Due March 2007 - Heading for the third trimester

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Thought I'd start a new thread as the other one's about to run out.

Hello Fat Girls

YKWIM

Mosseltoe - I steam my veggies too; am very particular about them being al dente (sp?). I learnt to drive on the Old Kent Road in sarf London and I think, partly as a result, I drive like a white van driver. I spent years driving miles for work (all over SE England) and am probably over confident if anything. I am the one who drives up your rear end, beeps loudly and cuts people up . Sometimes I think I'm really a man with boobies

Kitty - ooh you naughty thing forgetting how many children you have Did DS1 enjoy his Laser Party today? During the bookclub, DH was on children duty, which consisted of him lying on our bed half watching TV and half reading the Sunday papers. Every half our or so, I'd say to the monsters, "why isn't Daddy looking after you?" and bound upstairs to growl at DH, who would then "reform" for about 20 minutes, until he went back to his papers and the LOs would sneak downstairs again. This happened about four times. BUT he did help me clean up afterwards, so I decided to forgive him

Our new book is "Madam Crowl's Ghost & other Stories"!! Spooky ghost sories for Christmas

Muppet/Mossy - I loved the Kite Runner; its one of my favourite books ever.

Muppet - the woman's terrible mistake was harbouring a guy who conspired in a terrorist plot!!! The backdrop to the book is right wing Christian fundamentalist America (think Bush) and in particular the pro life movement. Sounds heavy but it was a very easy read.

Lunar - I keep eating peanut butter sandwiches, so am pleased to read about your naughty food.

I drank lightly through both my first pregnancies and throughout breastfeeding (one glass of wine each might) - didn't do my kids any harm (hiccup!) Everything is fine in moderation. Both our children sleep very well at night anyway

My mum used to dip my Big Sis's bottle in gin to make her sleep

Laidback - that's sweet about your DS's posting the cards. I'll get ours off tomorrow TBH I think being too hot is just as bad as being to cold isn't it?

BTW I hate all TV - the main difference MN has made to my lifestyle is I very rarely watch TV now, I tend to pop on MN if I have a spare half hour instead. TV currently just seems such a load of crap. Is it just me that thinks this? Specially Saturday eveneing TV

Boo - how about Booboomerrilyonhigh?

No?

26 weeks today (baby boy)

Leo - umm, perhaps I was getting Switzerland confused with Sweden?

1972 - that's really shocking - later than northern Irish Catholics (1969?) and Aboriginal Australians (1967)??

have our dp's been to the same 'looking after the kids for mum' training school? The similarity is uncanny. Glad you had a good evening. Ds seemed to have an ok party, night x

OMG look at the time!!

Night!

Ooh, just seen a 'due in August 07' thread. Well time flies and it makes it seem like us lot get further and further up the list, so that's good. It just seems like yesterday that I joined this thread. Where has the time gone?

morning all. Thoughtt it about time that i check in, things here are improving slightly, in that my Grandad came home for the weekend , but had to go back in to hospital last night. He has to have a biopsy now on the dark tissue on his lung, they think it is a tumour but cant be sure what kind. I wont go into the numerous other issues that have also been found needless to say hes 84 and looking very frail anyway trips to the hospital are few and tiring.

Baby and me are ok, feeling him kick more and more, so much more than DD, but i dont know if thats just becasue i am aware of it more. I have my 3D scan on the 10th December, so looking forward to that and to seeing if the placenta has shifted out of the way! I think theres a few of us with this prob isnt there? My bump is growing by the day and i swear its twice the size of the first one at this stage.
For the last couple of days i have been having a wierd feeling all around the base of my bump, like its pulling apart and it feels really heavy and stretched :O in my head its the placenta growing and staying put, but i know that i am just thinking the worst!

We are having our new suite delivered tomorrow which is great, just in time for Christmas, i cant wait as the one we have now is knackered beyond belief and i am finding it hard to get up out of!

DH and i have been thinking of names, so far we have come up with

Isaac
Jacob
Marshall
Jett

all of which, when we tell family and friends have recieved a mixed reaction, what are your thoughts?

A bid hi to everyone, hope you are all well, hi to those who dont know me, i have been here from almost day one of the thread, its just i dont get time to chat like you gossipers!

26+3 Boy

Yeah its flying by at the moment, though I still feel impatient to get the baby!
Fox sounds as if you drive like my dh who is also always on the road and driving in all sorts of mad traffic. Even he was nervous about driving in Pakistan though, over there its like a mini miracle everytime you arrive anywhere in one piece.
Hee Hee once I watched a bus conk out and all the passengers piled out and started pushing it, when it got going again they all piled back in/on top and off they went

I have got purple hair now. Its not subtle in anyway, its bright plummy purple. I need to change my name to Rosyplumpudding. This is one of the big advantages of not working...you don't have to look remotely sensible if you don't want to! (And I don't)

Hi Jay, love the names, the arabic version of Isaac is on my list...Ishaq though I prefer Ishmael/Ismail but can't run names by dh as he doesn't know its a boy! Sometimes you have to see the baby to know which name he suits, my sis was going to call her baby Brandon until she saw him, he didn't look like a Brandon...she calls him Finn.

Jay I think Isaac is my fave.
Jett reminds me of jett Harris of the shadows I knew him and he was a squitty little drunk
Marshall reminds me of Absolutely Fabulous (Edina's long suffering ex with the mad American wife )
Jacob's nice but there are millions of them round here

Sorry, that wasn't very construcvtive was it
Boy, ( sorry, I've no idea of weeks and days will have to consult calendar )

Hola !

Hope everyone well. I have caught DS2's cold, but don't feel too bad. Still managed a bowl of ice cream and DH found plums at the market , which are like gold dust here...so will make a crumble later . yum Only 7 weeks here til we come back to the UK and am looking forward to a few basic necessities...like hot water !!

Rosy (or should I call you plummy ) your hair sounds fab. Driving in Sri Lanka is very hairy too... it really is a dice with death every time. Not unusual to see a whole family on a motorbike with only dad wearing a helmet and the bus drivers ......

Jay - glad your grandad is out of hospital... it's hard when people you love get older, and frailer isn't it. Like your names - I like Isaac out of your list the best too.

Hello

Jay - I hope your Grandad's biopsy turns out OK. I remember going to see my Grandad every week for two years when he was ill, it was a four hour round trip with DS as baby in car and it was exhausting, but I wanted to be near him, so IKQWYM.

I love the name Isaac - Jacob is OK, but not quite as nice . Marshall and Jett sound a bit too American don't they? Marshall sounds a bit scary (like an army name).

Kitty/PurpleRosy - I'm impatient too, to cuddle me baby and see what he looks like.

Rosy -LOL at the people pushing the bus. I hope you didn't push it too! The name Ismail is lovely too - I love it!

Laidback - I have those cards in my bag ready to take to the post office later . How long are you staying in the UK when you return?

Hope everyone is well. I keep feeling nauseous but I think its a vile bug that's doing the rounds

26+1 (boy)

Jay - I know what you're going through with your grandfather. What with losing my Nan in October and my grandad has a few days to go now apparently. HE was rushed into hospital on saturday, and consultant says there is nothing they can do for him, so he's gone to a cottage hospital to be looked after. its sad but we all kind of expected it, he's 92 and if you lose your partner of 68 years its always going to be difficult for him. Bless him. you can see it in his face he's had enough.

two of your name choices are on our boy's short list! Jacob and Isaac! we got girls names sorted pretty much, just slight disagreements on the boys options!

Jay - forgot to say I hope everything with your grandad works out well. didn't meant to across a bit morbid.

Braved the streets on saturday, and managed to get 80% of the christmas shopping done. I was relieved, and very tired! this is the most organised we've ever been for christmas.

Anyone else's MS returned? Friday night, Saturday Morn and today its been back!

Hi girls.

Jay and Amie: sorry to hear about your Grandparents. DH and I have one Grandma left each - so (fingers crossed) LO will have two great grandma's when he's born.

It goes to show how much longer people are living doesn't it? I know I'm hardly over the hill having my first baby at 31, but I'm not the youngest Mum either. Both DH's Mum and my Mum had us when they were 25, and neither of us had great-grandparents living.

Jay: I hope your Grandad is comfortable.

Thanks for all the Christmas name ideas . I shall have to think very carefully...

I drive quite aggressively too fox, although I'm a stickler for the speed limit. (I've seen three sets of accidents with children lying by the side of the road waiting for ambulances round here in the last five years).

EDD 3/3
26+1
Boy

Amie and Jay - it's rubbish isn't it when we have to watch our grandparents fade away...

Just got back from hospital myself to visit my dh's granny, keep being told she has 24 hours to go etc and 24 hours later she's still hanging in there...

I was watching her today and trying to remember her when she was younger... it's so important to think of them like that. She was a nurse in the 2WW and was with the first liberating soldiers to enter Belsen Concentration camp... amazing woman and acheived a lot in her life... so sad that she has to end up this way...

Ho hum... bit depressed really... prolly better go before I spread my mood further...

25 + 2 (boy)

Jay, so sorry that your grandad isn't doing too well , its really tough.

Yes, doesn't time fly when you are having fun !

Hi everyone else. Hope everyone is doing OK!

Its stressfull when a loved one becomes seriously ill. But great that peoples folks have their love and support.

When my Grandad was in hospital, he used to have an average of 13 visitors at anyone time and used to get in trouble for having too many people round his bed We used to completely take over the ward, complete with small children (mine actually )

Muppet - that's really amazing about your DH's granny. When I was a child, we knew an Austrian Jewish woman (she was elderly when I was about eight), who had escaped from a camp with her sister and walked miles until she got across the Austrian border to safety. One of the guards let her out in exchange for a watch she's managed to hang onto, which had been her parents. She and her sister were the only survivors from their family.

A bit like the Rabbit Proof Fence story but even more poignant

Sorry to all those with poorly grandparents
I lost my 98 year old gran in September, I think you kind of expect them always to be there because they always have been iyswim

I learnt to drive in South London, enough said

Sorry, I didn't mean I meant

hello!
i havent read all the posts since the thursday before last but i will spend a few hours catching up later!

moved on friday 17th,i had to change internet supplier and my telephone number otherwise i'd have been waiting 3 weeks to get the net back

i hope everybody is keeping ok anyway.we have settled into the new house and ive only got lost once

im looking forward to catching up with everything later

24+5

Diva - hey welcome and great to have you back!!!! Glad the move went Ok and can't wait to hear all about your new home. Appreciate the fact that you couldn't bear to stay away from MN for three weeks, so changed supplier instead

Kitty/Rainbow - have sent off three e-mails to Doulas and am getting very excited - two do reflexology (my fave thing, even better than s*x)and one does aromatherapy massage and hypno thingy. Its making the pending birth feel like something to look forward to, rather than something daunting They all sound really nice too.

hi again everyone
those mince pies are working a treat and I now look at least 8 months gone- great - what's it going to be like in another few months??? It's like I've 'popped' again, my tummy seems to grow in fits and starts. dd is making her little presence known at nightime and is very squirmy so not much sleep either.

hope you're feeling better, rainbow. Do you have a surestart in your area? They are fab and do lots of different stuff for pregnant women. I keep meaning to go to the antenatal stuff cos you get loads of freebies but they also do massages etc etc. Your GP can refer you if you are outside the area but live near one. anyone else got a surestart? I'm such a groupie.

lunar - that's terrible about your holidays. Is that actually legal?? I'm a bit naive after all this time working for companies that 'claim' to be good employers but that sounds pretty crappy. Just phone in sick for months instead

fox - you must drive better . I've spent days moaning on about people driving right up my backside on the roads. I don't know if I'm going slower, am actually looking in the rear view mirror for a change or what, but it's really getting on my nerves right now. The other day I really wanted to stop the car and get out and shout at this guy who drove too close for miles on end. I must be getting grumpy. It reminds me (not that it is connected!) of when I was 39 weeks gone with ds2 and well grumpy and then got flashed at in the park - great chance to let rip with all my anger - I don't think he quite knew what was going on.
edd 13 march, girl