March 2011 babies

I agree nubba, time seems to be going faster now that I'm past twelve weeks. It seemed to take ages to get there, but the past week has just gone by so fast. I haven't even got around to telling all my close friends yet - but should have the last of them told by the end of this week and then I'm going to post a scan pic up on facebook (and post one on here perhaps finally).

That's great that you don't have to use chemicals Anja, and that they can come around so quickly. I haven't had any colustrum yet - figure it's one of those things to look forward to! lol

Oh, if people want to add me on facebook I'm Shannon Lynds (I don't think there are too many of us - the photo of me is with my hair being blown of my face, squinting into the sun wearing a blue top). Just make sure you make of note of your username on here. Would love an invite to this group everyone was talking about a few weeks back.

The last two nights I have managed to sleep right through until my alarm without waking up once! I'm hoping that this trend continues because I was waking up two or three times a night before that and it was driving me batty!

There was some discussion a few days ago about maternity bras - is there a danger in wearing underwire bras or is it just more for comfort? I've just been wearing my regular bras and as I'm pretty big chested they all have underwires.

Anyway, better get back to it. Hope those who have been feeling sick start feeling better, and everyone has a great day!

aww i feel sorry for you girls with coughs.. wonder when its my turn!

anyone else been having braxton hicks? i wanst sure that it was what i was having, this wierd tightening in my upper abdo just around the top of the bump usually when im active ish, but midwife says that seems like it was. Eek its a bit scary.. i hope its not that just yet, i want to say its my bowel but its a wierd feeling ive never had before!

i had this awful dream last ngiht that i could feel my babies hand and arm thorugh the skin on my tummy, and then all this movement started and it looked like snakes writing around under my skin!! i woke up and freaked out a bit..

so BK should i stop wearing underwires now? i only have one bra that fits and its a padded underwire, but i wondered if that was the reason why i was getting pain in my breasts over the last couple weeks..

and ive had another throw up free mornign hurah.. i still gag but its such a relief not to have to spend twenty min with my head in the loo every day!!

Just have to still contantly eat to not feel too sick :) speaking of food.. i should go eat something..

I think I started leaking colostrum somewhere around 18 weeks or so with my son but it's only been 5 and a half months since I gave birth to him so I've had a bit of leaking early on because my boobs were already partially primed. It's starting to settle down now and now it just comes and goes.

Anja, yay for not needing chemicals!

I'm thinking about finding some sort of cough syrup but last night I was half asleep lol and made up a honey and lemon syrup and it worked! For a little while anyway lol. Honey by itself worked too lol so I guess it was soothing my throat more than anything, because my throat is getting SO itchy and tickly.

ArielAngel, I couldnt find you on FB lol. Oh well.

I agree with the time seeming to fly. Last time it felt like time was crawling by, now it's going quite fast. I cant believe I'm pretty much 12 and a half weeks! I can still vividly remember 8 weeks ago taking that test and going OMG!!

I'm having a bed-day myself. I'm going to try kick this stinky cold to the kurb. I was up and down all night coughing so much it now feels like I was doing sit-ups all night Nothing really seemed to help. Taking my inhaler would only irritate my throat and make me cough, lemon honey syrup would stop working after about a minute or two, taking a drink of water didnt help either. Here's hoping that a day in bed is enough to make it go bye bye, otherwise I dont know if I'll be getting my surgery tomorrow

Lol, you guys are probably sick of me going on about my cough and my surgery now, I seem to do it every day whoops.

Shutting up now

*Zips Lips*

lillease every time i see your wee angel picture i feel so sad for you :( i think about it almost every day and you must be such a strong person!

and thats what this forum is about! to tell each other how we are feeling so rant away about feeling sick.. lord knows i have about my horrid ms!!

i kind if wish my boobs were leaking stuff so i knew they worked! is that wierd lol..

brilee i noticed that too when my partner was not at home.. had great sleeps! didnt have to contend with strange conversations and sleep aponea hehe..

BK the list will be showing "its a boy and its a girl" things soon! I was hoping that at least one of the march ladies would be having twins or something which would have been neat to follow!

Lol wow, after I posted my last message I didnt check very well, I missed the 2 above it! Just read them now.

Marengo, I cant say I'm having BH yet but after DF and I BD lol I find it quite fascinating to keep a couple of fingers on my uterus to feel when it finally relaxes. Having BH once your fundus (top of the uterus) gets above your belly button is fun. Feels like a funny flexing sensation like when you tense a muscle, except it's not concious! Feels so weird lol.

Thanks for updating the list BK, I was just thinking about it a couple of minutes before I saw you had done it lol. Nice timing

Brilee, it's been so long since I had Hells pizza and now 2 people I know had it last night. Lucky sods lol.

Marengo, again lol. Just because you havent leaked colostrum yet, or even if you dont at all, it doesnt mean that your boobs will work or not. Some people (I lurk around here a lot lol) havent leaked any colostrum at all but they have had no problems BF their babies, so it's not a sure way.
I think my boobs are fine though lol, even though they're tiny. After I had my boy I was leaking milk for 3 weeks! I can remember one rather amusing time where I was sitting on a chair leaning forwards and felt something warm dripping on my leg, looked down and I was dripping milk right through my bra, and my shirt lol. Good thing I was at home at the time, would have been so embarrassing if I was out somewhere. I didnt even think to buy breast pads or anything like that so I would just cut up a regular pad and stick it to the inside of my bra lol. It worked, most of the time.

I think I learned how NOT to cope from my mum, who has trouble coping with anything. Sure, I have my bad days where I just want to crawl into a hole but I know that for every bad experience there's a good one lurking around the corner, that's why I have no regrets. Lol, I probably sound like one of those freakily optimistic people now. I'm mellow more than anything lol.

What I think I'm trying to say (I cant quite phrase is properly lol) is yes, it's been a tough few months but I've lived through it and I've learned from it. I worried people, like my family, when it seemed like I had put it all behind me (they kept saying to me "You know where the mental health services are if you need them" Thing was, I didnt feel like I needed them and them saying that to me just about sent me nutty lol) but I simply worked through it faster than they thought I should have. I still have my moments of sadness thinking about what might have been and what I lost, but I try not to dwell on the sad memories too much. I remember, I have a few moments of sadness, but then I remember something happy and awesome like how cool it was to feel a kick, or the time when I first heard his galloping horse of a heartbeat.
To me, the past is past, I remember it but I dont dwell on it and I dont wallow in it

Hope that doesnt sound like I'm picking at anyone

Whoa, long post. Better let my fingers rest a while lol.

ETA: Thanks JayMum, I hope my day in bed helps too. I think it may be, a little. I havent been coughing quite as much, though that could also be from the prednisone I took with my breakfast lol.

OH! I forgot to say DF brought me breakfast in bed this morning! First time he's done that in soooo long, though he woke me up to give it to me lol and I had only had about 5 hours of very broken sleep.

Ick, I think I have fluid in my right eardrum. It keeps crackling and hissing. Feels very very weird.

Edited by lil_lease

Lol Anja, my fingers are well exercised. About the only part of me that is

I dont know, maybe sounds like things are being rearranged and that could be the sensation you're feeling, everything being pushed upwards a little.

Marengo, your loss IS comparable to mine because you too lost a child May not have been at the same age, stage or circumstances but it IS still comparable hun.

I take the good with the bad because how can you really know the difference if one is missing.

After I lost my boy I was quite numb. It was quite a shock, found out it could happen on the Monday, was in hospital on Thursday and on the Friday we lost him.
I think that Sunday (maybe, memory a little sketchy) I went to dinner at my dads house. Had roast duck for the first time. Tasted like cardboard.
I think for about a week I spent so much time lying in bed crying and hugging my cat or my teddy bear. Nearly every night I would sob to DF "I want my baby back"

After about a week or so of that I started coming back to myself. I wasnt sad quite as often or crying quite as often. I worked through my feelings and moved on, but I didnt bury my emotions or deny myself the right to greive, I just did it quicker than everyone expected

I have had a look on facebook LL and he was beautiful. I saw him and didn't really know what to expect given how prem he was but he just looks like a beautiful little boy and totally surrounded with love in your photos. DH wouldn't look, too hard for him but I actually found it really beautiful. I admire you for talking so openly about your son and sharing pictures of him. What a special wee soul.

I hope you are feeling better this evening and they can go ahead with your op tomorrow. Will be thinking of you x

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BK, I was browsing through the June forum and I found your 12 week scan of Jae, so I copied it , look at it! total girl nub !

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Jaymum2b I would be keen to come with you. Sounds like good fun!

Stupid cold, I feel like sh*t and have my MIL telling me that Im not looking after DH well enough... Grr maybe Im a bit grumpy too lol