Pregnancy after Long Term TTC #1 - 2009

[Nicole S]

Grub try not to worry too much on symptoms your body is changing every day.
I found that my BB were only sore a week or so after my BFP and never hurt since.
I truly believe that the trick in any persons pregnancy is to only worry about your only symptoms and try not getting caught up in how other people are feeling.
As for MS never had any and neither did Nixon if I recall.

BG, looks like you have your action plan of the day in full swing
All I did today was take June Bug's car seat out of the box to air it!!

As for Denial Land I think I'm still there with you!!
In less than 2 months time bubs will be making themself heard from the outside....truly still amazed

[briggsy's girl]

BG, looks like you have your action plan of the day in full swing
All I did today was take June Bug's car seat out of the box to air it!!

hun, if it weren't for the fact that i need to do a lot of this stuff while DH is home to look after me (as he puts it) - plus a lot of stuff is packed in places i can't get to, so i'm getting it done while DH is home (and there is only so many hours in a weekend - even a long one!

just talking to SIL - she is going to pick up Gremlins nicely ironed linen from mum's (go mum!) and bring it out so i can put her cot linen on - and after that, i'm taking more pics - then filling the cot with her teddy bears - OMG she has a HEAP of them already!

[Murph01]

Hey BG. Nic and Grub, still just us in here. I made really good progress on my essay today so am allowing myself the special indulgence of jumping on the computer to read your posts. Ah, lovely long posts too. It was lovely reading your question lastnight Grub about what to buy and plan for and i told my DH about it. You'll be really jealous (well maybe) but I spoke to my sister today and asked if by any chance she has been putting away baby things for me from her last baby (3 years ago)...she sighed, exsasperated...ahh, just everything! her husband has been asking is it time yet??? (as in is it time that he can get back all the space in his garage filled with all the stuff they have saved for us). My sis has been telling him she will give it to us when we reach that magic 12 weeks that we are waiting for, but I got really inspired by your comments today about embracing it. So I'm not kidding, they have saved everything. We are bones of out butts broke living up here in paradise and studying. we sold our house, left our well paying jobs to live and work in the rainforest, invested everything in shares, hahahahahahah!! And we seriously love second hand, so we are just stoked. I know some people don't go for second hand and there are some things that we will treat ourselves to, but we have the whole change table and bath thing on wheels like you by the sounds BG and the rocking baby swing and walkers, pram, woohoo, I didn't even think of all that stuff either. I know you think you are broke in the defence force Grub, but seriously, when DH was Army and I was a park ranger that was the richest time of our lives. I can't wait til this PhD is finished and DH can earn some money, but if it means leaving here, I'll settle for being broke. Hope you make it back to FNQ Grub. We have looked at atherton as a possibility for a job.

the nappy issue, how complex is that? I just always thought I always wanted to go natural toweling no questions asked, but then there are all these pea pods and really easy to use things that aren't disposable and have all sorts of environmental benefits. DH thinks I'll quickly get sick of toweling nappies and he is a big fan of all the new types.

Well thanks for the sisterly advice, I will take on board a lot of the wish list and essentials too. I'm very into recycling, reusing and ethical buying so i'm a bit different to the rest of my family and it's great because most people know that we won't be filling our house with fischer price toys and my dad is building us a high chair! I love hand made and Fair Trade, supporting world vision everything and that has meaning. Not that I'm knocking anyone else's choices. It's all great fun and I can't wait.

Ha, the boobs. Well my symptoms were all form my drugs and pessaries I'm convinced of that (at first), but now real changes are happening and I've had no drugs for two weeks..ouchies, I will be forking out for the new soft models. lol

Gotta go, xoxo

[Bee83]

Hey BG, Grub, murph and anyone else home over Easter

Im all into recycled furniture too, my whole house has been furnished in pine by ebay. My brother and SIL filled our house with there baby goods as soon as we had a house just took a few years to get out the shed. My DH is an accountant so i started shopping around early to get the best prices on the big ticket items i needed pram,cot set and car seats and put them on layby after 12 weeks. From then on we allowed for one item a week in our budget. I have managed to get some great bargains off ebay that i couldnt normally afford (a designer baby bag valued at 130 shipped to perth for 40 becasue lady didnt like it, brand new with tags).

As for my BB sore from about 6-8 weeks nothing since and still havent changed a size LOL, i also havent changed weight and have only needed elasticated waists in the last 2-3 weeks because my belly popped out..oh and i needed a dress for BIL wedding at 30 weeks. As for MS well thats been a constant for me since 8 weeks and still is!

We are on weekly checks now and having a scan this thursday because bubs was very small at 33weeks, 10th percentile, so we will see if hes getting fat yet! My DH Best friend had a 9lb 3oz this morning, his poor wife is tiny..im nearly 6ft and DH is 6"6!

Anyway have a great night.

Love Bee

[briggsy's girl]

mornin ladies

we were given heaps of stuff second hand when DH and i first started TTC which we put in storage - since then we've moved, and gone through a rather tortuous time (which i'm sure you all more than get) and having it stored in the house started to really get to me (seeing basinette all the time was damn hard) so DH and I ended up getting rid of them. spoke to my bro and SIL when a family friend found herself pregnant and broke at 17 - when she was finished with them, she offered them back but i asked her to pass them on to charity as i simply couldn't bear the idea of them being in the house again (and she was living with her parents so no storage room there). my SIL's SIL is now pregnant, and i'm copping some flack over getting rid of stuff, but i was reluctant to accept stuff way back when (we'd already had one miscarriage and it hurt at the time) so i just figured too bad, our house, our lack of storage, our pain. we'd kept boxes and bags of cot sheets and things, which i've now given back to SIL to give to her new SIL - they don't fit the boori cot anyway!

Murph - the nappy decision is a huge one - and one that, if you want to be properly set up for baby, one you need to consider now. most MCN stores online offer layby (i have a couple on at the moment) and yeah, as an initial outlay, it can seem like a lot - but what DH and I did was work out what disposables cost for a week (ball park), and decided we'd spend that much each week through pregnancy and have a decent stash by the time Gremlin arrives. i've gone a little over that amount but that was only because one big online store were having a clearance sale where i managed to save over 40% on heaps! i have also picked up extras like baby legs (google them - cute!), and some great clothes from the sales. the only things i've paid full price for are things made by Maz - but they aren't exxy - everything else i've found on sale over the course of this pregnancy! it's been awesome! can't wait til i finish prewashing them all so i can take a pic of my stash - soooo purddy! i have two layby's left to pick up of mcn's - and also want to get some traditional flat nappies for back up (and to use early on when bubba has black tar poos!) which i'll prolly layby at the local shops this week. jump in and read the cloth nappy threads, and feel free to PM me with any questions you might have!

to everyone else - a huge hi! not having a great day today - overdid things yesterday, and ended up in a lot of pelvic/back pain. i am definitely paying for it! feeling like we've achieved a lot though.

from yesterday's check list

jobs for today - so that i can't avoid them!
- dry towels = DONE
- rewash nappies and pre wash last load of girlie nappies
- set up rocker and swing (not important for us to have it done now, but they're being stored in a big plastic tub DH needs so that he can empty Gremlins wardrobe of 28 years of his accumulated stuff - gotta love moving into the house his folks built when he was 15!) = DONE
- move open robe from our room and set up hammock = DONE
- get mum to drop Gremlin linen off at bro's house so he can bring it out and SIL and I can put the cot together properly with linen tonight = DONE
- cook roast dinner for bro and sil = DONE
- make some meals for the freezer = DONE (14 meals in the freezer with more on the go now!)
- REST! (this is the important one - and the one i forget most often! lol) = well, i went to bed early, does that count??

also managed to set up the amby hammock, put the cot mattress on the higher rail, clean up a whole heap of stuff - and end up feeling like crap last night and again this morning. today is simple cooking (chooken flied lice for dinner) and might cook some vegie soup in the slow cooker depending on how energetic i'm feeling. DH will be doing the washing (i hope!)

tomorrow is OB appt - yay!

[Murph01]

[QUOTE=briggsy's girl;1744653]mornin ladies

we were given heaps of stuff second hand when DH and i first started TTC which we put in storage - since then we've moved, and gone through a rather tortuous time (which i'm sure you all more than get)

Hi BG, yes I certainly understand about the memories. I couldn't believe that some of your rellies would bring it up like that though, surely it was yours to give away. sorry if I seemed a bit insensitive.

I bet it's been fun doing all your homework and getting all those nice bargains. Not long now til you get to try them out hey? Good luck today with your OB appt.

Hi Megan, huge congrats on your not too eventful birth of Noah. Cute name. Thanks for sharing the story too, I am losing my fear of c/s through all these stories. Just one question, does it involve epidural? I'm only asking because my husband has the world's biggest phobia that he has transposed onto me since he had to help give them in pretty bad situations in africa (and he's not medically trained). We call it the e word, as it can't be spoken. any words of advice to get us through this?

Since I reached 9 weeks (3 whole days ago, I am soooo happy). I suppose because my friend lost her pg at 9 weeks and the day her m/c was confirmed, our first ever pg was confirmed, its been hard to be too confident. She is amazingly supportive and happy for us but it's been a psychological barrier that I am finally over and I'm just smiling all the time (and soooo ready for special cuddles again!) I also want to start nesting.

Good luck Megan, hope your first days as a mum are everything you dreamed.

[Murph01]

Hmm, as I suspected, my quote box didn't work....sorry BG

[grub17]

hi girls...

thanks BG for the m/s advice. i'm sure i don't actually want it, but it would be reassuring. lol. in saying that i did wake up nauseous today but have been taking ginger tablets for a few days cos of early sickness last week. so hopefuly those tablets are responsible for keeping most ms away. iykwim? not sure if that made sense. hey, that's good you are gettig so much help from the family. lap it up!
good luck with the ob appointment tomorrow and the nappy feed back is great.

nicole s- i'll definitely try not to compare anymore! that's good advice.

hi murph and bec - i'm a bit in the same boat with 2nd hand. i know what you mean BG when you say you didn't want it in the house. i was starting to feel the same way. we already bought a cot and a pram - cot cos it was a good price and good condition and dh was all excited so we went with it (this was just afte we were married and naively thought i'd be UTD within a few months... hahhahhaaa). And we bought a pram designed for running and with all the bells and whistles, it was a $400 pram and we picked it up for $80, 1 yr old. so were happy with that.

Mruph you are lucky your sister could give you stuff, that takes the hassle out of it for you.

my parents want to buy "one of the big items'' for the nursery. and i think my in-laws will want to as well. so that'll take the pressure off.

we'd love to do cloth nappies but i'm going to chat to my 2 best friends - they've both got 6mth olds and one went cloth, the other disposable. so i figure i should get a pretty good perspective.

anyway this has taken me about an hour to write and in that time the nausea has gotten worse... uuuggghhh.

five weeks today! yay.
ox

[Kaydee78]

Hi girls. Wishing you all a happy Easter. Hope you've had a great long weekend!

[Nixon]

Has anyone heard how QueenH is going?