Dec 08 - the one where we wonder what are our bodies going to do next?

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Sorry for rubbish title, best I could do

I can't drive yet so my DP still has to ferry me around like the Queen. Ha!

Yes Mibbes, I thought you only got colossal in the last month or so. But my obs reckons that the next month is a real biggie for growth.

OOh, Oli, I could just eat a cheese board....

I must confess....I did nibble a bit of the cheese (illegal ones too...although not mouldy) in the guise of testing to see which was which

olipop that is indeed an evil choice of menu to pick! My dh knows better than to make any comment along the lines of 'the birth wasn't that hard'!

All I can think of now is a nice ripe Brie though I did have a tiny illicit taste of it at a wedding a couple of weeks ago. Mmmmm. It was nice.

I love a cheese board and have taken to quizzing waiters (on the about 3 occasions we've eaten out!) about whether or not the cheeses are pasturised. And if they don't know, asking them to check with the kitchen! A bit extreme, but I can't sit and watch cheese be eaten - and you know, most of the time they've been pasturised anyway (so according to my rules it's ok to indulge - if that's wrong please don't upset me by contradicting me).

Your DH is a meany olipop flaunting that menu, I hope he got you the biggest bunch of flowers for your anniversary!

There were some flowers involved and he is generally pretty lovely but he has certainly put his size 10's in a few times over the last couple of weeks!

mmmm cheese

I am eating soft cheese as long as it's cooked, reckon that kills off any nasties

Got my MatB1 form today (20 weeks) but when I rang up earlier the surgery swore blind that they weren't issued until 26 weeks. And my work maternity policy states that they need them at about 25 weeks. Who knows?

do you think it's possible to die of boredom at work?

I'm going to be off shortly so maybe get to catch up at some point...otherwise it will be when I am back to 'work' on wednesday! God I'm being dreadful...lost the will to work already and it's ages til I can leave!!!!

Hi All

I am back after two very wet weeks in the WEst County. We still had alot of fun but I cannot remember a wetter holiday. Next year we are going to the Med for sure! DD loved it though. We have returned with her caked in mud and she is refusing to bath and keeps shouting "more holiday!".

I doubt I am going to manage to properly read two weeks worth of the threads. Have I missed lots? I hope all our bumps are thriving. Mine is kicking lots but not growing. If anything I look less pregnant than a few weeks ago and lots of people fail to notice my bump at all. Wish it was more obvious at this stage... but then the grass is always greener!

xx

my DH keeps saying that people are just making a fuss when they say that your life is going to change beyond belief when the baby comes. They're just being overdramatic. Oh please!

These are people who have children already, so they actually know what they are talking about!!

and I was reading a book on pregnancy and thought I should read about labour and suddenly felt all overwhelmed and said "god I'm scared" and felt a bit teary and he told me to stop making a fuss!!!!!! Bloody hell.

Hahaha Beans, crossed posts...most certainly do!

Hi Arti..glad you had a good holiday! LOL about the muddy kid!

Ooh, I'm off to north wales tomorrow - genius. Something to look forward to. Can't WAIT to just get away from London for a few days.

won't back on here after tomorrow until Thursday - how will I cope for nearly a whole week! I can't bore my family with it, they couldn't be less interested!

Arti - gorgeous little mud-caked girl! gosh, all these stories - I don't want either a boy or a girl - I want both!!!!

Effie, I think the guidelines definitely say that cooked, piping hot soft cheese is ok.

Arti, I was wondering where you'd got to. You are yearning for a bigger bump? Nooooooo! At 24 weeks, I'm putting Humpty to shame and it's very peeving.

arti welcome home, and I'm with you. I grew a couple of weeks ago, but seem to have shrunk again since and can fit back into some clothes! I'm worried I just look like I've eaten too much and want a more obvious bump - must remember this feeling!

Your DD sounds just gorgeous - how to keep children happy! As I was moaning about going out in the rain at lunchtime today a colleague told me to get used to it, as her daughters favourite weather is rainy so she can jump in puddles! Think I need to add a waterproof hat of my list of essentials to buy before Christmas

Have fun in Wales beans

Thanks! Will be back on tomorrow, though - no escaping me! soz.

gosh, my bump is just expanding and expanding. Someone asked me if I was due in a couple of months. NO! 4 months to go!!!! (just under, but still!)

have a good evening, all. I'm off to see Wall-E with a preggy friend. Lovely!

Hi everyone,

Arti lovely to have you back you really did pick a wet couple of wks but sounds like you had fun.

Beans have a fab time with the fam bore them with it anyway tis your right you are pregnant.

Well done tube people get your bumps out and shove em in faces make them squirm.

Re the matB1 forms, if you are applying for stat maternity pay and you have to go to the job center make sure you give yourself plenty of time to fill in the forms before you plan to begin maternity they had to back date mine 2 months last time round and I had gone at least a couple of months before the monster was born. Also the forms take a while to fill in so what happened at my job center was they gave them to me and I went home and did it then took them back. Top tip photocopy everything as they are a nightmare things get sent from dept to dept and get lost vv easily.

Bump sizes I reckon you get a massive growth spurt like Lady T said bt 20 & 29 I keep getting lower back ache then 2 days later my circumference has defo increased.

Not going to comment on the cheese as you know I am eating all things illicit.

Quick question though is anyone still taking multi vits I havnt been but mainly because I canr stomach swallowing them or I just forget.

Signing off now tis puppy training tonight prob involving more running round after the dog in a ring I swear they only do the running bit to watch me try to hold onto the dog while holding my trousers up and stop my (.) (.)'s falling out of my t-shirt.

Hello Arti, sounds like a fab holiday Mud is amazing

Life change after children? No of course not, we still go out without spending huge amounts of money on a baby sitter, don't worry at all about what is going on at home when we are out, have a nice sleep in every saturday and sunday and the only time we don't get a full night of sleep is if we have been up late.

Bless your DH Beans To be fair to him Dp was a bit like that too, I think because they don't have to slow down gradually over 9 months they don't quite realise until it hits them.

Shall join Jam with illegal food. I just ate a crusty bread roll covered in pate. You know pate is because too much vit A causes birth defects? Well for starters not all pate is liver based and secondly you still need normal quantities of vit A so just don't binge on it every day of the week.

I love it when people eat illegal food.

I know it's childish and potentially irresponsible and obviously I am not being entirely serious here, but I tend to think that WITHIN REASON it's ok.

Within reason indeed, you just have to know why they tell you not to have it. I even liked the bowl after making a cake, I figure since there hasn't been a case of salmonella from a vaccinated egg I'm pretty unlikely to be the first. I wouldn't smoke during pg, or drink the absolutely wonderful vodka that has been sitting in my cupboard since I came back from Russia, or snort coke. Burn I am not going to give up dippy eggs, cake mixture, chocolate mousse, or pate Anyway all countries are different, isn't America where they tell you not to eat "deli meat" So no ham, salami or anything like that either.

Anyway bagged lettuce far more dangerous than any of the things mentioned so far as illicit.

Liked the bowl? Well I did rather like it when I licked it yes.

Bagged lettuce well that's me done for then, I've had a stack of that...