Due Fab Feb 2009: crossed fingers (and legs) we'll get through another thread without welcoming any early arrivals!

[MarkStretch]

Welcome.

Please feel free to add yourself to the list.

TinkerBellesMum - DC3 (girl), due: 01.02.09 (not expected to get far into December) (age 27, Birmingham)
Laidbackinengland - DC4, due: 23.01.09 (age 34, North Devon)
Nkweto - DC2, due: 30.01.09 (age 35, West London)
Mamagoose - DC3, due: 31.01.09 (age 32, Spain)
Questionkid - DC1, due: 03.02.09 (age 33, Wallington, Surrey)
PinkTulips - DC3, due; 04.02.09 (age 24, Roscommon, Ireland)
MsLucy - DC2 (a boy), due: 4/2/09 (CS a few days early)(age 38, North London)
Swampster - DC3, (a boy), due: 06.02.09 (age 40 , London)
Rosieposey - DC4, (a boy) due: 06.02.09 (age 36,Swindon,Wiltshire)
MarkStretch - DC2, (a boy) due: 07.02.09 (age 29, Norwich)
onwardandoutward - DC2, due: 07.02.09 (age 35 South West)
LittleMissNorty - DC2, due: 08.02.09 (age 40 in a couple of weeks, Kent).
KT1983 - DC1, due: 09.02.09 (age 25, London)
KazzaL - DC2 (suprise flavour), due 10.02.09 (age 35, Cirencester, Gloucs)
herbgarden - DC2, due: 11.02.09 (CS 02.02.09) (age 38, Berkshire)
TheHouseofMirth - DC2, (a boy) due: 12.02.09 (age 38, Wimbledon)
Littlesez ? DC1 (a girl) due: 15.02.09 (age 28, Manchester)
America - DC2, (a boy) due: 16.02.09 (age 32, London)
Rachrox - DC4, (a boy) due: 18.02.09 (age 28, Cheltenham)
Catstar - DC2, (a boy) due: 18.02.09 (age 36, Chessington)
Dinkystinky - DC2, (a boy) due: 19.02.09 (age 32, London)
Pluto DC2 (gender unknown), due 19.02.09 (Age 38, Kent)
DizzyBrummie - DC2, due: 20.02.09 (age 36, Berkshire)
Calico1 - DC2 due: 21.02.09 (age 40, West Herts)
mrsy - DC1, (a girl) due: 22.02.09 (age 24, Maidstone, Kent
Scubagroover - DC1 (a boy), due: 22.02.09 (age 31, London/ Kent)
Winemakesmummyclever - DC2 (a boy), due: 23.02.09. (age 35, Manchester) expecting cs @ 39 weeks.
Spottyshoes - DC2, due: 24.02.09 (age 28)
Lardybump - DC2, due: 24.02.09 (age 34)
Chilledmama - DC2 (a girl), due: 25.02.09 (age 32, Southsea)
Cocodrillo - DC3, due 26.02.09 (age 34 at the mo, London) expecting a CS at 38-39 weeks.
mumoverseas - DC4 (a boy), due: 28.02.09 (CS 2 to 3 weeks early) (age almost 41 Arabia/Crawley West Sussex)

Ooooh cool, I'd love to come to a meet up!

She's 6. At her parents evening they said she was reading way above her age [proud] but that her maths needed some work, exactly like me throughout school unfortunately.

I feel your pain THOM. In our little tiny spare room, soon to be baby's room, we have a cot in boxes, a mattress, a spare chest of drawers, a buggy in boxes, bags of clothes, all my work files, computer and printer. Oh and 3 clothes airers.

I can't move for STUFF!

Anyone else got restless legs?

Yeap. Spending all my evenings wiggling, kicking and jerking. Nothing helps. It's pants.

It's not just all the stuff MS, it's the fact I'd been holding off doing it in the belief that before I can sort, wash and put away the stuff I need to move the chest of drawers into our bedroom and before we do that we have to finish decorating our bedroom which means ordering and fixing skirting boards and coving, and much more problematically, actually agreeeing on a colour for the walls. I now can't imagine much of that happening in time. I just keep reminding myself that the baby won't care but I feel myself geting wound up by it as before I had DS I was incredibly anal about stuff. Obviously since I had him I've had to let go a lot but my hormones are making it hard for me to relax!

Yup - I've got restless legs too. A sure sign that I need to go to bed right now! BHs seem to have started too this week - much earlier than with ds.

On the accumulation of stuff front, dh has allegedly cleared out some of the stuff that is in our shared study (soon to be nursery). You really cannot tell. We haven't even brought the baby stuff up from the cellar yet!

He has a week off in mid-Dec where I will work him like a dog to try and get things (i.e. his desk and associated crapola) shifted and the walls painted. Then I am going to get some big stickers to liven up the walls. Saw a really sweet rocket light fitting in B&Q last weekend that I was so tempted to get, but may choose this theme instead. ( are rockets too "old" for babies?!? ) Ds has the jungle ones up in his room and loves them. I am going to keep my desk in the nursery for the time being - will be handy to be near the lo when I am working.

Righty-ho - am going to obey the orders of my jumpy legs and get to bed. Sleep well all

THOM - I know what you mean about having everything perfect for when your first baby arrived, then feeling guilty because your priorities have changed so much by the time the time # 2 arrives that you just don't have the time/energy to get every little thing perfect all over again. Thankfully, we only have the one room to do.

You could always slap a bit of magnolia on your bedroom walls and commit to another colour next time you decorate or just have one wall in a "feature" colour to alleviate a bit of the stress. Hope you get it sorted to your satisfaction before the lo arrives.

We made a decision not to recarpet/redecorate the stairs & landings when we moved here as we knew ds was on the way. Don't particularly like it, but it is good quality stuff and it is just easier to know that ds (& now this next little man) can trash it to a certain degree, obviously, and I won't get stressed over my lovely new stuff.

Definitely off to bed now . Think the wee man is playing the guitar or something tonight - it feels like he is strumming on my abdominal wall

Night night WMMC, Hope your legs go to sleep soon!

Not been on all week felt like poo and stressed so having a mope! I have just got in from regional competition with kids from work. Took 84 cheerleaders to blackpool for championships , we won 5 trophies!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Seniors 1st, juniors 3rd and 5th, little uns 4th and mums group 2nd!
What a day but my god tiring, babs didnt move around at all, i think she was in there hiding with her hands over her ears! now shes wriggling around like mad.

Swampy just checked facebook, sounds positive, been thinking about you all week xx

You've all been very quiet today. We must have all picked the same day to be very busy.
Nothing to say, just needed to bump this back to the top of my list as been on a few threads and this one is bout to fall of my screen and I can't have that!
Hope all's well with everyone.

Sorry I?ve not been around, I left a message in Facebook just in case you were wondering if I was having another weekend in hospital I?ve just had connection problems, but I?m at my parents for the weekend so on at their house.

Honestly, it?s not about being brave, if I thought about things then I would be a wreck and if I wasn?t then that would be brave. I don?t let things sink in enough for them to worry me. I?ve been through four pregnancies now and none of them have been OK so I?m not expecting anything less. With no big expectations I?m able to just deal with what comes. I think we all do the same at some point with different things. When it?s all over I will probably take complete advantage of Day Three, sob my heart out for a few days and get it all out. I do have the odd time when I let a bit out when I?m feeling too stressed to be matter of fact about things.

Mrsy, get your DH to talk really low down on your bump (i.e. where you want her head) as she should move towards the familiar voice. You could also try ice on your ribs. I hate the kicks you get when baby is breech, especially at this stage, I?m just glad FiFi has been mostly in the birth position for the last six weeks.

KT, the lining will be fine if they?re fitted (if anything like ours so fitted they?re a pain to get on and off). The cover I would only put on to make it look pretty when there?s no baby in TBH, stick to the grobags. Don?t worry about mothering instinct; it?s pretty much all obvious anyway when you?re actually there doing it. BTW Tink was in a Moses until she was 11 months old. One day I could hear ?Oy!? I rolled over and she was standing up holding on to the edge looking over at me! I never put her back in it as I was scared she?d fall out. You?re right about routine, for a while you just go with the flow then after six weeks they start to naturally follow one without needing much imput.

I couldn?t do routine, I like being able to just do things when I feel like it. I used to just go for walks into town when I felt like it and I knew I didn?t have to worry about fitting in with her routine. I?d stick her in the sling and go out, I?d shuffle her around when she was hungry, change her in the baby change, we?d chat when she was awake? I?d go mad if I couldn?t go out because it wouldn?t fit in with her routine.

BTW, don?t use the hands and feet to test the temperature of a baby, they?re always cold and if you use it as a guide you will risk over heating the baby. Better a cold baby than an over heated one.

MOS, my aunty had a baby when her first son was in secondary school. Whilst heavily pregnant she had to see the head one day when his class was on duty (you know where the class has a week where it runs errands and greets visitors) he met her at the desk and spoke to her like he didn?t know her, so she spoke to him very loudly by his name and using ?mum? in the sentence

I agree with you about Maggie, she will be remembered for some of the stupid things she did which is a shame because she also did some really good things too, like overhauling the police. Tony Blair will never be remembered for what he did in Ireland, how many centuries did it take for a PM to do something about it? He will only be remembered for the mistakes. It?s how history is written sadly. I?m sure Maggie had good practice being the mother of twins, it?s probably why she only had four hours sleep, she got so used to it looking after two babies!

I don?t worry about TBD dressing Tink as he gives her a choice and she has very good taste!

Morning all.

I must have been tired last night, I realised I laid in the same position for 5 hrs straight.

I think I must be flat on one side now.

Morning.
I know what you mean TBM my general motto for life is 'expect the worst, hope for the best'.
Also agree with the testing of temp. I'm sure ds was freezing cold all last winter, and this one but much prefer that he a bit chilly at night than a bit hot.
Dp has just managed to talk me into not using the monitors now, in a flat like this there isn't really a need as can hear him from bedroom, but I'm still back and forth through the night checking his breathing and poking my finger down his top.

agree about chacking the hands for temp.... both my 2 inheritated my icey hands and feet and if i were to judge their temp by them they'd be wrapped in 20 layers at all times and probably still have cold hands! it's easier now they can just tell me if they're hot or cold but when they were tiny i did spend alot of time checking their torsos to see if they were ok.

had a rough night last night..... weird pain all through the bump... not like contractions just sort of a constant wave of pain ebbing and flowing. tried having a shower to ease it but it didn't do a thing ad i eneded up crawling into bed at 10 and trying to sleep through it. was still going when dp came in at 4am and woke me but seems to have eased today. baby is moving around loads though so some reassurance there at least.

MS... i'm 24 and still can't grasp why my money won't stretch to all the things i want

PT, hope you ok. I had a bad night with the BH last night, at least I think that's what it was, starting low and ebbing upwards every 10mins or so.
My ds has really cold hands too, all of the time and I wonder if he's getting enough iron? I always used to worry in the early days about it coz cold hands a feet being a symptom of the big M.

I too have pain in my bump but fell on it last night trying to grab at DS before he hurled himself backwards off the bed mid tantrum. He is poorly today too Really clingy and does nothing but want to sleep on me. Unfortunately the child does not understand that I need to get up to pee every 20mins and I have all the housework & cooking to do whilst my fuckwit darling husband has buggered off out. Well he can go hungry

Oh spotty, you ok? Baby moving alright?

Oh dear you poorly bump people.

Could it be stretching do you think? They are getting pretty big now and taking up a lot of room.

I was just in the supermarket and walked down the cleaning aisle. There was a strong smell of polish, the kind you clean your shoes with, and I started salivating.

I almost licked the shelf. Oh god I'm salivating again now just thinking about it....

Slurp.

ouch spotty.... are you ok? if you got a bang to the bump and it's still hurting maybe you should ring the mw just to be on the safe side? your poor ds being sick, hope he feels better later and gives you a bit of peace.... could you wait til he falls asleep on you and manuvere yourself out without waking him and let him sleep on the couch for the day or is he popping awake everytime you breathe like my dd used to?

lbb.... i don't think iron has anything to do with it because me and the kids have freezing hands even when our iron is ok. just crappy circulation i think.

Hi everyone

Hope all those poorly bumps feel better soon.....Spotty, is baby moving ok? Perhaps should ring MW?

Had my 4D scan this morning....it was lovely. Baby is head down. Looks uncannily like DD - have put a picture of each of FB.

Make me very impatient now....especially as straight afterwards I went round and cuddled my 3 week old neice

Just polished off 2 bacon rolls, 3 biscuits and 2 mince pies ....this baby weight is going to be difficult to shift!

30 weeks today ....better think about organising myself I suppose and see what I need

Hi all, hope you have had a nice weekend. Im back from the midlands & home with my PJ's on already
Rubbish weather outside - decided a great day to chill out & eat Pizza

LittleMiss Norty-Just seen the 4D pics - Im very Jealous - I really want one now! hmmm....maybe I should!!

Have a nice Sunday evening all

Would definitely recommend it KT - best done before 32 weeks though....although I had NO problem booking an appointment for today only last Thursday.....can tell its not the NHS

MS How strange, although I do like that smell.

PT Was just thinking maybe it had something to do with lack of oxygen in the blood, but I'm sure it's not, he eats well, just thinking out loud(ish).

KT I'm very jealous, I want a pizza. Dp's being a tight arse though. Roll on child benefit day!

LMN Popping over to FB in a while so will have a little look.

Ouch Spotty - hope you are ok. Get the slightest little niggle checked out if things don't settle down. Hope ds is on the mend soon too.

LMN - is that you lo with the chubby cheeks on the scan? Adorable. Talked myself out of getting a 4d scan, but really want one again having seen that pic!

LBB - I am making dh take us out for tea (anything as long as I don't have to cook) as he's been away all weekend with the lads, so I have effectively had ds on my own since Thursday am. Dh also has a long long list of jobs waiting for him to keep him occupied on his day off tomorrow (evil ) That'll teach him to bugger off and enjoy himself - mwahahaha!

I've told dp that when CB money comes through, I'm getting a whole KFC big night in bucket all to myself whether he likes it or not!!

LOL at markstretch's shoe polish moment. You weird pregnant lady, you. wanders off to eat 43rd banana of the day

I've had the occasional really uncomfortable growth spurt day - where the skin is stretched tight tight tight but I'm starving all day as well. But not aches in the bump and no BH at all yet [smug]. I know I'm a stuck record, but the Alexander Technique stuff is really really really helping with bump ache. There's a tendon along the bottom+front of our bumps, and if we can get our necks and backs working freely, then that tendon just carries the weight of the bump and we don't pull anything in our abdomens, which might well be what some of the bump discomfort it. I've not got a vena nigra yet this time, and I'm sure it's because that tendon is doing its thing where it wasn't last time (so I'm not getting separation of my stomach muscles, which is what causes the vena nigra, I think) [more smugness]