Due October 2009- Second trimester here we come, spring has sprung and our bumps are blooming!

[LittleMissBliss]

Wow thread number three already!

Lix-congratulations! HC See that would bother me too, i like to have the living and sleeping spaces seperate. I can see how it would be great for the kids now but how it could become an issue when they grow older.

sammysam glad you got the t-shirts sorted! And the mini sounds great.

RAIN, RAIN, GO AWAY COME BACK ANOTHER DAY!

Not sure what to do today with my naughty toddler.

Sammysam ive started getting the sickness back too, but what is really back big time is being tired. I cant go upstairs without needing to sit down! Wondering if i should get my bloods done for the iron level.

Lix...get out there and start buying pink!!!

Hi everyone

Im new, due on the 31st of October.

This may sound strange but yesterday afternoon i felt a slight kick, it was so amazing, but everyone syas its way to early for that... Im confussed as i know what i felt...

Things are getting more exciting now, but my morning sickness has also started to come back not sure y.

Hello and welcome Lameez-is this your first?

Result ladies as DD1 will be moving into our lilac decorated computer room and have said she can have her Peppa Pig bedding which luckily is lilac. DH is reluctantly going to empty the room and move the desk and computer into the dining room so he can still clear off and leave me when I am watching crap TV. Also been to look at a crib my school mum friend is selling me so will be picking that up very soon. Need some blue animal to put in it.

Hope all OK.

HC
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Hi everyone. Gosh I didn't realise i'd been away for so long. Just trying to remember who I wanted to respond to:

ICBINB - pleased to hear about your positive scan results

Devils - hope it turns out OK for you.

Flamesparrow - don't stay away. If it feels better to be self-indulgent and whingey then this is the perfect place! We can always ignore you . Sorry to hear that you can't take ADs but at least you're back on the sickness pills.

lix - how exciting to have found out. Congrats on having a girl. DH and I still have two weeks to decide whether we want to know or not. Probably. Or probably not.....

LMB - your charm seems to have worked. The sun is peeping out here in Central London, just in time for lunch.....

Still haven't felt the baby move and am now convinced that my bump isn't getting any bigger and am starting to worry. Someone please tell me that I'm being silly!!! The trouble with a completely symptom-free pregnancy like mine is that you've got nothing to reassure you that you're still pregnant when you start to worry.

Hi all

It's been weeks, I know. I'm afraid that I haven't caught up on the last weeks as there would be too much to read!

I sort of spiralled down hill and was in rather a low place for a while there. But on the up now I think.

I know I saw everything was okay at the early scan but I hadn't heard a heart beat. So when I crumpled on the phone to the mid-wife she offered to come round and listen for me. That helped and DS was pretty interested too!

Then next Thurs I have my anomoly scan (no we're not intending to find out girl/boy) but that will hopefully put my mind at rest.

It helps that after 10 months of looking we've finally found a house that appeals and put in an offer and it's been accepted. We should be moving by mid July. Phew.

The new house has a really big garden so I should pay attention to all your gardening comments as, hopefully, we'll be in a position to have some home grown veggies next year. I think DS would really enjoy "helping".

The only thing is, there are currently chickens in the garden and I think that he thinks that they'll stay. He's going to be so disappointed to find out that they've moved too. We do keep trying to tell him.

He's also got it into his head that moving house means putting it on wheels and towing it behind the car because that's what Noddy does in one of his stories. I keep trying to explain but I guess he won't get it until we've actually got there!

Anyway, enough prattle for now. Will try to log on a bit more often.

P.S. we're going to a friends 40th birthday tomorrow and just found out this morning that there's a theme - 007 - has anyone ever seen a Bond Girl with a bump?! I hear that Teri Hatcher was pregnant when she filmed her one but I don't think I'll pass as her in a million years! Someone suggested that I go as a consequence of Bond's "actions" 4.5 months on! Any ideas/suggestions?

Hello all, Do you remember me??? We've been without internet for 7 weeks!
Im afraid I havent been able to catch up on all the news so I hope everyone is ok and healthy etc.
Im now 15weeks and seem fine, still tired though much more than with my last two pregnancys. Am trying to eat healthily but am afraid Im pigging out, just cant help it, gained about 6lbs so far. Im only monitering this as with ds1 I still had 3 stone to lose after he was born so about 5stone gain in total.
Well its good to be back!

HC - Hi, yep this is my first... its well exciting even though for the past 3 months i have been so depressed but i feel like im picking up now.

Its really nice to have Web-Sites like this it makes me feel so much more at ease.

Hubby wants to find out what we having but i was hoping that we could just have a surprise, although as time draws nearer to my next scan which is more then a month away i so want to know if its a boy or girl....

Lix - Congrads on finding out thats so sweet....

The sun is out now here too!( actually about half an hour after my post the rain disappeared)

Ds is being a gem! Well sort of hopefully it'll last.

Patmum glad you've found a house after 10 months of looking and have a moving date. We are still looking as we have accepted an offer on ours.

treats Don't worry if you can't feel anything, with first pregnancies you don't often feel much until much later, also you don't show much until about 20 weeks and then your bump just seems to double in size overnight.
I'm also pretty much symptom free besides constant nose blowing, and growing boobs which are quite tender.

Hi lameez!!

Lameez-perhaps the sonographer can write it down for DH and if you change your mind you can find out the sex then.

Treats-can you see your MW and ask her to listen for a heartbeat? I can understand your worry especially as you are symptomless.

patmum-great news about the house.

Very windy here and just had a rain shower on my washing-gggrrrhhh!!!

HC
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patmum how about getting him to make some bird feeders and a bird house to encourage birdies in the garden? cargo do a build your own bird house kit which is so sweet, dunnno if you've got one near you.

also coconut halves with fat and seed in is always a winner

peachespaige 6lbs is def not a lot for 15 weeks so well done. i am 18 weeks and have put on 11lbs which isn't fab but not too bad. if you put on 1 lb a week from now til then (which is average), you'll have put on 31lbs which is in the 'normal' range. i also put on 4 stone which ds so am hoping to put on under 35lbs this time.

lameez welcome to the thread

Meant to say I put 2 stone on with the last 2 pregnancies but so far have put a stone on which only gives me a stone to go so I suppose that means I will exceed the 2 stone bit.

HC
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Afternoon all

Thanks for the doppler recs-I'm going to go with HCs ebay recommendation.

Star Trek was brilliant . Cleverly liked the past with the future (ifswim), had a fair bit of humour, lots of action and a few bits that really made me jump. Winona Ryder is in it which I was not expecting. Great character development as well. baby was v active throughout and DH felt it as well this time. Baby is going to be a Trekkie

What is everyone doing to cope with boob pain? I can't even wear a bra today, the right one is soooo tender and nipple v sore. They're bloody huge as well, I'm going to knock someone out if I'm not careful.

Lix - congrats on it being a girl!

Lameez - hi and welcome

HC - good that you got the room sorted, sounded like you handled negotiations v well there!

SammySam - sorry to hear that the morning sickness is back, hope it goes away again quickly. I'd be excited about the mini as well

Flame - don't stay away, even just writing it down can help a little bit and we're all here for you.

Patmum I love the suggestion of going to your party as a consequence of Bond's actions 4.5 months on, gave me a right laugh!

peachesPaige - looks ,like you are managing your weight gain really well. I've put on about 8lbs and am 20 weeks on Monday - was quite big to start with so am keeping close eye on it

I'd better go before this turns into an epic!

treats I don't feel much either, the odd bump and nudge in the evening perhaps, but I don't know if I am imagining that.

Physically feeling good too, although I do tire easily, and just feel like I have a bit of a tum rather than a bump. Sometimes I don't feel like I'm really pregnant, it's all very surreal.

Welcome lameez ICNB I forgot to say earlier well done on the scan results - I can just imagine the relief.

TMI but although my boobs are big and I have very tender nipples I find DH massaging them rather nice. He's getting his turn before they belong solely to my boy.

HC
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I've just done this and it worked for ds,
and has said this baby will be girl!!

Maybe something to do just for fun! Those of you that know the sex already can report back to let me know if it was right or wrong for you!

chinese gender chart

Littlemiss....just did the chart & it says im having a girl too. My DS will be happy as he said if its a boy, it can go back into my tummy

Nope-it says boy, boy, girl and I've had girl, girl and expecting a boy.

HC
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We might be in for a rocky road if the test is correct (and it did accurately (!) predict DS.

Apparently we're on for a girl. However, I have been informed (by DS) that if I have a girl baby it has to go out in the kennel with the dogs. If it's a boy baby it can sleep under the table.

Neither sounds particularly comfortable. Hope he warms to the idea of a sibling before October....

that chart was fun - predicted a boy for us, so we'll see! (Long wait but there you go). chart was accurate for my birth, my brother's & husbands, interesting... Also SIL pregnant & that predicts a girl for her, nice for grandparents, one boy one girl if its true!

Evening all-about to fall asleep so will just tell you the results of the chart....it says boy....but it also says boy for dd so I think it is back to front I'm fairly sure we're having another girl-maybe will be able to tell you on monday! DD wants a 'sister baby' so not sure what she'll think if it is a boy

sorry-welcome to the newbies and returning ladies

wierd has worked for my first 3 and predicts a boy this time.I don't know what I am having but I would put money on a boy!!! watch this space.I am off to read the rest of the thread.

ooooo weird it got it right for all my others, and predicts this is a girl

so i'll have had boy,girl,boy,girl!

welcome to newbies and returning, sorry not been on much this week and not keeping up but revision is taking over my life

scan on wednesday so lets see if chart is correct, take care x x

sammysam the MS IQ article was in thursdays telegraph page 2 of the main paper.enjoy

Weight gain I don't go there.Just feeling well will do it for me.with my first pregnancies I was 7 and a half stone at 5 months because of MS (hyperemmisis) then I think I went up to about 11 stone although I don't know for sure.So huge weight gain.I was quite a breast feeder and all the weight came off within 6 months without trying.DH jokes that I am just having a 4th so that I can breast feed and eat what I want for months.Good theory but not quite the case.

I need to confess I bought a moses basket last week.(it feels a bit early)