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

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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

Oh no apple losing a pet is awful. Sometimes I'd happily string our cat up (like when he shreds new furniture, or yaks up a furball in the middle of the night) but I'll be in bits when he heads off to the couch in the sky.

Have just bought stressballs and lucozade sweets for labour on Ebay this morning. Living on the island has made me dependent on internet shopping. I miss a good potter down the high street though (a good high street).

YW I think he's of the mindset 'oh I've finished paying for a car, maybe I should buy another one!' He's made no secret of the fact the guys at work take the piss out of him driving my (very girly) pink citroen - but man the feck up t!! I don't know if it wilp actually happen, or if he was just talking crap but I'm not impressed. And he knows it. Leaving aside the fact it's my turn for a new car, we'd agreed to trial sharing 1 until my mot is up in March and then decide if we're replacing it or buying a second car. We cannot justify running 2 cars anymore when he only needs it 1 week of the month during the day to travel 2 miles down the road!!! Arghh I will stop ranting. I fear you ladies are bearing the brunt of my hormones after he's had his fair share of shouting to contend with . You do become normal again after birth right??

YW there's a huge amount coming up for rent down here every day. Houses that have sat on the market for ages suddenly have rental boards being stuck up. Typical there was nothing when we were looking a few months ago! A flat that I fell in love with switched from sale to rent yesterday. And for about the same as we're paying now, I'm gutted! http://m.rightmove.co.uk/quickPage.html?page=8&cc=html5%2Fhomepage.html%3Fgoto%3DHOMEPAGE here in case it fits the bill for you

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Wow Chunky we're due on the same date. I'd be interested in answers to those questions too. Am about to make myself my first cup of raspberry leaf tea.

Am also very chuffed as I think I can feel someone turning from ROA to LOA (or at least OA) as we speak... haha bouncing on my fitball whilst on MN works magic.

No I don't think we'll get another. We will have our hands full with the dog and baby when he decides to arrive. I'm not against our son (sounds so surreal saying that) having pets in a few years if he wants them though. I was never allowed them when I lived at home with my parents and I love animals.

Have a lovely time at your baby showers kissy and dh21 I'm sure you'll enjoy it once it's underway and you are being spoiled!

Woo cheers MM I do think it could be a male hormone thing too. Some blokes just seem to go absolutely nuts just before a baby is due and panic and do lots of 'young, free and single' boy activities. I wonder if the car, as you say, is his way of doing this.

Ta for the advice on houses! Fancy doing a Kirsty and Phil for us ;) - I can't get the two links to work though - they seem to go to a rightmove home page?

Bollocks, okay it's the 3 bedroom one in Donib Gdns in DBay on the rightmove website!

Having moved 3 times in the last year now (and viewed at least 50 properties on my own while he was offshore) I'm something of an expert at asking agents/landlords annoying and irrelevant questions! Coupled with the fact t used to make a living out of assessing rental properties and prosecuting landlords, feel free to ask for help! I could ask our friend who owns our house if any of his other properties in the village are empty if you like? He is the most chilled out, fantastic landlord we've ever had!

Rant away MM That's why we're here for. I would be fuming with him - pregnant or not.

DP was saying he doesn't understand how one human can deliberately hurt another when we are both sitting here with tears in our eyes for a hamster that died a natural death. We're both so soft, we will be terrible when the baby is here.

Oh and part of me hopes this is just a 'omg I have less than a month of being irresponsible, lets make the most of it thing!' although having met his dad (the man who bought himself a rolls royce for his 60th this year, and who frequently comes back from a day out and forgets to mention - or casually lets slip at the dinner table - he's bought a new boat/van/tractor/company as if it's perfectly normal), I fear it may be a genetic flaw. Feck. I actually feel a bit sorry for MIL!

Aww bless you and your other half apple! Since I became pregnant, DH has become quite sensitive and teary too. He does have a softer side to his chaotic personality!

mmm I just had a hot choc and the baby is going mad!

Pasties you absolute gem! Hot chocolate is what I'm craving!! (fancied something all morning but couldnt figure out what!)

Woo that house is lovely but it's furnished (gorgeously!) so definitely not one for Mr Cat!!! looks at cat mangled wardrobe It's also about £300 more than we want to pay - I reckon that amount of rent might make things a bit too tight and stressful which isn't going to help my mental health coping with a new baby!

We really are just looking for something cheap and cheerful for six months whilst we look for somewhere to buy. There were a few older properties in DB (60s and 70s build) with newish kitchens and bathrooms (but nowt too glam). To be fair any house where I don't have to shovel coal or lay a fire with kindling and newspaper, will now seem glam and uber modern!!!

We have shit loads of furniture so need somewhere unfurnished too. I think DH is getting onto the 'look for a house' mission next month. He may well tap your knowledge of the local market if that's ok?

No problem at all. I would have loved that flat, but it would be dh's idea of hell so he ppobably would have said no - same problem as harbour flat (no outdoor space, surrounded by too many other people, no garage etc) but without the psychotic landlord! I know there's a 2 bed flat going for about £450 a month in nqf right down by the pier. It's also on the rightmove website. Seriously though, anything at all give us a shout!

Popping in so I can keep up. Free wifi in hotel and I brought my iPad so I'm lazing and browsing before my elemis mum to be treatment later today!

In fact sack that, it's furnished too!

Hot choc was lush, I could have another one, but better not!

MM I can sympathise with the car buying ideas. We were going to change our car for something cheaper in the summer and had decided on one. But ten it would have been too complicated to sell ours privately and order the new car and coordinate it all for before the baby comes so we decided to keep ours for another year when it will be almost paid off. Also, DH had got a new job with more money so we decided we could manage without getting something cheaper.
All good up would think but no, DH decided to pop in to the new BMW garage and fell in love with a car that he discovered would cost the same as our Ford Focus!! I have pointed out we were supposed to be lookin for something cheaper not the same. And as we're having a babystyle it wasn't a good idea to be looking at a 3 door sporty car with posh leather interior and also, seeing as his new job is over the moors towards Manchester, a rear wheel drive BMW with fat sports tyres probably wouldn't be the best idea with the winters we get I have managed to get him to wait till next summer when we know how much extra money we'll have from his overtime and when I'll be due to go back to normal pay.

Last nights cricket dinner was good. It was probably the last time we'll see a lot of our friends there before the baby comes. There were a lot of "how long have you got left?" And when I said 5 weeks, shocked faces thinking I look ready to drop
The dinner was a curry buffet, the curry wasn't very spicy or rich but has given me god awful gut rot today not good when coupled with the effects of iron tablets

No idea why my phone has changed baby to babystyle
Sorry lots of typos in my previous post

I just hate expensive cars - because dh bought one years ago, he had it for aprox one year and we have only just paid off the car loan for it. If we calculated how much it cost him every time he drove the actual car I'm sure I would weep of course when he sold it it had dropped majorly in price. AWFUL!!!!!

So it's a man thing then fatima? He doesn't seem to realise just how much difference the extra few hundred a month will make over christmas and at the start of the year when we need it most. We do NOT need a second car, and certainly not a big expensive offroader! I despair...

On a plus note, I'm feeling like less of a bitch for cancelling his dive trip tomorrow! Due to a 'club incident' and crappy weather forecast it's been cancelled anyway! Just hoping he makes it back down from up north (he decided rather than leave me alone last night just to go up this morning) in time for my dad's dinner party tonight... And find something appropriate that I can squeeze into that isn't dh's pyjamas!

I'm making a hot chocolate now

When I tell everyone I've got 4 weeks to go they are shocked but they say that I don't look anything like 8 months pregnant and that they were my size when they were 5/6 months. They probably mean well but that and the fact that I'm measuring a week behind for my dates makes me worry that the baby is going to be really small. I don't want a whopper but I want him to be healthy.

pasties we finished paying off an audi this month that he sold for a stupidly low amount just after I met him 3 years ago (to buy the fecking landrover that will be in the scrap yard by the end of next week!) Surely he'd have learned his lesson by now?!

I will say that ever since DH has been a saint with money, he went from being crap with money to being fan-fucking-tastic with money so I view it all as a learning curve. His brother is still awful with money and now DH cannot believe it! makes me laugh because he used to be the same :)

apple I think some people struggle to know what to say to pregnant ladies that wont be offensive, they probably think they are giving you a big compliment without realising it makes you worry a little bit! My mum has been the only one so far to tell me I look masive, it hurt my feelings. I didnt tell her though because I didnt know what to say!!