Due in Nov 05 - Part II

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Here we go all!

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Enthusiaaaaaa! It's great to hear your news, and yet another coincedence to add to the list! I am so LOL at the trousers carry-on, that has been my problem for a couple of weeks and had to start wearing elasticated waist ones he he!!
Hope your m/s is on its way out! I'm only just over 10 wks so hope the others can relate to your questions etc.. How's all the family capers now? Died down?

Beks - awwwww....how you feeling now? DS still doing your head in?

ChaCha - DH's sister was told to go home by my parents as she was putting too much extra strain on us, aren't parents great - she is now guilt tripping us abit about living in a shelter for women, but if she carried on living with us for the next 3 months she would not get any benefits and no one would help her out. We think she has a motivation problem and as she has always had someone to fall back onto, she has not really lived through problems and sorted them, more just run away, she has never stayed in a job for more than 3 months and says she has ME but has the energy to go out clubbing with friends!!! So just not sure.

My parents are still here, which is great and Mum is staying until half term when we are going to join them out in Spain for a week - feel I need that now!!!

BEKsmum - Do Evans do maternity clothes, we were wondering but didn't actually go in - I am between a 14 and a 16, but was a 20 until last year when I lost loads of weight, I am now fearing it is all going to come back on and wondered about larger maternity sizes!!!!

Hello all. My sympathys beks DS nearly had me in tears yesterday and then my mother phoned on the way home from holiday and he answered the phone and I could hear him telling her he loved her millions and millions and then there was a pause and he said he loved her twice as much as she sould ever love him. I felt soo jealous he used to tell me that all the time but when I tell him I love him he just ignores me
lil I think scans are great and this is my 4th.
Chacha I am going to try to expand into a small nursery although after the scare I am going to put it off for a year (it was due to start this sept) and just carry on with the lot that i've got. cat me if you need advise.

xena - how can you expand into a small nursery? sound svery interesting, would you buy or rent a premises?

Thanks Xena

Enthusia, 2 posts in one day!!!!
Well at least you have your own space again - makes a difference i'm sure.

If DH doesn't bring home a jam doughnut, eclair or icing bun in the next 20 minutes there is going to be big trouble in this house!!!!!

Oh...one more thing seeing as i'm on a role/roll/doughnut/bun... hungry..honest!

I have terrible cravings for coke!!!! Drinking coke I only have half a cup of tea in the morning, that's my only caffeine intake but i am prone to a big glass of coke daily..is it really harmful?

A little poem...

I need to lie down,
so leave me alone,
I need to be sick,
can't answer the phone

No, don't come over,
I'm feeling too low,
my stomach feels tight,
Am i starting to show?

Yes, I'll have rice,
No, i'll have chips,
Get me out of the kitchen,
I'm going to be sick

I've got another headache,
so just leave me alone,
I'm going on Mumsnet,
for my usual moan and groan!!!

Thanks Xena, makes me feel more normal that others are struggling with existing little ones too!

Enthusia no Evans don't do maternity wear they just have everything in elasticated waists so everything stretches with you. Managed with this last time but not sure what I'm going to d this time round - lets not go there!

Glad to hear that you've managed to get your house back, you must be very relieved. Snap with the week in Spain idea at half term, I think we're going for 10 days at the beginning of June 'cos the prices are too high around half term and I can't justify the extra cost.

I've got the same stitch like pains I think it is just your muscles stretching and getting ready for baby to come out of your pelvis, just remember not to stand up to quickly and try to bend at the knees rather than bending over, just so you don't work the muscles too hard for a while.

Chacha ds doing my head in is a vast understatement at the moment, I'm a very desperate mummy and I'm currently regretting getting pregnant again as I can't cope with the one I've got let alone another one . He seems to be competing with the baby before it has even arrived so I hate to think what he'll be like when it finally gets here. Here's to getting everything tied in a knot after this one is born so that no more little surprises can happen.

Very good Chacha I like it, at least something's made me smile today.

The other thing that made me laugh was the llama song under the Just Joking Header, very strange!

Beks our DS is 7 and is just awful it breaks my heart, he has gone to bed having wound both me and DH up to the point of I don't know what to do with him, smaking him doesn't work but nothing else does either he just carrys on being rude and answering back, if we walk away and ignore him he follows us being more and more rude, I really am at the end of my tether have said to DH that maybe we should put a lock on his door because although he can't open the baby gate at the top of the stairs if we shut it then he wakes DD1 up I'm frighten'd to just incase the report me to SS for locking him in his room, am thinking that we need some outside help with him. On the plus side he is so kind and caring to his sisters and is DD2's fav person she screams in the morning if I go in to get her as she wants him.

Chacha your poem is great it could have been writen about me.

Diddle it wouldn't really be a small nursery but if I employed an assistant then I could double my numbers. Our house is quite large and the downstairs clear Sq metre would allow us to.

Enthusia you parents sound great could they give me any tips?

xena...i feel a bit sick. ilose my rag when my partner is difficult to 'CONTROL' i.e. is being stubborn...and he's 34. i have no idea how i would cope if faced with a 7 year old following me around the house, being rude. why do we doing this to ourselves. having these little buggers? have you tried ignoring him and positive rewards -i saw that approach on C4 last night...and it worked after about a year! or what about a bribe? or is that the oldest trick in the book. how about a nice hot milky drink?

i've been working at home today and because i spent 9 to 11 a.m .asleep on the sofa (i know! i had only been up an hour and dribbled all on the cushions)i've onlyjust finished working now (felt guilty at not doing my full days work) i have also managed to eat lunch TWICE, plus elevenses, and afternoon tea, i don't know how i'll get on on maternity leave what with being so close to food all day... am now going to have dinner with dp. i shouldn't but it feels anti-social.

Sorry for that last rant I posted it in behaviour section as well and had some really helpfull advise. He is sooo lovely to his sisters and my mum that I feel jealous and atm am so hormonal anyway.

WHYYY???? are we having a fourth

He is fast asleep now and I feel guilty.

My sister is going to look after my 2DD's tomorrow after we have taken the big children to school and I can sleep hooray!!!

Xena, hoped you were going to tell me it gets better, obviously not!

I'm sorry you had a shite day too and we'll compare rants & notes tomorrow, I'll also look at your post in the behaviour section to see if I can pick up any tips.

Gotta go as dh is playing his game and I've just jumped on while he was making himself a coffee.

Here's to a better day tomorrow. Night all.

After going to bed last night feeling like the worst mother in the world (I was the last mother into DD1 preschool yesterday and she kept crying that she was the last one on the carpet) DS has behaved so well this morning started a list as I didn't have time to start a chart of all the things he did and put a smile next to them he must have got at least 6.
Anyway must leave the computer now as I am on my own for 1 1/2 as the DD'd have gone with my sister.
Hears to a good day for us all xxx

Hi Girls, loved the poem Cha Cha - made me giggle , read it out to the girls in the office too.
Having a bad time at work and getting really stressed which I know I shouldn't do, could scream or cry and don't know which will be first.
Getting no support from above and managing a nightmare group of people who seem intent on winding me up.
Any stress relieveing ideas apart from a month on the sick ?? x

Sharon I used to take rescue remedy, I'm not sure if it works but I thought it did so thats what counts

Thankyou , I'll have to give it a try, going to go for a walk to get away for half an hour.
Will I find it in the health food shops ?

Thats where I got it from (although I think sainsburys and boots sell it)

brill thanks

oh sharon, i don't think i cope with stress at all, normally crying helps me, but thats not really a good idea at work, how about chocolate and nice mug of hot milk? that always seems to calm me down.
Hope your rescue remedy works. I found when was pg that every little thing bothered me, even if it was really small.
It really is hormone related, which i thought was just an excuse used by the men on our lives. I used to explode and my dh then burst out laughing after hearing myself.

Sharon I agree with Xena rescue remedy does work, it's strange stuff but seems to work the moment it hits your tongue.

Try to fob your colleagues off as much as possible and if that doesn't work go out on the fire escape and do silent screaming!!!

Hope the work situation improves soon.

Xena found a mum who's in exactly the same situation as I am on the behaviour thread, thanks for pointing me in the right direction. Hope things have been better for you today, my ds has continually wet and pooed himself today but behaviour wise he has been a little better thankfully.

Gonna go now as need to get ready to go to Kings this afternoon for nuchal scan, coffee at the ready. Going to visit my grandad on the way as ds loves him to bits. hopefully I'll have good news to post later.

Hi everyone What a lovely sunny afternoon after such a dismal morning! Feeling better already.

Sharon, i suppose it will get better. I totally had enough and opted for a part-time position, i feel better for it although i will miss the extra pennies. I would have to have gone part time sooner or later so it was no big deal, 9 weeks to go and i'll be a lady of leisure and hopefully 20 weeks pregnant..whoah hey!
Suppose i'm not much help then...i took the easy option NOT.

I'm going to ask a very personal question now, i had light yellow d/c for a while, it has now changed again to more of a white..em..glossy type of d/c, can't really describe it and sorry for TMI, again, is this quite normal?

No one answered my coke queries? Huh>? Huh???

Almost the weekend...whoooppppppppeeeeeeeeeee!!!

Cha cha - as far as i know, different/heavier discharge is normal in preg. Some women find they have to wear panty liners for comfort.If you are worried ( itchy or smelly!! sorry i know TMI ) you should check with dr or MW coz some women are more prone to infections in preg. I think its due to supressed immune system in preg and something about things changing from alkali to acid or the other way round. Sorry, don't know if this vague rambling is much use....just didnt want to ignore your question

Beksmum - how did your scan go?

Dont understand the coke question Chacha- surely only worries are too much sugar or caffine so if you dont take a lot of these otherwise, what's the prob? ( sorry if I am being dense here). I think diet drinks are not recommended in preg or Bf coz of the sweeteners, is that right?
You do know that there is LOTS of sugar in fizzy drinks - I think about 6 teaspoons per glass? But if you give up some chocolate for it.......
Sniffing coke is defo NOT recommended

beksmum - hope the nuchal has gone ok.
Chacha - sorry have no idea about discharge, but i agree that if it gets itchy or smelly you should definitly visit the docs, as you would if you were pregnant or not.