November 2012 - babies arriving early and impatient mummies-to-be

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Previous ante-natal thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/antenatal_clubs/1579909-November-2012-arrivals-are-now-underway

New post-natal thread for the graduates: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/postnatal_clubs/1579907-November-2012-babies-are-here-at-last

Yes. Licking shoes. Mmm.

MM the thing is I would be very jealous of your sparkling clean home - I am simply too lazy to do it. Pre-pregnancy there was wine to drink and a world to set to rights. Now it is actually slightly tidier just because we are in the house a bit more but it is still a complete state most of the time.

Bless my parents - I honestly thank living in an ancient, dusty, damp wee cottage for my pretty rude adult health. I do fancy a steam cleaner though. Would it be weird to ask for one for Christmas?

Is it not a man thing pass and yw ? He's more chilled and sympathetic on the sleeping front when he's on leave. His shifts at the moment are long and tiring (12 hours on a boat making sure noone dies) and his job depends on his ability to stay awake. Heaven help him when there's a baby in the house! It's easier when he's on nights as I can be quiet downstairs or bugger off out for the day while he sleeps and I get a whole bed (well 3 beds actually of varying mattress firmness to switch between when my hips hurt) to myself at night. Win win!

I do think though out of every bloke I've ever been with he wins the award for most pathetic biggest hypochondriac. I was really ill with swine flu a couple of years ago, but Mr Hayfever Snuffles was apparently dying....

I have mopped our kitchen floor three times and we've lived here a year. DH might have done it 5-6 times. Maybe. We is going to have a grubby baby!

MM turn on R4, eat chocs, go and sit on the couch. You're going to have the next 18 years looking after a small person and cleaning up after them. Put your feet up lovely!!! Remember Oscar Wilde's words (something about a tidy house being a sign of a dull mind - but the baby has stolen my brain so I can't remember the quote)! I aspire to be like Quentin Crisp on the cleaning front who once said that if you can keep your nerve for the first 7 years, dusting is not a problem as it won't get any worse. Thankfully DH's first long term girlfriend was a cleaning obsessive nightmare and he can't bear me wasting my time on making things sparkly. I will remember to bath the baby though!

I LOVE my steam cleaner and recommend everyone has one on their santa lists!

Nooo my DH honestly is much more empathic than many women. He is a wuss when ill but better than most - he just takes himself off to bed. He's not tried to 'outtired' me or 'out ill' me when preggo. He knows I would kill him. Right I really am off to the drop in for my flu jag (am just putting off walking down the slippy brae to get there)

Surely steam cleaners kill all germs though (and we need germs on us!) - so would give rise to allergies? In the same way that using anti-bacterial cleaning products is a really bad idea health wise unless you like auto immune conditions tries to justify laziness

YW I need to find where the sugar police has hidden the chocolate first! I have a box of m&s choccie bics in the boot of my car, but alas he has it today

I might just bake today instead.

They're also the lazy person's way of making kitchen's sparkle! You could always miss the corners out if you wanted some dirt?

Good luck with flu jab. Mine still hurts but touchwood swelling is going down!

Off to google how to mop a floor...

YW I hoover the kitchen floor and think, 'well look how clean that's come up', then throw the dish cloth on the floor, wipe it round with my foot for a bit and hey presto, Helllllloooooo shiny floor!

My braxtons have stopped now I've had a poo. I think all my holes have had a conference and are on 'operation slop out'.

shelly nice mental image there. Thank you!

LOL shelley I'm really glad I've finished eating my banana before I read that

Pasties and other people with a cough, I find curling forwards and holding my belly helps prevent it being sore.

I just took the cover off my maxi cosi car seat for washing. It took 10 mins to get off and I have no idea how I'll ever get it back on again.

Good luck with that dixie

Getting a car seat cover back on should be possible, but i bet it would involve a lot of swear words if i had to do it!

I've just had to light the fire. DURING THE DAY! It is soooo cold !!

Lol shelly!

Back to Elias now. Grr!

MM my DH sleeps incredibly heavily and can get the sort of quality rest in 5 hours that I need 10 to achieve. He has always been a softy with me as well. We are all different in the end I suppose. It's entirely possible that my DH would drive you mental (he certainly would with the state he leaves the house in sometimes!)

yellow good luck with your jags.

I am off out to post a birthday present and buy me a bouncy ball. The midwife was showing us one last night and DH turned to me and said "you should get one of those" so off I go.

we've been going around and around with boys names today. a couple of new ones got thrown into the mix. its very confusing.

So the voicemail that said 'there is a drop in clinic at the surgery for flu jags on Tuesday' possibly should have stressed that it was the clinic at the maternity unit in Kirkwall not the local doctors clinic. Discovered this after waddling down the hill. Managed to get them to rearrange my jag for on Friday when I'm having a scan / seeing the MW and seeing the consultant in Kirkwall. Sadly my walk back to work is via the bakery. Nom nom....

How irritating YW!

We still have no girl's names. Well, we have our own ones, but no mutually agreed ones