Due in June and entering the home stretch - keep the creme eggs rolling!

[makecakesnotwar]

And the Revels, the Greek Yogurt and the curly fries....

floss floss floss floss! floss every day people I urge you. Carefully and thoroughly and up the gums as far as you can comfortably go, eso those with bleeding gums, or is that esp thos like me whose gums are not bleeding

sybilvimes if you go direct to hotslings.com there's a detailed description of sizing. I think I'll be a 3, I'm 5'"2 and normally size 10. It's harder to measure exactly now (due to bump) but it's also the measurment from shoulder to opposite hip.

I am back. It's definitely a baby, not a bag of snakes. At one point I was sure I saw a willy. I asked the doc and pointed to said appendage. erm no, mrs dimwit, that's a vertebra so I'll put my sonogrophers career on hold then.

Been rushing around lik e ablue arsed fly, as usual, had to take ds1 to his doc appointment, sprint round supermarket and rush back to collect him. am now knackered and am going to bed.

Have 1 more appointment with my lovely doc, then fingers crossed I manage to find an equally good one in Munich. And certainly someone with better organisational skills than what poor PP had to put up with I would have been hopping, you poor thing. Like you said, at least they discovered the mistake now, but bloody hell, not very inspiring, is it? Hope Germany on a similar standard to CH not UK! Brings back memories of all that titting around when I had ds1, they lost me and I had a bit of a palava too, but early on, not inthe 3rd trimester on your behalf (more annoyed than angry - maybe they should do an amber face?)

Just shows how tired I am/was - wrote this about 2 hours ago but have just discovered it unsent.

Makecakes - relieved to hear baby is fine, was the placenta cushioning the movements so you couldn't feel baby?

Ernest - OK, OK I'll floss!!

Glad to hear that it's just a baby and not snakes!! So, any clues then, did the Dr think it's a girl? We can keep a secret from your dh you know

Enjoy your sleep

Thank you for the advice katyjo - especially about going home. TBH that is one of the things that I'm dreading the most, being on a maternity ward with goodness knows how many other people. Obviously I will play it by ear, but it really doesn't sound very appealing.

I can't think of any names either....something related to third trimester...'Are we there yet!?'

Makescakes - you must have been very relieved (especially after not getting a ticket!)

I'm trying to book some tickets to a music festival in June - I think I will probably not be going - just DP and his dad... which is a shame, as I get the staff discount, but then can't benefit!

No witty names here either - I'm having trouble remembering my own name let alone thinking up threads!!

Don't want to do any work today - it really does appear that it's going to be one of those days. After the M/W, rheus neg thing this morning have just found out that the mortgage application we submitted over a month ago hasn't even been looked at yet.

I have a horrible feeling the house we want just isn't meant to be, not before the LO's born at any rate.

M/W just rang, still rheus negative - off for the jab now....

I'm having trouble remembering my own name let alone thinking up threads - that might work Nettie

Debs, I actually think that last post of yours is the perfect title!!!

Now, if only someone can write my address down for me, I'm off home....

PP, if all goes to plan with the delivery you don't have to go onto the ward. With dc2 i went home straight from the delivery suite 3 hours after birth and missed out the ward completely, which was great because in my experience the ward is always understaffed, noisy and boiling. Also, there is nothing in the world like using your own bathroom, ummm, maybe I will really think about that home birth...

Good to hear people are having great news on the house fronts, fingers crossed for Ernest now!

Hi guys -

29 weeks today, cannot quite believe it! Last Easter, I remember having a quick cry in the loo as we were visiting a 6 month pg friend and I'd just had my first m/c of the year. Despite having another one 3 months later here I am guzzling Rennies and unable to sleep without 3 pillows under head, 1 under shoulders, 1 between legs and a wedge for the bump!!!!!

Next Wed I see consultant for growth scan and to check placenta and blood flow thru cord etc. My VBAC chances depend heavily on the outcome so keep your fingers crossed for me!

Easter dinner with Dad went fine, not as bad as I feared. Everyone just knocked back the red wine (except me, grrr ) and it all got quite jovial

TMI time - anyone else finding nookie sore?! I am so tender at the top end (near cervix I assume) that we can't really do it at all anymore This happened after birth of DS and all thru breastfeeding (fab ) but while I was actually pregnant with him, it was all hunky dorey....OMG how many months is it going to be till I can get jiggy with it and enjoy it??!!!!

Evening all.
MW appointment went well - better than last time when I felt a bit brushed off. We had a proper chat about HB and MW has said she will come to my house (woo!) for 36 week appt so we can discuss everything.
She says there are two midwives on call at night, plus one spare, but that if you are told 'no one is available for HB' and you stamp your feet then you get the third 'spare' MW plus the supervisor of MWs, so I guess I'll be stamping my feet if needs be!
She said there is 'no statutory right to HB' but there is a 'statutory duty to provide care for a woman in labour'. Reading between the lines, this seems to mean if I refuse to go into hosp they have to come out to me. The Homebirth.org site says you should suggest bank midwives if they start saying they haven't got the staff, and when I raised this my MW did then start going on about 'you would have to weigh up not knowing how long this MW has been on duty or what experience they have'. Which I thought was a poor argument - I wouldn't know the same about a hosp midwife so what's the difference?
Anyway, it's made me more determined than ever, and if we can just get moved before my 36 wk appointment then all should be good!

Right, blether over - I like the 'i can't think of threads title' too debs.

BB - can't help, sorry. DH is scared of my bump

PP - you're being very good natured about the gormless hospital. I'd have been hopping but I am a cranky cow.

Am I the only person who is planning on staying in hospital for as long as possible? On the low-dependancy post natal ward they have lovely single en-suite rooms and overworked midwives who don't wake me up are fine with me. I was there briefly when I had DD and it was lovely, but when I had a PPH a while later they threw me out and sent me to a horrible open ward full of swearing scallies and screaming babies.

On timing for labour - that's something I'm not really sure about. I've only had 1 spontaneous labour (the 2nd) and I didn't realise it was the real thing until I thought "I've wanted to push for over an hour now, and it's becoming unbearable". Cue blue light ambulance and DS2 arriving 30 mins later in the first delivery room they could run into . I''m planning on getting to hospital much sooner this time.

It was Nettie's idea for the title

Rolf - I have to stay in hospital for 4/5 days unless I pay for a mw to come and see me at home - it's free to stay in hospital. But there's only 2 to a room and a bathroom to share so I should manage with that.

Woohoo - soemone is coming over soon to discuss plans on converting the old Coach HOuse into 2 rooms, it is listed so is going to take a while but hopefully not to many problems and then DD and the babe will end up with their own rooms in house.

Downer today, still waiting for our new mattress which left the local Citylink depot at just after 10 this morning will be on the phone to them in a few minutes again to find out where it is.

Oops sorry Nettie, on re-reading I see it your idea... Which just goes to show how right it is!

PP - eek re hospital mix up. After watching the recent Corrie storyline on mixed up babies, I thought these things couldn't happen in real life....

I'm going to see how it goes re hospital stay - if I'm in a nice quietish bit (oh pleeeeeeeease can I have my own room goddesses of childbirth) I'd probably be quite happy there, otherwise, I'll want to be at home.

Hi everyone

LOL thread title. Perfect! How about a little addition 'I can't remember my own name, let alone where I put the creme eggs'?

Got a different doula coming this evening - and she's phoned to confirm and everything! She's a new doula - not qualified, so that will be my only worry. But one of the big chief honcho doulas thinks she's pretty good.

Sophie - exciting re conversion. How loong have you lived there?

Green fairy - good news re move!

PP - I would be . You seem very calm. Are you at St George's or C&W?

Re breastfeeding, fed ds for 15 months - and ladies, I'm prepared for the disdain, but I followed Gina Ford, not religiously (as in eating toast at 8.07 precisely), but as a guide.

I didn't have any trouble with bf itself but both DS and I found demand feeding really hard. We tried it for a couple of weeks, then someone gave me Gina Ford. DS settled into her routine within 48 hours (frankly it almost felt like he was relieved), and we followed it ever after. DS was on the 85th centile for weight, and never had an ounce of formula, so it certainly suited him. It's not for every baby, but it was for mine.

Upsidedowncake ducks and scuttles away ...

Upsidedown - we have been here for 3 years and going really well so would like to expand to do 4 rooms.

I also confess to following GF but completely by accident, it just fit in well with doing B&B

I've just written out a 'to do list' of everzything I need to do before the move, eg new address letters, post re-direction, de registering from doctors etc etc. It'sd got 66 items on it, of which I've done 3, and doesn't even include tidzing?sorting house etc etc. OMG, Some days I feel relaxed and everything will happen, it always does, it'll come out in the wash etc etc. Other days, like tonight, I have total panic attacks, start hyper ventilating and want to screa,. The only RL person I can talk to (my sil) is busy on a 3 week holiday to Thailand and Hong Kong, about her 4th holiday so far this year[envy and again, so no one's ear to bend. Also feeling very hard done by thinking of my sister who moved house recently (1 baby) and mum was there to help her, my sil who oved when pg and had hundreds of people helping her, here am I moving with 3 kids and 7/8 months pg and I get buggar all help from bloody no body. So feel stressed out and very hard done by. Winge over.

We have, maybe a viewing on Friday, will confirm tomorrow. Please please please keep everything crossed for me, otherwise I am going to have a breakdown.

Oh, and FLOSS YOUR TEETH.

Good luck Ernest for Friday, keeping everything crossed.

Well I am sat here fuming. One have us has been in all day awaiting the arrival of a brand new mattress, Ours has a duvet under the sheet so we don't feel the springs too much, phoned them at 5, the van must be delayed will be with you soon, phone them at just before 7, where is our mattress, we tried to deliver you weren't in we left a card, you numskulls, you delivered to the wrong address we have been here all day no sign of you. FFS there are 6 houses in our hamlet, and instead of delivereing to the FARM, they delivered to one of the 50's council houses over the road, so that is another day we have to wait in tommorrow as they will try and deliver again.

That is massively annoying s - can you gove them a ring in the morning and give them your house & mobile number and insist they deliver 1st thing, and also to ring you if they have any problems?

I think I've set up a new thread here:
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/2290/502242?rnd=1206481031259

If this link doesn't work, it's called 'I can't remember my own name, let alone where I put the creme eggs' so if anyone better at links than me can link to it in our last few posts, that would be fantastic!

Have given them our number and I do have plenty of things to potter around doing tomorrow but just annoying.