Due Dec 08 -- Getting Ready for final push (in every sense!)

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Here's a new thread for us all lovely Dec Mums!

P.S. On the subject of cravings (kayz pizza - yum!) I am having the weirdest one ever at the moment. With DD I was TOTALLY into plain bars of Cadbury's Dairy Milk. This time round I can't eat it because - get this - it tastes of chlorine! So what am I craving?

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Lettuce!
Mini gem lettuces.

I swear I've eaten about eight of them since Tuesday. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Anyone know what this means? (Apart from me turning into a rabbit, I mean.)

Good morning Verso! You must be living on Australia time too Sorry to hear about yr troubles finding a good night nanny - you'd think with 3 at least one of them would have gotten back to you! Have you thought about starting up a separate thread on mumsnet to ask others if they know of anyone good? Hopefully if that doesn't work out then you'll at least be able to sort the day help.

kays that's good they check you there too for PND. I had to do a big questionaire here when I booked in to the hospital, and almost every time I have an appt they remind me that if I'm feeling 'low' there's a number on my card to call. I'm not sure about after-checks but I assume this would happen at the post-natal appt. Thanks for the advice about babies often sleeping well the first night too, I wouldn't have guessed that, but it makes sense really.

I'm just about to go out shopping to get some stuff for dinner - I bought some really nice white fish yesterday so I'm going to make my own goujons & tartare + sweet & normal potato wedges and perhaps some homemade mushy peas for my hubby (who loves em, but you can't buy them here).

We're going to need a new thread soon too, anyone want to volunteer a new thread name?

Morning,

No ideas for new name I'm afraid. I slept all night for the first time in ages. But I dreamt I was in labour and it was so real. So I was really disappointed when I woke up.

I will be posting my secret stork today! I promise I will remember to do it. I really love what I have got my secret stork so I might have to buy one for myself too.

Bisou I was just reading your post and I thought 'going shopping at 20 to 6' and then I remembered that it wasn't 20 to 6 over there.

My friend had her baby boy at 1.15 this morning. 9lb 10oz, called Elliott. Can't wait to go and see them later today and then DS is insisting on having a picnic tea party...outside

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Bisou what about once we pop we cant stop. Or where is enchanted she had some excellent christmassy ones.

Katie thats fantastic news.

I have been getting sime very horrid cramps in my bump tis not contractions but it feels like someone is stqabbing a hot poker through my belly generally in the middle of the night - bloody painful. But amazing sleep last night went to bed at 10.30 and didnt wake till 4!

JJ see the power of mumsnet and people kindly offering to eat ice cream for you.

SL is your DH mad cycling at 10pm!

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Congratulations for your friend Katie.

I can't wait until the next baby is born.

jam LOL at peeing peas !

Veggie genius move eating icecream and solving JJ's problem ! If anyone else has a problem am very willing to try eating icecream for them

chutney LOL at 'ceremonial bonfire' - I had been looking forward to wearing old clothes (eventually) but then remembered that I'll have to wear BF-friendly tops for a long time (assuming BF works out ok).... any ideas ? I have some nursing vests with the wee clips on them for easy access, anything people can advise to protect my modesty ?...

Katie congrats to your friend - ouch, big baby !

Well I had an episode of the 'runs' last night... given that I am on iron tablets and have been suffering from the opposite problem I was convinced I was going to go into labour during the night - every twinge or tiny cramp was being analyzed ! However, so far nothing else to suggest baby on the way. Is the runs thing supposed to last for a few days or would I expect things to kick off soon afterwards?.... Off to see MW this morning so I'll find out if the pressure down below is an engaged head

Mibbes It is meant to last a few days, something to do with the hormone being produced that makes you have contractions.

I also read that it is the baby that decides when to come out. They produce a hormone that gets into your blood stream which then makes you produce the hormone that starts labour. I'm going to start pleading with him now.

Mibbes: re nursing clothes, you don't need anything special. Vest tops under loose tops work well, you hoick the top one up and the bottom one down IYSWIM. In the winter I'd be less worried about flashing my norks than exposing my tummy. Also pj tops or nighties either with strappy tops or buttons are good for night feeds (and lounging around in bed).

Veggie: am also popping out of maternity tops, bought some large and comfy clothes from Gap to tide me over the last weeks .

Verso: glad you have the postnatal doula sorted, sounds a very good idea (someone to look after you rather than just the baby). I was thinking seriously about hiring a doula this time round, but we can't really afford it so haven't. The thing I'm worried about is going into labour on Xmas Day - it's the one day our emergency childcare can't cover so if things move too fast for MIL to get here (she's about 100 miles away) I'll be without a birth partner as DH will be looking after Willliam. Hopefully that won't happen.

Morning, I can't believe we're nearly through this thread already - it seems like it only just started (just checked and it is only 3 weeks old). And we have 2, hopefully 3, babies already as well. I like jams suggestion of once we pop we can't stop, but I remember enchanted's made me laugh too (but just can't remember what they were). Although at this rate, we'll need at least 2 more to get us to Christmas ...

I've also noticed increased frequency of poos, but mine are still solid. I assumed its cause babyZJ is squashing my stomach so I can't store as much in there these days - I hope it's not a sign that he's coming - I'm only 35 weeks, still at work and haven't packed my hospital bag yet - aargh, guess what I'm doing this weekend?!

how about...
Christmas is coming...the Dec ladies have got all fat...time to have our babies...the novelty's worn flat!

Morning all,

Sorry no time to do a proper catch-up but hope everybody's well.

Off to the South Coast for the weekend this morning - birthday tomorrow. Just been googling maternity units nearby in case (38 weeks on Monday) - scary!

On the toilet front, I didn't realise that you were supposed to go more frequently in the few days before. My bowels went on strike for a few days before DS arrived - quite a present for the midwife on the delivery table I can tell you...

Thanks for the link to the mattress stuff by the way Bisou - funnily enough that was last night's insomnia fodder so it was very useful.

Anyway, must dash - have a good weekend everyone. I wonder how many more babies there'll be when I get back on Monday.

Morning All - What are you all doing with your maternity leave? This is day two, and DD is in childcare, so I could do anything - but what I am doing is sitting on the sofa MNing and watching Jeremy Kyle. Is that justified or lazy? Yesterday I lay around all day except for one quick trip to the shops where I brought ingrediants for a lovely dinner. However, I never got round to cooking it. When DH got home from his whole day's work he cooked it while I watched TV! Then he cleared up while I went to bed. I am such a slattern and DH is a saint.

Justified Arti!!!

Cat- i am really sweaty, it is bad eough how much i seem to smell lately without sweating profusely during the night.

Having frequent bowel opening now too not happy veggiebaby must wait in there until monday. To make matters worse apparently, on sunday when we are planning to drive back, snow has been predicted. Oh well if it kicks off in London i'm going to Tommies a friend works there she won't be on shift but will drag her along, she delivered DS so will be good for this one too.

but it is not going to happen just have to keep thinking that.

I think my December title idea was...

Due Dec 08 - Christmas inductions ... The Holly and The I.V.

Can you believe that on the next thread we will all be typing birth announcements!!!!!

Yippppeee!!!

Im getting soooo excited now!!

Morning everyone!

CatDean I've been having the night sweats as well. Not sure what that's all about. But I usually wake up and have soaked through whatever I am wearing.

chutney I am also frustrated with the maternity clothes. The one pair of jeans that fit me the best are starting not to fit anymore. The bump band has become really tight and uncomfortable. I'm also starting to have the same issue as veggie with the bump sticking out from under my shirts. I feel like I am constantly pulling down on my shirt. But I don't want to spend any extra money on clothes at this point.

katie Congrats to your friend. Glad she had the baby finally!

Can't believe we are almost through this thread!!

I do like that one Enchanted!!!

DS is having one of those days where he is driving me around the wall!!!

Morning all, am feeling a lot more cheery this morning (only just got up which probably helps!). I'll add ice cream to my shopping list in case anyone else needs the magic touch

katie congrats to your friend, lovely name! We haven't started that job either, not even any shortlists. All that happens is I say "Ooh Hamble's a nice name" and H vetoes it, then he says "What about Rumpelstiltskin?" and I say no. So we know plenty of names we don't like!

cravings for lettuce sound great - as long as you're not covering them in mayo but what a shame about not being able to eat chocolate any more

Frankie Boyle was very good (but massively late, didn't start til 10.30 so I was only just awake!) and completely merciless with hecklers, I think he went a bit far. The routine was pretty funny though, he kept trying things out and saying "Oh so that's where the bar is in Cambridge, well I'll be getting lower soon!" eg a joke about Kerry Katona was fine, but diss Stephen Hawking and you're in big trouble! He was asking the guys in the front rows what they did for a living and had about 8 software engineers and a statistician - in fact at one point it was brilliant, he asked the stats guy what he was working on and it was clearly not very funny as he said "I seem to have stepped hip deep into a comedy pothole with this guy" - we were in the third rown so I was vvv glad he didn't get as far as us, he'd have ripped the p*ss out of me for being a librarian!

Or how about "Oh come all ye babies, poo-ful and triumphant"? (I've got a big book of carols upstairs so can come up with plenty more if needed...!)

right i'm off to class hopefully catch up some tonight

jj: I love Frankie Boyle but would have been v scared in a live gig! I'm an archivist, which may have even more piss-taking value...

Love the thread title suggestions, too brain dead to think of any myself so I leave it to the rest of you to decide . You have about 30 posts left...

Oooh Effie we can talk classification and other stuff! Can you say anything about your archive without giving too much away? I work in a very large university library (cryptic... not!) which is fab, we get lots of readers but also lots of researchers so a really interesting bunch of people. My first job was in an archive of theatre history which was great fun, fanstatsic material to be working on, except that I only had one coilleague, who didn't like talking much, and cataloguing all day with no conversation... email was my saviour!

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