May 07 - W/C -22nd Jan 07

[Frenchsmallfry]

Morning....

Oh no Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves is on too. Decisions decisions...

LOL FSF, of course i have you.....

LO even louder at SOH "did you know im having a baby?"......

No really, i know what you mean, LO was wriggling about in bed last night (unlike Mathilda) and i was stroking my tummy to soothe him and talking too. It was very strange, i dont normally do that. Made it seem very real very suddenly, he was not soothed by the way and kept going nuts. Hope it's not a sign of things to come!

I may have spinach on the side...oh who am i kidding of course im having spinach on the side.....

Watching that now! but will have to turn over at 8, you can watch robin hood again, it's a film!!!

Haven't had spinach for ages. Might make spinach and ricotta cannelloni tomorrow.

I know I'm a twonk. It's just occasionally I'll see a newborn baby and thing 'ooh how lovely' and then the sarcastic voice in my head says 'er... what do you think that bump is?'. I can't believe I'm going to find out what giving birth is like. And my goodness. What is it like to hold a child that me and DH made? DH is going to be a Dad- now that I am very excited about.

Ignore me, I'm hungry and rambling.

Does any body poke their belly's???? Not hard obviously, You know to get a response? Not sure if it's a good thing to do, but it didn't do ds and dd any harm, even if they did come out and stick two fingers in my eyes

Midwife said it is fine to gently prod. In fact she said they probably enjoy the interaction.

Recently discovered that if DH talks to an area of my stomach, she kicks there. Don't know if she's being friendly or telling him to bugger off.

You rammble away, It is soooo special, you are allowed to be excited, nervous, etc.... and all the other emotions. I remember feeling exactly like that with ds, I was so excited about the whole dh and I made that!! For mths I kept saying to dh, (in one of the many staring at this little sleeping thing moments) Look isn't he gorgeous, we did that, arn't we clever. You just can't help it!

But I can't put up shelves. How can I make a baby?

Nonsensical question #2939

I think thats a good sign SOH, if my dh goes anywhere near my belly baby runs into a corner and hides. Think it's probably getting him muddled with a very noisy 4 yr old or a clambering 18mth old though, best just run for cover anyway.

Glad about the proddy thing, mine have all certainly interacted with a prod here and there, that is my usual trick if it hasn't moved for a while, give it a prod a few times until I get a respose. Last night I regretted it in the end, decided it hadn't moved for a while (hour or so) when I went to bed, I started prodding and woke it up, then it proceeded to wriggle and kick for an hour whilst I was trying to go to sleep. That'll teach me for waking a sleeping baby up.

Poke your belly???!!! Did you not read my post earlier about wiggling his head from side to side, just to see if it was indeed his head you understand, not out of wickedness on my part..

Im looking forward to this one morethan any of the others which sounds mean. Its just the twins dad was lng gone by the time they were born and exp was just not interested in babies, he had no gaze adoringly at them moments. I did, but it is just not the same unless you have the person you created them with doing it too. DH is very excited and very involved, allbeit from afar most of the time. I cant wait to see this baby and see how proud he is...[soppy, wet emotion]

But it's not Nonsensicle, I was designed to make babies, definately wasn't designed to put shelves up! Shelves end up wonky and my children are perfect.

Now how can I make a child that gorgeous, that perfect, that adorable, that cute etc.... is the real question! You will say it, bet you!

Glad I'm not mean then! There are other belly pokers out there. Sorry lg&t must have missed that one, hehe, when I was pg with ds about 32 weeks I actualy had his foot in my hand at one point for a few seconds, it was a tiny perfect foot, he poked it out at me I held it and then he pulled it back. It was so lovely I cried. (hormonal mess then obviously)

I'm terrified.

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Oh ignore me. I overheard my Mum a while ago saying to a friend 'SOH's bright and academic but she'll be a useless mother'.

Sort of the reason why I worry about perpetuating the mother/daughter relationship and was hoping for a little boy. I do understand her reasoning and I'm terrified she's right. I love my Mum very much and we're quite close, but I know she's not the only one surprised that I'm pregnant. Just being wobbly today.

Like I said, ignore me.

Of what?

That is not a very nice mum to say that to you! Im sure you will be a fabby mummy, have no fear. Why would she say that, did you ask her?

It's almost an ongoing joke with my family. I was a very dreamy, creative child. I wanted to be a writer so spent hours reading and writing. My brother was very good at woodwork and practical things and the joke was I would never be able to do anything practical and my brother would never read a book. Even now when they come to my house and I cook for them they start looking in the bin for takeaway packets or ready meal packaging. I rewired the kettle last week and my Mum quipped 'is that a euphemism for DH did it?'. I'm sure it is all meant in jest but after 8yrs my Mum still comes round and offers to cook a 'proper meal' for DH. I cook everything from scratch, grow my own veggies, do my own DIY, run a house, study for an MA etc etc but at recent family gatherings everybody is highly entertained by 'lets bet whether SOH will leave the baby on the bus in its first week of life'.

Oh I'm waffling.

Agreed lg&t, you sound tip top to me you will soooooooooo not be useless. The way I see it is, If our children are well, warm, clothed fed and LOVED you will not be useless. We all do silly things some times. I tried to leave a friends once leaving ds asleep on her bed when he was tiny. I packed all his things in the car said good bye and went to get in the car. she said to me, Ummmmmm would you like to take him with you. You will be fine hunny, try to ignor your family or if you can, point out to them every so often that they are wrong.

Right I'm off to watch a short person.xxx

Ohh ignor has an e on the end, often wondered how it's spelt just never got round to finding out Thanks SOH

Thanks you two. Promise not to waffle any more, normal service resumed.

Watching Top Gear, shorty man is looking very well indeed.

Chos resumed, the dts have returned. I keep hoping a manual will come out on hoe to parent!

I left Jonah in the shed once, had been sat in the garden and forgot all about him! Have left dt in the car when he was 5! Ummmmm too many to list!

Dont worry, you will be fine. It must grind you down hearing that all the time though. Im sure my family just think im a baby making machine that will amount to nothing. HA! We will see mwhahaaaaaaaaaaa......

Scary the crash wasn't it? He did look good though.

lg&t, hope the dt's had an educational day.

Going to bed now, really want to see the result of celb (wtf) BB, haven't watched it since the Jade thing as it pis** me off but I want to know who wins. Can't stay up any longer though so hoping somebody an hour behind me there will know the result tommorow. Night all xxx

Hello All.

Well I have to say that I had no luck with the trousers. I tried a pair of capri's on in the store and they roll down into full size pants, unfortunately when I got home the fell right down once I started walking around.
So I have to surrender myself to the idea that my ass will hang out for a few months.

I actually felt a kick that was visible from the outside today. I never had that with ds and am very excited. It hasn't happened since though.

Question: Why do we have to drink 64 oz of water only to spend the whole day in the bathroom? I pee every 10 minutes because I drink soooo much water.

Oh well.

I hear everyone on the belly poking. when I was 9 months with ds I started to poke my belly in order for him to feel under attack and encourage him to try to get out. I didn't want him to get too comfortable in there.