April 2011 - towards motherhood boucing on yoda balls, eating coc pops and riding frozen surfboards we are

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Raspberry leaf and all round.

Continuation from here. No Mofo C bombs yet been dropped in the delivery room although our first 2 babies have arrived. Congrats to gormers and Jo, we hope your little ones are still doing great.

Still here too, no signs what so ever of any baby arriving action!

I have been told I need to vacate the house for an hour this afternoon, as DH and DD are going to be busy doing something secret (I'm hoping they will be making me a Mothers Day cake) I have to admit DH is seriously good at baking cakes but when dd gets involved it can get pretty messy.

The thread does seem suspiciously quiet today, so perhaps people are busy having babies, or just have better things to do than lounge around on Mumsnet.

Still here too, no real signs of anything happening yet.
If the same as DS1 I'll go into labour tomorrow .
If similar to DS2 I've still got a couple of weeks.

DH taken DS1 to the football for the first time, DS2 pottering about in the garden, I'm meant to be finishing my BF course folder ready to hand in but think I'll do the crosswords first.

I'm not having my baby today either!! We've got DP's two boys this weekend so would not be a great time to go into labour especially as planning to have the baby at home - though the eldest said it doesn't matter if they are here as they'll mainly be upstairs on the playstation anyway and they know what it's like because their mum watches Holby and OBEM :) :) :)

Not sure who would be more traumatised by it to be honest.. me probably!!

Anyway, no signs here... bit of period pain last night but that might have been a consequence of sitting on my lazy very pregnant bottom for much too long! I'm tidying out the study today as everywhere is messy and I'm sure the baby will care whether I've done the filing and shredding In truth, if it doesn't get done now it won't be for at least the next 6 months so I might as well get on with it while the men of the house are all watching football.

Hope all the April babies and bumps are doing well :)

I'm still here too. Mum is entertaining me with a live "how clean is your house!" [Blush] as she's just moved the sofa and found a bra I thought i'd lost months ago and enoung dust bunnys to start a petting zoo!

I too am here, i posted a TMI thead earlier in childbirth but things appear to have settled for now. I hope it stays that way as I want to wait until at least thursday when my birthing kit gets dropped off by midwives.

Screaming toddler, a poor dog i can only let out in the garden as I cannot walk him on my own with toddler just now (husband overslept before work and didn't do the usual morning walk). 3 hours sleep due to uncomfortable aspects of late pregnancy.

Looking at nighties suitable for breastfeeding on past times website.

Lis I beg you please send your mum up the road to mine if she runs out of stuff to do. Anything waist height or below is almost impossible to reach due to spd and husband appears oblivious. I would be as red as a beetroot but it would be worth it. You are so so so lucky to have her!

You can send her my way too please! Am cleaning the house today but just make absolutely clear this is not a nesting thing. I have no desire to do any cleaning whatsoever it's just that rationally I know these things need to be done so I am dragging my sorry self around with the cleaning stuff. Actually feel quite light headed and odd today- sister and DP have both been ill over the last week so I hope I haven't caught their germs.

Meant to say, great news about your presentation scan arch :)

Okay I give up on trying to reply to everyone so I'm deeply sorry if I miss you out but here goes:

Firstly and most importantly HUGE CONGRATULATIONS lowra on baby Amber.

petal glad the feeding is going better and thank heavens for Mothercare

ali oh my lord! That's a fine weight!

aussie your MIL sounds fab.

lucie I'm sure the DSSs would be fine and well entertained by the electronic babysitters. And you would be too!

Can you send some eclairs my way, kits? Sounds like a pretty fab method to me.

arch I misread that you couldn't walk your own toddler and then got very confused thinking perhaps you were walking someone elses? But what on earth would walking a toddler entail? BFing nightie research sounds like a plan anyway.

lis your mum sounds fab!

JKS do you want to go into labour tomorrow? It would be a lovely mothers day gift!

I need to sort the house. I need to make little babystep lists of things which can be done in 10 minutes or whilst sitting. I also need to finish off various projects. I haven't....I slept, I've whinged on the phone to my mummy, I've loaded new books onto my kindle....so I've done nothing really which doesn't explain why I'm so bloody knackered!

Oh and I also had an argument with DH about Godparents and started a ranty thread. View appreciated

I just broke part of the spare window frame in my effort to clean it. Bump got in the way when I tried to close it and suddenly it snapped... DH is on his way back from rugby match, he's tired, but he's going to have to fix it as I can't close it at all.... will have to pull emotional pregnancy card so he doesn't get angry with me!

God I'd love an eclair.

I am still here, lurking. Congrats to all the new mums with their babies.. how lovely.

I am 37 weeks today, lots of aches and pains, losing bits of the plug, but had all this with DS and it went on for 2 weeks, so not panicking yet!

Have a lovely weekend everyone

Frak - i wouldn't mind anyday now really. DH has 2 days work away Mon & Tues which can be cancelled but would make life a lot easier for him if he can get done, so aiming for Wed :)

MIL just been on Skype - she wants me to tell her the minute i have a twinge. I mean really? I want to be honest and say no effing way, DH will ring you once baby is here safe and sound. You lot are the only people i'll tell if i have anything that might be a twinge as none of you have my phone number, lol
The last person i'd tell i'm actually in labour is MIL - and have her fretting/ringing/etc until she heard the arrival news.
She has strange ideas

Been for a very leisurely stroll round the block for milk with DS2, knackered now, i'm so unfit!! And tbh i'm fed up of comments now, happier to just hide at home!

Oh you have to tell us if you have twinges JKS - we can cheerlead you!

I just burst into hormonal tears down the phone at DH because he was being a reasonable man about luggage allowances and things fitting into bags. I don't care, I want my stuff, I told him what the order of priority was and if possible then what else I want but I don't need to have endless discussions on the phone with him getting my hopes up. I could live without a pram until MIL comes to visit if absolutely necessary but I don't want to. Why can't he grasp that difference?! Instead he spent ages telling me how unlikely it was that he could fit the pram in with all the other stuff and depressing me! All I wanted him to do was verify the weight/size restrictions and see whether it would be possible and how much extra it would cost.

I feel like a crap mummy for not being more organised :(

I have been helping my mum! But everytime I say "ooh" or something, I'm ordered to sit back down again! She is currently hoovering the stairs! She has even taken the bars off the runner to get into all the nooks and crannies! Seriously my house will never be cleaner than this ever again! I feel really guilty! I make good coffee though, so I am forgiven for being a clarty madam!!

Had a couple of strong BHs earlier (I was dusting :o) and thought something might be happening, but nothing since! Would be nice to have a baby on Mothers day! By the law of averages one of us on here probably will, just not me!

Yay! So I'm not the only one still pregnant. Sounds like there are a lot of us twiddling our thumbs waiting, waiting.

Snap re: Godparents - my inclination would be to choose them all as by default one will turn out to be useless. My twin daughters have four each, which seemed like overkill but both of them have one (male) Godparent who has done nothing since the christening; not so much as a birthday card, which annoys me as I turned down two of my girlfriends so that my husband could have these useless male friends. I'd personally have the mix as that way you and your husband both have the criteria met, if that ma kes sense; the religous aspect for you and the 'honouring friends' aspect for your husband. Personally I hover between the two camps so my perspective is probably not that useful - I chose friends that I loved who I knew I could trust the welfare of my daughters with. And also the people who I knew would be fully involved in my daughters' lives and upbringing should anything happen to me. It's a tricky one though and I sympathise.

Lisa won't be me either. Not enough is happening. I reckon it might be Arch after her tummy upset earlier - Arch it's a strong sign...

No labouring or cleaning here

I hope you are resting Beetle, if this is the real thing you'll need your energy

frakk - not having a pram for a while does not make you a crap mummy. Are you sick of being on your own and in need of a hug? If so, {{{FRAKK}}}

Just not ready....... I want DH to help with getting this house spotless.

More importantly I need to get to Thursday before the midwife will be here to drop off the birth kit and she will only assist at my birth at home when the birth kit is here.

Goodness, I hope baby can stay comfy in there for a few extra days, it's been such an emotional rollarcoaster to get to where we are now.

No baby here either! Although I have done my very best to kick things off by taking a massive waddle around St James Park today. It's so lovely now the sun is out and all I need to entertain DD is a public playground and a bag of stale bread to feed the pigeons ducks.

Like JKS, I am sick of random strangers commenting on the bump. Yesterday I had "Oi lady, when's your baby due?" yelled at me repeatedly from across the street by a drunken lush and today a group of American tourists stopped and actually pointed at my bump, while asking "Are you due tomorrow? Are you due tomorrow? Are you due tomorrow?".

What really annoys me is when people keep on repeating the question, even when I give my frosty Londoner response (smile politely, look blank, keep walking but under NO circumstances engage in conversation). The friends we were with today made me feel like a real grumpy cow by saying how lovely they thought it was that everyone wanted to be involved... But I feel like my EDD is my personal private information and I don't want to discuss it with every random loon stranger I pass on the street.

I suppose it doesn't help that I've had to put up with it for weeks now, as the bump is freakishly large due to the polyhydramnios

Anyway, rant over. Who's going to have a baby for mothering sunday? My money is on Arch too

Play that card Snap!

And Frakk, I constantly feel underprepared, we will still be fab mums!

As for godparents, we're not at all religious so won't be having baby christened. Others think we should because 'everyone does' but, to me, it's a religious ceremony with meaning and should be respected as such. If we don't believe we shouldn't pretend to.

Feel way better this afternoon, had coffee with mum and MIL. They've only met briefly before and I wanted them to have a proper chinwag ready for when baby comes Plus they're both so excited it made me feel really supported.

Lis can you send your lovely sounding mum this way too please? I've been attempting to 'nest by proxy' nag dh all day but it's not proving too successful. I want things clean and tidy, DH is going for vaguely tidy! He did change the washing over while I had a nap...only to wake me up in a panic because he'd put his favourite shirt in the tumble dryer and what should he do?! Apparently just taking it out and sticking it on a hanger didn't occur, and he wonders why I usually do the washing!

I'm still getting the same mild contractions as earlier (each one making me need to go to the loo even if it's just to squeeze out the smallest pee possible though I have noticed that after months of varying states of constipation things are, ahem, moving a little easier! ). So far I'm managing to just distract myself see above nagging but going to read over the TENS instructions again, just in case! I have a feeling it's not going to pick up any time soon though (sorry Dad, no birthday present grandchild ).

St James' Park must be lovely now notanother but grrrr on your behalf at rude people. It's your business when you're due. For all they know you could be having octuplets and have ages to go!

arch legs definitely crossed til Thursday then. No chance you can arrange for it to be dropped off earlier?

ILTMI I think it is partly to do with being on my own. Rationally we'd discussed this before he went - what to do if it didn't all fit in the bags, I mean, not the godparents - but suddenly it took on this importance in my life and I felt that if I didn't have all of the stuff it would be terrible. I think his mother gave him a bollocking though and he's gone to buy a new bag that should fit everything! I could hear her in the background when I was wailing and he was doing his best not to get annoyed.

Frakk - grr at your DH, hopefully he'll manage it all for you.

NANN - i love St James Park, esp that fab playground!
I actually said no to someone who wanted to touch my bump yesterday
Felt all assertive if a tad mean later. Just said 'no actually i'm a bit funny about my bump' and she left it, doesn't work obv with the non-askers.

I decided to count the comments one day this week and got fed up by the end of the morning school run!

Sure others have said evenings are more active for BHs? have had lots this afternoon/evening and achy 'cervix' pains, only telling you lot though!

Arch - not sure what's in a birth pack but nothing essential to having the baby i'd bet. ie you & baby

Beetle - maybe you'll be next :)

I've been getting the cervix pain too. Is not pleasant at all!

I want it to be a sign but I reckon I'm in for a wait, I just don't feel like its going to happen anytime soon

Frakk they were strict that thursday was the day. From what I understand it contains items like gas and air, sutre stuff, and baby resus equipment.

cycle what a fine pair we make, me with legs crossed, you wanting it to start and us both angry to tears over the state of the house with SPD holding us back and not being able to do much about it!

Just watch, I'll end up going overdue the 42 weeks mark and you'll be in a few days......it's just up to our "bairns" to decided!

I ought to completely finish decorating the birth cake. Just in case. I should find the camera too.