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Morning all

Thanks for the pics Alyson I take it that is the gorgeous Alex in the pic

How are you getting on with your scanner Maria, have you made friends yet My boy bump has now taken to being active when I am which is great, it means I can get to sleep without him booting me!! I do get some funny looks when I have a big grin on my face behind the bar, holding onto my bump Dont fret Maria, Julian is probably right, baby boy is just relaxing cos mum was so knackered, hes probably kicking whilst I'm typing Have you decided on baby boys name yet? or will you keep a couple of options for when you meet him finally?

Hope everyone is feeling ok, and not too tired
xx

hi jo, got lots of names really George, Cameron, Sam, Freddie, its a nightmare trying to pick one, Ju really likes George, i really like it to but also love Sam!!

What names have you got, have you settled on any yet?

I'm starving, just had my 4 weetabix again, what a pig i am!!! hungry again now!!!

I'm just waiting for ju to get pics of camera then i will be scan happy then!!!!!

I feel like my tiredness has come back like first trimesterish tiredness!!! Seems we all going backwards again now!!

and i know i'mgoing on this morning but.....i think my bump has shrunk!!! ju says it just coz i'm getting used to being bigger, but i'm sure its smaller this week than last........might start measuring it.....teehee!!!

what a laugh, sorry i'm being the worry pants today aren't i!!
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I love your names Maria, Sam is my brothers name, and I think its a great name, its really cute for a little boy! I was told by a father of 2 boys, that everything can change when you see them for the first time, so it is best to have a few choices We have decided on Austin Joseph/Jethro. Unless I have a major hormonal shift and change my mind!!

I'm hungry today, had a panini from starbucks, very naughty I might have to tuck into a croissant or 2 in a minute

You are funny saying your bump has shrunk, that cant be true I think its because we are in the waiting bit now, no more scans till later on, no more midwife appointments for a few weeks, so its just time to be patient, which I have never been very good at!! but it leaves you to imagine all sorts of things are going on, if baby doesnt move, or bump looks smaller, your mind plays tricks on you, or just goes into working overtime on it! I am the same Maria, its dificult to deal with something that you cant even see, or feel sometimes. Try and relax about it, everything is fine If you dont believe me get your tape measure out
xx

Morning Girls,

Thanks for the pics Aly, Alex is just gorgeous, he has the cutest curls ever.

Well girls i have hardly slept in 2 nights but surprisingly im not that tired. I wake up too hot and then cant get back to sleep plus this wee girl is lying in my back so i am struggling to find a comfortable position to lie in.

Maria, i wouldnt worry about not feeling any movement as when i went for my scan on monday the girl told me that the baby is lying with her spine against mine, so she said you might not feel alot of movement in your tummy until she moves again, but i said i can feel her bumping into bones and things and she said coz im not carrying alot of weight i will feel it in my bones and muscles. She said it could end up getting a bit uncomfortable if baby decides to stay where she is. I was getting worried though as i had been feeling big kicks then they stopped, so this is obviously why.

Well girls as you know i had my names all picked out, Jay for a boy and Gemma for a girl but now that i know im having a girl i have changed my mind. The names i like are, Morgan, Taylor, Jordan and still Gemma. I just dont know any more, I think i might need to wait till i see her then make a decision.

Nic, hows you, are you busy at work today?

Hope everyone else is feeling okay today, hope you feel better soon Aly.

Take Care

Lisa xxx

Good morning Everyone.

Mad Busy at work at the moment which is tiring me out no end, but more work more money = more time off with Evan so its worth it.

Maria I felt like that yesterday, I felt like my bump was shrinking, and I couldnt feel him move but then I went out for tea with my friend last night and wack he kicked me and my whole stomach moved. My friend was gob smacked. She couldnt believe it.

It made me realise how different I am these days to my friends. We all used to do everything together in my single days, we lived together, we went on girls hols, shared clothes and used togo out on the razz all the time. As I am the first one to buy a house and have a baby it feels strange.
All my friends are still wearing their little trendy outfits and going out all the time, and thats all that matters to them, and thats what mattered to me too, wereas now ive got other stuff the worry about like mortgages, and prams.

Im not moaning or anything but it really does feel strange to be so different from people that I used to be so close to.

Hi Jo, Your name for him is really cute, is it after anyone?

Hi Lisa, Glad Scott is finally coming round to being a dad, I think I knew you would have a girl being so girly yourself, bet she will be a right dainty little thing x

Aly I didnt get chance to look at your pics as i was out last night so i will look tonight xxx



Ok ill stop sending you all under now!!

Nic, im the same with my friends although my closest 2 friends both have kids. One of them is only 12 weeks though so im not getting to see her as much as before and my other friend her wee girl is 5 but she has just started living with her new boyfriend so im not seeing as much of her at the moment either. Sometimes its anoying though as im always there for all my friends but you feel as if they dont bother as much when its you.

Im so over the moon about having a girl, i wouldnt have minded either way as long as everything was okay and healthy but i am really girlie and i would be scared of how my boy turned out if you know what i mean!!! I probably would of tried to put a dress on him, ha ha, dont think i would be that bad.

Scott is being a bit better, dont get me wrong, nothing has been sorted out between us but at least things seem to be getting a bit better, i think he realises that if he doesnt get his finger out, he will miss out on so much of his daughter and thats one thing i know he couldnt handle. He is just a stubborn pig at times and hates backing down but this is one time when he is going to have to, as he has put me through quite alot in the past few months. Dont get me wrong we have had our good times too and he was really excited about being a dad, then i dont know what happened, i think he realised he wouldnt be the number 1 priority anymore.

Take Care Girlies

Lisa xxx

hi girlies, i'm having such a stressful morning!!! Boss has fired sister so guess who has to do reception and coz of this he very highly strung this morning, about 500 jobs to do at once. uugh!!! men!!!

I know i just being silly but we all have to have our neurtotic moments sometimes, i think i just had one little faint kick so you could be right lisa he could be backwards. I am at midwife on friday aft anyway so she will check won't she.

Well my weetabix have lasted me till now with nothing else, what a miracle, has never before happened in this pregnancy!!!!

I didn't see pics last night aly either will look tonight!! and can't send mine today coz can't get upstairs to my own computer in office to scan them. gutted!!!

x

I havent got my act together at all today, dropping things, breaking things, saying the wrong things. think I should go back to bed, wishful thinking []

Hi everyone,

It's very frustrating that I can't post as often as I'd like, work seems to be getting busier and busier. My boss is leaving at the end of the year and the new boss is starting to take over some of his job so it now means I have an extra person to organise! Great ...just when I'm trying to wind down! I have 16 weeks left at work, well that's as long as the baby comes on time and isn't early!

It's so great to see photos of everyone and put faces to names, everyone is so pretty. I'll get Jay to take a photo of me tonight and e-mail it over, at the moment I only have some naked ones of me month by month but you won't want to see them!

Lisa, that's great news about your blood condition, what a relief! I am so much more relaxed now I know that all is as it should be with our baby, I can really relax enjoy the rest of my pregnancy now.

Baby is kicking lots lately and bump is growing although last week it did seem to stop.

I don't seem to be able to eat very much at all theses days. My appetite has dropped off considerably and I am eating much less, I have to or I feel uncomfortably bloated.

Has anyone else brain gone to mush! Mine went last week and I am finding it very frustrating, Jo you sound like me, I'm putting things in the fridge which should go in the freezer, burning food, using the wrong words in sentences and finding it hard to think of what I'm trying to say, I am finding it very upsetting and am trying to think of way of dealing with it without getting upset. The trouble is with my job I have to be so careful not to make mistakes....Oh god the worst thing happened yesterday! I was lending a hand in the post room so I could get away from my desk and was franking letters (about 2,000 of them) I'd done about � when I realised to my horror that I'd franked each one with a value of �2.09p not .29p!!! This meant I wasted about �500 of the company's money! Luckily no one will find out as they don't keep a close enough eye on the post but what a Divvy!


Bonio x x

Hi everyone, I seem to be on a different clock from everone, I've become nocturnal!

Anyway, I've enjoyed seeing all the pics and scans sent to me and I know I'm not typing to a computer. I feel so much better today, not healthwise but mentally. My DH is finally back in the world of the working (thats been 7 weeks), we weren't struggling financially (yet) but it does start to eat at savings and I was beginning to panic. However, panic over and I can go ahead and get all the baby stuff I'd planned for.

Bobby Bump goes through long period of not moving, 24+ hours so i had a look on internet about how much a baby should be felt to move, of course it gives a generalisation but I did find out that if the placenta is anterior then mothers tend not to feel the baby as much than if the placenta is lateral or posterior, so that made me feel better as this placenta is anterior. Midwife check went fine today.

Bonio, thanks for kind words about everyone looking, including me, looking so pretty, I could not find a picture of me that was half decent. That one was taken on holiday in April in Spain and I must have put my makeup on in a dark room, a bit OTT on the bronzer and hair looks like ABBA night wig. But I shall graciously accept your compliment. Your picture was lovely too. I think all our children will be gorgeous!
I need to get a picture of my bump but my skin is scarred with stretchmarks from when I had Alex, and the creams and potions just don't work at preventing them, stretch mark are in the genes so blame your mother or father. Avon has a stretchmark cream thats quite good at fading them but I don't think it will prevent them. DH has agreed that I get a tummytuck in the future and get all my stretchmarks cut out and a new belly button made ( I used to have it pierced but it looks gross now)[] He doesn't think I'm serious about it or that the problem is as bad as I think. Would any of you get this type of surgery? Am I being daft? [)] I don't know, maybe I'll just get magic slimming pant from the shopping channel and never wear a bikini again!

Aly
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Loved your story about franking machine Bonio, reminded me of when I put �47 on a envelope instead of 47p, LOL, and we only bought postage in �50 amounts so I had to go and buy stamps with my own money and hope no one found out[:I].

Jo, I with you on the loss of mind thing, I forgot the word for "fridge" the other day there[]

About the morning sickness at night its still here, midwife says its probably stomach being pushed up and me eating too much at dinner time so I should smaller more frequent meals, talk about stating the obvious. I've been getting waves of nausea so think it is connected to smells and pregnancy hormones and I'll just have to live with it for the time being. I agree with you Maria about starting to go backwards, I've enjoyed about 3-4 weeks of no sickness, no extreme tiredness and not much backache and now its all come back with a vengeance. The 2nd trimester is supposed to be the bit when you enjoy pregnancy.

Aly X

Morning All

Thanks for pics aly and Bonio, you both look lovely,and alex is sooo cute. I hope my baby has curls. he he

Feeling tired this morning, And i dont know if its wind but i kept getting a pain underneath my bumop this morning which may I add has grown overnight, I feel huge today.
Im 23 weeks now, these last few weeks seem to have dragged so much, yet I cant believe im six months nearly!
Evan woke me up with a swift kick in the gut this morning, it was one of the biggest kicks yet!

Have any of your done your matb1 forms yet? I have an antinatal in 2 weeks so I asume I'll get one then. My god Im so tired i could fall asleep whilst typing.

Think Im going to give myslef a break this weekend, Last weekend I was running around tesco on sat and trawling round Ikea on sunday, which I drove to in warrington! So i didnt get a break. So this weekend Im going to chill chill chill so if you can jo would you throw me over a fluffy pillow as i really need it xx

I am going to ring the pest control again today, I was making cuppa in the kitchen at work yesterday and a bloody mouse ran out! I nearly fainted!! So i think im gonna have to call in the guys to exterminate!!!!!!!!

So how are we all feeling this chilly morning?

hi everyone, well i've been feeling really rough and sick and headachey last couple of days so i've decided to have the day off today, think bumpy's telling me not to do so much!! So they will have to take their own files round manchester today!!!

I'v e not done my mat b1 yet, going midwife tomorrow so will ask then. I'm 25 weeks on Monday so got to have it tomorrow really.

you've reminded me nic, i've got a dentist appointment in November and when i went last time he said i needed something to say i was entitled to it free, i said i had my prescription exemption certificate but he said i should have something else, does anyone know what it is? and where do i get it from?

Me too for the relaxing weekend nic this week, if it kills me i'm gonna rest, i think coz i was feeling ok i was just carrying on like not pregnant and you just can't can you!!

Sent some pics to you all i think, got a bit baffled, did it on my own, so no idea what you've received teehee!![]

xx

Morning Girls

I am so tired this morning too, i havent slept right in ages as i just keep waking up throughout the night.

Its a bank holiday weekend in Glasgow this weekend so im off work on Monday so i plan on having a relaxing weekend too. My mum is away on a girlie holiday this weekend for 5 days so i will have the house to myself.

Thanks for your email girls, everyone looks lovely in their pics, its so nice to put a face to everyone's name, its weird how i feel like i have known you all for a long time.

Im still having a dilema over what to call my baby girl!
I still really like Gemma and that was my favourite name but now i know im having a girl, it just feels weird as she will have the name that i pick for her forever.

I still havent sorted out things with scott, although when he phoned last night, i can tell that me being away is starting to really get to him now. But as far as i can tell he still hasnt sorted any of the issues out yet, and there is not point in me getting on at him, as that doesnt work either. See if he could just sort out the ex wife that would at least give me some hope but its as if he is too scared to upset her. Dont get me wrong he wouldnt get back with her but she likes the fact that she is still his wife as it means she thinks that gives her the right to still tell him what to do and phone all the time. But she also thinks this gives her the right to phone me, she is a few years older than me but i swear she acts more my mums age.
She does my head right in, she is that nosey but he wont do anything about it, he agrees she is out of order at times but he says thats just the way she is!!!!!!

Come on girls, we need to cheer up a bit today, just think we all dont have long till the babies come.

Take Care

Lisa xxx

Morning girls,

Lisa, I think you're doing the right thing with Scott, avoid as much stress from him as possible and put your foot down by telling him what you want sorted (ex wife out of the picture!) and when he's sorted it then perhaps things can get back to normal. You're lucky to have your mum near by.

Aly I would agree with you about stretch marks, I think I'm lucky as non of my sisters got stretch marks so I'm not expecting to although I do already have a couple on my boobs and bum but I have no new ones...yet. Bio oil from Holland and Barrett is supposed to be good for old stretch marks I have heard several people saying they thought it was good. I must say though I was quite distressed to find cellulite on my bum the other day, I've always prided myself in not having any ...but not now...is it a pregnancy thing! I'm rapidly going off bikinis too!

Maria - you poor thing feeling ill today, your doing the right thing though in taking a day off, You need to ask your midwife for form FW8, which is an exemption form for the dentist and doctors and maybe eye tests? (can't remember) you send it off and they will process it pretty quickly and you'll get a little exemption card which you can keep in your purse to show at the dentists etc, I think this must be what the dentist is talking about.

Why is it my baby moves all day long now off and on, but at night when daddy wants to have a feel...nothing! I feel really sorry for DH as he's getting a complex that the baby does not like him!

Bonio x x