Due Nov 2008 - Explosion Risks, Names Dilemmas and Baby shopping Galore!

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New thread ladies

oh no! A 6am start!! I don't know when I last saw one of them!
Poor you Hana!
Is it work or something more exciting?

Hi ladies,

Just browsing. Last chatted with you back in March/April time before I had ERCP. Great to see so many of you are getting closer... it's great for you! Mind you it brings back 'what ifs' for me. Anyhow, I'm over that (jsut the odd wee thought now and then, nothing to get upset about)

Anyhow, just thought I'd let you all know I got a BFP today!

Now just have to find out if my last period was implant bleed or not - it only lasted one day! Weird.

Well, good luck to all of you!

Hi divedaisy, what lovely news, congratulations!

fantastic news divedaisy . Come and say Hi on the knicker checkers thread (although it's a bit quiet tonight as there's only me, talking to myself )
I have a feeling we might be hearing from another of our old friends before too long as well, but I'm sworn to secrecy

Brave girl visiting IKEA on a sunday hanaflower! I've got some of their printed muslins as well....the red/orange ones and will get some of the blue/green ones as well. they are really good quality; nice and thick for mopping up lots of possetted milk!

Am off to bed as I have a busy day tomorrow. The dragon mother-in-law is babysitting for us on Tuesday when we go to our NCT class, so I need to get the place ship shape so she has nothing (well not much) to judge

Divedaisy what great news, congratulations.
Goodness, that does take me back. Do you all remmeber when we started the November AN thread. It seems like such a long time ago. What a pleasure it has been to take this journey with you, ladies. Thank you. I wanted to tell you all how much I have enjoyed the ride.

Welcome back Renaissancewoman
And welcome skyllberg
Sorry to hear of Heart2mum's shitty neighbour.
Daisy how is dh ? My dh cn be a terrible sulker. He told me off the other day for talking to my best friend on the phone for too long
LOL at Twinklings independant DD, becasue she and dh spend so much time doing hedge trimming, gardening etc etc. Ds is like that.
I do spend time with him . But alot of the time I just spend washing,ironing and getting on with things.

Talking of which I am DS LESS*.
We dropped him off at sil's yesterday. And stayed all day. And had the loveliest time. And then we came home. And dh and I just sat there and said it felt really wierd. He will be back on wed. I am missing him terrible already. Have spoken to him. He asked if he could stay for longer becasue he is already having such a lovely time !!
I have 2 days now. On my own. Today I have massage, eye lashes dyed and a manicure and pedicure.
And list of 25 things to do including sewing on black out blinds linings, and buying big pants. And I AM going to order some of those lovely wee stickers.
But I have bought in all the bags from the garage of 0-3 months and stuff. They do not need washing. They just need sorting into the drawers. I had been putting it off and off. Dh made me do it Glad he did. I had made it into an insurmountable task, but now it is 1/2 way done already.

And my sil IS going to give me the old family trusty-faithful rocker backer. Great. We built our cot this weekend. Then ds jumped in it. And said he wanted it

How were your classses Cricri ?

Think thats all. See you later.

Divedaisy that is fantastic news thank you for sharing I love hearing happy news!
Well we all seem t be doing a bit of nesting now either by instinct or necessity (like me) but we are all getting ready for the new arrivals coming - I wonder who will be first - Excluding Merry of course!

By the way, I am really struggling with my Secret Stork.
I really don't know what to buy. I keep thinking and thinking and am none the wiser.

Plus, are we all going to post at the same time, so that we all receive at the same time, to help the secret'ness ?

Divedaisy - Fantastic news, am so very pleased for you. x

Barbs - Happy Birthday for the other day.

Lacks, would you like to come round here with your nesting instinct? It woud appear my cleaner has quite the opposite feelings about cleaning! (She has started dusting round things!!!)

Divedaisy, lovely news to hear, I hope all goes well!

Pinky: Changed my mind, going to send payment via paypal, I am too impatient to wait for cheque to clear, lol!

Going to see my midwife this afternoon and am going to tell her I WANT a homebirth and that I will not be taking no for an answer, lol! Obviously I understand that if anything goes wrong I have to transfer in, but I refuse to think in the mindset after 2 straightforward, easy going births.

Also going to try and sort the shitty neighbour situation. I am going to call the lease people and double check I have read the deeds right (why can't they write them in plain english?!). I am not too pleased to read about new storms being on the way, especially as the floor hasbn't dried out yet. Grrrr!

Oblamov, sounds like you have some great plans, but understand about missing ds. I miss mine when they are gone for a few hours.

Hello all - sorry I don't have too much time to catch up so I have just had a quick scan...

Obs for secret stork I think we are all sending out at the same time but I will be waiting until bump is born till I open my present, as a reward!

Divedaisy - thats brill news, good luck with your pregnancy.

Can someone tell me what Braxton Hicks feel like? I hear I might get them now and just wonder what to expect.

Sorry if this is TMI (stop reading now!) but has anyone else started doing their perineal massage?? I started this weekend (32 weeks) and its just horrid - I got very upset last night about it as it hurt quite a lot and I realised that this is nothing compared to the actual birth so I am a bit scared of the birth now. Can anyone reassure me that PM is worth it?!?

OOh Choco - I've heard about that. Is it done from the inside??? Apparently worth it and i had forgotten all about it, oops.

Heartmum - Why are you having to read your deeds??? I am a commercial solicitor if I can help at all?

Leesten very carfully.....I shall say zees only wance.

read the secret stork thread*.

It's all on Here

I am being a grump this morning....bad nights sleep and grumpy wakeful children added to nightmare getting DS ready this morning does not a happy daisy make. I'm off to take it out on the kitchen.

That wasn't what I had meant oblomov But you are right about that sort of independance too I had meant in that I would move the furniture around and not wait for DH to do the hedges etc. But leaving DD to her own devices is brilliant. My SIL cannot do that with her DD who seems to need constant attention. Or does SIL feel that she needs to give it in order to validate herself as a mother She is an odd one my SIL, but that is a whole other story

chocorange I didn't do the PM thing, not even sure anymore what is involved but pretty sure it shouldn't hurt Presumably you were using ..ahem, lube? Maybe you were being a little tough on yourself too?
With it hurting, it sounds along the same lines as roughing up your nips with brillo pads in preb for BF, ouch!

Hi choco. Had to smile at the perineal massage!! Brought back memories I had entirely forgotten - we did that last time, or rather dh did it for me (not sexy in the slightest ). I think the secret is to start gently and build up over the days and also to warm up the area first before getting too vioent! eg. first time just massage, second time start with massage and then just insert one finger and very gently push to the side, shouldn't be pain as such but more like gentle stretching so it's a bit uncomfortable but not hurting...

...in the end I had a forceps birth so it was a bit of a waste of time 'cos they are a lot worse than a baby's head!, but hopefully you won't have that. I think it's worth doing it, as am sure it must help stretch and soften and it's also a great way for dh to feel like he is doing something for the birth. We used baby oil (or was it olive?).

Obs, hope you manage to get loads done without ds eand feel all full of achievement feelings after. I am just gonna start sorting out all clothes ds has grown out of from summer and last spring and last winter that are still hanging around his cupboard!

Obs, I know what you mean about SS. I had this great idea and then thought: I bet she's already got it, or someone's gonna give her one (and you don't need more than one of these items!)...it's a bit of a nightmare. It was a cool idea, but may have to go for somethingmore boring which doesn't matter how many you get!

obs.....DH is fine, thanks . He was just stressed after a full day with the DCs, and DS had been less than co-operative when they were out......ah well, never mind, what a shame....

morning all!! Had to laugh about the perenial massage - I think DH and I did it once after being told to do so on NCT course, but we just couldn't stop laughing!!!!

Same goes for pelvic floor excercises - I am ashamed to say that for DS1 I did about 300 a day, DS2 10 a day and this PG when I remember

Its the same with weaning - I gave DS1 his first spoonful of baby rice EXACTLY 6 months after he was born and DS2 was much earlier...

I guess what I am trying to ssay in a round about way, is that your PFB you do everything that you are told/is recommended but by the time you get to 2 or 3 you are so much more confident and go with what the baby wants (within my 7am-7pm routine of course!)

Hope you are all good - I haven't had time to read the thread properly as been to chatty but I have jsut realised that this time in 10 weeks, we will mostly all have had our babies!

heartmum - Sorry to hear about your house & neighbour probs. Your nieghbour sounds horrible especially the incident with your DS's rabbit.

barbs - HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY!

twinkling - Hope you have recovered from all your hard work. My DS is very independant too and the majority of the time insists on doing things himself, even if he can't, and loves to fix things. "Me fix it mummy!". Makes me proud and chuckle to myself at how independant he is ... just like me.

Renaissancewoman - Glad to hear DH is on the mend. Bit worried about the size of my baby if it is true that they get bigger the more you have being that my DS was 9lb4 and I'm only 5ft4. Saying that I don't think my bump is as big as with DS at this stage (32wks) but that may be due to baby being positioned differently.

skyllberg - welcome.

lacks - Good luck with the MIL tomorrow.

Im feeling rubbish today . Lots of factors ... to name a few:

• pains in legs in bed last night so disturbed sleep
• kept jumping out of bed in sleep to check on DS as he had a screaming fit (nightmare) about 9pm
• DH being a nightmare ... think he is taking work probs out on me and snapping at the slightest thing with me and DS. I had a crying fit last night. Just seems that DH is hardly at home, does overtime and even did Saturday, but when he is at home he is an arse
• Cant start nesting (not done hospital bag)because nursery plaster hasnt dried yet so cant decorate
• DH wants to get our living room sorted (seal up fire, replaster, new fire and decorate and so on)
• Also worried that now 32 wks and not sorted in the slightest and at this rate going to be working hard (DIY stuff) until the minute I deliver. Hope baby doesnt come early.
• Not heard anything about restarting child care vouchers at work so hope no news is good news

BOO HOO. sorry ladies but needed to vent.

Hooray!

GTT came back normal

everything has come back normal./

i am now discharged from hospital clinic and just see the community midwives at the docs from now on.

had to have my anti-d today that stung a lot!

Hi all,

I'm in shock because I just spent £700 on wardrobes and bokocases online at IKEA.

DH woke me up at 3 last night pressing on my bump (not v hard, though) and saying "push!" - in his sleep. He gets really vivid dreams when he's stressed about something, but this is the first time he's tried to deliver a baby in his sleep .
Told him to bugger off, it's not due for another 9 weeks, and went back to sleep with a pillow between us. Nutter.

Soexcited - I can't reach my feet and make a "dog on lino" noise when I walk across the bathroom. DH promising to declaw me when he gets a mo. I may take myself to a vet if it doesn't get done this week. Also, how hard is putting knickers on? It looks like I'm doing the Haka and don't even go there on leggings...

Vbab - hugs, know what you mean. He's stressed? At least he hasn't got a small person tapdancing on his bladder. Sounds like he needs to get over himself and grow up (vehemence is cos mine's being a little similar at times).

Sorry, bokocases? Well, I do have a lot of bokos. You know what I mean...

Pinkali Was reading my deeds to find out if I had the legal right to access to my neighbours property to repair my own (our garage flooded over the weekend as the neighbours garden level is higher than the damp proof course). Thankfully it seems I do, but I did ring the leasehold agent this morning to double check, not that they can get involved in individual cases. Knowing that I have the legal right is one thing, but getting the neighbour, who we don't get on with, to agree without going for a access order is another matter. To make matters worse, heavy rain is forecast for my area tomorrow and again on Thursday. Mind you, will probably be better if I get the insurance bods to come out and look at the damage while the floor/walls are still wet and it smells horribly of damp (forgot about that before I out bicarb of soda down this morning to neutralise some of the stench. Figures that I can smell it far more strongly than anyone else right now, lol!)

rutho I loved that post!
I LOL at DH dream!
My Bro has a similar tendancy to crazy dreams. The best was, when living with is first girlfriend who was afraid of storms, he jumped up in the middle of teh night, threw the curtains open and hollered,' Don't worry we won't flood because we are on a (this was the point of the curtain flinging) HILL!!' Dafty!

And at your curt response to vbabs DH I have similar lack of patience!!
And boko's, I too have a lot of those, but sent them to charity due to lack of space and them being of the nonsense trashy kind and not worth holding onto.

Oh vbab what a list Poor you, you are worrying too much. DH always says stop worrying Twinkling. Oh right and if I do who will take over on the worrying and sorting of these problems??
I am sure all the decorating will come together in the end. Is your DH likely to take most of the strain on this? My DH just is not DIY minded, so these tasks are always mine, with me cracking the whip to get things completed

oblomov I would love and hate, in the same breath, a few days to myself. But it does sound like you are going to have a lovely pampering day today

I sooo have to go into my loft. Things to go up, things to come down. I am really not sure how much I have for this baby, at all. And with him being a boy and my having a DD, I have to buy something for him at some point or he will be in nothing but jammies for months! He needs a christmas outfit, for sure! And someone mentioned a snowsuit for coming home? Yup, gonna have to get one of those in teeny tiny size, at some point. Prob after he is born TBH. Mum will have to make a mercy dash to Tesco!

Heartmum - Yes anybody who needs to access neighbouring land to repair their own property has a right to do so, however if neighbours become funny you may have to serve them notice under the Access to Neighbouring Land Act but hopefully this won't be necessary. Pleased you managed to get the answer you needed. x