Due in March 07 - in the immortal words of "Europe": It's the final countdown....!

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NEW THREAD!!!! Could this be the last one before we all start to drop???

Hi everyone, just popping in to say I a SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO fed up!
Nothing changed here in fact the contractions I was having have disappeared and I am just getting normal BHs now, despite eating pineapple and having a bit of saveloy !
I have now resigned myself to thinking that they will either arrive on Friday for DS's 2nd birthday , or they will want to induce me after my next hospital appointment (in 9 days time). I really don't want to be induced!
Am now 36+5, (ds was born at 37+2 so cna't believe I've got so far with twins). On Friday each baby was 2.5Kg! I can't believe it and am happy they have got to this size but not sure how much more I can take , .... Sorry for the moan, I know lots of you are going through much worse than me.

Leo - I think whatever we're going through, you're going through double that!! You're doing pretty well and must be close now

Jay - I was quite intrigued by the pics from you roof actually!!!

Kitty - I can only cope with about 1/3 of a glss of wine atm, I mis with sparkly water and tropical fruit juice for my "drink" each night. Might try a beer though

Have just painted over all the finger marks etc on the walls.

Am really starting to panic about what's going to happen on the "big day"...

what are everyone elses emergency plans?

Mine are:

Contact DH (who may be at work which is about two hours sway on the rain)
Contact my Dad (who is looking after the kids when I'm in labour)
Contact the school if necc and tell them who is picking up children
Panic and try and get to the hospital!!!!

My biggest fear is around who will look after the DCs (although I now have several volunteers) and how the feck I am going to get to the hospital (40-64 mins drive) if DH is at work

Leo, you are doing so well, just think how strong and healthy they will be. I guess they are not ready to come yet even though you want them out .
Have you tried any of the more alternative routes like reflexology, accupuncture etc? Although I must say these things never worked for me, alot of people have success with them.

Jay the room looks lovely

Fox I'm lucky enough to have dh at home, mum 10 mins drive away and mil at home. I've never gone into labour during the day though so it's only ever been a matter of shaking everyone out of bed !

leo - you are doing a fab job growing those 2 babies. did you watch that miracle babies programme last week? a woman gave birth to twins and each one weighed the same as my ds1 - 6.10 - respect to all mothers of twins!! hope you get through ds's bday first though. I'm a bit worried about ds's 3rd bday at the start of march, brought forward party to next weekend but I'll be glad to pass that milestone before labour starts

my ebay buying is going well. now have a couple of fluffles to try as well (nappies) - my nappy fetish is once again in full flow. dh is in despair but now I can resell on ebay for almost the same price. well that's the plan. it's always the same with me, then we wreck whatever it is we bought and it has to be chucked away. people who actually keep their stuff in good nick.

I'm going to swaddle for first few weeks then move onto grobags, maybe with a blanket on top if it's cold. love love love grobags. they're dead cheap on ebay btw

today I have a tiny cold but feel very sorry for myself . luckily dh cooked full sunday lunch and is looking after kids - hurrah for dh!

Leo - feel free to moan away - you have twice the right of all of us to feel fed up - I simply cannot imagine what it must be like to have 4 arms, 4 legs all capable of a punch at any one time

Jay - is your dd's room always so tidy?? It looks wonderful... i'd spend all my time in there if we had a room so organised in my house!!!

Kitty - i'm with you for some lager... infact it's given me a bit of a thirst....

Foxy - i'm in the same boat regards having mild panic if i go into labour early. The beauty of this c section is how civilised your planning can be regarding dc's - however, now i think he's gone head down i'm probably going to have same dilemmnas as you.

Ho hum, off to lie on sofa i think. Cannot be bothered to do a single thing more.....

Amie... where are you????

37+2

im going to have to do another half and half reply as i got sidetracked when doing my usual lunchtime catch-up.

jay-ive been changing dd2(14 months)on the floor since she was about 3 months old.i had a changing mat but ds2 destroyed it with a pen so i never bothered after that,i just put an old towel on the floor if she's done a squitter

co-sleeping with ds1 put me off for life,and now i wouldnt put a baby in bed with me atall whatsoever.in fact i started ds and dd2's bedtime routines(ie bath,bottle,put in moses basket still awake) the first night we were home from the hospital.but ff babies go longer between feeds at first and its more predictable,from what i remember of bf.

dd2 shared a bedroom with dd1 from 3 weeks old,but she'd been in hospital and got used to not being by my bed so i thought i may as well carry it on.

leo-i'm due the day after you and i cant even begin to imagine what it must be like carrying twins-one is bad enough!i dont think much of the saveloy method myself i have to say but i suppose these things only work when the lo's ready to be born anyway......

fox-emergency plan?

panic.

dp would have to saty with the kids while i go to the hospital i suppose,i would have to get a taxi(its about a 10-15 minute drive).

Aww Leo, moan away its not like you dont have any reason! Just think though in a cpl of weeks (prob sooner) you will be moaning about a whole lot of different things, as we all will be! It must be tough for you, but glad the babes are putting on their weight

Fox, the pics from the roof, DH took. Our neighbours are having some work done and have scaffolding up. He climbed up a few days ago and took them, he reckoned he wouldnt get another oppotunity to get pics like it! Hes a funny one sometimes, he just loves to take pics for 'prosperity'!
As for emergency plans, i am in my own bubble thinking that it will all happen when there are a choice of people to come and take DD and that DH will be around to drive me to the hospital. In one sense i am lucky as he works a lot from home, but the flip side is, when he does do a 'chunk' of work he has to stay over at places, and hes got a coupl of those coming up.....now i am starting to think about the 'what if's!!'

Muppet, DD's room was only finished on Friday, so shes only been in it officially for two days, and the pics were taken on the first one of those two!!!! I cant imagine it staying that way for very long!

Well went for lunch at pizza express, yummy scrummy, had a huge bowl of pasta with dough balls, followed by the best cheesecake in the world and icecream! Then we took DD to the park, its a lovely sunny afternoon and it was great to get some air, although i was knackered with walking about 200 yards! am sure people were looking and thinking, ' is she about to go into labour!!'

going to have a wee snooze now i think.... make the most of whats left of a lazy sunday afternoon!

Well, I've been cleaning windows/behind furniture/under the bed today: all the stuff I've been wanting to do for ages but couldn't because of the DIY. It's not finished, of course , but I've banned all further decorating in the bedroom until June.

Just made some chocolate cookies, and went to put in the second batch only to find DH had eaten the rest of the dough - about 5 cookies worth. Fat greedy pig . He's 33 for crying out loud. Do the grow up more once they have kids? Please say yes...

Leo: hope you're feeling better. Put your feet up.

Hi everyone else!

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38 weeks
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oooh - nesting, boo!!

I have bad backache which is driving me mad, I've got a cold and you know how that makes all your aches and pains seem worse but dh has been fab and a delight all day, looking after the kids and making dinner and finally clearing out the spare room. It was so bad, the door wouldn't close on all the junk in there, including an old kitchen table and chairs! Now there is space down the centre of the room and I can just about squeeze in.

mupppet - when did baby turn and what makes you think they're the other way up now? just curious for any pointers - I'm rubbish at guessing. I've got a scan tomorrow to see which way up dd really is - every mw says something different - I think she's just doing acrobatics.

Do men grow up once they have kids ???

Shall we tell her the truth girls??

foxy: Do men grow up once they have kids ???

No. I certainly didn't. And I spend hours each week persuading adults (women as well as men) to act more like kids and have fun . If adults can't enjoy themselves, what chance have their kids?

Hi all

Have had a lovely weekend .... went to my Grandma's 80th birthday "rave" up in London - great - apart from she knocked her cake off onto the floor. My aunt picked it up - lucky it was a robust fruit cake - and it still tasted great !

Also popped in on a friend who is due the same day as me.... she looked as as thin as as stick... apart from her bump - Oh well - DH sais she didn't have my " glow !!" . Bless him - he will be rewarded

I bought a breastfeeding pillow called a lulla lunar - It's all furry and like a big lambs leg ...

Men growing up after becoming fathers..... quite the reverse ! Not all bad though as Mr LSG so rightly says !

Hiya all.

thanks for the concern. The mastitis cleared fairly quickly but as I said before taking with it my milk in that breast seemingly for good. I'm much calmer now. I knew really all along that the odds were I would have to formula feed because it just never seemed that my milk would improve, despite all the good advice I've received. I can still express little bits from the other boob which he's getting, but he really doesn't get anything when he goes on the breast, he's always starving and eats as much as if I hadn't tried him on the times he latches on. It's sad but not the end of the world. Moss, you are so right - I did feel like I was giving him polonium, or poison as I kept thinking of it, then wised up and realised if this was a different day and age (or place in the present day), he could die if it weren't for formula, so despite ongoing sadness, I've accepted that you can still have a healthy bottle-fed child. My nephew was the same, a prem baby, my sister didn't have the milk and he's mainly formula fed.

Again Eids, thanks for your post. It makes me better to hear it has happened to other people too. having a prem baby and the stress that goes with it is a big shock to the body, sin't it? Saying that, Jordi is snurzling away (best word I can think of to describe his noises) and I need to go and feed him. Haven't read all posts but one day will catch up properly - read some lower down, loved the smut! So disappointed Leo hasn't had her twins yet, dying not to be only one with new baby now! Cx

Hi Callie - really good to hear from you and also that its all back under control again.

MrsLSG - good point actually - I think one of the best things about having kids is being able to do all the fun stuff again (building sandcastles etc etc)

both dds slept in their moses basket in our room. Dd1 was in her moses basket until she was about eight months old as she was so ditty. Dd2 I can't remember when she went into her cot but that stayed in our room until she was about 9 months old.

As to changing - same change table. Dd1 would be changed on dd2's table and even now - both dds are changed on the change table. Easier to do that especially at the moment than struggle onto floor with them. Both are in pull up nappies so that makes life easier. Gosh to think I will soon have 3 in nappies!! Having said that dd1 is making great strides in toileting at kindy and school - not so great strides at home. No worries she will crack it.

Mossy - possiby moving to Darlington.

Muppet - how can you afford to move every two years?
well a quick note aas i have to use other peoples internet nd it is rude of me to sit here and ignore my hosts so a quick hello and i hope to get my own internet in time!
find out tomorrow when i am induced, hopefully using the drip rather thatn the gel.
got my pram yesterday with my prents and a few other bits and my mother did not smile at all!

Thanks all! I've been really lucky that I haven't had any real problems with the pregnancy and have been fairly mobile up to the last couple of weeks, but now I am almost housebound and I can't cope with being on my feet for more than about 5 minutes. I know hte end is close but I just keep forgetting when I am wallowing in self pity and thinking this will go on forever...

Kitty, dh is being treated by an accupuncturist, i think I will get him to call her tomorrow and ask if she can do something. I think accupuncture is really powerful and am just a bit nervous of it.

Morocco, unfortunately I don't get the channel with the Miracle babies program on, but i've heard it was fascinating, if anyone recorded please let me know!
Hope your cold doesn't turn into anything more.

I am also planning on swaddling for the first few weeks and then going onto grobags. Its something that we didn't do with DS and I think it would have been a good idea. Its impossible to keep him covered at night now but too late to put him in a grobag.

As for DS's birthday, this year we are postponing it, but I just think it would be really crap for him if he ends up sharing his birthday with the twins. Its going to be much closer than I am happy wiht already!

Fox, my only worry is what to do with DS if we have to leave in the middle of the night. Do we call a neigbour and risk him freaking out when he finds we are not there in the morning or do we get him out of bed and take him with us and get SIL out of bed to pick him up from the hospital? Otherwise I'm not too worried. Actually one of our neighbours is a midwife (she's not very friendly and I've never spoken to her), if it came to it I would call her.

Kitty, a while ago you were describing the way you look, you dp said you look like humptydupmpty. Go and look at the pictures on the back of Mr Men books, I look like Mr Greedy, I have the same bump that sticks our horizontally from my body!

Well done Callie !

Leo - I know what Mr Greedy looks like

I have the same dilemna with my DC's if it happend in the night. Wake them and explain (they'll get all stressed) or leave them to sleep and wake up to find Grandad there (scary in itself LOL!)

MrLSG, maybe in a few months my sense of humour will return, but atm, HEAR ME ROAR. (Not at you, obviously. That would be uncalled for ).

Have started a moan thread in pregnancy and can feel sanity returning...

Leo,like the mr Greedy image

well had gp visit today - baby is down in the pelvis 1/5!! Gp said I am growing nicely fundal a little ahead of weeks but not much.

Had a dream last night that this baby was 10lb 4 oz!! I woke up thinking thank goodness for a c-section - especially if it has dd2's off the scale head size

had enough now - want this baby out - fat hot and tired. Not sleeping well lately and the dds have taken to going to sleep late and waking early.

Morning all,

This is my last full week in work; next week I'm only in for three days!

Dh has just come downstairs (he is emphatically not a morning person and this is very very early for him, don't know what made him get up actually) saying "why do you have to run that bath so full / make so much noise / not stop the cat from miaowing etc etc"

Erm, doesn't he know that in just over a month we'll have a crying baby in the house?

Booboo I don't know about my dh growing up after a baby; I would be happy for him to develop a playful side as MrLSG describes, but I do hope these cob ons and sulks get fewer and fewer!

Fox emergency plans: phone dh, phone mil, phone dh's mate (yes the one who made the caveman comment) and inform him that we're off, tell neigbours; neigbours and dh's bezzie for looking after the dogs, mil & dh for taking me to the hosi.

Leo you're twice as entitled to moan than anyone else!!

Bethoo I've never been to Darlington, I knew a bloke from there once, he had lovely long curly hair and spoke with an ultra northern accent. He was dead sexy, so if he's representitive of the place... you'll love it! lol!

Whoever mentioned co-sleeping, what are the practicalities? How do you make sure you don't roll over onto the baby? Can you use your usual duvet or do you have to have sheets / blanket? We're planning on a moses basket (thank you NatWest!) but I would like to take lo into the bed sometimes too.

Jay hope you had a nice pizza, pizza express is lovely isn't it?

Kiwi I've bought two swaddling wraps and baby sleeping bags for when he's a bit older. But we've been given loads of blankets too just in case he doesn't get on with the other.

Lunar the stuff you bought looks ever so cute! As for parents and their selective memories - my Mum used to insist that by two and a half I was reading the bible. King James Version too! Then again I'm sure I'll be telling my friends how Bertie was playing AD&D when he was three....

Will catch up with everyone else when I'm back in work, must go and wash and get ready now else I'll be late!!!

Eids, I know what you mean about being fed up with it all now. I guess it's still pretty hot where you are? That makes things worse. DD2 was due at the beginning of sep 2003, so I went through my lastmonth during one of the hottest summers on record. It's not funny is it?

Mossy, I co sleep for a time. Not sure how
long for.I'm naughty and have baby under covers with me. You don't roll on them because you don't really sleep (sorry)ime.
There is a part of you on red alert for the baby wanting feeding etc.So even between sleeping your sleep is very light.

Back to school today. I don't want to do this anymore.