Due in June - Creme eggs are long gone and our own eggs have started to hatch. Who will be next?

[Upsidedowncake]

We are two down and have another 30-40 to go. Makecakes and Gemma have probably popped by now, then G43! It's all happening!!!!!

spongebrain - there's no way I could get on a trampoline without a nappy on myself these days... but a friend of mine had good luck at the park on a seesaw - she went into labour the next day.

LauraT - as a secondtimer, I'm not too sure about your DH's theory. We did find that the sleepless nights were much more intense after DS arrived than now, when it's only my own comfort I'm worried about.

I know I seem impatient, but I'm also a bit worried about the amount of false labour my LO is going through. Surely weeks on end of continual braxton-hicks plus stronger contractions can't be good for them. The poor wee thing wont be able to move at all, they measured me yesterday at the hospital and I'm measuring small for my dates so there's really not much room in there.

josey are you around today? or have you gone into labour?

Morning - bad night's sleep last night. Wide awake until about 1am, then must have slept even though it did not feel like it until about 4am, then awake until gone 5am, then slept in until about 9.15. I had been sleeping really well (or at least better than most people on this thread I think), but now I just lie there wide awake with possible girls' second names bouncing around in my head. I feel so sorry for DH. He has to get up early for work, and must be really knackered. Promised him this morning that I wouldn't go into labour until Monday so that he can get some sleep over the weekend.

TMI warning. I have been having mini clear outs daily for a few weeks. My theory is that this is the only visible symptom of the BHs that I am getting. It resembles what happens on the first day of my period when I get cramps accompanied by diarhorea (spelling?). However it is also a possible first sign of labour (except clearly in my case otherwise I would have had about 14 babies by now)

PMSL at the idea of retrieving mini t-cups from the u bend.

Josey sluggishly waves in the corner

Had another Fekn false run for 5hours or so last night I was weirdly incapable of closing my eyes at all wide awake and that was after the contractions stopped
Im trying to remember back though as DH said I did the same thing the night before DD was born.
DH was hysterical last night though as everytime I moved he would jump up say "sorry pet you ok?" and start giving my firm back rubs.

I need to go out now but I do promise to try and focus long enough to catch up with everyones woes later.... Hugs from Josey xx...

Also feeling crap! The strange back pain is still here, it's sort of in waves. Fanjo is still doing the knife thing, and I swear I can feel something moving around the lower pelvis area. Also feel really queasy, and have done since last night (I thought it was something I ate...er, the 4 coconut macaroons actually...but still feeling rough now.)

Aberdeen with you on the anxiety about baby never coming. It's really hard, and I'm so panicky that I'll be 2 weeks overdue and people after me, or particularly Penguin - sorry Penguin! - has her baby next week. Relying on you, Penguin!

Oh, pelvic floor...I totally forgot about mine. I think I'm doomed to a life of incontinence. The exercises are so boring!!

Tea Infuser - Tesco (and most supermarkets) do a small tea strainer sieve, so if you have a teapot (or even a jug) you can make up a batch, then strain it through. That's what I do, but I drink it cold. Down in one!
I got my tea ball thing from a hippy shop, but you can make your own... get a small square of muslin (anyone got any lying around ), put the tea in that, then twist it or tie string/ribbon/lace/whatever around it.

Hahaha, Essie's household hints again!

Going to finish my book. Still not up and dressed!

Right, cinema it is. Pesky weather.

Laura glad the no work plan is going well. We've only got only one name for each gender lined up so hoping they still seem appropriate once the LO arrives.

Sorry for all of those going through false labour - hopefully not too long till the real thing. I think I may have felt one BH the other day. Either that or the LO was having a really big stretch thus making my bump very hard. No other obvious signs but I do have just over 3 weeks to go.

laura, it's not June yet! Don't panic - June is ages away.
We've all got loads of time

HAve done my baby shopping now - bought 2 dummies a 10 pack of bm storage pots and a bouncy chair. What wit that and lovely Sophie's mesh bags, I reckon I'm sorted.

Have unpacked baby clothes. And will go mad and wash some of them.

Have started baby name thread as paicking about girls name. Here you have to register birth quickly, like in Switzerland too, though there, I was expected to provide the name before delivery, and certainly before leaving hospital. Birth is registered in hospital! SO need to find one pdq.

Sophie have mailed you.

PT - Have hoovered out car This pm I will juggle the seats and work out where everyone's going to sit from now on. Have Tinkeli's seat sorted, just gotta work out best configuration for the other 3.

ew too much info on 'clear outs'.

Bravo Ernest!

is the name suggestion page helping any? I thought you gave good guidelines for what you wanted, although most people seem unable to follw the concept of not being a name that is usually shortened!

it's nearly June... less than 36 hours as I make it...

Like Robyn or what about Jocelyn

Spongebrain - sorry to hear about your bad nights sleep, hope your pelvis is feeling better now.

DQ - the weather is rubbish here as well, and I seem to have tons of washing to do, where does it all come from!?

LauraT - That made me laugh about you stealing your DH's pillow. I always nudge mine and tell him when I can't sleep. Would feel guilty about it if he didn't always just roll over and snore even more!

Better go and have some lunch.

dummies - I forgot to buy dummies! Adding it to the grocery list now...

fingers in ears. lalalalala June is ages away.

Glad you said I was clear, I was starting to think I was unable to explain my way out of a paper bag. A couple of good ideas, but I am fussy, and hate anything too modern, or many of these new-old names, like Olivia or Alice or Grace. Anyway, just too girly for me. Sorry. Don't mean to cause offence. I'm sure plenty of people think my preferences are shit boring. Shame about Adrienne, and Adele. DO actually like them, but ds3 is problem. Hmm Christa wasn't bad idea.

I had that baby book too! It has some funny lists in it, names relating to nature - oak, tree etc made me laugh anyway! Dh bought it because it was the only one he could find with his top boys name in it ..Brock ?! apparently very popular in Oz some dead racing driver or something.

Everything going well here, nipples very sore but boobs have settled down so not so swollen.

I can't remember who asked but life with a newborn is much easier than being pregnant esp when you have a toddler, I can actually cuddle ds now without worrying about him kicking my belly.

Better go lo calling!

Ds back at nursery today after a rough week, he was SO bored being home ill and desperately wanted to go out, I did what I could but physically couldn't do much - really frustrating for both of us! Eventually ended up calling dp in tears yesterday, surely this isn't supposed to start until I actually have a newborn?? He came back from work early and took ds for a walk, I could do some things round the house, then the lovely lovely lady from the local baby shop delivered our P&Ts (which I am SO happy with) so the evening looked up ... but argh, so much for resting and nesting! Hope I go over by at least a week and that next week is really chilled! No signs of anything happening here yet beyond bump slowly dropping so fingers crossed.

Ds still isn't 100%, I am taking him back to dr.s for check this afternoon so he will have a short day, probably a good thing given that he's still not right - I wasn't sure whether to send him in but it wasn't doing him much good being here and fed up. Nursery wants him checked for slapped cheek virus - not something worrying, but may be giving him achy joints as well as pink cheeks, which would explain his general fractiousness.

And yes, PP was it?, one of my favourite memories from having ds is just HOW much better I felt the next day. Despite a long labour and difficult delivery, so many horrible late pregnancy symptoms just evaporated instantly and I felt human and mobile again ... def. something I am really looking forward to this time! I also remember that feeling of not believing there would be a baby, I had just become a 'pregnant person' and couldn't imagine anything different. The baby didn't become real until the moment he was placed on my tummy ... It feels v. different this time but that's because I know what to expect, I think it's almost impossible to imagine a person coming out of you before it has happened.

TMI alert - my nipples suddenly resemble gerbils. Yuk yuk yuk. There is something of the raddled 1970s porn star about late pregnancy isn't there?

Ernest - check out my marvellous post on the other thread about Adele and Christa .

To have even the faintest concern that a name is ridiculous should be enough to put you off - is that right? DH and I have totally lost the plot with names. He was grouching last night that he just doesn't like girls' names. What judgment we had has long gone so I fear we could make a terrible decision.

V helpful update from my DH - he told me he had found my maternity clothes. So helpful, at 39 weeks pregnant. When asked if he had brought them home he looked bewildered and said "no, should I have?".

Rolf. hilarious. that is EXACTLY what my dh would do & say, then have a go at me that I didn't explicitly say. sigh.

so there is a saint adele. that may swing it. ah well, a dshort list of 2 ain't bad is it? ta for input

Rolf- V confused by gerbil-nipple comparison, but glad I don't have that symptom. Can you explain? (I am also having a few less than ideal bowel movements- I think it's purely mechanical though) Bless your DD for tea-cups in loo situation, how nice to have a naughty secret for guests who outstay their welcome.

Speaking of guests who stay too long for a visit after birth- I saw on another thread that people react differently if you answer the door in your dressing gown...

Ernest- impressed that you've hoovered your car too. I found a fluffy chocolate-covered raisin, lots of rice cake crumbs and a v old samosa wrapper for which I will blame DH. 4 mins of vacuum at petrol station was woefully inadequate so have added this to DH's weekend list, alongside checking tyres, water, oil and petrol.

Aberdeen & Spongebrain- LOL at the image of pregnant ladies on the seesaw. Try a pilates ball. Spent a couple of hours pre DD1's arrival on said ball, playing tetris to keep mind from wandering...

Dramaqueen- re: thread title I like LauraT's best.

Systemaddict/ Penguin- DD1 didn't become real for me until she was born. Having felt pregnant for so long, I'm slightly embarased by my shocked reaction when she was born: "OMG it's a whole new person!" But it was so wonderful realising that there was suddenly one more of us in the room; a beautiful, very new and small person with a life of her own, naked and pink and crying, and needing lots of love and care.

Big and brown instead of little pink dolly mixtures. Will definitely stop talking about my nipples now

Lovely description of your DD's birth

Hi there - can I join your thread? I've just started maternity leave and need some company!
I'm due on 24 June which just seems like ages away.

Is anyone else finding that their maternity clothes are getting really tight? I was down to 2 pairs of jeans anyway, but now one of them is too tight and the other pair annoyingly fall down a lot. Refuse to wear my comfy trackie bottoms outside just yet but at this rate won't have anything else to wear!

of course you can allnew feel free! is this your first baby?

am still at work, finish on Monday, and can't wait until I can wear my yoga pants all day instead of squeezing into smart trousers! we have decided en masse that all mat jeans fall down, and they are the clothes that are sent to plague us...

phew, I was worried you meant your nips had gone all furry, but I didn't dare ask!

Welcome allnew. I luckily have about 3 drawstring a line skirts, which I just have under the bump for now. They will return to their rightful place near wasit when belly goes down.

Ds1 keeps saying things like ? I can't believe how long you've been fat for' or ' I can't remember when you were thin' etc

Yes it's my first - feel like I've been pregnant all my life though!
I was looking through old pics earlier and found one of me in a bikini last year. I wasn't exactly skinny, and was probably holding my tummy in, but I can't believe I ever looked like that!

I started selling my work maternity clothes on ebay - feels great to get rid of them!

oh - furry nipples, what a horrible picture! Mine are leaking these days - time to get out the breast pads I guess, but it could be worse, at least they're not hairy!

Whiskery eeewww.

Welcome allnew . I am wearing very very stretchy clothes which thankfully are still comfortable.

MY NIPPLES ARE NOT FURRY.