August-September 2010 Moms

Goooooood Morning!

Wow today is D-day! Well sort of lol I'm going for my 21 week scan at 15:15 can not wait, soooooo exited!

Sonjat it's a boy well it was one at our 15 week scan lets hope it stays one but actually it doesn't matter but we bought a few things already but what a heck if it's a girl now will just exchange it.

Thanks for all the nice comments from all the other mommies so relieving to hear that it's not just me that feel this way!

You should all have a great day.

Hugs

Nats

Morning All and welcome to the new mummies!

Sonjat - see below receipe for Jungle Juice
Jungle Juice Recipe

Ingredients

•1 litre apple juice, grape juice or berry juice (liquifruit/ceres/joy/wide)
•1 litre water
•60mls Schlehen Blackthorn Berry Elixir
•1 Sachet Blackcurrant Rehydrate or Raspberry Electropac
Method
In an empty 2 litre cool drink bottle, mix the above ingredients together and store in fridge. If possible, drink 2 litres in 24 hours or drink a glass at each breast feed. You may also wish to add 8-10 drops of Rescue Remedy to each glass you drink.

More ideas to help increase your milk supply

1.Add Fresh Ginger to your diet. Try a slice in tea or grated into food. Stoney’s Ginger beer is ineffective as it contains an artificial ginger flavourant.
2.Eat some Fresh or Frozen blackberries, raspberries and/or blueberries. Try making a berry smoothie or eating berries with breakfast.
3.Brewers Yeast tablets!? (Not sure about this one)
4.Drink some Weleda Galactogue Tea – available at health shops.
5.Take Fenugreek capsules – 3 capsules 4 times a day.
6.Have a healthy diet and rest between feeding.
Good Luck!

Girly - glad you had a lovely weekend - please send me the details of the resort - would love to try it. My weekend in DBN was brilliant! Received tons of gifts at Baby shower, luggage was overweight coming back and i left a whole lot behind.

Charnenay - such good news about your nephew, will still keep him in my prayers.

Mina Moo - glad your scan went well! Hope you are feeling better - i also picked up the flu bug when i was up in Durbs. The worst part is that you cant take anything for it - just bed rest which is what i did yesterday.

BTW - Mummies in CPT - Myoga restaurant at the Vineyard Hotel has a lovely winter dinner special - 6 course meal for R150pp - went last night, was very nice - service outstanding. I must have ate too much as my back and hip pain started as we were having dessert - felt like my entire side was about to rip apart!

Natsie - try not to stress - i go through the exact same thing, stress out everytime i cant feel my LO move and become completely paranoid. Its normal to feel this way though cos we are carying such precious cargo!

Hey ladies.

Mina Moo - welcome

Girly - was meant to go and look for shoes this weekend, but with all the drama with my newphew, I never got around to it.

Re, my nephew: My sister was told at about 3:30PM on Friday to prepare herself for the chance that he may not make it through the night we were naturally all terrified and a terrible ordeal for my family. By Saturday morning, though, he was doing MUCH better (still very sick, but MUCH better than the day before)!!! THANK GOD! He is now in the normal ward and they are still monitoring him very closely, but he is out of danger and laughing with us again - he is SUCH a little fighter!!!!! THanks for all your prayers.

Evening girls.

Back from my holiday, and stealing 10mins from hubby on the pc before he has friends around and I am banned from the study
I have eaten more than my body can handle these last few days! I am so scared of getting on that scale!
And my tummy is growing at a rapid rate now!
If only DH could feel 'Kaylee' move already ... we are still contemplating the name but now leaning towards this

Good news is I found a cossie at the resort! And its quite a nice fitting one too and will possibly work this summer while b/f too.

Charnenay did you find shoes?
I've been buying at Bata. Believe they have a store in Canal Walk. Slightly wedged shoes, and stops the swelling I had before with flat shoes which I cannot wear comfortably.
I cant wear knee high's cos my calves are too big for my size 4 shoe.

Nikki how was the weekend?

BabyZee welcome Glad your scan went well! Pictures? I still smile when I think of what we went through last year!

Charnenay sorry about your nephew. How is he doing now? I will pray for him definitely.

Mina Moo hope you feel better?

Natsie thanks for joining us :)My due date is 24th Aug. Re the early movement. Only since about a week ago can I feel her move every day, before then it wasnt. They turn their backs to us and then its less, but hang in there. By 24weeks its a regular thing!

hi natsie welcome to our group.it is possible that u felt ur baby.if i may ask do u knw wot ur expecting?

Girly i hope u enjoyed ur little "holiday" and that u will post ur pics on facebook.

Charn is there any news on ur little nephew?

i was wondering if any one can help me with the jungle juice recipe and can tell me when to start drinking it and for how long as i really wana breastfeed cause i didnt hav milk with tristan.

hope u all had a lovely day with friends and family.

Good morning Ladies

Wow I started reading your posts about the flutters and some of you also not feeling LO for some time, well I was crying last night and this morning about this same thing and then I think I feel something and then I convince myself that it is my imagenation and so on how frustrating, but now after leading up on your posts I feel so much better and I also think that LO has turned.

I'm actualy a September mommy but baba is coming 24 August because I'm having a c-sec so now I'm on the wire. I'm 21 weeks and 2 days today.

So glad I read your thread. Have a super day

Hugs Nats

Hello to you all.
welcome mina moo ja this site is so cool far better than pampers.congrats on ur little girl.im xpecting a little girl too and for not feeling to well,well im sick too seems like this cold weather has give a few mommies the sniffles.

charnenay so sorry to hear bout ur nephew i said a litttle prayer for him and ur family.u r all in our thoughts.

m2m.dankie vir die raad, hier het ek gedog tristan is maaar net stout want almal wat ek vra het my mar lat verstaan dat dit stoutgeit is.dinge het darm nou so bieki verander hy trek sy onderbroeki af as hy wil pieps mar wane dit kom by die poo gedeelte kry hy nog glipsies.danki ook vir die chart idee dink dit sal werk met tristan hy absoluut mal oor cars ens so sal so n kaart maak met die cars stickers en dan aan die einde vani week n "reward" gee.

hope u all hav a wonderfull sunday and long weekend (for those of u that does hav)