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???

Are you going for that then Mossy?

I haven't the energy to hold out for another three months for an extra £250... this will pay off my overdraft and leave us with a whole grand with which to buy some really nice baby stuff! Yes I'm going to go for it.

And even d "hold out hold out hold out" h has agreed!!

Oooh Mossy that sounds like a brillaint result - you may get a fat cheque soon then?

Kitty - she keeps asking me if I like three in a bed?

No seriously, here we go:

"What are you doing now?"
"Where are you sitting?"
"is it OK to sit here?"
What date is it?"
"Which reading book comes after brown?"
"What are you doing now?"
"Are you going for a cup of tea - I'll come with you?"
"Are you going to the toilet - I'll come with you?"
What are you doing now?"
"Are you going to the nursety now - I'll come with you?"

I explained I am extremely tired and please could she stop asking constant questions as I'm too tired to keep answering.

Then she calls me at home wanting to discuss the fact that I said I'm too tired to answer her questions!!"

I really wanted a rest today.

When I finish the reading in year 2, I sit in nursery for 45 mins, helping them and waiting for DD to finish. The nursery staff don't want her following me into nursery as she bugs them too and distracts them from their jobs. They've actually told her not to come there during the day!

aaarrgh

Sounds like you've got them on the run mossy!

Kitty/Foxy other spd people - think there's a few of you... just now I suddenly could barely walk... when i took step forwards - whichever leg i moved i got real bad ache across fanjo and down inside of thigh
Was enough to make me stop and draw breath, and it keeps happening when i walk... is that spd????
Never had it with other 2 pgs... but it's wierd it's happening now and coinciding with disappearance of babies head from under my ribs...

What do you think...

Sorry... but ... OWWWWW.... if this is what you guys have had all this time you poor things.........

Foxy - your stalker sounds a bit simple to me... is she??

Mossy - just want to send sympathies to your DH - forgot to mention it. I get grumpy for weeks if I have a big interview or am tense about something so I can relate to that.

A bit worried about the grumpy Piscean thing though - are not some of us just about to produce a whole group of piscean babies? ?

Kitty - thanks - I will experiment in bed a bit more now.....with the pillows that is

Muppet - that sounds like it to me - pain in pubic area when you part your legs - side to side or back to front (e.g. walking upstairs or geiing out of bed/car) plus pains down inside leg and also sometimes lower back pain.

Think its much more likely to happen late in PGcy....

I'm not an expert though...

Muppet - I think with my stalker, its a blend of straightforward stupidity, gross selfishness, laziness and an amazingly thick hide!!

ouch, muppet, hope baby shifts again. maybe lying on a nerve?

great news mossy - you are rich

fox- stalker woman sounds a bit too needy for a 38 pregnant woman to deal with, hope she gets the hint

back from mw and this one can't decide whether she's breech or just has a very bony behind (not inherited from me btw! but ds2 has no arse at all so could be some gene that has skipped a generation or two)

I wish we could afford the stem cell thing but I can't really really justify the expense. we got all the info but the cheapest is well over a grand. I do tend towards the paranoia with ds1 anyway but the meds he has to take increase his chance of leukaemia (from miniscule to more or less miniscule) and also I do wonder if they will ever discover some easy cure that just involves a few stem cells and I could say, how handy, I have some in the fridge, just wait a mo. as both scenarios are actually v unlikely, we are not going to pay up that much just in case. i didn't even ask the consultant what he thought as I'm sure he already thinks I'm Mrs Worry

Muppet, it could be that.
My spd is concentated between my legs.

I had alot of sciatica (sp?) towards the end ofone preg and that sent horrible shooting pains down mjy legs and would literally causemy legs to buckle.

Foxy, she wants to go to the loo with you?? AW, she thinks you are her special friend doesn't she ?

Will your dh be able to do any of the school runs? Mine takes over completely from about 40 weeks,sometimes earlier. I find anything more than shuffling round the house cause awful bh's now.

Morocco - I heard something on the radio about the stem cell collection last week - it sounds very exploitative to me - stinging worried parents for all that money as a kind of insurance against future possible problems. Dunno if the whole things has been properly researched yet either - in terms of what the stems could and couldn't be used for.

Sorry you have to worry about your LOs medication though - sounds like its just a theoretical risk though doesn't it?

You hit it on the head regarding that woman.

Am playing Wham's greatest hits CD very loudly to cheer meself

Kitty - I bloody well hope Dh will be doing school runs for two weeks after the birth!!!

My friend whose baby is now 3 months carried on doing all the school runs straight after the birth - when her baby was 1 day old she took her to ballet (with her older DD), at two days, she took her newborn to the swimming pool (with her older DS) - but she's a complete dynamo super woman!!

I like going into Purdah for a couple of weeks - lots of lying down and BFing and getting to know newborn.

at idea of one day old baby starting ballet classes!

dread to think what efforts dh will be putting in during his pat leave. on his first pat leave his actual words were 'great 2 weeks holiday, I think I'll go and see my mum' - you can imagine what my response was . second time round he was more effective. while I'm whinging about him, I came back from aquanatal (just started, it is great) last night at 8pm, dh was watching telly, beer in hand, ds1 was in bath by himself and I had to go straight up, get him out of freezing cold bath (he has a bad cough right now and is off nursery btw) and do the whole story/bed thing before having my own tea (having made all theirs before I went out btw). dh couldn't understand why I was p*ed off cos he'd done ds2's bath and bed. ds1 is supposed to be in bed well before 8, is sick, I am tired etc etc. well, I'm sure you guys understand why I was anyway. I swear he does this kind of thing on purpose the mre pregnant I get - honestly, I can't remember him being quite this appalling normally.
stem cell thing is all my paranoia - even I know that and tbh ds1's consultant would thik I was mad to be even considering it, I'm sure but like you say, they prey on people's fears don't they? and then massively overcharge. i do wish the nhs collected it for donation though if it is really as useful as the companies claim.

morocco - when I had ds, before I'd even got out of hospital dh went out and bought himself a new (and very expensive)bike on the grounds that I'd got a "new toy" (his words, not mine) so he thought he should have one too. Needless to say he then spent part of his paternity leave out riding it!

Blimey, some of the things your blokes get up to make mine look saintly and you know how I've moaned on.

Morocco I genuinely do feel rich. I have never had so much money "spare" in my life!

And being able to pay off my overdraft! This will be the first time since my late teens that I haven't been in debt to NatWest in one form or another!

I read about that stem cell thing. I do wonder, if it's so useful, then in a few years' time won't the NHS be doing it as a matter of course anyway?

Foxy I wouldn't mind if dh had told me why he was grumpy! But my guess is that he didn't because I would go into "motivational speaker" hyperdrive which to be fair I might have done.

Bertie will be an Aries like me - unless he is early! The ideal would be for him to get most of dh's attributes (sensitivity, kindness, all that malarky) but my "glass half full" attitude! Ah we'll see. Who knows he could take after some random Auntie!

Muppet sorry you are feeling sore.

Chocolatepenny hope the appt goes okay!

Piffle the first time I saw those icandy prams I wondered if they had speakers for ipods or something.

Muppet I am still going to buy my Moses Basket on ebay now I have money. I'm going to avoid the temptation of getting "lazy taxed" by buying first hand!

I meant malarky in a nice way of course!

Men huh!
Hi lisjane2

Moss, good news on the money front! Yay!

Muppet I get most of my spd in my hip joints, they dislocate slightly and when I get up to walk I have to give them time to click back in before I can move, it is pretty sore. I got a bit of what you describe and wasn't sure if it was the spd or sciatica(sp?) In the past my spd has disappeared very quickly after birth so I hope that will happen this time too.

Chocolatepenny did you get married recently then? [nosey emoticon]

Baby is hiccupping like mad here! Ds1 has just come in with chippy chips and I want some....slurp...off to wrestle a 15 yo

hi there, just back from hairdressers-been there for hours! feel better today although woke up with pain across bump and it has been on and off all day. anyone else getting this?

thx for pillows advice.. but the bump hates pillows and me lying down and fusses and kicks until I get up. I hate the pillows too, so hot the mo.

hi lizjane and Bethoo-glad you are ok.

my tens machine arrived today so am studying the leaflet.

Possibly braxton hicks Spongecake? What about Kitty's idea of loads of pillows behind you so you can lie in a semi-upright position? It sounds as if you are really uncomfortable at the moment...much sympathy!

moss-good news about the money.

i got a 'bill' off british gas today and they owe me £65 which i overpaid on the leccy meter.it will go towards another bill i suppose...

lunar at 'new toy'!

morocco-isn't your ds1 only about the same age as my ds2(he's 3.5)?

i got mcdonalds for tea cos dp is feeling unwell,now i feel all fat and horrible.i wish i'd had the patience to wait for the chippy to open,chip shop food seems more 'real' somehow

I nearly divorced my DH during each maternity leave.

With the second one, the health visitor gave me what was her only sound piece of advice:

"The problem is your expectations: you expect your partner to help by doing all the jobs you normally do around the house.

HE is waiting for YOU to tell him what to do - by writing out a list or something. He's got no idea what needs to be done".

So this time it will be a very comprehensive list!!!

hi rosy, not sure if bh, the pai is every 5 mins now and lasts for about 30 secs. am going to have bath to see if that relaxes me. Just shouted and cried at dp who has done nothing wrong apart from tell me how tired he is hope your dh isn't gone long abroad, but its a tough one for you both
loads of pillows not really comfy for me, but will try. The pain i woke up with has clouded my memory of normal sleep. Really, its been on and off all day. does braxton hicks last so long?

diva, lucky you re cheque. i recently moved from NP to scottish power and now they are trying to woo me back with cashbacks etc. its so annoying- why don't they look after their customers in the first place! the money they would save.

Spongecake I think that kind of thing can go on for a while. See how you feel after a bath. It could be the start of labour though...if it keeps building and doesn't go away sort of thing...