Due in December 07 - that's next month!!

[buzzybee]

Thought I'd start a new thread

Thanks Skid, that is good news!
I'm getting really excited now, I hope my LO comes early rather than late, I know it's more common to be late with the first baby, but I've just always had a feeling it will appear in November rather than December.......

Skid - actually I do have issues with your choice! - they are all old enough to be my dad and I not keen on that whole Sugar Daddy thing....

Martin dancing men dancing is my achilles heel.

ah well... at least I don't have much competition (and they're not really sugar daddies for someone of my advanced age...)

He makes me smile....

oh my gosh skid are you THAT old.....

actually am not that young wither...., love to be 21 again!

Do you think on my birth plan I can write "what Skidaddle said"?!

Is almost exactly what I would write including the not having had the urge to push and wanting coaching if it happens again (am glad someone else experienced this noone ever believes me!)

My parents will be taking dd-they live approx an hour away and can realistically be with me within 2 hours (allowing them time to drop whatever they are doing). The plan is that I call them as soon as I am in labour and they speed up the M5 towards me! Hopefully they'll just look after dd for a few hours at my house, bring her to meet her new baby bro or sis in hospital then depending how I feel/if I get my 6 hour discharge they'll either take her to their house overnight or stay for the evening, put her to bed etc and then leave.

Part of me knows I need the rest so she should go with them but I've only spent a couple of nights away from her and don't like it and also don't want it to be like the baby is replacing her. Does that sound silly?

Also have a few friends who have offered to take her for a few hours until my parents can get to us if I feel like I can't wait!

Skid, I don't know about this unit but the hospital where I had dd had a nursery and if there was noone able to take siblings you could put them in there, might be worth asking? They also had a night nanny so you could put them in a bed if it was night time and she'd look after them.

Hee hee Skid - sorry but fancying Jeremy Paxman is just....wrong! Could it be a pregnancy hormonal thing? I don't really fancy very many famous people but the other day I did actually have a little drool over Gary Barlow................

.............and yes I know that is VERY wrong too! I think it's because I like their new song.

I really fancy Jake Gyllenhal (or however it is spelled) though.

DD is still pretty poorly. She coughs all night, it's so distressing. I feel like I am hardly sleeping and wake up more tired than I went to bed.

I do hope this baby comes soon - but would rather my little girl was better first!

Skid I have not really considered letting DS2 be there, he is not 5 until the end of January and I think he is a little young. Also I worry that it would be distressing for him to see me screaming (which I did when having him) and in pain and I would hate for him to resent his new sibling for causing that pain to me (he is still very much a Mummy's boy). There would also be the possibility that DH would have to take him out of the room if he was bored/didn't like it and I think I need DH with me. I have compromised by telling him that if I can't come home soon after the birth then he can be the first to come in and see the baby.

Claireyb - what you said about wanting your dd with you as soon as poss after the birth does not sound silly at all. I feel just the same - although it will be nice to spend some time alone with the baby bonding with it (let's face it, the short time after the birth is likely to be the only time they get alone with us until....ohhh, about the time No 1 heads off to university!), one of the things I am most excited about is dd meeting the new baby and being a family of four.

Johnny Depp everytime for me, esp. in Chocolat he is just divine!!!!!

Claraq - ditto - am very excited about being a family of four. Won't it be strange to say 'I have children' instead of 'I have one child'.

Clara, I can still remember the little look on DS2's face when he came to the hospital to see me after having DS2 and first saw his brother. It's a snapshot I will keep in my head forever and one of my favourite memories.

Lol I can imagine my dd "helping" if she was at the birth-she has to be fully involved in everything! Either that or she'd get freaked out and cling to me, which wouldn't be ideal either!

Johnny Depp as Captain jack SParrow works for me. Strange but true.

My DS is so sweet when i am upset, he strokes my face and stuff... I can imagine him with a wet flannel mopping my sweat... going to miss him if i have to stay in for long.

Another event in the long life of the temp I work with.

She has been only putting down 30 mins for lunch instead of an hour - fine if they dont mind, I could do the same.

But she just said to the supervisor that she has been taking an hour for lunch and using her breaks (15 min morn and 15 min afternoon) to mean she only putssdown 30 mins. But we are paid for our tea breaks anyway and dont factor them into the time sheets.... so effectively she is getting paid for that time twice and getting 2.5 hours more a week, but supervisor ddoesnt seem to have noticed that we get paid for the breaks anyway. Peed off now.

Wizzska, celebrations for today, hurrah ML is here!!

Oh MM, me thinks this is a rouse for me to confess my obsession with Jack Sparrow, I?ll not go to much into the details though as you?ll all think I?m loopy, like my mate who reckons ?but he?s a character, it?s like fancying mickey mouse?

Can?t see me attempting to butcher a pineapple now, I get upset when I can?t do simple things like get off a sofa in under a minute now.

ambi - i agree with the jack sparrow thing. i think mostly it is character based tho... take amani and daniel craig... not really nice but he is 007.

Wow at birth plans ...my birth plan = "whatever" ...as long as me and baby safe whatever happens.....
Have seen toooo many mums determinately sticking to plans while babies heart rates drop and they bleed with terrible outcomes - childbirth is NOT plannable IMHO and I don't want to be dissapointed or angry at everyone cos it didn't go according to plan....
My DD1 looong labour epidural epis and ventouse (oh and never made the pool and couldn't walk)...NONE mattered as soon as H cut cord and handed me gorgeous girl I didn't care less (don't even remember the placenta and stitching TBH).....

Jeremy Paxman????!!!! Ok, I'll just blame your hormones... (though one of my friends has a theory of the "inappropriate shag" - she reckons everyone secretly fancies someone that they really shouldn't - you know, like Ken Barlow or Jeremy Clarkson or something!)

Wouldn't want DD2 anywhere near the birth - she'd be retelling the full gory details to the whole world - checkout operators, bus drivers, teachers....

My birth plan is pretty simple (must write it down though)

(Highlighted at top) - 6 hour discharge

Pain relief - mask for gas and air. Have TENS machine. Do not want an epidural unless c-section.

C-section - if it looks like a possibility please let me know ASAP as in that instance I would want epidural/spinal block rather than general and would consider an epidural "in case" if things were borderline.

Would like baby placed on me with towel

Cord-cutting - DH undecided so please offer. Would like to delay for a few minutes until stops pulsating/slows, then happy for Syntometrin for third stage.

DH took control today and told builder that he and gear must be gone by Sun night and whats dot done he wont be paid for.Also anything left we will tip Mon am (got a van coming)

Been working all day but still A LOT to do and I know they are working tomorrow but not sure about Sunday

Still coughing too and weeing.Bought Morrisons own tena ladies and they are massive, like newborn nappies!!Its all very undignified.....

38 weeks tomorrow.

Stress stress stress

we also have the buildren tomorrow - sigh another w/e wasted...I wish they would be in when mu pool arrives!

At 36 weeks the db was 2/5 and is now 4/5 - but that is OK am not ready to give birth yet! I think it is popping in and out - somde days I need the loo far more often

hi girlies, is any1 else having trouble sleeping, i mean real trouble, i have been in bed for 4hrs and am wide awake, debating weather or not i need to go hosp to get cheked, as i hav a really bad headache, its been bad for two days now, swollen ankles and fingers and havent seen the midwife for 2weeks (37 weeks) lo seems ok and has hiccups again

Meme - not having too much trouble getting to sleep but waking up earlier and earlier and wide awake! This morning 5.30am, much of the week between 6 and 6.30am and this from someone who's normallly NOT at all a morning person and loves nothing more than to lounge in bed past 9am.

Sorry to hear about headache though - I would try and get hold of someone. I take it you've tried panandol / codcamol?

I had my baby shower today courtesy of a work colleague who organised it. Kind of combined birthday party for 2 weeks ago which was nice. 12 odd women plus assorted babies and kids. A number of them had clubbed together and bought me a fab merino Gogo bag sleeping sack which is so cool. The most amazing Spring day here today which was lovely.

Only downer is that DD has got a bad runny nose and I really don't want that heading into the final countdown! Got a cold 1 week out last time and managed to pass it on to DD when she was new born - not great.