New Anyone Due in August 2004 Thread!

[Toothache]

Here we go, as promised...

Yes Dino, I am M2T. Not in disguise though, just got really bored of my name.

So this thread can be a record of the last half of our pregnancies. I'm going to print out the original as a nice log of the first 5 months of the pregnancy.

This is thread we'll all be posting on when we go into labour!! I'm all excited now.

Sibble - Nope, not a Kiwi thing... I was given that chart to start filling it in at 23 wks. I have waaaaay more than 10 movements by 9.30am, which is lovely! Must be my morning caffeine fix that wakes the baby up.

Welcome back Toyiba!

Sweetkitty - That's awful! Where did you fall? If it was on public ground you should contact the Council about it. Take care.

Well I'm 26wks today and still feeling good. I sat last night watching my tummy jumping around and eventually had to rub my hand on my tummy to calm the baby down! The past 2 days at the same time the baby has had hiccups.

Hope everyone is well. We'll be into the 3rd Trimester before we know it!

me again

Toothache fell outside my office mothing to do with teh pavement more my footwear and the pouring rain got a noce bruise so getting loads of sympathy from DP.

Ladies try this apparently Madame Z can predict your labour, babies looks and sex, bit of a laugh for me I'm having a green eyed, blonded haired boy 7lbs 7ozs after a 4 hours labour on a sunny day. Maybe a hidden willy on the scan but I'll settle for the labour and weight! (I've kept all the receipts for those pink and lilac babaygros). I bought a pink cat rattle today as it was soooo cute!

sheknows.com/inside/look/736.htm

let me know her predictions for you all

sorry about the typos trying to type fast as am in the office.

I done it yesterday Sweetkitty and she told me i was going to be in labour for 21 hours and give birth to a 10lb 9 ounce baby! I was not best pleased

I'm going to have completely bald, brown eyed girl, early in the morning on a sunny day after a 20 hour labour.
Don't like the sound of the labour and from the scan it's definitely a boy - but maybe madame Z knows soemthing the ultrasound doesn't.

Morning All, hope everybody had a lovely bank holiday weekend.

Well that's me 26+4.... 3 more days left of Trimester 2!! Felt the strain yesterday walking around the shops pushing ds in his buggy..... don't know how the wee soul is going to manage when the baby comes and he can't go in his buggy anymore. He likes to still have an afternoon nap and it kind of restricts our day if he can't sleep in his buggy. Oh well... I'm sure we'll manage. I think I may have overdone it coz my hips were aching and I went to sleep last night with a headache!! I've been feeling so good lately that I forgot to take it easy... DH gave me a right telling off though and I've been suitably chastised.

I'm trying to get my prediction from Madame Z, but the website keeps freezing. I'll try it later.

FINALLY got my prediction, although I kinda wish I hadn't!

I'm having a girl, who will be born in the wee hours of the morning after a 20hour labour (!!) and will weigh a healthy 8lb 14oz!

Think it's waaaaaaaaaaay out.... I had a quick labour last time and nobody on either side of the family have ever produced a baby weighing more than 8lb. Like the idea of a girl though.

Ha, I am going to have a girl, 12 hour labour, 5lb 10. Seeing as though dd was 9lb 10, I doubt it very much!

Think I am coming down with a cold, feeling all sniffly and grumpy today . Can feel a sicky coming on........

Hiya OO - Could it be hay fever? I have been snuffly and sneezy since the start of this pregnancy! I was the same with DS. But the past few days I've really been blocked up.

Definitely take a sicky... I think I might be due one of those soon too... I managed a full week at work last week!

My work finally did a risk assessment for me (4mths too late!!) and have decided that the local office should have an adequate path laid to it's door for me to walk on!!! It's a portacabin so just sits on type 1 rough stones. All this trouble and I finish in 8wks time.

hi don't worry too much about Madame Z I think it changes every time you use it.

I had a nightmare journey into work and am feeling bit down in the dumps today, going to New York on Friday which I'm kind of looking forward to but hope I'll be able to walk and see the sights with DP.

Spent a lot of the weekend gardening and am now all aches and pains - as well as having hands covered in blisters and scratches. I really must learn to take it easier.
On the up side, fantastic new cleaner started monday so I didn't have to do any housework
26+6 today.

I have told you once already Ms Sponge - take it easy!

Sweetkitty - NY sounds good, best time of year I think as well.

Toothache - could be hayfever but I don't normally get it until June (grass pollen?). Am laying on the tissues and blowing noises today in case I feel 'ill' tomorrow. Want to get all dd's old baby clothes out and coo

OO - Me neither, but I'm now thinking that I may have developed an allergy to tree pollen too... it's in full bloom here!
My GP told me that pregnancy can really enhance the sensitivity to allergies like Hay Fever. Last time with DS it had the opposite effect and I had my 1st Hay Fever free Summer EVER!!!

Then again, it could just be this annoying pregnancy symptom of mucus building up in the nasal/sinus area. GRRRRRRRRRR! What POSSIBLE evolutionary reason could there be to have a snotty nose during pregnancy. HMPH!

I'm starting to get kicks quite high up now, and my sleeping position is now chosen by the baby. He/she was kicking my right hip bone last night. It wasn't sore, but irritating when your trying to sleep.

hi all
well according to madame z I am going to have a girl after a 5 hour labour weighing 7lb 8 on a cloudy night!!!
quite like the sound of that - last time managed a boy after a 24 hour labour following sweep and induction resulting in emergency c/s - so here's hoping she's right!!!!
everything was going swimmingly until I fell over during the night 2 nights ago, slipped getting out of DS's bed who couldn't sleep witha cough and cold, now have a very bruised back, butt and right leg - there is a reason for pregnancy padding after all. Was a bit scary to say the least (especially as landed on a wooden truck) but baby is still moving heaps and everything seems OK.

snap sponge - my cleaning lady started on Monday too, had got tired of lying on floor to clean bottom of kitchen cupboards etc...and she is a God send, instead of looking around my house getting miserable I love coming home and everybody is making an effort to keep it tidy....

sweetlitty - am sooooo jealous NY is near the top of my list of places I must visit - have fun - am hoping to meet a girlfriend there next year - she'll fly from the Uk and I'll fly from NZ for a huge girly weekend.....

aww sorry to hear about your fall sibble.

just been and bought my flight socks for prevention of DVT very nice cost £14 though

woman in Boots told me to talk Aspirin then when I told her why I couldn't I got stories of well you won't want it born on the plane it won't have a birth certificate and a nationality and I was born at 6 months and only weighed 1 and a half pounds. I was thinking I'm 27 weeks pregnant if I go into labour on the plane a birth certificate will be the least of my worries!

Was the same woman who served me the day I bought the PG tests that turned out positive as well!!!

NY for DPs 30th (although it's in July we're going early cos of bump) our last holiday together before bump arrives!

Swetkitty, we're going to NY at the end of the month for DPs 40th (great minds......). I'll be 30 weeks but have letter from midwife so should all be fine. She did recommend the sexy socks so I must go and spend my £14.
Let me have any tips for things to do/ avoid when you get back.
27 weeks today. Hurrah

Hello girls. Madame Z needs to polish her crystal ball I think!

When I was lying in bed this morning desperately trying to find the motivation to get up and get ready for work I felt a kick from the baby really high up on my right side! The highest yet, by far.... it was almost up as far as my ribs!

Not long to go now. Thats the May Thread off to a start and the April thread has a 100% graduate pass mark.

I started a thread about this, but thought I'd bring it to your attention. Kiddiecare.com are selling a 2in1 pram/pushchair for half price! It's one of Mothercare's bestsellers at £180. OMG I've forgotten the name of it!
Kiddicare.com sell it for £199, but today I bought it for £99!!!!! What a bl**dy marvellous bargain.....
If you want one then HURRY.

sponge

We must be twins - I'm due on the same day as you too 27 weeks today! I got travel insurance no bother from Churchill they insure up to 6 weeks before due date. If you're a size 4 I'll send you the sexy socks once I get back.

Madame Z said my baby would have green eyes but then again she also said it would be a boy (scan said it's a girl) so wouldn't hold too much hope in her predictions.

I caught a glimpse of myself walking down the high st on Wednesday... I watched my reflection in the shop windows and concluded that, at 27wks pg, I have indeed developed the pregnancy "waddle"!!!

I was horrified! I knew that sometimes I walked funny due to my SPD hurting... but this wasn't to do with SPD... just the big bump!

I'll be carted about in a wheel barrow by 34wks!

same here toothache - DH commented this week that if I keep growing at this rate I will need a wheelbarrow as did one or two wrok colleagues. I, however think I look quite good, this time it is mostly bump whereas when pregnant with DS I just got round like a sumo wrestler. Maybe it's because I've bought some materm=nity clothes this time they fit better, I don't know. But yep, I waddle too and get breathless trying to change the duvet cover etc.
BTW is anybody else starting to have trouble shaving their legs in teh shower, nearly getting impossible!!!!

Absolutely. Any kind of bending down to reach lower leg or feet is damn near impossible already, lying on my back for more than a couple of minutes is very uncomfortable, mild exertion -and especially climbing stairs - causes major breathlessness. And all this at 27 weeks. Will we be able to move at all in 2 months time?
And yet everyone keeps telling me how well I look and how neat my bump is. You try carrying it around!

Hello fellow whales!

Ditto on the leg shaving/general bending over! Getting very awkward. My friend has donated a bath seat to me that's meant for OAP's, to allow me to shave my legs. It's ridiculous, I feel stretched and tired and HOT! When did summer creep in??????

192 days down, 88 until due date.... (hopefully I only have 75 days to go )