Due April 2009 - Farewell nausea and all things ghastly, our boobs and bumps are growing vastly.

[PuzzleRocks]

Shut up KittyCat Also, I have loads of raised, purply-red stretchmarks from the pregnancy, don't worry! I just know that they will fade into silvery ones eventually.

Conker, I really do think that you should share the dream. Think of it as useful therapy. Not that it sounds like you really need any, but still

& Puzzle, that's fine - you keep your cake, see what I care. But just remember that Stacy's Mom has got it going on... Did I help? [faux innocence]

Brilliant - thanks Springy - up until now I had managed to keep that out of my head and now I am on board with annoying song in my head - but I only know that line - OH THE HORROR11

BB, my DP's the same. 'Anything interesting happening on Mumsnet?' every 10 minutes. He also tries to casually look over my shoulder sometimes - saw himself referred to as 'DP' yesterday & got all proud of himself, even though he knew about the abbreviations before. God knows what he thought I was calling him behind his back

I think I'd be in trouble if he knew that I so much as mentioned his mum or our sex life, but never mind. If you can't blurt out the absolute truth to a bunch of anonymous people on the internet, where can you?

"She's all I want & I've waited for so long... Stacy can't you see, you're just not the girl for me - I know it might be wrong, but I'm in love with Stacy's Mom."

I think. I don't know why my brain would do that to me, though. No wonder I didn't want to get up this morning - I needed another night's sleep to cancel out that nightmare.

Oh dear.. now we've ALL got that stoooopid song in our heads! Thanks Springy!!!

Seeing as Puzzle's keeping her cake AND eating it, who's up for a cup of hot choc with me? i may have a marshmallow somewhere... tee hee...

Just thinking about the story makes me laugh again! Your poor DH!

Thanks again Springy that has helped immensely - not!!!

Kitty yes please - I have just tried to replace my desire for Xmas chocolates with raisins and it hasn't worked!!!

hmmmm

Count me in for a hot chocolate!

Nutty, I'm the same - I spend so much time in the flat on my own because I have very little contact time at uni, so it's nice to have people to chat to. You're all far more interesting than the 'Loose Women', etc I'd be left with for company without you all.

Also I don't know anyone within an hour of here & it's getting on for 2 or 3 hours for most people I'd want to see, so just picking up my laptop seems a much easier way of having a bit of a chat.

I would be lost without MN - I mean don't get me wrong I love my Friends and family but am pretty sure they can't cope with me blabbing on about babies, leaking boobs, eating, vomiting and goodness knows what else 24 hours a day! and it's so nice to feel normal here!

Springy me too - I work so far away from home and we live about an hour away from F&F (for commuting purposes only!) so you lot are my new BFF's!

although with all this caht - anyone notcied that we are getting close to the 1000 mark - who can think of a good title.

I was just thinking that conkertree... Please do not let it be anything to do with stacey's mum lyrics!

HOw did we do that AGAIN - this will be the 4th thread!!!

Oh, speaking of laughing so much you can hardly type - last night I was chatting to my friend on MSN, who revealed to me that when he came to a party I had about 18 months ago when he was living in London & I was in Birmingham, he couldn't afford to travel up or pay for a hotel himself. So he managed to talk one of our mutual acquaintances into picking him up & footing the bill at the hotel in exchange for sex. He's about 4'11 & really skinny, she's getting on for 6' & rather... robust. & twice his age. & oh my, does the woman snore. I know that from past experience (not the same sort of experience!) & he had to sleep, naked, in the tiny bath - how much more do I love my friend for prostituting himself so he could see me? Poor bloke's still traumatised - after a while he refused to continue talking about it, saying he felt like a war veteran & saying 'YOU DON'T KNOW MAN, YOU WEREN'T THERE!'. Bless him.

I keep thinking that I'm being ridiculous to be so homesick all the time & to miss my friends quite so much. Then I realise how fantastic some of them are & it's not surprising that I feel this way.

At least hanging around here reminds me that there are funny stories like that one happening everywhere - I'm still highly amused by the chocolate body paint incident

Barabella - I sympathise - My DH and I cant have sex the whole pregnancy either. We had it twice and both times I bled the second time lasting 4 weeks with 5 weeks off work so no more for us. I feel really sorry for DH, we try to do other things but he said it is less fun when I am not benefitting!!

We had our 20 week scan yesterday. The sonographer said that I assume you dont want to know the sex as you haven't asked . I said I didnt want to know but DH did so he was told when I left the room but he is not allowed to tell anyone. I have to say its killing me that he knows and I dont but I want it to be a surprise. We both secretly want a boy but I would be more than happy with any sex.

I also have a very hairy belly, really itchy nipples and lucky if I sleep through the night. I thought it got easier in the second trimester or is this nothing compared to the third?!

DH asks me every day if there have been any interesting convos on MN. He knows my username so he could spy if he wanted. He would see that I revealed on another thread how many people he had slept with. Filthy whore

Better than "Loose Women". And younger and a damn sight better looking to boot.

Oh my god, how did we get to 963 messages so quickly?

hopeful1 I don't think it ever gets easier as there is always something that you are worrying about. Last night I had 8 pillows, about 80% of the bed and DH running around getting me drinks / opening windows / closing windows and I still couldn't get comfy.. hmmm

wow hopeful - dh would last about 3 minutes without telling me - even if he didnt mean to he would hint enough that it was so obvious. hairy tummy sounds good for a boy though.

i liked the third trimester last time until about 38 weeks and then i just felt so heavy and big and it took an effort to just get up from a seat that it got really tiring - but i'd forgotten about the fact that you dont sleep well in the last weeks (or months).

same here DH wanted to know but I wouldn't let him because neither of us can keep a secret and he would have to tell me! or he would end up calling it he / she or picking out clothes he likes etc or would let me get away with any names I wanted for one sex and be quite stubborn about the other one!

Also I would also hate being the one that doesn't know...

DD is snuggled up on the sofa with a packet of raisins now. I'm trying to work out if I need to go out for anything or if we can just snuggle up by the fire for the rest of the day.

Sorry to hear about your enforced abstinence hopeful1.

Cannot believe you trust DH to secrecy on the sex. If we did that everyone under the sun and their cat would know my baby's gender before me!

Twas bad enough keeping the pregnancy secret. Several people said "Yes, I know" when I finally told them I was up the duff. So there I was struggling to surpress the morning all day sickness and general vileness of the first trimester and they all knew already. Grrrrrrrr!

LuLu, there can't be anything you need outside, not when there is snuggling to do!

Wow, we can't half chat.

New title, new title... What have been the big things recently? Bra angst, hot chocolate & marshmallows, sex lives...

I don't really see where we can go with any of that without looking like a bunch of complete nutters

Puzzle, my DP knows my username too - I'm fairly sure he WILL snoop, even if he hasn't already. But I'll namechange for anything too bad & let's face it - we chat so much he'd be hard pushed to read it all anyway.

hopeful, there's no way it could still be a secret here. I spoke to my sister very briefly after the scan just to say that everything was fine & not to worry, but that I'd call about the sex later & she still picked up that it was a boy just from my tone - & I didn't even have a preference. DP would have been the same. I'm very impressed that you're still in the dark!

Should it be something about making it halfway...