Due Fab Feb 2009 - here comes the easy peasy (?!) wee-wee sneezy third trimester (if you please, no baby arrivals on this thread)

[dinkystinky]

Here's our sparkling new thread and the latest list - have stuck Munteria at the end (Munteria, just put in your details)

TinkerbellesMum DC3 (3rd baby. Lily-Hope born 20 weeks 28-29/9/05, Tink born 31 weeks 17/7/06, age 27, Birmingham) Official due date 01/02/09 but expected from early December
florrieandme DC2 26/01/2009
laidback DC4 27/01/2009 (age 34, North Devon)
nkweto DC2 30/01/2009 (age 34, West London)
oooggs DC4 30/01/2009 (age 34, Cornwall)
MamaGoose DC3 30/01/2009 (age 32, Spain)
MissMitford 31/01/2009
Plethora 31/01/2009 (age 37, East London but moving soon)
Ethelredtheunready (age 40, 2nd Baby, Tilly born 19/2/06, DC2 01/02/2009- Currently Chichester, soon to be Epping)
AngelDoll DC1 01/02/2009 (age 31, Sheffield)
Supersteph DC2 01/02/2009 (age 24, Torbay)
jenandbean DC2 02/02/2009
ruthmollymummy 02/02/2009
plantsitter 02/02/2009
idontbelieveit DC2 02/02/2009 (age 31, Leeds)
Tummytrouble 03/02/2009
Questionkid DC1 3/2/09 (age 33, living in Wallington, Surrey)
jamescagney 03/02/2009 (aged 33,Clare, Rep of Ireland)
Pregnantpopcornprincess DC3 04/02/2009 (pregnant with twins)(age 31, West Sussex)
MsLucy Boy 04/02/2009 (age 38, North London)
PinkTulips DC3 04/02/2009 (age 24, Roscommon, Ireland)
Davidsmom DC2 04/02/2009 (age 39, Cheshire)
MissDelighted DC1 05/02/2009
m2alyssa DC2 05/02/2009 (age 30, Isle of Man)
Jelliebelly DC2 06/02/2009 (age 37)
Swampster (HasAWarmFuzzy) 06/02/09 (age 40, south London)
Gettingbigger 06/02/08
Guitargirl DC2 07/02/2009
Aila DC2 07/02/2009
Littlemissnorty DC2 08/02/09 (age 39, Kent)
Biscuitytrousers 08/02/2009 (age 31, Thames Ditton)
MarkStretch DC2 07/02/2009 (age 29, Norfolk)
KT1983 09/02/2009
Tinasan DC2 09/02/2009
Herbgarden 09-11/02/09 (age 38 Berkshire)
Ewemoo 07/02/2009
Singingintherain DC3 10/02/2009
KazzaL DC2 10/02/2009 approx (age 34, Ciren, Gloucs)
littleboyblue DC2 due early-mid Feb (age 27, Surrey)
Jenniferturkington DC2 11/02/2009
thehouseofmirth DC2 11/02/09 (age 38, Wimbledon)
Clarabumps DC2 12/02/2009 (age 27, Glasgow)
BumpVLump 12/02/09 (age 29, Surrey)
Louisebunny 13-15/02/09
Mapleleaf 13/02/2009 (age 38, Cambridge)
Nadssss 13/2/9 (age 29, living w. london)
Jelliebaby DC2 14/02/2009 (AGE 29, Cheshire)
Loopylula DC2 14/02/2009 (age 28, Sussex)
Dinkymum DC2 14/02/2009 (age 28, Notts)
Francesrivis 15/02/2009 (age 38, Devon)
onwardandupward DC2 second week of Feb (age 35, south west)
Americas 16/02/2009 (age 32, London)
MrsThreads DC1 16/02/2009 (age 36, Cheshire)
shubiedoo DC3 17/02/2009 (age 37, Canada)
Pluto DC2 18/02/09 (age 38, Kent)
CassandraB DC1 18/02/09 (age 35, Hampshire)
Catstar DC2 18/02/09 (age 35, Surrey)
Ugg first baby due 18/02/09 (32, Cheshire)
Fruitstick DC2 19/02/2009 (age 32, London)
Imaginewittynamehere DC2 19/02/2009 (age 32, Cambs)
McDreamy DC3 19/02/2009 (age 37, Cyprus but will give birth in Bucks)
Dinkystinky DS2 19/2/09 (age 31, London)
DizzyBrummie DC2 17/02/2009 (age 36, Berks)
Rachrox DC3 20/02/2009 (age 28, Glos also!)
Calico1 DC2 21/02/2009 (age 40, West Herts)
Mentalpup DC2 21/02/09 (age 30, Glos)
Rosieposey DC4 21/02/09 (age 36, Wilts)
mrsy first baby due 22/02/09 (24, Maidstone, Kent)
scubagroover 22/02/09 (31, London)
Winemakesmummyclever 23/0/09 (age 34, Lancs)
Neeerly3 DC3 23/02/09 (age 32, Mansfield)
Mirry71 DC1 23/02/09 (london)
LardyBump 24/02/09
Spottyshoes DC2 24/02/09 (aged 28)
Chilledmama DC2 25/02/2009 (age 31, Hampshire
dd1ofcolandgerry DC2 25/02/2009
Cocodrillo DC3 26/02/2009 (age 34, south london)
MrsBick DC2 26/02/2009 (Age 25, living in Surrey)
charlie7 DC2 28/02/2009 (Age 33, living in the Inner Hebrides)
Babyignoramus DC1 27/02/2009 (age 27, Brighton)
Mumoverseas DC4 28/2/2009 (age 40, Saudi Arabia/West Sussex)
Blinamouse
Elkiedee
Nellstar TBC
zikel DC2 TBC (23, Coventry)
theSuburbanDryad DC2 (age 26, living in South Bucks)
Munteria DC2 (38,London)

v of you - I dont finish till end of January!

Question kid and markstretch ME TOO!!!! re: days of work left let me work mine out..... 36 oh thats not so bad at all really cannot wait for some me and bump time.

mslucy not so much ribache at the mo but have had a feeling like it when you feel like you cant breathe properly. The heartburn is constant! i use gaviscon but dont know whether rene are same its pretty good.

HI to everyone i know im not on that much but trying to keep up ! Any other 1st timers on here having panics about anyhting in particular i have a reoccuring nightmare/ thought that my baby wont like me

hope evryone is happy and healthy x

hi dinkystinky why so late with mat leave money i suppose, shame really i quite like the idea of being a sahm but know deep down we wont be able to afford it. If im honest i cant reallly afford to finish so early but having so much stress at work i said enough is enough, gotta look after my health, bugger it.

Littlesez - partly to do with money and partly to do with maximising the amount of time I actually get to spend with the baby (as only get 6 months mat leave want to spend as much of that with my boys as possible). I worked till 38 weeks when pregnant with DS (and he was then 2 weeks late) and was really busy, working stupid hours till the end. I'm now working on a fixed hours basis and only till 37 weeks so fingers crossed it should be ok.

dinkystinky yeh that makes sense more time with the babs, im fortunate coz i am self employed so i can call the shots about amount of time but will still boil down to money! boo hoo, im thinking january til june off(and have 2 weeks at xmas anyway) i can't imagine working at 38 weeks i wouldnt fit in my car for sure! my bellys getting close to the wheel now and im only 26 weeks. What job do you do? Do think its bad that women have to have so little time off and have to work so late in pregnancy to get precious baby time.

if i ruled the world i would let all pregnant ladies have whatever they wanted regarding maternity leave and anything really!

TBM made a good suggestion a few pages back about starting up a new due date list that's a bit more up to date because of all the people who don't seem to visit the thread anymore. Everyone up for it?

Good idea Questionkid- I think a few people have gone to January.

I'm pissed off with DD because she's fine now and wants to do cooking and playing etc. I've sent her to her room and told her she can come down at lunchtime because if she's too ill to go to school then she's too ill to spend the day playing and watching TV.

I don't like being stern but she has to understand. And I actually had quite a lot to do at work today!

Morning everyone

I finish at 34 weeks this time (on 19th December) and go back on 1st Dec next year ....can't wait.....everyones jaw dropped when I told them......

My main reason is to save on childcare as nursery fees will be about £1100 a month for 2 when I go back (for 3 days a week!)

I have to admit that I'm not cut out to be a SAHM and have no idea how on earth I'm going to cope

DD will still go to nursery for one day a week from Jan though - for a bit of continuity..

I'm up for doing a new list....shall we do it on a separate thread.....which we can also update when LOs start to arrive?

Hello all - will catch up on posts shortly - just the usual last minute panicking about the wedding but tis all good fun, cant believe im going to be a mrs by Saturday night! Glad everyone is doing ok :-) and there are no major dramas - lets keep it like that!

Aargh rosie - I remember that thought popping into my head and couldn't wait to be a 'mrs'. Was then v. cross that John didn't start off his speech "my wife and I..." but his speech was lovely and made most of our guests cry! Are you speaking, or leaving it up to the men-folk?

I second the list whatsit - can't believe we may have to start updating with actual baby details...

I'm currently temping so will work up to 38/39 weeks if I can [shock[, but may go down to 4 days a week or something...Just want all my time at home with buba instead of before, and as I get home a good 1.5 to 2 hours before John do get feet-up time in the evening.

littlesez I wish you did rule the world - that sounds gooood!

MS - I used to drive my mum mad with that, but things are often much worse first thing because of lack of sleep etc.

All's well here - had a lovely weekend chillaxin, and am very, very, happy that Heather had been booted off Strictly ! Getting thwacked up high and down low - was kicked in the lung the other day, but my main gripe is calf cramp at night - ouch it hurts ...

Just checking in for a quick catch up. Awful weather here today - been out to Rainbow Tots and got soaked. Just put DD down for a sleep - fingers crossed two hours - and and looking at the devastation in the kitchen. Shreddies dried on the floor from breakfast and bolognaise on the wall from lunch . What's it going to be like with 2 kids? Does your house ever recover?

Rosie - wishing you all the best for Saturday . Being a Mrs is great! I still think that my wedding day was the most fun day of my life - hope you have a great time. Just saw on your profile that you are expecting baby no. 4! Wow! Gives me hope that I might be able to manage 2.

Dinky - I'm also planning to stop work quite late - 2nd Feb is the plan at the moment. I'm due on 18th Feb and hoping to get as much of my maternity pay after the LO is born. This pg was a bit of a (nice) surprise so the finances aren't in great shape ...

Fingers crossed I will escape too much rib ache and heartburn this time round again. I am tall (5' 11") with a loooong body so I think the baby has plenty of room without causing me too much jip {hmm].

Sorry haven't caught up with everyone's posts yet. GOtta dash as supposed to be checking work emails .

Hope to catch up soon!

Hi catstar thanks for the well wishes to be fair my other babies arent really babies as between 16 and 11 so im sorta cheating really as all my girls will want to help out with our first boy !!!

Im not speaking as will literally die of embarressment - im so nervous already at the thought of walking up the isle in front of all 85 of our guests. DP is saying a poem he wrote for me instead of a second bible reading and i said to him that it was a promise that he'd ruin my makeup by doing that but hes still going to do it. The suits have just arrived for all of the ushers and ive been on the phone for a last min conflab with the florist ( reception is on an old fashioned steam train which is part of a really old restored wiltshire railway ) so it was a bit of a challenge to get the right look with the flowers as couldnt have big arrangements or anything as tables too small! Have gone for sweet looking gerberas swinging from vials in ribbons on the windows and as will be dark am putting lots of fairy lights in the larger arrangements so it should be v cosy and cute :-)

Cant deny that i am getting very excited now - will miss all the planning when its over but there is Christmas then Mine and DP's birthdays in Januray then our boy will be here at the beginning of Feb so its been quite an eventful pregnancy!

Weather here horrid too - got absolutely soaked and blown to bits at firework display on Saturday - fingers crossed for no rain on Saturday pleeeeeease!

Er just read that back and realised how wrong blown to bits looked at a firework display! Suffice to say i am not guy fawkes and i meant that it was really really windy

So I guess we just start the new due date list off by adding our names to it one by one, like this?:

Questionkid, DC1, due 3.2.09 (Age 33, Wallington, Surrey)

Laidbackinengland, DC4, due 23.01.09 (age 34, North Devon)
Questionkid, DC1, due 3.2.09 (Age 33, Wallington, Surrey)

Good luck with your lst minute plans Rosie - hope it is all fabulous on Saturday ...don't forget to put some photos up for us to see somewhere.

Catstar - any more than 1 child can be chaos !! My 3 are all very different - but DS3 is by far the messiest and if there is a bit of food to be thrown somewhere then it will be him doing the throwing. One time I went to a friends house and she said very tactfully 'oh,I've never noticed before, hasn't he got an unusual ear?' - when we looked he had got a sweet stuck to it which he had obviously then slept on and it had folded his ear up and stuck it together, so it looked rather deformed. How we laughed !

I am having a very productive day....nesting nesting nesting. I have sorted out lots of baby clothes for the new baby and realised I have tons. Four years ago I was told DS2 was a going to be a girl and bought lots of girly things then (mostly off ebay), when he was born he was obviously not a boy and I kept hold of most of that and have lots of stuff from friends with girls . I'm sure she wont have a chance to wear half of it .

Laidbackinengland, DC4, due 23.01.09 (age 34, North Devon)
Questionkid, DC1, due 3.2.09 (Age 33, Wallington, Surrey)
Swampster, DS3, due 6.2.09 (Age 40 , London)

Not wishing to be the voice of dissent but I think that lots of the ladies who were on originally come back to post again nearer their delivery date (when on maternity leave and starting to go stir crazy) so may be a tad harsh to start a new due date list and evict them all...

LittleSez - am a lawyer. Fortunately my commute into work isnt too bad (change tube lines once and always demand a seat) and trip home (12 min train then 20 minute walk) will be doable up to that stage - though agree it would be lovely if we could just take as long off on maternity leave as we wanted!

Ooh, Rosie - just saw you're on the thread again. Hope all the wedding preparations are going well. Is there such a thing as an anti-rain dance? If there is will be more than happy to do it for you.

DH told me this morning that I resemble a fertility goddess (think this was his attempt to end the sex drought...) - told him that was slightly better than DS's description of mummy as a space hopper and rather killed the moment...

You snooze, you lose!

I put hours into these threads!

Laidbackinengland, DC4, due 23.01.09 (age 34, North Devon)
Questionkid, DC1, due 3.2.09 (Age 33, Wallington, Surrey)
Swampster, DS3, due 6.2.09 (Age 40 , London)
MarkStretch, DC2 (a boy) due 7/2/08 (Age 29, Norwich)

Lol at being called a space hopper Dinky! My DS thinks that DH also has a baby in his tummy as his tummy is almost as big as mine (maybe it'll persuade him to lose a bit of weight).

A good friend of mine had her second baby last night - unexpectedly at home after only an hour's labour! Baby girl is fine after being delivered by a paramedic and the baby's dad, but what a shocker!

Rosie - just read your post about the reception - sounds fab! Hope it all goes well for you whatever the weather!

Tee hee, love the forthright attitude MS, I agree! As I always used to say in my drinking days (they'll be back!), move your feet, lose your seat.

Ahhh, we're being harsh aren't we dinky? It's very nice of you to think of all the people who might come back, but I would say that there's enough regulars on here that would be more than happy to give a gentle reminder to people who've dropped off to put themselves back on when we see them popping back up in the thread?

MS - you're a bit overdue m'dear, you might want to think about being induced. (Check out your due date...)

Rosieposey - I'll keep my fingers crossed for no rain for you. Your do sounds really lovely, you're going to have such a great day.

Thanks laidback, its all really starting to take shape now but am finding that i am having to stay at home all the time waiting on deliverys and things.

Lmao @dinky's DH oh that is so sweet and id have probably just given in because he deserves 10/10 for effort - bit of a drought here too still but hey its our honeymoon next week and im hoping no kids,cats,dog or stress might get me a little more in the mood. Have to say its a bit disconcerting though when your tummys jumping all over the place.

Thanks too Calico - im watching the long range weather forcast but everyone knows they are shite so probably will pee down - hey at least im organised and bought a pack of 5 bridal umbrellas (sad i know). But will def post some pics i promise, love the idea of a wintery evening wedding on a train being pulled along by an old fashioned steam engine, it was either that or a castle and as i am neither madonna nor very rich we went with the first

Thats quite scary (only an hours labour) I have never once gone into labour natrually as was induced with everyone of my girls and although i have this CS booked its on the last day of my 37th week which is the latest ive ever had a baby ( is usually more towards the beginning of that week )im really worried that ill go into labour and not realise till its too late - obstetrician said if i do to get in quickly for an emergency CS but i reckon with your 4th its easier said than done - oh well will have to just keep fingers ( and legs ) crossed till the sixth - which reminds me, will add my name to the list with revised due date!