Due Oct-Dec 08??

[tinks]

Maza - Congrats on seeing the HB

PF - Good luck for your 12 week scan today. I'm not working so I can't help you on the 'how to tell work that you're pg' thing.

Nicole - Have a fun time in Shanghi.

Nina & Sasha - Congrats on your pregnancies and welcome to the thread.

I'm still suffering from the m/s and I'm 11+5 today - when will it ever end??? Not sure if I'm showing or not? Think I may have got a little tummy from all the eating I'm doing trying to keep the nausea at bay!

 

[PurpleFlower]

IT'S A BOY!!!!! We saw "signs" of it being a boy and the doc said he reckons there's a 60-70% chance that it's a boy! Was quite shocked how the baby looked so different from our previous scan (of a blob!)....eventhough I'd been reading all the sites with all the pics of "baby at week 12" etc.

Tink - I'm afraid I can't help with the m/s either as I didn't suffer from any. The mild nausea that I had on some ocassions when I went on the bus appears to have gone now... I've heard most women get over m/s by the end of the first trimester... So, hopefully, not long to go!!!

Ninahh - Have you been exercising regularly before pregnancy? Any yoga/cardio? I'm actually an instructor at a studio called mYoga. They have classes like restorative yoga, women's yoga, stretch that may be suitable. If you are looking for cardio and strengthening, they have a programme called "Bodyvive" as well. Of course, other gyms may well provide similar classes, mYoga is just the one I know well! If you'd like to know more, do let me know.

PF

 

[nicolejoy]

I need to figure out how/when to tell my bosses - I currently am working two part time jobs, teaching English... I haven't told my bosses yet. I was planning to around week 13. That way they should have some warning before I start to show lol - one of my jobs, I JUST started though - signed the contract last week and haven't even done my first shift yet!! But the pay is $350 an hr, so I'm gonna try to work as long as possible!!

Nina - welcome!!

Oh and about lunch - at the moment, any day is good for me. I only work on Saturdays for another few weeks... then I'll be working maybe 2 weekdays... definitely Monday, not sure what else...

I've been thinking about maternity yoga but I haven't looked into it or anything yet...

 

[ninahh]

PF, yes i have been working out almost every day. but haven't done anything for the last two months. i would love to know some more about that plave you've mentioned.
Wow, a boy! Congratulations!
nicolejoi, I am an English teacher too. I work full time in a kinderkarten, and I have told them already. they were very happy for me and it was no problem at all. where do you work?
lunch always sounds great but as i have to work everyday i could be a little difficult for me.

 

[tinks]

PF - Wow, a boy - congrats!! You can start thinking of names now.

Nicole - I'm going back to the UK after Easter for a few weeks but would be up for lunch when I'm back (mid April).

I haven't done any exercise, except walking, since I've been pg - I've just felt too rough. Am hoping that as I get into the 2nd tri I'll feel better and I can do some gentle hikes and pilates. I've tried yoga before but I'm such a non bendy person I find it really difficult - I s'pose if I persevered I would become more bendy - lol!

Hello to everyon else xxx

 

[nicolejoy]

PF - I totally missed your post yesterday when I was posting!! You must have been posting at the same time as me!! Congrats on finding out it's a boy!!

I'm not 100% sure if I want to find out what we're having... In some ways, I'd like to do it the "old fashioned" way and just find out when I give birth... but my hubby TOTALLY wants to find out, so we probably will

My flexibility is all over the place - my arms are SO flexible, I could bend them into just about any shape - but my legs are SOOOOOO inflexible... I think something like yoga would probably help that and get me feeling better all around!!

Nina - I work for two companies at the moment, but the work is exactly the same. I work for PolyEd Int - they teach the Hooked on Phonics course... and we've just signed a contract with Parsons Music to teach the course there as well - so I'll be employed BY Parsons and teaching at their centres, traveling a bit... PolyEd is based in Causeway Bay so it's really convenient for me (I live in North Point)

For all you people who work, do you work in Central or where? Maybe we could do lunch in Central and that way, we could meet up even though some of us are working. Should we plan the first one for mid April when Tinks is back? That's only really 3 weeks away, I suppose!!

 

[tinks]

Nicole - I'm not back until 19th April so if that's too late, don't worry I'll catch up with you all at the next meet up. I did laugh about your uber flexible arms - I have a very strange image in my head ;-)

 

[nicolejoy]

You know all those arm stretches? They do nothing for me - I think I must be double jointed or something!! I can put my arm around my head and touch my ear - like, if it's my right arm, I can reach my right ear lol

Anyways I can't touch my toes though

I don't mind meeting before mid April, I don't mind waiting either. Whatever is best for everyone else!!

 

[mazamarie]

PF- congrats on finding out its a boy, very exciting!!!

Lunch sounds like a great idea count me in. I'm not working so any day is good for me. looking forward to meeting everyone.

 

[MamanV]

1st baby in October!

Hi everyone!
I am now 11 weeks pregnant, baby due on the 11th October.
I've got to tell you the whole story!
I discovered I was pregnant only 10 days ago because mid-January I was told by Lucy Lord (apparently the OB all the expats go to) that I would probably never have children without starting the whole fertility treatment (she saw on the scan that there was something wrong with my ovaries)
You can imagine that when I started feeling sick, the last thing I thought of was being pregnant; I waited 4 weeks before going to the doc and have blood tests (I thought my body was reacting to a kind of breakdown due to the sterility news and tiredness from work, etc).
Miracle, I found out I was pregnant and one week later I was looking at my baby at another gynaecologist's (of course!). The most incredible though is that I was already 2 weeks pregnant when I had the appointment with Lucy Lord.
Anyway, here I am, pregnant and happy!

Have you seen your baby yet? Madness at 10 weeks, you can see everything, head, limbs, heartbeat!