Re: New Mommies to be May, June & July 2011

Wow! The thread is so busy today.

Solo, i am so sorry about your cat. Please try and be strong, sounds like you have a lot on your plate. I hope talking about it on the forum helps, we're all wishing you well.

Re: the bras, my breasts have definitely filled up. I finally fill my 34B bras, i bought 2 36B's just in case. I don't think i would be able to wear a bra with no under-wire But sometimes i do feel like the wire is digging into my rib cage these days.

Philipajane. I'm so excited & a bit nervous to find out. I'm still enjoying fantasising about the possibility of either boy/girl. Hubby is just happy that he finally gets to be a dad. But then he thinks we're gonna have 5 kids! LOL!

Just a bit nervous though, I just want to hear the doctor say everything looks fine and all the organs are fine so i can relax and enjoy the rest of my pregnancy. Maybe i'll even stop eating so much. Think i've been eating more out of guilt than hunger, i don't think my appettite has really changed... But since i have a bad history with food, i have my whole family watching me a hawks!!!

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I am so sorry about your kitty solo xx

i got fed up with my jeans not wanting to close, so i went all out and bought some maternity jeans and they are sooooo comfy! Dont think i can ever go back to normal jeans!

It is so exciting to read about all of you feeling movement, it still feels like such a long way for me to go!

Thanks Rakker - so you understand all about the bottle feeding and bodily elimination story with kittens Snood would have been 10 years old this May which is far too young to say goodbye.
Philipajane I rode for twenty odd years and when my last horse died at 21 it killed me as well. He was incredible! We did it all together: dressage, Showing and Eventing. I stopped riding when I retired him when he was 18. My tack is all still at the stables! I hoping my baby is going to be a horse and animal lover like Mommy!
Who is riding your horse now that you can't?
My emotions are also all over the place! I have cried more in the last 12 weeks than I have for years! Now I have to make myself go for time out if BF annoys me or upsets me. Time out normally works because I find its not such a big issue after all and if I didn't take time out I would have blown up and foughtt over a very small thing that doesn't matter in the big scheme of things! Not easy when emotions are sitting at the surface!

ClaireC - I'm going to go shopping this weekend! Thanks

Once again, pls excuse any and all typos. Using my phone is not fun!

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Solo - I bought the yummy mummy maternity bra and it has been fantastic for my growing girls. You can also get the carriwell range for R 250 at baby city and most other maternity stores. not sure about anyone else but I have grown a full cup size already so this bra has been a comfort. I think that once you are showing, its going to be hard to deny that you are pregnant, keep strong about everything.

Rakker - hope the holiday was great! so jealous of your white christmas hee hee...

Hi everybody!

No, I wasn't abducted by aliens. I just didn't get to do anything on the internet while on holiday.

My white christmas in Europe was nice, but I sure did miss the soil in which my roots are settled so deeply. I missed the sun, the humidity, the thunderstorms and my people. I missed the way that we do things in SA. I missed having a lekker braai! I found myself bawling my eyes out listening to "Asimbonanga" by Johnny Clegg & Savuka on my way to work yesterday. It just felt so right being back where I belong.

I will post more on our holiday with a pic or 2 tomorrow. And I'm not doing any personals, except for this one:

Solo, I know your pain. I bottle fed 3 kittens from day 1 and grieved for months after the 1 died. the other 2 we still have and they are almost 6 years. Cry if you feel like it, because keeping it all inside is also not good. Just tell yourself that you gave a quality life to your cat child that it wouldn't have had.

AFM: Feeling a lot of movement these days. I feel absolutely huge and it's like all the organs are now pushed aside, lungs included, so I get out of breath easily. Going for my next scan on 17 Jan. That is 6.5 weeks after the previous one, so you can imagine how much I am looking forward to that.