Jingle Bells, Mysterious Smells, Fab Feb 2009 babies will soon be on their way - Oh what fun it is to waddle around like an overstuffed turkey all day.

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Hello lovely ladies, the new thread is open for business

LBB I'm here.

Just got back from being waxed to within an inch of my life.

Crikeys, chilledmama. Surely by this stage, what the eye don't see the heart don't grieve after? (mind you, I reached that stage several months ago. I still have leg hairs? You reckon? PROVE IT, cos I can't see any [sticks fingers in ears and sings tra la la])

I'm here just nipping off to get chinese takeaway (dh is claiming he's tired - TIRED HE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT THAT FEELS LIKE GRRRRRRRR) Anyway ds is tucked up in bed and I'm looking forward to food and an early night. It'll be eastenders, question of sport and maybe half an hour of my book...then flop on my new memory foam topper (just to mention it AGAIN !) - dh moaned about it last night saying it felt like an old granny foam mattress and he thought he might have to decamp to the spare room. I loved it and told him to give it a chance.....there's just no pleasing some people is there !

Hi Ladies and bumpies,
How are you all? I've been offline for a month, so i've missed everything! It's sad that i get depressed i can't read up on virtual friends, i've really missed the lurking that i usually do!!
I love the new title btw, although still not admitting to myself its xmas in less than 3 weeks .
Anyone else getting strong braxton hicks? I went to see mw on weds just to see if baby is settled and apparently he's 3/5 engaged, but i can't remember if that means he'll come early or not? You'd think that this being my 4th i'd have some idea !
Any news on TBM?
Oh also did anyone see programme on bbc4 last night called 'Growing babies'? I found it really interesting, it's on the bbc iplayer if anyone wants to check it out.
Well hopefully i can keep up with you all now...
Take care.

chilled been meaning to have a 'tidy up' myself but have a very nasty looking a feeling spot that I don't want to anger any more than it already is! TMI sorry. Been pasting the tea-tree oil on so maybe in a few days.
Did my legs earlier, but don't know why I bother, not like anyone's gonna see them.

I thought Growing babies was really interesting too Rachcrox.I have spent all evening wrapping Xmas presents that I want to take to PO tomorrow. I expect I wil spend most of the morning in the queue. 20 working days until mat leave. Hurrah

Oh I've been avoiding going for a wax, I just can't face it. And then DH told me the other morning that it was getting a bit unruly down there. !!!!!!!!! I'd been going with onward's 'what I can't see won't hurt me' attitude but maybe I'll have to bite the bullet and book an appointment. Ouch. I don't see why DH should care, I'm not letting him anywhere near it at the moment anyway so it shouldn't really be any of his business...

I'm so happy, I'm settled on the sofa, the tv's on, I've got chocolate to hand and the trashy tv is about to start. Bliss.

I am letting my lady garden grow.

Tee hee! I was going to too, but was a bit worried that Junior wouldn't be able to fight his way through it...

(Notice I really don't care whether DH finds it yuk or not, more worried about that baby!)

When i went in to have ds, I apologised to the mw's and doctors for the state of my 'garden' everytime I had an examination !!

Might have a look on bbc iplayer for the growing babies prog, didn't see it. I love watching stuff like that.

I want ice cream but I'm in my pyjamas and slippers. I wonder if the people in the garage up the road would notice?

How far up the road? Whe I was pg with ds I used to go to the local shop in pj's dressing gown and slippers all the time! I looked like the local nut-job, I got very odd looks from any other customers .

nkweto.... i have an irrational fear of my waters going while i'm driving down one of the crazy back roads around here and the shock of it sending me into a ditch...... beat that for irrational pregnancy fear!

oooogs, they're not supposed to do smears when you're preg and every doctor and nurse i've told since has been horrified, the hospital i was with with dd and ds was a joke though. they have a 33% section rate and a disasterous reputation for most things.

dp has banned me from leaving the house for the duration of the pregnancy after the arse i made of myself today i went to the garage to get a visa voucher for the car seat and payed by laser (debit card), was convinced the card was in my hand going back to the car and that i put it back in my bag in the car, went to the supermarket, got the food for the week, went to the till, packed it all in bags and reached for my laser...... which wasn't there i had the most humiliating ordeal of my life where i spent ages searching my bag and wallet, then convinced myself it must have dropped in the car so the lovely, very sympathetic check out girl let me run out to check.... card not there either.

went back in and the girl ran to her manager to explain the siuation expecting her to let me take the shopping and pay later (country supermarket, generally fairly friendly and relaxed) but the manager wouldn't allow it.... i had 60 euros in my wallet so had to get her to void 20 quids worth of shopping and payed for the rest, absolutely panicing as all our money is in that account and that was the only card so if i couldn't find it at the garage we'd wouldn't have a penny til they sent me a new one! i then had to dash back to the garage where (thank every god i can think of) the girl behind the counter had my card, it had been handed in by someone after i dropped it outside by the car

on top of all that i had to circle around town about 20 times before i found a spot to park to get to the pharmacy... which involved reverse parrallel park in a really shitty spot and we've run out of oil so have no heating.... and i was right by the oil depot today thinking about ordering some and bloody didn't!!!!

i think dp might have lost faith in my ability to cope for the duration of the preg and i'm not sure he's being unfair with that assumption......

Oh dear PT, welcome to the baby brain club by the sounds of it .

the worst thing was it was one of my very rare times out of the house with neither child as for the first time ever they both wanted to stay home with dp...... it should have been bloody enjoyable!!!

I am on maternity leave - yyyyiiiipppppeeeeee!!!!!

But I did have to work to 1.30am this morning !!!! to get there. Almost flogged myself to death over it.

So just saying hello - all that talk of needles sent me running for the hills!

I'll be much more of a regular now! Nothing prepared for the baby but at least can focus on it now. Oh, and isn't Christmas coming up soon? Must think about that too....

How do you change your name for a bit? Thought I might be MamaStuffedGoose - certainly feel like one.

nkweto - yes you read right, ds1 is 5 next week, dd & ds2 are 20 mths and this is no.4 mad or stupid - not sure yet

That's a good name MamaGoose.
Gotta go now, under orders to watch a dvd with dp, he won't tell me what it is which means it's probably scary and I'll have to go sit in the other room anyway.
Catch up tomoz

oh and I don't care about the waters bit, mine have gone in bed both times - I am more worried about a c section as that would render me housebound as if I can't drive then I can hardley push a double or a triple pushchair.

Hmmm LBB, far enough up the road that I'd get lots of strange looks. Could always jump in the car though...

I think I've talked myself out of it, it's too blimmin cold. I'll make do with some more chocolate instead.

Welcome back oooggs....I have shouted out for you on previous threads, my fellow 4th time Devon buddy . Having little ones does make it so hard, particularly when you are feeling rough. I puked on the way to school this morning and foisted DS2 off on a friend to take him into school. Not pleasant.

TBM - hope things are going OK for you.

MamaGoose - yay ! Great that you are on maternity leave. I am counting down the days. 4 to go !

PinkT - hey - we have all done the lose the card thing. Make the most of your DP's offer to do everything outside the home !

ooogs.. you are my superhero mum! What a fab family.. please tell me you are getting random family support to come and help out the first few weeks.. do you have a triple buggy now ? I am a bit overwhelmed by our double buggy.. too used to my superlightweight volo LOL

PT.. welcome to the land of pregnant brain.. to be honest I am glad we dont have a car at the moment as contending with reverse parrallel parking seems very far away (and I am a good driver in my normal life)

MamaGoose or is that MamaStuffedGoose, I am jealous ! make sure you have a rest after your 1.30 am start...

laidback... i don't think it was really an offer to do everything.... more an assumption that the house pixies that do things like clean his clothes and feed him would take over the outdoor stuff too

QK - I'm lopsided too - had a lovely smooth round bump like I've got a football up my top, and then it all went pear shaped - literally

MamaGoose - go to My Mumsnet and then you can change your name. Hope you have caught up on your sleep...

I really need to do-hair myself. Even my eyebrows are out of control - so will have to get sorted. Lady garden is rather weedy, but I've never really bothered with it as never knew what to do, so John's used to it (plus he's going nowhere near it atm), but the legs and underarms are starting to distress him - he he! Will definitely be more groomed throughout Feb - don't want the midwife's getting lost down there... have already booked a manicure, and will have time to straighten hair each day so will look delicious in the 'just-given-birth-but-still-could-walk-the-red-carpet' pictures that I'm hoping to put on fb!