Due July 2012 Thread

silly

theg81der wrote: »

Anyone else finding their weight varies hugely? One day I`m 1 and half stone up next less than a stone Started watching myself this week. I was a stone over weight anyway when I got pregers (after lossing 3 1/2 stone before that) so should only gain 15-25lbs in the whole pregnancy. and 3rd trimester is 1lb a week so thats 12lbs so should only have gained maybe 7lbs so far. Want to be back in shape and at the gym asap, don`t want to go back to being overweight and unhappy when I was so close.

I haven't weighed myself once since getting pregnant!! I have no idea what weight I've put on! Midwife did weigh me at about 14 weeks, so she will prob weigh me again at my next visit at 32 weeks.
People say I'm all bump, but I dunno are they just being nice.
My weight was very yo-yo anyway before getting pregnant, lost weight before getting married, put some in during honeymoon. But I never know my weight, I don't own a weighing scale! I just know by my clothes!

cyning

Silly we were looking at the Argos furniture: our friends have the prague set: the cot was fine but the chest of drawers is quite flimsy. We were going to go for the Salisbury set but then we decided we wanted to put a single bed in there too for nights when babs won't sleep so it worked out cheaper to go to a furniture shop!!

javagal

i was thinkin about an argos set too but some stuff i got from them in the past and it wasnt overly great

the stuff i got, while kinda expensive is amazing quality and i love how it looks, check out toys r us they deliver for free

Tinkerbell4484

Stay away from Argos for furniture if you can,I got a wardrobe for the boys room and they are the worst quantity ever.

TwoMums2Be

I wouldn't go to Argos for furniture anymore...it's just not robust enough on the other hand ikea is also flat pack but so much better built so that might be worth looking at!

Mink re car seat you prob won't have isofix but you can buy a belted base which gives the security of not having to fit the belt everytime you put the car seat in the car...we will get that if our isofix doesn't work

We should be easier to spot than others thinking of heading in on the Saturday!

Kiwi2011

My god ladies talking of weight....Im too scared to stand on the scales! Just based on how my clothes are fitting / not fitting I think I have exploded int he last 2/3 weeks! Especially arse and thighs even my maternity jeans I bought a few months are feel too tight!!!!

As for bras, I invested in 3 new ones back in dec as i was exploding from my usual ones and I think I maybe getting to the end of the new ones... and I spent 44euro on each one of my new ones..............!!!!! I was so uncomfortable in my old ones i didnt care about the price of the new ones thinking they should last me through... going from a handy C to what I can only describe now as double D'S!!!!:)

TwoMums2Be

Let's just say that three sets of female hormones - my partner & me plus baby combined can be pretty tough going at times!
Thankfully Easter is here so at least we have chocolate

TwoMums2Be

We have decided on the colours for our nursery

javagal

TwoMums2Be wrote: »

We have decided on the colours for our nursery

ooh what ya go for?

TwoMums2Be

javagal wrote: »

TwoMums2Be wrote: »

We have decided on the colours for our nursery

ooh what ya go for?

Three walls in a green & one in a soft hessian or similar. I'm setting up (slowly) a decal business so plan to do up a jungle theme of decals with a tree, vines, monkeys, parrot etc

Best get designing

cyning

I'm pretty sure baby is trying to escape out through my bellybutton

Twomums2be that sounds fabulous

Saurelin

cyning wrote: »

I'm pretty sure baby is trying to escape out through my bellybutton

this same here
;-)

mamaheidi

Twomums2be nursery sounds fab. Will be needing your decal business this time next year when we have our own house Good luck with it!

Think my little breech baby has turned as no more really low kicks - all up at my ribs now. Here's hoping!

javagal

i love my unborn baby more than anything but i swear if she doesn't let off my bladder ill cry!

theg81der

javagal wrote: »

i love my unborn baby more than anything but i swear if she doesn't let off my bladder ill cry!

Lol I said this yesterday too!I reckon he thinks its a football.

silly

theg81der wrote: »

javagal wrote: »

i love my unborn baby more than anything but i swear if she doesn't let off my bladder ill cry!

Lol I said this yesterday too!I reckon he thinks its a football.

Same here! I'm always bursting to pee.
I feel like I need to pee when I'm leaving the bathroom after just peeing!

silly

Has anyone looked at the quinny Moodd??

TwoMums2Be

I will post a pic when I get it done

My little one was using my bladder as a cushion for the first 20ish weeks & I was just like you Silly. Stand up off the toilet & need to pee :rolleyes: I was sure she was stomping on it due to kicks but head was down so I guess I was being punched
She must have moved since or has more space as I don't have bladder issue at the moment...I will find out on Thursday what she's at these days as when I lie on either side she has a fight with the mattress...shame my belly gets caught in the middle :eek:

Saurelin

TwoMums we painted baby room green as well
3walls mint and one grass green
i will add some decorations when i will have more time :-)

Kash

Ours is bright yellow - Big Bird yellow, with white curtains and a big red sofa bed

TwoMums, I wish i'd known sooner you were setiing up a decals business, I just bought loads of woodland themed ones.

My little one seems to have moved off my bladder too, and instead punches/kicks the bed when i lie down. I have a feeling she is lying completely sideways!

kildareash

Anyone else get the urge to pee within a minute of leaving the house?
I'll be fine when I'm leaving but the minute I sit into the car I'll need a wee. It's ridic!

We can't decide what colour to paint the baby's room. We've got alphabet stickers which I'm thinking of using as a border around the room and were either going to get OH's cousin to do some art work on the walls or using a projector put some cartoon characters or something on to it. We really only have one wall that we can do anything with. As it's the box room, the door is on one wall, built in wardrobe takes up most of the other long wall and window is opposite the door.

Mink

All this talk about painting baby's room lovely colours makes me want to do it! I'm reluctant to though as it's a rented house and don't plan on staying there forever. Though might be at least another 2yrs before anyone is handing out mortgages! I think I'll give in when it gets closer to the time and I turn into a nester.

Had such weird strong sensations last night, felt like he was burrowing his head into my cervix to try and make a break for it. Happened when lying down on left, trying to go to sleep. OH says he must think he's a teenager and he's trying to sneak out for the night and come back before I wake.

Apparently at 24 weeks, baby is size of an eggplant, uterus is size of a football and he weighs 1.7lbs.

silly

got a video of baby moving on my phone yesterday.
junior seems to do this like series of really quick movements, and my belly just starts quivering....its very strange!

Havent even put any thought into doing up spare room yet.
i really need to start doing something.


58 days left at work.

kildareash

58 days eeek...that seems like no length.

Having the GTT done this morn, the lucozade is having a crazy effect on the baby...it's not kicking but jumping around! Feels like my belly is going to pop off my body. Last test in 15 mins can't wait
I'm only 26 weeks and I read this morn that GD typically presents after 28 weeks, hope they didn't schedule it too soon and I have to do it again.

javagal

Aww doing up the nursery was such fun! e did ours ages ago because my exams start in 5 weeks so i dont have the time now,


finally got some sleep last night and my lovely oh brought me tea in bed !

trions

Hi all,
Hope u all had a lovely long weekend?

Tinkerbell - congratulations!!! the girl ratio is starting to creep back up

Am very jealous of everyone decorating nursery - we have yet to find a house....

Silly - my sis had a quinny, it's a lovely buggy but found it very heavy esp to lift in and out of boot - think it was the buzz model she had..

Following up on the query you had about the icandy, I was getting a bit worried about the length of the seat as twomums had said she had heard of them not being long enough... I ran into a couple in work that had the peach double buggy with a baby and a toddler, so asked them.. they were really nice and gave loads of advice, on the length of the seat they said the newest model is larger and their toddler still had plenty of space in it (said the older model was way smaller and had heard of lots of people having problems with it) so once you make sure u are getting new stock it should be fine..

cyning

I keep getting the urge to pee but when I get there nothing: but if I'm lying down that doesn't happen so its all down to what way babs is lying I think

Kildareash I'm having GTT done Friday so I'll be nearly 28 weeks: I'm dreading it. Absolutely dreading it :rolleyes: Drinking lucozade on an empty stomach is going to be horrendous: I hate it!!

I had every intention of painting our nursery: but I can't make a decision on it. I have teddy bear stickers and I reckon that will be it: I can barely make a decison on what to wear these days let alone what colour to paint my nursery :eek: and baby won't care seen as s/he will be in our room for first 6 months!

Stupid doc this afternoon

silly

trions wrote: »

Silly - my sis had a quinny, it's a lovely buggy but found it very heavy esp to lift in and out of boot - think it was the buzz model she had..

Following up on the query you had about the icandy, I was getting a bit worried about the length of the seat as twomums had said she had heard of them not being long enough... I ran into a couple in work that had the peach double buggy with a baby and a toddler, so asked them.. they were really nice and gave loads of advice, on the length of the seat they said the newest model is larger and their toddler still had plenty of space in it (said the older model was way smaller and had heard of lots of people having problems with it) so once you make sure u are getting new stock it should be fine..

Thanks for that, going to look at the icandy on saturday, there is only one shop near us that stocks the range, so i cant wait to have a look at it.
I had looked at the quinny buzz, but i noticed online that the quiny mood looks like it had a bigger seat..
then i get to thinking, why dont i just get the mothercare My4 which is similar to the quinny, or the Mura 3..

javagal

Silly,

If your going quinny, I just got an email from bumptobaby.ie about 25percent off them, maybe check it out

silly

javagal wrote: »

Silly,

If your going quinny, I just got an email from bumptobaby.ie about 25percent off them, maybe check it out

cheers for that!

DGranger

Hi Kildaresh,

I got some maternity tights from worktights . ie two weeks ago. I got the opaque tights with support and some regular sheers for work. the support fellas are unreal. feels like someone is holding me up.

http://www.worktights.ie/Maternity-Tights/View-all-products/8.html

silly

javagal wrote: »

i was thinkin about an argos set too but some stuff i got from them in the past and it wasnt overly great

the stuff i got, while kinda expensive is amazing quality and i love how it looks, check out toys r us they deliver for free

Whats the address for that website? Is it .com or .co.uk?

javagal

silly wrote: »

Whats the address for that website? Is it .com or .co.uk?

.ie


http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=747fb2c4ff02ea753964c2a9f&id=08b256af2c&e=1666b188b0

Tinkerbell4484

Hi girls
Couldn't sleep at all last night severe back pain and very uncomfortable rang gp today and they couldn't see till Thursday so I just went over as I couldn't stick the pain anymore.after 2 hours waiting,turns out ie a kidney infection and they can't give me anything for it as I'm allergic to penecillian.so I've to bring a sample to hospital lab tomorrow and then wait till Friday for results.so my Sil has taken my 2 older boys for the night.

Kash

Ouch Tink, you poor thing
Get well soon!

silly

C

Tinkerbell4484 wrote: »

Hi girls
Couldn't sleep at all last night severe back pain and very uncomfortable rang gp today and they couldn't see till Thursday so I just went over as I couldn't stick the pain anymore.after 2 hours waiting,turns out ie a kidney infection and they can't give me anything for it as I'm allergic to penecillian.so I've to bring a sample to hospital lab tomorrow and then wait till Friday for results.so my Sil has taken my 2 older boys for the night.

Aww, poor tink! Hope you feel better soon.

TwoMums2Be

Mink we are renting also but decided we wanted to make the nursery feel special so are willing to spend the money it will cost to give the room a lick of paint our landlord doesn't mind...he would be more than happy if we painted the whole house :rolleyes:

Kash if I was more proactive I would have a website done by now so don't worry about buying elsewhere...just need to get myself moving

Javagal, I think it was you mentioned biooil for your face....didn't think about using it on my face but it's made a huge difference in just two days so thank you

Saurelin (I think) ours will be three walls in a chalky green shade (dulux jungle fever 3 to be exact) & the largest wall mushroomy cream which will have most of the decals on it...that's the plan anyway

Those who have painted did you go with matt or a sheen...we went with matt as the rest of the house is painted with matt but not sure if that's the most common choice!

tinkerbell79

Poor tink, hope you feel better soon!!!

God I feel like a hippo....and still cant stop eating aarrggh!!!

Ginny

Was someone looking for maternity tights? I think H&M have some?
I have the GTT the morning of my 28 weeks appointment, going to be a long long day!!

Robinc

Does everyone get a GTT test?? Was never even mentioned to me..

TwoMums2Be

Robinc wrote: »

Does everyone get a GTT test?? Was never even mentioned to me..

I checked with my doc & she said they are completing a study so if public you will more than likely get it.

Saurelin

Tinkerbell4484 wrote: »

Hi girls
Couldn't sleep at all last night severe back pain and very uncomfortable rang gp today and they couldn't see till Thursday so I just went over as I couldn't stick the pain anymore.after 2 hours waiting,turns out ie a kidney infection and they can't give me anything for it as I'm allergic to penecillian.so I've to bring a sample to hospital lab tomorrow and then wait till Friday for results.so my Sil has taken my 2 older boys for the night.

Tinkerbell I'm allergic to penicillin as well but I get antibiotics for kidney infection during the pregnancy. I get Macrodantin (it is not allowed closer to the end of pregnancy)
It was really small dose but it helped.
Also drinking plenty of water and cranberry juice helped as well.

I feel really sorry for you. It took me a good few weeks before I finally get rid of it.

Edit: I have GTT schedule for 19th - week 26th, as my mum is diabetic and my sister had problem with sugar level during both pregnancies.

kildareash

Oh Tinkerbell, I feel ur pain. I had to have antibiotics a few weeks ago and possibly have a second infection now. Have to drop in another sample to the doc tomorrow to get tested as last weeks one was inconclusive.
Hot water bottle or hot pack might help with the back pain. Feel better soon x

Ginny, the GTT waiting isn't too bad. I just stuck my headphones in my ears and my nose in a book. The two hours actually didn't drag as much as I thought it wld.

javagal

twomums i love bio oil! i have a cheaper version i got off ebay that i use on my whole body and no stretch marks yet!

if your getting a website started id love to help after my exams, trying to get the experience!

i dont think everyone gets the gtt , i was supposed to but when my urine was checked at 26 weeks there was no indication of sugar so now i dont have to!

tink,hope you feel better soon!

zoe has moved off my bladder so today i am in baby love heaven!x

TwoMums2Be

Javagal biooil is like liquid gold both in use & price I got stretch marks at 12 so was sure I would gets loads during pregnancy but the bio oil seems to be keeping them in check thankfully I got a buy 3 get cheapest free in boots so got one free...which is good as a slap it on & then let it soak in

I'll pm you re website in the next week or so...remind me if my baby brain forgets :rolleyes:

silly

I have never even heard of the GTT test!
At my 24 week appointment the dr checked my urine and said there was the slightest of slightest trace of glucose. She didn't say much else but asked me to come back again at 26 weeks instead of 28 weeks cos of blood pressure and told me to have sample ready again. So I guess she'll check again.
I'm assuming this GTT test isn't pleasant??

silly

I used bio oil on my first pregnancy and i got a few stretch marks. This time I'm using palmers tummy butter for stretch marks, and so far so good! And, it smells like chocolate!

Saurelin

Silly GTT test is glucose tolerance test
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glucose_tolerance_test

here is not bad as lucozade is quite ok, in Poland for example you need to drink liquid glucose - i had it once done and it wasn't easy

cyning

The glucose tolerance test according to the lovely leaflet I was given: you go in at 915 fasting for 12 hours and then they give you 430ml of lucozade to drink. Then they take more bloods in an hour and again an hour after that. In kerry they test anyone who has an immediate family member who's diabetic, has had a baby previously over 10 pounds, is overweight or is over 40.

I'm dreading dreading it!! I have bad veins and every time they poke me in hosp it takes at least 3 goes before they get any blood: and they normally blow at least one vein altogether. Also when water makes you puke in the morning lucozade is going to be ten times worse: and if you puke you have to restart the test another day.

To be fair its prolly not that bad except I'm a crock

My new cravings this week are Dib Dab's and oranges.... num num num orange and sherbert again!!

TwoMums2Be

No Cyning I have never heard of anyone who likes it so it's not just you being a crock my doc said if they don't mention it then not to ask as its a horrible test & if they feel I need it they will mention it :P
Why does it have to be lucozade...I could handle sprite