Due Jan 06 - Looks like we've eaten loads of Christmas puddings!

[sweetkitty]

Right here's our new thread.

So who's going to be first for an early Christmas present then?

Hiya mumfun - good to see you're still around and that your pg brain has well and truly kicked in (like the rest of us!!)

I've just got home from my first hypnotherapy session - it was soooo relaxing. I was supposed to be having some reflexology this morning but had to cancel it otherwise we won't be able to fit enough hypno in before the birth. This session was all about getting rid of my problem with/fear of hospital and I have to say that by the end something had definately shifted. Got to practise a couple of meditations before going again though(10 mins twice per day)

Lyra - you reacted just as I would but then I've never really been known for my "slow to anger" tendencies!!I would be up the wall & down the other side if I had unexpectedly come across that peom. Though, like you, in the cold light of day I can see how innocent but thoughtful it is, given the circumstances. Pg really does bring out every little insecurity and foible doesn't it!!

BTW I was thinking about stars for the blanket too last night (great minds!)
And..... talking of sharing experiences..I had a reeeeaaaallly bad one on the way home (gasp!!!) I was starving and so nipped into sainsbury's to grab a quick something for lunch. Did I get a nice healthy sarnie/wrap etc??? NO! 2 packs of mince pies (to freeze, obviously) and a pack of 4 cream cakes. By the time I'd arrived home I realised that "someone" had eaten 3 of the mince pies and a chocolate eclair! Have now hidden aforementioned 1/2 pack of mince pies ("exhibit A") in the bottom of the freezer. Aggggggggghhhhhhhhhhh no bloody self control at all!!!!! My sugar's going to be astronomical (but they tasted sooo good )
Kitty - 35 weeks!! (I was just going to get all excited and comment on how far ahead of me you are - but have realised you're only a few days!!! eeek!)

Thanks for the guidance re when to go to hosp. My friend said today that you "know" when it's time (a bit like you just "know" when you're actually in labour) I'm going to write everyone's thoughts down so DH can help make a judgement too.

Ooh Loomer, any of those bangers and mash left? I really fancy them and I can't be arsed to cook!

I've finally started a little nesting - spent £100 in Mothercare, bought 'receiving visitors' pjs, muslins and an avent breastpump - decided as I wouldn't be going back to work until August it was a bit of a waste to get an electric one this time. Still need 'hospital nighties' ie cheap and with easy access for boobs n bits!- they have 2 for £8 in Asda but nothing in stock over an 8-10.

Lyra - I agree with the others, I would be too but actually it sounds like your dh is just a lovely bloke to be so thoughtful. IMO worth milking for a bit of attention though!

Iris - I agree with SK that you should go in when you feel you need to. I have never been in established labour at home so I can't really comment from experience but I think it's when contractions are 5 mins apart and lasting over 1 1/2 - 2 mins (I don't think you are really dilating until then). My experience has always been the transition from the antenatal ward to the delivery room! However I went from 2-3cm to over 5 cm in less than an hr so you could be really quick. There's nothing worse than turning up in agony being 1 cm! Labour could slow down or even stop. Oh, what do I know? Follow your instinct!

Mumfun - I know what you mean about predispositions to different positions, I'm sure I have a narrow pelvis (despite having huge hips!) because my babies never engage till labour and end up in all sorts of weird presentations (maybe they just have big heads!)

Hi !
I just found out about Mumsnet and wish I had found out about it earlier.
I am getting ready for becoming a mum in 2006 (or a maman as I am french). I am due in one month exactly today therefore, I would be happy to join the Jan 06 club.
So, it?s a late arrival for me, according to the number of posts in this thread, you guys seems to have already had a lot of time to get to know each other and are having a lot of fun. I probably was too busy with my life and not really having my mind in mummies and babies stuffs to find out about this site earlier. Anyway, better late than never, starting getting ready for the baby in the past few weeks has proved to be a great psychological preparation. I am also starting to realize that once I stop work, I would be happy to know a few other mums in my area or have other mums to communicate with through internet.
I won?t loose more time and I?ll quickly introduce myself:
I am French. I live in London (Chiswick W4). DH is English, from Indian background. We are expecting our first child.
In addition to this Jan 06 club, I am looking forward contributing to the ?Language/ bilingualism? forum.
Anyone else here from West London or with interest for bilingual education?
Hope to get to know more about you all soon.

Welcome Maman2006. I'm a kiwi living in NZ so we are from all over. Never too late to join, we can all go through the 'raising our Jan babies' together which is always fun.
I had a terrible nights sleep tonight and feel like I have had a few 'period' like cramps today which aren't braxton hicks so hoping that this bub isn't going to come early.
SK agree with the 2 under 2, dd is getting to the if I don't want to do it I just sit on the ground phase and I'm not anticipating it to be too easy to pick her up when I'm carrying bub in a front pack or something.
Can I just rub in the lovely humid weather we have been having, not particularly blue skied but really warm and muggy. Long may it continue!
Have actually started buying and organising a few Christmas gifts now but have no idea what to get my Mum and Dad. Absolutely stumped.

Welcome to the thread maman! lovely to meet you and don't worry about being a late arrival, as Chuffed said, we've got all the birthing and baby stuff still to do yet!!

Chuffed I am suitably at your weather. I couldn't sleep (this baby is going to get an ASBO before he's born at this rate!!) and have been padding around frustratedly for the past hour and it's freeeeeeeeezing!! I could just do with a littl stroll along a sandy beach with the sun on my face and a warm, gentle breeze rippling my long golden locks....ahhhhhh (ok, ok so my hair is short and dark - it's a reverie - I got carried away )
I really want a bacon sarnie but we haven't got any bacon(well, none defrosted anyway)so am killing time until the little Tesco extra up the road opens at 6.
I'm going to be sooo knackered later. I haven't got any clients until 10.30 (was planning a lie in) but then I'm busy for the rest of the day. I can feel a tea time nap coming on already!!
Anyway - off to the shop (Millie will be in shock, walkies this early!!) no doubt I'll be back dripping grease over my keyboard later

Had to show you this chat thread girls. I've only just managed to finish eating my bacon butties as I've been absolutely crying with laughter (almost wish I'd saved it for if I went overdue - I've got really bad bump ache now )

sorry - that was all of the chat threads - this one should work (it's a thread about embarassing moments)

Morning!

Welcome Maman - I'm from Brighton, now living in South Wales - you'll find all our vital statistics on the due in Jan 2006 stats thread (under antenatal clubs) - someone must teach me how to do links!

Iris - just started reading that threads and they're too awful! They are giving me a 'losing control of my functions' premonititon for labour!
Think I will join you in a bacon sarnie instead!

Chuffed - it's grey, grey, grey here. Would your parents appreciate a charity gift? Ideal for people who have everything and want for nothing. I have bought my mum a couple of cds and some chocs but couldn't think of anything else so I bought her a goat (£24) from Oxfam unwrapped off their website. There are lots of choices from £5-100. Do they have a NZ version?

BTW just watching GMTV talking about dummies cutting cot death by 90% - they're not born with one in their mouths are they? Maybe it only applies to those who go to sleep without it. I was going to avoid one this time if possible - ds1 had one from two weeks - 3yrs and I hated it (rules your life!), ds2 wouldn't take one and was fine without it and dd sucked her thumb (conveniently stopping at 18 months) what do you guys think/plan to do?

rachey - is that a goat or a coat you got your mum?? (adoptagoat?goathaircoat?) v confused!!

Thought the (hysterical) thread would help give us some immunity to any embarassing moments that we might have

I've just read the dummy thing. There's always something to be guilt tripped over isn't there!! - Today's Times quotes other studies too: Bristol Uni found dummy use increased chances of suffering wind,colic,fever,wheezing & diarrhoea, and that their use may slow speech development. Also, the Foundation for the study of SID has done studies indicating that babies who regularly use a dummy then stop are at increased risk of cot death.

DD had a terry nappy she cuddled & I'm not planning on giving this one a dummy either (I note that the freebie Avent pack had a dummy in it!) Aren't there enough things to lose around the house?!!

....not that I'm anti-dummy BTW. (am inherently lazy and just can't be bothered with having to have extra stuff and all that sterilising - that's why I'll breastfeed, sheer laziness) I just hate the way the media guilt trips people either way depending on the weather or for whatever other spurious reason (grrrrrrrrrr)

Agree totally with you Iris, it's amazing how it gets to you - ditto someone having a go at me drinking a glass of wine in a hotel last week!. ds2 had a cotton cellular blanket that he used to sleep with wrapped round his head! (it was very holey!) I am very anti buying unnecessary stuff at the mo - I have bought a second hand car seat (there, said it) - I've been told it hasn't been in a crash and I have the full instructions for fitting it, I don't want to be made guilty for not spending £100 on a new one to fit the pram! All 7 of my mum's grandchildren used the same one! Similarly I have bought a new mattress but I'm sure I didn't need to.

I've been reading the anti-sterilising thread and (having broken my boot sale bargain already) I think I'm going to go for the hot wash/dishwasher routine for my pump etc- anyone else brave enough?I will be breastfeeding and I'm sure Billy the lab will lick everything else clean!

It was a goat not a coat! Hopefully will be sent to a family who need it rather than my mum's house! Really fancied a camel but they were £95... I think you can get chickens for a tenner.

Ahaaaaa so it was a kind of adoptagoat thing (doh!)what a good idea! (my mum said she really wanted padded coathangers (yuk!) - I saw some in TKMax so that's what she's got (though have bought some nice smellies too)

With you on the anti sterilising front - it appeals to my earth mother side (just call me Iris of Slutsville - got to eat a pound of dirt before you die etc etc)I bought a travel steam steriliser to use for the first few months and for when away (parents/siblings don't believe in dishwashers ) will use dishwasher after though.

iris

those stories are too much, especially the sh/t ones!!! i have a few to add, but will have to wait till later. Sorry you had a bad nite, i was awake about every 2 hours, but managed to get back to sleep in between. funnily enough i cooked myself a bacon sarnie this am, but went off it when the bacon was cooked (the smell wasn't quite right) so bella got a tasty breakfast instead, and i made do with egg on toast.

re the dummy thing: i must say i obediently thought, i'd better get some then, but now i come to think about it properley, i'm not so sure. surely they just spit them out in the nite? my other 2 never used them, being a speech and language therapist i'm not keen as they can definitely delay / distort speech if used during the day. ooh i don't know, what does everyone else think?

am still chuckling over the stories and sorry if they're not your thing - I didn't think - my sis has chrohns disease so our whole family is really into bowel jokes/stories.

That thread's hilarious

Maman, I'm from West London (Ruislip) and am due on 14th January - welcome to MN!

I go on maternity leave a week today - hardly seems possible that this pg has gone so fast!

Baby's head is wedged on my left hip atm - a very peculiar sensation, especially when s/he has a stretch! Is getting hiccups with great regularity - DS used to do that too, massive ones!

Wrote Xmas cards last night - still have some to do as kept getting distracted. Have also updated my address book as my old one was full of crossed out addresses (people will keep moving house!) - my nesting has taken a stationery-type turn

iris

when i said those stories were too much, i didn't mean literally! i meant it in an ironic, slightly mid-atlantic way. never did have a great way with jokes etc. i meant they were really funny anyway.

just whizzing round with a duster and vacuum cleaner before my nct lot come over for lunch. i don't want to subject them and their new babies to the squalour that usually passes for homeliness round here! better get on!

oh and welcome maman. i'm interested in bilingual language development as i'm a speech and language therapist.

Welcome to the January club Maman we are a friendly bunch! I'm 30 and I'm due on 14th January too (but am going to beat Hunker to it ). This is my second daughter I already have one little girl who is 16 months. I have recently moved back to Scotland having lived in London for many years.

Been out stocking up today, Boots only had disposable knickers in size 18-20 I know I'm big but I'm not that big! Going to get some disposables for the first day, also got some comfy big PJs from Primark, breast pads and a new changing mat. Will get the rest for my hospital bag next week I think and get all of babies things washed.

Iris - cannot believe you were up at 6 this morning, I tend to get up when my little human alarm clock does, I must admit she was crying at 7.20am this morning so I took her to bed for a cuddle and we ended up getting up at 8.30am! Getting to sleep is getting so uncomfy too.

DD has never had a dummy either she uses her thumb for comfort if she's tired or needs a cuddle. Don't think I'll be bothering with a dummy for this on either too much hassle unless she's a really moany baby and needs it. DD likes to hold your hand and suck her thumb which I think comes from BFing as she used to hold my hand whilst feeding. Bought some teats for the bottles today as well just in case DD2 needs some EBM like DD1 did. Am far too lazy to bottlefeed as well.

lol @ adopt a COAT as well

Midwife appt went well yesterday, babe still pointing towards the exit. Woman in shop this morning asked me where I was hiding an 8 month baby? I was like in here so she had to get all the other women to come and see how neat I was!!!! I feel like an elephant.

Anyway thats enough ranting from me (I don't stop talking in real life either ) I have a really bad craving for red meat today and I'm a veggie so am going to find something ncie for lunch instead.

Oh, a challenge, eh, SK? You're on Wonder who will be mum-to-two first out of us though? I do know they are unlikely to let me go over the 14th because of the GD - was your DD late? DS was 10 days late.

As for disposable knickers, I'm not going to bother with them apart from the first day either - think I still have some somewhere from when I had DS. I've got some massive stretchy granny knickers from Tesco that are much more comfy (though not seen on many catwalks this season ), so will wear those.

DD was an impatient madam even then, she was 15 days early!!! If I go beyond the 14th I will be in tears 37-38 weeks would do nicely (am fed up not being able to turn over in bed!) although I have to get to 39 weeks for my homebirth.

I've already got the lovely Asda 5 for £1 knickers sorted. DD was a July baby and it was boiling hot (was in central London) remember going to bed with huge pants plus sanitary towel and huge nursing bra with breast pads and milk stains cos I couldn't be bothered changing it every 5 mins. Not to mention the 5 month pregnant jelly belly, what a beautiful site I was it's a wonder DP ever came near me again to conceive number 2.

Oh last time Sackache/Toothache and I were due the same day and I won she's only just speaking to me now.

Well, in the face of those odds...I think you'll win! LOL!

And I have been that attractive creature you describe too Only DS projectile vomited into my lap whilst sitting feeding him wearing only my undies...and in the early summer evening, with our bedroom windows open and loads of people in the road outside, I wailed, "Oh, noooo, I've got sick in my knickers!"

I don't know maybe she will be like her father and be a lazy so and so.

The joys of motherhood

Just a quickie to say have a great weekend (no-one give birth, don't ya dare!) I'm off to my mums in Brighton

see ya rachey

that sounds like an awful long drive. take it easy.

i had too busy a day today, no time for a nap, not so good. baby very busy in utero, and acid indigestion fairly busy too!

feelin pretty tired now, so off to bed.

nite nite all.

morning all
just a quick post whilst I'm ploughing through my porridge. I'm feeling much brighter today thanks to a decent night's sleep. I was totally wiped out yesterday following my early rise and busy day (made considerably worse by almost constant BH - started to think I was going into labour at one point) Anyone elses getting more uncomfortable?

Anyways DD & I will be hitting the town early today as she desparately needs some clothes & we're having our hair cut (apparently I'm to be installed in a cafe at some point whilst she runs around doing some Christmas shopping too - I'll just get my zimmer frame shall I?!!!!!)
TBH I'm not looking forward to it (crowds/screaming kids etc)but, hey ho, needs must!!
Hope you all have a fablious day x