November 2012 - reaching the six-month mark

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Hello everyone just checking In at wembley stadium.

We've got sunshine now a sea fret! Hurray! Proper casting shadows sunshine!

So we're out emptying the renovation remnants which we dumped in the outhouse into skips, putting stuff up into the loft and generally hauling DH into my nesting

Just got a load of little vest suits from Tesco as they were only £2.50 a pack, so popped them in the trolley while we were in there, and with our voucher, 3 packs worked out at costing us 50p. Hurray!

Junior is being super wriggly at night when I sleep on my side they seem to drop down with gravity and then try to bounce off the mattress and squiggle underneath me. Very distracting but the difference from the wee pinging kicks of a few weeks ago to big belting movements now - that even folks at work can spot from across the room - is so funny!

that should say NOT a sea fret (which we've had for a fortnight)

We have to fill up the end of this thread quickly so we can all get filled in on SwissArmyWife's news!

Eh? What's the news?! How are things with her and her DH? (or am I confusing her with someone else, not unlikely given my fluffy brain atm)

She's marked her place on the new thread and is dangling interesting news in front of us, but refusing to divulge until the new thread starts properly!

Ok let's give this a go. I went to bed this morning as I felt so rotten after throwing up. Felt sick and dizzy but feel ok now and have had lunch, which has stayed down.

Has everyone packed their hospital bag yet! I haven't!

I am having a section, but this one may decide to arrive early, although is highly unlikely. It takes dynamite to open my cervix.

What is a sea fret? I am still learning Scottish.

Nope - haven't even figured which bag to use actually..... Think after we have the birthing class next weekend I'll feel a bit more mentally ready to prepare for the birth.

At the mo it just feels like an alien concept that is going to happen to someone else.

I can't wait to meet our wee fraggle though. Now they are moving much more - I just feel so much closer to them and am getting much more of a sense of them as a wee person.

Oh I'm really enjoying Ina May Gaskin's book on childbirth (not spiritual midwifery, the other one) especially reading some amazingly positive natural and low intervention birth stories. It's really pepping me up to the idea of labour. Though given our two sisters have had 4 births and 4 emergency sections between them - I'm taking a natural birth as a low odds event as much as I'd hope for one, and am really going to try not to mentally beat myself up. At present as long as it results in a healthy happy baby I'm going to count any birth as a success.

Have you all buggered off to the other thread?

A sea fret is actually the northern english (am a yorkshire lass) term for a haar (which is the Scots term for) - a sea fog (when the land is warm and the sea still cold)

I'm trying to fill up this one as I'm too OCD to let this thread sit not quite finished.

And I'm a yap o'shite

YW I think it is good you are hoping for a natural birth. Also good to be prepared for the alternative though. I hope you get your wish, but ultimately your wish is this baby.

Me too!

I am impressed there is Tesco on your Island! What vouchers did you use?

I am watching High School Musical 2 with a grumpy 6yo and a 2yo asleep on my lap.

DH found a new name. Hyram pronounced HYE-RUM. Very popular in the 1880s

It is growing on me

I've ordered the mattress for the cot today

I have requested swiss spill on this thread

Now searching the Internet for curtains

I've had my hospital bags packed since I was 16 weeks

I've got a labour/immediately after one for me, a small suitcase for the twins and a small rucksack with all the nappy changing stuff that can stay in the car until they've popped out. I'm also putting together a secondary bag that my partner can just pick up and bring in 'cos he'd be hopeless at trying to bring in anything else for me if he had to find it himself. That'll have some nursing tops, jeans, clean underwear and extra nappies and baby clothes in it.

I'm very much hoping it's not the case this time, but last time I went in with a twin pregnancy I was in for 10 days before and two weeks after they were born. I'm trying to be as prepared as possible to minimise the stress for my partner and 3 other DCs. I hate the thought of staying in hospital for so long :(

And a curtain pole