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

[boredwithwaitingforminiMOSSY]

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

Sorry to see so many on the thread are having a crappy time right now, have only skim read as it's been a busy day here

Dolly - sorry to hear about your Dad

Diva - hope you don't have any more nasty scares and your BP starts to behave

Foxy & Morocco - glad to hear your scans were ok

just popping in to say hi to 1973magpie, not long to go now! wondered how you're getting on? don't seem to be many of us mums-to-be in Suffolk!

Diva / Foxy, sorry you had such crappy appointments! Diva I can't believe they wouldn't listen to you when you told them you'd not had a stressful day! Surely it would make more sense for them to er on the side of caution even if they genuinely didn't think there was owt wrong with you, just in case of litigation etc?

Foxy sorry your dh is being rubbish. If it's any consolation my dh is being stubborn about having his mobile on. He says "you have my work number, you can always get me there." Yeah, but what about when you're in meetings, when you're driving somewhere, when you're out on your dinner etc etc.?

Morocco glad your lo has deffo turned!

Dolly it's not always a happy thread there are sad things on here too, you should always be able to come on and talk about what's important, sad or happy. {{{{hugs}}}}

Right I'm determined not to be late today. Not that I owe them sweet fa in work but I've never been a "late" person and don't intend to start now.

More later!

35 weeks today!
EDD 27 March
Boy (Bertie)

Foxy, Mossy,my dh is genuinely good with moblies but for ages in the last labour we couldn't wake him up at all!! . Gave up inthe end, I think he appeared of his own volition

Moss, don't panic! If you go into labour it will start gradually, so you'll have time to track your man...I think it's more common to go into labour at night too. Maybe it'll start by your waters breaking, then you can soak him in the bed and that'll soon draw his attention to your labour That reminds me...must get a plastic sheet on my bed
Keep getting txts from dh...a rare treat he must be bored! last one said something like "where are you are you dead or something? get off the mumsnet and reply to my txt you lazy git"

Anyway I wasn't on mumsnet, I was reading stories and singing songs to his children, I don't know why he thinks I'm always on mumsnet

Rosy

Diva - sorry I didn't reply to you properly last night. It must be really worrying having those symptoms and having to be kept in etc. How many weeks R U now?

Mossy/Rosy - my waters broke in bed with DD, at 2.30am, so I went to the loo then back to sleep. I had taken to waering massive pads which soaked most of it up - so no mess on the bed. Next morning at about 8.30am I rang the hospital and they cried "why did't you come in last night when your waters broke". I said "well, I was tired" . I liked the waters breaking first - at least it meant something was defo going to happen. With DS I had contractions on and off for 5 days before I went into labour proper - how annoying is that?

Kitty - how could your DP carry on sleeping, was it in the middle of the night?

Rosy - we believe you!

OPh BTW had a great sleep last night:

Lay on alternate sides, with a flat pillow under my bump, a small sausage pillow propping my back up and a huge sausage between my legs (I wish!).

A couple of large sausages in bed makes such a difference Grrls!

Dolly - so sorry things aren't as you'd hoped for your dad - still it's early days isn't it? Do you think things could improve? They say the first 48 hours are critical and will tell you a lot more.

Diva at the lack of care from your gp and mw - I always assumed they'd be hopping up and down in a frenzy if your bp went up and you had other symptoms. Can't believe they weren't taking things more seriously. Hope you have better week.

Speaking of waters breaking - both my labours started like this (due, I'm sure to my nipple stim!!) and I ruined 2 mattresses. No gently trickling for me - I had to walk round with hand towels between my legs - no sanitary pad was going to cope with the flood. The second time they popped - DH actually heard it go and said "What the feck was that!"

What will it be like third time round?

37+4

I used a cunning trick to get my dh to start answering his mobile recently... even in meetings...

I let him overhear a phone conversation with a friend, in which I was asking her to be my backup at the birth. Basically I moaned on about how i was worried dh may well not be able to be there and would she do me the honour of stepping into his shoes.

Rosy, always on MN? You? Surely not!

Foxy, pmsl at the sausage! Wasn't a saveloy was it by any chance?

Kitty at your dp not waking up!

Muppet I like your trick! I might do that when mil is round, ask her to ensure she's on standby as dh doesn't have his moby on!

I had the loveliest thing happen to me on the way to work this morning. Sometimes on the train home from work I see a couple on their way home from visiting their rellies in Liverpool. I think they're in their seventies, although I'm not good with guessing ages.

Anyway I speak to them from time to time and they always ask how I'm feeling.

The other evening the lady was on her own, said her dh wasn't feeling too well, and asked me what time I get the train of a morning, as she didn't want to miss me before I went off on maternity, she wanted to wish me well.

Anyway this morning I was on my way to the station and she was there waiting for me with a card and a prezzie (a little blue romper suit)! She said her dh was not so well, he'd had pneumonia, and was recovering okay, but had to stay at home for a bit so they wouldn't be going out in Liverpool for a few months until he was better, and she hadn't wanted to miss me before I went off.

Can you believe that? Even though her fella was so ill they both thought about getting me a present, it's not like I even know them very well (we didn't even know each other's names).

Isn't that one of those things that just gives you a lovely warm feeling?

Mossy - that's lovely - older people can be so thoughtful can't they?

Muppet - do recall that "pop" sensation when the waters go?

Oh well I'm having one of those days now! The other banger won't start now and the jump leads are in the first banger in the carpark in Dublin airport.
If I wasn't a big pregnant hobbling heffer I could easily have walked to nursery school ...(fume fume) as it is I have to walk to the shops for essential supplies.. that's going to take a while...
And possibly to register her annoyance dd weed herself all over two coats, some papers, her trousers, t shirt, socks and shoes..... Oh well at least it's sunny.

Morning All.

Hi EllieK, only 22 days to go now

Things are ok with me, after all the pg difficulties (SPD, gestational diabetes, serious ms....) I am currently fighting for a homebirth

Hope all is well with you too, how long have you got to go now?

Mossy - that's a lovely story, it restores your faith in humannature when something nice like that happens

Re: Mobiles, my DH is the opposite. He quite often rings me from work during his break for a chat, so I thought I'd return the favour last week, and a very panicked DH said 'Are you in labour...?' !!

Morning all! felt the need to count days today, getting bored but MW says I should be making the most of it. How's everybody else coping with the waiting?
30 days to go.
EED 22 March

Chocolatepenny - I'm coping by worrying!!!

Mossy - I think you've got a wannabe surrogate grandma and grandad there!

I'm with you on the pillows fox - body length one which goes between my legs and under the bump..... except that when dh comes to bed (he doesn't actually stay up longer than me, just falls asleep on the sofa and I can't move him!) he insists on removing it - grrr!

hi all,
I've got 6 weeks to go!!! but i keep telling myself he'll come 2 weeks early like DS!! i bet he'll come late now!!!
I sleep with one of those wedge pillows from mothercare. it's mainly to stop my from rolling on to my front as i've woken up nearly laying flat on my front and i just know that it can't be good! my poor baby will come out all long and thin!

I'm actually holding baby in now until dh comes back (crosses legs firmly)

Since I've been having such a difficult morning I had to buy fish and chips at 11 o'clock to share with the children followed by fry chocolate cream, yummy yummy. Walking is a nightmare at the moment I CAN'T WAIT TO BE ABLE TO WALK AGAIN.

This house is a TIP.

Moss that little old couple sound so sweet. aaww.

Yes worrying certainly passes the time. Why do worries get 10 x worse at night? I am painting little animal things on babys bedroom wall at moment (Yes I know the blissful haze of the first born) But I kept getting these grim thoughts that if it something might happen to baby and then somebodies going to have to paint it all back again,. How horrible is that? they come from the darkest part of my mind.Can't really say them to my DH so its a relief to mention them here really.

Chocolate - is that the supersition thing?

I got some baby boys clothes from the Vertbaudet sale and kept thinking: "what if anything happens to him - I'll have to get rid of all his teeny clothes"

They'll be FINE!!!

Rosy - Fry's Chocolate Cream? I haven't had one of those for years!!!

We had fish and chips for supper last night

Mossy - lovely tale about the old folks, how sweet!

37 weeks today for me, not feeling even vaguely ready for a tiny baby so he/she can take their time as I'm in no rush!

Lunar - next time he tries to remove it, you could just whack him with the end of it!

Visions of Lunar swinging her sausage ballon round like a lassoo....

chocolatepenny, something terrible will happen to the little painted animals...before you know it your baby will find a pen and scribble all over them