Due May 2009 - our bellies are getting as big as Santa's

[FiKelly]

It'll be an alternative merry Christmas for us this year ;)

Thanks for the advice on the smear. Think i'll wait 12 weeks after LO comes out (even though it will be via my tummy, i guess things still need to settle down internally.

pula I'd just ask your GP next time they see you and they'll advise best and re-organise it for you - I don't know if protocol differs by area. I do know though that a good friend who had her baby by Elective C/Section had a smear 6 wks after delivery (at her postnatal check up) and it came back with abnormal cells. She was re-tested after a couple of months and it is all clear and she was told it was because of her pregnancy/ delivery. So I reckon best wait (to avoid any worry due to inaccurate results if nothing else. She got herself in a right stat even though was told at the time that it was most likely nothing).

God why can't I write concisely. Always takes me ages to explain what I mean. Think I should be in bed .

Hi girl - your house sounds fab - have been picking up slittle snippets like the cherry tree forest in the front garden, oodles of room so no wonder you don't want to leave it (even to give birth ) As i have said before i found the nct cds really brill - am sure you will be fine!

Am hoping for water birth but in hospital - my local one is very good and had excellent reports for childbirth - my first birth was a good experience really despite a huge reluctance from my MW to adminsiter any pain relief as was too close to pushing... hmm! Was induced and got through with no pain relief except a half shot of pethidine (never again!) Hoping to go natural - struggled with gas as found it really dried my mouth out. DP was very supportive last time but also had my mum with me who was good at rubbing my back through each contraction, providing freezing cold flannels for my neck and cold water to sip. She wants to be there again for this one. Looking forward to it in a funny way as it was all a bit frenetic with being induced so really hoping for no induction.

Gosh what a ramble...

Hmm to glamorous globe trotting.... hot, knackered and grumpy - also got stuck inthe loo in the office and freaked out as have bad claustrophobia - spent the first half hour of my presentation shaking like a leaf due to adrenalin overload from my lock in panic!!! Funny now but not at the time!

Hi all

My DH was a star at DD2's birth - he fed me ice chips in between gulps of gas & air and told me I was fabulous.

Not so sure how he'll be with a home birth - he's a housefrau and obsessively does cleaning. Ha!

ice chips? how posh, where do you get those from!?I had a plastic cup of tap water...

Who knows what has happened to satsumas - I'm desperate for them and can't find any anywhere - clementimes yes, but don't like them. Anyone any ideas as need to make the most of it before the creme egg fetsih atkes over from the current fruit one

lol @ detsy

I'm terribly poshe what what?

Also satsumas - I was eating about 7 a day at one point. It's dried apricots now.

What what Lol - no don't like dried apricots but good job you have switched as there are no satsumas in the country...

when do we run out - 900 or 1000??

Oh detsy I am so disappointed by the satsumas, clementines and in fact all orange fruit this winter. I keep buying them then when I peel them some are nice but most seem to be cardboardy or have (horrors) pips in. So TBH I wouldn't bother. What about a nice grapefruit instead? The last satsumas I got (i think) were M&S - bought in the hope that they would be decent ones - sadly not. Not sure if it's just where we live that are getting crap fruit or whether it 's countrywide. Perhaps I should investigate...... (hmm)

Your birth sounds fab last time - god, what a star to do induction on just a bit of Entonox and half a pethidine! Did you get a birthing pool last time then?....again I'd always said I didn't fancy it - not sure why but think it had something to do with getting all wrinkly.......but again, weirdly, I can see myself being in the bath for this one! Sounds like it worked for you, fingers crossed for a lovely easy one for you too this time.

Ah, creme eggs. Must buy some tomorrow. Haven't had one in years (or maybe that should be months....)

grumpy apparently midwives fling tarpaulins and inco pads and stuff wherever you go so your house is likely to be unmarked. Old duvets, sheets and a shower curtain are also recommended (i believe). That will be one bizarre shopping list when i go out to stock up before hand! Anyway your DH shouldn't have anything to worry about!

Think it's 1000. so a few more to go I think?.....

Any ideas for a new name?

grumpy - I am very [envy[ of your lovely DH feeding you 'very poshe' ice chips and calling you fabulous.
Mine was asleep in the corner for most of it and only woke up to tell me he was bored/hungry/tired. Which didn't go down at all well with me. I'm sure you can imagine!!!!!

grumpy - I am very [envy[ of your lovely DH feeding you 'very poshe' ice chips and calling you fabulous.
Mine was asleep in the corner for most of it and only woke up to tell me he was bored/hungry/tired. Which didn't go down at all well with me. I'm sure you can imagine!!!!!

ooh what happened there? Double posted and did the wrong brackets too on my face.
OOps.

No water birth last time due to being hooked up to all and sundry. High hopes tho for May!

I haven't had a creme egg for ages either - at least a couple of days... Diverted to garage espeially today and they were out of stock.

Tarpaulins....like those that Eddie Stobart uses...??? Took me ages to work out what an inco pad was when i was in hospital...durr... Now need them on a full time basis as keeping always envive in business at the mo (Still coughing some what 3, 4 months later...??!)

Watching most haunted - used to love it but had to stop as got freaked out esp when DP away. And when Lottie waves and smiles into middle distance I wonder what she is looking at!

What about We're well on the way to May

Frazzled

I told DH we should buy shower curtains to hurl on the floor in order to avoid mess, he looked worried. 'Mess? Will there be much?'

Well, durr.

He LOVES shampooing the carpets and has bought about 5 different vaccuum cleaners in the past couple of years, trying to find the ultimate.

I, on the other hand, am a lazy slattern and only do cooking and clothes washing (although I am devoted and I mean devoted to folding - clean washing mmmmmm, paper - I take a great deal of pleasure in it , I am well known as a sad cow at work who likes to fold letters).

Pips in fruit gaaaaaaaaah! The horror the horror!! Hate hate hate them

DH watched TV through most of my first birth. Then spent most of the second birth moaning about the fact that they had removed the TVs from the labour rooms!

Well that might be a slight exageration he was useful as well!

It's a shame that you can't have a tens machine and a birthing pool at the same time isn't it.....be good if they could invent on that was safe in water (but I guess that's impossible, like a safe hair dryer in water ) I am a big fan of tens (as long as its put on early that is). Got me to 5cm in relative comfort with DD1. Wierdly I thought it was rubbish with Dd2 - but it was a different machine and suspect not as good.

Yes, perhaps I should ask Eddie if he has a spare tarpaulins. Or maybe just nick one off a lorry in a car park (joke)

Know what you mean about kids doing spooky things - in the past I've been convinced my babies have been giggling and cooing at someone in a conversational way (when there is nobody in the room with them). I suspect my mother - (who has been dead for many years). She loved babies

Like the thread name suggestion BTW.

Grumpy any chance you could get your bottom round here to fold my clean washing... there is plenty in the spare room, tumble drier, radiators all waiting to be folded. Can't offer you any paper folding tho - but do love notebooks and all things stationery (ary?) - hence the 4th bedroom is a lovely bedecked study with lots of unused but very attractive notebooks, pads, folders, pen pots, pens and the like.... hmmm may have to all go to make room for Pip squeak. May move into Frazzled mansions as a lodger... (Once she's moved the tarpaulins...

grumpy ooooh send your DH round to me, was just talking to my DH about getting the downstairs carpets shampooed! And you can come too if you like, I'm not very good at (or interested in) folding clothes. I do other domestic things like, er, like....I can cook! And make cocktails! And my best friends call me Nigella sometimes. And I quite like cleaning baths (ok so that's weird). So anyway, you come and clean my carpets and fold some washing for me and I'll go round to your house and cook dinner and clean your bath. Fair swap I reckon! (although I draw the line at cleaning the bath if you've just had a water birth in it!)

detsy great minds think alike! Not only do I have piles of laundry to put away, but I also ADORE stationery - always have done. And you're welcome at Frazzled Mansions anytime as long as you bring some cream eggs that is!

grumpy am still giggling at your DH 'Mess? Will there be much?'

Don't nick one Frazz - I think it needs to be clean...

Sorry about your mum, I do beleive in this stuff tho so wouldn't be surprised at all. I suspect my nan or DP's dad - both also loved babies

grumpy - paperfolding, hmmmmm, well there's always filing needing done in my office if you're interested? I can kind of see the attraction of that, although I don't like putting letters into envelopes very much. Too annoying. And as for paper cuts, ouch!

Frazzled thats just too weird as I love cleaning bathrooms too.... Such a pity you live in bonny Scotland! Have you eve been on the seejanework.com site - they used to deliver to UK but not anymore - OMG they have FAB stationery!!!! I offered to set up a UK distrbutorship but the woman who owns it is a bit dipsy. Think they have also struggled with the Claifornian credit crunch as the high street shop seems to have shut as well - shame as ace stuff (not that I'm often or ever on west coast of America!)

Am stocking up on creme eggs tomo and heading north...

So grumpy lots of extra folding for you on offer...!!

detsy yes I believe in it too, too many peculiar things have happened to me over the years not to believe in it. And quite honestly if she were able, of course my mum would nip round to visit her grandchildren. If I was a ghost (or whatever) I know I would!

Shall have a look at that website - perhaps it's a blessing (for my bank balance) if they don't deliver here..... I do love nice paper, books and pens soooo much. I think DD1 has inherited this from me too - she wants to be a teacher, and loves clipboards and to colour co-ordinate and organise things! When I take her into Paperchase we can't leave without something each! Bad, bad, bad! (since we go there quite a lot!)