May Mummies, w/c 16th April 07 Getting closer, not close enough for some.

[Mrsjaffabiffa]

Morning all...........

Thought after 300 odd messages it was time to go back to our weekly ones. Hope you are all well.

dc's back to school for you and holidays just started for me today. Have ds home for 2 weeks now.

Still sunny? Tis here!

dd just adores 7 year old girls, send her over, they can slam doors and things together

Wow, Neil Young, respect man..

In fact why don't you just all relocate with us to Kenya in December.. then we can teach you all about infectious diseases first hand and your kids can entertain mine and Neil Young, well you'd have to be prepared to share him..

PMSL Cam......would love to go to Kenya though. My god you must have been vaccinated against everything to go there.

DD slams doors too,it's like a hobby

Off to bed soon, am rubbish again by the evening. Watching grand designs, would love to build my own house one day. In Kenya perhaps? Quite like tigers and elephants, not sure i want them in my garden though. You are brave Cam.

Open house from January onwards! Tho I think the largest thing you might see in our future garden is a lizard or two. Ah yes don't mention those vaccinations MMR seems like a drop in the ocean in comparison

Off to watch the Apprentice and try to sleep for at least an hour or two, goodnight all and SOH, fingers crossed.

Oh not the door slamming, fortunately I don't think she's big enough for that yet, slamming the drinks cup onto the floor or the highchair, Yes!

Going to bed now, but don't think I'll sleep well, I can't stop thinking of SOH hope she's not still huffing and puffing. Hope she doesn't go AWOL on us tommorow morning, I'll be a wreck.

Night x

Love the pram LG&T.

Jack is also testing every boundary going. The constant whinging, whining and the awful crying noise that he makes is pushing us to the limit. He ignores most things we say and if he doesnt get his own way then we enter strop city! I guess the terrible twos have definately made there way into our house. Thank goodness that he is in nursery Tues-Fri! He is a complete jekyl and hyde character going from nightmare child to angel all in the space of 5mins. He doesnt seem phased by Ella as he was like this before hand. He is very cute with her and gives kisses and cuddles and does get upset if she cries.

MrsJB, how are you feeling this morning?
SOH, hope you are still in one piece.

Morning to everyone else.

Morning.........;

SOH ????????????????????

AM feeling OK today thanks. YOU?

Having my hair coloured and cut in a bit and then have to take mum and dad to La Rochelle airport this afternoon. They are back to the UK for the weekend to visit my brother and his baby. Nice peaceful weekend with the house to ourselves, bliss.

I was driving to work this morning and all of a sudden I was hit by the overwhelming realisation that in about a months' time our daughter will be born.

This probably sounds really silly, considering I have had 8 months to think about it but with two older kids - life has been so hectic that I just haven't had time to really think about it.

This tiny scrap of a little girl will be born and I'll love her, like I do her brothers and my family will be enriched. All the complaints about pregnancy discomfort seem so small and insignificant.

Instead of downtrodden, tired and uncomfortable, today I feel elated, excited and proud. Sometimes it's hard to get my head around the miracle of pregnancy and birth.

scuse my ramblings - must be a hormone surge

Farking babies and pregnancy. Dejags has stolen all of the joy.

Have had no sleep, contractions settled on between 11 and 15 minutes apart so I could do this for weeks. The contractions aren't so bad, last about 20 seconds, it's the enormous pressure that's so wearing. Had another show this morning.

LG&T, I have stolen DH's mobile. It's mine for now in case I need to call a shrink or a midwife or something.

This baby had better be really bloody brilliant. I knew I should have got a pig.

At 3am I was sitting on our patio in a deckchair singing Billy Joel songs and bothering the ducks. This whole thing is beyond funny.

SOH - do you mean to say that you are in labour and at WORK? are you completely loopy? Why not go home and enjoy it and start a labour thread to rival that 6 week long one earlier in the year?

Poor you SOH. I had a half hour of contractions yesterday - really painful and about 5 minutes apart.

They died down after that and I actually slept pretty well last night - so here's hoping you'll have a better night tonight.

What's your EDD?

It's not labour, it's food poisoning. And I have too much to do at work to drop them in it.

I've got some paracetamol too.

Could start a labour thread though couldn't I? Might set up a webcam.

EDD 17th May. And I'm hanging on. No woman in mine or DH's family has got further than 37 weeks. I will be the first...

Im not so sure about you getting further than 37 weeks SOH...... I do think you should start an am i in labour thread though, i will rally the troops.

Morning everyone, i feel like you do right before your driving test. All butterflies and nervous knots. The consultant appointment is at 2.10. >

MrsJB what will you do with your weekend of freedom??? Wild parties, long drinking session, trashing the house..

Cam im looking in to flights to Kenya for January, i may chicken out though....the jabs you need are just too scary. Will the baby have to have them all too, good grief i suppose it will!

I need to go and dry my hair but it takes about 40mins and my arm gets tired, am so weak and feeble at the moment.

at Dejags lovely ramblings...... it is a miralcle.

There is a remedy in my yellow box of homeopathic childbirth tricks for denial - Arnica 200c. That's what I prescribe for you SOH.

I'm getting nervous, I had some cramps last night and the baby was doing lots of pushing down. I can't go into labour now! I've got two reports to write and some tricky negotiations to finish.

Morning all

SOH - where are you? Hope Matilda has stayed put and will continue to do so until May!

I have read all of yesterdays posts but my pregnancy brain cant remember anything i read . It doesnt help that i am very p'ed off and emotional this morning.

I have just had a run in with ds1's school over tickets to watch him in the Junior Rock Challenge Competition he has been training really hard for. From the moment he said he was going to be in it I promised we would all come and watch (how often does your child take part in a big competition?) but now thanks to the useless office staff at his school it doesnt look as if i can keep my promise, ive been sat here in tears I know it meant so much to him for us to be there. Up until Tuesday we have had no letter informing us of any of the details so I had no idea of the date or venue. in Tuesdays letter it told us what will happen on the day ie ds1 leaves school at 8.30, show is at 6pm-10pm etc and offering us the chance to watch a rehearsal at the school if we havent got tickets to the venue WTF this was the first time i had heard where it was going to be. So this morning i checked the Rock Challenge website (i hadnt realised there was one!!) and it said that tickets could be bought through the school so I phoned them straight up. According to them the tickets went on sale in March and sold out within 2days but ds1 never received a letter about it and neither did a couple of other children in his class. The attitude of the school was tough, i can try to get tickets direct from the venue but as the show is on the 28th April chances are they have sold out. This isnt the first time ds1 hasnt been given letters from the school, whenever something good is planned it seems that those children whose parents are involved with the school whether its through helping out or parent governor get to hear about it and the others are ignored. The day he broke up for half term he was given a letter about a short course being held in a nearby school during the first week of the holidays, ds1 wanted to do it but because his school were so late handing the letters out (other local schools got theirs a week before)it was fully booked by the time we heard about it.

Sorry to rant but i have had it with that school, they do F'all to sort out bullying, they couldnt organise a piss up in a brewery and the staff are the most unfriendly useless people I have every met. I suppose it doesnt help that I'm 35wks pregnant and very hormonal

Also it doesnt help that for the past two days i have had crippling pains in my lower back, they come and go in waves and it is similar to the contractions i had when in labour with ds1, each one leaves me gasping for breath and unable to move, ive also been having lots of braxton hicks, stretching feelings down below etc and yesterday i thought my waters had started trickling (dh even took the night off work just in case),it only happened the once so maybe i just dribbled lol. Deep down i know im safe but i think because this LO is breech im more worried about going into labour early than i was with the boys so every time i get regular pains i get all nervous. Im supposed to be seeing the consultant next week but i still havent had the appointment through, i think once ive seen him i will feel a bit better about it all, at the moment im more nervous about this birth than either of my others. Oh well only another 5wks of this lol

OOps took so long writing my moany post i crossed posts with SOH!!

My neighbour knocked my door offering me lots of baby clothes mainly next and all As New along with one of those kick piano cot toy thingys, hardly used and a Next playgym still in box, i could hardly say no could i Thats why it took so long to finish my post lol

Poor you pebble, not good practice from the school. Hormones do not help either.

So large gingerbread one any news? Pushing in the classics section? Shall i send a midwife?

Must go and do my hair, why the heck was i born with curly hair? >

Oh Pebble, the school sounds terrible. Poor DS and poor you.

Sounds like everybody's having niggles, aches and contractions.

LG&T, less of the large and I'm not pushing anything anywhere. I've told you, I'm probably not even pregnant.

I'm not so worried about the homebirth (although I desperately want one), I'm worried about the baby being healthy. I don't want the first hours of her life being spent hooked up to a machine, I'd rather she spent them curled up in bed with me and her Dad. Not sure at 36 weeks how she'd be re breathing and feeding.

LG&T, I have everything crossed for your consultant encounter. You're fearsome enough not to be talked down to by them. I'm hoping that the baby miraculously flips in the next couple of hours!

Pebble, thats crap about the school.

lg&t, I really hope your appiontment goes OK, this avo, I'm nervous for you.......This weekend is still supposed to be lovely, we have a shed to errect and some gardening to do, so will potter about. Have some friends coming for dinner Sat evening so may do a BBQ. As for trashing the house. NO, but it will be lovely to leave it if we can't be bothered to tidy there and then.

I have just eaten 4 fruit pastilles, big mistake as I am now getting beaten from the inside. Aghhhhh SUGAR.

LG&T good luck for consultant

Nothing much to report here - another bad night! DDs went back to school today so going to have a lay down upstairs and hopefully catch up on some sleep.

Pebble - school sounds very disorganised and crap!

Pebble thats really bad of the school. Sorry that you are having yet more problems with them. Not what you need right now!

SOH, lol at not being pregnant. When you had your scans did they look like a baby or a gingerbread man? Also re the 36wk baby. Ella was born at 36+5. Her breathing is fine as the lungs i think are fully developed by 37wks and the feeding, well thats pot luck for even term babies. When i was in hosp the girl in the bed next to me had her dd at 35+5 and she was no different to Ella in terms of breathing and feeding, in fact she was 3oz heavier! If you had to give birth in hosp then they might just keep you in an extra day to make sure that all is ok with sugar levels etc. BUT obviously you are going be giving birth at 42wks so you dont need to worry

Forgot to say good luck at the hosp LG&T

Morning all, good luck LG&T with your hair, oops I mean at the hospital, I was pleasantly surprised by how accommodating my consultant was so fingers crossed, I'm sure you are not a woman to be messed with In fact you could go to Pebble's school and sort them all out. I hope you manage to get some tickets somehow Pebble.

SOH, if you deliver in the library, will Mathilda get free membership for life? My bf just delivered last week at 36 weeks and the baby was fine, even clocking in at 7lbs.

Dejags, what a lovely post, made me feel all weepy, especially after a ridiculous nights sleep.

MrJB, can we come to your barbie?

Deffo no contractions here, just a baby bump that apparently looks like I've shoved a football up there. Oh well, after a trip to the beauty parlour this morning I am at least now a hair free zone, just my hair to do next week then I'll be ready for the baby to come.