Healthy Pregnancy

[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!

[belfie]

oh no Dr Tal, that's no good at all! Hope the m/s departs quick smart! The hypno classes sound awesome, that's great.

Well we're an "interesting" household atm. After mum came over to help with my gastro (after DS had it) she then got a cold, which we've all now got (I'm coughing my head off)... and then last night she started vomiting all night...
So now I just want comfort food! Just after I disinfect everything in sight..... and maybe I'll get back to "healthy" um.. next week?

(i'm still totally stoked about my girl tho! )

[Kirsten]

Dr Tal! AWESOME! I did calmbirth (similar thing to hypnobirth) and it was the most amazing experience, I had a really long labour (21 hours) and I loved it, it was amazing, people don't believe me, but it was pain free and the best thing ever! YAY! I'm very excited for you.

I've been feeling shocking too so haven't really been online much....hope everyone else is well and that your house gets better BELFIE, sounds awful!

[fuzzy]

Hi everyone,

It IS quiet in here at the moment.

Dr Tal - I cant even imagine thinking about a birthing plan yet! I dont know how you even begin to prepare for that. I am thinking I just go in and then I just see how I go?? Eeeep I really better do some research.

Belfie - hope you are feeling better today. I am so happy for you to be having a girl!

As for being healthy - I am taking swimming up again after a couple of months of being lazy. The aim is to go twice a week and to swim 1 km each time. I swear I am going to start tomorrow!!

[luna moth]

Hi ladies!

Fuzzy - I swim, always have. But after I got my BFP, I stopped swimming to the clock so much, well, I stopped counting laps and now I spend 1 hour in the pool doing breaststroke only (to me, freestyle is a racing stroke, and it's just habit to go too fast and wear myself out!) and I LOVE IT! I only go twice a week, maybe three times on a really quiet week.

In unhealthy pregnancy news, we had a party on the weekend. I hid my non-drinking by having Ribena out of a red wine glass and lime juice and soda water in a champagne glass! I also made an enormous pile of cupcakes - we ate 43 out of 48 of them - and there was just mountains of other food. And I stayed up waaaay too late, so didn't feel up for a great deal of exercise or other cooking over the weekend.

I forgot to take my sea bands to work today, and man do I know about it! I didn't thinkt hey were making much difference, but clearly they are!

Hope you others are all well!

[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!

[Kirsten]

Ahhhhh just wrote a whole heap about birth and bread and it's gone!! I keep clicking on the reply to thread button and losing my post!!!!!!!!!!!!! Grrrrrrrrr.

OK, I am very excited about your hypnobirthing and how exciting that your DH does hypnotherapy and NLP, I know lots of people who have had NLP therapy for all sorts of things and it seems to have done wonders. There is a hypnotherapist I know who does ego state therapy which I am interesting in having a go of too I have little silver balls in my ears that my acupuncturist put in there to help with the nausea and it really has helped, but I want more! MORE!
I had a guided meditation cd when I was pg with DS from my calmbirth course, took months for me to ever hear the end of it - kept falling asleep - heh heh. I also had a birth affirmations cd which I used to do in the car on the way to work, I must have looked like an idiot in the car talking to the steering wheel, but it would have been a whole lot funnier if everyone could hear what I was actually saying...."The walls of my birth canal are healthy and pink" "I trust my body and my baby to know what to do" ha.

I make my dough in the thermomix but you could do it in the breadmaker and either set it to "dough" setting or take it out before the cooking starts and shape into whatever you like. I also like to add whatever herbs I have in the garden and some garlic too - yum yum, or olives The recipe I use has wheat flour in it as well as spelt, I can share if you like, let me know.

[Cherished]

I have little silver balls in my ears that my acupuncturist put in there to help with the nausea and it really has helped, but I want more! MORE!

ahhhhhhh you crack me up!

I'm not too keen on adding wheat because I make the spelt bread due to wheat giving me eczema, but I have never checked the bread maker to see if there is a dough setting! Makes sense even if it doesn't I can just take it out.

[JLeigh29]

Hi ladies! Just wanted to wish you luck with your Healthy Pregnancies! Here's hoping that they end in the birth of a healthy bub. Thanks for your support in the last few weeks of my pregnancy - it got pretty hard to get the energy to be healthy and having you ladies around helped keep me on the right track. I suppose I need to look for a Healthy New Mums thread now...

[Dr. Tal]

Hi ladies,
Again, just a quick stop by to say hi ad see how you are all going. Am still feeling pretty icky and very vomity with the whole M/S thing. Had an appointment with my ob yesterday and I'd lost a bit of weight (a couple of kilos) so I have to get some blood tests and whatnot to make sure all my levels are still where they are suppose to be.

That having been said I've done nothing in the way of exercise and my feeding is still revolving around things that stay down (which is basically nothing) and things that don't taste too horrible or aren't too painful when they come back up I'm hoping that I get over this bout soon and that my M/S goes back to it's usual vomit between 5 and 7 every night, but mostly fine for the rest of the day routine

[fuzzy]

Oh Dr Tal, I cant believe you are so sick. 5 to 7 times per night - that is insane!!! I hope the bloodtests all come back normal and ms subsides for you.

JLeigh - you have had your baby????!!

[belfie]

Dr. Tal - you poor thing, m/s is no fun at all! I really hope it gets better for you asap. Sending you big I can recommend raspberry splits (you know - the fruity outside and icecream or frozen yoghurt inside) I swear that's the nicest thing I've ever eaten "twice" IYKWIM!

Jleigh- congrats on the birth of your bubba, I'll go looking for your BA in a sec! I've been a bit MIA. So excited to see one of our "healthy" thread bubbas born!

Kirsten - I thought I was having a girl cos i'd attempted "sway" and then I was sicker than with DS too. So saying, I got told LOTS of contradictory stories about whether better or worse m/s means girl vs boy. At our 12 week scan they thought it was 70% likely a girl... so everything was pointing the right way. I'm thrilled with my little girl (we're probably gonna call her Annika Fae). I'll send you pink vibes if you'd like

Well my mum just left this morning, and I've been eating junk, not walking much - flat chat, still getting over a cold and generally feeling bleh. I'm sure I don't feel great cos I'm not eating great (I won't derail you all by telling you what i'm eating!). Plus I've been madly trying to get stuff sorted out (I have a whole room to empty for my bubba girl), so it's been go go and I've been too stuffed to walk afterwards. I thought I'd be less busy with mum here but it kinda worked the other way. So tomorrow and this weekend... eat better, walk every day and SLOW DOWN!

How's everyone else going?

[Kirsten]

Hi Ladies
How are you all feeling?

Cherished: have you tried making the crackers yet? (or snuck in some cheese?)

Dr Tal: that MS sounds awful, poor you! How did your blood tests go?

Yay JLeigh: I'm very excited about Bosley's arrival, I missed it in the BA thread for ages!

Belfie: I don't mind if I have a boy or a girl I am happy either way, I've loved having a boy and I am sure I would love having a girl too, so either way I'll be over the moon!! I agree, you need to slow down and rest, rest rest rest is my motto Very hard with a 3y/o but I do my best

AFM: had my ob appt today and all went well, I have my 12 week scan booked for 15 June, yippee. I love the 12wk! Haven't been super duper healthy but not unhealthy - have really had to force food in because I;ve been feeling all queasy, but went to the acupuncturist and got MORE balls put in my ears, I have 4 now, I love them! - (Bring on the ear balls.) and today I feel really good, which is a relief!
Hope everyone is doing well.

[fuzzy]

(Bring on the ear balls.)

Kirsten you are hilarious! Wish I could see a pic.

I am doing well. I think my belly grew an inch outwards overnight though as I have gone from people saying "you dont even look pregnant" to "wow you really look pregnant" in the space of 24 hours. Trying to be healthy (currently munching on nuts and sultanas). I did go to the gym last night and then I played half a game of netball which I followed up with a burger on the way home. *sigh* Well I am trying!