November 2012 - lots of babies that can't wait for November

[StuntNun]

Previous ante-natal thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/antenatal_clubs/1584066-November-2012-babies-arriving-early-and-impatient-mummies-to-be

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

Haha. DH got up at 6.20 with DS. I was settling in for a nice lie-in when I heard the escalation of situation in the other room:
DH: oh, your pyjamas are wet, let's change them.
DS: can I have a shower?
DH: er, ok
Shower is had. Drying commences.
DS: I need a wee wee.
DH: oh, you've done one on the carpet. Let me clean it up.
DS: I get my potty.
DH: Come here, let me put your nappy on...oh, you've done a poo too...
DS: I done poo poo on floor.
DH: Yes, erm, have you finished?

I was laughing by this point but had to get up and rescue poor DH. Now in bed with my magazines and cuppa though (after scrubbing the carpet which we had professionally cleaned just weeks ago!). Nice start to the weekend :)

dixie lol. I love listening to those kinds of conversations from afar!

I'm cramping DS's style apparently

Normally if I am off on a saturday (rare!) I take the opportunity to lie in. Usually surfacing at 10 and pottering upstairs til lunch time getting ready/tidying up (bye bye those lovely lie ins for the next 10 years!!). DS loves it as he has full control of the TV/computer. He gets up earlier on a saturday than on a school day!

Now mum is up early and he can't do exactly what he likes! I've been told to go back to bed... no chance! I got bored lay there!

I fear he may be regretting wishing I was at home more often

I thought I was going to be bored on maternity leave, but you know what. I am enjoying the slower pace of life. I hadn't realised just how much I was trying to cram in to my time. Suddenly there is no rush to get things done! Trying to cram everything in to 2 days off a week, rotating from days to night shifts all the time... being knackered. I'm knackered now, but in a different way. I often felt depressed at doing a half assed job at almost everything because that was all I had time for!

I wandered around town yesterday going at my own snail pace getting things done without rushing, breaking in to a sweat, or trying to make it to every shop I needed before closing time. I found I was much more patient with other idiots people, and things that would normally wind me up failed to get a rise!

I am going to enjoy every moment! And stay nice and calm

Plan for today? Chill this morning, lunch out, and cinema this afternoon. Might make some cakes with DS when we get home. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh :)

What are you going to see Detective? Was it Taken 2 or did I imagine that. We're taking the boys to see Madagascar 3 which supposedly got good reviews.

DH is being all conciliatory after I got up at 3 in the morning cos I couldn't sleep with being stressed out. Then I was worried that all the stress was bad for the baby. So I got spoons for the rest of the night and a cup of tea in bed this morning.

Madagascar here also Stunt we are both about 4 years old, and find such things hilarious!

Did you give him my message btw?!

DP browses MN regularly, and I know in the past he has read my posts, and I think he may have read them again yesterday as he gave me a knowing look and said something like 'I don't like it when you go on MN and slag me off'. Oooops. I'd not say anything on here I wouldn't tell him, so tough luck dear ;)

I also know he found a post about washing fanjos, where I wrote I hope DP never finds this thread. He said he was going to post to say 'DP found this thread'... git

Often we are both browsing MN on our phones, lay next to each other in bed (well, not these recent days, he isn't allowed in my bed!) how sad, huh?!

I didn't realise Taken was a 12A, I quite wanted to see it, as I saw the first but thought it would be a 15, and a bit grown up for a 10 year old.

We'll still go to see Madagascar though! Might go and see Taken with DP on one of his days off this week while he is off work!

Or, I could just go on my own

Your dh sounds v calm about that whole situation dixie when ds wees/ poos on the floor it's usually followed by dh saying 'oh for gods sake ds!' And huffing and puffing because clearly looking after a 2 year old for 5 mins is a massive hardship.

He gets on my nerves a lot recently (dh)

I think my DP would be the same DH I can't see him having the patience for pee and poo on the floors! He huffs and puffs about putting his own rubbish in the bin for goodness sake!

Thanks VQ I will do if it doesn't get better soon. How do you know of its a chest infection? I've never had one before. I am quite wheezy and breathless and the cough is horrid

It's my baby shower today, was really looking forward to it but feel a bit poorly now

waves to valium and Georgee

the new house is great apartf rom not unpacking fully yet. I am just trying to get the old place rented and am in a bit of a panic about it because every pay day I have had no money left due to double mortgages and we simply can't afford another month of that. I need to buy some stuff for my hospital bag and a crib matteress but I have NO money!!

I just can't keep up with this thread!

Good luck mrswee it's a scary time for new things like that. Fingers crossed you get it rented.

Midwife just called. I have borderline haemoglobin levels so need to start iron supplements on Monday. No word of my wee sample though.

kissyfur are you coughing up green stuff? That's usually a fairly good sign of an infection.

That conversation sounds very funny dixie. I am hoping that DH's patience when cleaning up after the cat is a good indicator of how he will be when baby arrives.

Today will be sorting out the house day. I am very much looking forward to getting my house back to normal.

Ah, with you there mrswee, we're trying to sell a flat in the West End and just two people have been to see it in about six weeks. We got the tenants out to put it on the market and until we sell we're skinto! It might be a year! Luckily we have a veg patch in this new place which has about 50 swedes ready for harvest so we won't starve (before Christmas anyway) ... wish I was a bit keener on swedes though!

As for the boxes, try and find a room/corner for them and just tackle them one by one, they'll go down nice and steadily. When we first moved here we had to get takeaway three nights in a row because I couldn't find the crockery anywhere, they were away in some box at the bottom of everything. I'm sure you're more organised than me!

Sounds familiar dixie. And of course there's the occasional poo in the bath which my DH always gets the benefit of as he and DD have a bath together every evening. That's always fun!

kissy it is not always that easy to tell if it is a chest infection or not. I never had them before I was pg. I think being wheezy, breathless and having a horrid cough is enough of an indication to get your chest listened to. Sometimes you will have a high temp, but not always. Sometimes you cough up yucky sputum but not always. Sometimes you have an area that is a bit sore, like a stitch. Because baby is in your ribs, you do not have the same lung capacity, so need to look after what you have, plus pg reduces your natural immunity anyway. Hope it is nothing, but when I was pg I needed two lots of antibiotics for each infection as I left it too late before getting it checked.

Oh god, there you all are! I was getting bored then

I've not moved off the sofa since 0730. I think I should before I get a pressure sore!

Thanks pass

Hey georgee, sounds familiar! Hope you get to have more than neeps for your xmas dinner! DH said to me not to worry about xmas dinner cause he works and in a supermarket and everything will be reduced the day before xmas
We are just trying to do a couple of boxes a night. Luckily a couple of friends helped on the day we moved and unpacked the kitchen at the other end so we have that at least but we still only have a toilet not a shower or a bath and have a very slow plumber/tiler it's doing my head in. I need to go to the old place for a shower so I can't just have a relaxing bath and go to bed in the new place.
I keep telling myself this will all be worth it, can almost see the light at the end of the tunnel.. almost it's just I only have 6 weeks left.. fingers crossed!

Mrswee, can your DH speak to mine please! He works in a supermarket, and will most definitely not bring anything home on christmas eve! Hell, he doesn't even remember to bring home loo roll, bread or milk when we run out of those IMO every day essentials. Even when he knows he used the last of it... I get a text saying 'can you pick up xyz when at the shops'

Gosh yes I can see there's a lot on your plate mrswee. It will all be worth it, definitely. Fingers crossed then for a nice due date/overdue baby!

If we are here for Christmas (we're due in Harrogate but who knows what the weather will do) we might treat ourselves and dig up a few of the parsnips too. There may even be some sprouts! Tell you what, I'll donate you a veg box if you're stuck .

Anyway, DD and DH are out so I can get some peace to work and I'm MNing! Must get on! Have a lovely Saturday everyone.

Ladies selling houses - we've got a good support thread going here if you want to vent spleen: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/property/1557762-Support-thread-for-house-sellers It seems to be lucky too as two of us have managed to sell since it's been going!

We're going to be moving when Junior is 6 weeks old - and haven't started looking for a rental in Fife yet. Thankfully with the housing market dying on its arse up here - we managed to get full packing and unpacking for the move for £200 - so my only stress will be getting a small infant on a prop plane, potentially in a winter gale.... whilst DH drives the cat and the fish tank south with him!!! I think I'm going to head south to the inlaws for a few days with the baby whilst DH unpacks. He's very good at it - and it might be less stressful?

Shelly I love you. Was going to drag DH round the only Boots on the island (which is tiny) in the hope of finding any essential oils (and was pretty glum we'd not find the ones we want) - that website is awesome!!! Thanks so much. Order done - happy YW :)

MM is your DH trying to trigger early labour through stress? A £20k car!!!! Has he secretly won the lottery? I thought you were having to abandon your PG studies because of money worries? :(

The BHs sound exciting - keep an eye on yourself and call yer Mum if anything goes more uptempo.

DH has 2 days fishing before the season ends - so I packed him off this morning and conquered the entire bed in the name of preggo ladies everywhere. He's just rung me to say he's watching otters playing at his favourite sea trout spot - and do I want him to come and pick me up so that I can go to watch them. I'm still in my jammies so I told him to take a pic.

detective That sounds exactly like DP. He works in a supermarket as well and we will both get home from work in the evening and he'll say 'we've got no toilet roll. Haven't you bought any?' and seems genuinely shocked that I don't have psychic abilities. But he is home all morning and knows we have run out.

Woke up this morning to find our hamster died in the night He was quite old for a hamster and his brother died about 6 months ago. So we've gone from 2 hamsters and a dog to just the dog now. I'm quite upset about the little ball of fluff actually

apple sorry to hear about your hamster. I had them when I was young and was v upset when they died :(

I've got my baby shower today, looking forward to it although I feel so tired and need to Hoover and tidy up.

That's a shame Apple its always sad to lose a pet.

I gather congratulations are in order for Little & Nervous. So congrats!!

I can't keep up at all, so sorry... I've finished for maternity leave now (although official

Sorry for your loss apple genuinely. I may not like cats, but I do like a rodent. Will you be getting another?

Well, I went back to bed, fell asleep quickly, then was woken 20 minutes later with a bacon sandwich. I think DH genuinely thought I was off to be lazy, not genuinely to sleep. It was very sweet of him, but I would have rather slept!

I do not feel safe in a house without at least 18 loo rolls spare. We do have three toilets, so we are not likely to totally run out.

DH has taken DD2 out for a walk. He must be mad, as it will turn into a carry before he is out 5 minutes. I hope he remembers to bring her back (it is such a rare thing for him to take her out).

Bloody fat fingers & stupid phone...

Officially, I don't start until 05/11.)

Have a MW appt on Tues so will ask about the water birth at home issue, but I'm prob still going for a HB. My labour was quite short last time, so I'm a tad concerned that a) the pool wouldn't be ready in time & b) the late transfer to hospital would be likely to happen again and it was miserable to do it with DD.

On the labour speed note, any experts on raspberry leaf & evening primose for speeding up labour/encouraging it to start?

I'm 36wks on Monday, so think if I'm going to take anything it needs to be done soon. I went from slight niggles/a show to baby in about 12hrs (from 1cm at hospital, sent home, back to hospital at 9cm with waters gone in less than 2.5hrs) but then the second stage was slow (about 2hrs) although largely due to adrenaline/anxiety caused by the quick progress/transfer & poor positioning I think. Would raspberry leaf help with the pushing do you think?