Due in June - Thread 8!!!!! Boy can we chat!

[Lua]

All right, a brand new and fresh thread...

LOL KVG...no it's not just you - my belly is making a bid for freedom too! I've just had to adjust the waists out again on all my pg clothes, and am sure I will soon overtake the monsterous sized tummy I had when expecting ds!!

BTW you're right Lua, Uwila does seem to have gone awol since the weekend...maybe the nanny did her in for choosing the wrong buggy!

Seriously tho, hope you're just very busy doing lots of exciting things Uwila...

KVG, this is a very relative question/answer....
If you have no boobs like me, your belly would have been sticking out since day 1 !!!

But more to the point, I do have a huuuuge bump! But it kind of appeared all of sudden last month. Now, I think is a bit more steady....

Me too! My belly has just shot out too...very weird.

Ooh milky bars - I lurve them...whenever I get them for ds I nick one (naughty mummy, slap wrists!)

Ha ha ha - a girl after my own heart!!

Afternoon All,

Charley, cats do slaver. Mine do when they see a bird or some other tasty morsel which is desparate to be eaten, from the window ledge.

Mrs Wed - a monkey you say? LOL. That's nice for you. I'm convinced from the kicks that I've got an octopus in mine

Tea, do you know, at the first mention of chocolate, DH was going out to a DIY store, and I requestd that the bump needs some chocolate this evening, so hopefully there are a couple of bars in the fridge as I speak. Oh, I've got him well trained. Although, I'm ashamed and embarrassed to admit that he didn't understand the HUGE differences between a normal cadbury's Dairy Milk and a galaxy . He just doesn't understand the ways of chocolate.

Nab, come back to us northerners!!!!!!!! We are much more fun and dont have silly accents . How to win friends and influence people!!! As to your bump, I can't really contribute anything more than everyone else has said, but good for you for sticking by what you think is right and I'm so sorry you are going through all these problems. There's a few of us on here who have m/c at some point, so we do know what you are going through there. Honestly, any time you want to let off steam, this is a great place to do it.

KVG - mine too, and I have enormous boobs for my even huger belly to stick out further than......

I've just had to go and check the fridge, where there is a packet of minstrals AND a king size Galaxy bar!!!!!!!!!
Its fantastic how the small things in life make me so very very happy........

I'm alive and well.. I've just been reading and reading and reading and reading....

Nanny has not done me in. She irritates me now and then, then I blow iff a bit of steam on mumsnet and sometimes to DH... But, if and when I feel she has overstepped her bounds, I have no trouble reminding all involved that it is she who works for me. Having a nanny is a unique challenge of management skills because you have to manage someone whom you are not actually there to supervise. On the whole, she does a good job. The trouble is probably that she is an older nanny (48, two grown children, divorced) so, sometime she thinks she is the wiser due to experience. And, I don't really like being told I'm wrong by the person who works for me. Anyway,I'll buying the buggy of my choice, not hers. And that's that.

As for the mice lovers on this thread... you are weird. Mice serve no purpose and if they can't keep their disease infested bodies out of DD's cot, than they deserve a slow painful death. Incidentally, I had a chat with DD, and she's offered to give mouse stomping lessons to all the new arrivals at any post natal meet-ups. She even give them to Podrick for free. Everybody else apparently has to fork up some CHOCOLATE. Oh, and Angelina Ballerina is as good an excuse as anyone needs to exterminate the entire mouse species. I hate her. She is so winey and pathetic. DD's gonna stomp on her one day too.

Charley, just one word for you.... CHOCOLATE

Nab-
Totally agree that medical practitioners have no business making decisions for you. It is there job to inform you of the facts, and as you rightly point out it is your baby, and all decisions related to it's welfare belong to YOU.

Children are not some product of the state where goverment officials or NHS employees can dictate what is best for them (like the CTF that parents have no control over or the MMR that the NHS pushes on parents who prefer single jabs). Just you do what you feel is best. And stuff the rest or 'em.

Feel free to come here whenever you want my opinions... I'm sure to share (unless it takes the whole fricken day to catch up on reading the thread).

I went to the GP today for an entenatal appointment. When I mentioned to her that I wanted a caesarean, she looked at me like I was crazy. It got better when I asked her is she could recommend someone I could talk to about circumcision -- especially when she asked if I was Jewish and I smiled and said "No, just American."

Ho hum. It's a good thing I'm not a worrier and not bashful. I just take what I like from the NHS, then cause a bunch of trouble to get it the way I would rather have. He he...

ohhh... don't tempt me. I LOVE cheese.

Speaking of cheese, did youknow there is a pending shortage because the Chinese have just discovered that they like. And there are so many chinese that they are sucking up the world supply. How funny is that?

Blimey, you can't sign off for long can you . I am half lost now apart from an overwhelming desire for chocolate.......
Just wanted to add a hello to Nab and say how brave I think you are. It sounds like you are coping but make sure you keep talking too.
Take care. I hope to be able to keep track tomorrow. Not hopeful though

Argh too much talk it isn't even 6pm yet and I have spent all my time trying to ctach up.

Nab - hello

MMMMmmm well I have to go to class now for another 3 hours of English I'll have to come on later or I'll never know what is going on.

evening all!

Nab- just thinking of you and hope that you maintain control!

Well i've spoken to my midwife and i get my blood test results back tomorrow pm, if i have antibodies to DD's virsus then everything is fine, panic over, if not then they will take some blood tomorrow and test that to see if i have now got the antibodies, suggesting that i have been infected since being 11 weeks PG (when the first vlood was taken). if that shows that i have then i think i have to have another ultrasound and check on the baby, if that shows i haven't then i wil have to have regular blood tests to check. So i'm hoping that i'm immune, not looking foward to any extra blood tests!!

Katz, what a nightmare for you. Best of luck for tomorrow. I wont be logging on till late pm, but I'll have my fingers crossed for you....

Geez, I have a busy day and I miss a whole day's mad posting. I'd made some notes from what went on this morning, but now I can't be aresed to comment, it's all moved on Lots of talk about mice and chocolate? Chocolate mice??!! Don't care much for mice either way. Definitely don't care for disease spreading, dirty bastard rats, eeeeuch!!!!
Love, chocolate most of the time, but have given it up for Lent, so that's that for me and chocolate talk!

Katz, hope everything goes well for the forthcoming blood tests re the slapped cheek. What problems can it cause in a developing baby, I dont actually know?

Welcome to ExpectantMum and Nab, I hope you have your wits about you for this thread, we're all a bit tapped and most of us are addicted to something, be it, tea, chocolate, ebay, MN!!! You name it!

Someone was saying something about abdominals? Welshie? Your SIL still incredibly slim? Oh I can't freaking remember. That those women have a harder labour?? I was one of those, used to gym regularly and the mw always used to complain when she was palpating my tummy, that she couldn't feel dd because of my tight abs. And I did go on to have a pretty long labour!!

Pink, the memories aren't bad ones. They just propel me into another time and place, 10 years ago. I'm such a nostalgic person, especially when it comes to music. So many songs remind me of specific episodes or moments in time, it's mostly lovely, sometimes sad.

Bet there will have been another 30 posts while I type, better press 'send'.

Nab - I'm a northerner living in Surrey - also a loong story!

I'm so sorry to hear about the loss of your baby last year. You'll find lots of support here on MN
whenever you need it. There are quite a few MNers who have lost babies and miscarried here, have a look in Topics x

Oooh chocolate mice - I think I could like that kind of mouse

Katz - hope you get the right result tomorrow...I'm definitely with you on the less blood tests the better...btw 'vlood taken' - is there some subliminal message in there!!

Uwila - glad the nanny hasn't done you in, he he he! I'm with you on the cheese thing - can't get enough of the stuff - which along with all the chocolate is probably where all the weight gain has come from, ha ha ha! Sooo the chinese are after our cheese mountains - well they can't have it - it's ours all ours !! Actually I always thought they didn't like dairy products and think westerners all smell of stale milk!!

On that pleasant note (he he )I's better go and put the tea on - see you all tomorrow

KVG - Ooh do I sound all exotic? Great! Sadly I don't live in Aus - I think Uki does though. I can't believe you posted that about your boobs! I was ging to post the very same thing It seems to have happened over the weekend.

Uwila!! you know how I'm trying to keep my weight in check. Apparently Pod should only be weighing about 1 to 1 and a half lbs, so all the rest of the (generous) stone I've put on must be chocolate. STOP IT!!!

I am going to buy Pod a cutesy soft mousey toy to cuddle in his cot to show him the ways of MOUSELOVE then he'll convert your DD and before you know it you'll be helping her to make mouse castles and villages out of toilet rolls and stuff

Lippy - why don't you just say how you feel about ratties and stop beating around the bush? it was me that posted

Is that true about the Chinese and cheese??

Does anyone think I might get away with putting on just another 10lbs or less before dday??

Good luck tomorrow Katz!

Whoops - getting ahead of myself! It was me that posted about toned mums. It makes me feel less guilty about not being as fit as I could be - I think Pod's going to practically drop out if the opposite's true