Due in June........let's all go dancing naked under the full moon

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AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRSSSSSSSSSSEEEEEEEEEE!!! For you TA! I know exactly how you feel. Going over your edd is no fun. It'll be over soon- just keep looking to the finish post!!

Ok... Not soooo worried about you now Mytwocents! Had visions of you on a 'lock down ward' or something!
Only saying that cos I was on one a couple of weeks ago - seeing the ward manager and someone was getting a bit unsettled - I knew I was totally safe but felt very vulnerable (and didn't feel I could get out of the way quickly if I needed to).

Fair play to you still going tho...
Aren't you about to / have recently move house??

I think this LO is huge... it has to be... I can still walk the dog, drive the car ok and stuff but how can I feel it at either end of my body at the same time?? Surely this can't be natural

I have given up being PG now, I decided to start the diet, but it kind of went a bit wrong, I lasted a day and then I could be found chowing down cookies, swigging milk straight from the carton all whilst reading a chinese takeaway menu.

I'm worried about my sister, she is very excited about becoming an aunty (well as excited as you can be when you are a self involved 19 yo!) but she smokes, and I know that if I ask her to wash her hands she will get upset and my mum will then have a go at me! It sounds silly to be worrying about this stuff but I can just foresee the family dramas and won't want to be dealing with it when I have just had a baby.

A while back I lent my sister £400 out of our wedding savings to stop her getting evicted on the proviso she save a bit each week and pay us back 4 or 5 months later just before our wedding. When I asked her for it she just flipped and had a go at me and my "cushy life" etc. etc. Not once did she apologise or even acknowledge that she had done anything wrong. Then gave my mum a load of grief who then had a go at me for lending her the money in the first place coz I should have known better [.

Families hey? The stories I could tell... the most recent one being the distinct possibility that my parents (who have been separated 25 years - never married) could end up getting pissed and shagging on a holiday that me and DH are planning with my dad that my mum is threatening to come on to look after the baby, made all the more weird because my mum is now gay...! Sometimes I wish we were the waltons!

Bumper...I always thought my lot were dysfunctional (kleptomaniac sister, sex therapist mother etc) but now I realise that I cannot compete, yours are much better

Oh TA!

If you weren't so far away I'd offer to come and pick you up in my horsebox - It's soooooo bouncy. I thought about taking it for a spin today on my own but thought better of it just incase something happens - also I'm not sure if I can still fit behind the steering wheel? I think DH will have to take me out this weekend

It's not so hot here today - which is good for a heavily pregnant woman who keeps getting too sweaty (esp in the bot area! ewe!). I hope the weather is cool where you are TA so at least walking the dog doesn't feel like trecking the Sahara?!!

Wow bumper your family would make great tv!!

I actually miss working on the secure ward, crazy huh? Most of my work has been with PICU patients and forensic patients, I find very mad behaviour fascinating and some of the nurses I've learnt from are truly brilliant. it's made me a much more patient person and a much better communicator.

Also, you get training to deal with violent behaviour, an alarm system and hopefully some big beefy colleagues! You should ask for an alarm if your ever on the ward though...

OOh I love horseboxes!!
I miss mine even though it was cruddy. My friend had an Oakley Supreme, it was my idea of a good perve a few years ago.

It's pretty cool down here, yes the heat is insane isn't it, I went shopping the other day and I thought I had wet myself but no, just a mega sweaty arse. It's a lovely thing when you step out the shower, dry yourself off then look in the mirror and see beads of sweat already appearing on your face. Yummy mummy my arse, I can't put my sodding socks on let alone keep up the pretense of being sexy.

I don't think sweaty upper lips, stretch marks and hairy legs permit me into the yummy mummy clan. But I do have a bugaboo. Although I am also aware that makes me a chav/common/celeb wanabee in some parts of the UK.

Is anyone watching BB? Emily got booted for saying naughty words.

TA, a sex therapist mother? I'm sure that trumps mine actually. As long as she's not giving you tips! It's good to know that a lot of us have dysfunctional families in one way or another! Even the most normal seeming one must have their story too. But I like to feel my upbringing has better prepared me for the world! Though even after 26 years I still don't know how best to deal with my mother, and even now she can make me cry at the drop of a hat I'm just thankful I turned out relatively normal. Whether this little on will or not is another matter...

Relationships with mothers are so difficult. I think deep down everybody wants to be 'approved of' by their mothers.

I spent years wishing my mum would just say to me just once 'I'm proud of you', and a few months ago she did, and it wasn't the thunderbolt of glee I had imagined it would be, in fact I felt very little and have since realised that I don't need her approval to feel good about myself, I need mine. Ooh that's deep for a thursday afternoon.

But I am happier now, I stress less and feel more secure that I have realised she is just a person with her own problems, I am much more chilled now I see her objectively and worry less about her opinion.

But yes she is a sex therapist and a marriage counsellor. She wasn't happy when I got divorced
She doesn't give me tips as such but there isn't much that shocks me any more! We do share stories however

Oh Bumper!!! We should introduce our families!

Many many people who know my family background have seriously questioned how I have ended up the person I am! Not a drama queen, drug addict, alcoholic, drop out etc etc etc! And these have been comments made by some of my mums closest friends!
I do feel like the odd one out sometimes within the family - I wonder if you feel the same?

It's hard not to stress about things like smoking and your sister I know - because if like me - you have spent a lot of your life trying to avoid triggering drama senarios within the family - and strive for a peace and stability?

I don't know about your family tho - but mine seem to be able to have huge rows - say awful hurtful things - and then forget all about it the next day. I am the only one who seems to get upset - but when I try to discuss it later and tell them how they made me feel - I get accused of beeing 'moody' or 'sulky'
So I just try to laugh it all off and not take any of it seriously.

Stick to your guns with your sister Bumper - some things are just too important to stay quiet for an easy like for.

LOL - at possible gay mum shagging dad on hols senario. Sometimes I think that kids like us should write a book on our parents!

Have you read ' All Families Are Psychotic' by Douglas Coupland ? very funny book and may make your own family seem more regular....
All families are dysfunctional I reckon, both dp and I have several VERY challenging egos and a couple of drug addicts,alcoholics, could be a whole thread!

Mytwocents - IKWYM about forensic etc = facinating.
I don't normally go onto the ward unless invited - and am always with someone - so safe. Don't think its right for reps to go wandering onto wards etc.

Are you a slut ?
Apparently I am 61% slut!

Oh no I'm 81%

You Hussy!! Im only 38%!!

How about free sweeties?? Havent tried it so cant comment - but its at www.sweetcollect.co.uk - should be better than that chunk of chocolate the other day!! LOL

DKMAFME!!!!!!!!

Lol dkma, you slaaaaaaggg!!

72%

would never have admitted to that if I hadn't seen DKMA's score first though!

I feel as pure as the driven snow now !

It's that Anal sex question! Always scores high on these kind of thing!!!! PMSL

I'm embarrassed to say that I am only 49%, but then I'm only 26 and have been with DH for nearly 7 years!

Going back to the family thing DKMA I remember once my mum and bro and sis all having a screaming row. I hate confrontation and arguments used to scare me a lot (my mum says it's due to a fear of being abandoned by people I love - like my dad) and I just sat there quietly not getting involved and then tried to leave the room and my mum turned and had a huge go at me because I wasn't getting involved in the argument, because I thought I was above it all, and I can't just deal with everything my way by keeping quiet etc. Jeez, she's is exhausting. Mine are very into showing how they feel all the time but I think I am a bit repressed about confrontation, for various reasons including that one of my step dad's was violent to my mum, and I used to babysit my bro and sis all the time as they worked shifts, and would desperately make the house tidy, and never tell them when my bro and sis had been horrifically naughty as I knew it would turn into a row and he would be violent.

Is it any wonder I turned to psychology as a degree ?

Funnily enough, I argue more now with DH than I have ever with anyone, but I think it's because I'm so secure in my relationship with him, I think it's a good sign.

tch, only 71% for me.

I must be getting old.