Due Dec 2007 on the wind down?

[suey2]

has this worked?

Glad to know im not the only one then
I just feel so down and fed up, i wish i could go to sleep and wake up and it was dec.

I like the idea of a pregnancy massage. Im always asking dp for a massage but he gets bored too quickly and stops after a few minutes.

my friend had pregnancy massage all thru her pregnancy and she said it was brilliant. you should defo do it.

i am utterly fed up this week too, and very very irritable. everyine and everythig is getting on my nerves.

a lady has just come in with her twins and everyone is cooing and saying 2oh have you seen the babies".... the thing is i have never met this woman so not going to go over and coo over her babies.... plus other peoples babies dont interest me much.

Actually i've never been particuarly keen on other people's babies, unless it's close friends and they happen to be very nice babies.

I cannot stress enough how amazing i felt the day after my massage. It knocked about 20 years off me. Felt like doing cartwheels! She worked really hard on various knots, I reckon because of all the extra blood we have pumping around our preggers bodies, it means the toxins are carried away and removed more effectively.

I've got another one booked for next Friday yipppeee!

(I have felt so grumpy and irritable too it's making me feel quite ashamed!)

am quite the opposite - i love looking at other people's babies...
oohh... and have a thing for holiay pictures too, love to see where other people have been..

Holiday pics....zzzzzzzzzz......I only want to look at my own! Unless there are cute animals in them.

I dont mind babies... but i dont know her at all.... would pee me off if random people were poking my baby. As soon as she walked in people were like are they hingry etc just felt like shouting she will know when her children are hungry ffs. Really hormonal i think.

i love wedidng pics... like baby pics too.

I have to force myself to hold and coo over other people's babies. I have to keep telling myself that I will love my own. Am a bit cack handed with other people's kids. Was fine with my niece though.

yeah i am not bad with close friends babies etc. i never even hold peoples babies unless they ask if i want to hold. i know how much it stressed me when everyone just kept grabbing DS when he was born... will never forget that feeling.... i think i am in the minority tho, as most people prob like people cooing over their children i just feel like something is being taken away from me.

I love other people's babies (and wedding pics)! I must admit I didn't like people poking my DSs when they were first born but didn't mind people holding them if they asked first. DH hated it though, he used to say "he's a baby, not a pass the parcel".

did people actually ask tho... nobody i know ever aksed.

Oh gosh. That's a whole new dilemma i hadn't thought about. I would hate tons of people asking to hold baby, unless it's family members. Mind you i think i said ages ago on these threads i'd hate it if people touched my bump, and so far so good, virtually no one has touched me. I'll just give off the same baby vibes.

Someone gave me a baby to hold several months ago and i felt really awkward and didn't really want to hold him, but was in a group and only pregnant one so thought i'd better just hold it and smile. And he cried, the little sod!

I am better with children that can speak and do stuff

fifi i think we are all with you.
I never know what to tell people re how pg i am. From LMP my due date is 6th dec, from scans 10th or 12th. Some people count me as being 30 weeks, some 29. (if 6th dec)
I naughtily alway go with the most PG number!

ONly 3.5 more weeks until ML. Can't wait

TBH Neuro - for me it was mainly DH family. i got on ok with them at that point, but they just seemed to take over... walk into the room and instantly pick him up, if he cried they would get to him first and sooth him, constantly asking if he was hungry, needed a nappy change etc. i know they were only interested but i felt i couldnt take him back IYKWIM whereas with my mum and my friends and my family i can say what i think. In hindsight I had a little PND which is prob why I feel so strongly about it, but it really has stayed with me.

Suey so jealous of impending maternity leave.

neuro- good idea re massage- I EMPLOY 2 massage therapists- so have booked myself in for once a week for the next 3 weeks.
TBH if it is PG stresses and strains rather than a specific dysfunction, i am not surprised it is better than physio for you. I had a but of physio treatment last week after my disasterous SOS call to someone's desk and it stopped the pain in my buttock- but this came back after i foolishing ran from the heathrow express to the taxi queue on sunday. Doh! suey, you are having a baby!

funny vision of heavily pregnant woman running through Paddington station.

I think people did ask to hold DSs, I didn't mind too much but did get fed up with not having them and DH to myself! I also hated it when people would tell me they were hungry (or not hungry when he cried and wouldn't latch on - usually cos they were windy) or cold or such.
Very of your upcoming ML Suey! 9 weeks until I start mine...

I feel a lot more ready this time tho, but am still harbouring so much resentment.... need to find an outlet really otherwise i think I am in danger of really keeping this baby to myself and I dont want to do that either.

8 weeks til my ML. Can't wait to not have to commute. Can wait until I get paid SMP only!

I've only had 2 people touch my bump out of the blue. One was a waitress in a coffee shop in Italy. I didn't mind so much because I was on holiday and relaxed anyway but it was weird - she kind of pounced on me when she noticed I was pg. The other I really didn't mind because it was some drunk but rather sweet 20 something girls in the pub on Saturday. They pushed me up to the front of the ladies loo queue.

Mixedmama - is there anyway you can cocoon yourself for even just a week? Or, if you can't do that, how about speaking to a pregnancy counsellor at your local hosp? they are usually women, cost nothing and i'm sure would be a great outlet for your resentment. (I am a trainee counsellor so of course i think this is a good thing).

From what you wrote i can totally understand your resentment. My god I would HATE all that interference, it would make me snarl at people.

And YES Suey2 you are pregnant! I forget though and try to do daft things.

it is so difficult to separate good intentions tho, but it is difficult if you dont feel comfy expressing your opinion IYSWIM... might well look into the counsellor thing, it is worth a try isnt it.

mixedmama- what a nightmare! It must be soo difficult- hard enough that your DS goes to your ILs without you. I hope you can keep your new baby to yourself for long enough without interference. A specific imaginary BF regime perhaps! Or perhaps your DH will just have to stick up for you- you are a team after all.

It is strange this time as I now know what to expect and that actually means I am more freaked out than last time. Altho no one in DH family has seen me since I have been preg and have had one text from one SIL last week so will be interesting to see how it all goes.

One of the most ridiculous things is that one of my biggest reasons for BF is because I dont wnat them taking him and feeding him when they feel like it.... the thing is i know that is completely irrational and silly as well.

am just trying to remain calm but am definitely going to see about some consellign as neuro suggested as i dont wnat to end up in a rut again.

Just want to say thx to you guys for constantly listening to my rubbish about Ils seems to come up again and again and you guys are always still so supportive.

Just a quick one, promise I won't totally change the subject of the board away from babies again like I did yesterday, but looks like we ARE going to move to Islamabad next year! Hurrah. Someone out there is going to put me in touch with women living there who have small babies and toddlers so that should answer all my questions about what we do/don't need to take out. Musn't forget the baby, musn't forget the baby, musn't forget the baby...

Sorry! Going back to the subject of pregnancy, I agree with all those who are fed up with being pregnant, I am 30+3 so one of the furthest ahead but it still feels like such a long way to go. However, I have to keep reminding myself to try and enjoy this part because it certainly isn't going to get any easier once the baby is born.