Anyone due October 2004 - number 2

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Well here goes in date order:

Eyelash (age 36) - 30 September (but always very late). DS1 4 and ds2 21 months
Piglit (age ?) - 6th October First pregnancy
geoteach (age ?) - 7th October 2 children
Toots (age 37)- 8th October dd1 2
Beansprout (age ?) - 12 October first pregnancy
florenceuk (age ?) - due 15 October
Debra64 (age ?) - 20th October dd 7 ds1 6 ds2 4
Miffy2 - 20th October dd 5 ds2 2
Harman (age 34) - 22nd October dd1 6 ds2 3 dd2 2
neuman - due 26 October
Nueman (age ?) - 26 October

I don't have much information on scruff so hope she sees this to let us know how she is getting on. Also hope I haven't missed anybody off. If so let me know so I can rectify it. If any of you want to add further information such as age, children, etc also let me know.

It's just toooo hot! Tips for keeping cool anyone? Apart from bringing a paddling pool to work, I have tried eating ice, sitting with several fans on me (no good when they're blowing warm air!) and drinking loads of iced water - which then sends me running to the toilet where it is even warmer

I'm melting and so is my good mood...

BIBIBOO - The best tip I can give you is to get into an air-conditioned car and drive up to Central Scotland!! Not that warm here, thankfully.

I'm in a metal portacabin..... and I'm nearly 32 wks pg... I'm very glad this part of Scotland is missing the heat wave!

Do you think I could be transferred to where you are Toothache on detached duty? Sounds lovely and cool. Beginning to wish I'd splashed out on A/C for the car now - it's only a ten minute drive to work but it would eb SO worth it - they might even let me take a lap top out to the car then.

Do you think I could be transferred to where you are Toothache on detached duty? Sounds lovely and cool. Beginning to wish I'd splashed out on A/C for the car now - it's only a ten minute drive to work but it would eb SO worth it - they might even let me take a lap top out to the car then.

Hi Hot Chicks. Air conditioned rooms, pools and sea sound good.

Bibiboo - we'll be in West Wales for our hols. DP's m&d live in Carmarthen, and we'll be spending a week in Tenby. They'll look after dd the first couple of nights then wheel her over. So that should be lovely.

Turtle - hair cut is Friday. Yes, had same thought myself today. Had hair cut a bit too short about a month before dd born and it did me and my puffy face no favours. Hoping hairdresser is genius. Cuts lots of my friends hair and they all look very nice. Have been skimping locally of late.

Have to tell you all my dream. Not gory. I am waiting to have a C-section and Tony Blair comes into the room, he looks at my bump and says 'what's this mark here that looks like washing on a line?' and I say 'not sure, maybe a stretch mark or a scar' and he says 'Are you telling me you don't f*ing know?' And I say 'How dare you, would you talk to your children like that?' (eh?) And he rolls his eyes and says 'could someone get a complaint form for this lady.' Quite pleased with that.

LOL @ your dream Toots! Very funny.

Hope everyone is well today. And cooler than yesterday.

Great dream, Toots!

I am now sitting in air conditioned room, so no hay fever and the temperature is just right! Unfortunately I'm also really tired because I just couldn't get comfortable last night - had restless leg syndrome, baby kicking, and DS woke at 6am. So it will be a highly productive day I can tell. Have been on Mumsnet for the last half hour instead. I feel like I'm on leave already...

How much do your dbs move/kick? I feel movement for short periods first thing in the morning, late afternoon and late evening but it's not always like this. When we were on holiday db was kicking like mad every afternoon but since I've been back at work (sitting at my desk all day) I don't feel the kicks as much. Should I be worried? I thought the kicks would get more frequent and stronger. I'm 23 weeks today.

Hi- all this talk of holidays is making me impatient. We´re off to Spain for 2 weeks on Friday. Mind you it´s so hot here at the moment that I wished we were booked to go somewhere cooler - Iceland maybe.
Piglit - I`m also not that aware of db kicking me that much. I´ve put it down to that fact I´m chasing around after dd all day and haven´t got time to really focus. As soon as I sit down in the evenings to relax he starts kicking like mad.

Beginning to think I've got a right lazy little baby in my tummy - he/she only kicks at night and even then very gently...don't know where the baby gets it's laziness from

Ladies, didn't think it was worth starting a new thread to ask this, so I hope someone can help... is it possible for the sickness to revisit at 21 weeks? The last 2 days I've felt sick as a dog and gone off my food, despite feeling ravenous at the same time! It's not nice...

Definitely Bibiboo - I felt sick again at 20 ish weeks and put it down to either tiredness or a growth spurt by my bump. I also felt a bit nauseous on Monday and put that down to being back at work and being very tired. I've noticed that bump seems to have had a growth spurt in the last couple of days. I'm sure it's all linked.

Bibiboo, poor you. I'm afraid I can't really help other than suggest you ring your doctor/midwife? It might be a bug? Hope you are feeling better soon?

Florence - I'm completely with you there. Had a horrendous night with DS last night. eventually he came in bed with me and DH slept in DS's bed (single bed not a cot, which helps!). Awful night with DS restless and grumpy, then at 6am is very cute and lively (of course!) asks 'what's the matter mummy?'... oh well!

Thankfully, I'm 'working' at home today as have a midwife appt this afternoon... might have to indulge in a little nap.

As for kicking baby - this one doesn't stop. Whenever I sit or lie down, off it goes. At work, on train, in bed, on sofa... is busy booting me about as I post... what is it doing!?!

I notice the kicking most at night, I guess because it is the only thing going on! However I wouldn't worry too much - as long as some movement is going on, then baby is doing fine.

Another ick pregnancy symptom - swollen feet. Just noticed my shoes are now tighter than yesterday. Last time could only wear sandals and sneakers - it's happening again!

Thanks piglit, feel a bit more reassured, and coincidentally, my bump has grown significantly in the last week, so maybe a surge of hormones is to blame after all.

I have heard "You're carrying a girl" and "you're going to be very big at the end" about a million times today. Some people are SO certain about their speculations - sometimes I wish I'd found out baby's sex just so I could be smug in the knowledge that they were wrong!

Is anyone still taking folic acid supplements? I keep forgetting mine? What are the recommendations?

Bibiboo, IKWYM. Everyday at work I get commented on about my size and it really gets to me. OK so I'm a weeble - so what?!!!

Sooz,
I asked my midwife the same thing 2 weeks ago and she said there's no need to take it after 12 weeks and in most cases it's done all the good it can do as far as week 7 if your dates are right, so she told me to stop taking it now (I was 19+5).

Hope that helps - anyone else hear the same in case I dreamt that in my dizzy pg world?!

The worst part about people's comments is, that I have a sneaky feeling I'll be spouting the same guff when they are pregnant and I just won't be able to help myself...
Like when you catch yourself saying something like "you'll have someone's eye out with that..." and think, oh no! I AM my mother!

That's exactly right Bibiboo - by 12 weeks everything should be formed and folic acid won't make a difference. Has anyone heard the one about taking cod liver oil to increase db's brain power and turn him into a child genius by the age of 4? (Ok, so I'm exaggerating...). Seriously, I read somewhere that fish oils are good for baby's brains. Anyone else?

Oh, and on the size front - I've had the full range from "ooh, you're so neat - must be a boy" to "bet you can't wait to look pg rather than just fat"

my favourite was from a 'friend' who said of someone she knows expecting 1 day after me, oh she's looking so well and neat, I reckon she's having a boy, whereas you are much more... (awkward pause).. rounded, I think you must be having a girl.

naturally, I felt wonderful!

Nooooo - why are people so rude?? My tactless m/w friend is coming over this weekend so no doubt she'll have something undiplomatic to say. I'll let you know what classics she comes up with this time....

My gran is constantly telling me to be careful not to put too much weight on and to wear looser clothes as it's vulgar to show off a pregnant belly - bless her! It wasn't the done thing in her day to let it all hang out and to actually look pregnant, she's quite proud of the fact that when she was carrying my mother people were asking her had she already had the baby - she was 8 months at the time! And she's have convulsions if she knew we had a cot in the house, "tempting fate" and all that. I know she can't help it, ti's what she believes, but does she really think that the presence of a cot in the same house as a pregnant woman spells disaster?!
I know she means well, but rellies don't half get on my nerves sometime - don't get me started on well-meaning MIL!!!

It's so tricky isn't it. Everyone means well. But not everyone shares the same opinions. For whatever reason (and I'd love to get to the bottom of it) a pregnant woman is fair game as far as expressing any kind of opinion.

I was at a wedding recently and a friends' wife was wearing a v clingy dress (she had a tiny figure but very prominent 7m bump) and several people were quite disturbed by it (notably older generations) and i thought she looked lovely (despite a dubious hair accessory!).

hello all - been off for while after car accident (not my fault some berk pulled right in front of me at 40mph) was more worried about bump than me whiplash which seems to be getting worse rather than better!
Bibiboo - I'm coming up 24 weeks and still am sick so send my sympathies!

Sounds like a nightmare Allyco - hope you are ok.