Feb-May 2011 Mommies

Phew, all done catching up the posts I missed while being on leave, so here are some personals:

Kimika, I'm SO sorry to hear about your dog. I have 2 Dachsies which are totally like my babies and every time I get home I anxiously await seeing them at the door waiting for me! I dread the day something has to happen to either of them - I will definitely mourn them like children for a very long time!!

Emsmom, glad to see I'm not the only one with a large baby on the way. My dr said this morning that natural birth is only really safe up to 4 kgs, but then I was planning a Csec anyway, so it's no problem for me.

Cathm thanks for the tips on the Csec books - I'm also starting to think about getting more info on it now that I'm getting closer to my due date. My policy has been to only read up on things as I'm going thru it, otherwise I just feel SO overwhelmed by all the new info, but I'm starting to get curious about the birth now. I'm reading What to expect when you're expecting and so far it seems to cover pretty much everything I need to know. I must tell you girls about my new strange preggy thing - I'm growing lots of new little moles and existing ones are getting larger!! Very strange, but apparently quite normal. Guess I'll have to have some removed after the birth.

Cathm I also feel like I don't really want to travel much at this stage. On Boxing day we drove to Velddrif to see my in laws and I was quite uncomfortable and it was also the first time we really felt little Arno move. It seems he doesn't like travelling much, cause every time we drive he moves a lot - probably due to the car bumping. But I'm SO happy to finally be able to feel him and DH is also constantly putting his hands on my tummy and gets so excited when he feels the movements.

And thanks for the tip re only focusing on getting stuff for the 1st 3 months - that's pretty much what I've been doing. I don't want to be buying tons of stuff just so that it can gather dust until we need it!

Meags OMW what a nightmare experience you had at that French gynae!!! I would take it with a pinch of salt though seeing that I found most of the French people to be very rude at the best of times! You know the saying: France would be lovely but for the French!

AnjeD I would DEFINITELY recommend laminate flooring. It is far warmer than tiles - especially for a nursery. I put laminate flooring over all the tiles in my house about a year and a half ago and it has been SUCH a pleasure! If you're worried about water damage/mopping, what I would recommend is getting the "light industrial" class of flooring. I got it since my living room is next to the pool and I was worried about having little wet feet on my floors and I can honestly say that I have had NO problems with my flooring.

Joli sorry to hear about your heartburn! I've also had quite a bit of it lately - triggered seemingly mostly by bread (my favourite food!) and fizzy drinks. DH discovered Propan gel tho - it costs about a quarter of the price of Gaviscon and tastes a lot better too, while working just as well if not better, so well worth it!

Hey Joli - The number is 031-2013322 (Dr Sacoor) Good luck

I'll be back a bit later.

HAPPY NEW YEAR ladies

Joli - thanks so much, Dr Bartlett actually saved a friends daughters life on Friday night (she nearly drowned) so will definately think about him for sure. I also heard Dr Levy is great so thanks once again for the referrals.

Schatsie - fantastic news about baba and love the belly pic.

Meags - ha ha ha we share a new years resolution: brazilian waxes, mine is booked for 22 Jan and monthly thereafter. I hope your flight was ok and you are home safe with your kitties!

Emsmom - awesome about the hypnobirthing - enjoy it thoroughly, I considered it, but I am a high risk pregnancy so have to go c-section so please do share details. you are doing VBAC if I remember correctly?

Lucy - how are you after car accident? just glad you and Tessa are fine. How was the bush otherwise ?

Kimika and everyone else, whats news?

AFM: my dogs have to be vaccinated today so going this evening and really not excited about working today hee hee.

Hmm strange, my pic didn't post. Trying again with a smaller file size:

Good morning everyone!

Phew, I have quite a lot to catch up!

Hope you all had a lovely Xmas and NY! We had a lovely snoek braai with my parents and one sister and her BF for Xmas and then had a few friends over for a potjie on NYE.

I'm back at work today. Not much going on here, so I plenty of time to do my own stuff.

Just came back from my gynae appointment. He was SO positive about everything - said the baby would not be growing so much if his heart was causing problems. Also said he doubts my glucose was a problem causing baby to be so large - we are both tall people and I don't have too much amniotic fluid (a sure sign of pregnancy diabetes). Baby waved to us and dr measured his hand = 3 cm and foot = 4.7cm! So big already, dr says we are likely to have a baby larger than 3.8 kgs, but since I'm planning a Csec anyway it's no problem.

Oh and I'm super happy to report that I'm finally starting to actually LOOK pregnant, so I took a photo for you girls. (OK, to be honest, this is the ONLY top in my wardrobe which makes me look pregnant, but anyway. ).

I'm going to read all the comments I missed while I was on leave now and will do some personals then.

Hope you all have a wonderful New Year and with our little bundles of joy being due this year, I'm sure it will be a fantastic year for us all!

Love
Schatsie

Morning Ladies

How are you all today? Back to work for a lot of you I think?

Meags, hope you have a safe flight home.

Lucy, lucky girl, I love all cats! and the cheetahs are stunning
Glad all is ok after the crash, but must have been very scary for you.

Joli I'm loving your daily pics so far, so please keep it up

Kimika, did you find a nappy bag?

Regarding resolutions, I really dont do them, will try also lose weight after baby is born, but seeing that women are always on a weight lose mission, I dont see that as much as a new year resolution.

DH is back at work today, so I'm on my own with Em, got very used to being looked after like a queen while he was home.

Oh, I start my hypnobirthing classes this week, so looking forward to that

Hope everyone is doing super good!

Joli - Sorry just back from the bush. My sister swears by Dr Sacoor. He is in musgrave park (durban). My mother has also swopped over to him and I plan on mole mapping with him once once baba is born. My sister is out tonight and not answering her phone I will come post the number tomorrow (probably about mid morning) as sister will most likely be sleeping off a hang over!!!
I LOVE your last belly pic. Will post my christmas pic tomorrow!

Re: waxing "down there" if you shave in between it hurts like hell. The best way for it not to hurt is to keep doing it. If the hair gets too long just trim with scissors.

Anje - I hate tiles they are so hard! So I would go with laminate. If it is a smallish space then see if you can't make hard wood rather. Then you can seal it properly and mop etc like tiles!!

Cath - I am having a C sec so would love to hear how you go with those books and if they are worth it.

Meags - Safe travels.

Emsmom - I got to stroke a cheetah!!!! How awesome and loud is the purring! I am in love I also got to stroke an african wild cat and a serval brushed against me.

I know I am missing so many of you out, But just back from holiday and I am exhausted. I will get on line tomorrow again. My whole family was in a car accident, we mercifully are all fine and Tessa is kicking up a storm so I assume all good. I'll give details tomorrow.

Take care friends and sleep tight! Apologies .......... HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! May 2011 be fabulous for all of us