Krikkit- I had sharp pains near where I think my ovaries are for most of my early pregnancy. I went to the doc about it because I was convinced it was something wrong like the placenta bursting or something. Since it was a pain I was also familiar with before I used to get a period I was also worried it meant 'all over red rover'. The doctor thought it was stretching but I remember also that my FS had said that I might feel twinges and pains in my ovaries because of the combination of the IVF treatment, my PCOS and the ovarian drilling I had had a few months before. So perhaps your pain is related to the previous ops??
Murph - Jaz sounds gorgeous. I am going to do that face thing too as it sounds great. I have actually made a cloth mobile that I was worried might only be suitable for girls as it is stuffed babushka dolls in various bright colours. However they have lovely faces on them so there is nothing wrong with a little boy looking at and interacting with faces is there!! In fact perhaps more little boys need those sort of toys early in their development!! You just often feel that you should only buy or get car, plane and truck themed things for little boys!!! I am against gender stereotyping babies but society gets to you!!!
I hope all this early intervention means you get to hear Jaz express herself for longer and pretty quickly again if she does stop. I am guessing there are facial interaction exercises you could do with her to help her be able to form the sounds even if she cannot hear them. I also guess the experts would know all about that!
Bella- Congratulations!!! Looking forward to seeing pics!!! I hope the 11 hour failed induction wasn't too awful
Londonmiss - Marks and Spencers was one of the BIG things I missed about the UK. Especially the food hall! We just drove down the M6 from Wigan today and we ignored several Services until we got to an M&S one for a ploughmans deep fill sandwich and their smoothies. yum!
Now the questions!
a) if you had MS, when did it stop? I never threw up (just felt like it alot!!!) but had lots of dry retching at bad smells and things like seeing a stray hair in food! It was usually an all day feeling of nausea. I think it stopped around 14 weeks.
b) when did you get big enough that you couldn't lie on your belly anymore? cannot remember exactly but I think it was before 20 weeks. I desperately miss belly sleeping!!!
c) when were you big enough that random people could tell? about 13 weeks. I had a pcos belly before and it bloated up with the IVF.
d) when were you big enough that close friends could tell? about 10 weeks. Same with the pcos belly and they knew about the IVF so it was a logical conclusion for them(well Thank God it was this time...I had spent about 7 years being asked when I was due by people in the street because of my random little PCOS belly before which was heartbreaking enough and would have been devastating to have to deal with after a failed attempt)
e) Did any of you find out the gender and regret it, or not find it out and regret it? There was no way I wasn't finding out!! 7 years waiting for this little person...I am not waiting any longer to find out anything about him!!!! No regrets.
f) Should I really be drinking prune juice? Never been constipated in my life and it sounds pretty horrid!!! I love prune juice!!! I haven't really experienced constipation in this pregnancy but had before which I guess is a bit strange. You might be lucky and miss out on it too! Plenty of fruit will help if not. I eat tons of dried apricots when I can.
Grub - I hear you about the rental lady crying incident. I burst into tears at a traffic warden when he gave me an unfair ticket (my back wheels were just off my Dad's driveway and on the path and my car had broken down and I was unable to move it and was just waiting for the mechanic!!!). Unfortunately those barstewards have hearts of stone and he didn't care!!! Anyway DH is home soon to deal with all these hassles and nasty people before they get to you!
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