We are all jolly well going to have a perfectly uneventful pregnancy and pain free birth and will brook no argument at all

[HidingInTheUndergrowth]

In a moment bravery here is the anti-natal thread for all those continuing to Brook No Argument into pregnancy and beyond.

So raise your fists to the sky and sing loud for there is no turning back now! We shall all stand firm and prevail with joy in our hearts as all our pregnancies will be simply blooming perfect!

Hurrah! and more Hurrah! :o

at the booking form written in blood hiding. That's your card marked. Just watch out for the suspicious sidelong glances from the midwives at each appointment.

Oooh, Hiding, I also have my booking in apt today, we have synched up. This morning I managed to convince myself that because the hall wasn't hoovered the midwife would report us to Social Services . Loving my calm pregnant logic.

Have glad your booking in appt went ok - at the blood on the form though!

Good luck with your appt too Love hope it goes well. Is she coming to your house then to see your hall? Gosh I hope they don't come here......

I feel like I am in a weird limbo at the moment with nothing happening. Booking in not until next Thursday and then I'll still only be 8 weeks then :( DH said to me over the weekend 'Wow, didn't last week go fast?' Erm, no not really :(

Still he has at least changed his tune on the early scan from 'we don't need one, it won't change anything' to 'whatever makes you feel better' so that's good. Still want to wait until I'm 8 weeks though as I think I ovulated late so am probably not as far along as my LMP dates think I am.

I'm trying to summon up the energy to go swimming today but really struggling to get motivated to do anything. Just feel tired - the swimming itself wouldn't be so bad but I don't think I can be bothered to get changed and shower after etc etc - what a lazy arse I am!

Hope everyone else is ok

Sorry, meant Hiding not Have for your appt - I was thinking about Have on the ttc thread - waiting for her to test later in the week and obviously got her name stuck in my head

I feel soooo sick 8+3 today

Oh dear meme so sorry you're feeling poorly :( Try to take it as easy as you can x

Loving your pregnancy fantasy, Hiding! Have you got an appropriate flowing white dress?

Still not got a booking appointment . I called the MW on Wed and she said she would organise my referral to the hospital I want and get me an appt with the consultant there, and then arrange a time to come and see me, and she's not phoned back yet! May crack and start harassing her soon.

Biscuits, DH has just suggested we take the dog for a walk and I slumped further into the sofa and went not right now...which is code for please will you do it?

meme I feel your pain. I feel the same way and my job entails people moaning at me all day so I'm not exactly in sympathy mode. Please accept a rich tea biscuit. Even if you don't fancy eating it, its useful as a coaster/mini projectile towards anyone irritating.

dumbledore may I suggest leaving a series of increasingly distressed sounding messages on midwife's answerphone. In the spirit of brooking no argument...

biscuits your DH's comment sounds exactly like something mine would say. This weekend he announced he found it "difficult" when I was feeling unwell. I did explain that if he could imagine for a second having a very bad hangover and still trying to function (which for him usually means lying on the sofa moaning about his headache and eating biscuits) then perhaps he would be a bit more understanding. At least he made me some dinner after that.

Clearly I am a million miles away from the floaty white dress at present. More of a dirty grey tracksuit covered in vomit

p.s I am not really wearing a grey tracksuit for work, I was being metophorical, like.

Deny - I may shortly actually be wearing a tracksuit for work. All my waistbands are too tight and make me feel sick(er). I have been wearing jersey dresses but some of them are frankly not really work dresses. I can't believe I am looking at having to buy new clothes at 8 weeks... Perhaps I could buy a few more smartish stretchy jersey dresses and get away with those.

Oh, and Biscuits and Deny - know just what you mean re DHs' comments! Mine grumpily said that I was "always ill these days" last week. I pointed out that yes, yes I was and that it was much worse constantly feeling vilely hungover for weeks on end than having to cook dinner....

Poor meme! Hope you are feeling better soon. I am also 8+3 today so we are matching. Hurrah :)

Love is your midwife coming round? Argh! I don't think I could cope with that. Thankfully mine was at the doctor's surgery round the corner so I avoided having to tidy at all.

at your DH's unwell comment Deny. Perhaps he should consider how much more difficult it is for you to actually be feeling the unwellness. Also it is not just one morning of hangover that you have to deal with but his worst hangover lasting for weeks! Pah! I hope it was a damn fine dinner.

Well I have to just say that my midwife appointment was fine and my midwife is lovely (I knew this would be the case as her name begins with 'M' and I always have a good feeling about people with alliteration in their name/job combinations :o ). She even looked rather thrilled when I told her I would like to aim for a homebirth, rather then telling me I was mad which was what I had been lead to believe would happen from reading too much mumsnet.

Now just waiting for my 12 week scan appointment to come through

Well, my MW must have got the message emanating from this corner of the internet, because when I called to chase her she said she had put the referral in on Thursday and if I haven't had a letter from the hospital by Wed then to call her and she'll chase them up. Unfortunately I shall be visiting my mum and won't be back until Thursday or Friday, but she said she's working this weekend so to call her on Saturday if there is no letter waiting when I get home. So yay! Progress. Fingers crossed for a letter in tomorrow's post, containing a lovely scan and consultant appointment. Do you think I'm setting my hopes too high?

My midwife's name also starts with M! I do like her even if she is a bit scatty at times. I shall be keeping her right in terms of urine samples. First timers - your urine should be tested at every single appt and if the MW forgets to give you a pot to pee in then demand one! I know it sounds silly, but it's very important in case you should start to develop pre-eclampsia.

Hiding, if I was a community midwife I would adore homebirths, because otherwise they don't get to attend births at all. It must feel like such a waste of all their training, having to hope someone in their area opted for a homebirth and then actually went into labour when they're on!

at the job alliteration theory hiding. I like it! Unfortunately last time I had a crazy midwife whose name begins with E so I expect that backs your theory up even more!

dumble I think setting your sights high is what the brooking no argument spirit is all about. Fingers crossed you get the appointment soon.

love agree that stretchy dresses are our new friends. I wish I could afford all the fabulous maternity wear I've been gawping at online for the winter but the reality is I'll be squeezing into New Look vests that are 3 sizes too big, just right for showing your belly button when you get past about 30/40. Classy.

Is anyone else drinking gallons of water? I used to be a 2 glasses a day girl in work and I've just polished off a 1.5l bottle since 10am. Am a bit worried about where its all gone.

Biscuits and Hiding - yes, they do the booking in apt at your house round here. I had actually tidied the study that will become the nursery in case she wanted to see where the baby was going to sleep but she showed no interest in that or the state of the hall floor so think I was worrying over nothing . She did admire the garden and seemed lovely so was all fine and as far as I know she hasn't rung social services . Think I'm a bit paranoid, she started asking about the garden and whether I did it or if DH does and I launched into an explanation about how I do but always wear gloves before realising she was making small talk and not accusing me of wantomly exposing my unborn child to toxo . Between Hiding's blood spattered form and my defensiveness the medical profession is going to think we're all hiding something...

I suppose is actually a good idea for the midwife to see the house as I assume they would do something if you were living knee deep in rat poo and needles...

Oh, and Deny, I'm also really thirsty, apparently it's because we're making extra blood and is normal.

I'll have you know that our two pet ratties are cleaned out by DP very regularly. We are ankle deep in rat poo at most :o

I really do need to go get some new dresses as well as my boobs have expanded so much that none of them fit properly anymore. Luckily I am working from home today but i have no idea what I am going to wear tomorrow

Never underestimate the power of the forces of mumsnet Too, even your midwife would not dare to stand against us.

Has anyone else lost all interest in work already? I do actually quite like my job but i already seem to have reached the stage of feeling like telling everyone to sod off while I sit about contemplating buggies. Argh! why does this whole pregnancy thing take so long! I want to go on maternity leave and have a baby. Right. Now. Damn it!

I have been signed off for the last 6 weeks and I am going back on Monday just as my morning sickness is ramping it up, sigh. I'm going to be a prize employee, throwing up, running to the toilet to do knicker checks and Googling orthopaedic chairs and trying to persuade my boss to order me one. On which subject, does anyone else have constant backache? I didn't have backache at all the last time. I shall just have to Brook No Argument and tell my boss I need the fanciest comfiest most expensive chair out there. Perhaps it will help to be sitting at an actual desk and not curled up sideways in bed or on the sofa MNing on the laptop.

I want to have a baby Right Now too! Only 7 more months to go...

Right so I have dutifully spent the whole morning staring at my emails in the hope that they might magically delete themselves and have now ended up, as you do, on ebay browsing baby things and have come across this wierdness

Now I realise this is my first and I may be missing out on the true wonder of a joyful gift in the form of what are basiclly poo sacks, but in my humble view if I was to choose 2 words that should not under any circumstances be conjoined 'nappy' and 'cake' would be pretty high on this list.

Oh my goodness! And it is £60!!! How delightful! I have honestly never considered giving new parents nappies as a new baby gift... . Also wonder why they put size 3 nappies in it - they're quite big I think?

It think it is the use of the word 'ingredients' for the contents that made my stomach turn. I really don't think that nappies should be an ingredient of anything.

Urgh (in the sick send not the envy one)

hiding someone at work was talking to me about these. Apparently they're HUGE in the US and people buy them for baby showers. How anyone thinks teaming a term used for something edible with a faeces holder is beyond me.

Didn't they have one of those nappy cakes at a baby shower in SATC?