Due April 2009 - Tralalaboomdiay, our bumps grow every day!!

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Place your bets on how long this thread will last, my guess is two weeks!!

Stuff about people we know. Probably doesn't translate.

OMG I believe DH might actually be starting to put the Xmas stuff away, albeit in his dressing gown.

Although I can talk because I am still in bed! In my defence, I have just revised my SuperBoff domestic manual to now include desserts on the weekly menu plans (bored of yoghurt) and done 3 linked weeks of Tesco food orders in advance.

Afternoon all

Hope you're all as well as you can be under the circumstances and partners are looking after you today!

I discovered a downside to being in the third trimester earlier today - have had sticky eye for a few days (courtesy of DD) so decided to talk to the pharmacist about whether I'd be allowed to use chloramphenicol eyedrops and she said 'not after the second trimester'. Now I am just at the very end of the second trimester so decided better to be on the safe side... but it does mean I look like a red eyed monster and have to wear my glasses rather than contact lenses. As if I wasn't feeling ugly enough already

Have also been very organised and ordered my TENS machine, hurrah. It will be the only thing I wear in labour not a good look!

Springy, I felt nothing but relief when I dropped DD off at the nursery for the first time and I still do on some days

Afternoon all, I'm just dropping in to say 'hi' while I'm on a break from transferring things from the old hobby room to the spare room...The old hobby room is going to be the nursery and so I have to move all my crafting and weaving and sewing things out of it and fit them into a room half the size... it is taking all my creative organising power to do it. I had to have a break because I was huffing and puffing after going up and down the stairs too much.
DH is out working on his mtn bike; he said he wouldn't be long and would come in and help but that was 5 hours ago... he's my absent-minded 'professor.' I had to remind him to come in and have lunch. Really it's like having a child already.
Our Christmas stuff is down and packed n boxes, but currently on the landing waiting for DH to put it back in the attic. I'd do it myself but the attic and I have never got along, everytime I go up there I end up in th emergency room, so I'm staying well away ever since I found out I was preggy.
Hope everyone has a nice relaxing day.

Quite proud of myself. I have managed to shuffle around the kitchen and do some cooking and general using up of leftovers. Anybody for rataouille, melanzane parmigiana, chef's salad, fresh pineapple with vainlla cream or a strange lemon and strawberry jelly concoction (don't ask) with raspberries in it???

Still got four packets of chicken in the freezer. We are all so fed up with chicken.

DS2 has just kissed my belly and said 'Love you baby'!

He is so impatient for his brother to arrive.

MW just phoned and said my thyroid is having problems, and I have to go to the GP again tomorrow ... no wonder I felt so tired! Other than that my health is apparently ace, which is some consolation, especially my haemoglobin, which would be good even if I wasn't pregnant. I am so proud! Simple pleasures!!

BTW DH has politely enquired whether SPD recurs in subsequent pregnancies, and announced that he'd quite like another baby after this one, so DS3 won't get lonely!!!!!

I advised him to investigate male pregnancy options ... And double his earnings to pay for the doula I would clamp to my side from the moment of conception.

Haha my husband is so sick of me moaning about everything that he'd need some persuasion I think to have another!

I thought you ladies would appreciate this...

DH and I spent the whole day house and car hunting - I'm now knackered! - and we popped into Matalan to get a few things while we were in Slough. The queue was reeeeeally long so DH stood in it with our new laundry basket while I quickly went to the ladies nightie section, to get some super-stretchy extra-big nightshirts for the birth.

HOWEVER in my preggie-brain-dead state I grabbed size 8 instead of size 18 - and only noticed now that I'm home... DH was most amused! Will deffo have to change them I think cos there's NO room for bump at all!!

On a happier note, we have a new addition to the family... she's a sexy little Beemer number called Heidi (as in Klum - German supermodel who's great with kids!!), and has enough space in the back of her station wagon boot for pram, travel cot, changing bag, etc, etc, etc...

So not such a bad day, after all!

my goodness, what with mathsmummy's personal handsome man to follow her around, and boffinmum's man with the hydrotherapy, I think the rest of us are doing something wrong. Need some lessons please ladies.

mmm that cheesecake sounded gooood. i made Brownies yesterday and they were lovely - warm and slightly gooey in the middle. hmm might have to go and get some just now actually.

lol at boffinmum and nuttytaffs sex stories - classic.

oddeyes - having had a didymos sling and tried my sister's baby bjorn, i'd go for a cloth sling every time - so much better on your back and you can carry a heavier baby for longer - still used my didymos when ds was over 1 on my back instead of front.

feeling really big all of a sudden - just a few weeks ago i could have been fat or pg but absolutely no doubt now - slightly nervous that there are still 15 weeks to go and all its got to do now is grow. oh well.

right must go and do some kilt work now - cant get motivated at 9pm on a Saturday night but no time on other days so guess it has to be now.

everning all, I have had a rather bizarre afternoon drinking tea and eating cakes and watching burlesque dances twirls their nipple tassels!

How are you all? xx

well that sounds like a lot more fun than my afternoon mathsmummy - sounds quite bizarre.

nutty - yup have had the kicks down there - i can never quite picture how they get their feet down there, or maybe they are bouncing their heads off the bottom - who knows.

looks like it will be a difficult night - ds woken up once again - maybe its time for calpol.

Evening all

Hope you are all having a lovely weekend

Boffin - leftovers? that sounds like a full course meal - my leftovers consist of a cold meat salad or something equally uninspiring!!!

How adorable is your DS2! And bless DH - nice idea but perhaps not one to mention when you are impatiently waiting for this LO to arrive and suffering like you are....

Nutty, the fanjo has been like a trampoline for the past few days! The little blighter just won't settle down!

Springy - welcome back - I would have thrown a complete fliddy if DH had gone back to an ex's especially under the circumstances but glad you got it all sorted! I never get why some girls are like that - just console yourself with the thought that she must be one of the most miserable and unfulfilled people to try and make people unhappy all the time!!!

Schlute - hope the eye gets better - can you bathe it to help?

Kitty loving the sound of the new addition

Today has been a bit manic - back to my parents house to sort out their loft of all our kid stuff as they are having it all converted (have marvelled over all our kid games and original New Kids on the Block dolls!!!) - the sweetest thing of the day is my dad giving me his very first teddy (55 years old today as tis dad's birthday) to go in the nursery for the baby (bless the old thing is falling apart and definitely a shelf toy but how adorable is that!!!) and mum is giving us the rocking chair she nursed all three of us in (again bless- needs sanding up and re-painting but just like the idea that we have family things in the room!)

Other than that we have had a bit of a DIY day, have been making and painting corner shelves for our dressing room - DH had quite a strop that he had no room for any of his things in there because of all my clothes and shoes so we are having a sort out to fit everything in (I personally don't think he should need any more than two drawers out of the 12 but apparently he does!!!) Tomorrow I have to sort out clothes and 'make room'

Anyway, tis far past my bedtime! Night xx

Nutty, you should actually look into this, what with your back and everything. A Doula is a woman who supports you through pregnancy, birth and postnatal events doing everything a mw doesn't, such as hand holding, general encouragement, mess clearing, childcare of older children, cake baking and food preparing of lovely morsels, laundry, supervising baby so you can go off and have a nap, etc etc. It's like having your mum there, but for those of us with crap mums. I actually want one for my whole life and not just for the childbirth bit. There are times when it is just too tiring being a grown up all the time and worrying about whether you have enough clean pants to last the week, frankly.

having made it to week 28 in my ordinary clothes, I am now having to face up to the fact that it is time to buy maternity clothes.
I got some of the clothes from last pregnancy out but really need to go shopping. Any recommendations on affordable places to go - I don't want to spend a fortune on something that I am going to wear for a few months. Mainly need smart casual stuff which I can get away with for both work and home.

thanks

Morning

2 minutes while DD watches Big Barn Farm! I had a doula last time, mainly because I wanted somebody there who I could shout at in German if it all got too much, but she didn't cook or bake for me. Was full of advice though and really helped me through the birth, even if DH found her quite annoying

She was a trainee doula so only cost us something like £200 - not too bad I thought.