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Does anyone else hate being pregnant at Christmas???

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lizabet · 16/12/2006 23:00

Sorry but it sucks. I hate not being able to have a drink, not eat certain foods, being fat while everyone else is wearing sexy new outfits to the office party.

Was reading in a magazine how "at least you can be smug when you don't have a hangover" and "you can wind your friends up by telling them about their drunken antics". WTF?!! I spent the whole xmas party watching everyon getting merry and hating them for it. Add to that eating overcooked steak and not being able to have the prawn cocktail starter and i am feling well and truly pissed off!

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2000milestoeidsvold · 20/12/2006 05:05

again - don't mind it - if I was in the UK - but lat trimester in the height of bloody summer - what was I thinking of..... roll on March when it will cool down and I will have had the babe.... [sigh] still got to get through Jan and Feb hottest time of year!!!! [smile}

2000milestoeidsvold · 20/12/2006 05:07

pah - sexy outfit - try looking for swimmers that do not make you look like some beached whale as you try to cool off at the beach or pool or take dd2 to mother and toddler swimming class.....

BrandyTutter · 20/12/2006 07:59

love being pregnant

am very grateful for it

there are other things to hate imho

wethreebodkinsoforientare · 20/12/2006 08:26

I LOVE being pregnant at Christmas. Am so emotional - carol singers, nativity plays, small children with dewy eyes expecting FC down the chimney. God I'm welling up as I type! It's like being a kid at Christmas all over again. Mind you, it's early days and the indigestion has not kicked in yet, and I am not suffering MS too badly so should be able to trough my way through Christmas day quite comfortably.

belgianmama · 20/12/2006 10:00

Reading all this about bf'ing over xmas and so not being able to drink. Well I'm sorry, but I DO have drink and bf at the same time. The amount of alcohol getting through to your milk is minimal, it's nowhere near as much as when you're pregnant. OK I don't drink so much that I'm on the floor or anything, but a couple with my meal and a little with the coffee, can't see a problem with that at all. I mean it's all drunk over a long time, with food.
So to all the bf'ers here have a drink. It's OK really.

kittyschristmascrackers · 20/12/2006 12:54

I so agree. Bf doesn't stop me drinking!! I've had enough abstinence whilst preg.

ComeOyeFaithfulVeneer · 20/12/2006 12:58

I was heavily pregnant with dd one christmas (she was due 30th) and I was so pampered by everyone it was fab. DS had the cheek to turn up 6 days before christmas and I had to spend lunch siting very gingerly on a donut cushion due to stitches (OOOWWW).

paulaplumpbottom · 20/12/2006 13:04

Think of all the work you get out of

Rosydingdongmerrily · 20/12/2006 13:14

I don't really enjoy pregnancy much but this christmas I'm going to be a lazy cow and let everyone else do the work! Going to stuff my face!

burstingwithfestivitybug · 20/12/2006 13:28

I fell prg with ds1 in May 2004 so missed out drinking on.....
dh's birthday, my birthday, my hen night, my wedding day, christmas and new year. ds was born in feb and breast fed til June.
Fell prg Nov 05 so missed out again on......
christmas, new year, dh's birthday and my birthday. ds born Aug and I'm still breastfeeding so missing out on christmas and new year yet again!

Dophus · 20/12/2006 13:35

I'm dreading it. 13 weeks pg and spending it with the inlaws. MiL is a heavy drinker and incredibly loud and obnoxious when pissed. I have three days of watching everyone get drunk.

I'm exhausted, feel sick if I so much as think about having a drink. I suppose on the positive I ignore all of the food advice (only drawing the line at raw seafood) and can eat without feeling guilty

I really wish we were staying at home.

Lwatkins · 20/12/2006 13:48

Im 17+3 at the mo, will be 18 weeks by christmas day and i'm actually really enjoying myself! I didn't think i would but i really am. Have come home for xmas and everyone is making such a big fuss over me, i don't have to do anything!
I was mainly worried about not looking nice over xmas and newyears, especially when everyone else would! Am at that awkward stage where normal clothes don't really fit anymore but maternity stuffs still to big. However, went shopping the other day and have some really sexy wrap dresses to wear and they make me feel gorgeous!!!
I would much rather be pg over xmas than over a really hot summer when evryone arounds wearing bikinis - grrrrr!

Lwatkins · 20/12/2006 13:53

Oh, and i haven't touched a drop of booze since i found out i was pg, and haven't missed it. However - im having a glass of wine with my xmas dinner as my dads bought my fav wine, and a glass of champers at 12 to see in the new year. And i cant wait!

paulaplumpbottom · 20/12/2006 13:53

feel bad for those of us who have to look a bit fat over Christmas but will be huge this summer

paddyclamp · 20/12/2006 14:22

I agree with Belgianmama - what's the thing about breastfeeding and not drinking?! With DS i honestly didn't know you weren't supposed to drink! And with DD i just drank anyway. They are both fine, DS is one of the cleverest in his class! Even the NCT said not being able to drink when bf is a myth!!! I didn't bf immediately after having a drink, made sure i expressed / made up some formula beforehand!

Burstingwithfestivitybug - i think i'd have postponed the wedding

melrose · 20/12/2006 14:38

Oh can I join in and moan a bit please. I am 9 weeks and wish I could want a glass of wine. At the moment I feel so permenantly sick that the thought of all that food and wine just turns by stomach. I am also knackered all the time and have just got a horrid cold to add to the mix AND DH is working in Scotland and away tonight so have to do DS on my own and no one to give me a cuddle!

Am also going to have to tell all we see over Xmas that I am pg as cannot get away with not drinking. (Xmas in my family= copious amounts of booze, no excuses will fool them).Very exciting for them but would just be happier if I had had my scan. WAs pg over Xmas last time but was 14 weeks so had just had my scan and was feeling great and all excited so did not mind.

Only saving grace is that we are going to my Mum's so I can be looked after and sit on my arse for 2 days!!

melrose · 20/12/2006 14:48

Please can someone at least try top cheer me up? I seem to ahve killed every thread I've poted on today!!

Dophus · 20/12/2006 16:18

Sorry Melrose ,

won't cheer you up - can I join you and feel sorry for myself as well?

PamiNativity · 20/12/2006 16:26

Melrose, I was in the same situation 2 years ago - didn't have my 12 week scan until the first week of Jan so didn't want to tell anyone in work and had to lie/wimp out at all Christmas parties. Had to tell my family as they would have guessed anyway.
The last Christmas/New Year I wasn't pregnant/breastfeeding was Millennium 1999! Although I have to admit that as dd3 is now a strapping 16 months, I do have quite a bit to drink even though breastfeeding morning and night

BrandyTutter · 20/12/2006 16:29

melrose, if it helps...

i am also 9 weeks, also have a stinking cold (plus a cold sore), also have to wait til the new year for my scan, and am hosting christmas this year

LITTLEdonkeyFISH · 20/12/2006 16:53

Sorry, but I agree with BrandyTutter's earlier post...

"love being pregnant

am very grateful for it

there are other things to hate imho"

melrose · 20/12/2006 17:07

I know, I know, I am feeling gratefukl for being pregnant just not sure i am loving it at the moment, about to go and pick DS up from nursery, DH away and want to cry cos I feel crap!

paulaplumpbottom · 20/12/2006 19:26

I think it would be a rare thing to go through an entire pregnancy and enjoy every moment.

paddyclamp · 20/12/2006 21:01

I feel especially sorry for anyone experiencing morning sickness at Christmas, that must be especially grim! Or those people who want to keep it a secret! Luckily i never had to experience that

belgianmama · 20/12/2006 21:18

I do agree paddyclam. Having morning sickness or trying to avoid all those offers of drink must be so awful. I think it must be so much worse than being huge.

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