Due Oct 05 - The Homeward Stretch

[Lexie100]

Here we go, hopefully for the last time

i was like that too lexie, but im so fed up of being pregnant now that this baby HAS to come out soon!

Phew! Had a chance to read the thread now.

Welcome to tiggyhop & good to hear from you Kiwifruit!

Not much to report so far but need to make a major decision - whether to return to work or not next year as I've found out I've been turned down for redundancy. Honestly, I am in no frame of mind to make ANY decision at the moment, but feel guilty as there is a job being held open for me. Personnel have advised me to wait until the baby's born - what are they on about!?! I'll be in even more of a state then! I'd love to say, "actually, I was just holding out for redundancy and I'm not in the least bit interested"!.

My ds2 has a stinking cold also and is really clingy the whole time, wanting to be carried about like a baby! He thinks my "shelf" is for sitting on! At least I can give him medicine, unlike us lot.

Jockey they are probably hoping you will leave and save themselves the money.

This is the position I was in with dd1. I said 'Yes I'll come back, but I want to work 3 days a week for 6 hours each day and I want this to be flexible.' I knew there was no reason they could refuse my request, and they knew that they didn't want me back - I basically didn't do anything. So after turning down my request, they offered me redundancy instead. It was a gamble but it paid off!

Thanks morningpaper - nice one! Will bear that in mind...

Oh you poor thing. I can't decide on white or brown bread let alone a very important decision like that.

Don't feel forced into anything. I'm probably having a year off and then i'll decide what to do. Luckily my contract came to an end so the decision to have time off is mine. I guess it will all depend on if we can cope on one wage and if i tear my hair out being at home all the time. I don't know what to expect so playing it by ear.

I know what my heart is saying, it is just whether the finances can stand up to it or not! I was struggling to do it all with 3 (although I wouldn't admit it) then discovered I was pregnant. So I'm thankful that this baby is forcing me to rethink.

As for decisions, I'm off to the mw this afternoon, and can't even decide which pot to pee in! I'm just grateful that I don't have to make any decisions concerning the birth like some of us.

Hey J&BMum just saw the lovely pic of your dd in bath...Wot a cutey!!!

I think I might be nesting Over the last few weeks I haven't felt like doing anything much, I had a terrible night last night and woke up really tired but suddenly got this burst of energy and have cleaned everything Even my 16 year old ds who has been moaning at me for spending too much time sitting on the sofa has now been telling me to slow down! I'm having a break now as dd is in bed and feel so pleased with myself as my house is sparkling.

Sorry to hear about your decision Jockey, hope you work something out. Morningpapers advice sounded brilliant!

Hello to tiggyhop,lovely to welcome someone new. Hi to Kiwifruit, how many of you are left waiting on the September thread??

Off to watch some crappy afternoon telly and put my feet up (I really feel I deserve to today )

BBB - must be doing some 'lazing' if a 16 year old lad comments on it.

I'm on leave this week and ds1 took ds2 to nursery so since 9.30am I have not moved my Big Fat Ass off the sofa. And I'm NOT going to inset a blush icon as I have no shame....

Does that make you feel better???

I'm with you on the not moving... but I keep getting dragged out and about..poo lol...

my temper's reached the point of scaryness... almost the point of asking DH to take his leave early because I'm either in tears or blowing my top all day long... even when DH got home last night (usually I relax a bit) I was still sobbing away hidden under a blanket on the sofa..

My little horror of a DS is currently pointing at my newly milky boobs and saying 'juice juice' and trying to get them out and I'm wondering how I can be so nasty to him

saw the doctor anyway and my toxic fanny isn't infectious and therefore not toxic! It's e... e... erm.... eczema (sp!!!) after all that fuss eh! And they didn't grow anything in my urine sample, all the yuck showed up cos I was sick when they took it... so yay... but they're being arsey about my homebirth all of a sudden now (don't need that right now!!)

oh fastasleep, been reading your other threads as well, you're not having a great time at the moment are you....

Can't say anything to make you feel better but hey, I spent the morning crying, what do I know.

Nearly there girl, just blame the hormones....

If you want to feel better read the due April 06, to remind you how far we've all come.

And you're not toxic...woo hoo

I feel really bad because I took ds to playgroup and had "borrowed" a new baby to gurgle at when a new mum also with a baby attempted to start a conversation. I really didn't want to talk to her so I blanked her a bit until she went away. I am not usually so unfriendly but I really didn't want to talk to anyone - and it should have been bloody obvious that the new born I was holding was not mine - duh.

Ds pointed to a pigeon this morning and said "that bird is very fat - it must be a mummy"

I have spent an hour with my tens machine for the back ache so I may become more human as the day wears on. Or not.

Sorry to hear about your fanny fa. Thrush is much easier to get rid of than excema. I hope you get on top of things soon.

Thanks to everyone for being so welcoming! I am dividing my time between this thread and the September one because I am due on 29 Sept (and other two were early/on time so fingers crossed). Golly am fed up with this being pg lark - I guess 3 under 3 was a bit of a mistake - apparently it takes 2 years to get over a pregnancy - I assume it is cumulative.... Told dh I had spent 27 months being pg and I had had enough. Am not whinging really it is just funny when you look at it. New Year's Resolution for 2006 is not to have any children, have not managed it in 03,04 and 05

Phew, you've all been busy posting - took me ages to catch up!

Congratulations Joseyjo

5 days left till 'C' day for me! I saw the consultant anaesthetist today, and thankfully he's happy for me to have an epidural rather than a GA. It's scary how quickly the days keep whizzing by...!

Sorry to hear about your eczema Fastasleep - i totally sympathise as i too suffer the same curse. I don't know what they've suggested treatment-wise, but i can recommend oilatum bath oil with a few drops of tea tree oil in (takes the itch away, and is antiseptic), or 1% hydrocortisone cream when it gets really irritated. HTH.

Thanks NM2B! They only said 'well we coooould give you steroid cream, but other than that just wash it lots...' [raised eyebrow emoticon] my GPs are just brill...

and then the midwife says oh yes and you can only have a homebirth if you go into labour between 38 and 41 weeks between 9am and 5pm on a weekday.... lazy cow!! (She wasn't joking either!!)

Thanks red, it is just my hormones! Thank god, I thought I was going mad... a nice long bath with DS sitting at my feet playing with his bath toys and then giving him a 45 minute massage was enough to relax me back into semi normality for now! I hope our sobbing phases wear off with the new arrivals!

Oooh and welcome tiggy, I might go over into November if I'm more than 8 days late! Hadn't thought of that..

((JM you might not be the only one with that rather fetching trolley ))

Anyone know where Hester is? She's been awol for too loooong!!

nm2b - good news from the anaesthetist.
bbb - I really can't wait for the nesting to kick in my house looks like a bombs hit!!

Good news from mw today my BP had come down enough no longer to be of concern. So I now don't need to see her until next Wed when I will be 39+4d unless I go into labour earlier!
This really is the homeward stretch! We seem to have been pg forever and we are nearly there!!! I can't wait.

Oh JJ - huge congratulations! Daniel is such a lovely name... Post again when you feel able and tell us how you're getting on.

And welcome tiggyhop

I finish work in two days and CAN'T WAIT!

Poo I've done my back in...yoooooooouch! At least I'm feeling really weirdly over the toply chirpy so far today lol!

Sits here sedately pondering how an 18 month old can get a phone from 6 feet above ground level while he calls 999 or something...

Can't gerroff my chair it huuuurts lol

Can't believe some of you are still working, mad women!

fa - keep telling you, being at work playing on mumsnet is far easier than being at home with a toddler. however saying that I'm on leave this week, bit still sending ds2 to nursery.

Am I the worse mum in the world or what? (Hope your back gets better!)

Hester ? 2 days to go at work?lucky you. When are you due? Bbb - any chance you can clean my house for me. Think my ass is stuck to this sofa.

YOKEFLEET ? do you think you?ll make your next mw appointment?

My belly button hasn?t popped out yet, I remember with my other 2 pregs that this had happened by now, also I don?t have the brown line yet either. Anybody else in the same boat?

Never got the brown line and kept my button both times (well so far)! Woohoo! Last time I looked like a road map of Great Britain in fetching red and pink... this time they've stayed faded, how odd is that! (Lucky cow that I am )

I can't gerroff my chaaaaair lol

RTL, I think my 'nesting' instinct has only lasted for one day I don't seem to have the same urge today!

My last pregnancy I got a very dark brown belly line, but this time I haven't got one at all. Belly button gross and flat though, but still managed to survive without any stretch marks. I thank Palmers cocoa butter but not sure if it's that or not. Not going to stop using it just in case.

Got midwife appointment tomorrow morning and hairdressers tomorrow afternoon. Was going to wait until after the birth but want to look as good as possible in my new baby photos (hoping nice hair will distract from the rest of me!). Not looking forward to sitting in the hairdressers chair for hours but needs must!

FA really feel for you, it's horrible when you feel so crap. Glad you got your TF sorted out though!

38 weeks this week so could come any time, but i've got a feeling i'm going to be late. Oh well, she'll come when she's good and ready. Hope everyone else is feeling well, and mawbroon and elf have your little bubbas tipped over the right way yet??

Ooh yeah I had the hair idea too... I just can't have the same long straggly hair as in my last set of photos... it'll look like I haven't changed a bit! Hope you get a great hairdo for sitting in those stupid chair things for so long, ooh and I hate those horrible porcelain basins that kill your neck at the best of times... torture! Oh god I just saw my eyebrows too... I'm amazed I can still see out from under them hides away

Strangely I used loads of body butter stuff from The Bodyshop on my bump last time, this time couldn't be arsed to use anything and they stayed away... very weird..

FA with her TF... I like it... it's obviously not too toxic cos I got me some action last night mmhmmm!! No wonder I'm chirpy lol..