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!

anyone heard of a "walking epidural"? A friend at the weekend mentioned she is going to ask for one of these, but didn't know too much about them herself

Evening all, so sorry to miss the man conversation.
I too can't bear Jude law - would like to smack him hard - especialy after wasting a cinema outing on Alfie.
Still have a very great affection for George Clooney.
As for dreams, it's very sweet, I have naughty ones most nights and they all feature...........................DH! Wouldn't mind a change to be honest
Books - just finished 'What mothers do - especially when it looks like nothing' now I've almost finished 'Milk glass Moon and after that I'll be looking for a really tremendous piece of modern fiction so any suggestions gratefull received.
YES to mini eggs and NO to creme eggs (I'd use them to entice the mouse out of their holes before I brain them with a copy of the Line of Beauty)
I missed you all today, feel like we've weathered a bit of a storm. Still onwards and outwards. Xxxx from ty bach ni.

Hello ladies,
Just been to see Finding Neverland. Johnny Depp is great. Fab film, very sad though and made me cry. I think it was out a while ago in the UK. Saw Alfie last week and had rude dreams involving Jude, wonder if the same will happen with Johnny tonight. Might be off to bed soon to find out . Glad I am not only one. My friend is due three weeks after me and has completely gone off sex now. I found that quite interesting as the opposite seems to be true for me .

Alfie was a bit dull towards the end actually.

Sorry Charley don't know about walking epidurals but think it is when not so much anaesthetic is injected so you still have some feeling and yes you can walk about and remain mobile. I think. I don't think everywhere does them though. Prob wrong there too. Will be interested to find out.

I fancied Sienna more Cooperoo or at least her 'look'

132 posts in just 10 hours... that's a post every 4 and a half minutes!!! It takes 4 and a half minutes just to type a message, let alone read everything else everyone else is saying - OMG!!! Think we should all get a medal!!

Uwila - Big hug. I know how close to your heart this subject is and how you could have lost your DD, so I sympathise completely. I'll give you a proper hug when I see you next.

I know we're trying to let things die down, but I think my comment on the other thread was mis-timed with the postings and therefore was slightly mis-interpreted. Sorry about that.

I HATE cream (creme?) eggs. I think they are the most horrible "sweet" ever invented!!! The creme bit is just like glue!! Mind you, I don't really have a sweet tooth at all, I prefer the cheese conversation that was going on the other day. Yummy!!

Well, boss is not an ogre, just a twit. Had meeting, all ok. He's going through a divorce at the moment and got very teary and upset and I genuinely think he doesn't know his a**e from his elbow at the moment!!! Honestly!

Bad news on our house move front though. DP seems to think that the house of MY dreams is falling down, so he wants to spend next week looking at other places.... I just want to order a survey and show him that he's making mountains out of molehills. (And I want to move before baby arrives!!) Oh well, back to the drawing board on that one.

Welshmum, this is the one me and KVG were talking about.

Time Traveller's Wife

Scraggy, glad things are ok with your work. Not so good news on the house though - have you persuaded DP to get a survey?

Cooperoo - lucky you. I'm more like your friend (my poor DH has even given up sulking about it, it's that bad). I was the same with DS but at least I was getting it in my dreams...now that's not even happening!

Trib, your sense of humour comment really tickled me. I've read that first Louise Voss one and really enjoyed it - should I give the second one a go then?

JonahB - strange coincidence! I've stuck to it too, so far. Not sure I'll be able to last all year though, Heat magazine is perfect for those brain-dead exhausted early days of babyhood.

So relieved there are other creme egg haters, I was feeling all alone this morning. Was tempted to go and join the May thread.

You have got to read Wild Swans if you haven't already. It's been around for some time, but I've only recently read it. It's truly incredible.

Hi Everyone
I have a question.
What do 'all due in june' mums have in common?
Boy babies and Mice.

This morning I peered into the fruit bowl and found a peach half eaten, with some scrappy remains left behind, it was truly disgusting to think a mice, rat or something had climed onto the table and got into my fruitbowl. Do mice or rats eat fruit???
It's still summer here, not even mice season i reakon that's spooky mn coincidence.

Funny too I wa just thinking about the 'wild swans' book the other day. It is a fantastic but harrowing read. Also often think about Waris Derrie's books 'Desert flower' and 'Desert dawn', Where waris describes how her mother had babies in Somalia, she went off by herself in the desert on her own under a tree, had the baby and walked back.

Amazing that probably still happens.
Bye for now
Uki

Morning all,
No dreams to report you will be relieved to know. Slept really well though which I haven't done for a while. Was up and awake for an hour this am looking after dd before I even remembered about my baby bump . Hope that doesn't happens when it arrives .
Mrs W - Have to agree Sienna looked fab in Alfie, clothes etc.
Well we are off to Musical Tots soon and so I must go have a shower. Have a good day everyone.

not normally around this early but have had to come online for DH to find train times, our car is buried in about 3 inches of snow!!!

At least the sledge will coem in handy today

Morning all! Who else is snowed in this morning then? Sadly, I always seem to be able to get where I'm going, so am on the train (surprise surprise) going to college in London today - a whole day of capital gains tax. Ugh. My worst subject ever!!

Have a good day everyone. x

Morning everyone

Cannot even begin to catch up after a week away, but hope you're all well (and enjoying the dreams, that bit I did see ).

Very jealous that you can all eat chocolate as well - even the smallest piece makes me feel pukey all day. Not like last time where I lived on maltesers and all the chocolatey Ben & Jerrys for weeks with no guilt, best weeks of my life !

Not much snow here (Bristol), just a scattering on the cars, lots of big flurries yesterday which had poor ds glued to the window hoping it would settle. Bad part of the country for snow if you're a kid unfortunately!

I know I probably shouldn't revisit this but am I alone in feeling really sad about the events of the last couple of days? I feel like everything's changed and that somehow the feeling engendered on here before is gone. I thought we were a kind and gentle bunch and now it seems we're not, not at all. Is it just me? Is it temporary? I'm not laying the blame at anyone's feet either here or in the wider mumsnet pastures, it's just an observation and it makes me sad.
Should we think of something to cheer us up? Lighten the mood? Anyone up for a discussion involving chocolate and sex?

Yes, Welshie. I agree.

I could say so much more, but I would probably go into labour (and miss my caesarean) before I finished typing...

Welshie - I know what you mean. I'm sure it's temporary. I had other things to say about yesterday, but didn't want to keep bumping that thread up after it seemed to die. I also thought it best I didn't post anything here either because I didn't want to incite further discussion. I did/still feel a bit "monitored" like we're being observed, but I'm not confrontational and often these things tend to just end up going round in circles anyway.

Well, I am most distressed to find so many Creme Egg haters in our group - you deviants

Welshie, I think things will get back to normal fairly soon. We're a peaceable bunch on the June threads (except towards mice) and I think we all like it that way. Robust debate has its place on Mumsnet of course, but probably not here - at least to my mind. That's not meant as a criticism of any of our happy band, incidentally. Give it a few days and I'm sure it'll blow over.

Morning Uwila, glad to see you've weathered the storm!

Uki - so you've caught mice from us then? How funny - last thing to go round was cold Hope you're well and enjoying the sun!

KVG - We never get any cute critter visitors because, whilst dp and I are animal lovers, our doggy, sadly, is not and terrorises anything with more than two legs, no actually, more than one leg (he loves chasing ducks and swans back into the river) that get within 10 metres. I have to sneak out the front door without him knowing to snuggle the neighbours' cats What other books have you on your maternity pile?

MrsFlowerpot - did you tell us if you're having a boy or girl?

I also don't really like creme eggs - it's the stuff inside I object to, the shell is scrummy. I like my chocolate unadulterated (to nick a phrase from someone lower down)

Thanks KVG and Uwila - just feeling a bit down about it - like noone really understood us at all. I hope you're right KVG and a in a couple of weeks we'll all be back to normal.
I absolutely agree that this thread should be open to all - due in Jue or not. Just sad that our only interaction with the wider MN community has brought us in to disrepute. How come noone popped in to say how sad they were about Sweetheart? or to comment on other problems some of us have had? Just unlucky I guess. I felt so proud of how accepting and tolerant we'd been of each other's views and now we've just been comprehensively trashed. I'm very, very apprehensive now about posting on other threads but also at a loss to know what I've actually done. I'll probably get told off for even revisiting this subject - but where else to go with it all???

You're all right.
I'm going to stop now.
Peace and love to all

I also know what you mean Welshie, it bothered me all day yesterday. There were lots of things I wanted to say but didn't dare, because I'm a big jessie but also because I really can't face a row.

What I will say though is that there are occasions when Mumsnet becomes like a pack of dogs attacking a bone - for a very short time we were the bone, everyone leapt in with their two-penneth and then finally people saw sense and left it. I am truly amazed by the things people are prepared to argue about on here at times.

I found out last night that one of my friend's had her planned caesarian (sp?) yesterday, gave birth to a little boy who is now very poorly - he seems to have been born without a bowel, or back passage. It made all the things I was chewing over in my mind yesterday seem trivial.

Sorry, that hasn't lightened the mood in any way, has it?

I'm in two minds about posting this, but f*k it.