Late May 2012 Bambinos- 2nd trimester thread- less pumping, more bumping

[CrackersandCheese]

Here we are ladies- a lovely new home for us all- filled with good vibes.

Link to 1st trimester thread 1st trimester

New years resolutions:

1.sort out make up back & replenish old crap for lovely new products.

1. To not allow stressful situations to overwhelm me even if it may be hard (it is

with what's going on, but i need to be relaxed for DD and growing bump)

1. Have a family holiday.
2. To progress with my photography business
3. And to finally not take life too seriously, Life will throw at your what it wants

to, I've learned this this past year, so be grateful for those you have, and love them with all of your heart, anything else isn't important.

Hope you all have a lovely Day

bag** not back lol

Just popping on to wish you all a very Happy Christmas

hippie I think that around 16-17 weeks LO goes through a bit of a growth spurt which can leave you feeling rather battered down there...I have been hurting on and off for the last couple of weeks (currently 17+4)...sometimes it seems to be trapped wind sometimes just my back/left hip being sore because I've overdone it again and other times I just think it's beany making more space!!

dozey good to hear you'll be well looked after!

iow hope the feast preparations go well!

My DH working tomorrow morning but should be home by 3pm. I will have a relaxed morning and then start the food preps ready for our dinner mid-late afternoon I think. Then with the IL's and family on Boxing Day (my family abroad so just telephone calls to them unfortunately).

Anyway...aiming to leave the laptop off all day tomorrow and will be out most of Boxing Day so catch after that! Take care all...

catch up that is...oops

Merry Christmas everyone! Hope you all have wonderful days, for us first timers let's enjoy the (relative) peace & quiet before chaos descends! (4 nieces under 7 & 1 2yo nephew to contend with here!)

Merry Christmas all! I'm posting from my phone in bed at my parents' house, thinking that this time next year I'll be a parent myself. What a great present!

Wishing you all a lovely day! and a (small) .

Anyone else feeling MASSIVE due to eating ridiculous amounts of food yesterday?
...... Urgh....
Xxxx

wommer yes, feeling huuuge. Ate so much, felt like I had a pretty good excuse to gorge even more than I usually do at Christmas!

Hope you all had a great Christmas. Mine was so relaxing, so exciting to think that next year I will have a 6 month old!! So exciting!!

hippie I had some real aches and stabbing pains in the sides of my tummy which I figure is just the little one growing and the uterus stretching. He has been kicking around a fair bit lately too. Feeling him more and more!

Still don't think I've felt the baby kicking. I haven't felt any 'popping' but sometimes my tummy feels a bit tingly, then it stops. Almost like tickling but from inside.

Did everyone have a nice Christmas? x

All well here though my capacity for food seems to have decresed so I have had to stick to small helpings to avoid being too full and uncomfortable and the dreaded heartburn. Also seem to have got a cough from somewhere which kept me awake most of last night...before a busy family day today! Had a lovely day yesterday though and fun with nieces and nephews today.

Hope you are all well...catch up properly soon, and yes, v strange to think next Christmas we will ave our own little uncles of fun to contend with and enjoy!!!

Merry Christmas from LA. sorry not to have been on more but been busy moving house & starting our long trip. More updates in the new year. Good luck to everyone with 20 week scans. Having ours in Sydney!!

God! I have my 20 week scan tomorrow and i just looked at my hospital notes. Turns out i have missed my 16 week appointment! Im really worried and i feel like such an idiot! I dont know my blood test results, I hope everythings ok. Baby is doing roly polys in my tummy at the mo. Me and DP have decided not to have any tests, we will love our little baby no matter what. So can any one tell me (apart from dopler) what i might have missed. I feel like a total failure :(

I wouldn't worry too much hunny!
All i got were the results of my blood tests, a blood pressure test, another pee test, another carbon monoxide test and the dopler.
All came back fine and i think we were out of there within half an hour!

Don't worry about the 16 week MW appointment imissbrie.
IMO mine was a waste of time.... Was a different MW to last time so no continuity of care, i Forgot my pee pot so all she did was tell me I did not have syphilis or HIV, checked my blood pressure and wished me Bon voyage for my 3 month trip!! Was in & out in less than10 mins , shame she was 45 mins late, despite me being her 1st appointment!! She would not even listen for the heart beat as they don't do that in my area anymore. Complete waste of an hour of my time which could have been better spent packing up my flat, finishing up work or sorting out Christmas. Grrrrr.

Hope the scan went well.

Hi All,Feeling rubbish today,Woke up feeling like i have a cold coming on or something, just run-down I think. plus mouth ulcers, oh and now a cracked tooth, so need that fixed whilst its free! More than likely the feeling of being run-down and ulcers is stress-related. had such a rubbish Christmas overall - to be expected, but it was fine Xmas day, I & DPs family & My Dad made it special, but then it went downhill with family problems (with the less helpful family members causing agro) - Like I need that crap!

DD had a lovely day, and got lots of lovely things, I did too :) SO glad that its over & done with now though, and looking forward to 2012. Visited DP yesterday which was needed, the last 2 weeks have been SO tough, and to see his face was amazing. saying bye was hard again though, but only until next Thursday when we have another visit (and hopefully some good news about a transfer to open)

I won't bore you all any more with my issues, hope you're all well. Also have our 20week scan on 7th (next Saturday) I will be nearly 21weeks by then, and then consultant appt on 12th x

Dozey you're not boring us! Sorry you're feeling rubbish, I had a spate of mouth ulcers etc a couple of weeks ago. I found drinking plenty of water & using mouthwash helped, hope it does for you too. At least you don't have long to wait before you see DP again fingers crossed for his move.

I've got my scan next week, can't wait to see bub again, not had much movement recently just a few swirls, usually after I've eaten so am hoping all's well & no issues. Looking forward to a quiet nye tomorrow, hope everyone has fun! :)

Ah Dozey you've just put my problems into perspective.
(being told by guy in office that my clothes obviously don't fit any more and shouldn't I be in maternity wear by now..)
At least mine are solved by saying something (might rhyme with "plucking banker" lol) VERY loudly in my head!!!

Hope things pick up fr you soon.

*for! No idea where the green face came from!

Wommer Yes that "Plucking Banker" is not worth your worry! love the way you put that!

Thank you both, it is so tough but i'm just plodding along with DD, trying to keep busy, and also looking forward to a quiet NYE, possibly in the company of a feasty CHINESE dinner!!

dozey I'm so glad you got to see your DP. What a shit situation, I hope he gets moved to an open prison for you and gets out soon. How come you are seeing a consultant? I dont have any consultant appointments, is that bad?

I have my 20 week on the 9th when I will be exactly 20 weeks. So excited! Then the midwife appointment on the 14th of Feb! Seems aaaages, what a lovely way to spend valentines day.

My twin sister broke the news of her pregnancy to our mum on Christmas day. The timings seem like she got pregnant a week and a bit after I told her I was pregnant. She is very immature mentally, due to past drug problems, and my family think she has done it on purpose so that I wouldnt be the centre of attention. It makes sense. I am worried for her and the baby though. She lives on peoples couches going from house to house and drinks all the time, smokes etc. Doesnt seem to realise that having a baby is going to change her life a LOT and is a BIG deal.The father of the baby is a junkie, well, she said he was the father, but has now changed her mind and said someone else is. Argh. I just hope her and the baby are OK and she matures a bit once she has had the baby!! Sorry for the rant.

Dozey, I too am so glad you saw you DP, it sounds like you are doing an amazing job of keeping things together for your DD and next DC.

I am also finding clothes a bit tricky, Wommer, though nobody has commented ! I find getting dressed a new challenge every morning.

AlexTasha, what a shame your sister is in such a worrying situation. It sounds so lovely, having a baby at the same time as your twin, but it must really complicate everyone's feelings. I hope you do get looked after, and look after yourself, even if she is more cause for concern.

Is anyone else really nervous about the 20 week scan? I am very anxious about it. I don't know why there's a culture of thinking that the 12 week one is the nerve-wracking one -- I am really fretting about how awful it would be to have bad and difficult news now. I should stop reading about worst case scenarios . I can't imagine how hard it is for all the ladies who have suffered these. Sorry to bring the mood down, I'm just struggling a bit, especially now other people know and are getting excited about the baby. In my mind there's a big 'what if?'. I know that, as a parent, I'll always worry, but this scan is scaring me.

Sorry, that should have been a face, not !

veronica what can go wrong at the 20 week scan? I have a doppler so know that my little one is beating away in there and can feel movements, what kind of bad news can you find out??? Eeeeek. Might start to panic!

Thanks, it is really nice to think that we will have our kids within 6 weeks of eachother, but its just her situation that scares me and the fact that I might end up having to look after her kid too!

Alextasha I have a consultant appointment just to go over the fact that i had a slight PPH after delivering the placenta... my MW/old colleague said that me going to a midwifery LED unit will still be ok like i did with DD but they just want to make sure i'll be ok... not really sure why it happened, they just said in my notes (big size baby, small frame mother/ fast delivery) so its like a one off i hope and they said that t shouldn't happen again. My iron levels were low too at delivery as my stupid GP didnt tell me i was anaemic at 34weeks (ANGRY)

I too have a doppler which i find so comforting in the lonely evenings when DD is tucked up in bed, i am currently getting the strong heartbeat down my low left side, then it moved as i was doing it. it was between 133-143bpm...

Its crazy to think how many little girls and how many little boys will be born out of us lot, and the twinnies :)