January 2012 - Will any of us deliver before Father Christmas?

[addictediam]

Hopefully no one else has done it while my phone is messing about!

Oh debs poor you. I don't know why men think that going incommunicado is always the better option. It never is.

Hopefully you can get some sleep and things will look a bit brighter afterwards.

Aw debs so sorry to hear your oh is being a prick. (((Hugs))) surely honesty is the best policy, especially with a baby due soon?! Do u have rl support to keep toy company/distracted until he comes back?

In other news, I had my first nightmare since I was a kid last night. Psycho killed a few friends, was very detailed.
The house was also getting battered by the weather and so that made me scared to get out of bed. Luckily dd had got scared by the weather and had came into my bed, so I cuddled up to her. Who needs a teddy when you have a dc ?!

Debs - have messaged you :)

heh. the needy cat has decided my bump is a cat shelf for when i'm using the laptop. it is not making my life any easier!

Mine does that toocakes Bump hates it and kicks him off for me

My bump barely notices and, when there is movement, the cat just ignores it :) He is very needy...

Ha ha :o If mine is that needy he sits even higher up and sits on my chest and neck - obviously I have to be in a reclining pose, but that's pretty much game over. I can't see to type or the TV when he does that!

Morning all,

debs I'm sorry about your OH-what a prick. I really hope you read him the riot act.

Sorry to hear of all the breech babies, I had a stroppy fit at DH when he got in from work yersterday but it's not because he did anything, it's just because this child is breech again, i'm so cross after all the counselling and heartbreak and decision making that it may have all been moot. Plus i really really don't want him at 39 weeks. But then theres no guaratees either way.

Thing is I know he wasn't breech inbetween scan and examination. He turned again-his kicks are very strong and I can feel exactly which way he is orientated, plus his big old head. So thats twice he's gone breech, hes still there now, lets just see what scan says on friday.

I'm hungry but don't fancy anything. Refluxy burps are putting me off.

I seriously think the male brain misses something sometimes - I was relating debs DH's incommunicado - ness to OH (in the hope of getting the message across to him) and he said "I bet that pissed him off". Missed the point entirely!

[confused]@Mr parsley.

They just don't get it do they.

My DH actually gets a bit annoying with the calls back home when he's away. The only time he goes incommunicado is when he's flying, but then I start panicking that he's crashed, so it's bad enough!

To be fair to OH he only does it if he has gone for "a quick drink after work" and forgets to tell me. I only worry when he tells me he'll be on a particular train but is a no show. Usually he's on the phone every 5 mins so incommunicado is usually enough to worry me.

Debs hope everything gets better soon.
Parsley Ditto on the 'ale brain missing something'.

DH has whinged about 'Birth Preparation and Parenting classes' tonight. Said "Do I have to?" I reminded him calmly but angrily that he will be no help WHATSOEVER to me going into this situation completely clueless. I asked him how many stages there in labour - he said 4!?! So when he left his 'Pigeon Forum' page up on the computer I read what he wrote. He said that all he knows is that women sit on ball things and men rub their tummies - a fellow poster told him 'That was how we found ourselves IN this situation'!

Well, we're going tonight at 6:30pm. I said we'll evaluate weekly as some may not be THAT relevant to him but considering we're first timers, he's no experience whatsoever of babies (only child and youngest of all cousins), he needs to know the basics (like babies don't sleep in drawers and we do not put the hose pipe on them to clean their bottoms!)

Mum2b. haha I love that!

My dh is an engineer so he approaches things with a very step by step approach. he was great, he was able to tell me what was happening and reassure me at each stage

Mind you he slept through 5 hours of my first labour on a crash mat on the floor. I was fine, epiduraled up to the max and a bit alseep myself they came in took my BP hourly and the MW kept saying shall we wake him up for you? I really didn't see the point.

Sorry to hear about your DH Debs, no wonder you're angry :(

Mum2b I got this for DH when I was pregnant with DD
baby manual

He had no real experience of babies and this book is quite straight so DH peferred it. Neither of us got that much out of the classes. My labour was over 24 hours and I had an epidural. The midwife talked him through things as it went along. He watched football, went to tesco and had a sleep. Even before the epidural I didn't want anyone to touch me or talk to me so he just sat in a chair watching tv.

debs Men are weird...I hope yours sees the light soon. Though mine has just thrown me a thingy by asking if it's alright if he goes away Saturday. Yes, it is, and I totally see his reasons for wanting to go, but I have all the nursery stuff arriving Monday and the house is a tip, to the point I've asked his parents to come and help us move stuff about over the weekend...and now he wants to go away Sat pm. I told him to organise stuff with his parents as I know they're limited as to when they can come over. Not in the same league as your DH's madness but still.

Feel a bit funny this morning. Can't put my finger on it. Felt odd last night too, but put it down to a me+fish pie incompatability. Abi's bashing about as normal, so I'll just put it down to mentalness for now.

Time for some frantic tidying etc. etc.

I felt very "odd" last night. So much so I went to bed at 8. I feel less odd this morning but am working from home today as I didn't feel safe to do the commute in. Woosy is the best way to describe it.

That's so strange. I don't feel quite right today. Light headed but also belly feels heavy. Had a really restless night so I've put it down to that.

See- these are the weird unsettled feelings I was getting the other day. Odd, isn't it?

Very. And quite disconcerting OH has had to go away for work again today but just for an overnight. Hopefully it will be his last trip before D Day as I don't like feeling like this when he is not here as back up.

I completely understand! Hopefully you'll feel more yourself in a day or two.

I just felt like something 'big' must be about to happen because I felt so unlike myself... but nothing did...

Nice new thread but you lot are all freaking me out with your weird woozy feelings. WE HAVE AT LEAST A MONTH TO GO, right? Right?

Welcome, frilly!

Debs what was your DH thinking? When is he due back, or did I miss that? I hope he's going to do some serious grovelling...

Lordy, you lot would have a fit if you were me atm - everyone keeps coming up to me and stroking my bump (including such random people as the headmistress at my DDs' school this morning - WTF??) I know it's good luck but I don't remember this magnitude of bump-touching in my last pgs. Luckily I'm a vain cow, and a touchy-feely type with it, so since everyone keeps complementing me on how well I look I can handle it.

Oh, and does anyone know how much marzipan it's safe to eat without ODing?

I think part of it is because he has panicked me slightly that baby is coming very early.

Also, and this is one for you ladies, I said yesterday to him that I hadn't had any HBs. He said I had had one the day before as I had described like a "wave" moving down the bump. I had assumed it was baby having a samba but he thinks it was a contraction. I though a contraction was bump reacting like a fist? .

Marzipan is made with almonds. Almonds are a nut. Nuts have good fats in them. Therefore marzipan is good for you.
Chomp away!