***January Jellybeans***~ 35 BABY GIRLS & 23 BABY BOYS BORN ~***

[sparkle05]

Hello Ladies please may i join in

I started a thread the other day for ladies due in January and a very kind lady pointed me in this direction.

My due date is Jan 25th and i have my 20 week scan on Thursday so hopefully will be able to tell you what team I'm on.

I have my scan on Thursday too!

Hi lauren-kate, How exciting I cant wait. Will you be finding out what you are having or are you staying team yellow ?

 

[lauren-kate]

Hi lauren-kate, How exciting I cant wait. Will you be finding out what you are having or are you staying team yellow ?

I'll be finding out - there's no way that I could wait another 19-ish weeks to find out

 

[milamummy]

Hi sparkle nice to see you over here How you doing luv?

 

[Faff&Fidget]

Evening ladies!! Congrats to all the mummies that have found out their jellybean flavours!

Welcome sparkle!!

I hope everyone is well today!

I am fine, felt lots of rolling and teeny kicks today. Had an antenatal this morning, midwife was trying to find the heartbeat and the little madam kicked everytime she moved the probe. Midwife kept saying 'oooh there's a kick'. I found it very hard trying not to laugh!

The OH's mother is staying with us for the next two weeks so i'll not be able to get on here too much. Which is a tiny bit rubbish. I am hoping that i'll get some shopping in whilst she's here, whether alone or with company. I am in need of some maternity trousers!! I can't walk around with my top button undone anymore. I have to undo my trousers completely when I sit down now too. Which is fine, unless I go anywhere!!

Still trying to figure out how to get pictures onto the laptop so I can post my bump pics to compare with all you lovely ladies!!

Hugs to you all!!

 

[smiffy85]

Hey everyone (and bump buddy Faff - you've re-appeared yay)!!

Can't believe I'm 23 weeks + 1 now! Only 1 more week to go to viable and 3 weeks till 3rd tri!! Its crazy.

I've spent the past 2 days in school sorting out my classroom all ready for the kids being back tomorrow. Still don't think I'm ready but the classroom looks colourful lol. Any more teaching staff on here feeling the 1st week back strain?!?

Me, OH and bean went to a muse gig at old trafford cricket ground on saturday night. I was expecting bean to move round because of all the loud music but he was actually really quiet all day evening. Think it's because I was stealing all the energy dancing and singing away and the vibrations plus me rocking about lulled him to sleep. What did make me laugh though was that I started singing a Muse song yesterday and bean gave me an almighty kick/punch!!! It was sooo funny that he remembered lol and very cool too!

How is everyone doing? xxxx

 

[LittleMrs]

Smiffy85 - you lucky lady, we've been back since last thurs and the kids have been back since Mon. Few challenging classes this week esp y8s (described by a colleague as 'ferral' - fairly accurate description actually). Having said that I'm actually having a lot of fun being back (despite the big O lurking on the horizon - how the meaning of THAT has changed since beginning teaching) and there's nothing like being in the classroom to stop you counting the days, weeks, minutes and seconds until your due date. I reckon you'll be ready as soon as they walk in the door.

Also, our bump is starting to express a definite opinion on music - I'm not sure it's entirely appropriate, I certainly don't want any of her choices to be the first song she sings! Muse would be much nicer.

 

[Faff&Fidget]

Smiffy! I can't believe you're under a week away from V day and 3 weeks until 3rd tri!! Blimey!! The 2nd tri seems to go quite quickly. Then we're into the heavy uncomfortable bit, the final countdown!!
Lol @ LO! He's going to be a Muse fan!! Great taste in music like his mummy and daddy!!

I apologise for doing a disappearing act, we lost the internet for a little while due to phone lines being down in the street. But I am back now, well, off and on for the next week or two due to the MIL visit.. hurrumph..

Good luck with the first day of term! I bet the kiddies are more anxious than you are

Ooooh its time for my milk and reading book!! The best time of the day

xxx

 

[smiffy85]

I am hoping he has good music taste! If he is starting to express his opinion then i need to start playing some good tunes for him to get his head round. He's probably sick of me singing now!

LittleMrs - Ferral kids are always fun and games lol! I had the big O (Ofsted for you non teaching types) in my first yr in my first term as an NQT. Twas not nice - grrr! You can only do the best you can do which in teaching terms is never quite enough is it! Bloody paperwork and the like, it's shocking.

Faff - it's lovely to hear from you glad your back online. 2nd tri has indeed whizzed by. It's all starting to get very real and I have started to worry and get nervouse about the birth and pain already! Crazy!! I've put a pic of my bump from this week on 'your bumps' thread if you haven't seen it. Looking forward to seeing yours when you work it all out. Good luck with MIL, I chatted to bean's great grandma to be earlier (OH side of family) on the phone and just a short convo wore me out so I understand your pain lol! Off to bed now myself I think with plenty of pillows and a good read to turn my brain off in preparation for the morrow!!

Good night everyone, sleep well and happy overnight growing xxxxx

 

[blessed]

So I've officially gained 10 pounds! I don't know how to feel! lol.... You can't tell at all, all my clothes fit the same, shirts are just tighter around the bump area (which is expected no? lol) but yikes! 10 pounds?! Where is it all??

 

[hodbert]

Hi ladies! Managed to jump onto someone's wifi in the apartment for a bit so got to read all your posts. I feel like I'm in 3rd tri already, am sooo uncomfortable now and theres so much I cant do easily, like bend over to pick something up, lean over a counter or table, get up off a low chair or bed!!! Plus I've gained over 15lb now, not good!!

I am soooo bored atm tho! Furniture doesnt get to apartment til prob next week now and no tv or internet, only the laptop with three films i have watched a million times and series 2-4 of friends which i have again seen a million times. And everything nearby seems quite a trek away so not sure if i'll be able to go out to many things, but may venture out tomorrow. Oh well! Hope ur all well!

 

[Jolene]

Am I the only one that feels as if time is standing still? I think I'm just really impatient, lol. A friend of mine had her baby a few days ago and just seeing her hold her baby has made me even more impatient. I want to hold my little girl!!!!

I'm 22 weeks today and it's my anomaly scan tomorrow! I can't believe how expensive it is. Oh well, I get to see my little one. Hubby still isn't convinced it's a girl as my doc couldn't tell us for certain but apparently the machines for the anomoly scan are really good so they will confirm it for him tomorrow,lol.

To all those who have scan tomorrow, enjoy!

 

[sparkle05]

Hi sparkle nice to see you over here How you doing luv?

Hi milamummy, I'm good thanks How about you ? I'm looking forward to my scan tomorrow i know today is going to go so slow

I think i may even scrub the bathroom to make the time go a little quicker Now that's desperate lol.

 

[pinkie77]

Hi everyone, haven't popped in for a while! I'll have to come back later when you've all had your scans today though, hope they all go well x x

I've been getting a bad stitch the last couple of days when taking my son to school, at least I've only got to go one way now though! He's just started walking home with a group of friends, not sure I like it much lol but at least it saves me a journey! And I'm sure some bugger moved the school during the holidays it's taking me 20 minutes to do a 10 minute journey!

 

[LittleMrs]

Jolene - I feel that way too. I'm hoping being back at work will help the time to go quicker but I re-read the same pages in my day to day guide to pregnancy and am always reading ahead on my i-phone app because I'm so impatient.

Smiffy - I agree, enough is never enough. This is the second visit I will have endured and they keep moving the goalposts. They're due 1st week of November - exactly how am I supposed to achieve good or outstanding in 3rd tri, considering that lessons need to be all singing and dancing at all times?! Anyway, enough of my school rant. How did the return go? Did you feel ready? I had an adorable y7 girl tearfully telling me she'd lost her tie - my heart nearly broke for her she was so cute and also the fact that they don't stay that way for long. I wonder how she'd have felt if she could've heard what y11 say when you ask where their ties have gone. Lol.

Pinkie - I am just as knackered constantly. Walked up two flights of stairs earlier and you would've thought I'd done a marathon by the end. Plus I'm always ridiculously warm. OH has started wearing his winter pjs because I insist on the windows open and a fan on full blast.

 

[blessed]

Jolene - my husband is growing rather impatient, lol... me on the other hand, I'm okay with waiting the next few weeks!

LoL Pinkie! - I understand! Everything seems to start taking longer now.... I'm winded all the time!

 

[smiffy85]

Hey everyone! Well I'm officially one more day closer to maternity leave, first day with the new class of 4 yr olds! So very cute bless them but I forgot just how much training and hand holding they need lol! Specially when we're sat on the carpet and they all try and talk to me at once hehe. Talked alot today about 'your turn to talk' and listening when I am talking. We even came up with our very own 5 class 1 rules ( so we can count them on our fingers lol) and one little boy said the best rule to have is 'always be good' as that means you are never naughty and always nice to your friends. Bless him! Aabsolutely shattered now though and coming home to washing up from yesterday, a load of washing to put in and then tea to cook nearly broke me! Nearly there now though, washing needs taking out and OH is now home so is putting tea out as I type. Bath and bed for me tonight I think xxxx

 

[lauren-kate]

Hi sparkle nice to see you over here How you doing luv?

Hi milamummy, I'm good thanks How about you ? I'm looking forward to my scan tomorrow i know today is going to go so slow

I think i may even scrub the bathroom to make the time go a little quicker Now that's desperate lol.

I'm lucky in a way that I'm on my final assignments for the course I'm on.. it distracts me so I don't have to resort to scrubbing the bathroom! I'm so excited about tomorrow.. not long for us now. What time is your scan?

 

[LittleMrs]

Good evening all - I've got my 24 week appointment to fill in my birthing plan next Thursday so I've booked appointments at the hospital and birthing centre over the weekend. Does anyone have any idea the kind of things I should be asking? Have any second/third etc time mums given birth in a birthing centre? Or anyone live near Chesterfield Royal and Darley Birth Centre (UK) and heard anything about them?

 

[peonies]

Woo found out my jellybean is pink today! Also, could my due date be updated to 24th Jan please?

Ta muchly!

 

[jms895]

Hey ladies everything ok? Not read all the posts as there was loads!

I am gutted back from hol early got towed back last night in recovery truck, car is knackered