November 2012 - a couple of early arrivals, please will the rest stay put!

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Oh dear - you have my sympathies if you are constipated, it's awful. Thankfully I seem to be ok at the moment.

I cannot believe that potentially this baby could arrive next month! If s/he is one week early! argh! I am trying to stop the panic rising. But of course it's not real panic - just slight panic/butterflies. I am really looking forward to this new chapter in our family life.

I want to go an stock up with nappies and other toiletry type thingies on monday. Cotton wool and wipes etc

Hi I'm new. Having a sudden panic that baby is due in 11 weeks! I'm having my first baby (a boy) due 21st nov after much trying. Suddenly all very real.

Good morning pikz! Congratulations on your pregnancy!

welcome pikz and congratulations.

were ALL here to help you along those last few weeks

My baby will be here next month as will the twins, if not before!

The twins BETTER be here!

I have two lovely things I could be doing today: a wedding in Cumbria or a party in shropshire and I am not going to either as I don't think I could manage the car journeys. I am hobbling in the evenings now due to the pain in my hips A friend is coming over to cheer me up but as she was going to be travelling with us to the party I feel guilty too. She is really understanding but right now I feel fat, tired, frustrated and guilty.

Back at work this week and dreading it but don't think it is severe enough to warrant going to a Doctor and getting a sick note. Need some saturday positivity.

Hello pikz I am not usually such an eyeore!

Bad luck Brockle :( However, the end is in sight and once you're holdling your baby this will all be but a memory :) You should try and rest today and have a giggle with your friend

There are too many feet in my ribs right now.

I have quite a confidence boost from DH about coping because he remarks on how different going through all this with me is. He and his ex were completely unprepared for bringing a baby home (just planned up to labour) whereas the fact I'm getting some meals in the freezer and thinking through how our lives might work in the early weeks means he thinks I'll have less of a shock.

I'm still in epic nesting mode though. The gardeners I hired to prune the tree in the front garden just left. Even the plants aren't safe from my tidying and sorting

Just found out that MIL wanted to visit this week as SIL is on holiday (they live together). DH told her I was not well enough to have her, with leg, DH working etc. He did not tell me so I did not have the guilt. I am very impressed with him.

Of course I would have just said to her ' you remember us saying if you visited in the future you would have to stay with my parents as there is no room!!! The last time she visited was awful, the bed was not comfy, we get up too early (she gets up 10am) etc etc. she has heart and mobility problems, so would need waiting on hand foot and finger, and driven everywhere. Not doing it I have two small children and a belly dweller and sore leg so no!!!

Thanks catbag your comment about the feet made me smile. Just hormonal today I think. I need a pick me up just not sure what that is today. Probably cake

catbag I cannot begin to imagine what it is like having two in there. I expect you look at us singletons and think how easy we have it

DD1 is going to a birthday party today so that is the limit of my excitement. Shame about the party and wedding brockle but you are being sensible and knowing your limitations. Imagine the state you would be in if you had gone. Not good for anyone, least of all you and baby. This too will pass.

Talking of passing, my sympathies to all constipated ones. People just do not realise how painful and debilitating it is unless they have experienced it first hand. Post delivery, I live on dried apricots to ensure I have no challenges in that area.

Welcome Pikz.

Just waddling on to say hi, and I hope you're all doing well :)

I was 30 weeks yesterday and can't quite believe that it's all going so quickly.
Finally expanded to the point where I just had to go out and buy some bigger clothes, got some lovely tops in the new look maternity sale section, so I'm feeling a lot more comfortable now!

However today I shall be staying in my pjs and lounging around as its the weekend.

Have nearly got everything for baby now, a friend of mine is very kindly giving me a bunch of her little boys old clothes, from tiny baby to two years! So should be sorted for a while!

As for pumps, I had the tommee tippee manual the first time round and it wasn't bad but wasn't great. Fine if you won't be expressing much in one day but it is hard work after a while!
This time I've been given a lansinoh manual but have no idea what it'll be like.
However I've now seen the new natural range from Avent and am rather tempted to get a couple of bottles and the pump but they're very pricey so might wait and see what the baby decides to do!

Welcome pikz you're due a day after me :)

I've been to tesco and bought more muesli and prune juice and a punnet of kiwis, I will get it shifted!

Also doubled up vouchers and got 2 packs of nappies, 2 packs of mat pads, a baby bath towel, blanket and dinky pair of leggings :)
What I meant to get was muslins but I couldn't find any!

My mum is very strange. I'll never understand her! Woke up to a text telling me that by the time she retires all her grandchildren will be older and not want to know her! So I can have another baby on 10 years. Apparently. Replied saying she will have great grandchildren in 10-15 years likely. She said she'd be dead by then.

I just can't win!!

What does she want!!

I'm growing out of my clothes SwissArmyWife. I think I'll be in leggings and long tops soon as going up a dress size in jeans won't be helpful as mine fit perfectly everywhere but the bump band!

detective I'm sure you must find it frustrating - but it made me chuckle - sorry!

horsey why on earth do people keep telling you you won't cope?! I appreciate I don't know you but you seem the sort that has a busy life and just gets on with things - IME those are the sort of people who just cope with whatever is thrown at them. Ignore ignore ignore!

Welcome pikz not long to go now....

VQ well done to your DH - I think you've probably got enough to be getting on with, without an extra person to wait on all day.

I'm off out for lunch and then a quiet evening in sorting photos, paperwork and everything else that is cluttering up my dumping room office

Welcome picz - good luck keeping up with the thread!

Horsey I can totally relate to people telling you how hard everything's going to be. I know everyone's expecting me to screw things up as I'm still quite young and aren't exactly famous for handling certain situations well. I am a self confessed control freak and like everything to be done my way properly but I know I'm going to have to let some things slip a bit when there's a baby in the mix.

DH was in a foul mood before he went to work last night - I swear if we make it through this first week of him working nights without splitting up/killing each other it will be a miracle. Turns out he's in a strop because he's no longer the centre of attention anymore and people are only interested in how I am or the baby?!? WTF - men, grr! I'm doing everything I can to make him involved in everything. And he thinks I'm the needy one...

detective tell your mum she should be grateful. When my mum retired, most of her grandchildren had not even been born! She seems like hard work.

Sorry I think I worded that wrong - I don't relate to the people, I relate to horsey being told having a baby will be the most difficult thing etc

Big slap to your DH MissMummy1 if he knew how hard being preggers is - he'd be embarrassed at his comments. Of course you deserve lots of attention and to be a bit spoilt - it's not like you've been through this amazing (but fecking knackering) experience before. Men are much needier than women I reckon! Have kicked DH out fishing and intend to spend the day snoozing on the couch - the third trimester tiredness has kicked in here.

Happy Saturday ladies.

brockle I am sorry you are feeling fed up today. I hope some time spent with your friend cheers you up.

detective your mum does sound odd. What does she want you to do? The other day she said she didn't know why you were having another. Sounds like she knows that her behaviour makes her pretty unlikeable - this might be why her grandchildren might not want to know her.

horsey we will all cope in our own ways. Someone at work the other day asked me I was all organised. Someone else scoffed and said someone like "passme will be organised. She always is". In truth though, my response was that I had no idea what organised meant in this context. We will all have babies and we will all find unique ways of getting by. It might not be that your way and my way are the same but they will suit us.

I had a lovely long lie this morning and feel good for it. I did my hair (for a change - ponytails r us usually) and have on a sort of floral long-line shirt. I look quite seventies really which makes me smile as I think I might look a bit like my mum did when she was pregnant with me.

Am off out for a lunchtime curry now. Delish.

VQ, not at all! I have to say that this has been physically and mentally by far the easiest pregnancy I've ever had :) Except for the 8 limbs/octopus thing, that is