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Anyone due October 2004 - number 2

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eyelash · 30/03/2004 01:09

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.

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piglit · 26/04/2004 12:09

Harman - great news. I think you should definitely take them up on the offer of rest. Sounds like a great idea.

Eyelash- glad to hear your scan was fine. I'm really hoping to find out the sex when we go for the 20 week scan but I've got almost 4 weeks to wait!

Hope everyone else is ok. I'm enjoying feeling normal at the moment - no nausea or heartburn and most of my rashes have cleared up. I'm still not blooming though! Is anyone else?

beansprout · 26/04/2004 13:32

Harman and Eyelash, really glad things are ok for you both

Am actually wearing mat trousers to work for the first time, instead of managing with the old ones. Blimey, it's like taking off a pair of tight shoes and putting slippers on. Ahhhhh....

Did say, in all seriousness, to dp this morning "yes, but the problem with mat. clothes is that they make me look pregnant". He politely suggested that I may need to get used to that...

Turtle35 · 27/04/2004 14:10

Eyelash poor you having to deal with Thrush!! but how exciting for you to see it's a boy!! Oh I am so jealous! How many weeks are you now? I secretly would like a boy, clearly will be delighted with a girl to and just want baby to be healthy.

Bean I started wearing mat clothes to work and everyone has guessed I am pg now. Had a fab shopping spree at Formes yesterday. Yikes did I spend a fortune but the clothes are beautiful. It makes such a difference being comfy at work now. I am sure I look obviously pregnant now but still am NOT offered a seat on the blasted Tube.

Harman so pleased the scan went well and I agree, you should take them up on a couple of days rest.

I hope everyone else is feeling really well and happy the sun is shining!

piglit · 27/04/2004 18:31

I had my 16 week m/w appointment today and all was fine. Heartbeat strong etc. Oh, and m/w told me that dark chocolate is great for topping up iron levels.

beansprout · 27/04/2004 18:37

Fantastic news Piglit!! And medical permission to eat chocolate too!!

Toots · 27/04/2004 21:38

Hi Everyone.

Harman, really pleased about your scan, and yours too Eyelash.

Beansprout, LOL re: mat clothes making you look pregnant. Wore mat trousers to meeting yesterday and convinced they made me waddle.

Last two days, have had an evening big tummy all day. Look vast. It's all pies obviously but bump must be pushing up my lard, so it melts out of front of trousers like molten lava. Sorry supper eaters. Lovely sun today. Had friend and her dd over for lunch with garden table and chairs and paddling pool out. Several moments of pure bliss watching the naked nymphs cavort and enjoying the rays, plus the usual, cat shit, mud, dirty hands going up girl bits and needing cloths. We were up and down like Tower bridge, but it was gorgeous.

Piglit, no, not blooming, but feeling quite normal at some points in the day, and quite a bit less tired.

harman · 28/04/2004 11:36

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piglit · 28/04/2004 12:17

Harman - poor you.

Do you know a physio/osteo who might come out to see you? Does a warm bath help? (Probably not practical with 3 children around) I'm not really sure what to suggest other than if you try to get in touch with motherinferior - she's been a really good source of help and advice for my achey pelvis and hips.

beansprout · 28/04/2004 14:58

Harman, you poor thing, that sound horrible
Hope you can get some help/relief soon.

Toots - lol at your waddling - my trousers do the same to me, until I need to run for something and then I am curiously spritely again!! (Not for long though, I suspect).

Had 16w appt this morning, everything fine. Heard the heartbeat. It's incredible how 5 seconds of a wooshing sound can put me on cloud nine and move me to tears whenever I think about it. Hope everyone else is well. How are the iron/chocolate levels piglit?

piglit · 28/04/2004 15:03

I've decided to make a real effort to keep my iron levels high so I have been eating lots of dark chocolate. I wasn't hungry last night so had some dark chocolate instead. Yum. Of course, my midwife did tell me that my iron levels were good but even so, I think it's important to keep it that way.....

I know what you mean about the effect of the baby's heartbeat. When I heard it yesterday I felt this surge of emotion and had a little blub and was on cloud nine all day.

beansprout · 28/04/2004 15:39

You are a good and conscientious mum to be little piglit. I will follow your example (even though my iron levels are fine too) Oh, and they told me this morning I don't have syphillis too, well that's a relief then!

Toots · 01/05/2004 13:58

Hello, hello, hello to all.

I have had an epiphany along if Mohammad won't go to the mountain lines....

I'm fed up of waiting to bloom, so I'm going to throw some time and money at the problem. I'm booking highlights; getting back into several months abandoned skincare routine and going to buy a couple of those massive laundry bags and put all non preg-compliant clothes, finally, in to the loft. I will then rearrange all available schmutter to look attractive on the clothes rail. Dammit, I might even find some stuff to take the burned off cack off our iron, and de-wrinkle some of it. Then, tomorrow after my meeting in the West End, I'm going to Big Top Shop and possibly Fenwicks, to find a couple of key accessory pieces to glam up the toots summer look. I hope this is inspiring, and not vacuous. I don know there are more important things in life. But I've had some chocolate already.

Beansprout, are you like me thinking about April's Lesley76 all the time? She's so lovely, and really needs to have that baby.

Sending you all a big hug for a good week. Harman, what's happening with your back? I hope you have found a good osteopath or suchlike, as they are gods. Mine has saved me from several pickles. So sympathise.

piglit · 01/05/2004 14:10

Quite right too Toots. I was thinking about having highlights, a facial and a pedicure as part of my attempt to look blooming and you've given me the push I needed to make an appointment!

My bump expanded drastically over the weekend. Has anyone else found they've been having growth spurts??

beansprout · 01/05/2004 15:49

Toots, you are an inspiration to us all! I am "making do" in one of my old, baggy shirts today and what do you know, I feel fat, frumpy and too hot!! Have been having growth spurts too Piglit. Have also been told (in the same day):
a) that I am "big" for dates and
b) where are you hiding it then, there's nothing there?! Argh! Truth is, of course, that I love the attention

I have been thinking about Lesley, and I'm sure it will be the same every month with whoever is last left on the thread. Special commitment from the October massive to look after whoever is last in our group?

motherinferior · 01/05/2004 16:01

Toots, there are NO more important things in life. I expect to see you glowing and resplendent on Sunday

Beansprout, read, absorb and BEHAVE.

I tried selling an article on 'when am I supposed to burst into bloom' last year...

Turtle35 · 01/05/2004 16:55

I am definitely going to be last on this thread, I just know it, my dd is 26th and no doubt this bubster is going to be late!

I think I doubled in size last week! Hurray, I was finally offered a seat on the tube this am.....by a woman!! of course.

has anyone got a cure for trapped wind?? I feel like I am going to explode today. literally.

Turtle35 · 01/05/2004 16:56

oh and have decided to join the club and get a pedicure/manicure to join the glowing process!!

piglit · 01/05/2004 17:10

I agree that we should stick by whoever is left behind on the Oct thread.

Trapped wind is a nightmare. I had it before I even knew I was pg - I spent a whole evening at a friend's very sophisticated dinner party thinking I was going to explode internally or else let rip. Those deflatine (sp?) tablets are good but you might want to check you can use them when pg.

Toots · 01/05/2004 23:33

Turtle. Please, take deflatine, you are very much allowed. Hope it does some good. If it's any consolation, I went 16 days over, and dd due 10th was born on 26th, so you may yet beat me too it.
Yes, we must look after our stragglers. I'm sure we will.

Thrilled to be the trigger for so much pamperfication. I am very blonde now. And wondering about cracking open the fake tan - don't panic, I dilute it to homeopathic weakness with moisturiser.

Beansprout, do you think Lesley's in labour? I hope so.

Have partially de-cacked iron and bought two starter-home sized tartan bags. Let the de-clutter commence. Although not tonight thank you. I am tired. Went to gym. Am back into it now, though you wouldn't think it to look at me.

beansprout · 02/05/2004 01:27

Toots, am SO impressed that you went to the gym. I am busy congratulating myself for just continuing to go to work, evening classes, etc etc.

Packed a lot of my "old" clothes away last weekend, and got some more moose ones in the post today which I am very pleased with. Still a bit dismayed at how big they all are but hey... I'll get over it.

Dp is away this week and I am swinging between glorious independence and how-could-he-abandon-me-in-my-current-state? I keep telling myself this is the last week I shall have totally to myself for a very long time....

BTW have just checked the April thread and Lesley is still very pregnant indeed.

Turtle35 · 02/05/2004 14:15

Toots you are so good going to the gym, I keep saying to myself, (hmm must do some exercise) but that's as far as it gets. Have been very envious of skinny woman lately which I know it's completely silly as I am going to get MUCH fatter!

am off to see midwife today for first time booking in - feel a little nervous cause of tests.

piglit · 02/05/2004 14:29

Good luck Turtle - let us know how it goes.

beansprout · 02/05/2004 14:40

Good luck Turtle. Which aspect of the tests are you worried about? Is it deciding what ones to have or it is the outcomes? Hope it all goes ok. Will you have a scan today?! As our trusted Piglit says, please let us know how you get on.

Am dressed in selected items from my new power (i.e. clothes that fit me properly) wardrobe and am feeling invincible today. Just watch how my hormones make a mockery of that by tea time by making me cry over a squashed ant or something!

piglit · 02/05/2004 14:53

I saw ducklings this morning in the river I walk along on the way to work and I cried. Good grief...

My dh told me last night that I really look pg now (I think it was the fact that the button on my jacket was about to burst that did it). Is anyone else finding that they are really beginning to show to the outside world?

Turtle35 · 02/05/2004 14:58

Bean I have had a scan and was pleased enough with the odds and was advised of not going for any further CVS or Amnio, but I think I am having the triple screen tests today? I am not sure as I am only 14 weeks.

still feel nervous about it for some reason, couldn't sleep last night. may sound ridiculous but worried she might find something wrong with the baby.