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Kamagrian
Kamagrian has 87 days to go and is now in week 27
	Age: 34 Country: Private Province/region: Private City: Private Partner: Matthew Children: Pregnant: Yes Due date: 11 Aug ,2008 Occupation: Charity manager (not currently working)
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About Me...

I'm 34 and living in Edinburgh, Scotland with my loving partner and our beautiful little tabby cat. We'd planned to try to start a family later on this year (2008), but Fate had other plans! I'm now pregnant with my first child, who is due around August 12th, and although we're scared and still a little in shock, we're also excited and looking forward to this new adventure in our lives.

By profession I'm a charity manager, specialising in providing services to abused women and children, or those with mental health difficulties such as eating disorders. However, I've been unable to work for almost 2 years due to a severe pain disorder resulting from physical trauma after I almost died from a serious (thankfully now cured!) medical condition. About 2 weeks before I suspected I was expecting, my pain levels eased considerably (thank you, hormones!!), and although I'm hoping this continues, I've been warned that my pain may return with a vengeance after I become a mother. If that happens, I'm going to need a great deal of emotional support on here, as things will be very difficult for me!

My interests are human rights, photography, papercrafts, jewellery making, reading, writing, theatre, travel, people, places and history. I also love chocolate. Oooooh yes. The cravings for certain types at the moment could have me robbing small children in the street!! ;-)

I'm looking forward to getting to know you all - feel free to leave me a message if you'd like to chat!

Pregnancy Questionnaire

(with apologies to Alexes, as I mostly stole this from her VIP page and put my own answers in!)

About Me
Name?: Gillian
Age?: 35
Height?: 5'6"
Pre-pregnancy weight?: No idea, haven't weighed myself since I was 27. Apparently was/am considered within 'normal and healthy' weight boundaries, according to my doc. :-)

About The Father
Name?: Matthew
Age?: 32
Height?: 5'9"
Are you still together?: More than ever

About My Pregnancy
First pregnancy?: Yes
When did you find out?: 20th December 2007
Was it planned?: No, but not unwanted either
First reaction?: Spaced-out disbelief!
Who was with you?: A bacon and avocado salad sandwich, which I then couldn't finish...
First person you told?: Matt, of course!
Parents' reaction?: Happy excitement with a little concern for my health.
How far along are you?: Almost 24 weeks
First symptoms?: Utter exhaustion, nausea, tender breasts, but also a BIG reduction in pain and disability from a chronic condition I have!
Due date?: 11th August 2008
Sex of the baby?: It's a boyyyy!
Any names chosen?: Unless it doesn't suit him at birth, his name will be Cian Matthew Sebastian.
Weight gained?: No idea - I refuse to own weighing scales and I've asked the doctors only to tell me if I over- or under-gain and cause concern.
Stretch marks?: Had them since I 'blossomed' at puberty, so they're old news!
Felt the baby move?: He's a veritable kickboxer! Pretty sure he's got a trapeze in there too...
Heard the heartbeat?: Yes, and it was fantastic!

About the birth
Will you keep the baby?: Absolutely!
Home/hospital birth?: Midwife-led unit in a large local hospital.
Natural/medicated birth?: I'd prefer natural. However, a pre-existing condition means I'm likely to experience more intense pain than average, so I may need to ask for analgesia. Though I'd prefer to avoid it, that's OK so long as I have a happy and healthy baby!
Birth partner?: Matt, and a lot of loud music.
Will you breastfeed?: I hope to breastfeed exclusively for 6 months, and would like to breastfeed until around 2 as per WHO recommendations. :-)
C-section?: Not unless it's an absolute medical emergency! Far too much pain and recovery time...
Will you cry when you hold the baby for the first time?:
I cried when I first saw the little bean on screen...when I first saw him move and wriggle at a later scan...when I heard the heartbeat ...and I cry at random TV shows (ohh, those pregnancy hormones!). What do you think?? *giggle*
What's the first thing you might say to him/her?:
"Welcome to the world, Beansprout!"
Would you let someone videotape the birth?:
Not a chance! I plan to be entirely uninhibited at the birth, and I can't IMAGINE doing that with someone pointing a camera at my private parts! *laughs*
Are you excited or scared about the birth?:
Definitely excited, but also a little scared and somehow...intrigued. I know I'm likely to have a harder time pain-wise than average but I'm interested to see how I'll deal with that and how calm I'll be able to stay. :-) And of course, I can't wait to meet my beautiful little son.

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stacey-gracie - Friday, 9 May
congrats on your pregnancy... i'm from edinburgh too

alexes - Monday, 28 April
but i hope your cat is not 25 lbs,lol!!
i have 3 other cats that are closer to 10 lbs -where did i go wrong???
woe, that is cool that you have found out he is a boy-now it is easier to but stuff to i guess:)
all of my friends have had boys recently and they were so suprised that i am having a girl!!!
i was glad that my instinc ts were on target..
take care ,hope you are feeling well!
Other than feling enormous and increasingly awkward , i am doing well-however if i eat too much i feel terribly stuffed and cranky-ah well!

xo,
alexes

browniety - Sunday, 27 April
Thanks for the comment on my belly, Congrats to you as well

pageantmommie - Saturday, 19 April

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Kamagrian - Friday, 11 April
So....despite the general rule about non-disclosure of the baby's gender in my NHS area, things were so obvious at the 20-week ultrasound that the sonographer told me anyway. And...

IT'S A BOY!

A very strong and healthy little boy, by all accounts, whose favourite pastimes include cervical kickboxing and trampolining on my bladder! *grin* How do you persuade a foetus that these are NOT socially-acceptable forms of communication? ;) We're very happy about the result - not because he's a boy, as we genuinely didn't care, but because everything seems very normal and on-schedule for his entry into the world.

My pelvic pain has been a little more intense on occasion, but I've seen an obstetric physio who was very helpful. In general things are going well, though I've had one incredibly negative 'friend' whose sole raison d'etre at the moment seems to be making me doubt my ability to carry this baby and be a good parent. Thankfully my other friends and family have been universally positive and encouraging, and are proving worth far more than their weight in gold to me. :)

SO...that's my news. Hope everyone reading this is feeling happy, healthy and contented with life right now..

Gill x

alexes - Sunday, 2 Mar
thanks for the info. about the gender issue.
i guess if you live somewhere and waiting to know until the birth is common, that it would seem weird to find out in advance:O)
kind of like opening your xmas presents before christmas!!!

i know i am hoping for a girl and so if i have a boy i would then have a few months to let that sink in by finding out soon.well, i just hope he/she is healthy that is the most important thing...
i am used to having 2 dogs and 4 cats , but my two older herding dogs passed last year and i forget what work a crazy puppy is,hehe.
it should be an sdventure when the wee one is born.

well, good luck with your pregnancy.
cheers!

angelyle - Saturday, 1 Mar
ohh thank u thank u so much for that lovely comment... i love him so much i dont know what life is without him now that hes here.. and CONGRATZZZZ on ur pregnancy.. u will have that precious baby soon .. just enjoy the rest of ur pregnancy...GOD BLESS my dear x_x

Kamagrian - Saturday, 1 Mar
Well, I got to 16 weeks now and so far everything seems to be going well! The morning sickness I feared would never end switched off like a lightbulb at around 13 weeks, the only reminder of it being the travel sickness I now seem to suffer from intermittently. Haven't had that since I was a child, but it's made the logistics of life a little...interesting.

I've now had 2 full scans and a couple of other appointments (heard the heartbeat!) and it seems I have a very wriggly, active little one growing inside me. It appears to hate being prodded, and wriggles away from doppler and ultrasound probes...Matt says this is perfectly understandable, as he wouldn't like being prodded in bed either. *grin* All in all, the indicators are good that I have a healthy and happy foetus in residence - fingers crossed that my AFP tests all come back as low-risk in a few weeks too. :-)

Oh...and I've developed sciatica. Despite the discomfort I'm not actually that unhappy about it, as it still pales into comparison when I consider the pain (from a pre-existing chronic condition) I was in BEFORE the pregnancy hormones gave me the gift of a reprieve. I'll be seeing a physio in around a week, as the doc wants to make sure it doesn't cause my pain receptors to go back into overdrive.

Hope everyone who reads this is having a good day. :-)

Edit: Looks now like the pain may not be sciatica but PGP (Pelvic Girdle Pain)...which ironically would be caused by the exact same hormone that's causing a REDUCTION of my chronic pain condition! Life, eh? ;-) I'll know more when I've seen the physio.

Jaclyn82 - Tuesday, 26 Feb
Ooooo how nice. Scotland! hehe well i just wanted to say i have a 4year old and i found out she was a little girl. Its your choice, i just wanted to start buying things before hand and not have to bring back some stuff. I wanted her to look like a girl when we left the hospital instead of having on green, yellow, or blue. I find out on the 12th with this one too. i cant wait. I thinks weather you find out or not its still a suprise at the end. Good luck!!!!

Gillian - Tuesday, 26 Feb
Hey Gill,

Nice to hear from you thanks for the comment! how weird is that eh, same name and due on the same date and bloody both from Scotland ! amazing.
Im great thanks, over the sicky feeling now and tiredness at work that was really getting to me cos i just wanted to sleep and i couldnt! heard my babies heartbeat yesterday it was the most amazing thing ever for me, it just makes it feel real as silly as it sounds. It was like a wee train really fast compared to mine! and my cousin was the midwife who saw me so i got the special treatment which was nice. Well hope you and bump are good and will hear from you soon, take care
Gill xx

alexes - Tuesday, 26 Feb
i can't believe they won't tell u the gender, curious to know why????i would die of impatience,lol!
btw, your cat is so cute . i have 4 cats and a 12 wek old bordercollie/aussie x and my pregnancy was a surprise;never wanted kids,hehe,so this has been an exciting adjustment.
ciao!

pargy - Thursday, 10 Jan

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