anyone due June 2004?

[hana]

I thought for sure someone else would have posted this before me! I am 5 weeks along (sounds so insignificant.....) and am seeing my doctor tomorrow to get things going. Am really excited and am hoping that things go well! According to those pregnancy charts, my edd is June 12.
So come on mumsnetters, who else is joining me here?!

hana
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Anna01- The weight is an estimate from the measurements taken from the head, abdomen and femur (I think it is those three!!)

Cavy- Hope you feel better soon.
I am like Gomez at the moment very tearful at the slightest thing!!
I feel like half of ,me is missing at the mo hopefully it will get better with time, if not I am in for a long 15 weeks!!.

Gomez- DH needs to put in for leave so will we are trying to decide which two weeks in June will be best for him to take so that he can be here for the birth and as I am due the 17th it could really be any time in june!!!. Even though I want a natural birth this time I was thinking of asking them to do a c-section to be on the safe side anyway just so I have a set date for dh so he can be there, but I don't really want to go through that again unless it is medicaly necessary!!! He will get 2 weeks paternity once I have delivered which is good.

Better go and get ready to pick up DD, need to think about what to do with her tonight. On the subject of her has anyone any ideas how i can get her to play out with the other children in the street as they all play in the cul de sac and the field facing our front room, but she won't go out and join them now we are living here, yet she used to when we were visiting mam before!!

take care all xx

Karen - maybe there's a way you can get her to meet with the other children individually/in smaller groups in an environment she feels safe in - ask some round for tea or a play session? Maybe after that she will feel more at ease with them. My (younger I think) DD is pretty shy and unsure of herself but I find she's better with other kids once she's played with them on her own turf or on more neutral ground. She can 'bond' with them that way I think.

Gomez - I understand about feeling teary. I've even been crying at the most ridiculous soap storylines! Are our hormones getting stronger or something?

Anyway better go and pick up my little 'dear' from nursery.

Hi all

things are quiet how is everyone? I am feeling a bit better I decided today that DD and I are going to go to Cyprus for the weekend, to see DH, we are flying out Thursday and come back monday. the things we do for love!!. It will be nice to see were we will be living for the next 2.5years.
Take care all

Ah Karen that is nice - I do hope you have a nice time. Maybe even manage to get out again before EDD?
About your DD and making friends - ours is similar and was desperate to play with kids at her Grans. We just let her go out and do it in her own time. So to start with she just stood at the bottom of the drive, and then the middle of the cul-de-sac and then right next to where they were playing. It was heart breaking to watch to be honest as she just stood there like a wee wounded soldier - next time we looked she was in the thick of it and having a ball!

Cheers

Helllooooo - anybody out there??

Hi Gomez, I'm still here but I bit snowed under with work. I'm around 24 +4 now. Getting bigger, getting nervous about coping with 3.....hey ho.
How you?

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Thats a relief then - I thought you had all upped sticks off to some mystery thread somewhere and not asked me!!

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I'm still here as well - we're all thinking the same thing then. I'm relieved that as of tomorrow I am officially in my third trimester - hooray! Still feels like a lifetime away, although I'm really beginning to feel like a lumbering duck with a sack of potatoes stuck to my front now. All waddle and no grace or stamina.

Well, it's official: I can now balance a cup of tea - albeit a small one - on my bump.
Am 28 wks tomorrow & so fed up with my winter maternity clothes! Not sure if it will get warm enough in time for me to wear my summer ones from last time...

I can balance a whole tea set on mine - and that's not a proud boast!

Glad someone's out there - where has everyone disappeared to again or is it me killing off this thread??

I'm having an odd symptom at the moment - every morning I'm waking up with my top lip so swollen it splits slightly. Wonder what that one's about???

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Yes, I guess that could be it, but whatever it is am not feeling too worried about it, it's just painful occasionally.

I can see why you get pissed off with comments on your size. I bet people always feel they have the right to question your size when you are little as I suppose they think you shouldn't be offended but I can see why it can be just as upsetting as being told you're a big fat lump. My bump is big cos I am sadly. But I don't think I actually look pregnant to people cos I don't wear body-conscious clothes (happily for everyone else).

Sorry - I am not much good am I? Wonder where everyone is and then bugger of for the duration. Apologies.

Not been too well, full of the cold, lost my voice (complete bonus for DH and DD) and generally been feeling crappy. Pelvis is still giving me serious amounts of grief, next set of assignements due in at Uni soon - so all in all I am not a bouncy, happy bunny at the moment.

I am also now officially in the 'woman mountain' stage and like others getting bored already with the comments (and only another 11 weeks to go, what fun!) - is there only 1 in there, are your dates right, my was your first big etc, etc...

Aside from all my moaning not a lot else has been happening - still haven't bought a thing and really need to get our fingers out of our bottoms! DH ripped some dodgy cupboards out of what will be Baby's Room about 3/4 weeks ago and hasn't really managed to progress any since then. Might have to ask my Dad to help!! PsIL are now trying to make things 'better' but without actually apologising which is amusing if nothing else.

Right I am going to go before I manage to make everyone else as grumpy as me. Take care all and hopefully 'speak' soon!

Is anybody brave enough to post a picture of their bump balancing the teacup or even the whole teaset? I'd like to see this.
I feel huge, but a friend expressed astonishment to find out I was pregnant at all, yesterday. I know I will be like Secur, when I meet my new midwife in a week or two, she'll tut tut about me being small and not having seen a MW for a while. Then she'll get the tape measurer out, realise the bump size and the blood pressure and my wee are all right, and send me away for another 5 weeks again, after all.

Is anybody brave enough to post a picture of their bump balancing the teacup or even the whole teaset? I'd like to see this.
I feel huge, but a friend expressed astonishment to find out I was pregnant at all, yesterday. I know I will be like Secur, when I meet my new midwife in a week or two, she'll tut tut about me being small and not having seen a MW for a while. Then she'll get the tape measurer out, realise the bump size and the blood pressure and my wee are all right, and send me away for another 5 weeks again, after all.

Cavy - only a widescreen tv would do justice to my tummy You make me feel slightly better though. 'Thinnies' obviously also have problems (although very different obviously) like us 'fatties' with certain mws. I'll no doubt get the opposite lecture about am I watching my weight (well no cos it's too depressing and there's not a lot I can do about it until after the baby is born).

Gomez you poor thing, you're having a bit of a time of it at the moment. When do you finish work? Are you going back after maternity leave or thinking of being a sahm? Have the Psils actually helped or hindered you?

I have my glucose test on Friday morning which will be a joy. More painful bloodletting...and I've still got the right 'grumps'.

Is anyone out there actually glowing and full of the joys of spring and pregnancy??

Hi y'all. No, not exactly shiny and glowy. STILL feel sicky and like I've had 10 pints every morning. Urggh. Bump had a bit of spurt recently -now 25+4 so bit behind ye lot.

Can't find my bleedin mat clothes, so squeezing myself into stuff, but might have to relent soon and buy one set of jeans or summat.

So, who is due first?

Hello all Due end of June so 25 +3 at the moment which seems to be behind most of you. Bump doesn't seem that large altho hubby tells much bigger than I ever was with no. 1 but as I tell him was bigger all round to start with. Why are size 16 mat clothes so hard to find ? And don't manufacturers realise that the under the bump fashion really is a non-starter with us larger ladies? And what about larger size maternity and breastfeeding bras ? Ooooh but that felt good just having a little sound off.

Lazyeye - bummer about still feeling sick - did you have the same problems with your other pregnancies?

Don't even get me started on maternity clothes. I too have mislaid my last lot of maternity clothes but am still in my 'normal' clothes, as it were cos luckily I had lost 2 stones before getting pregnant, although I did finally relent and buy a pair of trousers 2 sizes bigger a few days ago. I really do not want to spend much on clothes (yes I'm one of those people who has a thinner, fat, fatter, very very fat wardrobe and do not want to add lots of extremely fat to that lot).

Know what you mean about maternity clothes for larger sizes chicks66, but actually it's not as bad as it was even a few years ago. You probably know this already but have you tried Next, H&M, Dottie P or even Mothercare? As for nursing bras - that's a different story. Speaking personally, I'm gonna have to make my own out of a couple of hammocks and some chicken wire - as if I don't feel freakish enough (God but I HATE having humungus boobs). At this rate I'll be able to hoist them over my shoulders and strap them down.

Ok I too have got my late night rant over. Sleep well all.

Oh yeah and I think Gomez is officially first on the list. Have noticed that most of March's lot seemed to have theirs in February. Should we be bracing ourselves for a bunch of May babies then??

Hello All,

'Working from home' today so doing bog all! And thinking I might give Uni a miss this afternoon too - aren't I naughty?!

Good luck tomorrow with the GTT Anna. And if you get any hassle about weight tell them to bog-off! I am defo in the fattie category and was weighed at booking and have not been near the scales since. Was the same first time around too. Personally I fully intend to stay away from scales until about December!

I have started to use my crutches quite a lot now so the H & S guy at work is coming out to perform a 'risk assesment' on Monday so I am praying that he sends me home for the duration if not I have just about had enough anyway! Got GP Ante-Natal appointment next Friday so might discuss with doc then.

I am planning to go back but 3 days a week - probably from Jan 2005 depending on money. But there is a possibility that DH may be asked to work abroad for 6 months from the end of the Summer in which case we would all go too so maybe a bit later!

I have until now managed to get mat clothes without to much hassle and John Lewis are v. good for huge bras (both maternity and feeding) but I need stuff for a wedding at Easter and have got no chance of finding something. Ordered two different sets of the internet and cant get the trousers above my knees never mind up to my bum. And why, do they do all these lovely knee length dresses - v. attractive with nice swollen ankles -NOT!

Right of to buy some Totsbots nappies now so take care all!

Cheers

Hi, Anna01 i have my GTT in the morning also, not looking forward to it at all.
I have a fair size bumb now suddenly got quite big over the last week I am just starting to waddle, JOY!!.
had a great time in Cyprus with DH. DD and i wanted to stay but we decided best all round to stick to our plans for the babys sake.

Have any off you thought about any names yet.

We have chosen Scott william Philip for babs. If he was/is (don't think they were wrong!!! ) a girl it is going to be Faye which doesn't impress my DD at all.
Must go and get on with some housework. Take care all.

Hi all (wherever you all are)

Had my GTT and they will ring today if something is amiss, so I'm crossing my fingers. At least they did my next lot of blood tests as well so I'm hoping that is the last of the bloodletting for me.

I got nada for Mother's Day (my dh is crap at all things like that) but I made up for it on Saturday by going shopping 'up West' alone for the first time in months and months. I almost felt like part of the human race again and treated myself to expensive perfume and some HUGE HUGE knickers! I looked at lots of things I need to buy for the baby and have started to panic about the amount of time left to do everything (we've got loads of decorating and furniture rearranging/getting rid of to make some space in our shoebox to do).

Karen - hope your test was ok. We have talked about names, but as ever cannot decide and will probably leave it until after the birth (much to my mil's annoyance again no doubt). I'm personally veering towards Alex, Joe or Sam at the moment but no doubt me and dh will have lots of 'discussions' about it.

Hope you're all still ok out there...take care.