Heeereee comes June, its the home streeeeetch!

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Here ya go, new thread! We're almost there!!!!!

Ouch, poor Tee, there there have some chocolate and a sit down. Don't you feel a fool when you fall over as a grown-up? I nearly went flying this morning on a wonky paving slab and it was definitely harder to regain my balance than usual - my Weeble like form nearly did for me! And falling on your bozoom must have hurt. Baby will have felt a ripple in the amniotic fluid, thought 'huh?' and got back to kicking, thumb-sucking, generally hanging out

juicy Hoping you're back home and ok now xx

tee - darling, how awful for you well done for not landing on your bump, I am sure baby tee will be fine, especially if you have felt a kick. How is the rest of you feeling sweetie? And remember what everyone said to me if you are unsure get it checked out. My thoughts are with you now x x

Juicy news, just back from that sodding hospital what an awful day. Not made better by that stupid nurse previously mentioned (the whispering one! ) shouting at the top of her voice ANNA ARE YOU STILL HERE -WTF?!? So went for scan (lovely nurse) ovaries all fine & no other nasty things seen but lovely nurse did say it was hard to tell with a 26 week bump! She asked me what scans I had upstairs in the maternal unit I was like - none! Dh then piped up & this is the second time we have been here in 3 days & nothing was done the first time!!!! Ouch! So back to maternal unit for an internal everything looks normal so it was put down to 'ligament damage' - well let's be honest they could have done these tests Monday or even this am! ( we were there 7 hours)

Anyway glad it's over been told to go back in a week but dissapointed with my treatment today . Been told to rest for the next week!

Thanks for all your supportive messages through the day girls, that & the chicken pot pie were the only things that made me smile today. X x

juicy glad everything is ok and your back home relaxing x

tee poor you I hope you are recovering well. Like others have said he baby is well protected in there and if you feel it kick/move then everything should be fine. like Juicy said if you are still worried about it please go and get checked out by your midwife...thinking about you x

thats me home after my ordeal today, work wouldn't let me leave early so I think ill just sit with my feet up tonight and DH can do all the cooking/cleaning...any excuse

HI everyone. Tryin g to catch up but difficult with DS's keeping me busy all afternoon.

I feel much better today. My cold is wearing off fast this time thank goodness.

Juicy - so glad you went and got yourself checked out. Thank goodness the baby is ok.Just make sure you rest up as much as you can now until you know what is going on with yourself and keep us all posted on how you are

Mrsmc - Hope you are feeling a bit better.It is so tiring and awful when you are sick and have another one to look after.We just can't get the rest and naps we need in order to recover quick enough
Loved your words about having baby etc.

Lauraloo - Poor you getting stuck in a lift for so long. I would have hated that!Hope you enjoyed the cake .
I have not given anything up for lent. Just too selfish for that right now. Isn't alcohol enough??!!

Littlesarah - Having 2 young ones at home is ok. I think the thought of it is more daunting. I have 16 months between my 2 DS's and yes it was tough for a while but not until the baby was on the move. When the baby is small it is a doddle really.

June - that is not too bad a weight gain. Doing better than I am!

Bigcar - at DS escaping cot at 16months!

Tee - enjoy your day off
Don't worry about your fall. I am sure you are fine, and you have felt movement since. Remember my "Manhole" experience?.I was terrified the baby would have been harmed but he was fine and safe in that warm padded place

Looouise - The corridoor walking sounds like the best idea for babyfather. That way you keep your privacy and have your special time with your mum and babyfather is nearby to be part of everything after the birth.

MrsExton welcome

I too am getting the urge to buy baby things. I went to Mothercare this morning and bought my starter bottle set, extra teats, maternity pads (already), bath sponges etc. What am I like?? It was so exciting. I then went to another store and bought the baby monitor and a few other bits I figured, why not. Can't leave it all to the last minute now can we? .

Forgot to mention that I am also very clumsy at the moment. I tipped a bucket of bleach and water all over my hallway carpet this afternoon! Praying it hasn't taken the colour out.

Juicy - sorry to hear about your awful day but glad to hear that they've at least been able to identify something and are keeping an eye on you.

Tee - Poor you, I sympathise. Hope you're not too bruised. I slipped the other day IN MID TRAFFIC and comically landed on my bum, rather than bump, but I know how great that first post-fall kick feels! I'm sure baby is super fine, but give it a nice reassuring rub to let it know that its mum's ok!

LittleSarah - Thanks for sharing your story. You've made me really how lucky I am that babyfather wants to be involved. I'm sorry it was more stressful for you first time round. I should take a more positive view. I'm sure he'll be fine about waiting outside and seeing darling newborn as soon as we've been spruced up. It's still going to be special for him.

Does anybody else display wierd control freakery when they're super stressed? I'm just wondering that my obsessing over who's in the delivery room is some kind of displacement. I mentioned that a dear friend of mine had been diagnosed with lung cancer bfore Xmas; well, it's spread to her brain, so the prognosis is very bleak. I have to try and accept that she may not be here by the time I have the baby. But control freakery will not help me achieve that.

Thank goodness we're having babies, ladies! They're going to bring us so much happiness!

oh - MrsExton welcome! Do you know what you're having? How has your pregnancy been so far?

Thanks everyone. Baby is just as active as ever, so I am sure everything is fine!

I am totally bruised down my right side and really stiff. I am sure it will be worse tomorrow!

As to how I did it...I tripped over my own feet. I'm clumsy at the best of times, add the bump? I'm a klutz!

hiya!
Just a quick one to say thanks to ppl who gave their views on the NCT classes, we booked it in the end and had our first class this evening.
It was lovely, the host is very nice (and not preaching or stuck up as I feared a little for some reason) and we're a group of 5 couples which she said was quite a small number but perfect to get to know eachother.
We're meeting every week for 2 months.
She weren't to talk about work and it was sooo nice, I don't remember ever not talking or thinking about work since I started working with dh 8 years ago!!!

juicy glad you're back and ok and it's not appendicitis, I have worried about that the past couple of weeks. Clearly I must have run out of things to worry about...

Good points about the swinging crib! I have first timer written all over me :D

June, glad the NCT class is looking good. My friend was in one with 5 couples whose babies were born in October and all 5 of the women still meet up every week so a smaller number is actually quite manageable (there were 10 in mine so people separated off into little groups post-natally).

I remember that at our first session the dads were asked to get together and talk about the things they were worried about having to stop/give up/ because of the baby. My DH was thinking - sex, going out, sleeping in - but a lot of the other guys talked about having to sell their sports cars . At that time our car was a very old and beaten-up Volvo we'd got at an auction and so before all the subsequent NCT sesions DH insisted we park it round the corner from the tutor's house so that we'd never be seen in it.

Good morning mummies!

Well, I slept really well, which has helped, although I am very stiff this morning. Going to enjoy my day off if it kills me!

June your class sounds lovely. I don't even start my NHS class until 5th May. I am looking forward to meeting other first time mums, no matter how the class goes!

ermintrude at least you had a car! DH and I can't even join in that conversation a little bit!

Hello all.

Tee - So sorry to hear about your fall. I fell in the ice and snow in early Feb and it's so horrible. You feel really shakey afterwards. Try and rest and enjoy your day off.

Juicy sorry to hear about all your hospital trauma. Jeez. I don't blame you for getting cross with that nurse. What a bee-atch.

MrsExton - Hi there! Hope all is going well for you.

LauraLoo your lift nightmare sounds awful. I would have also had to go in the corner as my bladder DEFINITELY would not have lasted that long!

June glad your NCT class went well. The support will be great after baby is here

Couldn't catch up yesterday as went to Ikea in Southampton (AVOID LIKE THE PLAGUE - FOR FUTURE REFERENCE!). Hellish place! Oh well, DS's room is sorted and ready for him to sleep in his big boy bed for the first time this evening. We're prepared for little visits in the night!

To top off my stressful Ikea visit yesterday, DS has come down with a nasty vomiting bug and was cleaning up 'projectile' all evening. Nice! He seems fine this morn though and has kept down his juice and dry toast. Fingers crossed it's a 24 hour thing.

Phew! Got physio this morning for whiplash injury so hopefully my back will be less sore afterwards......

Happy Friday people xx

June - where is your NCT class? Is it north London?
Ermitude - LOL at your car story. I was a committed cyclist until I did the pregnancy test and haven't dared get back on the saddle since. That first ride is going to feel sooooooooooooo good!
Tee - I think you should book yourself in for a yummy mummy massage

louise - sorry I posted quite quickly yesterday as my daughter was tugging at my arm!! I used to travel as much as possible before Claudia came along. I lived to travel - cycling through Europe, backpacking in the East etc and generally getting out there as much as possible as I felt so alive and it was so exciting (obviously not always great and sometimes hard, but the experiences on the whole were thrilling). I wondered if I would ever be able to have children and give this up. After 10 years of this lifestyle I was starting to yearn to put my roots down a little more, but still worried I would be quite frustrated as a mother.

But your whole world changes when you have a baby. Most people start to see the world in a slightly different way and not only have to prioritise differently but want to prioritise differently. Whether it's cuddling your baby at 1 day old, or holding her hand as you walk to nursery at 2years old, you will regularly have simple experiences that move you in ways you never could have expected. As he/she becomes a little older, more freedom comes back, and I think you still can live vicariously at times, just maybe in slightly different ways from what you did before.

I was offered some work a couple of months ago that might involve travel to the Middle East, I froze as just as much as I can't bear the idea of me ever loosing her, I can't bear the idea of her loosing me, and I am so much 'safer' about the things I choose to do. Places I would have leapt at the chance to go to, I hesitate at now. I went to a spa in Eastern Europe for 4 days with a girlfriend last year and really enjoyed that. It was a perfect amount of time and not only did I feel fabulous but DP had a lovely one-to-one time with DD. Ideally I would love to get away for a long weekend somewhere exciting once a year.

Obviously this is just my feelings, but you mentioned your Brazil 'wow' moments and it made me think of some of my old travelling 'wow' moments, that I'm glad I experienced but am now in a different place with my best friend in the whole world - my daughter.

Daisy, that's a lovely post. I can totally see how my mindset will change, hearing about your old and new lifestyles helps me realise that, so thank you.
You've given me real daughter-hunger though! I'd love a little girl to be my best friend, but a little boy would obviously give me those experiences too.
I see what you mean about "safer" destinations....just after I found out I was pregnant I was supposed to go to Angola. There's no way I would go anywhere that unstable now, I too couldn't bear the thought of my child losing me, either. The playground will be my new Rio de Janeiro, and that's fine!

loooise I meant to say that this:

"....my life about 4 years ago, when I lived in Rio de Janeiro and had a tiny waist and a Brazilian lover..."

is a fantastic quote! Hurrah for the fact you've had that experience; this new adventure will be different - and probably with less sex by the sound of it but exciting and lovely all the same.

I was v relieved to 'get my girl' as I said to DH the moment DD was born, but that was mainly because I had 4 younger sisters, was v used to girl babies, and didn't like my older brother. I was calmer about the notion of having a boy after that but would still have been happy with another girl - but when DS came along I fell in love with him completely and at 6 he's still adorable and a real joy. He's affectionate and cuddly and chats to me just as much as DD and I'm a bit ashamed of how worried I used to be about having a boy. .

I'm not really into the idea of mothers being friends with their DDs exactly; it's a very special relationship but not the same as the one DD will have with her mates. I know a few women who phone their mums every day and are too emotionally dependent on them, sometimes to the detriment of their relationships with partners, and I wouldn't want to impose that neediness on my DD. But being close, loving watching her grow up, enjoying the odd shopping trip and gossip, all that's great - but you can do it, or things like it, with a boy too.

hi all

Tee - hope you are feeling ok today and your fall and you are feeling lots of lovely reassuring kicks!

I do very very occasionally think back to my 'old' life pre-dd and think how i miss the spontaneity of it and being able to visit lots of wonderful places when it suits us, but i LOVE our family holidays, picnics, day trips, wanders around the local park etc seeing dd's face light up at simple things that she has noticed for the first time and it makes me realise I dont have to go far etc to have these. Obviously when my 2 girls (that sounds so strange!!) are older, we will all be able to enjoy these exciting things again but I am loving the simple things at the moment! Anyway, sorry for going on, just made me think how wonderful dc are and how they change your perspective immediately!!

Ineed - sorry to hear about your ds and your stressful day yesterday, hope you get chance to relax today!

llynnn a bit sore but mostly okay.

Managed a trip to the farmer's market, which was very nice, although very busy. And now I am lying on the couch waiting for the maid to bring me lunch.

Huh? What's that? I don't have a maid? DAMMIT!

Afternoon all

juicy, tee, hope you're both having better days today!

ermintrude, what's that?! Nutella ISN'T the same as Marmite??!?!?! Lol at your NCT car parking!

laura, go for carrot cake, much less guilt attached

Choccie, glad you're feeling better. There's so many good deals around on baby stuff at the moment, best take advantage while we can!

Ineed, hope your ds enjoys his new big boy bed tonight. It took dd1 a week to realise that she could actually get out of bed

Despite the 2 hour wait at the antenatal clinic yesterday, I had a much better time with the consultant, she HAD my notes(!) AND she HAD read them So I'm having most of the rest of my care under the community midwives (yay!) and i've got a physio appointment booked for next week. She also thinks I stand a good chance of a natural delivery, so long as baby moves head down and doesn't get too big, which is great news as everyone else has been saying a good chance of another section. Smiles all round in the bigcar house today

Snowwombat and sweetbroody, hope you both have a special weekend!

bigcar laura- so true, carrot cake over chocolate cake - as vegetable in there - one of your five a day!!!

afternoon all

just a wee quicky question I feel that I need to go to the loo every 10 - 15 mins but obviously my bladder is empty I feel that it is the baby kicking on my bladder anyone else experiencing this?

lauraloo I'm going to the loo more often - especially at night when I have to get up 2 or 3 times after lying down to sleep but not that frequently, and although it's due to pressure from baby there is some wee there. 10-15 mins with an empty bladder sounds very frequent - it's prob the baby kicking but watch out for cystitis symptoms which can start with increased wanting to wee and not being able to. Hope it's not that!

lauraloo I am going more often, but not that often. You might want to give your GP a ring because I think that might be a sign of a bladder infection.

bigcar - great news about your good appointment today and that you wll hopefully (fingers crossed) beable to have a natural birth. i am also hoping for a natural delivery this time too!