a cd rom of the images. Seems a good deal - I think the website is: \link{http://www.mums.me.uk}. We were undecided in the beginning but then we thought we wouldn't think twice about paying that for a family portrait or something along those lines and it will be amazing when the baby grows up and can watch themselves in the womb!

Sorry - link didn't work - just copy the address into your browser!

Dh really wants one of these scans - I'm not sure, but I bet it'll be really exciting.

I must admit after being very pious in my last pg and wearing non-wired over-the-shoulder-boulder-holders throughout, I've work my wired ones a few times, mostly for work. My boobs were big anyway but they've gone ginormous now and with the non-wired ones I look like I've got what Trinny and Susannah would call "one big knocker", just a huge mass of boob.

At least with my wired ones it looks like there are two of them and they sit a bit higher up. I don't wear them every day so I feel justified. I also wear a sleep bra in bed. They're still quite sore and when I turn over they clack together like one of those ballbearing devices that businessmen used to have on their desks in the 70s. ouch!

Hi everyone

Whats the reasoning behind not wearing underwired bras?. I'm "little miss tiny boobs" and they haven't grown much but do feel alot heavier. My slightly padded underwire bras are the only one that are comfy at the moment. Quite frankly I'd feel a complete fraud buying a maternity bra.

Someone was asking about multivitamins. I'm taking pregnacare. They do a version you can take from before conception, rightthrough pregnangy and into breastfeeding.

I haven't had to get any maternity clothes yet. Fortunately all my work trouseurs are that stretchy material so I'm getting away with it for now. I'm not a very enthusiastic clothes shopper to start with

I've also got NO BOOBS but I am finding my underwired bras too uncomfortable. I was too scared to try on underwired bras in M&S at the weekend as I am obviously pregnant and last week's thread where someone refused to sell a pregnant woman an underwired bra freaked me out! So I bought two non-underwired bras (but no maternity bras).

So my teeny boobs are now mostly squished out at the sides and my body looks like I've got two cadbury's creme eggs perched on a giant spacehopper.

Boobs - oh don't even mention them. Mine are like two empty crisp packets. Don't think even Elle can save 'em! Oh well at least I'll soon have a shelf to prop them up on.

Got some of my old maternity clothes out - can't believe I wore such frumpy stuff. Don't like any of it. I haven't a THING to wear!!!

The theory behind not wearing wired bars is that the wires can squash and therefore damage the milk ducts as it's all a bit sensitive being developed during pg (as we well know, don't we!)

Proof that I'm mental -
today I wore gardening slip ons out in public and DID NOT CARE;
I scraped the car into my neighbour's as I was trying to avoid a minibus WHICH WAS HALF A STREET AWAY;
I cried when dh rang me from work to tell me he loved me (understandable), I cried all the way through my video of William and Mary (forgiveable) AND I cried whilst trying to sing the theme from the London Marathon in the kitchen (incomprehensible).
I've got work tomorrow! How am I going to cope?! I'm on the verge of tears the whole time!

Moomin: oh DEAR! Bit of a worry eh?

I have also forsaken all clothes sense... Because it looked like it might rain, I went out in DH's enormous bright green raincoat which was so massive that I could have smuggled some trapeze artists and elephants under it and charged people admission.

and don't even start me on clothes. I can't do anything with a waistband up. I bought one pair of trews last week and have worn them to death ever since. I just noticed that I haven't had them washed so can't wear them for work tomorrow as they've got all kinds of ming on them.

All the younger girls at work have started getting their legs out and wearing t-shirt tops and knee-length skirts with lovely jewelly flip flops and slingbacks. I just feel and look like Jabba the Hutt next to them.

I bet our dh/p's are looking at us and wondering how the hell they managed to get us pg in the first place. Hardly sex bombs are we?

I look more like a chubby grenade ...

Morningpaper - it's exactly that squishing thing thats giving me trouble with other bras. With my underwire ones in which the cups are quite robust and not stretchy my little fried eggs tend to sit in them without being squashed and causing me paiin.

I don't want to damage anything though, suppose i better bite the bullet and get shopping, grrrr

lol moomin you are not along in your loony moments. I was pet sitting for a friend last week. Had to go round to her house while you was on hols and on the way out spent 5 minutes trying to lock her door with MY keys!

Sorry that should've been "not alone"