Sneeze births please, and we'll BROOK NO ARGUMENT

[TheLittleFriend]

Over here Brookers. I'll stick a cake in the oven

But Christmas shopping is hard Biscuits what a lovely young fella to come and ask if you are ok though, I do know with me people being nice to me makes me cry again :(

AIBU to get someone else to collect my car?

I have real trouble not crying when people are being nice to me. DH is often banned from trying to make me feel better when I'm sad, because I can't get back in control when he looks so concerned, and asks how I am and gives me a cuddle...

Boo I wouldn't worry about meeting him again when you go get your car, I'm sure he wouldn't say anything, even if it happened to be him you see he might hide from the mad pregnant lady. I'm sure he'll be very professional about it all.

A lady brought her 2 week old baby to yoga last night. He was so small! It's been a long time since I've seen a baby that young. She said he was born at 7lb 12, and is now around 7lb 9 - so still kind of newborn sized. Though apparently he looks much bigger than he did as he's 'straightened out'.

So close to freedom from work...

That does sound like a mixed w'e, Whims. People are a problem when they attend the gigs/exhibs/craft fairs that you want all to yourself, aren't they? How frustrating. They also missed a trick by going foodless when there are gestating mothers to feed. Still - we all love your snowglobes.

I went to 'wander' round Tate Britain and enjoy the delights of the members' room (carrot cake) before my membership expires. I've realised that renewing might be a bit of a waste of money for the next 12 months minimum, sadly. I did enjoy this in particular - Frank Bowling - cool West Indian artist who headed over the big pond in the 70s. And I whisked round the pre-Raphaelites but far too euphoric for my liking, and packed. Plus I kept getting flashbacks to that strange BBC2 drama about them all shagging around rather rubbishly (on about 2 years ago possibly - bit modern and silly).

Ah - you damsels in distress, Boo and Biscuits. Everything teary is forgiven of preggo ladies. I balled my eyes out in Rust and Bone at the cinema on Friday (little boy in a couple of tragic scenes, looked far too much like my DS for comfort). Fortunately the couple next to me were v busy cramming chocco in their faces to take much notice. Boo - send someone to collect your car, of course that's not U.

Nuts - sounds like your baby has started to knuckle down and you are part-engaged. Exciting and good news. How about you Stacks? I don't think DS engaged until the v end really but I feel more pelvicky by the day here. And re' the snooze straight after you're out of bed, Stacks, I can confess to doing that today. Just so tired! After DS went off to CM's I went up to bedroom to get dressed and felt a bit whoozy so lay down and before I knew it the clock said 11am.

I wonder how Smegs is? Brooking.

Hullo

Yes, 'tis true. My due date is next wednesday. BH a-plenty here, but nothing suggesting imminent childbirth. Drat and bother.

tock, stacks, nuts, boo, biscuits, sparks, olives, little, whims I hope you're all doing well, and I'm really sorry I've neglected you all for a while. I'm feeling woefully unprepared (hospital bag isn't even fully packed ) so it's probably some awful form of denial. I still like reading the thread, even if I haven't been posting.

nuts - I have to get into some weird positions too to pee properly. Sometimes lifting the bump is the only thing that works.

Sorry I haven't been around much. I've been keeping my mind of the worry, and the sudden PGP I've been suffering, by mucking around on some of the more insane threads. There are some seriously odd posters on MN! Thank goodness for you lot, you keep me sane . PGP is because baby is engaged and really pressing down, IYKWIM.

BTW, on the random crying thing - DH and I had our final pre-baby 'date' yesterday. We went to see Skyfall then for a nice lunch. I didn't cry at the end of the film, despite DH's expectations - bum too sore from sitting still for 2+ hours. However, the trailor for Les Miserables had me in floods . It looks rather good though. I may go see it at the local baby cinema .

Hi Smegs - good to see you: keep sane in your last pg days and brooking for a quick sneeze. Baby cinema rocks - called The Big Scream here - and I've already got in my mind to indulge most Fridays while the baby is still squishy and stuck on my boobs most of the time. Imagining you and the bump lifting - crikey. I've noticed it getting increasingly harder to wipe properly. TMI - sorry.

Dreadful night here - 2hrs sleep if I'm lucky. I'm afraid MIL got a piece of my hormonal mind at 5am this morning. Fairly reasonably, I hope, with an initial thank you (for home knitting for kids) and good wishes, so not TOO rudely, possibly, maybe. Long story shorter: she decided to comment to DP this weekend that a wedding with our friends - rather than a v small registry office with parents job - would be a 'waste of money'. This is a woman who is about to sell a 5-bedroom house and not reinvest because she doesn't want any ties - so she'll be funding a stranger's mortgage for the coming years rather than investing in a property to pass on to her children/grandchildren. I didn't point out what obviously upsets me (I actually don't care what she makes of our wedding plans that much) but I did write to her saying that we were both v responsible people who work very hard, and are saving for our children and investing in our future but would like to feel free to consider celebrating our happiness with our kind and supportive friends. It's our money after all and she probably feels the same as she prepares to sell her house... Oh dear, I hope not dreadfully unkind but also it's time she showed some respect for everything that DP and I are doing here; she seems to take everything for granted.

smegs I cant believe it!!!!!

I've spend the last couple of days reading all the 'bumpf' the midwife gave me!! But I have to ask a question, I mean it just sort of shocked me when the midwife said it, about personal hygenie!! She said it was really important to wash hands etc, and remember to always wife from front to back do people really do it the other way round?!! And do enough people to it from back to front to justify the midwife saying it?!!!

I'm 8+4 today, and I like when I hit a wednesday because I can say I'm nearly 9 weeks (or whatever the next number has been) because Im closer to 9 weeks, then I am to 8!!! 9 weeks!!!!! surely I only got my BFP last week? 9 weeks, and only 2 more till my scan

Tock perfectly reasonable I think!! Its your wedding and you should be allowed to have what ever you want. I think she would be right to be concerned if say you were going wildly over the top and were digging yourself into a massive black hole of debt, but even then it would be none of her beeswax!!!

oh and my hairy tum is fine I feel fairly proud of it now I know that the majority of brookers have hairy tums!!!

Yay for 9 weeks Sparkle.

And about the personal hygiene! No midwife has said that to me - maybe she's had a particular case where it's been an issue?

smegs my lovely, good to see you. Now please hang around so we can all labour-symptom-spot with you this week.

sparks that does seem a bit of an odd thing for the Mw to say. Maybe when you're struggling to wipe like tock you need a reminder

Oh and tock I think yanbu about the letter. It sounds like you put a well balanced point across.

I've got my slap cheek immunity blood test this afternoon. Shame they can't test if I'm actually incubating it, I might ask while I'm there.

sparks, oh, you'd be surprised at what patients do! I am sure you and all of us here are normal, but, oh, some of the things I could tell you...

smegs, I was just looking up our thread from ages ago when you had the low AMH. My SIL has a very low one, so I wanted her to hear an encouraging story. (I didn't mention I just knew you from the internet!) Next week though?! How did that happen? Everyone else's pregnancies go SOOOOO much more quickly! A bit late now, I suppose, but Pilates has been wonderful for my PGP.

tock, well done about the letter. I have a great MIL but have had to have words with my DM before. I think things are better since then, so I hope it is the same for you.

whims, sounds lovely! Can we all get those lovely snow globes too?!

I am doing fine. Feeling less sick and the SPD is better after Pilates. 26/40 tomorrow, so could be (but very, very unlikely to be!) only 11 weeks to go!

Do we have a stats thread? There was one a while ago, I think, but I don't know if we are using it at the moment.

Thanks for your support guys. Needless to say we plan to keep our budget as tight as possible, without being mean, for the big day - in line with our situation and income. Good food and plenty of booze and not so concerned about clothes, flowers etc! Great that you tackled a similar situation too Bartlett (can't believe you are 26wks - tri3 is coming at yer!) She hasn't written back, even though she spends a lot of time on the internet mostly looking at property.

Sparks - I think I got something about wiping too but it went over my head as obvious and common sensical so why bother, but I am a bit naughty like that and often think that when the MW is explaining something. I'm such a know-it-all and should be a bit more humble. Well done on hitting 9 - double figures soon, lady!

Little - I hope you are not an incubator of anything other than a lovely brooking baby.

Waves to Biscuits and others.

xxxx

bartlet as soon as I have one I'll put up a photo. Or even a vid if MN will let me.

Like tock I had a terrible night's sleep. I woke up about 2 and didn't get back to sleep until 5, then DS3 came in at 5.30 and my husband gets up at 6. We're going to our regular toddler group this morning, which is quite a long way away today (we take it in turns to host) and I know he'll fall asleep in the car on the way home so I won't get to go to bed at the same time as him either. Bum. And I completely lost my rag at DS2 (who didn't really deserve it,but he was being annoying) on the way to the school bus, which was then early, so they had to run so I didn't get a chance to apologise. Poor little chap. I feel terrible that he's going to be at school all day with me having shouted at him.

Whinge whinge. Sorry.

Good to see you smegs. Not long to go now! And yes, totally agree about the loony posters. I find home education (which to an extent I agree with) an excellent source of loonies on here. But normally I stick on here, or browse food or larger families. Curiously, larger families doesn't seem to move very quickly. Presumably all these people with 13 children have more pressing concerns than MN (imagine!)

Go Smegs, Go Smegs

Nice to see you Bartlet I thought about you the other day when I got signed off on my Module 1 for Senior Section. How are you getting on and when is the Pack Holiday?

New home for the post grads

Hi Jen, I finally got assigned a (very nice) mentor who came round last Friday and signed lots of my book, so I have to go to a District meeting and do something with another unit and I am done, so I think I am still on track to get it done before the baby arrives. Pack Holiday is booked for the end of June! I didn't know you had a Senior Section unit as well - well done finishing that off.

Do you have any that are coming up for Guides? We invite 9 year old Brownies up at the end of a term for a fun, joint meeting to help prepare them for the transfer. I guess you could do the same with Rainbows too. Remembrance Parade could work if you took any along to that and there were other sections there. If not then Thinking Day? Just trying to think of things that shouldn't require too much effort to organise.

Thinking Day might not be ideal - baby due on the 21st Feb! What if the baby was born on Thinking Day and I had to call them Olave???

I have emailed my DC asking about Guide contacts so I can take the older ones to a Guide meeting one night and asking about a District meeting, but there's not been one for the last 6 months and when she's got too many emails, she just deletes them, so will need to keep an eye on that!

If you don't get a response from your DC then get in touch with the Div Com. You can get a District Directory from Go! but I think you may have to have District access. Have you tried looking on Join Us to find where other units are?

Poor you Whims - I hope you get some rest. Do you know what's keeping us up? Is it just good old fashioned pg?

I think it must just be hormones tock. I'm not stressing about anything. How are you feeling after your night? At least you can go to bed soon. I haven't even picked the boys up from school yet!

Oh, boo for insomnia. I hope tock and whims get better nights sleep tonight.

Sparks I never read the bumph either, apart from one hilariously patronising leaflet on breastfeeding. I always intended to (and did, very happily) but it made me want to not do it as it was so bloody annoying!

Good luck for your test results, Little.

Tock your wedding plans sound great, what on earth does it have to do with your MIL? Hopefully she's a little ashamed of involving herself in something that doesn't concern her.

Bartlet I do hope my story can give your SIL some hope. I have heard that AMH is not considered definitive by some fertility experts, but as I don't have a medical background I can't really comment. Also, thanks for the Pilates tip - my yoga class has been great for helping with discomfort (especially as I'm paying £3 for a one to one hour long session - go Surestart!) but it's more walking that's the issue. Oh well, not much longer I hope.

I have a kind of insomnia - I have to lie in the same position for upwards of an hour every night in order for the baby to stop wriggling wildly. It's actually painful so very difficult to sleep! It means I get to do a bit of MNing on my phone though.

Hospital bag - packed. Phew! It's not as over-full as last time, this time I know what I will need/not need. Lots of cotton pants - yes. Aromatherapy candles - definitely not!

Well at actual Yoga last night after several days of yoga baby I noticed that the bean had moved to the right side - was previously lying with back on the left-hand side - had a very lopsided bump.... Anyway, I'm guessing he ( we are team yellow but still call it he...) was just trying out engaging to let me know how it feels to have something poking in your cervix... Which is nice.
But actually glad to be able to pee freely :o again.

Smegs I woke for my regular 4am wee this morning and didn't get back to sleep :( but I'm hoping to re-coup some sleep tonight. But when I go to bed the bean gets mega active for anything up to an hour, I'm amazed at his stamina honestly! Actually he might be active longer or shorter, I think I sometimes fall asleep whether he is done or not...

Hope everyone else is having a lovely day. X

smegs, thanks. Sadly the AMH isn't the only issue so it seems unlikely to happen naturally, but we live in hope!

nutella, sounds tiring. Can you go downstairs for a cup of hot chocolate and then go back up after a break? I find that it sometimes helps me more than staying in bed getting annoyed that I can't sleep!