Due December 09 - Fluttering Tums and Excited Mums...

[SarahL2]

New Thread before the old one fills up.

Er, no. Good for you though!!

I'm 18+3 and I'm still down 3lbs on my starting weight. I lost 6 and have put 3 back on so I'm 8 stone 3 now

I've put on about 8lbs so far

I've got my 15 week midwife appointment tomorrow - really looking forward to hearing DC's heartbeat.

Tummy's been feeling realy tight and stretched today, it's been quite uncomfy.

Got DH to get my old maternity clothes out of the loft so I can get them washed and ready to wear again...had the first "are you sure there's only one in there!" joke today. Wouldn't have minded but it was from a pregnant friend who's 3 months ahead of me!!!

I love hearing Smidge's heartbeat

More and more people are finding out im pregnant, i have had mostly positive reactions, some 'crazy lady' things but its all ok.

My bump is very small and people keep saying that - well i know he/she is growing fine, so there! Last few days i have been more awake, pleased as i get to see my husband more

Heartbeat was good and strong - much clearer than DS's ever was.

Really reassuring.

Told her about my dizzyness too and she said just to keep drinking lots of fluids. Blood pressure is a little low 110/60 but is the same as it was at booking in so she didn't seem too concerned.

had 15 week check yesterday and BP was low 90/60. still feeling really yucky and 'not with it' MW didnt seem concered. anything I can do regarding BP??

Glad heart beats are good!!

My MW said notihing I could do but drink plenty of fluids and maybe a pregnancy multivitamin (which I'm already taking). Hope you feel better soon pets

Salt can help, and drinking lots and lots to increase your blood volume. My iron results came back yesterday - 9.6 - so coupled with the low BP it's no wonder I've been feeling like poo!

Avoid getting too hot too as that will make it lower and make you dizzy.

An excuse to eat ice lollies and Salt and Vinegar crisps!!

I love you Moosy

I've got a new found likeness for cheese&onion crisps, unfortunately my 2yr old likes them aswell so I rarely get a whole pack to myself.

I'm off to Devon for a week tomorrow so hope you all have a good week. I've definitely been feeling some 'fluttering' recently so think I could possibly feel my first real kicks next week whilst I'm away. Fingers crossed for good weather please xx

I don't think i have felt my baby yet, 16 weeks today. With my third, my placenta was anterior and i didn't feel her until about 20 weeks

I am hugely umming and arring about finding out the gender, we have always known before, this is last baby...maybe a suprise would be nice? Help!

I have felt some definite flutterings when lying on my tummy to read in bed. No proper kicks yet.

We will definitely be finding out the sex if the sonographer can tell us. I'm really excited about 20 week scan but also a bit nervous as I've been sooo anxious that something is wrong in this pregnancy. Hopefully afterwards we will be telling dd if she is going to have a brother or a sister.

I can't wait till my scan and to find out who's in there, It will nice to be able to tell the DDs "you're going to have a baby brother/sister".

Have felt lots of movements, I have an anterior placenta this time but it only seems to have delayed the feelings by about a week, I just bypassed the flutterings and went straight to the kicks

Saw GP this morning about my low iron, he's arranging a consultant appointment and thinks they might want to do a tranfusion. Part of me says 'eek no!', the other part says 'yes please, more blood and better quality!' Of course my mum (daily mail reader! ) says 'oooh no, you don't want to catch hepititis!'

Moosy - you are due nearly 3 weeks before me though... of kicks! I'm sure smidge will do his/her thing soon...lol

See i normally love to know, i like buying coloured things, arguing discussing names, it helps me to bond and to pre-picture my family iyswim. But i am now thinking imagine discovering the sex myself after all that work, me being the first to see, (plus DH cannot say no to my girls name when i have just given birth )....but DH is so set on a dd2 that if it is a ds3 it will give him time to get used to that, i don't mind too much not knowing, and there are enough suprises at birth! Arrgghh!!

I finally feel like i have my normal life back at last - i feel sociable, awake, well, lovey with DH, its all good.

Sorry scorps, I do feel babies quite early though, I felt DD1 and DD2 at only 16 weeks, so 17 weeks this time seemed late to me!

I had a surprise with DD1 which was a good thing, as DH REALLY wanted a boy, so if he'd found out half way that she was a girl I think he would've struggled to be so excited. As it was I had such an awful birth that by the end of it he wouldn't have cared if she'd been a goat he'd still have been pleased! By the time we had DD2 he'd lost the need for a boy and was just as pleased as me to see another girl on the scan

I'm 16 weeks today i felt ds1 by now, same with ds2...dd later, nut im not worried. im probably too busy to notice!!

Think i will chat with DH later about a final scan decision.

Hello all of you expectant mamas - I'm joining in your thread (better late than never...) I'm 18 weeks now, and due on 11th December (a popular day for babies it seems, with Beffnal, JumpingJellyfish, Fairywing, Baisey, and now me).

I heard my first bit of baby heartbeat at ante natal this week, which was lovely, but no fluttery butterflies yet. The bulge and I are now on the list below:

willfatandiknowit DC1 EDD 25th Nov - 1st Dec
Flumpity - DC2 (have dd 22 months) - EDD 27 nov - 1 Dec
raggie - DC1 EDD 28th Nov N4 but soon OX4!
Anniebigpants- DC2 EDD 1st Dec SR5
Charleymouse DC4 (have DD 4, DST2 2 DST1 Angel) - EDD 2 Dec S6
Kingsroadie - DC1 EDD 2nd Dec SW5
4thtimelucky - DC1 EDD 3rd Dec
sickbubby (have dd 3 years) - EDD 3rd Dec - 6th Dec
Catz - DC2 (have dd 20 months) - EDD 4th Dec
Pumpkin20 - DC2 - EDD 4th Dec
sparklycheerymummy - dd is 7, EDD 28th Nov - 5th Dec
Moosy - DC3 (have 2 DDs, 3 1/2 and 2) - EDD 6th Dec
Sleepychunky - DC2 (have DS 22 months) - EDD 7th Dec
Claire236 - DC2 (DS just turned 4) - EDD 7 Dec
Boogeek - DC3 (have 2 DDs, 5 and 2 1/2) - EDD 7th Dec
BubblesBump - DC1 EDD 8 Dec, W11
Legscrossed - DC1 EDD 9 Dec
damnitdamnit - DC2 (have DD 20 months) - EDD 9th December
HazeDB - DC1 EDD 9 Dec
Beffnal - DC1 - EDD 11th Dec
JumpingJellyfish - DC3 (have DS (4) & DD (2)) - EDD 11th Dec
Fairywing - DC1 (mc Jan 08 )- EDD 11th Dec
Baisey - DS is 2.5 - EDD 11th Dec.
FlyingDuck - DC1 - EDD 11 Dec
Devongirl - DC2 (DS 2.5) - EDD 12th Dec
Blackteaplease - DC1 - EDD 13th December
Whistlejacket DC3 (DS 9 months + DS 3 years) - EDD 14th December
Deanychip - DC? - EDD?
Tillyscoutsmum - DC2 (DD 23 months and DSD 5) - EDD 15th December
Ravgirl - DC1 - EDD 16th December
Stigaloid - DC2 (DS is 22 months) - EDD 17th December
Cazzybabs - Dc4 (dd1 - 7; dd2 - 4; dd3 - 1) EDD 17th Cambridge
Viktoriamac -DC1 - EDD 18th December
Docket - DC3 - EDD 20th Dec
BexieID - Have Tom, who was 3 in April, DC2 EDD 25th December
PennyBenjamin - DC2 (DS 7 1/2 months) - EDD 20th December
Becksworth - DC1 - EDD 21st Dec
missDiddles - DC1 - EDD 21st December
Biscuitsmustbedunkedintea - DC2 (DD will be 3.2) - EDD 21st Dec
Scorpio - DC4 - EDD 25th Dec
Lollie77 - DC2 (DC1- Angel baby) - EDD 22nd Dec
Noodleboo - DC3 - EDD 22nd Dec RH19
madmissy-DC3- EDD 23rd December
cairnterrier -DC1-23rd December NR4
Harimad - DC2 (DS1 2+2) EDD 24-26th Dec SE3
JoseyM - DC1 - EDD 25th Dec..eek!
Themachinist - DC2 (DS is 2) - EDD 25th Dec
MiapieMum - DC1 EDD 25 Dec
Rookie81- DC1 EDD 25 Dec
Didov - DC3 [DS 3 +DD 14mths] EDD Dec 25
1petshortofazoo - DC2 (DS 3) EDD 26th Dec DN15
LaDiDaDi -DC2 - EDD 26th December
BlameitontheBogey - DC2 EDD 26 December
Madremia09 - EDD 26th December
Milliemuffin - DC2 (DS 22months) EDD 27th Dec
SarahL2 - DC2 (DS will be 2.9) EDD 27th December
Alexpolismum - DC3 [DS 2 + DD 10 months] EDD 28 Dec
Lolianja - DC2 (DS1 2 months) - EDD 29th December
jumblies - DC 2, EDD 27 Dec
LittleMonkeysMummy - DC2 (DD 14m) EDD 30th December AB21
Pinkjenny - DC2 (Dd 23 months) EDD 31st Dec
MarlaSinger - DC2 (DS 18 months) EDD 31st Dec

Hello FlyingDuck, welcome to our thread. How are you feeling?

Hi Devongirl,

I've been feeling pretty good lately; the second trimester is much more fun than the first! It's also quite a relief to once again be able to eat a balanced diet (fish and vegetables seemed to be the devil's work for a while there), and not feel permanently nauseous (although oddly enough I was never actually sick). I've just looking back over the thread to see what I'd missed, and am glad to see your post about pregnancy rhinitis - DP and I were wondering what on earth was wrong with me; I thought I must have late onset hayfever or something! So thank you for that. It's good to see there are lots of 2nd time (and more) mums in this group, to quell the fears of all the anxious first-timers like me.

Thanks Sarah and mossey, I'm trying to drink plenty but spending more time on the loo as a result

On iron tabs aswell as have low HB they are a pain as you have to take them 2hrs before and after any caffee, dairy, gluten and wheat!!

hope things settle down soon....

havent felt any movement as such but tummy often goes really hard for a few mins like branston hicks, cant remember if it happened last time...

can I join too, ill put my info on the list below, due dec 6th dc2

willfatandiknowit DC1 EDD 25th Nov - 1st Dec
Flumpity - DC2 (have dd 22 months) - EDD 27 nov - 1 Dec
raggie - DC1 EDD 28th Nov N4 but soon OX4!
Anniebigpants- DC2 EDD 1st Dec SR5
Charleymouse DC4 (have DD 4, DST2 2 DST1 Angel) - EDD 2 Dec S6
Kingsroadie - DC1 EDD 2nd Dec SW5
4thtimelucky - DC1 EDD 3rd Dec
sickbubby (have dd 3 years) - EDD 3rd Dec - 6th Dec
Catz - DC2 (have dd 20 months) - EDD 4th Dec
Pumpkin20 - DC2 - EDD 4th Dec
sparklycheerymummy - dd is 7, EDD 28th Nov - 5th Dec
Moosy - DC3 (have 2 DDs, 3 1/2 and 2) - EDD 6th Dec
Firawla - DC2 (have DS 12 months) - EDD 6 Dec
Sleepychunky - DC2 (have DS 22 months) - EDD 7th Dec
Claire236 - DC2 (DS just turned 4) - EDD 7 Dec
Boogeek - DC3 (have 2 DDs, 5 and 2 1/2) - EDD 7th Dec
BubblesBump - DC1 EDD 8 Dec, W11
Legscrossed - DC1 EDD 9 Dec
damnitdamnit - DC2 (have DD 20 months) - EDD 9th December
HazeDB - DC1 EDD 9 Dec
Beffnal - DC1 - EDD 11th Dec
JumpingJellyfish - DC3 (have DS (4) & DD (2)) - EDD 11th Dec
Fairywing - DC1 (mc Jan 08 )- EDD 11th Dec
Baisey - DS is 2.5 - EDD 11th Dec.
FlyingDuck - DC1 - EDD 11 Dec
Devongirl - DC2 (DS 2.5) - EDD 12th Dec
Blackteaplease - DC1 - EDD 13th December
Whistlejacket DC3 (DS 9 months + DS 3 years) - EDD 14th December
Deanychip - DC? - EDD?
Tillyscoutsmum - DC2 (DD 23 months and DSD 5) - EDD 15th December
Ravgirl - DC1 - EDD 16th December
Stigaloid - DC2 (DS is 22 months) - EDD 17th December
Cazzybabs - Dc4 (dd1 - 7; dd2 - 4; dd3 - 1) EDD 17th Cambridge
Viktoriamac -DC1 - EDD 18th December
Docket - DC3 - EDD 20th Dec
BexieID - Have Tom, who was 3 in April, DC2 EDD 25th December
PennyBenjamin - DC2 (DS 7 1/2 months) - EDD 20th December
Becksworth - DC1 - EDD 21st Dec
missDiddles - DC1 - EDD 21st December
Biscuitsmustbedunkedintea - DC2 (DD will be 3.2) - EDD 21st Dec
Scorpio - DC4 - EDD 25th Dec
Lollie77 - DC2 (DC1- Angel baby) - EDD 22nd Dec
Noodleboo - DC3 - EDD 22nd Dec RH19
madmissy-DC3- EDD 23rd December
cairnterrier -DC1-23rd December NR4
Harimad - DC2 (DS1 2+2) EDD 24-26th Dec SE3
JoseyM - DC1 - EDD 25th Dec..eek!
Themachinist - DC2 (DS is 2) - EDD 25th Dec
MiapieMum - DC1 EDD 25 Dec
Rookie81- DC1 EDD 25 Dec
Didov - DC3 [DS 3 +DD 14mths] EDD Dec 25
1petshortofazoo - DC2 (DS 3) EDD 26th Dec DN15
LaDiDaDi -DC2 - EDD 26th December
BlameitontheBogey - DC2 EDD 26 December
Madremia09 - EDD 26th December
Milliemuffin - DC2 (DS 22months) EDD 27th Dec
SarahL2 - DC2 (DS will be 2.9) EDD 27th December
Alexpolismum - DC3 [DS 2 + DD 10 months] EDD 28 Dec
Lolianja - DC2 (DS1 2 months) - EDD 29th December
jumblies - DC 2, EDD 27 Dec
LittleMonkeysMummy - DC2 (DD 14m) EDD 30th December AB21
Pinkjenny - DC2 (Dd 23 months) EDD 31st Dec
MarlaSinger - DC2 (DS 18 months) EDD 31st Dec

Hi Flying Duck, glad to hear someone else is snotty too! I have enormous sneezing fits and am sneezing really loudly to avoid hurting LO! Stupid, I know it's not going to do anything but I can't help it!

Glad to hear you're feeling better - I don't like that first bit where you know you should be eating healthily but the only appealing things are totally processed foods (pot noodles for me although I managed to not have any this time!)

Hello Firawla, welcome to our thread x

Feeling really grotty today. So tired I ache. Feeling sick and headachy and just want to sleep. Not even feeling hungry.

Hope I'm not coming down with something!

Am 16 weeks on Tuesday, 20 week scan on August 12th.

The babies are really moving about down there and frequently, can feel it very clearly now! Sickness has gone thank buggery but now I'm anaemic, sod's law! The supplements are a disaster, have thus far succeeded in giving me the shits and not much else.

Hope all's well, will catch up asap.