due MARCH 2007-thread no ?????

[divastrop]

i cant see a new thread so i thought id start another one!

[LunarSea]

This will be message 988 and the limit is 1002 I think (why????) - so we'd better have a new one while we still have time to link to it. New Thread

[3rdTriMossTer]

Booboo lol, if we had an HR department I would deffo see if I could wangle a cake-based incentive!

...unfortunately the issue is that I have run out of them at home. Dh is working from home today (I am so of his job!) but I forgot to ask him to pop out and get some.

He is normally excellent though and I will probably find some chocolate-based products at home when I return.

Actually he is lovely, it makes me laugh, if he ever goes the Asda on his own he will forget to get the essentials like washing up liquid, mince, shampoo etc, but he will have a bag full of sweets or a cake for me!

[Booboobedoo]

Oh, and welcome back Magpie!

Started a new thread here .

[Booboobedoo]

Morning all.

Yankeefish - really no need to be intimidated! So glad you posted. One of the best things about this thread is that we're all quite different with different lifestyles, but we all have this one hugely important^ thing in common.

Nice to see Shanks & Novadandypowder popping in to say hello .

Morocco: hope you're managing to stay reasonably relaxed with all this distressing family stuff going on. Fingers crossed for your Mum.

MsMoss: you must phone your HR department immediately and inform them that if someone doesn't go and buy some more chocolate muffins for you that it will constitute a H&S issue, and endanger your pregnancy.

I'll pop onto the antenatal depression thread and see if I can help. It's a horrible thing to go through.

Am also with your DP kitty. When was the last time you went away for any length of time without him or the kids? Maybe when this LO is a few months old you could leave him to cope on his own for a bit: see how wide his horizons stay coping with the reality of 6 kids on his own.

Unlike MsMoss my DH doesn't expect me to be an emotional trampoline (which implies he sees you as strong!), but neither does he see himself like that. In our pre-kid state, we just see ourselves as 2 flawed adults, doing our best to have a nice life and 'do the right thing'. Don't know if that'll change once we're parents though...

Foxy: want to be my DD Buddy? Reckon I'll probably be 2 weeks late (basing this on my Mum's experience).

EDD 3/3
32+4
Boy

[sexkittyinwaiting]

Shanks, hope everything works out fine for you, I'm sure it will.

Yankeefish, yes we can all prattle on can't we? But everyone is welcome to come and prattle with us whenever they want to. Sometimes when there have been alot of postings and I feel that I have lost the thread then I just say that. And I start from scratch. No one minds, it's impossible to keep up with everthing.

I can't get worked up about the babies arriving until I go overdue, which I always do. I know that I've got at least another 12 weeks to go, quite depressing really. I had a moment today of just wanting to take the baby out and being me again. It wasn't a nice thought.

30+1(boy)

[Leoladyofleisure]

Nova, I think I've missed you, but can't work out what the due date for 29+1 is! Far too much effort with pregnancy brain!

Great for lurkers and others ot drop in and say hi, I know what you mean about not being able to keep up with the thread!

[Leoladyofleisure]

Births

7th January - Callie Boy

Due dates

26th february-bella(girl)
1st march-amie(surprise)
2nd March - Bethoo (boy)
3rd march-foxie(boy)
3rd March -Booboobedoo (boy)
5th March-lucielu (boy)
5th March - amazonianwoman (surprise)
5th March - mariolliraviolli (boy?)
6th March-shanks313 (girl)
9th March-Jaysecond ( boy)
9th march-muppetisacat(boy)
9th march-Anglaise (surprise)
11th march - Laidback (boy)
11th march-Rosylily(boy)
12th March - Onilly (girl)
12th march - Noodlekitty (girl)
12th march - Tillsbluegirl (girl)
12th March - Leogaela (id-twins, surprise)
12th March - YankeeFish - surprise
13th march-theblonde(surprise)
14th march-divastrop(girl)
14th March - 1973Magpie(girl)
15th March-spongecake- (surprise)
17th march - Eva (boy)
19th march - Evenhope (girl)
21st march-kitty(boy)
23rd march - LunarSea (boy?)
27th march- msrlmoss (boy)
28th march-tidyjane (surprise)
30th march-cath(boy)
30th march-eidsvold
30th march-flannelettepjs

[3rdTriMossTer]

Loads of new people / people who haven't been on here in ages today!!!

Welcome / re-welcome everyone

Yankeefish know what you mean 'bout the shoes. I only have one pair that lace up and I haven't been able to wear them for the last few weeks all my others just slip on/off!

Shanks313 I hope everything is all okay when you have your scan.

Muppet I hope not I wouldn't want to make anyone come all the way up here to be my birth partner!

[YankeeFish]

Hi all,

I am a bit of a lurker too - seems like you all know each other so well, that I was a bit intimidated. But - to H with that - I love reading about everyone's similar thoughts. I've recently had the startling realization that I am having a baby in about 9 weeks!! About same time, I realized that it is getting hard to put my shoes on without sitting on the steps. I wee about 4 times a night, but thankfully can go back to sleep.

So - add me to the baby watch list -

YankeeFish - due March 12th - surprise!

[muppetisacat]

Hope all goes ok for you Shanks - at least you know they're on top of things and will check you again. I've got my 32 week scan tomorrow - very nervous that placenta will still be low and baby will still be breech.

Kitty - it makes me so cross when men spout this rubbish - they need to re-evaluate life's priorities and discover what is ACTUALLY the BIG things in life (ie what WE DO day in day out - without which life would grind to a total halt...

What is this whole due date buddy thing? Does it mean we have to jump in as birthing partners if our buddy's original partners are unavailable (probably taking care of the important things in their big lives)?

31+5 (boy)

[shanks313]

Hi everyone,

Havent posted on here a while as couldnt keep up with the speed of it.

Cant believe how time is flying by....not long to go now.
We have everything ready for baby now,just have to finish the nursery and get the cot up in our room.
Baby has been fairly quiet with her kicking,she has certain times of day when she kicks more.

On Tuesday I had the 32 week scan and they found the baby is small for its date.They are not too concerned as the blood flow in the placenta is still okay.The consultant said that it could be the baby is naturally tiny or the placenta is not working properly.I have to return in 2 weeks for another scan.
This has worried me a little the last few days and been making sure I can feel baby.

Shes weighing about 3lb at the moment so Callies was a really good weight for being so early Congrats.

I think thats all my news,will try and keep up from now on.

[novadandypowder]

Kitty - thanks for the invite to return, but I really can't keep up with this thread!! I've stuck to my post natal one from nov 05 as there are a couple of other expectants on there.

Pg going well so far, the sickness has finally stopped, and we had a 3d scan last week which was lovely. Find this bump is hanging a lot lower than the first, and baby moves a lot. DD is moving into her own room next week so I can start getting the nursery ready for the new arrival - shopping, hoorah!! Have just bought a Phil & Teds through MN, so looking forward to that arriving.

I see there's been a birth already, I hope all is well with Callie.

Good luck to everyone else x

[3rdTriMossTer]

Novadandypowder, I never got antenatal depression, can't really help I'm afraid, but I did feel worried that I wasn't as elated as I expected to feel.

Morocco nice to hear from you again! Hope everything's okay with your Mum, and your Grandad.

I suffer from the same problem with sensitive skin and allergies, normally it's not too bad but since becoming pg I haven't been able to wear perfume and especially on my face I have to be really careful!

Rosy my dh sounds very different from yours, almost opposite! He expects me to be every bit as emotionally resiliant if not more so than him! However, I do sometimes wonder how he's going to be when I am at home with a baby all the time...

Still if he even dared to say anything negative it wouldn't be me he'd have to answer to... his Mum is like one of the original bra burners!!!

[Rosylily]

Kitty, it is dh's culture but irish men are similar. It has it's advantages though, dh expects me to be a 'woman'... hormonal, curvy and incapable of providing for myself...what's not to like And with my upbringing I am probably equally sexist! I think men are 2 dimensional compared to women and much as I love them, can't do without my girly friends and sisters!

[Rosylily]

Morocco, great to hear from you and best wishes for your mum and Grandad.

[sexkittyinwaiting]

Rosy, is it an asian thing , this sexist crap or do all men do it?

[Rosylily]

My dh is forever saying totally sexist things. Honestly he's like a charicature of himself sometimes! But I don't give a fart! Ignore him! That's what I say (he's only a man )

[morocco]

had to get in at the end of the thread! maybe one day we will get broadband (we've finally got the laptop) and then I can chat to you all some more.
sorry, I've only flicked through the last few messages but have been lurking a bit as well.

How is callie boy doing? hope she and little one are doing ok. Is there a separate thread?

hope you all had a good Xmas and new year. We're ok. Baby seems fine and kicking well right now, very squirmy. Over Xmas we saw lots of little newborns and it was sooo cute to think that's more or less what's inside my tummy. I held one friends baby and it was like I could feel all the same bits and she squirmed just the same way (does that make any sense?)

My pelvis is still a bit wobbly but not too bad and I can walk ok, it's just not very glam or comfy. I've got an exercise ball in the sales and it is so brill, I watch telly leaning over it every night.

all the smellies I got for Xmas have made me skin go rashy and itchy so that's not so good back on the sensnitive skin stuff for me

mum had her lymph gland out over Xmas and we're waiting for the result to see if the melanoma has started spreading. consultant was optimistic it looked ok.
gdad is not doing very well (he has motor neurone) and seems quite depressed. I wish I could go to see him more

lots of other random news but don't want to overwhelm you all! anyway, you can see why I don't get much chance to post stuff these days.
hope you're all doing well

[sexkittyinwaiting]

Rosy, almost in the same breath he muttered something along the ,lines of people like him living in the real world, dealing with big problems etc. Sure my life isn't about making millions and it's focused, but most people's jobs are. He couldn't do my job.
What has upset me is his attitude to what I do. He obviously doesn't consider it to have the same worth as his. Up until now i also believed we had equal value in his eyes, now i see very clearly that we don't .

Nova I'll have a look, do come and join us again

[Rosylily]

Kitty, my life is full but small as in, the nature of having babies is that you get very focused in every way on this important task. Maybe he feels his life is small?...people often do that, they accuse others of what is their issue???

There is a great big world out there to explore but just right now isn't a good moment We can do everything but certainly not all at the same time! Can you hire a temperory replacement for him and send him on retreat? Holy Island, Taize or ....Corrymeela Ballycastle! (NI)

[novadandypowder]

Sorry for butting in - I was on here when this whole thing kicked off too, but you all talked to much and I couldn't keep up so I gave up.

If you don't mind, I know some of you suffered/are suffering from ante-natal depression and someone has posted on the pregnancy thread asking for help as she's new to MN and feeling very low about being pg. I just wondered if anyone fancied popping over to offer some support??

Nova 29+1 with a surprise

[3rdTriMossTer]

for you, what on earth does that mean that your life is small???

Because going out to work for a petty-minded boss with horrible colleagues sitting in the same chair every day staring out the window at the same fecking view when you're not on the computer or telephone, trying to make money and hit targets, working stupid hours for silly money, yeah, that's "big" is it?

[sexkittyinwaiting]

Where have half the people on this list gone? I occasionally look to see if they are still posting on other threads. i wonder why they have left this on.

I'm v, cross with dp , during a heated discussion, alright row, yesterday he told me that I had a small life. Lovely, bring up 5/6 of his kids full time, having given up my career etc and he thinks my life is small. Actually I don't think my life is small at all, he obviously does and that's a BIG problem.

[Rosylily]

Magpie you are certainly not the only one to have depression! I, for one, was totally depressed but thankfully mine shifted after the first trimester, and coming on here definately helped me!

[3rdTriMossTer]

1973magpie, it does sound like you've been having a rough ride of it. And then just to add icing on the cake people say things like, "so when you gonna start blooming then?"

I was out on a bit of a limb with my DW obsession so I started another thread here and actually discovered that some people are even more geeky than I am. I showed dh actually. He just shook his head and tutted.