December 2012 - Christmas is coming and we're all getting fat

[WillYouDoTheFandango]

New thread people, can't link as we ran out of room

So funny isn't it clarella hobnobs are like marines haha

They'll be calling out to me next time im in a shop 'dunk me'! Peter kay will be good to watch with my tens machine :) i think my plan if bridemaids may be a little extreme

Thanks stacey that was me. May have a look!

These BH are ridiculous. Every 3 minutes for the last few hours. So uncomfortable.

Whenever I start things these days I regret it! Half way through seven individual cottage pies. Got to do the potato still and I just want a nap!

Ooo Walnut are they painful?

Arrrr i just want to book panto anf brealfast with santa for the dd's but feeling too nervous to take the plunge :( only dates we can do are 8th december for panto and 16th december for breakfast might just have to be brave and do it. Dont want to interupt our traditions

walnut take a look on eBay under 'local collection' auctions. I got a lovely gliding chair for £25 on there, with no delivery charge too (ofc). As you're not in too much of a hurry just save your search and wait for the right one to come up.

I've not even had any BH here, so thinking this baby will take a while. Not due for 3 more weeks though, so time for him to stop being lazy yet

You lot having regular BH contractions - are they clearly distinguishable? I mean, can you neatly identify the onset and when they finish?

I think I get them sometimes (top of belly gets v hard and painful) but I don't notice them arriving or ending, just that after I've been uncomfortable/in pain for a bit, I notice that my bump's hard.

Bit of reorganising today while my husband's at the rugby - emptied desk drawers into storage containers, and stuck the baby clothes in instead. Much more sensible place than where they had been (in boxes in the hall cupboard).

Spoke to my father in law this morning - he protests that he's not that interested in his first grandchild, but the way he talks about my husband (both now and when he was a baby) makes me think that once he meets Bean he is going to be completely besotted. Lovely.

Totally fancy a chocolate biscuit now. Splashed out last time I was in Selfridges and spent far too much money on a packet of Mint Slice (an Australian biscuit). So delicious. I must remember to put in an order with the in laws. So far my husband and I have been very good, only having one each at night when we're both home. Such self-control!

I miss biscuits. If the GD turns out to be a bigger issue that doesn't disappear after birth, I will be distinctly unamused.

NCT sale this morning. Got some good stuff (including a sling, blankets, a cosy thing for taking the baby outside, a bowl for "top and tailing") and my husband obviously picked up a little something for himself (some kind of toy figurine). I did say that the sale wasn't for him!

Are they getting worse walnut??

Thats a cracking haul secondsop!

Bh are the weirdest things. Sometimes ive been able to distinguish a beginning and end, sometimes it seems my bump is permanently hard and just gets more crampy. A friend says she never had a single bh with two children. I seem to be having them much less now though - or rather theyve morphed into weetractions. Had loads when bump was higher at the top but since its dropped they seem to be moving into my lower back as much as anything. Ive made an executive decision not to count anything till i cant actually speak with pain/ things get messy after reading various experiences on nov thread (ladies having contractions for weeks - oh joy!! ) makes me MUCH more relaxed and that can only be a good thing!

Proudly looking at pram/ travel system i got from preloved that i have completely disassembled and washed and now put back together. Even wrestled the wooden bases out of the pushchair cover to wash that which dh tried and failed to do. Where theres a pregnant will theres a way!

I put chocolate in the freezer! Got a bag of Munchies in there now. But biscuits of any type belong in the biscuit jar, they go soft in the fridge.

I had loads of BH from 18wks, but the last couple of weeks iv not had any at all, I don't think this Shrimpy is in any rush to get out!

Dark chocolate digestives don't go soft in the fridge they're not in there long enough dp also puts chocolate in the fridge!

I've just set dd up with cebeebies and a cushion I can't move as my back/hips/stomach hurt too much to move

I love that the thread has mainly been about biscuits for the past two pages

For the record I'm a NO chocolate in the fridge kind of gal and I must confess I am a Dorothy/Dirty Dunker. Speaking of which I am currently munching a Florentine from the batch I made for the office yesterday with some raspberry lea tea (made bearable by being mixed with some apple juice!) Please note I am not dunking.

clarella I've had loads of BH from around 22 weeks or so - they started off with my tummy going hard but so that I could only tell if I happened to touch it at that point, but they've been more frequent and stronger in recent weeks - I can now feel the sensation of tightening without having to touch my tummy, and sometimes it's painful. I also am now finding that they come on pretty much whenever I exert myself, eg if I walk for a bit or even if I walk up the slightest incline.

I'm also getting a sore patch which I think is the baby's bottom pressing against me, near my belly button.

At the NCT sale my mum said "let's go round and look first" but it rapidly became apparent that this tactic didn't work and that we'd need to grab things we liked as we saw them. Mum was pleased to find a little Beatrix potter bowl which she insisted on buying for the baby as we'd each had one when we were babies.

So dp's got a football game in Hastings (two hours drive from here) when I'll be 36+2. I had dd at 36+1 (yes I was induced but I was contracting when I arrived at hospital that morning).

I won't be able to get hold of him if anything happens. I'm not very happy that he's going to be so far away I won't be pregnant enough to ask him not to go will I?

spotty I think you would be entirely reasonable to point to the precedent set by your first baby.

spotty I think you would be entirely reasonable to point to the precedent set by your first baby.

It's a cup game apparently very important followed by the football 'do'...

Seconds I also have that bruised/painful belly button but ds is laying on one side so not sure? Anterior placenta though so could be that.... I have heard those NCT sales can be crazy! Lovely about your mum and the bowl

Lord preserve me. My mum and husband are putting together the baby wardrobe. There is a battle of wills as to the following of instructions. Example: mum: "now we need one of the roundy screws". Husband "NO, it's called screw K".

Spotty stand firm especially given DD1 early arrival!!! Ask him how he'd feel if it did happen!

I'm a dirty/Dorothy dunker too - you lot have made me giggle! Oh an no choc in fridge it just doesn't taste the same!

I'm now hobbling about as back is killing me also painful BH (well I think they are) can we use deep heat or volterol?

Can't remember who said about sore patch on belly from baby's bottom but I totally get that...I've had it on and of for weeks now!!! Can get quite tender!

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/a1614802-AIBU-to-not-actually-have-a-problem-with-this#35457582

Anyone want to jump in and be opinionated? :o

Spotty, i would expect him to be contactable at all times and use his own transport so he could leave immediately if necessary. But then, dp says in that situation he would probably stay home...

If PidjChick starts prodding me, i prod him back and he stops

Hello! Sorry not had much time to catch up. Was dd's bday today and I'm exhausted from the visitors but happy.

I've just been looking on YouTube for reflexology points to induce labour and came across this video which I thought you might enjoy. Might try this later!!

Happy Birthday strawberrys DD!

Feel like I've had one long braxton hick today, I looked like John wane walking around at work as I feel like my hips are bruised and coming apart, still, glad to be going home and that was my last Saturday at work just getting home is a mission because of protest, tube closures and diversions

Strawberry hope your DD had a good day.

This morning I went to watch Twilight (very cheesy, makes me cringe!) and this afternoon I've been sewing the new cover for the Moses basket, very pleased with my progress so far, but need to get the sewing machine out.

I want more chocolate!