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

[lynny70]

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Just a quickie to say hi. Not read any posts. Too tired, catch up tomorrow. Hope everyone's well. Off to bed now x

IT'S MAY.

That's the month before the baby arrives.

Good grief.

Hope all is well with everyone. Think I am starting to get to the stage where I am really, really looking forward to not being pregnant any more. Luckily I didn't have gest diabetes, so all basically OK, but bump seems to have moved downwards and is managing to poke me in some very painful places .

We've decided to head off to France next week (last week of work - wahey) and be back two weeks before due date. So fingers crossed.....

My goodness it's quiet on here. Must be the weather.

Pink- So glad you are ok. Sorry to freak out on you.

Hi All, hope you all had a good weekend. The weather here has been most disappointing. We had thunder and sleeting rain this am. Thunder!! It's May!! Lua, I guess it probably woke you up too...

Pink, good to hear from you. I?m not sure where you are up to in your anti-natal classes, but my last one was solely dedicated to breast feeding, which was really useful. I agree, they do seem to concentrate more on the birth stuff than afterwards, but I believe that they teach you all the "hands on" stuff before you leave the hospital. Also, at the beginning you have a MW visiting you every day to support you. 2nd timers, is this right?

Lynny, my maternity clothes are almost too tight for me now . I?m really loathed to go out and buy any more, but the tops are all straining at the seams. I've got another 5 weeks to go and my clothes don't fit. As you can imagine, this makes me feel even more glam and attractive than I already do......

Jonah, please send that thunder this way, we need it to break this stifling heat, argh! I have decided next time around I shall be having an April baby. May is officially too hot! (Although as I will be in Leeds that time, perhaps it's still winter up north, please advise! )

Pink, good to see you back. For what it's worth, I get fed up with people asking me if I'm excited too. I'm not. Quite frankly I deny anyone to be excited about anything except the prospect of a fresh tub of Haagen-Dasz during late pregnancy.

Lummox - in France til two days before your due date, heck. Hope you have your E111 packed anyway! I know you're not too far from home whilst you're over there as well, which makes things easier.

Berolina, hope all's okay after your bump bump (if that makes sense).

two weeks before, tribpot! but have got the E111 packed. midwife seems to think it should be ok (although she wasn't looking totally convinced).

have been interested to read group B strep stuff. is it standard to have the test done? i'm a bit reluctant for the not very good reason that it might stop me having a home birth. is everyone else doing it, though?

Did we really have a whole day when nobody posted??That's a first I think.
Anyway morning all - hope you all had lovely Bank Holidays.
I'm sleeping so badly now - when I turn over it's like one of those enormous whales changing course - poor dh I nearly landed on him this morning.
Isn't it strange to think that babies will start to arrive this month

Oh yes KVG - breathless and with just a touch of heartburn....

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Glad everything is ok now Lynny - and your garden sounds great. I'm intending to have a weekend concentrating on ours soon - well I'll direct dh while he does jobs
I know what you mean about people's comments. I came into work and declared to the office (4 men so far today) 'Another bloody day when I didn't get a seat on the tube' One replied ' How can they do that when you're just such a ridiculous shape???' I think he meant it kindly but I had to reply ' Yes mate but I'm pregnant what's your excuse?'

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Morning all!
This must have been the quietest weekend on the due in june thread!
KVG - I can't believe you were baking! What is wrong with Manchester?!?! As Jonah said we had lots of rain! We did have a few hours of lovely snshine- but just enough to tease us.... I am so sick of the same three jumpers!!1 By the way, my tops still "fit" me but they are all exposing the belly, which is not quite the look for the work environment. Anyone has any suggestions for LONG tops?

Lippy how did you redecorating went this weekend? We spent most of the holliday in DIY stores! We only have one wall in each room to be painted (where the chimney breast was...) but we can't find paint to match anymore!! Same problem with the two or three wood boards in the floor.... I so want to move back into my bedroom!!! I keep having nightmares this baby will show up with no place to be in. He can be here in two weeks !!!!

Hi KVG,
This seems to be my problem... THE RIGHT store! Do you know one?? I tried B&Q and homebase, but none of them do it...

Morning everyone!

Had a pretty rubbish week. . Got signed off work last week cos of loads of little things wrong - protein in urine, anemia, baby is small for dates (like dd) - A few days into my leave I fell down the stairs and ended up in hospital - very bruised but me and baby are fine! Over the weekend dd has developed chicken pox!!
AHHHHHHH!

• Also had mother and father in law plus dog to look after in the house!

I wondered if anyone would know the answer to this - I have been offered to work part time before I leave properly. The doctor, midwife and even sonographer told me I was working too late in their opinion - about a week before due date - but dd was 3 weeks early. I would feel much better working part time - but would this affect my maternity pay? - Is maternity pay based on your last month's "proper" salary? - If so - it would not be worth me working my last 3 weeks part time cos it would actually cost loads! - I have worked at the school for 3 1/2 years.

We have got a decorator to finish the nursery! DD was absolutely refusing to leave her little box room which was her nursery to move into the bigger room. She actually started getting quite hysterical about it. We decided not to push it and therefore the baby is going to have a massive nursery! We've got most of the furniture - and now I have room for a nursing chair! Yippee!

Good morning! Blimey it has been quiet....must be the nice weather some of us have been having (the sun was shining in Leeds Trib, I've even put away my thermals )

Glad you've popped in Pink. Just look after yourself - you are nearly there now.

Welshie, glad you are getting such good hospital care, it must be very reassuring. Good luck to everyone having their GBS tests this week.

JonahB, I completely relate to what you are saying about stopping work. I felt it first time round and driving to work today I started to feel the same way again. Work has been such a big part of my identity for so long it's very hard when it isn't there. I was like Welshie, I struggled a lot with the 'mummy role' in the early days and wanted to be back at work doing something I felt I was good at.

Lummox, that was my thought exactly when I realised it was the first of May - next month we'll be having our babies!!!! Scary.

Lua, I just bought some new 'long' tops from Next but they aren't quite long enough to cover the bottom of my bump...very attractive.

I've spent half the weekend feeling very sick - just a general low level nausea like in the early days. Surely morning sickness can't be starting up again?

Lynny, your garden does sound lovely. Want to come round and do mine?! Actually we have decided to pay someone to come round and sort it out, so hopefully that will be done before the baby arrives.

Sorry Megi, missed your post. Sounds like you are having a rough time of it. Not sure about the pay implications of working part time but it sounds like you could do with a bit of time off. Have you got any holidays you could take?

KVG, I've been getting the 'you must be ready to drop' comments for about 2 months now and it gets very tedious doesn't it?

KVG - Absolutely no offence taken! I was planning to work late because it would take me to half term - which would be a nice easy handover. Also a teach a year group who sit SATS tests - which happen the last two weeks which I would work - and I have had these children for 2 years so I wanna do my best by them! (also would be really really horrible for the person who had to administer the tests if I couldn't do it!However - I do know where my priorities are and I know now I probably will not make working full time until half term. Am taking dd to Dr later just to confirm it is chicken pox and she will ask about me returning to work. - I am going back tomorrow but not Thurs and Fri cos DH is away so I will have to stay hope with spotty child!

Lua - I think some stores do a paint mixing service where you take in the colour you want and they match it. - Do you have any paint left at all to take in for them to match?

Mrs W - I threw up yesterday - I was having the same morning sickness vibes as you! Horrid horrid horrid!

Megi - I also planned my maternity leave to start 2 days before my due date ! I figure my first was 2 weeks late, so no point on sitting at home twidling my thumbs... But boy is the second time different, isn't?? I am feeling completely knackered! Everyday, I say tomorrow I'll just take the day off and do nothing... Ha! it hasn't happened! but I think I'll have to give up the "I'm so cool, and can work until the day I actually drop" attitude and seriously consider slow down! As Mrs.W had wisely said before... sometimes we just have to put ourselves first and take it easy! If going part-time will affect your benefits, be naughty and take a sick day off a week and just pamper yourself or do nothing! you deserve it! and baby deserves it!

BTW - I am also starting to feel sick! What is going on? Din't have that last time!

Morning Girls!

I too thought I'd have loads and loads to catch up on over the weekend!

Megi - sorry to hear you've had such a bad week! Re the maternity leave pay it should be calculated on the 8 weeks upto your qualifying week (15 weeks before bubs is due) so going part-time at this stage shouldn't affect your money at all. You will find more details at the governments Tiger site just follow the employee instructions. HTH . If you are still working and bubs arrives abit early your OML and SMP would just kick in from that point.

Lua - have you tried Wicks or Focus as I think one of those will mix up any colour paint for you? Sorry can't help with the longer tops senario - having that problem myself too

Ha ha ha Welshie yup I squash dh too when I turn over! He had to plead with me the other night to move bump off of him as I'd given him a dead arm!

Lynny at that woman's comments!!! I agree with KVG - would definitely have made an attempt to spill something over her at the very least!

Penultimate day at work today and suddenly I find myself inundated with work to do - typical eh! had nothing to speak of for the last couple of weeks and now suddenly everyone panics that I won't be around and so want to clear back dated stuff, grrr! Still have my leaving lunch today (as some good friends can't make tomorrow) so will just have to have a long lunch today and tomorrow to compensate!