May Mummies, w/c MAY OMG, it's May, buds and babies will bloom, don't want to be left til June.

[Mrsjaffabiffa]

Morning,

Shaved my legs yesterday - was no easy task let me tell you! Looked like something of a comedy sketch, it was pretty bad and so unattractive. Even I was thinking 'Oh LW, you've hit rock bottom now love!'

Scoot of course you can have an annex my sweet, I'll need to win the lottery first but apart from that and having no property per say I'm sure it could be arranged for you

Ooooo, LG&T I'm so excited for you. Really pleased your wee man decided to turn, know you weren't particually looking forward to the section.

MKG, are you having a baby soon too? Does this mean there may be 2 new additions very shortly?

Oh and can I just add My tummy is covered in stretchmarks! I know it's a bit vein of me but it really has upset me. They started to appear when I was 34ish weeks and now they are quite bad. Very purple and they stick out. So when I run my fingers over them they feel like bumps! There are loads, started low down but have since made there way up to my bellybutton. I'm not even 20 years old yet and already I'll never look half decent in a bikini ever again!

How exciting LG&T that we have you online!

Well done on the grooming. I worship at the temple of your prioritising!

Can't sleep. Blooming knackered as I hardly slept last night. Went up at 9pm and have tossed and turned (as far as is possible in this condition) and am now wide awake. I'm not impressed at all. DH came to bed, complained his head was buzzing (late night at work), turned on Radio 4 and was asleep in under 2 minutes. Grrr.

You know it's a full moon tonight? Well, officially it's tomorrow during the day sometime, but to all intents and purposes it's tongiht/ tomorrow night. I'm convinced MiniG&T is coming and I'm wondering if we'll have another May baby because of it. The full moon affects the birth rate, I'm reliably informed by midwives. Oooh, so that means that any stragglers at the end of the month might be affected by the full moon and push their babies out on the 31st May/ 1st June. That's good, hey?

Scoot, house "survey" sounds like a con. If they don't back down considerably, don't forget that you did have another interested party and it's unlikely they will have already found something else. Don't lose hope, honey.

Cross posts Lwatkins... Re the stretchmarks. I feel your pain. When I had DD (at 16) I was COVERED in them. From pubic hair to just above belly button, hip to hip. Vile. Looked like my skin was about to bleed. I really feel for you. I hope nobody's going to take this the wrong way, but in a way I think it's kind of worse when you're really young, because despite the fact you're thinking on one hand, "no more men for me, no way", you actually know in your heart that you will most likely meet someone else (or a few someones!) and the thoughts of them seeing your belly. And then you think about holidays and bikinis and low rise jeans. I know hun, I've been there.

But, listen, I promise you they do improve over time. Don't ever be tempted by laser surgery on them or anything, all it does is speed up the process of getting them from purply red to silvery coloured like mine are now.

Unfortunately you don't get the smooth skin back, I can't pretend that you do, but they do improve, you do find ways to wear what you want and not show them to the world and to be perfectly honest, if any "new" man can't cope with a few red or silver lines on your belly then frankly, he's not worth having. If he can't cope with stretch marks, he sure as sh't won't be able to cope with a ready made family!

So it's not trivial. Everyone is self conscious about scars and that's what they are.

Thanks TYG, I know it's vein of me but I think it's maybe worse cause I'm still quite young and I actually had quite a nice figure pre-pregnancy. I didn't think it at the time but looking at old photos I did. It's just taken 37 weeks of being pregnant to realise it, pretty drastic measures eh! And I know they'll fade, but they wont ever fully dissapear.

I think the one thing that makes me though is the fact that, whilst all the other stunning 20 year old girls will be fabulous and stretchmark free in their bikini's - they won't have my dd!

I really am gonna be one of those awful mothers that thinks the sun shines out their kids arse!

That's exactly how it should be LW.

And honestly, I've gotten to the stage that I don't give a fck about who sees my belly. If I'm on holiday, I still want a brown belly so I still wear a bikini. I'm actually more worried about the size of my thighs than anything else!

We're allowed a little vanity you know...

Serves me right I suppose, I was getting perhaps a little too smug at the fact that I didn't have any! Oh and then they came, in numbers greater than you could ever imagine!

Yup, they snuck up on me too when I had DD. Started under my bump where I couldn't see them, the nasty blighters.

On the upside chica, you STILL have a gorgeous figure, you just HAPPEN to have a baby attached to the front of it at the moment.

Right, am going to TRY to sleep. [hmmm]

LG&T - there better be a healthy baby for me (well you, I suppose...) to wake up to in the morning.

SOH - I'd like you amusing story before lunchtime as well please. I promise I won't be laughing at you. Merely at your misfortune. I'm kidding. Obviously I will be laughing at the clever and witty way that you write about your misfortune.

Wonder if I could will myself to go into labour? Really should have done more hippoburping practice. Doh. Maybe I'll try it at the weekend, after the crib has been assembled, the correct size tap connector for birth pool hose has been obtained, possibly after the nursery is painted and DEFINITELY after I've eplilated my legs.

And it's goodnight from her!

Get a good nights sleep LG&T

Ho Hum, not tired yet. Should be doing work, dum de dum dum. Can't pull myself away from MN, lost all my self-control. Knew it would happen eventually

Am still here, good night sleep i have not had. Bloody woman opposite snoring VERY loudly. W atched some programme bout munchousans by proxy till after 12 to try and drown her out, as soon as the ear phones came off she was as loud as ever. Midwife did my temp at 3 and again at 630, so along with the 14 wee's in the night im bloody knackered..........AND have no baby

Legs still smooth though and a good thing too if its a full moon

Bet they have no earl gray either, shoddy practice i tell you.

So any May\April babaies in the night?

It's really getting exciting now isn't it

Scoot - cheeky blighters are definitely having you guys on . Don't budge an inch unless they show you 2 surveys from different companies that say the same thing. Honestly!!!

I've been trying to time the waxing of various bits in case Tilda is overdue so I'm not trying to pull out hairs that have only been growing back 4 weeks. Gave in and did bikini line and underarms on the weekend, trimmed the lady garden (that was almost as difficult as trying to do the perineal massage as I had to go on touch alone cause I can't bloody see anything down there). Will leave legs for the razor I think.

TYG - your shopping trip sounded fab. Hope you are feeling better now though as I know how knackering it can be. I'm off to Goldhawk Rd this arvo so will let you know if I have any curtain material joy

LW - i know i'm a bit behind the 8 ball but just wanted to say that all your flatmates suck ass and if i were there I would give them a good whacking. Un*ingbelieveable!!

When we went to visit the labour ward at C&W where I'm having Tilda it was the night after a full moon and the place was so packed we couldn't even check out any of the rooms. So I reckon there has to be some baby action going on with our lot today

Tam - meant to say about your car!

Morning all - special hello to LG & T. I can't believe that stupid snoring woman.

At least with DH you can give him a good kick in the ribs.

Working today, but will keep checking in, its very exciting now, each time I come on, its with so much anticipation of more beautiful May babies!!!

All send me positive turning thoughts. We thought she might be starting to turn last night, but has obviously thought better of it. I'm thinking of refusing the ECV, it just sounds barbaric. DH thinks we should 'trust the professionals'. Hmmm.

Tam, what thoroughly bad luck on the car front, I'm surprised they didn't let you off when they saw you

And Scoot i am so for you, I'm sure they have to show you the survey results and it would be pretty difficult to get 30k worth of work needing to be done in the last 3 years since you bought the place, wouldn't it?? Dh still suffering the delights of Manhattan, though I am hoping his most important mission at the moment is to find a rather lovely jewellers for the diamond he keeps promising! Only 48hrs to hang on until his return..

Lg&t sorry for the lack of sleep, I'd also heard the full moon theory so fingers crossed todays the day, of course I am mad at you for leaving your cs buddy, but i'll let you off this time

I can not even entertain the thought of shaving my gorilla-esque thunder thighs and legs, had to pay a woman to wax them, how do you all reach? As for going anywhere near the ladgarden - the thought gives me nightmares.

Morning.

I'm in trouble again..... SORRY Pebble. Oh and lg&t thanks for correcting me. Won't even try to blame the hormones, I am Just OFFICIALLY crap.

Just wanted to say a quick, hope things are going OK lg&t and your on line!! How cool is that. Anyway still hope things go Ok, hope for some progress today. Do you rekon he turned with that huge contraction you said that you had the other evening, the one that sent you on to all fours panting?

Scoot- sorry about the house, LW Grrrrrrr for the stretch marks. I have to dash, so I'm sorry if I've missed anyone, I'll catch up later.

cam - LOL at ladgarden...gives it all quite a new meaning

Morning all,

D'you reckon we could tempt baby gandt out with some KK? Those shared wards are a ruddy mare..I hope you took your own pillow in as well largegandt, as the ones at my hops at least are about as comfy as a bit of cardboard to get to sleep on!
Lets see what the full moon brings today then...

Nothing for me I hope as still cant breathe and dont feel very chipper at all-dont think I can be bothered pushing a baby out of me today really

Diamonds Cameroonmama?Blimey they must pay em well at MI5!you lucky thing

Wise words from TYG about the stretch marks...and here, lwatkins, I was reading in Grazia magazine only last week that the all in one swimsuit is the hottest look for the beach right now, bikinis are totally fashion backwards this year..and by next year the marks will have faded and you will look fab..Honestly, I hardly noticed mine after about 9 months or so, really....(I have some ugly new ones this time though-that've only come in the last two days to add to the already extensive collection-just when I thought I had got away with it

Woke up at 4.45 this morn, so 15 mins later than the lsat few days, but still not ideal..bad BH this morn but fading a bit now-baby feels very low though...nice day today which I have all to myself, just the car to tax and some blood to have taken to check sugar..so am going to really try to chill out a bit today..am supposed to be out with bumps and babes tonight, but will see how rough I feel cest soir..

Thanks all for youir kind words re the house-feel a bit more fed up about it this morn, but if they wont send their survey then it will go back on the market and thats that..and we will get a builder to look it over and go from there if anything needs to be done..am just focussing on Mae now as otherwise will get myself in a tangle about it all..Lily is coming home tomorrow too, thank Goodness -its been horrid without her here..

Good positive thinking Scoot - no point in letting the w*nkers upset you! Enjoy the sunshine... I'm off to pregger yoga for the first time this morning . Will report back. Need to get offline as babies only appear on this thread when I'm otherwise occupied!

BB- oops freudian slip obviously, was thinking too much about my diamonds

Morning all.

what a busy and exciting eve you had lg&t and there was me at NCT discussing the merits of jaffa cakes and do they count a one of our fiva a day!!

Love the lady garden cam I too have been visiting the very understanding waxing lady am sure whenever they see me coming through the door they all draw straws to see who has to tackle the scariness of all my hairy bits.

Scoot tell them to bugger off and get a second survey done the cheeky blighters. Honestly some people have a right nerve.

LW enjuoy the yoga I decided a few days ago that maybe I should have stuck with an exercise routine instead of stuffing my face full of chocolate for the last 8 months - sorry about the stretch marks promise they will fade my sis had a baby when she was your age and now you cant even see them.

Hee, heeeeee. Doc been round, he was lovely. He said i can go home and has written on my notes to treat me as normal

Sooo no section, induction, venflon, continuous monitoring nothin! He said if he comes at home dont worry, just get here if you can. HOORAY!

The baby is 2\5ths engaged, cant bloody believe it after all the trouble. just you wait, i will be 2 wks late now!!!!!! Dont care, he is head down

So sorry to desert you CAM, we may still do it on the same day Yours will be a sunroof baby.

Scoot glad you are getting Lily back, it must have been quiet without her. Bring on the chaos

Stretchmarks.......hmmmmmm. Mine appeared with dd, many of them. Mainly hip region, all silvery now though. Did make DH turn the light out for the first couple of months of our relationship, unless i was trolleyed that si Its more the corragated tummy that bthers me now.........

That is brilliant news lg&t, I am so pleased for you, now you can get baking and cleaning all you like

Hey LG&T - brilliant news am so pleased for you!

Humpf.... someone started a May 07 Post Natal Thread and it wasnt one of us