May 2015 - thread 8 - Maysters unite as babies start arriving! Eek!

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thread 7

New thread ladies.

Oh Kitty your post made me laugh! Well done for doing it for a month, probs should have started sooner!! Hopefully all your efforts will pay off.

Just I think you're right- I tried to do my hypnobirthing breathing but just ended up panicking about how painful it was!

I have complete respect for those doing uni courses atm- keep going, it will be worth it!

Been on a bit of a shopping spree so although bank balance has been seriously dented, I feel so much more prepared at least materially when baby makes an appearance. My friends from uni threw me a lovely baby shower and then my work friends through a surprise leaving do. Can't believe people's generosity! Our baby will be better dressed then DH & I put together!

thanks for the welcomes ladies. belated thank you as I seem to always be busy nowadays as I'm sure we all are. Can't believe I am due in 15 days. Think he/she will be here very soon though! I am excited but it's really bittersweet as well as my son wont be here but my daughter is super excited to meet her new baby sibling for the first time, she loves babies.

Welcome Jessie, where is your son?
It's lovely for children to have a new sibling. My son said I'll have a new brother on Wednesday at show and tell at school today and his teacher was really mean and told him to stop going on about it! What a bitch. Shame I will miss parents evening tomorrow as I'll be at my pre op or I would have told her so. He came home so deflated and said he's not going to tell them when the baby is born now.

blondie nothing like a shopping spree! I just realised I had no sheets for our bednest so I've put in another emergency amazon order. It'll be here by the time I get home from hospital.
DS is staying at his grandad's tomorrow night as we have to be at the hospital for 7.30am so me and H are going to the pictures then for a grownup meal out. Just can't think of anywhere to go! I need to have a think. I'll be nil by mouth from midnight so it needs to be good.

Haha kitty your post made me laugh!! I might have a little go in the bath later on, hopefully the water will make my skin supple!

blondie love a shopping spree!!! Thanks hun, really trying to power through although did 2 hors of work today and then he computer in uni froze and crashed. Could have cried lol!!

Turquoise - that's horrendous. I'd be raging if a teacher said that to my child!! She sounds very bitter! How old is your DS??

I'm having lovely long soak in a bath with some clary sage oil - this is what got me going with my DD so I'm hoping it will have the same effect this time round

what a horrible teacher. I hope your ds is okay and is still excited.
when are you due lina? I have read up about clary sage oil and bought some (I have an overdue drawer), but don't know when to start using it and what to do with it to get the maximum benefit

Liking the sound of the overdue drawer, what else is in it??

Turquoise what a cow, can you complain?

erm castor oil (just in case I get desperate)
clary sage oil
chocolate
raspberry leaf tea
I know from past experience that baby will come when he is ready, but the drawer makes me feel better even if it is unused

Omg turquoise how mean can she be?! I would maybe write a letter or something! Bless your son, that must have felt horrible to have a teacher say that!

I'm due 2 weeks today. DH has a family member who is a midwife and she gave me a wee bottle of the oil.
I'm literally only using a drop at a time cos I know it can be quite potent stuff!

My son died in september, he was 12. the pregnancy has been really bittersweet as I am excited about the baby but I almost feel guilty for being excited.

Thats so mean of your sons teacher :( my daughter is 5 and she always talks about the baby at school, I'd be really angry if someone said that to her! Luckily her teacher is really nice, she always asks how I am when I drop dd off at school

So sorry to hear about your son Jessie

turquoise I am a teacher and would never tell a child to 'stop going on about it' even if he was going on about something! Highly unprofessional with no excuse and you'd be right to complain although I know you're probably focused on the birth right now!

jessie I'm so sorry about your son. Bittersweet is definitely the right term for it. I hope this baby brings you some happiness.

His new teacher is Polish and my friend said that sometimes Poles are a bit blunt so maybe he has been going on about it but we've waited so long for this baby. Took me two rounds of ivf to get pregnant so it is very special to us even if she isn't interested. He said she said the same thing to another girl in his class whose mam is pregnant after 5 miscarriages. What a charmer. Hope his real teacher comes back soon. He's 7 btw.

Jessie really sorry about your son

Jessie so sorry to hear about your son

Aw jessie so very sorry to hear that about your son! I hope this pregnancy brings you lots of joy x

thanks ladies x it will be hard but the baby will definitely bring us some happiness. It's his 13th birthday next week, dh wants the baby to arrive then, it would be sweet if she/he did but I'm not sure if I would want that... I'd feel like I was taking his day away from him. I want to save that day for him so we can think about him on that day, not his younger sibling.. if that even makes any sense

Turquoise - It's true that the polish are sometimes a bit blunt, One of my friends is polish and she can sometimes say thing without really thinking about it. Luckily she's never really overly offensive, she's slowly adjusting to how things work around here bless her. your sons teacher sounds like a handful though, i hope his real teacher comes back soon too! it's rough when you don't really like your kids teacher, my dd had an awful sub teacher for a while last year. so glad shes gone now!! lol

Hey ladies, a bit early for the 4am club tonight.

jessie - welcome to the group! So sorry to hear about your son. Had he been poorly? (If you don't mind me asking - please don't feel you have to answer if you'd prefer not to)

turquoise (was it you talking about your son's teacher - sorry, I am rubbish at remembering these things!) sad that she upset him so much. Could there perhaps be a reason for the bluntness that your son doesn't realise? Eg. Any classmates who have lost a sibling who might be upset by such conversations or perhaps that she has lost or had fertility problems herself? I realise this wouldn't excuse her bluntness but might go some way to explaining it, or could be a way to make your son feel that she was not necessarily just being mean to him. Maybe worth raising quietly with another staff member you trust? Especially if it has happened to a couple of children. I imagine a few children at their age will be going through this stage. Perhaps raising it gently as a concern might be easier than tackling the teacher directly or going in full steam with a complaint?

4.30am this morning, had to let the cat in and had two tuc biscuits as a snack :D

I'm still here too! DH is just about to leave for work and we have the tiler coming to hopefully finish his work in the bathroom at 8.15 so would be nice to get a bit more sleep before I need to get up!

Went to the last local midwife run pregnancy club last night before due date and it felt very strange to finally be in 'the hotseat' after the last few months of moving closer. I still can't quite get my head around the fact that bump will turn into an actual baby soon. 39 weeks today and Ovia yesterday even asked if I'd given birth yet!!

Wow 39 weeks!! I still can't get my head around the fact that we are all nearing the end of pregnancy. It still doesn't feel real some days.

I'll be 35 weeks tomorrow, only one week left till I can stop resting as much, stop using the pessaries and finally DTD... although whether I will actually want to by then is another thing ha ha

Is the pregnancy club an antenatal type club?

I was thinking the other day, I have never once been offered NHS antenatal, they don't know I am doing NCT, find that a bit odd, but obviously not an issue.

welcome Jessie and very sorry to read about your son.
morning ladies, slept slightly better last night, woke up at 4:50 and been on my phone since reading!
I have another sweep this morning, hoping it's more effective than the one I had on Friday but I know I lost some of my plug after that. fingers crossed!

Great that your bathroom will be all finished :)

Will keep my fingers crossed bradders that it gets things moving :)