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nancy26
Age: 27
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Partner: Jay - the best thing that ever happened to me.
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Due date: 20 Jun ,2008
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This is my first pregnancy. It's all a bit strange and frightening to me at the moment. My husband is thrilled and excited, and is already shopping for names. It's dangerous I know, as we've only just had the home test (No Doctors until Monday??) and according to the site I'm only going into my fifth week now. I'm really excited, but terrified. We're immigrants here, and I have no family other than my husband here for support. The rest of my family is scattered between South Africa and Australia. I can't wait to have it confirmed so I can tell my family and friends - what an amazing (if somewhat unexpected) gift! I can't wait to go through this amazing experience, despite my fears. I guess everyone is scared their first time!

XX



Monday, 22 Oct
Well, I've just gotten confirmation - I have my Doctor’s appointment at 17:45 tonight. I know it will probably take a couple days to get formal results of blood tests etc, but I’m so excited now, I can’t wait to get the news so that I can tell the people who are so important in my life. I really can’t wait to tell my parents and my sister. It’s terrible to have my sister telling me how proud she is that I’ve quit smoking, and not being able to tell her why and that she’s going to be an Aunt ;)
Anyway, will keep you posted!




Tuesday, 23 Oct
So I had the pregnancy confirmed last night, which is wonderful! Due date around 22 June 08. Scary stuff! DH is a bit wide eyed now that it's definite - I can't really blame him LOL. So now it falls to tell the family etc, can only hope everyone's as happy as we are :)So hard telling everyone, as can't spend a fortune on phonebills - and email is so impersonal :P

Wednesday, 24 Oct
I told my side of the family last night (only immediate - mom dad and sister) and they're ecstatic :) big relief, as I think sometimes you still feel like a kid, and are waiting to get into trouble for this! LOL. It looks like my folks are going to come out from SA earlier next year in June - they were only meant to come in August, but my dad seems adamant about being here for the birth of his grandchild, which is so sweet - he's never been the most emotional man. My mom is thrilled, and of course, being an RN is FULL of advice - very useful! My sister cried, it was so sweet. She's coming over to us for Xmas, so will hopefully have a little bump to show her :) Now just to tell J's mom and stepdad, and dad and stepmom... I get the feeling we're going to be inundated with relatives next year!!

Thursday, 25 Oct
Well, mostly everyone knows now. I know it’s early, but I can’t contain the excitement, and in the dreaded (knock on wood) event that something does go wrong, I really think I’d rather have my people know of it, so that it’s not something we have to face alone. Got a call from my father in law in Australia this morning, he is absolutely thrilled and is quite emotional about the whole thing: my due date falls on the birthday of his late father. Quite a coincidence! Mind you, my dad-in-law is a bit of an odd one – he KNEW when we were engaged before we even told him, and said this morning he knew last week we’d be giving him a grandchild. LOL. Sheesh. Maybe a slim psychic streak… how do you ever surprise someone like that? Jay is becoming really excited again. We’re both ardently hoping for a boy, although as they say, it doesn’t matter, as long as it’s healthy! He goes to sleep every night with his hand on my belly, which I find very endearing, even though there’s nothing really there for him to rest his hand on, yet! He’s off shopping for DV-cams to record the belly as it grows, and we’ll hopefully be able to pick up a pregnancy journal this weekend, although we’re swamped, visiting family in the North. Perhaps on Monday when we get back.

Just wanted to say a sincere thanks to all of you who’ve been so ready with friendly and helpful advice, support, and congratulations. It really is so amazing to me that so many of us can share this incredible connection across the world, despite not knowing each other, and yet be so ready to step in and help when needed. Thank you!


Tuesday, 30 Oct
So we’re back from the weekend away, and I’ve never been sorrier! I’m so exhausted now, I don’t quite know what to do with myself. Morning sickness has also kicked in with a vengeance. I’m nauseous almost all the time. It’s sometimes hard to see the positives here, when I haven’t even had a scan yet, so the only changes I can see are negative ones – nausea, over emotional, exhausted and sore. I’ve nearly burst into tears about 3 times this morning. I can’t understand this. I’ve had to take to sleeping with a bra on at night, as I’m too sore to sleep without one. Every magazine or book I read seems dead set on worst case scenarios and what may go wrong, and just seems to want to turn what should be a very beautiful and natural experience into rocket science – right down to measuring grams of food, which is driving me insane. It’s stressing me out to such an extent that I’m actually physically ill even doing small things in preparation, like pricing cots/prams. I’ve resolved not to buy/read any more pregnancy mags. I have my book, and I’ll stick to it. If things are as bad as they say, it’s a wonder that the human population is so high! I refuse to be turned into some neurotic mother before I’m even a mother. I’m still scared, but I want to enjoy this, and I’ll not have some silly magazine panic-mongering at me. LOL I know I sound angry, but at least I’m not in danger of crying my eyes out any more. Less angry, more determined… sounds more like me ;) Bring it on *GRIN*

Monday, 5 Nov
Ho-Hum, monday again. All is well... morning sickness seems to have subsided already (apart from maybe a very mild twinge every now and again)? In any event, I'm quietly grateful, as I really wasn't having much fun with it!

A mere 5 'sleeps' and we're on holiday - Yes, we're flying to Rome for a week on Saturday morning, and I'm so thrilled! I'm kind of put out that I won't be able to indulge in some good Italian wine, but will make a point of buying the best bottle I can find for the end of the PG LOL.

Doing well, mild aches and pains, struggling to find motivation to exercise... which is awful as I know I should be getting fit, and that exercise will help minimise weight gain, which I need to be careful of, especially as I am an overweight pregnancy. Will really have to kick my own arse and get a move on!

Am meant to be calling to set up my antenatal care with the OB/GYN, but I keep missing the clinic hours, and it's hard to call from work (especially as I haven't told the rest of my office)... yet another thing to get a move on about.

Busy busy busy!

Sunday, 18 Nov
ARGH - hey all, back from Rome, had a WONDERFUL time, will catch up with you all soon, thank you SO MUCH for all your comments while I was away... problem is the layout on my page is stuffed, everything overlaps, so I can read nothing, I hope the problem will be fixed by tomorrow... but promise I'll message soon!


Monday, 26 Nov
heavens, it's been so long since I updated I'm not sure where to begin. First things first, I have my first midwives' appointment on 13 Dec at 08:30, which I'm super excited about.

I'm getting more and more excited about little one, and so is J... it's terrible, we're already referring to it as 'he'... we have such a strong feeling it's a boy. Boy, (no pun intended) are WE going to feel like idiots if it turns out to be a girl.

My dad is out for a week from this thursday coming for a funeral, but I'm so excited as I've not seen him in 2 years!!! He's apparently bringing clothes for his 'grandperson' which my mom got... early, but so sweet and endearing. Their enthusiasm for their grandchild makes me wanna cry!

In bad news, my healthcare has said that they will not pay for antenatal or natal care here, as I'm a relatively new client and thus cannot get any benefits for a year. *SIGH*. Anyway, we've decided to go on our own steam - fortunately it's not TOO expensive, but will hurt just a little! Has not put a damper on our excitement at all!

Lastly, just a thank you to all you ladies out there for your friendly words, kindness and support :) I love this site.

All the best to all of ya!!

XXX

Tuesday, 27 Nov
hey all - having a bit of a down day today - I know the web says this is all normal and whatnot, just wasn't expecting it to be this bad... hope tomorrow will be better.

Friday, 30 Nov
Having a wonderful day today. My dad is over to visit from overseas, having a wonderful time spending time with him. I’m so excited and happy about all this today – it feels like nothing can bring me down!

Mom, of course, packed dad’s clothes to come over, and has all-but sent him over with one shirt and one pair of pants… the rest of the suitcase was all baby clothes (strictly neutral colours) and baby blankets… two amazingly soft blankets, and one little security blanket with a really soft little lamb’s head on the top which is a rattle, too. Too cute! It really hit home last night, seeing the tiny little baby clothes. I can’t stop smiling!

I’m just sad my dad will only be here for a week, and then it will be almost a year before I see him and my mom again. I’m so lucky and really blessed to have such wonderful family. An amazing husband, great parents, a wonderful sister, and a really supportive extended family. I may be extending a little more in the waistline than I should be, I think, but what’s important is I’m eating right, and healthily, and am making sure that I get everything that the two of us need (and sometimes just want, because we can!)

I did end up taking yesterday off work, being almost unable to walk for the pain in my hips and (TMI) backside… mom reckons it’s ligaments. I’ll take her word lol.

All in all, a great end to the week, and looking forward to the weekend! 11 weeks today!!



Friday, 7 Dec
12 weeks today, and I'm becoming more and more excited as time goes on - I love this little ticker which has the baby bouncing around in that bubble... It's almost a way for me to keep track of and commune with my little one while we wait for the scan and confirmation next week that everything is ok.

I think (despite some extra padding) that I'm beginning to develop a roundness to my lower belly - my too-big suit pants are now too tight round the waist/hips...

I'm tentatively (I've always been a closet pessimist and am therefore terrified of something goin wrong) beginning to feel like a mom, and while I've only dreamed about my little one twice, I have constant visions of holding that tiny hand soon that bring tears to my eyes. I see a child with black hair like its father, with dark eyes, maybe green like it's mom if the gene comes through right... sex will not matter. I'm over a quarter of the way there!

Beginning to feel very protective of my peanut... will be interesting to see how much stronger that instinct becomes when he/she is born!


Thursday, 13 Dec
Well, I didn't sleep a wink last night, so today I look like I've been hit by a bus! Combined with a nice hormonal skin break out - Sheesh! good thing I have no meetings today, or I'd scare em off!

Got up at the proverbial crack of dawn to get to the hospital - we were almost late, with the traffic... Met the midwife who took my full history, then went for bloods - I thought they were going to drain me...!! LOL Wasn't sore at all though, so wasn't a problem.

Then off we went to get our scan... what a singularly amazing and heart-wrenching experience. I have.... a frog! Little one was so precious, so ACTIVE the u/s technician struggled to get a good pic, but eventually succeeded, so I have a whole REEL of them! LOL. It spends most of its time pushing itself off the one wall with its feet, and braining itself on the other side... It was all I could do to keep from laughing long enough for her to take the pic.

Baby is perfect, is growing perfectly - all legs and arms accounted for. Dated at exactly 12w6days, 6.01cm CRL, it looks like little one is trying to be a textbook baby.

I just can't get over how funny it was watching him/her bouncing all over the place - first face up, then face down, sideways... it's like it was dancing a jig!

Jay was thrilled, I think a bit shocked, especially when we listened to heartbeat - 161 bpm - SO LOUD!! LOL

i have never been this happy in my life, and typical pregnancy, all that means is that I want to go home, curl into a ball and cry my heart out.

I truly am blessed.

Tuesday, 1 Jan
So I `ve been sick as hell for the full two weeks of my holiday - I had fears I would spontaneously abort with the force of the coughing, but we `ve both pulled through okay! Today is the first day I feel okay despite still having a mild cough, and despite catching a stomach bug from hell this last saturday, which saw me unable to keep anything but a bit of coke and a few almonds for the last 3 days... I `m so stiff around my midsection from heaving... DH caught it too, so our new years was spent, just the 2.5 of us at home, chilling, trying to keep fluid down, watching the fireworks from our balcony over the whole of Dublin... which suits me just fine. I `m not sure I would have enjoyed being out in the crowds.Our next appointment is on 29 Jan, and I can `t wait to find out what my little one will be and to see him/her again to make sure this illness has not hurt my angel :(I hope everyone had a magical and beautiful New years, as beautiful as each one of you is ;)X

Wednesday, 9 Jan
Wow, I `ve not updated in forever! All seems to be progressing just fine, no issues, my illness has passed, and aside from some mild sinus issues, I feel like a new person... well, two new people, given the growing bump I have LOL.I `m so overexcited since I checked my ticker and it says I may feel little one move soon! I find myself freezing in arbitrary positions, on the off chance I MIGHT feel something! Sheesh, talk about obsessive. I still have my moments of fear and doubt, wondering if I `m truly ready for this, ready to be a mom. Then I read some of you wonderful ladies ` pages, and I know I `ve got nothing to worry about. There are AMAZING girls out there who are much younger than me, or less lucky in life than me, who are doing this on their own, and under infinitely more difficult circumstances. Yet we `re each blessed with the same gift, and I know that these wouldn `t be given to us if we weren `t capable of making the right choices for these little angels. I am lucky enough to be in a position to be able to keep my baby, and each day that passes ends with a night where I dream of him... her... it doesn `t matter ;) I know we `re going to do just fine, and I can `t wait and can `t believe that there is still 5 months to go before I start preparing in earnest from home to meet and greet him/her ;)I also (and this may well be temporary)have no fear of the labour. I know this will probably turn on it `s head when the time comes, but this site and my own research has just reinforced for me what I already knew. We are designed for this, and barring something going really wrong, I should be able to do this. I `m going to put an option in my birthplan to opt for pain relief if I have to later, but if i don `t have to do a caesarian like my mom thinks I will, I `d like to try the natural route. God, I must be mad. LOLAnyway, that `s where my head `s at right now. I may look like crap, with my B-Bump, and my skin breakouts etc... but I FEEL like I `m glowing, and that `s all I need.Jay has been the most amazing pillar of strength to me. I worry that he wants a boy so desperately and it turns out to be a girl... but the other evening he said to me, `It doesn `t matter, baby. If we have a girl, I `m still going to take her kite-flying and fishing, and hiking `... I just wanted to cry ;) He `s shopping for tiny hiking boots and wellies already LOL. Asks me every evening where his fishing-buddy is, and that I must hurry up now! LOLThis has been a great sense of relief to me... I don `t know if I `m the only one, but I `ve sometimes felt like he was quite distant from the whole thing, and having this reassurance from him has just made this whole experience so beautiful.I `m the luckiest woman alive ;)Gawd, sorry for the essay LOL

Friday, 18 Jan

18 weeks today... and I `m grinning like a total idiot. I took my first belly-pics last night, and I `m a lot bigger than I thought I was... I don `t have full length mirrors in my house (I `m VERY uncomfortable with my body), so I hadn `t been keeping much track, aside from looking down every now and again. I have the CUTEST little bump.And then to top it all off, I got up at around 4am to go to the bathroom for the umpteenth time, and I guess when I sat on the edge of the bed to get my bearings, baby was unimpressed with the sudden change of position, because I GOT MY FIRST KICK!!!! Two of them, one after the other! Really distinctive, and pretty strong. I wasn `t really expecting it, so I nearly fell clean off the bed with initial fright, but I `m just so happy to know that my little one is alive and well in there and ready to give mom grief already.What an amazing day :)



Friday, 1 Feb

Week 20 today and I `m so thrilled to be halfway through this pregnancy. I `ve been so blessed with so few symptoms, and my little angel is kicking up a storm, although most of the time it feels like it `s playing roly-poly in there. I long for the day that I can feel it from the outside, so I can show Jay ;)We went for our first consultant `s appointment on Tuesday 29th Jan, which was great. I was pretty impressed by the speed and efficiency of the service, although got carried away and giggly, and totally blanked out on my 2000 questions for the consultant. Oops. Have even typed them all out now and keep them in my handbag for next time.We had dearly been hoping to find out the sex of the baby on that day, but alas, alack, it just didn `t happen that way. We did get to see our beautiful baby `It ` though, as they scanned for the heartbeat and size of the baby... on a machine that looked like it dated circa 1953. Baby is beautiful and looks just like a little person... behaves like one, too. He/she was doing backflips before we went in, and then got camera shy, or tired, by the time we were in there... In any event, by the time the Doc scanned, he/she was sleeping on it `s belly, and didn `t really move, except to swipe at the U/S.Anyway, the Doctor said we would not be able to see the sex, and booked us in for an anatomical scan on the 19th February at noon... I `m so excited! We had booked that day off as a `rest ` after we got back from our holiday in Iceland... we `re due to land home the day before. Talk about your perfect timing! I `m so thrilled to have the day off after we find out, instead of having to go to work after and try and concentrate.I `ve also interviewed and chosen my replacement for my maternity leave, and am so excited! A mere 16 weeks and counting.I `m also pretty sure I had my first BH contraction this morning... which is both exciting and worrying for me, I don `t even WANT to start that - we `re far too prone to premature babies in my family... Will take it one day at a time, and take it easier.Looking forward to the weekend, and to a good relax... I `ve got a bottle of non-alcoholic wine/punch stuff, bubblebath and facemasks... Jay is off to a concert tomorrow night, and I `m SPOILING MYSELF. I have some of my Favourite movies lined up, and a BIG BAG of biltong – cured, dried beef – a traditional delicacy in South Africa (my biggest craving yet) – there is someone up here who’s started making it… I can’t wait! Have a super weekend all, and will update with more belly-pics and news next week!





Tuesday, 19 Feb

IT `S A BOY IT `S A BOY IT `S A BOY!!!We had our scan this morning and he `s PERFECT, I even got a pic of the little boy parts! LOL Pretty well endowed for such a little person.so we `re at 22w4d and he `s measuring 23w1d. Doc says he `s going to be very tall like his dad. Jay even got to scan him himself for a bit, although he says it freaked him out a bit LOL. Structurally perfect in every way - even got to see his little face - has his father `s mouth! It was WONDERFUL to have such a long scan and see EVERYTHING - every vertebrae, his face, his little hands and feet... I just wanted to cry.We are THRILLED.In a good and bad way, I get to score an extra scan. It turns out I have a low-lying placenta. While it `s not covering the cervix, the risk is there of developing a placenta previa, so I `m due a scan at 32 weeks to see where the placenta is and whether I `ll require a caesarian. I `ll be really upset if I need to have a c-section, as I was hoping to go natural (as far as possible), so fingers crossed that the expansion of the womb will pull the placenta UP away from the cervix, rather than onto it.We `ve also just gotten back from Iceland, which was AWESOME!! What an amazing country! Alas, no northern lights, but we saw everything else, and really enjoyed it! Spoilt baby by buying an Icelandic children `s story book, and a baby blue blanket with handpainted butterflies (we must have known somewhere inside that it was a boy).Anyway that `s the update for now - now have to do frantic washing etc before work tomorrow, but making a good old SA prawn curry, Cape Malay style, with a bottle of non-alcoholic bubbly to celebrate tonight!It `s a BOY!!!!XXX

Monday, 25 Feb

23 weeks and 3 days…Baby boy hasn’t stopped today, I think he senses restlessness. I had a really bad night last night: totally broke down for the first time in this pregnancy after DH had gone to bed, and I guess it’s probably been building up for a while, since I can’t even bring myself to come on this site for any great length of time, haven’t bothered to reply the great friends I’ve made on here, and am just generally feeling down and sorry for myself. I’m trying to pull it together, but today that just seems so daunting. Am so tempted to smoke. I had one last night in fits of sobs, my first one in what seems like ages (smoke, and sob for that matter). Couldn’t help myself, just needed to calm the nerves a bit. I don’t even know what it is. Maybe it’s the fact that I’ve put on close on 15kg with this pregnancy and am having a hard time feeling or looking like anything other than a whale, which is not helped by the fact that I have to rock myself to get out of bed, the fact that I’m starving ALL the time, or the fact that I have so little energy to exercise. Or the fact that my confidence is not helped any by the fact that my husband hasn’t even looked at me in “that” way for about 2.5 weeks, or that when I make advances, I’m usually turned aside with some pathetic excuse, but he’ll never say no to getting some “attention” as long as it doesn’t mean having to reciprocate in any way. What really doesn’t help any of this is the feeling that I can’t talk to anyone about this, because they don’t understand. Whenever I’m upset about something all I get is “ah, but be so grateful you’re having a healthy baby, and this is the most wonderful time of your life, and what’s your problem?” I AM grateful, and I love my son more than anything in the world, but the Problem is right now it DOESN’T FUCKING FEEL LIKE IT. And you get looked at like you’re being so selfish, and then I sit back and think that nowhere in the last 5 months has this been about me, everything is done with a view to the baby, this is the way it’s going to be for the next 4 months, and after he’s here, it will really be about him, and is it so wrong to want to be a little selfish somewhere along the line and go “Hey, guys, what the FUCK about me? I’m more than just an incubator!!” I just really needed to fall apart last night, and got so wound up about it all that I did the worst thing imaginable… For a second, just a second (that will live with me for the rest of my life), I wished none of this had ever happened. That the baby didn’t exist. I regretted it instantly, but that of course leads to other thoughts, like if that’s what I can think about my first child before he’s even here, what the hell kind of mother am I going to be?? Bottom line is I spent the night on the couch with my mind racing 180mph, and have barely slept a wink. I’m jittery today and on edge, and am not sure how I plan on making it through the work day… All I know is I feel like a complete freak.

Friday, 29 Feb

24 weeks today, only 112 days to go until I meet my son… was reading up on vaginal birth today, which is what I hope to do, and got totally freaked out! The cervix dilating to TEN centimetres?? That’s almost HALF of my pelvic width (on the inside) at the moment! Geez. Doing a bit better today… it’s all been in successive little baby steps the last week, coming down from that insane rage… I’ve had amazing support from the women on this site, and it’s really done wonders for restoring my head and helping to ease the noise in there a little! Thank you so much, my dear friends, and also to the ladies who messaged me for the first time. I can’t tell you what it means to know that you’re not alone. It was definitely a low point, but now I think I’m set to find a new high all over again. Much has happened over the last week, which has pulled things back in to perspective for me… We have booked a place in an AMAZING crèche for baby for when I go back to work (yes, you have to do that early here), I’ve negotiated to renew our lease in our current apartment, and the landlord has given me the okay to remove the spare bed and set up the nursery, the cotbed arrived last week together with my rocker-nursing chair, and I’ve decided to get back into cross-stitching and will be making baby his own pictures for his room, because I’ve had a look at wall art for nurseries and I can’t stand them. I’m hoping to do a bright and colourful celtic weave which I think will be quite stimulating (for me and him) and will do him a little name plate for his door with a little character, and another one with maybe a marine scene… I’d best get busy, time is growing short already! We’re off for our 24 week check up today, and I’m terrified if the Doc weighs me. I know I’ve put on weight like crazy with this Pregnancy, against all my efforts… and can’t wait to see the raised eyebrows… *SIGH*, but at least I’ll get to hear my baby’s heartbeat again! Have a super weekend ladies – will catch up over the weekend!

Sunday, 23 Mar

27w2d: Today marks the second anniversary of us landing in Ireland. It `s really incredible to sit and think back over the last two years, and how far we `ve come since then. I remember how wide-eyed we were, afraid. Newly-weds (only 2 weeks!) Living out of hostels for our first 2 weeks, being able to afford to feed only one of us a day, working beneath my qualifications just to survive, sometimes being so hard, I wondered if our marriage would survive. Two years, and now we have great jobs, a beautiful apartment, have managed to save money, have taken some amazing European trips, have a car, and are finally making it happen, with a baby on the way... I `m so grateful for everything we `ve endured - it `s only served in the long run to make us stronger, and has forged a bond between us that will never be broken. I could never have done any of this without J nor (he says ;) ) he without me. I can `t help but know in my heart that if this pregnancy had happened even a year ago, I would not be on this site, and we would not be as happy about it. Things happen when they `re meant to, and for a reason, and it seems that our little angel-boy knew exactly the right time to grace us with his presence, to make it a 150% happy event, instead of another source of stress. Jay has been my strength, my best friend, even my opponent at times, pushing us to better ourselves. He `s my everything and the love of my life, and I love him more every day.Our little one grows stronger every day - evidenced by the HUGE kicks I `m getting - I watched my belly bounce while he threw a mini `tantrum ` in utero yesterday... Jay kissed my belly, talked to his son, and put his head on my belly last night - and got rewarded with a kick in the side of the head LOL. He says that `s his son, alright! I had an U/S last Tuesday and got to see my baby `s face again - his little cheeks are filling out now, and I feel so content. I love my life, and am grateful of everything we have, and all we `ve worked so hard for since we `ve been here, and know that everything we `ve done is in preparation for his arrival, whether or not we knew it at the time. In another year we will look into buying our own home, because our boy WILL have a dog or two, and a garden, as we did as children, and everything we can possibly give him.Happy 2 year-new-life to us ;)

Tuesday, 25 Mar

Grief, just shoot me. I `m getting sick for the second time in two weeks.. first a headcold... now this... my husband has the same symptoms and has finally caved and gone to the Dr... now I `m informed he `s been booked off for a week with upper respiratory infection & sinusitis, with what the Dr thinks is flu... I thought we were meant to be healthy in PG... I `m so not going to deal well if that `s what I have, except I `m not sick enough to take the time off work, and with only 8 weeks left...I don `t think I can!! I `m wayyyy too swamped at work to take a week off :(Baby boy is as busy as ever today though - feels like he `s playing with his toes - subtle little movements, but all the time. Somehow preferable to having my spleen kicked out through my navel! LOL

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babybirdsmom - Tuesday, 3 June
Deep breaths :) I feel for you on the incompetence of passing your job, your hard work and love to some idiot! I have had to in the past pass off work when I was permanently leaving a position and I wanted to look at the boss and laugh and say "Ha you get what you deserve with this one!" Find solace in the fact that you will be at home with you beautiful baby and your boss will be in tears! (hugs and good luck on the delivery.....take the drugs )


Carmione - Tuesday, 3 June
I had a good laugh at that post today...thanks for sharing http://pregnancyandbaby.com/pregnancy/baby/Week-37--Minsuns-law-489.htm


ede - Tuesday, 3 June
WOW! 17 days to go! How are you feeling? Take care of yourself and relax. Your gonna be a mummy soon!!!xx


loubylou2007 - Monday, 2 June
Enjoy your relaxing break away x Not long to go now am so excited for you x I am doing really well apart from my emotions running away by themselves
Baby Leah kicks now and again but prefers to lie on my bladder rather than do anything else the scan folks say she is a lazy baby so you never know she may be a chilled baby on the outside too speak soon x Love Lou x


virgel - Monday, 2 June
wowww!!!! nancy,
i'm amazed to read that you do all this cleaning same as me when i was at the last week. well done.
just a week and you could hold your angel now i'm excited for you. many courage for the end.
sorry to back late because James is sick since last week with some running nose, sometime blocked & sneezing everytime feel bad but still healty eat very good, ok i can stay long let you doing your clening and read you soon.
how you feeling this time?
take care and keep on touch.


mrsclev - Monday, 2 June
The baby shower was really good, we walked away with pretty much everything that we needed minus the crib set, which I got a really cute one off of Ebay. But yeah, its aweosme, and we got her room set up now which is good, the crib and change table and all that.

How did the baby clothes washing go? I am planning on doing that tomorrow...yay, I will write soon, have to keep this very short, but talk to you soon!!!


heidilee1020 - Sunday, 1 June
Thanks! I didn't know who would or who wouldn't appreciate that but I too think that a lot of people who are so judgemental about abortion have never been in that situation. Do you have children now? My husband doesn't judge me for my past either and I think he is very thankful that I don't have any children with anyone else!


izziebo - Sunday, 1 June
hey babe hows u n the bump n the hubby?
me n peabod are fine andys mother just rang me up to ask if i knew where he was coz he went out n didngt come home last night... use ur brain love hes shaggin sum1 why wud i 1)wanna know that 2)care 3) not cry when she said it lol

im all upset now hehe and im STARVING hungry!!! iv been making jelly n custard all day long lol it was really good fun!!! xxxxxx


1blessedmomma - Friday, 30 May
Saw your info on the weight loss page but you didn't say where we could get that nifty girdle. Do you know by any chance


DecemberBaby - Thursday, 29 May
Thankyou , just wondering if they've forgotten about me! I have seen a midwife at the doctors 2 weeks ago but all she did was fill in one form with my basics and said she'd be posting them off to the hospital, i've heard nothing since. Maybe i'm just being a bit paranoid!


sandrawb - Thursday, 29 May
How odd to hear from you as I was just reading your latest blogs! :) Congrats on finally being on maternity leave. I must tell you that I'm completely jealous and wish that I could stay home. It would be nice to get everything ready and be able to focus exclusively on this pregnancy. I'm really enjoying my last few weeks. I've noticed that my mood seems to change from day to day based on whether or not my DH and I are arguing. This bothers me. I don't like feeling as if my DH has control over my emotions. (Weird?) In any case, the first therapy session, which was the 20th of May, went very well. We both feel comfortable with the therapist, which is a blessing. I was quite nervous that DH wouldn't like him or would protest in some fashion. That session we talked to the therapist together for 5 minutes, then he talked to the therapist alone, then I talked to the therapist alone, and we all there got back together for the last 10 minutes or so. This time it will be all three of us for the entire time. Our appointment is actually for today at 2pm! I'm excited. The therapist said that it is very clear that we love each other and we both fully accept responsibility for what to do wrong in our fights/arguements. The bottom line is we love each other and we're trying to find a way to work WITH each other more effectively. I'm feeling very similarly to what you've described in your blog on 36w1d. When I'm not having contractions I tell my baby boy that I want him to come out already. On the other hand, when I'm having contractions I get nervous and tell him that he can stay in as long as he wants. I want to hold him, feed him, change him, etc. I'd like to have my body back too!! I've not gained a lot...as of last appt I have gained a total of 11 pounds (I lost 3 pounds of water weight from the previous week). It's amazing though, that I still feel HUGE! My belly is wayyyy out there. I'll have to take a picture tonight. I do, believe it or not, have some pictures of my belly. I just need to actually post them on here. Maybe I'll get to that this weekend, but I make no promises. I'm so excited and so scared about everything all at the same time. I have an appt tomorrow morning where I hope they tell me that I've progressed more. At my last visit, Friday 5/23, I was 3 cm and 50% effaced. We'll see!!!!!

Thanks for the message, btw. It's nice to keep in touch.


thatch - Thursday, 29 May
Hey nancy, your gas! Read your comment on plus size your no where near a big gal!! Wen i read your comment i was expecting to see a 20 stoner! Your bump is cute! small. Me myself im just over 189 lbs at almost 31 weeks preg help!! But iv learned its just a number on scales Iv once been this weight at 9 months preg with my first! So iv 9 weeks to go hopefully i wont too much more! x


izziebo - Thursday, 29 May
mum n dad have the worst tempers in the wrld n it made me hate them its why i didnt talk to them for years lol probably why i was always so aloine too coz it was mebaresing to have all these bruses all over me.
dad was kinda ill for a while tho with severe stress and depression which is why he was like that hes okay now but mum just blocked it put
she watched him do it once like smacking n punching me for a bout 20 minutes none stop n i gave up the fight n jsut let him n then wudnt eat lol n she didnt even say anything and to this day she claims im lying about it if i say anything, i dnt think i can lie about bruses all over me lol but thats in the past lol

andy knows all that bout my dad tho think thats why i was so shocked when he said he wanted to smack the baby if itwas naughty that and i didnt expect hed want to do anytihng like that lol ill just smack him haha. he was gettin all self concios yday saying he was all old and grey n wrinkly i told him he was still beautiful in his mothers eyes n diidnt say anytihng else like i think ur fit as mate i wudnt mind doin you haha

im glad he cried it shows hes got a heart n that hes actually beginning to reasliose this is a biiiig change in his life! ooh n hes doing well on the no smoking thing


izziebo - Thursday, 29 May
i got smacked when i was little and it just made me hate my parents (been fare they took it too far and toooo long) my dad smacked me so hard when i was about 12 i went flying down stairs n knocked myself out at the bottom think thats why im a little worried about it. a slap isnt a smack is it lol a slap on the leg n a good telling off is one thing but proper pounding scares me n hes got a bad temper at times n he cant cotnrol himself. but grandoarents have no right to slap smack or anything lke that so if they DARE to do it they are dead as dead can be.
lol also slightly worried andys forgotten he got a metal plate in his arm, lol thats an unfair advantage for him lol i dnt want him smacking my baby/kid with a metalic arm lol hes like the bionuic man that arms indistructable now lol

i think he may have started to believe that he shud have taken up the offers of trying to work things out n sorting the way he felt about me out when we first found out coz hes starting to notice he is going to miss out n im not gonna let him walk all over me anymore. It feels good to have told him everything n that im not going to bend over backwards to accomodate for him he can do it for me instead so HA hehe xxxxx


mklouise - Thursday, 29 May
yes my baby has amoebic dysentery. =( but good thing she's getting better now. she passes stool less frequent now and even tho she's sick, she's still a happy baby. =) i read ur profile and ur due date is next month! =) is this ur first? i'm excited for you! =)


izziebo - Thursday, 29 May
babys got my chubby little cheeks that aint that chubby lol my shaped face shall we say daddys chin and mouth mummys nose n a scary look of my big brother about it lol me n david have similar noses so maybe its got davds nose lol
i love my brother hes ACE

andy cried coz i told him hes not having baby from 4 months old im not sitting expressing for hours upon end after iv fed the baby coz i dnt wanna miz bottle and boob too much n that joint custody as much as its a nice idea is just not going to work! n he got all sad n started crying saying stuff about hows he going to bond with the baby if i wont let him near it
i said u can come near it only when im there too, i have no problems him been at my house playing daddy while i go for a sleep or get my tea sorted or what not but im just not having him take the baby off me for a whole night so young, n i just told him out and proud like that n he got all sad

but then dug himself a hole coz we were having a chat bout what we wanted a girly baby or a boy baby n he was saying tht he doesnt really mind he just cnt wait to see it (he wnt look at the scan pics he wants to wait till its here before he sees the babys face lol which is fare enough really) but hed feel a bit weird smacking a girl hed be okay smacking a boy but hed feel mean doing it to a girl especially in public

neadles to say i hit the roof! im not having anyone smack my baby i dnt really agree with it, at a push a rap around the legs is the most ill tolerate but i just dnt think violance is a way of discaplin that i want to be used. Didnt even think about the conflics in that area im going to have to deal with lol but it made me go ANGRY lol


izziebo - Thursday, 29 May
i hope it stays that pretty haha it deffo looks like its daddy lol especially its mouth its just the exact same lips n everything lol
i made andy cry last night hehehe how mean of me:$ hehe
how you doin today hunnio? xxx


virgel - Wednesday, 28 May
hey nanacy how doing? just have your news. hope you doing find.take care.


izziebo - Wednesday, 28 May
hehehe thanks:D:D its got my nose:D:D:D:D its so beautiful i cant tell if it looks more like a girl or more like a boy
lol
some it looks like a boy n some a girl hehe what do u think?
how r u doin n e way hunnio? xxxxxx


stacey-gracie - Wednesday, 28 May
yeah i'm wishing all those moments back now. never had time to fully appreciate them cause i was busy grieving


stacey-gracie - Wednesday, 28 May
grace was born with dark hair but it seems to get lighter each day. i expected a blonde baby cause both me and euan were the same... platinum blonde hair when young lol


stacey-gracie - Wednesday, 28 May
thanks... bet you cant wait to see how beautiful your little bundle is


stacey-gracie - Wednesday, 28 May
aww congrats your due sooo soon lol bet you cant wait


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