ok so who wants to get pregnant in 2011? (closed group)

[nypage1981]

what in the world is biltong?

 

[babyhopes2323]

oh huggles thats totally fine, i was just mentioning it as most indian people say you shouldnt eat it because its like certain foods that cause heat to the body example dates, pineapple etc, basically your body temp inside turns warm and it causes your period to come on if its been delayed and you want it to come.. well thats something theyve been saying in india for centuries !!

me personally?? ive had pineapples and mangos since my pregnancy but not a lot, as i dont buy them regularly in general, i just have them when they are in my fruit salad box or something... otherwise im mainly into a mix of carrot apple and orange juice made at home everyday by my DH..

there are many foods and different things many cultures have restrictions about, but if we sit and follow every one of them, we will go mad. so just stick to your instincts.. i would say !

Huge congrats cypress i remember who you are xx

huggles, whats a biltong again? sounds like some thai fruit? or indonesian fruit? it reminds me of the indonesian beer biltang pilsner !

 

[babyhopes2323]

bintang *

 

[babyhopes2323]

afm, ive got sore boobs today and been a bit lightheaded and had one big bout of nausea, thats about it.. nothing more to report !

just tired as usual and am eating a lot, but that hasnt changed since well before i was pregnant,, so nothing new there !!

gaining on the kilos !bought a few loose dresses today, did go into a maternity store, jenny rose, but it was super expensive and i didnt want to buy anything yet.. just for luck.. because dh was a bit adamant as well. i dont have a bump anyway so dont want to get too excited and get something ..

 

[nypage1981]

Hey baby- are you being careful not to sit out in that hot sun and bake, too? I had read with my daughter years ago that pregnant women shouldnt sit out in the hot sun too long because it heats up the amniotic fluid..Gunna be a tough summer because we are beach bums all summer long and our beach doesnt have shady spots or anything. I can sit in the water though to keep cool.

 

[babyhopes2323]

oh nyp i wish !!! you guys are originally white so even if you sit out in the sun and bake, you would turn a shade of pink/ red, where as i am naturally brown, so the melanin in my skin would only cause me to become black and as they say, those that are white, want to have some color and those that are brown want to be fair, so i am not a fan of the sun at all, and always go out with SPF 30 !

im a tan shade of brown, so im not saying i dont like it, i would darken very easily and i wouldnt like that at all, and at the dubai heat can be very very very hot and go upto 45 degrees in the summer.. its ridiculous, and everyone flees dubai in the summer months..

 

[babyhopes2323]

i only go to the beach for the sake of my DH who loves the sun and tends to get freckles and turn red as all white people do !

i still wear lots of sun cream and sit under a shady umbrella.. sometimes, i like a bit of sun on my skin for a bit, but then i become weary and worried about sun burn and hate the white patches on our girly bits when you sunbathe with a bikini.. plus my body is way too unflattering at the moment to be roaming about in a bikini !

 

[nypage1981]

I know...thats what I am sad about. I do not want to get into a bikini this summer. Im seriously already the size of a 5 month along lady. Im getting really worried like am I growing a tumor in there as well? Cuz i know its nothing to do with baby yet, and I thought bloat would start to go down by now....im so mad at my tummy right now. It doesnt even look fat, it looks 5 months pregnant.

and yes, we KNOW there's only one in there. Lol. So embarrassing

 

[sarahincanada]

hi everyone!! a quick catch up before I must do some work...

Dew- it was so funny I thought to myself omg Dew didnt get her period it was IB. I cant wait till it really is us saying congrats to eachother. And I agree with you being less strict next time. Although I think thats natural in your first pregnancy and I will probably be overcautious too.

NY- did you mention you are not eating mayonnaise? urgh that will be difficult for me as my hubby makes a great potato salad, coleslaw, and dip with mayo. how come you cant eat it or did I read it wrong. So do you live near beach? how nice! in England I lived right in the middle so the furthest away from any water or beach you could be, and now Im near Toronto we just have a big lake so its not the same!!

mummy- i cant believe you have a cold, you guys need a break and to feel healthy for a while. Hope its a short one and you feel better very soon. not long for your scan!!

babyhopes - thats very interesting about your culture. Its funny, my husbands background is polish and his family has loads of traditions and beliefs, and me being English barely have anything and I sometimes wish I had some! you probably find that with your husband unless his family had some English traditions. And I think you have beautful skin colour, I am so white Im almost see-through and dont have any pigment to tan so I just burn. I always wished I was darker but now Ive accepted myself finally. I always tend to admire women who have darker skin...celebs I think are beautiful are beyonce, halle berry and jennifer lopez and guess what they all have darker looking skin!

 

[nypage1981]

Sarah- I only live by lakes. MN has like 10,000 of them! Lol. So we're very far from the ocean. Went there last month in florida though!
I thought mayo was unpastuerized, but googled last night that if its hellman's or on the shelf of a grocery store it is fine, just the home made types and the ones from like a street side farmer vendor are no-no's. So I had mayo on my burger!

Baby- that is something else ive never known that someone of your skin color wishes it to be lighter and not darker! Makes sense, we always want what we don't have huh

Mummy- sleep the day away and hope you start to feel better!

 

[flyingduster]

omg, Congrats Cypress! The feeling is incredible isn't it!!!? YAY!!!

Now, it WILL be the rest of you guys turn soon toooo! And you BETTER believe there'll be a party on here when (WHEN) you get your BFPs too! heh



As for the food thing, I've been aware of all the precautions, and taken them with a grain of salt. I'm NOT being fussy. I've had subway (not toasted) a couple of times, and mayo and salad and cold meat when it was served to me at the dog show last weekend (it was either eat was was in front of me, or don't eat. I'd been on my feet the whole morning and still had an entire afternoon of it to go. I ate!) The risk of listeria is really really minimal, with only a tiny percentage of anyone actually contracting it, let alone a small percentage of those people who abort from it... And to be honest, I have a lady I know here who's about ready to pop with her first. She didn't find out until she was 4 months along!! She drinks a lot socially and everything, so that bub had EVERYTHING thrown at it when it was developing and it's growing fine and well. Loads of women have no idea they're pregnant until the second tri, and it's during the first tri that it's the most important (when it's basically building all the organs and everything) Once you hit I think 10 weeks, it's basically a fully formed foetus and just needs to grow and develop everything more, but everything is *there*.


So, while I'm aware of the diet things, and I do often choose an alternative (ie toasted sub instead of my usual wrap at subway, or no mayo, or firmer scrambled eggs rather than sunny side up.... etc) I'm not going out of my way to avoid everything and be a nazi about what I'm eating. I have my prenatals every morning, and I eat a reasonble diet of fresh foods. Good enough for when my mum was growing me, so it's good enough for me to grow mine.



We live within 5 mins drive of about 7 different (pacific ocean) beaches, and then there's another dozen within a half hour drive and more beyond that... NZ (especially the south island) is so narrow about the furthest you can get from a sea-front beach would only be a few hours drive away (any further than that and you'll be going towards the beach on the other side! haha) and our city is a coastal city, so we look out over the ocean if you face that way!


Do be careful about getting really hot, regardless of if it's in the sun or in a hot spa or something too. A hot bath isn't *so* bad cos it cools constantly, but be careful not to have it too hot still. A spa is worse cos it maintains it's temperature so you can cause problems sitting there roasting away (baby can't cool itself! You can rest your arms or legs out to cool, but baby is still roasting away in there...!) so I expect the same goes for sun-baking. ny; buy a big sun umbrella and sit in the shade under it. It'll still be lovely and warm and you'll be in the middle of the beach not tucked away somewhere, but you'll not be roasting the bub! You might find you can't tolerate the heat anyway, as your core temp will go up as the baby develops, and you'll be wishing for aircon and a fan!!! haha.

Thankfully it'll be winter here, and my lil one will be born mid-spring! I've had heaps of people comment that it'll be good cos we won't need much heating all winter to keep me warm; baby will do that for me! haha.


ny, I hear it time and time again, that if you've already had a bub before, you show much MUCH earlier than if it's your first. Those muscles and uterus has stretched already and easily move out for bub the second (or more) time whereas the first timers uterus is having to actively stretch and grow to accommodate the baby, and our muscles (lmao, I don't think I HAVE any in there) are holding it in more too...





Anyway, as for me I'm over 13 weeks now, and in a couple of days I'm OFFICIALLY into the second trimester!! I'm heading off for a grooming workshop soon, so I wont' be back online for another couple of days again so will have to catch up with all the chatting!!! heh.


To mark my impending progress into the second tri... I have a belly pic. Ugh. I HATE getting pics of myself, especially if it involves my body... but I've DONE it! haha.

https://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j162/flyingduster2/IMG_1789.jpg
The pic is taken with me standing on my bed to get a view into the mirror, so it's not very good. lol!
And sorry, I'm not lifting my shirt like a lot of women do... My belly is ugly enough under a shirt! haha! I tried to choose a top that hugged the shape though, and showed the shadows of curves so you can still see... there's a hint of a bulge there but this is me sucking my tummy in too so it's just as likely to be my fat bulges! lmao! Don't worry, I'm not really talking myself down, it *is* a lot of fat there, but I'm over stressing about it right now.

Here, let me show you a pic of me pushing my belly OUT:
https://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j162/flyingduster2/IMG_1788.jpg
I look WAAAAAAAAAAAY further along there! lmao! It's alllll fat tho I'm afraid. No baby in that squish! I push my belly out though, and pretend.... heh. Bet ya in another 6 months I'll be sucking it in and wishing it was able to go back in though! LOL.

I have to say though; OMG look at my boobs!!! Since WHEN did they do THAT!? hahahaha! I don't have small boobs, but SHEESH, they're not normally that full looking... lmao!

So I'm using the first pic as my 'real' one, as I'll just suck my tummy in for all the rest of the shots for the rest of my pregnancy. When there's a bub making a bump, it won't suck back in, so it'll be more accurate that way! haha!

 

[sarahincanada]

yay flying first bump pic!!! you look lovely and very voluptuous!! Cant wait to see it grow! I have big boobs already since I gained weight and so they are going to be hhhuuuuuuuge when Im pregnant!

what day exactly are you in the 2nd tri? we need to have an online party that day.

p.s im eating sour cream and onion chips again dammit!!

 

[nypage1981]

Flying, thanks. Great idea about the umbrella for beach. O don't have the choice to sit inside air conditioning all day wih a beau bum 7 year old. She's been excited for beach all winter! You are having your baby at the best time cuz all spring and summer you can be on walks. Here it will be turning wi.get and um sad cuz no walks wih baby and stuck inside more.

Yea, I am surely gonna be way bigger and way faster with this one. I'm just so distended right now its awful. I'm too ashamed to leave my house for people will thimk im so mug farther. Oh well. I love bean even if it makes me fat.

Sarah funny about the chips. Watch, when you get pregnant you will hate them! Haha.

 

[sherylb]

Dhs flight was delayed from arriving at 945 to 1130 so I am having a late night burger fries and chocolate shake. Yum!!!!

Update: 1035 and the stupid flight that was suppose to leave at 850 is FINALLY leaving.

 

[NDH]

I'm having a down day. The mom of the first family I babysat for just posted photos on facebook of her new (first) grandchild. I was 12 when I started babysitting them and the kids were 8, 5 and 1.

 

[Dew]

Flying: you look just fine....thanks for posting your bump pictures for us

Sheryl: sorry that you had to wait so long for hubby's flight...wonder what's the reason for delay in flight since weather I presume is good. Hope you both get good rest tomorrow.

NDH: I cam imagine how that news is hurting you. A big hug to you....we and many others are sailing in the same boat...hope we get what we are wishing for very soon

NY: don't even worry about your tummy...I am sure women around are gonna be jealous of it and not otherwise......since my MC I have been on an eating spree....all things unhealthy, probably my way of coping with stress, and at the same time I haven't really gotten back to exercising so I have a tummy too and I am not even Pg

Time for me to sleep....have a happy weekend you all!

 

[babyhopes2323]

Ny, its a bummer about the bloat i know.. i feel the same way, i look a bit huge but cant wait for a proper bump instead of a bloat.. sometimes i keep pressing lightly under my naval and can feel it growing more firm than jelly like and try to console myself that it is a bump. will post pics when im 13 weeks like flying .. because anything before that is sure to be a bloat..

flying, great pics !! thanks for posting them, i was going to suggest we all post pics when we are in our 13 week period but i forgot you are further along than most of us !!
gosh so excited one more week for second tri................... best feelingggggggggggg ever !!!!!!


sarah, ive seen your pic and yes its soooo true, we want what we dont have !!

my husband is not religious and dosent follow many traditions as like you say, i doubt the english have many to follow?

its just this 12 week thing he is pissing me off with. he didnt even want me to go maternity stores yesterday to get some loose fitting pants.. he took me to jeans west and other places.. hell anyway i got some good deals.. im a bit weary about buying it right now as well, just want to go to my 12 + 6 scan on the 20th and make sure everythings ok before i bounce off buying new stuff !!

dew, i think i forgot to answer your last question about organic food.. organic food is sooooooooooo expensive here.. we only tend to get organic milk at times but we always buy free range organic eggs, i think my dh and we agree on that one, but other stuff is just too costly to consider.. the english women on this forum would know this place, i usually shop from waitrose, and their vegetables are just so fresh and nice in comparison to other stores and theyre a high end chain of stores, so most of their vegetables , tend to be really fresh and you know when youre looking at good quality stuff, but i wouldnt go out all the way to a whole organic foods store as i would end up spending life savings.. dubai is very costly that way !

Ny, youre totally further on that i am so dont worry.. you should be so lucky you look 5 months pregnant and theres something to show !!

im in that ugly transition between showing and looking very fat so i hate it when i wear my clothes as im not fully baked and showing nor am i very skinny like i used to be !! i used to be soooooooo skinny, will add a pic in the next post. so now im a bloated round different person and cant wait to finally show so people dont take me to be huge and fat..i have to keep rubbing myu tummy lol because other wise people would think im just a fat pig seeing the way i eat.. two pics to compare follow in the below post..


one before pregnancy, second is at about 8 weeks.

 

[babyhopes2323]

well here are the pictures to compare.. i will never go down to that size 8.. i need a 10 - 12 now for certain clothes !

 

[MummyCat]

Preethi... you are beautiful love! In both pics!! xxx

Biltong is a South African delicasy, basically is meat that has been cured and dried... but not cooked. It's similar to beef jerky I suppose... except not as dry as beef jerky.

Thanks for your well wishes.... woke up not being able to breathe, my tonsils had swollen so much they were blocking my airway... put the whole story in my journal if you wish to read about it... it's on the last page of the journal at the moment.

I'm home now... but still struggling. I can't lie down. so sleeping upright is my only option!

Enough about me... SARAH.... are you going to test today??? OMG... am so excited for you!!

FLying... your bump pics are lovely honey! Thank you for sharing... once I'm well enough I'll post pics of my podge for you all to see! xxx

 

[babyhopes2323]

you know mummy, i had my tonsils removed when i was younger and since then have had no troubles or problems whatsoever.

hope you feel better.. xx what bad timing for you to feel crappy..ill be going to your journal to find out whats exactly happened.. hope you get better soon... xxx