october 2010 continued

[Katy86]

just thought id get a new one going as there are only 2 messages space left on the original..xxx

Hi Tizzy, long time no see! I don't know whether the 3D or private scans would be able to give you a clearer indication of any problems? Just a thought. Like you I wouldn't want the risk of anything happening. No idea whether the private scans will show anything more was just an idea?

Saartjie, very envious of your new life, although not so envious of being in a warm summer climate!

Am struggling with the amount that I need to pee tmi! But am sure it's gonna get a lot worse. Can't wait to get home tonight am soooo tired!

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Afternoon all.

Well after all the chat about brie I was craving some, and had a bacon, brie and cranberry toasted bun today for lunch in local pub. Yummy! The brie was melted so hopefully ok.

Very sleepy but still have a couple more hours' work to get through, boooo.

jacks - yey to the brie! i had a massive cheeseburger at lunch which is a bit piggy for lunch, but who cares. it was from an organic restaurant so i dont think it counts as junk

tizzy it sounds to me like the scan went well. do try and relax and get hubby to relax with you. maybe get him to put his hand on your tummy a lot so that he bonds? i have been being woken up all week by wriggling and poking (loving the term "boogaloo" - very appropriate!) and this morning i woke DH up at 6am (a whole hour after it started!) and put his hand on my tummy. he was asleep in minutes but he was smiling. i think it helps with boy bonding. he seems to spend a lot of time talking to my tummy. and he got kicked on the nose the first time he did it!

do you know if it's a boy or a girl? i think DH is finding it easier to bond (and so am i to be honest) now that he can visualise it.

saartjie am with you with the impatience thing. in case it's of any use, my cousin is 10 weeks ahead of us and she said to me that 20 weeks to 25 weeks crawled by and since 25 time has flown and she is now a bit freaked by how close it is. us ladies are never happy!

HAPPY FRIDAY EVERYONE

XX

PS hevster your mum sounds like a legend!

I agree babybunting I am not really looking forward to having a new born in 40 degrees heat but I might as well get used to it

KFW I also had a cheeseburger for lunch but I decided not to feel guilty about it. I craved it so my reasoning is that I needed it .

I shall now go home and have a cold non-alcoholic beer (and pretend that it is a real beer) and read baby books.

Have a fab weekend everyone.

I want a cheese burger now, but I want someone else to make it and bring it to me along with a large glass of Pimms - yeah right!

Hey Hevster,

Nice to find another horsey bod! Have had my mare for 23 years and know her so well- happy to carry on plodding for now, but accutely aware if I feel uncomfortable i will stop.

Babybunting - good thinking re scans. Our one included a 3D (which we were surprised by!) Everything certianly looked ok to us.

KFW Ta for lovely suggestions! Hubby is bonding (and getting kicked in the head!) I just think he's quite a black and white person, v analytical, so would like a definite answer. I reckon though that other stuff could be 'wrong' anyway, regardless of all the tests in the world, who knows - I feel you get what you get, that's life so let's be happy!

Tizzy good to find a horsey bod who also doesn't part with their horses, if you've had her for 23 years she must be a good age or did you breed her? My old pony is 31 this year (and still mad and working) and we have had her since she was 9!

Morning all,

Hope you are all well.

Glad to be of assistance Tizzy! but personally I would just say that the hospital is protecting themselves by not saying much.

Getting really annoyed now, can feel LO moving like mad (Sometimes I get proper jabs that are not painful as such but uncomfortable and a bit of a shock to be honest!) anyway, whenever I get DH to put his hand there he can't feel anything although I can if I rest my hand there! not convinced what he expects to feel, maybe he is feeling it but doesn't realise! Anyway it's kind of getting me down now! Silly I know!

Am really fed up with work today and i've only been here 20 minutes. Boss being a git again!!

Oh well!
xx

Morning. Hi BB your boss sounds like a nightmare! What is he doing now?

We have same thing re feeling the kicks (DH has felt a couple but only the really strong ones) - think it's just much harder for them to feel it when they don't have the feeling from the inside too. The kicks will get stronger and stronger so hopefully your DH will feel them soon!

Had my bro and SIL over at the weekend, and they brought a massive bin-liner full of girls' baby clothes that my niece has grown out of... very very exciting and they are lovely. BUT a bit overwhelmed by the amount of PINK!! Seriously, every single thing (oh, apart from one or 2 plain white things) is PINK! (They knew they were having a DD before she arrived so didn't buy any neutral stuff.) Definitely don't think DS was dressed solely in blue as a baby, so what is going on with girls' clothes?!

Hey Jacks,

We have to do our annual appraisal forms for the last 12 months and also what we are planning to do for the next 12 months (Despite the fact that I am not here from the first week of September!)Anyway apparently I have to get it in this afternoon and I am not allowed to do it during work time so have been ordered to stay in work at lunch time to do the form! It's just pathetic, feel like I am a school kid being told I can't go out until I have done my homework! AAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

I did notice that I had gone a little mad with the pink purchases, but was given quite a bit of neutral stuff so have a bit of a mixture, so went to Tesco (They do some fab and well priced baby stuff! Was very impressed as don't usually shop in tesco!) Anyway, went and bought some lovely little yellow bits and pieces as well as some pink! oops! Am such a girl! Was never in to pink when I was younger but just can't help myself!

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Morning,

Babybunting I am so jealous that you can feel the movements on the outside. Mine are still a 'flutter' although getting more intense now which is nice. I wish DH could feel her as I think it would be a great bonding thing but nothing as yet. When did you start to feel it on the outside?

Jacks yes I think one can go a bit overboard with the pink stuff. My DH has asked me not to buy too much of the pink stuff, he thinks neutral is much better. I think I might go easy on the pink if I can although I must say it is very very cute. Lucky you to get so many clothes must be really exciting!

Hey Saartjie, have only felt a few on the outside, it's usually more of a coincidence that I happen to have my hand on my tummy when she does a big kick! The flutters turned into quite strong movements from about Friday and now they really do seem to kind of take my breath away! Think it's the shock more than anything else! Wish DH could feel anything but like Jacks says, it's probably just that I know to expect it on my hand because I felt it on the inside as well!

xxx

When is your due date babybunting?

morning everyone, had DH's uncle and aunt down at the weekend at they brought us a lovely old fashioned basket with bits and pieces in such as blankets and bibs 'to start us off' its so lovely I could have cried! everyone in our family is so happy for us its wonderful. flutterings are definately stronger now, like snakes wriggling! Just waiting for a kick now, DH reckons he can feel vibrations x

due 10.10.10- what about you Saartjie?

Roo that sounds so sweet and a lovely gift bless them!

DH's parents bought us a cot for the baby which is lovely so have now got an up and running nursery all ready for LO!

x

Afternoon ladies, hope you all had a good weekend, when it comes to girls it's pink all the way! I was horrified when DD arrived and adament that she wouldn't wear too much pink, but I have to say it's jolly hard to find much else prior to 6 months old and inevitably the gifts you receive are all pink clothes as well!

we ordered the new buggy on Sat, glad to have made a decision but slightly horrified that we will now own and have to store 3 buggys!

Hi All, I have to say I was looking at iccle wiccle shoes at the weekend and was a bit horrified to see it was 'any colour you like as long as it's pink' or white I suppose for girls... I thought the shoes for boys were nicer in the end (especially as one pair had a green monkey on and I wanted them for myself...ahem...)

Top gift roo really lovely.

Bought some things for LO at the weekend (was with my Mum so feeling all safe and secure), just t-shirts for next summer but they're so sweet.

Having hassles with the DSS (one of them has decided he's gone off me and won't visit....which means nor will the other one) and their mother (won't even go into it) so had a right ding dong with DH y'day and didn't sleep much last night so feel really fragile today. Humph. Don't need it in pg, want to be all calm for my LO. Hope just one day off stress won't hurt him too much.

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Aww, that's so cute, Roo. BabyB agree re Tesco, brilliant for baby stuff (as is Primark and other supermarkets)... not so great for toddler and older stuff though (starts looking cheap and nasty with stupid slogans etc) so I found I had to "upgrade" to M&S, Next, John Lewis, and Mothercare when DS was about 2 (luckily by then the clothes last longer than a month or two before getting too small!).

Re colours of baby clothes, was in JL earlier this morning and all the baby girls' stuff was pink, there was some neutral stuff but obviously deliberately neutral for people that don't know the sex, no stuff that was obviously girly and yet not pink iysyim. Sadly don't think I can really justify buying much, as between the stuff we still have from DS and the stuff we're borrowing from my bro we're basically sorted (yes I know that makes me sound like an ungrateful cow ). Maybe I will buy just one or 2 really nice things!

I also wanted to get measured for a new bra in JL but they were all booked up, went to Debenhams instead and got a very helpful lady who measured me as a 36DD (! up from 34C pre-pg!!) and who also said that underwired was fine as long as it wasn't cutting into the breast tissue, which she checked it wasn't. Was v relieved as having seen a lot of threads about this on here, was all prepared for her to be arsey about underwiring and to have to argue with her! So excited to have discovered that underwiring is ok this pg, spent last pg wearing horrible, unflattering nursing bras!!

Sorry that was a bit of a long, rambling post wasn't it...

oops sorry I mean 'one day of stress' (though 1 day off stress would be nice!)

Babybunting I am due on the 26th Oct so about 2 weeks after you. Maybe I will start feeling more movements in a couple of weeks then. Saying that she's been going like crazy this afternoon. Loving it so far.

Jacks I got fitted for new bras the other week, have gone from 34B to 34D . The lady recommended underwiring so I was quick to agree as that is what I am used to and so far so good. I love my new size and so does DH , too bad it wont last.

saartjie i'm due on the 22nd and only in the last few days have I felt anything proper, not kicks but definate fizzing!

Saartjie, up till about a week ago it was more of a fluttering, tickling inside my tummy now it's as if she wants me to know she's there!

God I can't wait to meet her.

Think we have decided on one of 2 names

Isabelle/Isabella

OR

Felicity (Although really don't like Flick as a nickname! Sorry to anyone called Flick just prefer Fliss)

What does anyone else think?

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babyb i like felicity too but hubby doesnt. I personally like Flick, but Fliss is lovely too. Good name, however you abbreviate!

I am all teary this avo as i just had to say goodbye to my sis who has returned to Oz and I am not going to see her until end of Jan . Happily, the LO did lots of big kicks all weekend and also last weekend when sis was with me too, so she got a good feel of bumps and things before she left. We are really, really close and I cant believe she isnt going to be here for the birth. I think that the temptation may be too much though and she may cut her job short to pre-xmas which wouldnt be so bad. I am working on it

Jacks and Roo I am a bit of the clothes you have. We havent bought ANYTHING yet. I am not a big pink person though and was a real tomboy when i was little so I am a bit frustrated by the lack of non-pink which is not gender neutral (as you noticed too jacks). Little boys' clothes are much nicer IMO.

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babyb i like felicity too but hubby doesnt. I personally like Flick, but Fliss is lovely too. Good name, however you abbreviate!

I am all teary this avo as i just had to say goodbye to my sis who has returned to Oz and I am not going to see her until end of Jan . Happily, the LO did lots of big kicks all weekend and also last weekend when sis was with me too, so she got a good feel of bumps and things before she left. We are really, really close and I cant believe she isnt going to be here for the birth. I think that the temptation may be too much though and she may cut her job short to pre-xmas which wouldnt be so bad. I am working on it

Jacks and Roo I am a bit of the clothes you have. We havent bought ANYTHING yet. I am not a big pink person though and was a real tomboy when i was little so I am a bit frustrated by the lack of non-pink which is not gender neutral (as you noticed too jacks). Little boys' clothes are much nicer IMO.

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