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Due In Jan 2007 Part 3 -where we do stop worrying & start complaining!

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elliepippamummy · 10/08/2006 14:53

Thought I'd try an set up the new thread up this works!!

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Loubie37 · 10/09/2006 12:10

Morning all, hope everyone is well I'm feeling really pleased with myself today having bagged 2 bargains on e-bay....a set of 10 Baby Einstein DVDs and a Fisher Price link a doos vibrating chair thingy and paid less than £50 in total including p&p I've had to promise DH I won't buy anything else for now

Glad to hear the photoshoot went well, what mag will it be in and when?

Loubie xx
21+1

Jaysecond · 10/09/2006 22:31

hi, sorry to gatecrash, i am from due in March, but i also did the photoshoot.... i went on Wed though as i couldnt make it on the Fri, shame as i would have liked to have met some other MN'ters! Still never mind hey! Glad you ladies enjoyed it, has Morag contacted you to do the 'interview' yet? Cant wait to see the end result though, all very excitng!

jessddibs · 11/09/2006 10:56

Please let us all know which magazine and which issue the photoshoot is going o be in. It all sounds so much fun, I would love to be airbrushed and have a perfect picture to cherish and show the kids in years to come!

Am counting down the days till my scan...9.20am this wednesday...

Am on a mission at the mo, hope it lasts! Have defrosted the freezer and am gonna sort out my daughters wardrobe and toyroom next..

No other goss from me apart from the mil last night said " You have got alot more fat on you this time round havn't you" and " I never had any drugs with the birth of my two boys, I think it's very silly and not nessesarry to have even gas and air" AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH! I really really had to bite my tounge!!!!! How very dare she!!!! Thats my rave for the day! Hope eveyone is keeping well.x.

theUrbanDryad · 11/09/2006 13:13

hey all.....well we had a fun weekend, went to a wedding reception on saturday night where i had a baileys and a cigarette ...then woke up on sunday morning with a bit of a bleed. cue panic. not great as we had friends of my friends who got married staying with us (we really didn't know them very well at all!) so left them a note saying we were off to the labour ward but to help themselves to tea & toast! they must have been thinking WHAT THE FUCK???! anyway, we got to the labour ward only to be told to go home again because i'd forgotten my maternity notes, so DP rushed back and i sat in the waiting area getting more and more wobbly. anyway, when DP got back with the notes we were seen quicker than you can say "paranoid first-timer" and everything's fine. we listened in to the little dude's heartbeat and they had a prod around. no problems, but also no explanation for the bleed. odd. i'm sure you can all imagine what i was like, after having smoked and drank the night before. i'm never smoking again! or drinking again! until....er....lunchtime at least! anyway, the people staying at our house were really sweet about it all, offering to make us tea when we got back. and we had roast lamb in the end, so it was all ok. i really don't think about anything except food!

the photoshoot was for first magazine, and i think it's out next week but i'm not sure. morag phoned this morning to do the interview but my phone was on silent so i missed the call. she's going to phone tonight at five. i've been thinking about witty things to say so everyone thinks i'm intelligent! not come up with much so far though....

as for maternity jeans, i got mine at dotty p's, they were £30, but they do tend to slide down a bit. the ones my mum made are loads better cause they're over the bump, but a lot less sexy. cause i obviously still care about being sexy at 23 weeks pregnant!

jessdibbs, tell your mil to f* off! what works for one person doesn't work for everyone, and if she's stupid enough to think that giving birth without pain relief somehow makes her more hardcore than you (or in anyway better) then i think you should poke her in the eye with a sharpened stick. i'm sure i'll be screaming for an epidural by the second contraction. but even if i'm not, even if i somehow miraculously get through the birth with no pain relief at all, there's no way i'd look down on someone who'd needed it. bleargh. stupid mil's. who do they think they are?

anyways, hope y'all had a slightly more relaxing weekend than me, take care!! xxx

jessddibs · 11/09/2006 14:06

How weird..I have never got a magazine subcription before but saw first magazine for £2.55 per month and thought it was a good deal so booked it, strange that you lot will be in it! lol!

Mil's are a pain BUT this one also babysits an awful lot which means i have to bite my tounge, as much as I do want to poke her in the eye with a sharp pencil and tell her to shut up!!!! Babysitters are few and far between for us I am afraid.

tweedledum · 11/09/2006 14:24

Re. horrible mil, you should have said, yeah, but I'm loving my new curves and, wow, the sex is even better these days. That would have shut her up!

LadyTophamHatt · 11/09/2006 20:29

Just checking in because I have been well and truely told off by Urbandryad

I was posting on another thread where she found me, and pointed out that I haven't been on here in yonks.

Nothing much to report really, hence the no posts.

Errr...ummm....let me think...there must be something....

Have had 2 people in the last 2 days comment on how huge I am now. One of them being DH!!
"How can you be that big but the baby isn't due until january??" was his exact comment cheeky bugger.

Sleep is starting to get awkward. Numb hips if I sleep on my sides but my bump hurts if I sleep on my back.
It's a right PITA because I was able to still sleep on my back with the Ds's...this one seems to have other ideas.
We desparately need a new mattress because thats not making it any easier. It's like sleeping on a scak of spuds with all the lumps and bumps on it.

Thats about it really....the preganacy has really started to slow down now. Kind of boring TBH

I see loads more newbies have arrived, I think January will be a very busy month. Anyone know how many of us there are?

elliepippamummy · 12/09/2006 08:56

Hi

Nothing much to report from here either got my 22 week scan tomorrow had phone call from hosp on friday and changed my appt from 12.20 to 4.40 which is a pain as was meant to see consultant at 1 and thats been cancelled and booked for next week but never mind it'll all work out.

Quite bored of being pregnant now and want something exciting to happen but apart from my cousin getting married this saturday and DD being bridesmaid we have nothing planned how boring!!

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laughalot · 12/09/2006 11:54

Hi ellie im at a wedding this weekend to maybe its the same one . We all seem to be getting fed up now at being pregnant the worst is yet to come....... We had a lovely weekend away for dh 30 really relaxing but now im so tired and fed up at being home again all I seem to do is clean wash iron sort out ds clothes.

theUrbanDryad · 12/09/2006 12:02

wow, we do all seem to be getting lethargic huh? well, today i went shopping with my dad! what a treat. and...um...on thursday i'm taking the car in for its MOT. well, i lead an axciting life. still remember that old chinese curse: may you live in interesting times. i'd settle for dull any day!

elliepippamummy · 12/09/2006 13:50

Laughalot wheres your wedding ours is near Littlehampton bride and groom called alison and glen.

Had a mildly interesting morning been to toddler group and then a few of us went onto brewers fayre and had lunch wilst the kids played in the outside pay area. Just me and dd ths afternoon so I'll be lurking around MN !!!

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elliepippamummy · 12/09/2006 13:52

Laughalot wheres your wedding ours is near Littlehampton bride and groom called alison and glen.

Had a mildly interesting morning been to toddler group and then a few of us went onto brewers fayre and had lunch wilst the kids played in the outside pay area. Just me and dd ths afternoon so I'll be lurking around MN !!!

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2Happy · 12/09/2006 14:51

Elliepippamummy - I've got my scan tomorrow too! It's in the afternoon and I'll have to go back to work once it's done. And dh and I still can't decide about finding out the sex. Only 24hrs to decide

looshkin · 12/09/2006 15:22

Hello all,

Good luck for those who are about to have scans we did not decide re sex until the day but it was very obvious half way through (little tiger was non too shy) so the decision was really made for us! Still sending pink vibes happy 2.

elliepippamummy · 12/09/2006 16:24

2Happy we are the same we were adament we were not finding out as we didnt with DD (bith thought she was going to be a boy so quite a shock!)but I have started wavering about finding out DH really really doesnt want to know so probably wont, but f it has its legs wide open and it loks obvious I may ask them to confirm my guess!!!!!!!

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2Happy · 12/09/2006 17:13

OMG! [forehead slapping emoticon]
I'm 21 weeks, and I know I've grown a bit the last 3 weeks but....

I just managed to iron my bump!!

Now that's going to be interesting at the scan tomorrow!!!
What an idiot!

magnolia1 · 12/09/2006 17:18

Urban, sorry to hear about the bleed. Rest and take care xxx

Lth!!!! How dare you dissappear without permission

Goodluck for anyone with scans soon xxxx

I have bad Sciatica and now on co-dydramol and have physio next monday

Can't even get out of bed without screaming

magnolia1 · 12/09/2006 17:19

2happy???? How does one iron one's bump????

2Happy · 12/09/2006 17:20

Err, by being very stupid! I was ironing away and obviously ahven't adapted to how much my bump sticks out and swept the iron across it. I now have a lovely red stripe along it!
Poor you, sciatica, how nasty. I hope it gets better soon x

theUrbanDryad · 12/09/2006 17:44

2Happy - you know how i avoid ironing my bump? I don't iron. simple. for some reason all my clothes are ok without it. although my mum has been saying stuff like "well you'll have to get an iron when the baby's born"....why? aren't babies fairly crinkle-free anyway?!

laughalot · 12/09/2006 19:19

Ellie no mine is in sheffield wouldnt it have been good if it was the same one. 2happy sending pink vibes from my pink bump to yours. Ironing your bump I remember it well I did it with ds it bloody hurts . Lth lurkin on other threads tut tut, and even more tut tut to your urban not ironing clothes . Good luck with the scans girlies and you lazy lot get osting on my jan gender stats.

laughalot · 12/09/2006 19:20

That was meant to say posting

jessddibs · 13/09/2006 11:29

Well hello all! Where is everyone at the moment??? I had my scan today......and it's pink! Another girl for me, all seems fine and guess what! They have brought my due date forward to the 12th January! So, i think thats good!?! Hope everyone else is ok.

magnolia1 · 13/09/2006 11:41

Congrats on the scan Some pinks starting to appear now I see

elliepippamummy · 13/09/2006 11:55

Jess congrats on your little girl my scan is at 4.40 but DH has insisted he doesnt want to know so we'll be uessing til January (unless of course he is late from work getting ot he scan in which case I may just ask as it is killing me not knowing!!)

Shame about the wedding Laughalot would have been spoky if it was the same one though!! Better go as DD got a late Birthday prsent of a Little People Garage and it needs puttin together which will be great with little hands helping me!!

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