PAL Winter Babies 2010/11 - ** Waiting impatiently for our remaining babies! **

[Tulip]

Hey Michelle! I'll let you know how good it is in an hour or so

I haven't weighed myself for a couple of week but at last count I had lost weight. Don't panic - it'll come xx Anyway.... where's this bump pic?

 

[blondee]

hahaha! Good point! I'll take one when i am getting ready to go out tonight )

Thanks for the reassurance.

I just got a big swish in my tum after i hit the post button, so i think it was spud's way of telling mum to stop stressing - either that or my imagination is VERY strong!!

 

[TripleB]

Hey ladies. Hope you've all enjoyed the long weekend (if you're in the UK). I've been a hermit all weekend and just stayed in feeling sorry for myself. I feel so sick all the time I could cry! Still haven't vomited thankfully but I can't believe I'm only 7 weeks so this is only the beginning. I'm bored of listening to myself whinge - even said to DH how can someone who wanted this so much be such a moaner! Oh well, 5 days until my scan, sure that will cheer me up! xxx

 

[blondee]

Sorry to hear you are feeling so rough tripleb. I suffered from the nasty all-day nausea and only puked twice. It is hard going. I guess everyone will have already told you their tips but mine was to keep on eating. As soon as you feel nauseous eat whaveter you can (i had to avoid rubbish like choc and crisps as they made me worse) but a piece of bread, a yoghurt, a bowl of plain rice - whatever you can stomach and it always did the trick with me. In the end i just kept eating a little something every 1-2 hrs during the day (low fat yoghurts, toast, laughing cow cheese triangles!) and that helped so much. It was only really worse if we went out (cos of hubbies job we have to go out a lot at night) so i would have beans on toast before going out for dinner as i knew despite a function starting at 7 that you wouldn't eat til 9 and i would be ready to cry by then!

Just keep on nibbling, hun. It'll pass soon enough.

X

 

[TripleB]

Thanks blondee, eating does seem to work for me too. I probably need to nibble a bit more rather than wait for a big meal. I'm actually looking forward to work tomorrow to take my mind off it. Can I ask when your nausea eased? Not sure I want to know the answer though! xxx

 

[blondee]

I had it from weeks 6 to about 10/11. I managed to puke in week 13 too, but nausea was completely gone for me by week 11. Not bad, eh??

 

[TripleB]

1 week down then, 4 to go - arrrrrrgh! xxx

 

[Tulip]

Oh Louise, bless you. Wish these could take the nausea away.

Michelle - I think the pillow is going to be maaaarvellous once I get used to it.

 

[blondee]

I'm not sure i need the pillow yet but am looking forward to it regardless! I get back ache if i have been sat wrong for a few hours in the day...went to a rally on saturday and people were kind enough to get me a chair but you are swinging from left to right watching the cars fly by and on sunday morning i felt like a broken woman!! Even my knees ached Pregnancy makes you feel like an OAP!!

TripleB - everyone's different but seeing as food helps i'd keep going with that for as long as possible! I think nausea generally stops when the placenta kicks in but some people do get it longer. Hope you feel better soon.

 

[Tulip]

Yeah the nausea might start to ease off in a couple of weeks xx

 

[TripleB]

Thanks ladies, hurry up placenta! What's this pillow all about then? I love that I can get tips ahead of the game from you! xxx

 

[Tulip]

It's this badboy:

https://www.dreamgenii.com/images/product/detail/new_image_pattern.jpg

A Dream Genii. Supports bump and legs and stops you rolling onto your back and losing the feeling in your legs

I'm also having Pram Nightmares at the mo. Seriously, does any travel system actually fold without you having to take the damn seat off??

 

[blondee]

I actually am having odd dreams (not sure if you really meant real nightmares or just trauma, but this story makes me smile). The latest one was so surreal....

Background to the week (very glam) been constipated and tired and had a TWO corporate do's to go to at the weekend so was feeling harassed and sorry for myself.

So, the dream was that i was in a dodgeball team (like in the film) but the rules were different (i.e. nothing like dodgeball) and i was being guilt tripped in to missing the corporate event my hubby needed me to go to so that i could play in the all-important finals. Then - it cut straight to a creeking, dirty train toilet on a speeding train where i knew that i had to go.... Cue panic and the sweats which woke me up and i said calmly to my husband 'It's Dido's fault' and i got up and burst out laughing. I have always jokingly blamed Dido for being a bad role model to women (she promotes stalking and being clingy) so my husband just said 'yeah, she's a proper bunny boiler' and rolled over and went back to sleep!

This is not the first weird dream i've had since being preggers, and i NEVER remembered my dreams before so i am finding it all very amusing.

Anyone else care to share their weird dreams??

 

[blondee]

I'm also having Pram Nightmares at the mo. Seriously, does any travel system actually fold without you having to take the damn seat off??

Just thought - I was out with a friend today who has a bugaboo (baby is 18 months) and she took the chair off really easily and the frame seemed to collapse smoothly and it all just went in the boot nicely. Whole job took a matter of seconds. I had a little push around and it was SO easy to manouvre!!! I loved it. Pused a friends standard (one piece that folds) pushcair the other day and it was not as easy to manouvre at all and seemed heavy.

I think we need to do lots of test drives

Which ones have you got your eye on? I am coming back to the UK this week so will be hitting mothercare and trying out the lot!

X

 

[TripleB]

Loving that pillow - that's top of the list when over-eating podge turns to bump! Hmmmm, travel systems... a whole new world of confusion! All I know is that I want a pram of some sort to start with - romantic notions of pushing tiny baby around the block in January!

I've had some crazy dreams lately. Apart from the usual can't find a heartbeat at the scan nightmares of course. Last week my 55 year old mother in law revealed she was pregnant! xxx

 

[blondee]

I've had some crazy dreams lately. Apart from the usual can't find a heartbeat at the scan nightmares of course. Last week my 55 year old mother in law revealed she was pregnant! xxx

brilliant!!

 

[hannah76]

tulip, so you like your dreamgenii? strange, i posted a couple of threads (one in 2nd tri, one in 3rd) to get reccomendations on pillows to stop me rolling on my back bc i know that soon that will be dangerous. i've tried all manner of regular pillows around me but always seem to be on my back when i wake up to pee (a billion times) in the night... there are so many preggo pillows out there!! the 2nd tri ladies all have different faves and the 3rd tri ladies interestingly seem to mostly be saying nothing kept them from rolling onto their backs but that they woke themselves up when they were on their back from the tingly legs and went back to their side... sigh... i don't need something else waking me up in the night!! maybe i'll try the dreamgenii as i like how it doesn't try and also be your head pillow... i have a head pillow i like already.

have you tried it much yet or did you just get it?

 

[lolly25]

What a naughty monkey Lolly. What on earth does a hiccup sound like on Doppler? Best of luck for Thurs. I've just been buggy-testing at John Lewis and treated myself to a Dream Genii pillow - off to have a nap and try it out! xx

Hi hun the hiccups sound like a muffled sound made at regulary intervals, just like we do when we hiccup x Liking the look of the dream genii can see me buying one lol x

 

[mayb_baby]

9th December

xxxx

 

[Tulip]

Hannah I did enjoy my Genii last night. I think it'll take a couple of days to get used to as I feel kind of enclosed. I can wake up halfway between side and back but not flat on my back which is good

Loving the dreams girls, keep em coming! Mind are all bizarre and higgledy piggledy at the mo, but I can never remember them.

As for the travel systems I just don't like the look of the bugaboos, I think they're ugly Its probably going to be the Silver Cross Surf or an iCandy of some sort. As most of them seem to need the seat removed I'm trying not to see it as a disadvantage. Can always get a cheap stroller later