Due Dec 2007 - All I want for Christmas is a baby!!!

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Hello everyone - sending hot Ribena to those with colds, and wishing babies to arrive on those overdue (unless you have nativity playsto attend...!)

Busy weekend of getting things done - we got the servants to decorate the tree (well, that's the point of kids isn't it??!!) We have a pre-lit artificial tree, then I give the girls a box of Xmas decs and let them get on with it. 2 dozen mixed red and gold baubles, and some other pretty bits, however they put them on it'll always look OK and saves me bothering!

No more niggles - still, it's still just under 4 weeks to go and this baby's not allowed to come until at least Wednesday afternoon as I've got a haircut booked in the morning!

Am cleaning the oven at the mo - OK, that's not as tough as it sounds - it's one of those self-cleaning ones so it just runs at a v high temp then you wipe out the ash after a couple of hours - brilliant invention! Just need to clean the oven shelves as they have to come out to do it, but they aren't that bad so I'll soak them in some bio washing powder while the oven's doing its stuff then give them a quick scrub with a Brillo pad. (useful tip the washing powder, for any of you with urges to clean the oven - use really hot water to dissolve it then soak pans/grill trays/oven shelves in it for a couple of hours - it really loosens the grease, though you do still need to scrub it off. Must be biological powder to work)

Hi

Re the sweeps - my MW wont do one unless the baby is engaged (not sure if that is fully engaged or partially) as risk of your waters going and the cord coming out first?

No news from Wizz or Awen? I hope they're all ok.

Nothing new from me, just being busy this week and getting over the cold!

Afternoon everyone.

Officially the first day of mat leave. Stayed in bed until 8am... altho was actually awake every hour from 5 am going for a wee.

DS is asleep so thought i would catch up and see if anything has happened. Good luck to all the ladies in labour, feeling contractions, with broken waters etc etc.

Not much to report from me... moved some more stuff to new house over the weekend and cleaned our current place till it was gleaming. Had horrible cramps last night and thought maybe this was it, but think maybe I just overdone it a bit. DH off on Wed to come to MW appointment with me (birth plan this week.. woo) and then we are hoping to do soem more moving after and be in by the weekend and hae the other place sorted.

Need to go to docs this evening as my urine has come back positive for something (I dont understand the report) but it says to got to GP ASAP and get medication... hopefully just a minor urine infection.

Anyway ladies... thats all for now. Hope you are all well, altho I could have written dundeemarmalade's message about discomfort and cramps.

Housemum - great tip re the biological powder. Does it have to be powder or can you use capsules?

Have decided i'm not going to the cinema now as DS wont come with me. I spose it's uncool for a 17 year old to be seen out with his heavily pg mum isn't it! I'm going to just get some popcorn and re-watch series 1 of Heroes instead from the comfort of my sofa.

cleaning the oven housemum? I keep thinking I should do ours cos it's so gacked up I keep sticking to the edge of it .
have just walked up to the local shop to buy crappy white bread and bag of minstrels. had to keep stopping as massive stitch-like pains kept coming on just above right hip. very strange. quite a lot of pressure in the bum area too, iykwim. hmm. perhaps i should phone the birth centre?

juperoo i like a big upright baby bouncer, lo is gonna be way to small but i was still excited its arrived now and ive put it together its from fisher price it looks like fun

dundee - just rest for a while first. Put your feet up and chill on the sofa for a while. If you still get pains, time them and then call the birthing centre if they are regular. Might just be ligament stretching pains or BHs.

thanks rg.
and good idea re. popcorn!

RG - I've not tried the capsules - I usually use non-Bio tablets so just bought a small box of Persil powder for cleaning stuff but can't see they wouldn't work, just might take longer to dissolve?

I agree dundee, just take it easy for a while. I had really bad pains while walking last saturday but they went away after I sat down for a while.

Was really sunny earlier so did 2 loads of washing and hung it out-now it looks like it's going to rain and my airer isn't big enough for 2 loads

Re washing powder-I think it does have to be either powder or tablets rather than liquid or gel/liquid capsules-something to do with the abrasive action of the powder combining with the enzymes (I got that from Kim and Aggie!)

Clairey - for most of the winter our house is like a laundry! I have an airer over the bath, shirts are on hangers over the doors, pants on the bedroom radiators, and we've got a 99p clippy hanger thing for socks from Wilkinsons that I hang off a bedroom door handle! If I don't wash every other day it's a nightmare - I spend the day rotating things round radiators which then makes them a sod to iron as they are like cardboard! At least I can have a sort-of halo for not using a tumble dryer (though when my machine finally breaks I will get a washer dryer next time if only for the duvet covers and sheets!)

I know exactly what you mean housemum! I've just taken the (still slightly damp) load from yesterday off the airer and stacked it on top of hot water tank in the hope it will finish off without smelling too musty, put as much of the 2 loads I had outside on the airer as would fit and hung the rest on hangers from every curtain rail/door handle in the house! I also have 2 radiator airers and a multipeg thingy with nappies drying on them. Tempted to put the heating on to speed things up a bit-maybe the steam would also help clear my sinusus?!

Sounds like we're all doing washing today! I too have airers and clothes hanging up all over the place!
Back from yoga and tesco, got low back ache would love to think it's a "sign" but i'm trying to stop driving myself crazy thinking it could all be starting, and instead have started telling myself i'm prob. gonna end up being late...

I thought it might have to be powder. I see someone else was watching Kim and Aggie today too.

Sod having loads of washing hanging around tho. Sorry but i LOVE my tumble dryer and 99.9% of my washing gets put straight into the dryer, even on sunny days! I can never get my washing dry on the line, unless it's summer so it all ends up in the dryer anyway. Plus i can do all the week's laundry for 3 adults in one day - all done thanx to my lovely dryer.

Afternoon all, seems like cinema instinct has kicked in instead of nesting instinct (apart from housemum, I am impressed and jealous, our oven is a health hazard...but still don't have the oomph to get up and do it!)MW coming to see me tomorrow then we are off to the cinema on Wednesday to see the Golden Compass...Orange Wednesday you see, we are tight-arse Scots after all...!

Only been on mat leave for a day really if you don't count the weekend and already DH is finding it hard having me around - he works shifts so is used to being here on his own sometimes during the day, whereas I feel like I am hardly ever in the house with quite long working hours and things on in the evening. So by lunchtime today he was like "oh god you're STILL here..!".

dundeemarmalade I could have written your earlier post - everything HURTS! Strange pains in my bump, I suddenly feel like a beached whale, sore after walking etc etc. I keep thinking it is psychological since I just finished work last week and I didn't feel like this while I was still there.

Sorry I can't remember who it was, but I sympathise entirely with whoever was getting a hard time for working late on in their pregnancy - people like to tell you what they think don't they?! In teaching it used to be commonplace for people to HAVE to leave at around 28 weeks, so when I was telling people I was 38 they were all tut-tutting. But like you say, you know your own body and what you can manage.

My bump is ROCK hard almost all of the time now, does anyone else have this?!!

me too caz10. rock hard. LO must have a bony arse.
met with nct group for tea and cake. the first baby was there, born 1 week ago. Sooo cute!
off to bake a loaf of bread- aren't we all domesticated? We inherited an aga when we moved and i too have all my clothes airing above it. It is ace- clothes take about an hour to dry, so by the time the second load has come out, the first load is dry.

hi all, isn't it a weird time with all this waiting. i'm due to have a sweep on thursday (due date). what do they do?

Hi Caz10 - yes my bump rock hard too.
Very weird all this waiting, wish we could all get together with ginormous cake and endless tea pot, i'm sure the time would go much faster as we never seem to run out of stuff to say!!!

As i said before, it doesn't seem to matter when you decide to finish work be it early or late someone always has an opinion/disapproval one way or another.....!

Yip Suey, I agree, the hardest part is at the top where scan showed the little butt to be! I really wanted a wee chubby baby but think mine will be one of these that looks like a skinned rabbit for the 1st few days. Eating just seems to be building MY fat stores, not his/hers!

Shells as far as I know a sweep is basically a bit of a rummage around inside to try to loosen the membranes in your cervix - every time my MW says it she points out 2 fingers and makes a disturbing swirly motion with her hand...hopefully someone more experienced than me will be able to give you a better answer! Mine is booked for a week after my due date, seems ages away, booo. I think they seem to get a lot of people started though, so good luck!

Crossed posts mellymooks, aaaah a tea and cake get together would be fab, I fear I boring all my RL friends! (and DH stopped listening months ago ha ha!)

I'm the same! But it's hard to talk about anything else when it's the biggest thing on your mind, and in fact the biggest thing in your body too!!
Most of my mates don't have LO's yet so i do fear i bore them, though they claim to be interested....!