Due in June - bounce on your ball till your bum goes numb or it gets so sweaty that you just fall off.

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oops hope i've fixed it????

Well...good luck for your appointment on Thursday Sputnik. hope we've not been too nosey

I used to do loads of cooking when I was younger and we used to have fab dinner parties. Now though...can't be bothered that much and would live on snacky things like veg sticks and dips and ready meals. I do by lots of fresh produce when I go shopping....and DH puts it all in the compost when he's home at weekends (we have the best fed compost bin in all of Leeds I think). I'm also finding it difficult to adjust my shopping for just me and DS.

Cable man has just been....there is a fault in the box in the street which should be fixed by the end of the week, so that should be an end to my intermittent connection..Yay...

Afternoon all

NT&E hope your housing appointment goes well. Can imagine how you are coping!

Very impressed at the cooking. I too am being organised but involves me buying ready meals from the supermarket (which I usually hate!). Do want to do some cooking but a bit stuck for ideas on what will freeze well. Any tips/recipes?

Had a shite night last night. Up at 3.30 am, and ended up in work at 6. Worst thing is though I have eaten such a lot today! That's the problem with being up 5 hours early - I have managed to fit an extra 3 meals in - all junk food as well. Feeling a bit overloaded now, as well as knackered!

Does this get an award for the most pointless pregnancy purchase?

hi Bumper....got your e-mail re York and have e-mailed you back...invitation has been duly extended to anyone else who wants to come, but I'm not sure there are many of us up here in the grim North.

My sense of humour has let me down again...I'm not going to go near any other threads ever again.....some people just seem incapable of realising tongue-in-cheek when it jumps up and bites them...hey ho.

I'm pretty sure I'd get some funny looks wandering around Jimmy's in a skirt and bra top...what's wrong with any other item out of your maternity wardrobe.

Who thinks these things up??

NT&E really and disappointed in my own Nigellaness re the freezer cooking. I managed to buy 3 pots of Waitrose readymade bol sauce and put half of my MIL's fave cake in the freezer (she'll be the one here when it all goes down!).

My only claim to domestic Goddesshood at the moment is having some new Cath teatowels and tablecloth - DH finds it ludicrous that my only excuse for this expense is that I got 'tired' of the old (Cath) one. Men will never comprehend.......

16 days till baby lilKel is here!!!!!

Yeah, thanks Daisy, just got your email. Just don't go accosting any pregnant woman who is around the train station, there actually seems to be a lot about at the moment! I'll try and get round to emailing out some piccies when DH gets them off the PC for me, that'll make it easier.

What thread have you been on and why don't they appreciate your fantastic SoH - where are they? You want me to beat them up for you?

16 days???!!! Is that a definite now?

OMG - just had a scary moment - realised I'm exactly 36 weeks today! DS1 was 12 days early (my waters broke 13 days early) - so it could be as close as 2 weeks away

Ok wanna virtual sweepstake on who will be first?! or is that just tempting fate?

Bumper - um yeah, like who can actually wear skirts in pg without feeling like their legs are just far too naked??? I want to know!! (or are mine the only ones which resemble uncooked sausages esp by end of day? )

At the risk of boring you all to death...

My freezer food generally consists of frozen bolognese sauce (Waitrose fresh/ readymade version is nice and meaty) and ravioli, acres of these potato & cheese filled dumpling things my mum makes called Pierogies, frozen mixed veg, frites, fish fillets, and meat for stir fries.

Meals cookable in 5 minutes or less made from the above include: fish & chips with veg, stir fry (made with readymade sauce from Blue Dragon or some such and Uncle Bens 2-min micro rice), ravioli bol, and pierogies. That and a few takeouts & pizzas got us through the weeks when DS was just born!!

Yeah date is certain, latest will be 25 May (section). I've a feeling it will be sooner though (DS was 19 days early)

I tried to wear a skirt the other week...admittedly not maternity, just a wrap around...it was khaki coloured and I did look like I was wearing a sack. But hey, it was hot, I was in the privacy of my own back garden....Had a longish one when pg with DS and that looked awful as well. PG women just shouldn't wear skirts!

Its all getting scarily close Fannyannie.....

Phew. Just caught up.

And woo hoo on the Prison Break pics! He's known as the 'man with the nice shaped head' in this house. My question: how can they possibly string this out into a third series??!! Does anyone know if they're intending to?

And re. weddings, we've got one on 7 July at which DH is usher... but it's a no children affair. No babies . It's fairly close by (in London) but I'm thinking that even if I manage to express one feed I won't be able to leave the house for more than a 6 hour stretch... Very tricky...

Foxy, I dare you to visit a few other threads and call their titles distasteful...

Oh, and have to share pregnancy brain moment. We had a bbq at the weekend - I ordered the food online. 12 baps, we needed. 12 of them.

I ordered 12 oackets of 4.

That's 48, then.

Are you still going for the section then Lilkel...or eating pineapples by the barrow full and drinking gallons of RLT to try and speed the process up!

Daisy has a vague recollection that

1. she's already asked that question and
2. Lilkel has already answered

Poor soft PG brain can't retain any sort of information at all.

Just had a fight on the phone with a double glazing company...they keep phoning us (about once every three weeks) as we had a couple of small windows done last year. I've asked them each time to remove us from their list. Today got a call from a sister company asking the same bloody questions. So, I've threatened them with the telemarketing ombudsman people if they don't leave us alone and asked for confirmation in writing that we're off the list. And for good measure told them I wouldn't recommed them if they were the last double glazing company on the face of the earth (two of our frieds used them as well and they now have structural problems as a result of shoddy workmanship...ours is OK....so far)......Rant rant rant...

Sorry, just had to get that off my chest don't even know if there is an ombudsman for this sort of thing

weird - I wear skirts almost all the time now that it's hotter?
So much more comfy than trousers. Haven't got any mat skirts - just don't bother fastening the zippers, and wear long tops...
but then I haven't had any swelling so far (touch wood)

Maybe I should qualify that BadZ...short cuddly PG women shouldn't wear skirts . the models in all the catalogues seem to be able to get away with it...just not me!!

Hello all,
Not checked in for a while - have had a water infection which left me feeling like crap. Felt like i was getting flu and was having to force myself to eat. Constipation on top of this due to being put on iron tablets means that my insides feel like a tumble dryer.

Better now though!
Been to see the MW this pm and she scared the life out of me when i mentioned that i'd had some tingly / crampy feelings lower down towards my fanjo. After she'd had a feel of the bump to check lo's position / size etc she raised her eyebrows and told me that baby's head is engaged and that i am palpated (?) 3/5. That means 2/5 of the baby's head is in the birth canal. EEEEEEEEEEEEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm only 34 weeks.
I am really hoping the baby won't come even a day early as i am just not ready.
The house is in disarray with builders..

Also have been feeling SOOOO tired since this weekend that am now thinking i might start matleave earlier than i intended. MW has suggested i leave soon but i have another 3 weeks to go.

Oh, it's all getting me down....

hiya kitty - wow that is shocking - as for iron supps you could try Spatone instead. It's a liquid you take once a day, normally added to orange juice. Works a treat and no nasty disgestive side effects!! Sounds like you defo need to rest up more. Take a few days off and decide if that's better for you and the baby or not - it's more important to have a healthy pg than follow whatever plan you have re mat leave. Trust me, I had to leave my last job 8 weeks earlier than I thought but it was so worth it in the end...

Hi kittykit...don't panic too much. It's normal for the babies of first time mums to engage quite early on...my DS was partly engaged from about 35-36 weeks I think, and I still went overdue and had to be induced. With second time or more they often don't engage until labour has actually started...something to do with how havng a baby affects your bone structure.

It will mean a bit more discomfort for you though (I remember my last 3 weeks at work being utter hell on earth).

Thanks for putting my mind at a bit more ease, daisy. It's just hard not to panic when you don't know what to expect! Have had lots of BH this weekend as well so it was all making me think that i was headed for the labour ward soon..

Notsolikel - thanks for the tip on Spatone. I'll get some tomorrow. I think i will have to seriously consider leaving work a bit earlier though - it's not like i'm trying to prove something to myself..

When I had my wee scare the other week (I was 33 weeks) the hospital were very philosophical about it and said that although 33 weeks isn't ideal, babies born that early have the same survival chances as those at term, but might just need a little more help with breathing, feeding etc, so try not to worry too much .

But you better hurry those builders along a bit....just in case

I've already told them to get their skates on unless they want to take me to hospital in the back of their van!