Due in Oct 2012 - part 4!

[Angelico]

Back for more...!

Oh, and ps this is the babygrow I couldn't resist in Next - cute, huh?

Good luck with the scan Cwest you'll be fine once you're in there & once you're allowed to empty your bladder lol

Yomping good for you on the babygrow front,I haven't had the bottle to get any yet just in case but feel like I must start!

Angelico,glad to hear you have an answer now to the mystery,hope they get you sorted as soon as it's possible to do so :)

Went out last night into town for drinks with friends as there was a few birthdays,one of the other girls we see is also PG but further along & due in July,so this was the first time I saw most of them since our news broke & my goodness what a fuss everyone made! If I'm brutally honest I got a bit fed up after a bit with all the fuss it's not like I'm dibilitated in any way I can still function the same & dont need to bloody sit down every five minutes!! I felt quite awkward really as they weren't making the same fuss over the other PG lady so we (& other halves) decided to do one & go for a curry instead!!

Rant over!! :) 16wks today & wont be going far out the house because of the shitty rain & we have a flood warning down the road :)

Will also be looking to book a lovely sunny holiday as it'll be our last for a while today!!

Morning all

Angelicio I can offer no words of wisdom on your situation from experience but it does sound like it must be a relief to have a reason for your chain of worrying events. Still something you could do without though. Sending you sympathy strokes and hoping you get as much Info from your midwife when you see her so you don't have any unnecessary worry.

guccigirl know what you mean about the fuss. I don't like it either. I know it is well intentioned but it can make you feel a bit smothered.

yomping your neighbours probably think you are supplementing your teaching income with drug dealing now. Oh well, never mind!

pissing down here too and I am off to see Chelsea v QPR so no doubt will get drenched to my pants (and not in a good way). Booked a holiday to Spain for 2 weeks time, total lazy eating and sitting in the sun holiday before I start feeling uncomfy in the heat. Can't wait, the thought of doing nothing rocks and as I am borrowing a friends place it is costing £220 for all of us. Result.

best be off. Silly early kick off means I have to leave early and it takes me ages to get out the house as can't go anywhere without food provisions. I am eating a lot all of a sudden but still not putting on much weight. 4lbs so far and 2 of that were from being on holiday, so food baby not real baby. Don't suppose it matters as I know some haven't put on at all yet and soon I will be worrying about putting on too much I guess. Don't understand how I can have changed my shape so considerably with so little extra weight. Stomach looks like I have a water melon in my pants. Despite this I still look fat rather than pregnant, unless I wear really tight clothes. Going to come out at work on Monday. Had Ab attack of moral conscious and think its the right thing to do. Also think I am about a week from it being really bloody obvious.

have a good day baking those beans.

Morning all, wild and wet and windy here, really don't want to leave house but have to later on...
Angelico glad you've got a reason for the spotting, and hope you get some more answers on next steps soon.
guccigirl know exactly what you mean about the fuss, keep trying to change the topic! On holidays, we're due to go camping in July, by which time I'll be 6.5 months by then I think - any idea whether that's a totally daft idea? Should we try to get a B&B instead? Definitely don't want to miss the hol but a bit worried about crawling into and out of tent if I'm getting chunky...
Bump so far looks more like I've just eaten too much, but more and more of my work trouser don't do up easily anymore, so I may need to bite bullet and go shopping (really hate clothes shopping at best of times, and can't console myself with a pint afterwards any more!).
Squid, lovely to hear you sounding a bit more yourself, and YAY on the bump!
CWest will be tihnking of you on Mon v much.
Right, must get off the sofa and sort out what I can make for lunch for friends from the ingredients I have in the house - really don't want to walk to shops in this weather! What a wuss!!

Just having a nose around - didnt realise there was another october 2012 thread! (I've just been on the antenatal one)

So Hellooooooo!

I'm having a c-section on the 3rd October - baby no.1 - and it's a BOY!

Hello gorgeous girls, hope sunday is treating you ok. I had a nice night with a mate from the hospital last night, cooked her my famous squid & courgette spaghetti, eyed up her wine enviously, ranted about the hospital. Was nice.

Still fascinated by my bump and staring at it a lot. I veer wildly from thinking it's a tiny bump for nearly 19 weeks and thinking oh my god I'm massive! Was feeling a bit low about my size/weight this morning and now I'm all happy about bump again, so all over the place basically! I'm glad I'm not the only one who has body issues at times, I kind of feel like i'm letting the feminist side down when I do.

I did this really odd pregnancy workout DVD this morning, I bought it cheap off ebay last week - Erin O'Brien, has anyone done it? She's really heavily pregnant - I like that about it - and it's energetic which is good, but she just veers so wildly from move to move and then does them at double speed for no reason at all when I think it would be better to make sure you have good form, especially when pregnant! I'm finding my old workouts a bit hardcore and the core work feels uncomfortable so I wanted something that felt safe in pregnancy. It then has this hilarious bit where you use your partner for resistance work - he leans on you while you do wall pushups, pushes on your shoulders while you do squats etc - which for no reason at all turned my boy on so much we had a second workout on the mat before I'd hardly finished... ahaha!!! TMI.

Went out in the rain and flood warnings to jump in puddles with wellies, am really wet now. I am such a child.

Cwest Thinking of you for tomorrow!! Am glad you are feeling happy and energetic again. It's amazing how much hard work 1st trimester is isn't it... (and 3rd still to come, ulp)

Angelico well - an answer is a good start. Am glad you're feeling a bit better about it all. What are they doing for followup?

londonlivvy eurgh, pregnant and moving house... poor you, that's a lot of work and stress. But as you say, baby will be fine wherever you are. I'm glad you're feeling better too! (Thankfully becoming a common theme here...) The Isabella Oliver clothes are very nice indeed, quite grown up. I wear more daft things and wonder where I'm going to end up finding maternity stuff. Asos does have a good range (and lots of nice colours, don't want to wear black/navy all the time - my personal bugbear with them is so much of their stuff is sleeveless. My arms are ok, but really, I don't think sleeveless dresses are that flattering on anyone. I want some nice shorts for the summer - I live in shorts in the summer - can you be pregnant and wearing shorts or does that just look hideous/slutty? Are my legs going to swell up massively? Oh the first world problems.

Zoe the dress sounds wild! (literally - leopards and flowers!) You have to wear it now. I really want the perfect maxi-dress for the summer festivals (I go to lots of free ones, and being pregnant is not going to stop me), but I'm not sure what the perfect one is yet...

As for smears, mine was a year overdue and I managed to get it whilst unknowingly pregnant, 3 weeks or so. You're not supposed to do that, oh well. It was clear.

Yomping :( :( :( about your bike. I know it meant a lot to you. And yeah to your bra woes. I have a very, very unsexy one that I basically live in now, from M&S, I tried it on and my brain/eyes went "NO YOU LOOK LIKE A NUN" and my body went "wow that's comfortable". And I have big tits, so I went with the comfort and don't want to be paranoid about milk ducts etc. I sneakily switch it for a nicer one if I think I'm going to be undressed by anyone any time soon!

Gucci and midget very jealous of your holidays, but well-deserved, hope you have a great time and lots of sunshine. This rain is unrelenting!

squidkid hahaha I spoke too soon about feeling well and energetic..... Slept in til 10am and been unable to get off sofa all day LOL. On plus side hubbys done all the housework before i've let him off to the pub for a few hrs and he's bringing dinner home again ( woops takeaways all weekend for the second weekend in a row, not good at all) so I feel lucky he is being so understanding, it wouldn't have been this way a few yrs ago..... Sigh, hurry up tomorrow! x

Squid, LMAO at looking like a nun in the new bras! That's exactly what I think I look like. And underwired D-cup bras are fucking massive compared to the skimpier wired C-cups I was in just 3 days ago! It's all taking a bit of getting used to. My town rematch was quite successful, I now have 4 bras that fit, hurray, but the nicest one has to go back as it is too small (got T-shirt style a cup-size smaller as this seemed to fit better for that style, but big fail with the only nice one and of course I didn't bother trying it on in the shop ). Also found a gorgeous stretchy maxi-skirt in Phase Eight which will stretch with the bump. Over the last 2 days I have bought so much that I am now banned from shopping for the rest of the pregnancy . I'm trying to wangle paying for it out of our baby savings, as if it wasn't for the baby, I wouldn't need new clothes.

And thank you, about the bike. The new one doesn't suck too much, and DH is telling me off for still riding it so I think I'll be using the car in a week or so. The good thing about that is I can wear skirts and earrings to work again (bike trousers over work trousers is my usual arrangement, can't be bothered to take skirt to work and change into it, and earrings don't work with a helmet). So it's not all bad.

I seem to have a bump with a split personality - does anyone else's change from day to day? For the last 2 days I swear it has been smaller. This leads me to suspect it is because I have been eating more healthily (and with less wild abandon) and some of the bump was actually fat . Maybe I can continue this sensible eating lark and eke out some more wear from my old clothes before they completely stop fitting!

Off to ogle Chris Hemsworth watch the Avengers tonight with DH and some of his mates.

CWest, still got everything crossed for you!

Evening peeps :) Thanks for good wishes, hoping it all turns out to be nothing much of anything. No more spotting today at least.

Zoe - thud. (That noise is the sound of Angelico hitting the floor at the mention of the words 'electrified cheesewire' :o)

Yomping good tip on the bras, will check it out. Also loving the description of the 'wired' Scots arriving for the bike :o Glad new bike isn't too bad!

Gucci and Midget you both had much more adventurous weekends than we did - impressed at your energy :)

Confusion I quite like camping BUT I'm already getting the odd twinge in my hips etc now so can't imagine sleeping on a carrymat / airbed at 6 months :o I would go for the B&B tbh!

Hello to Emmie and other October board peeps :)

Squid my bump goes from big to massive to big and back, think this is normal - suspect it's a deadly combo of bowels and bean :o Laughing at idea of pregnancy DVD woman leaping about madly - my ligaments howl in protest if stand up too fast, never mind jump around :o Oh - and on a more serious note, they never mentioned any follow up. Should they have? Dr Google seems to give mixed opinions but most sites seem to recommend leaving the polyps alone until bean arrives in case it triggers bleeding. Potential hazard of leaving them is infection or (God forbid) them being malignant. I'd like to think they would get bigger and more obvious then.

CWest good luck for tomorrow! x

Right ladies, going to finish my book and hit the sack. It has been a joy reading again - never get a chance when writing - BUT really need to start working again whle I can still sit at desk and reach the keyboard :o

Have a good Monday all! x

Just a quickie to say good luck for tomorrow CWest that must be the last of us right? Got everything crossed for you.

Welcome to the emmie from the other board, nice to meet ya, do poo over anytime. As you are Ec you could Be the first to have an actual baby in your arms. Which is nice.

Better go, shed loads of work to do any only just got DD to bed. Exhausted just thinking about having 2....

My bump looks like I'm much further on than I am,I have totally lost my waist & am no longer in charge of my body & I have to admit I'm really struggling with it today.Does anyone else have thoughts like this or am I already shaping up to be a terrible mother???!!! It's not because I'm not happy things are changing it's just it all happens rather quickly & noone fills you in on the stuff that could potentially get you down they only tell you how lovely it all is,which it is most of the time. Oh tell me to shut up & stop being a tit!!!!!

Apologies ladies for random rant I'm now going to go & have a word with myself!! :)

Don't worry guccigirl, you're definitely not alone - it's weird all the things that happen to our bodies, and add hormones to the mix as well and it's bound to make us feel pretty weird. Keep telling myself that I need to be patient with myself... I'm finding it hard to think of it being the baby doing these things, as other than scan and a quick heartbeat listen at MW, it just feels like my body doing stuff to itself. I'm hoping that will change once I start feeling the baby move... Doesn't mean I'm not excited, and happy, and (hopefully!!) won't mean I'll be a bad mother, just that there's lots to get used to. I've been the same size for 15 years so clothes getting too tight is feeling far weirder than I thought it would. Maybe that's why humans take 9 months to get to birth - to let the mums (and dads) get their heads around the change!

BTW, fairly certain my bump is all crisps and biscuits - and wind - so far.

Right, despite lie in then long snooze this afternoon, I'm zzzzz so off to bed. Night all.

I can recommend Avengers Assemble - brilliant film, great special effects, especially if seen in 3D and Chris Hemsworth is, well... there are no words. I love DH dearly and think he is the most handsome, kindest, fittest (in a phwoar way) and loveliest man on the planet. But if I hadn't met him, I would be hunting Chris Hemsworth down!!!

Gucci I have struggled right the way through. Sometimes it feels like everything is soooo slooooooww, and sometimes it feels like a rollercoaster that I want to get off but can't. I'm not good with not being in control (would make a good doctor, lol), so the changes my body is going through that are not directly under my control freak me out a lot. I don't think it says anything about us as mothers (apart from that I'm going to be the kind who has a box for the toys and DC will put them away or else ). To be honest, I think that anyone who goes through this and is not freaked out by it at regular intervals along the way is probably not entirely normal .

CWest, adding crossed legs and arms for you today - which could make work tricky but the last scan of the October 2012s is worth it!

Good luck with your scan today cwest

Can I ask, is anyone else suffering from lower back pain, but only when they're lying down? Once I'm up and about it eases off but lying in bed, and the process of sitting up from lying down, is absolute agony.

If anyone has any tips or cushion positions that have worked for them please can you share them? Haven't used a cushion so far but tempted to try some sort of cushion support tonight!

31, 14+1, #1

Kyyria I find I get back pain when I'm in the same position for a long time. I'm fine throughout the day because I'm on the move but at night I ache, and sitting down at college hurts too.

Gucci I am ok with my bump but hate just about everything else! I don't remember feeling like this in my first pregnancy but this morning I nearly cried because I have back fat!

23, 16+5, #2

Kyyria, it might be more than you want to do, but I swear by seeing a chiropractor every couple of months, and weekly pilates sessions - I have had a bad back for years, sometimes excruciating, and the combination of these two really, really helps. Other than that, some stretches - cat stretches are good, like the yoga ones.

guccigirl honestly? I out off pregnancy for about three extra years because I was so freaked out by losing control over my body.

I mean, pregnancy! You can't even take a day off!

It's one of the very few problems I never found anyone specifically complaining about on the internet, too ;)

So, not just you!

I still struggle some days, but overall I decided to take DH's advice. He says any kind of problem that goes away if you just wait long enough is a good kind of problem to have, and that's what we've got ;)

Good luck cwest!

CWest thinking of you today.

Kyyria sorry no - not suffered in preg but have had problems with my back in the past so do sympathise. Perhaps try yoga or swimming? Both have helped me.

Gucci I can absolutely relate. I've a tendency to be a bit body obsessive and finding this lack of control tricky to say the least. And this morning I was pleased to find I've only gained 1.5kgs since the start of this caper (now 67.7), until I then found out that I now weigh more than DF (66kg). Admittedly he is a very competitive (amateur) cycle racer and so is intentionally very slim (and not v.tall) but I hadn't realised that I'd be heavier than him when without a bump! I have no bump, just non-existent-waist-syndrome.

quick wave to everyone else - must get on with work.

36, 13+4, #1

Here is a good laugh for you girls this morning re: losing control of your body

I had my firstand yes second sneeze - pee incident this weekend!

I have something nasty of a cold right now :( and my sneezes have been powerful enough to blow two houses down.

Right now i'm sitting on the floor of my bathroom,shower cranked to hot and having a good steam. Got toget to work. Yuck.

I also have lower back pain. Right low under my butt dimple on the left side. I think the sacrooiliac joint is what is giving me grief. Started sleeping with a body pillow between the legs. It seems to help. Also, too much bending amd lifting (or just repetitive bending like folding laundry) will cause it to flare up.

I can?t believe I haven?t posted for nearly a week! Time has been flying! Dame - thanks for asking :) ? everything is ok with me but last week was pretty busy and stressful and we?ve been away for the weekend.

So, I?ve now imported my car, survived a mahoosive financial crisis, failed to register as a Norwegian citizen but succeeded in getting ante-natal care anyway (bits of which I may or may not have to pay for; not sure yet). Had my first ?pregnancy kontrol? appt with the GP on Friday and got referred to the midwife service and for a scan in a couple of weeks. Annoyingly, they won?t take my adjusted dates from my 12 week scan and insist on ?starting at the beginning again? (doh!). I even had to have all my bloods again (blood group, HIV etc.) . They?ve now insisted I?m 16 weeks, not 17 weeks + 1. However, what would have been my 20 week scan in UK is usually at 18 weeks here and so in 2 weeks time approx (when I?ll be 19+something weeks :)), I?ll get my 20 week scan :). Also I?m going to be scanned/dealt with by a gynaecologist because of my fibroids etc (which pleases me) and I have access to the midwife service as well ?if I like?. One is also followed up regularly by the GP here rather than hospital ante-natal appts. Still, at least I?m in the system :). Mucho relief.

Been away for the weekend at one of the sets of in-laws and had a lovely rest gazing at the sun shimmering off the fjord, the mountains and the sounds of birdsong and lambs bleating through the open door. Even went to an open air concert halfway up a mountain yesterday.

Symptoms - I?m mostly feeling ok apart from mahoosive bump, carpal tunnel, similar thing to carpal in my ankles/feet (but mostly on/off swelling, exacerbation of old ankle injury, slight tingling and itchy tops of feet), just below knee-cap pain, like bruises (again, may be flaring up of old Chrondromalacia) and the usual random lower abdominal crampy stuff that I believe is mostly due to bowels/wind?oh and my bladder has diminished in capacity. I seem to only do little bits at a time. After meals/big drinks, I tend to go about 5 times in 10 minutes, doing just a little at a time. Which is very irritating. Gave a urine sample. Hoping it?s not UTI but just usual pregnancy stuff.

Right, off to read all your posts and get caught up :). Hope you all had lovely weekends x

Ok, caught up :)

Sex - anyone still talking about it? (if worried about TMI, look away now?) I?m rather gutted as usually I?m a ?once a day if possible? kind of girl and I don?t think I?ve ever not orgasmed. Since being 13 weeks+ it seems everything is too sensitive ? like it is just after orgasm normally and I seem to ?miss? a proper ?O? and go straight from enjoying stuff to ?oh my god everything?s too sensitive, don?t touch me? super . No pain per se (my sympathies Zoeplankton), just not ?comfortable?. Hoping that this is just a temporary thing and caused by the same thing as the small capacity bladder. Hoping as the uterus moves upwards it might get better? Determined to keep having it and not let this part of our couple life slide but wish I could be enjoying it as much as I want to be .

CWest30 - hope your scan went well today ? thinking of you! :)

londonlivvy - glad to hear you are having your cervix scanned and that you were taken seriously. Hoping all will turn out ok with that.

Angelico - sorry to hear you have a polyp (although I don?t think they?re a very ?serious? thing in the scheme of things) but glad you have an answer that isn?t to do with the baby about your spotting and glad they?re keeping an eye on you.

Yomping - dead cute babygrow :) Looks like their range is very cute indeed. Found myself looking at baby stuff this weekend and StepMIL took me out to find a knitting pattern as she wants to knit something for the baby and I decided on this (the stripey set at the bottom) which I think is very cute and we picked a cute teal colour instead of grey that should work for a boy or a girl. Will try and resist buying any stuff until a bit further on and more financially secure?

Midgetm - holiday in Spain! Result! :)

GucciGirl - I hear you about the bump/body. Mine?s also way too big for my stage and I feel so self-loathing some days; so heavy and cumbersome and sometimes even having to ask DP to bend down and pick things up for me/slow down while walking (I?m ?carrying? or something very high all the time now so being out of puff and feeling VERY unfit is becoming the norm ).

As for maternity clothes/bras - I?m too broke to buy any special maternity clothes ? they?re so expensive! So I?m just buying cheap ordinary loose stuff/stretchy stuff/ unfitted dresses when I get the chance. I?ve given up wearing knickers as none are comfortable (over bump, no ? under bump, digs ) and can?t find anywhere in Norway let alone Stavanger that does opaque maternity tights OR bras of ANY kind (let alone maternity) in my size and what will be my size (currently 34J). Seem to be reduced to ordering from UK online, paying £25 tax on each parcel and then paying for returns if items don?t fit . Still, gotta be done?I?ll be the size of a house soon :-. to all you girls with your pretty dresses and cute sounding maternity clothes.

Right off to do big shop and ferry DP to and from work for parent's evening and then to his United fan brothers for the 2nd half of the game later (he's a City fan - should be fun... ). At least DSD1 seems to have calmed down now about the baby and we are getting along ok. She does seem to be at the comical stage of teendom where she is hideously embarrassed to be seen in public with us and will not talk to us in public places . Well I'm finding it amusing... .

CWest30- Hope you are ok!