October 2013: no pushing in from the back of the bus, please

[MrsHoratioNelson]

Stats sheet here

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/lv?pli=1&key=0AidVHHwJSwC3dDU2VzFhWWt1ckg4dW84WkdCNzhOaFE&f=true&noheader=true&gid=1 New arrivals here

Key:
SC - still cooking (pre EDD)
SFW - still f*ing waiting (post EDD)
OWT - on way to theatre (CS)
IP - induction in progress
SWIL - somewhere in labour
LIT - lost in transition

clapham sounds like your manager got what he deserved. Good for your company for listening to the team and responding swiftly and directly to the feedback. In most organisations I suspect he probably would have been promoted rather than fired!

Flyer I am jealous of your 1/5 engaged. My check at 38+5 showed not engaged at all!!

Checking in , thanks MrsHN for the thread.

checking in - SC at 38+1 after an unsuccessful and uncomfortable sweep yesterday.

I still need to join the FB group, who would be best for me to send my RL name and description to?

Karma I can have a go at adding you. Pm me.

Thanks Orange, PM sent

Evening All,
I'm afraid no insight to share as my hormone befuddled brain got the days muddled up. I'll hopefully have something useful to contribute tomorrow...

Having a 'lovely' evening trying to get DS to do some thank you cards almost 2 months after his b'day. Not the easiest of tasks, even when we've reduced it down to a mere 'Thank you for my X, Love Ash' How hard is that?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Clapham must be good to hear he wasn't just you who could see how useless he was.

Pseudo What did DS make of little badger?

to those SFW.

Oh God, now DS is scratching his head like a cat. Time to crack out the Headrin. Oh you new Mums, what joys you have ahead of you......

Pink what timing! I was just about to ask for your thoughts on why I should be grateful that I'm still pregnant

Legally is of course quite correct about the psychiatrist. It's similar to these cases where parents don't want their children to have surgery or want to take them for some experimental treatment in America. I'm always astonished that people don't follow the medical advice, but I suppose listening to MoN say how she hasn't always been told everything or she's had to push for this, that and the other, you could see how you might become distrustful of the doctors.

Checking in. Making shepherds pie for tea to freeze leftovers. That's about the most active I've been all day!

No instant cure for my sore back at the chiropractors but the good news is my pelvis area is pretty much straight, even if it is stiff and tender so that means the exit is nice and clear for baby to come out.

I forgot I made enough dinner for two days yesterday and have had a mushroom and lentil stew in the slow cooker all day so will have that tomorrow. Not sure mushrooms freeze well. My brain has really turned to mush.

39+6 and sc. I am hooping that this baby will make its appearance tomorrow as I have never been late before and don't want to start now! I've been polite and not jumped the queue, but surely tomorrow is my turn at getting a yummy baby to cuddle?

No signs of anything happening yet though sadly

Phew! Ds in bed and I won't be far behind. Sick toddler at 38+3 is no fun whatsoever. I know he won't sleep through as well so hoping if I go to bed at 8 I'll get 4 hours decent kip before I either need a wee or he wakes up for a cuddle and some calpol!

All this talk of baking today is making me very hungry! Going to try my hand at homemade mincemeat for Christmas this week if baby doesn't make an appearance.

Re the question about midwives, I've heard that the baby doesn't actually have any rights until after its born so they have to respect the mothers wishes, even if they are ridiculous like that lady was being. I know she was scared but it was so dangerous for her baby!

Oh dear god. MIL on phone telling DH not to panic about the non-arrival of the baby. I'm not sure he was, to be honest

Then he wound her up asking whether, as it was so long ago when he was born, did they have proper anaesthetic?

Now she's asking how I can crochet hats when I don't know what sex the baby is . Have I missed something? Are hats only for boys or vice versa?

She could do a white bag mrsh or yellow? I think MIL's are born to be evil, my real MIL hasn't contacted dh since I was 20 weeks and all of a sudden yesterday she makes contact im sure it has nothing to do with being due a baby in 6 days the nosey cow

Shepards pie here for dinner too. Dd just in bed I said nun night darling and she replied nun night princess to me :-D children can be so sweet can't they?

wicked sending u lots of labour vibes! How early were your others?
My mum just texted me to say can u please run up and down the stairs so I replied 'no I'll still be pregnant at christmas' lol

A white bag clearly I meant a white hat ....

One of the positives of not having the planned homebirth, has meant that we have dealt with Ali meeting both sets of grandparents already and we're clear to hunker down at home, visit-free for a few days as I wanted.
And, in defense of MiLs, though mine isn't the easiest character, she is a sweet person and broke down in tears meeting her grandson today and I was really touched.

Natalie.......my dd came on her due date, my ds1 came 9 days early and ds2 came 6 days early

I really hope this baby comes tomorrow

We did have a 'lovely bit of squirrel' for tea as went to TGI Fridays safe in the knowledge that baby isn't going to be making a show!

Back home and waiting for GBBO!

Oh FFS. DH to me 'you're being really irritable, is that a sign of labour'. NO, it's a sign that you've been removing things from my bloody hospital bag to use for yourself (i.e. water bottles with sports lids). Grrrrrrr!

Mnippy that is hilarious - I love how everything gets blamed on pregnancy because, naturally, they are beyond reproach

mnippy - mine is doing that too! I bought nutri-grain bars and sweeties for the snack bag and since then, he's taken a bar for work each day and already started tucking into the sweeties.

Why?!?!

My DH has also snaffled some of the boost bars from my hospital bag, and opened and nearly finished the bag of sweets... I have helped a bit with the sweets, but the boost bars were strictly hands off!

can some of you mums who've done this before please just remind and reassure me that this horrible hormonal crying phase will pass. I'm on day 4 since Hunter was born and I feel rubbish. I feel so anxious and worried that something will happen to him. I can't sleep when he and dp are which is no good at all. I'm hoping its just the initial baby blues and will soon pass, I just love him so so much I don't think I know how to deal with it!

It will definately get better roofio no one warned me about baby blues in the week or so following birth and I thought I was the worst mum ever until I told my mum and she assured me its completely normal and said every day gets better xxx