THREAD 12 Jan 2014 - The one where we start mainlining raspberry leaf tea and festive treats for "the baby"

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Thought I'd go for it

Here you go sultana

maternity onesie

Welcome felix

Hi everybody. Welcome felix
mythree what a shock, hope you've got some RL support? Thinking of you.

I've had a pants day. 31 weeks and the exhaustion just seems to be ever-increasing this week. Like lots of you I'm not sleeping properly (especially with various aches and pains) and full time work is getting harder and harder. Yesterday was supposed to be an afternoon of annual leave (slotted in at short notice to try and help me get through the long weeks, usually I work 45-50hrs a week), I should have left by 12.30 but ended up having to stay until 2 because of urgent things cropping up. This morning wasn't so bad, but got held up and was over 30 mins late for training this afternoon, because I hadn't eaten I decided to grab a quick sandwich from the onsite shop and was only after I finally got to the front of the queue I realised that baby brain has hit twice - I left my debit card at the till in morrisons yesterday and then I couldn't remember the pin number for the other one! Queue crying through training and leaving early. Now in bed, still embarrassed at completely falling apart in front of colleagues including my boss) but feeling slightly better after ringing the supermarket who have my card safe. Only four weeks left at work but at this rate I don't know how I'll get to the end of it, especially as beginning to notice baby brain mistakes (all minor luckily) at work....
Moan over!

Ooh, even more fresh new flesh at this late stage? Mega bonus! Welcome aboard and congrats felix!

Today we had the retirement do I was organising for lovely colleague.

All that running around totally paid off. It was lovely.

Everyone really pitched in and helped out for it and it really showed. One brief moment of awkwardness when my friend who took book round for signing, mentioned they had to cut out a page of the keepsake book which I'd been frantically compiling because we have an woman-child-idiot who wrote something inappropriate in there. She'd scrawled it across 2 pages where her colleagues had already written their greetings. Unbelievable but SO pleased it was edited out and glossed over before I arrived in the office, else there'd have been a right scene!

I also had mw appointment today. Charts say ToothJr could be 4.5 kg?!?!but I come from a line of small babies?!!

Also mw picked up on a slight BH I had during examination, so now I know what one is. They've been really mild to date bug this afternoon it ramped up and ToothJr is really kicking backM Must've been the stress.

So now relaxing waiting for DH to come home so we can go out to dinner with NCT gang...my rewardM

How's choco doing?

enormouse well done for not throttling DH. I might've done!

Hey flowers. HUGS for you.

No way should you feel guilty, frying. Your lovely MIL knows you could do with the rest, she obviously loves spending time with your DS, and he'll be being spoilt rotten by grandma. Everyone's a winner!

Thanks for the welcomes people!

I am actually a member of an unmentionable rival site but I am starting to find it a bit too airy fairy for my liking. I don't really relate to many who post on there. I find it a bit more straight forward on here and less 'u ok hun xxxxx' if that even makes sense haha. Hopefully that doesn't offend anyone (and hopefully I'm not going to come across someone from the other site who takes offence )

Anyway I am going to spend this evening trying to read from the start so I'm up to scratch on what's going on with everyone

Soz for the lack of tickers, hun xxx

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That sounds really lovely tooth, it must feel freat that it went so well.

enormouse, hide the PS2 tonight. He'll run out of consoles eventually!

How are you doing choco?

Hi Felix!

So guess which neurotic first time pregnant woman spent the afternoon hooked up to a monitor at the hospital again. Yup, that would be me. Interesting though, because it looks like I'm only feeling about 1/4 of the baby's movements. I am now hoping that I have no nerve endings in my uterus, which will thus render labour a piece of cake. I suspect I am now known as the hysterical crazy lady though . She hadn't bloody moved for 24 hours though - I swear she's just trying to wind me up now!

sultana yes to the baby on bladder syndrome. Every time I walk I think I'm going to either give birth or have a 'little accident'!

11000 messages felix !!

Welcome Felix!

Sorry so many of you are having such a rubbishy time. So bloody unfair, especially this late on. Buckets of hot chocolate and to you all.

Reading through my hypnobirthing book - had first session last Saturday and feeling v positive about it all so far. Not too hippy dippy and the instructor is quite straightforward - was worried it might be joss sticks and rainbows but none of that which is good as it would have inflamed my PregnaRage.

Hi felix welcome. We are a bit more fannies than fairies here - sounds like you have found your rightful place

enormouse your OH needs a massive slap. How inconsiderate. I'm sorry to hear he's being a dick - is this him mourning the end of 'childhood' (IYSWIM) as you're so nearly due? I've heard a lot of blokes do that pathetic last gasp of 'freedom' thing...

Well, pretty sure bean is now head down, judging by the kicking in my ribs. Bloody ouch. I have eaten a doll sized portion of lasagne (REAL FOOD!) and kept it down though. I felt all dainty first time for everything nibbling away as DH scarfed half the pan. sultana I do still feel like someone's dissolved my bones though. Working from home tomorrow, I reckon, I'm not sure I'd make it to work without doing an undignified abrupt sit down at some point...

flowers you poor duck. Time for some restorative and a metaphorical gin.

book you do make me laugh, always looking on the bright side! No nerve endings in your uterus could be a plus though (although tragically, I fear I have read somewhere that the uterus does in fact, have no nerve endings anyway, it's the muscular contractions that hurt, not nerve endings).

angel which book have you read ? I want to try reading something, but not sure where to begin...

Welcome felix due 2 days before me Although my uncle was due 8th jan and arrive xmas day! This was 60 years ago though and am pretty sure his due date was total guess work.

sultana I need to pee so much these days, i def think its bubs sitting or punching my bladder though as it comes and goes.

There are a few questionable arsey dhs around i see. I get annoyed at dh for laughing when i need to clear my throat loads so not sure how i would react to their stupidity with other things. enormouse i would have punched him.

Only 19 days left at work! And thank god as i am beyond drained and know that the tiredness is only going to get worse.

tooth glad the retirement things went well. You had clearly worked really hard on it.

frying it is totally acceptable if they offer to look after them. Make the most of the time.

flowers sorry for the meltdown in public. I have so far managed to avoid but only just. I think its just one of those things that happens. And lets face it the baby will be nice and embarassing for us when it throws up on us.

book i think you have a troubkemaker growing inside you!!

mrsv loving that onesie.

band omg to the scary dream. I dont want one of those.

enjoying yay for karma. They totally should have stuck with you so stuff em.

nature glad you had a nice snooze

Pants day at work today. Am now dealing with the customer that leaves us at xmas so the girl who did it before can be secretly training on what her job will be once they go. Have been doing it for the last 2 weeks and easily been getting through the work with time to spare to help others. But now they have started to move their stuff and its horrible. Its become so busy as nothing seems to be right and the reason i was dealing with this customer is because they want me to not be stressed and now i am left dealing with a mass move of stock. Not happy. Then our team sent goods abroad that should have been delivered in the UK tomorrow, cue me having to tell a customer as although I have passed it over to my mat cover, they havent been introduced yet so i still do all the correspondence.

Then from tues the girl doing my mat cover is off for the week so i will have to take some work back and now another of the team is having tues morn off as her mum needs taking to a hospital app. Now i am fine with her supporting her mum but who will end up having to support the team while she is out of the office.......me because the other girl is off and so i am the only one left. Again i am feeling stressed as it just feels like stuff happens and they dont have a solid plan and ill get dragged into it.
Thinking an email to my boss on monday!

Think we'll go to the manchester markets this weekend. Were going to go after seeing the hobbit on dec 15th but think as it will be manic and i am already tired it might be too much at 36 weeks. Can always go a second time that day if i am up to it, but dont want to miss out. Plus after a pants week it will be nice.

Off for a snooze now i think. Well a pee then a snooze on the sofa!

Definitely reckon I could do 11000 posts. It will give me something to do rather than watch JK and 'The Real Housewives of New Jersey' every day.

Poor everybody who's suffering from bugs, annoying OHs, infections, stationary babies etc.

And welcome felix to the glamorous world of hiccuping fanjos and strangely thin poos

Saw the consultant this morning, apparently I've got to go to the delivery suite instead of the MLU, because of my big fibroid. Unless this has miraculously shrunk by my next scan in 4 weeks

mythree, hope you're ok. We're all here for you if you need us.

frizz, the market is fab! We went at lunchtime today - I bought a Belgian chocolate muffin approximately the size of my head and ate it all this afternoon

frizz your job sounds very stressful. How long before you can flip them the bird and bugger off for a year?

Fucksocks humpty, that has ruined my plan for a totally natural, pain-free birth. Now I will be FORCED to take all the good drugs .

mrsv - duvet action has been in short enough supply here for the past 8 months, if I buy that onesie I can guarantee I'll never get my oats again!

"More fannies than fairies" :o :o

gummi, welcome to my world. Is your fibroid near your cervix or is it just that they won't let you use the MLU at all? My scan is in a couple of weeks and then they'll decide if I can have a VB or if it'll be an ELCS. I was hoping to use the MLU, but they probably won't let me :(

book, you poor thing. What a nightmare. Glad everything's ok, though.

Ugh, frizz, that really does sound like a crap day.

Glad you're feeling a bit better, Humpty :)

humpty it's one my instructor has given us - it's the Wise Hippo course ignore the knobtastic name. All seems v logical and informed so far, and sensible too - all good!

toby, my fibroid is right at the bloody top, just under my rib cage (I can feel it sometimes). The reason given was that I'd need to have a managed third stage, but I'm sure they do this on the MLU as well!

I'm sure everyone's had the same - someone drops a bombshell and you try to absorb that at the time and only think of about a million questions you should have asked later on when it's too late! I see the MW in 2 weeks, so I'll ask her, and in the meantime see whether my doula has any advice.

Fingers crossed for you that you get the option of a VB (wherever it turns out to be). At least no one's mentioned CS to me (yet).

My biggest one was right over my cervix at the last scan, so they're hoping it's moved away. But a VB with it so low down can come with its own issues (haemorrhage during/after delivery, baby getting stuck etc), leading to an EMCS anyway, so if it's too close to my cervix I'll request an ELCS anyway.

I wanted a home birth!

It's gross when you can feel them from the outside, isn't it?! Good luck with your mw/doula/next scan :)

Sorry to lower the tone, but I've just sneezed and peed on the sofa. Not my finest hour.

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I have that onesie, it's so flipping comfy. I wear it around the house all the time. Hasn't stopped any duvet action here :)

Enjoyingscience - my greatest pregnancy moment so far was being sick and with each wretch I managed to simultaneously squeeze out a load of pee too!

I keep forgetting to do pelvic floor exercises. I'll remember for about 3 days then forget for weeks. I think I'm heading for the tena lady as soon as baby arrives

Welcome Felix :) I'm also watching far too much Jeremy Kyle... I keep falling asleep on the sofa and having weird shouty dreams!

Urgh bad nights sleep. Waking up lots as dh decided he wanted pooch upstairs even though there is no space and my lower back is now killing (must have slept weird)

Thank god its Friday!