hey friends, just had lovely big catch up session. Have finally finshed all pre-baby beauty treatments and feel ready and glammed up to hang out in my mummy and baby sanctuary for as long as i want to without worrying about hair roots, hairy legs and grotty toe nails. Wax was pretty much painfree with no drugs and i felt-off-my-face-big -fat-joint style after the most amazing massage, so am hoping the pain killer hormones and oxytocin production techniques are doing their things :)
Milk, congrats on the arrival of little william!!
zara and londonlivvy, congrats on starting mat leave - it is the best!!
welcome orenishii and ayeasha, never to late to join us!
fjord, hugs to you, you are not failing your baby, you have made sacrifice after sacrifice during your pregnancy with your GD diagnosis and it sounds like labor was tough for you too, to do the best for Ida. I expect breastfeeding is probably going to be a bloody hard slog for most of us, but none of us are failing our babies if it doesn't work for us. The one thing i have picked up in the UK is that there is help out there, and we need to try and get out and get help. Finding help will be the only thing i will be leaving my mummy and baby sanctuary for. I hope there is something u can access in norway and your DH can stay off work a little longer to support you and have a word in MIL's ear, as well.
bella, hey due date buddy - u can keep calling me baccus if u like, isn't he the god of wine....i cannot wait to be worshipping reguarly at his alter again :)
midget, good luck with sweep no. 2.
cwest, congrats on finally getting your family home
loopy, so pleased baby loopy isn't breach!! Hope u r not slightly miffed, like i was, that my baby's arse is hard to differentiate from it's head :) Poor bum-head baby beccus :(
mickey, kyria and yomping, and everyone else struggling with pregnancy and not enough zzz's - will an orgasm help? mickey, especially thinking of u as you're still at work and it's so hard after 36 weeks. I think who ever said that u can now get signed off by your gp with preggo related issues and start your mat leave is right.
On the topic of sex, londonmrs cracked me up with her evident disappointment that her DH isn't getting into the orgy swing of things to natrually induce bubs - i love that you are going to led zepplin, where are they on? Maybe that will get your hubby into a more sex, drugs and rock'n'roll frame of mind and he will be more obliging? :)
squid, good to hear from you! You look amazeballs and jess is sooo cute! I echo the person who appreciated the honesty of your birth story and how u r feeling now - i didnt think your birth story was negative, it was realsitic and i am glad u shared it with us. Even the orgasmic birth dvd shows that labor is full on with the women questioning their ability to cope - i think most of us hoping to do it without drugs expect there will probably come a time where we beg for it to stop/for an epidural/c-section....hopefully at the time we can remember it's normal for us to feel that way and the journey should just about be almost over, unless medical intervention is really what we and our babies need.
God, waffle, waffle, waffle...time to get dinner on.