Due August 2009 - Does My Bump Look Big In This????

[kitkatqueen]

Hello everybody Here is the shiny new thread, hope you found it ok!!

quixotic hope you enjoyed your evening. Last makeover I had, my charming dh said it looked like I'd been punched in the face

So goddamn tired!!
Please tell me this PG is nearly over....

Morning.... I had a lovely time! I had a brow wax and a lash tint and then a makeover. They gave us a £20 voucher to spend and 10% off everything and then forgot to charge me for the treatments, so I got a lovely honey almond facial scrub. She gave me "smoky eyes", did not buy any of the makeup as cannot see there being any call for those types of eyes anytime soon. Had chocolate ice cream for dinner, got home and DH said "what happened to your eyes, have you been crying". Ah well! I did not really feel like me with them on anyway! LOL nellyup sounds familiar!

lol at your dh quixotic and nellyup they just don't get it some times do they

Thanks kitkat I remember spatone from my last pg, 7 years ago.

Had a good nights sleep last night, I drank a banana milkshake before bed and had no cramps all night.

Don't know about everyone else, but I've been taken Sanatogen prenatal vits + Omega 3 (purchased in bulk at Boots during their 3 for 2 offer) since the beginning and haven't felt at all deficient this time. If I forget to take them for a few days, I certainly notice the difference. The iron in them doesn't seem to have interfered with my innards at all, so maybe they've reformulated it since my last pregnancy to make it more tolerable?

Hi everyone, back to typing in splints (and getting better at it!). Wrists did not get better with 3 days rest from laptop, so I'll be buggered if I'm going to forego mumsnet. Nothing seems to help, not steroid shot, not arnica, not rest, not splints. Made appt to see GP again on Monday.

Have started NCT classes and was asked to pick something out of a bag that weighed 2 pounds, and I had to let it drop because my wrists gave up! Getting scared now, dropping baby is not an option!

NCT classes seem good fun. There are two of us due end of August, and everyone else is in July so will be waiting a while for that reunion. Haven't quite figured out if we'll be the type of group to meet up later, but am kind of hoping so.

Still waiting to hear from community supervisor of midwives where/with whom I'll be having appointments. Am supposed to be going next Weds.

DH and I finally stopped waffling and decided to have a 3D scan. Called this morning, and they'd had a cancellation so we are going tonight! We went for the cheapo option (£60), really just want to see what position he's in, if my placenta has moved higher, what the hell he's doing in there, and re-confirm it IS a 'he'! Only 7.5 hours to go now, am very excited.

SPD back to behaving itself, so long as I don't walk loads. Didn't go to osteo last week or this week.

Ah, tonight is back to DP cooking sausage and oven chips! My body has turned off the auto-turn at night, so I wake every couple of hours to heave myself over, with subsequent hip pain from being a dead weight!

Have noticed that I'm starting to LOOK better for being off work, which is a small bonus!

Good luck with your scan tonight Yankncock... sounds like fun

Going to ring the AN clinic to make sure they have cancelled my next appointment, and to see if I had a UTI when I went last week (I suspect the +++ leucocytes was due to me being half asleep and using a pot that the MW encouraged me to recycle - I'm minging!).

Hawkmoth, that's soooo weird you say that about 'auto-turn' not happening at night anymore...I was just thinking the same thing this morning when I woke up and realised I'd apparently not moved all night! Yeeouch on the hips....

4 hours till scan time. Plotting what I can eat to make the little bugger move, as he was very lazy at other scans.

Good Luck Yank - let us know how you go.

I am SO over being at work - just sitting here counting down the days (26) til I finish and not doing much. The person who is replacing me is here and is doing all my work. I should not complain as it is not hard, just dull!

quixotic am I allowed to be smug that the person covering for me has been updating the website (part of my job) and has made an arse of it? Makes me feel ever so slightly less redundant!

god, how rubbish am i? (hypothetical question only, no need to all answer!) haven't been on here for ages!

yank - i find a can of diet coke gets mine moving, especially if it's nice and cold. have fun!

can't believe i've only got 10 weeks to go

Same here becksydee only 10 weeks left, and I know it's going to fly by especially with the school hols looming.
yank you'll be at your scan now, hope lo is moving around for you

Bo**ocks, got into work this morning to find that alcohol hand gel stuff they have in hospitals all over the place. There have been 2 confirmed swine flu cases from my work.

I told my DH and parents when I got home and they were horrified I hadn't come home straight away. It never even occured to me that I shouldn't be at work.

WWYD, I only have 5 working days left at work before I leave for good, should i stay away or not?

I would stay away if it's not too much of a problem, I think, trixy. There was someone on the news the other day who said that swine flu (like any flu) is not the best thing to contract in late pregnancy.

Do Not Go In!!! Sorry, but in your situation I would ring in sick. Personally I would invent a v & d incident, that would mean you would need to be off work for 72 hrs after the last scary toilet incident - should last you out until your maternity leave kicks in. There probably is some health and safety rule somewhere that says you don't have to go in but I don't know the ins and outs of it. Just going to go and check something that might be relevant - back in a bit...

Ok... This is what I was looking for - it doesn't say why this poor lady was induced 11 weeks early, whether it was because of another health issue or if it was because she already had swine flu. But! I am sorry to say I would not want to risk going into work after reading THIS

I think staying away would be for the best. Could you ask to work from home for the week?

I posted another thread about it and everyone said I shouldn't go in. I'm going to miss my leaving presentation and lunch though .

trixy, I'd probably stay away too if I could get away with it.

Scan was great. Baby is measuring 31+6 (though I am 30+1). Consultant doing the scan said he reckoned he'd be at least 8lbs!

Oddly enough, I thought the man doing the scan looked familiar, and once I saw his name (after we'd left) I realised it was the consultant I saw last September after my miscarriage. Lovely guy, wish I could have him for my doctor all the time!

He gave us loads of extra printed pictures and a CD rom with all the pics and little video clips, which was way more than what we paid for (our package was for 4 colour images only). I did say something, and he just grinned and said 'well as long as you don't tell my boss....'.

Baby has a very chubby face and spent most of the time with his hands in his mouth or on his nether regions (that's our boy...). He has big feet and what look to be rather large testicles! His head is down and his back is out, so here's hoping he stays that way. Despite being prodded a lot, he didn't move too much, despite a sugary dessert and diet coke. He just yawned at us and curled up in a little ball. I am so in love.

Yank great news about your 3D scan! Sounded amazing and what a lovely lovely consultant!

Swine flu scare here too....... a friend has been in contact with several people with swine flu at a school she works at just up the road from here. Her daughter is in my son's yr and her son is in my DS2's class! I was chatting with her on Friday and she was saying she wasn't too worried and hadn't been taking the Tamiflu. Apparently yesterday her DD had come down with a fever!

Am wondering what's the best thing to do. There's differing advise on the net about it. I might give my GP a ring in the morning to be on the safe side.

Trix, I know its majorly dissapointing to miss your leaving do after being there so long and you have every right to be peed off, I would be gutted, but in all honesty would it not be better to have a special baby welcoming lunch of some description once baby is born and the whole scare is over?

Rather than thinking that you just left one day and that was that, can you not postpone the do?

Have it in another month or once the baby is born so that everyone gets to see bubs too?

Bet you'd get some gorgeous prezzies for bubs

Yank, Your Scan sounds fab

Hiya Heinz, All too worrying for me > Deffo ring gp, If you trust his advice and can get past the "mrs ravens". Let us know what they say, I live in swampyville but we've now had one school shut in the county and one case in the city...

Yikes about all of the swine flu scares. TBH when the whole pandemic thing was announced that was one of my biggest fears as it isn;t great for pregnant women to even get normal flu. Given the news had decreased I think wrongly assumed it had gone away.....

yank lovely news regarding the scan , and the extra piccies too.

Up late here (for once) although will be hitting the sack in a minute. I too am uncomfortable and have the lack of 'auto-turn' issue anymore.

One thing that seems to have reappeared is nausea, particularly at night and in the middle of the night too, not being sick yet, but I do feel rotten again. I didn;t get this in late pregnancy with DS, any of you other ladies experiencing it (ie MS that went away and now come back again!)Yuck

anyhow, bed is now calling.. night night all

Morning all x

Trixy You are probably best to stay away although its disappointing you would never forgive yourself if you didnt take the precaution and something happened.

Yank Glad the scan was good and that you got some extra piccies we nearly had one done but I just couldnt bear to part with that kind of money when I have regular scans anyway lol

Heinz Hope you have nothing to worry about, just make sure you are careful and maybe carry round some antibac gel in your handbag for regular use by you and the kids?

Well it was my Birthday yesterday and DP was willing to take me anywhere I wanted but being the size of a house and having the stomach space of a mouse I settled on a chinese takeaway lol DS chose me a Birthday cake and was alot excited about the whole event than myself lol.
The government though bless them saw fit to give me a present- my HiP was paid in to my account yesterday lol I was actually quite impressed as I only sent the form off 9 days ago

Have a consultant appointment today so will get another peep at the little ones and see how much they have grown again also gonna talk to her about the fact I dont want an epidural if I have a natural labour (dont think she will be impressed lol)

Hope you all have a great day x

Hi guys - cairns - yes, I've been feeling sick in the middle of the night too! The last thing you need, as if sleeping isn't hard enough. On a couple of occasions (just a couple) I've even got up at 4am-ish to eat something. The cat looks at me like I'm mad... Mind you, he'll just have to get used to me being up at all hours...