due in June - except for the lucky few who have already popped!!!

[derlor]

hello

Morning all. Hope everyone slept well and that no babies appeared in the night!

What are you all up to today? We are off to vist MIL, which isn't thrilling but not too bad either. She will predict whether this little one is a boy or a girl, and then when it is born either way will swear blind she knew what it was!

What crappy weather though. I was hoping to be spending the first part of my maternity leave getting a lovely tan!

Morning. Lol re MIL Bumper - have fun! Think baby has turned again as I've been getting some rather unsavoury kicks in my fanjo all night (sorry tmi). We're off to do some shopping and then have an afternoon indoors as the weather is shite!

Good morning. Shitty weather here too, but after our day in yesterday we NEED to go out! Probably going to some soft play place, but at least DP is around today, and tomorrow (bonus) so I might have a chance of staying sane (unless he drives me mental too!)

Sounds like fun Bumper! At least someone else can take care of you and make a fuss of you. Lovely!

Hope everyone has a good day. Holly was very quiet yesterday, but I am confident she wouldn't have a baby without telling us first! Would you Holly?!

Could they be punches rather than kicks? This baby has definitely dropped in the past couple of days. Bump is lower and really feeling it on my bladder. Is this a significant sign that something will happen soon or could I still be here in 5 weeks?!

Could be anything Bumper! Babies are soooo unpredictable. I'm working to another 6/7 weeks just to avoid disappointment. Being 10 days late last time after having 2 on the day is still very vivid in my mind!

Groooaaaan. I'm so ready for this baby to be born now!

No baby yet foxy !!!

Glad you are ok SFL! Sounds like you are being looked after really well, but what a PITA all those tests must be. Not long to go now though!!

I am going to finish stripping the bedroom today if it kills me! Dp has actually agreed to go to the wallpaper shop (faint) so I think dd can spend the day with her grandparents whilst we crack on! If this bedroom isn't finished before the baby comes I shall cry! Hopefully some manual labour should get things started! I am 37 weeks tomorrow after all!!

Hope everyone has a good day in the hideous pouring rain! Hope someone pops (sorry bz), that would be great! Daisy, derlor, I'm talking to you!

No baby here either and its not looking likely. Contractions have calmed right down. There's a thread on length of first vs second labours on here and one woman had false labour for 19 days with her second and third PGs

At least I know there is and end to how long this might go on...c-section is only 8 days way

Have a good rainy bank holiday....its so fecking cold here we've had to put the central heating back on!

Derlor didn't come on yesterday either, but no text from her as yet!

I'm off to address my varicous veins - anyone any suggestions on how to calm them down? The are raging down my left leg.

BTW Bumper, hope you are coping OK. I've got weeks to go and am only just starting out on what I suspect will be the really tough part of this pregnancy, you are nearly there!

Daisy, give that baby of yours a good talking to!!

No real advice for nasty veins foxy, but derlor did tell me to keep my leg up with mine to let it drain and that seemed to work.

I hate this weather, it makes me want to go to bed and snuggle up!

Good luck with stripping in the bedroom Holly. I'm off to softplay again (but a different one). Think I'd rather be in a DIY store on a wet bank holiday!

You'll be very pleased you've done it when its finished, so crack on!

Daisy - take it easy today please!

See you lovely ladies this evening

Thanks for asking foxy, I'm fine, just whingy. Had a bit of a cry this morning with DH. Starting (well continuing really) to freak out a bit about having a baby - not the labour bit, the bit afterwards. Worried I am never going to sleep properly again, and about being left on my own once DH goes back to work. I know it will all be fine, but I just have a lot of time to think about it at the moment. Don't tell anyone but i am missing work, just a little bit! Mostly I am just missing the people.

Holly you and I have same due date don't we? I'm 37 weeks tomorrow too. Should just thank our lucky stars we got this far really shouldn't we. can't believe you are going to be stripping the bedroom, I hope that just means that DP does all the hard work while you supervise.

Hope you are ok daisy, at least you have a definite end date. Hope you all have a good day in spite of the crappy weather.

Off to see MIL now. She rang at 9am to see if we were still coming "because of the weather" It's just a bit of rain? I don't what she thinks is going to happen to us on the 45 min drive?!

lovely home birth video
Just swiped this from a birth thread but wanted to share it with you all cos it's so lovely. I cried and cried! It's not graphic either, just serene and lovely!

Afternoon everyone. Just checking in quickly.
I have been in shock this weekend as we finally finished DD's room and, far from giving us problems about moving in there she loved it and asked us if she could sleep there!! She's nearly 3 and has always slept in a side-car cot next to us. So bah to everyone that says you'll never get them out of your bed if you co-sleep bla bla. The only downside was that I didn't sleep at all the first night.

helloooooo, just popping in to say - i'm STILL fat STILL pregnant and STILL pissed off about it!!!!!!
oh yeah and STILL grumpy too
anyway i've been far too busy to be chatting on here cause i've officially been nesting - i've cleaned everything and cleared out cupboards and gutted LO's rooms AND STILL NO FARKIN BABY!!!!
going to have to resort to hot curry and sex tonight - hoped it wouldn't come to that!!!!!!!!!!
off to catch up on all the chat x

Hey Sputnik! Well done to you DD, that's great. You've obviously done it at the right time. There's always someone to tell you something won't work with this parenting malarky!

Glad you are still complete Derlor. I've been checking my phone regularly BTW.

Just watched the video of the homebirth. Brought all memories of my two back, it was very similar in its calmness (didn't have any sound but seemed very serene). I liked the way the MW held back and really didn't have much to do. Its so very lovely.

Am still shitting myself.

I have done sod all today except feed the ungrateful little buggers and wash up AND sit on my fat arse/lie down.

Am still seriously pissed off with life. No sunshine and loveliness in ria-valley.

Well done to your DD sputnik.

Might come back later if I can locate some jollity, might not, but I hope beyond hope I don;t have this baby yet because it sure won't want to live here...

Hope you've all had a nice day.

knocks politely on the June 07 door bearing a dish of Mars' Lemon Drizzle Cake

Oh, hello, sorry to disturb, just wanted to drop by and introduce myself, as it is feeling likely I may be joining you come Friday - due last week and no signs at all. There are 8 of us left on the May thread, hopefully we won't all be here, but is there enough room if we need to pop by?

Hi InTheseShoes and welcome......I don't suppose that cake is gluten free by any chance?

Thought not, but the others will devour it I'm sure

It all seems to have come to a standstill on your thread....so come on in, the more the merrier!!

Right...thought I'd do that incase you thought we were ignoring you...off to catch up with the days events.

Hello InTheseShoes, welcome, I am a new 'virtual' face here too!

Lovely ladies here will make you feel very welcome especially if you come bearing ice cream from what I gather (unless they are having a bad day !)

Everyone here has already made my days seem a little shorter and far less lonely and helped me with a few problems.

I am still ill, still very itchy (FARKIN PUPPP disease SHITE) and I just want the baby out out out. I don't actually mind it being there so much I just really don't want to be induced, it sounds horrible and invasive to me.

Had a big cry at DH this morning and yesterday, I have been v emotional since being ill and covered in this bloody rash, and he just works works works. I have been so lonely, family are miles away and he is always buried in work and I can't talk to him. All I have is a dog for company and I sais to DH I just can't go on like this anymore, I am ill, I am ridiculously pregnant and I need a cuddle.

So now? He has stopped working but has been playing his computer game for the last few hours. Brilliant.

I just did some stripping and fell asleep!! Only one wall left though so should get it finished tonight. Can anyone tell me where to buy wallpaper that isn't farking disgusting?! If I wanted plastic textured paper I'd go and live in the 80's! Grrrr.....

Come on baby daisy and baby derlor, we want some birth action and your mummies want to meet you! I know it's comfy in there, but you have to come out some time!

As I am 37 weeks tomorrow I told dp he can get some tonight! I think that may have been a mistake as now I'll have to keep to my word or he'll never speak to me again! I am going to do it every night now, I am seriously not letting this baby go overdue!

Sputnik that's great about your dd in her own room! I really missed mine being in with me at first, but I'm used to it now. It did take a while for me to be able to sleep though!

WEll it didn't take long to catch up today....

Ria, sorry you've been having a bad one, have a virtual hug

Derlor....the LO will come when ready, and they say No 3 is often the awkward one! Labour vibes winging their way to you

Sputnik...well that was painless....good for you! Although how you managed to make a new baby with your LO next to you is a mystery to me

Holly....hope the decorating has gone well and you haven't been up the ladder.

Foxy....how was soft play?

We went to a spring fair to raise money for the local childrens hospice, basically cos the weather was so crap we wanted to show some support. Thankfully it's been showery with some fair and sunny spells so not too bad, and the turnout was quite good. DS got to sit in the cab of a fire engine and wear the fireman's helmet, so was very excited...I'll post up the photo when DH has downloaded it. Then we went to the local urban farm and looked at all the babies there......and this must be the first weekend in however long that DH and I haven't argued, so the drugs are obviously working!!

Built up the cot and got the last few bits straightened up in the baby's room....so we are definately Good to Go.

DH off to work tomorrow morning until Friday night, so Sod's Law dictates that LO will choose to start her entrance sometime this week and given the number of false alarms we've had, I'll leave it too late to phone him and he'll miss the whole thing.

x-post Holly...have you tried Laura Ashley? They have a concession inside our local Homebase and some of the paper is really lovely. Alternatively, just put up lining paper and paint that.

TA...sorry to hear that you're still itchy. Is there nothing that you can get to take the itch away; are anti-histamines OK for use in pregnancy?