May 2009 Part 3 - brains still pregnancy addled so we forgot we needed a new thread !

[Jools1]

Hope this will do

JustgotBFP due 1 May (36 will be 37 when dc arrives DS age 4)
Sahbear due 1 May (DS age 14 mo)
farrahgillani due 1 May (1st Child)
Brightsideoflife due 1 May
Reggiee due 1 May (ahem 30 April but want to stay - DD age 22 months)
Aquababe due 1 May (DD age 2.9)
Evergrounded due 1 May
Momino due 1 May (DD age 2.5 and DD age 1)
Llareggub due 1 May (DS age 22 months)
Loulabela due 1 May
AAL due 1 May (DS age 4)
Olderbutnotwiser due 1 May (DD age 21, DS age 19, DS age 16 DS age 4, DD age 2)
MissyK due 1 May (DS age 3)
Heverhoney due 2 May
SpangleMaker due 3 May (first child)
LoobyLou36 due 3 May (first child)
Inni due 4 May (DS age 2.9 and DD age 1)
Ceeceeanne due 4 May (DD age 9)
Bantam73 due 5 May (2 DCs ages 2.5, 16.5)
Chicadee due 5 May (DD age 6.5)
Overtiredmum due 5 May (DS age 3)
Hopefullypregnant due 5 May (DD age 10.5m)
Gibsongirl due 6 May (DS1 age 5 and DS2 nearly 2)
BrownieBells due 6 May (DS age 2.9)
lauralou1 due 6 May (first)
Minimenace due 7 May (DS age 11 mo)
Detsy due 8 May (UK, Cheshire - DD 11 months)
Carol7 due 9 May (DS age 16 DD age 12)
Febes due 10 May (DD age 9 months)
Jennster due 10 May (DD age 2y7m, DS age 13m)
Missblythe due 10 May (DD age?)
Superdenki due 10 May (DS age 2.5)
Pinkcandyfloss due 11 May (DS1 age 5 and DS2 age 1.7)
Mootie due 11 May (DD age 2.4)
Flippineck due 12 May (DD age 17 months)
Ses due 12 May (first child)
Millionsaway due 13 May (DD 20 months)
Mammajamma due 13 May (DS1 age 4, DS2 age 22m)
Gateau due 14 May (DS 16 months)
Wobblypig due 14 May (DS 1.11)
Looneywoman due 14 May
Nikkiemadisonandbump due 15 May (DD age 2)
Frazzledoldbag due 16 May (DD1 age 7, DD2 age 2)
Nauseous due 16 May
Daisydoo due 16 May (DS age 19m)
Bluebell82 due 16 May (dd age 7 months)
umamimama due 16 May (dd age 16 months)
Bigtree due 17 May (first child)
Divediasy due 19 May (DS age 5 1/2 3rd preg)nucal scan 04/11 hosp 05/11
Bekkaboo due 19 May (DS age 2)
Tigergem due 19 May (DD 18m)
GreenFingeredMummy due 20 May (DD age 15m)
Jonesy68 due 20 May (DS age 5.10)
Mags98 due 21 May (first child)
2beautifulgals due 22 May (2 dds?!)
halfmumhalfbiscuit due 23 May (DS age 2)
Swottybetty: Due 24/05/09. DD 6mths
Moonlit due 24 May (DD age 2.6)
Agooboo due 24 May (DS1 age 6 DS2 age 2)
Dandelioness due 25 May (DD age 3 1/2)
Alapala due 25 May (DS 1.5)
MatthewandBumpsMummy due 26 May
citybranch due 27 May (DS age 21m)
Imnotok due 27 May
pulapula due 27 May (DD 3.10yr, DS 16 mths, Sheffield, booking in 20 Oct, dating scan 7 Nov, nuchal scan 13 Nov)
Runningmonkey due 27 May (first child)
CoteDAzur due 28 May (DD age 3)
MrsEvs due 28 May (DD age 4, DD age 2)
Jools1 due 29 May (first child at 39)Dating Scan Nov 11th
Fryn due 29 May (first child)
MsG due 30 May (first child)
Bluebutterfly due 31 May (DS age 3.5)
DorisIsAPinkDragon due sometime! (DD1 age 3 DD2 age 14mths)
FiKelly due may sometime (DS age just over 2yrs)
sebandelliotsmum due sometime in May ds1 5 and ds2 20 months.

Right that does it! Fingers are going back in my ears and I'm going to be in denial until about June 2009. Oh! It'll all be over by then!!!

2 homebirths with gas, air and tens here too. It will be fine!

hi everyone, hope all is well.

just wandered bout the nucal scan, do you have to have blood tests one the day of the scan or do they take the results of your blood from booking appointment?

also was wandering if anyone knows if the anti sickness tablets you can take in pg actually help you stop feeling sick or is it just to stop you being sick?

I'm having a private nuchal scan at 12 weeks and hope to have the blood tests done at 15 weeks too (NHS). Decided not to pay the extra £40 for private blood tests. I will then make my own assessment of risk based on the 2 results. Not planning anything more invasive- just helps to prepare more. With my first pg (aged 32) I got a risk of around 1 in 500 from bloods which I thought was quite high compared to some although not considered high risk. I didn't ask for my risk score with second, just know that it wasn't high risk.

Have a big appetite today, just had to have a fish bake and now thinking about dinner with DH later! LOL very unlike me.

Agaboo, I have 2 teas every night usually- one at 5pm with DCs and one with DH at 8ish. Can't manage without them now lol.

pulapula - I think I'm going to have to start to do the same.

Whilst I'm on the subject of food - loving Ben and Jerry's Baked Alaska Ice cream - the one with white chocolate polar bears in. mmm.

MatthewAndBumpsMummy I'm having my nuchal scan next mon. I have to get there one hour before so they can take blood and test it in time before the scan... then I get the risk results straight after the scan. When they do it this way they're calling it an OSCAR.

I had my scan and we have one healthy baby all jumping around and waving at us. At first it looked like a hamster and then like DH. I think its a boy but thats purely on gut feeling so we shall see. They didn't do the heart rate today.

On birth I loved mine even though it went for HOURS. It was the best day of my life the euphoria of achieving the safe birth of your child is better than anything else. It was painful though

Also 1 in 13000 chance of DS so happy with those odds.

I ended up having an emergency C-section due to pre-eclampsia hitting at 38.5 wks last time with DS so all I'm hoping for this time is the chance to have a go at doing it naturally. If I end up with another CS that's ok but I'd prefer not too.

febes those are fantastic odds... congrats if I could order them for my scan next mon I would!

I'm with cote on childbirth (all 3 days of it)! Shehasapinkline you want to stay away from these ladies with a great birth - I reckon it's like winning the lottery - if you know someone who has had an easy birth, the odds lower for you!! Also have it in for women with TINY husbands who have small babies that just pop out..

Hey you know how they say things go quicker second time around?

does anyone know if that applies to people that have had normal deliveries 1st time around only or do you think it will still go quicker for me even though I had a CS as my 1st?

Ok alapala - I'll keep my fingers in my ears...

Hey All,
Just got back from visiting my brother for the weekend and been trying to catch up.

Congrats to all of you who have had scans and good news.

Gateau so sorry for your loss. Hope you are getting good support and tlc.

I have had a rough day today. Just feel really down and worried that something is going wrong. I keep bursting into tears. I think I'm just tired from overdoing it at the weekend (long walk in the hills yesterday) but I feel rubbish and then to top it off, I managed to splash boiling water in my eye while draining some potatoes for tea. OUUUUUUCH!

Re all the birth chat. The first thing my best mate said to me after her first last year was 'you know how much you think its going to hurt, well multiply that by about a million and you're almost there'!!! On the other hand, my cousin popped hers out and said she could do it all over again after a couple of hours, some tea and toast!! Personally, I'm hoping that runs in the family.

I dreamt last night that (at 38 wks), I got out of the shower, wandered into the bedroom, sneezed and a baby popped out - maybe my mind is going in for positive thinking and giving out short, easy birth vibes already

Gateau - so sorry to hear your sad news. ((Hugs)).

Hope everyone else is keeping well.

Jools that made me laugh Lets hope its that easy.

jools me too LOL think we'll order those all round...

Fi - I had an Em CS fisrt time round due to undiagnosed breech birth. The first we knew she was breech was when I was 10cms dilated in the birthing pool and a foot popped out....but that story's for another day . Am already debating what sort of birth I want. Well, I really want to be conscious for this birth, but don't want medical intervention and continual monitoring. Might start digging when I see the consultant at hospital tomorrow.

Sickness has pretty much gone now - hurrah! Am back to eating again, although can't eat my normal amount in one sitting. My stomach must have shrunk.

Runningmonkey - am emotional but am hiding it well atm. Wanted to cry at XFactor and other such programmes

Gateau - so sorry to hear your news x

Reggiee - DD was undiagnosed breech too, but fortunately she was bum first not feet first, so after ambulance transfer from the mlu to the hospital they let me carry on labouring. Even though the birth was more medicalised than I had wanted, I feel really happy with how it went. When I met the mw last week, we talked about home births, and they'll do a scan at about 39 weeks to check the position of the baby and if all ok then we can stay at home. If the baby is breech again then they'll let me try labour but in the hospital, but have agreed that it can be a lot more hands off as I've already done it.

I've got my scan tomorrow, still feel pessimistic for some reason, but at least there isn't long to wait now! Most symptoms gone now apart from the constipation, really wish that would go.

I will be having another elective c-section so know what to expect.

I agree that the birth experience is a bit of a lottery too although it helps to be prepared (classes, reading etc) and practicing breathing techniques. A friend just took 3 pushes in a birth pool and her first was out (5 mins). I pushed and pushed and nothing happened lol.