Due April 2009 - Chapter 31: Kitty's birthing in Bolero, Diamonds and Stilletos with Champagne in hand!!!! She likes to Moooove it!! Moo-ve it!!

[NuttyBlowUpEasterBunny]

here we go again!!!!

Tartetatin, you can certainly take ibuprofen and I am on shedloads of the stuff because of the SPD.

Juwesm, I am so pleased to hear he has put on weight. It just shows how babies can regulate themselves naturally much of the time.

Springy, I have set DH five tests, like Gordon Brown's five tests for economic convergence, in the event that he should want a fifth baby. They are:

2 Norland nannies
Posh big house with staff wing
Saab convertible
Flash new wardrobe
Resident physical therapist like Daphne on Frazier.

I think with those obstacles I will be safe from future childbirth, don't you?

Must go - feeding to do and got DS1's new tutor coming to teach him how to multiply in a minute (blardy school should have blardy done this).

Boff - if you see this later..not sure how old your DS's are but my eldest is in Year 5 and I have been giving him practice SATS papers and they have to show the working out and I can't believe how he has been taught long division. I really can't get my head around it!!!

I mean, he gets the answers right but it is such a strange way to do it compared to how I was taught and I need to look into it further because I want to be able to help him without confusing him!

hello, still pregnant, still grumpy!

good i hope i get my personality back soon!

me too freckles, I am horrible

Nutty says: 'after being promised faithfully at 1pm that I would have my waters done within the next half hour I'm still waiting. MW says still will check again at 5.30. Delivery suite really busy again! Do these ladies not know there is a queue?! July shaggers, eh!' Bless her, she seems in infinitely better spirits than I would be.

Auld, good news about DH not losing his job - but I fully understand why he's still looking. His boss sounds awful.

I think that afterpains & small clots are normal (me & MM have both had a freaky, huge clot, which she was told was left over membrane but didn't seem to be a big deal either) - but if you're worried you should definitely ask. It's difficult to know how much pain / clotting is 'normal', so trust your instincts. The gushing placenta experience sounds delightful

Yay Ju! Really pleased for you all xx

Boff, I suppose those demands would lessen the difficulties. The Saab convertible & new wardrobe may not be directly helpful, but a woman needs what a woman needs

& hugs to everyone still waiting & feeling crappy It can't be long now xx

Tartetatin - Ibuprofen is ok whilst breastfeeding. The afterpains this time were horrendous. I managed to give birth with only gas and air and swearing but the afterpains had me sobbing.

Ju - Fab news. Well done Hugo.

Boff - You have superb taste in cars, Maseratis, Saabs.
I drive an old 9000 but I love it.

Auld - Good to see the ball is back in DH's court.
I had some large clots too.

Poor Nutty, how bloody frustrating, just sitting there on the grid, engine running, and nothing!

Brettgirl, yes, I too have received my HiP grant. It is going towards the midwife. Can't get more healthy than that.

Surprise, blardy tutor never showed up. I too am baffled as to how they do maths these days, despite having it explained to me by top mathematicians and the kids' teachers as well, but MathsMummy wisely counselled teaching them the old fashioned way as well, not least because it seems the working out is more visible, I think. She said knowing different ways of doing sums was a sign of being a good mathematician, and she should know, cos she is brill at maffs.

Auld, have posted the Vine book to you. Placenta experience sounds ghastly!!! I had one solitary bizarre clot this time the day after but very little afterwards.

Felix crying so had better do something about it. Ciaou for now.

Poor Nutty, still being made to wait. When they ruptured my membranes it was literally the work of a moment. MW yelled "Ian, doodah hook please" (or whatever proper name is), and just dived in there! Quite a strange sensation actually. But I suppose it's not the ARM itself that they are delaying for, but being sure they've got the bed/ room/ staff for what comes after. Fingers crossed and pom poms ready for some action soon!

Has anyone with a boy baby got any advice on how not to get their silly little scrotums (scrota??????) plastered in cotton wool fluff?

lol Juw, I think it is inevitable. I was forever trying to get little bits of cotton wool off DS's!

hey everyone, receptionist at doctors messed up MW rota so now got sweep tomorrow morning at home instead of at docs today.

Then another one saturday if nothing happens, and will book my induction then too

hope everyone ok, poor nutty being left to wait, id be chewing their arms off by now!! xx

does it mean your close to going into labour when it feels like the baby is stabbing you in the cervix with a knife, trying to break your pelvis with the weight of it's self, whilst simultaneously rummaging in your intestines and booting you repeatedly in the back and ribs? I also feel sick, have loose bowels and feel like the grumpiest woman on the planet. this is all normal yes and will go on for weeks?

sorry i'm so woefully un responsive to everyone. I just don;t feel able to read and respond, i'm such a mardy arse. you're all lovely though
and i'm not even overdue. although i think i am. i really thought i'd be early. by my dates i'm three weeks overdue, which must mean i had it wrong. which also pisses me off as it means i was just mental for the month before i got pregnant and thought i was pregnant.

frekkles im exactly the same atm, miserable as anything, pains low down, pains in ribs, pains in sides when he wriggles, crying at everything, pissed off with everyone, and cant get off toilet... it must be normality

och lauren darling, hello! (((((((((lauren))))))))))

the only thing that makes it bearable is the thought that this is probably definately preferable to the sensation of giving birth and most likely more inconvenient than having a newborn baby around.

let's just get pissed eh? surely the we ones are formed enough now to cope with some gin?

god i'm such a grump. i could quite cheerfully step on a ladybird today

oh frekkles I really know how you feel. have you mentioned your dates to the MW? I did because I KNEW my scan dates were wrong.

more convenient, not more inconvenient.

grrrrrrr

hey surprise. i did mention it to them ages ago, but they just said the scan would be right. I guess it must be or else i would have had it by now. Just confused, have no clue as to when i conceived now. really don't know how it was possible without having sex around that time, let alone risky sex! don't suppose it matters though eh?

feel like i've been pregnant forever!

anyway, must stop whining. hope nutty is doing OK. She's the one that should be whining, not me! I've had a really normal healthy pregnancy, I am just being a grumpy cow.

frekkles =D i would enjoy nothing more right now than to drink until i laugh cried and eventually passed out..

but more than likely id then go into labour and dont think hospital or social services would approve of a paraletic labouring lady haha ,,, sounds good though

surely childbirth cant be worse than this... contant misery for dayssss on eeennnnddd... i feel like im going to burst and my bones are going to crack, he's really hurting me today got pressure in my bum, back and fanjo area,

do you think the sweep will make any difference?? do they usually???

you are allowed to be grumpy. I am even grumpier now because I have really tight BH's and I can't bend to get my trainers on, am waiting for it to go so I can put trainers on and take DS1 to cubs. Also trying to convince DS2 to eat his dinner, so that we're not even later for cubs, and trying not to get wound up at the amount of rice, fish and sweetcorn going on the floor. Meanwhile DH is having tea and cake at his parents with DSS without a care in the world! Grrr.........

My sweep didn't work last week, had a show and loads of pain but nothing else. I wasn't overdue then though. Two of my friends who had a sweep at a week overdue went into labour the next morning I'm having another one tomorrow too Lauren.

i've got the midwives on friday (my due date). do you reckon she'll try and stick her hand up my tuppence? eeeeek

if you ask her to! 'Tuppence' lol haven't heard that word for ages, used to use it when I was a kid!

i think i'll slap her if she tries anything. crikey, what's the world coming to?