Due in Nov 05 - Part IIII!

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Here we go -

Hpoefully in this one we'll all get to feel those kicks and turns if we haven't already, some of us will go for our 20 week scans, and we might get to look preg instead of looking like we've eaten too many cream cakes!

No more scares in this one though please!

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hi, thought id pop on and see whos around, sat here munching on advocado dipping it in seafood sauce-yummy!
The sickness has come back this week and have been having sudden moments where its come over me like a wave and i really have to try very hard to breath it away, cant beleive what happened tues night, luckily i was in the bathroom when i got a wave of sickness but couldnt open the loo in time(childlock on it!) and ended up throwing up all down the bathroom wall!-sorry TMI-but its funny now i look back on it, although not at the time!

hope everyones well, will catch up properly later have to go get the lasagna out the oven before i forget about it and burn it!

Hi everyone, hope you are all well. Good to hear that these babies are on the move - though I couldn't say I am feeling kicks, more flutters or wiggles.

Well done Chacha on the blood test.

Beksmum - we obviously have similar taste in names. We would have Catherine (Kate) if it was a girl. But its a boy and we can't decide between James ( Jamie), Jack or Max.We have a 2 syllable surname so 1 or 3 syllable names sound better. Like you, we have to think of how the names go with the other kids names too. We are not telling people in RL about our names as they seem to think they get a vote!!!!! But thats one of the nice things about mumsnet.......as well as being able to ask other women about their bladders

I am not peeing myself yet but do have the really sore nipples

Forgot to say BIG comiserations to those of you who are still feeling/being sick. I don't know how you are coping - i found it really awful and am so glad it seems to have gone (fingers crossed)
Hiya BAM

I must have a very 'neat' bump!! It measures 4 squares of Andrex!!!! and thats right round from side to side!
Normal?
When does it start growing, lol?
There is definitely a baby in there, we hear it's heartbeat.

Hate to say it ChaCha, think you are supposed to measure all the way round!!

LOL
Are you serious? I did ask the other day how you were meant to do it...I'm thick!

So you have to measure the whole way round? Hmmm...interesting activity!

Have just been to a nearly new sale and bought a vibrating rocker, luxury 4 way baby carrier and a breast pump and bits all for under £30. Very happy!!!

sorry, i must have a dirty mind but, lol at the thought of a vibrating rocker. But seriously, it sounds like you've got some bargains there

Having a bad day today, woke up at 7 with the sudden urge to vomit so had to run to the bathroom, still half asleep. Of course that woke the cats up so i had to go and feed them before i could go back to bed or they'd rip the door down. Went back to bed for a few hours, had a bath, then was horribly sick again. Boo. I've come to the conclusion that if it still hasn't gone by now then it's going to be with me for the duration. Just hope it doesn't get worse again.

Awww.. Nova, i've had sickness on and off for about a week now. Find i am at my worst on return home from work, think it is the travelling. Also haven't much of an appetite today (very odd) but extremely thirsty!

Enthusia, great bargains! I have bought nothing for the baby, absolutely nothing!! Am i leaving it too late to wait until at least 26wks?

Hope everyone's having a good weekend.

Hi all,

Well done on your bargains Enthusia! Must get a new breast pump this time, lost most of bits to last one, but it was a godsend, used it loads, couldn't have done without it. What type is it? Is it a manual one or an electric? Think I'll be going for a electric one again.

Chacha, I've not bought anything either yet (not even a pair of socks!), I'm going to wait til 30 weeks I think. Have been pouring over catalogues though and making stacks of lists! 4 sheets you daft woman! Come on, off to that bathroom, we want an all the way round measurement LOL!!!

Busy and nova sorry you're still getting sick. I do heave on occasions but I've never thrown up. Poor things.

Nova - feeding the cats at 7?! My cat's not allowed to maiow at me or she get's thrown out - and she knows it too! She just has to sit there in silence until I get the food out. Can't be doing with whinging animals first thing in the morning (furry or the 2 legged furless variety). I'm such a grumpy cow in the morning though - fine once I've had my brekkie

Have chosen a book to read to the bump everyday today. One of the childrens books which I can read everyday without it getting irritating! 'Each Peach Pear Plum' by Janet and Allan Alberg. Read to the bare bump this morning, sure he/she was asleep, but started really wriggling during the story. Not sure if it was a coincidence or not, but I will keep you posted!

Right I'm at work this arvo 3 til 6, a graveyard shift, I may buy a baby mag to read - I've not even bought one of those yet - how sad !

Speak to you all later

23+3 x x x

Enthusia - great bargains, well done. An NCT sale I presume? Great events, especially if you volunteer to help and get first pickings.

Not too late at all ChaCha. Only thing we bought before Tessa turned up was a travel system and 4 unisex babygrows!! People pass on loads of stuff and little babies really don't need much. You also get loads of pressies once the baby arrives.
However if you do like to shop its great fun but you may find you never use some of the stuff.

Nova and ChaCha - sorry you are feeling rough again, doesn't seem very fair.

Off to Rhythms of the World festival in Hitchin now to boogie to some excellent World music. Talk later.

I just can't help myself am always buying 'little bits' wouldn't like to know how much Iv'e spent already!!!! I am leaving the cot until a little later but already have the travel system and heaps of clothes!!!! I have found that now is a good time to pick up winter clothes as no one wants them and they are in the sale!!!!

I now can't wait to move so I can start on the nursery!!!!

Sorry about the sickness you two. I found that unbearable, definitely the worst bit of pg so far and I am so glad it hasn't returned for me. I felt like a completely different person back then, I shudder thinking about it! I hope that you either find cures or it disappears again.

I take it you have tried all the normal remedies of ginger, peppermint oil (to smell not digest), seabands, lemonade, ice lollies and eating little and often. By this stage though I feel as if I am teaching the sucking of eggs!!!! Also none of it worked for me!!!

Nova - DH on same track as you on rocker, when I text him with my bargains he text back asking if I bought anything of the vibrating nature for him!!!!

Chacha - dont worry about not buying lots of stuff yet. I mean its fine if you enjoy shopping, have plenty spare £££ and loads of space to store everything. As tessasmums says, you get given loads of stuff, mainly clothes, and often people offer to lend you things that you dont need for long / use often, like a travel cot or crib.All you really need at the start is a few vests and babygrows, bottles etc (if you are bottle feeding), nappies, somewhere for the baby to sleep flat and a car seat ( if you have a car or get lifts).A lightweight buggy is handy - but then I dont like travel systems. You can get most other things later if you need them.

Lots of what they tell you about the "essential buys" in these baby magazines is just rubbish IMHO

Enthusia - how are you planning to do up your nursery? Are you going to do it unisex or wait until after the baby is born? We did ours green and yellow so good for either & now I'm glad as the next baby has come along so quickly!!

We thought we'd do ours a pale yellow as we want to set it up before baby comes and yellow is my favourite colour!!!

Evening all, just a quickie as I'm off out for Tapas with friends tonight with dh, mum & dad are babysitting - yahoo.

I haven't bought a thing either yet, won't until at least 30+ weeks, the nursery is the spare room that was painted yellow recently so that's what bump has got like it or not!

Feeling very proud tonight as Ben did his first drama presentation and sang doe a deer on his own in front of everyone - lump in the throat moment I can tell you!

Hope you all have a good weekend, we're off to Pensburst Place and then on to a BBQ tomorrow so will catch up with you all later. Beks 21+6

p.s. I was 9 sheets of co-op toilet roll, & I've only put on 10lb in total so very pleased that I'm not that much bigger than the rest of you

Good morning. What a beautiful day - not sure what to do with myself but think it will be a day under the parasol in the garden.

I did it! Am 9 sheets of Andrex! What's everyone else then?

Kristina, my MIL thinks that i should just start with a good variety of babygrows and start buying as he/she grows. It is hard to resist the temptation to buy but I stop working this month and am going to have to be a little frugal. DH has his own opinion about it all being a bit of an 'industry' that we musn't get caught up in -'buy essentials' is his motto! Nearer the time i'd like to find out what we REALLY need in that hospital bag, that is one item i'm looking forward to buying (as well as actual baby bag) as i am an absolute bag lover!

On to nurseries. Wasn't going to start one as was told baby will be in with us for first months so didnt see the point but now as i think about being home August, September, October would be a good way to kill some time by arranging a nursery. The walls are beige, will not change them but what do you do next? What do you NEED? MIL is buying the cot, not sure what else i'm supposed to get. Spare room is a box bedroom so not much room. Enthusia, the yellow sounds lovely and bright - very nice choice of colour.

Beks - awwwww @ your DS. Hope you had your camera out.

Nova - How are you feeling now? I was very sick yesterday and spent from 4pm onwards in bed sleeping most of the time. Was exhausted! Have noticed though that my uterus does seem to have moved slightly upwards and could be the reason for it all.

Best go and leave some space for others! Too much sleep = too much chat!

I've started on the nursery, partly because I've got lots of spare time on my hands, partly because I'm dead excited about having a baby, and partly because I've just seen my friend with a 4 month old try to do up a place and it was impossible. Our house is painted white anyway so the walls are white, and i'm making curtains and covers with a wicked fabric from John Lewis that is cream with drawings of farm animals on with words like 'baaa' 'neigh' and 'moo' on it. DH is planning on copying some of the pictures onto the wall so that they aren't entirely bare white.

I didn't want to shop too early either, but we needed to check that we could get a car seat to fit our car, otherwise we would have had to buy a new one (and DH would have been distraught). The car cot doubles as a moses basket, and fits onto a buggy system, so we ordered all that as it takes 8 weeks for delivery anyway, but the shop keeps hold of it for you 'just in case'. I also spotted the perfect furniture in the shop so ordered that as well as that takes 8 weeks to deliver - so it's worth checking on order times for big items you think you'll need.

Have been given some clothes by a friend, and i'm also against the baby mags 'things you need' philosophy - i only want to get the bare essentials. I'll pick up the other bits sept/oct time, until then, no more shopping. I'm lucky in that my hospital provides everything for the baby, so i only need to take in things for me to wear (they also have room service!).

It seems that us sickies have all been hit in the last week - i wonder what's changed..? Have resigned myself to it now, and strangly find it reassuring.

Rodeo - we have 3 cats and if they know we're awake they will bang the door and scratch the carpet until we get up to feed them. We have a small carpet-less patch outside our bedroom door now. It always makes me smile when i see them in the morning though, they rub themsleves against you while you're on the loo and being sick in the sink - i like to think it's sympathy but it's probably greed.

I've been sitting at the PC for most of the morning inbetween doing bits and pieces! Terrible! Just haven't the energy after yesterday and am waiting patiently for DH's return so that we can enjoy the garden and a BBQ.
Nova, i've read some of your posts on other threads, it's interesting to know more about each other on here. I tend to keep a low profile online until i familiarise myself with others. Not stalking you honest, just reading all other posts

Rodeo - loved the idea if reading the bump a story. Had thought about getting DD to sing a song to the bump but I think she will like the story idea too. Not that we need ways to get her involved at the moment, she is fascinated by the whole thing and talks to the bump at least several times a day in her high squeaky 'babies and animals' voice
I am now trying to teach her that if we are in public she can talk through my clothing and not try to reveal me to the world!

ChaCha - if MiL is buying a cot it maybe worth seeing if she will go for a cotbed. We did that and it should last Tessa till she is about 4 or 5, by which time we will on to bunkbeds if we are still in this house!

Sarah - you have 42 days after the birth to register the name. I have friends who couldn't agree until day 40 with their 1st baby and 42 with their 2nd

chacha - i think i've just been spending too much time on the PC, i get a bit bored and can't help putting my two pennies worth in (looks over shoulder, feels 'someone watching' )

Evening girls, had a great day out at Penshurst Place with the extended family and then on to a friends BBQ so all in all a very nice weekend. Hope you've all had a good one.

Some advice please, sorry if too much information but really need to know what this is and I'm hoping some of you might have some ideas, I am in a fair bit of pain in my crutch and feel like I've been horseriding or given a hefty kick, walking and climbing the stairs are difficult and I'm really not sure what to do.

I'm hoping that it's just becasue I've over done it this weekend and that a nice soak in the bath this evening will cure it but if anyone knows what this is please let me know. I didn't get it with Ben and I can feel the baby moving so I'm not overly concerned I just look like I'm walking like an old age pensioner!

Right off for that soak, hope you are all well, speak to you later Beks (22wks)

Hi Beksmum, hope your well.. The pain you have got sounds very like Pubic Bone, which I think is called PBS? I had it terrible in my 2nd pg but controlled it much better with no3 as I had reflexology
HTH
Xena xxx

hi everyone, poor beksmum, sounds like what ive got-SPD, mention it to your midwife next time you see her and see what she says, i had it with ds from 32wks and from 12wks this time it only gets worse which is rather depressing.dp had to lift me out of bed and get me dressed and undressed last time
if you would like i can give you some tips on controlling it(im a board moderator on the spd board on anougher site!)

think all our sickness is partly due to the weather, i went shopping today and by 1pm i thought i was either going to pass out/combust/be violently sick! I swear the sun/heat makes the sickness worse.

I have been quite down this week, I dont really seem to be getting into this baby thing at all this time, its quite scarey really that i do feel so detatched, im quite scared though as i dont want to end up with antenatal/postnatal depression...I cant be bothered to browse names or look for a cot or anything, havent bought the baby a single thing except a tiny soft duck that rattles, which was not long after bfp...

best go, see you all xx

Liz 21+1
9 sheets andrex

Beks, I thought I had PBS a few weeks go, but find I only get the 'kicked in the fanny' pain if I've over done it (yet another excuse to put your feet up!). I don't think I have it BTW. And WOW at your ds! Mine wouldn't do that in a million years!

Nova, It's great to have a new regular! BTW your car cot sounds really intriguing! How long can you use it for? Can they sit up in it?

Chacha, well I'm 8 sqs and Nova was 7 I think! Your dh sounds like he's on my wavelength, with his 'it's an industry' comment! My view precisely!

Tessasmum, Tessa sounds like a cutie! How old is she again. My ds says he's going to look after the baby and they're going to share a bed! Unless I tell him off, then he says 'Hmph, I don't love the baby anymore'!

I'm not bothering with the nursery just yet, babe's wil be sleeping in our room for 6 months, so I'll hang on a bit I think!

Had another lazy day in the garden with paddling pool. just come in from a sit outside - it's lovely out there at the mo

Hope everyone is well,

23+4 x x x