Due in the New Year - waddling our way past the half way mark

[mixedmama]

Hellooooo there

OOO glad it all went well Lillyloo!!

Whats all this talk of sunshine am I the only one thats had grey skies all week!!

Oh my god just notices there is now a due in May 2008 thread! I feel like a vetran of pregnancy after seeing that!

oo lily - so might be a pink baby glad scan went well. So youre a scorpio too

Cazzy - scarey how time is flying isnt it Cant quite believe in 4 months i could be holding ds2! Got to get xmas all sorted pretty soon. Happy birthday too!

Mixedmama - poor you having a cold, vaseline on your nose will help stop it getting sore xx

Naetha - selling your bike understand tho, gave up bike when preg with ds1. Poor you being all poorly. Lots of rest, tlc, pampering etc

Beller - thanks for that about autotrader. My car needs a good clean too and MOT due in Sept so dont know whether to get MOT done first.

Good news lillyloo on your scan sounds like a bendy baby! Just goes to show how differently they do home borths in different areas. My mw bought all her stuff with her at the time. Though she did bring it about 2 hours before I gave birth as she went back to the hospital in betwen times. I was just tod to have a flat table to put baby on when born (I had a baby changing station which I wheeled in to my living room. And a heat source which we didnt need as it was suprisingly mild last October and ofcourse lots of towels and something clean to wrap baby in once Id had a skin to skin cuddle

What are you doing this time Gingeme ?
She really reassured me which was good as she said if any intervention is needed even if you were in hospital it wouldn't happen straight away so feel better now. Am going to get on the net now and look up homebirths.
Yes Awen a scorpio too
Not sure how we will get on with two Capricorn dd's though, will definately be loggerheads there !
Cazzy poor you, it's beautiful here!

So glad it is Thur and only have one more day to get through.

I would quite like a home birth but DH is really not keen - mainly because he doesnt want the mess at home I think.

Am happy to go to the birthing unit anyway as want to use the pool and our flat is not big enough to have one, but plan to stay at home for as long as possible.

Check this out ladies.

mumsnet xmas party

www.mumsnet.com/Talk?topicid=1368&threadid=375501&stamp=070822132028

Shall we go? We can spontaneously all go into labour whhen the excitement gets too much. Sounds like fun tho.

Hello ladies

Mixedmama ? I hear you about sitting at home waiting! glad you had a good night out. You selling up? Sorry to hear you are not well

Barristermum ? I?ve heard that too about the EDD but it would be so hard to pretend to be less pg than you are when every day means so much! no bank holiday for me

MotherofZ ? good for you ? go girl! fingers crossed! Oh we are 307 twins ? what colour is yours? Mine?s Seville Orange

Beller ? cautionary tale re the emergency C! Great news about the car personally didn?t like the Rav 4 when I looked at it but can?t remember why now safety issues? I don?t know of any with the peouget.

Lilyloo ? glad all went well sorry that it started scary!

MrsBiscuit

Awen ? thanks for answering my question I?m glad my guests have gone! sorry to hear DP will be away a lot must be hard. I have a dodgy tummy still too ? but today I think it is work stress (I won?t even go there angry])

Naetha ? sorry to hear you are not better

Hey PBirdy, missing you! was that a bit PDiddy and a cue for a song!

Cazzybaby ? glorious day here too

Hello Gingeme

That was meant to say hello MrsBiscuit

Could you imagine us all turning up to the xmas party ready to pop!!

You'd deffinatly be able to pick out the due in the new year group

mixedmamma my dh was dead against a home birth too but then saw the practicalities with ds3 being here too. Though I laboured early hours of the morning and lo was here by 6am ready for ds3 to wake at 8am and give us a cuddle in bed and believe it or not you realy dont get that much mess and what yhere is is very quickly and proffesionaly cleaned away by your mw though dh did wash the towels straight away and they took ages to dry
Saying that Im having a water birth at hospital this time. But mw said if baby is as quick as the last one I might have an unplanned home birth
Lots of movements from bean today though most of them were after I shouted at ds3 for kicking the back of my seat in the car this afternoon.

they love kicking car seats dont they! I have a car full tomorrw, ds, his best friend and little sis. All off to the beach. Forecast is beautful sunshine

MrsMc - grr for work stress for you. DP is stressed with work too. Spend most of your day there and last thing you need is the stress.

Cazzy - really not to keen on the iea of xmas party. I was huge and early with ds so not chancing it!

oo re homebirth.. we have new carpets so a no-no here as well as past birth exp with ds1 - emerg c-section etc.

Hello everyone,

Haven't posted in ages as have been really busy at work but have tried to keep up with reading posts. I'm glad to see everyone is (mostly) keeping well - Naetha and Mixed Mama, hope the colds go soon.

However, today I need solid rant late at night! Went out this evening with DP for drinks with an old friend. Lots of our friends there and really lovely evening. Stayed much later than I planned to as was quite far from home. So, around 11pm said I was going to leave. DP by this time is well into the wine and doesn't feel like going. So said I would be off as couldn't wait any longer, was going to take an hour to get home - actually just got in and it's 12:45am. Anyway, lots of drunken mumbling by DP that he doesn't want me to go home alone "because people will think badly of him". Then says he's going to stay out because "he doesn't have many nights out left". We've also been thinking about a last weekend away before the baby comes and he suggested getting a whole lot of friends together to go to Amsterdam, which I said I didn't feel like as I can't drink so would be out of the party. So he throws in "and we can't go to Amsterdam either now."

Am really feeling thoroughly cross and upset with him. Firstly, I do think it's a bit much to say "cheerio, see you later" to your wife who is five months pregnant and leave her to catch tubes and trains across London at 11:30pm. However, I meant it when I said it was his decision whether to join me so will leave that.

But am very, very cross about the "staying out because there aren't many nights left" and "we can't go to Amsterdam because of you" thing. This baby is not a death sentence I imposed on him! It's a longed for and much wanted baby which we both waited and hoped for. We're both going to have to make adjustments and I don't pretend it's going to be all bubbles and lovable baby giggles, but the baby's also not just a major inconvenience designed to interfere with his social life!! Am so mad, I fumed all the way on the train home. Am trying hard to think about whether I'm just being unreasonable but at the moment I hope his wine curdles in his stomach

Anyway, sorry for long post and rant at that, but had to get it out somewhere...

Morning all -
Hope you all are well.
Been having mega bad migraines for the past few days and yesterday it was so unbearable that I left work early. Don't think it's BP releated, as little things such as driving and work are triggering it off.
Mrs McJnr - My 306 is Maroon (typical colour!)
BMW- Seems like it was the alcohol talking, but also it appears that your partenr maybe feeling insecure about how things will change when the little one arrives. Can't he compromise and go on a holiday that you will both enjoy. Defo think it is unreasonable that he wants to travel on your own on public transport late at night.

ooh Gingeme why have you opted out of homebirth this time ?
Have a lovely day Awen it's beautiful here too so am off to fill up paddling pool.
Too far for me to travel mixedmama or i would have gone!

Poor you BWmum sounds like he feeling a little worried about it. I went on a hen do to Amsterdam recently and it was good despite not drinking, however am sure there is a compromise to be made where you could do something you both like, what about somewhere with a spa ? Agree he out of order letting you travel alone though, hopefully he contrite this am when he sobers up! You are right though your life does change dramatically when you have a baby but for lot's more positive reasons than not. Maybe you need to sit down and address this when he hasn't had a drink. Men
Motherofz, Naetha and mixedmama hope your all 'blooming' soon that your all under the weather.
What everyone doing for bank hol weekend ?
I been conned into doing a big barbecue tommorrow, then we off to christening Sunday and thinking of going to races at Rippon on Monday for dp's birthday.

at all your good weather. Supposed to be nice here at the weekend though.
Yes BWmum men can take having a baby a bit like this especialy if your social life has always been as a couple. Hell have to learn to compromise Im afraid. Did he come home with you in the end though? Sorry if its a touchy subject.
Lillyloo I knew you were going to ask that. I hope my answer doesnt put you off having a hb. I am a BIG control freak and I realy didnt feel in as much control at home as I did in the water. If I could have a pool at home I would. In water I could feel every movement and contraction even babys body as he was being born. Baby was in too much of a hurry at home I guess. Didnt give me time to gather my thoughts.
Realy realy dont want to put you off. Dont get me wrong it was a great experiance being at home and to get into my own shower and bed after it realy was.

Having said that I amswaying more and more towards a home birth again if only I could have a pool here.

Thanks Gingeme, if anything i think that will push me to get a birthing pool. I looked online and can get one of the hexagonal ones for £100 quid off ebay. I fthat's your only reason as i really wanted a water birth with my last two and didn't get one and have heard lovely things about them.

ps any girls names ould be really helpful now r/e scan yesterday as boys name was all sorted! My dd is called Lily Grace and we like more traditional names. My dp likes Martha or Macy. I 'm not sure, i really like Madeleine but he doesn't ( it doesn't have to begin with M) i also like Ava but he doesn't. I chose dd 1 name so i said it up to him but want to give him more suggestions.

Morning all!

Awen- My MOT was due in October..but i did put 6 months tax on it? Might be worth getting it done?

Lillyloo- me and Lo will both be capricorns? maybe lock horns a few times?

Mrsmcjnr - I wasnt keen on the interior of the Rav4...Everyone keps telling me to get Golf over a peugot? About £1k in it..but said the golf would hold price better? Test driving both this afternoon now,as my car goes tomorrow ..for a worthy cause though!

BWmum - Sorry you had a tough night! Like the others have said, i think the wine and reality were hitting him...Its not a sentence at all, but i think Guys seem to struggle with what it will be like. Definately not good letting you travel accross London on your own though? Hope everything is ok today xx

Hope everyone has a great weekend!! I am test driving cars this afternoon..have taken half day as my beloved beetle goes tomorrow!! xxxxxx

Morning all,

MotherofZ - hope you are feeling better migraines are just the worst.

MrsMcJnr - Yes we are selling an investment propperty we bought a few years ago, but sort of need to do it quickly so it is becoming rather stressful.

Cazzy - I would still have three weeks to go b4 the xmas party, and last time the week before went to dinner dance but DH was there so could keep an eye on ,me. I just thought that the concept of these heavily pregnant women partying would be so funny - I wonder haw many labours that would kick start

Gingeme and Lilyloo - I really want to use the pool and cant have one at home so that has really swayed me towards the hospital, plus i can imagine the influx of visitors straight to the house - at least in hospital they have rules about how many people and when.

BWmum - unfortuantely men are just inconsiderate sometimes. He could have put you in a cab (regardless of distance) but the drink prob clouded his judgement. Regarding the break - wouldnt it be nicer to do something together. I dont knwo how much money there is flying around but what about somewhere where there is casino culture or something that can be fun for you regardless (if you liike gambling I suppose), if he insists on going with friends. I would suggest to my DH he go for a weekend with the boys and then a nice quiet weekend with me, but i never really cared about last time away with friends and stuff.

Think I'm going to stick to hospital birth aswell - like MM said about visitors, but also I want to feel assured that if anything was to go off plan, all the medical staff and equipment are nearby.

Morning all

I hope you have sent DP to Coventry this morning BWMum - that sort of behaviour is deplorable, and making you go home on public transport by yourself just...well put it like this, if that had happened between DH and me I would be seriously re-considering our relationship.

He needs to realise a number of things, including the fact that life with kids still goes on, life ain't all about getting as wasted as possibe, its not YOUR fault that you can't drink, you can still have fun and go out without drinking etc etc.

Sorry this sort of stuff really riles me!

I'm so glad its Friday - going to be kitchen and bathroom hunting this weekend