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

[derlor]

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Morning all. Not one of our best days, huh? 1st of June, all our expectations riding high (not mine, obviously, have resigned myself to July long ago!).

Sorry to hear about your crap day Daisy (shit, its only 10am!). DS has just had too good a time of it lately so being at home just doesn't cut it! Combat this in the future by never allowing them to go anywhere with anyone . Seriously though, sounds like things are a bit pants with your back and all.

Right, lets get on and have some babies. Juliewoolie, would you care to start? You'd better get cracking as Derlor has promised to birth today, and everyone else will be dancing naked in their gardens at the full-moon tonight

Bollocks, now I can't get anyone to pick up tom from nursery on Tuesday.

Weather is nice here so might get out the scooters and go for a walk, good idea. I'm also expecting neighbour over with 2 kids so that will be a nice distraction

It's not getting off to a good start is it.

My poor DS2 has just had a nasty fall on the concrete (he tripped over his brother and a garden waste bag, sort of) and the resounding thud was so loud that the neighbours came out to see what it was. I have smothered him in arnica and summoned DH home from work to look at him. He is now resting on the sofa but I am panicking re head injuries. He is ok so long as he doesn't get sleepy or vomit, is that right?

Sounds like you're doing the right thing Ria. Your poor DS . If he has a big bump on his head it means the body is doing the right thing - also watch if the bump goes in (if that makes sense).

thanks annobal.

He has been upstairs to annoy his brother and is harrassing me about lunch so am thinking he is ok.

Ouch! Poor thing

Right off to get me and the kids dressed. Not done anything yet, safer that way ... full moon is all well and good for birthing but makes kids go a bit mental.

Am having a good day so far, having got up to discover DD up before me dressed in toy high-heels, sunglasses and sporting a microphone (!), did some jobs, got breakfast prepared then snuck off back to bed leaving DP to sort them out. Found a pink Power Rangers costume for DD on M&S website, and have now just taken receipt of my 2 boxes of Hotel Chocolate End of Season Selection.

Its all going to go horribly wrong, isn't it???

Aha...so its the full moon making DS play up...that figures.

I used to work in a pub and we always knew the full moon by the amount of nutters we would get in, it really was quite uncanny.

Passed the idea of rumpy in DS den to DH this morning...."all well and good" says he, "but i'm concerned that once we get you in there you won't be able to get out again and will give birth at the bottom of the garden!"

Bloody charming.

Trying to do some ironing but sacro-iliac joint pain/sciatica means I have to keep on sitting down......well that's my excuse for being on the computer anyway .

My bub is also being especially wriggly today and I now have niggling pains up either side of my bump.
Crap crap crap

Ouch for your poor DS ria, sounds like he's ok though if he's hungry!

Sorry you are in pain Daisy, my sacroiliac pain seems to have cleared up a bit since the baby dropped, of course now I just have burning pelvis pain instead - but it's better than having both!

Fingers crossed your day carries on as it started Foxy. Apart from being woken up by the post man mine has been pretty good, spent the morning on here and eating ice cream for breakfast!

I love your diet Bumper! Coco-pops or ice cream. Why have they never combined the two?

Before being pg I was a strictly sultana bran and skimmed milk girl! Just hope I can get out of the habit when baby is born!

Oh and DH has got 9 bars of Lindt chocolate to bring home to me - he gets them off the magazines before they get sent back! There are some upsides to his job!

now that's a handy job to have. Get him to start collecting the kids toys too, you'll have party bags to stuff and xmas stockings to fill in the future!

just popping in (i'm still allowed here, right? ) to say hello and wishing you lots of labour vibes today!!

Now listen, I know you're all really miserable and just want it to be over, but let me remind you of a few good things you can still savour! I'm already missing:

*being able to eat whatever the fark I want
*having a good excuse to cry/throw a strop/generally act hormonal
*access to lots of powerful drugs
*clothes, carpets, sofas, and floors free of baby puke
*nights without the piercing screams of a tiny monster (sorry, I mean, your wonderful angelic baby) just at the very moment that you finally fell asleep
*the bliss of pretending you own no tiny clothes which you must must must fit back into, preferably ASAP, and most definitely before appearing before all the family for the christening!

Yeah I pulled out one of my boxes of 'normal' clothes looking for a one particular top, and what should I find? My bikinis!! surely they must belong to someone else - like a fit 18 year old - not me? I mean, how the hell am I ever going to fit into those again?? Arrrrrrrrggggghhhhhhh

keep us posted! anyone want the rest of my mint ice cream?

Are you still there Bumper? I got my Babybuddha sling yesterday, it looks the business and they gave me a really good price on the basis that there were several of us. Did you order one in the end (otherwise I would feel a bit of a fraud )?

Lilkel, you'd better not go and post elsewhere! This is where you belong, until the Post-natal is up and running that is!

How are you doing? Coping OK? Don't worry, you are still allowed tears and tantrums. Once the adrenalin wears off, the milk comes in, and exhaustion sets in, and the hormones are still all over the farking place, then there's the baby shock which comes at about 10 days ... I reckon if you can stay in bed for the first 6 weeks you can just about get through Newborn Stage!

I'm finding outlets to vent, for example this morning its Hertz car rental who were meant to pick up DPs works car by Tuesday. Its still in my drive today. Have told them if they are not here by 1 I'm leaving it in the street with the keys in the ignition. And I will. And it will make me feel GOOD!

With regard to clothes, I'm going for floaty beach cover-ups and kaftans (primark doing loads at the mo) and H&M nursing vests and tops (around a tenner for two). Oh, and sticking with the maternity trousers for a while.

Still not dressed, have one child washed and ready, but she's in fancy dress and not proper clothes! oh well.

Lilkel, before you run off to attend your screaming monster/little darling, I have to know. DID YOU USE THE HAIR STRAIGHTENERS?

Oh sputnik - sounds great. I did order mine, though I left it a bit late so probably won't get here for another month. What colour did you get? I got chocolate (natch!)

LOL you guys never fail to make me laugh. Thanks for that

OK. I know I made a big deal out of it, but the hair straighteners had to stay home. Shame on me, what kind of desperate HW am I...but I had no room for them frankly, and even in my high-maintenance world, I had to admit that maternity pads take precedence over hair straighteners when push comes to shove.

BUT

Before you all turn away in disgust at my slovenly hygeine habits, rest assured that I rose from bed at 5am the morning of my section to have a proper shower, exfoliation, pluck, wash, dry, and straightening of hair. I dare say when I showed up at hospital for the Big Cut (as ever-so-charming-DH likes to call it) it's the best I've looked in yonks!!! Beats the hell out of the sweaty screaming wreck I was for DS' birth anyway...

Lesson: Get a bigger labour bag for next time! Did I say next time? Get me the depoprovera quick!

Hope you are doing ok lilkel. I bet you are doing a fab job! I hope everyone is looking after you. I imagine another thing that can be added to you list is suddenly finding yourself to be much less important now you are no longer carrying the blessed child! That's what I am worried about! Have enjoyed the fuss and attention, but already I can see I am becoming less important. Was discussing my mum's role as a birthing partner, and she said "I'm happy just to go with the flow, just as long as my grandchild is ok..." And your child right?

I have been thinking kaftans too Foxy. I don't think there is much hope of me fitting into anything much from last summer. It'll be getting really hot here soon so it'll be sarongs at home and probably still mat-wear for going out
I don't think anyone should expect us to do otherwise.

I wouldn't worry about feeling a fraud either sputnik - the way I figured it, if they turn out to be so fantastic we can big them up on MN and get them lots of business to justify it!

My DS1 has developed a "man" attitude. (Is my dinner on the table, why not? - at 10 to f-ing twelve FFS. And he loiters round the kitchen door when I'm getting things ready - as if that will make me any quicker.) And he has "that" tone of voice. He is ten years old. HELP!

I think I might pack my things in a spotted hanky and run away.

Chocolate here too Bumper
I paid extra and got airmail, thinking I'd be early. He'll probably be overdue now.

Tell him if he helps out he can have it sooner Ria. Might turn out a chef like his Dad