MSE Pregnancy Club 22

Amfodyndad

Welcome to the club Keggsy i know everyone will tell you this, but the rest of the pregnancy will fly by!

We have 6 days to go until due date, very exciting, although i'd be surprised if little one makes an early appearance! Induction planned for term + 10 though so at least we pretty much know it's not going to be any later than around July 14/15th..

Good luck to all the boldies as well!!

Clarieloo

Hi Keggsy :wave: Your due right around the same time as my sister.

Re RLT I started it as directed on here at 32 weeks (last Friday). Bought some when on offer in Holland and Barrett :money: and I really like it. I have to put about half a teaspoon on honey in it though just for a bit of sweetness. Theres no way I'm going to remember to take it everyday though especially when I have to get on to 3 or 4 cups a day!

Well I started out this pregnancy with sciatica which disappeared to be replaced with I thought SPD. Well now that seems to have more or less gone for the last 3 weeks and then yesterday the child was clearly lying right on my sciatic nerve. I could barely walk from the car to the office. Had to keep standing up in the middle of the office and wiggling around to try and shift him to a different position - cue very odd looks from people.

People at work are all lovely but I feel a bit "fussed over" at times. This morning for example, someone said I should get a foot rest for under my desk- then the whole office had to get involved and I am now resting my feet on an upturned printer paper box :rotfl:I daren't move my feet off it for fear of offending everyone!!

Oh well, only 18 more working days to go. :T Just got to get through an interview for my job tomorrow and I'll be coasting. I don't think I'll get it as I'm up against two colleagues (male and clearly not going off in 3 weeks to have a baby) so I'll take my redundancy and enjoy being a mummy for a few months instead.

keelykat

delain wrote: »

Hello ladies :hello:

Glad everyone is out enjoying the lovely weather

Being PG still isn't feeling very real for me yet (am about 15 weeks and got no visible bump because I'm fat lol) so I seem to forget about it for long periods and whenever anyone mentions it to me, I say 'What?' Like this is the first I've heard of it lol. People will be thinking I've gone nuts.

Apart from feeling tired early evening, and not being able to get comfy when i do go to bed-I sometimes forget i'm pregnant too. A lot of my early on bloating has gone, so my tummy actually feels smaller now. But no one can believe i'm pregnant yet lol.

keely.

Kandboys

Hi all hope you are all doing ok. Thought I would post to say I'm back from holiday and apart from the rain we had a fantastic time. Got the doctors this afternoon as I have had itchy feet for a month that are gradually getting worse despite two lots of creams and I now have lots of itchy spots on my hands a bit like stinging nettle spots. It's driving me crazy and making me miserable to be honest

twi1ight

Oh kill me, kill me now! B 00 b just leaked through my top and it's not a very forgiving colour so made a really dark mark. Saving grace is I noticed straight away so ran off to clean up before anyone else did. I'm 30 weeks and hope I don't have to start wearing pads already!

I sympathise clarieloo. Yesterday was so insufferably hot in our office I mentioned that it was too hot for me and I was going to leave early. Cue people running round with fans, offering me to sit in their air conditioned cars etc. Really, it wasn't a big deal and I knew it would be cooler today so figured what's the point in struggling through yesterday when I could go home and put my fat feet up. All the fussing just made me aggravated.

Hope things went/are going ok for mrsS and SmlSave.

alison2020

Lirin wrote: »

I've been very worried about life after birth- I'm not clucky, don't go gooey over baby things in shops, and haven't bought a thing for baby bar necessities. My sisters also spent a good bit of time telling me I have no maternal instinct as I don't particularly want to sit for a four-hour conversation about prams- as long as it has wheels and can hold a child, that's as far as my interest goes.....

You poor thing, having to put up with a load of negative scare-mongers like that! Pay them no attention what-so-ever. Once baby arrives your hormones and instincts will kick in and you will have all the motherly instinct you need (and more:D). Plus, you sound like a very practical person, so you'll manage far better than you think.
I was never a girly girl, and tbh, have no interest in other peoples children, only my own. This is my second pregnancy and this time i am going a bit gooey over little baby clothes, but i wasn't one bit soppy in my first pregnancy.
I used to be bored silly if people started talking about babies, but funnily enough, after having a baby myself, i talked about nothing else for ages!
As for post-natal depression, there is no point worrying about it in advance. Keep the negative people at a distance and you'll be fine!

pigpen

Lirin.. they only go on as long as you let them... be that 1 sentence or a month.. My family gave up when mind your own business came the standard answer to everything baby related! .. OH's family haven't been treated to my less than polite self so they may well be in for a shock in the coming months.

If his mother even mentions the 'consultant' to me I'm jumping down her throat, spreading out and choking her to death! I did tell OH is he was so desperate to see him he coud go instead but I was staying home

Skint_Catt

Can anyone help a naive & brain dead first time Mom-to-be? I've decided I'm going to use the moses basket for the first few months that was given to me by a friend. It was a bit tired & well used, so I've bought new cover & hood set for it, but I need a new mattress too - it's a 'standard' size but I don't have it with me at the mo and when I look online for new mattresses they come in different sizes which I didn't realise! Anyone guess which size might be 'standard'. & what sort to get - foam, airflow etc etc etc :eek:

Also our Giblet is due in October - I've been told sleeping bags (which I was going to use) aren't suitable for newborns - so what sort of sheets/blankets will I need for that time of year? I guess a mattress protector & changes of fitted sheets - but what about over baby?

I really haven't started buying anywhere yet as we're 'between' houses but now I'm panicking in case Giblet makes an early apperance!

Thanks

Lirin

Cheers Alison and Pigpen- my family are otherwise, very lovable and nice people. Just a tad opinionated and bossy with it at times- I'm undoubtedly the quieter one!

twi1ight

Why has an all consuming urge to buy a Cath kidston changing bag appeared?! Nice as the stuff on the site is, it's really not my style. And not to mention I decided I don't need to buy a bag anyway. So why have I been looking at it (the cowboy print one reduced to £40) every half hour since yesterday evening??? I'm losing my mind. Someone beat some sense into me