May 2012 babies - so far 8 yellow, 22 blue, 21 pink!

[zephyr]

Well we decided to change isp cos vodafone have done nothing but stuff us round for 2 years now and the last straw was the latest they pulled last week so we have decided to switch. Only problem is we are without internet for probably around 10 days!! Omg its been 2 days and i am going out of my mind!! Cos i cant do much at all and when the kids are not here during the day i am so bored lol and i am going to miss the last 2 episodes of the walking dead and imma have to wait. Grrrr i hate using my phones internet its really hard to read everyones posts so anyways will update when i can probably on facebook and i shall be back soon i hope! My belly pic will be huge when i get back hehehe

 

[Ems77]

Welcome moggi. There's a three girls thread I am on as well. Thought you might relate to that too

 

[luci and bump]

So yesterday was my baby shower. I wish I could say it was good, but it really wasn't. I invited 27 people. 8 showed up. My housemate asked if she could throw me one, so I agreed. She let me send out the invites etc, then pretty much did nothing! I bought some balloons etc and made some cakes, and its a good job I did because thats all there was!! We basically just sat round a table and talked for 2 hours then went home! She didn't plan any games or anything, she didn't decorate anything, everything that happened was something that I'd bought or prepared!!
My MIL didn't even bother coming! So all in all, a very shit day!! Was the big event I had to look forward to whilst OH is away, and now I wish I hadn't even bothered!!

And to make it worse, I bought a bottle of non bio washing liquid, so I could start getting prepared and washing all of the baby stuff. I put the bottle in the cupboard above the washing machine (I live in a shared house, and everyone buys their own washing powder etc) I went out into the utility room earlier, my non bio was on the worktop, and there is less than one washes worth left in the bottle!! I hadn't even opened it!!!! I'm furious!!!!
Have left a note saying "I assume whoever has used all my non bio washing liquid will be replacing the bottle!!"
Its bad enough that someone used a whole tub of (quite expensive) conditioning treatment I'd bought when my hair was wrecked through pregnancy. I don't even need to guess who it was, because I only live with one other girl!! Am in a vile mood!!!

My OH is whinging about being in Thailand, apparently it isn't like he thought it would be, so he's thinking of paying for flights to malaysia or cambodia for the last two weeks. I don't know why he just doesn't come home! He goes on about how he misses me and the baby, yet he's determined to stay out there the full month!!

 

[wavescrash]

Sorry about the poor baby shower I can sympathize as mine was nothing like we had expected either. My sister did a good job with games and decorations and food was okay but less than half of those invited showed up, OH's family promised him back in November that they'd spoil the baby at the shower since they had just spent tons of money on his brother yet all we got from them was a $35 gift card and tons of second-hand clothes and only one member showed up. We got so many clothes and so few of items we actually needed. I'm grateful to have had it but I can understand being disappointed in the outcome :/


Hannah is so so so low lately. Currently I'm feeling a limb or two moving behind my pubic bone, there's so much pressure down low. I'm also finding the 3rd tri to be completely exhausting. I just want to lay around all the time, have no energy to do anything at all. Anyone else? I don't know what pregnancy glow or nesting or burst of energy these pregnant women are talking about - I've had none of it.

 

[chloe11]

Hey!!!
I'm on my fone, so really hard to read all comments and write a lot!!

Luci and bump - Awww big hugs hun. If I were u I'd be really annoyed at my flat mate. Did she seem bothered or notice that it wasn't like u expected??

Hope everyone else is ok! Sorry on my fone and it's hard to read through other pages etc!!

I've had a scan and both babies are fine, but twin 1 is still breeched really in happy about it! I know that it still has 6 weeks as they said at 36 week scan they would decide on birth plan etc....!!

Twin1 weighs around 1.3kg and twin 2 around 1.5kg. Xxxxxxx

Anyone know of any thing I can do for twin one to turn??

Xxxxxxxx

 

[luci and bump]

She didn't really seem to notice I was upset, she spent most of it outside having a cigarette! Then when we got home she just went upstairs to bed. Just feel like I'd rather of not had one!! At least then I wouldn't have had the disappointment of people not turning up!
Was planning on making an effort to do something nice for her birthday, because its 9 days before I'm due, so won't be able to go out for it. Feel like I can't be bothered now!! Is that really petty of me?
Am so annoyed about my washing liquid and my conditioner! I buy nice things for myself, and because everyone else uses cheap crap, they all just use mine instead! Am literally gonna have to keep every single thing in my bedroom! Funnily enough, all 4 of my housemates are denying using my washing liquid! So goodness knows where the expect me to believe its gone!!!

Had a lovely session with my pregnancy councillor today though, and she's given us some lovely baby clothes And then had a nice long chat with my OH. Am missing him so, so much It seems to be getting harder not easier!!
Am going to look at the house at 10:30 tomorrow!! So fingers are firmly crossed for that!!!

 

[Ems77]

Wow Luci, I'd be f*ckin' furious, on BOTH accounts!

I was paranoid that would happen to me with my baby shower and the type of flakes my friends are so I jumped on my MIL in advance (the woman always throws awesome get-togethers) and claimed I had no one to throw it

This is my last baby and I do/ did not want a huge let down like I knew was probable to happen with my friends.

 

[rjsmam]

Hey everyone, hope all well today!

Arg I am miserable with back & rib ache. By evening it’s so bad – last night I was nearly in tears & thought I’d try lying on the floor to see if it would help – I was so addled I can’t believe what I did – god knows what was going through my mind but somehow I thought I could lie on my tummy. I realised as I felt the pressure on my bump & was so upset at myself for being such an idiot – how could I forget I have a beach ball sized bump? Was worried I’d squished junior but thankfully he/she is bouncing around ok….. I have an antenatal class on Fri & am going to ask about it there.

Luci - you poor sausage, gawd I’m so mad at your ‘friends’ for you – you think they would have rallied for you given everything else that’s been going on. I don’t think it’s petty that you’re rethinking your friends bday – I’d be the same! I planned a big surprise bday for my dh last yr & hired a hall etc – on the week of it loads of people, friends and family pulled out & I was soooo annoyed. One of our friends said she couldn’t miss her exercise class – err what?! But in the end there was less that 30 folk there in a big hall & dh was a bit embarrassed & me even more so that I hadn’t done a better job. It still makes me seethe! And man I’d be furious at housemates using my things too! Maybe you should put a big juicy cake in the fridge but fill it with tripe or something haha…..

Can you tell the backache is making me grumpy? Lol. A male colleague light heartedly asked me yesterday if I was sure it was only one baby – before I could stop myself I simply said.. comments like that are becoming so tiresome…


Axx

 

[Ems77]

Grrrr, I don't know how it has become so socially acceptable to be a flake these days. I have talked about this in another thread,lol, but it makes me so furious that people have come to accept it and think it's ok. Time was when people would be ashamed to do such a thing and would send apologies and a great present with another friend if the absence couldn't be avoided.

LOL @ the 'tiresome' comment. I am STILL waiting for someone to say something stupid to me... I think I scare people... Lol

 

[luci and bump]

If I don't think I can do something, I'll say "really sorry, but I don't think I'll be able to make it" rather than say yes and then have to flake out at a later date. I've told my OH that I won't be making anymore effort to include MIL in my pregnancy. If she texts to ask how we're doing, I'll politely reply, but I won't go out of my way like I used to.
I've pretty much kept myself in my room since sunday, am really annoyed with my housemate. She actually asked me if she could host me a shower!! I probably wouldn't have thought about having one, but she specifically asked if she could do it! I really wish I hadn't bothered! It was embarrassing to have people thinking I had anything to do with the shockingly crap "party" I feel bad that my mum and her best friend came all the way up from Bournemouth for the weekend, and spent money on hotels and trains etc so they could be there!
I literally can't wait to move out now! I always thought I'd be sad to leave my housemates, but I can't wait! Theres 5 of us, and I'm the second youngest. The eldest is 30, then 29, 27, me 24, and then the youngest is 19. I can't believe how childish they all are!! They get pissed on a regular basis, they're drinking now!! They started about 11:30AM!! So tonight is going to be interesting with a house full of drunk people! They're playing music, in the living room, which is underneath my bedroom, and its so loud, my bed is shaking! I'm embarrassed that my neighbours will think I'm anything to do with it!

We went to look at the house today, its perfect! So now we need to arrange a meeting with the landlady to see what furniture she would be happy to leave, as she originally wanted to let the house unfurnished. Fingers crossed it all goes well! Am hoping to move in middle of May, as I ideally want to be settled before the baby comes, although knowing my luck, the baby will come waaaay before its due date lol. I really hope not, as I really don't want to have to bring a baby into the house I'm in now!!!

 

[zephyr]

Luci - wow ur friend is a dick and clearly knows nothing about baby showers. I would be upset too. You dont offer to do if u cant do it its not hard to do some reading online or something. And about ur shared house and stuff going missing ohhh man i would be so mad. Years ago i was in the same situation pregnant and sharing a house and it just doesnt work. By the end of the pregnancy i was so angry i kicked everyone out and got a new border who was over 30 working and quiet! And didnt help himself to my stuff. I really hope u find a new place soon! And i hope whoever helped themselves to ur wash stuff has the decency to replace it. It sucks having to resort to keeping everything in ur room.

I still have no net!! Oh man it sucks. But it will be connected monday before 7pm we just have to wait for our new modem to arrive.
Next week i have 3 appointments 3 days in a row at the hospital. On the wed i have a physio appointment to get a belt fitted and hopefully that will help with my pains in my pelvis. I also cant wait for my scan either. See how the girl is doing she has stopped moving i rarely feel her now but both the hospital and my midwife have said its fine shes prob just kicking her brother. Still i worry tho its strange having one side full of movement and the other completely quiiet apart from the odd stretch here and there.

I am having the worst craving for chocolate muffins and ice cream so i have to go buy chocolate now and make some. Haha i am so naughty! And hungry.....for muffins.

Hope everyone is well i cant reply to everyone cos im on my phone and it annoys me

 

[bumpin2012]

Zephyr: hopefully she is just hiding behind her brother... just the start of making mommy worry.

Myself and OH spent the evening babysitting for my girlfriend who had her baby a month ago. It was quite the eye opener... happily, OH will make a good daddy... Me, not so much... poor baby is a bit colicky, so while she was really fussing I kept thinking it was just gas, but OH was pretty insistent that she was hungry. So I finally went and warmed up the bottle, then I couldn't get the baby to TAKE the damn thing. OH took the baby and had her happily eating in under 10 seconds... this was the first baby he ever fed. So hopefully I will be better at reading my own baby's cues... anyways, Our friends thankfully came home to a quietly sleeping baby.

 

[luci and bump]

Zepher-I hope your girly starts moving more soon. Is funny to think of her in there, kicking her brother lol. Be interesting to see if she is the bossy one once they're here! Hope your physio appointment goes well too, what sort of belt is it you're being fitted for?

Chloe11-Glad both twins are doing well, hope twin 1 turns round soon! Its crazy to think you're carrying nearly 3kg of baby in your tummy!

Wavescrash- my baby seems to be getting higher! I don't know what was worse, feeling like my pelvis was being pushed apart, or the shortness of breath and feeling like my ribs are on fire! I do have urges to clean, but my room is such a mish mash of things that I get distracted haha.

She is a dick to be honest! The worst thing is, I have another 6 weeks of living here at least, so I don't want to cause aggro by kicking off. Just so pissed off!! I was so happy living here, we all got on so well, but they are all so reluctant to grow up! Before I was pregnant, I was more than happy to go out in town etc with them but only once every few weeks. They've stepped it up a notch now and get wasted at least once a week! feels like I've outgrown them all I guess.
Sent OH a message last night telling how pissed off and miserable I am in general atm. He replied basically saying I need to filter my messages, because me telling him I'm upset makes it harder to enjoy himself. Every message I've had, and every phonecall I've had, he's told me how Thailand isn't as great as he thought it would be. So I told him that it was hard enough to let him go, and hearing him say he isn't even enjoying it makes it 10 times worse! I've spent the last week trying not to get my hopes up about him coming home early, but I was still pretty convinced that he would be coming back early. Now I 100% know he'll be staying til the end, and it hit me really hard. He keeps saying he wishes he was home because he misses me, but it feels like he thinks thats what I want to hear, because if he wanted to be home, he would be!
Had a big melt down on the phone to him, literally sobbed down the phone for about 15 minutes He says he's finding it hard, and that he understands how upset I am, but I don't think he does He's off having this adventure, and I'm back home, doing exactly the same as I've always done, just without him! I wake up, I find something to pass the time before I go to work, I go to work, I come home and I find something to do until I go to sleep!
If I'd known it would be this hard, there is no way I would have let him go. And I 100% will never be allowing him to do it again! He seems to be taking it for granted how lucky he is to be able to do something like this. He still (in his mind) has 11 weeks before he becomes a dad, he forgets that for me, I've been sacrificing my life for the past 22 weeks or so! I became a mummy the second we decided we were keeping our baby, and I didn't get any warning that my life was going to change so dramatically. He can go and do all this stuff, and get it all out of his system, and he forgets that I can't! He's admitted that he won't see himself as a daddy until he holds our baby in his arms!
Wow, that turned into a bit of a rant! Sorry

 

[wavescrash]

We've finally started working on the baby's dresser (we bought it used and have sanded it down & are repainting it white) which means I can finally work on finishing the nursery.

I'm 32 weeks tomorrow so I've found & purchased (after some not-so-fun searching & driving around) Red Raspberry Leaf pills (as opposed to the tea) and Evening Primrose Oil capsules. I figure I'll start with the RRL tomorrow and introduce the EPO at 36 weeks but I wanted to have it now so that I didn't have to worry about finding it later when I'm even more uncomfortable (is that even possible?!)

This child is currently on my cervix and driving me INSANE. It's so uncomfortable as I'm sure you all know :/ Ugh.

 

[MrsHunipossum]

Hello ladies, im another who uses my phone so I hardly have time to scroll through posts but I love reading your updates when I can (thank the lord for email notification straight to phone!)

I've had a bit of a dramatic week, bent over in shower as baby kicked hard I might add and GP thinks hes cracked a rib. I had a cough for weeks which hasn't helped healing! And baby been head down since 16 weeks now turns transverse! I told OH I felt like kicks were either side of me not up or down. BP was also a little but high and had + protein in urine off work this week due to pain, then off next week leave, 2 short weeks then mat leave yet!

Hope you are all well xx

 

[bumpin2012]

She is a dick to be honest! The worst thing is, I have another 6 weeks of living here at least, so I don't want to cause aggro by kicking off. Just so pissed off!! I was so happy living here, we all got on so well, but they are all so reluctant to grow up! Before I was pregnant, I was more than happy to go out in town etc with them but only once every few weeks. They've stepped it up a notch now and get wasted at least once a week! feels like I've outgrown them all I guess.
Sent OH a message last night telling how pissed off and miserable I am in general atm. He replied basically saying I need to filter my messages, because me telling him I'm upset makes it harder to enjoy himself. Every message I've had, and every phonecall I've had, he's told me how Thailand isn't as great as he thought it would be. So I told him that it was hard enough to let him go, and hearing him say he isn't even enjoying it makes it 10 times worse! I've spent the last week trying not to get my hopes up about him coming home early, but I was still pretty convinced that he would be coming back early. Now I 100% know he'll be staying til the end, and it hit me really hard. He keeps saying he wishes he was home because he misses me, but it feels like he thinks thats what I want to hear, because if he wanted to be home, he would be!
Had a big melt down on the phone to him, literally sobbed down the phone for about 15 minutes He says he's finding it hard, and that he understands how upset I am, but I don't think he does He's off having this adventure, and I'm back home, doing exactly the same as I've always done, just without him! I wake up, I find something to pass the time before I go to work, I go to work, I come home and I find something to do until I go to sleep!
If I'd known it would be this hard, there is no way I would have let him go. And I 100% will never be allowing him to do it again! He seems to be taking it for granted how lucky he is to be able to do something like this. He still (in his mind) has 11 weeks before he becomes a dad, he forgets that for me, I've been sacrificing my life for the past 22 weeks or so! I became a mummy the second we decided we were keeping our baby, and I didn't get any warning that my life was going to change so dramatically. He can go and do all this stuff, and get it all out of his system, and he forgets that I can't! He's admitted that he won't see himself as a daddy until he holds our baby in his arms!
Wow, that turned into a bit of a rant! Sorry

Aw hun. I hope he comes around! My OH was on board for NTNP. We got preggo a LOT faster than either of us thought possible. But he was sooo disintrested in the pregnancy at first, I had to DRAG him to appointments, and talking about the baby usually resulted in a very quick topic change. Our friends had a baby a month ago, and it was the birth of THEIR baby that really made it real for him. TBH, I dont think he would be all that interested in our pregnancy if it wasn't for that. I do think that for some men, its really hard to connect to our pregnancies, and bond with the baby the way that we have. I do think, though, that once baby is here, all your frustrations will be in the past, and you will see a much more involved daddy. Hang in there

I'm 32 weeks tomorrow so I've found & purchased (after some not-so-fun searching & driving around) Red Raspberry Leaf pills (as opposed to the tea) and Evening Primrose Oil capsules. I figure I'll start with the RRL tomorrow and introduce the EPO at 36 weeks but I wanted to have it now so that I didn't have to worry about finding it later when I'm even more uncomfortable (is that even possible?!).

I dont actually mind the tea. I was a tea drinker before pregnancy, and since the early stages, I haven't been able to tolerate the SMELL of tea. So I make an extra tall glass with one bag of the RLT and a bag of either raspberry white or a berry green tea and add a bit of sugar and its actually quite good!

 

[wavescrash]

I dont actually mind the tea. I was a tea drinker before pregnancy, and since the early stages, I haven't been able to tolerate the SMELL of tea. So I make an extra tall glass with one bag of the RLT and a bag of either raspberry white or a berry green tea and add a bit of sugar and its actually quite good!

I don't mind tea so much but I like regular tea with cream and sugar... not much of an herbal tea kinda person. Plus the store I found it at sold a 24 pack of the tea bags for $10 or 100 capsules for $8. I went with the better deal.

 

[bumpin2012]

I thought about the capsules, but I wasn't sure of the doses. I didn't want to be taking too much/too little.

 

[rjsmam]

hey everyone - sorry a brief me me me post! i reached the grand old age of 37 today - wasn't quite the day i had planned as my dad was rushed to hospital this morning & have spent the day there ..... thankfully it appears to be 'just' an infected gall bladder & they hope to clear infection & remove asap - but he gave me a real fright. off to scoff a bit of cake, have hot bath & hit the sack!!! hope you all well!!!!!

x

 

[frangi33]

ooh capsules would be great - not a big tea drinker. Still got a good few weeks still i should be taking it!