Due June - 'I can't remember my own name, let alone where I put the creme eggs...'

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For those of us with 3 months to go or less....

LOL pp - very cheeky but funny. Cheeky gags ok - people thinking it ok to be cheeky, grrrrr!

Anyone having a growth spurt this week? I seem to be expanding in all directions (29.5 weeks for me). Also, I find squashing my tum when I bend over to put on socks and shoes is getting painful. Bring on the spring weather and spring shoes please!

pp that is one of the funnier pregnancy cracks i've heard i must admit.

debs i'm 117 but i have no idea what i was to start with. kind of wish i'd measured now! anyway i think the 100 thing is rubbish too!

needahand glad you're okay!

josie if my ds had one of those my life would change dramatically! i bet your will love it how fab. oh how i long for a garden...

DQ if it makes you feel any better i almost halved again my weight with ds. i was massive - everywhere. not that i'm petite now but i almost feel it in comparison. it doesn't fall off instantly the moment the baby's born but have some patience and it WILL come off again!!

g43 i know just what you mean about the sleep, i haven't had many problems this time and i think it's because i'm just too physically exhausted from running after ds to have all the worries, etc. that keep you awake.

Yes I have definitely got bigger today - "you get bigger every day" says my DH - but the babies are supposed to put on half a pound a week now till they are born so that is another one pound of baby I have put on since last week!

Had a terrible night's sleep last night, good job I am on mat leave, had to have TWO naps today to recover! My mind was racing about the bloody strike and then I kept having fretful dreams about breech babies! Slept for three lots of two hours from 2am to 8am. Nodded off 10.30am for an hour and then again at 3pm.

Went to Mothercare to get some small baby clothes cos we only have a few that are for 5lb babies, we have quite a lot for 7.5lbs but we thought they'd be too big. But in Mothercare it said "up to 5lb", so will the 5lb ones we bought from Next also be "up to 5lb"? I think the babies are already 4.5lbs so will be more than 5lbs when born probably. I thought it was "from 5lbs" rather than "up to 5lbs", so if they are over 5lb when born will they not fit in the Next clothes we bought?

Check out my new fat pic on my profile. I haven't measured but I am sure it is more than 100cm!

I have the same outfit on as I had on on the 25 week pic, but I don't wear it every day - promise!!

Neenz - maybe when you're next in mothercare you should get yourself a new top . Am no expert on baby clothes obviously, but I always get the impression that baby clothes can be too big even when they are the 'right' size. I wouldn't assume that different stores have the same sizing policy either. Next should be able to tell you.

Thanks dylansmum, I'm probably just a bit weight sensitive because I put on a lot of weight pre-pregnancy (last year was pretty rubbish because of the mc's etc, so weight-watching wasn't top of the agenda!). On that note, I'm off to search the kitchen cupboards for some chocolate .

Neenz you certainly have a large bump but still look petite everywhere else! I bought the baby some 0-3 month babygros from Next and they are huge compared to those from other shops so I'm sure the ones you bought will also be on the big side. Don't wash them so you can return them if they are already too small.

Neenz you certainly have a large bump but still look petite everywhere else! I bought the baby some 0-3 month babygros from Next and they are huge compared to those from other shops so I'm sure the ones you bought will also be on the big side. Don't wash them so you can return them if they are already too small.

Too late - clothes are already washed and in my hospital bag! Never mind...

neenz you look fab - your bump is pretty impressive but you look like you haven't gained an ounce anywhere else! i've found that mothercare and next (esp next) are the two biggest for baby sizes. if you ever order anything from mainland europe (vertbaudet) the sizes are tiny! H&M are somewhere in the middle (my personal fave) and M&S is also in the middle towards the smaller size. they've all fit dylan longer than the months indicated though - he still wears some 12 month stuff from next and he's quite tall.

bought a new pushchair today (silver cross dazzle) and i'm so excited it's embarrassing. i've set it all up and been wheeling it around the lounge. it's soooo much nicer than ds' old knackered mamas and papas pulse buggy!!

Neenz - you look great - all bump though, you don't look like you've put weight on anywhere else.

I've put on 10 kg since November, but I'm not worried about it at all, I don't weigh myself at home, only at the Drs, it will come off.....eventually!!Now where's that Dairy Milk?

Wow Neenz you are looking great - definitely all bump! I agree with everyone else on the clothes sizes, all the stores vary on sizing so you just have to take pot luck. You will get a feel for what fits after a while. Plus babies can have long bodies or long legs which makes it difficult when you buy outfits, especially for boys, as the trousers don't always fit at the same time as the tops . Disposable nappies are similar in that some brands fit better than others. It's all trial and error really!

I'm working late tonight, not still in the office mind you but trying to get a project finished as it looks like I will be starting my new job on May 6th so have to try and get a few things done before I finish. This won't be easy considering I have a 3 day meeting next week and a week off the following week!

I think the world may end, the stupid NHS have decided to 'filter' mumsnet along with facebook etc and 'access denied' flashes up as though you're trying to access some dodgy website. what will I do when I'm pretending to work for the next six and a half weeks??

also, I am now supposed to sit an exam on 10th June (which is during the annual leave I'm taking prior to Mat Leave starting) our head of training is crap at answering emails etc so not sure whether just to not turn up for it!??

You poor thing Laura - how inconsiderate of them!

Don't even contemplate doing that exam - there is no way you feel like doing it, especially as you will effectively feel like you are on maternity leave.

Woo hoo I've finished all my work and I can now go and collapse in bed! I just hope I can sleep!

Night night everyone, hope you are all having sweet dreams and not experiencing too many cramps and other pains.

Morning ladies - 1 day closer!!!

Josie - glad you got your work finished at last, did you sleep well?

Laura - How mean of the NHS, denying you from Mumsnet, and making you take an exam so soon to the birth. Will it be a problem to take it again?

Hope everyone else is Ok this frosty morning, off to look at baby stuff a neighbour has for me this morning.Dentist for all of us this afternoon - oh joy!

Morning all, 10 weeks today at abiyt 10am I will meet my new baby.

Did the dentist on Monday, nice that I didn't have to pay.

I'm so relieved my work hasn't banned mumsnet yet - I think it must be because there's so few mums at my lab!

Glad to know there's other bike families around! We've only 4 bikes right now, but DH is so excited to get one for DS as soon as his wee legs are long enough. I actually used to be a swimmer (DH raced mountain bikes for a bit, but mostly was a hockey player) and have been known to be smug about how little space my gear takes up in the house. But swimmers peak in their early 20s so when I hit my late 20s I started road cycling with DH for fun.

PP no defense needed for multiple changing bags! I had an oioi one too but it got ratty really quickly and now I'm using one that's basically a handbag. Even though I absolutely adore it, I can't stop myself from looking at other bags too so I'm worried I may not stop at 3...

Neenz, you look great! Yes, a massive bump, but then there's two in there and you don't look big anywhere else!

I definitely put on weight all over with my first pregnancy, but it did all come off! Pregnant pictures though are not a good thing - I find a bad angle can be enough to make me burst into tears!

Morning ladies,

I feel awful this morning, dd2 came to join us in bed at 4 am and I couldn't get back to sleep until she left at 7. I'll take the girls to school/nursery and crawl back into bed.

morning all - nice to hear some reassuring weight stories . I'm really not normally a weight obsessed kinda girl. Glad to know I'm not the only one that can get upset about a bad angle photo though!

Laura that's rubbish re exam - I'm sitting an exam in early May and wondering if I'll manage that ok and I'll still have 6 weeks to go.

Laura - how awful of your work to ban mumsnet, I hope my place don't get any ideas like that, I wouldn't get through the next four weeks!

There are quite a few bike families on here, we will be having meet ups at bike races! (bit of a sore point for my DH, he usually does a few of the 24 hr mountain bike ones but this year has had to cut it down to just one due to them being a bit close to the time the baby is due).

I measured my bump last night and it is 107cm, seems massive to me! Don't seem to have put on loads of weight anywhere else, haven't been weighed since my booking in appointment and no plans to weigh myself.

Laura - No exam!! Unless you feel really confident about it and want to get it over and done with pre baby?

Aberdeen - please keep talking about losing all your baby weight, it gives me hope! Looking at snow photos we took at the weekend, my bum is nearly as big as my bump, and my bump is big!

Was considering getting the scales down from the loft and seeing just how much I have put on....I know it's a bad idea because regardless of how much or little I've put on it'll depress me. It's like an itch I'm dying to scratch though. with myself. Luckily I can't get into the lift alone so can't do anything until DH gets home anyway.

Hee Hee - I mean I can't get into the loft alone, I haven't got so big that I can't fit into lifts yet. Although there is still 9 weeks to go....

PP - it would be rather a fancy house to have a lift to get into the loft!

ffs- spent ages typing then bloody laptop decided to update itself and shut down.

Start again.

Laura- v mean of NHS to deprive you of mn- I wouldn't have coped without it. Cannot conceive of sitting down for more than about half an hour any more, so impressed you are still considering exams.

I have two change bags- brown leather petit planet affair I bought when I found out I was pregnant last time and new red spotty boden job which will be perfect for summer. I also have two change wallets- one for me/granny/random chilcarer and one for DH's man bag.

"Preparing for birth" class last night a bit of a waste of time...they said it was three hours long (I took pillows, very wisely, but was still bloody uncomfortabl) but it could have been done in an hour and a half. The only good thing was the DVD tour of the delivery suite (they don't do tours anymore because of risk of infection)- all the delivery rooms are ensuite with giant bath tubs, with birth balls, bean bags, cd players, loungers for partners etc. So at least I now know what I'm going into...

I sat at the back so that I could get up and walk around yet every time I moved, all the husbands/partners tutted, and every time the mw asked a question, or asked if we had any questions, they all sat there with blank faces like we were all back at school. God forbid you asked a question, then you got more tutting and glaring....and they were all first time parents. I had loads of questions but realised fairly early on that I'd have to ask them during the break time. In fact I burst into tears on the mw. I am trying to reconcile how I am going to have the active labour they favour whilst also having the epidural that they have insisted I will need...got some answers and lots of reassurance, which is good, but so frustrated by every body else. WTF were they there for??? Bloody glad I have NCT classes to go to as well. Sorry- bit of a rant!

Morning all, hope you are all well.

Laura - how mean of the NHS! My work has blocked facebook, so I am bereft of friends at the moment! I wouldn't cope without mumsnet!

We had a lovely curry for dinner last night at a place in Soho with FIL and are off to Gourmet Burger Kitchen for dinner tonight - fish and chips for lunch tomorrow I figure if I can't eat like this when I am pregnant on my birthday, when can I??

Makecakes - that all sounds a bit rubbish... hope the NCT ones are better for you.