Due Feb 06 - Our coats won't do up!

[Bewitched]

Here it is then ladies - our shiny new thread, named without reference to jumpers, sweaters or cardis!!

Stats to begin - hope they're all up to date!

Teuch, Due 28th Jan, Baby # 1, Age 27, Lives West Lothian (Inner Hebridean Island from Jan), Surprise flavour, mm/c previously
Hotmama1, Due 1st Feb, Baby # 2, Age 38 (DP40), Lives Nottingham, Girl flavour,
3K, Due 2nd Feb, Baby # 1, Age 28, Lives Gravesend, Kent, Boy flavour, IVF conception
Tabs, Due 2nd Feb, Baby # 1, Age 32 (DH40), Lives N Herts, Couldn't see flavour, mm/c Oct 04
Kando, Due 3rd Feb, Baby # 3, Age 32 (DH35), Lives Holland, Girl flavour, DVT last time. Heparin injections.
Lulu68, Due 3rd Feb, Baby # 4, Age 37 (DH40), Lives ???, ?? flavour,
Yeahbut, Due 4th Feb, Baby # 3, Age 30, Lives Holland, Girl flavour, IUGR in previous pregnancies
Mimi5, Due 6th Feb, Baby # 5, Age 37, Lives ???, Boy flavour, mm/c previously
Popadopolis, Due 8th Feb, Baby # 1, Age 26 (DH30), Lives Bedford, Girl flavour, hyperemesis early on - tablets to control
JuA, Due 9th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 31, Lives Chorley, Lancs, Both Girl flavour, 1 m/c prior to DD. Expecting twins!!
SmallHouseDragon, Due 9th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 39 (DH 37), Lives Devon, ?? flavour, induction then emerg c-sec with dd
Womba1, Due 10th Feb, Baby # 3, Age 30, Lives Eastbourne, Girl flavour, Baby 1 stillborn
TicTac, Due 11th Feb, Baby # 1, Age 29 (DH 42), Lives Horwich, Lancs, Girl flavour,
Ixel , Due 11th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 31 (DH 42), Lives North London, Hospital won't tell flavour,
Spacecadet, Due 11th Feb, Baby # 5, Age 33 (DH 37), Lives Cambs, Girl flavour, m/c in March, underactive thyroid, dvt after delivery of last dd
Popmum, Due 12th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 32 (DH 40), Lives Broxbourne, Herts/Essex border, Secret flavour,
RachelRog, Due 12th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 33, Lives Chesterfield, Derbyshire, Surprise flavour, mm/c in March
Chloe55, Due 13th Feb, Baby # 1, Age 24 (DH 27), Lives West Yorkshire, Boy flavour, 2 previous m/cs
Jasnem, Due 18th Feb, Baby # 3, Age , Lives , Surprise flavour, 5 and 6 yo girls already
MrsDoolittle, Due 21st Feb, Baby # 2, Age 32, Lives Oxford, but soon to be Newbury, Boy flavour,
Morgan, Due 22nd Feb, Baby # 2, Age 37, Lives Hitchin, Dubai from Jan, Surprise flavour, Ectopic Jan 05. Heparin injections
Flamesparrow, Due 24th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 24, Lives Bournemouth, Surprise flavour, Waterbirth for no 1. Hoping for homebirth.
mum22soon, Due 24th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 26, Lives Eltham, South London, ?? flavour,
Frizbe, Due 28th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 30 (DH40), Lives Ripley, Derbyshire, Girl flavour,
Thell, Due 28th Feb, Baby # 1, Age 26, Lives London, Girl flavour,
angedemarche (Jangus), Due 1st March (c-sec 14th Feb), Baby # 2, Age 27, Lives NI, ?? flavour,
poppyh, Due 3rd March (c-sec earlier), Baby # 3, Age ??, Lives South East London, Girl flavour,
Scotsbird, Due ???, Baby # 2, Age ???, Lives ???, ?? flavour,

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AWWWW flame, cyber hug and crisps on thre way....here have a laugh on me...

I made some cakes (and a mess in the kitchen ) this afternoon...Lord, while i was at the sink doing some washing up i suddenly felt 'wetness on the inside of my ankle...fearing that the unimaginable was happeninng, i rushed ( well as rushed as i can do) to the loo to check...cra*ing myself in case waters had gone...when i got there i saw that there was a fair bit of water on the front of my skirt...LOL what i hadnt realised is that id swished water over myself while washing up and that it had managed to seep through my skirt then drip onto my ankle.....good lord i was releived, laughing, and almost crying at the same time... bit of a shock!!

PMSL - That sounds like my breast leaking incident!! A few weeks ago, I knocked my breast and it was very wet - I panicked because I have seen my friend's flood in early pregnancy, and it has lead to prem labour... Looked down, and it was a giant blob of toothpaste

HEHEHE that would have freshened the wee bairns breath !!!!
there seems to be many funny stories flying around about mishaps surrounding pregnancy, we should start a book!!!!hmmm thats not a bad idea, maybe i will write one about mumsnet antics, we could all be stars!!

Good photos girls

Hi everyone, can i join your thread? I'm quite new to mn. I'll introduce myself - i'm 24, work at Royal Mail, live in Barnsley with dh and pg with our 1st baby, i'm actually due on Jan 31st but knowing my luck it'll hang on til Feb.

Morning,

I had a lovely few days away. I get on really well with my parents, and have learnt over the years that I am really lucky to have them. Not least because at 36 I am still being helped by them, although I do try not to take money. Not that we don't really need it but I feel that we should be suporting ourselves.

I had a lot to catch up on - like the new thread name by the way.

Homebirth mums - how close to help do you live to medical help if the worst did happen? I ask because I live a good 1/2 hour away . DD2 was supposed to be a homebirth (great support from midwives), but I ended up with a general anaesthetic and C sec. If I'd been at home she (and very possibly both of us) would not have survived . Don't let me scare you off, but think about it if you live in the middle of nowhere.

Talking of which, I grew up in Gamlingay. I saw it mentioned earlier, but can't remember why.

cuffyj1 - welcome to a very friendly group .

PMSL at all your funny stories!

Welcome Cuffy - am I taking that if you live in Barnsley you will be going to Barnsley Hospital for the birth coz, if so, that's where I'm going too! Mine is due on Feb 13th.

Still full of cold but nights are much more pleasant with the heat pads/anti-inflammatories & pain-killers combined

TicTac - presuming you are back on this morning - is your mum using mnet now? Have seen a lady using the name TicTacsMum!

Morning everyone. Welcome cuffy. Hope you have lots of free time as we're a very chatty bunch on this thread!!

Jasnem - glad you had a good time away. It was me who mentioned Gamlingay previously I think, as one of my best friends (who's due end of Feb) lives there now. I was talking to Spacecadet about her hospital options.

Hello Cuffy!!!!!!!!

Jasnem - I live close two hospitals... the one that I would would be most use is about 20 mins in normal traffic - emergency vehicle it would be a hell of a lot faster though. We also have one about 5 mins down the road, but less good for women in problem labour. Believe me, I'm not gonna be stubborn - if anything seems the tiniest bit wrong, I'm straight to hospital.

DH is carving pumpkins for all he's worth last nights (he's selling them to friends and at car boot sales this year)... my house smells all pumpkiny!!!

Flame - hope you're feeling brighter today?

I assume 3k is off work with no internet access at the mo, but if you're reading 3k then hope all is alright with rash etc.

Forgot to say yesterday, I had a result with re-arranging my NHS classes (the ones that clashed with NCT). They've now arranged a course for Thursdays in January, so I've booked in for those, meaning that I won't have to miss my Monday night yoga after all .

Talking of SpaceCadet - anyone heard from her lately?

No, not heard from her in a while.

And yes, I'm much brighter today - aching less, and the iron has kicked in . I always come on completely hysterical, and then realise that I'm just low on iron, and then feel foolish!!!

Does anyone else turn into mad, irrational crying woman when they are slightly anaemic???

Can't say I suffer from anaemia but I definitely turn into mad hysterical woman for no apparant reason (read my posts 2 days ago )

Well, it would be nice to blame the mad irrational, crying bit on the anaemia, but I've been taking iron for the last 6 weeks now and although I've definitely got more energy, the madness, and crying at adverts( usually for things like bread, or shoes) hasn't really stopped.

Well, it would be nice to blame the mad irrational, crying bit on the anaemia, but I've been taking iron for the last 6 weeks now and although I've definitely got more energy, the madness, and crying at adverts( usually for things like bread, or shoes) hasn't really stopped.

Oh I still do that crying, its just that the sinking feeling of despair that I get starts to ease, and I'm less likely (but not completely unlikely) to cry over the lack of wotsits in the house, or that I've lost the remote

Stood and sobbed in Tesco last night because they'd sold out of reduced breast pumps!

I cried my heart out on Tuesday night because the pumpkin I bought went bad and had leaked onto the kitchen surface, I just slumped to the floor wondering how I was ever going to be able to clear it up! Until I regained my senses and picked up a cloth and wiped the side

PMSL!

Amazingly enough, DH actually told our NCT class that I'd been much calmer and more rational since getting pregnant, rather than less! I guess I did all the emotional stressing trying to get pregnant, and am an oasis of calm now that it's finally happened .

My DH wants to know if he can marry you!

PMSL! He wouldn't want to if he knew just how bad I was before getting pregnant!

Hi thanks for the welcome, i'll try get involved in your chats as much as poss.

Chloe55 - yes i'll be at Barnsley Hospital. Where in Barnsley are you? I live in Cudworth.

Hi there cuffj1, welcome to the thread! looks like you and Chloe could be birthing buddies
Jasnem know what you mean, my mum is constantly trying to slip us money (but without telling my dad cause he's tight!) even if we don't need it! always has to buy dinner if we're out, sneaking dd and ss clothes etc, but hey if it makes her happy I'm not complaining, we've been richer in our time than we are now....

Chloe, Flame, Jasnem et all {{{Hugs}}} re the crying, especially in Tescos I'm ok at the mo, so long as I don't listen to certain songs bloody massive attack came on the radio the other day, and had me in tears, dh reckons I've gone nuts!

I actually live in Clayton West Cuffy but Barnsley is my nearest hospital. Have you joined any antenatal classes yet? I haven't booked mine but have a feeling I need to get cracking as places are limited apparantly.