Due Sept '07 - Loving this weather - yes WE WILL make it through the summer thanks!!!

[PurpleLostPrincess]

I did it (slightly adjusted the wording - is it OK?)!!! Now all we've got to do is a link from the old one to the new one - I'll leave that to somebody a bit more competent!

By the way, I just go laalalaalalaaa when you guys talk about epidurals/pain relief etc. I really didn't enjoy having one when I had DS but I had to as they had put me on a drip and all sorts and I had lots of complications. Ended up with even more severe migraines for years afterwards too. Didn't have one with DD1 and much preferred the whole experience. If I can get away with it this time, I'm going to try and avoid having one (obviously can't predict how things will go!). Gas & Air me up all the way!!!

PLP xxx

HIWBB - so glad he's home - that's fab news

Sophus - thoughts are with you and yours just now; it's good that whatever happens you've had this time with your mum doing the baby/family chat.

Thomcat - good to see you again! Congrats on getting the home birth organised - I so couldn't do that!

Apologies to all others but pg brain means that I can't retain any more info but I have read the posts...

First proper day of annual leave today. Dh sick in bed; I feel alternatingly ok and really awful but think it's more down to having 2 really bad nights and lack of sleep just knocks me for six now. Did go out this afternoon whilst the ds's were being entertained elsewhere and the fresh air was lovely. Also had sudden urge to shop for hospital bag (20% off all baby-related products in Boots atm). Was v taken with the buy 5 travel sized items from Body Shop and get free toilet bag - talk about easy packing and with nice things for hospital Also got v adorable vest from Gap from the product (Red) range - starting the baby as we mean to go on!

Hope all are well. Hoping for a more energetic day tomorrow (and being better company for ds1)

Hello all!

HIWBB - so glad DH is home, how is he feeling now? We heard from the DC's earlier and they're having a fab time - they're at Brean Sands in somerset! How old are your DC's? Mine are 13 and 8 (9 in a few weeks) and I'm sure DS will end up going off to do his own thing as usual. Strangely, I'm worried about who is going to do DD's hair! I know I'll miss them more as the week goes by...

MrsMar - I know what you mean about being clumsy, hope you managed to get through the day without getting too stressed!?

clainne - congrats on starting ML, take it easy and don't do too much!

SeamonstEr - glad the mw visit went well!

lou - We've started sleeping on top of the quilt and just having our throw as a cover as its much thinner and I much prefer it! We borrowed a fan from my parents today but not sure if we'll need it tonight... hope yours helps!? I got pre-eclampsia with DD1 so mw said to book in a visit once a week from 35 weeks so they could keep an eye on me but she is on holiday for the first few. I've booked in to see her from 37 weeks onwards as she gets booked in really fast.

hannahsaunt - hope DH is ok and that you feel better soon. I've bought a load of little travel toiletries for my hospital bag too, they're so cute! Your other buys sound lovely too!

Well, DH had a bit more of a sort out so I feel like we're getting there today. I also managed to get into town and get the last few bits for my hospital bag so I just need to pack it all now. I finally got some breast pads but I can only find the disposable ones - I had washable ones when I had DD1 but can't seem to find them in the shops any more - anybody seen them? (I have to admit I haven't looked in Mothercare yet though...!)

dal21 - I've e-mailed you at that address - yay!! So, have I understood this right that once you have received e-mails from all of us at that address; you'll then e-mail us all back with each others details so they won't get posted on here? Sorry but I'm blonde and irish as well as being pg so its taking a while to compute lol!

((((Hugs to all))))

PLP xxx

Hi there! Have not been on for AGES and have missed two whole threads I think, but glad to hear you are all doing well, indigestion, aches and pains and waddlig aside.

So sorry to those of you who have extra stress and troubles with poorly mum's, DH's or broken bones - it should be a time when the only worry is what type of chocolate to eat next.

I started 3 weeks leave yesterday prior to my Matleave which starts at the end of August - was getting very tired of 12.5 hour shifts and night shifts so really glad to be stopped for 9 whole months -YAAAAAY!

Also we are moving house TODAY - am supposed to be finishing packing and cleaning but decided to have sit down and a surf instead. We are moving to Bromley in Kent so will now be having the baby in the Princess Royal (where I work) once I have got my care transferred - think there were one or two others there too? Luckily my parents have the DTs for a couple of days while we move and they are enjoying their holidays, but am missing them a silly amount!

Right, better get on with sorting out - will let you know how the move went (good timing has never been my forte ) when we're back on line and have retrieved the children.

Take good care all xxx

Morning everyone!

PLP - i got your email (thanks!) and yes you are correct. I will take all the details everyone else has given and email them back out privately - so only those who have provided their details will get all of ours. So please dont worry - your info will go no further than within this group offline from here.

Well I have not gone into work for a second day. Am tired, baby is more restless at night and I just know that i wont be productive at work. Not too worried since have handed most stuff over to my interim replacement already but have emailed HR and my boss - may start maternity leave 2 weeks earlier than planned. How do people work right up til 38 weeks? Am i a real wuzz?

HIWBB - so great to hear your DH is home, how is he doing?

The Big sea - glad your MW visit went well. So are you taking raspberry tablets or drinking the tea?

Hello to everyone else - have fab days!

Morning all - rudely awakened at 7.15 by the people coming to put up the new shed! But a good job done

Saw midwife yesterday for bloods and antiD i'm still measuring a couple of weeks behind so follow up growth scan next week. Midwife says she wants to keep an eye on me! Baby is still very low and recorded on my notes as 2/5 engaged.

The windows are bothering me this morning! The sun's showing up all those grubby fingerprints so i'm thinking of finding a window cleaner. I just don't have the energy to do it myself especially with DS helping! Wish i could just pay someone to come and clean from top to bottom but can't warrant the expense!

well done dal on the email you'll be receiving my details shortly!

Hello - just popping over from the August group, checking that none of you have decided to queue jump?!

if you do.... we're still playing catch up from those due at the v start of the month.... we like well cooked babies....

Good luck all of you!!

PLP - Boots had washable breast pads yesterday. HTH

thanks chatty - got your mail too!

aargh. finished work yesterday. dd at childminders today/tomorrow so all set to relax and finish baby shopping in peace...then...toothache! second time in a week. in a tooth which has had root canal work and always had potential to flare up again. so it's going to be expensive. worse, dentist is at work, which is an hour away.... aaaaaaaaaargh. should i ignore it and hope it goes away or make an appointment? i know, i know. i'll ring 'em now. sob. goodbye £500+.
grump over!
but can't believe i'm going to have to trail back to work on my first tube free day. curses.

Fio, when are they performing your c-section? 39 weeks?

plp, can you help me find an Irish boys name please? we have a Conor but please don't suggest Kiaran as I hate it.

Oh, I'm glad everyone is doing ok, I know I'd like this baby at around 37 weeks...
I'm taking the tablets dal.

Colm, Finbar, Brian [pronounce Bree-an], Ruari, Colman [Coll-a-man], Brandubh [Bran-doov], Cathan [ka-hann], Conn, Conall, Conlla.

Morning ladies,

I am up for giving out email addresses, maybe one day we can all have a mass sept get together....although we'd have to find a place big enough to hold us all

Sophus, so sorry that the prognosis is not good for your mum, hope you are enjoying the time you have with her now.

purplelost, glad your dh is being proactive about his illness, sounds like the imminent arrival of a baby has given him a bit of wobble which is understandable.

Hwbb, glad your dh is home, hope he makes a speedy recovery.

Hammerhead, You're moving to my neck of the woods , would be having the baby at the PRU if I wasn't having a homebirth instead.

dal, am very of your newly painted house/bathroom. I am still waiting for my sis to move out of our house into her new one before I can arrange the nursery. Also have a painter coming first week of sept to paint our hallway/lounge/landing. Oh, and dh STILL hasn't put the flooring down in the hallway and birthing room (which also needs painting)...Okay, I think I am hyperventilating, there is so much to do, I need to reshedule this baby to come some time in dec!!!

I was sleeping really well till night before last when our bed decided to break on us and the Hifi in the bedroom also blew up . I never realised how well my hypnobirthing cd sent me to sleep. It is also no fun sleeping on the floor when you are heavily pregnant...I need a winche to get out of bed. Oh gosh I am whingey old moo today, sorry!

Hope everyone is feeling more groovy than me.

xx

Morning ladies, hope this gorgeous morn finds you all well!

Laska: I know how you feel, I've been sleeping on an air bed for the past few weeks (occasionally risking spending the night with DH in our bed, but OMG the snoring!!!) He has to pull me up when he gets up to go to work in the morning, then I slink off to our bed LOL

Seamonster: what about Shane or Seamus? Or just Google Irish boys names, see what pops up.

EnormousChangesAtTheLastMinute: Feeling sorry for you, I hate toothache during pregnancy, it's got to be the worst time to get it!!

HIWBB: glad DH is home now.

Right my turn, little rant, might be hormone induced but I suspect not (as this would be problem for me no matter what my physical state!!)
I found out on Sunday that our neighbour (older man of the couple) has been wandering into our back garden (DH let slip that he had said something along the lines of "I checked the oil on your lawn mower", meaning that he'd been round at some point nosing around in our garden. Anywho, I have problems with this simply because I don't see it as appropriate to have someone that we barely know, (despite being our neighbour we don't really know them except to say HI and have a little chat to), wandering into our garden to look at our things!

This morning I got up, dressed DD, got her downstairs for breakfast and he walks past our kitchen window on his way to the bk garden, so I went out there and asked what he was doing in our garden, he said "Oh I'm just checking what you've got. . . ." So I said "we haven't got anything and I don't like people just walking into our garden so can you go please" he then said "He (meaning DH) asked me to fix the blades on the mower. . ." He wasn't best pleased when I told him he couldn't fix the mower if the blades are INSIDE our house!! (plsbh, raspberry!!)

He left mumbling something like "Ok I wont fix it then" (Yeah cos my DH is totally incapable of taking some blades off the mower and replacing them with new ones, right, even I can do that!!)

Ooh forgot to mention this guy has the biggest wood pile outside his house (which is meant to be our parking space but we've been unable to ever use it) and has trebled in size since we moved in less than 2 years ago, DH has cut a rather large branch off the tree in our back garden so I reckon he's after that for his bloody woodpile!!

Right, there you go rant over LOL, not a real problem really just had to get it out LOL
Getting a bit sick of old people now, they don't have a lot of common sense round here but we're surrounded by them GRRR

Anywho, anyone got any interesting plans for odd days like this? I'm putting wool in my hair again today, just cos I'm THAT bored LOL
Would take DD to the park but it's a way to walk (SPD) and the neighbour might just pounce on the opportunity to nose round our garden again LOL (I'm never going to leave the blooming house at this rate!!)

Ooh I'm at it again, blooming essay writing!! You guys must get sick of me popping in and taking up all the room, I know everyone here is LOL (I'm such a heifer!!)

xxx

dal, have just sent you a mail!

xx

kyala, an air bed...ok you have it worse than me, I would never manage getting up off one of those! My dh is snoring something rotten also, I thought it was pregnant ladies who were meant to do that...I am a mean thing though and nudge him till he stops

How weird of your neighbour to just wander into your garden, I wouldn't like that either. Does he limber over the fence? Must confess to having a soft spot for old people esp old grannies on the bus, they can be most friendly to pregnant ladies I find

xx

Purple, your kids are just down the road from mine at the moment!!!!!!!!! What a small world! Mine are in Axbridge (near Cheddar), which is a 10 minute drive from Brean Sands!!

They went to a place called Noah's Arc yesterday, it sounded like a fab place. About an hours drive from where they are staying.

No, we're the end of the terrace so he just walks round the path LOL couldn't even begin to imagine what lengths he'd go to for a bit of wood if we weren't at the end LOL

I think it's just my hormones with old people ATM though, I keep giving them evil's when they smile at DD and say how cute she is LOL I'm not very trusting when it comes to complete strangers anyway but ATM it seems to be my biggest problem. . . Oh well it'll pass in about 5 weeks though right?!! Either that or I'll be too tired to leave the house anyway LOL

I tried nudging DH and he was really good, constantly changing positions every time but it got to the point where he snores no matter what position he's in, and I get narky when I'm tired at the best of times let alone now!! I'm a monster to live with LOL
He offered to take the air bed but it's in the nursery so I've decided that, if the snoring is still there when LO arrives, I might as well get used to it LOL
Am freecycling for a single bed or something to get me off the ground but no luck as yet, finger's crossed

Laksa - got your email too - thanks! Wouldnt start to hyperventilate - you have heaps of time yet. I think the uncomfy nights are looming for all of us now!

My LO is belting me at night - reassuring and lovely but not conducive to a peaceful nights sleep.

Hello everyone..

dal you'll be getting an email from me in a minute, just as soon as I'm finished here...

kyala - you rant away. I think it's very odd of your neighbour to wander unannounced in to your garden. No matter how close or distant you are surely it's just good manners to ask someone "your dh asked if I could fix your mower, is it alright if I come in now?" I hope he gets the message soon! He'd get a shock if he did that to us, dh has a terrible habit of wandering around in the nude!!!

laksa - sorry to hear about your bed, I couldn't do without a bed, I'm welded to mine at the moment! Have you got a portable cd player for your hypnotherapy cd or can you load it on to an ipod or something?

ECATLM - I hope you've managed to get your tooth sorted. I'm so dentist phobic any tooth problem reduces me to a sobbing mess so I do feel for you!

chatty - I hope your growth scan goes ok... my baby is very low too, I'm seeing the mw tomorrow so I'm going to ask about engagement, although I think I'm a tad early (34 weeks) does early engagement mean an early delivery?

good luck with the move hammerheadshark. Quite a lot to undertake in late pregnancy, I don't envy you! Hope it all goes well.

plp - glad you're getting organised. I really must get a move on too! I found washable breast pads in Mothercare.

hannahsaunt - i know what you mean about being knocked for six if you have a bad night now. I'm absolutely shattered all of a sudden. I've been sleeping in until 11am this week cos I'm not working until Thursday, and I'm still tired! I hope your dh is better soon and you feel a bit more rested.

Lou - I hope all the monitoring is ok, good they're keeping a close eye on you. Could you be our first to give birth?? If they induce you in two weeks surely you're in the running. How exciting!

HIWBB - so glad dh is home. I hope he recovers from his latest set back quickly and completely!

I'm not really struggling in the heat, but I am totally shattered at the moment. The oedema is still there, but I'm seeing the mw tomorrow so hopefully she can reassure me it's nothing to worry about. I've got a delightful constriction in my throat at the moment. It feels like I've got a piece of food stuck in there. I was just eating my lunch and I couldn't finish my yoghurt as "the blockage" was really in the way... took a couple of biscuits to get me to swallow properly!

Oh and while I'm being grumbly.... I'm fed up of battling my verrucas. They're really sore, and I can't get great access to the soles of my feet (have to wedge myself in the bath) to scrub off the dead skin. And once I've struggled to do that, I'm supposed to put this stingy stuff the doc gave me and put plasters on them all, but the blooming plasters keep coming off!! arrgghhhh! so frustrating, why on earth do I have to
have so many at once!!!???

Harump!!! grumble over!! I hope everyone else is feeling better, have a lovely day

xx

MrsM - got your details too! thanking you kindly.

Well my company have been lovely today - have allowed me to work the remainder of this week and next week from home to tie up loose ends and start maternity leave as planned! I go in one day next week to close things off and have a nice lunch - but am quite relieved! Just been feeling so low on energy since the weekend!

Now just have to figure out a way to not eat constantly for the next 7 weeks!

Kyala - i completely agree your neighbour's nuts! I think you're completely justified telling him to stay out!

MrsMar - thanks for the wishes - early engagement doesn't neccessarily mean early delivery just uncomfortable for longer! But it can be a sign lo is getting ready . When i was pregnant with ds he engaged early and wasn't born until due date but he was big and had no room so that's how they justified it! This time there's plenty of room and it's less common for engagement to happen early with subsequent dc's? Your guess is as good as mine!

dal21, did you get my email?

Hi ALL - Hope you are coping with the heat ! ? Have read throught posts I missed last week and just wanted to send love and hugs to HIWBB , plp and Sophus with all the worries and stresses you have been going through.

Kyala - i think your neighbour is completely rude tbh! Can't you put a locked gate on the side of your house /garden - you could say its for DC's safety?

I have started packing my bag but not sure how much to take - don't plan to stay in for too long !

Baby is still transverse so I'm off to the hospital again on thurs for another scan. I am trying all kinds of exercises to get her to turn around - even tried putting frozen peas on her head yesterday !Poor baby !