Due in June - am I unreasonable to expect the nanny to give birth for me?

[hollyandalice]

Chicks???

Daisy, Am very of your friend's veg garden!! My back garden is ready to start vegging but I can't dig or lift at the minute so it's just sitting all messy and useless until I can get out there. Maybe i'll have to get my veg growing fix vicariously through you!

Off to prepare for IL's visit. Feel bad that I made them sound awful before...

grrr for you H&A! Do they have plastic sheets on the mattresss? If not could you just put plastic sheets on them then leave them to bloody sleep in it the next night? Aren't they embarrassed at all about it?

catkin, don't worry, you didn't make them sound bad, it's just hard work being around people when we are like this, I find. I'm incredibly anti social at the moment and dread having to be in a situation where I meet new people or spend much time with people I don't know, just because I don't have the energy for small talk and don't really want to talk about babies and pregnancy with people I don't know v well. It's v out of character for me though.

oh crap - i've not been here for 2 days and there are soooooooooo many messages to catch up on - back in an hour or so.............

Gosh it sounds like we're all feeling a bit flat today doesn't it? I feel flat as a pancake......it feels like one of those interminably boring bank holidays where the telly is crap and there's bugger all to do! Been having BH all morning as well....and that period pain like dragging feeling at the bottom of my bump, and I feel like crying at everything. I suppose it's my body's way of telling me to take it easy.

Bumper....did you get anything sorted regarding the nursery? I need to muck in and get things organised with mine, but we've kind of reached a stalemate with the house...DH said it's like one of those little puzzles where you have to move the squares around to make a picture.....only it's so jumbed up that we can't begin to see what it should look like...and only seven weeks to go!!!!

Got lots of conifers and alpines now to sort out our front garden.....our veg garden is on hold until the house is sorted out....

I feel like that sometimes daisy! Just moving junk from one room to another. My dad got me some big plastic crates so all the junk with no home is going in there and is going in the loft! Out of sight out of mind!

I won't tell you to feck off catkin, I completely agree! I don't think their mum understands that they're not my kids and therefore I express no interest in being their maid!

Bumper I'm an anti-social witch atm as well! I don't really want to see anyone, esp if I would be expected to make small talk with them! Luckily I have some very good friends who understand and don't take offence that I don't want to see them!

for you feeling a bit low today daisy. Maybe once you get your house and garden sorted you'll feel better. At least I'm hoping that's what'll happen to me!!

Hi Ladies,

Sorry to gate crash the June thread-I'm from the April thread and had a nice speedy labour and delivery on Tuesday and now have 1 1/2 boxes of Raspberry leaf tea and about half a bottle of the tablets left over,if anyone would like them.
Don't want anything for them-just email me your address to [email protected] and I'll send them out in the post.
Hopefully they'll do someone else a good turn.

Congrats to you Bubbaloo, well done on your speedy new arrival! How lovely of you to offer your spare tea, I'll take you up on your kind offer if no-one else already has. Thank you very much!

I have emailed you, thanks again x

They're yours-no good to me anymore,so lets hope you have a speedy delivery too.x

Don't worry about crashing in on us Bubaloo....we've all been lurking quietly in the background watching you all pop...Big Congrats on your speedy labour....

Holly...I've been feeling a bt anti-social too...maybe its to do with the whole nesting thing....I think polar bears have the right idea...burying themselves in a hole away from the world for nearly all of their pregnancies.

Just found out today that one of my close friends is due in November with her first....she did say she'd been looking on MN the other day and was waxing lyrical about how women who've had babies shouldn't share their birth horror stories with women who haven't, and I didn't even twig...how very slow of me.....

Listening to birth horror stories is what being pg is all about!! Pg people love listening to my birth story as it's as close to what most people want as possible! Well apart from the stitches!!

I'm off to bury myself in the snow....

Have the boys gone now HandA? Hope today hasn't been too awful for you. at you for getting to Bubbaloo's message first, but what a sweetie. I need a visit to Holland and Barrett to get my supplies in....it's around 36 weeks you can start with it isn't it?

In a fit of nesting, I scrubbed our front door yesterday and thanks to our plant harvest from our old house, we now have a lovely bay tree in a nice teracotta pot outside and its looking lovely...I'll be happy to see the HV on Thursday now

Of course we should share our horror stories - what else is there to talk about for the first two months after the birth!

Oh Holly. I wish I could help you I really do. They obviously aren't that sensitive about it or they wouldn't want to come over. Could you send them home immediately next time on the grounds that you don't have clean bed linen? If it starts to inconvenience her then she might encourage them not to do it. Must be awful for your DH too if he is getting grief and he has to pass messages on to you.

I know what you all mean about being antisocial and or unreasonable. I could happily throttle my kids at the moment, oir just sit down and cry. It's so much easier to deal with virtual people (I keep saying that - I AM a recluse!!!).

Are catsuitgirl and foxy about? I have an embarassing fashion confession...

Last weekend I wore ... LEGGINGS and they were SO COMFORTABLE (I suppose they are nearly the jersey alternative to a catsuit?) Might have to go out and buy more!
I also have a large safety pin in the waistband of my maternity jeans - if my bump gets big enough to fill the "bump pouch" I expect to be announcing the arrival of a very healthy baby elephant!!!

raspberry leaf capsules are on 3 for 2 at Holland and Barrat. Don't suppose we'll need 300 capsules - will we?

I've been scrubbing about in my jammies for most of the day so know where you're at Ria...

My latest fashion accessory is homemade bump bands......all the tops I bought are very quickly receding away from the top of my underbump trousers and it's feeling a little bit draughty, so yesterday I pulled on one of my summer skimpy vests (you know the ones in all colours of the rainbow from M&S) and arranged it over my bump with the straps tucked in at the top....much more comfortable than pulling my trousers up and my tops down all the time. Saved money on having to buy longer t-shirts, they can be re-used as normal wear again and as I have loads of them in different colours I can co-ordinate/change my look as I see fit

Don't know Ria....what's the dosage?

Like your style. I am thinking of getting a couple of those shirt/dress thingys for when I leave the house (which is not often if I can help it.) Will see. (depends what codes Holly can find me to get them free!!!)

sorry, I didn't find out the dosage. Will look into it before I start swallowing them by the packet full! I need to move slowly away from the keyboard with my hands in the air!!!

Just checked out Haolland and Barrett's website....the dosage is one tablet up to six times daily....so assuming starting at 36 weeks and going a week over, thats about 200 tabs....so.....three for two it is..

bloody 'ell.

And then ,just when you think something is a good idea you find something like this \link{http://www.birth.com.au/class.asp?class=67&page=25}

I bet that didn't work.

bollocks, knew it wouldn't.

Technophobe alert!!!

I am going to do the ironing 'cos that's on my intellectual level just