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

[lynny70]

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Bright Eyes, thanks for letting us know. Dont worry at all, you haven't offended/invaded at all. The site is open to anyone. I saw that nosey lurker address and was a bit worried, but you've but my mind to rest - thanks.

Hi Yikes, Sorry, I didn't say hello yesterday, our mails must have crossed.

Lua, lol, she throws up regularly, but I'd thought it would be kinder to all the loveley Junies to spare them details . Using the "Vanish" has become a regular morning activity.

Trib, that is a frightening schedule. I couldn't do that prgt either. At least with mine, I do have some say over when I travel. I think a lot of it has to do with my stupid pride and stubborness. I want to show my work and prove to myself (although, to be fair, work have been v. supportive) that I am still capable. I just couldn't imagine turning round after 6 months and saying, "that's it, no more driving", although i'm sure many women do it and for v. justifiable reasons. My manager did say to me last week (as well as saying i am looking good on it - liar!!) that he was impressed that i'm still going to this level. As I say, my stupid pride.......

Is anyone else feeling a bit reticent about stopping work for so long? I can't wait to stop, but I am quite daunted about the prospect of not working. That probably sounds daft, but I've never had a career break of any kind before, it just feels really odd.

Berolina, definitely make the most of that sofa

9 working days to go!!!!!!!!

Jonah - career breaks are my speciality, I haven't worked full-time since March last year, and I also had a six month break in 2002 as well. It's fantastic, highly recommended (although I'm guessing that being at home with a baby maybe be subtley different from being at home without one!). It's great just to take a step back from the treadmill of work and completely decompress. Actually I must say I've been very glad not to be working during this pregnancy (so far!), I guess I may not get quite so lucky again! (I believe in permanent jobs it's not usual to go on maternity leave at 7 weeks pregnant!)

My oldest sister-in-law works for a car firm, so it's a very male environment and she's in quite a senior management position. I know that, like you, she thought it was very important not to expect any allowances to be made for her because of the pregnancy, knowing that if she did it would reinforce the stereotype that "women aren't up to the job because they get pregnant and can't function effectively". (Load of crap in my view). But well done anyway for keeping going for so long, hope you get a good mileage rate!

berolina - love the idea of you teaching from your lounger. Very decadent and 'fall of the Roman Empire' somehow! Hope you manage to fight off the cold. I've noticed they definitely wait til you're not working in order to give you the full brunt of it when you should be enjoying yourself.

lynny - best of luck with your test, sorry to hear your midwives haven't been very useful about it.

morning all,

please sign up for the sweepstake - free to enter!! but we need you answers in before people find out c-section dates.

had a nice suprise in my paypacket, was £50 better off this month because of the change to childcare vouchers.

Morning everyone,
I had such a great chat with the consultant yesterday - I don't know if I've said but she's also in charge of the Reproductive Medical Unit - so her dept helped get me pg every time and she delivered dd last time - at my request. She's just so calm, kind and thorough, honestly I just feel like crying because she's so good! Anyway she's concerned about a few things - the heart stuff especially but also previous c-section, my age, baby's breech an so on. She's trying to sort out some more tests for me and I need to go back and see her again but I think I'm heading for a c-section - which won't bother me as I feel I've been very well-treated indeed and trust her totally.
The thought of the baby arriving sooner will put a bit of oomph into getting the nursery ready - we want to do most of it this weekend and I'll need to do some serious shopping for me and it once I'm off work.

JonahB - I have a strange reticence about leaving work too. I worked for so long before having a family that it's a big part of who I am - had trouble last time adjusting to being a mum. I'm hoping it won't be the same this time round. At the moment I can't wait to stop next week (only 3 days to go ) just to stop using the bloody tube.

Berolina - hope your cold doesn't get you down too much - we've got quite enough to put up with without colds as well

Big hello to yikes and brighteyes.

I keep hoping Pink will pop up too - Pink we're all thinking about you honey and trusting you're hanging on in there xxxx

Welshie, glad you managed to get some really good care yesterday, hope your tests go well.

KVG - it certainly is possible to end up achieving absolutely nothing all day, although I wouldn't be too rigorous about getting up in the morning. This is your last chance to have lots of lie ins for a very long time, enjoy your Zzzzzzzzs whilst you can!

Well, I obviously jinxed things by singing the praises of career breaks, as mine has been extended by a further week. At the last minute, they realised there wasn't enough time to order me a desk, computer and mobile phone (why on earth would they do that anyway?) so they've asked me to start a week later. That will be the final week I can work full-time because of the parentcraft classes starting. At this rate the absolute maximus they will get out of me is 1 full week and 2 half weeks. And then it's sayonara til December.

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Trib, thanks for your note of support. Like your SIL, I work in the automotive industry, although i would DEFINITELY not count myself as senior management . I'm sure I'll love being off and dread the day when I have to return. I must say, its v. odd of your new company to want you in for 2 weeks. You're mind is hardly going to be 100% committed to the new job, is it?

KVG/Welshie - Glad i'm not on my own. You're probably right, it is to do with routine and also fear of the unknown. Oh, and the only challenge i've set myself for each day after the delivery is having a shower and getting my knickers on. I think that will be quite enough of an achievment for one day!!

Katz, congrats on the extra money. Definitely keep that to yourself and spend it on something frivolous for you!

Welshie, so pleased that you're feeling more reassured.

Catch you later. I MUST go and do some work..

My goodness, trying to keep up with this thread is defintely bad for my work productivity. I see Pink hasn't returned. No response to my CAT either. I hope she's okay!!!

Damn, Welshie, I put you down for biggest. And now you are going to have a section and so it will be small because it's early. Oh well. Do you have a date yet? A tentative one? I have six more days 'til I get to sort out my date. I'm hoping for the week ending 22 May. My sister's son's b-day is 17 May, so I'm sort of thinking it would be fun for the boy cousins to share a birthday... but then maybe they won't be very happy with having to share the day. Oh well, I probably don't get a say in it anyway. But, I'm getting really nervous about the possibility of labour before the planned procedure, so I'm going to take the earliest possible date on offer.

Next week is an eventful one for us. Hospital tour on Tuesday and scan (to check placenta location as it was low at 21 weeks) and above mentioned chat with consultant. DH is coming with on Thursday, but I have to do the hospital tour by myself.

Hello ladies,
I have a bit more time to type today as dd is in bed and I have had my lunch (left over chicken and salad mmmm. Seems a bit too healthy though so the biscuit barrel may be raided soon). I was kept awake last night trying to decide on my sweepstake answers. It will be great to get the answers. I find it exciting when one person I know has a baby let alone all of us!!! Not long now. I am getting really excited now.
I found it very odd to give up work and was quite bored on maternity leave. Since I had dd though I have not looked back and for me I can't imagine going back to work for a while yet. Finances may dictate otherwise but I am hoping to be a SAHM until this bump is three... I haven't really had a career as such though. I am planning to retrain and use my degree when I do return to work by doing my PGCE and becoming a teacher. My mum is a teacher and so I feel I have my eyes open about it all, but the training with two children will be interesting. We will wait and see. I have worked in the transport industry and the civil service up till now and although I enjoyed the work at the time I have no desire to return to either of those fields.
Ben Shepherd has just said his wife is due at the end of the month. Do you think she is on the May thread?
BIG Hello to Yikes too.
I am off to investigate this Yahoo site and maybe post some pics too.
Bye for now.

Welshie - Forgot to say thinking of you and sorry you have to have so more scans etc. Your consultant sounds wonderful though and you are obviously confident in her which is great.
Bero - Hope the cold goes soon.
Pink - Thinking of you too. Hope you are just studying hard. Take care.
I have put photos of dd (with dh) and the other dd (dear dog) on the yahoo site if anyone is interested. I love the photos that are on there. Lol at Lynny's monkey. What a bunch of gorgeous children (and assorted pets)!

Uwila - sorry that I might scupper your entry . At the moment I think there's quite alot of milkshake in my tummy - will be interested to see what comes out.
Hope your consultant is sympathetic when you finally get to see them.

welshie-really pleased your appointment went well yesterday.it makes all the difference having a great medical team along with people you trust
ive just come back from my midwife.she's really lovely but very hard to understand and she had a student with her.all that prodding about from one person is bad enough but they both decided to have a go and the conclusion is the head is engaged
my god-now im panicing even more.i asked her if that meant he's on his way but she said its difficult to tell.im 34+1 and i now wish i was only 24+1.she couldnt give me an idea on how big he is either but i reckon that beacause he has a big mum,he's also going to be a heavy weight.
im going off now to check out the sweepstake and new piccies so i'll be back later

I suppose I can let it go welshie... but don't do it again. (Don't know about you, but I have no plans to do any of this again!)

2 will be enough for me as well Uwila. I'm too old to contemplate anymore. I'm not ruling out animals though (buying them as opposed to giving birth to them). Dd wants a goat at the moment....

Afternoon everyone...

Thanks for your good wishes. Feel a bit less shitty today but am dogged by tiredness because of a bad night - insomnia despite being shattered, row with dh (sorted out now), managed to bang into the top of my bump while getting up which gave me a panic session about placental abruption, especially after developing mild tummy ache a few hours later... Oh well. More or less back on an even keel now, and baby is elbowing, kneeing and pushing around as if nothing had happened.

Bubbaloo, I've (i.e. baby's) been engaged for at least 10 days now (am 35+2) - when I had my last internal the doc said 'oh, I can stroke baby's head already' - it doesn't necessarily mean the birth will be early though. In my case my cervix has also shortened a bit but this doesn't automatically happen when baby engages. The big mum = big baby thing isn't a foregone conclusion either. (On a slight tangent, I was quite amused when reading my notes after my hospital appt on Monday and they'd put my height in as 300cm - I'm only just over half that!)

thank god for that-i was starting to get really worried so glad im not the only one
lets also hope my theory on a big baby is also wrong too-mind you i was over 9lb when i was born so i dont know if that also makes a difference!!
glad your feeling a bit better berolina.its awful when you knock your bump-i actually fell over at the tube station last week which was really embarrassing but the babys well protected in there and as long as he's moving then everything should be okay
its very quiet on here this afternoon-have i scared everyone off?

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Oh sorry I didn't mean to worry anyone I haven't really been around. Thanks for the mails you sent I thought after opening my mail today I better show my face

I had mock exams. I've also been busy with all the antenatal classes. I really can hardly walk anymore because of my back and am waiting for my Physio appointment next Tuesday.

They still haven't even booked the painting I am beginning to think I will be living in a hovel for the next while because I can't have them in with a baby. I only just managed to get them to put up the post box cage. I am looking into moving sometime in the next year or so as I am simply sick of crap landlords and crap neighbours.

I am now so sick of antenatal classes I don't think I can learn anymore about labour. I don't know why they bash on about labour so much you'll have a baby for the rest of your life and I am sure learning what to do when they are crying and doing your head in completely is slightly more important than fine tuning your pain relief options. You either get the pain relief or you don't. Everyone seems to be really excited about the impending arrivals and I feel a bit like a Stepford wife just smiling but neither agreeing or disagreeing. I've noticed there is really no room to be anything other than a doting hormone hysteric and everyone asks you if you are 'excited' yeah if I was on drugs perhaps - but seeing as a columbian drug lord doesn't live downstairs...

I haven't really caught up. I really tired and going back to bed after shopping at tesco's. I practically broke my back getting the cranberry juice up the stairs.

Hope everyone is ok

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pink-its great to see you back
sorry to hear of the painting or lack of it.its just extra hassle you dont really need right now.
lynny-your lunch sounded lovely.know what you mean about having no clothes to fit-this baby seems to have more than me

Evening all,

Ds asleep and dh out on the piss so I've been having some me time this evening One massive bar of Green & Blacks and a pint of bitter shandy later and I'm having a great night

Pink - great to hear from you again. Sorry to hear about the painting... hope it gets sorted before little one arrives.

Uwila - he he he sorry to sneak in a day ahead of you with the due dates Although as you're having a c-sec I'm sure you'll definitely be a mama again before me!

Yikes - Welcome aboard - never too late to join in the mayhem

Brighteyes - as others have said please don't worry about lurking on the Yahoo site - I'm sure we're all lurking all over the place...I know I am, I'm far too nosy! 8 weeks off so far - that is a long time, are you taking a full 12 months then?

Bubb - re your question yonks ago about taking formula into hospital. Most hospitals have a few varieties of formula (all in handy little bottles ready to go), and you can always phone them and ask which ones they have although you can pretty much guarantee SMA and Cow & Gate. If they don't do the one you want to use then obviously take some in with maybe a pack of the from birth steribottles (disposable pre-sterilised bottles) which you can bin afterwards so you don't have to worry about cleaning bottles immediately upon your return home.

Cobweb - any news on your house yet??

Katz thanks for setting up the sweepstake - so are we deciding on a prize/prizes??

Coop - glad you had a good time with your dad and stepmum...hope your typing fingers are feeling refreshed and ready to go after a week off!

Hope everyones got a fab weekend lined up - to make the most of the weather. We have nothing whatsoever that we have to do, so I'm going to sit back in the garden, rest and enjoy the sunshine . Have a good one girls...x

evening tea-glad your enjoying some "me" time.my dh is also out.ive had a couple of girlfriends over for the evening and theyve just gone so im sure he'll be heading back shortly
thanks for the info on the formula-those steribottles sound like a good idea.i'll double check next week at my hospital appointment just to be sure
lets hope the weather tomorrow is as nice as todays-it was absolutely beautiful here!!