Due in November 07?!

Cold KFC....i wouldnt even go there even after pregnancy...

We always have too much chicken and hubby eats it cold from the fridge, nothing's happened to him. At least KFC is pressure cooked to high temperatures which is good, I've had it numerous times while pregnant. Oh and cottage cheese which counts as a soft cheese but all cheese in NZ is pasteurised so it's as safe as houses (my GP agrees). It's the non-pasteurised stuff from overseas that's dodgy.

So big and so long to go haha!

Porce, u look bigger than me yet ur due just under a week or so after me!!

lol try telling that to my partner - about a pillow being unstable....I say to him, well try get it thru to him that a changing mattress would be more ideal and hes like "ohhh wotever"!!....and then i jiust end up fuming inside cos he doesnt see sense....lol Maybe my midwife might have more luck than me telling him wot im trying to knuckle thru to him...I dunno about his folks, when him and his sibblings were young babies, but my mum used a changing mat for me and my sibblings when we were babies..

Just a qustion - just outa curiosity, how is everyone going with eating there dinners etc? managing to just eat half or 3 quartners od it? or AAAALLLL of  it?? im 29wks atm (30wks on friday) still managing to eat Full cooked meals - ALL of my dinner......Today i had quite alot to eat at different times of the day...Like b4 my partner left for work i had 3 peanut butter sammies and a drink...then umm say 2-3 hrs later OR SO i had a piece of blueberry crumble cake , a small tin of creamed rice, with a milo and 4 biscuits...Then at 8.30 my partner gave my c/ph a buzz from work to say hes on his way hm so i got dinner underway then, which consisted of  "mashed potatoes and mashed carrots (together) with cheese milk n butter, mixed veges, 2 boiled eggs, 2 sausages, plus i halfed a mccains microwave meal between us...macaroni cheese.......and atm im havin abit of pudding...I think my boddy prolly burns some or all of it off when my partner and i go our walks

Hi all, i'm less stressed out today. DH is away for work and i had a really good sleep with the bed all to myself (stretched out like a starfish!)

I manage different sized meals all the time, sometimes i can pig out and eat three servings in a go and then other lunches and dinnertimes i only manage half a decent portion - i reckon it seems to depend on how i'm feeling in general. Pain in the bum that it's not consistent tho - i will prepare a huge portion when i feel hungry and then only manage to eat a tiny bit before getting full and then the next meal i'll just prepare something small to save wastage and be starving afterwards, i don't know - strange!

Just a thought Becs - maybe the extra weight (not that you're big) is putting pressure on your pelvis and that combined with still riding a bike is causing your pains down low? Food for thought anyway.

Must go, am still busy. 4 more wks at work, woohoo!!

Ev

hello all,

lots of chit chat - all good!!

i have a list of all the foods i want to want to eat after bubs is born. First on the list if a burger feul burnout burger and a glass of bubbles!

beautiful day in auckland, makes me feel like spring is on the way and that means our babys being born - yay!!!

right time for a cuppa and some double choc coated tim tams. that counts as lunch right?

Pain "down low" is fairly normal as your pelvis where it meets in the front gets stretched out to accommodate baby.

My pre pregnancy jeans etc went out the window in the first trimester!!!

I won some flavoured vodka early on in pregnancy, I got feijoa and apple so I want to try that when I can!

Sunny day in Nelson of course .... I walked to the mechanics from work to pick up my car (the temp gauge HAS been fixed so I should be paying for a few things to be fixed which is good for that amount of money!) and I nearly did myself in, I am sooo hot and sooo worn out now (windows open and fan on!).

I find my sugars crash in the afternoon so I have Oat Temptation porridge sachets with my lunch, they are SO yummy, flavours with date or apricot or mixed berry, mmm mmm! The low GI helps me a bit later on (though saying that I started crashing around 4pm yesterday and had to have a nice apricot muesli slice, what a shame!). I discovered the vending machines in the staff room are cheaper than out where students are too! Bonus!

The biscuits I am eating rather than Tim Tams are the Arnotts Snack Right ones, low GI and not so bad for you, the fruit pillows are super yummy - blackberry and apple. Yummy!

My pre-preg stuff is in one of those zip-up clothes bags in the hot water cupboard. Be interesting to weed stuff out when I drag it out again.

Aren't you so glad you won't be pregnant in mid-summer! I am cos I am getting rather hot! Only thing is my hairy legs, getting bit sick of those, so might go get them waxed since I can't reach down to shave them!!!

My skin has gone crazy, before I got pregnant I had pityriasis on my back and a bit under my boobs but now it's taken off and is on my arms especially in the crook of my elbows which is really visible now I am wearing short-sleeved tops. Plus my hands have developed some sort of dermatitis, my skin in my groin (sorry if it's TMI) is complaining too (don't think it's thrush, just skin being silly) and I have a small bit of eczema on above my eyes - usually I don't have all of this! So I might ring my homeopath and see if she thinks it's worth getting a remedy now or just wait until after the birth. It's awful and I want to enjoy my pregnant glow without being covered in splotches!