UK SMOG Wannabes ~ December

Petal - boys are on the pc and I'm on the phone but can't wait to see your piccis!

Went to mw today. All was good - phew! She said if I feel at all worn out to get the doctor to sign me off work asap as pe can on very badly from nowhere with no warning.

Kell your presents sound lovely! I got Molton brown and debenhams vouchers from dh.

Hbp I told mil about my girl name and she phoned when sil was expecting a girl so she could double check the name to offer it to sil!!! I was mad!!! That is my daughters name!!! She will never be in my tummy or my arms but is still her name!! I have told a few people my boys name who mostly tell me they hate it. In future I will keep all names to me and dh! I have a weird Celtic spelling for this baby boy so that will piss people off!

It's so hard to think of names as it is!

Also my sil askedy mil why I didn't choose to have a dd - one word answer for sil "bimbo" how fricking thick can you be?

As to the clothes thing. My girl would be like one of those gypsy wedding girls! I have chav her to the max in lace socks and bobble cardis and lace sheets on the old fashion victorian pram lol!! Just as well I have no daughter hee hee!

thinking boy after reading the skull stuff

Charlie - very cute! It's too soon to say! Are you team green? Girls are smaller you know x

Charlie what a cute little bean you are growing! :) not sure about skull's really thought boys were more pointed at the brow where as your little one's look quite flat?

Have you posted for others to guess?

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thinking boy after reading the skull stuff

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Gorgeous pic charlie!! Must have been so lovely to see him/her X

What a cute little bean you have there Charlie. I don't know anything on the skull theory so afraid i can't help x

Yes it was lil bugger though wouldnt take its chin from its chest .......they were really struggling x not a good sign of things to come lol! Looking at my scan my gut says girl but i know thats because i long for that x FX for my NT results to come back low risk though thats much more important x

thanks ladies posted on the ultrasound board x ruddy ig is down AGAIN

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Yes it was lil bugger though wouldnt take its chin from its chest .......they were really struggling x not a good sign of things to come lol! Looking at my scan my gut says girl but i know thats because i long for that x FX for my NT results to come back low risk though thats much more important x

thanks ladies posted on the ultrasound board x ruddy ig is down AGAIN

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Im on IG right now so cant be down! Try again! I reckon the skull actually looks girly but just wandering if that might possibly be the nub poking up as that is the same as my ds2's pic which people on IG guessed on. hmmmm im not great at all this though! X

it wont let me post on IG just read posts

thats its leg in the background no nub on the pic

Glad all is well Charlie - that's a very cute pic!

Awww Charlie what a lovely picture!! So clear as well! I so can't wait to see my bean now!!

Kell only two weeks until your scan! Everyones pregnancies seem to be going super quickly! When i'm pregnant the wait until 12 weeks seems to drag!

Lavender I think knowing so Early in pregnancy makes things drag! I knew at 3weeks 5days and it feels like an age ago!!

Ive become so lethargic since Christmas, I can't seem to get going during the day at all, Charlie will wake at around 8ish, we lay in bed watching telly for ages, I just feel so sleepy and ill until around 3 and then I am ok for a couple of hours. If I could I would just stay in bed. I really hope it goes because I'm back to work on Tuesday :(

Aww maybe... Your sil sounds a complete idiot (sorry) as if we can choose, it would be nice if things were that simple....clearly she didn't do biology? :p and I can't believe your mil asked what name u said...oooooh the cheek!

Charlie what a perfect lil bean u have, its so lovely when u see them bobbing around in there :)

After a hectic day I'm off 2 bed....having 2 kiddies is hard work am I sure I could cope with 3 possibly 4 (if baby n3 is a boy) lol!
Nite guys xx

Maybe - those comments would have me mad mad mad!! Charlie - beautiful scan pic, I'm saying girl by skull shape! Fingers crossed. Night all, went to panto tonight and had to hold my bloat in lol so in comfy pjs looking forward to sleep - I've been sleeping soo well since bfp, just so soundly, no tossing or turning and waking feeling refershed - probably tiredness but also the pressure is off now of swaying so maybe my mind is clearer, who knows! Night xx

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Charlie - scan looks great. I have no idea I'm afraid... I'm useless at guessing. I've obssessed over mine and gone a bit mad looking for things. There is a clear nub shot on my video though and it looks decidedly boy! I don't think the potty shot is relevant at this stage. Its all about the angle of the dangle... so you're definitely not out of the running.

Chocolate - Ernie is 3 (today :) ) and Percy is 16 months - both my boys took ages to start walking!!

I didn't ask what side bubs implanted on but my placenta is at the front. I guess that means I won't feel bubs as much.

hubbie and I went out for dinner and to see The Importance of Being Earnest last night... it had Geoffrey Rush in. Very good. So lovely to go out... we just don't go enough...

Oh name stealing is bad. People always ask me what my girl names would have been and I never say. I did tell my close friend my possible fave names for #3 and when she had her 2nd she said she had considered using both my boy name and my girl name!!! I was not pleased.... she had a girl and luckily her hubbie poo-pooed the girls name! I only tell people the names I've decided not to use.

thanks ladies x hoping IG lets me post soon!!

Pinga - am sure i have said it before LOVE your boys names x percy is our middle name if this is boy number 4 x i only ever told 1 person my girl name when i comforted her over a MC - she got pregnant again and when discussing names she said it was her name for a girl...although i know she knew she had knicked it as she went red and looked at me - i was devastated praise the lord she had a boy!!!!

Oh good idea telling people names you have dismissed! In that case mine are wilbert and ermintrude.

Pings your names are cute! I loved my boys name but not sure on it now. Might call him dave or just give him my girlie name so I can use it!

I love hippy names like sky and river and tree names. Someone at work suggested walnut! I'm not that cruel (but it's growing on me lol!)

Happy Birthday to your Ernie, more pressies lol

Yes name stealing is just morally wrong, why are some people just so rude?!!!

Im feeling a bit annoyed at the in-laws - I asked my sil who she went to the panto with and she never said, then my mum said it was with the mil (OH's mum) - so far they have all been to Paultons Park twice together, on holiday together, and to panto together. Deliberately not mentioning they were all going together - only find out when my niece mentions they were there. Just annoyed as my DS1 is 3 and is starting to notice we rarely see them, they see him about every 4 to 6 weeks for a 45 minute visit and live 5 mins up the road. My OH doesnt help matters as doesnt particularly make the effort with them either, but I would feel bad going on holiday with my daughter and not inviting my son, or to paultons park and panto etc. Just think its soo rude. Trying to let it go but since finding out last night Ive been stewing on it!


Hope you all have a fab day xx

Chocolate it's a bit like that with oh's family.
His mum took two sisters and one grandson to disney land Paris last year, it was a birthday treat. Did we get an invite... Nope. What do out kids get for a birthday present, £20 in a card or if they are lucky I get the money to buy them something.
It really riles me but oh doesn't really care!

Kell, wow that's harsh too! My mum is so good and makes as much effort with my brother as she does me and the grandkids. Mkes me more aware of being fair to my kids as it does get noticed. I'm not going to offer as much to them next year, new years resolution, give my best to those who appreciate it

Kell - hugs its so sad when you can see that your kids get the raw deal in things....brings out our maternal instinct to protect them too x DH dad and step mum are out of this world when it comes to treating our kids like dirt compared to the step mums grandchildren. When ds2 was born he was given 1 babygrow from a pack of 2....that was it (blatant left over from her grandson a few months older) for brithdays xmas they get F all - its not just that there is no thought in the presents, they brought her grandson a PS3 our kids got 2 mini games from sainsburys, indy a small teddy and a milky bar! They also spend no time with them at all - saying all this i am quite happy not to see them they expect my kids to play with them interact with them but they dont really know them. I hope you can sort something out - we tried it failed so we make the most of those interested in us and our kids x

Oh Maybe what cow of your MIL ((())) stupid woman - like you said my girl name will always be my girl name whether i use it or not x

Wow charlie they sound even worse! Maybe my in laws aren't that bad at all, they still buy them the same for birthdays etc. And do treat them brilliantly when we see them. Would just be nice if we were all a bit closer but then my OH doesn't really luike his mums boyfriend and think they know it. So who has anything planned for 2012? Obviously hoping for lots of new babies in this thread lol, also hoping to get our new cooker and kitchen sorted, hoping to work a little less and spend more quality time with those who matter. In an ideal world also get our bathroom done ha ha

2012 plan so far is make DH look for another job - i cant keep doing weekends on my own - if he was off in the week a bit then maybe but he leaves 8.20 in the morning and isnt home till 7pm then sometimes works all weekend too - he gets mondays off but thats the day i work. So that is top priority to change whether it can get better I dont know i hope so. So then we get more time as a family, I have my dads wedding (dreading it) in may then my BF wedding in june (cannie wait!!!) then baby in july lol ooooh and france in august so should be fun. Would love to get new flooring for the kitchen/diner but i think decorating our bedroom is more within reach - still havnt got curtains! Oh and trying to decide where baby will go :S

I'm not really sure about 2012, tbh it's probably gonna be a bit of a write off, other than having the baby of course. I would have been going to uni but that's been put on hold.
We need a bigger house but realistically the only way that will happen is if I rent my place out and we rent also, but dp is dead against renting so I'm really not sure what we are going to do. My sister would have my house in a heart beat and when the recession passes would probably buy it as well. I just need to figure out a way of persuading him we need to rent.
2 adults, and two full time children plus two other children and a dog, well soon to be two dogs in a 2 bed house it's chaos in my house and it drives me mad!

Beautiful scan pic charlie :HH:

just can't come on properly at the moment, feeling soo sick. ugh.

Feel better indigo, we all know how u feel x

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Oh good idea telling people names you have dismissed! In that case mine are wilbert and ermintrude.

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I love hippy names like sky and river and tree names

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My ds2's name is River :)

Charliespy ~ what a cute bean!!! I guess girl based on the skull theory, but i’m definitely no pro unfortunately. IG is down for me too! I don’t know if you’re automatically logged in when you go to the page? If you are, DON’T log out! I did and since then all I get is the monkeys :( I can’t even read posts at the moment.

Chocolate ~ oh that’s an every weekend occurrence with my in laws. Dh has 2 brothers and a sister and my MIL ALWAYS goes on shopping trips and days out with them all, but never think to invite us along. We always go around on a Sunday for tea and just the other Sunday actually we went around in the afternoon and no one was home, turns out MIL had gone Christmas shopping with dh’s sister, older brother and his fiancé but didn’t think to ring my dh to ask him if perhaps we wanted to come along? No, of course not, we’re just meant to bring the kids around on a silver plate every Sunday afternoon and they just expect us to sit and wait for them while they’re out doing their Christmas shopping like a happy little family. I am beyond fed up with my PIL!! And being pregnant is just highlighting the problem. I feel as if all I am to them is a vessel carrying their grandchild, because not once did they bother to visit me in hospital to see how i was doing or to offer to babysit the kids so dh could spend time with me, he actually had to ASK them to babysit while he went to the hospital. But i can assure you that as soon as my daughter enters this world they will be the first to visit even though they never bothered while i was in with pre-eclampsia. Sorry for the rant, I just wanted to say I know where you’re coming from and it’s bloody annoying!

Pinga ~ it’s always best not to tell people! I don’t ever give my names away :)

Kell ~ hope you feel better soon!

Lavenderlime ~ fx it’s just too early! When are you expecting af to show?

HappyLea ~ glad to hear your dad is on the mend! It must have been a very scary time for you all! When is it you’re planning to start the diet and supps?

Wishing4pink ~ When are you planning to start ttc? April?

AFM ~ went to the GP this morning to get some more bp medicine and he seems to think I need to up my dose to 3 tabs a day instead of 2... and he based that on one simple BP check after i’d just spent half an hour trying to get the kids ready and stress to the gp surgery at silly o’clock in the morning to make it on time. I’m not convinced doing one BP check is going to give a very accurate result? I guess i’m just not happy to up my dose without speaking to a “real doctor” first :( and besides, the BP meds are making me feel very dizzy and weak at times.. don’t like it at all.

Sorry for ranting when really i should be grateful i’ve made it to 36 weeks. One of my friends had her baby girl on the 23rd at 26+2 weeks gestation :( so far she’s suffered a severe brain bleed so no one knows what the effects of that will be or if she’ll even make it :( and when i was in hospital the woman in the bed opposite me got given the news on Christmas eve (after having spent 4 weeks in hospital with pre-eclampsia) that they would need to delivery her baby that same afternoon, she was only 28 weeks pregnant. And it’s such a terrible thought to think that regardless of when i go into labour (tomorrow or in a month’s time) her baby boy will still be in the neonatal unit while i recover in the postnatal ward..

Hi all, so much to catch up on!!

Charlie, beautiful scan pic, I obsessed over mine, esp the skull theory and thought boy! I'm no expert at all, but it does look like some of my early scan pics, the flat forehead shape??? Will u find out @ 16wks?

Sunset, hope u are well? what's happening with you at the moment?

To those chatting about the 'names' Dh and I have kinna decided on 2 girls names which if at my 4d I am told both girls I will share with u ladies only!! Don't want to jinx by saying now (I'm superstitious!) lol I wouldn't tell anyone at home as I know 2 girls due soon and would be devastated if they were used. It's funny but when pg with ds2 my name was 'Evie' even when swaying, but since I've found out there are 2 in there, we choose names that kinna match... you will all know what I mean in a few wks if I'm def told girls....still can't make myself believe it from my 20 and 22wks scans... too scared to believe it yet. I will also tell what my boys names are, just for anyone's interest!

Deaks and lavender, when do u ladies test???? Excited for u both. x

Working tonight :( feeling really achy...like a military operation turning in bed some nights!! Not sure how much longer I can go... Got a leaky left nipple!! My usual at 20wks + pg....the joys of breast pads that u try and convince urself no-one can see and wakening with one side of my top soaking wet!! bi-passing the breast pad!! FUN!

Maybe, ur SIL is a bit of twat! if only it was that easy to simply wake up one day and 'choose' and what sex of baby we had....we wouldn't all be here!

For xmas I got my fav perfume from Dh Bvlgari, pj's, smellies, 2 books on how to bring up 'twins' lol and lots more nice things...

2012 for us will be crazy!! House up for sale, new car/bus, 2 babies.... my main worry is selling my house, I won't rent after owning my own home since I was 19 (now 32), Dh would but I think we should sell and just buy a 3 bed (in 2 bed now). We moved here 4 yrs ago from a bigger 3 bed semi-detached house with the intention of lots of extensions and conversions being detached, (dh was/is a joiner and wanted a 'project' since he left the trade) but don't like it here anymore and ds1 miserable at the village school. So we are going back to the town and house size we had (hopefully), which makes this house a very expensive mistake!!

My Dh is 35 tomorrow!! Can't believe where the past 10yrs have gone...I remember I met him the summer just before his 25th b'day, time flies... His twin sister is devastated to be 35, I'm 33 in Feb and couldn't care, still feel mid-twenties!!! we are still young!!! But she's taking it hard, my Dh doesn't care about ages, thankfully he just accepts it! Ask me if he's still saying that in another 10yrs!!! lol

Better go feed my boys, then once Dh home need to pop out to see a friend, her b'day today and get some shopping.
Hopefully I get a minute to pop on before work.
Have a good day ladies... xx

Sorry in advance this is going to be a bit of a me, me, me post.

I've never had such strong indications of being pregnant with either of boys it's all so text book this time,

Been feeling like i'm car sick on and off through out the whole day, gets worse after eating
I have wind (burping) Not eating anything gassy or drinking anything fizzy.
feel tired
crampy dull pain in left side yesterday and sort sharp cramping pains a few days before and a few days before that
dull period type pains today
and have just been to the loo and wiped and have light pink discharge with a small bit of blood in it. wiped again and it was gone.
Also had to take my bra off yesterday as my boobs were aching.
Now have a headache.

So far 3 BFN one yesterday one at 3 a.m this morning had to pee twice in the night so thought I may as well test.
And at 9 a.m with FMU.

Drove to Tesco's and they didn't have any first responses at the pharmacy just clearblue and Tesco's own brand.
Drove all around town and couldn't find a aprking space so gave up!!

AAhhhhhhhhh why is my body convinced it's pregnant and the test are still negative??? I'm between 9-11 DPO I think but not really sure??

Sorry just had to tell someone as I've never had such strong indications of pregnancy before.

Wow, sounds promising Lavendar! If you had an implantation bleed yesterday then I think you'll get a BFP in a couple of days :D

Sunset, what is it with in laws, honestly!! We are all going to be super mum in laws one day after our experiences though.
Very sad when you hear about other people's babies coming early, one of my fears which is also why Im not finding out the gender because Id still worry something would go wrong as Id feel like 'surely Id never get a girl anyway so something would go wrong' sort of thing.

Charlie, feel for you, you have the idea of having a family and doing things together and it doesnt always work out like that. My OH is doing over time so leaves home at 7am and back 11pm 3 days a week then does 7am to 5pm the other 2 days and sometimes has a meeting and conveniently comes back at 703pm once kids are in bed!

Kell Ive considered renting ours out and renting somewhere bigger but not sure Im up to all that, I have looked at houses we could get for even adding an extra £100,000 to the mortgage (dreaming) and it isnt worth it as you hardly get anything better, if anything its worse as we gain a room but loose the garden and good area! We do have a loft room which has been converted so will prob. use that one day.

Indigoviolet sorry for the sickness, one of the worst things of pregnancy, yuck! Good girl sign though lol

Inglewood, you def. have a busy year coming! Could you finnish the house and rent it out and rent somewhere else, or at least finnish it quickly to add more value (if its worth doing?) Sorry your son isnt happy at school, makes me sad to think that as my DS is due to start next September just as our next is due and its really worrying me as he is a sensitive Mummies boy and it will be such long days - 9am to 330pm and with a baby due or newly arrived.

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Originally Posted by Lavenderlime

Sorry in advance this is going to be a bit of a me, me, me post.

I've never had such strong indications of being pregnant with either of boys it's all so text book this time,

Been feeling like i'm car sick on and off through out the whole day, gets worse after eating
I have wind (burping) Not eating anything gassy or drinking anything fizzy.
feel tired
crampy dull pain in left side yesterday and sort sharp cramping pains a few days before and a few days before that
dull period type pains today
and have just been to the loo and wiped and have light pink discharge with a small bit of blood in it. wiped again and it was gone.
Also had to take my bra off yesterday as my boobs were aching.
Now have a headache.

So far 3 BFN one yesterday one at 3 a.m this morning had to pee twice in the night so thought I may as well test.
And at 9 a.m with FMU.

Drove to Tesco's and they didn't have any first responses at the pharmacy just clearblue and Tesco's own brand.
Drove all around town and couldn't find a aprking space so gave up!!

AAhhhhhhhhh why is my body convinced it's pregnant and the test are still negative??? I'm between 9-11 DPO I think but not really sure??

Sorry just had to tell someone as I've never had such strong indications of pregnancy before.

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I reckon you have only just implanted recently which is why there is no positive yets! I got my FRER from superdrug as had bogof. Good Luck!!

have spent all morning searching early potty shots - grrrrrrr why do we do it to ourselves

indigo - hugs for feeling sick x

lavender - FX for a BFP x

sounds like we all have a busy 2012 planned!

sunset - definitely shouldnt go on just 1 BP reading x i would wait till you see a proper doctor!

Thanks Ladies calmed down a bit now :D. Wish I new how many days PO I was. But I think you have to wait 3 days post implantation to test. So will have to hold of testing until Monday. Thanks for the Superdrug heads up chocolate i'll go there first thing tomorrow then try and sit on my hands for two days!! I've never had implantation bleeding before or felt sick before for that matter let alone before a postive pregnancy test?

It's just so confusing Because i've felt so sick I thought implantation must have already happened for me to be having so many symptoms already.

2012 is going to be busy for us too top of the list is a DD please! followed by new bathroom, and lastly to finish sorting out the garden.

I feel like it's going to be a good year, a very good year! :D

Wow you have been busy!

lavender I hope this is your BFP!

Sunset I LOVE the name River - DH isn't into my hippy / plant names thou - boo to him!

Ugh don't get me started on in laws. Most of you will remember what happened with me and MIL over summer. When ever I think of her my blood boils!! Spoke to the old boot on xmas day - first question was how much weight had I put on??? At seven months PG!!!! Told her I had lost 8lbs and she didn't seen to concerned that the baby might suffer for it. As long as I look good who gives a frig about the baby eh? looks are all that matter! Hopefully the baby will be slim too! She also said ds1 looked good when he had jundice as it looked like he was tanned - what a div!

Sunset one of my best friends got pre eclampsia at 26 weeks and had the baby the day after they found out. Poor little girl did not fair at all well. Not sure if she is blind deaf and brain damaged now :¬( Thankfully I made 30 weeks now. Midwife is cautiously optermistic for me

So what size houses do we all have? I'm in three bed semi but want to move to a four bed detached but it means moving 15 miles to a less nice area. Also I don't own this place so it would be getting a 320k mortgage from nothing (never going to happen but nice dream) We do own and rent a place out back in Kent but we got that for 145k. Its worth about 120k now. I want to win the lottery! No idea at all where this baby is going to go. I really do not have the room for the crib never mind the cot. Ho hum. I would love to move somewhere where I could get a summer house for the garden. I would have a pool table and TV in there for the boys when they hit their teens. Then DH and the boys could be in there and I would get some peace!!

Right make me step away from the computer now.....so much for team green lol pretty much convinced this is a boy now.....ho hum