Not yet November but already three babies down! Ooooh oooh nearly there!

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Morning everyone.

congratulations cupcake hope your pregnancy goes smoothly.

Pav so sorry for your husband, I hope everything get better for him soon.
Tigger your DSD is doing so well, families are such a worry, my DSD has been in hospital recently with DVT, I feel so helpless cause we're so far away and I know that if anything happens I can't get there.

My midwife is coming out to see me today just to check me over, my waters are still leaking but still no pains, really don't want her to arrive today as it's my neice's birthday today and I think her having to share Nana's affections is going to be bad enough for her but if the baby arrives today she might feel like she's being replaced. (she's only 5)Sunday or Monday is good for me.

Cupcake I do remember you. How brave to come back and post on this thread, I'm sure we will all be thinking of you on Monday.
Huge congratulations on this pregnancy. I hope you are really able to enjoy it now that you know all is well.

Huge Congratulations cupcake

homeinthesun Sorry to hear your dsd has been poorly too, you're right families are a worry, hope he is on the mend also. Try not to worry about the baby arriving today, you could always say she is special birthday gift for your niece and let her give the baby extra cuddles.

Pav sounds like you and your Dh have a lovely relationship, I'm sure something else will come along soon, but in the mean time it sounds like you are a great team

BBL sounds like you had great day, hope your bits are ok after the slip though!

We've got a busy day today, Asda delivery from 10am, then off to a local Christmas craft fayre, Dh has to then do some painting at my mums then finally we are all going to my mums for tea and fireworks, oh and the boys want to trick or treat Grandma

Hope you all have a great weekend.

Morning all,
just checking in. No news this end. Not a single hint!
I am now officially on maternity leave so probably should get organised for the baby to at least have somewhere to sleep in... Don?t get me wrong we have everything still from ds it?s not just ready if you know what I mean.
Also have to repack my hospital bag, sort of combine the contents of the one I had ready at home with the one I had at work just in case and then clean the cot and buggy and test the new car seat if it actually fits in the car (it should but you never know!)
It?s raining in N London and dh is at work this morning. I was going to take ds to cinema but he doesn?t feel like it. I wanted to take him for a swim but his ear was hearting so started him on antibiotics as don?t want to risk another ear infection. He has been suffering with them due to bigger pressure in his ears due to his dust mite allergy.
I think we will hit Brent Cross for a massive shopping marathon instead. I need to take loads of stuff back and still need to get few bits. Every week I think I have bought everything and don?t need to face the shops again and then always end up going back buying more or changing stuff. At least ds doesn?t mind, he is a quite happy shopper. Might treat us to McDonalds afterwards! Also need to get measured for breast feeding bras. Cannot believe I left it this late. 40+3 today!
But I managed to shave my legs and lady garden last night so at least I am ready on that front! Because labour is just so glamorous isn?t it?
Don?t really have time to catch up with everyone?s news but promise to do so tonight when I am suffering from late pregnancy insomnia! See that still no babies for Scarlotti or FP. What are the little ones playing at!?

Have a great Halloween weekend everyone!

Baby, baby give me your answer do
We're half crazy buying a pram for you
We won't have a stylish marriage
We spent it on your carriage
But you'll look sweet
Upon the seat
Of the I'coo we chose for you

DP has finally engaged in the baby buying process and we have now bought a pram and a sling .

Could some of the queens of Excel (would that be Pav and Koumak?) possibly post their hospital bag lists up for my convenience? I'm hopping to pack this weekend, finally - I'm only 37wks though.

Happy halloween and a warm welcome to any witches and wizards who may decide to join us today

Cupcake it's really lovely to hear from you and YAAAAAY for your baby and its arrival in May!! That's fantastic, I am so pleased for you. I remember how devastating it was in April.

Pav How disappointing for you and your DH. I hope he's OK.

Was at a wedding all day yesterday and got parents down today so feeling a bit stressed that I am a mess, disorganised and have to go back to work on Monday... Booo. And am p*ssed off with DH for getting plastered at wedding. Can't even hold off when I am 37 weeks pregnant, FFS. And have really painful hips/pelvis - probaby because I stupidly wore heels all day and I know, I know - I really should NOT complain cos there are people on here who have been plagued with proper horrid SPD for MONTHS so please ignore me, I am just being a whinge-bag!

Will check through the thread for what I missed yesterday, but hope everyone's good, and tomorrow's NOVEMBER!!

Ninja will try to make the list when i repack tonight!

Katster it is almost November!!! Looks I am on the right thread after all!

Thanks Koumak

Morning all!
cupcake, congratulations! I hope you will have just a very easy and enjoyable pregnancy! And thanks for sharing those big news with us!
Koumak, Brent Cross at 40 weeks? You really know how to enjoy maternity leave .
Ninja, congratulations on pram and sling.
katster, I hope the wedding was still nice, but I'm totally with you on being pissed of with husband for drinking too much. We have to give up alcohol for months, so how hard can it be for a couple of weeks?
My husband is a bit cross with me because I think that the baby is a much bigger change than moving in together or getting married as I think you can quite easily change the latter (or if you don't change, it doesn't actually change your life that much, you can still take spontaneous decisions when married) whereas the child is a lifetime thing. Apparently women do not take relationship seriously enough... and you could always give away your child for adoption He still thinks the baby will not change our live that much. (normally he is a rather smart guy but I am slowly starting to doubt it)

Forgot to update: had spicy curry yesterday (the waiter seemed a bit worried it might be too spicy for me) and had actually quite a few contractions and backpain while sitting there but I slept very well tonight (well, compared to the nights before), had then two contractions in the very early morning, they were actually not painful at all but easier to distinguish (with a proper beginning and ending) than everything I had felt before. But now everything is calm. So, still no decision on the football front.

Tigger that is great news about your dsd, he really is making a speedy recovery, must be such a relief for the family. Just think, he'll be all better in time for his new grandchild and Christmas!

cupcake I remember you and am so thrilled to hear that you are pregnant again and that all is well. Thinking of you for Monday...

pavlov I really feel for your dh, so unfair when the company keep inviting him back for interviews, it must really get his hopes up. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that they either didn't manage to call yesterday and ring on Monday with good news or that something better turns up for him soon

Erika congrats on the flat!

Well, thought I might have some exciting news for you this morning but seems like I'm joining Scarlotti and Fruitpastels on the stop start frount. Had contractions for over 3 hours last night, about every 20 mins lasting 40 seconds. Finally woke dh up at 1.30am as I couldn't sleep and wanted some company and then they stopped, boo! Was secretly hoping for a Halloween baby but it is my mums 60th today so maybe it is better to wait! Still a bit disappointed though. Hope everyone else is ok and has a good weekend...

Cupcake that is great news! I do remember you. I'm so pleased

We're carving a pumpkin here. The smell is just something else. It is hard not to gag!

I had a terrible night's sleep: heartburn and agonoy turning over. I've had enough of being pregnant now! Enough already. It's not funny now.

Hi, not sure if any of you remember me too, I was on this thread right at the begining - I had an ectopic at the end of March. I've been checking in to see how you're all doing :-)

I'm pregnant again too, due in June so still early days but an early scan showed baby is in the right place at leasr

Good luck to all xx

Morning all! Sky is brightening up around Oxford. It's going to be crap weather tomorrow apparently - shame, as it's our wedding anniversary. Might do a day out today instead. 12 years married and everything about to change... Very excited now.

ursi I think it's normal for a bloke to feel like this. I think it must be hard for a man to imagine what it will be like. And I know for a fact my dh's ideas run along the 'well, how hard can it be with such a small person' tracks... Remember that the pregnancy does not affect them as it does us, the whole baby thing is an abstract concept until it's finally here. We just heard a story from dh's colleague that it didn't hit him until he was at home after the birth, alone, with a glass of whisky. And then it hit him good...

cupcake, newhere, thanks for dropping in and massive congratulations on your news. Best wishes for your pregnancies, soon you'll be counting down days like we all are at the moment.

pavlov I'm with helips on keeping my fingers crossed that the company were just too busy to call yesterday. Sending you the best wishes of good news soon.

Nowhere nice to hear things are looking up for you. Best of luck and huge congrats on your pregnancy. Do pop in again, you can remind us of all the aches and pains of pregnancy when we are whinging about lack of sleep and cracked nipples

Morning all

cupcake and newhere wonderful news for you both, congratulations and I'm glad your happy endings have come. I remember the early days well - this little boy is a result of our 3rd try so I empathise completely with what you've been going through.

pav I did wonder whether they just hadn't had enough time to call... any chance of that? So sorry for your DH, it's very demoralising to keep getting a knock back especially when you keep being told it's just a formality. Happened to my DH a year or more ago - turned out for the best though as he got a job elsewhere and the original company have gone through 2 lots of outsourcing and made lots of people redundant.

Still waiting here! Wondering if it might be today, had a few tightenings this morning but nothing more. Baby definitely dropped again last night, and given the midwife put me at 4/5 engaged at the hospital I can't see that there's any lower he can go now without seeing daylight. Conversations here last night consisted of us all reading up on what to do if, when it does start, he comes so soon DH has to deliver him!! Think we're going on the basis that all this stop start nonsense will have put in so much groundwork that the event itself will be very quick. (no need here for anyone to shatter my little illusion )

usi my DH feels the same as you, we had our DS before we got married due to my age and that to him is the ultimate commitment. The wedding after was more just a formality really.

For all you first time parents too, don't worry about your DH's lack of awareness at this point. They really don't quite get it until the baby is here, even if they think they do. They will get hit full on when baby arrives with the enormity of becoming a Dad, and they will fall in love with your little bundle and step up to the mark - in some ways it's easier on us as we have 9 months and lots of internal wriggling to get used to the idea. It happens to them in the first few days/weeks when a midwife hands them their precious bundle and a pair of little eyes open up and look so trusting and vulnerable.
It's magic, it really is

Pavlov sorry it may be bad news for dh, he must feel quite down. Maybe Helips is right though? You never know, they may have phoned someone and got turned down and dh may be second in line or something? Stranger things have happened... Great to get pram and sling sorted though.

So happy to hear news of successful pregnancies Cupcake and Newherehelp Koumak my awe for you knows no ends: sex, ladygrooming AND Brent Cross???????? I don't even want to ask how you did the ladygrooming, I had a think about it this morning and gave up very quickly. As for the sex, NO WAY, but I'd still rather have sex than go to Brent Cross on a wet Saturday!!!

My little pumpkin is staying put today I think- again, no signs whatsoever, and my morning cuppa gave me horrific heartburn, booooo.

Icing halloween biscuits with ds now, then a swim, then shopping coming, then off to buy a duvet for his new high sleeper, then flat pack man arriving to screw high sleeper together, then my mum turning up- hurrah!, then kiddies' Halloween party at 4, then dh off out with uni mates for good behaviour, (his, NOT theirs, obviously, I have still not forgiven them), then x factor marathon with mum and a pina colada. FAB!

Laugs I am really pleased you're enjoying the book- have you got to the doctor story yet in the middle? I felt for that woman so, so much. You will need many a hanky for the last third of the book too.

Good wishes to all, some little ones due as the full moon approaches, I am sure

morning all.

congratulations to cupcake and newherehelp

having a fustrationg morning, ds is playing up but i know thats only cos he is bored, and is fustrating cos I feel like i cant do anything to relieve him of this, and my emotions keep going from feeling irritated by everything to just wanting to get into bed and cry. its not like there is even anything particularly wrong. pleeeease tell me this means baby will be here soon!

skorpion and scarlotti, I agree with you, it must be harder for men to realise. Maybe I am naive but I thought it would be obvious for anybody that having a baby would change life completely. Well, he'll know soon.
At least, your husband, scarlotti thinks the same as me, it's a much bigger thing than being married (even if I really like being married and hope we will still be in 60 years).
helips, so did you not understand this "not jumping the line thing"? Although, I think if we all wait for Koumak to go first, we might need another thread
Here, everything is calm. My husband is just trying to get his ticket for the game back (I told him not to give it away before today) and can't reach the guy (who was only half keen to take it). Poor guy.

Pavlov sorry to hear about DH. Try to keep him positive though; each time it doesn't happen, its a step closer to the time it will

Cupcake and newherehelp congratulations, that's fantastic news Am so happy for you both, do keep us updated!!

Sorry for not reading through everything, am just popping by really. No news here, still having constant BHs and contractions on and off. DP and I might be heading into town to look at baby mobiles later if I feel up to it

Happy Halloween

So apart from the first three, all the babies on this thread seem to be taking their November due dates very seriously! Either that or they're waiting for the full moon

Houseguest finally packed off and I have a very quiet house to myself today for the first time in ages... maybe now my weeklong headache will fade a bit?

Just spent a lot of ££ on reusable nappies (these ones, if you're curious, on strong recommendations from friends back home), and washed and organized a load of baby clothes.

Hope everyone has a lovely Halloween

Can't believe some of you are bored with all the free time!! Enjoy it ladies..read lots and go the cinema or enjoy a peaceful lunch with mates or your DHs/DPs.

Going to post later after catching up but wanted to ask..are anyone's boobs shrinking?

cupcake and Newherehelp fantastic news!!!! congratulations..thats put me in a good mood today!

I like free time, but dh is working til 6 so cant go anywhere as I cant drive, and entertaining ds can take it out of me sometimes. but will enjoy free time later when ds's nana comes to pick him up in three hours, with my fav dvd 'slipper and the rose', and lots of yummy cookies.

Oooh Newherehelp you too! Lovely news! You've both brightened up my day.

My maternity leave starts today: bored already. What am I going to do when the DSs go back to school and nursery next week? I'll go bonkers. I need to be constantly busy!