Due April 2009 - Tralalaboomdiay, our bumps grow every day!!

[BabyBolat]

Place your bets on how long this thread will last, my guess is two weeks!!

Just 40 minutes til home time and then once I am in the car I can take off my bra and wind down the window (attractive mental image!!) for and hour!! yay!!! I am literally dying of heat, last night I slept in my pants with the window open!

Oh well at least they were honest and the decision has koind of been made for you! - hey don't tell DH and just say you thought about it and thought he was right - that way you can use it as ammunition when you want him to agree with you for something! [cunning emoticon!]

I have the complete opposite when it comes to internal thermostats... I'm freezing ALL the time!! And it can't just be because I'm a Southern Hemisphere girl (because I've definitely acclimatised), but I have to layer on the long-johns and three pullovers when I take the RUBBISH out, never mind go for a walk...

On a happier note, I had the greatest experience EVER on eBay that I have to share... I won a fab brand-new starter kit of TotsBots Bamboozles last week (really cheap too - with liners and wraps and everything!!) and the parcel arrived today. With it was a separately posted letter, enclosing a packet of Cadbury's Dairy Milk Buttons, and a note saying "Congrats on the new addition to your family - thought you might need these!"

There are some WONDERFUL people in the world... I am feeling the love today for sure!

Wouldn't surprise me at all NUTTY - she was a fab lady after all, as we all are...

Hello all you pieces of (overly) hot stuff! Loving all your bump pictures! I'll try and get a picture of mine and show yous. Mine doesn't look as big as yours as I'm bigger myself, so it kind of blends in more. It's also a bit flabby at the bottom due to me not having a flat belly to begin with. HO hum. Means less stretch marks, so silver linings and all that!

Hello everyone, I'm woefully unable to manage to respond to everything like yous all are, but rest assured I read yous and take immense comfort from your words. I'm so glad I found this thread, makes me feel normal x

And welcome back springy, you sexy little spotty dressed sex kitten x orgasms are us!

So my news! After a day of research, I can now confirm I know how to make a baby hammock, it doesn't look particularly difficult and am going to have one without having to spend loads of money, like the marketers want me to. Silly really thinking I needed to buy one, when folk in east asia just make them from sarongs and trees. This having a baby lark really makes you vunerable to spending money doesn't it? I'm going to start making things, which will hopefully get me over my creative block too. So next week I start to dye and applique baby gros, make baby hammocks and teach myself to knit nice stripey rainbow blankets.

Had such a weird night's sleep last night, if it wasn't for all the weird dreams I remember then I would have told you that I hadn't slept. Everytime I lie on my side bambino starts squirming like it's trapped and wants to get out. But when I lie on my back I get pains in the front of my bump. I also have restless legs. So I can't get comfy and sleep. But then I must of because of the dreams, such as dreaming my ex was making me eat cockcroaches, that I was a surfing smoking beach queen (sigh), that I was a contestant on xfactor with diana ross for a mentor, and she sabotaged my performance by insisting I have a bikini wax just before my performance.

I got a bump band today too, which means I have so far spent £36 on maternity clothes! The bump band is ace as now I can leave my jeans unbuttoned and just put the bump band on top! Bargain! Apart from that I'm living in coloured tights and increasingly showing my knickers dresses as they try to accomodate my bump!

DungunGirl: I certainly have a very active baby! lol And it's felt even more active the past couple of days (after empty insides from vomitting bug). I can't imagine what it's doing inside - playing football or something really energetic! But I just seem to get punched all day long - and jumping on bladder too! Midwives say baby is head down (tho not engaged yet) so not sure how much moving about it does over all, but certainly feels like quite a lot!

Hi everyone sorry Ive not been on since last week but havent been at home much.

Thank you everyone for all the supportive comments regarding problems with dh. For now we seem to be back on more of an even keel and are friends again so we shall see how things go, I think we were both just rather stressed and tired last week.

As an update on the thrush situation as it seems to have just been getting worse and worse and I have been particularly bad over the weekend I finally plucked up the courage to try and get another appointment to see GP which turned out to be a total waste of time. I got an appointment for this morning and when she asked what was wrong I told her that I had been diagnosed with thrush at 10 weeks it had just been getting worse and worse and I was starting to worry it had developed into something more serious, before I could tell her it was so bad I can hardly bare to wipe myself at the minute she shut me up and told me that she wasnt going to "treat it blind" so I had to make an appointment with a nurse for a "higher vaginal swab" and was ushered out of the room. I promptly tried to get said appointment and the earliest they could offer me was next Wednesday which is impossible as I am at the hospital for my GTT so I now have an appointment next Friday 23rd. So I have to wait a week and a half to get the swabs done and then wait who knows how long for the results to come back. Does anyone else think this is a little unreasonable particularly as I am 27 weeks pregnant and my baby could be at risk!

At the moment I intend to go to the local NHS Walk-in-Centre tomorrow evening when dh gets home and ask if there is anything they can do since my doctor cant do anything for over a week.

Going to go catch up now. Be back soon

Claire xXx

Hey Clairey, have they tested you for gestational diabetes yet? Sometimes you get awful thrush with this. Alternatively I managed to get a staphylococcal skin infection in the fanjo area once and it was very similar to thrush, and the GP kept prescribing stupid cream that made it worse (although yours sounds a bit more sensible). I wonder if there is a case for you flouncing up there again and demanding a consultant referral at the local hospital ante-natal clinic to speed things up?

Also an announcement everyone, I have just been awarded Disability Living Allowance at the Higher Rate for Mobility, which is absolutely brill, because with it comes other things like access to a Disabled Persons Railcard, a Warm Front energy assessment and possibly a new boiler to replace our big old knackered one that makes funny noises and works at random, an automatic right to a Blue Badge for parking and free car tax. I am feeling very pampered now actually.

Tomorrow I am off to hydrotherapy again to see the sexy blokes. Really I may not be able to walk much but I am certainly on a roll here in some respects.

To be honest Im not as bothered about the doctors attitude in so much as I dont expecxt her to give me/do anything without doing swabs but I think it is downright disgusting that I have to wait a week and a half to get the swabs done. Its not that the surgery doesnt have the appointments it is because I need a double appt and they are all on the system as single appts so basically the receptionist does the whole "computer says no".

I guess i am just being an over emotional hormonal pregnant person but I think I would feel the same even if I wasnt pregnant.

Clairey, have you tried a tears offensive??

Nutty, if you can only walk less than 50m you might be able to get it too! I applied for mine online and it took an evening but was not too daunting once I got into it.

Nutty. I have been using Canesten cream when really itchy which makes it bareable but doesnt really get rid of it in any way. They may just send me home but I am hoping that they will be able to either do the swabs there or get me an appointment somewhere sooner. It may get me no where but at least I will have tried!

Boffin. I havent done the tears offensive yet but that will probably happen knowing me!!!

Just a thought Clairey, what do you wash your pants in?

Boffin. Fairy Non-Bio as it is one of the only ones dh doesnt react to so have been using it for nearly 5 years with no reaction

Can I recommend as an interim measure washing all your pants on a hot wash and extra rinse through with Filetti, and seeing what happens? You never know. I developed an allergy to Persil Non Bio at one point and this really helped me.

Evening all, I too have been quite hot, mostly after eating. DH finds it rather amusing that after I eat I start peeling my clothes off in layers so that by the time it's bedtime I'm already naked. He laughed and said I won't be able to take you out for supper unless it's at a strip club.

For those of you looking to make things you might like the following site:www.make-baby-stuff.com/index.htmlIt's got lots of cute ideas for clothes and toys and even for decorating the nursery for cheap...If nothing else it might get the creative juices flowing.

Sorry about the scan Nutty, good luck with the lush box .

Right I'm off to bed now having had a very full day. (I'm actually rather proud) Managed to put up the key rack in the hall, a set of shelves in the M.bed, and when DH came home from work we moved the majority of the big furniture from the old hobby room to the new one. I'm completely knackered. And bloody starving again too... So I'm having a banana then going to bed.
Sleep well all, and hug those pillows tight