Due in March 07 - Numbers starting to dwindle now - will anyone outlast this thread?

[LunarSea]

Yet another new thread, because just like all the remaining posters the old one is about to go pop.

You could always tell them the baby cut it

Good plan!

Actually dh did offer to cut it for me. Hmm yeah that's gonna happen!

Mossy, I've been cutting my own hair too, and the childrens, you can tell, it's really bad...I must stop it. We all look really scruffy and badly groomed

"Badly groomed" Rosy, that's how I talk about our pets!!!

If I had a pet it would be badly groomed too. Even when I try to look smart it never works, and if I try to make the children look smart? That lasts about 10 seconds... oh well...

My 9 year old dd couldn't get a hair braid out the other day so she cut it out... now she has a patch of hair on top of her head about 2cm long that sticks straight up!

She was so upset and embarassed... she didn't want to go to school... we are having to disguise it with various hairstyles...

I am being very understanding and am calling her "tufty"!

Rosy ikwym, some people look so smart don't they? Even when I was slimmer and not pg (that seems years and years ago now) I could never look like that. Even when I really made an effort there was probably still the faint look of a dog blanket about me!

Maybe motherhood will transform me and I'll suddenly become "yummy".

Muppet your poor dd, oh you are cruel, "tufty"? Poor girl will never live it down!!

It's an alien universe to me Mossy...being well groomed with a clean and tidy house, neat car, clean shoes etc I look on with awe and admiration. My bil and wife and kids are like that and dh is the opposite and they are always laughing at us......oh well....

Muppet, I call my 15 yo ds 'curly bap' it is starting to turn into dreadlocks, think I might have to give him a tufty cut....

Mossy, the Dr Who auction will start Thurs eve prob, more details as i get em. Can i pick your brains on what you've found out about working tax credits - like what's the first step to getting them? Where do you getg forms or whateverfrom? Thanks for any pointers - anyone else feel free to chip in too!!

Callie this is where I looked initially and then I gave them a call on 0845 300 3900. I'd love to say they were helpful but they weren't I'm afraid. I had to explain things about three times over to different people. Basically, you fill in the forms that they send you, with your income and your dp's, from April 05 - 06 (you can get this off your p60 if you get one) but then you also have to tell them your income April 06 - 07, and then if your circumstances are likely to change April 07 - 08 you have to estimate your income then. So whatever you are paid SMP / maternity allowance / etc. And according to them, they will work it out on this, and not on last year's income.

Seems really convoluted to me but I checked a few different times and that seems to be the gist.

Sorry that's not much help, I am still a bit confused!

You should also get child benefit in addition to the child tax credits. I think you can get more child tax credits to pay for childcare if you need it.

Rosy yes these people with tidy houses, how do they do it? I don't even have any kids yet and I can't manage it, so how is it done?

Hi all... glad you are all in good spirits soon. Sending you all baby vibes.

Callie there is a benefit calculator on www.entitledto.co.uk that you might find helpful to work out how much you might get. As mossie said you need to phone up to get the claim form.

Amos is doing well and is a very chilled little man. Hope you all have your bundles soon.

Hi everyone - can't keep up with both the ante and post natal threads, but just want to say hello and hope you are all OK

Monti is a dream, but I think I have breast thrush - I get very anxious about the whole BF thing. Am going to give it two more weeks to clear up then make a decision about whether to continue.

Apart from that everything is fine - just missing you lot...

Get a move on!!

Mossy - bet you go into labour saturday night at 7pm...

Muppet that's nasty!! Don't wish that on me!!!

Foxy sorry to hear about your bf troubles. But I'm glad little Monti is a dream.

Laidback... I'm trying my best you know! Nipple stim an' all that! Trying to get a shag out of dh though is another matter!

Right I'm going to start tea now. Is wanting to make spaghetti bolognaise a sign of labour? Hmm?

Also popping in for daily check and issuing direct labour vibes to the remaining few.
Good luck
xx

Mossy sat 7pm is a good time to go into labour, you won't feel any pain, you'll be too distracted

What's happening on Sat night ? Am I missing something?

Hey my mad mother asked me today if I could tell her how long my labour would take .
She asks me when I think it will happen all the time, telling me the days when it would not be convenient and today she asked how much warning she was going to get before she was to be called over. Aghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!

She does this everytime.

I know

I should know all this by now.

It still drives me loopy

Kitty... Saturday night at seven o'clock is when, if Sod's Law has any truth in it whatsoever, my contractions will be five minutes apart and we'll have to drive to the hosi. Now if I start labour at seven, that's okay, and if I'm at the hosi by seven, that's okay too (you get a telly in your room)!

Yep, it's the new series of Doctor Who!

Your mum sounds very annoying, is she quite a wrapped-up-in-herself kind of person usually or just when you are pg?

Mossy, of course, I should know that .My ds's are very excited about it.

My mother is very wrapped up in herself. To try and off set this she plays the lady bountiful by making lots of promises she can't keep properly, but it makes her feel good about herself because in her mind she has infact done what she said she would.

Oh good grief it sounds like you have a minefield there with her. Poor you, you'd think her daughter being pg would be the one time she could look a bit beyond herself?

Then again I'm hardly the one to talk about "happy families"!!

It is a minefield. The kids adore her and she did move from London to be near them. She does help out with the kids a bit.

She does crappy things like saying they can have a fixed time say every fortnight when they stay overnights at hers. They get really excited, of course. That has happened about twice then she stopped mentioning it and it only happens now when the kids nag her.

When in the school playground today a group of mums were asking when I was going to be induced. They were completely incredulous when I said I didn't want any sort of induction whetehr medical or 'natural'. I just wanted to wait.
I think they thought I should be certified . hey could be right!!!!

Kitty sorry it's a bit of a mare with your mum.

Atm I'm pretty anti inducement but give me another week and I'll see if I change my mind!

Kitty - it's a generation thing I think. I've had MIL on the phone reminding me that she has waiting for me to give her her new grandchild for days now. As if I'm deliberatly putting off labour just to keep her waiting! She means well, it's just the way she puts it.

Hi All

Congrats Laidback it was well worth the wait I bet. My nickname at school was Amos (dont ask!)

Thinking of the rest of you about to pop.

I have finally posted a couple of piccies, things have been pretty busy here!

c'mon ladies get those babies out!!!!!

Sending huge labour vibes to those still waiting (((((((VIBES VIBES))))))))!!!!