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Ive got my 12wk scan letter today! Advice need on the "full bladder" reccomendation. How full does it have to be? do you have to feel like you really need to pee or is that too full :shrug:
 
One full 500mL water bottle started an hour before the ultrasound and completed half an hour before will suffice. I never take in the recommended amount. It's too painful. I only take the water bottle and I'm always perfectly fine and full.
 
BrandiCanucks said:
One full 500mL water bottle started an hour before the ultrasound and completed half an hour before will suffice. I never take in the recommended amount. It's too painful. I only take the water bottle and I'm always perfectly fine and full.
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thanks for that help x :thumbup:
 
Yea i know! Cant believe it!

Woop All ready to go to the park! Just waiting for Dylan to wake up from his nap and have some lunch then off we go :) Got some fresh batteries in the camera too so should be able to get some nice piccies :)

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Ha, that sounds so weird...Wake from his nap...we just woke up from our night sleep. Well, I woke at 4:30am to go to my ex-husband's house where my kids were sleeping so he could go to work and thought I might be able to sneak into his bed and go back to sleep for an hour or two before the kids wake up after he left. Nope, my daughter had other plans. Instead, I used the washroom as soon as I got there, and who opens the door on me at 5:00am?

"Hi Mommy, it's a Zoe dog!"

Yup, my lovely daughter. I just threw cartoons on for her and closed my eyes until my son woke up an hour and a half before he normally does. Today is going to be tough to get through. I have school from 2pm-8pm Monday to Thursday and I've done 4:30am wakeups for the last 3 days. I'm practically falling asleep over my laptop by 3:00pm and I can't get a nap in during the day. I think I'm just going to spend the night at the ex's house, crash on his couch and get a good night's sleep tonight.

My kitten likes to keep me awake and this way, I can get some laundry done, watch Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice, and get a good night's sleep...without the 4:30am wakeup call.
 
Wow you lot can seriously natter ha ha ha

Im so sorry I didnt catch the new names as I was reading through everything, but the lady asking about bumps. I am pregnant with #2 and at 9 weeks I had no bump at all! I bloated at that stage so at night I sometimes felt firmer, but certainly only started getting any form of bump in the last week or so and even then its not passable as a bump, only to those that know me and my body shape. It will come with time hun, 9 weeks is still earlier, at my scan on Monday (12wks 2 days) baby measuring a tiny 56mm so nothing at all yet. Enjoy the 1st trimester, you're bump will flourish in no time :)

Mummy... grrrrr at not hearing back from your doctor yet!!! That receptionist sounds like a nightmare! Hope all is ok, has the spotting eased off hun?

I see we still talking about food rofpmsl.. Lucky Charms wow not seen them in a very long time lol too sweet for me mind lol Speaking of food my raviolli has gone cold while I been catching up on here rofl oops

I cant believe the due in July thread is up already, that really is super weird!

Good luck Inge having your scan today. I drank 2 x 500mls of water and I had a serious ouchie pee stitch :( I think I could have gotten away with less! Do make sure you had a good amount 30 mins before though as it takes that long to get to your bladder. Im so glad I was seen on time, I think I would have burst if I was kept waiting. If you do find you are waiting and it hurts speak to the receptionist, dont suffer in silence, there are ways round it. Look forward to seeing your scan pic :)

Hope everyone else is well. I think my sickness is easing off! I am nauseous, but not like I was. Managed chewing gum today, which I havent been able to do, and could actually walk round the store deciding on different foods to make over the next few days and buy it all, rather than deciding 5 minutes before Im hungry rofl All I got to do now is shake of the tiredness and I make have the energy to make all the nice foods I bought pmsl

Oh and the 3D scan at 19 weeks looks very good!! I spoke to the company that do the scans and they said they wont do it before 24 weeks but prefer the lady to wait until 26 weeks. So I wont be getting it done before Christmas, I had personal reasons for when I wanted it but Im sure it'll all work out :)
 
Brandi, I hope you get a well deserved good nights sleep tonight!

new, Glad your sickness is easing up :)

Well, i managed to get to the park, wasnt there long, there was a HUGE group of chavs nearby so we stayed for 20 mins then left, which is a shame cos i didnt have enough time to get piccies. On the way back we went into the shop to get a Capri-Sun for me and Dylan to share and Dylan decided its fun to run around the shop when I'm paying!!!! So deffo using the reins from now on until he learns not to run off. the looks poeple were giving me! how embarrassing!

It felt so good to get out though! I might take Dylan for a long walk in his pushchair tomorrow then stop off at the park before we come back home, then at the weekend go to town and look in mothercare and maybe take a walk down the canal :)
 
Wow, I feel so successful! I've been struggling to eat in the morning because I've never been a breakfast eater and I feel nauseous still, but only feel nauseous if I haven't eaten anything. I can't eat breads or cereals, so I've been eating a muffin for breakfast with a glass of orange juice. I finally found a cereal that works so I can finally stop wasting $1.50 a day on a muffin!

Except, now, because I'm in the basement and the cereal is upstairs, combined with pregnancy brain, I can't remember the name of it. I don't feel nauseous, only gagged once, it doesn't go soggy, tastes good and it's staying down!! Yay!
 
Yay! Its so great when you find the few foods that dont make you feel sick. mine are tomatoes covered in salt, Twiglets and cheese and baked bean sandwhiches (gross, i know)

I have to keep alternating drinks though as one is fine for a few days, then makes me heave! at the moment its lemon squash :)
 
Lucky- I have never gone full term with a pregnancy, I have had 2 miscarriages in past, so I am not too familiar with the weight loss process of after pregnancy. Taking that into consideration I understand the struggle with keeping your weight at certain number range. I am about to say things that will probably get judgement or eye rolls or think I am crazy but here goes. This will be long, but whatever.

I have always lived between Miami and New York since 2003, and living in those cities puts a lot of pressure to be more than average and to be very thin and Ive also always worked in fashion which is another pressure. I used to have a drug problem (i have been clean since 2003), which was half I was young and wanted to have fun and also it kept me very thin. When I quit doing drugs I went from 98 lbs to 137 in a matter of 5 months from being in rehab and substituting drugs w.food. I am 5'3 so i was over weight for my body size especially to gain that much in a small amount of time, it's just not healthy. Well trying to get that weight off was not easy and I used to be to busy to work out (at the time i only lived in nyc and was working all day then doing events at nights). So i finally made a decision after seeing photos of me that i couldn't handle how i looked anymore and i went to my doctor and discussed it and he put me on an rx diet pill called Phentermine in beginning of May 05. It did wonders, I just started eating healthier but no exercise & after a couple weeks on the medicine I had like no appetite and lost 10 lb in the first month. I was going to Greece for my birthday which was like my push to really do it, so when I went I was down to 124 and had lost 13 lb in 1 month exactly. Got back to the US and took a break for a couple weeks from the med, and maintained it, but my goal weight was 112-115 where i'd be a size 2 again. I was going to montreal in beginning of july so i started taking the phentermine again and got down to 120. Once I hit 120 it was like a plateau and nothing was working, so i completely quit taking the meds for a month to give body a break and gave myself til August 1 to restart them. I also forgot to add to this story a part of the reason i wanted to lose weight was because My husband (not at the time, he was just my ex boyfriend) was moving back to the US and was going to be visiting me at end of august and we had not seen each other since I was thin and I didnt want him to see me heavy.
*I adore Kate Moss so I had pictures of her on my fridge everytime i wanted to eat shitty food i just saw that and it turned me around and at the time I was Sienna Miller's stylist so being with her on a daily basis kept me wanted to stay thin, call it my thinspiration.

So, started my stuff August 1st, and I decided to go on a higher mg of it and I finally got down to 117 and was thrilled. So he came and i remember like it was yesterday and we were at dinner and drinking went back to my house etc etc, well I was naked and i remember him grabbing my side like pinching the fat and it was too much for me. We are both in an industry that aesthetics are kind of the main thing and very important, and i know he didnt mean anything bad but it really sort of fueled me to get thinner and quit using the pills and actually work out etc. because I never wanted him to grab flab again and feel that way. At that point I started doing pilates and i went from that skinny fat look to skinny and toned and was proud of my body. I ended up getting back together with him and we bought a place in Miami and I sort of quit working and spend most of my time down there and kept losing weight but i was eating more than ever just doing a lot of pilates. when I would gain an extra few lbs here or there or had major events to go to or was going on a vacay i would use the diet pills as a crutch to lose an extra few lbs.

Here's the issue, when i looked the mirror I still saw the 137 lb girl, but when I finally saw photos of me i saw the person everyone else did and it took me til that to register.
My metabolism got very fast from doing the pilates and i guess just being happy , so by feb 06 i got engaged and i was very thin wearing a size 24 jean that would get lose on me and i'd have to wash after every time i'd wear them, it was too skinny but at the time I didnt think that was an issue.
Sorry guys this is getting long but it is what it is.
So we decided we were going to go to greece for my birthday(june 2nd) and get married there, I went crazzzyyy w/ no carbs, no alcohol, pilates 5 days a week, cardio 4 days a week and i went down to like 105. i was soooooooooo happy and was thrilled to be getting married and with like less than 5% body fat. Well fast forward to being in Greece for a month and france for 2 weeks after thats, I wasn't working out, I was drinking & eating everything. It was my wedding/honeymoon and I didn't care. When I got back to Miami i gained 11 lbs, which was fine but in 6 weeks is extreme. I think I forgot to mention I was on Wellbutrin which is an antidepressant but also known to keep you thin which I started taking in October '05, after getting married I quit taking the Wellbutrin, so that was mid July '06. I decided to get rid of all my scales in my house, and just be happy with who i as and stop stressing about skinny.
I went to Napa in August '06 and then my best friend and I went to san fran for pampering ourselves and i got on a scale and I was 118, I nearly fell over in disbelief. Since then I have gone up to 126 down to 120, then to 125 then so on and so forth, and I have finally found a happy weight at 115 where I eat what I want, and just do pilates for 40 minutes, 4 days a week and i have been at this weight since Jan 09.

I do plan on using the diet pill again after I have the baby but not till I've breast fed for like 4 to 6 months. I am not saying it's the answer to anything, but it's safe in small doses and as long as you take breaks then I would suggest talking to your doctor about it. Wow that was a long story and I am sorry if it was boring to read, but was just trying to give you an idea of my struggles with weight loss and feeling the pressure to be thin and finally realizing i wanted to be thin and healthy not just thin to look good.
 
Wow you ladies can chat! I haven't been on since Monday but feeling a lot better now. Lots to catch up on!

I'm getting my new car tomorrow so i'll be mobile and able to drive where and when i want to lol yay!

Only 4 days until my scan and me and OH have both got a week off work too. I hope it will be spent buying baby clothes and not being sad because we get bad news.

I'm still feeling really sick even though i'm 13 weeks. Everything is making me urge and gag and i can't eat much at all.
 
Yay about the car!!! Only 4 sleeps til my scan too! I'm sure your scan will be fine hun! This thread will be filled with piccies on Monday :)

I'm still feeling sicky too - and my supply of ice lollies is running low.
 
lisaf said:
I remember trying to chat about the latest WOT book with my friend... it was around the time of a new Harry Potter book I think... either way it was hilarious because we kept using the wrong terms (Dark Wizards vs. Dark Friends etc etc).
WOT was just a little TOO epic for me... I got so tired of it dragging on and on and on.. just get to the final battle/finale already... I actually felt too bad for the characters and what they were going through for so long etc.
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Those mid to late books in the series were painful. I stopped after book 6, but when they brought in a new author to finish the series, I figured that I should find out what happened to all of the characters. I did books 7-10 as audible, which was nice because you could tune out the 3 page descriptions of Elaine's dress and the endless hair tugs by Nynaeve. Book 11 was pretty cool and the first one by the new author was fun too.

I do love the name Nynaeve (pronounced "NIGH-neve"). I am seriously considering it for a middle name if I have a girl.

Anyone else inspired by books for your name choices?
 
Busy thread! Wiggler, well done for getting to the park! We used to live near chavs when we were in manchester, very very intimidating! I cant imagine how scary it was when your oh was attacked:hugs:

New, yep still no news from the doc, spotting has stopped but there has been cramping, will get hubby to moan at them again:haha:

Cheree my kids had sort of out there names already:blush: We have Freja, Ruaridh and Anja-Josaphine.

Hopeful:hugs: You have been though such a journey with your body image! I too struggle with what I look like, I am way too thin and tall, I feel I look like a boy. I dont think I would want the weightloss drug though hun, it sounds like it would send your body into hyperthyroid which is what I have. Does it give you insomnia, palpitations and such? I cant wait to get bfing done then get fixed lol. I can understand feeling pressure though, I think its more a case of who you surround yourself with:hugs:

My eldest is sick today so we are inside, seems like every other week she gets some new bug from school:dohh:

By chance does anyone here watch the new stargate universe?
 
I love the name Lessa from the dragons of pern books.. but since I'm Lisa I don't think we could do that to our daughter :rofl:

Hopeful - thanks for sharing your amazing journey, it can be tough to be open about that stuff but it takes guts! I do almost laugh at my total lack of body-image problems... not that I love the way I look, but I've just accepted that I can't fight genetics and my body just loves to be fat... I don't WANT to be fat, but I can't beat myself up over it either. I would never be under a size 10 either and be healthy... I DO have large bones, I'm 5'7" etc... Anyway, I do hope I will finally get in better shape with a kid though I know it takes a lot more work! *sigh*

AFM.... just got back from my 12 week scan!! Baby is measuring a little big which is a teensy concern.. measured 12w4d.. has been measuring 3 days ahead for the past few scans, but my mom had me and my brother at over 9lbs so I know I'm not in for a tiny baby here!
The scary part is that when I went to the bathroom right before leaving for my appointment... I was spotting! pink! :( And more than just a tiny streak! :( So I was freaked out and worried as all hell! doc put me on pelvic rest and I have to do another week of the progesterone :dohh: and if it gets worse, I have to call him ... I was so thrilled with not having spotted at all so far! :(

anyway, here's the scan pic (head is at the bottom, lol!)
https://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll165/bethijimika/ultrasound002a-1.jpg
 
hopeful- :hugs: struggling to find the right weight is hard. I finally reached that point this last year where I wanted to get thinner/toned to be healthy. I found I had more energy and was less sick. I did struggle with seeing the bigger version of me until I saw a picture of me in a bikini and I was shocked and proud that it was my body. Breastfeeding really did help me lose a lot of weight, so hoping that works again. I got down to 150lbs after 12 weeks. Two months later I got down to 140lbs but I sat there a really long time because I was working and taking care of a new baby, I was to exhausted to work out. Took about two years to lose 65lbs. I'm hoping breastfeeding along with pilates/yoga will help get my booty back into shape afterward.
 
lisa- sorry you started spotting today,I know how stressful that is. :hugs: Very cute ultrasound pic!! Are you going to spill the beans to the world now lol?
 
Lisa, cute pic! Im sorry your spotting, im there too and its scary:hugs:

Inge, I remember back to one of my 12 week scans, I think was baby #2, and I over filled my bladder and they kept sending my back to "pee a little bit" then "pee a tiny bit more" :rofl:

I think Im gonna post a bump pic when hubby gets home for lunch, I dunno how to get pics up but hes really good:haha:
 
Mummy3 - your childrens' names are fantastic! I have a ridiculous MS excel list of about 50 boys names and 50 girls names. I am a bit OCD about it I guess.

Great scan Lisa - I hope the spotting goes away soon! I've never read the Pern books - should I add them to my list?

Hopeful and Lucky - I used to be a crazy exercise woman, but now, I just walk and occasionally go to the gym. I don't really have time for much else and honestly, I am ok with how I look. I could lose 15 pounds, but its not the end of the world if I don't. Part of it, I think, is my age - I've kind of grown out of OCDing about my weight - now I OCD about other things. HaHa! Of course, it helps that I am more of the outdoorsy type (but not the big city bright lights girl or a beach girl or really any type of girl that requires high fashion or skimpy outfits :winkwink:).
 
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