**August 2010** Part 6!! Starting to show with gusto now ladies.

[CherryPie3]

Thread 6.

You lot talk too much.....

Happy chatting

I found my notes They had fallen down the back of the chest of drawers in the bedroom, I had put them in the top drawer and it was so full it got pushed down behind the other 2. Something possessed me to pull all the drawers out and check!

emster can he come and do mine too??

lizzie know what you mean about the huffing and puffing- everything I do now seems to have sound effects!

marzi at least it was all ok in the end- I agree pregnancy v stressful want to fast forward it too like bumbling said.

So bumbling how old are the three you have? did you say they're all girls?
We're on number 3 but would ideally like 4 so am always asking anyone who has 4 all about it!

My sister had the dds today so had a lovely relaxing day chilling with dh- until the time it was to go pick them up and he drove the car into the kerb outside our house and burst the tyre..

He is so used to driving a taxi that he can't drive the car properly anymore!

Anyway that will be at least 80 quid

neenz it's a course run by the council and local health visitors. It only means that we can be more active in our area and maybe set up some bf support groups so it's nothing offical in that sense but it's really interesting and I've been learning so much about all aspects of it that I'd never thought of.
vix I'm glad you found your notes!
Hello bumbling
Eating sponge pudding again soooooo tasty!

Hey Ladies,

Been really busy with both shops for the last 2 weeks. I finally have time to post something.

DP and I are off to Rockingham tomorrow for the BTCC, this will be the first time we have left dd (23 months) over night. I am a little tearful to be honest and just hope that she will be ok. She has been a little subdued recently and a bit tearful and very much a mummies girl. We have been out a few times in the last month and I think she is feeling a bit miffed. I am looking forward to a night in a hotel but I will miss her heaps.

Must go as I have a busy busy day at work tomorrow.

Take care ladies

oh and as it is nearly summer I have made a huge Eaton mess with freshly picked strawberries! its on the cake table

Before I go to bed I feel the need to celebrate with you all that I was on the winning team at Quiz Night tonight! Yay!

Glad you found your notes Vix

Marzi sorry to hear about your day, its really distressing when you think something is wrong isn't it! Glad you were reassured and baby fine!

Right, tomorrows plan is - for the 3rd Saturday in a row cuz I'm being so useless - essay writing! I WILL, I WILL finish it tomorrow!! The end is in sight!!

Night all! x

Good Morning girls...:0

Vix I told you they'd turn up!!! Glad you found them - wonder what possessed you to pull the chest our tho...

Marzi Sorry baby was playing tricks on you - do you think we're all having naughty babies maybe . So glad they were able to reassure you tho!!

Emster I want a dh like yours.....

weehector at your nap!!! Thats brilliant - bet you felt loads better afterwards for it as well. Your 'almond croissant' sounds delish - all of it

CazEm Are you doing your essay? Hmmm? Are you???

coffeelady I'm sure your dd will be fine, she'll have a great time with whoever it is caring for her whilst you're away - have a lovely time!!

Nothing to update from me except it's sunny and I'm working - boo!!!
Roll on 5pm. xxx

Ooops, sorry GYA - I missed you out - not intentionally!

Glad you had a nice relaxed day with your dh but whats going on with the kerb clipping?? Maybe you should drive from now on....

Chulita Sponge pudding......Mmmmmmmmm. Could just eat treacle sponge with custard now and it's not even 10am!!

Bumblingaround - you must be my Twim. I am due on the 1st Aug with my 4th - I have 3 dds - all who were late.

well you're making me very jealous!!

you're obviously all having far too much fun in the sun to be posting on MN - wish I could join you

Suns gone in now cherry if that makes you feel any better!

Chulita we had sponge pudding last night too, very good it was too.

We just thinking about sleep when you have a new born and remembered that I used to nap when ds did and that way managed to stay on top of my sleep, just about. So what do you do when you have a toddler and a new born, scary thought! Anyone have any ideas?

Marzi hope you've had a better day today with plenty of kicks!

Sorry cherrypie! Just think how much fun maternity leave will be
We had a picnic breakfast on the beach this morning, I surprised DH with pain au chocolat and a big flask of coffee.
We had a horrendous night again...how I long for proper sleep If it wasn't DD it was the fricking self-centred gits living along the way with their dumbass music at 2am followed by DD again wanting to be up playing at 3 and not settling til nearly 5. I got 4.5 broken hours sleep last night and feel rough as! I cried myself to sleep thinking about a newborn on top of this...roll on moving house, let's hope the next posting isn't anywhere near twats. (unlikely being the army...)
Hope you're working CazEm, we expect that essay to be done!
thecoffeelady I'm sure she'll miss you a lot less than you'll miss her, have a lovely time!

oh don't be sorry guys - was just very jealous that I'm stuck in this office when I really just wanna be sat in my garden with an ice lolly

Sorry about your disturbed night Chulita, thats so inconsiderate of them - do you know you have a little girl who needs to sleep?

Looby No ideas on how to keep up with sleep when theres a toddler lurking around. I honestly can't remember how I coped with it. DD was 15months old when ds was born!!!

Think that may be why it's blanked from my memory - too sleep deprived to remember it??

Hope you've all had a lovely day

Hey everyone,
Well I just about survived my long drive on Friday night, despite some idiot (to put it very politely!!) losing control of his speeding car as he overtook me on the M40, spinning almost 360 degrees across 3 lanes & somehow managing to end up just about on the hard shoulder. He very narrowly avoided taking me & another car with him.

Was very scary, don't think i've ever breaked so hard! It sure woke the baby up as he was doing somersaults & strong kicks for abt half an hour afterwards! Luckily I was wearing my 'bump belt' & so bubs was safe from the seatbelt tightening. Hope 2mrws journey home is a lot less eventful!
Have also had lots of movement today, the sort where u can see ur bump moving So am not worried abt baby. Speaking of which, glad everythings fine Marzi, that must have been so worrying. I'm so glad I invested in my own doppler, it's given me so much peace of mind. I would lend it to any of you if I could!

Another warm welcome & offering of cake to bumbling.

Congrats to Nat on ur scan

Good to hear ur feeling much better Cherry & Vix.

Off into the garden for a little BBQ while there's still a hint of sunshine!

god bubba that goodness you & bump are ok! you must have got such a fright!!

just a quicke, I'll catchup on other posts shortly however I have a HELP! moment....

Just been to the baby show in Glasgow and saw 2 offers..

Offer One:

30 lollipop 'pocket' Pop n' Grow Nappies (20xsize 1 10xsize 2) for £250 (RRP £350)

20 Bum Genius one size £250 normally £295

Quite a good saving, but I have to decide by tomorrow if I would like either of the packages as you have to get them from the baby show...

What are your experiences of either nappy? at the moment I'm siding with the new pop n' grow cuz think it's quite neat having the 2 sizes (solved a lot of the grumbles on reveiws about them being too big for newborns) but mainly stupidly cuz I pefer the colours!

if you have ANY advice for me fire away!!

xxx

Well Chulita - its not quite done, mainly because I've spent all day sorting DH out, but thats another story for a minute! I've done quite well though, everything is done apart from the literature review which I'll do tomorrow!!

So DH - is he going to develop anything else to stress me out?!?! He wakes up this morning telling me he has tingling, numbness and loss of sensation in both hands, starting to feel the same in his feet and (he'd kill me if he knew I was typing this) his back passage. His hands particulaly bad and weak, not able to squeeze my hands very hard etc.

So I'm here thinking bloody hell, decide to ring NHS direct (to discover it is the longest process in the entire world!). I start off talking to a call centre person, who then puts me through to a nurse, who then puts us through to our local out of hours service to speak to another nurse who decides she needs to get a Dr to phone us back - who then finally phoned back an hour later. The whole thing took over 2 hours (including the waiting for a return call), it would've been quicker I expect to just go to A+E and see what they said!!!!

Dr decided DH needed to be seen in GP out of hours so was given an appointment at 4.30 at the hospital, just for us to be told that these new symptoms were possibly an allergic reaction to the recent medication and that when it was totally out of his system they should go away in the next few days.

And that was it, a whole day of calls and waiting for an appointment to be told allergic reaction and to wait for the blood test on Wednesday to rule out anything else. Why am I the only one who is concerned about his clot history? I know they keep saying they don't think it is a onset of another clot, but until they actually do a bloody test how can they actually 100% know?! I know they are Drs and that I am not, but I'm becoming a very neurotic wife with it all!

Anyway, managed to get lots of the essay done in between unbelievably, but not the entire thing as originally planned! But only one section left, it really will be done tomorrow.

MrsZaC - can't offer you any advice on nappies, but the baby show sounds like a lovely day out, wonder if I can find one around here?! It is like a baby version of a wedding fayre?!

Bubba - so glad you and baby are ok - what a lucky escape. Goes to show how easily something can happen on the road, you've totally reminded me I need to get one of those bump belts now, I've been saying for the last couple of week but we haven't got around to it. Pay day is Wednesday so will defo get one this week!

Right, think its time for bed. DH wants to watch tonights Doctor Who but I won't let him put it on until I've gone up to bed and he's getting stroppy! (I can't watch anything like that close to bedtime now because I'm sure its inducing the nightmares!!)

Night all!

Oh CazEM that is awful, you must be worried sick. Sending good healing vibes to your DH.

vix same thing happened to me just before my 20 week scan, lost my notes and midwife was spectaculalrly unhelpful. Really fretted that hospital wouldn't do my scan but like you, found them behind some drawers where they had slipped over. I have since made a photocopy a) in case it happens again and b) i've heard that once baby arrives, your notes are taken away so I want to keep them as a record.

Girls feeling really miserable - allow me to moan please - work is a real stress but feeling DP is just not there for me. He's had the group of friends round this week on 3 evenings including last night. One stayed over so they can do some plastering today which is great, our new house is in a state but feel lonely and neglected. I've brought it up and we get in this weird stand off where he feels guilty, I get upset and nothing changes. I have a long commute Brighton - London in the week so only 3 short hours together in the evening before bedtime so I was sooooo looking forward to having today together but now we don't, we didn't last weekend either and I have visions of me being "stuck" with baby come the Autumn. I love him dearly but feeling lonely right now. And we get married in less than 3 weeks. I have got mega-blues.

In addition, i now wake every morning with really awful sharp pains in the middle of my back. Like muscle spasm but I wouldn't have thought my bump yet large enough to strain it? How is everyone else's back?

Caz hope everything gets sorted with ur DH soon. I think u did very well to get as much of ur work done as u did with all that going on!

With regard to the bump belt, I'd definately recommend getting one esp if u do a lot of driving. I've been quite paranoid abt it since I started showing. I've got the Clippasafe bump belt which is just a bit of material u sit on with 2 Velcro straps at either side to fasten over the bottom part of the seat belt to stop it from sliding up over ur bump. Simple but effective & after Friday I know it def works!

LCR I've had some back pain at night too. Do u just get it after laying in bed? Everybody is different but I think mine is def to do with bump & how well I manage to support myself in bed. I usually have my big sausage shaped pillow to help but being away for the weekend I didn't think to bring it with me.
Last night my back ache kept waking me up plus I had some cramps in my bump at the same time. It's all completely disappeared since getting up this morning (did make think of some of u on here tho!), so I think it was due to insufficient support.

Sorry MrsZaC i'm a first timer too so not much help on the nappy front I'm afraid. Do love a good bargain tho!

Hope everyone has a good day x

Hey all

MrsZac where's the show in Glasgow? How much to get in to it and is it worth going? The thing I'm looking for at the moment is a Stokke nursery package - that could be just the place to get a good deal.

CazeEm You're not neurotic but I do think your fears about DH probably has more to do with you feeling more vulnerable than usual just now - rationally, if the docs were seriously worried about him, he'd whipped into hospital for observation & tests. I know, because I'm right there with you! I have a huge issue with abandonment because I've had really bad luck (mum died at 11, dad abandoned us to a stepmum who didn't want us > ended up being brought up by aunt/uncle and my uncle died of cancer last year) and I can't be rational about even minor health issues in my family at the moment, (which is pretty crap as my sister has also had cancer in the last year too) - my poor DH has has several sebaceous cysts cut from his neck (mostly becuase I'm vain on his behalf!) and has had another one for a couple of years - a couple of acquaintances have been diagnosed with cancerous lumps in their neck over the last few years and a month ago, I had convinced myself that this time, the lump was malignant). As a result of my nagging & booking an appointment for him myself, DH is scheduled for day surgery to remove it in a few weeks time and they'll biopsy it and even though I know it should be fine, I can't relax until it's over. I know it must be tough for you but for me, just knowing my thoughts are irrational and why I'm that way helps me to get my perspective back...does that help?...your experience last year must have been such a scare that it's only natural that discovering he has similar symptoms when you're hormonal & vulnerable sends you into a tailspin.

Marzi Really glad to hear everything is fine. You get so used to the movements don't you? It's so intrinsic to me now that feeling the baby move is my first waking thought even before thinking 'I need a pee' or 'I'm hungry'. I suspect you'll not be the last making that horrible trip to the hospital in a few weeks time when our babies' movements start to slow down because there's not much space in there. Fingers crossed ladies that our wee babies continue to kick enough to keep us all sane.

Oh, and LCR...you poor soul, you've got so much on your plate, no wonder you're feeling overwhelmed...please give yourself a break. I'm sure DH is just thinking, I'll get my nights with the boys in just now before the baby arrives and will be a devoted daddy who just wants to stay in with his wee family once the baby is actually here.

Girls - I'VE FINISHED! YAYYYYYYYY! This has been the bane of my life for the entirity of April so its such a good feeling! As long as I scrape a pass I'm happy for this one, I've never struggled so much with an essay before! So woohoo for it being done, even if it turns out to be a pile of babble and crap!!

weehector - you're totally right, DH thinks I'm over-reacting and fussing abou the whole thing cuz he says as you say, if they were that worried he would've been admitted.... I know that I'm being irrational and feeling vunerable, and its definately because of last summer, the thought of him becoming seriously ill like he was back then now we have a baby on the way - its because I need him now more than ever! I think I'll calm down after his blood test on Wednesday! On a more positive note we've been together 4 years yesterday (he propsed 3 years ago yesterday) so I felt all loved up all day! Doesn't time fly, I was still in uni (first time around) when we got together.

Sorry to hear of all your experiences too, it sounds like you've really suffered over the years and I hope your new little family will bring you lots of happiness - sending you happy thoughts that you can relax about your DH too in a few weeks time!

LCR - sending you hugs and smiles. Its no fun feeling down is it. The pre-wedding blues are not unusual, I had a touch of them - I think it was simply all the stress of last minute preperations going on, which must be much harder for you being pregnant as well, and having work done on your house! I promise you'll have the most wonderful day and you'll forget all about the blues.

Regarding your DP soon to be DH though, tell him again you'd like some time together and that you feel lonely and missing him. When we feel like we haven't seen eachother properly in a while we set aside a "date night" (as I call it), where we ignore the phone, the door, no Xbox, no laptop, facebook, mumsnet or whatever and we just do something together. Whether that is go out for a meal, cinema or just veg on the sofa stuffing our faces with treats watching and film and cwtching up! I hope you feel better soon hun! I agree with weehector too about him getting his last bits of "freedom" in before baby arrives - I'm sure we'll go through something simular with all our DP/DHs who are going to be first time daddy's before long!

Right, I'm going for a mid-afternoon soak in the bath and then we're going up my Grandma's for tea, then onto Mum and Dads to use their printer (just like the old uni days!) to print off all my hard work! Yay! Post tomorrow!

Hi everyone, just a quick post because I'm in the process of moving house at the mo and am going to be pretty much without internet for 2 weeks - so don't worry if I disappear!
By the way, baby has been making up for his/her lack of action on friday so I'm feeling much happier I really hope none of you have to have that scary trip to the hospital!

Enjoy the rest of your weekend x

mrsZac I love Bumgenius but it's probably too late now We've got 15 and they were plenty for DD, I like the fact that they're one size so with 2 in nappies I can pack the same nappy for either child!

Bumgenius always get fab reviews - I would go for them over two differnet sizes too. I like my birth to potty nappies - feared they would be abit of a between two stools type thing but they do a fab job.

Marzi, how scary but how great of the hospital to have you come in right away and put your mind at ease.

Bubba, how terrifying. People can be such idiots on the road.

LCR, sorry you are feeling low . Hopefully it is just your hormones and wedding stress. With my Dh I always find it best to warn him about what I want/expect in advance eg if I want us to spend a nice day together I tell him, because I find I just get disappointed if I expect that he will know these things on his own!

My DS fell over in the garden on Fri and cut his head! I didn't even know cos he fell and was crying (I didn't see him fall) and he was holding the front of his head. Well I could see there was no cut/bump there so I thought gosh he is really overreacting cos he was crying for about 10 mins! Then he went playing outside and I saw all the blood down the back of his head. It was not too bad though, no need to go to a&e thankfully, it stopped bleeding - eventually and he seemed very perky so i knew he wasn't concussed.

Hello!

Well I have done it, I'll probably regret it but at the moment think i've done the right thing! I went for the pocket pop n' grow nappy set 18 of size 1 and 12 of size 2, not quite sure why in the end because I've heard great things about both nappies I thought that lollipop was doing a better deal, and the ladies were very helpful and friendly about the different choices, and I did prefer the colours I'll just have to see how I get on I suppose

LCRCLR so sorry to hear about your woes on the back-pain front I've just been to the maternity physio, as i am getting a lot of pain during my sleep and when I wake up, like period pain in my side and lower back. She did a full check up on my bones etc to make sure everything was in the right place, which thankfully it was, she just reckons that I need some support in my waist when I'm sleeping to stop the strain coming from the gap between my hip and ribs not having any support. She suggested folding a towel to put there and experimenting with different pillows. I have found my dream genii to be very helpful, i've actually turned it the wrong way round and put the little sausage end under the gap and used a pillow to support anywhere that is missing support! worked last night but might be a different matter tonight!! she also gave me lots of exercises to strengthen my core tummy muscles and pelvic floor and gave me lessons on how to get myself out of a chair, and bed without straining my back. Sounds like geriatric excersizes but i do notice a difference and it might be worth seeing your physio?? if not I'm more than happy to copy the notes and forward them to you

cazem yippee on you finishing your essay - well done!

ooh I also got one of these at the baby show... amazing product, so so comfortable! I got it just now to use as a lower back support as I'm struggling at home sitting on the sofa, dining chair and computer, and this doubles up as a lower back support/breastfeeding cushion and many other uses, was £26 and I got a free £10 cover at the baby show, I thought that was a great bargain considering it has so many uses.

weehector yeah the show was in Glasgow this weekend, wasn't expecting much as I thought it would be much like the wedding show which I didn't really enjoy. They had a stokke stand but they weren't offering any discounts that I know of, was just really great to see all the different products and chat to people about things. Got a few freebies but mainly lots of advice and much better idea of what I'm doing. There was a lot of stuff there for different ages aswell. I got a free tickets from mama tea who had a lovely little cafe there that you could chill out in and have a cup of mama tea and a cupcake - ahh lovely!

x

Please tell me, oh knowlegable ladies, how many weeks pregnant I am ..am working on a due date around 1st Aug (bu LMP not scan but are not soo different)...

and when should I have seen the midwife?