October 2005 - part 3!

[SusiS]

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Hi again ladies.

Hope everyone is having a nice bank-holiday weekend.
Sorry I haven't been on much. Things are abit hectic at the moment. Hubby has been offered a new job down south. We are up north - so it looks like we'll be moving house!. Gots lots of cosmetic stuff to do on this one to make it fit to sell!!!.

My brother has been in hospital (again) after another motorbike accident, my mum reackons he's got a season ticket for emergency ward 10. Thankfully he's okay now

One of our guineapigs died last week which was very upsetting as I'm totally soft over my gp's. Even though she was old it was very sudden/unexpected so lots of crying and being sad and hoping it's not affected the baby

Still a tinsy winsy bit concerned about size of bump or lack of it. Not felt any movements yet, well not anything that i could definately say was the baby, and have had lots of aches, twinges, mild cramp like pains this week, which i am assuming are due to growth and expansion.

Blimey that lots makes me sound like I'm dead miserable at the moment, but I'm not really. Got our 20 week scan on Friday so really looking forward to that and then we'll feel okay about telling a few more people at work that I'm pg. especially as we found out last week that some people who shouldn't know yet do know and the info can only have come from personel or a director who can't keep their mouth shut.

The whole 'no ice-cream from ice-cream vans' is evil! I read that in one of my books and then completely forgot about it and ended up feeling rather guilty after eating a 99 with two flakes and loads of chocolate sauce. Yummy. But still guilty!

JM - me & DH went to Mothercare and wasnt impressed (crap sales assistants and spent £10 on some pants, how mad am I?!) but we also went to ToysRUs yesterday and they've got a sale on in most of the stores and there was a good double pram at a really decent price. Might be worth checking them out??

Piggiesmum - how many weeks are you? I'm trying not to be too concerned myself about bump and movement. I don't think I have a massive bump. Some people look at me and say "Gawd, that bump!" others don't seem to notice!! Also, movements, I feel what I think are movements, but not very often and not very strong. Putting it down to being on the larger side anyway and having anterior placenta. Rang midwife the other day as I had pain when walking one morning, and she told me not to worry and wait for my scan for reassurance. Hmmm. Still got over a week til my scan. Grrr. I'm so bloody impatient!!!!

Hopefully today isn't going to be so bloody windy. Yesterday was lovely and sunny but felt like the antartic as was so windy.

Oh, and OMG - didn't know boobs started leaking this early in the first pregnancy!?!??!

Hi all, was enjoying my bank holiday weekend until i picked up my toddler yesterday and felt my back go . I've never had any problems with my back and now it's really aching. I've vowed not to pick her up anymore, she'll have to walk everywhere, poor thing. I feel really old this time around. I'm only 33 but definately am feeling the difference between this pg and the last one two years ago. Oh well, off on hols on Sat so am looking forward to that Good luck everyone who's scans coming up. I'm 21 weeks and counting!

morning. wohoooo and another 6.30er!!! we are getting there - bet now i said it, it will stop again. -
had a very nice weekend so far. friday boiling hot, the other 2 days more on the windy side but still allright. so spent alot of time in the garden. - neighbours kids were in our house 'permanently' grins - guess we must have got good toys then! - mainly dp's toys grins (but also some of lucas ones seem worth playing with!) and of course the pool in our garden was a main attraction! really chilly on saturday and they still came over 'can we have a go now?' - oh and every day i did a bit of gardening. neighbours kids loved that one! lol i told them i really prefer them wearing gloves next day they dragged their mum to get some and she told me 'quick mum, we gotta go home. susi is waiting for us with the gardening!!' - pmsl!

ohhhhhhh, he stood up all on his own yesterday!!!! was in the garden, saw something in the grass, bend down, and got up again!!!!! dp called me to come quickly - and he did it again for me!!!!!! -
and another thing happened: guess dp and i are engaged now grins - every time so far he talked his way out of it; but i said yesterday i don't like having a diff name than the rest of our family; and he agreed and told me just the other night he thought the same!!! wohhheyy, miracle happen! - well, he then grabbed my hand and said 'will have to find out your ringsize then!' i just replied mabye not just now, with being prg and that hot weather my fingers will be triple size - but can't get married just now. well, depends on who we want to come. if lots of family then we'll have to wait till house is sold (money!) if just a few than we could do it next week

Congratulations SusieS!!

Just go for it and have your wedding asap!! We arranged ours in 5 weeks and only had parents, siblings and partners there. (16 in total including me and DH). Real friends will understand about not being invited. Because it was such short notice, the only slot left on the day we wanted was 9.40am so we piled back to the house (rather small flat!) after the ceremony for champagne and wedding cake then went out for lunch followed by more drink back at the house. The whole thing cost around £1100 including a couple of nights "honeymoon" in Dublin! I chose an outfit which I knew I would be able to wear again, made my own wedding cake, didn't bother with invites etc etc. I couldn't have wished for a nicer wedding day and we are every bit as married than if we had spent £11,000!

I so loved having very little stress over the wedding and no bills to pay afterwards! Both of these are ideal with baby on the way!

This is just my experience and of course it might be your idea of a wedding nightmare!! . Good luck whatever you decide to do.

Lovely drying day here (ie howling gale) so must get some washing on. MB

Morning all. Am still trying to find time to read through the whole thread and get to know you all better. It's hard when you're asleep by 9pm...

I wish I could compare weight gain, but I have no scales. Threw them out years ago (long history of anorexia - was an important part of getting over it) so have no idea whether my weight gain has been excessive. I'm certainly big - if one more person asks me if I'm expecting twins/have diabetes/have got my dates wrong I will lamp them - but i do feel (unless I'm being completely self-deluding) that the gain is pretty much all on the bump and not elsewhere. Could it be just very poor stomach muscles?

Could I ask for some advice on a couple of things? Firstly, my mw says I have a touch of thrush, though I've not noticed any symptoms. She's suggested live yogurt up the wazoo as the first line of treatment. I've done that a couple of times but fairly half-heartedly as I've never found that helpful for thrush before. How seriously should I be taking this? If left untreated till my next swab, could thrush damage the baby in any way?

Second thing: I need to put up blinds in the room that the baby will eventually sleep in. I had originally intended wooden venetian blinds (lots of direct sunlight in the morning - wanted to be able to partially shade it out) but am now thinking maybe i should be putting in blackout blinds. Any advice - will wooden blinds make the room dark enough or do I need to go the full monty? (Incidentally, room is south-facing over very busy main road.)

Thanks ladies!

any chance of a new thread - this one is HUGE!!!

done

Hester, wooden blinds look loads better but they certainly don't block out the light enough IMO. I'd go for blackouts if you really want the room dark. Have ytou thought about maybe a blckout roller blind right next to the glass with nicer slatted blinds attached to the window surround - best of both maybe?

Great idea, Moomin; thanks . I'll start with the blackout blind and then add wooden ones when I can afford them (I know, I know; in about 20 years...)

another tip - which sounds a bit crap but worked for me - was to put splodges of blu-tack up the window frame or glass so that when the blind was down you could stick it to the blu-tack. Black-out blinds are great but you will find little chinks of light still getting through, and the blu-tack helped! ah, the things you do....

ooo everyone's gone onto a new thread for oct 05. see you there!