*** May Babies ***

[jolou]

u know what, they dont warn u of all these aches and pains do they when u want to be pregnant! lol

abz i gave in and went and bought some hot x buns buy one get one free for i have 12 all for meeeee

 

[Pussy Galore]

good evening guys. i would like to leave work now please? and i still want a hot cross bun

i am going on maternity leave at the end of april, due at the end of may. mat leave to start mid-may methinks. i have holiday to use up but if i use it all then i'll be off work for ages before my due date and i would rather be paid the cash at crimbo for any i don't use...

abz xx

Me too abz... although I have to take any unused holiday before I can start my maternity leave which I think takes me into early May. It seems ages away

yum.. macaroni cheese!!

 

[A3my]

I've just found out my sister is pregnant! She's due in September. Really pleased for her and excited that my LO will have a cousin so close in age xxx

 

[Widger]

Great news A3my, my brothers gfriend is pregnant too so got close cousins

Cactusgirl - Best thing to do about childbirth is just not think about it. I avoid all areas in my pregnancy books and anytime anyone wants to talk about it to me I walk out of the room. I'm determine dnot to think about it until I'm actually in labour

Well you may say yum to the macaroni cheese PussyG but I almost threw the thing out of the window earlier as was so peed off that I couldn't make the sauce - 2nd time in 3 weeks too. I was a woman possessed screaming about it My husband came in to rescue the situation and would not stop laughing at me being a nutcase. Pregnancy hormones surely?

Jolou - My boobs aren't that big (gone up 2 sizes) but boy... they are hurting again. Thought they'd stay calm until a bit later?

Oh and my little one won't stop kicking down below - I really hope the widger gets bored of it and gives up that position soon. Not nice is it! Ouch!!

 

[A3my]

Widger - thats great you've got a close cousin for your LO mine is kicking down low too at the moment, seems to have been his favourite kicking place for a while now! very uncomfortable I'm wondering if jumping up and down will move him xx

 

[abz]

jolou!! so jealous. do you do hot cross bun deliveries? should have told OH to pick me some up but didn't think of it somehow, ha.

PG. am going to get it in writing that i will be paid my holiday pay after christmas. otherwise i'm out of here!! ha.

fab news on your sister A3my. and your brother widger

off to get crisps. have just eaten crap today!!

abz xx

 

[A3my]

abz - I ate crap all day yesterday, really trying to fight the urge today. My DH had a nickname for me with my other pregnancies becasue I got so FAT, he called me plate face bless him so now I am trying to keep plate face at bay xx

 

[abz]

bless him? i'd knock my Oh's block off if he said that to me!! but then i'm overweight anyway so it's a sensitive issue. i've been so bad. i had left over chicken dinner for lunch. so far so good, and then didn't have tea, just snacked on crisps, some chocolate and some licorice :S

i finally get to leave work. woohoo. see you all tomorrow

abz xx

 

[A3my]

haha, luckily he didnt say it to me at the time, it was only after when looking back at photos. I put on 5 stone. luckily Ive got cravings for oranges this time. but hey, when you're pregnant you should be allowed to enjoy your food!! off to bed, really tired but stupidly sitting here surfing xxxxx

 

[LogansMama]

A3my - COngrats about your sister! Thats so cool. I'd love to be preg at the same time as my sis - but we are at very different points in our lives... (she's 4 years younger and still single... I'm an old married lady... )

Widger - Congrats to you too about your brother.

My cousin is pregnant with me too. She is due 7 weeks after me. We were pregnant together last time as well! And last time my SIL was preg with us too! So - we had 3 baby cousins born within 3 months of each other. And this time we will have two more within 2 months. Its nice to keep the kids close together in age.

So - I had my appt today. All was good with my blood pressure and pee! LOL. No worries there. My doc was concerned that I gained 11 lbs since my last visit a month ago though. Now I'm stressed too. That puts me at 26 weeks and like 33 lbs gained. SUCKS. We can't figure out why I'm packing on the pounds - as I'm really not eating any differently than I ever have! BUT - she wants me to make sure I am at least taking a walk every day to help. (so right after my appt I took DS to the park and walked with him while he rode his bike! Gotta make sure I do that daily now!)

I did my glucose test too. It took all of my energy to NOT throw up! I should have the results in 2 days. Fingers crossed that its all good cause I DO NOT want to have to do the 3 hour version of that test - and drink more of that crap - on an EMPTY stomach! UGH. I will DEF puke then!

We heard the baby's heartbeat - nice and strong. And she felt around and said she thinks he is laying sideways, but she wasn't sure. I think he is still doing somersaults all the time - he moves so much - so even if he was sideways - I don't think he'll be that way for long!

I asked about my groin pain. She said its totally normal and to be expected. Well - Thats just wonderful!

AND she asked me if I registered at the hospital yet. I am going to do that at the end of Feb when I go for my tour. She said thats fine. AND she told me to come back in TWO WEEKS! I was like - "what? TWO weeks? Already?" And she said - "Wellllll -actually - you can come back in 3 weeks - but after that its 2 weeks from now on!" I can't believe I am that far along already! WOW! I'm already up to my 2 week checks. This baby is gonna be here soon!

 

[shawnie]

hi all...not sure ill be making it to may now.. been having some little turns in the road.. ive got a short thinning cervix,funneling, and my uterus is at 50% now. im on strict bed rest and terbutaline to curtail contractons. will see, never know.

hope all is well with everyone

 

[babyhope]

ohhhhhh double figures for me now!!! yay 99 days to goooooo

Yay!!! It's getting closer...a couple more days for me!

95 for me! (And 61 work days!)

LOL...you counted your work days I need to count mine

 

[babyhope]

hi all...not sure ill be making it to may now.. been having some little turns in the road.. ive got a short thinning cervix,funneling, and my uterus is at 50% now. im on strict bed rest and terbutaline to curtail contractons. will see, never know.

hope all is well with everyone

Hope your baby stays put for a while Shawnie

 

[babyhope]

Well it took me forever to catch up!

I am excited about my doctors appointment tomorrow...they are suppose to let me know if I am having a boy or not....THEY BETTER TELL ME

 

[insomnimama]

Hoping your Miss Kaylie Ann stays put for another three months, Shawnie.

 

[jolou]

fingers crossed shawnie little miss stays put that little while longer! xxx

congrats amy and widger on your siblings having babies! there is no one close to me having a baby, just OHs cousin who i have only met once and a friend of OH whos wife doesnt really socialise with us.

logan i think ive put on about 28llbs myself, i eat fairly healthy apart from the odd day where i just need something naughty lol lets hope you dont have to go back for the 3 hour test, we have no choice over here, if we have the test we have to do the 2 hour test with the fasting from midnight before, not looking forward to that on the 9th!

my MW shocked me aswel with how far we are getting, i mentioned my back and how just after 20 min of standing doing ironing i was in agony, she told me im to start resting now as its getting close, then she wanted to move my gt test forward as the original test would have been at 30 weeks...omg 30 weeks seems like its ages away and i was no where near it but obviously i was lol then she gave me the letters for antenatel classes...omg its all happening now!

I wasnt told how bubs was laying but i think she struggled feeling him as he was moving soo much, took her a couple of minutes to find the HB, i said you might wanna try really low down as it appears to be his hiding place for dopplers lol and sure enough there it was. She did measure my stomach tho, thats my first measurement of this pregnancy and i measured 27cm, i think thats about right?

amy i couldnt help but laugh at "plate face" it seems im not the only one who gets called names mine was heffalump last time lol so far no nicknames has been given..

i couldnt sleep again last night so im in desperate need of !! no idea why i cant sleep its driving me mad, im also feeling a bit light headed today and not sure why, it feels odd when ever i move my head anywhere like my brain is taking a few minutes to realise ive moved my actual head lol

 

[hope&faith09]

Aww jolou - 27 cm sounds about right for 26 weeks! I cant believe how fast things are going either i'm supposed to have a home visit with my midwife today so just sitting around waiting, a little worried they may still have the old address even tho I changed it when I rang to make the appointment! Im supposed to be first on the list to be visited but she hasnt appeared yet! Supposed to be having a mood assessment? I hope she measures my stomach!

Hope everyone has a lovely day ... Im sitting eating biscuits and its only 10!

 

[jolou]

a mood assessment? ive never had one! or at least not without knowing lol ohh what if they did it when i seen the consultant hahaha that would be funny "highly emotional cries if u just say boo to her"

dont worry about having biscuits ive just had 3 strips of the bigger dairy milk bar i bought yesterday. ive had to hide it away so i dont eat more!

 

[Frufru]

Take it easy Shawnie, I hope LO stays warm and snuggly inside with you

Well LO has not kicked me in the privates for a good couple of weeks I read about it on here and it like she is psychic and whaddya know I am now being kicked in the girly region

Our LO will have 4 older cousins aged 14, 12 and 8 two younger cousins each around a year old. It is just a shame that the little cousins are do not live closer to us.

As for weight gain I am trying not to think about it as it stresses me out! Someone at work said to me the other day "I see your starting to get fat now" - talk about red-rag to a bull, you would think that being married with 4 children he would know better than to say something like that to a pregnant lady It took all the self control I had to say rather firmly "I am pregnant not fat" whilst walking away with my back turned to him when all I wanted to do was hold him by his arms and bite his head off (In my head at this point I was visualised myself as a really pissed off preying mantis that would be capable of doing this )

I am sorry the docs cannot help with your groin pain Logansmama - how ironic that they should be telling you to up your exercise when if you are anything like me it hurts to walk and makes the groin pain 10 times worse

Back to the subject of food I think I am going to go and bake some low-fat banana muffins and make a cheese and potato pie while the morning is still young. Later on I am heading to the city to pick up my Boots changing bag and Emmas diary goody bag from Argos That Ikea vist really cannot come soon enough so I have room to store all of this baby stuff

Have a good day everyone

 

[Cactusgirl]

Shawnie - fingers crossed your LO stays safe and warm inside for as long as possible. Make sure you do rest up.

Widger - helllllooooo!!! That is a good plan re complete denial about the labour!! I keep reading birth stories and freaking myself out.

Widger and A3my - that is fab about your siblings both expecting!! I would love for LO to have a cousin close in age but unless an 'accident' occurs cannot see anything happening for a good few years with my sis or BIL.

Logansmama - that is great news about the mw appt. Can't believe you are at the stage of 2 weekly appointments now!! Getting close!

I am feeling a lot better today ladies after my tearful start to the week, thank you for all your support through that! - I managed to sleep for 10 hours last night which I think has made a massive difference to my state of mind!! Roll on May when I might not sleep for weeks/months on end!!!

Regarding Mat leave - I run my own business with DH so can basically decide my own mat leave which is very lucky!! I am planning to 'officially' go on full time mat leave a month before on 16th April but already gearing up to go part time end of Feb. Have employed someone to replace me and he is doing really well so once he is definitely up and running I am planning my exit strategy asap!!