Due in June....scream if you wanna go faster!!!!

[lynny70]

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Lynny - re your picture question, you can add pics to threads on the member profiles board or you could join our Yahoo site (that Katz kindly set up) and load pics in there

It hurts when they rummage around for the head, doesn't it? Or does my mw just have very bony fingers?

It definitely hurts - my midwife did the same thing yesterday and it was very unpleasant.

Blimey MrsF, you are going to be busy in the next few months. Having a baby sounds like the easy bit!

My maternity projects are dull in comparison. I intend to wash all the curtains in the house ( - used as a yawn emoticon here), pack my hospital bag, do some baby related shopping, that kind of thing. Oh, and spend one day a week doing absolutely nothing apart from lounging, playing on the computer and eating.

Second timers - are you keeping your DDs/DSs in nursery/childcare when you are on maternity leave?

MrsW. As a certified bad mummy I am keeping DD in the nursery during ML... I justify it to myself as "she is well adpted and in a good routine. No point on taking her out if she will have to be back in a few months. No way to guarantee she would have a spot to go back too. However, as I am sure guilt will creep in, I'll go get her early often, or maybe not ....

BTW, DD seem very aware of the baby incoming arrival and certainly very changed already. For example when we go shopping now, she asks if that is for her or baby. Whether she can share, etc... She also explain to me that baby will be using her cot and didn't seem bothered by it... But who knows what is going to be like when the blob is parked on mum's lap and boobs all the time??? She is very spoiled in mummy attention, I am sure it will be hard!

I'm a certified bad mummy then too Lua - DS is going to go to nursery too. We're cutting back to two days a week (mainly for financial reasons) but my rationale is pretty similar to yours...he'll have something to do that he enjoys while I'm still getting used to the new baby.

Yes, it's the lack of attention for DS that I'm worried about. It's going to be such a shock for them. I keep telling myself that he'll gain more than he loses (a sibling being more important than undivided parental attention). We'll see if he feels the same way...

Ha ha ha KVG - yup definitely boney finger prerequisite here too!

Mrs W - ds had his final day at nursery yesterday and was very very - he loved one of the lady's there, but too expensive to keep him in (£200 pm for one day a week!) and when he's 3 in June I hope to get him into the village nursery attached to the junior school. But until that time he will still go to mil for 2 days a week as he currently does now I just have to decide what to do with those two whole days!

Lua - think we will have opposite problem, ds is very definitely a daddy's boy, so he'll have no problem with me looking after bubs, it's when daddy wants a cuddle that our trouble will start!

hello

I'm a bad mummy too DD is going to still got o nursery aswell, 2 days a week until July then from Spetmeber she will go 2 half days (Due to DH's job change). We are lucky because our nursery do school term contracts so DD is off when DH is so we don't pay for childcare we don't need. So we will have the six weeks summer hols to do the family thing whihc will be nice.

Thankyou who ever said my DD was cute, we think so!!

my new (well second hand) kooshies arrived today ready for DH to use and his reaction was is that all it is, to which i replied yep, oh thats easy, why didn't we use these for DD!!!

For everyone following the nannysaga (or too polite to tell me to shut up, which is probably all of you)she had a rather adventurous day today. Got a phone call at work that she was over at the neighbors house. Neighbor drove to my leasing agent to get the keys because nanny left her purse on the train (complete with my keys and mobile phone... grrrr). Anyway, when she got there, they told her that I had not returned the keys last time nanny locked herself out. Tis true they still sit in my purse. Poor oh so very nice neighbor. ANyway, so nanny called me at work to ask what she should do. I didn't really offer any solutions as I was not going to entertain the idea of leaving work to come home and let them in. In the end some man over at my neighbor's house climbed into the upstairs window in nanny's bathroom with a ladder. Bet that was a sight to see. So, I had my very own bulider/plunber/who knows what in my house and I missed it! Thought of you, Lippy. How's your shirtless worker?

PINK, where are you? I'm getting worried... Come back!!!

Another bad mummy here, dd will carry on with her 3 and 1/2 days at nursery but she just loves it there and she's gone up to big class and I genuinely don't want to disrupt her too much. I also doubt my own ability to deal properly with two 24/7 from the outtset. However come August we are all departing for Wales for a month so that'll be the real test for me!

Pink hope you're ok - thinking of you x

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Hi Everyone,
KVG/Trib - thanks for the links and advice. V. useful. Lua, thanks for the Unicorn tip. I'll pop in there.

Mrs Wed/Welshie/Tea, bless all your DS's/DD's. What lovely stories. I find hearing about all your lovely kids quite comforting that it isn't all going to be screaming, tantrums and sleepless nights (don't pop my bubble please)

KVG - i think the book idea is lovely. If I wasn't a bad to-be mother and bl**dy lazy, i'd do the same.

Mrs F, I'd be crying constantly with the proposed thought of all that in the next 3 months playing on my mind. Crying in a supermarket sounds perfectly acceptable to me.

Lynny, I laughed. Sorry . That certainly doesn't fall into the usual realms of what we have to comfort our DH's/DP's about...

My good news is that the MW now thinks the baby is the right way round and not breech at all. I had prepared my "I want a scan" speech, but luckily it wasn't needed. Right, better go and do some work, before my next anti-natal class this afternoon.....

Morning all,

Lynny - yup laughed here too funny how men mostly have problems dealing with this kind of thing, bless them!

LOL at the monkey pic - fab DD is lovely btw...thought as others have got theirs on their I'd better load one of my 'real' little monkey!

Jonah - great news that bubs now head down...although probably would have been nice to see one last pic/scan before d-day

Morning All!

Jonah - are you going to "anti-natal" classes??? Is there where they teach you to get out of this mess this far along, or to keep your legs crossed to the bitter end???? Sorry couldn't pass up the chance....

Lynny - I feel for your DH, but it is so funny!! I'll go off to the yahoo site now, and take a peek at your wonderful pictures.

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Lynny, I laughed too. Sorry to your DH! And I laughed at your monkey picture too. Your DD is lovely by the way. If I wasn't so technophobic I'd post a picture up of DS too.

KVG, I think the book will be really special for your DD when she gets older. I would have loved something like that about me. We got a baby book for DS and have filled most of it in - it's amazing how quickly you forget things. Will have to do it this time round too, don't want this one to feel hard done by in years to come (DH's younger sister still complains about the emptiness of her baby book, 32 years later).

Great news that baby is heading in the right direction JonahB.

Well you will all be pleased (and relieved) to know that I have washed out my pee pot...I felt shamed into doing it after my confession on here the other day .

Welshie, hope the chin has stopped flaking! My lip scab unfortunately is now taking on a life of its own. I really shouldn't be at work, I'm scaring people.

Lynny - yor girl is gorgeous! and she does look very proud!

Teabelly - are you taking offers of arranged marriage? Your boy is very cute! I uploaded a pic of my girl - see if she is acceptable!

and yes, Jonah, great news on baby being head down! Is such a relief, isn't?

Talking about babies turning around... Charley, where are you girl? You been quiet! Has your baby found his way down?

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HA HA HA, Lynny

Lua - yup your little girl is very acceptable...so that's arranged then although she may curse you when she realises that ds had just had his hair cut, and when allowed to grow for more than a week he normally resembles Leo Sayer or Keven Keegan in his 70's hey day!!!!!

Lynny your dd does look very proud and happy, bless, whereas my ds had just been caught out nicking chocs out of my bag (allowed of course - but he didn't know that!)

Ooh this is great - now we need some more pics from the other girls

morning all

just a quickie to say your children are all lovely.

will have to post a more recent photo of DD that one was taken in June last year!! got some newer ones at home

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morning all,
lynny-coulnt help but laugh and i love your poem
i'd love to look on the "yahoo" site but can't figure out to use it as im not too good with computers
hope pink's ok ad was also wondering where charley is
got loads done yesterday and have just sent dh off to homebase to hire a carpet shampoo machine so hopefully i'll have nice clean carpets very shortly,along with a gleaming but wet sofa

Hello all!
I've been signed off work for a week! Nothing serious at all - but I mentioned being knackered and it was the first time I've seen GP since was in hospital last week end - she wasn't pleased that I'd gone back to work straight away - so signed me off!
Got in-laws coming tomorrow so will probably be more tired than being at work tonight after all the cleaning I'm doing! (interrupted by various breaks during which I catch up with you lot!!) - Hows this for petty - I'm gonna get all the washable baby stuff I've got and pack it into a plastic box and hide it round my neighbours! . This is cos I know MIL will insist on doing all the nice little "baby chores" - packing drawers, making up moses basket etc for me - when I've spent today on my hands and sodding knees cleaning skirting boards! NO -WAY -That is MY job and I am gonna do it! - Also washing machine is well and truly on last legs and new one arrives on Monday. Am worried that baby stuff might get shredded so I want to wash it in new machine when they've gone! - Am I being really nasty?
Also, I'd love to look on the yahoo site and put up a picture of my dd - can someone give me a link though? ta x

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