the wheels on the wagon go round and round into the new year and all those new babies

[tinkisfourtyweeks]

hi ladies a new thread hopefully it will bring me my baby

thanks for the tips. WIsh I could eat pineapple but I just cant stand it! Will be lots of Raspberry leaf tea, GOFing and curry I think.

Anyone tried accupuncture to get things going?

Right i'm off to get the DC's a nap- and i'm in desperate need of one myself too- so hoping they'll sleep well so i can too!!

Will probs be on again later- have just put something on freecycle so will need to check emails later anyway!!

never tried it GYo- but have heard its supposed to be good- never got far enough to be desperate for trying it with the other 2 DC's (38 & 39wk deliveries).... This time i just want her asap providing she's healthy etc... so i'm hoping a week of hard work will send me into labour around 37wks, MW expects me to deliver any day after 37wks anyway, but i'm still gonna help it along this time!!

Right I am off for a nap!! my eyelids are dropping!!- having awful sleep at night for the last few weeks, i'm just so big its uncomfortable!!

Believe me Glask, it doesn't take much sinking in once you have 3, you don't get time to let things sink in!

Kay, I am so sorry, I only read your text about your DH's job late Saturday night, and it went completely out of my mind, have only just remembered it this morning What are you going to do? I guess he is looking for another? You poor things, I do know how you're feeling, DH was made redundant when DS1 was 6 weeks old, luckily he pretty much walked straight into his new job and as it turned out, it was the best thing that could have happened, he's gone from strength to strength within the company and is doing really well, just a shame the hours are so long. Anyway, fingers crossed it will all work out OK for you as well

Talk of heads engaging and furniture being put together and pools being ordered and put up, it almost makes me consider having another..... OK, maybe not, but it brings back all the memories of the good parts of being pregnant! How can you get to have a baby, and get all the prep for a new baby, and have all those special feelings and thoughts, without actually being pregnant? If they invent a way to do that, I'd do it again and again!

We still have about 3" of snow on the ground, though it is melting, slowly. In the sheltered places it is still about 6" thick, and where it's drifted it is about 2ft. DH forgot to take his tools this morning (he'd been fixing our bed last night, it broke ) so he had to come back for them mid morning, he got stuck on the drive, why is it no matter how many times I tell him to park on the road when it's snowing, he thinks he know's best, ignores me, and then spends the best part of 20 mins skidding and sliding everywhere? I am sure there is something in a man's head that makes them feel all mighty and powerful to beat the little bit of slippy snow

Knew the peace wouldn't last long, Mikey's up, he is all snuffling and gurgling to himself, love listening to them Time for his lunch methinks xxx

Hello.

Nat, he is going to get job seekers allowance(hopefully) and look for another job. But they can have their jobs back in June so if he hasn't managed to find anything by then, he will just go back.

I think we are prepared for the puppy. We have got a crate for her to sleep in, bowls, toys, collars, leads and food. I have loads of dog training books so hopefully she will be fairly easy to train. Luckily we have saved the money we need to have her neutered.

We've just been into town and I got some pink flowery wellies and got DS1 some giraffe wellies.

Diege How funny! Not sure anyone here knows me as Lastbox

Was going to go out at lunch time but promptly turned back and headed inside the building. What a wimp

Not wimp, damn sensible!
Hi Nat! Good to hear from you - I need you to get going on the bee to give it a report . Def going for the khaki now, though also tempted by the blue...(it being a novelty colour and all). So get your duster out...and lol about you and dh breaking the bed with your exertions...
Have just got back from posting first batch of marked A level scripts at Po - the poor buggers, they'll be re-siting come summer...)Then popped to shops as planning a chicken casserole for tea. Have been very lazy and bought pre-peeled potatoes and throw in veg . May as well have just got a couple of ready meals!!
Oh and for any corrie fans, saw in soaps mag (not bought of course) that Tony seduces Maria!!! Desperate measures and all that...

afternoon.... Managed a good nap till DH phoned and woke me up, then the Courier came with the carrycot bit of my pram, then my Mum phoned and was on the phone for 35mins chatting about nothing- i mean i only saw her on sunday!!!

Nat- I doubt i will get much time to let it sink in that i'm a mother of 3.... it just seems pretty surreal still that i'm actually going to have 3 children in a matter of weeks now!! I mean this time last year i'd just sorted everything to help my friend by being her surrogate... and here I am just weeks away from having my own baby... If last Feb anyone told me i'd be having my own baby this year i'd have laughed in their face!!

Kay- wellies sound fun!! I want some patterned wellies, but i doubt i'd really wear them where we live!!

OMG Diege- good job i love knowing whats gonna happen in the soaps!! haha!! though thats one storyline i never saw coming!! DH says i should be a script writer for the soaps as i can often predict whats gonna happen months and months in advance- and when something is done a bit pants i can alwasy think of a better way of doing it!!

Actually wondering if i should start writing scripts and sending them off to all the soaps and see if i get any dosh out of em!! haha!!

I didn't think about people not wanting to know!!! . You're right, a real shiocker that one . Sseems so long ago you were going to be a surrogate. Is it still something you'd like to do one day?

No not any more- I doubt my body would take the strain of another pregnancy now to honest. If i'd have been a surrogate first then i'd have probably not had another myself if the pragnancy was how this one is.

Also since I decided to complete my own family before being a surrogate (which was my initial plan) lots of people who I knew throguh surrogacy have decided to cast me aside as a friend.... obviously they weren't true friends and only wanted one thing from me- my fertility!! Its Quite sickening really- you think people are so genuine and your going to offer to give them a baby, carry it for them and give birth just to hand it over to them and they treat you like the way they did me. Dont get me wrong- i know there will be some 100% genuine people out there who would love to be offered help by a surrogate- but not anyone i've met through surrogacy yet!!

OK, I did it, I took the Bee out for a play, in the snow, while trying to hold DS2's hand, and not hit any of the fucking cars that are always taking up more than half the pavement (sorry mini rant about school parking drifted in there... anyway back to the review....) it was surprisingly good, even in the snow, and that buggy sure as hell isn't made for snow! We had a few sideways skids going on, though if I'd have had use of both hands am sure it would have been fine, and considering I couldn't push DS2's buggy one handed even on dry level ground, the Bee is already racing ahead there! I am quietly impressed, but - and Diege I'm talking to you now, because I know you'll know - what buggy board fits it? I know Bugaboo are supposed to be bringing one out for it, but have checked again today and still no news about it on their website, I think to be able to go to town with it and give it a proper go, I need a buggy board (oh and a child that will stand on it I suppose, anyone have a spare one?! )

Tony and Maria? As long as they both leave Weatherfield for good in a "let's start a new life, again" way, I couldn't care less to be honest, this whole Liam thing is wearing very thin with me at the moment, though it is better than the new family, OMG that dad, the one who was in the Full Monty, urghhhhhhhhh he is disgusting, makes my skin crawl.

I think baby has just turned to breech, about 3hrs after the midwife said head was engaging. Is that possible?

Feels odd now and there was one almighty weird movement earlier when it did its potential move to being upright.....

Glask- i am so suprised and shcoked to hear that the people you've met through surrogacy havent been very nice... You'd expect the opposite really.. its a lovely gift to give to someone after all.....

Hi Diege- if Nat doesnt blow the dust off her Bee, i will be using mine soon(ish) so can report to you. Also in Kharki - waiting for a call to say its ready to collect!

LBOT- sensible to stay in at lunchtime I think! Ive not been out of the house since Sunday (except to walk in garden in snow

Sorry x posted with the last posts about surrogacy, it is horrible you were treated like that Glask, but then I suppose the relationship you'd have built up with anyone you carried for would have been cemented throughout the pregnancy. It's difficult I suppose, maybe they couldn't get past the fact that you couldn't carry for them? Kind of sad in a way.

GYo, yep and yep, in fact it is brilliant, we came in, I rolled down the top of the nest thingy, took his jacket off (which is all he needed even in this weather, and he is still asleep in it now! And he is overdue a feed by about half an hour - previously unheard of, he must be comfy!!

we call the new dad a 'kieth miller' from eastenders!! We hated him because he'd just sit around on his arse all day- i suppose he's the ultimate 'stereotype' for someone on benefits to anyone that doesn't know anyone on benefits....

I'm supposed to be putting the DC's tea on but i just can't be bothered to get up yet... it'll only take me about 20mins to make, but i just dont wanna stand in the cold kitchen cooking.... might go and get a cardi on and just get on with it, the sooner they are fed, the sooner i can bath then and get them in bed!! haha!!

Sorry GYo, what makes you think the baby has turned? When Mikey went breech, you could feel the roundness of his head right at the top, his bum was round, but more of a rectangular round, whereas his head was a proper round ball.

Rectangular round???

Oh but Glask he is soooooo much worse than Keith, Keith had a kind of likability about him, this one on Corrie is just..... I don't know, he reminds me of a flea bitten, abandoned dog, that needs a bath and a hair cut, but without the 'oh the poor thing' factor you get from a dog like that.

Go do dinner, the cooker will warm you through. I normally start their's at 5, but Mikey is still asleep, don't know if I should start it or not... he has never gone so overdue!

Ah great- glad he liked the nest Cant wait for mine to arrive!!

I am used to feeling the bum in certain place and head down low (if I prod hard enough!) Now there are two rounds or hard bits in middle so I dont know which is which!
Will have a feel and see..

Guess test will be whether I get feet in my ribs later...

hi ya

i have been internet shopping god it feels good to be shopping again

i bought a fisherprice linkadoos activity gym for bracken
and
a wiggly worm travel activity gym
on ebay

3 books on amazon
a baby book about there development each week
and two story books for dd1

what do peoples dps and dhs do in the 1st few weeks about sleeping.
thinking that it would be better for dh to sleep in the study from tonite as bracken keeps us up from 2:15am till 5am just wont settle

I've just woken up. I do feel bad as I was meant to be cooking dinner tonight but DH has said he will do it

GYo, I do hope the baby hasn't turned breech.

I don't watch soaps. I always by a tv mag and read that though so I kinda know what is happening.

I just did something stupid. I couldn't see DS2 breathing so I prodded him. Of course he is fine and it was just me but I have gone and woken him up now.

Glask, I have told my brother and his fiance to wave at you next weekend as he is taking her to Blackpool for valentines day. They might go up the tower which would be great as bro is scared of heights.

Mmm GYO, tis hard to know. Think you would have had an almighty lurch if changed to breech - maybe just shifting to face other side??
Thanks for review NAT Do you think the snuggle thing will be too hot in June? Oh and yes re: buggy board there is one that fits - think it's a 'lasco' or something like that - must check as will need one for dd3. It's a bit of a faffy board tbh (have one in garage somewhere - in sort of 2 steps that they can theoretically sit on (kerbs a nightmare).
GLASK, that is sad about the surragacy friends I suppose people get so desperate that 'normal' relations suffer to some extent.
I too am too lazy to do the tea, even with my pre-peeling pots . Must get the energy up to throw them in the pot!

well the thing is they people i've met throguh surrogacy who i could ahve helped have all been nice as pie,phone calls, emails, on MSN and meeting up the odd few times, they'll be nice as pie and seem really genuine. Just as i fell PG myself i'd met a couple who i thought were the real deal, told me everything i wanted to hear, met up with us and the DC's, wereperfect- even said they'd want to know a surrogate for at least 12mths before deciding to work with her in a surrogate- parent relationship... which was ideal for me to be pregnant and know them throughou that time, then consider my options after giving birth- and i can !))% say that if things had stayed the way they were then i'd have offered them my help in a flash.... But then she was talkign to another surrogate at the same time, the other surrogate was helping another couple and then just ended things with her firneds she was helping, then 2 days later offered help to the couple i liked... they accepted after only knowing her for 2 weeks!!They are due to start ttc with her any time around now from what i last heard- obviously I'm happy for them, but what was the point in telling me all that bulls**t if they went and did somethign completley different just to get a baby?? surely the other surrogate hasn't got much about her to break the other couples dreams of having a baby to offer to another couple.... anyway rant over- i would still love to do it if i knew the couple i helped were 100% genuine and would be friends for life... I spent 18mths getting to know my 'friends' i was going to help, and then i found out they'd been lying to me the whole time.... keeping things from me that would ahve changed my mind in the first place... just too sly and sneaky for my liking!! I couldn't trust them after what happened, hence ending things.

and now i'm off to make the DC's tea, will be back though!!

Tink, sorry of this isn't what you want to hear but I personally think if a man is happy enough to get you pg then he should bloody well expect sleepless nights.

I don't get this Dads sleeping in seperate room. I really don't.