Due April 2007 - Dooby had hers, tomorrow Ange too, Eddas is a cheapskate, Walrus how about you?

[EllieKthePA]

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Ooh Ellie - thinking of you - hope monitoring goes ok.

MMk - good luck for tomorrow!

Grr - caught up and have now forgotten everything else!!!!

Weeonion - your day sounds lovley - I am off back out to enjoy some more sunshine before it disappears out of the garden.

Doghouse - sending you labour vibes (and all others who are overdue or just wwant them out!!!)

I want mine out now and I'm not even 38 weeks till Sat!
x

MIAMT - awww you poor thing with James drawing on the carpet/tv. I know what you mean about wanting everything nice & sorted for when the baby comes...DH is leaving a mess everywhere and I keep shouting at him. I wanted to sort out the moses basket and stuff but can't even get in the spare room cos he's got stuff dumped there and it's like an obstacle course!!!

EDDAS - Not quite sure I get the 'cheapskate' thing...but I assumed it was because you haven't given us any baby news IYSWIM?????

MMK, I am a dark blue circle as well!

MIAMT, hope you and James patch things up. It is such a nightmare isn't it. Having a child is hard enough, but when one is feeling aches, pains, twinges, knackered etc. it is doubly hard. I am hoping once this baby is out, whilst I appreciate it won't be a walk in the park as will be tiring, at least we will have our mobility back!

Anyway, we had a much better afternoon thank God and on the mini train round the zoo she told me she loved me - bless her heart.

Isabelly, pleased baby is head down - must be a relief.

Glitterkitty, thinking of you.

Waspelly, hope the nipple tweaking works! How saucy!

Hope everyone else is ok - sorry for not mentioning everyone. xx

Hi SOSPL

Just listening to the sounds of James screaming as he is being put to bath and bed early as he is refusing point blank to eat the pasta that he asked for for tea.
My patience has gone and I have cried in the kitchen so Phil has taken over...he is sounding like he is about to loose it so a really happy evening in the Reucroft household.

I really am terrified of what it is going to be like coping with another.

He NEVER behaved like this up until about a month or so ago...

what have we done????
x

MIAMT, my heart goes out to you. I too am concerned how I am going to cope, and I just tell myself I will have to.

B often asks for things and then doesn't want them ie food. It is such a pain isn't it when you have gone to the effort.

Hang in there petal. Andrej phoned to say he was on his way home and that was an hour and twenty mins ago! Fed up now and need some moral support even though B is fine now. Talk of the devil he has just turned up!

Catch up later. xx

Big hugs xoxoxoxoxox I feel exactly the same as you some days - wonder a)what possessed me to have another b) how on earth am going to cope c) what if they get worse when baby arrives d) whether am going mad or not????

Crying is pretty normal too on those days - go find somewhere to sit down and chill out for a bit - need to calm down and eat choc or have glass of wine if needed!

Mine tend to go through phases aswell - they'll be like it for a week and then all blows over and they return to angel like creatures being nice, playing together and eating their dinner!

That bupa thing is really good!
I'm a yellow circle apparently (not what I picked I thought I was a purple squiggle!)
x

Octo

thanks for that...crying againnow.....why is it that you just get to feel so low and crappy sometimes...he is now laughing his head of and playing away with his Daddy in the bath....it's such a rollercoaster.

It definatley has heped me having a place to share and hear other peoples experiences.

The wine sounds like a good plan
Ah my dad has just turned up!

MIAMT, i feel like that too. DD is still behaving fine but i have no patience, no interest in playing, no tollerence and generally just want to be alone constantly. It's grim I really hope that once this baby is out things improve.

It's so hard isn't it.

With the behaviour i'm expecting dd to be a sod once the baby is born. Now that doesn't help but i'm hoping i can cope once i'm not pg. Also my friend asked her hv about her dd's behaviour after dd2 was born and she said well imagine dh brought home another woman, what would you do. You'd be trying to get his attention and that is what she's doing. I really liked that expanation. It must be so hard for the dc's to understand why mummy can't do something and why we get cross.

They are always good for daddy and want daddy - makes you feel worse and that you are even crapper than you are despite running round after them all day, doing everything for them and loving them.

Hey girls, I can't even imagine how hard things must seem for you in general with 1 or more little ones to deal with during pregnancy but on this last home straight all the waiting for everyone must sometimes build things up like a pressure cooker. You are all doing your best and that's all you can do, even when it seems like it's not enough xxxx

MIAMT - hey buuuuuuuudy.. I'm a yellow circle too!

Hey Octo - so my grand plan of getting dh to be SAHD next year could mean I get to be the good guy?? Interesting...

And I KNEW she'd win ANTM! So gorgeous.

i'm back, but not for long

fully expected to go in, have 20 mins on monitor, come home. 2 hours later i finally left. putting monitor on didn't make baby kick like it has done before, and there were no movements still. eventuually he moved a bit but then they lost all trace of his heartbeat. the consultant was called in to look at results, the mw said it could be cos i'd slid down bed a bit but he said no, i needed a scan. went for scan, not sure what they were checking, something about the cord, and i had to be silent so she could hear

still don't know what they think is wrong, but they want me back in tomorrow, was 2.30 but i begged for it to be AM so i won't have to take matthew so it's now 9.30.

Oh Ellie - it's horrible when you think it's going to be 'in and out' and then you have to go back, hey? Good that they're checking it all out, hope you get seen quickly tomorrow a.m. xx

i'd gone in all smiley and, 'there's nothing wrong, had exactly this with matthew', so was very odd once i realised they were seriously worried.

matthew wants me to join him in the bath so back later x

Eddas

That is a good explanation of the behaviour....!

My Dad turned up and I just ended up in floods of tears...like Maveta says it is like a pressure cooker.

Feel better for a good cry and Dad has just gone to get us take away!

Ellie - thinking of you hun, horrible having to wait but glad your appointment is in the morning.

Probably won't be back on tonight...thanks for all the kind words and support - it REALLY does help

xxxx

Ellie haven't had chance to catch up just read last few posts.

Like you said B4 Matthew did not move much towards the end, mine was exactly the same, and there were no kicks or as they put it patterns of movement to look out for. I am sure that everything will be fine tomorrow.

If it helps when I went in to hosp 2/3 weeks ago they could not find a heartbeat at all and it took 3 midwives to do it so try to worry about it too much you would know if something was wrong xxx

Back later.

So to hear of everyone's woes.

To those with other DCs its really hard to deal with them as they don't realise the effect they are having on you (toddlers being the MOST selfish beings on this planet) nor are they able to control their impulses - I have to repeat this to myself like a mantra some days. But it can't last forever... surely... I am 22 months older than my brother and we have always been fine. I was 9 when my sister was born and then there's another 3 years to my younger brother. I have no memory at all of her being a little madam for my mum, esp as she was the baby of the family up to then. Maybe I wasn't very interested or maybe she was fine, who knows, but anyway it hasn't caused anyone any lasting damage so I am holding onto that thought.
I'm also having the terrible guilts over having another little one, abandoning DS etc etc. Its awful - DS is the apple of my eye and I am also worried that i just won't love/like/be as proud of no 2. Seems impossible to win!

Ellie - so sorry to hear you have to go back tomorrow. Fingers crossed all is ok and baby was just being awkward for the monitor! Glad you have a morning appointment, how you coped with DS there as well this afternoon I don't know!

Last preg yoga class tonight - hopefully some movement will encourage the baby out. Don't want to go to the ILs over Easter and having had the baby will be the perect excuse. Oh no just thought that means they will be here instead...

AND I have to add my two penneth on DS1.

We had the biggest EVER full scale tantrum at tea time and all because he did not want to eat any pizza. He is extremely difficult to feed even at the best of times, and all I keep thinking is god if it is like this now what on earth is it going to be like in the first few months after baby arrives, because I just won't have either the time or the patience to deal with it because baby will be the "priority". Even though we didn't give in I felt like a total witch because by the end of it all he really was sobbing his poor little heart out. I can't bear the thought of him eating sausage and smiley faces/rice/pasta for the next 3 months solidly.

And just to add he too is all for Daddy at the moment, it is very rare we get any I love mummy moments anymore and it is heartbreaking.

ADVICE NEEDED!!!

Think I shall go and get geared up to watch "The Apprentice" at 9.

Evening! DH has gone out to do some maths tutoring and I am just sorting out baby clothes (endless task, it would seem) and catching up on here ...... DD's are still chattering away and I am trying very hard to ignore them - No shiny marble for DD1 tomrorow morning .....

Grrrrr!!

Glitterkitty and Ellie - Will be thinking of you with your important appt's tomrorow - GK - hoping you don't have to have the Section and that baby has managed to push passed the fibroid. Ellie - [[hugs] You must be feeling confused and concerned sweetie - You know where I am if you need me ......

MIMT - [[[hugs]] Hope you enjoy the take-away and a nice relaxing evening my lovely - It has been a tough couple of days for you. I know what you mean about wanting to keep the house tidy - I am a bit obssessive atm too - Bit scary!!

I am ok - just over-whelmed really - Don't know where to begin - Still haven't packed my hospital bag ..... just no time in my life......

Sigh.

Glad you were chuffed with the My Little Pony, Ellie!

Any mroe on octo and her contractions ???????

MIAMT, SOSPL, Pinions and all having problems with their DCs - I can totally sympathise, but have no advice whatsoever. Em has been very up and down behaviour-wise over the past few days, bursting into tears at the slightest thing and sometimes acting like a complete spoiled brat. And then the next moment being a gorgeous little sweetheart and clambering on my lap and telling me she loves me.

No logic, rhyme nor reason can explain her behaviour, and I hate shouting at her/sending her to the naughty step etc., but sometimes you just have to. Makes me so , and am so conscious that she's likely to be feeling increasingly under threat from the huge life-change that we're about to inflict on her. Parenting is just hard and just makes you feel guilty all the time!

Ellie - hope you're OK, will be thinking of you tomorrow hon.

Hello CD.

MIABT - I am obsessive about the house too. Drives me maaaaad!

Trying to catch up but can't remember the beginning of the thread before i've got to the end...

Our news is that ten day old Leo has put on 8oz and now weighs 7lb 12oz, little porker, I don't think he is going to stay small for long Good to know that breastfeeding is going well!

DS had his last day at his (shit) school today. I felt really sad for him as his teacher handed me a carrier bag with his work in and she never said "Goodbye, good luck at your new school" or anything. How tight is that???? BITCH!

Anyway, that aside, am looking forward to the Easter break with the kids and hoping DS is not too disturbed/disrupted when he starts his new school.