February 2010: Babies have started arriving...

[woowa]

and here we are...who'll be next?

All this talk of cake and weight gain (or lack of) has compelled me to share that I have gained 20kg since June. That's well over 3 stone. Oh well. I'm thoroughly enjoying eating as much as I want and not trying to hold my tummy in afterwards. It's one of the things I'm going to miss most about not being pregnant. How shallow .

What is this Krispy Kreme you speak of? Can't say I've ever heard of it!! I'm more of a savoury snacker though, but that's not to say I wouldn't try one.

Midnightsun - I put on 19kgs last time, and it all came off despite continuing to eat like a horse. I was so hungry and thirsty when I was pregnant, and then when I started breastfeeding, it got even worse!! It did take a year for the weight to come off, and it came off in dribs and drabs, but it did come off in the end!

I managed to get showered this morning with no help from anybody for the first time since I broke my ankle. The tricky bit is getting my waterproof stookie cover on, but even that is getting easier each time, despite my bump growing every day! I even managed to get dressed alone and get my shoes on! What a difference it makes being able to put a little bit of weight on my bad foot.

Baby is very active just now. He seems to be somersaulting from head down to breech almost every day! I wonder which way he will end up!!??

Fluufy- sounds like baby could be engaging.. fingers crossed for you hun xx

Off tot he hospital now to find out if they are going to operate..will catch up when I get home..

mawbroon they are god's own donuts.......
krispykreme.com
You can get them from Tesco (although that maybe just be London) in fact just on my way out now to get some, the craving has just got worse overnight
Enjoy, you will never look at another donut again

Ah, doughnuts are quite far down my list of things I would choose tbh. If I was in the baker, it would have to be a sausage roll (or two).

Good luck at the hospital threeplusone

Good morning everybody,

3+1 I hope everything went well

Clappeout hope the induction is going fine

I think I had a show this morning, but it wasn't bloody (sorry if TMI), do they have to be bloody?

At the moment, I don't fancy cakes but dream of a real chocolate mousse (that's on my list of thing to eat once baby is out, that and a steak tartare )

Mmmmm... I never got round to making a cake yesterday and there is a real lack of sweet foodstuff here in the house. DH and I have managed to polish off a (small) jar of nutella in three days . I am going to make a cake this afternoon, but what I would really like are some krispy kremes... not sure the patisserie will oblige though!

midnightsun I think I have put on about the same, although I was at my skinniest ever when I fell pregnant as I had just got married. Every keeps asking me how much weight I've put on and it drives me mad.

guernsey sounds exciting - aren't you booked for an induction next week, or am I mistaken?

mawbroon you continue to amaze with your resilience! I can barely put my shoes on and I'm on two feet!

threeplusone hope you are doing ok?

clappedout hope you're going ok too?

mawbroon and flying cloud jolly good to hear.

Last pregnancy I gained 15kg or so and lost about half of it after the birth but then started putting it all back on again by giving in to the 'sweet things' cravings of breastfeeding. For 10 months. A few months after I stopped breastfeeding I had a word with myself, started exercising and went on the South Beach Diet (only for 2 weeks though) and gradually returned to my pre-preg weight by the time my son was 16 months old.

I'm not stressing too much this time as I know I did it before so can do it again. I'm a bit afraid (in a horrified fascination kind of way as I know I will still give in) of the power of breastfeeding cravings. There's a phrase in the local language here that means literally "sugar-suck" and that perfectly describes it. I was hoovering up litres and litres of full sugar squash, plus pastries, cake, marshmallows, chocolate, sweets, anything with loads of refined sugar. All in a good cause.

So, I started maternity leave a couple of days ago and have ignored the mess in my flat and things I still need to organise, in order to sleep, which luckily I can also do in the daytime while my son (3) is at kindergarten. I've been snoring for 13 of the past 24 hours. The nesting phase passed me by without being allowed a look-in!

flying yes I'm booked for an induction on Tuesday 2nd, but I will be rather glad if my body decides to do it on its own!

midnightsun I hadn't weighed myself for about 4 months as I was so horrified when I did, just plucked up the courage and have put on over three stone so you have made me feel much better. Thankfully neither my GP or MW have weighed me since my booking in so I will continue to put my fingers in my ears and chant LaLaLa - don't think I'll mention it to DH either

Aaargh. I've got thrush again.

Going to the doc on Monday. I hope I can persuade her to give me oral treatment. I've already had about 100 pessaries over the course of this pregnancy.

I've had a busy day today. Went along to nursery to collect ds (got a lift obviously!!), went to minikickers with him and then popped next door to drop him off for an hour or so peace and quiet before having to do tea/bath/bedtime. A little bit more each day and I'll get there in the end.

Hi everyone, just thought I'd post a quick update - went to labour ward on monday night as tightenings had got worse and was told would be kept in overnight for monitoring, five mins later waters broke and it turned out my breech baby had decided to investigate the exit with it's foot.

After a frightening 30-40 minutes of faff eventually was put under GA for emergency section and woke up to see my beautiful daughter and sexy DH (in scrubs a la George Clooney).

Poppy Elizabeth, 25/01/10, 5lb 7oz

AHHHH, AngelaCarleen that's great news - Congrats!!!!!!!!! What a great name! xx

Congratulations AngelaCarleen

Wow angela - congratulations! Glad you're recovering well enough from CS to be on MN to let us know. Poppy Elizabeth is a beautiful name.

Updated list

T4tastic DS Aiden James 17/01/2010 ?weight?
AngelaCarleen: Poppy Elizabeth, 25/01/10, 5lb 7oz
InmaculadaConcepcion DD Rosie Ines 26/01/10, 5lb 1
Clappedout Induction booked 27/01/2010
Mamaloco c-section booked 28/01/2010
GuernseyFrench induction bookded 02/02/10

These mood swings are dreadful. Yesterday I wanted to meet my baby, today i'm terrified of the effect it's going to have on DH and I (we'll never be just us again! Going to be strange).

Loads of BHs overnight and today. DH keeps asking if I'm in labour.

bah to hormones.

Anyone else losing their mind?

Cheer up Woowa
I'm having the same feelings and crazy mood swings, burst into tears after NCT because I didn't think anyone liked me... insane giggling episode followed and DP was very calm and understanding but definitely thinks I've lost the plot

I know what you mean about losing the relationship you know and love. I will also miss just being us and the dogs... but can't wait to meet LO and have our lives turned upside down at the same time. I think it will take a while to get used to it but it will all be worth it in the end... once they're here, you won't be able to live without him/her!!!

HUge congrats Angela xx

They dont want to operate which is good.. maybe after the baby they said.. TMI alert.. they popped them back up.. the pain was awful couldnt walk sit stand crawl.. adfter 2 hours they popped back out and tbh they can stay like that they have reduced a bit.. but atleast they dont hurt.. will discuss with mw in the morning..

Angela congrats! What lovely names you have chosen, I adore Poppy, but French DH just won't have it. I hope you are all recovering well and wishing you the very best. xx

threeplusone sounds like you are doing a bit better.

I had a very active morning, went for a really long walk with the dog and came back, did some work and cooked soup and corn bread for lunch (DH bought me an American cook book, in French, for Christmas so I am experimenting). When the cornbread was finished the bell rang on the oven and I jumped up from my laptop, tripped over the cable and fell over spectacularly. I broke my fall with my knees and by grabbing hold of the bin on the way down. I thought I had cracked my knees for a few minutes, but was (eventually) able to get up and move around.

DH came home for lunch and decided the soup and cornbread weren't to his liking... and then had to cheek to suggest a post-prandial quickie!!

Of course I said yes, as I thought - how good is this, a long walk, a jolting fall and sex all in the one day - that'll surely move things along. I have been having BH all afternoon but had a bath and now they've stopped. Baby still wriggling around, she definitely doesn't want to come out!!

Congratulations Angela and I agree, such a pretty name, so glad you're up to popping in and letting us know.

Fingers in ears at all talk of weight gain, lalalalalalala.... and sympathies with the piles and thrush.

Flying that is a heck of a lot of activity in one day, take care!

Woowa I've had a snotty crying meltdown kind of day here too. Plus, DH, who should have been home hours ago is stuck at work and I really need a hug from him, and to share all this new birth info which is spinning round my head.

Bleurgh

Fantastic news, congratulations AngelaCarleen on the birth of Poppy - wow they are coming thick and fast now! Do you have any pictures? Best of luck for a speedy recovery from the CS.

I have exactly the same fears woowa, I think that's partly why I'm kind of in denial about this LO, I'm a bit sad that DP and I will never have just 'our' time again. Or not for a long time, anyway.

Talking of crying at NCT classes Abs, at the one class we managed to attend my promised cup of tea didn't arrive with everyone else's and I was too chicken to point it out, but sat there holding back tears instead . So silly.

flyingcloud I hope you have no ill effects from your fall? LOL at your determined efforts to get baby out! I must admit I ran down a hill the other day and then thought, what am I doing, I don't want to start anything yet!

Congratulations Angela.

To those of you weeping into your cakes, if it's any consolation I cried through most of pregnancy with DS1 (much to DH's amusement, during things like X Factor!). This time round, I think I've only cried three times in the whole 8 months! (Still time for this to change I guess!)

It's lovely hearing about the babies arriving isn't it? Makes it all seem so real. I'm still in denial I think and still haven't done the birth plan!

yey! congratulations IC AND AngelaCarleen ace news from you both!

3plus1 glad things a little easier for you - sounds horrid!

everyone else - take care!

weight gain - i too am in the 3 stone club this time... despite making sure i've not done the cake and biccies thing this time, i've still gained a stone more than last time - dunno how that works?!? mind you, MW reckons at 37 wks LO is already 8.5lb, so i suppose he's adding his bit in there too.... hope he hurries up! each day that passes gets me further from vbac and closer to section with a bigger baby....

now my ma has been here for a week, she's just about over the jet lag and has said she'll babysit tonight - so for the first time in nearly 8 months, DH and I are going out - just the 2 of us!! yippee... lovely HOT HOT HOT HOT thai curry tonight.... can't wait!

have a good weekend y'all! wonder if we'll have any more announcements before monday!?!?

oh, sorry, TMI warning here... BUT need to tell someone... i've been really hot and sweaty the last week - 30+ degrees here and it's been horrid... anyway, yesterday i started with a spotty/boily type thing under my little preg weight gain apron - right on my old section scar!! it's horrid and itchy, and i'm now worrying that if i end up having to have a section, it's going to cause problems! ho hum... off to put some more germolene on!

Thanks for the tissues and sympathy all, and especially those who said you feel the same about relationship change, and about crying at anything.

Have been in bed most of today as my GP diagnosed Plantars fasciitis this morning. The bottom of my heel kills to walk on, so i'm giving up walking. It's often caused by...weight gain! And helped by weight loss. So pregnancy not good for it, and birth is presumably a rapid cure! I'm hoping to feel light as a feather once sproglet emerges! Does this happen, experienced mums? So i've read nearly a whole book, played the guitar and sang to the little one, and obviously cried a bit too. My cat net arrived today and is too small for the moses basket, so bah humbug to NCT shop which clearly has the wrong measurements. Also discovered that i left the gas hob on under last night's curry (the second half of which was for tea tonight). So i had nutella on toast for dinner. And back to bed.

Sorry, that was a big ramble. Ignore me. Am going mad.