Due April 2009 - Chapter 25: Come Out, Come Out, Wherever you are!!!!!

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a little something for the weekend?????

Morning all! Just popping in to see what's up... congrats WFH!!!! What a beautifully big baby...

ginger, we'll all be there with you, loads of grumpy hormonal bumpy ladies crammed in beside you, nipping doc's head, making sure they listen to you this time. You'll be ok, but boff is totally right, don't let them dismiss you.
I hate going to GP for that very reason. I always feel like a number, and like they're gonna usher me out and shout NEXT!
Ignore that and look after number one xxx

BB - happy due date, loved the wee song you were singing!

To everyone who is tearful - it's a sign the baby's coming soon! Woohoo, start pushing!

Come on bleu! Puuuush!

Hi all! Many, many congrats WFH!!! It's great to know that these babies WILL actually come out at some point! Hope you're feeling ok and are on the mend.

Gingersarah - hope this GP takes things seriously. The previous one you saw sounds like a total git . Sure everything will be fine

Nothing much to report here. No further show-gunk, no period pains, hardly any hixting, no nesting...actually no bloomin' sign that bubs wants to come out yet! Fingers look a bit like sausages though.... Seeing the MW on wednesday. She asked if I wanted a wed or friday appointment, so I chose wed because my due date's friday and I want to be HAVING the baby on that day (I've got a bet on it) .

It's sunny outside, but still icy and slippy. Very frustrating because I want to go for a wander without falling on my arse.

Anyone else got lots lovely stretch marks??? I look like I've got flames coming out of my pants!! (fab description stolen off another mumsnetter)

Lol... I'd rather not push right now as no one else is in the house...well besides the cat and I don't think he'll be very useful

I'd really rather hold off until Wednesday at least so DH is home and we don't miss out on the last of the money he can make us before we're both jobless...

Bleu, what are you freaking out about?

Auld, how is the cooking going? What are you making? I am thinking about getting a slow cooker... we raided the only thing I had put in the freezer last night.

Same old thing really...needing to take good care of myself overall (like I really haven't been doing) so that I can be around for the baby. I was beating myself up a bit about letting dentist visits go because oral health can affect the rest of your health and I've been terrible about it. I have a knack for avoiding things I don't like to do...but I'm going to be a mommy and so I must start being more responsible.

oooh ladies...it might be worth taking evening primrose oil a) for the general emotionalness and b) helps soten the cervix. I have been experimenting with myself (as usual) and I have been very calm and unusually serene the last week..and cervix feels lovely and soft

Thanks for epic tales Boff sorry to hear about the nasty interlude in A and E though

I have yet to find, or perhaps it more recognise my cervix, lately. In the past I found it quite easily. But in the last few months things are very different down there and I cannot actually locate it/identify it. Dh found it right quick the other day...but not me... I was wondering if it's possibly the angle that it's at...

Ginger, the cooking was v unambitious, just tomato & veg sauce to go with the pasta for lunch. Did make enough to freeze a batch, though, which I'm pleased about.
Slow cookers sound great, I don't know what they are called in French or even if they exist here...

MM thanks for the evening primose suggestion, I'm all in favour of a bit more serenity (though don't want my cervix any softer than dilated!).

DS has lost the key that locks the loo/bathroom door; he put it in the washing tabs net bag thingy and was playing with it yesterday, and now he has no idea what he did with it. Dead handy just as I'm going to have a house full of ILs and a post-birth fanjo which I don't want to be caught tending when people burst into the bathroom.

auld that's a nightmare, there's nothing worse than a toilet door that doesn't lock. You'll have to make a sign or something, and whistle really loud!

Une mijoteuse sauteuse!

Sounds much poncier than slow cooker, somehow.

S*dding italics don't work.

Yes, Trista, I was wondering about a red/green sign for the outside of the door, which even DS could understand.
The potential for embarrassment is increased by the fact that the loo/bathroom leads directly off the kitchen, in very hygienic fashion. So if there were 4 people breakfasting while I was nursing my martyred bits, and someone opened the door, all 4 diners would get an eyeful.
DS has been told we're not leaving the house till he finds the key. Hopefully it's still in the net bag, which will make it easier to find.

what about if you hang a big sheet up inside the door, so if the door was thrown open you'd have one more chance at privacy before getting in-laws seeing your bits.

Or a makeshift lack made of rope or something?

lock not lack

Auld, good luck with the key. That really does sounds like a nightmare. If you can't scare it up can you put a little bolt on the inside?
DP has - I think - gone to work with the key to our letter box but I think I can contain myself till he gets back and won't have to jemmy it open to get at the debt collectors letters for previous tenants. the loo thing is another scale of Nasty.

mijoteuse sauteuse - sounds lovely, as if everything would be like a rich cassoulet.

Hey Auld, not a problem, just put a little hook or bolt at the top of the door, out of DS's reach and you can stop people enjoying the sight of your battered fanjo over cafe au lait. You can take it off when you find the key again so DS doesn't lock himself in in a fit of brilliance.

xposts with Gingersarah!
Great minds think alike, clearly.

So organised today ...

1. Booked quote visit for new sofa covers

1. Got DS2 a place in the other school - nervous about pulling him out, and current school will be greatly offended, but I must hang onto the fact they are now quite crap with some relatively mad people working there, and quite a different school to the one they used to be when DS1 started there. Even getting a logical, properly spelled email back straight away from the new place came as a massive relief. We are used to everything being lost or not making sense, or being treated like morons or troublemakers by the office and head. Hopefully going to see the new school again on Wednesday with DS2. I am praying he doesn't have a fit about moving schools, but I think the fact that they are less strict about the uniform in this place and do more swimming might swing it for him.

1. Found last minute SATS tutor for DS1 who can explain to him how sums work in modern parlance. We can only do them the old fashioned way. School should have been teaching him all this, tbh, but we have given up on them now.

Afternoon

BB - Happy Due Date To you!!!!!! love your song xx

Auld - i second your emphasis on the babies coming thick and fast !!

Mrs Fossil -((hugs)) for the tired and tearful x

Boffin - wow a your labour stories sorry about episode 3 ((hugs)) xxx Hooray for the new school for ds2

Ginger - ((hugs)) and good luck today at the docs, will be thinking of you

Bleu - yay for the dentist and more tightenings

Mathsmummy - ooooohhh thanks about the evening primrose!! will get dh to go get some this afternoon xx am vey grumpy & morose lately so anything that will help is good.

Happy due date to BB! This is all where it starts, girls! The first baby on the list has been born in its proper order & the next one is due now - poppoppop!

Have fun at your parents', BB

Boff, what fascinating stories. The first one sounds awful (& I still can't believe that you were cooking a business lunch at that point!) but you seem to have more luck with birthing boys - let's hope it continues that way!

Ginger, your GP sounds like a complete idiot. Although you probably have nothing to worry about, it'd be nice to have a medical professional telling you that!

Haha, damn that Northernlurker & her ability to run - she deserves a good few missiles aimed at her head for telling us to get a move on

Trista, how soon is the baby coming if you're tearful? The next few hours? Please say the next few hours

I still don't have bump stretchmarks! I have hip, thigh & bottom stretchmarks, but none on my bump yet at all! I know that I'll get them, especially as I've not done any moisturising or anything, but I'm impressed that my skin's managed to get this far without getting all weird. The human body's an amazing thing.

MM, I do quite love you - I love that you always have some sort of tale related to your 'lovely and soft' cervix You're fabulous

I have just been lurking on an AIBU thread about not wanting to hear about childbirth being awful and loads of people popped up to say it really isn't. So I choose to believe them. Trista, thanks for recommending the hypno CD - it could be what I need.

Maybe I will go and start a fight on AIBU to celebrate the first day of maternity leave!

Who got lovely pressies from work for their mat leave, by the way?

That reminds me, Ginger - a few months ago I read this thread & it made me feel a lot better about the whole birth thing.

I think now would be a good time to read it in preparation

Dear me...how long does it take usually for numbness to wear off after the dentist? It's been 3 hours and I still have tongue that feels more like and elephant's trunk and strangely 'pressured' teeth...

Bleu - quite some time probably be ok late afternoon.