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.

Ooh, dandylioness I haven't ventured onto the Am I being unreasonable threads. Am far too chicken for that kind of a bun fight!
Just had some apple crumble and a cup of early grey. Well, it's fruit isn't it?!

I'm at work and REALLY want a hot drink, but I've already had my daily quota of 2 cups of tea and they have NO DECAFF

Might have to nip out to the shops ...

jools hot chocolate? Is it only 2 cups a day we're allowed - I thought it was 2-3 coffee and doesn't tea have less caffeine? (dunno?)
I usually have about 3 cups of tea a day . No coffee though, even the smell makes me feel like I have to lie on the floor and do deep breathing. Yuck.

Dandylioness - and it's home made so surely that makes it even healthier. Didn't even put very much sugar into it. [feels positively saintly]
Am meeting a friend for lunch later - can't promise not to eat like a lardy pig there! Somehow being pregnant just makes me think 'sod it'. Not good, when I've just lost a huge amount of weight and was down to an 8/10 for the first time in about 9 yrs.
Have a good day all, am off to do some work now!

We're in a new building - great for me because it is in my home town, meaning I only have to commute into the London office once or twice a week. However, the facilities are a little lacking at the moment - tea or little sachets of coffee and that is it !

I'm trying to avoid hot choc as long as possible - calories !! I have some decaff Early Grey at home and must remember to bring that in. Found one fruit tea bag at the bottom of my laptop bag so that will do for now

I think the guidelines are three mugs of tea per day, so I guess I could have another but am saving that for later I know the allowance for coffee is less, but I don't really fancy coffee any more so haven't bothered rememering that one.

Am having a hungry day today - had a big bowl of cereal and a glass of OJ this morning and have eaten a banana and a pack of low fat crisps since I've been at work - now, my lunch is calling me I really really fancy some ritz crackers too

By the way ladies meant to say Isabella Oliver are doing 20% off their 'favorites' range online until (I think) 28th Oct.

I've never had a Starbar... ever!!! So what are they like?

Hey you ALL thank you so much for all your reassurances.. I feel the MS all the time... but especially when I think about food...

Does anyone know if Primark does maternity wear? Feeling the credit crunch :S Also arent Top Shop normally very good for the slim ladies? I always have problems getting a good size 16 in there?

I am really praying everything goes well at the scan - that's my main worry at the moment... I really wish they would give us a scan every 2 weeks so we wouldnt worry! I was trying to work out how much it would cost to go private and one place quoted me £75+ just for the scan! I couldnt beleive it!

Star Bar - "milk chocolate shot through with peanuts and creamy caramel" - obviously only OK if you have made the decision to eat the occasional peanut.

jools you've just explained why i've never had a starbar... I not really a lover of peanuts anyway and loathe caramel lol. I'm a solid milk chocolate girl

I am actually really into my spicy food.. not liking sweet but keep having to indulge as my sugars are dropping SO much... never realised how much I DONT like sweet things until now!

Jools, I'm eating peanuts. avoided them with DD1 and 2 and they both still have bad eczema. I'm willing to take the risk now - I want a star bar!

At how many weeks did you all start buying maternity wear? Is it too soon at 8.5weeks?

I'm sorely tempted to buy maternity wear at almost 9 weeks, as I am running out of work clothes that fit !! However, being a paranoid, superstitious worrier, I don't want to buy ANYTHING until I've had my first scan on Nov 11th, so I'm just trying to hold out till then

I did buy a cheap £12 pair of M&S jeans in a larger size that will do me at weekends for a while We are desperately trying to save so that I can have the full maternity leave, so I'll be looking for cheap bargains for all my clothes.

Yeah me too! SOme of Marks stuff online seems reasonable - but not sure I want to spend that sort of money.. I do feel really cheap! My next scan is 7th November.. dread it with Glee! I am looking forward to it really... Let me know if you find any bargains but I have a suspicion that things will be automatically expensive because it is for pregnancy. I am thinking of getting a few Indian outfits made up - with material I like.. and wear those at work.. but that mihgt be odd.. All my clothes are too tight and hubby is getting upset about me wearing tight clothes.. I dont really want to buy too much either :S its sooo confusing to know what to do.. I cant beleive so many people are thinking about names already...

We do names differantly in that we get given the first letter and then we chose.. not looking forward to it because my sister in law will get to choose :S she's a cow!

:D I am really verbal today - so bored at work and sooo SleepY!

i'm being superstitious too and not buying the jeans till after the scan. am still fitting into my clothes ok but most of my jeans are low waist. i do have a high-waisted, wide legged pair of jeans (sound horrible but are/were cute) which have now gone away.

at the end of the day when my bump is bigger (ie I'm more bloated), i put a hair elastic through the button/hole of my jeans and that works. I'm getting more resourceful with my growing belly!

Sweetbroody, i'm working from home and getting NOThing done. have been on ebay. been on mumsnet. taken a 15 minute sandwich break. did about an hour of work. and I have so much to do! just so unmotivated.

Sweetbroody, i'm working from home and getting NOThing done. have been on ebay. been on mumsnet. taken a 15 minute sandwich break. did about an hour of work. and I have so much to do! just so unmotivated.

i hate when it posts twice

Thats a really good idea! I get worried they might pop though with a rubber band. The thing is I'm always pulling up my top (Not all the way!) to do injections.. so I do feel concious.

:S

Its a minefield.. I'm just glad theres so many experienced women in our midst. I know its weird but i've had so many strange dreams oF BF.. I am really looking forward to having baby in my arms.. Want to know what he looks like! I really want a little boy - does anyone else have any preferences?

I'm lucky in that I have a fair amount of maternity stuff from having DS but it's all for heat wave weather as was last pregnant in scorching summer of 2006. I'm going to need long sleeve long t-shirts and have treated myself to a new pair of jeans... I thought at least I can sell them on ebay if anything happens.

I don't know if primark do maternity but Newlook do... haven't had a chance to look in there yet though.

I should really be working but I cant concentrate on anything but my body.. its strange isnt it! Mo whens your due date? I wish Iw as at home! has ebay been any good for getting things?

I wish there wasnt a credit crunch... or taht I had more money!

Just had a look at Topshops website - the choices are far better then M&S...