November 2012 - the ten week countdown

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My hubby's not seen the main event for months. He said he actually kicked his own balls the other day they were that full, I said at least they didn't have people living in them

We managed some intimacy last night, I think that probably caused the total wave to appear from my chest! Was the first time in weeks though.
I've been tearful about pretty much everything though. 9 weeks is just looming.

I don't think we will now until the baby is born!!! I don't think dh finds me very attractive ATM (I certainly don't!!)

I think I decided against a nursing chair.....

I bet he does Horsey my hubby said 'you can't get more feminine than that' and 'what's not to love about them boobs'. He is an old charmer!

Haha Shelly I'm having lots of dreams about water too (baths, swimming, sharks !!!, sailing, drowning etc) - apparently it's a subliminal thing about pregnancy and birth. Bizarre eh. Check out a website called dream moods which is a really fun dream dictionary for a laugh.

I think we just have a few wee things left to buy: some open front nighties for BFing, more fat girl pants (am loving big knickers, poor DH the romance is dead eh), a baby bath or bath support if we think we need it / decide not to use the sink, room thermometer and car seat base (again if we decide we need it / one will fit in the car, am not sure). Oh and DH has suggested we buy each other another ring to commemorate junior's birth (he can be a romantic soul when the whim takes him) - so we need to put some money aside to get those in November. I think we've decided on these (in silver, not gold, have you seeeeeeeen the price of gold these days!!!) to commemorate our time in Orkney and junior's 'made in Orkney' status too!: www.megalithic.co.uk/shop/brodgar_rings.htm

Oh and he has a list of things he needs to buy for me after or risk his testicles namely a decent bottle of and some stinky live cheese, and lots of

My DH finds me more attractive the bigger I get. Some men do, some men don't and I think it is just the way they are. I however feel just awful, my belly having doubled in size it seems, and I am getting quite out of breath. The thing is I know it is easier to do the deed before rather than after, for us anyway. I think I managed a quickie about three weeks post CS last time, which I was quite impressed by, and he was most grateful for.

When pg with DD1, and going a long way overdue, he was begging for a rest as I was using every method available to get her moving,and was horny as hell. Now, as last time, I do not want baby to be appearing before my section date, so it will tail off sooner rather than later. He complains if he goes three days without.

Still four and a half weeks until I finish work but I'm ready to leave now I'm so tired today

When I was pregnant with my first, my mum took me into the kitchen, closed the door and said to me, ' there are many ways to please a man, your hands can be one of them'! Looooooooooooooool! so I do get that all the time off hubby too. This is the woman who has been divorced more times than Zsa Zsa Gabbor by the way and is currently single!

YW The window was open and it was chucking it down last night so think that may have set me off thinking about water, plus I'm having a home water-birth. No idea what the Roman's in all their toga's were doing there though the dirty mingers :)

I have just under 6 weeks till i finish work, cannot wait, but need to start writing up notes for handover, not fun.

Evil are you having a cs or is 5 weeks your edd??

Still haven't really bought much, we bought a bath and a changing mat and have the free changing bag from boots. We have a list of stuff we need to get but think we are going to wait till Im on maternity and get it all online.

How do I get the free changing bag from boots Thechick?

I'm typing up notes as well ready for when I leave. That's my main task for this week. So many of the tasks I do are from memory and some of them even my manager doesn't know how to do so I'm trying to write as many instructions as possible.

OK MM1 from the bump pics - I look more like a 'boy' and you look more like a 'girl' bump (if our wee ones are true to classic bumpology!), but we both think we are having the opposite (actually if we're honest I haven't a clue now). I give up!!! I've told DH it's probably a hermaphrodite but was told that 'wasn't funny'.

Ok I'm having the oddest feelings. Right down as low as you can get feels like its where the pelvic bone joins... Like a movement but it's really hurting my bum. it's like a cramp but erm inside and low down as opposed to an all over bump tightening. Not had it before, feels erm odd.

I am on week 4 of maternity leave and would not have managed one more day of work. All I am doing is sleeping and lazing about. No nesting instinct has kicked in and it seems DP is nesting for me. My mum arrives tomorrow and I am hoping she will nest on my behalf too.

I am hormonal and my moods range from crying buckets of tears over a newborn baby on tv to wanting to rip DP head off. It is not good.

I am also in so much pain. My hips, lower back and pubic bone aches. Both babies still transverse. Consultant tells me this is rare at this stage and position of babies is stretching my uterus more. He is hoping bottom lady will move head down but she is quickly running out of space as her sister is laying transverse on top of her.

I am still being sick. Some mornings are amazing displays of brilliant yellow bile. Revolting way to start the day.

If another person tells me I am going to pop any day now, I will kill them.
Will burst into tears if consultant does not give me details of birth at next appointment.

However, despite all the moaning. I love carrying them. It has been the most amazing experience. I love how they wiggle and squirm in the mornings when I lay in bed talking to them and it amazes me how they start kicking when DP comes home. They must recognise his voice.

Off to midwife appointment now. Bet she tells me I am measuring 40 weeks today, great.

I know you've all been waiting for this- my enormous bump has finally made its way onto the Facebook page. I'm astonished at how much smaller it looks when not wrapped in clothes :o

Oh garden they sound like lovely little ladies. Fingers crossed things get more comfortable for you soon and you get some clarity on the birth. Good luck xx

apple I got it by joining the boots parenting club and they send you a voucher for a free bag when you buy pambers new born nappies. They send vouchers for other stuff too. I'm the same at my work, my boss is very good at letting us work independently, but it does mean at times like this everything needs to be explained and written down.

Tits coulld it be the baby kicking you? I get pains all over my body from this child. Got some good hoofs to the bladder yesterday, really thought i was going to wet myself. Today this little one is seeing how far my belly can stretch by pushing out with his legs against my back, well thats what I think he's doing.

Aw pixies

I can sympathise with the people asking if I'm popping soon- there seems to have been a real upsurge in people saying that this week to me. I just want to poke them in the eye when they say that :s

Has your consultant been interested in you at all? I haven't seen mine since about my 16 week appointment and no one's mentioned anything to me about getting ready for birth. They all seem to expect that I'll just go to 37+ weeks and I should just go away. I'm so miserable at the mo, but I can't really bring myself to be anything else. I'm so looking forward to them getting here (and by extension me getting my body back to myself) that I keep hoping that I go into labour really soon. Then I feel awful because I just feel really selfish. Every day that they're in there is better for them etc etc :(

tits that sounds very much like how labour started for me. Not sure that is what you want to hear though, and you have older kids anyway don't you? Just keep an eye on it and rest! Hope it soon passes.

I am pretty sure it is 5 weeks to EDD for evil as she is some way ahead of us. It is 6 weeks to my section (shit, fuck, bugger...faints)

garden I think you are doing so very well, and surely with twins at this gestation you are meant to measure big! Hope the ladies turn. I am guessing you would prefer a natural birth if possible?

I am now working my way through OBEM on 4OD. Third series, programme 2: the fashion designers. Hmm. Anyone remember them? Beautiful birth, but I was wishing a section on the smug darlings (mean woman). Just jealous really, as they have the perfect life

there you go tits for the nutella bread, havent tried it yet so hopefully its as good as it looks

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Hope that link has posted right

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catbag I want my body back too (not that it was much to start with) and I only have one belly dweller, and less kids than you!

I have been pregnant for over 2 years of my life, and I am looking forward to being able to draw a line under the reproduction section. I particularly look forward to knowing that I will be able to maintain a figure once I regain it, and hope to be sterilised so we can make wild passionate love without fear of delightful accidents (strokes bump lovingly). And eating pâté and liver, and drinking wine etc.

VQ I seem to remember them being the most vacuous couple on OBEM - were they the ones who said as long as 'baby was pretty and had nice hair' - that was the most important thing. They made a special labour outfit for the Mrs to wear in the pool? I have to confess to hoping that said TOWIE tanorexic is now covered in baby puke, picking fake nails out of a shitty nappy, wearing joggy bottoms and roaring at her dense DH. But then I'm a bad person who finds these sorts of image obsessed folks deeply unsettling (hides granny knickers and yellow wellies, and attempts to look stylish).

I miss pâté so much, it's harder for me going without that than alcohol. Plus my manager had some today for lunch which has made me crave it even more

I'm really struggling at work today and apparently I look 'washed out' as well. I have piles of work to do but can't motivate myself to do anything. I want my bed now. How am I going to make it to the 12th of October?

That is totally how I feel too VQ. My eldest is 13 and I really feel like I've spent quite long enough reproducing so prolifically. Especially since I've spent the last 3 years (and this coming year) working on my degree so as to try and get on the career ladder. I seem to have given over a lot of my life to raising my brood, and while I don't resent it, I am ready to shift my priorities slightly. In about 5 years now :/