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

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Beans33 · 01/12/2008 13:54

Here's a new link for us all - think it needed doing asap as running out of space!!

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traceface · 08/12/2008 12:29

am I the only person who would not have a clue how to make curtains/fitted sheets/re-usable nappies/jammie dodgers...?! Am feeling very un-domesticated in your presence!

traceface · 08/12/2008 12:33

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Bisou · 08/12/2008 12:35

December 08 Due List

LadyOfTheFlowers due 30/11 DC#3
badkitty due 01/12 DC#1
twinkle183 due 01/12 DC#3
pwcbird due 01/12 DC#2
rosmerta due 02/12 DC#2 - Homebirth/West Mid, W London
RawChocolate due 02/12 DC#3
melissa72 due 02/12 DC#1
modernlove due 03/12 DC#1
Doozie due 3/12 DC#1
penny99 due 3/12 DC#1
goneundergroundtillfamilyknow due 04/12 DC#3
Hanni22anni due 04/12 DC#2
BrightShinySun due 05/12 DC#2
Nolda due 05/12 DC#2 Princess Anne, Southampton, (BOY!)
majormoo due 06/12 DC#3 - Royal Sussex, Brighton
elenamaesmummy due 07/12 DC#2
jenduck due 07/12 DC#1
Ebs26 due 07/12 DC#1 - Darent Valley, Kent, (GIRL!)
hiccymapops due 07/12 DC#2, (BOY!)
toratora due 08/12 DC#3
Mina30 due 08/12 DC#2
JezzaJ9 due 08/12/08 - Hope, Manchester
JamInMyWellies due 09/12 DC#2 - St Johns, Chelmsford
Natalie537 due 09/12 DC#2, (GIRL!)
hennaly due 09/12 DC#7
Artichokes due 10/12 DC#2, London, (GIRL!)
Kmp1 scheduled c/s 10/12 (due 17/12) DC#1, London (BOY!)
Webbi due 11/12 DC#1
Bisou due 12/12 DC#1, Australia, (BOY!)
fishnchips due 12/12 DC#3
Jackstini due 12/12 DC#2
kayzisexpecting due 12/12 DC#2, Malton, North Yorks, (BOY!)
Alliebongo due 12/12 DC#3 - West Suffolk
KutilPutil due 13/12 DC#2
traceface due 13/12 DC#2
cococat due 14/12 DC#1
pootleflump due 14/12 DC#2
monkeydops due 15/12 DC#2
Veggiemummy due 15/12 DC#2 - Homebirth, Derby, (BOY!)
abbymeg scheduled c/s 15/12 (due 21/12) DC#2 - St James, Leeds, (BOY!)
hotmama scheduled c/s 15/12 (due 21/12) DC#3 - Nottingham City Hospital
Jollybear scheduled c/s 15/12 (due 26/12) DC#1
bunnysgirl due 16/12 DC#2
chinchi due 17/12 DC#2 - Calderdale Royal, Halifax
Purple79 due 17/12 DC#1 - St Thomas', London, (GIRL!)
IceCube due 18/12 DC#1 - Homebirth, Cheshire
snorris due 18/12 DC#5, (GIRL!)
SummerLightning due 18/12 DC#1 - Addenbrookes, Cambridge, (BOY!)
Twiga/okaythen scheduled c/s 18/12 (due 26/12) DC#3
moaningminnie2020 due 20/12 DC#2
reban due 20/12 DC#4
Ninii due 20/12 DC#2
Indith due 20/12 DC#2 - Homebirth, Durham
RhinestoneCowgirl/MaeWest due 21/12 DC#2 - Homebirth, Bristol
waitinggirl due 21/12 DC#1 - Whittington, London
preggiejane due 21/12 DC#1
georgiepig due 22/12 DC#2
NineUnlikelyTales due 22/12 DC#2
hattyyellow due 22/12 DC#3 (GIRL?)
Turniphead1 due 24/12 DC#3 - St John & Elizabeth's, N London
zoejeanne due 24/12 DC#1 - Scarborough
HollyMiranda due 24/12 DC#1 - Chelsea & Westminster
anjlix due 24/12 DC's#1&2 - St Thomas', London (TWIN GIRLS!)
Missmama due 25/12 DC#3 - Birmingham Heartlands
EnchantedWithEdwardCullen/DisenchantedPlusBump due 25/12 DC#3
kitkat9 due 25/12 DC#3
Annagt due 25/12 DC#1
strikey due 25/12 DC#2
GettingBiggerBird due 25/12 DC's#2&3 - Homerton, London (GIRL & BOY!)
purplepansy due 25/12 DC#3
PinguRocks due 25/12 DC#1 - St Thomas', London
Lowrib due 25/12 DC#1 - Homerton, London
mybumpsaboy due 25/12 DC#1, (BOY!)
tm2 due 26/12 DC#1
GordontheGopher due 26/12 DC#2
LitterBug due 26/12 DC#3
Crazycatlady due 26/12 DC#1 - Homebirth/St Thomas', London
Olipop due 27/12 DC#2 - West Middlesex, London
simmo14 due 27/12 DC#2, (GIRL!)
rowergirl due 27/12 DC#2
CatDean due 27/12 DC#1 - Homebirth/Homerton, London
feb due 28/12 DC#2
babblington due 29/12 DC#3
emmanbump due 29/12 DC#1
Kimberly1979 due 29/12 - St. John's and Lizzies (BOY!)
EffiePerine due 30/12 DC#2 - Homerton, London (BOY!)
march29 due 31/12 DC#2
TheInvisibleHand due 31/12 DC#2 - Royal Free, London

kayzisexpecting · 08/12/2008 12:36

Trace, that is horrible. I would never dream of saying that to someone. I feel so sorry for the poor parents.

I can't make hardly anything either. I do have a sewing machine though so I might have to learn.

abbymeg · 08/12/2008 12:38

Trace that's an awful thing to ask!

Bisou · 08/12/2008 12:40

trace what a horrible thing to say! I certainly don't think it's something to ask a heavily pregnant woman. If she was sensible she should have just asked how you were.

And believe me, I'd rather not be sewing all this stuff, it's only because it's cheaper for us that we're doing it this way. If it makes you feel any better I cooked cookies today - by getting some of that premade cookie dough and whacking it in the oven! hehe

Domesticity is overrated.

kayzisexpecting · 08/12/2008 12:40

What would she have done if it had been you? Honestly some people!

Bisou · 08/12/2008 12:42

(ps: just re-read that and should have clarified it was a horrible thing for her to say)

Bisou · 08/12/2008 12:50

I have a list question -

How long do you all think is a reasonable amount of time to wait until taking any overdue Dec ladies off the 'due' list? 3 weeks? I don't think they'd let anyone go that far past their due date would they?

In a way it's good as we'll eventually just be going off the new 'births' list when we move to the postnatal thread, so that will cull down the list of anyone who is no longer participating/posting.

Anyway just thought I'd get your thoughts on it.

Turniphead1 · 08/12/2008 13:26

Just a quick one to say "WTF!!!" about the woman on Facebook who said that to Trace. Dear God. A - if it was you, God forbid, I doubt you would be surfing Facebook - and if you were on it might be unlikely to say "oh yeah that was me"

And as it wasn't and is unlikely to be - you really don't want to be thinking / hearing about such things. I would send back a REALLY strongly worded message saying that I would have thought that someone who works in the maternity field would have more sensitivity (and common sense) to send such a message. Sorry, I am so incensed. And the poor poor woman whose little baby it was.

artichokes · 08/12/2008 13:31

Congrats Beans - that was quick. Can't wait to hear whole story.

Trace - what a stupid insensitive woman. Is she normally such an idiot?

Bisou - I would take people off the list after 2-3 weeks (maybe 2 if they never post, 3 if they are regulars).

Well after yesterday's momentary excitment nothing is happening here. Baby is due on Wednesday - am I the first person on this thread who is going to go overdue?

EffiePerine · 08/12/2008 13:53

Trace: that is appalling. As Turnip says, there is no situation where a message like that on Facebook is the right thing to do.

Kayz: take care out there

Arti: we do seem to be having a run of early babies! I'm kind of assuming this one will be early, but need to keep reminding myself that it's entirely possible I'll still be here mid-Jan.

Am also amazed people can make cot sheets. I can just about manage knitting and crochet but sewing is beyond me. Am hoping to get some baking time on ML (not easy at the weekend with a toddler) to stock up - parkin is def on the list

hattyyellow · 08/12/2008 13:55

Congratulations Beans what lovely news! And what a beautiful name, I think we are going for Isabel for a middle name for DD3, as we have a family name to use for first name. So glad it all went well it sounds very smooth! Lovely news

Mibbes your little boy is soooo cute!

Trace horrified that someone could say that!! I would be seriously cross.

Verso give me a cheeky toddler over a teeny tiny baby any day - I loved my girls when they were babies but they are so much more fun the older they get. I remember a thread on MN about this very subject a while back and lots of people seemed to agree. REmember the 6 week smile milestone and remember that it will be doubly magical this time around as DD2 will smile at DD1 who will then probably be so thrilled that she will work even harder to make her little sister smile (if all the toddler/newborn combos I've seen are anything to go by!)

Reban you poor thing, hope you're okay now?

Arti fingers crossed for things to start happening!

Well we managed to get the nursery finished yesterday, just need a new cot mattress but we've got the moses basket ready to go so it's not so urgent. Had a lovely drink out with DH just the two of us while IL's babysitted and have finally finished all my cleaning so it's just a waiting game now!

Was strangely full of energy yesterday and again today - didn't get to sleep until nearly midnight after our night out and DD's woke me at 6.30 today - normally I'd be propping eyes open with matchsticks but I feel quite buzzy..do you think this could be a sign of things about to happen?

ps Bisou I agree to take people off the list when they go 3 weeks overdue. Might be hard to identify those who never post as they might post sometimes and feel a bit left out to be taken off sooner? At least if the top names start disappearing it won't seem like years to go for those of us due at the end of the month!

EffiePerine · 08/12/2008 13:57

hatty: emnergy boost sounds hopeful Are you getting any irges to clean the skirting boards?

Veggiemummy · 08/12/2008 13:58

have just been catching up and before I say anything I have to say Trace that women should not be working in SCBU and should not be your friend. Words can not express how annoyed her question has made me. Is she usually quite bizarre, is she a bit type A personality, or doesn't understand emotions or anything Human fir that matter. It's just bizarre. Right I've ranted about that enough.

Beans I am pleased to bits with your great birth. I have to admit being a little worried about you because you said long births and Em CS run in your family but you did brilliantly. Oh and you should find that taxi driver and tell him you had a 'natural birth'. Using pain relief is not weak but still well done for doing it without epidural.

Trace I have to admit I had a little giggle when you said you appeared sane for your CPN. You've had such a rough time and it was such a shame to miss your special time with DD. Good on you DH for sorting out a nice week for you. Enjoy it you deserve it.

I also need to do some housework just diddly routine stuff that I want to do while ds is at nursery then he and I can finish off the Christmas decoration when he gets home.

Has anyone heard from Rosemerta?

Yay Verso on the sleep such a long stretch. But while you may lose perspective you never seem to lose your sense of humour.

hattyyellow · 08/12/2008 13:59

Eek, I knew there was a part of the house I'd forgotten to clean! Dratted skirting boards...

Am so impressed at your sewing and crocheting - I can't even do that! Have a whole pile of DD's clothes which need new buttons on!

Will go and google energy boosts pre labour!

Veggiemummy · 08/12/2008 14:04

Effie I can't remember it last time by someone told me resently that you get an energy burst just before labour starts.

I also have sewing envy of Bisou. I love cooking and somebaking but just can't sew. I think it because my mum used to attempt to sew and it was the only time I ever heard her swear. She used to get so frustrated doing it so not something I view in a positive light.

CatDean · 08/12/2008 14:15

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EffiePerine · 08/12/2008 14:18

I seem to have got my appetite back, but mainly for chocolate! We have loads in the office at the moment

CatDean · 08/12/2008 14:19

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EffiePerine · 08/12/2008 14:21

I brought some of them in!

The unfairness of office life, like buying cake when it's your birthday

reban · 08/12/2008 15:02

yes thanks Hatty - just a bruised bum from where i landed!

it is weird that we do seem to have have a run of early births on this thread. In RL i cant remember the last person i knew who didnt go over!

Also trace i am appalled that anyone whould say that to you, am on your behalf

lal07 · 08/12/2008 15:15

congratulations beans and love the name - really pretty. well done you.xx

trace can I join everyone's outrage about that message. unbelievable.

and thanks for thoughts earlier on bf. have sent dh out for more lansinoh and going to bf clinic tomorrow to get latch checked. it's getting her to open her mouth wide enough that i'm struggling with i think. will see what they say.

Veggiemummy · 08/12/2008 15:37

reban careful of those stairs was it at home? I always have am walking down our stairs very gingerly lately they are very steep and I get a bit nervous at the top of them.

Well have done the downstairs vacuuming and mopping and tidied front room which doubled at DS' play room. Now that it has the tree the folded up birthpool all my gas&air cylinders, birthstool and other new baby parphernalia it was looking a bit crowded and not much fun for DS and the Christmas tree so all better now. I also had an uncontrollable urge to clean skirting boards thank you ladies. Thankfully DH saw what I was doing and told me it wasn't really necessary.

traceface · 08/12/2008 15:49

Veggie - the girl who made the comment has just qualified and this is her first job - I know her as she was a student on my ward, rather than as a 'friend' - am debating whether to forget what she did or challenge her about confidentiality!!!
Just been for lunch with a friend and her 2 month old - had a lovely cuddle with him, hoping it might spur on some baby-arrival hormones!
cat I agree about using time which could be better spent eating chocolate! All this talk of cleaning skirting boards is making me want more Maltesers!