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 ...

Chocolate? What are you crazy pregnant women talking about?

hides the empty pot of Belgian chocolate haagen dazs behind my back

I'm simply experimenting with high calorie ice cream as I weighed myself this morning and I'm back down to my usual pre-pregnancy weight (vs having put on 2lbs as of last week). Yes, I know, I need to eat more healthy complex carbs (Was eating food doctor pittas with ham & tomato for lunch... I am good too!) but this is just an experiment you understand? And as there are many new flavours since I last ate it, it may be ongoing for some time...

Sarah, don't ever feel you have to hide how you're feeling here - that's the whole point of an ante-natal group. I'd like to think as much as we're all as hormonal as hell we're able to offer support/advice when its generally needed and conversely able to gently chide when someone is being slightly unreasonable (again, those pesky hormones the most likely reason). Your post was far from selfish!! My step sister has that condition and wasn't diagnosed until she was about 11 when the nhs promptly fitted her with a pair of shoes, one of which was higher than the other. Was quite traumatic for her (at that age) and luckily as she went through puberty her something about the way her bones went through the growth spurt meant her gait all but corrected itself. She still limps a bit when very tired but on the whole, it's ok... Uh, what I mean by that is I think it's fantastic they've made the dignosis at a time when it's possible to correct the issue AND for your DD to have no memory/dealing with teasing from peers. It's gonn be most tough on YOU I suspect - and we'll be here for you when that time comes! ALso glad you and DH aired your problems

I'm another person whom has developed fear of flying this last year of so... although I was ok when I went to marbella at 6 weeks pregnant I wonder if it's anything to do with seeing those blasted 'And this is what went WRONG!' programmes. Ds quite likes to watch them.

pacific here is my envious face at you scoffing a load of your mum's food... I really don't get on well with my mum, so in a way it's a blessing that she lives oop north, but that said I love her cooking. Her roast dinner, with roast carrots/parsnips, cauli & brocolli cheese, in particular, is to die for. ANd her lasagne. And even just a ham, tomato and cheese omelette with 'homemade' chips cut from potatoes instead of from a packet.

anna yay for hearing the hb! The old wives tale tht boys have slower hb's over girls apparently only really rings true when you're in labour... and the reason the hb will have suddenly sped up is the baby will have gone from resting to having squirm about. Either that, or you're getting a boy/girl a la Jamie Lee Curtis...

And so glad you're having a great experience with your mw mummyelk. There's a big part of me that wants to be a midwife - and, of course, I would be a lovely one...

quick one (says it out loud to prove she's not obsessed)

sarah forgot to say sorry you not sleeping well, doesn't surprise me at all, your poor brain has a lot to take on right now! Best tip i've had for shutting brain down is to imagine you are on the top floor of a hotel in the elevator. There are 18 floors to go down. Each time the elevator stops at the next level you have to imagine what's behind the doors, eg, gym/restaurant/bedrooms etc etc and go into all the detail behind it all..(furnitures/wallpaper/etcetc) the idea is you never get the ground floor because you fall asleep... it mostly works for me?!

walnut sounds spot on, for me it's a bit like being flicked from the inside...tiny ones at first and they become more insistent obvious as you notice them more. It all went very quiet for me over the weekend but felt one the moment the doppler had moved off me today so that was quite nice! (as if to say - SEE I told you I was still there!)

right i'm off to bake a cake (chocolate, no thanks to you lot) because DH has been delayed getting my wispas at work

I just had some swedish chocolate, mmm. It's a bit like kitkat but yummier. Just been to London to the embassy to pick up my new passport. I stopped by the swedish shop, it was open this time, loved it and it was one of the shop girls' birthday so I got free cake and coffee!

Yes we are finding out the sex Pixie, can't wait! I'm hoping for a boy as it would be nice to have one of each, but I think if it's another girl I'll quickly get used to the idea, and maybe 2 girls will play better together (?).

I have come up with names for your twin girls: Dixie & Trixie! Just don't run it by the Baby Names on MN...

In sweden DD was playing with her cousin who is a few months older. When he left she was crying and said "baby, baby". I said "Don't worry, mummy will get you another baby soon!"

My midwife is great too MummyElk, she does everything properly and today we had a discussion about pelvic floors. Nothing new really, just that you have to keep up the exercising, both before and after and forever!

Sariska - are you ok now after your mucous scare?

Shut up Manda! I don't want a hermaphrodite... Oh so no real truth in old wives tale, what a surprise.

Walnut - exciting to feel something move!

Hello all

Sarah - just to say I am thinking about you and your family and sending big hugs. I cannot imagine what you are all going through but talk away as much as you like.

Haven't really checked through everyones posts as there seem to have been so many so apologies if I don't scroll back!

Arcadie - I am SW! x

I am back from a wonderful holiday on Lake Garda. Basically sat and read books, strolled, ate ice cream (man the ice cream there is something else...Fererro Rocher being a personal favourite!)
Had a small scare out there. Had what I thought was the start of a urine infection as I was stinging and had quite strong pain in lower abdomen so had to trundle to hospital to get what I thought would be antibiotics.
Got there and they scanned me to find a 6cm lump inside me. They said they thought it was a fybroid although odd it had not come up before and sent me away.
In the night I was literally writhing in agony, never had pain like it (wait until March). Not a wink of sleep, trying to stay calm but went back to hospital by now with a protruding lump where pain was.
Spent all day in there. They thought it may be a strangulated hernia and were talking about performing surgery there and then when they decided to take a different scan just to be sure.
Had scan which verified a very angry fybroid.
Anyway - pain reduced to a very manageable dull ache and some discomfort and we managed to have a wonderful, restful holiday.
Came home and doctors were still unsure whether it was a fybroid or hernia and after 2 scans last week (different ones for each thing - so tiresome!) they confirmed it was a fybroid and the pain would eventually die down because my blood supply would stop feeding it in order to feed my baby.
Finally feeling myself again and actually now at that happy, energised stage and long may it continue.

Anyway - I hope everyone is doing really really well and glad to be back!

xxx

Can you all PLEASE stop talking about chocolate??!! I am stuck at work with no access to any .

Saw my new consultant today (as I am moving hospitals), she seems v nice, all for another go at a VBAC and all that, heard baby's heartbeat which is always nice. However it turns out that my white blood cell count is low, which is part of ones immune system, and might explain why I have been Lady Snot of Snottenberg for 4 weeks now - at least the cough has stopped and I am not wetting myself quite as much.
DH is panicking, heamtologist simply suggests repeating it again, which is what I am happy with. I am not unwell really, and usually these things are postviral (or so I keep telling myself. Don't really want to think about poorly functioning bone marrow too much..).

Anyway, selfish post over, hope everybody is doing well, even poorly children/less than supportive husbands/partners/ general pregnancy problems not withstanding.
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thank you eveyone for your kind messages, xxx

i too saw mw today and guess what- my BP was normal- (low for me actually) what a shock i was expecting it to be thru the roof after the last 24 hours,

heart bead sounded like a horse (old wives tales says a girl) and in fairness sounded very much like DD's did and Ds sounded like a train and he was a boy!!!! i really am hoping for another little girl as it wuls be easier but will be happy as long a baby arrives fit and well and hopefully not during DD's operation!!!!

Sarah - you poor thing. I can't imagine coping with Timmy (DS 24 months) having to go through that especially while I am pregnant. But you know how resiliant they are at this age - I'm always stunned by what tough little cookies they can be!

Pixie - yes I am a teacher - I teach Year 6 and they all know already that I am pregnant - can't really hide it as I look like an elephant and I work in a very small school so all the parents know and have been congratulating me. All fine except for the fact that I have to undertake teaching sex ed in January - slightly uncomfortable when your massive tummy is living proof that you yourself have indulged in the very activity you are telling them to avoid.

Personally, I can handle the chocolate talk but what I positively cannot handle is the "Simple Suppers" programme on tv which has just shown me the most divine toasted baguette with melted goats' cheese. I want it, I want it, I WANT IT! Guess I will have to make do with a piece of cheddar.

Re Christmas and fear of flying - I am spending Christmas at my parents' house in Lanzarote and am not looking forward to flying out at 30 weeks PG - apparently the airline are happy for me to fly so long as my OB says it is ok but four hours on a plane trying to squeeze into those tiny loos to pee does not sound like fun.

Off to try and calm my craving with a piece of boring cheddar.

Hi all

Sorry to hear your stresses SARAH. Sure all will be fine and long be forgotten by her a short while after.

I too am loving choocolate. I can normally take it or leave it - I'm a cheese freak normally. Biscuit boosts and wispa golds are it for now!!

I too am an aircraft investigation widow. My DH loves it and is obsessed about all things flying not helped by the fact that his best friend is a commercial pilot. ( needless to say I don't join them at the pub very often!!) I myself don't enjoy the experience - I see it as a means to get nice places whilst never understanding how a huge hulk of metal stays up there. I too have seen them all and know the endings- never seems to be a new crash to ogle at. Poor souls - if only they knew how these men love watching their often gory fate in the name of science!! xx

Chocolate, chocolate, chocolate (just to prove what a nice person I am!).
Annamama, I'm sure your DS/DD won't be aka Jamie Lee Curtis (is that even true anyway?). . . I don't know about girls playing together - if they're the same sex, there's more jealousy, I think, as the same as they are expected to reach the same milestones at the same time, and often like the same thing. DD2 and DS play together better than DD1 and DD2 ever have done, so I think it just depends whether they get on or not.
EmLouT, can we not mention the cheese, please? I am getting through mounds of Wensleydale, and I don't even like it. . .Still, better than boot polish, eh?!
Anyway, I'd better go and tend to my brood, who are either going to bed, or moaning because they're starving after ballet - I can see late night spaghetti and pesto coming on!

Halloween namechange specifically for Pixie who brought up chocolate again . And: cheese, cheese, cheese, so there

Jamie Lee Curtis has Klinefelter's Syndrome, or so rumour has it, is 47, XXY for those who want to know. And Anna's child will quite obviously not have that or any other genetic condition No more scaring the horses, please! Speed and sound of heart sounds do not have anything to do with baba's gender.

Pureeandpearls Just seen your facebook picture. I have bump envy.

Pacific Nice sciency talk m'am.

EmLouT I feel your pain. I had to do Yr9 abortion stuff in PSHCE whilst 23 weeks pregnant. Just about held it together when one bright spark pointed at my wriggling, massive belly and made the obvious point.... had to do contraception too at about 28 weeks. that was just funny!!!

Arcadie- as a non-teacher that Yr9 stuff sounds hilarious, sorry! If you read my status regularly you will now that I get lots of stupid comments about the bump....I wasn't joking when I said it was mahoosive. Although happily Pixie is having twins so she will overtake me at some point

Now off to Waitrose to buy chocolate- you guys are no good for my low-calorie lifestyle [Puree pisses herself laughing ( not hard given state of Pelvic Floor)at thought; only thing low-calorie in my life is the bottled water I buy when commuting.]

Hi all - havne't been on for while. Too busy at work. In fact my carefree MN days will soon be over as I have to move fromm my lovely large solo office into a horrid openplan shared one. Spending too much time on here may well be noticed!

I'm doing fine - picked up my crutches for SPD on Monday - was hoping to be able to keep off them for a few more weeks. I'm off to Chicago tomorrow for 2 weeks (first vacation; second work) - as it's bound to involve walking I though it was better to be safe than sorry.

Ca 't believe I'm almost half way through. I's nice at the moment as I have started to feel ditinct thumps as opposed to the indistinct flutters. an havn't had a nausea for a week or so.

I have a mixture of excitement as DH and I have a week without the children. Tryign not to think too hard about not seeign them 2 weeks. It will seem like a long time

aaaand.... AIBU to expect not to piss myself every time I cough or sneeze. I have a stinking cold and constantly wet knockers

morning all!

no bullet YANBU i had the same thing for about three weeks and posted a similar rant - bloody annoying isn't it?! It seems to happen to me JUST as i'm walking out the house.... Half of me shouts "I am NOT going to be a TenaLady" and the other half thinks..."yeah but really...can't you be bothered to think about elevators and squeezing?" Am excited for you about chicago though, LUSH

pacific sorry to hear about low white blood count but a) being a werewolf will definitely help and b) you know too much so definitely switch that head off for a bit! Tests are tests are tests. it'll be ok . I worked with a v funny dr once who said to (nearly) every timewaster patient he saw "The body has a remarkable capacity to heal itself". anyway [encouraging emoticon]
(now slightly worrying that you think i'm calling you a time waster but hoping it's my pg head and you do get what i'm saying really)

hope all well. beautiful day here, have baked a chocolate cake despite running out of flour/eggs/marg/other essential ingredients. It's definitely All of Your Fault.
taste test to follow

Morning all.

Not sure what I think about all the pelvic floor talk. I was promised that if I exercised a lot between DS and this pregnancy I wouldn't have problems but, despite the gym four or five times a week, I am still debating the merits of tena lady - especially since I can leave a class of ten year olds and disappear for a wee very easily. I kind of hoped that if I didn't talk about it the problem would go away.

I am clearly a bad mother to be as I succumbed to the goats' cheese last night. Had DH bring it home with a huge chunk of french bread and some fresh figs - it was lovely and I figure that I haven't had listeria or salmonella yet in my life so I will probably be fine.

Have good days all.

Must say - Em - I'd a dreadful mother. I eat anything I want - only drawing the line at raw shell fish!

Ruby - that sounds awful! Glad you're better now.

Pacific - I'm sure you're fine!

Pixie - you didn't say if you like the twin names Dixie & Trixie! Just trying to be helpful...

Puree - "pissing myself laughing" Mmm well luckily my pelvic floor isn't THAT bad it's just the coughing that does it for me... and I'm fed up too! Feeling rather unsexy smelling of wee every now and again.

EmLou - you go to the gym 4-5 times a week? Superwoman you! How do you exercise your pelvic floor at the gym? I thought it was just the squeeze / imagine a lift going up / hooold type things you could do. (I've been very lazy for a long time, must start doing those again...)

Bulletproof - have a great time in Chicago! They call it the windy city don't they, hope that's not true.

IWCAS - old wives tale says slower heartbeat is a boy and fast is a girl. We've had people on here saying there's some truth to it and other people saying it's b**locks. Who knows...

Yes enjoy your dry knickers! It shouldn't be too bad though, except for just after the birth but then you're bleeding anyway... oh the joy of it all!

A little wine is fine now I'm sure, we're past the first 3 months!

annamama Glad wine ok - had a glass and a half last night. Felt gooooooood

Bulletproof- SPD sympathies. My new walking stick arrived today- purple and spotty, which only slightly makes up for the fact that I have to start using it Hope the trip goes well xx

Tena club over here

Happy Thursday all!

I'm not a big drinker, so not missing wine. I usually drink champagne when I go out though and the day before I got my bfp I was out with my sister. When she offered to buy me a bottle I found myself refusing. She wouldn't take no for an answer though and when I took my first sip I gagged. COuldn't drink it, most odd.

I've found myself wanting a shandy every now and then though! Which I've indulged. Maybe a sign it's a boy (who wants his beer) rather than a girl (who loves her bubbly)? That theory probably has as much merit as fetal heart rate...

BPM Soaking wet knockers?! That's some high pressure leakage you've got going on there! Please don't hate me (if you don't already :p) but my knickers have stayed bone dry throughout my past two pregnancies and continue to do so with this one. I don't think it's too late for you to improve your pelvic floor and I don't mean with all that elevator visualisation - I semi-regularly 'exercise' my pelvic floor by just quickly clenching and releasing whenever it occurs to me. Can't be arsed with anything that takes more effort. Although I'm sitting here laughing to myself about the 'Pelvic Floor Corner' in EmLouT's gym. Is it led by a personal trainer? Oh, and you know what else is great exercise for your ladybits? Orgasm. Regularly! I'll say no more.

I feel awful for those of you suffering from spd or indeed any issue that results in lots of pain considering our options are pretty much a) paracetamol and b) just put up with it and try not to moan, please. At least you can now have a snazzy looking stick rather than a granny one - it seems the nhs is cottoning onto the fact that physical ailments are affected by our state of mind and sometimes just a splash of colour can make a difference (this occured to me when DD had to have a cast recently and chose a deep green colour that cheered her up no end)

annamama Your babs was just moving about resulting in differing heart rates - that's all. Without reading back a million pages I can't recall if you're going to find out at the anomaly scan?

So, how does one namechange (I simply would like to don a halloweeny name, not post contentious issues )