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4 weeks 3 days - 20th July 2007
5 weeks - 24th July
6 weeks 3 days - 3rd August
My only symptoms until today having been weeing constantly (I am bad enough when I'm not pregnant) and having the most enormous and rock solid boobs you have ever seen!!! Today I feel faint and sick as well, but mildly better since scoffing 8 crumpets!!!
If I were to make a prediction as to the sex of my baby, I would say that I feel that it is female. I have been right with my initial gut instict with my last 2, but am also open to the idea that this is probably a lucky coincidence and I am unlikely to be right a third time!! So, boy it is!! Ha ha ha. Anyway, the loo calls!!
7 weeks 3 days - 10th August
8 weeks 5 days - 19th August I have just returned from a week in Cornwall, building sandcastles, avoiding the sea and sitting shivering on the rocks. I am suffering badly from the cold. I think that this is because I am continually more tired than I have ever felt in my entire life. I felt tired in the first trimester of both my previous pregnancies, but that was nothing in comparison to this. My morning sickness is now continually getting worse as well, although I have not actually been sick yet - I was in both previous prgs. Every task I have to do makes me cry at the minute. I came home lst night from a full week away with my mum, and my husband had only done a 'superficial' clear up. When I came downstairs this am he had left me all last nights washing up to do. - a meal I wasn't involved in as I was in bed. - He's always been lazy, and it's always got to me, but right now, I'm finding it hard to lke him.
9 weeks 2 days - 23rd August I am feeling quite a lot better now. I am still having sudden bouts of tiredness and nausea, but I feel that it is mainly under control. I am eating pikelets and scotch pancakes for breakfast (bland and slightly sweet) and this is working so far. Bought myself a fresh salad from Waitrose at work today and that reacted very badly with my poor tum with rather embarrassing effects. I won't go into too much detail about that. All I will say is that I am glad I made it to the loo and that I feel very sorry for the person in the next cubical. I am glad I had the chance to scuttle out with out them seeing who I was, and thankfully I passed no one on the stairs, so the phantom stinker got away with it!!! Ha ha ha. Sorry TMI.
Anyway, I am feeling ok today. I got home from work and the house is still disgusting because hubby is at home this week looking after the kids (school hols) but I didn't cry. He has been looking around and wants to put the house on the market and rent. (There is a beautiful cottage in the village we live in). From there we will buy somewhere bigger at our leisure, and I won't have to have building work going on while I am in late pregnancy. I am gutted because I love my cottage (It is very special) but it is no longer practical. (Well saying that, it never was practical, ha ha ha). Well! Happy happy happy, god knows why. Sure my mood will have swung within ten minutes!!
2 Hours later
Have spent the last half an hour sobbing!! These ups and downs are exhausting!!
HURRAY, I just bought a doppler!!!!! Can't wait for it to come now!!!!!!!!!
9 weeks 3 days - 23rd August
J ust wondering
what your thoughts are! (Not sure I should be posting it, where we are
all prob a bit hormonal, but I do believe that we can see past
hormones).
I have been married for 8.5 years to someone who is very intelligent
and relatively successful for his age. He has always done well at work
and as a result we are comfortably well off. (Not loaded, comfortable).
he does however, not seem to think that domestic chores are anything to
do with him. They are solely mine. (Even although I work too (part
time, but I am also a full time mum.)) He puts my job down as
pointless, even though it gives me great self esteem and I love it. Two
weeks ago I went away with my mum and the kids and I explained that I
would really appreciate it if he would paint ours and the kids rooms,
just as something to be out of the way by the time the baby comes. He
promised he would but then bought himself a new computer, spent time
with friends and watched the cricket instead. My holiday was ruined
because I was so upset. (It has always been like getting water out of a
stone to get him to do anything and I had finally thought he was
growing up. This last week, I have been working and he has been looking
after the children. I have been mega tired and simply asked that he do
a few chores every day to keep the house up to scratch as I was really
suffering. He hasn't. Today I have been alone blitzing the house fron
top to bottom because he has left it so disgusting and then when it
came to feeding the kids there was no food so i had to do a full shop
as well. The laundry bin was over flowing and he complained he had no
pants. I have just been crying all day because I am so tired and now he
has asked me to go a round trip of 100 miles to pick him up from having
his wisdom teeth out. I have refused. Do you think I am being hormonal
(I know he does) or do you think that he deserves a bit of hardship
given his laziness. What will be the final straw will be that I know he
will expect me to wait on him hand and foot for a few days because of
his suffering.
.....talk about drama!!!!! Well he made his own way home, ha ha ha ...after general anesthetic and he has promised to be more proactive in future!!! I explained that he hadn't considered my feelings all week and so I thought I would demonstrate how frustraing it can be. He's being nice now!!! ...lets see how long this lasts.
10 Weeks - 28th August Heard the heartbeat today. Got a bit peeved seeing everyone else having scans and finding heart beats in the run up to 12 weeks - seems in the States that scans are done much more as a normal part of the obs appointments, whilst we stingy Brits have a dating scan at 12 weeks (if we are lucky (only just been introduced in my area)) and the bulk standard 18 week scan. Before the 12 week we have absolutely nothing to make us feel it is real. I may have mis read the way it works elsewhere, but that is how it feels.
10 weeks 5 days - 2nd September Things are getting progressively easier, particularly the living arrangements element. Our house goes on the market tomorrow and we have secured long term rental of a National Trust (beautiful) cottage in a National Trust owned village close to where we are now. It is much bigger than our own cottage, with a large kitchen, large sitting room, scullery(!!!!)(never had a scullery before ha ha ha, but I think they mean utility room) and 4 really good sized bedrooms. It has a really exciting garden - one I just want to make beautiful, double garage and drive and ....and and and!! Can you tell I'm excited!!!!! All we have to work out now i how to ensure that we don't drop off the home owner ladder, which in the south here where average houses are extortionately priced, is going to be hard. I like the idea of buying 2-3 cottages in Brittany, France and letting them out. Still, we will cross that bridge as and when. Looks like we will be out of this house in, possibly, 3 weeks!!!!!
I am feeling less sick and tired, although sometimes it still hits and I feel rough. I have listened to my baby's heartbeat now every day since I got the doppler and that has helped me to feel more confident about the pregnancy as a whole. At least I can now start to plan in a house where there is space for this little monkey!!!
16 weeks 4 days - 15th October Thought I'd better put an update. I am huge, addicted to jelly babies and can see absolutely no slowing of the weight gain. I have put on 21 lbs and I'm not even half way. HELP!!!
21 weeks 1 day - 14th November
I had my 20 week scan and got completely hyped to find out the sex. I didn't with my other 2 and my husband did not want to with this one, so I decided I would find out and keep it a secret. The reality was that, if I'm completely honest, I harbour a secret desire, being a girl, for another....much as I love boys and would adore one too. I bottled asking the sex for fear that I would feel mildly disappointed that it was a boy. (Mad I know). I decided that, when I am handed my new born baby I will not care what sex it is where as finding out before, and not having the gorgeous bundle to hold simultaneously, I might feel a glimmer of disappointment which is not fair to a child that I will adore whatever!!!! This baby making milarchy is far too complicated for me. I hope you understand my reasoning.....anyway, the upshot is that I am left NOW dying to know what the baby is and no way of finding out until the birthlo!!! Ha ha ha.
One lovely thing was that my children were allowed into the room to see their new sibling. My 8 year old son and my husband treated the whole experience as a practical science lesson, I sobbed and blew my nose and my 5 year old daughter looked bored in the corner wearing her reversible Cinderella/Sleeping beauty dress, wondering when she would be reunited with her tiara, which she had left in the car!!!
22 Weeks 5 days - 25th November Feeling lots of kicking now so am building my relationship up with my little surprise package. Still can't get over the fact I'm pregnant again, let alone that in less than 4 months I will have a baby in my arms (god willing). After seeing people lose babies so late on this site, I am not taking this baby for granted. I would be absolutely beside myself if anything were to happen, as most would, despite this being unplanned.
Now I am having name problems. In some ways I do wish that I had found out the sex, but then I love the anticipation too, more in fact. That surprise would be gone now, like knowing what you are getting before Christmas - (to me anyway) I know some people find out for practical reasons and others the 20 week scan is a part of the whole joyeous process. - just needed to add that cos I DO understand why people find out the sex. I choose not too. ....Anyway, it's not helping my name picking. one thing I have noticed is that people in the States (generally) like very different names to us Brits. My sort of favs at the mo are Henry (haven't decided on middle name(s) yet) for a boy and Emelia Rose, for a girly. Trouble is. they are my favs but I'm not sure I like them enough.
....Another little stress I'm having is that I absolutely HATE the girl that they have selected to do my maternity leave for work, so I am finding myself making my leave shorter and shorter just so she is out of my hair quicker .....and then I am annoying myself for putting that before the time I should spend with the baby. Silly cow doesn't even know that she is winding me up!!!
25 Weeks and 1 day - 12th December Well...time for an update. I no longer know my own mind. This week I have been soooooooo hormonal, the only saving grace is that my responses to situations are sooo severe that I am questioning myself before I react and (I think) staying in check and remaining relatively normal to the average onlooker.. I think that I am treading ultra carefully because this is the state of mind that one jacks their job in on the spur of the moment, in a fit of rage, or empties coffee cups over clients or lies on the floor in the middle of the office crying whilst splaying arms and legs around in rage!! I am a very dangerous person!!!! Ha ha ha. Crossing me at the minute is not wise. Some of my colleagues have absolutely no idea how close they have come to injury or at least being completely character assascinated (sp) because they made me tea instead of coffee or ate the last Liquorice Allsort. Every time I do ANYTHING, I have to go through a risk assessment in my head (try and think through the consequences short term and long term to try and decipher whether my action is worth a prison sentence.)
I will say something maybe, at some point. ........The thing is that there is also the risk that everyone will just think that I am being silly and hormonal......ha ha ha. Vicious circle.
Anyway, for the time being I must keep being overly careful about these reactions. My baby is now making my tummy jump when she kicks and she really is my most active of my 3. That makes me smile and all the bad thoughts melt away. I truly adore this little bundle, for all the shock and stress of finding out I was pregnant and the appalling timing of it.....I would be devastated if anything happened now.
27 Weeks and 3 day - 28th December Well. Here I still am having survived Christmas. Don't know about anyone else at the same stage, but it completely knackered me out. I certainly did not expect to feel this tired so quickly. I am hoping that with a quiet week off work now, until the kids go back to school, I will reccouperate and discover that it was mainly the time of year and that I am still like a spring chicken.
...The alternative explanation is that I am having to carry the most enormous set of boobs around with me all day. What is going on with my boobs? I am exploding out of my 36G bra (can't get bigger in a uk shop). Soon I will have to start knitting myself breast support appliances, with a roll along trolley crane adaption. (??) I remember being alarmed when my boobs grew when I was pregnant with my son...they never deflated....they grew more when I was pregnant with my daughter...and never deflated. They have had a combined period of 26 months full on breast feeding and I am still growing. What will happen if I go for a 4th baby. The rest of my body is normal. I am 140lbs outside pregnancy.
I am enjoying 2 baths a day now. This baby is definitely my most active yet and I just love to watch the movement and feel it's little body. I have just got out of the bath actually, am wearing a new Maternity top from H&M (whom I have discovered are excellent and cheap for us fatties) and I smell like a pineapple....that is what happens when you write 'bubble bath' on the shopping list and hand it too your hubby....he won't look for the lavender...or camomile.....or even lilac ....no, he will be quite satisfied that pineapple will do, and what a bonus cos it's cheaper too!! (idiot!!!)
Both of my kids are ill with some horrible head achey virus. They are snuggled up in bed together at the minute watching Wallace and Gromit and I am sitting downstairs trying to keep the poor dog company (she is DESPERATE for a walk) but I can't leave the house so she is having to wait until hubby comes home. What is nice, is because I am stuck here...unable to go anywhere....with not a lot to do except keep my mind focused on anything but food...is that it is quite stormy out there, and I am all cosy and warm! That's a nice winter feeling....second only to coming in out of the cold after a long hike, and sitting in front of the fire with a very large port......*imagines*.
Better get on I suppose. Otherwise this is going to become less and less about babies and more and more about other things....not that I think anyone ever reads this. Ha ha ha
28 weeks 6 days - 7th January Well it's official. I no longer believe my scales and I've sent hubby out for new ones. I have always been prone to water retention, at the best of times, but this is ridiculous.
....later that day...
Well new scales arrived and I got all nervous imagining what it might be like if they weighed me the same as the others....confirming my worst nightmare!!! Got hubby to stand on the old ones (that he too has trusted and believed) then got on the new ones.... A look of delight spread over his face as he had instantly lost a stone and a half!!!!! Hurray!!!!! Yes I have put on much less than I thought!!!!!! Hurray. I can't tell you how happy I am!!!!!!!!!!!! Old scales truly buggered. Means I have no idea how quickly I have actually gained weight, but it is much slower than I thought. *skips off to gorge on chocolate*
29 weeks 2 days - 10th January
This baby is getting higher and higher and sitting is becoming increasingly uncomfortable. My hips have been painful in the evenings and in the night when I get up for a wee, I literally hobble sideways with the pain shooting through me. Still, at least the pluses are that I have a cute little wriggle bottom keeping me company all day at work. Like my secret little friend playing in my tummy!! People at work are really noticing that I am pregnant now....funny because I've felt enormous for so long because of my stupid scales, I thought it was obvious to everyone, but people from other teams have been saying, 'you kept that well hidden' and stuff like that. Shows how our minds work. I thought I had gained 4 stone at the end of last week so I felt huge. Now I know that I am still more than 2 stone less, i feel more petite!! (not tiny, but less enormous).29 weeks 4 days - 12th January 30 weeks 5 days - 20th January Lost my plug this am!! Was a bit worried until I googled it and saw that as long as it is not bloody (which it wasn't) it can happen weeks before the onset of labour. Checked also with my midwife and lack of niggles meant she wasn't too alarmed either. I lost my plugs in the days running up to birth with my last two, but my midwife thinks that I am probably just not so well shut this time. I did have a lamb madras last night, which perhaps I will avoid for a few weeks now!! Anyway, the crux is, I have decided that I am not doing anything strenuous until the baby comes now. 30 weeks 6 days - 21st January
32 weeks 2 days - 31st January OMG, WHAT CAN I DO!!!???? Having debated long and hard about baby names I had settled last week on my final boys name and my final girls name and then my friend goes and has a baby last night and calls it by my girls name.....ARGHHHHHHHHHHHH *breathes into paper bag*
....We hadn't conferred
33 weeks 1 day - 6th February Well, how do I feel now!!?? The last 3 days have seen the end of walking like a human and the start of walking although I have a beach ball wedged between my knees. Every time I stand up it feels although the pressure on my cervix is too much to bear and I wouldn't feel an ounce of surprise if my waters were to give way. I have taken to wearing an ST all the time.... although given my past experiences of my waters going, an ST would be like a cotton wool bud attempting to stem the flow of the Niagra Falls. Interviewing clients has become a time of high tension as I literally pray that my membranes will stay in tact, at least until I am sitting on the loo straight after I have finished. I know they won't go.....but the pressure convinces me sometimes. The fact that I have hard Braxton Hicks from mid morning until I make it to my bath at 6pm, leaving me feeling tender, especially around the bottom of my bump and internally in my pelvis, makes me nervous. I am in a period of limbo re mid wives too as I am swapping surgeries due to a house move, so I wouldn't have a clue which hospital to make for should anything happen. Guess the closest is the sensible idea!!!!
Work
34 weeks 1 day - 13th February Finally had a midwife appointment. The baby is upsidedown!!!! (This caused great confusion in the conversation on the telephone with my husband, following the appointment). Upsidedown as in the right way up.....better understood I have discovered when you say HEAD DOWN!!!! Hurray. After having had 2 breach babies who haven't turned until 38 weeks...at last I have a good baby!!!!
It sounds like my homebirth is on. The unit I am now with seem to take wishes very seriously and the midwife said it was unusual for a lady wanting a home birth, not to get one....so that's good. I am slightly nervous that It will come to crunch time and that undebatable first contraction will come and I will scarper to the hospital, request an epidural and then spend 10 days in hospital recovering, ......a far cry from my Miss Earth Mother 2008!!! Ha ha ha
1) Do you feel like doing a cross word?
Answer yes - go back to bed you are not in labour
Answer no - you might well be in labour
2) Do you feel like a game of Monopoly?
Answer yes - go back to bed you are not in labour
Answer no - you might well be in labour
Anyway. Braxton Hicks are strong at certain times of the day. The baby is less active now. My loo visiting rate is absolutely insane. The baby is still heavy down below as well as very high. I can no longer sit up straight at all. ....I gave up work on Monday......and I am missing it as well as enjoying the freedom...might update later as well....there was a funnystory I was thinking about in the car that I wanted to share, but as usual at the minute, I have forgotton what it was!!
34 weeks 3 day - 15th February Today I am mainly hating my mother in law. I haven't seen her for 4 whole years (because I choose not to cos she's horrible) but I still, given too much time to think, sometimes get wound up by the thought of her.....I really do just need to go back to work!
Anyway, I have resettled on my final, completely sort of final not to be changed too much names, after my disturbing unheaval 2 weeks ago, when my friend used my girls name.....or so I thought. Transpires she changed her mind, but made me do a rethink.....
35 weeks 1 day - 20th February I am officially a cranky old lady. If I'm honest I am getting a bit pissed off with this site. It's probably just my own problem, but I'm finding the pregnancy week by week page a bit hysterical. I keep posting comments and then deleting them because I feel like I am being argumentative. Point is that when you put things into prospective, people have been having babies since time began. Why does there have to be such a palava about it?
I am not an expert on childcare and children. I muddle along. I always think that people who think they know everything are normally the least intelligent (like my mother in law who thinks she is an expert at any subject you give her). I guess that there are a few people (and this is my failing) who haven't even had a baby yet who are born 'experts' and I get irritable watching them witter on not really knowing what they are talking about. Every woman is different. Every experience is different. Every baby is different and therefore your care for them will not be identical. Every mother is an expert at her own child....doctors recognise that. I just think we should all relax and take it as it comes.
We are ALL here to have our babies (once we have conceived). Each one of our babies is as precious as the next. It is lovely to hear that babies have been born and I sometimes like to go onto 'we made it' to see the latest, but to be quite frank, someone who posts the birth of their baby across every week like it is more important than the rest, although they are the first person in the world to ever have a baby, just makes me think that they are self centred. Why is their baby more important than everyone elses that everyone in the last 6 weeks has to be alerted to the birth.
I probably need a break from this site.
Prediction from a labour site.....I sincerely hope that my labour does not last 13 hours. I have not done it twice already to be told that.
Just about the time you think you can't handle hearing one more 'when
is that baby going to pop?', your baby will decide to make it's
appearance. We predict your baby will be born 3-7 days before its due
date. Your baby will most likely be born in the morning. Justmommies
predicts that your baby will weigh approximately 8.3 pounds and that
your labor will be about 13 hours long.
36 Weeks 4 days -1st March I have changed my mind completely about names!!! ....I am also becoming increasingly wound up and grumpy. I would like to have my baby in my arms right now, (as would we all), but they will come when they are ready and those of us who carry our babies to term should feel grateful that we do, having watched others lose their babies over the months.
36weeks 6 days - 3rd March Well I have continued being grumpy and horrible. I saw my new midwife on the 13th Feb and she seemed ok. Said she wanted to see me for a home visit to deliver my home birth pack and talk through what would happen. As we left it she said, if I haven't called by next Friday (22nd) to give her a ring on her mobile to arrange the appointment. I called on the friday, left message on mobile. Called on Monday left message on mobile, and then on Thursday left a message at birthing centre and on Mobile .....nothing. Called the Birthing Centre this am assuming she had been on holiday, but still quite wound up and she said that she had lost her mobile. I frankly think that is not good enough and she should have called me anyway. She asked me how she could help...she basically didn't have a clue. I had to explain how we left it. She did the whole 'can I confirm your address?' bit..so I said..what have you got there, knowing that she would not have my notes with her as she was indicating. She actually gave me some random adress from the nearby town. I asked her when she had been going to call and she said today.,.....Forgive me if you don't agree, but after making the appointment, I came off the phone feeling despirate that this woman not be anywhere near me when I give birth. I have come away with absolutely no faith in her abilities. Surely, at this stage in my pregnancy she should have called me anyway if she had not heard from me. 38weeks - 11th March Went to buy my
Raspberry Leaf tea this am....I have drunk it through all my last
trimesters and have found it very soothing. I do not drink it to induce
(no evidence to suggest it does) but it does bring on BHs which help
tone up.
'Anyway, that aside, the ladies in the shop drive me absolutely NUTS!!!
I know the brand I like and always go straight to it, pick it up and go
to the counter to pay. They ALWAYS call across the shop as I pick it up
'that's not the one you want dear, this is the one you want, that one
hasn't got raspberry leaves in it'. 38weeks and 2 days- 13th March Apparently questioning somebody who is attempting to induce themselves at 36 weeks is rude (nearly choked!!!) ha ha....as is informing somebody who does nothing but winge about how she is at the end of her tether with pregnancy, that I feel the same and that we are all in the same boat!!! Crikey....I must stop being so awful!!!! I'm just grateful that I don't generally have to deal with such self centred people. 39weeks and 3 days- 21st March Well! Been having contractions (the proper job)ranging from 10 minutely to over an hour apart now for last couple of days. Went out this am for a walk but had to turn the car round as had a cluster all together. Got home, went to bed, fell asleep and GONE!!! Not a bean!! ha ha haven't had one for 4 hours. Oh well 21st is an odd number. I'll hold off for an even one now. 22nd 24th or 25th will be brill -26th, 28th and 30th ok- Not April... I'd rather it arrived this month!
