12-24 weeks pregnant (part2)

con1888

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Of course you can use both!

Isaac wore plenty of pink stuff as a baby, after all, the Victorians used pink as the colour for boys and blue for girls, and babies don't mind either way.

I wouldn't want people to think my boy/girl was the opposite lol and I do think it can be hard to tell with babies just by their faces.

I'm not against boys in pink in general but the pink cardi my gran is knitting is proper girly with flower buttons... it won't go to waste though, my cousins wife is due a few weeks before me so she may have the opposite of me ( both in team yellow) failing that she will hold on to them as we have a huge family and there is usually a baby every year/few years

lushlifesaver

Good morning

Hope we are all heading in to the new week happy and positive ! Welcome to all the recent graduates I have missed

Still more disruption at work as the other offices now move across to the other side of the building so I am taking their phone calls/messages as well as trying to get through a mountain of directory updates/event listings of my own! On the up side we are squirrelled away upstairs away from most of the disruption (excluding the phone calls and needing to move the content of our cupboards up which the mover men didn't do on Friday! grr)

Pregnancy wise all is seeming well, lots of little flutters now and then which is nice - can't wait for bf to be able to feel them though! Little one is now making herself comfy and my bump is finally, gradually, making it's appearance.

We heard at the end of last week that bf is one of the 8 selected to go to the US/Canada for two weeks in January - originally the full elite squad was going to go as they were entering two teams but they have changed that now and are only entering one so very exciting. Little nerve wracking he will be away for what feels like a life time for the beginning of the third trimester but we knew what it would be like when he started/we found out we were pregnant and I have lots of support so not scared but its hard when he gets worried about missing stuff. We've bought him a new tablet so we can video chat etc when he's away and we've been wanting a camcorder so I think if I can get to grips with that we can do little videos and catch up things if the midwives are happy for us to

I suppose I had better get on with some real work! catch you all later today!

LannieDuck

con1888 wrote: »

I wouldn't want people to think my boy/girl was the opposite lol and I do think it can be hard to tell with babies just by their faces.

Unless you dress your baby in blue or pink all the time, people will get the gender wrong. In general, it seems that people guess 'boy' unless the baby's in pink/lace/flowers. I've guessed wrongly myself with other babies at baby groups.

We had DD dressed in a black/white/green baby gro with sheep on from mothercare, and at least three people said what a lovely boy she was. Since when did black/white/green = boy? :rotfl:

squ1rrel5

claire16c wrote: »

Hope it's ok squirrel and you just pulled a muscle.

Thanks Claire.
Self diagnosis on Google is a bad thing - I now think I might have gallstones! Symptoms seem right and I know it can be quite common in pregnancy, particularly if you were overweight to start with. My dad had gallstones and pain seems on par with what he had. I'm hoping my doc doesn't just pass it off as indigestion and send me home. If it is gallstones, I'll be on a lovely diet of no fat for the next few months!

Has anyone ever experienced this?

twigpig

welcome neverdespairgirl :wave: Hope you have an easy stress free pregnancy.

lush - great news for hubby and his trip to the USA - what is his sport again. I have wrestling in my head but I could have easily just made that up

con - must agree with you that generally, I won't put my little boy in girl things/colours - I don't want people referring to him as "she" Such a shame really as lots of girl clothes are so cute! :rotfl:

Some of you ladies were talking about taking your holiday allowance over the weekend. Our company also insists you take your leave Jan to Dec and carry only up to 5 days to the following year, however as you'd be on maternity, this becomes an exception. Generally, if you're unable to take your leave in the correct year due to your due date, you then must use the previous years holidays before returning to work from your mat leave. So say I plan to back in April 2015 but would have 20 days holidays left from 2014, I would take my holidays and then go back in May 2015. Hope that makes sense. Ultimately, as long as I don't have any previous years holidays left on my return, then all is good.

I can't see how they could make you take all of your holidays before going on leave. With my first child, I finished mid January for mat leave, only 2 weeks into the year and wasn't planning to be back before December...... Literally an impossible task to take my holidays before going on leave......

claire16c

squ1rrel5 wrote: »

Thanks Claire.
Self diagnosis on Google is a bad thing - I now think I might have gallstones! Symptoms seem right and I know it can be quite common in pregnancy, particularly if you were overweight to start with. My dad had gallstones and pain seems on par with what he had. I'm hoping my doc doesn't just pass it off as indigestion and send me home. If it is gallstones, I'll be on a lovely diet of no fat for the next few months!

Has anyone ever experienced this?

The lady in the hospital bed next to me had gallstones and it wasn't pleasant she was in a fair bit of pain. They were able to give her some drugs though to help.

Although she wasn't too impressed when she was still getting pain & the midwife said I can't give you anymore, take a warm bath, I could hear the conversation and thought hmm that isn't going to go down well!!

Poor lady was already on crutches with Spd, low iron so needed an iron transfusion, migraines, problems with vision all sorts! She was lovely to me though!

claire16c

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Hello all - I'm 14 weeks' pregnant, and due in mid-May.

I'm 35, live in London with OH and our 8 year old son, so this is number #2.

I'm still suffering very badly from sickness, as in not eating much, vomiting several times a day, feeling sick all the time, and also feeling knackered and washed out. Hope it goes soon!

I've lost 4kg since July (which was when I last knew what I weighed) so although my work trousers still fit, they are tighter round the front and baggy around the ar5e, such a lovely look....

My vomiting has only gone at 21 weeks and I still feel fairly nauseous for a good part of the day, hope yours goes quicker than mine!

lushlifesaver

twigpig wrote: »

lush - great news for hubby and his trip to the USA - what is his sport again. I have wrestling in my head but I could have easily just made that up

:rotfl: How funny! Wheelchair Rugby - the proper 'murderball' version not 'tag rugby' - not far from wrestling though as it's full contact; especially for the high pointers like bf!

TeamLowe

Squirrel I've had gallstones and I'd say that if the pain is going on longer than a couple of hours, it's not gallstones, an 'attack' for me was at most half a day. not pleasant at all but went again. If it is there is a medicine that they can give instead of the surgery which lasts for a few months but it may not be safe in pregancy

Has the pain been since your fall? it's more likely to be a muscle in spasm - they can take a couple of days to settle back down at the best of times and considering all the muscle relaxing hormones you've got going on and the lack of ability to take anti-inflammatories I'd put my money on a bad spasm.
You'd be suprised how easily you can hurt your back - I did mine in for a good few days because I was reading on my front for a few hours one afternoon!
The advice I got was to 'potter' - not exercise but not rest either, just keep getting up and doing little bits so it doesn't stiffen

twigpig

lushlifesaver wrote: »

:rotfl: How funny! Wheelchair Rugby - the proper 'murderball' version not 'tag rugby' - not far from wrestling though as it's full contact; especially for the high pointers like bf!

tee hee - Oh yes, that does ring a bell. :rotfl: