Waddling Zombies and Dancing Babies - Due Feb 2008

[Pk616]

Hiya ladies,
Thought I'd start the new thread, hope you like the title! Best I could come up with I'm afraid!

Gill - its a photo of a weightlifter with the interior of his anus showing (its revolting). You're lucky it got blocked!
Nearly put DH off his dinner.

Glad you're home and doing well mini and glad there's no change for the worse with your 2 ladle!! I'm really hoping for the best for both of you.

So how many of you are now having mad rushes to get nurseries done? With all this thought of babies arriving I'm really starting to feel the urge to nest and get organised. Planning to pack my hospital bag over the christmas break when I'll be 33/34 weeks - when is everyone else doing theirs?

I looked at that link in the piles thread the other day - lovely

I now have a lovely 4 days off work. We have babysitters on Friday so are going out for DHs birthday and then have DS1 5th birthday on Sunday. He's having his very first birthday party at a soft play centre (didn't feel like having lots of small people trashing our house whilst I'm 30 weeks pregnant so went for easy option!)

Take care everyone - Put your feet up - especially all you twim mums to be!!

i'm thinking of you ladle and mini. will keep everything crossed.
i just looked at the picture. somehow my pile woes have disappeared .
my brain is doing me in, i just want to nest, how many more times can i bore dh to death about cots and mattresses.so unecessary but can't help it. still living at my dad's so making it worse. want to be at home pushing the builders out the door and washing all lo's baby clothes in prep. wouldn't be a good idea though as no heating, no electricity and no back on our house . also, having read postings from mini and ladle am ashamed to be fussing over such irrelevance.
does anyone have experience of running out of milk first time bf and then being fine 2nd time round?

not as good as the infamous picture but this made me laugh alot for all those of you who's dp's are like mine- glumbert.com/wii/view.php?name=mancold

actually i can do a proper link i think-
glumbert.com/wii/view.php?name=mancold

princessllama: That's great - made me chortle!

Best wishes to the twin mums!

Morning all. DS back at nursery today thank god but he cried and clung to me when I took him in. He has not been so keen to go since getting ill three weeks ago . I feel mean taking him but need a break myself and also the longer I keep him off the harder it would be for him to go back. He slept til after 8 this morning .

Tyaca - I still look forward to the weekend as much as I did when I was at work. It means DH is home and we can either share the burden, or have fun all together. I am as pleased as I ever was when Friday rolls around!

That link is so so funny princess!

I'm so glad to hear all the twins are doing well, I was thinking about Mini and ladlemonke last night when I couldn't sleep (No suprise there!)
Just waiting in for the midwife and downing lots of decaff tea in an effort to provide a good wee sample - it always seems to be a tiny trickle and I can't see down there to aim the stupid thing!
I am nesting lots at the moment and I think DP is confused by it. When he got home yesterday I demanded he look at the work I'd done.I dusted the mantlepiece and rearranged all our paperwork. Very boring although I did start packing my hospital bag in the morning as I found my old list and had a good laugh at it. I had some very silly things written down

Glad you're home and doing ok miniandme and glad things still ok with your two ladlemonke! Hang in there!

Some lovely person ages ago offered to email a spreadsheet from Gina Ford's book on routine...wonder if I could have a copy please? Email address is [email protected]

Thank you !!

phew - great news about our two sets of eager twins! Great to see both of you back up here, i do love the sense of community you can get on here without ever meeting each other, so lovely to all be routing for each other - take it easy and egg, hope you manage to alarm dh into more support. I got my crutches yesterday - v exciting! Gonna take them out for a trip to the swimming pool tomorrow, today have got to finish handover notes for work cos am fed up with not being able to switch off properly. Dh is in nesting mode at the mo, going DIY mad which is brilliant but means i am constantly anoevuring round tool boxes/wood/mess etc, no fun with spd - just relieved that hes nearly finished the living room cos have got sofa back!

Glad things looking up for you mini, they're good weights hopefully they can hang on a few more days.

Hope you're ok today Ladle - take it easy hun

Have day off today, have been looking at chrimbo pressies i've got for dd1 and 2, depressingly few! Will have to try and get some at weekend, hardly got any for family either

Have kinda packed a bag, partly 'cos of already having had a prem and partly to get the stuff in carrier bags off my bedroom floor! Will check it over break too especially as i havn't put any baby stuff in it! Der!

Thanks for the posts about my itching - I suspect it may have been slightly physcosymatic and seemed worse when I was reading about the OC, doesn't seem so bad today so I'm not going to worry about it any more. Slapped on a load of E45 after a bath with no product in last night and it seems to have done the trick.

Milk x x

Glad all the drama has calmed down a bit, you twin mums hang in there!

PrincessLlama - 'running out' of breastmilk is almost always down to insufficient stimulation when building a supply, whether due to a poor latch or not feeding often enough or supplementing with formula....so if you want the best chance of bfing successfully this time do as much reading and educating yourself as you can, and line up support in advance e.g. the phone number of a local bf support person. There's a good book called "So that's what they're for" by Janet Tamaro that you could get from Amazon, and lots of other good breastfeeding books too, sure the NCT do one, so that you can be well prepared for any problems you do have this time around.

Tyaca - if you want a night out on the piss after the baby comes you can always pump and dump, probably best to wait just a few weeks till your supply is good and you've expressed a couple of bottles of non-alcoholic milk! I've been breastfeeding for years and am certainly not teetotal but especially with a little baby you have to be a bit careful, no reason not to breastfeed the rest of the time though.

Milki - glad the itching is better, it's so easy to read about worst case scenarios and convince yourself that's what you've got!

I foolishly moved some furniture the other day, proving a point to DH - so my SPD has flared up and I'm hobbling around a bit. Hopefully it will go away again as it has done before in this pregnancy. DH said he's looking forward to having a little baby around again, which is the most positive thing I can imagine him saying until it's actually born, so I was pleased!

Milki, itching is fairly common, i had it really badly earlier in pregnancy plus a stonking bright red ras to go with it, doc gave me aqueous cream (like E45) which helped. If it's hands and feet i think that's when you need to worry about OC. Hope it continues to improve hun

Mmm, are you nesting slacker? i think you need to take it easy! Leave furniture shifting to dh!

slacker lol @ "pump and dump" - what an elegant phrase.

seeing as someone's brought gina ford up, and a couple of others have posted link, hope you guys wont mind me linking the following article

gina ford and mumsnet

i am new to the site, so guess most of you know all this stuff already, but the article was v funny and even DH was laughing out loud.

Am definitely going to dig out the vast tank of aqueous cream I bought when DD was newborn (18 months ago) that is still about half full! Biggest bargain ever, I think it only cost me about 2 quid

Ha ha!! Glad I'm not the only one furiously nesting!! I said to dp the other day I think perhaps you and ds need to move out or something as i'm fed up with your stuff everywhere!! All of a sudden ds's toys are driving me mad and if dp leaves his shoes in my living room one more time....!! I just want to clean scrub and sort everything out!!

I'm going to pack my bag over the xmas period. Last time I packed a bag so huge, it had the wheel chair down into the labour ward and I walked as it was soooo heavy noone could carry it!!! I will be scaling down for this one as I took far too much last time - enough for a month I think!!! And dp can sort himself out!!

hmmm, my nesting urge has just cost me! had a man about blinds round and ordered them on the spot, he can fit before xmas. pretty sure these are the sort of buying decisions dh would think i should discuss first but have done it now! feeling bad but excited about my beautiful new blinds!

Well, I'm booked in for my GTT after an even higher sugar level in my test. Anyone else going to be enjoying one of these?
It's fallen on a bad week as we're away for a few days so we'll have to make the long journey back all in one day when we had planned to break it up. Oh well!

mini so glad you're home, you must be so relieved, you had us lot worried there for a bit.....feet up!!.....

ladlemonke how are you feeling today? ive been using Anusol for my piles and it seems to be doing the trick they are still there but no where near as painfull.

I think its a bit late for that weightlifter though. Gill that was v. funny as was the one sent in by Princessllama, i love stuff like that.

Tyaca i too could murder a drink sometimes. I think that the more you tell yourself you can't have something the more you want it.

x bye for now x

Hi all - I don't know, I have a couple of days away and look at all this drama and worry! So glad it's all calmed down a bit and fingers crossed for babies to stay where they are for now.

Had Monday off on holiday, but then felt realy tired Tues & Wed so had two duvet days (!) - well, if I can't when I'm pregnant, when can I? Instead of resting, stripped the bathroom ready for decorating this weekend.

Had lovely weekend - bought loads of DIY stuff and getting ready to blast the house now - don't even care about it getting done before Christmas. I've never loved Christmas and can get a bit bah-humbug about it all but this year I just wish it wasn't happening as people starting to go on about it bothers me as I really just want to ignore it and hate the fact that i am forced into partaking! It's also my 30th in January but I just don't care - all I can think about is our baby arriving in February! Miserable devil, I know.

Baby has suddenly beome very wriggly and has me smiling all day long. Had lovely half hour in bed the other night - DP had his hand on my belly feeling for the wriggles which come whenever I lay on my side - and he was playing with the baby - everytime he prodded the baby prodded back and was moving acros my belly so he could feel limbs and stuff - he was bowled over by it going 'my god, that's amazing'. He ws so excited and said it's his first communication with his child.

Definitely started nesting, every cupboard, drawer and box is being rifled through and I am being ruthless with what is being chucked out. Everywhere just feels so messy. Bought a dressing gown for hospital and put in hospital bag and that's about it - think will be acquiring stuff this weekend and start packing it next week (29 weeks) and then it's done I keep worrying about going to into early labour and having absolutely nothing to take with me!

Other than backache, swollen feet and general shatterednes feeling really good and really excited. Have a growth scan next week and antenatal clinic (altho not sure what happens here) so excited about seeing baby again - it's been too long! Anyway that enough boring dribble for now........

Erm, should I be worried that I am not nesting? I am not in the mood for tidying / cleaning etc. I went through all the baby clothes a week or two ago, but that was only because I had to. I did enjoy it once i got going though.

Am packing a bag for hospital this weekend. Was planning to do it anyway, but with news from Ladlemonke and Mini I realise it is best to be prepared. Last time I took a huge bag too, but not enough of what I needed. This time I will be taking more huge sanitary towels with wings, more newborn nappies, more cotton wool etc, and more baby clothes as DS puked all over the three suits I took for him in the first half day of his life... Must go to M&S and buy lots of cheap comfy pants, I do NOT like those disposable ones.

Tallulah - forgot to add, I had my 30th bday when I was pregnant with DS. I was only about 11 weeks and so couldn't tell everyone. I just didn't care about my bday at all, I just wanted the scan a couple of weeks later.