Fab Feb 2009: holy shit, this is it

[chilledmama]

Cause Swampster has a dirty mouth
Wouldn't hear me speaking that way...much
How do we delete threads????

Don't think we can.

[happy swamp monster wallowing in it]

oh well...I suppose if we ignore it long enough it will go away...a bit like an annoying fart from my DH

I've put a post on the other one telling everyone not to post on it and it'll drop down the list quickly.

Anyone want to share their brth plan with me? Just went to edit my BP from DS and it's disappeared. Can't bear to start from scratch.

poo just posted on the other thread i ll just cut and paste

Anyone else really emotional at the moment, i keep crying! but it kinda feels ok coz i just really think its hormones.

I went to art gallery and lunch in Manchester today, the exhibit was about emery douglas and the Black panther movement. So there is a sign saying please note some of the images are not suitable for young children, i thought shit that will include me. I had to hold in my emotions as i was with a group of non pregnant people and thought if i were with other hormonal people i would be able to just cry. It was a really insightful exhibit just wasn't emotional stable enough today to handle it, very harrowing.

Feeling a bit calmer re; labour anxieties, thanks for all the advise xxx

bedtime for and my extremely itchy/runny nose...its even making one of my eyes itchy!!! How does that happen???

I want drugs to make it stop!!!!

Ha ha littlesez meeeeee! Im emotional, had a little crying fit this evening as DH friends visiting Wiltshire from London and wanted to meet up for drinks but i just cant muster the energy one iota I feel so huge and all cumbersome and i honestly just dont feel like being seen in public. The last time they saw me was at our wedding and i didnt even look that pregnant ( even though i thought i did at the time ) and i just sent DH out on his own then got all tearful because i stayed behind and felt like i should have made the effort lol god i cant wait to have my lo and feel like myself again - and now the end is in sight it seems so far, 26 days to go ... thats three weekends ... i wonder when i'll be reduced to counting the hours!

Great thread title! cant wait to see who has their babies on this one - its getting very exciting!

Evening ladies

Well, all my hospital stuff is packed and DH is on restricted beer intake (and in the spare room) now......so reality is hitting home

Love the thread title.

I'm on my way to being a "pram hun"....I've got a graco travel system (still can't find the bloody head hugger for the car seat and have just got a (non-matching) one from e-bay), a Maclaren stroller and about to get a double Maclaren

I've also had enough of being pregnant and am looking forward to meeting my baby....I've had enough of back ache, indigestion, fat ankles and not being able to turn over in bed!

Right, off to bed....get my king-size bed all to myself tonight....

Night all x

Night hunny (((((huuuugggs)))))

Rosie, I signed up for the WAP bolt-on! I?d have gone mad without my phone I think! I need to go and get some bras, I?ve been in the same ones for 2 ½ years and I need to replace some of them (the Bravissimo ones have lasted better than the Mothercare ones, if you fit them of course). I did just slings, but I have a chair for when other people take her out or for eating out. I found it a lot more convenient, not sure how we will cope this time with my limited mobility. I used a wrap sling and only stopped because Tink was climbing out.

Fgpl, it?s taken me long enough to get there, I feel like I?d gone over! You sound like my mum, apparently when she was pregnant with me (the eldest) she washed my clothes on a regular basis (whilst still pregnant) just so she could hang it all on the line!

Laidback, she?s great! I feel very different to last time, I fill up very quickly (I fill up!) and I can even express, but I think it?s because I actually have a baby on the breast and not a pump. I think her weight loss speaks for itself WRT her feeding!

TBD took Tink to London today to see the boys, from the moment she walked in I could see she wasn?t well She came straight over to look at her sister and was coughing and sneezing constantly, she felt hot and seemed quite breathless. Her temp was 38.2 when she pulled the thermometer out from under her arm. So gave her Calprofen and sent them back out to the out of hours doctor. They?re so used to her now that the doctor didn?t even call me back, the receptionist did to say come straight in. Her chest (which I though was infected) is clear but she has tonsillitis. We now have the task of keeping them separate. I might send them up to Tesco tomorrow to get her prescription and give her some spending money (she?s still obsessed with my purple toe nails).

last night was much better - All in bed asleep by 7pm and Jack not awake til 6.30am (which is early for him) with coughing.

Can't remember who said but DH was helping - didn't make that clear, but he had just finished an evening of lates (3.30pm - 11.45pm) then was up with dts til 2.30am and had to be up at 8am to take ds1 to swimming which is why I sent him to bed

finally got to bed at midnight due to streaming nose and up at 0630 this morning as DS is now (pretty much) back to normal...apart from he crap still coming down his nose.

Got some good news yesterday evening ref. possibility of breech home birth. Apparently if I make myself a 'difficult customer' They will provide their community MWs with additional training in order to support me
Way more positive than I expected. Obviously I would prefer if its not breech but just having a feeling that she's quite happy where she is and has no plans to move and head out of my ribs!

morning oooggs. glad you've had a better night

Ooogs - your DH is forgiven !! I had visions of him chilling in bed ( well, not vision literally !) whilst you hauled yourself out of bed to attend to the DT's !! I had a good nights sleep too, DS1 still sleeping, DS2 and 3 were awake at 6.45 and DH has just got up for match of the day and told me to go and have I lie in if I want. Hooray

Chilled, isn't there a very famous independent midwife living in Hampshire that is reknowned for breech hoe births ?, maybe your trust could get her in for you !!

Home not hoe !!

Glad your back ooogs and had a better night.

Just marking this thread really, not going to bother making the effort to pee on it as my pelvic floor is getting that bad I think i'm probably doing it involuntarily! I'm afraid I haven't read many posts as I have got that thick veil of sleepy fog hanging around me. I also logged on last night and immediately turned it off again as I'm soooo tired I can barely focus atm

Also for the past few days I feel like the baby is going to literally drop out of my fanjo! Is that 'normal'?

Going to sleep on the sofa watch DS play with his toys all day and have Sunday lunch cooked for me I think today. Have a good one everyone

Morning all!

Stayed up til past midnight doing my birthplan last night. Almost finished then might post it on FB for your entertainment comments and constructive criticism.

Think I have almost washed everything in the house that will conceivably go in the washing machine! Still need to unpack the hammock and make sure all the bits are there though won't put it up until we need it.

After I have constructed a portcullis from DS's stick collection I'm going to start preparing Sunday lunch and while that's doing I'm going to start cooking some stuff to go in the freezer so I'm not at DH's culinary mercy when the baby comes. Then I'm taking DS to a birthday party at Esporta.

TBM&FF2 I'm sorry to hear Tink's not well. As if you need any extra worries right now! Hopefully, it'll stay off her chest and she'll make a speedy recovery.

Spotty it is normal and probably a good sign too (though not terribly comfortable I'll wager!) Wouldn't life be easier if babies did just drop out...

Oooggs glad you had a better night. Makes everything a bit more bearable, doesn't it? Chilledmama* sorry you didn't. There should be a law against any kind of onn-pregnancy related illness when you've already got enough to contend with.

Oooggs Glad to hear everything is ok.

PP I bought an Usborne book about having a bringing a new baby home, but I thought it was a bit rubbish tbh. I have no suggestion, sorry.

I'm so tired and so fed up and uncomfortable, I really want this to be over now. Everytime I get a little twinge or ache in my back I'm finding myself thinking, please let this be it, but then being really relieved when it isn't.

Got to dash now, I'ver been roped in to helping line up the pattern on the new wall paper, and my flat looks like a crap heap, so lots of cleaning before we get ds back.

laidbackinengland- Mary Cronk lives about 20 minutes away from me (Chichester) but has retired...not a problem though as she trained up a replacement who is my independant MW, Joy Horner; and I do trust her implicitly. I have a slight differing of opinion with DH about childbirth (and the dangers of). My DH insists that we have NHS attend the HB (and did so last time too). He has a thing about the indemnity insurance which really bothers him so to keep him happy we ask the NHS to come and catch the baby. I am very lucky to have England's most experienced Breech MW to hand but I have to admit I do hope I don't have to call on those skills!

SHould add to clarify...My PCT will not work with any independant MWs regardless of their skills or experience. Its a bit silly really as it means that I had 3 MWs at my HB with DS as NHS always send 2 and I had Joy as well...I probably had more MWs in th flat than they had in the birthing unit!!

Will someone have a look at my birth plan please? I've popped it on FB.

hello all, finally found you!
sorry to hear the sad stories of the cars going dinky and mcdreamy. I had that sad experience a few years ago when my DH decided when we got married that I needed a newer car. I had an old mercedes estate 7 seater (you will love yours rosie) and I loved it to bits. Anyway, he bought me a mercedes ML and I have to say it was the worst car I ever had. In the space of around 3 months it broke down 5 times. It was crap! Thankfully he saw the light and chopped it in for a volvo xc90 which is a fabulous car although I miss/mourn my mercedes and also my lovely shiny red MGF which he MADE me get rid of 2 years ago (ok so I hardly ever drove it but he still has 2 sodding motorbikes, 1 in UK thats not been riden for 7 years and 1 in KSA that has not even been started for over a year!) bloody men!

bother!

came on yesterday and read through and typed a post and walked off to deal with the kids and forgot to tell dp to click on post message when he stole the pc back!

oh well, can't remember a word of it so it was hardly riveting reading... count yourselves lucky

oooogs... not sure if i should congratulate or commiserate you on still being with us.... if you feel anything like me about it you're probably annoyed to still be pregnant!

having a rotton weekend, feels like someone has tried to rip my legs apart... SPD? dunno, either way it had me bedridden most of yesterday and hobbling from couch to chair when i did try coming downstairs.... poor dp and the kids must be sick of my miseries by now. seem to have developed the 3 day blues in advance this time too as i'm feeling all sulky and weepy!

my birth plan is currently some scribbled notes in a copy book can't seem to formulate my sentances to say what i want, will be handwritten either way as the printer is deceased.

glad your back home tink... must seem odd having a baby home with you so soon after birth! glad feeding is going well too.

keep seeing jobs that need doing and that i'm not fit to do..... remembered yesterday while i was lying in bed bored that one of the castors has fallen off the crib and it's tilted as a result... what are my chances of convincing dp to try fixing it?