Due March 2010 - do I look pregnant yet or just fat?

[annamama]

... starting a new thread as the old one was running out of space ...

Oooh, really similar ages to yours, obviously! DS has just started at secondary scholl so he's a first year senior year 7. DD has also begun her GCSE's this year so she's a fourth year 10.

It kinda seems since she began secondary that all she ever needs is forms signed and money forked over. All this 'Mum, I need to go to school dressed as a Victorian today. Oh and I have to take a victorian packed lunch too' has fizzled out. I'm hoping it's the same for DS too.

(my last minute 'shining' moment was when the kids announced they were suposed to go to school dressed up as book characters as part of book week - I had a blue checked 'school' dress that I accessorised with the red sequined slip on's DD had for dressing up, plaits and freckles dotted on with eyeliner - hey presto - Dorothy! For DS, black shorts, took an old red gap t-shirt, and proceeded to colour in block black stripes. Hair spiked up with gel...Dennis the Menace! FOr literally 'done on the morning of the day' they turned out pretty well [smuggness] Perhaps it was that day that gave them confidence in my 'last minute' abilities. Perhaps I really just shot myself inthe foot that day. Hmmm [smuggness vanishes])

That's incredible! You must be so proud! DD1 is in Year 10, DD2 in Year 7 and DS in Year 4, so yes, the eldest two must be the same age! DD2 hasn't started secondary yet though - she's still at Prep, but I can't wait for her to get to secondary - as you say, there seems to be a lot victorianising going on!

LOL at Halloweeny name Pixie.

I had to vanish off the net for the rest of the day yesterday, but just wanted to say Pixie that the moustache thread gave me a real giggle yesterday - so thanks for that!

Three weeks until my anomaly scan... three weeks. It's so far away!

What dreary weather we've got today - rain, grey skies... good job I've not got the energy to leave the flat or else I'd be miffed!

(ps, am I completely evil for succumbing to the craving I've had for pate last night? I'll probably indulge again today. My logic tells me the amount of retinol in a small blob of pate isn't going to turn this baby into a mutant but still the 'LIVER HAS SO MUCH RETINAL IN IT!' advice is ringing in my ears )

I haven't succumbed to any illegal cravings yet - I keep feeding myself very 'legal' Quavers!
The fake hair thread made me laugh as well, particularly the birthing in a fake monobrow bit. . .
The weather is horrible today - I don't want to go out in it, and DD2 is still at home with me, and has started moaning because she wants to go back to school now. I think I'll send her in for the morning tomorrow, and see how she does. It's not likely she's going to be set off again by exercise, anyway, is it !
Off for some nutritious and delicious (aka marmite sandwich and Quavers) now.

We're back home again... and got picked up at the right airport! I had a meet-up with my old class from school, 20 years later, I was feeling nervous and shy but it was actually really nice and it felt like we still had some kind of a bond! DD was being looked after by my mum, it went fine, partly thanks to emergency equipment when I left = strawberries!

Still have horrible cough, have to stop whatever I'm doing when I get a coughing fit, stand crosslegged and pray for no wee in knickers... yuk.

Smac - you must have been so worried, great that you did amnio straight away and it was ok!

Dalrymps - glad your tear has healed well! I had a cut and that's healed well too, can't see it or feel it at all.

Caitni - my DH's Mom and one sister (+family) both live about an hour north of Miami. We are going for 3 weeks on 11/10, we are renting a house by a canal near the beach! Just hope it's not too hot and no hurricanes...

I think I have started to feel the baby a bit more, little jerks a few times a day!

Hi all,

my goodness you guys move fast - I can't believe how many posts there have been in just a week. What with everybody's twins etc, my life seems positively boring.

Anyway, all good on this front, blood pressure up a bit which is a pain but I think it is because I crashed the car on Friday and got very stressed. Was on the way to DS's two year check and couldn't find anywhere to park the car, some moron rushed at me and I ended up crashing. Turned up at the health centre in tears with a worried DS in my arms. He is fine and keeps telling people that Mummy bumped the car and cried. My blood pressure has gone rushing up though so now I am on daily asprin and the stupid doctor told me to take a few days bed rest - she obviously doesn't have a two year old and a husband who works all hours.

Baby has just started to move a litte bit which is very reassuring as I was getting worried. Stuck in a classroom full of kids so should get off and look like I am doing something constructive.

Ha. Bed rest! Have they ever lived with any children?
Well, I've had a rather boring day - DD's been moaning all day which is really getting on my nerves, although I do feel a bit sorry for her - definitely back to school tomorrow!
DD1 has got extra ballet tonight, so I've just taken her, and have bribed DH into going to fetch her at 10pm (I still can't believe they're keeping her that late, but she has an exam next week, so apparently she needs to practise!).
We're having pasta and tomato sauce for dinner, because I can't be bothered to cook anything else!
I've been feeling movements for the last few days as well, Annamama - it's really quite exciting, and I keep having to phone DH at work to tell him - he is very
EmLouT - are you a teacher? When do you/did you officially announce your pregnancy?

Pixie - I was secondary French teacher until Jan. To the staff... well let's just say that my dep head and my head of department knew I was pregnant at about 6 weeks. A full 7 weeks before my parents/ sister / brother etc...! To the kids I announced both my pregnancies as late on as possible - essentially when it was rather obvious or when the rumour mill started. I hated them knowing too early that i was going to leave cos they all start to play up apart from Y11 and Y13 who adopt a forlorn betrayed "you're leaving me with a supply teacher you cow" face!

So yeah EmLou - when will you tell!? Respect for you if you can bring yourself to do it earlier...

Nectarine craving well and truly overrun by the Wispa craving.

pixie no need for guilt over pasta and sauce for dinner... You've still got some way to go before you beat my 'I'm tired, and tonight at 'certain pizza parlour' it's bogof on delivery so that's what we're having!' I'm so over guilt. I know that I usually do the best I can so when I act slightly less than 'alphamum' (slightly? A lot, sometimes) I really just let it slide. There are bigger things to worry about/waste my anxiety on And your poor DD. My DD recently broke her arm (had a snazzy green cast) and she's still in a support moaning it hurts. Learning to filter out the moaning is a skill in and of itself!

Hi everyone, not sure if i told you Rosie( my DD aged 20months) had been referred to the birmingham Childrens Hospital as she has a limp?

Well we have been today and she has a condition called
Developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH)

www.steps-charity.org.uk/links/4-15-developmental_dysplasia_of_the_hip_ddh.phpthis website has the info,

she will need an operation to correct and the 13 weeks in a plaster cast from her nipples to her feet, poor lil lamb!!!

i am worried but doing ok, she will be fine and so will we- my biggest worry is its likely to be jan and i am gonna be heavily pregnant by then with DC3- OMG how will i cope!!!!!

hope your all well xxxxsorry its another selfish post from me!!!

oh poor you sarah as if you didn't have enough on your plate with a 20 mth old and pg!! i'm sure you are right and she will be fine, but my sympathies to you nonetheless, no-one likes their babies in discomfort.
not a selfish post at all, how are we to be your online support if we don't know what is going on?!
i read the website and it does sound like it's an accepted problem, but still, not fun when it's your own DD. how did she take it do you think she understood? she probably won't remember it at all.
chin up lovey. i'm sure others will give you much more medical/better advice but well done for being so calm and brave.

DH is watching air crash investigation. i don't htink i can properly watch it. pg hormones don't allow me to cope with an entire aircraft disappearing off the radar!! too sad

OMG, MummyElk, your DH is an ACI addict too?? What is it about men and technology? We have now seen so many (me usually reading a book in bed at the same time ) that we are into repeats!! Why oh why would I want to know all the things that can and do wrong? I have a finely tuned system of denial and distraction in place when flying (frequently to see parents abroad) which I do not need punctured ...

Sarah, your poor LO! And you, how awful. Having said that, I had this and was diagnosed well after my first birthday, could walk and all. I did not need an operation but was in the whole body cast you mention for several months and then had to learn to walk again. Needless to say, I have no memory at all of all that and I do not seem to have carried over any problems from it - at least not physical ones, LOL .

Went to dental hygienist today, oh joy, got use out of my maternity exemption form and had to listen to her the entire time of my treatment how crazy misguided I was for going for a larger family! It was really rather funny. Turns out, she is 22, single and has no children...

Had too much dinner, my mum's home cooking and feel like I need my stomach pumping. So will have early night to aid digestions and hope it will not all end up on my backside hips.
Hope you are all well.

ooh good post pacific a) because you did exactly what i knew someone/you would do which is add an empathetic post for sarah, good work girl
and b) because i now realise i'm not alone in my ACI widowness. i don't normally mind them (and we're also into repeats etc, takes me one shot and i know which one it is "ooh this is the one that disappeared over the greek mountains with that one bloke who survived on his girlfriend's oxygen tank, he still died though") though i do have to be in the right mood but YES it does mean i now over-react to every flight we take ("did you hear that bump? do you think it's a dodgy rivet giving up") and this one it was the CHILDREN why did they keep focussing on the children crying?!!

phew glad i got that off my chest

Sarah You have my total sympathy. Cannot imagine what i would do if DD ( also only 21 months) had to be put in a body cast. God Bless you my lovely... what doesn't kill you and all that.... Keep posting and venting steam on here - it's wonderfully cathartic. We will not (double underline) get bored with hearing about it. We will support you as best we can. How's not-so-DH? Out of dog house? Or no time to deal with in midst of next crisis what DD is going through...? Continued sympathy there too....

thanks Pacific, that great to hear,

thanks also to mummyelk, and Arcadia, and yes DH is out of the doghouse now, we had a good chat on monday and have laid some laws down so at least thats one worry over, xxx

i had a terrible night sleep as i couldn't switch off but thats to be expected i guess, xxx will keep you all up to date with whats going on, xxx

Oh no Sarah, your poor DD and poor you! I've read about that thing before. But it's only a short time out of the rest of her long limp-free life!

I guess I'm very lucky with my DH, he likes watching Katie & Peter, Americas Next Top Model and X-factor with me. He's never watched ACI and has thankfully gone off Ice Road Truckers...

Off to midwife appt now...

Heartbeat was quite slow so midwife said it might be a little boy! Then all of a sudden it sped up... which apparently is normal, but left me confused.

Sorry to hear your DD has to have a cast Sarah. If it's any consolation dh works with someone who's daughter recently had the same thing. She coped brilliantly and is out of the cast and absolutely fine now.

Sarah, sounds like you're having a pretty rough time at the moment. As others have said, do make sure you come on here to vent whenever you want. I hope you have the opportunity today to catch up on a bit of the sleep you missed last night - although I guess you'll say "chance would be a fine thing".

The ACI talk struck a chord. I'm another ACI widow and it's nice to know I'm not alone! Don't think I was a nervous flyer until I started being subjected to repeat viewings of it.

Arcadie, wispas...mmmmm... Have you tried the new limited edition ones with a thin layer of caramel? They're rather nice - and this from someone who is normally strictly a dark chocolate person. It has to be due to pregnancy. I mean, what other possible reason could there have been for the fact that yesterday I ate two chocolate-dipped viennese shortbread, one slice of chocolate cake and the head of a not particularly small chocolate teddy bear, which was a present for DH? Oh, it makes me feel bleeurrgh just re-reading that list. Sadly, though, that feeling will probably pass just in time to eat a piece of chocolate caramel shortbread (currently sitting in an innocent-looking white box on my desk) with my afternoon tea. Wonder if I can cancel it out by eating a banana at the same time? Or even two bananas?

Sariska ..I...wwwaaannttt....choccyyyyyy....

Also "SW" just confirmed on the facebook account, please identify yourself and welcome.

PLEASE STOP TALKING ABOUT CHOCOLATE!!! might have to get DH to get me a wispa on the way home from work now... [slathering emoticon]

Just back from the mw app, all well and, just to even out the crap mw arguments i'd just like to say I LOVE MY MIDWIFE!!! But i did love her last time and she hasn't changed a bit. And I do feel bad for those who aren't having a good time with theirs, not much fun at all.
Baby's heartbeat was there also, v good, and DD's face when she heard it was a picture...not sure she quite gets it all but it was fun

When shall i come out on facebook? am almost at 17 weeks so might wait till then....what do we think?

I can't get depressed about rain i'm afraid, the garden needs it, DD looks cute in her green mac, and with Strictly back on the box i'm well up for the winter/woolies/christmas/central heating etc etc...

Don't talk about Christmas! It's still aaaages away! Even DS hasn't written his list yet, which is usually pages and pages!
I'm sorry to hear about your DD, Sarah, although it's good that they caught it, and that she can be treated! I think that looking after her in a cast might be another job for DH - you can watch lots of TV with her while she's recovering, though, if you can see over your bump!
Annamama, it must be very confusing! Are you leaving it as a surprise, or do you want to know?
Does anybody have a list of what we're having? It might be nice to add the sexes, to the due date list? I'd do it myself, but I need to go out and buy some CHOCOLATE!

I agree - please no more chocolate talk! I HAVE to have a small cadburys twirl bar every night at the moment. What is it with chocolate?

Glad to hear your mw app went well mummyelk and you too annamamma . I wish id been able to hear a heartbeat too. My midwife was very nice though - however I have seen two different midwives now (both nice) even though I was promised I'd see the same one right through.

Sarah ! Poor you, I hope it all goes well in jan. certainly not a selfish post!

I'm getting these strange nudges or tiny "pushes" like tapping from inside my lower stomach. Could this be the baby??? I haven't had any fluttering (apart from a weird feathery feel which is sort of more along my skin).

And also agree Mummyelk about the rain and wintery weather. I'm Australian and missed my "proper" summer but I actually prefer it to be cold and rainy over here. Seems more authentic! (let's see if i change my tune mid-feb).