12-24 weeks pregnant (part 4)

FreddieFrugal

Glad you're managing to eat despite the sickness maryhinge.

OH doing well, appetite mostly back to normal now. She's ready for maternity leave already. Really not enjoying work. She'll probably be looking to change jobs when she goes back after this next one.

17 weeks today. She's felt movement multiple times in the last few hours, that's exciting.

We've been looking at going away somewhere for a short holiday at Easter, since it'll probably be the last time we're able to get away anywhere until Easter 2019!

FreddieFrugal

LavendarBee

I saw you asked a question about clothes sizes on another thread.

DS was 6lb 2oz when he was born and 1 month clothes were enormous on him. Even newborn had to be rolled up on the sleeves.

We'd only bought one small set of newborn clothes - so had to go get a lot more early on. Especially sleep suits as it seemed to be those that got messy - cot vomitting!

It was probably 1 1/2 to 2 months before 0-3 started fitting properly and he outgrew the other sizes.

So it's best to have some just in case - you can always go get more in the right size after they're born. After all they sell quite cheap baby clothes at pretty much every supermarket.

We'd bought way too much 0-3 more than he needed. He probably only wore some of those bodysuits a few times.

It's when you start weaning that they definitely need a lot of daytime spares

Can never have too many bibs and muslins though!

a_bby1

Hi,
I am Abby, can I join you ?

LavenderBee

Hi, welcome Abby


I had my 20 week scan yesterday - all looking good. Baby is a bit on the big side but this is to be expected. The men in my husband's family are not responsible for any baby weighing less than 9 and a half pounds, in fact hubby was 10 and a half. Hence my worry about clothing sizes! SIL gave birth last week to a boy of 9lb10oz, so the line is still going strong!


Mary - I'm in the SPD/PGP camp, it came on at 4 weeks when my hips started falling out and my back started hurting. I was referred for physio at the beginning of the year but still not got an appointment It's a real nuisance as I can't do anything without pain or aches, just putting up with it for not now and seeing what I can do myself that at least doesn't make it worse.

mary_hinge

LavenderBee wrote: »

Mary - I'm in the SPD/PGP camp, it came on at 4 weeks when my hips started falling out and my back started hurting. I was referred for physio at the beginning of the year but still not got an appointment It's a real nuisance as I can't do anything without pain or aches, just putting up with it for not now and seeing what I can do myself that at least doesn't make it worse.

I'm sorry that you are suffering too! I've realised driving too long hurts alot, rolling over in bed back to front is painful so tend to settle on my front then roll on to back.... squashing Mr H in the process! I find generally moving wise knees together and all that is the best approach! Mine is more hip/groin/thigh that hurts, feels like the bones will snap by bed time!

FreddieFrugal

Are you keeping boy/girl a surprise LavendarBee? We've got another 2 1/2 weeks til our scan. I think our current plan is that we will find out - but we'll keep it a surprise for everyone else until the day.

I feel like I need to know before, or I'll be going insane. It's also partly because we've pretty much got a name sorted for a girl already and have lots of backups - but have no ideas whatsoever that we both like for another boy.



Sorry you're both feeling achey.

Hi Abby.

LavenderBee

Definitely team yellow here Freddie - it's my impetus to push when I'm tired, I'll be so desperate to know by then! When we first decided to try for children *looks misty eyed, screen goes pink and wobbly and harp music plays* we chose names for both genders and said we'd not find out. We've stuck to that

I'd like hubby to be the one to tell me whether they're a boy or girl rather than the midwife, but after our scan he said despondently "I think I saw something when she was looking at the stomach". I explained that this was the umbilical cord. And this is the man I'm trusting to tell me the gender of our baby... :rotfl:

Mary I struggled with my back during the scan and I'm paying for it today. Got a hot water bottle on it and some conciliatory chocolate. Mine is my back (sciatica, couldn't move on the scanning couch!), hips and I've started to get some of the SPD twinges at the front. I'm hypermobile so it's not the stretching that's the issue, everything is too stretchy and unstable and it makes it ache like hell!

Oh, and I started telling work people today, some people had their suspicions but because of what I was eating rather than the fact I've gained 10" on my waistline. How kind!

mary_hinge

LavenderBee wrote: »

Definitely team yellow here Freddie - it's my impetus to push when I'm tired, I'll be so desperate to know by then! When we first decided to try for children *looks misty eyed, screen goes pink and wobbly and harp music plays* we chose names for both genders and said we'd not find out. We've stuck to that

I'd like hubby to be the one to tell me whether they're a boy or girl rather than the midwife, but after our scan he said despondently "I think I saw something when she was looking at the stomach". I explained that this was the umbilical cord. And this is the man I'm trusting to tell me the gender of our baby... :rotfl:

Mary I struggled with my back during the scan and I'm paying for it today. Got a hot water bottle on it and some conciliatory chocolate. Mine is my back (sciatica, couldn't move on the scanning couch!), hips and I've started to get some of the SPD twinges at the front. I'm hypermobile so it's not the stretching that's the issue, everything is too stretchy and unstable and it makes it ache like hell!

Oh, and I started telling work people today, some people had their suspicions but because of what I was eating rather than the fact I've gained 10" on my waistline. How kind!

My DD who is 13 has EDS hypermobility - it runs in my family and although generally it doesn't give me many problems except in pregnancy with dodgy hips/pelvis and the rapid labours..... Superman was a bathroom floor job 4minutes!

FreddieFrugal

Ha! I was still the first person to say it was a boy because I took out the 12 week scan photos from the envelope first and saw it.

It's nice you want to do it that way though.

I can't wait til the scan.

I really want a girl. It's not because it wouldn't be great to have another boy, I'd love to have another boy too. DS is absolutely brilliant and I adore him.

But I do want to have a girl eventually and I'd be worried that if we didn't have a girl this time then we might not have one at all. I think 3 will probably be our maximum and you never know this could be our last.

So while I would really be equally happy having a boy, I know that I really want a girl.

I'd rather know in advance so that I can get over it and have time to get excited about having two boys...which I would very quickly. I can think of lots of positives and I think having two sons would be great.


I'm sure it wouldn't happen - but I can't stand the idea of the baby being born and having even the slightest feeling of disappointment, that would be awful. I don't want to risk it.

I think OH would actually really like to have another boy, just because DS is so great. But again would obviously be happy with either.

LavenderBee

We didn't have a nub to see although there was definitely a girl's skull before. My bump is very "all in front" and hubby's family don't do girls - there is something scientific about men genetically being pre-dispositioned to produce one gender over another, so we'll see!

We are just in that "we want a healthy baby" phase as it's number one, I'm aware that I could have problems conceiving subsequent children for the same reason this one was an issue. But then that's partly why I may lean towards having a boy, I'll never be heartbroken watching him in pain with endometriosis knowing that I gave it to him!!! (I don't have to pass this on, but since my mum had it too it wouldn't be unsurprising). I also kinda liked the idea that a boy might be more inclined to be a little training buddy for me in time, then realised that I was a tomboy when I was younger and ended up a girl lifting weights (in pink, of course) - and I'm being a bit sexist towards myself if I think that a daughter might not want to join me!

In the meantime I'll continue with my yellow shopping (except I gave my mum some blue wool for knitting jumpers with, on a day I was sure it's gonna be a boy! )