MSE Pregnancy Club 28

MrsC....tobe

Hello ladies.....that's me hit 24 weeks now and was at midwife today with my 'lovely bump coming along' and fantastic string heartbeat!
Thought it was time to be a big girl and come and join you! Eek!

lilmissreading

MrsC....tobe wrote: »

Hello ladies.....that's me hit 24 weeks now and was at midwife today with my 'lovely bump coming along' and fantastic string heartbeat!
Thought it was time to be a big girl and come and join you! Eek!

:wave: howdy there MrsC! Just back from Italy?

there's also a new fb group. Think you pm daisiegg or tsd? If you read back it'll say.

MrsC....tobe

Hi lilmiss. We got back on Monday night, hubby back to work on Tuesday and yesterday for me. I'm shattered going back after my time off, not as if I'm the most active at work but still, knocked me for six yesterday! Last night a fell asleep on the sofa then was in bed for 8.20 but woke this morning at 4.30 when hubby had to get up for work! Trying not to sleep so early tonight again but I'm struggling!

I've not been in any of the fb groups yet and not got the reading notion tonight. Infact, not got the anything notion tonight, was intending on getting the cross stitch out as I'm determined to finish it with just the name to be added when baby arrives but I know how long it took me when I did the same one for my nephew! I did manage a couple of hours sitting in the sun in front of the hotel when I was away but the rest of the week I was too busy to even get it out. There's always tomorrow when I have a half day so maybe, just maybe, I'll get going with it again then!

Lemon_Tree

Laila I've started getting leg cramps as well now, but can't drink fizzy drinks so not sure I could do either tonic water or bitter lemon even if I could get over the tastes. think I've read something about magnesium helping but not sure

time2deal

Welcome Mrs_C! It's lovely to hit the 24 week mark. It's still scary here - as ladies on this thread have babies...

lilmissreading - I think you understand my present 'anxiety'. It's totally silly but I don't want lots of things that I won't use, and I don't want to seem ungrateful. I should have left the snugglebundl though... I've already got one but that would have been a good present.

Funny but my MIL got in touch just today asking what we wanted. She was upset we already had a pram, so I'm guessing she isn't thinking of a few muslins. I'll have to think of something that we will use a lot, but not too expensive. Sort of hard as we are only buying things for the first six months, so I'm sure she'd love to get a cot or something, but all that is waiting until next year.

Anyway - talk about a first world problem!

Saw another random doctor today. One of my surgeons for a follow up. No real news, but it took me an age to get there and back. Including some baby brain stupidity where I got on a bus going the wrong way. I was totally wiped out, but let myself have a 30 minute only nap to try and avoid this insomnia rubbish again tonight. I'm also going to take progesterone now as I think that doesn't help.

Lemon_Tree

hubby has really come up trumps today, finally! our nursery now has no cupboards on the walls, flooring has been taken up and a blind has been put up behind the curtains. It's take him a while but he's finally done it. tomorrow he's filling and repainting the walls, doing the border and if they've dried putting down a carpet. Then we just have furniture to build and stuff to put away

time2deal

You remind me MrsC - I finished my cross stitch a few days ago. I'll upload a completed picture. I'm starting a quilt version now.

I'm going to try to put away the laptop tonight - unless DH wants to watch boring football. I'm spending far too much time online at the moment. Time to look up from the screen from time to time!

lilmissreading

time2deal wrote: »

Welcome Mrs_C! It's lovely to hit the 24 week mark. It's still scary here - as ladies on this thread have babies...

lilmissreading - I think you understand my present 'anxiety'. It's totally silly but I don't want lots of things that I won't use, and I don't want to seem ungrateful. I should have left the snugglebundl though... I've already got one but that would have been a good present.

Funny but my MIL got in touch just today asking what we wanted. She was upset we already had a pram, so I'm guessing she isn't thinking of a few muslins. I'll have to think of something that we will use a lot, but not too expensive. Sort of hard as we are only buying things for the first six months, so I'm sure she'd love to get a cot or something, but all that is waiting until next year.

Anyway - talk about a first world problem!

Saw another random doctor today. One of my surgeons for a follow up. No real news, but it took me an age to get there and back. Including some baby brain stupidity where I got on a bus going the wrong way. I was totally wiped out, but let myself have a 30 minute only nap to try and avoid this insomnia rubbish again tonight. I'm also going to take progesterone now as I think that doesn't help.

sssh t2d I like to pretend on one level that there isn't the whole birth thing up ahead.

Yes funny thing isn't it. My nan was keen to buy a pram but when we got lots on ebay she very kindly gave us a cheque so it is squirreled away for when the baby comes for coffee and cake, baby yoga, baby swimming or other classes that look good. It's a funny first world problem. Hardly the worst. I suppose if no-one knows I don't use it I just suck it up and deal with it. if people don't ask, it's like any other present that's unnecessary. My mother's bought swaddling blankets which I'm not sure about (v expensive).

Mrs C - that does sounds exhausting. Are you still plus one with your stepson?

MrsC....tobe

Yeah lilmiss, it has been decided that he is staying here with us permanently and everyone is in agreement. This means that the eldest from hubby's first marriage has his own room, baby will have the smallest room, and the other room will be shared by the 'new' one and the other two (from the first marriage) when they come to stay. It's a bit of a squash but not much I can do about it!
I refuse to have baby share with any of them as there are tvs in the bedrooms which I don't agree with and baby won't be having one of them until it is in at least double figures! MIL says I will relent when they're about three as I will want them to go to bed to sleep. My point exactly, bed to sleep not to lie and watch tv! And if she buys one for it it will not be going in the room!

Oh that's me getting a bit of a rant in there! I've already had to apologise to someone tonight as I've got my b1tch head on, if I didn't I'd probably be in tears! Hormones!!!!

RobotsinDisguse

teacake
Oh teacake, i'm equally stunned and shocked by your recent experience with your consultant. I mean how dare they. You hear one thing from one healthcare professional and another thing from another.. It is just confusing and at a time like this we don't need confusing we need patient centred care i.e. centred on us/baby the patient, not statistics, not generalisations, but us. Plus you would think if that was the case all the people involved would come to similar conclusions not the exact opposite! quite how they can justify Both saying you can have home birth/midwife led and another person saying must be an epidural is shocking.

It's also bad form for your neurologist to assume when you'll be finished breastfeeding. But as they are a neurologist I'm guessing she doesn't know the ins and outs of child care recomendations.

Do we do sound a similar level of hippyish! and your friend sounds awesome - that's amazing to be basically potty trained at 18 months... proof that it isn't potty training in the case of EC it's simply not training them to soil themselves in the first place, like with disposables.

My main motivation for cloth is environmental, & my ethics. We run an open fire from husbands waste wood so drying cloth shouldn't be a problem most of the Year round - hence going to prefolds not all in ones, though I have bought a few cute all in ones :j