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

[PuzzleRocks]

Evening ladies

Had our (rescheduled) cardiac echo and 20 week scan today - hugely relieved to see that the heart particularly, and everything else, is looking normal, although the baby's head and tummy are both bigger than average.

DS's tummy was bigger than average at his 20 week scan too, so I'm not too worried about that, but big heads sound scary on the childbirth front!

Welcome to all the newbies - have read all the thread since the new title but haven't a hope of responding to any of them, so shall just say that I hope everyone is well! OddEyes, are you feeling better?

xx

I wouldn't dream of repeating my dreams here. You will all think i'm debauched. I can't believe how graphic some of them are.

Fresh Hell
DD had a large belly too. She looked like E.T. when she was born. Very cute.

Sorry, meant to add you must be glad everything is well. Great news.

I've just come on to catch up and have missed so much today! As I remember it, pg dreams are supposed to be a combination of weird, vivid and sometimes very sexual Make the most of it, I was up regularly from 01:30 this morning feeling like I was about to throw up so don't think I slept long enough to have dreams.

Freshhell DD had a large belly at 20 week scan but it looked pretty normal to me when she was born. She had a pretty small head though so nothing to worry about on that front! Giving birth didn't hurt when her head was crowning. It wasn't until her shoulders were coming through that it stung!

I seem to have officially outgrown my trousers that I was wearing because they had been a bit on the big side. My bump seems to have exploded over night. I wonder if it will still be this big tomorrow?

DH has asked me what everyone thinks about alcohol during pg following the news. I think that he may start rationing some out for me now - woohoo!

must say i'm delighted that this thread is all alchohol and sex!! seems appropriate as it is that very combination hat got me into this situation in the first place. i was reading another baby forum before i found this place, and over there it's all nursery schemes and such... gave me the heebie jeebies a bit. no offence to anyone here that is hankering after a bit of baby feng shuing, but it's nice to hear other pregnant folk that still sound normal!

in other news i got a pair of mail order maternity jeans on the cheap from vertbaudet today, and bloody hell they are massive!!!! I'm not really going to get that big am i? right i'm off to a haloween party, to look longingly at the punch all night and fall asleep in the corner no doubt. ciao bellas x

Well, it's booze in the FreshHell household this evening, am celebrating good scan with small glass of wine (or will be when DP gets home with the wine) but sadly no sex - DP is already quite drunk so I fear romance will consist of some loud snoring.

Ah well. DS keeps getting into our bed anyway, kicking us all over as hard as possible until we're both balancing on the edge of a super king bed, and then announcing very loudly 'I haven't got any ROOM!'

To which my response at 3am today was 'Really? Well who's got it all then?'

My dreams however - completely different story. Even with women......!

kittycat - not much bump here either - definitely tight trousers but not discernable as a bump yet.

tristaleejac - hope you're having a great night celebrating your bumnp - cant wait for all the christmas parties to do that.

puzzlerocks - i'd probably to your midwife about the visual disturbances - think thats on the list of things to watch for isn't it?

re - dreams - another having rather interesting dreams - poor dh - bet he wishes he could join in instead of them just being in my head.

the alcohol thing is interesting - i had none with ds, but this time with christmas and new year coming up, I'll probably have a glass then - in one way i really crave it but in another i quite like the challenge of doing totally without it for 9 months, cause then when i can have it again, i enjoy it much more (although with bf i guess you are still a little restricted with quantities until they are a bit older).

posts crossed fresh hell - on the dreams - actually think i might have had a similar last time.

ds is the same in our super king size - except he's 15 months so cant talk yet - he doesnt seem to understand being told to budge over.

Unfortunately at 17 weeks tomorrow I have to report that boobs still fit comfortably into my usual B cup bras and belly has definitely grown more. I can't get into any of my pre-pregnancy clothes - the thing that really irritated me yesterday was that I had prioritised work clothes, and guess what yesterday it was dress down friday!!!! Must buy some casual gear, might try tomorrow if I can face it.

In terms of alcohol I just think that there is an absolute obsession over it. Everything in life is a risk - I'm about to go out and drive my car, have a very sedate ride on horse, then me and OH are going out for a nice lunch, again in the car. I could have an accident while I am out, possibly my whole day is made up of unnecessary risk. Nobody is in any doubt that drinking a lot while pregnant harms your baby, but it is quite clear to me that light drinking doesn't. Therefore why not drink the odd half if I want to? There is just this obsession for making pregnant women feel guilty about everything that they do. My mother drank half a guinness a day at the instruction of her midwife (alongside many others as it was the advice at the time) we don't have fetal alcohol syndrome. Rant over haha.

I would also shadow comments about H&M - even managed to buy some trousers that were long enough. Just approach with caution in terms of size. I am normally 10/12, am now exact pre-pregnancy weight including bump (lost some in first trimester) I had to buy trousers in a 14 and the skirts are 14-16!!!

Morning all. We had a bottle last night too, or should I say I had half a glass and dh had rather a lot more!
Sleeping in seperate beds at the moment, as dh not sleeping cause of my coughing (nor am I), ds quite confused but enjoying having to beds to cuddle up in.
Dreams - yes !
Freshhell/littlemy - hurrah for a normal scan, so pleased for you, makes it all the more exciting being able to more past the point when you had problems last time doesn't it.
Sure I will be back, off to ebay to start a bidding war

Hello, I'm new too, due 2nd baby on 23rd April. First DD will be 2 on 3rd April, this one was a bit of a surprise!
I'm certainly showing more this time round though

Hellooo! I am being shockingly lazy today. I only really just got up & am sitting here eating porridge in my dressing gown. Yay for Saturdays. I think today's the day that coffee shops change over to their Christmas menus, so I may take a stroll into town later & get a cinnamon hot chocolate in a festive cup

Dreams - I have had absolutely no sexy dreams apart from my very dull Adrian Mole one. Not cool! I usually end up fearing for my life. Although I was just complaining to DP that you've all been having great dreams & he said 'you could always just have your sexy fun before you go to sleep?', to which I replied 'every night?' & made him shake hands on it. Now he's pretty terrified. Don't know why he's complaining, frankly

Most excitingly of all, I'm almost entirely sure that I felt movement last night! It was on the right side, about 1/3 of the way between my pelvis & my belly button & was an odd, almost painful tightening & vibration. I was feeling a bit down yesterday & that's put me right back on the cheery side of things. I love our baby so much already

Oh Springy! So lovely isn't it
I;m really excited that mine has gone from fluttering to a definite (tiny) kick...

oooooooooh cinnamon hot chocolate...

Hi everyone - glad you're all fine.
Springy - that's great about you feeling your baby. Isn't it such an amazing feeling. It's so personal and it forms such a bond.
Well my clubbing adventure turned out to be a disaster. My friend and I had a bloody good laugh spending ages putting on deathly looking make-up and fake blood. She had slashes and fake blood on her top. We both looked scary but great. Went to club and spent 2 hours standing outside in queue before finally giving up and going home (via kebab shop, of course)
For the 1st hour and a half the queue was moving, but there was some kind of incident at the front door and the police were involved, so the bouncers closed the doors, saying they wouldn't be re-opened til later. So, tired, sore and extremely pissed off, we headed back home with some food.
Was still a good laugh though what sights there were out in the city. People go to amazing efforts with there fancy dress. Some just don't have a clue, they were quite funny too!
Ok dreamwise, I'm having the sexy ones too. I had a very raunchy one involving Jack from Eastenders a couple of weeks ago. I'm not even that into him, but I was for a few days after that dream

for those of you thinking of some h&m maternity shopping - get 20% of with this link

That link comes just a few hours too late for me, Oddeyes. I managed to go shopping for a couple of hours this morning as I realised that I really needed some warm maternity trousers and a jumper. I broke my last pair of maternity jeans and outgrew loads of my maternity wear last time as I got so big I managed to get a lovely black chunky cardigan from H&M (needed a medium even though I'm only a size 10) and a pair of jeans from pumpkin patch that have plenty of growing room and a lovely soft under-bump band.

I think that DH's eyes would be on stalks if I let him read too much of this thread atm! I didn't quite wake him up in time for some fun before DD started crying this morning, grrrrrrrrr.

I'm off to make semolina.....

thanks for the link oddeyes ... i'm heading into london tomorrow to hopefully get something that fits!

salbysea I've been getting terrible pounding headaches too, worse when I wake up, seem to go when I've been up a bit.

bellamummy my next scan is 5th dec too!

Apart from that, I can't stop eating olives.....

Ooh, thanks for the link, OddEyes! tristalee, sorry to hear your clubbing didn't exactly go to plan - but yay for kebab shops

surprisenumber3 I used to adore all kinds of olives, but now can't even think about eating the ones out of the jars in the brine. I can only eat (& still really enjoy) the lovely posh ones now, which is an expensive craving that I try to curb. But whenever I'm in a nice restaurant, it doesn't matter what starter I'm having - there have to be nice olives, too!

I'm not yet seriously craving anything for any period of time. I suppose a new liking of crisps has been the main change to my diet, but I'm hardly obsessed with them. I'm hoping for a really odd, funny craving. When my mum was in hospital just before having me, the woman in the next bed was desperate to get hold of Pauline Fowler's powder blue teapot, smash it up with a little hammer & eat the pieces

ha ha that's hilarious!

With DS2 I craved the smell of rubber pumps! You know those black school pumps? I had to keep going into woolworths to smell them! Then we had a new rubber bath mat and I got my DH to cut me a piece off in the middle of the night and I chewed it!!!

See, that's exactly the sort of thing I want

Not quite so quirky but with DD I froze orange juice in ice cube trays and ate them obsessively with a spoon...I had to have about 8 lots a day, I had three ice cube trays going in tandem and if anyone suggested I stop, I got extremely grouchy...I can still remember hunching over my bowl with my spoon, waiting for them to have melted to exactly the right temperature so they were crunchy but not too crystallised

That made me giggle. I love the idea of you wielding your spoon menacingly at anyone who dared to question you.

When did these big cravings start?

ha ha about the ice! With DS1 I kept getting ice out the machine at work and eating cup fulls of it. I drove my colleagues mad crunching away!

I never really put it down to a craving though, just that it was July/August and boiling hot in an office with no air con and windows that opened about an centimetre!

The ice craving started I'd say about 27 weeks (9 years ago now so a bit hazy!), the rubber craving at about 30+ weeks. It initially started when I bought a remote control hovercraft for DH for Christmas and the rubber at the bottom of hover craft.....mmmmmmmmmmmm