Due Jan 2010... Grab the folic acid and settle down for the long haul...

[singalongamumum]

Wow, can't believe I'm posting this, hope I'm not jinxing it but sooooooooo excited. Just found I'm due on January 1st. OMG!

Ouch marmite that sounds nasty... hopefully you have just bruised your tummy a bit. I remember reading last time I was pregnant about how well insulated your little bean is, and so very well protected from the external world, bumps and thumps and all.

I have just eaten 200g of full fat greek yoghurt. Meant to open it and nibble at it throughout the evening - but all gone already... oh dear.

That reminds me of me reading that once you've got a baby in water (I can't for the life of me think what the water in your womb is called!) is like an egg in a jar of water. You can shake the jar as vigorously as you like but you can't break the egg. I experimented and proved this point...

Please someone put me out of my mushy brain misery and tell me what your waters are called?

coffeeandcarrotcake sorry to hear you'll be leaving us. Enjoy hugs with dd and hope you have plenty of support.

marmite if you're in that much pain, don't you think you should see a doctor? Your bean is probably fine in there, as Biccy says, but you may have done something to yourself (yes, remember her? ) that should be looked at. Crying with pain hours after a fall = medical attention, to me at least.

Love that I'm turning into the resident hypochondriac. Soon I'll convince myself I have Ebola. It might be the only explanation for why I feel so shite.

londonlottie your ms sounds a lot like how I felt last time. Commiserations - it's shit. I was going to tell you how it lifts and the next bit is way more fun but now it seems to be returning I'm too grumpy to look for silver linings, however thinly plated.

Also please tell me I'm not the only ingrate thinking "what have I done?" the sicker I feel the more ambivalent I become. If anything goes wrong now I will feel guilty as well as upset.

biccy amniotic fluid

Yes I thought there was no placenta yet too, but I haven't been reading my book like last time and I don't quite remember.

Isn't the fact that our hormones are still coming from the corpus luteum part of the reason some of us are feeling bad and eating weird things?

My thing today is fruity sweets. I had a whole bag of jellies (cinema sized) and two lollipops. DH says no wonder I feel ill.

amniotic fluid?
Now in return please someone tell me what to do with the most awful heartburn I have ever had, anyone else suffering or am I alone (and not just cause I'm v burpy

Ahh, amniotic fluid, of course! Why was that eluding me?! Thank you all.

I've heard slippery elm is good for heartburn? Think you can get it in places like Holland & Barrett.

I'm munching on a gaviscon cool that my lovely husband has just run to the shops for, slippery elm sounds way more holistic and probably what i should be having, just been on the gaviscon website to find out any side effects , lied and clicked yes to the question are you a healthcare professional only to be thwarted by the web page being in latin?! WTH????

I think web pages in latin are normally pages under construction - if you look closely is it the same latin over and over again?

Slippery Elm is supposed to be very good - but just read you should avoid in early pregnancy, so, stick with the gaviscon I would. Or cucumber?

Marmite, I have a funny feeling strepsils are in fact a no, no... I'm off to see if I've kept the box...

salvadory I presume you've tried gaviscon? It provided me with some relief last time. Poor you getting it so early.

londonlottie I've only just admitted it to myself. I asked dh at lunchtime if he was having any misgivings and he admitted that he was too. He was so excited at first. I guess having me come home from work and turn my nose up at the bean curry he's made (normally a big fav) in favour of salty potato croquettes isn't a lot of fun.

I just assuming and hoping the excitement comes back when I'm more like a healthy sane person again.

thanks Biccy, my latin is non existant not good so I didn't hang around on the page!!
I'll try cucumber.
Is nine weeks early for heartburn? I was feeling sort of pleased with myself as my MS hasn't been too bad and my fatigue seems to have lessened in the last week, on the downside I swear I have a visible belly already.
Not helped by the v glamorous new neighbour who i noticed at the weekend gardening in her tiny shorts and wellies, only for her to turn around and be at least 6 months pregnant only apparent by her bump.
At this rate once i get to six months the thought of tiny shorts would be fresh out of a horror film!!
Not that i'd swap it for all the tiny shorts in the world

oops existent, bad spelling and heartburn all to do with being pregnant naturally!!

No, I don't have a strepsils box... sorry.

But while hunting in the kitchen I found a tub of Honeycomb Caramel Swirl oornish icecream - and it's got no egg in it! So, it's a dairy craving this evening for me...

skidoodle, you are not alone in having feelings of ambivalence. I am having those feelings this time, and had them last time - but I would do anything for dd. DP was extremely ambivalent about having children, but I'd always been clear I didn't want a relationship with someone who wouldn't let me have any, so eventually he had to go with it... and he is now evangelical about having children.

I think I got glycerine pastilles from Boots for a sore throat last time - they don't have the numbing effect, but are soothing (and very moreish in fact).

well, egg in ice cream is raw, that's the potential problem... but actually I think anything you buy in a shop is going to be ok, as it would have to be pasteurised out of existence to make it on to the shelves... wouldn't it? I'd just be wary of home-made stuff if you're in a restaurant, or someone's house.

Right, well, thank you very much for your company this evening ladies, I am taking myself to my bed now. Night night. x