MSE Pregnancy Club 25

emsbet

Fingers crossed gilly. Its nice that you're feeling good, keeping active will hopefully speed things up for you.

If anyone's looking for some ideas on meals to freeze for after baby's arrival BBC Good Food have put a few together in an article. Thought there might be some inspiration for someone http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/content/recipes/features/pregnancy-planner/1/

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sexymouse

Thanks for that link emsbet. You inspired me to do a bit of googling on make-ahead meals, and I found this great PDF file (I know it's American, so the recipes are in cups etc, but it could easily be converted, and there are lots of casseroley type meals that verge away from the traditional English staples that sound good too) - as a veggie, I'm going to replace the meat in some of the chicken dishes with soya chicken pieces. A recipe that I love at the moment that's really easy to make ahead (again, I use veggie chicken pieces as I don't eat meat) is this one that I found on the side of a Campbell's soup tin. We had it last night, so I made sure that Moon made enough for 4, so that's one portion each in the freezer now. It's great served with mashed potato (you could even make extra of this and put it on top in portions to make a pie) and brocolli, but just as good served on rice. I suppose you could even make it into pastry pot pies that you could freeze before cooking the pastry.

emsbet

You're two links are the same sm

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sexymouse

Just edited emsbet - hopefully they're correct now. If the second link isn't right still, it's this one. Thanks for pointing it out.

emsbet

It works now

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Rups32

hi ladies how are you?
just got back from machester and am shattered. i have to go back and read back the previous posts but i was wondering whether i can have a rant please?

our weekend wents smoothly apart from 2 arguments: one yest and one major one today. DH booked himself some flights to see his friend and didnt tell me (he never reveals much to me) and when i started going on about how our communication is bad at times he flipped. then on our way back i started talking about our scan tomorrow and he started on me about me finding out tomorrow and i said i didnt want to argue as it stresses me out. so on our walk back to the st pancras we argued and he ranted at me that i am so ungrateful for what he does, and he made sure he went and got a good jjob so i dont have to work and all i do is moan. i felt so bad and hurt. he said ihave a !!!!!! job with !!!!!! money. i felt really hurt and so on our way back we didnt even chat. i just cried silently on the train.. i know the health of the baby matters but why use emotional blackmail? he knows how much i appreciate what he does. sorry just feeling pants sat here. cant even sit and have a proper cry as his brother is here. will read posts and replt. sorry for rant.:(

sexymouse

Hugs Rups - pregnancy can certainly put a lot of pressure on a relationship, particularly as you're dealing with unwanted house-guests too. I remember earlier in my pregnancy that Moon and I argued a bit more than before, and as I was feeling rough all the time with MS or heartburn, it made it particularly hard on me. Since going to antenatal classes though, it's brought us much closer together as he's been able to see all of the things that I'm going through and will go through, and the reasons behind my feelings etc. It's also enabled us to talk through our feelings in a non-confrontational / pressure-free environment. Have you looked into going to antenatal classes with him? If you can afford them, I'd thoroughly recommend the NCT ones, although the NHS courses are meant to be just as good too if you can't.

Rups32

Congratulations to Chrissy , clarissa and jen.. hope you are all enjoying cuddles and recovering well.

Welcome tattoo and congrats.

Glad all is ok kitten and hope you are ok too rjh. hope everyone is ok on here.

Belated happy birthday Gemma. Hope you had a great day. Happy birthday moneypuddle. Hope you are having a lovely one too.  lovely pics of your nursery. Our walls are the same colour!  we painted them when we moved in, and we decided to keep that colour

thanks for your advise sexymouse. it was so so bad though us arguing in the streets of london and people were watching us. i understand his point fully but where he gets angry and says i am ungrateful or i have a crappy job, that just got to me. now he seems calmer and is messing around with me infront of his brother and i still want to kill him. i know at the end of the day its the health of the baby but still he shouldnt be nasty. ;( seems like i may be the one comprising again so i dont let it slip as i know i may. ;(
we have booked one nhs class and we are going to that on the 17th of november. i agree that both of us should go. and he has agreed which is nice. i am now immensely worried about my job situation too as even though he said he got a job where i am in a position to stay at home, i dont think i want to as whenever he argues with me or gets heated up he starts listing what he does for me and i dont like that so better i go back.

i will def look up those paid nct classes and try and book one or two

got some random hip pain today ouch. they feel so stiff. i am shattered. manchester tired me out as we walked around lots to go to the old trafford and then i forgot to wear sun protection cream. oops.. is it bad for us to get too much sun?

jediquigley

ikkle - sounds like a difficult situation with your mum, if she is so headstrong she could easily become a hinderance while you are in labour rather than support. the last thing you want is someone causing you anxiety and stress while you are in labour.

moneypuddle - nursery looks fab, you just have to wait for your wee one now:) books - my DH was buying books before i was 4 months pregnant lol he got classics like 3 little pigs etc but also got a few "thats not my ....." books see below.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Thats-Robot-Usborne-Touchy-Feely/dp/074606960X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1344180101&sr=8-1

he also brought hugless dougles and good little wolf.

Congratulations to Clarissa and Jen

rjn - sorry to hear that cervix isnt ripper hehe i have had no lower back pain, had a few pains low down like period pains but very intermitent and not that painful.

rups - i dont think its fair how your OH has been talking to you, in my opinion its not an acceptable way to talk to someone & bloody hell when is his brother going???lol

feeling ok but tired today, midwife tomorrow and anxious to hear what she will say. i want my due date changed back to my original (5 aug) as i still believe its more accurate.

have been bouncing, rocking and rotating on ball.

i wonder where the other boldies are ? would be interesting to hear if they have any signs of labour......

Laura

sexymouse

Those touchy-feely books look really good Laura - thanks for posting them. I used to love anything touchy-feely when I was little (I used to collect stickers - does anyone remember the furry stickers and the waterproof plastic ones - then of course there were the smelly ones too which were cool). My original due-date was 27th September (4 days after my current one, and I think this is going to be more accurate too - this is why unless there is any medical need, I won't be having sweeps or opting for induction of labour).