Due April 2009: Episode 16 - BB's magical cervix dust prevents birthing. But Barbarellys Babies are here !

[SmuttyNuttyTaff]

here, that was close

I didn't think I should express already but lots of extended family members have suggested it, including a friend who works on a maternity ward, I just kind of fluffed round it and said I would think about it!

Boff, it this LO doesn't latch on I am coming to cambridge!!

Bleu - you are a wonderful housewife and will be a wonderful mother (I can feel it in me bones as Nutty would say) the fact that you are worried about it makes that obvious!!

Very very cute little girl!

Swali, I loved your post too, and I cried as well.

I also thought it was a super shot of Charlie in Hello. I used to help edit their pix - I am sure I would have been delighted to have that one in the batch.

Lulu, I take your point about the bovine thing, but honestly, if you see the pump as a tool of women's liberation and evenings out, it seems a whole lot more doable.

Bleu it won't come to that! Everything will be just fine.

Contract work is always nerve-wracking. At the end of any contract you always get the fear that you will never get any more work. But there is IT work around still and I'm sure your DH will find something.

A friend of ours recently got made redundant 2 weeks before their 3rd baby was due. A couple of months later he has just started in a new role. And although he missed out on a few weeks pay he was able to spend lots of time with the family while the baby was tiny so it worked really well.

I had major issues with reflux first time around (DD had to be hospitalised for a while) so count myself a bit of an expert now! I reckon between us we have it covered

oh and I did mixed feeding fairly successfully for a while, as I had to with DD's condition (and had no choice as they FF her in neo natal grrr).

BB, it really is too early to express. I have no idea why they are saying that.

Bleu, for some reason I thought you already were a mum, because you sound so on top of things and maternal. You are going to be amazing. In fact I would like you to be my mum!

Oh Frosty I wish we could... but it's the long drive too and the petrol to get there and the food while we're gone...

I sort of wound my bf down and gradually ramped up to ff when I went back to work. However I have a better workplace now and they are buying me a fridge for my (non-shared) office, so I am thinking of keeping going on the bf for a bit longer this time. They do get fewer colds and things the more bm you shove into them.

Bleu, I would say this is Britain, and we don't let pg people suffer too much. Nobody will let you become homeless. We do have a highly effective welfare state, even if we all do moan on here about it a lot! You will be fine. The universe will provide.

Lansinoh is great for sore nipples. What I liked about breast feeding most was that I found it almost always settled my babies to sleep without much rocking required.

I have been doing a lot of housework and yesterday threw away all the clothes I don't want any more and all my dc's old clothes which are beyond further use -- very odd as I find things hard to let go. Really this ought to have been done years ago (seriously)! Is it too early for nesting?

I exclusively bf for 8 months and then mix fed until 10 when I finally shifted her over onto formula. By that time I was really glad to give up to be honest. I had toyed with giving her some bm until a year old but I just wanted my body back by then.

I found the best thing about bf was that I could do it whenever wherever without having to plan. Bottles with all the sterilising, boiling and cooling water etc etc seemed far harder work. Especially when we moved to a house and the kitchen was 2 floors down and DD was still needing several night feeds.

(Kitty - another advantage of horizontal living!)

It's nice of you all to say how maternal I am... I have 4 sisters, 3 of which are younger than me...and the youngest of which was born when I was 9 and I helped Mom take care of her from 13+ hrs (the other sisters were sent to gparents for 2 weeks).
Plus I will say that I've always been very curious about pregnancy and babies. When my 1st younger siste was born I kept curling my baby doll up and putting it under my shirt/down my pants and would even lay on it occationally to try to figure out what it would feel like... (bit embarrassing saying that, but I was 3/4 so it was very innocent)

Oh my word, another major catch up job for me then. I think I will have my bath first.

Am I the only one here still breastfeeding? DD still has a feed before bedtime. [waits for expressions of shock]

Puzzle that's impressive. For me breastfeeding was a total contraceptive. I wouldn't be here now if I was still feeding DD.

So will you continue with DDs night feed when you have the new one?

I gave up BFing DD when she was 15 mo, Puzzle. The pain of BFing whilst pg was excruciating! I would have carried on if it wasn't for the pain though.

Bleu, my DS2 stuffs teddies up his t-shirt and struts around pretending to be pg. And he is 7!!

I think I will carry on at first, it may help with any jealousy issues. If she hasn't weaned herself a few months after then I will think about encouraging her.
And this from someone who only planned to breastfeed for the first six weeks.

Right i'm off for a soak.

Well thank God for other children being obsessed with pregnancy!

Completely normal Bleu. My friend and I used to pop balloons under our T-shirts all the time.

DD thinks that there is a baby in her tummy as well. But, then again, she also thinks that there is a baby in each of my boobies and gives them kisses as well (For the record, I think that this is because baby and booby sound very similar).

LOL Swali. My DD is a tad obsessed by boobies. Can be embarrasing in town. There is an underwear shop we pass and whenever she sees the scantily clad manequin she bellows out "Boobies" at the top of her voice.

(not sure if this is more or less embarrasing than how she yells out "Papa-juice" in the supermarket whenever she sees the wine).

Lulu, I'm PMSL (not literally of course, I do my pelvic floor exercises!). My DD has been known to point to a naked mannequin and yell "boobies" as well. She was trying to 'help' me put my bra on the other day when she suddenly changed her mind, declared "mine!" and flounced off with my bra!

Well at least she doesn't yell 'Papa juice' when she sees something gloopy and whitish...

Ooooooooooooooooooh Bleu!!!

Just cos Smutty is poorly and unable to be here to lower the tone, there was NO need for that (I still can't eat porridge thanks to her).

Anyway, inspired by Boffin I have just been googling for breast shells. Do you think this is what she means?

Swali - I found DD parading around wearing a pair of my -errr- 'naughtier' pairs of panties on her head. She thought she looked very pretty.