Due in Dec 07 - Feel them kick!!

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Hi, thought I'd start a new thread. Hope ou find this OK!

Just been shopping downtown and bought a fab paid of maternity pants for work.

Also bought "The Baby Name Wizard" as Borders were having 20% off everything. Feel free anyone to ask me a question about names now!! The book categorises them into the following "style families" (chances are if you like one name in the family, you'll like a number of others - e.g. I tend to go for "Antique Charm" names for girls which include Abigail, Adeline, AMelia, Anna. Annabel, Annalise, Ava, Bella, Clara, Daisy, Eleanor, Emma, Eva, Georgia, Grace, Hannah and Isabel):
African, Androgynous, Antique Charm, Bell tones, Biblical, Brisk and Breezy, Celtic, Charms and Graces, Country and Western, English, The -ens, Exotic Traditionals, Fanciful, French, German, Greek, Guys and Dolls, Italian, Jewish, Lacy and Lissome, Ladies and Gentlemen, Last Names First, Latino, Little Darlings, Long Gone, Mid-Century, Modern Meanings, Muslim, Mythological, Namesakes, New Classics, Nickname-Proof, Place-Names, Porch-Sitters, Saints, Scandanavian, '70s and '80s, Shakespearean, Slavic, Solid Citizens, Surfer Sixties, Timeless and Why Not?

This little was not planned, but we did know we had more than one lapse in contraception so not quite surprised.

DS was sort of planned, in as much as we were going to start trying and then had a few fumbles where we threw caution to thee wind, but I guess about 80% planned.

I reckon it'll be good Nbg. Hard work, but unless you are planning more, then maybe you'll be a bit freer of nappies a bit earlier than planned.

I'M SO BORED AT WORK I FEEL A BIT VIOLENT.

Going to plan the evening's tv. Sad.

Violent???

lol

I'm getting that Violent feeling too.
Have been saying to dh on more than one occasion, that I need a punch bag.

Feel so frustrated and cross alot of the time.

I second the bored at work thing. Soo bored of sitting at my desk getting backache. If I didn't have a security camera trained on me I'd be horizontal on the carpet.

When are you all finishing work then?

not really violent as in attacking anyone, i just get a stroppy feeling around 5pm and want to push my computer off my desk! and throw things out the window.

Ahem.

i'd love to throw myself on the carpet!

here til 6

sorry
i meant maternity leave

Neuro, maybe save throwing your computer till your last day.

Wow there's a lot of chat going on here this afternoon - must be some very bored ladies around. Thanks for all the reminders to do pelvic floors though - v helpful.

I had my dr's appointment this afternoon and am measuring quite large for my dates. She started off saying I looked fine and then said - Oh but you are 28cm....which is obviously bigger than I should be (at 25+3). My DH was 11lbs when he was born so am now worried - although dd was only 7.8lbs so shouldn't panic just yet!

Age gaps - we will have 2.2/3years between ours; had planned it to be about 2 years so pretty pleased with the way it turned out. DD was planned too but concieved at the first attempt so quite a suprise - I was on the other side of the world from DH when I found out and had been doing all sorts of things I should not have like diving, drinking cocktails and eating sushi before I realised!!

Neuro - travelling, a Masters and two children - are you sure you will have the energy!! .

as due date not til 29th Dec, i'm saving enough of holiday entitlement so i can finish around 10th/11th Dec. Can't bloody wait.
My boss been on holiday this week and IT IS SO NICE WITHOUT HIM HERE.

Claraq Yes I will! Did I not mention my supernatural skills?!

I study part time and only work 24 hours a week (and STILL hate being in an office).

Neuro - do you intend to take your children travelling with you or wait until they are old enough to be left? I am a travel addict and it is probably the thing I miss most about having children but it really does change anything. If you do successfully take them with you please tell me the secret formula!! (PS taking babies is actually easier than a toddler, we have found...).

Finishing work - when I absolutely can't do it any more. WOn't be able to fit behind the bar counter at some point, so that will end sooner than the rest!

I'm hoping to ease down on the direct contact with the public from about 8 months, but will probably be keeping busy with everything else right until the end.

We're still trying to work out how to explain to hotel guests that they might wake up to find us both gone, and nothing for breakfast!!

Oh yes, i'd take them with me. I plan to have met someone - a nice man - by then. I'm bit of a gypsy at heart, and i'd really like to get about in other countries before this baby has to start school. Would probably pick easy-ish countries like Canada and America as i have lots of nice places to stay thanks to the friends i made when travelling. Travelling is The Best Thing ever!

Will save the hot countries with fat mosquitos and beasties in til baby/babies older and old enough to fight off infections a bit better.

I plan to sell my flat in 4 or 5 years when i've got my degree and prior to starting Masters so i can have a big adventure before settling down to some hard brain work. I'm sure some sort of international travelling system could be set up for people travelling with young children via the internet.

Hmmmmmm I wonder....maybe a mumsnet international thingy....

I am going to work until Xmas, assuming I am still fit and able to do so.

Here till 7 for anyone thats interested.

oooh oooh the co founder of Mumsnet is on Radio 2 NOW

HELLO! Finally found you! Just bookmarking this page for later as I've only read about half your messages. Dd just arrived back from Germany today so I'm going to have lots of quality time with her cos I've missed her so much (though must admit I did enjoy nipping out whenever I felt like it, not having to tidy up polly pockets, plan days out etc etc!!)

So far we've baked a cake together and she's written a plaque in icing saying "I"M HOME" awww how sweet.

Anyhow glad to see you're all fit, well (apart from spd - sounds awful nbg) and sane (apart from your violent last hour at work Neuro!)

Will pop by again soon (managed to blag the rest of week off work yay!)
Have a lovely week everyone

I am planning on working till the 30th Nov (due date). And I am on holiday - hence lots of time for MN (although at the expense of playign wth my children!)

Perhaps you could be the entrepreneur who sets it up Neuro.

Have to say i am very envious of all your plans and how worked out everything is. Wish my life was like that - anyone fancy buying a three bed house in East London and making all my probelms go away so i can be more like neuro??

Maybe i could...

Mixedmama I am quite good at thinking of and doing big things, but rubbish at everyday stuff, so despite being adventurous, I am quite often an utter fuckwit! A bookworm fuckwit to be precise.

Two friends had to sit me down and give me a chat last week to bring me back from the Neuro Twighlight Zone. ("What do you mean i can't travel around Morrocco with a 3 month old baby" ETC ETC).

Oh and life plans always get mucked up. I just like to have a plan because I'm, err, dunno, fond of plans. And maps, but that's another story...

John Lennon said: Life is what happens when you're busy making plans.

I am a planner too altho right now no amount of plannign seems to be helping. I loove the way you describe your life like a Neuro bubble. So cool.

Anyway i spose you are off now too.... just me here for another hour.

Well, why don't you write a list of things you'd like to do in your life time? And then write a plan of when to do them. It's really fun (honest guv). It always makes me feel less trapped by life and offices and form filling and rude people.
I'd imagine some of the things you want to do will and won't include children.
Honestly, i LOVE plans! Ha ha. I am such a nerd. Going to walk home and indulge myself in Neuro Twighlight Zone.
I"m gonna ask you tomorrow about The Mixedmama Plan!
Hope your last hour passes super fast. X

wow, very busy thread. am sadly no longer able to sneak on whilst at work as MD has already noticed despite my stealth like efforts...

Got my delivery of shed loads of baby clothes off ebay yesterday, since then I've spent washing them (had to go out for non bio especially). Cannot believe how much I've got, bought 2 bundles, one newborn £5.00 and one 0-3 months 99p, think I've now got about 25 sleepsuits/babygros/tops and trousers, all very cute and many are pink! also included a mini denim jacket, denim skirt and a poncho - so chuffed.

Still have everything else to buy for her but until we've got another £2k for a car must not by anything else - so hard though, tried to reason with hubby that at 8 months pregnant, I wont feel like shopping for stuff but he's very sensibly put his foot down.

Work has given me a breakdown of my Mat pay and when i'll get it which def helps on the budget front although a little disappointed that I'm only on SMP despite managing the finance dept singlehandedly for the last 5 years. No incentive to return then, me thinks!!

Very impatient here too neuro, I'm very apprehensive but cannot wait to meet baba. I'm scared because I'm useless without sleep and think that frightens me more than the overwhleming responsiblity of a new baby. Still, I cannot wait to be a mum. Definitely planned, but expected it to take longer, as I'm a TTC graduates from the conception boards, but only started trying from new year, expecting anywhere from 6-12 months, Hubby seems to think that it was he psychedelic week in amsterdam that did it. - I hope not, with the substances consumed!!!! Poor thing will be scarred for life..