Due in June - Prostaglandin Smoothie Anyone??!!

[hollyandalice]

New thread!!

Oh Bumper, yes my mother is a super human, she has something like 4 very well paid jobs, 5 kids + 2 foster kids, a home cooked meal is on the table every night and I expect her to scale everest in her retirement.
She is 59 and even has her own myspace page. She is crazy.

I cannot compete and don't want to.

Oh plus I am now evil as I said I don't want to have the baby christened.

TA - I am right with you re mothers. Mine was a midwife in about 1900 and never tires of telling me how she supplied the entire prem unit with breast milk after I was born (despite the fact she also tells me that she was in intensive care straight afterwards too!) Not sure whether I like that story best or the one about having had me & my two siblings potty trained by 9 months AND she didn't have a washing machine until her second was 2. Must have been so hard for her, bringing up 3 kids in a cardboard box in the middle of t'motorway...

Holly sounds great, just let me know when and I am there!

I suspect you are right about the stitches, I mentioned that to mother dearest who said 'oh you won't need stitches, I never did'

FFS mothers. Will they not understand that we are not in fact one and the same person? jeez

PMSL @Westcoaster

lol are you sure we don't share the same mother?

I know it's awful but I'm quite enjoying her getting older now as she's slowing down (she's 83 in September). I can just about keep up with her now....! She's coming down in a couple of weeks after junior arrives and will no doubt spend the entire visit washing skirting boards with borax or something else medieval. Only advantage will be if I haven't produced by then and I'll be able to unleash her on my unsuspecting consultant re induction - heh, heh!! Last time I was in hospital, she spent every visit growling at anyone who dared sit on a patient's bed or not wash their hands properly....

PMSL at the mother stories, makes me feel a bit better about mine!

Ooh TA the dreaded Christening debate, that's always fun! Although it's a debate I'm more like to have with DH than my mother. He's not particularly religious, and we had a civil wedding ceremony but I think he would like a Christening, but I am an atheist, and would feel hypocritical having a Christening and thing the LO should choose when it grows up. He has also said that he would go to church if it meant getting our child into a good school, and can't understand why I wouldn't.

Good lord, if she wants to be all productive send her here!

Must be tough but she sounds harmless?

I know we had a mother chat on here the other day, but I am thinking that maybe the last few weeks of PG can be quite a testing time with mums!
All the tensions seem to be coming out!

Fortunately dp and I have the same religious views ie. none! I would feel awful getting my dcs christened when I didn't believe in it. I even feel bad just going into a church, even for someone else's wedding!

Bumper, exactly the same!

DH and I are both atheists and would feel like total hypocrits if we had LO christened.

I have nothing against it at all, but I would feel like a liar/fraud if suddenly when it suited I started doing church things, especially just to please someone else.

I thought I had calmed the situation a few months ago, but then it cropped up again because little sis said she wanted to be godmother - then I get the "oh, you need a christening before you can have a godmother..."

Oh cock off. I have agreed to a naming party, shush now.

I think this is a time when mothers really come into their own (in a good way and a bad way) they may not have been able to empathise at our other life choices e.g getting degrees, or good jobs, expecting partners to be equal in housework etc. but the one they they have all done that we are about to do is have babies, and boy do they think they know best!

Ironically this is also the time when we feel at our most hormonal and vulnerable so somewhere along the line something or someone has got to give (and I feel that it will be me!)

TA - are you from Wiltshire? The only other person I have ever heard use the phrase 'cock off' is my DH !

God parents, ohh another minefield. People asking to be god parents? I can imagine my sis doing the same - over my dead body! In fact I am thinking of doing what my best friend's parents did and appoint legal guardians. If anything happened to me and DH I would be happy for the baby to go to my mother, but if anything happened to my mother I do NOT want my sister being next in line (oh God, it's like that episode of Friends with Rachel's sister!).

So many issues coming up with regards to having children! Anyone else want to move with me and DH to a deserted island somewhere?!

I love mum stories. I wish my Gran was still here and then I could have gran stories too. My MIL makes things up when she can't remember them, I'm sure she does!

The christening debate is BAD NEWS too. We had it with DS1, DH being an aetheist and me being non-commital about everything! I wanted to do the wait and let him decide for himself when he is older and DH was pro-christening as you can always decide not to be religious. He won anyway, despite it being me that had to do the vicar meetings and going to services and stuff. But it's another one of those personal choice things and you should decide for you and not anyone else. Don't want a scary virtual fight! I think he's nearly arranged this LOs christening as he was talking to the minister at work the other day!

Well done babymonster - glad your home safe and well - photos please!!

Also thanks to Holly for keeping the stats up to date!! We're even stevens now re boys v girls arent we??

We havent agreed on names yet and defro havent even thought of middle names!!

I think when you move area TA you become "out of sight out of mind" with RL friends. Ive lived here 2 yrs and rarely get to see my old friends now. Have made 1 RL friend round the corner and the rest of the women I chat to are 65+!! Am hoping to meet people at baby groups etc - I know I did with my DD.

Gah - another day with no baby. Had bit of weep this morning thinking this one never going to come out on its own, can't face whole induction idea, why is my body letting me down, etc etc. So good to read H&A about your positive induction experience and to see that T/A having the same worries. I'm hoping you have wee one soon though T/A. And I should stop moaning as am only few days over.

Congrats to Babymonster . My pick for boy's name too.

Well my mums ears must have been burning as she called me for a hour being all nice and friendly and supportive and we had a good long chat, so I shall forgive her til the next time!!

Don't worry Tallulah, maybe you will be lucky and it could come any time, and trust me each day gets that little bit harder but you will cope because we are women and that's what we 'do', we cope!
Anyway you can talk to me anytime, each day drags on and on and you wake up feeling disappointed you weren't woken in the middle of the night by pains...but it will be ok

JBM yes you are right, I lived in Essex but had to move to Reading for DH's work, I have no local friends at all. I get very lonely. MN has been a lifesaver. I met some nice girls in ante natal classes though and am hoping it will be the same crowd at baby group. I live in a bit of a chavvy ghetto area but I have met some nice women on the same wavelength as me!

Cheers T/A

What is the point in scrubbing the bathroom floor if it doesn't make you go into labour? Honestly, I don't think I'll bother in future!

Maybe I'll get one of those crochet hooks from my home birth kit and break my own waters (yes I am really that desperate)! There is about 5 in the box. Who wants to join me, we could have a water breaking party!

ewwww H & A!!

Have you cleaned your bathroom yet??
Ive done my Loo, and ive been in trying to shine the tiles as theyve just been grouted - but finding it really hard to get the extra grout to shift.

What really p's me off is that I'll clean it all - then later my DP and the plumber will be in there making more mess (not together you understand!! LOL!)

I can think of all sorts of parties that might be fun right now but shoving pointy instruments up my business end sounds a bit dangerous for me, perhaps I am just a wuss

It's cleanish! I scrubbed the floor and had a quick wipe round the bath and sink and cleaned the toilet. That's as good as it's going to get. I am too hot now! Just make it look respectable jbm if it's going to get messy again later, or make your dp do it!

I have wine and cookies! Come round, It'll be a larf !!

Wine and cookies!!!

What about malteser tiffin, I was a good girl and stopped myself buying the ingredients as I need to shift about 4 stone post birth, but I have been fantasizing about it and if you have some of that I might not be able to say no! Seriously.

Your right H & A - whats the point!!
The ironing is beckoning though - (it can beckon all it wants me- thinks!)
or I could go and make a fresh pineapple upside down hot dessert cake thing...mmmm.. think ive got a recipe somewhere.

ok that does it

I was going to join in the scrubbers clan and do my bathroom but all this food chat is sending me off to raid the fridge