Mommies - April 2014

HI Ladies

Hope you are all well?

Jay - hope you feel better soon and enjoy your "sick day"

Pregnant Fairy - welcome back - glad all is well on your side. Our dates are the same - my due date is 28/04/2014 but C-section will probably be 14/04/2014. Enjoy the room make overs - I will start once I know if it is team blue or team pink.

Hasie - sjoe, half way there - time flies!!!!

Santie - hope your daughter gets better soon!!!

Stella - with my daughter I only started feeling her at 20 weeks - now I know I must have felt her earlier but with your first one you are not sure if it is baba or what it is. With the second one you know better.

Have a great day Ladies

Hi ladies,

I'm halfway tomorrow, or that is if full time is 40 weeks, previous babe only came at 42... I'm feeling very strong movement now, its awesome!!

Jay, hope you feel better soon, you sound like you just need a break. That is what sick leave is there for!! Take the day off!!

Santie, that rash doesn't look nice!! Have you tried tea tree oil? It works wonderfully for both bacterial and fungal infections.

Pregnant Fairy, sorry for asking and not meaning to judge at all, I'm just curious of why you are having a c-section and how you decide that so early on in the pregnancy?

Stella, it probably is the baby moving that you can feel. If its in the vicinity of where your bladder used to be (at this stage your uterus is just in front of your bladder) then it can't really be much else. The rest of your intestines moves up to accommodate the growing uterus, so they are not where they used to be...

Someone asked about washing powder, I use grated sunlight bar soap, mixed with boiled water and cooled to make a gel, then I use one spoon of gel per wash. I use this for all my clothes, and just rinse the washing machine with vinegar to get rid of any soap build up every week. I also put a few drops of tea tree and lavender oil in the softener compartment to rinse with to kill any stray germs.

Hi pregnant fairy, so nice to hear from you
glad that everything is going well. and enjoy the room make overs

Jay, enjoy your sleep day tomorrow

Ladies, am not my self at all, It feels like i have lost sleep. But tomorrow am not coming to work. I will phone in sick. Have not taken sick leave the whole year and i am just going to sleep

Hi Ladies, so sorry i have been so quiet. Been so busy here at work.

My next appointment is 19 November then I will be 17 weeks. Hopefully dr can then confirm whether I'm expecting another boy or a girl. At my 13 weeks appointment he said it looks like another boy, but it was still early days.

Suffering with headaches and tiredness. Oh my hat ladies, thought the tiredness will be better in the 2nd trimester. Can't remember that it was so difficult to get through the day with my first pregnancy. Maybe it's just because it's that time of the year. Everyone is almost in a holiday mood...and I desperately need a holiday!

We get 3 months fully paid maternity leave and then the 4th month is unpaid maternity leave, but I'm taking my annual leave for the 4th month. How much do the UIF pay out? Is it worth it?

My due date is 26 April, but dr said it will be a C-section again, so it will probably be 14 or 16 April. I'm thinking of going on maternity leave as from 11 April.

Busy planning the baby room and also doing Luke's room over. He is getting a big boy bed and a big boy room. So excited and can't wait to start decorating. We are not going away for December holiday...doing jobs around the house. Moved into our house in March this year and still got lots of stuff to do around the house.

Hoop dit gaan goed met al julle dames!

o goodness Santie, now i have an additional day in my week. i thought it was wednessday today
your poor little girl. i really hope that the meds help and that she will be better soon.

Thanx Wina, Jay.
i felt 2 random lumps. like when you tap on your arm with a pen.
but like i said, it could have been my imagination as weel, because since yesterday i am looking out for something that could by my baby and since then i am feeling all sorts of flutters

Hi all

My appointment is only on Thursday @ 13h00. I can not wait...

I am not having a good day today. Terrible headache and my LG is sick. Had to take her to the dr. Not that it helped because he doesn't know what is wrong with her. Gave a bunch of meds and said I should bring her back if she's not better by friday.

She has a terrible rash on her face and chest. And it is spreading... He think it is a fungal and bacterial infection. Aai!!!

Have a nice day...

Santie