Due April 2009: Episode 21 - RLT officials have stern words with the April mums after stocks plummet!!

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Thanks to Nutty for all the thread suggestions including this one. I hope no one minds but I picked this one in honour of the brilliant race commentary we had from Nuts and Frekkles the other night. Hopefully we will get some more.

LOL at sensitive German feet - do you think it's all those Birkenstocks our parents make us wear when we're little?

Boffin, where will you have your birth announcements printed?

Boffin I would wholeheartedly endorse getting your hair done. You've had a grim pregnancy so you deserve to feel good about yourself.

And actually well done highlights need redoing a lot less frequently than less well done ones. So it's worth it in the long run. And you are unlikely to get a chance to get your hair done for a while after baby is born (dunno about your hairdresser but mine is an elderly gay bloke who would pass out cold if I wapped my bap out and started breastfeeding in his salon )

Do any other first timers wonder what on earth they are letting themselves in for when things like BLW are discussed and you have no idea what people are talking about - I know it will all come but still confuses me!!

Schulte - that could well be it if you are anaemic.

How are you finding the iron tablets? They make me feel awful. Churning stomach, nausea I take them before bed as they wipe out my day otherwise.

Ju - I kind of love Stephen Fry too. His voice is so reassuring.

Boff go for the expensive one and enjoy being pampered!!

I went to a cheap(er) local salon once - still cost over £100 to get done - and it was awful, spent more money getting it put right than just going to my normal salon - although can't go there anymore as it is on the other side of London and just can't treck up there....

BB - I seem to have completely the wrong interpretation of baby led weaning. I thought I had done it - but DD was on (homemade) puree for ages. I took it to mean feeding her foods as and when she showed an interest in eating, rather than starting on solids at a pre-prescribed date (ie 4 months in our mothers' day and 6 months nowadays).

Me too BB. I just figure, how wrong can you go? You put food in one end, keep the other end clean, and take everything else day by day and just do the best you can. I suspect I will be glued to this lap top with baby glued to breast, asking inane questions all day long! Also, I make a point of trying not to read too much in the way of baby books, for fear all the conflicting advice makes my head explode!

Maybe will put trollish AIBU up - "AIBU to think this child-rearing business can't possibly be as hard as you all make out?"

That's what I thought it was Lulu! I've been quite looking forwards to making loads of pureed goodies!

I'm going to have to get out of the house. DD is going completely stir-crazy climbing up the furniture and leaping off it and generally causing utter havoc. Need to wear her out before we fall out.

Later

Ju - I think you are on the right track. Pretty much what I did first time. DD is still alive .

Gotta go.

ha ha me too Juw! but don't put that up you will get FLAMED!!!!

I haven't read a single baby book (that is what MN is for) as even speaking to people in RL confuses me!!

Ah I am just watching some woman have triplets- they are so iccle!! I want my baby now please! It kind of makes me wish I had multiples too but at the same time must be such a change! one is fine to ease me in I think!

Where have you all gone???

is anyone here?? been having tightenings since 11 last night i havent slept a wink, Theyre getting quite painful its in my back as well, my midwifes fone is off im not sure what to do, its not unbearable pain but really not nice heeelp guyss, amm 35+4 now xx

Hey BB, am back and bouncing with you. Feeling a bit bleurgh today, don't usually have to start on the Gaviscon this early in the day. Also, some minor period-type pains at bottom of bump. Hmmmmm.

Hi Lauren - do you have any phone numbers for other midwives in the community team? If not, I would call the local birthcentre or antenatal unit and just run it by them.

Lauren - are they regular - can you time them and find out how far apart they are?

The most important thing is not to worry could just be BH. Spend the next 20-30 minutes timing them and keep trying your mw!

And now all I can think is that if baby were to turn up today, the house is still an absolute tip, and I couldn't possibly let midwives in.

I feel bleurgh too - have had porridge and giant buttons but still feel I have no energy - snap with the period pain - hence the bouncing!

Lauren if you are really worried phone the labour ward at your hospital x

Ha ha Juw - pretty sure you wont be that worried when you are mooing around the house!

Oh if DH wasn't at work I would lend you him for the day but as it is, I already have breakfast dishes and crap all over the house (it was SPOTLESS after his tidying last night) I am a failure as a wife!

Did you melt the giant buttons into the porridge?

they're about every 15 minutes, some are stronger than others, they feel easier now than they were last night though, but they werent so close together then, has anyone else had them like this?? x

Morning all!

Congratulations to babypringle

BB - I think you are going mad, one minute you are panicking about havin one baby and the next minute you want three? I watched that programme yesterday. £100 for a haircut cheap? Oh my god, I think that I feel another 'slattern' measure coming on!

Boffin - yay for the birthing pool!

LuLu I like my iron tablets - they taste nice and sweet Haven't noticed any change since starting to take them though.

Ju I think your idea of child rearing is spot on. Maybe I was lucky but I didn't find weaning difficult at all and certainly couldn't understand why there are whole books written about it. But then DD has always loved her food.

Hopefully potty training will equally turn out easier than expected. The only thing that I really had trouble working out and spent a lot of time reading about was the sleeping bit but then I was determined to get DD to sleep through from as early as possible. Think I'll be a bit more relaxed about that one this time round as well.

Off to have lunch in town. See ya later!

Oh bloody buggering hell.

Have not got emergency hospital bag ready.
Have not got HB kit of shower curtains and dark towels.
Have not got birthing pool.
Have not got moses basket ready to go.
Have not got biscuits for midwives as was encouraged to eat them.
Have got house of filth.
Have not got nursing bras.