May 2012 babies

Congrats May 2012 mummies

Edited by TheBabe

Where is Miss Sara?? Sara?? Hello??? Hows the bump? Hope you had a good weekend hun xox

Edited by BoMama

Am I the only one not feeling nauseous??? Thats a turn around lol usually I'm one of the first and worst so totally stoked (and kinda nervous)!!

Yay for a lovely weekend away Sara did you manage to keep your big news quiet??

No such thing as TMI on OB we share evvvvverything!!!

Ok so morning sickness tips from an expert (seriously I had hyperemesis with #1 so bad I threw up constantly from 3 weeks til birth - infact the day my waters broke was the only day since week 3 (or 1 week after conception) that I didn't throw up! And it was better but still pretty bad with DS2 ) here we go:

Sip water *constantly* - even if you throw it up its better than stomach acid which is nasty! Plus very little else will work to relieve the morning sickness if you aren't hydrated!

Peppermint tea, peppermint lollies, peppermint candles or smelly stuffs - a definite help with the nausea, I put peppermint essence on a handkerchief and sniffed at it

Make a platter of snacks every morning so you can nibble through the day and its great when you have littlies it means you don't have to be making snacks constantly. Make sure you include protein coz that can be a big help with nausea. Here are some of the snacks I did when preg with #2 and actual what I do for me and the boys now anyway - boiled eggs, hummus and carrot sticks, sweet cottage cheese (blend it up with drained tin fruit - its pretty good), tuna and mayo on rice crackers, celery with peanut butter (and sultana eyes), a nut and seed mixture (especially brazil nuts they're really good for you and baby), sliced cheese (not the processed stuff thats crap I slice a block of cheese), homemade refried black beans w sour cream and avocado, sliced fruit, super dark chocolate, yoghurt... If you're working do the same. Helps to keep your tummy calm!

Don't eat too much bread and little to no fast food or processed food coz thats the fastest way to morning sickness I found

Do a load of washing a day or it'll multiple and turn into this 10 headed monster and haunt your dreams and if you handwash your dishes get DH to help with them after dinner otherwise just make sure he empties it so you can stack stuff straight in there. Being sick with a messy house is horrible.

Ok doke I have dispensed my wisdom and will go none of this may be of any help but it may give you ideas :shrug: hope some of it helps anyway

Oh ok yeah nah I'm super-regular, we weren't actually trying lol we'd put off TTC til end of the year but obviously thats re-adjusted

I also pack it on in the first trimester then nothing for the next 6. I put on almost exactly 11kgs with both boys and DS1 was 9"6, DS2 was 9"2 but he stopped growing at 36wks and I was pre-baby weight and back in my jeans within 48hrs I wasn't able to exercise at all through either pregnancy either lol must have been all the throwing up I'll do pilates with this one as long as I can. I do blogilates on youtube lol its quick, mean and targets all the areas I like to keep toned.

Brrrr I'd love to be warm right now! We've got the fire going constantly and its jackets and hats if we go outside!

Yay for coming home! Will you tell your parents then or wait?

Hey Kel whens your scan?

Late-ish night and early morning (DS2 arrived in our bed at 5.30am and every 5 minutes rolled over grabbed my head and cuddled it then plastered kisses all over my face - very cute but not conducive to sleep ) and woke up with a good dose of nausea and a headache and I'm grumpy. Poor babies lol they're not getting the best of mummy today! I got about 6.5hrs sleep so not normally sleep-deprived enough to cause nausea so maybe the onset of MS...

Midwife coming over this afternoon hope it goes well I haven't liked the alot of the midwives I've had in the past.

Have you guys found MWs yet? Renee will you find a MW in Raro? What will your prenatal care look like over there?

Hahaha if shes anything like the other noseyparkers on OB it won't be a secret from her for long

Uhm not so much nauseous as headachey and abit off-colour now. maybe I have a bug

Lol at the big lunch! I need to get lunch for the boys soon but so.tired. its getting to the point I think I might have to call DH home noooot goooood.... do you put much weight on during the rest of your pregnancies??

Whow the tiredness is kicking in. It’s only 2pm and I feel like an afternoon nap! Oh well only 2.5 hours left of work for the day YAY!

Mumnut – I didn’t go skiing, but DH did! He used to a really big skier and hasn’t gone to the mountain in about five years, but he put on his ski’s and said it was like riding a bike. He spent the whole day up there and thoroughly enjoyed it. We are thinking of heading up there again in a couple of weeks with DH’s parents! It so awesome there, even though I didn’t get to ski, my Dad and I went on some awesome walks and it was just really nice to have some quality time with my parents.

So my parents know I am UTD. They weren’t meant to know but it was a bit of an accident! Is anyone ready for a super long story?
Well I took some photos of one of our walks and we were sitting down enjoying a drink before dinner (me a non alcoholic drink of course). Mum asked to look at the photos so I handed her my camera. She was flicking through the photos and came across one of a pregnancy test (I took it as a momento for a journal I am keeping of my first ever pregnancy - a little geeky I know) and I completely forgot to erase it from my camera. Well Mum was like “whose pregnancy test is this” and I just burst into tears. I was more nervous of my Dad’s reaction as about ten minutes earlier he joked that I couldn’t get pregnant until we had done the Routeburn track down south (we did the Milford track in January and now Dad is obsessed with doing more lol) But anyway long story short they were over the moon and so happy! I have sworn my Mum to secrecy so she better stick to it!

Oh BoMama I hope you aren’t getting sick! Fingers crossed it’s just your little seed causing the sickness!

Gee you ladies really didn’t put on much weight at all with your babies. My sister put on 30 plus kg’s! I think it’s because she ate whatever and whenever. I really want to try and be good! I just figure the better I eat and the more I exercise the better I will feel….well fingers crossed lol

haha that would be really nice. Yep the system here is unfortunately not flash if you are not having a good pregnancy. That is why I will come back to have the baby, not ideal but no point taking the risk.

Missara that is a pretty funny way of them finding out...kind of cool actually. Hopefully your mum isn't too excited that it slips. We told our immediate family straight away but this time feel like keeping it private for some reason! Would be quite cool to go home at christmas with a bump but not sure I can do it...I like to talk you see!!

I am feeling surprisingly good but for me I think it all hits around seven weeks anyway. Almost feel like I should take another test to be sure.

Hahahaha yep Renee me too - I talk! My parents will be staying for us for a week in a fortnight and I'm totally not sure if they'll leave knowing or not lol we talk about baby like its already part of the family so might let it slip accidentle-like. I hope not though, we're also the same with wanting to get it a secret for while longer.

LOL awww Sara what a lovely way to tell your parents even if it wasn't planned!! You should go put that in the 'how did you announce it' thread over in pregnancy I'm really glad they were stoked for you and FX your mum keeps it zipped

So my midwife came today and shes a doll She stayed for 3 hours lol and we talked about all sorts of things then DH got home from work and I thought he was early but nope we'd just lost track of time haha She immediately made some calls about the toxoplasmia lesion in my eye and they're running tests to ensure its not an active virus, she thought eating variety and being sensible about when and where to follow the current pregnant eating guidelines was great, she took my first lot of bloods - the boys bumped me and I moved as she put it in so I lost abit more blood than required which ofcourse sent my body into alert coz its pretty sensitive and my BP dropped and I was fully struggling not to pass out in case I scared the boys but in hindsight they're use to be fainting so they probably would have been fine hahaha but now my arm is a tad swollen and sore! Uhm and yeah she ran me through some stuff so I feel pretty great about everything!! Now just want to see my HCG levels and reassure myself baby is viable and all is good