Due April 2009 - Sod the thread title, we will need a new one in a week.

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Welcome new joiners, lurkers, occasional updaters, prolific posters, and Nutty and Springy .
I say this one wont last a full 10 days.

I can't belive it - I popped to Tesco half way through catching up and when I came back there were 100 more posts! Baby didn't seem to like Tesco, kept on kicking all the way round (I normally shop at Sainsbury's but it shuts at 8 and as a result couldn't find anything)

BB your work sounds horrendous - is there no way you can be a bit more assertive/delegate a bit more? I never do anything that I can get someone else to do heehee. I have a new boss and he is a a bit too soft, I have now managed to perfect the art of 'upwards' delegation

Hugs to all the peeps having a difficult time, frekkles it is true that you aren't in pain but it must be so hard being pregnant and not being in a long term, stable relationship - not sure I'd be strong enough to cope with that to be honest. I've been with my husband for 11 years and married for 7 1/2 and being pg has made me feel insecure on occasions.

I also totally agree with the comments about pushing kids - it's utterly pointless. I was never pushed by my parents at all - they just let me get on with it. If they had pushed me I'd have rebelled because I am a bit obnoxious like that

Glad to have provided entertainment through my general buffoonery

They're definitely jealous - DP is always asking what I'm laughing at. & he's even had proper rants before about how I have so much support from MN & how he has nobody, blah blah blah, boo hoo hoo

He can shush it up - he has his drugs, imminent counselling & isn't sharing his body with another wriggly person. How much support can he need?

Springy, at all those ignorant people - just think when your fellow students finally get round to having babies your DD will be so independent that you'll actually have your life back while they have to learn how to change a nappy!

Springy that is horrible - I have to say people do stare at you more when you are pregnant but it must be strange at uni when there are less people there in the same situation - although people should still have the courtesy to not do it!

Maybe it's me but I don't think you are that young to be having kids, it's not like you are some knocked up 15 year old!! And you are in a loving relationship with DP and this baby is wanted and loved!

As for you bus people - I have to say that when I went to birmingham people were really rude and obnoxious to me and I wasn't even that pregnant (especially the old ones who seemed to think that they had more right to public space than me because they were old and I was just pregnant - was half inclined to vomit on them as it was smack bang in the middle of the first trimester!!!) - some people have no concept of when it is appropriate to open their big ugly mouths! I try and think that how miserable must their lives be if they have nothing better to do that point out other people and try and make them feel bad!

BB, I've had moments like that (the cider one - I never did the wetting my knickers thing... Although my little sister forgot to put her knickers on under her skirt whilst getting ready for school on a few occasions & my dad had to take her a pair into school after the teacher noticed ) & always thought that I was being really convincing! Standing there, swaying, with my friend hiccoughing & giggling behind me, saying "Oh no, no... We only went to the cinema Haven't touched a drop of anything!" & really thought that we'd got away with it - now it's obvious that they were just turning a blind eye & laughing at our stupidity!

Springy - that sounds awful being stared at in the library. Take no notice of the idiots - unfortunately so many uni students are extremely immature and small minded. Plus, I am 31 and have no idea what to do with babies at all

I meant DS Springy, not DD...

I was told in my review this week that I delegate too much... tis true, I never do anything that I think one of my team members can do - I do need a couple of hours each day to read MN for god's sake so I haven't got time for work!

Just having some yummy hot chocolate, complete with marshmallows on top (thanks to left over ones from gingerbread house kit! lol). I think this thread is a bad influence...I'm already overweight as it is!

I popped in last night to say hello after months of lurking... can't BELIEVE how busy you April mummies-to-be are... a whole new thread already... blimey...

Just ate 2/3 of a tub of ben and jerry's strawberry cheesecake frozen yoghurt (mmmmmmmmmmmm) and baby now turning cartwheels in my tummy...

I like to be home in time to watch neighbours. It's just good management I think, as long as you don't put others under too much pressure.

Schulte, I was naked because I was so out of it that I got home from the youth club disco, took off my belt of a dress and underwear and fell in to bed. Half an hour later I was out the window vomiting whit lightning out my bedroom window which my poor mum had to clean off in the morning!!!

Brett, I really do have to be more assertive at work, I know I can do it because I am naturally bossy but I have to be better at it at work. Have already sent the emails scheduling the update meetings in for Monday so I can't back out of saying something!!!

Night, Swaliswan

brettgirl, you're obviously growing yourself a little snob - I bet the baby would be as happy as larry in Waitrose (for the record, I get nearly all of my shopping at Tesco!)

Schulte, you're right - this baby will have gone off to uni himself by the time I'm 40

BB, that's exactly what I was saying to DP - I'm not a 15 year old chav. I'm 20 & wear an engagement ring & everything, it could be a lot 'worse'. I don't mind people looking at me, because I've always genuinely admired other people's bumps (& longed for one of my own - turns out it's not all it's cracked up to be ), but it was full-on staring & whispering from nearly everyone. It was like being a band geek in a really clichéd American high school movie.

Right girls, it's WAY past my bed time so am off now... nighty night

Yay BB, go on be bossy! It's good for you!

Okay really must be off now. You're a fab bunch xxx

I just ate 250g of dairy milk - feel a little bit sick but very good!

Springy, a lot of the people I went to school with had 2 or 3 at your age (very small village) so really don't worry about it!!!

The band geeks always turn out to be the best characters though - they always emerge the winners!!

Oh, the belly strokers [anger] The only time I've not minded it (apart from family) was when it was my hairdresser last week. I've known her for years (as well as you know your hairdresser) & she'd spent ages doing my hair already, so it wasn't a strange moment of breaking physical contact barriers. I find it a bit uncomfortable with other people that I really don't know, though. They'd never touch my tummy if I wasn't pregnant! (& if they did, they wouldn't ever make the same mistake again!)

Good work, Rachel. Might send DP into the kitchen to get me another hot chocolate. Even though I'm in our open-plan living room that is connected to the kitchen about 3 metres away

brett, I love your management technique

& BB, I think it's better to fall into bed naked than wake up the next morning still wearing everything. Including your scarf. ... I imagine

Night Schulte and Swaliswan!!

I actually can't believe I am up at 10!! That is way past my normal bed time! [proud] emoticon!

Baby bolat. Lesson number 1 in assertiveness

The scene: You have a major deadline in a week's time and work coming out of your ears.

Boss - would you be able to * [whatever the brief is]

You - yes certainly, I'll put myself a reminder in my calendar for two weeks time after my manic time so that I make sure it gets done.

Boss - says nothing cos it's not urgent/ finds someone else/ does it himself

It's the art of saying NO! My boss is a bit scared of me actually, which is the best way for it to be.

Yes, quite Springy - I have once woken up still wearing my 4 inch heels, full make up and underwired bra - ouch!

I have only had a couple of inappropriate belly touches, both times they soon learnt their lesson - that is my point am very assertive and over-protective of the bump and my friends and family - why can't I do that for myself!!!

Night Schulte!

I know that I'm not that young to be having a baby in general terms. Most people from my primary school are on their 2nd or 3rd already & it's really not that big a deal to most people. But my secondary school & university aren't the sort of places where that happens - they're all full of people determined not even to marry until their 30s, because they have such great career plans, etc. It's just not the 'done thing' in my circles. I know that they're narrow-minded & generally ignore them, but when it's on such a large scale... I really don't see that it'll affect my career plans very much anyway. Perhaps I'm being very naive