Due in October 2012 Part 2

[YompingJo]

Kicking off the second thread as we outgrew the first one.

Midgetm I know! . It was SO common in the early 19th century but has been 'a vulgar slang word' since the late 19th century. No-one could help but chuckle. The poor little thing! and exactly - one man's exotic is another man's plain depending on the local cultural context.

Angelico wow so I've never even heard the name Saoirse before so that's a new (& exotic) one for me! :) Totally agreeing with you and missbone that the name has to sound good for you when you say it. DP's 2nd DD is called Ingrid & I can't make that name sound anything other than harsh, hard & a bit ugly but sounds are viewed differently here (it's quite a 'pretty/sweet' name). I find a lot of Norwegian names sound 'hard/ugly' much to DP's annoyance & offence . Some people like 'hard' sounds. My mother was committed to only using a name with one syllable (so no-one could shorten it or create a nickname!).

Me, I want to use family names but want to combine that with liking the name, it being a little original, and it not being a name that will be hard to pronounce/ridiculed in Norway. Still playing about with it... .

Well our surname is pretty pompous sounding so I need a pompous sounding name to go with it poor kid! Better start saving for Eton...

Feeling green at the moment, and stuffed my face at lunch and paying for it now. Groan!!!

Starting to stress about how I'm going to disguise my fat stomach at work now. It's v obvious. Especially as people have been expecting me to announce for about the last year....

9 weeks today!! please God let the MS stop at 12, I am counting!!!!!

We've decided not to think about baby names yet. I want to wait until the scan where you find out the gender, but my partner isn't sure he wants to know the gender. I was surprised, you think you know someone so well and then you get pregnant!

I have a friend who's Danish, they chose Emily and Daniel as they sounded nice in both languages and everyone would be able to pronouce them. My name has always recieved compliments and this kid will have my surname so I feel the burden of finding something that will go down equally well. My problem is I like weird names like Zeke and Zeb. My partner will stop my tendencies in their tracks!

And I'm also wondering how to hide the bump at work for a few more weeks, just went shopping (to get the bio oil!) in the hopes of finding some miracle outfit that would help me keep my secret a little longer. I find it comforting reading that some of you are also showing already - I really thought it was too soon!

Evening all (well it's evening here in the desert), 'twas a work day for me today, and I spent it trying to keep my eyes open and failing to stop myself from getting irrationally pissed off with people...Have been a tad worried that my physical symptoms have disappeared these last couple of days, (I know it's always me that brings this up, but...) am pooing regular as clockwork every day once again, which ironically worries me more than the not going! The bloating has gone down (guess these two items could be related), and am not getting the weird twinges in the pelvic area that I was experiencing before (the kind that under ordinary circumstances feel like the beginning of period pain)...Even more ridiculously when close friend at work (who knows that I'm pg) told me that I 'looked pregnant' this afternoon, I barked at her 'What do you mean? Are you saying I'm fat??!!' even though earlier I'd told her I was worried my symptoms had stopped...I then drove home from work and swore profusely at every motorist in my path, got in and ate cereal for dinner. So to say my symptoms have stopped might be inaccurate, maybe they're just manifesting in my behaviour this week, as opposed to my body?? Tomorrow I'll be exactly 8 weeks, and I've got to wait a further 2 weeks for my next scan. Obviously I was scanned very early on (as per protocol here in the UAE), but now the waiting between scans seems to drag on forever, so I can't imagine what it must be like for the rest of you who have to wait until 10 or even 12 weeks to have your first scans. Visiting girlfriend who is an air ambulance nurse has offered to pinch the doppler off the plane to see if we can hear a hearbeat, but am slightly concerned that this may add to the worry, as she believes the in-flight doppler they have is usually used on people's feet. Not sure why they would use it on feet, but might have to rethink the whole idea...Hope you're all enjoying what's left of your weekends, here endeth the musings of mirikat.

:) mirikat - glad I'm not alone in the hormonal behaviour... Just wrote a 'steaming' post on the thread about the French taking 'Mademoiselle' off forms and now have to hide as I'm not up to taking flaming. Must learn not to post when steam is coming out of ears... I think any kind of hormonal symptom must be proof that everything is still on course...at least that's what I keep telling myself .

Whereabouts are you in the desert? (sorry if you said earlier & I missed the post).

Am in the UAE in Abu Dhabi, and just had to have a sneak peek at the thread you were talking about...that situation of Miss vs Ms vs Mrs would never happen here (horrible cloying service culture where sales assistants follow you around shops like a shadow)...anyone female here is address as 'maam' and men are 'sir', and occasionally you get called 'maamsir' which is possibly the most infuriating thing in the world (after all the other infuriating things that are annoying me today)...

mirikat :o When I was pregnant with DS I used to get the most terrible road rage. Once someone was tailgating me and I very, very nearly slammed on my brakes to make him crash into the back of me Luckily I hadn't completely lost all reason... They should do warning signs for people like me!

What is 'maamsir' all about?!

Today I really don't feel like being pregnant and threw a bit of a wobbly. I'd forgotten how rubbish I felt all the way through with DS and I am dreading the sleepless weeks again, and worried about getting PND like I did last time. :(

Hello!

Wow, I posted on the first thread but things seem to have rather moved on!

I had to jump in again seeing as you are talking about hormones. I go from ecstatic to crying to raging within a minute morning. It's driving me mad, so goodness knows what it's doing to poor DH.

We've not really spoken about names yet, but I like Dorothy and Penelope, Tristan and Hector.

Am 7w4days, DC 2, living in Germany.

I like to think that the the retaining of a modicum of self-awareness that I am being an absolute crazy hormone monster is a sign that I'm not that bad.

mirikat - lol at 'Maamsir' kind of covers all bases? :) can see how that would get irritating though...I hate obtrusive service in shops... and agreed - hormonal & we know it = therefore not that bad.

Welcome back Psammead - guess this is 'expat hour'. Nice for me to see a selection of others pregnant & living abroad. I think my DP's coping with the hormonal 'switches' relatively well bless 'im...I get that 'Jesus she's lost her mind' look of fear occasionally but it's usually shortly followed by the 'oh yeah, she's pregnant' penny-dropping afterwards .

41, 7+1, 1st pregnancy, feeling ancient in windy western Norway

Hey all!! I see you've been busy. Enjoyed the conversation about names. I'm a pretty unconventional person who doesn't see the point of lots of things other people assume must be a part of your life (marriage, prams, supermarkets, sugar, TV)... but I prefer really simple names, because I think the personality of kids shines through more when you don't try to ... pre-label them. That might just be me though! Kind of similar to what Angelico was saying. Anyway I'm going to give a kid my surname and my boyfriend is totally cool with this (we've been together over a decade) so I'll probably get enough questions about that already (can't see why for the life of me though! If I'm labouring, I'm naming! Also we get on much better with my family than his.)

I had the best time in London, was very tired and sick-y, BUT! I told my mate J I was pregnant in a witches shop in Brixton and she was so excited. It was her birthday I was down for. She's a midwife. I helped her make giant ethiopian curries and spinach pancakes for a crowd, I looked super-slim in my red skinny jeans and black top and boots with cats on them (it will probably be the last time I get to wear such fitted outfits to a party!), sipped lemonade and water whilst everyone got hammered, pleaded "under the weather" at midnight and went to bed instead of clubbing (J gave me her bed, she's lovely). They came back at 4am and woke me up drunkenly (my boyfriend and J also slept in her bed) but it was all fine and I laughed at them all hungover in the morning. Me and J spent the morning in bed with cups of tea chatting about home births and symptoms and pregnancy and everything and it was magic. She tried to listen to my tummy with a doppler but she said it was a bit early. She's going to bring it up when she comes to visit in a few weeks though :)

Then she said she's going to take a week off just after my due date so hopefully she can hop on a train up north when I go into labour and come be there for the labour to support me and my boyfriend. At this point, I burst into tears. I love her so much. I can't think of anything better than having my boyfriend and J there.

I am so happy now I've told a couple of people! My best friend I told the other week was there too being all protective and giving me lemonade and sideways glances, and I met up with another old mate, who is a bit of a party kid, he has a new boyfriend every weekend, was a bit worried he would think I was a massive loser for getting pregnant, but I told him all tongue-tied and he hugged me and jumped up and down and went "congratulations! congratulations! you'll be the coolest mum ever!" and I told him how weird it was telling people and he said, "yeah I could see you struggling... must be like coming out."

I have the best friends. There were a load of other mates there too, but I'm only telling my closest.

Work tomorrow - booking in appointment Tuesday :)

Hope everyone is well!

I keep forgetting to say my stats: 32 years old, 9 weeks today, first kid

I'm not getting any hormonal surges whatsoever. I'm more than pleased about this as I am irrational/highly-strung/neurotic/short-fused/loud and a bit 'shouty' at the best of times I really am not experiencing any swings of mood but this could be because I am not faced with the stresses of a normal day like the rest of you mums and high-fliers (although I wish I was).

I felt relatively un-pregnant today, and as I am one of the poor sods on here who are having to wait until 12 weeks for their first scan I decided to do a pregnancy test (the cheapie ones off t'internet). Gosh! The speed with which that blood-red line appeared! (I know preg tests can remain positive after a miscarriage but it really is a delight to see that rapid, strong line).

Still no MS and I'm eating nice and healthily (with the exception of last night's takeaway...f*ing divine) with a plethora of pears, bananas, cabbage, broccoli, carrots, fish and chicken. I refuse to give up my daily Wispa Gold. Ooooh! But guess what? I've taken myself off the nicotine patches for the last two days! It's been slightly more difficult but it's now weeks since I had my last fag

I'm all footballed out: distressed at the Spurs defeat and laughing my head off at Liverpool's feeble attempt to defeat Cardiff. Ha! Ha!

Went for a 17 mile hike before to my corner shop (slight exaggeration, but only slight) and came home with two horror movies: Paranormal Activity and The Human Centipede. I don't think I've ever seen Michael so demonstrably unimpressed! Ha!

Midgetm, will be thinking of you at your scan tomorrow. What time is it? Have you had an ectopic pregnancy before?

Oooooh! Duke! I'm dying for you to demonstrate the extent of your pomposity!! Is your surname in the same league as, say, Huxley-Calthorpe-De Vere? Or Waddingham-Smythe? Do tell.....

Squidkid, did you enjoy your party, lovey?

Anyone else getting cravings yet? I got really boring ones with DS (green apples, Turkish Delight, Beef & onion Hula Hoops) but today I really, really want Chinese takeaway.

missbone Yeah it was great! Though I was very tired... mostly i was just happy to see my lovely midwife birthday girl and pick her brains about everything... going to be very useful, having a midwife for a mate... she was so lovely to me, as I said above...

I feel "unpregnant" all the time, even though I have had all the pregnancy symptoms there are! (But not consistently, they fluctuate.) I sympathise so much! Glad you were reassured by the pregnancy test...

You have done so well on the smoking front, massive congratulations, that's not easy.

I hate football normally but I was pleased to see wednesday win the Sheffield derby...

I think the human centipede would have made me feel sick BEFORE I was pregnant! I haven't even seen it and ... yuk!

Getting milk cravings. Had that with DD, too. It's like being really thirsty all the time, but drinking glass after glass of water does nothing to touch it. As soon as I have milk... ahhhh... heaven

Not really cravings, but I seem to be tending towards stodgy, salty food. Not good. I should want plethoras of pears, too!

I told my sister and her partner last night. Sis just about hit the ceiling in excitement and SIL declared it would be a boy because she wants a boy

It was a bitch telling my other sis because her and her husband are having trouble TTC. I hope she gets her head around it ok.

Squidkid I just read your party post: so comforting having a midwife buddy, isn't it? I have one, too, and she has approached me to say "Any time you need to talk or ask questions, no matter how seemingly ridiculous, call on me".

Oh dear. Liverpool just scored.

AKMD, I would be lying if I said I was getting cravings. I am, however, finding fresh delight in a bowl of cornflakes and a juicy pear. I believe my 5lbs weight gain since Christmas day is simply down to quitting the fags. However, it is enough of a gain to have encouraged the very tops of my thighs to meet one another after a long separation

Hello girls!

Hope you don't mind me chipping in. I had my BFP on 16th Feb and have been hovering since. It's my first and am due on 27th Oct. Full of nerves and excitement. At 5+1 I have had major tiredness, waking up with nausea, hot sweats and been very dizzy up until last Monday, but now nothing at all. Feels weird, like I'm a fraud with no symptoms at all apart from the odd twinge in my stomach or boobs. Nice to be here, holding on tight and hope to enjoy the ride :) x

I'm enjoying reading what people are saying about telling friends and family about the pregnancy. I didn't expect just how nice it would be to tell people and het their happy and excited responses, some tears even, really moving. But I also had to tell a friend who's having trouble conceiving. We'd agreed before hand that we would tell each other by text, but it was just horrible. She's been trying for a little while and we got lucky on our third try.

As for cravings I've always gone through food fads so unless I seriously start craving coal I won't notice it. Having said that, I'm not into sandwhiches and I've just decided that they're the freshest tasting things ever and now have a wide selection of sandwich things in the fridge. I'm also really liking milk. I'm getting dizzy too Brown Bear, I've wondered what it is but it's only a problem when I'm hungry so I just eat a lot!

Hi Everyone!

Hope you're all well. I have missed about 3 or 4 pages of posts so I thought I would post first and then go back and catch up on everyones news.

Its my 2nd wedding anniversary today. We have had a lovely chilled day in the sunshine and just waiting for our dominoes take away (we didn't book a table anyway incase I felt sick which ironically I don't).

I still have crappy symptoms but they are all good really. Exhausted, boobs rock solid (not so painful) and on and off morning sickness. Does anyone else have really bad nausea one day and then not much the next?

Anyway, enjoy your sunday evening, I am now sitting down with my fake wine (sparkling grape juice!!) and pizza and going to catch up on what is going on with all of you lovelies.

xxxx

Yo! Back from the roast, yum yum. On cravings front AKMD I seem to want salty food which is probably bad e.g. tinned clear soup (today it was French onion but left the onions). Also loving Indian food (but love it anyway). Today am mostly craving Strepsils, Night Nurse and all other illicit cold remedies

Congrats BrownBear. Be reassured that loads of people on here have very few symptoms and of course are worried about that while the poor peeps afflicted with MS are desperate for it to end. What are we all like?

wrigle really interested in how you managed this situation. We have a similar dilemma - friend has been trying for over a year, has started getting tests etc, knew we were only starting to try. We got our BFP straight away but I thought it would take a while, hence we never 'agreed' a strategy for telling each other. I am going to have to tell her soon and in fact am starting to feel uncomfortable not telling her. We live miles apart so she won't notice any physical changes but we talk a lot on the phone. I think we are going to go for a private scan and if all is well will tell her then - didn't want to put her through it if anything was wrong with the bean. How did your friend react?

wrigle i am with you on the dizziness thing! It is so wierd. I am really surprised at how different this pregnancy feels to my last one. I seem to be more tired, sick, emotional!

Well done on the nicotine patches missbone, that must be really hard on top of everything else we are giving up right now!

Glad your party was fun squid. You are so lucky with your midwife friend! I had to tell the 'I am on antibiotics' lie last night to my friends to explain why I wasn't drinking, but I think they all suspect the real reason! DH set on not telling any of our friends until after 12 weeks :-(

brownbear you are due the same day as me! Although ds was 8 days late so I am going to try not to set too much store by that date.

I am really craving milk and salt! Wierd. Quite tempted to send DH out to the shops for a choc orange but know that my desire for one of those has nothing to do with being pg! Hee hee.

Happy anniversary Babydust! x

Oo I just read the name conversations...we have Heidi, Elizabeth, Sofia, Noah, Oscar at the moment.

skidkid I keep forgetting my stats too....

26, 8+1, 1st DC