Shagged out Viroid Grads 3...

[ConfessionsOfAnAchingFanjo]

Ha! I made it to the next thread.

Hi Nelly. Sorry to hear the JS thread is flagging. Good luck with the JS. xx

I think I'm practising sympathising with a newborn. So far today I have got up, had breakfast, a bath, nap, snack and now feel in need of a nap again. Will be going to see a friend later so need to get myself going really.

Nelly - good to see you.
you need to start recruiting.

everytime I see a conception thread where they go "ooh, i'm fed up of obsessing over it" i think "get over to the viroids then woman!"
but i don't know the current link.

Helloooooo? We've all gone quiet! Hope everyone's OK.

It's our 5th wedding anniversary today. DH has booked a meal out (nice hot Thai curry - I want this squig out) which I thought was our anniversary celebration until I said "happy anniversary" thismorning and he went "Oh it's today?" "Yes, that's why we're going out isn't it?" "Oh no, I wanted to go to this thai place and I thought finishing the baby room last weekend was worthy of celebration. Good coincidence though" We're not into celebrations as such and I certainly don't want card/present etc but I did expect him to remember the bloody date (in fairness he does know the date of our wedding anniversary but "couldn't believe it was the 5th August already"!)

Just lost message

Hope you have a fab anniversary meal esk. I think 5 years is meant to be a wooden gift. Does anyone else do this? It's my fourth anniversary next week (flowers and fruit). We normally do a token gift based on tradition and then go somewhere nice together. Both had forgotten about it this year until my sister mentioned it though. Your dh could have got away with pretending he remembered, love the honesty

ours is on Sunday.
1st, so paper.

I've ordered DH an Organ book from my wholesaler - hope he's not already got it! (he's got millions of them!)

hope yours goes well Esk

Happy anniversary Esk!

We do the paper, cotton etc thing! We were 4 years this year also. I got a lovely apple charm for my bracelet from DH. I also found that 4 years is linen so got DH a linen shirt!

All good here. Hot, hot, hot! Set to exchange on house on Monday or Tuesday which will mean we can pita deposit down on out kitchen and get another 15% of the sale price (which will negate the interest we will have to pay on the finance deal as it was twice as much just a tad more expensive than I thought )

MW on Monday, lots of RLT etc before then! I want the words fully engaged to leave her lips! Or better still, oh 7cms dilated

Love the bracelet idea, very thoughtful. Hadn't seen it could be linen, will have a hunt for ideas.

I have the midwife on Wednesday, don't be beating me to the labour ward!

LOL no danger. I am having load of BH but I think that is down to the tea! I feel I am rushing around too much for him to come out IYSWIM - apparently adrenaline helps keep them in!

BH is more than I have at the moment. Stomach cramps have stopped. Baby is still ridiculously active, so im thinking not engaging. Just extremely tired. Could sleep for Britain. What's the earliest acceptable time to go to bed on a Friday night...9pm?

Active babies are good I am still wondering how you are still meant to feel the baby move when you are in labour seems like so much more to focus on

I continue to symptom spot. Very sore, 'heavy' boobs, (TMI) active bowels - something that has been very absent throughout the rest of my pregnancy, some period pains, BHs...no real odd nesting urges...! Absolutely appalling sleep

Hope everyone else is good! Busy day today as have hairdressers, rugby and then out for (potentially) a final posh nosh meal with some friends.

B2B - i was desperate to go to bed at 9 last night!
ended up flicking channels and going at just after 10, but DH was asleep on the settee, so it wouldn't have been that big a deal!

We sometimes do a thing after choir where we go to bed straight away with a bed-time drink and watch the TV until we want to sleep (usually less than half an hour!)
We didn't have choir last night, cos it's the summer holidays, so we could easily have done that.

Val, the symptoms all sound very promising. Ditto on the sleep front. So, so tired, but waking constantly for toilet trips and once I'm awake I get the munchies. Hope you have a fab time today, nothing better than going out straight after having your hair done

I'm just going to hit the shops in search of some nursing tops/ dresses.

Nickel, dh and I often have an early one on the pretence of going to read, only to be knocking up zzzz a few minutes later. The jsing days seem to be turning into a distant memory.

Hope everyone enjoys the rest of their weekend

oh, we know we're going to be zzzzz.
It's always a Friday night, becausewe both work on a saturday and CBA to stay up!

can't even remember what JSing means now...

Is anyone else worried that we haven't heard anything from Dyna? I know she will have other priorities right now, but just worried that something's gone wrong...

I had been wondering. Lady from my nct class just had an induction and it took a good couple of days to get started (though subsequent labour was short). Hopefully she is just getting settled at home with her little bundle.

Also wondering. Dyna do let us know you're OK when you can

Nothing much to report. Thought I was having contractions last night - lots of back pain and BH. Turns out I needed a significant trip to the toilet (sorry TMI) and it's all gone away again. Still 9 days to go though.

I could have happily strangled several people at church this morning who made all the inane comments like "oh still here then?" "Haven't you had it?" and "Are you sure you're not overdue yet?"
Then when moaning about this to my parents, dad just said "oh well, it's all part of the fun"

LOL Esk - just waiting for those comments to start!

Busy weekend. Pretty useless NCT breastfeeding class. Too much MN and chatting to friends meant I got very little out of it.

MW tomorrow. Stupidly excited about it for no particular reason

Our NCT breastfeeding class was pretty useless too. To make matters worse it was an evening and was supposed to finish at 10pm (all other NCT classes finished at 9.30) and she ran on by 20 mins. We all almost walked out at the end! The teacher (who isn't even our local BF counsellor) seemed to be speaking deliberately slowly.

Val you're nowhere near these disturbances in London are you? We used to live in Enfield, right where all the trouble seems to be, and I was horrified listening to it all unfold on the radio last night. DH works in Enfield Town and is supposed to be going into Old Street area tonight for an after-work meeting thing. I'm not at all happy about him going and travelling back on the trains at 10pm . It's not a compulsory thing although he's adamant he's still going. I'm hoping that seeing Enfield in a mess today will make him think again.

Argh I need more sleeeeeeeeeep... put some lavender in the bath water thinking it would be relaxing and I would drift straight off to sleep last night, but no, we were both tossing and turning all night and I'm sooo tired this morning! Squiglet seemed to be awake all bloody night too, and usually he's happily asleep by 12, grr. Doesn't seem to be stopping him this morning either!

Hopefully all calmed down in Enfield Esk, so hopefully nothing to worry about, but I would probably feel the same.

It has calmed down and I'm not concerned about him being at work in the day, it's having to travel across N London when this could erupt again tonight anywhere.

I know what you mean about more sleep, although since I decided last night to sleep on my right side (my natural sleeping position) I slept much much better. Hope you get some rest during the day or at least some better sleep tonight.

Esk - i can imagine how annoyed you must be with those comments! :(
and that BF lesson! If i had to stay till 10pm for a class, I'd walk out! that's far too late.

I've had a bloody odd weekend.
I dreamt on Saturday night that i'd had a miscarriage - in the dream I suddenly felt unpregnant and a doctor confirmed that I'd miscarried and they were waiting for me to expel the baby and placenta etc. I kept asking myself if it was because i'd refused to have the fanjo-scan at the last scan. Weirdly, when I woke up, I was panicking because I couldn't feel Isbn moving. I was soooo relieved when it moved!

I had a shit night's sleep last night, too. I've found I can't sleep on my left because it pushes my shoulder funny so that it really hurts, I'm not allowed to sleep on my back, but I put a pillow next to me in the bed so that if i rolled onto my back I wouldn't be on my back iyswim. Not that that helps, because now last night I've found that I get the same pain in my right shoulder if i sleep on my right side. Add to that that DH is very very warm at the moment, so if I go anywhere near him, it's like stepping into an oven, my bump is so heavy that it flops over to the side, and last night I constantly felt like i was going to be sick. I was expecting heartburn, not this! (the kind of sick feeling, not like nausea, but like the food hasn't gone down at all and just wants to come straight back out again). Eventually, I got my full night's sleep between DH leaving for work at 6 and half past 7 when I woke up.
The DH had the audacity to make comment that I was very restless and fidgetty at about 4o'clock, when he happened to come out of his very deep slumber for a micro-second!

Ask your GP for gaviscon on prescription Nickel, should take away the sick feeling somewhat. That's exactly how I feel half the time and a quick slurp generally does the trick for a while! As its prescription its free = a saving of about £8+ a bottle (am on my second big bottle now!). Thinking of saving the bottles just to see how much I have actually got through by the time I give birth

Have you tried putting a pillow under bump? I find mine is fine on my right hand side as it pulls over that way anyway, but tends to flop on the left, so I keep a pillow in the bed to my left and lie on that if I turn over that way (also stick it between my knees sometimes which can be quite comfy.

i did try the pillow thing for a while, but then the bump felt too high!

I might ask the GP for gaviscon. I don't like to bother them when I don't feel ill, thouhg. (and it's a bloody long way away) and i have to wait till Asst gets back off her hols.

i prefer using DH as my inbetween-leg cushion

Hi guys,
sorry i've been so crap at keeping up with this thread. I just wanted to let you all know that mini-macaroon arrived 11 days ago by c-section (breech) and is a wee bundle of gorgeousness. So far he's incredibly well behaved , feeding fantastically and generally perfect all round.
Wishing all of you the best of luck with your pregnancies and births,
xx