~~August 2010~~ tummies blooming into bumps

[CherryPie3]

5th thread come grab a bean bag, theres a cake table in the corner (feel free to help yourselves)

I've actually just re-read the thread properly and seen all your lovely welcome messages - you're all so nice! Thank you!

And yes, I am desperate for a bit of bluecheese! Just the thought of it makes my mouth water.... hmmmmmmmmm!!!

I am living in the US at the moment and they're super cautious, they won't even let you have ham... I'm going on a cheese and antipasti binge as soon as this baby is born!

No ham? I have ham sandwiches most days

Confession - i ate a bag of peanut M&Ms last night (scrummy)

Hello everyone - congrats on the scans and team announcements (even surprises). Welcome Bluecheese. Sorry you're had a cr*p day Cherry - does it make a diff to the normal RTA rules if you were in a car park (ie is that private property or anything unhelpful)? good luck with the writing Pample and glad you are feeling a bit less exhausted Chulita

Struggling to keep up - super busy the last few days at work - what is that all about? On the plus side I have been doing some work for my lovely Belgian colleagues who are always so lovely and appreciative so I am finishing the week feeling good (if knackered and starving due to not having had time for lunch today!!!)

Oh I love confesssions. Well I had a small glass of sangria on 3 days of my holiday. I'm coping without blue cheese and brie because you can eat it if cooked so that is satisfying my cravings but the pate... I've told DH that within 30 mins of giving birth I want toast with pate and cumberland sauce [schloooop]

have fab weekends everyone.

Good news on the healthy scans Alice & Blueberries!

Cherry What a bum-ache re your car bump...at least you'd know exactly what to do..I'd just have stood there and cried at the moment.

LCR re when did you start feeling, I'm almost embarassed to say that I felt the 'pops' & rollercoaster feeling at 14-15 weeks..I wasn't sure at first (didn't think it could be but sister confirmed when I described & I'm slim but not skinny) but as they got stronger, I realised that that was what it was. At 21 weeks, I'm getting strong regular movement & wee kicks on the inside but am unsure whether I'm feeling them on the outside..basically, when I put DH's hand whether I know the baby to be moving/kicking, he can't feel him yet.

Today's news from Hectorland is that it looks like I've got another consultancy job lined up - brilliant agency, female MD who has two young kids and a pitch brief from a client that I know well & can get my teeth into without killing myself with the stress. It might not be a massive amount of work & I will have to travel 3 hrs per day but at least it took the sting out of today's sign-on at the JobCentre meeting.

And ham?? I'm avoiding salami & chorizo but I've to give up bacon rolls? Just shoot me now.

I have a glass of wine or a small bottle of beer once or twice a week too

I'd love a glass of wine but I'm a raging steamer when I even get a whiff of the lady petrol.

Me too Alice - I have a small glass of wine every Friday night. Hooray for it being Friday!

I'm eating lots of ham at the moment - what else to have in sandwiches? especially when you can't have interesting cheese.

LCR I'm 19+1 and haven't felt anything definite yet - a few little pops that could just be wind. I'm looking forward to scan on Monday to make sure everything's ok and hopefully i'll feel some proper movement soon!

Thank goodness for that.... I was convinced that it was just me with a list the length of the phone book of foods I want my DH to bring me/ cook me after giving birth!! I'm veggie so the lack of interesting cheese is really getting my down. On the plus side I've just bought some stilton so I'm going to do my creamy stilton pasta tonight which has rendered me disproportionately excited. I was going to buy some non-alcoholic vino but it didn't even say whether it was dry/sweet/whatever on it so I decided it could be horrendous! Not sure how I'm going to survive g&t season without the odd tipple, but we'll see....

weehector great news on the job front, that's very exciting.

Hee hee! I found this very funny and have watched it about 20 a couple of times

Hooray for another surprise baby! congrats blueberries!

What no ham? A ham salad roll is top of my list of fav food at the moment. Talking of alchoholic tipples, has anyone tried Beck blue. They're non alchohlic and lovely. I've tried non alchoholic wines and wasn't keen so was pleased to find the Becks for a Friday night treat! Would love a glass of wine but unfortunately I'm more of a bottle of wine than a glass kinda girl! !

Congrats on the scan news ladies!

Evening! On hols! Yay!!

How has everyones day been?! Cherry - what a horrid man, sounds like a complete knob. God he should have shown much more concern about hitting a pregnant lady. Hope your day improved!

Congrats to Alice on your little boy! and glad everything was ok with your little one too bouncingblueberries - look forward to hearing about your surprise!!

Pregnancy photographer has just left, she is getting some great shots of my bump! We have booked a progressive package, so I had a shoot at 12 weeks, now at 20 weeks, she is coming again at 25/26 weeks. Basically every 6 weeks approx through pregnancy and then a lovely newborn shot at the end.

Chulita - I love photos, we take thousands and thousands a year, so I saw pregnancy as an opportunity to get a proper photographer in to mark the occasion! I'm loving my body changing at the moment and seeing baby grow -Haha I probably won't feel the same another 10 weeks down the road when I will start to feel elephant like I'm sure!

DH has been sweet today, he was on the road with work, visiting different places and popped in Mamas and Papas to buy a large foam letter A for Anabelle for our little girl! He is excited love him!

Right off to cook roast, which is a bit rushed now cuz DH has arranged for us to go up one of his friends for a 30th birthday now... Ahhh!

Have a good one all!

I have just caught up on the thread and i am ashamed to say my brain didnt process any of it. All i have done today is sleep really lol. However my mate did say well you are sleeping for 3 . i am now gonna use that as my excuse for being a lazy arse

cherry what a pants way to start the day! Hope that horrid man had a really rotten day and feel guilty for being mean

LCR I have an anterior placenta and can only tell it's the baby moving because I know what to look for - sometimes it just feels like wind!

weehector great news on the job front!

Congrats alice

Well, after a lovely scan, the day has gone steadily downhill. dh has managed to injure his calf, can't run and is now in a foul mood due to lack of exercise. Then ds threw a major strop after dinner which carried on until about 15 minutes ago, when we FINALLY convinced him to go to bed. Then I was scouring my notes from today's scan to check where my placenta was lying (suspected it was anterior but just wanted to check), but got a bit of a wake-up call It very clearly states on my notes that today's scan was limited due to adiposity Obviously I'm aware I'm no skinnymalinky but I wasn't THAT overweight when I fell pregnant (think my BMI was 27 or 28???). Think I weighed myself about 10 days ago and I'd put on a stone - so again, not hugely more than I should have at this stage. I just feel so wretched about myself and am now scared that they've missed something on the scan because I'm such a porker. That's probably the reason why they couldn't tell us the sex...too much blubber in the way.

Sorry, just feeling sorry for myself. But maybe it's about time I stopped stuffing my face with chocolate and cake I feel really guilty now.

blueberries don't feel guilty. People put on different amounts of weight and we all put it on in different places. When you're pregnant your body wants certain things and you'd be miserable trying to just eat melon and broccoli for 9 months. They often can't tell the sex for umpteen reasons that have nothing to do with the mum and everything to do with the little one inside being a cheeky-chops. If they weren't happy that they'd checked everything they'd have got you wandering around and have a re-scan. I hope you have a lovely weekend and don't beat yourself up!!
Congrats alice!

D'you know, I'm so over this pregnancy guilt trip already...if its not the pressure society puts on us, its the health professionals and if not them, we're more than capable of beating ourselves up over every single action.

Blueberries A BMI of 28 or 29 is not remarkable in any way, nor is putting on a stone so far. Were they super busy? People like to cover themselves so perhaps the sonographer couldn't tell the sex because the baby wasn't playing ball but also because she needed to try and get the clinic back on time and or might have been just out of scan school and taking a bit of time to check off all the stuff she needed to get so didn't really have enough time to hang around for the wee soul to uncross her/his legs?...not questioning her professionalism just saying some people are more efficient and empathetic than others under pressure.. Weight is an issue between you and your MW..and it doesn't sound like either you or the MW think it is...

If its any consolation, I'm still brooding about the old bag of a sonographer yesterday - not even the one that did my scan, the boss that came in to check - feeling the need to mention in passing on the way out that our baby wasn't likely to be large... in her words 'its a typical 'West coast of Scotland' baby, but then you're not big are you?'...I'm not, I'm 5"5 but was standing next to my 6"1 husband at the time. Given the West Coast of Scotland's well documented health problems, I found her offensive but manfully, held off from pointing out that it was lucky the baby was the size it was given the fact that I was lucky not to be hospitalised with HG. I drink my milk & eat my 5 a day, you old cow!

And, Blueberries, no way are you deserting the cake sisters now. We're all on the cakes (as well as the stuff we should be eating I'm sure - see there's the guilt again) at the same time so it does seem to be a natural stage for us just now, just not one that Miriam Stoppard is keen to encourage.

carolondon I have my scan on Tuesday, we are currently planning on sticking in team Yellow but who knows what we will decide to do on the day of the scan its self.

Oh and I have left a Red Velvet Cake and a vat of decaff coffee on the cake table

Thanks girls. You lot are truly fab! Well, after beating myself up last night and swearing at the scales this morning (put on more than a stone now - oops!) I've decided all is not lost. I just need to stop making excuses not to walk and stop eating chocolate in place of fruit! Not going to deny myself those treats but have made a deal with myself to really concentrate on eating fruit with every meal and veg at every opportunity.

Thanks again for the support girls - you're amazing!

Off to fortnum's to meet my mum and dad for brunch on their way to the US - mum's gutted she can't do a mad blue or pink shopping spree!

Have a great weekend!

Hey blueberries, if it makes you feel any better I put on a stone in the first 10 weeks!! Haven't weighed myself since but I've probably put at least another half stone on. I have always been 9 stone so when I stood on the scales at 10 weeks and saw 10 stone I was shocked. The midwife said it was totally fine and not to worry - I was one of the lucky ones who had no morning sickness but instead had the constant and uncomfortable hunger.

A funny aside to this, my gorgeous and sensitive husband really put his foot in it the other night at dinner (totally unintentionally!) He was obsessing over his weight (he is very lean and only about 5ft 4 - we are both small) and asked me how much I thought he weighed. I said, 'I don't know - 10 stone?' and he said 'yes that's right!'

'About the same as me then' I said to which he replied 'God I must be overweight then!' My jaw hit the dinner table and he was all mortified and saying 'Oh god no! I didn't mean you're overweight I just meant that your the same height as me and build, but you are carrying a whole other person and so you should weigh more than me so if I weigh the same I must be overweight...ramble ramble panic panic!' It was so funny!

Then the next night we went to the Suede gig at the Albert Hall (was amazing) with some friends. All the boys went to the bar and returned without DH. I asked one of them where James was and he explained that he had bumped into some old friends. I asked who they were and he told me one of their names. I said 'Oh my God what are they like now?' (because I hadn't seen them for over 14 years and they were all so vain and 'perfect' when we were younger) and he replied 'I wouldn't worry, most of them are even fatter than you!'

Talk about things you can only get away with saying to a pregnant woman, even so I felt like smacking him one! Luckily I know I'm not fat and it just made me laugh also I know he didn't mean it horribly, his wife has had 3 children so he understands these things!

PS, forgot to say its a good job I'm not sensitive about my weight because today we have our Spring swimwear photoshoot for the website so DH and I will be styling and spending the day with a drop dead gorgeous size 8 (but curves in all the right places) blonde bombshell

Thanks vix that story made me giggle! Just had a lovely breakfast in fortnum's - so lovely to see my parents (ds calls Fortnum's Granda's cafe!)

20% off M&P just now so we're ordering our new cot today - will post a link later

Good Morning and hope you're having a good weekend - so nice not to be at work and still in my dressing gown (as its 10.30am i possibly shouldn't admit that!).

Anyway we had a good time at the hospital yesterday, our scans were a lot clearer this time round than last so i got to see a lot more. I love the hospital report they gave me - it says the baby has a large brain and great vessels in the heart!! Gave me a laugh! Our nurse was also very generous with the number of photo's we got - bonus of it being a friday afternoon i guess.

So the very exicitng news is that we're having a GIRL so i'll be team pink. Not sure where the list is at the mo to update... I am happy with a girl but i want one of both evetually.

In terms of confessions - i have to admit to having one small or half glass of wine with some water in it on a saturday evening dinner now. My hubby always opens the bottle and i feel left out.... can't wait till august, i've told eveyone i want a large G&T with lime and lemon to celebrate the arrival!!!

Have a good day all!

blueberries its inevitable that when you're pregnant you are going to put on weight - you are by no means overweight (34 BMI here!) there could have been so many reasons not to have been able to find out the sex.... don't worry! Just health professionals ticking something else off of their checksheet!

LOL @ vix that is so funny.... DH now calls me fatty when he needs me, have warned him that it will not be tolerated when baby comes out so he is getting it all in now!

Am majorly of all you finding out what sex the baby is, but me and DH agreed not to find out - regretting that decision now. Ah well.

Totally haven't time to write a full post. But blueberries really don't worry. I was walking to my yoga class today and heard the wife of a couple I was overtaking say to her husband 'she really shouldn't be dressed like that at her size'. So I felt I had to tell her I was pregnant..... she looked mortified. Silly woman.

Anyway the point I really wanted to make was vix how jealous am I you went to the suede gig?!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I only heard about it after it was sold out and could only get ridiculously expensive ebay tickets. Boo! How was Brett looking?!!

xxx

Just a quickie Blueberries to say that I'm glad you are feeling better today. MY BMI is also usually around 27. I've mentioned before that I'm a size 10-12 and it is nonsense like this that means that I just will not listen to Drs giving me advice about weight anymore since any medical I've ever had seems to fixate on weight (when I think the fact that my kidneys do not work terribly efficiently is more of a worry)! It makes me really and at one dress size lower I look and feel ill and utterly lacking in energy yet Drs can suggest that I am overweight. My cardio-vascular fitness is not what it should be, I accept but lets focus on that if necessary not my weight. BMI is a crock anyway as it does not take into account things like muscle tone I believe. I also think a stone gain seems about right for where we are now. Have a great day and look forward to seeing the cot.

Off to get the carget ready for shampooing. One of our cats has taken to pooing indoors so this is a last ditch attempt to stop her (vet says it is all in her head) - total carpet shampoo, pheremone type air freshener thingies and if that fails we will be getting a wooden floor rather than a new carpet this summer. At least being pg I have an excuse to get DH to do all the cleaning up but know that will stop as soon as the sprog is dropped!