October 2014 #9 - Into the home straight we go, 3rd trimester here we come!

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Keep up the chitter chatter ladies!

Well, bar the rotating head, that was like trying to put Linda Blair from the Exorcist to bed! Emotional doesn't cover it!!!

Oh your poor lo yellow hope you can sort your flights out or they clear in time

Sorry to hear about the pox, yellow.

binky I had a shot of depo when dd was 9 months and my periods hadn't returned at that point. She was still feeding at least every three hours at night though. So bf might not be a reliable form of contraception, but it is entirely possible that it could make it harder to conceive if you actually want to.

fedup I'm the same with the coffee. I didn't drink any when I was pg with dd, but this time I was craving it so badly I had to give in (I was hanging over the kitchen table sniffing dh's coffee going 'that smells so good, can I have just a sip ). I've decided it's good for my low blood pressure!

Thanks Yellow & Fedup. The anxiety of not knowing is getting the better of me. I'm already worrying I won't cope or will be bad mommy :-/

Ah yellow sorry to hear the pox reared it's ugly head! We used virasoothe with N & a pair of old /cheap tights with a small cup of oats in them in the bath helped (tie the tights to the taps so that the oats are just submerged). Can squeeze them then to release the oat milk to help ease the itching. I found pharmacy's own version of piriton helped too (too much fructose in the piriton branded stuff...sent N totally hyper! Hope you're ok to fly & if not can get et flights changed ok.

I've spent today throwing up & lying in bed...now have constant heartburn too! Missed talking one of my antibiotics tablets cos I fell asleep & too scared to take the Spatone in case I'm sick again! Another day working from home tie row me thinks!

Re:early days...you are buzzing about how you created & made this little creature, but then as others have said, the realisation that you just can't do as before can be hard for some. But if you know know what to expect, you can adjust those expectations & just go with the flow. Plus all the wee giggles, smiles, cuddles will make up for it!

Feeling very stressed tonight. Got to bascially move out of our house for August. Got to pack everything up this week so it's all out the way / covered when I'm so tired, still working and got ds to look after. Includes emptying the entire kitchen, living room, loo and utility, bedrooms and wardrobes. Yikes. Splitting ourselves between my neighbours and my parents so will need stuff at both. Also am doing study for new qualifications in addition to work and got an assessment due in by 15 aug and hardly done any of it. And then DH goes to Canada first week of sept and I'm worried will be left with a bombsite of a house with a baby that could rock up at any minute. Very scared.
All I want to do is to be able to nest - can't wash any baby clothes or prep anything as what's the point and cleaning is redundant as place about to become dust hell. Yikes.

missus plenty of time to worry about it so park it for now if you can...just see how it goes when baby is here & take offers of help, cooking etc wherever you can xxx

Missus I've felt like that as well, I suppose the fact that we're worried and thinking about that kind of thing just shows that we care so much so therefore hopefully a sign that we will be good mums!
fedup sounds like you've got a tough time of it coming up, don't overdo it, hope you get lots of help!
Hope you feel better grannyapple, maybe I've said this before already but I really think you pregnant mums must be flipping superhuman, coping with the kiddies you already have on top of dealing with pregnancy.....take some of this... &

Fedup that sounds like a lot going on but fingers crossed it will all fall into place before baby arrives!

The site where I had my whooping cough jab is so itchy and warm...so irritating! How long before my arm returns to its usual self?!

My Dd is spending the week with her dad...so I'm back to working full time, no school run or small child to run around after, lots of girlie meet ups planned throughout the week! I will almost be back to life pre kids for a few days lol! We've kicked off the week with a trip to the cinema...no baby sitter required!!

Sparkle we ordered the cameleon today, soooo excited to get it. We looked at loads of prams and even though cameleon is ridiculously expensive it just looks and feels so damn good! We also ordered car seat, cot and baby monitor today as well so am pretty skint now.

My friend gave me three bin bags full of girl baby clothes today and I just finished putting them into chest of drawers. Feeling much better now as had not purchased much and now I feel like I have most of what I need for first three months :-) so exciting.

Bloody hell Fed up you're an utter legend juggling all that! Good luck xx

Granny thanks v v much for the pox tips. We couldn't get him in the bath tonight he was just hysterical, screaming and climbing up me like a monkey up a tree. But will definitely try tomorrow! And yes the simple pleasures are what counts with a newbie - the first time you hold hands, lock eyes, everytime you cuddle them. Bliss!

2ndwife you're going to be a great Mum - you're already worrying if you'll be good enough because you love your wee one so much. S/he will ADORE you.

Flights rearranged for the following weekend (for £160!) . I think we might maybe have got away with this weekend if we were v lucky but airlines insist five days after the last spot appears - so it would mean he'd have to stop spotting tomorrow which I reckon is unlikely as Dr Google reckons they can come in waves for up to seven days

Ha, fedup - that's what I/we are going to be like in SEPTEMBER I think... I'm half wanting the baby to be early so I have an excuse to move to mum's, half wanting it to be late so we can be at home... a home that will have bare plaster walls and still be covered in dust. Mental timing.

Fed up how old is DS? We moved when J was 12 weeks and 6 months it was not fun. Having to cram all your packing into after bedtime is hard especially when all you want to do when running around all day after a tot heavily preggers is collapse at bedtime, but I imagine doing it with toddler 'help' is worse? J would be unpacking as I packed or playing with knives. Could you get packers in for the worst rooms like the kitchen maybe? Or send DS to Granny's?

My brother and SIL did it with a 3 month old and a 2 year old - lived out of bags in 4 different houses for 6 months while their house was done up. I think parts were OK, parts were bad. When me and my brother were the same age we lived in a caravan on a building site while my parents build a house. It's family tradition.. or something..

Sparkle, we went for petrol blue. I like the navy one as well but worried about how clean I could keep the cream interior. Got ours all from mothercare as friend gets discount and let me use it. We got pebble car seat as well, treat yourself it's an investment and from now on all your money will be spent on your kids lol

Ds is 2.5 so yes, can't really do any of it until he has gone to bed. I don't think I'm dreading the move out as such it's the combo of things going on! Stupid assessment deadline and still working up in London. So it's trying to juggle that whilst living out of bags, driving miles after work to find a bed and dragging my poor son around without his favourite toys.

I've still got a cold and feeling shite too so makes it all harder to face!! If I felt full of energy it would be ok

goats it seems to be a tradition here too - my sister was in labour with her third whilst they were doing their loft conversion and she was contracting away in her bedroom (hiding from her other kids) and a builders foot came through the ceiling!! And with her second they had no kitchen.

Hope ds is feeling better yellow and you managed to rearrange the flights - sorry about the extra £ though

Oh and every time it rains I'm shit scared about whet will happen to my house! On Friday it was coming through the light fittings and ruining our perfectly good ceilings :(

Someone tell me it will all be worth it when it's done, right?

fedup we are doing the same. Me and ds have been at my parents for the last 2 weeks, and possibly have a week more to go depending on how things progress. We had to have the house rewired, so it was a case of ripping down ceilings and therefore moving everything out - EVERYTHING!! Like we were moving house but not. So stressful. And after all that money spent we won't even really see what we spent all that money on - total madness!!! I work from home in a studio in the garden and that has been flooded due to the rain so adding to all the stress. It's all artwork, so not a friend to water. Arghhh. I am behind on a deadline too and hormonal and it all adds up. I too just want to be clean (and dry) and finish my work and get the baby bits out the loft and start nesting! I keep repeating, it'll be worth it in the end, over and over again!!

Well think I have given in to the more practical way of thinking for once, I had my heart set on the buggaboo donkey, that would be suitable for two children of different ages, but I only bought my sola pram with all the gadgets less than a year ago and was using just a stroller by the time my dd was 9 months for ease and space, so big decision was Iam going to alternate dd and new baby between the sola and a baby carrier plus when iam out with company I can take the two prams, and I think I will wait till about dec/jan and just get a double stroller, there so much easier to fold and are only small, plus we both have cars so its not like we 'have' to do lots of walking, think I would rather spend £1500 on things for the babies or put put it away for a holiday next year x

Just in case anyone was still looking at prams , I do like my sola I never had any problems with it easy to put up and down, compact doesn't take up to much space, I can add my car seat and its rear/forward facing, thats way iam going to make the most of it, recommended x

sazzle it's awful isn't it.
Latest here is have had water pouromg through bathroom and our bedroom lights. Totally soaked the bed :(
DH given builder what for on the phone but still waiting for him to come round. What's most annoying is there were all bits of the house that were totally fine and didn't need any work - and not soaked through and will need repair and re painting.
Been really stressed this morning and just want to cry. Baby isn't moving either so going to sit down for 30 mins and concentrate.

Poor you fedup, I really feel for you . It will be SO worth it when its all finished and you can bring your shiny new baby into your shiny new house! Hope your house and office get sorted too sazzle, it must be devestating having your artwork ruined! We used to get puddles in our kitchen whenever it rained in a rented house, was a nightmare but can imagine its all the more annoying when its your own house.

Left the boy at nursery today (only 1 hour until pickup!). Managed to busy myself pretty well with only one check up phone call .