Healthy Pregnancy

[belfie]

lol was laughing at the shopping lists, I had some shops like that too. And I'm still so suggestible, I want chippies now! (mental note to self: must not derail thread).

Kirsten - you poor thing! That was one thing that oddly enough didn't make me feeling like vomiting thank good. Between cat, dog & toddler poo I seem to be surrounded!

AFM well I had an AWESOME week last week - was feeling great, walking every day. My mum is still here helping out and we've been rushing around getting stuff done (she loves gardening OMG what a blessing for me as it was all so overgrown). But today I've come down with a streaming headcold bah. So I just feel like comfort food. Was at work yesterday and didn't eat very well either. Plus i'm petrified that DS will get the cold too... at least mum is staying on for a bit (she feels so sorry for me with the cold - which I actually caught from her!).

On the bright side (a bit off track, but oh well), I have my 20wk scan tomorrow and we're finding out the gender (and telling too). I am SO SO SO SO SO EXCITED! 1 sleep to go!! I really hope bubba cooperates. Oh and my DH felt bubba moving last week (at 18.5 weeks) so that was great fun.

[fuzzy]

Belfie - how did you go? how did you go?

[belfie]

Fuzzy - aren't you just the sweetest stalker! It's a GIRL!!!! I couldn't be more thrilled - our little family will be complete with my son & daughter. I'm feeling SO lucky.

[Cupcake]

Awesome belfie! Congrats

[Dr. Tal]

Belfie - That's FANTASTIC!! WOOHOO You must be stoked!

[Kirsten]

Yay Belfie: how exciting! Yipppeeeeeeee.

[Dr. Tal]

Wow, it’s been VERY quiet in here of late.

I’ve been very off with my morning sickness for the last 3 and a bit days Not fun at all. Nothing has been staying down so I’ve not been eating much but mashed potatoes and oats. Primarily because I haven’t been to the shops so can’t make banana smoothies (which would be my preferred food option at the moment due to the fact that taste the same way coming out as they did going in), they don’t hurt coming back up and they aren’t acidic and therefore don’t burn my throat

I did however manage to go to a hypno-birthing class last night. I didn’t realise that they had anything like that here, so needless to say was pleasantly surprised and VERY happy when my work colleague came in yesterday and said his hypnotherapist asked if he new any pregnant women and when he said yes asked if he’d mind giving them one of her brochures on the new classes she was running I actually don’t think he was going to give it to me because he was very sheepish and hesitant when he came up to me yesterday (I think he thought I was going to be like….bah, that’s a load of cr@p, instead I got all excited and couldn’t thank him enough ) She’s running the classes the first Thursday of every month and yesterday was the first. I’m REALLY looking forward to the one in June and I spoke to her about organising a private session as well since I’ll most likely only be able to make two before my EDD. So I’ll be having that early in June after my second group session!

[Cherished]

Cherished: I love organic spelt bread, I make it all the time, I also use the dough to make crackers for DS, so he doesn't have to eat stuff full of preservatives I hope i will have energy this week to make those yummy balls.

Crackers YUM, can you share how you make them?

Belfie YAY a GIRL Wooooohoooooo I bet little Xander will be thrilled

Dr. Tal hope you are feeling better now hon, it's not fun being sick this long and just darn unfair I say! dh and I are doing hypnobirthing too, we are loving it

Audax 43 out of 48 cupcakes OMG!!! I hope you had lots of help I can't talk though.....

AMF had the most amazing 4 day weekend and I didn't eat 'that' well either due to having plenty of camping snacks and supplies but I am back into my healthy eating and pilates tomorrow and I might even do a water aerobic class next Friday too. I am STILL not walking regularly I really must get my butt into gear this weekend! I'm looking forward to this Friday as I'm having a massage YAY. For anyone who would like to read about my wonderful weekend I posted all about it in the woohoo section https://www.bellybelly.com.au/forums...-hehehehe.html

hello to all of you other beautiful healthy pregnant mummas, hope you're having a great day

[Kirsten]

Cherished: I just roll out the bread dough really thin and cut it with a biscuit cutter, I also roll them into sticks and all sorts of things, this morning I did some little plaits with cheese in them....YUM!!!! and sticks and DS also did some interesting shapes too, they come out crunchy if they are thin enough and better than the nasty processed rot you get in the supermarket, and you also know exactly what is in them I am so excited you are doing hypnobirthing too, you won't regret it! A friend of mine who is a midwife says that in her experience people who have done some sort of calmbirth/hypnobirth/active birth courses generally have easier, drug free births, she said it makes sense but she is surprised how time and time again it proves to be the case. She thinks cambirth should be part of the hospital classes you do, then there would be a whole lot less intervention.

Audax: where do you get the seabands from, I've heard a few people talk about them and would have no idea where to get them from, might give them a burl. Wish I was there to help with the cupcake eating frenzy! Good on you for the swimming!!!!

Fuzzy: good on you too for the swimming plans. I might have to investigate that myself, there is a creche at our pool so I really have no excuses

Belfie: did you have a feeling you were having a girl? I kind of think I am, only because I am so sick and I wasn't sick like this with DS.......

[Cherished]

Kristen I make my spelt bread in our breadmaker, I buy organic spelt flour and yeast and use a few differenet recpies I have. Sooooo pretty please can you share how the recpie for your bread dough to make the little sticks etc? You must make up a bread mix and then just shape it and add cheese etc, that soudns grat for teething rusks etc . Yeah I feel really good about he hypnobirthing, I went to a free workshop and the lady said there was a book you can buy or do her course for $750! My dh can do hypnotherapy and has studies NLP which the hypnobirthing is largely based on so he is my facilitator and 'birthing partner' so we are gogni to really enjoy the experience. He is going to record himself saying a couple fo the guided relaxations etc for me listen to as I go to sleep and he is also great at anchoring etc as we have done heaps fo those kinds of processes in the past so I am looking forward to practicing the breathing etc and sessions with dh starting next week. YAY for a 'healthy mind' too in pregnancy. I got my sea bands from the pharmacy, I thin kmost pharmacys sell them. I used mine once when driving a long distance but I got mini acupuncture needles which you leave in your ear for ms and it worked fantastic!