Decembers little darlings now in first tri

[spicyorange]

I hour the shops for the first time today, I think now I've broken my duck there will be no stopping me...

 

[LittleLala]

Aw Buffy so exciting that you look pregnant. I already have stretch marks from gaining/losing weight too quickly. Hopefully yours will fade quickly! I don't know if I will ever look pregnant! Stupid fat belly. But really happy that I've lost 15kgs so I just have to stay positive.

Wonders- yay so exciting you got a doppler. It's so great listening to baby. I don't do it very often, maybe once every 2 weeks now... But it's awesome.

Sweet pea- I heard the olive oil method is really supposed to work...but I hate the feeling of oil on me haha.

Caribbean- Oh. My. God. That is the cutest little dress set ever!!! Ahh. So cheap toooooo!! You're going to have the cutest little girl eeeek!!!

Praying-- awww holding newborns is the best. They are just soooo little. I always forget how small they are in the beginning.

Pihabella- haha aren't mums great for that? My mum has really surprised me. I never thought she would be the type to buy stuff, but I keep getting these little bundles of onesies and a baby gym and sheets and a bath hahaha. Definitely not complaining!! I will take whatever freebies I can get!

Spicy orange- eeeek walking down a dangerous path!! Lol

My husband has half-finished the nursery now. I am loving it. I will post a picture once it's done it's little a little bedroom but I figure that okay because I really doubt baby will spend much time in there anyway haha.

My husband is all of a sudden freaking out about his health. He is very fit, but he doesn't think so because he's gained a litte weight (necessarily I think so, he has gone from an XS to a M) because he stopped all of his sports. He used to play a different sport 5 nights of the week!! I'm glad he's stopped, we spend more time together now for cuddles lol. But anyway his friend (who is only 24) has just been told that his cholesterol is so high that if he keeps living this way he won't live past 40! So it's freaking DH out. I will book him a dr appointment to give him peace of mind, but I doubt he's got anything to worry about. He doesn't eat much butter, eggs or cheese, and we eat a lot of vegetables every night.

Uni started back this week. I forgot how exhausted I get working and going to uni full time. I am so tired. There's already soooo much to do, and I really have to stay on top of everything this semester (I get really good grades, but I always leave every assignment until last minute and stress out big time!) oh well- at least I know a lot of early childhood specialists from uni who are all very eager to become my future baby sitters haha.

 

[LittleLala]

Ummm also a little off topic... But how is everyone's sex lives?
I am so terrified to do it and hit my cervix and cause bleeding... I know it is ridiculous! But I also just don't feel up for it at all. We've done it TWICE.

TWICE.

Since the bfp. Seriously.
We've done other things, but I feel bad for poor DH. He doesn't push it either, because he knows how worried I get. But we used to do it 5 times a week on average. He must be going crazy!

Sorry for the tmi post. Was just wondering if anyone was in the same boat.

 

[CaribbeanBaby]

Well I only see my husband half the time so when we're together we still average 2 or 3 times a week. It can be uncomfortable but no bleeding or cramping or anything. I did have a bit of bleeding at 10 weeks after sex but I knew I had a hematoma from my scan and had already had a little blood at 9 weeks so I wasn't too worried. Nothing since then.. hope your love life picks up!

 

[Praying4BB]

Lala- We are in the same boat... twice since my BFP I bled the first time and was so worried the second time that it wasn't super. I've been so sick and tired too, but now that I'm starting to feel better hopefully things improve in that department (if I can get over my worry)!

 

[Buffyx]

We do it a bit still. This week I've had UTI & thrush but now that it's cleared up we probably will this weekend. We do it 2-3 times a week now. If there was bleeding, I wouldn't do it. But we have been fine!

I also work and study. It's pretty tiring.

That is so exciting that you have started on the nursery. We are having a dilemma now and are trying to decide whether we will move back home (2 hours away) now before baby is born. We would have to get a transfer for my husbands job first, then we would have to sell our house, then we would have to buy a new house. Then we would have to move, and then I would have to find a new job! It just seems so stressful. But I also don't want to wait too long because I think it might be harder with a new baby? I just don't know what to do.

 

[SweetPea3200]

Lala we've done it 4 or 5 times since BFP. I haven't had any bleeding and I'm not super worried about it anymore but I just don't feel well all the time! It's frustrating and I feel bad for DH because we were actively trying before so it was sex every other day basically.

Buffy that moving situation does sound stressful! It'll be hard no matter which way you do it but I'm sure you'll make it work! Do you have lots of people back home to help you out?
Also, I can't imagine going to school, working, and being pregnant. I think I would die of exhaustion. I can't stay up past 8pm most nights!

AFM- I kinda feel like I'm showing but I also feel extremely bloated. I'm very thin but my uterus is retroverted. My belly isn't hard yet it's just a lot bigger than usual. Before being pregnant I never really understood the feeling of bloating, now it's every single day

 

[wonders10]

LaLa - We've done it twice since my BFP as well. But...I've also had two episodes of spotting and he actually said, sex is too scary right now lol. But we do other things, for him, but I am really missing it even though I'm not in the mood, if that makes sense. The other day we were doing our usual and he just wanted to "stick it in" lol so he did and he was super gentle. Honestly I think all it took was putting it in and he was finished, sorry that was so TMI. But I'm terrified now that I will start spotting from it. So far so good though. Every once in awhile I really get in the mood, but I distract myself because I'm really just terrified to do it.

 

[Buffyx]

Sweetpea - I study online so I don't actually have to go anywhere for it which is helpful. But it will be interesting with a baby involved.

We have no one here where we live now. I've made a couple of friends, and we both like our jobs. But everyone important in our lives live 2 hours away. We originally moved for my husbands work. He's a firefighter, and when you first graduate, you don't get a choice in where you are stationed. But now it's been a few years, he can easily transfer back home. It's just that we have built such a beautiful house here and I love it. But I keep thinking - that can't be the most important thing?! Surely being close to family is the important thing? It's my parents first grand child too. So yes, we would have more help. And our baby will have 3 little cousins back home on my husbands side. It would be so lovely seeing them grow up together. We wouldn't need child care either which would save us around $300 per week.

The only other thing is that if we move back home, the houses are more expensive so we will only get 3 bedrooms most likely for the same price as we can get 4 bedrooms where we live now.

And how crazy is the bloating!! I have been bloated since my two week wait (it was one of the first signs I was pregnant) and it just hasn't gone away!

 

[SweetPea3200]

Urgh the bloating is the worst! It's completely insane. I've found eating only protein and veggies for dinner sometimes helps in the evening. I just find that I'm so hungry all of the time!

I agree that being around family is really important. Basically everyone in our families lives in the same town as us besides my sister and she's planning to eventually get back here. It's so nice that it would save you money on child care plus then the babe would get to spend time with someone you love and trust rather than a stranger Hope the transfer and house stuff works out for you! I understand how you feel, I'd be crushed to have to give up my house. Plus moving is such a pain!

 

[spicyorange]

Ummm also a little off topic... But how is everyone's sex lives?
I am so terrified to do it and hit my cervix and cause bleeding... I know it is ridiculous! But I also just don't feel up for it at all. We've done it TWICE.

TWICE.

Since the bfp. Seriously.
We've done other things, but I feel bad for poor DH. He doesn't push it either, because he knows how worried I get. But we used to do it 5 times a week on average. He must be going crazy!

Sorry for the tmi post. Was just wondering if anyone was in the same boat.

I hated it in first tri, partly because of my bleeds I was terrified so we hardly did it and when we did it was like a chore but I'm so glad I have my sex drive back now, maybe not as much as before (but I've always had a high sex drive) but I'm actually enjoying it again thank goodness, I was so fed up with no drive at all!

 

[pihabella]

Buffy- we are moving to another country when I will be around 30-32 weeks! But it will be worth it, more friends, more family support, better lifestyle. We can't wait! I am going to find some casual work for a month or so when we arrive but will hold off from the main job hunt until we have had bub for at least 6 months. We are going to build a house in NZ on our family farm, but that will be a little ways off as we need to do resource consent etc. In the meantime its in with mum and dad initially (arghhh) and then renting once we find a nice cheap place in my hometown.

Hmmmn sex, well we have had it at around 2 times a week, but I had thrush one week and then this weird blood blister (no idea how that got there but doc seemed to think it was normal!) that I had to wait a week to drop off (TMI). Just been experimenting with new positions and all seems ok so far, no bleeding etc.

 

[Buffyx]

Pihabella - at least you have a plan haha. We are just waiting for a job to come up at one of the two fire stations back home. Then my hubby actually has to get the job. Then we can put our house on the market. Our in laws have offered for us to live there if we sell and can't find a house we want to buy right away.

Speaking of in laws, we have just had them visiting for two nights. This includes my husbands little sister, brother and older sister with her partner and 3 kids aged 11, 3 and 1. Plus my mother & father in law. It's been so tiring but they finally left today!! I was trying not to cringe when the little ones were sucking and biting and spilling everything coz it's something I'm obviously going to have to get used to!!

 

[LittleLala]

Holy moly Buffy that sounds like a full house!! You are a nicer person than I am lol

 

[LittleLala]

I have my first appointment at the hospital this morning I am so nervous.

 

[spicyorange]

Hope it goes well lala

 

[Buffyx]

Why are you nervous? I'm looking forward to mine! But it's not until the 14th of April.

The thing I'm nervous about is if we move!! Then where am I going to give birth? Haha.

Good luck! I'm sure all will be fine x

 

[Praying4BB]

Good luck Lala! Hope all goes well

 

[LittleLala]

Thanks girls. It went alright, I didn't get to meet my OB though, meeting him on the 25th. I just hate hospitals.

 

[SweetPea3200]

Glad everything went alright Lala. Buffy I can't believe you had so many people! I'd go absolutely crazy lol!
So I don't want to jinx anything but yesterday I felt.... okay! Saturday night I stayed out late then threw up as soon I as I got home lol but yesterday was a good day. The only thing I did much different is that I didn't have cereal in the morning. I'm thinking maybe the milk could be starting my day off on the wrong foot. I tried having milk and cereal again this morning so we will see how I feel tonight. Hopefully I'm just getting passed the sickness!!! In other news, DH left this morning for the week and it's the first time I'll be alone in our house. I'm not good at being by myself Any advice from you ladies with out of town hubbies?