12 to 24 week pregnancy thread

Apricot

twi1ight wrote: »

And mine are orange. Did you all also get a big nhs information book? It kooks like it's for all nhs and not area specific. The midwife told me to always look in there first and not search online!

Yes I got one of those - only flicked through it once though

jcr16

twi1ight wrote: »

Jcr - don't get the big mower out. You might strain something when your trying to maneuvre it about.

thanks hun, i'm using the little one. which is a fab mower but our grasss is soooooo long . this is the first cut of the yr. normally use the petrol one for it. and use the electric one for the weekly top up's. however i'm not silly, i'm gonna do a little bit today, some more tomoz etc and just do it like that till it done. then start all over again :rotfl:

twi1ight

jcr16 wrote: »

thanks hun, i'm using the little one. which is a fab mower but our grasss is soooooo long . this is the first cut of the yr. normally use the petrol one for it. and use the electric one for the weekly top up's. however i'm not silly, i'm gonna do a little bit today, some more tomoz etc and just do it like that till it done. then start all over again :rotfl:

Haha. That's exactly what will happen. I'm hopeless at gardening. In our last house the grass got so long that our puny mechanical mower couldn't cope. I used scissors to hack it all back in the end The lawn was only the size of a stamp though so not as silly as it sounds. Now we live somewhere with communal gardens and a gardener to keep it lovely. Well worth the money given my track record.

jcr16

our old house had a garden ( well grass ares as there was a bid patio) but the grass was litrally 8ft square, so easy to cut .

but were a corner plot here, so most house in our road have garden a little bit wider than there house. and most gardens back onto other house's so not that long, some are longer than others. but not us ,our garden is triple the width almost and a bit longer as we don't back on to other house we back on to an old nurserys carpark. i love the size of our garden, great with young family as means we don't have to go to parks as have lots of space. it 's one thing which made the house appeal. but i hate cutting the lawn, unless it really short and it just a top up cut.

however not sure i will be cutting the rest of lawn this weeks as flames just came out the engine and mower started smelling :rotfl: but hey i tried. will get hubby to check mower it might of just been some old dry grass stuck in motor ) but prob not knowing my luck)

Sequeena

I keep my notes in the bounty pregnancy info pack which I was given when my midwife came to see me at 6 weeks x

I'm in Wales so my notes probs look a lot different to England notes (Welsh translations included with English).

Clarieloo

Hello ladies I'm back from my day of driving yesterday bleugh. I have to drive up and down the country about once a week for my job and I don't know how much longer I can keep it up. I feel OK driving its just the other idiots on the road make my blood boil and I could actually feel my blood pressure rising yesterday - not good!

Anyway, I had my 16 week appointment this morning. Heard Wriggles' heartbeat which was fantastic. A little crackly but you could still hear it quite clearly. Apart from that we were in and out in about 10 minutes. I'm not sure what I was expecting but I thought it would be more interesting :rotfl:I don't know if hubby's going to come to all of the appointments now coz its pretty boring for him. I'm glad he heard the heartbeat though.

And at last I have my 20 week scan date - 1st April Woohoo:T

Hope everyone's well
xx

c_l_a_i_r_e

Clarieloo wrote: »

Anyway, I had my 16 week appointment this morning. Heard Wriggles' heartbeat which was fantastic. A little crackly but you could still hear it quite clearly. Apart from that we were in and out in about 10 minutes. I'm not sure what I was expecting but I thought it would be more interesting :rotfl:

I had my 16 week appt on Friday and felt the same. I thought it would be a lot longer and was a bit like "is that all" at the end of it:rotfl: Its good in a way though as it makes me think of the pregnancy in a more matter of fact way, like its just another thing going on in my life so I'm not obsessing over it and stressing about it. Don't get me wrong, I really want this baby but I am just way more relaxed and laid back about the whole thing than I thought I woud be.

I've had a bad few days of nausea but thanks to the meds no more sickness (unless I get in the car:eek:) and physically I'm feeling stronger but its just not happening as quickly as I thought. I'm going to make an appt with my GP to talk about how long I should continue to take them though. I'm so afraid of going back to how I was but at the same time I don't want to take anything if I'm no longer needing it. The MW I saw wasn't very helpful when I asked, she just told me it was a personal choice but she would never take anything in pregnancy, not even paracetamol so I can only guess what she thought of me then!!!!! I'm just rambling now and thinking out loud so feel free to ignore:D

Btw am I the only one with an OH who is already thinking of having no. 2:eek: I think its lovely he's so involved and excited but steady on, I need to get through this pregnancy first:rotfl:

jcr16

when i was preg with my first we didn't really talk about the second but had always planned to start trying when baby was a yr old. however i found out on my dd 1st birthday i was preg, so worked out perfectly.

With our second i don't ever really remember thinking about having more, but i certainly didn't think about not having them.

however with ds2, i was planning to want to fall preg within a few months of him being born. but it just didn't happen for one reason or another.

now i'm preg with baby 4 and hubby and i have spoken abotu a 5th. if i get my natural birth then i'd like to ideally not go back on pill and just let nature take it's course. but if i have to have a section. then we will wait for a yr before deciding what to do.

but it great ur hubby is really involved. mine is and i love it.

twi1ight

No. 2?!?! No way! Not for a few years. I'm not in love with being pregnant thing at the moment so the thought of doing it again is too much for me. I'd like to have more than 1 child though so I guess I will overcome it at some point. I'd give my husband a swift kick in the balls if he made any suggestion about the next baby already.

The midwife centre receptionist told me the 16 weeks appointment only takes about 15 minutes so I'm prepared for a quick appointment. I know they'll take blood though as there is no nuchal measuring in nhs here (I think) and they check for downs risk at 16 week blood test.

c_l_a_i_r_e

Would you like a really big family then jcr? I think you're really brave coping with 4 but then you're obviously a natural from the way you speak about your children. I always thought I would ideally like 2, and still do but who knows what life will throw at you:D

I love that my OH is so excited too, he'll make an amazing daddy. He's had lots of experience with babies too when his nephews were young and is very hands on with them so I feel very lucky in that regard.