Due in June - Thread 9

[teabelly]

Brand new thread as ordered...

Trib, I'm impressed chocky at that time of the morning ...soooo how do you have yours?? I bite the top off, suck out the filling and save the choc til last, yum!

Was wondering if you worked in radio.......

Hmm, now I am getting alarmed for not having morbid thoughts Poss this is because my worrying time at the mo is taken up with dh's health (as usual) and my little brother's health as well. But I still don't have any dreams about the baby - I am pregnant in my dreams, but I never dream about the baby itself. I wonder if this is because of being a first-timer, so I have nothing to relate the actual existence of a baby in my life to?

No, I provide a Weekly/Daily/Hourly Television Guide to the mumsnetters

I used to do different alerts for each programme but it took up too much of the top 50

So now I put them all together in one post

I also MSN members for private Alerts.

So If you look on Telly Addicts you will get the idea.

SOrry, Trib. You'll probably have them now that I've brought it up.... Sorry.

Morning all,

Gosh it feels like I've not posted for ages rather than just four days!! Uwila glad you're still here Charley I'd pick you for my team any time

Welcome Sam, Redhead and EYM

Coop - well done you on the egg front - I've only had my Mars one, but my all time favorites are the lindor ones, yum...mind you I'd just settle for a big box of lindor chocs and be done with ...today I shall be mostly trying quality street eggs as there's lots of different ones and you have to sample each one.

Franni - hope all goes well today

Pink - many happy returns for yesterday...so glad you are working things out in your head re your mum...as others have said you'll make a great mum - you just have to fudge it - it's all any of us do (we just pretend to know what we're doing! )

Glad to hear your meeting yesterday went very well...now spill the beans,he he he!

Sweetheart, sooo glad to see you back , take care x

Also what happened at the end of last week???? I logged on this morning to catch up and found myself in the midst of a thread full of bookworms and booker prize readers...I feel ashamed to admit that most recently my reading material consists of a backlog of Martina Cole or Terry Prachett books interspersed with a liberal smattering of The Book People's under 3's lucky dips!

Better get on as it's taken me this long to catch up and I really must try and do some work this week!!

Ok, not really dreaming about the baby but did dream the other night that I went to the hospital pretending to be in labour, even though I knew I wasn't. And for some reason felt the need to keep up the pretence with dh and the midwife, all the while wondering how I was going to get out of this one.

It's par for the course isn't it Uwila?
Last night I got really concerned that wmffre hadn't made its presence felt for hours - was visualising being induced early etc etc.
My usual yoga tricks didn't have any effect at all,neither did the cold water and I got quite panicky - as you do. Half a large bar of Green and Black's Malayan Gold later all was well

Welshie - chocky always does the trick!!

Don't worry Uwila - like you say, it's all part of the fun of pregnancy I get worried when the bean is quiet for a day or so, but yesterday it was having a disco in there nearly all day so I will not be surprised if it keeps a low profile today, recovering. Perhaps it was its own private Oscars party, I'm not sure!

I did have to hear my brother's story of the birth of his first child at the weekend, it went like this "it was all a blur, I was so tired. I had been out on the lash the night before and then at work all day when she went into labour. Awful!". Hmmm, somehow I managed to contain my sympathy.

Trib - I haven't had any morbid dreams either...just naughty ones ...mostly involving Brad or Jonny Depp...

Back to serious matters - I can't believe Jordan's due in June - where the heck is her tummy???? It's not like there's alot of her (boobs aside) to hide it in!

Oh my goodness trib. And, I think previous generations of men were even worse. When my oldest sybling was born, my Dad went home and didn't come back to the hospital in the morning when my mum expected him. She was in tears (which is soooooooooooooo unlike her personality to get upset about that) so the nurses called him to come in and he just said that he fell asleep because he was tired. Naturally, my mother was a bit shocked at the notion that HE was tired.

I might have to go find another thread to waste my time on if Jordan qualifies as a serious topic here.

my dad was on call the night i was born and didn't see me until i was nearly 8 hrs old!!

My father was sent to the pub by the midwife attending my mum when my sister was born as he was going green and causing a distraction. They sent a student doctor to fetch him when it was all over. He also passed out when required to give a thumb-prick blood sample to check his blood group when mum was expecting my brother. He now tells this story as if he was the one who went through the hardest part of pregnancy/childbirth.

Sorry - I should have added, my bro was there for the labour, he had just been at work all day before my SIL went into labour. And of course on the lash the night before. When the next two were due, he decided not to go out on the lash so as to be better prepared - good tip for the expectant father there

I'm not really looking forward to staying in hospital without dh, although I hope he wouldn't abandon me like your dad did, Uwila (has the man never heard of alarm clocks?). Unfortunately I think the labour is going to put quite a strain on him (obv not compared to me, but compared to a well person) but I fear there will no recovery time for him before the onslaught begins.

Oh tribpot that must be so hard for you x
When it comes to dads. Mine wasn't with my mum when she had me, later he walked down the ward to her bed and.......shook her by the hand!

Welshie, ha ha ha sign of the times tho...my dad dropped my mum off at the hospital and went home to sleep. The next morning he phoned to find out if she'd had me and then came in after making sure he'd had his breakfast first!! Don't think he'd be able to cope with todays expectations on dads to be!

Morning!! I've been tiling since 8am so there

Hi Sam and welcome, nice of you to join us

Lua/Katz/MrsW and the rest of you northerners - Oo - your meet up sounds like it was loads of fun. I'm very intrigued and jealous! I'm glad you all had a nice time.

Sorry for those of you having horrid dreams/morbid thoughts - I've been having some real nightmares lately - usually involving zombies I've not had any dreams abot my baby since I was ttc. Then the baby usually looked like a mouse sized version of the baby from Erasorhead

RTKangaMummy - I'm so sorry about your horrific experience (I have no idea what it is) and hope to god it wasn't what it sounds like it might have been.

Franni - hope it goes well for you today. Glad to hear you're eligible for materniy pay! x

MrsF - I'm sure the pre-school won't say anything too worring about your boy. Everyone can't enjoy everything all the time.

Redhead - let us know how you get on with your next scan, although I know it's not for a while. Isn't it amazing what these sonographers can pick up? Glad it's nothing he seemed to be concerned about.

Cooperoo - are you going to try any chocolatey-filled eggs? I'm sure there must be some? I'm look forward to your reports... Wow - Katie Price is due in June - I hope she joins us! How on earth did she keep it a secret for the past month?? I have always cried whilst watching nature programmes

Pink - i'm glad you're coming to some kind of understanding, even if it means a degree of relinquishment, of your relationship with your mother. I can empathise because I've been going through a very similar thing recently with mine. I did all that moving around business too. I grieved for her a long time ago when she abandoned me emotionally when she remarried, then physically as a teenager, but it's only been in the past few months, since being pregnant, that I've truly given up on my futile hope that there could ever be any more of a relationship between than there is, which has been very sad for me, but emancipating at the same time. Wish I'd had the insight you have when I was your age

Teabelly - It does seem like ages since you've posted! However I wish you hadn't mentioned that Lindor are doing eggs Those Lindor ball things are just about my favourite chocs!! There's definitely no hope now!

Welshie/Uwila - Pod goes quiet sometimes too and I get worried. He's cerainly not quiet this morning though

Welshie - that's so funny - the handshake!! Sounds like he was in shcck

Katz - my mum can't remember if my dad was at my birth or not!! I'll have to remember to ask him. I just hope he's not forgotten as well!

Trib - I'm sorry your dh can't be there at your birth. I don't think it's the end of the world though if a father isn't there at the time of delivery, it's only very recently they've been expected to be around, and it's a lot to ask of some men dp and I have agreed it's totally cool if either of us would prefer him to leave the room. He's certainly not allowed down by the business end anyway! I think if I lived in the wild, I'd just want women around me and no men at all!

Where's Lippy, Scraggy and KVG?????

those lindor balls are lovely especially the mixed boxes - DH keeps buying them for me as a treat but i think they're more for him than me!! he really loves them and he's not a chocolate person!

Morning everyone,

It was lovely to see everyone yesterday, we all had a great time. Even DH said 'well, that was MUCH better than I thought it was going to be' (bless him, he thought the whole idea was quite mad, but he had a lovely time). DS was quite taken with Katzguk's DD and Lua's DD - but not enough to share his ice cream with them.
I also didn't have any tea after such an enormous lunch - that chocolate torte was heaven.

It feels like I haven't been around for ages. Seems like it all kicked off again on Friday . Have all the threads been deleted now?

Happy birthday Pink. I have so much admiration for your strength of character.

Hello to redheadmum, and SamCattie.

My dad was 40 miles away when I was born - he was sent from the hospital as they didn't think anything would be happening that day! My FIL was at the birth of all three of his kids though, which I assume was quite unusual for that day and age.

So, when does the third trimester officially start? I'm 26 weeks tomorrow so it can't be too much longer can it?

Charley - I do hope you haven't been overdoing it with the tiling (says the lady who spent the last 4 days decorating ds & new bubbs bedrooms and the bathroom - still dh did all the heavy lifting so it's his back that is aching today and not mine - which is usually the case when I'm not pg!!!)

They are rather lush those Lindor balls and eggs - and (don't slap me ) they tasted even better coz they were free

Mrs W it depends on the books etc that you read but normally I think it's about week 27...

we got some balls for 99p recently in Boots because they had an offer on but in my opinoin it just didn't run for long enough. Bring back the Balls offers boots now!!