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

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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.

Afternoon All, sweetbroody and Febes I remember feeling a lot of lower abdominal pain at the end of my first trimester both other times. Not a sharp pain or anything that would be cause for worry but more like a dull ache. My doc at the time said that it was the uterus and tendons/muscles around the uterus stretching and very normal.

Agree about the bananas - my sister's DD suffers with terrible constipation and the nutritionist banned bananas from the house - bind everything together too much apparently! (Sorry tmi!).

As far as cheese goes agooboo I actually think all cheese is OK as long as it's pasteurised. I think the whole no soft/blue cheese was for when traditionally these cheeses were not pasteurised so could be dodgy - but now at least in the UK, they have to be so I'm pretty sure they are OK. I could be wrong though, so if anyone knows better please do jump in!

Really interesting to hear about people feeling movement - I have really thought a few times that I have felt a flutter. Not a kick or anything but just like a little wriggle almost. I was researching it online and though everywhere I read that you felt it earlier with 2nd/3rd pregnancies, nowhere did it mention feeling it this early. I'm sure it could just be gas or whatever, but it just really didn't feel like anything else, so with all your back up I'm going to think of it as my bean - much more fun that way true or not

MrsEvs - american choc is terrible. my mom keeps sending me hersheys and I keep telling her I prefer chocolate here, now. I did give dd2 a hershey Kit Kat today from a treat parcel from home but dd isn't really a chocolate conosseur (no idea how to spell that) yet.

i do miss proper ranch dressing/dip and root beer. my family sends me parcels of them from time to time. do your family do the same from here?

apparently, anything mould-ripened (eg brie, camembert) carries the risk of listeria as well as cured meats like salami, parma ham. not sure if risk still exists if you cook it.

i've just had a pasteurised cheese but it was mould ripened. may have been risky but i ate it anyway. i do know from my nurse friend that, although it's not terribly common to get listeria, it's a horrible thing.

i went on holiday to italy when pregnant with dd1 and ate loads of unpasteurised things as well as cured meats. it was worth it! and luckily I and dd1 didn't suffer for it.

Momino yes whenever someone comes to visit we get Branston Pickle, Marmite, HP sauce, Heinz salad cream etc! and top up parcels if need be! Where are you from in the US?

i'm from Ohio and have been in the UK for 11 years exactly today! DH is from Manchester and I moved over when we married. wouldn't mind moving back just to get some space. Things are so much bigger over there.

I do love where we live, though, in York. Just miss my family. And root beer.

How long have you been there? Am I right you're in DC? I love that city. very political, though. i've just posted my presidential ballot, speaking of politics. glad to be away from all the election fever though there's quite a lot of coverage here.

Oooh - just looked up about the cheese thing (UK Food Standards agency) and you are right Momino - soft cheeses can develop the bugs after being pasteurised, so though it's very unlikely, there is the chance of Listeria. Thanks for correcting me!

It does say as a follow up though that any are OK as long as they are cooked all the way through because this would kill the listeria, and any other bugs.

I haven't been to Ohio yet (though I have 2 good friends from there). My DH is also from Manchester (Denton)! We've been in the US 5 yrs now. Spent to first year in Mystic, CT and the rest of the time in DC, yes. I have to say the election fever esp. in this neck of the woods has reached fever pitch, can't wait for it to be over!

Definately more space here, even in DC which is an expensice city by US standards, our house is twice the size we could afford in the UK sadly.

Must run to pick up DD1 from preschool!

Mystic CT sounds lovely (remember from Julia roberts 1st film, Mystic Pizza).

About cheese: glad to know about it being cooked through - I assume this means I can have brie toasted under the grill. or macaroni and cheese made with bleu cheese.

mmmmm - I'm salivating about the possibility of brie and bacon paninis being "legal"

Hmm not sure about the whole cooked thing...

Wouldnt it have to be cooked all the way through?

I would check with an expert if I hadnt had it until now.. just to be on the safe side!

Woo Hoo - got my blood results which has pushed my stats down to 1:2890 which I'm really happy with and insist on chilling out now.

DP out with boys tonight and staying out so going to snuggle on sofa with a blanket once DD in bed. Having a little party for her tomo as its her 1st birthday next week - time has gone so so fast.
Happy Halloween to all!!

Detsy thats great news :0

Excellent news detsy congrats

Yes sweetbroody according to the Food Standards agency it does have to be cooked all the way through, but as long as that's the case, it's OK.

(Oh and Momino, Mystic Pizza actually exists - did before the movie, we used to live right opposite it and it was indeed great pizza )

Cooloio... Its good to know!

I dont seem to trust restauraunts at all at the moment though.. but it doesnt help that all the smells make me feel so yuck!

Very true, I'd probably want to do it myself - though I agree the smell of anything at all cooking makes me feel so horribly sick at the moment. Last night I was doing sausages for the kids and had to put a mask around my face because I felt so awful. Roll on 2nd trimester!

sweetbroody when my mum recently was suffering with the runs.. the BRAT diet was recommended to help bung her up.. basically bananas, rice, apples, toast. bananas really bung up ds if he doesn't drink enough fluids.

i was out for a family lunch today as it's my dad's 75th birthday today. still pretty full now so think i'll just have a bit of my lentil and veg soup i made yesterday. wore my new isabella oliver wrap top today and it made me feel glamorous. so comfy but one drawback i now want to buy more!

dandylion yes i got your mail - thanks, I was sure I responded to it, did i not? Gosh if not I'm really sorry I agree with all that you said and am glad we are "in tune"!!

Well my jojo clothes arrived today - a fair few of them went straight back as not at all worth the money and think they are made for gorillas with 8 ft long arms! Got my cards out again and may do a spot of internet shopping in peace now that DP has gone out and DD is finally snoozing!

Got a bad cough again so unfortunately back with the Tena lady for the moment

Just found some ancient ben and jerrys vanilla in the back of the freezer...mmm mmm

Right off to look at seraphine and melba, will try to be good....

I'm 13 weeks today and I feel so much better. All of my energy has come back and I feel great! I've even got the ironing mountain basket out.

I received my IO order today and I'm sure the packaging was the most beautiful I've ever seen. All tissue paper and ribbons and a lovely 15% off voucher if I spend over £85 on my next order...as if! It is a dress that I need for my friend's wedding just before christmas when I will be 20 weeks, and because I had 20% off I bought a lovely pair of leggings too.

Bad news is that my car was broken into last night, which DH discovered this morning at 5.30am. Unfortunately my blackberry and purse had fallen out of my handbag and I'd forgotten to bring them in, so I lost those. Grr. We are worried because our house alarm went off for no reason the night before, and I'm afraid that it is all connected.

Anyone got any Seraphine discount codes... would be really good if you had!!

Oh Llare you poor thing thats so horrid it just feels like such a violation of your privacy. I'm sure now they have got away with something they will hopefully leave you alone. Stay safe hun.

On the up side at least you are feeling better and have more energy - I'm the same, its a relief hey?

I think it was opportunistic. Went around and told all of the neighbours including the lovely old lady around the corner. She told me that someone had stolen the contents of her freezer, which she keeps in her garage!

I used to live in the centre of a large city where really nothing ever happened. I now live in a lovely little market time and nearly all the houses in my street have been burgled in some form. It's very scary.

Still, I've managed to avoid trick or treaters this evening and I have a nice glass of milk on the go. How times have changed!

Evening ladies. Hope everyone is having a relaxing evening. sweetbroody I second everyone else - wash your hair if you want to you'll feel so much better. My boobs have also been really sore today - must be the cold. However I did finally go and get measured today for a maternity bra and I bought one. So much better I now know why I was so uncomfortable have gone from a 38B to a 38D! Blimey! No wonder hubby is happy!