** September 2014 Mummies! **

[Soph_UK]

OMG happy Vday Crackers and Becky!!! Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

 

[BeckyBiscuit]

Hope everything's ok Sarah - glad it seems to have stopped now, fingers crossed!

Our holiday year at work runs Aug-Sept so I've got to use it all up before I finish for Mat leave at the end of August. I was saving 5 days to move house but think we've decided that we'll be cutting it too fine to try and move now before baby comes (it's not quite ready to put on the market yet!) so we're going to stay put for another year. That means I have five random days left - hopefully get a few long weekends plus I've got two weeks booked in July so hopefully will only have just over two months left at work in total before maternity leave! Going to be so strange not going to work for 10 months - I've worked full time since I left uni, and even then worked solidly through university/school holidays since I was 16!

One of my team just brought her 3 week old daughter in and I had a cuddle. So cute but still doesn't quite seem real that all being well I'm actually going to have one of my own in a few months! EEK!!

 

[clarep1905]

Afternoon!

Hope everybody enjoyed the long weeked!
Miserable weather here today..like an Autumn day, back in my boots and cardi!

Crackers happy belated Birthday!

Kanga glad you had a nice holiday, sorry that you are suffering with sciatica..

Happy 24 weeks Crackers and Becky!

Ah Sarah, Hope everything is all ok! glad it does seem it for now…

Nic your day sounds a nightmare! I hope you are surviving it ok!

Mrs Httc I hope your scan went ok today….

Hope everybody else is ok x

 

[sarahlouise86]

Well had no more so cant of been my waters..thank god,far to early for baby just yet xx

 

[clarep1905]

Oh that's good Sarah! Oh yes, we need baby to hang on a while yet!

 

[julie2475]

Happy V day girls !
Glad to hear all ok Sarah ! I would have panicked too

Well today I sorted all my maternity leave out at work and I won't lie it made me smile I only have 7 weeks left of work and then 5 weeks holiday which leads me straight into maternity leave on the date my sections booked. Woohoo !

 

[clarep1905]

Wow Julie that sounds so close doesn’t it!! 7 weeks is nothing is it!

But then looking at it, with the hols Ive got, Ive only got 8 weeks left to work, that’s mad, doesn’t seem like anything at all does it!!

 

[julie2475]

Nope. It really makes you realise how soon our lives are going to change forever x

 

[kanga86]

Glad to hear all is well Sarah and your waters aren't leaking.

When you break up the weeks it really is close to us all going on mat leave I can't wait. Although I am starting worry how I am going to hold out til 36 weeks with this sciatic pain and the spd pain that is creeping in. I am hobbling everywhere at the mo think I will see how my 3 shifts this weekend go and take it from there xx

 

[clarep1905]

I know tell me about it!

We are so unorganised too, We’ve done nothing!!

Is anybody doing anti-natal classes or anything?

I just feel like we are totally unprepared for it all!!

 

[Alipops1986]

Afternoon Ladies,

All this talk of maternity leave has got me all giddy - I'm on half term this week, then only have 7 weeks left at work, followed by 5.5 weeks summer hols until maternity leave kicks in! Quite well timed pregnancy for a school teacher haha.

ClareP - funnily enough I've been research antenatal classes this afternoon. My midwife said that the NHS offer one round near me, 2 hours on a Friday Night and it just covers the birth basics. So she suggested I might want something a bit more. Having never done this before I'm not sure what I'm after! I know I want to know about labour/the birth but I also feel like I need something to do with general care of a baby - does that sound daft? All that said, we deffo could do without too much extra expense, we've been saving for maternity leave but don't want to spend that on antenatal classes.

Alipops x

 

[Vee24]

I'm the same Alipops I have been looking at classes but don't really know what to do lol.. Also I think if have to go on my own as DH works every evening and we both work weekends so hardly have any time we could go together! (

Ahh I have the worst cold ever didn't sleep one but last night I was coughing all night! Trying to tattoo for 6hours today was hell! Luckily my client had had enough so we finished a little early! Now wrapped up on the sofa lol!

Happy v day gals!!... I love seeing on my apps that everyday she's
More likely to survive if born now defiantly take some of the anxiety away.

So had a shock when I weighed myself earlier wish I hadn't almost 2stone put on heaviest I have ever been right now. And my stretchmarks are showing that I havnt seen anyone's else's as bad as mine when you search 'pregnancy stretch marks' on google the really horendious pics that's what my belly looks like!.. Seriously seriously thinking about surgery next year I know I won't be able to live with them now they are this bad!

 

[clarep1905]

Ooh Ali that works out well doesn’t it!

Ah that’s cool! No doesn’t sound silly at all! We were saying that we have absolutely no clue what to do with the baby once we bring it home.. I don’t know what they are supposed to sleep in, or how long they are in a moses basket for or anything…we are just clueless and a little daunted by it all!
No we don’t want to pay for NCT classes or anything….the Midwife hasn’t said anything to us about NHS ones, will have to ask at my next appointment!

Oh Vee sorry to hear you are feeling poorly, this rubbish weather probably isn’t helping!
Oh bless you, please try not to worry about weight gain, I’ve put on way more than I was expecting and that’s with exercising daily! But my diet hasn’t been great...
Would the stretch marks worry you even after they have faded? They really do fade to nearly nothing..Ive got them all across my hips from when I was younger and I barely notice them at all..x

 

[julie2475]

Vee believe me my stretch marks are showing too and I made the terrible mistake of weighing myself yesterday and I am just under 2 stone as well. I cried !!! Arghhhhhhhhhh x

 

[kanga86]

Ali, your mat leave and school holidays line up really well, I'm slightly jealous lol although not about being a teacher

Vee sorry you've had a rough night with a cold, rest up this evening.

As my pic shows I'm trying to work out what to do about mat leave and holidays and think I may have sorted it (just got to get my boss to as well!) Hoping to be off work completely from 35 weeks and mat leave start at 37+3wks. Take a week holiday for my son's 2nd birthday 6th July. Which leaves just 5 weeks of full shifts this side of the week holiday and then only 13 shifts over July and Aug, makes it feel a bit better. Just got to struggle through June! xx

 

[Vee24]

Claire, yeah they will still bother me massively I also have them from teenage years and they are faded but I HATE them all and these are a lot worse than what I have even when they fade also have old ones on the upper arms I can still see them through my tattoos no one else can but it still bothers me! also with tummy it never goes flat again with that many stretchmarks I mean mine are like half inch thick or more! If I could get it toned again and proper flat I would just get a massive tattoo over them but skin dosnt heal like that from stretch marks!

Sooo jealous of you all have such a sma amour of time left at work! I have 14weeks lol gotta work right up to my due date!

 

[kanga86]

Oh vee, that's horrible one down side to being self employed I guess? I went on mat leave at 32 weeks with Harry, so working an extra 3 weeks to last time, but on a lot less hours though. Wish I could leave work now though, I bet we all do lol xx

 

[Vee24]

Yeah there are ups to being self employed but this is one big downside lol!! Awh would be heaven to finish now! Lol I'm exhausted!

 

[Alipops1986]

So had a shock when I weighed myself earlier wish I hadn't almost 2stone put on heaviest I have ever been right now. And my stretchmarks are showing that I havnt seen anyone's else's as bad as mine when you search 'pregnancy stretch marks' on google the really horendious pics that's what my belly looks like!.. Seriously seriously thinking about surgery next year I know I won't be able to live with them now they are this bad!

Hiya Vee,

I've noticed a few posts from you about your weight, so just wanted to let you know you're not on your own with it.

I've always been a chunk - my whole family are. When I got married last August, I'd been on a diet for 2 years and lost 2.5 stone - hurrah, chunk free! Then, we decided to try for this baby and 4 months later I was pregnant. I know from my booking in apt I was about 12 stone, so had put on half a stone before I actually got pregnant.

All my moderately healthy eating stuff has gone out the window, I've been so stressed at work and obviously gone through the nausea and sickness I just eat what I want, when I want now. I've not even stepped on the scales, so goodness knows what I weigh. I would like to know but what's the point? I've got heaps of fluid in there, a placenta, a baby etc so it's hardly accurate and would probably only make me worry - which I could do without and wouldn't be good for the baby let alone me.

I guess what I'm trying to say is - you're only pregnant for 9 months and then have the rest of your life (not that you'd need that long) to lose the weight/get back in shape. The most important thing at the moment is that you look after yourself and baby, regardless of weight/what the scales say. That's not easy for me to say because I know it can take a long time to lose weight but you have to keep everything in proportion.

Alipops xx

 

[Vee24]

Awh thanks alipops!.. I have like that exact same story as you I lost 3stone before my wedding the. Got pregnant 3months later (we thought it would take a lot longer haha) and now I'm huge!! I have to say the weight gain it's self wouldn't bother me as much if it didn't mean stretchmarks cause I know I will loose the weight cause I'm so determined to be happy again but I know there's NOTHING I can do about the stretchmarks! That's what kills me and as my stomach is going to get bigger I hate to think what I'll end up looking like so far they go from just below pant line to past my belly button and go from one hip to the other, it kills me! Finally get to see my doctor next week after having to wait a month see if she can help me at all! Doubt it!

I'm the only person I know who has had stretchmarks like mine! That gets me down.