[mummygirl]

Tash - Thanks for the reply. Placenta is posterior, I checked my U/S report!
My last baby's placenta was anterior (went and found her U/S report too lol) and I could definitely feel her early. In fact I remember DH first felt her kick at 18w1d.

[kelly1982]

Hey Ladies,

I just wanted to pop in and say that i'm still in existance ha ha, I think i missed a whole thread! I'm having a bit of a crappy time at the moment and have been reading but not posting.

In regards to age thing, i'm currently 29 and still will be when bub is born, i was 25 when i had DS. The gap is a little bigger than i had hoped for but i had a misscarriage last year so that widened the age gap a little more.

Sorry if my personal responses are a little dated i'm going off memory from last thread.

Meerkat -you poor thing, i hope you get some reassurance soon, stay well! These bubs like to throw in some scares from time to time don't they.

Peebs - congrats on your blue bundle. Boys love their mums to bits and give loads of cuddles!Have you started thinking about names yet?

Gefadi - you poor thing regarding the hospital visit. I could picture every moment you were talking about.I just can't believe how insensitive they were about you not needing to be there.

Mummygirl- i'm so sorry you are feeling down at the moment. You were really blessed to have had such a fantastic FIL, they are hard to come by. I hope kids are coping ok

Erindiv - Ditto to what everyone is saying....Gorgeous sig, Kate is a real cutie. sending you blue bub vibes too.

Melbo81 - Sending you pink bundle vibes, i'm praying for pink too, my DS is all the boy i need ha ha!

Natasha77 -very cute name choices you have there. i hope your little boy is feeling better.

86Stace - I'm a shire girl too! i wouldn't be suprised if we know some of the same people its a bloody small world around here.

Carrie&Josh- i'm bit like you at the moment regarding DP, he seems disinterested in this pregnancy and it's only no.2! He claims its stress at work but geez a belly rub every know and then takes 2 seconds! Maybe your DH is really just preoccupied with the job stuff and move. I hope he changes his mind about the U/S appointment.

I think thats all the stuff i can remember with my preggy brain!

Hi to the regular posters AnjG, Bluebelle10, Bec83, xant, tania01, tradionalmum, hazely, taleahrose, city*reader, bubs10, *deanne*, leo74 and Linda_SA. (Thank goodness for been able to see Erins DIG list below!) I hope didn't leave anyone out. Hi to those posting less frequently too.

Just a quick question? When sometimes tells you a baby name and you really don't like it, what do you say? I was really taken back by how passionately someone told me they disliked a name i was thinking of using. I wasn't even talikng to her about it she happened to see an email on the screen that was between my office manager (a very close friend) and i and put her two cents worth in. i'm just suprised by how people are not very tactful about telling you there distaste in your choice of name! PS its probably my hormones causing me to take such offence ha ha!

OK i best be off might come back for my vent later on why i'm so crappy at the moment..................Grrrrr!

[*Deanne*]

Hi All

kelly1982 do not take any notice of the person who does not like the name you are thinking of using. A few of my friends are pregnant at the moment and we all have very different taste in terms of names for our babies. I would never tell them that I didn't like their names because that is their personal choice and no one is making me use a name I dont like. I am a strong believer that it is no one's place to judge you based on the name's you are going to use. Don't get me wrong you dont have to make a fuss and say you love a friends name but I think it's rude to have a very strong opinion on something that is really special to the individual. My family arent too keen on the name I am most fond of if bub is a girl (Mikayla) but I really don't care because at the moment I can't imagine my daughter being called anything else. My choice might change down the track but for now I am sticking to my guns!

Peebs - congrats on your beautiful boy!!!! I initially had a feeling I was having a girl but the further along we get i am feeling more like it is a boy! Doesnt help that I had a dream it was a boy last night either!!

As for dreaming, have had a couple of dreams now that I just pop the baby out with no pain what so ever!! Yep I will enjoy those dreams while they last coz I know I have another thing coming!!!

I am officially 17 weeks today, it is so exciting being this far along!

Hello to everyone and hope you are all well.
xx

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[TRADITIONALMUM]

hi ladies, busy busy weekend,

Set up the baby's room with my DP and spring cleaned the entire house!!!!! yay... its so niice and declutered (however you spell it). I was so exhausted though.. after just 2-3 hours of working on the house i had to nap and relax for the rest of the day, i was out of breath and my body was just giving up on me... So not like me. Usually i can go on for hours and hours... Is that normal???

Another thing that surprised me was my DP has decided not to tell anyone what the sex of the baby will be. Which i think is fantastic!!! such a build up (dw eb ladies i will tell you).

Hope everyone is well!!!

[kelly1982]

Hi again,

Thanks Deanne and i think Mikayla is sweet, i have a very lovely student named Mikayla.

The girls name that i adore is Mckinley, DP orginally disliked it but is slowly coming around to it, mind you i got a few servings about it on an EB forum. I didn't realise the school on Glee was William McKinley High. I watch that show on and off but seriously by the time my child goes to school that show wont even exist to be teased about it.

So i really can't be screwed doing these damn spreadsheets for work at the moment so i jumped back onto EB. So hear comes my vent;

I am really down at the moment as i'm about to finialise the paperwork for selling my dance school. It is heartbreaking that it is finally going and DP doesn't understand. It has been like my 2nd baby, i love the kids and what i do and i know financially i'm better off as a freelance teacher but it still hurts. 9.5 years of hard work to have to give it all away (selling it for virtually nothing as the figures weren't great). to make matters worse we have really started to get a name for ourselves and are doing really well and winning at eisteddfods,the kids are getting really good! I just never was business minded or aggressive enough to make decent money, i always did everythinbg for the benefit of my students. I also know that managing the business would be insane with 2 kids but i just want some understanding from DP that it still hurts IYKWIM!
So then we were going to take a trip to Fiji, i got prices and was suprised that it was more expensive than i thought. When i told DP about it we both agreed we didn't have that big a desire to go to Fiji we just thought it would be more affordable. I then looked into Hawaii and was pleasantly suprised in the price and so was DP. I was so excited to be going overseas as i had never been before. Whilst all my friends travelled after school i was madly saving to start my dance school. So on Sunday DP announces that he doesn't think we should overseas and use the money to finish the outside of the house, I was so angry to be let down again (our local holidays are constantly put off beacause of DP's business, they can get a big contract on a moments notice which takes priority). I just lost it and burst into tears, he is so damn practical ALL the time and it is so annoying. i just wanted a bit of spontanaeity (sp?), just once. He actually gave me the choice about 5 years ago to have a wedding or renovate the house, i picked to renovate because i couldn't justify the cost of a big wedding (he's Croatian). We had said we would do the getting hitched thing up on an island but after almost 11years together still nothing..grr!
So we ended up in a massive discussion. We have been going through a bit of a rough patch (not break up worthy but just a bit of a down time). I told him that we need to make more of an effort with our relationship eg date nights etc otherwise we will be heading for danger in a few years. DP is not the best communicator, he doesn't even say he loves me which is hard but he does show it in other ways and has always been like this. He has always made up for it by been really affectionate towards me even in front of his mates but that has even died off lately, which is not great timing with been pregnant and fat and all! He swears its just that he is stressed with work and i hope he is right. I'm just nervous because this is the first time in our lives where the affection and sex (sorry TMI) has dropped right off.
So i'm just really down at the moment and then i've found out my uncle whom i'm close with has been given 2years to live due to cancer now in his bones and lungs. Its really sad as his daughter is 3weeks younger than my DS and i can't imagine a child that young loosing a parent in that way. This will be my mums second brother to die of cancer. Her first brother to die, lived with us until he was taken to calvary when he got too bad, so i've seen very close to hand how it affects people and it was very hard to witness. I'm really heartbroken for him because he only became a first time dad at 42 and now he won't live to see his beautiful daughter grow up.
I'm sorry this is such a huge vent and i wasn't even going to write all this. i was just really tipped over the edge this morning when i saw my supposed best friends photos on FB. She didn't invite my DS and i to her daughters 3rd birthday and also didn't invite us to her daughters 5th birthday a couple of months ago. I would be fine if it was a family thing but both times there have been about 12 kids at each party, neighbours, other friends etc. Anyone else i wouldn't car but my friggin best friend! i dont understand why we would be left out?
I just kind of feel i have no one to talk to at the moment my DP and best friend should be the ones i can confide in.

Anyway thanks for listening to my dribble, i'm just really caught off guard. i'm not a person to get knocked down easily but i'm having hard time feeling positive right now, i'm hoping its just hormones. please feel free to gve me a virtual slap over the head if i'm overreacting, i won't be offended!

Hope everyone else is cheery!

[*Deanne*]

kelly1982

sorry you have to be going through a hard time when you should be happily enjoying your pregnancy. And by the way I think McKinley is a nice name - it is different but is still pretty.

My partner sounds very much the same as yours. We havent been together as long but he is always so practical and we never do anything spontaneous either! It is so frustrating! He is even putting a downer on my excitement to buy baby furniture! He is very money concious which is a good thing in some ways but in other its just annoying!! It is our first baby and if we spend a little more than we should then who cares, it is a time to enjoy and to splurge a little.

I am glad you are talking this through with your DP now before it gets too much. Always better to try and work through things as they happen rather than ignore them year after year until it is too late.

FYI - earlier this year I just went and booked flights to Bali and told my partner after so that he had no choice! Unfortunately we didnt get to go because we moved states for my job but he was excited once the plans had been made! Not sure that is the best option for you due to his business but hey it worked for me!!

As for your bestie......you should ask her straight out what is going on because that is a bit rude!

Better get back to work...thoughts are with you kelly

[me+him+her]

hi all sorry i havent posted for months! we found out we are having a . thought it was a boy but was really hoping for a girl - but happy he is healthy. i have my morphology us next week and i have to book into hospital tomoro. hope everyone is well

[erindiv]

Okay, me for me to stop being lazy. Going to do some personals. Sorry in advance if I miss anyone.

mummygirl, how are you feeling now? Wish I could give you a big hug right now, you poor thing. As hard as it is, try not to stress. I'm positive your baby has just changed positions, they're only 11ish cm long at this point so quite easy to turn around and wiggle elsewhere, where you can't feel it! I've been getting movement most days, but today - nada!

natasha77. How are you today?

kelly1982, don't listen to anything anyone says! It's your baby, you can name it whatever you want. There's always the chance, too, that the friend likes the name and is trying to put you off it so she can use it! A friend of mine got told the name she had chosen was dreadful, so she decided not to use it. She was so shocked when the person who had scoffed at the name then used the name for HER baby a few years later! The person said "Oh, I decided it was okay after all." Yeah right! Your chosen name is beautiful, don't let anyone put you off.

*Deanne* - Mikayla is a lovely name. I have too friends with different spelling - Micaela and Makayla. Lovely, classic name, no matter how you spell it. Beautiful.

You had me worried for a moment there TRADITIONALMUM, I thought we were all going to get included in the 'not knowing gender' group! But that's a fun idea to use with everyone you know IRL.

Hi me+him+her, I was wondering where you'd disappeared to! Do pop in here again and chat with us all, the more the merrier!





AFM, still on holiday. Pretty much had enough and ready to go home. Not that I don't like being on holiday, but I'm very bored here, there's only so many beaches I can stare at, and I've got nothing much to do. So glad I brought my laptop or I think I would have gone crazy by now! DD has been going to bed at 6pm because she isn't napping during the day. It's kind of odd having the evenings to myself.

partner not being interested - just saw a few of you were talking about this. DF has been a bit disappointing with this pregnancy too. I think it's a bit of the old "we've done this before", so it's not as thrilling and new to him. He's got a very short attention span He hasn't been to any scans yet, but that was my idea - we needed him to save up his annual leave to use when the baby is born. But I think it contributes to him feeling a bit distanced from this baby. Hopefully his enthusiasm will pick up when we have the gender scan next week.

My belly hasn't gotten any bigger, but it sometimes gets smaller, and changes shape. I think the baby is moving around a lot and since the placenta is posterior this time, every time he/she moves it affects the shape and size of my belly. I'm pretty much the same size now as I was at 14 weeks.


WTF. This is going to sound random, but Funniest Home Videos is on and they just showed a clip of a horse in harness rearing up, knocking over its handler and trampling all over her... and the audience was laughing hysterically. WHAT is wrong with you people?? That's not funny!!!!!!!! Now I remember why I usually avoid these shows


Moody? Me? Nah, never

This post has been edited by erindiv: 15/06/2011, 07:09 PM

[tania01]

Meerkat - That would have been soooo scary !!! You sound pretty calm about it, alot more calmer than what I would be. I think I would be demanding a scan !!! But realistically, if your not feeling too concerned, then it would be your gut instincts telling you that everything is ok

Carrie&Josh - I would be sitting down and talking to him about how you are feeling about his attitude towards this pregnancy first and foremost. Then just go from there. Good luck ... I hope you can get some answers.

Mummygirl - Hope your feeling better soon. I really wouldn't be too concerned in regards to not feeling baby move. But I can understand your worry. Maybe try again to get a dr's appointment to put your mind at ease

TRADITIONALMUM - I get tired easily too ... and have some days better than others. So I wouldn't be worried. However, if it gets worse even when you aren't doing much, probably get your iron levels checked.

Kelly1982 - Sorry to hear your having a hard time I hope you and your partner can get thru this together.

Me+him+her - Congratulations on finding out your expecting a