Due November 2009: Second trimester thread!

[turtle23]

New thread for you as it was geting a bit big...

Hi Pedal long time! Hope the holiday was good...

Not going away till Sept!! but the whole world and their dogs are coming to visit in July and Aug..lots of washing for Me..it will be fun to see friends and their los...

I sleep well..too well.. and DD waking up late so having a lie in too...it won't last..nothing ever does.

Started reading Donna Tartt's Little Friend..anyone read it? Her Secret History is awesome..

laugs hope your LO is better..3 nights bad sleep is pretty tiring..get some rest..it'll be over soon..

I thought I felt something the other day, like wind but different. Mind you it's so windy in there, that it's hard to tell the difference
It also has been hurting much more recently. I think it's the ligaments, but it really is painfull sometimes. Even when I sneeze. Things are certainly moving around in there.

skorpion that's exactly what it felt like for me before I started feeling movememnts. It felt a bit like wind-(+ sometimes it was but then I started feeling little movements. Still no kicks or anything though.

I've got to the half way stage! woo hoo! and it's also my birthday. My DP bought me gig tickets, a foot spa for my manky sore feet and loads of tomatoes and chocolate for my cravings. He is a sweetie.

Happy birthday lemontop!! Who are you going to see?

I cannot keep up with you lot!

It?s my birthday in few weeks time too. a big one. 30! I have chosen, ordered and paid for myself for my birthday present. it happens a lot around here. even wrap my own Christmas presents... so anyway I got very expensive ghd hair straighteners yey

Yes that as exciting as it is over here at the moment!

and forgot happy birthday to lemontop!

I've read Little Friend sleepless. V. good but not as awesome as Secret History which is in my top ten of fab books of all time list.

I picked up DS2 from nursery this morning only to get home and realise I'd left my keys on the nursery floor while helping DS2 into his shoes so we had to walk all the way back in the rain, and all the way back home. And now it is time to get DS1 so we have to go back again - four trips in one day!

Happy Birthday lemontop!

Happy birthday lemontop BBL my memory is complete mush now Luckily my boss has 3 kids (he's male) and is quite sympathetic and knows the side effects of pg.

I find I can't remember words in sentences and walk into rooms now forgetting why I'm there. Sigh

skorpion Yes, i have that pain too - and when I sneeze it feels like i have pulled a muscle - i am paranoid that I am going to disloge the baby!
Also - does anyone else have this - sometimes the baby is squashing my wee tube, so i need to pee but it won't come out until i jiggle up and down a bit. sometimes the oposite, where i just get back from a pee and need to go again. And sometimes when I sneeze i pee a little ... Its all glamour over here!

I hold the bottom of my bump now before I sneeze as the stabbing pain I was getting was really quite sharp.
pedal no problems with my wee tube here but my 'problem' is still here Spoke to the doc and he reckons it's probably here to stay now until the end. Sigh. Will have shares in Caneston by the end of this!

Happy Birthday lemontop! Hope you have a lovely day. What band are you going to see?

I am also ashamed to admit a little bit of wee comes out when I sneeze. And I have hayfever, so am sneezing quite a lot . I need to wee all the time; I never feel properly empty.

I am reading The Road Home by Rose Tremain. Well, I start it every night then fall asleep after about 3 pages. I think it's going to be good, but I can never remember what's happened the night before. I have also fallen in love with the name Rose Tremain. It has a lovely ring to it. If I have another daughter she will have to be Rosetremain Mitchell.

I think I felt my first kick today - am 16 weeks. Been having flutterings for weeks but today I felt a tiny little pressure in my stomach on two occasions. Really want it to be a kick but too scared to think it definitely was! Please someone tell me I'm not imagining it!

Another great book! Laugs the Road Home is great but slow to start so persevere.

I'm reading Flannery O'Connor Everything that rises coverges which is a really old book from the 1960s of short stories set in deep south US and is brilliant! I can't remember how I discovered it but I bought it off ebay recently.

House is a mess. Ahhhh!

Cheers all! going to see Pet Shop Boys on Friday. Having a take away tonight as feel more like that than a restaurant.

It's so exciting people are starting to feel the little 'uns move. Mine seems to move more when I have a drink.

Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday dear Lemontop
Happy Birthday to you x

Lemontop, happy birthday! Take away sounds lovely.

A little bit of wee when sneezing seems to be normal. And I sometimes have to wee twice within 5 minutes and not just a little bit. I think it is much more in total than I actually drink.

I saw the Pet Shop Boys in errr 1988 or 1989. Does that age me? They were brilliant, albeit really, really tiny from where I was stood. I am sure you'll have a good time and a good bop lemontop!

Oh my god that was twenty years ago!!!!! I am old.

Hi Guys and HB Lemontop!
Had first meeting with consultant and was gutted. Both DD and DS had complications and I am with same consultant. She was really off - implied I fussed last time when she wanted to induce at 36 weeks! All I wanted was reassurance that if this one goes funny we wont be messing around! I know it migt not but with 2 at home I don't need the extra stress.
Sorry to rant but...

Happy Birthday Lemontop of your considerate DH.

we're such a comical bunch of forgetful hormones - but I do love hearing everyone's news. It's like eavesdropping on random conversations!

All much the same here. My skin and scalp are SO DRY at the moment I'm flaking everywhere. Must be missing some essential nutrient or something and wee bean is robbing my skin of it. Must remember to google that one sometime....

Still 'smoring' with the cold, as they say up here. It's getting no better and now on day 5 [resigned emoticon].

Scarlotti I'm having weird sleeping patterns too. I definitely have 'light' nights where I can't get to sleep and never feel like I was ever deeply asleep. I wake before the 6:20 alarm (but still manage to doze until 'slept in' time!!). Other nights I am snoring on the sofa by 9pm, wake up in the wee small hours and drag myself to the loo and bed, and then seriously can't wake up in the morning. No idea of alarm, DH getting up, nothing. Totally weird. Probably activity and food-related, but I don't have the memory to investigate that theory!

Happy BIrthday Lemontop!! And well done to your DH, that's so thoughtful.

Scarlotti also feel a sharp low down pain when I cough and sneeze. I had such a bad cough (which finally has gone) that I was getting really stressed by it but I think it is normal.

Also feel strange bubbly feelings, and other 'sensations' that I haven't really felt before. Can't wait to feel proper kicks.

I am so, so, so tired. I am half asleep now. Also wake up really really early, wide awake. V annoying. ON the plus side, today I haven't been sick and I am hoping MS is finally saying goodbye. Need to sleeeeeeeeeeep!

Also, told my class today - they had half guessed (they are 6/7) so I put them out of their misery! One boy said 'but Miss, you're not fat enough to be having a baby' - aaaw. And at playtime, one boy asked me to race him somehwere, and a girl said 'Don't be silly XXX, she can't do racing, she's PREGNANT.'

Happy Birthday Lemontop!!!!

Happy Birthday Lemontop Have a brilliant day, and a great time at the gig.

So its not just me waking up at 5am? Evil evil time of the day...

My partner is driving me bonkers today. Being so unresponcive, and now I've just found out - via FACEBOOK none the less! - that he's buggered off out for drinks with his mates. Feels at the moment that I'M the one putting in all the effort. I don't mind he's gone out, but I think I've had a grand total of one text message from him today, saying the following. Ready for this? In responce to me saying that the baby was being really active and I was in a fab mood, I got: " xxx" What. The. Hell.

However, I am feeling very proud of myself today. On the bus on the way into town, some woman glared at me and started tutting, then said to me, "Pregnant at your age, its disgusting. You're going to turn into one of these teenage mothers who lives off my hard earned taxes..." Blah blah blah. It used to really bother me, and then I realised today I didn't actually give a damn, and I turned to her, and I said, "I'm sorry, I think you must have mistake me for someone who gives a shit what you think." The look on her face was priceless. I'm really proud I've got to a state (even if its just for today!) where I don't care. Its my life, and I made a mistake, and now I wouldn't change it for the world

Oh no Katster so does that mean that on sports day at DS's school I can't entere the mummy races? Pah.

Erikamaye I am shocked by that woman on that bus. What a cow!!!!! I do like your positive attitude and how brilliant your retort was. Serves her right - she's a total coward.

I'm sleeping ok at the moment but still having bizarre dreams.