June Just around the corner now...

[petitech]

Will this be the final thread?!? I somehow think not, with more and more people starting on maternity leave, we have time for a good few more methinks!

Moufflon well done you :) fantastic news! x

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moufflon congratulations, hope you and family are doing well, so exciting now the action is starting to happen :)
Question for existing mum's - do your babies have to have had their initial injections before you can go along to different baby groups?! Sorry if stupid question, I was just wondering if it was like with cats and dogs when they can't go out until they have had their jabs :)
Thanks for enlightening me :)

Ohhh pregnancy insomnia, you are really spoiling us!

That's all!

Citizen - you're not the only one! Was hoping for some decent sleep after I only got about 4 hrs the night before. So annoying :(

Glad to see I'm not the only one awake early.

It isn't bad enough Currant Bun woke me up just after five playing bladder football, DS has been in his room chatting away for over half an hour already. And now he's just found his effing noisy vehicles book. This is going to be a looong day.

I'm just checking in, still reading but having painful difficulties typing so I'm just keeping abreast of everybody elses news. Congrats Moufflon and Cameli!

Petitech, you can definitley take baby to groups/swimming etc as soon as you are ready, you don't have to wait for jabs

moufflon what an amazing and lovely post. Welcome to Summer Elizabeth (have we had all girls on this thread so far?!) - what a beautiful name :) So pleased you had such a lovely birth and that she is a strong and healthy weight. Congratulations - I hope your stay on Cloud 9 is very prolonged!

curiouselle I've got 5 weeks to go too (and 3 days, but Thursday is rounding-up-to-the-next-week day for me ) and this is my last week at work but I've really struggled. I'm fine at work itself but at the end of the day I am exhausted, and I'm finding my patience is wearing thin with some of the lazier students (they're uni students) who haven't done any work and are now panicking about exams and demanding help left, right and centre ...

moog and mrsnoggin I knew you were ladies of taste :)

gillz I can't believe it! Well done on getting the tests - when I was worried about toxoplasmosis both the mw and the GP point-blank refused to give me the test even when I developed cold symptoms. The mw was sympathetic but the GP looked at me like this: . It felt more likely she'd refer me to a psychiatrist than give me the blood test. So anyway, you did bloody well to get the test and thank goodness you did! Sorry it upset you but you should be very pleased with yourself and how well you are looking after your LO :)

nurse good luck for tomorrow! Hopefully the examiner will see your bump and realise you need the license, whatever happens! Sure you will ace it :)

Awwww coaaf I'm so sorry you had to cancel your baby plan and totally understand your frustrations. I hope the cheesecake was amazing though! And FWIW I think you sound unbelievably patient, supportive and understanding about your DH and are fully entitled to get frustrated from time to time. I hope you find a great buggy soon - have you tried Freecycle?

misshooha I've never looked back from Love Hearts after sasa recommended them for heartburn. I did used to be able to eat three or four and it would get rid of it, but I'm on at least a packet a day at the moment and I do think I'm going to start hating them soon. But they do work, and they're much better than those disgusting Gaviscon tablets!

petitech at 'maybe it's like with cats and dogs' . Not that I know the answer - I'd never thought of it!

Feeling much less tearful today - don't know what the hell got into me yesterday. Kept sobbing and laughing at the same time because I didn't know why I was sobbing. Luckily DH came home early from work and watched loads of crap TV with me on the sofa so I felt much better by the end of the day. Not sure if it was DH's soothing powers or the wonder of hours of rubbish telly :)

Morning all (stumbles onto board, bleary eyed after rubbish night's 'sleep')

Moufflon huge congrats to you, and what a wonderful birth story. Now come on, you need to share the secret as I'm sure the whole June gang are right now attempting to channel your fab birth vibes! Oh, and lovely name too: welcome Summer!

Misshooha and TTL strange about the love hearts, as I'm addicted to Rennie fruit flavour tablets, which I'm always saying taste EXACTLY like love hearts!

All the non-sleepers I feel your pain. Now that I've been told to sleep on my left to help turn back-to-back madam, it's all I can manage to do about 40-min stretches then wake with neck, back and hip pain. I had a huge bedtime tantrum last night. Candlelit bubble bath, little massage from DP, fluffed up my squillions of pillows, got into bed... two hours later NOTHING, and I was wailing and hurling soggy Kleenex into all four corners of the room.

Nurse sending good luck vibes your way for tomorrow.

And apologies to all I've missed - this keeping up lark ain't easy!

So, 11 days to due date, and you know what, back to back or not, bring it on!
On a positive note, DP is off today and we have a nice day planned: swimming and then a nice lunch out. Looking forward to feeling of weightlessness, soon followed by delicious fullness!

Moufflon yay, well done, can I have your labour please?

Kara yes I finished my abs, just 7 days worth and feel back to normal...ie normally emotional, normally grumpy and normally achy...but no more boob pain.

Mother I'm Norway too! Oh and I have learned that you cant suck an orange through a straw with a mouth like a dogs arse...I have a feeling those are the only 2 facts I'm going to be able to remember through all this experience!

Off to my scan to establish how many heads LO has and where they are...then I've got a 3 hr wait til the consultant apt so I'm planning an assault on all the cafes in the hosp. Have a good day all x

So having been caught speeding a few weeks ago I had my letter come through from the AA yesterday offering me the speed awareness course for £95 instead of the £60 fine and 3 points. Now I currently have a clean license, and I'd quite like to keep it that way. But I'm worried about trying to find a suitable date for this 4 hour course (before I even try to find the nearest centre, and probably have to add on another 4 hours travel there and back). I don't want to lose one of the few days I have left of work, when I'm already so pushed to get everything ready in time. I've only got a week's window between starting ML and my EDD, and you can bet that if I book it on one of those dates, I'll go into labour whilst at the course. So that really only leaves me with just after, and turning up with a few-week old breastfeeding baby attached to my boob. What do you ladies think?

I bet if you went into labour on the course they wouldn't make you re-do it.

I am convinced I will go into labour on my driving test.

nurse I had exactly the same thought, and it is tempting (I really am not looking forward to a powerpoint presentation showing mangled children's limbs resulting from different speeds of impact). But then, if I end up 3 counties away to do the stupid thing, that'll scupper all my delivery plans.

I could always fake going in to labour.........!

(Am I a bad person?)

have a lovely day princess - am loving swimming at the moment!

lisa - I would be tempted to just take the points, but then I'm inherently lazy at organising things like that.. I don't know if speeding points make a difference to insurance premiums?

I feel like a traitor to say I slept better last night - I think its because I set my alarm and had an hours nap yesterday afternoon, so I wasn't quite so stressed about the whole thing when I got into bed. I've been getting really itchy skin and the mw is monitoring me for choleostasis (sp?!), and as it was cooler last night here I think that might have helped the itching too...

starting to pack my hospital bag and thinking about what snacks and drinks to take - on the hospital tour we were told we can use the fridge but won't have access to microwave or kettle...any ideas of things we can take to keep me and my perpetually hungry DH satisfied?!

Have a good day ladies - sun is out here

CMH I was going to do that, and said to DP, in a blase manner, "it's cheaper to just take the points, and it's not like I'm going to own up to my insurance company and incur higher premiums" at which point he looked at me like I was mad and said that would be really stupid, because if I had an accident, and the insurance company found out and invalidated my policy, I'd be screwed. I never used to tell the insurance company, but then, the last time I had points was in my early twenties, when I drove a crappy old car, with no intention of ever making a claim even if I wrote it off, because I just wanted to build up my no claims bonus. Now I've got a vaguely decent car, and am going under the cunning disguise of being 'a grown-up', maybe I need to do law amiding things, like fess up to having points on my license. But I think they will then sting me for higher premiums.

I shall have to get myself some lovehearts, where can you get them these days? I shall have a scout round!

Anyone got any thoughts on extreme fetal movement? For the last two days the bump has been going absolutely mental all day, I couldn't even count how many times an hour but pretty much constantly wriggling and dive bombing my bladder. Any wisdom? I wasn't worried until I googled it and there was some suggestion it could be distress but I'm taking that with a pinch of salt! Just wondered if anyone else gas experienced it and had any thoughts?

lisascat I've got the same thing and I phoned up to sort out the course, gave them the wrong bank details and now they've cancelled my place on it. Got to ring them again and try to find time to fit a course in before the baby! (Also worried about turning up to a speeders' course 9 months pregnant - might bring a bottle of vodka and a packet of fags with me too just to complete the image ). I think points do make a difference to insurance premiums - my SIL used to work in insurance and tells me this is so.

misshooha you can get 4 packets of Love Hearts for £1 in Tesco's at the moment :)

jasmine good luck with the scan. I very much hope you're not going to give birth to a many-headed beast

Lisascat - re speed awareness course, I'm sure if you contacted them and explained situation they would give you a wider window of dates to do the class in? Personally I think it's worth doing as I believe it does affect your insurance premium. Be warned though I did one and was patronisingly boring and repetitive, you just have to play the game and nod in the right places and look repentent.
Lovehearts which I'd have seen that post earlier, love love hearts, wonder if parma violets work too mmmmmm. I think I've seen them in places like Topshop bizarrely but expect any little newsagents may have them.
misshoohaa have had extreme fetal movements too, like a disco in there! I have a midwife appt in half hour so will ask her and report back but I guess maybe its just a sign of growth and limited space. I've only read about worrying about lack of movement not too much but it's a good point!
To everyone else can't keep up with individual responses but hope everyone is doing well and that the sun is shining with you :)

Gad the love heart are still doing the trick TTL - I have completely run out and nearly throw up when I have to drink gaviscon. I prefer parma violets personally tho altho don't think they work quite as well as love hearts/refreshers due to not being fizzy

NNOOOOOO Petitech you don't need to wait for jags before taking the baby to groups

lisascat I would just book the course. Think it will def be cheaper in the long run, and you'll be able to postpone it if baby comes first surely.

Hope your day goes more quickly than you think confessions

Jimper not had any problems with leg veins/varicose veins - I'm having this delight in my bottom instead - not pleasant.

Mattresses arrived this morning for pram and bedside cot - exciting

I think movement is a good thing missm. Have been monitored a lot in the last week and they have never complained about too much movement just not enough.

Lisa I would be tempted to take the fine and the points. You never know when the baby might come (37 weeks is term as moufflon found out). All the petrol and the hassle are not worth doing the course. After the baby comes you probably won't have the inclination either.

Morning All, So an unexpected day off today, I had awful diarrhoea in the night I know TMI - sorry. So i decided that I was going to stay home today and just pootle about not really doing anything. I feel a bit guilty about it as one of the main reasons for doing this is because I'm going to my friends house for dinner tonight and I don't want to be too tired for it! Bad Joannezipan! Anyway I'm feeling better now, so far I have been to sainsbury's to get some stuff for tonight, put some washing on, hung some washing out, stripped the sheets off my bed...not too bad really. Might be time to face some food...not sure I can yet though. :( I really should do some hoovering...sigh.

Lovehearts must be cheaper than rennie fruit tablets. I'm sticking to gaviscon liquid though!

Moufflon Well done! I hope mine goes so well. I hope you are enjoying the new baby smell!
Jas good luck with the scan later on.
Nurse good luck for tomorrow(?)

MW said the home birth was okay yesterday (yay!), but didn't have much time to talk about birth plans. She is coming to see me next week at home to talk about it. I also have to have a scan to make sure the baby is head down next week as well, it was last time she checked, but she couldn't tell yesterday. Right maybe it's time for a nap. Hopefully we'll all sleep better tonight!

My sister's friend had a little girl yesterday. She's been back to back for weeks and trying to turn the baby with no success but the moment the waters broke the baby spun round!

Fr anyone facing a problem with positioning, at least there is hope up until the last moment

I'm on leave and finally have the time to release my inner Aggie and Kim on DPs family home and every member of it. So far I've taken my bikini trimmer to the MILs long-haired cat and whipped off a huge mat of (appropriately Brazil-shaped) fur that was clogging her side! Spiders start running...I'm coming to get you...

So I managed to go back to sleep for an hour and then have a bath. I still feel like throwing up though (which is why i stopped reading and turned to MN earlier). The only reason I haven't skived back to bed (besides feeling ill when I lie down) is that the MW is coming for a home visit this afternoon to talk about homebirth . I should be writing my birth plan, but just haven't got the energy to find a pen....