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Due May 07 - w/c 2nd April

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twelveyeargap · 02/04/2007 07:27

Hello! I'm back!

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cameroonmama · 03/04/2007 20:11

SOH, sorry to hear about your dh, poor guy, I'm sure your fabulous sense of humour will help him to feel better.

We watched Casino Royale last night, I bet Daniel Craig is a waxer..I am not normally a big James Bond fan but I will be from now on in, Pierce Brosnan, pah, load of fluff.

ShowOfHands - decided against having a baby, getting a pig instead - Sow (a fat one)
Largegin&tonic - baby no 27
Jessinwa - edd 2nd may
Skytvaddict- EDD 2 May
Cameroonmama - EDD 19th May C-section around 10th no idea what flavour but hoping for a baby
Mrsjaffabiffa _ EDD May 18th UK, 25th France.
twelveyeargap - due 19/05 - Girl due 19/05 - Girl
Megglevache - EDD 22nd May
Pebblemum - EDD 23rd May - Girl (i hope!!)
Gingerbear - EDD23 May
dejags due 24/5 - girl
Scootermum- EDD 24th May - girl MAE
Befnal - edd 26 May
MKG - EDD May 26
Cinnamontam - May 27th THE ANTI-MATILDA
jellybellybump May 27th
Juicylucy - EDD May 29th - boy

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aprilmeadow · 03/04/2007 20:23

ShowOfHands - decided against having a baby, getting a pig instead - Sow (a fat one)
Largegin&tonic - baby no 27
Jessinwa - edd 2nd may
Skytvaddict- EDD 2 May
Aprilmeadow - edd 3rd May - girl - Ella
Cameroonmama - EDD 19th May C-section around 10th no idea what flavour but hoping for a baby
Mrsjaffabiffa _ EDD May 18th UK, 25th France.
twelveyeargap - due 19/05 - Girl due 19/05 - Girl
Megglevache - EDD 22nd May
Pebblemum - EDD 23rd May - Girl (i hope!!)
Gingerbear - EDD23 May
dejags due 24/5 - girl
Scootermum- EDD 24th May - girl MAE
Befnal - edd 26 May
MKG - EDD May 26
Cinnamontam - May 27th THE ANTI-MATILDA
jellybellybump May 27th
Juicylucy - EDD May 29th - boy

scootermum · 03/04/2007 20:34

Oh have just read about Lupins-send her my love gandt if you text her..keeping everything crossed that all will be well..
Will be on pins again waiting for news..Blimey I will be a wreck come May..

Am glad the rubber ring is proving effective Mrs JB-I have a few customers at work who swear by them for awkwardly placed bed sores after they hvae been in hospital for a while, (they ALWAYS come back with bed sores grrr) or piles-glad to know it comes in handy to assist with other stages of the life cycle too!

SOH-I have two friends who have joined the Rozzers in the last two years-one had his training start a month before the orginal date he was given, one had to wait 9 months in the end-but I think that was because he wanted a certain force..Lets hope your DH is like the first one..Could only be 5 months then!I know that seems like a lifetime, especially at the moment but its not so long really-less than the time you have been on here with us for eg, and that has gone in a flash!

Lucky you with your eyebrows April-As I said the other day-mine are absurd!I am constantly having to tidy them otherwise I very quickly resemble Dennis Healey..

Pebble-defo play the lotto tomorrow-you are on a winning streak and surely cant fail..The celebratory birth champagne will be on you though..(flat Dandelion and Burdock for SOH of course)

scootermum · 03/04/2007 20:42

Agree with you Cameroonmama re Pierce Brosnan-had never liked Daniel Craig really either though till I saw him in Casino Royale..My word..

I cant wait till I break up from work SKY so I can at least have a little longer in bed-just have to persuade DD of the same idea..still at least it will be an end to the 6am start-even if I have to get up and play with dd, at least I wont have to faff about getting dressed and battling with the seperate entity that is my unruly hair for half an hour.The postie will just have to become re aquainted with the charming sight of me in the morning before I have completed my ablutions-poor man-he nearly fell off his bike once at the sight..

twelveyeargap · 03/04/2007 22:13

Sorry, was off all afternoon. Good luck to Lupins when you text LG&T. I know you'll keep us informed.

SOH - I think the likelyhood is that if your DH resigns, he'll be able to get another job to at least tide you over, or even put off moving in with the ILs until after Mathilda is born. That way you get your home birth and a few weeks to settle with her before you have to up-sticks. Not ideal, but not the end of the world.

In the meantime, can you get him to take a vitamin B complex? It can do wonders for the nervous system. I would say St Johns Wort/ Valerian, but you'd want to check that neither show up as anything funny if he were to take a drugs test again. (I'm assuming they do random tests in the police force.)

Lastly, next Weds is great for me - any time, any where. Can't wait! Twelveyeargap@ googlemail .com. Drop me a line if you'd like a chat or info about your trip. x

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twelveyeargap · 03/04/2007 22:27

Bugger, bugger, bugger. SOH, just remembered DD will be coming back from her dad's on Weds. Will need to be at City airport by 1.30 on Weds. Could meet you in the morning, but otherwise can meet Tues or Thurs any time. Scoot, perhaps you and I can meet another day? Obv with you still at work it's more difficult.

Sorry.

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Gingerbear · 04/04/2007 08:50

I feel fat, fed up and tired this morning.
DH cooked a lovely curry for dinner last night, which I knew I would regret eating.
An hour later I was sick, had indigestion all night and my bump hurts. I have had about 4 hours sleep and feel sick again this morning.

Roll on May.

dejags · 04/04/2007 08:54

Poor you GB. I know how you feel.

Sick and tired

I yearn for the days when I was pregnant with with the DS's. It was so easy - with DS1 I just had myself to look after and DH doted on me. With DS2 I was off work from 24 weeks and DS1 was in nursery from 8am - 2pm every day so I had loads of time for myself.

I am finding being heavily pregnant, working full time with two littlies excruciating . Roll on 23rd April, I can't wait for maternity leave.

BefnalBunny · 04/04/2007 09:07

cheer yourselves up... it can only get better with decisions like this not sure what to make of it!

Gingerbear · 04/04/2007 09:14

dejags, I am crossing off the days until I finish work - 27 April. I will still have to do the school run with DD - thankfully baby is due around half term.

I am wishing these last few weeks away - and I know I will be looking back fondly at how much time I had to myself once baby 2 is actually here!

dejags · 04/04/2007 09:22

She's still breech btw GB. Well at least I think she is (I am having lots of kicks at the top of my bump) - she's frank breech, so ears and feet up by her head.

I am fretting about the possibility of a CS . I don't think I will opt for an ECV because I have an anteior placenta. I am having a scan next week, so we should know more.

Ho hum.

dejags · 04/04/2007 09:23

ears and feet .

I meant hands and feet.

BefnalBunny · 04/04/2007 09:33

they can't make you have a c-section with a frank breech can they? you do have a choice of having it normally? How many weeks are you? Really interested as they've started going on at me about the baby's position and i'm only 32 +4! Thought it didn't matter until 36 weeks...

dejags · 04/04/2007 09:38

There is no medical insurance for a breech vaginal delivery in South Africa .

So it's not an option as it is essentially against the law to try a vaginal delivery for a breech baby. There isn't a doctor out there who would try.

ShowOfHands · 04/04/2007 09:39

Good morning all. Most importantly... Lupins! Crikey that's quite a queue jump. Hope all is okay and that she's back on here creating the May 07 postnatal thread before May's even here. No joining April though, you belong to us woman. I don't want anybody else thinking about queue jumping. Actually, anybody heard from Charley?

Very quick update on the DH situation. After much discussion last night he's decided to hang on until after paternity leave before resigning- shouldn't be too long and we've got a week off between now and then and the birth of Mathilda The Gargantuan 15lb Baby to occupy our minds. Then if he works a month's notice during June/July he can claim all of his unpaid holiday allowance and we probably have enough savings to tide us over until September if he can't find another job. I'm sure he can, he's got a degree, lots of experience and extra qualifications and he's a qualified personal trainer. In fact I might hire him out to all the postnatal groups.

Sorry to hear people are still suffering. Personally wasn't ready for what having an engaged baby feels like. The pressure is awful at times, I feel like I constantly need to wee but can't seem to go more than a thimble full and those crotch zingers are not at all pleasant. Potentially got another 8 weeks of this if I make 42 weeks and by that time Mathilda will be 23lb, I'll have lost the use of my limbs and my bump will be etched on a map of Norfolk by the Mountaineering Associationg with 'Hazardous Climb' scrawled next to it.

Next week I'm in London Sunday-Thursday so we could rearrange. We have no definite plans other than for Sunday, I'd ruled out Monday as everywhere will be heaving for the Bank Holiday. Tuesday-Thursday I'll be in Londinium, occupied in some fashion so anybody wanting to meet for a frappacappalattechino just let me know. TYG I really will email you I promise. It's on my list after dream about Daniel Craig and snaffle gingerbread.

Finally, Daniel Craig. Now, usually I'm not one for drooling over famous men (except for Damian Lewis, I could cry at how beautiful Damian Lewis is, those eyes, that hair...er what am I saying?) but Daniel Craig as Bond? Saw it in the cinema twice and oh my. Lovely man, very, very lovely man.

Pinkjenny · 04/04/2007 10:00

Morning ladies

SOH - Dh also has bi-polar father. He's forever 'running away' and switching off his phone. Then dh, his brother and mum all go racing off looking for him. Usually in handy places such as Inverness. Not that handy from Liverpool. He also overdosed just before our wedding as he'd stopped taking his medication. My dh seems to handle the whole thing well, but I must admit, when he gets really stressed, he has a tendency to go a bit 'weird' and start discussing the meaning of life etc, which totally freaks me out. It must be hard for them, I don't think dh has ever really learnt from his parents to face problems, just to run away from them.

My dad also takes medication for depression, although he seems fine to me and my mum!
What a happy bunch we are!

I try to support dh as much as I can, but to be honest with you, his father drives me insane. No pun intended.

I'm sure it'll all blow over, it always does with us. Big kisses to you though.

ShowOfHands - decided against having a baby, getting a pig instead - Sow (a fat one)
Largegin&tonic - baby no 27
Jessinwa - edd 2nd may
Skytvaddict- EDD 2 May
Aprilmeadow - edd 3rd May - girl - Ella
Cameroonmama - EDD 19th May C-section around 10th no idea what flavour but hoping for a baby
Mrsjaffabiffa _ EDD May 18th UK, 25th France.
twelveyeargap - due 19/05 - Girl due 19/05 - Girl
Megglevache - EDD 22nd May
Pebblemum - EDD 23rd May - Girl (i hope!!)
Pinkjenny - EDD 23rd May - Girl (it better be!)
Gingerbear - EDD23 May
dejags due 24/5 - girl
Scootermum- EDD 24th May - girl MAE
Befnal - edd 26 May
MKG - EDD May 26
Cinnamontam - May 27th THE ANTI-MATILDA
jellybellybump May 27th
Juicylucy - EDD May 29th - boy

cameroonmama · 04/04/2007 10:07

Morning all, sorry to hear everyone is feeling a bit low, the last month is always tedious especially when people start saying 'have you still not had that baby yet?' Dd went to 41 weeks and ds to 42 so this time a c-section at 38/39 weeks sounds like bliss!

Good to hear you sounding so upbeat SOH, I'm sure your dh will find something new quicker than you both expect.

Even better is your appreciation of Daniel Craig, dh was most disappointed and said he wasn't in the true suave spirit of the real Bond a la Roger Moore or Sean Connery but I think he was just miffed because the Bond girls weren't half as delectable as M Craig himself. What to do?

Dejags, don't the south africans love to push you into a c-section? All my SA friends have had them.. there is still time for the baby to turn isn't there?

Interesting article on childcare, you can't win either way, the children stay at home with mummy and are accused of not being socialised enough or they go into childcare and become mini-hoodies.

ShowOfHands · 04/04/2007 10:12

You wouldn't actually know my Dad was bipolar now. He was misdiagnosed for years and it took a very big meltdown and hospitalisation for him to be correctly diagnosed. And what is it with weddings? I won't go into what he did on my wedding day. It's a nasty illness and misunderstood no end. The running away was only the start of it in his case- finding your Dad- a hero in your eyes- walking down the middle of a main road crying with no shoes on is heartbreaking. For many, many years I didn't know if I would come home from school to find him gone or worse. Nowadays- wonderfully- he is a happy, healthy and fully functioning bipolar sufferer. You would not know. His medication is spot on and he quite cheerily tells us on a regular basis that he's 'not mad anymore'. He's intelligent, artistic, driven, kind and passionate but I'm still very angry that it took so long for him to be treated for what is an illness. If he had a broken leg they would not have left it for so long.

Sorry, rant over. Must stop waffling on.

Pinkjenny · 04/04/2007 10:19

Don't say sorry! Its horible. My dad only has very mild depression as far as I know, but before he was diagnosed with depression, he was staying off work, having panic attacks etc etc.

He seems fine now, and I try to talk to him about it very occasionally to ensure it doesn't become a big family taboo. I was so scared at the time, it is such a volatile illness, but you just have to try and be supportive, but live your own life. (Advice which I find extremely hard to take myself)

It sounds like you deal with it perfectly. We don't live anywhere near by parents in law, but I know dh was determined to make his own life. He does keep things from them quite a lot, I think he's terrified of upsetting his dad, understandably.

We have spoken a lot about parents haven't we! Can't live with em, can't live without em. And to think, we'll be able to pass on this lovely joy to our own babas soon!

dejags · 04/04/2007 10:23

Anybody heard from Lupin? I hope she and the baby are ok.

BefnalBunny · 04/04/2007 10:27

another quick pregnancy question - anyone else suffering from night sweats? waking up with sweaty bump etc? bit nasty I know!

jellybellybump · 04/04/2007 10:59

Yep BB, I've get them. I get up in the middle of the to check if the heating is on.

Guess it's just another one we can add to our 'it'll all be worth it in the end' list.

ShowOfHands · 04/04/2007 11:07

Can I ask a pregnancy question too? Are these period type pains a bad thing? Started this morning, mostly in my back and very low down. Actually feels like I should be bleeding- strange sort of pressure too. Is it just because she's engaged? I am not doing an LG&T.

cameroonmama · 04/04/2007 11:08

yes me too BB, they are just starting.

Can anyone help me with what kind of arnica tablets I can take after my c-section? I took some last time but I can't remember what they were but they seemed to help.

madeindevon · 04/04/2007 11:11

just added myself to list!!
feeling rather excited now. got some stuff for baby now finally! (shopping monday and tuesday) also went completely nuts and spend 130 quid on new hoover!? am i mad?? (old one blew up) and then decided sofas too shabby and ordered 2 new ones!? i think i gone bonkers with cash seeing as i wont be earning soon (108.85 a week dont go very far does it) but got fed up being uncomfortable on the old ones.
also good news. scan yesterday baby has turned and is now head down!! yippeee!!!
not sure whether that is due to swimming, aquanatal, rocking on gym ball, being on all fours. or whether just happened! anyway im happy about it!!

ShowOfHands - decided against having a baby, getting a pig instead - Sow (a fat one)
Largegin&tonic - baby no 27
Jessinwa - edd 2nd may
Skytvaddict- EDD 2 May
Aprilmeadow - edd 3rd May - girl - Ella
Cameroonmama - EDD 19th May C-section around 10th no idea what flavour but hoping for a baby
Mrsjaffabiffa _ EDD May 18th UK, 25th France.
twelveyeargap - due 19/05 - Girl due 19/05 - Girl
Megglevache - EDD 22nd May
Pebblemum - EDD 23rd May - Girl (i hope!!)
Pinkjenny - EDD 23rd May - Girl (it better be!)
Gingerbear - EDD23 May
madeindevon - EDD 23 may too!! "surprise"
dejags due 24/5 - girl
Scootermum- EDD 24th May - girl MAE
Befnal - edd 26 May
MKG - EDD May 26
Cinnamontam - May 27th THE ANTI-MATILDA
jellybellybump May 27th
Juicylucy - EDD May 29th - boy