June 2014 - eviction notices being prepared, rose hip tea, curry, shagging and pineapple at the ready!

[misshoohaa]

Hi all,

New thread and probably our last in ante-natal.

Holy crap!

nosey

Oh I'm not organised by any means, started well by getting all the toddlers clothes out and putting them in size order but after that it all tailed off. Was saying to dh we should probably at least get some nappies or a name he doesn't screw his nose at but if the mw phoned tomorrow and said they'd got the dated wrong you're due tomorrow I would skipping to Boots on the way to hospital. Well as Skippy as is possible with huge boobs and a massive bump.

Insomnia. Pure evil. After being off work for a week I'm back tomorrow and wide awake at 3am. Uncomfortable, too hot, heart burn.. Meh. Moaning Minnie

same here notfast. Sum total of my preparations so far is stripping the wallpaper in the babies room and writing a list of what to pack in my hospital bag (killing time at work) and I'm 36 weeks now... We are totally, definitely, absolutely, no-more-procrastinating going to sort our shit out this weekend! (unless I just end up napping of course..)

I think this is officially part of second-baby syndrome. My very, very organised friend only sorted her stuff out the day before her second baby came which is just so unlike her, that I can only conclude there's something biological in it :)

Hope you got some sleep mummymidwife. Insomnia sucks!

Hi all, can I join you I'm due June 12th with my first (little girl ) and am currently 35 + 1. Have had hyperemesis throughout so started my maternity leave 2 weeks ago and feel like the days are just dragging so much! Really hoping to not go overdue but have a feeling that will be the case!

Can't wait to be able to sleep on my front or just be able to roll over in bed without feeling like i deserve a medal !

Hello Diddybeth :)

Poor you having hyperemesis still, I don't know how you have managed to survive that. Not long now!

(and jeans... I am so looking forward to wearing proper jeans again!)

It took a while to get to this point but definitely looking forward to the end of the nausea!

My boyfriend's mum was 3 weeks ahead of me in her pregnancy and had her baby on Monday so made it feel very real when we went to visit that we will be having a baby soon!

Ah jeans ... I have a drawer full that I keep looking longingly at before going back to my maternity leggins.

For anyone not in the fb group, the June bus has had two babies this week! Getting really real people!!!!!!!!

Girl went into labour at work yesterday, wasn't due til 31st and a first baby! So I've ordered a box of nappies. So I'm good to go in 4 weeks, no pressure baby.

That's great news clever, hope mummies and babies are well.

Hello all, hope everyone's well.

I feel I've hit a wall at the moment and it's mainly due to indigestion. I've had it through pregancy and it's just getting worse!

Still in denial re the baby actually coming, 34+ 4 but another 4 weeks of work and still have soooo much to do there and still home!

New people don't forget you can join the secret FB group which is where we are all hiding!
Just PM me your email address and I will send you an invite with the link!

3rd baby in as many days today, it's getting real!

I may have ordered 1280 Huggies pure wipes today. Still no nappies in the house, though

Congrats to those have had their babies... hopefully they will pop on here when things settle down and share their news too.

Can I ask - what is the point of joining a forum to talk to other people due at the same time as you, for some of them to go and set up a Facebook group and not other posting here again?

It's a bit weird isn't it? I don't care if it's a closed group - it's still not anonymous like this forum is and it isn't the same kind of environment.

There are some people here who have said they don't want to do that and still do post, which is really nice, but everyone else has gone off and not bothered to post again - oh apart from coming back to encourage new people to move over to Facebook rather than post here....

Doop, I think the point is that not everyone wants an anonymous forum. Also, I don't know about others, but I find it far more difficult to follow a single line thread, keep track of who's who, etc, when it's on MN.

The point of coming into this thread was to find other mothers to be at a similar stage to myself for support, and to offer support in turn. It just happens that I find it easier to do that on Facebook, and i think a lot of others felt the same way.

I prefer that it's not anonymous. I really feel like on the Facebook group I've been able to connect with the others like you can't on MN. You can actually form friendships with people when you're not anonymous, and that can be far more supportive than an anonymous forum where it can sometimes feel like you're shouting out into the void.

As for people seeming to come on just to entice everyone else to join the FB group, that's not how it is at all. Gilly is trying to be as inclusive as possible by letting people know it's there and they can join us if they'd like to. Because these threads are long and any newcomers could potentially not know that there is a fb group to join, it's a nice thing to do if there's someone out there who really wants to get to know some other great people in the same situation.

I don't think it's weird at all. It's convenient.

But if you really want to remain anonymous, MN is still here, and a few of us still come to check, even if we rarely post. And the broader MN community is still there for you as well.

Nope, still don't get it. There are plenty of facebook (and other social media) groups already set up for expectant mums due in whatever month - just do a search. Mumsnet isn't just about the anonymity (whether that is important to you or not, facebook is not for everyone), it is already set up so you can post and interact with other people. Why join one social media in order to meet people and get everyone move to another?

And as for being 'inclusive' pointing people in the direction of the Fb group - more like being exclusive and saying nothing is happening here so come and join our little clique and screw anyone who doesn't have Facebook or want to use it. I wonder how many people have just been put off by going on the thread and seeing nothing is really happening. And whoop de do - some of you still check back here and not post....well that's helpful.

Hardly in the spirit of mumsnet. But you are right, there is a whole forum of other people - very helpful and knowledgeable people and that is exactly why some of us would rather stay here.

Ive posted on here letting people know that there's a fb group because whenever I have done that,people have contacted me(or others) asking to join.

It seems that MOST (not all) people prefer to post on there because it's easier to follow, we can post photos, share links (more easily than on here) and you get to know people a bit more.

A lot of people use Facebook all day anyway so it's easy to have everything in one place.

The issue for me is that I don't have a computer at home anymore and the mumsnet app is TERRIBLE on my phone. A lot of the time it doesn't even load and I find it quite unresponsive and laggy. Unlike he facebook app which works perfectly (probably a lot more money and investment has gone into developing the FB app as FB have billions of dollars to spend whereas mumsnet don't!)

I probably posted on here more than anyone else to begin with and was posting in the conception threads for months and months before I found out I was pregnant (along with other threads on mumsnet). Unfortunately it's actually just very difficult for me to do so now (currently posting this from the browser on my phone because, as usual, the app is not working!).

I've always been quite conscious that there are people that don't want to/can't join the FB group for whatever reason which is a shame and if I could get on mumsnet more then I would.

And the reason why I pop in occasionally to let newcomers know that there's a FB group is because a huge amount of people wouldn't know otherwise..and a lot of people want to join the group, have joined the group, actively make conversation in the group and have even met up with other people from the group. All things they wouldn't have done if they weren't told the group exists!

Doopdoop you're pretty rude. Since when is it compulsory to check & post regularly on a forum. I couldn't care less if that's 'helpful' to you or not. And what if people meet up having met on a mumsnet forum? I take it that would be wrong too because they might not be local to you & so should only be allowed to communicate via one forum that is most helpful to you? Ridiculous playground (& very selfish) behaviour.

I will also agree with wispa that it's bed a lot easier to follow conversations on the FB group and also to form friendships.
A lot of us have become friends on FB (not just in the group) and have met up for lunches/dinner/shopping etc. It's much easier to form friendships like that when you know someone's real name, what they actually look like... And so on.

When I check mumsnet and see new people have joined this thread, I have posted to let them know that there's a whole community of us on Facebook who are due in June... Because why wouldn't i? That might be EXACTLY what that person wants and needs.

I was dubious about joining the FB group at first as I thought I was happier on mumsnet in this anonymous environment... But actually I'm glad I joined the group because, not only is it easier for me to keep up with and access, but I've made some great friends and have a support group of real people which is exactly what I need once this baby comes!
My family are 4 hours away... My husbands family are over an hour away..all of our friends are well over an hour or so away too... It's great for me to now have a group of women, all expecting babies at the same time that I can talk to any time of day.. many of which are also local to me!

I wouldn't have been able to build the same friendships if we stayed solely on mumsnet.

Doopdoop, are you a regular on this forum? It's just I don't recognise your user name and you don't come up in searches. Seeing as you aren't even a regular contributor I don't really see what your problem is? Social media is for the benefit of the users, no? And I think most of the ladies still use Mumsnet for other stuff in Pregnancy or childbirth or other areas.

You're welcome to set up another June Antenatal group if you like (that's the beauty of social media, you know) - we promise not to invite you to Facebook.

Ps Doop.. Do you want to join the FB group? Just PM me your email address

Also.. Just searched your username and it doesn't appear that you post on mumsnet very often.... Like...basically.... Twice. Ever.

(Unless the search function is wrong or you've changed your username).

Sooo.... If you're new, and you're looking for people to talk to I can understand its weird to find a thread in a forum where hardly anyone posts because we are all on FB.

But please understand that we are nearly all full term now. We have been posting on mumsnet for 8 months over numerous threads.

We were working our way through one thread a week at one point and there were so many of us constantly posting it was very hard to keep up with what was going on, who's who etc.

That's why we migrated to FB.

There's over 70 of us in the group and we are constantly chatting away which is much easier on FB than mumsnet.

Sorry if this makes you sad... You're welcome to join us and if you dont want to then... Well that's your decision!

Tally ho.

ALSO.... In the spirit of mumsnet...

You've invited her to join the Facebook group? Hahaha no thanks that would not be 'helpful' to me. I mean - there are several small groups of people meeting up via the Facebook group that the rest can't attend for geographical reasons....me thinks she would try to have any meet where not all 70 people could physically attend, banned for a start!

I'm confused though doop doop aka snoop snoop. Where are your other posts?! And you feel free to stay anonymous it would be embarrassing if people knew who you were when your reaction to people giving birth is to slate the fact they use Facebook. We will continue to be supportive to all & make real friendships in a safe PRIVATE fbk group environment. You continue to....whatever it is you think you're doing.....can't help but think you've probably destroyed this forum for a lot of people now though!