Okay-- big step-- I needed a dress for work and started to look at maternity dresses on-line. whoo-hoo! Is it me, or do all maternity dresses have that "baby doll" look?
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Regarding the food craving/aversions: I am having trouble with cooked meat (ha ha), but craving milk the last few nights. Can't stand cauliflower. Can drink water-- but only with lemon slices. Go figure. Love potatoes-- as in baked or mashed potatoes. This has been consistent-- maybe the little one is actually a little spud!
Trying not to be anxious-- trying to ride the wave of our last good news...
Best wishes to everyone wherever you are on this crazy journey!
sunshine i too also have had trouble cooking meats. It never bothered me before. Also here with the pototoes also i dont care what kind i want them all the time i am thinking that there is something that i am missing that they have
As for the dopplers they are great once you are far enough along and you can get the hb i have one and i swore at the frist that i would never use it again when i was having trouble finding his hb. But once i did its a everynight thing
It is so good to drop in and see so much action in here including 2 newcomers, although I recognise the names - welcome PORCHE and HOPE! Congratulations on those bFP's and the snuggley little bundles growing inside.
Murray - thanks for asking after the cat. His BT's came back today, good on his thyroid function... so the treatment has been successful, but he had some elevated liver enzymes... could be something, might be nothing. Another BT test in 3-6 months. Poor little cat. But he was remarkably brave during his ordeal ( trip to the vet) so I am really proud of him.
Ms Kara - I am so so sorry about your foal, poor dear sweet little blossom and your cramping - hope the 6 hr trip in the ute was manageable and that your cramping has subsided.
Ferrals - hugs... it is a really tough journey... I know you will find a way through...but just sending you my love.
Tegam/Jenna - I have been amazingly calm, except in relation to stupid drivers... LOL. Today I saw a bus driver try and cut in front of a fire truck with its lights and sirens on. DUH.
Mildez - thanks for the words of advice... it's more that I've had relatively pain BH contractions for a long time now, so it's more about taking more notice of them rather than just dismissing them. Suture out at 38 weeks, although am seeing the Ob this week and will talk about it some more. I had read that 37 weeks is most common for suture removal though. Sorry you're doing it tough right now.
AFM - sorry not many persies today, although I enjoyed reading yours! It's Sophie's first angel versary today and I feel a bit all over the place. Spent yesterday morning in hossy as I was worried as I hadn't felt bubs move for a considerable about of time.. but all was ok (phew ...only in retrospect did I realise the anxiety had contributed to me feeling cranky the day before) and bubs was fine, and has been moving and kicking like normal today. It was pretty awesome, once we established bubs had a heartbeat and it was ok, to just lie back and hear bubs heartbeat for almost 30 mins. So I can understand why a doppler would help, but I chose not to get one, cause I didn't want to be at home bymyself and not be able to find a HB. My Obs door was always open for a reassurance scan, so I thought I'd leave it to an expert. Am hoping that I don't get to 41 weeks like in Jenna's dream.... I have an aversion to leather... in all pregnancies ....makes me gag ( so no leather handbags, wallets, sofas, shoes, car seats, coats/jackets...etc) and I also had hankerings for potatoes, rice, custard, and ice cream but not all together! I was lucky not to actually go off any food, so could still eat my fruit and veges. Perhaps with all this modified bed rest it would have been good for my figure if I'd gone off most things!
I'd have to discourage doplers also. We learnt doing our midwifery that dopplers mearly tell you bub is alive and nothing else. They can actually be reassuring bub is ok because you hear the heartrate in the normal range when in actual fact bub is unwell. You really need to go on how your feeling and how active bub is and have a CTG is your worried about movements etc. I guess they definately have there place but not so much in the home. CTGs are good in telling you you have a happy baby. Have you had a scan recently Dory to see the stitch? Not that its needed but I just thought if the cervix was showing signs of preparing for labour he might remove it sooner. The ones I've seen removed has been either due to labour already starting or around 37weeks and all the women have come into spontaneous labour within a few days. I guess 38weeks is a more mature gestation then 37weeks which would probably be why he/she wants to wait that extra bit. Either way you are so very very close. Can't wait to read your BA.
I'm baaaack! Hey guys, sorry I've been quiet, me and my gut have been out seeing the world!
dory - funny with your leather aversion, I had a bit of a thing for rubber. I just wanted to chew on rubber bands or rubber tubing in the early second tri. Seemed a bit weird, so I resisted as much as I could and then cracked out a jelly snake when I couldn't hang on any longer. I totally hear you on the choice not to get a Doppler.
mildez - good info on the doppler and CTG. No danger of no movements here though, this baby has been having an all night disco party! I don't know where it is getting all the energy from!
sunshine - I have a couple of good maternity dresses; I am living in dresses! They are not all baby doll - that style just makes me look fat instead of fabulously pregnant. What sizes are you looking for? I got mine from ebay and second hand shops, and I've made two of them myself.
MsKara - I went off broccoli during the first tri. Usually my favourite thing in the world, so I kept trying it, and gagged every time! Back on it now, but I don't love it the way I used to. Sad.
I go a little bit batty when I'm pregnant. I was SO rude to someone today at the airport. She walked in front of me and I "accidentally" kicked her in the shin. Not proud. I'm a little overprotective of this old belly!
for Sophie's first Birthday. 
Not proud. I'm a little overprotective of this old belly!
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