Due May 2009 - It's all in front of us now!!!!

[divedaisy]

And on we go!!

Missy I know what you mean.. try and improvise your outfit though and dont let it stress you out to much...

I'm avoiding a few of the festivities to be honest but then I have a good excuse with my dad not 100%... I just want December to be over really...

In fact.. I want May to be HERE!

sweetBROODY were you diabetic already or do you have gestational diabetes? I've only just gone onto insulin and they've just increased the dose to 6 in the morning and 6 in the evening. I'm trying to look on the bright side, at least I won't put much weight on.

I'm sorry to hear you lost a baby in May. I did too, only much earlier than you, maybe 7 weeks or so. I had a miscarriage in March too, again really early.

Hehe, I typed I want it to be May already and then removed it!

I've found an outfit & it's getting worn to all the events & then I'm refusing to go out on work nights until after the baby, I get too tired & my hips/inner thighs have started to get achy

I hope your dad makes a speedy recovery & you can relax & enjoy the rest of the pregnancy, and then have a nice well deserved fag (unless you've given up for good)..

DandyLioness - yes it was late enough to have to be induced so I had a 9 hour labour (they told me it would be quick- ha!). She was developed enough to see she was a girl, all really tough. Hence not allowing myself to get excited yet.

I bought a couple of tops in a sale today and checked if I could bring them back if I needed to return them! She must have thought I was mad, as I had tried them on.

llareggub With the other early miscarriages it may be why they feel you have pre diabetes - Undiagnosed. They said it was gestational last time but it stayed so they are saying type 2 tablet controlled. I had been put on Insulin as we were TTC and I was told that I should prob not need injections afterwards and should be diet and tablet.

Missy LOL it is funny we all want May to be here... When it is here we'll be wishing it was over!

I do get seriously tired though... and I dream of a fag.. dont know if i'll stick to not smoking? I'll have to see how I feel once baby is here.

cece that sounds so traumatic... I guess all us ladies who have miscarried are on tippy toes through out our pregnancies thats so sad.. i'm in tears and I know its not just my hormones

Hmmm, I'm not so sure. I have PCOS so have a higher risk of miscarriage anyway. My GTT results were right on the cut-off so my specialist diabetes midwife thinks it unlikely that I had it prior to this pregnancy. But we'll see. My mother and grandmother have type 2 and there is a higher risk of getting it with PCOS anyway, so mentally I've been prepared to get it one day.

cece that's so awful I'm not surprised you're feeling nervous but your consultant sounds like a star. What day is your scan? I have my 20w scan on Thursday at 19+4.

After I had the all clear following my bleed at the w/e I thought I'd be all happy & relieved but I actually felt really low as it made me contemplate what could have happened. I'm counting the days to the scan but am nervous too.

OK so the various pink/blue predictions are as follows:

Heartbeat - probably boy
Angle of the dangle - probably girl
Face shape (colleague reckons thinner face = boy; rounder face = girl) - boy
Gut instinct - no idea!

evening all. hope everyone's had a good day.
so sorry to read about the mc stories; it's such a tough thing. it's sad that i don't know many people anymore who haven't had one. i had an early mc before dd1 and it's true that you're always on tiptoes with any subsequent pregnancy.

with my age (39) i've been so worried about the high risk. with not feeling any movement yet at 19 weeks, i'm still skeptical and wondering if anything's going on in there. last time i heard the heartbeat was at 15 weeks - amonth ago so i need some new reassurance. can't wait till my scan next week. I may start to feel excited yet.

oh, i didn't start potty training dd1 today as i thought. i'm not brave enough, I've figured. dh is home tomorrow so may try then. cold turkey and not going back.

everyone out tonight? as usual, in front of telly watching..... nothing really.

We've been out, but only quickly and only to the out of hours GP because DS developed a high temperature and his breathing seemed laboured. He's in bed now, with calpol and neruofen and instructions from the GP about bringing his temperature down. He seems much happier but seemed so, so poorly earlier. Such a worry.

Had a lovely moment though with DS lying across my lap. I could feel the baby moving underneath!

Monimo try not to worry about feeling movement. I saw the midwife today and she thought it was very unusual to feel movement at 17 weeks.

Not sure if anyone saw, but I posted earlier that I'll be having my c section on 27 April or 4 May, so I may not be on the May thread post-natally! We have a secret wish that they go for 4 May...Star Wars Day!

Have just finished unpacking all the Christmas stuff and decided to decorate our tree tonight. Has been a bit of a stressful job as DH is a bit of a control freak and really doesn't like the way table lamps/furniture etc have to get moved around slightly. Everywhere I suggest we move things to is ALWAYS WRONG and in the end I said 'well put them anywhere you want... It really doesn't BOTHER ME!' He's now happy with the lounge layout and has gone off to bed in a grump (for which I'm delighted as he really pi**ed me off) I really shouldn't let it stress me out but it's so hard not to when I just get shot down in flames every time I open my mouth.

Sorry about the rant... but it really takes all the fun and excitement out of making the house all xmassy

I wish I could get all the xmas decs up like you FiKelly. My DH won't let me put them up yet - mind you I'd have to collect them from my parents house first, we left them there while we were having our loft converted.

Started making paper chains with my stepdaughter last weekend so will carry on with those this weekend to put up in the lounge and dining room.

My DH has now come down with the same bug I had at the beginning of the week - of course HE is dying tho, lol.

Just watching the repeat of Gavin & Stace, the one when Nessa goes for her first scan.

Can't believe I've got my 20wk scan on the 15th, it seems to have come round v.quickly. Alternatively excited and scared.

I'm 18 weeks today and I feel so good its hard to remember that I'm actually PG. I finally seem to be over my MS and as DD has been sleeping really well this week I feel human again and well rested. I haven't really felt muh definate movement yet just bubbles/ rubbles that must be baby but could well be my imagination or wind.
My sister said that she didn't feel PG in her second trimester so I guess thats how I am feeling. With DD I felt sick and tired and definately PG all the way through.
Gut feeling -boy.

Sorry didn't mean to bring the thread down.

I have two other children. My next scan is on the 10th Dec. Our baby's birthday (or should I say anniversary) is the 13th so one way or the other it is going to be a difficult week. I'll be glad when I get to the other side of it!

cece don't worry about the thread! It's much better to talk about it

looby all our christmas stuff was in a large wooden chest in our lounge... so no climbing heights to unpack. Our fake tree is a 7/8ft one so I usually cheat and put the star on the top before I put the top section in place. DH insisted I decorate the whole tree with the lights and baubles etc while it was still on the lounge floor so there'd be no need for the ladders... and he'd then lift it into place on the wooden chest. Sounded sort of ok... except DH then broke one of the baubles lifting it in place and then blamed me for it being loose! It wasn't loose... just on a bauble hanger like the rest of the ones on the tree!!!

Sorry ranting again... I should be over this by tomorrow I hope

FiKelly don't worry about the rant.

I had a massive row with my DH last night about my cats. When I met him 5 years ago and he moved into my house he pretended to like them and they used to sleep in my lounge. Now we have moved into OUR house (so joint mortgage) he HATES them and won't let them in. I don't think its fair and was a bit PG emotional last night and let rip.

Thing is my cats are no problem when they are in I shut them in the kitchen and dining room and Maisie has a special basket she sleeps in all night - she doesn't move just grateful to be allowed in out of the cold. DH had the nerve to say that if I liked the cats in he would leave me!

As my friends say - I had the cats before I even met DH so he should just put up with them. Especially as I had to put up with alot of grief from his little girl when we first got together.

Am I being really unresonible?

Sorry for the long post - my turn for a rant.

rant, rant away. that's what we're here for, we've all done it! (me recently re: toilet training!)

i just wish I had something clever or helpful to say to you looby, but only just that you're not being unreasonable. what - are you supposed to just give the cats away? pets become part of the family. they don't sound like too much trouble anyway. i often wish we had a cat instead of a dog as cats are so much less responsibility and worry.

looby what is it DH's have with our pets?! I've had Douglas (Lhasa Apso dog) since 1993 before I even met DH. He moved into my flat in 1998 & never complained about him then. He's a soppy dog and loves to be fussed so he adopted DH no problem. We then moved down south into this flat in 2004 and DH's opinion started to change. Over the last year poor Douglas has had quite a few urinary tract infections which meant he lost control of his weeing and has had accidents in the house.

This really wound up DH and he now complains about him a lot. BTW he's all better now and not having accidents in the house... which I was the one to always clean up anyway! Douglas couldn't help it as he was unwell and even despite that he's now 13yrs old and doing pretty well for his age I think.

I was a bit concerned how Douglas would take to DS... but he adopted him too & DS just adores him. DS would love Douglas to stay & play in his tent/den permanently but Douglas has other ideas. Poor DS doesn't understand that I can't make Douglas do things he doesn't want to do

btw DH other major complaint is that Douglas wakes him up in the night when he has episodes of doggy dream woofings. He has his own sheepskin to sleep on in our room and his dreaming never wakes me I suggested we move Douglas & his sheepskin to another room if it disturbed him so much in the night and he said that was no good as Douglas's sleep barking could be heard all over the flat!

poor Douglas! btw Fi, love that you namedyour dog Douglas - it's such a human name .

our dog is George, a name I absolutely love and wish we hadn't named him George - would be a great name to put on our name list if we had a boy.

I know what you mean as I think Douglas Kelly sounds great but can't use it... oh well.