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

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kyte that is great to hear, its nice to know there are good people about isn't it?

Good morning all!
Wizzy, sorry about your irritable uterus. I hope you can take it easy and it will get better.
Trikken, what a stupid guy! Sometimes it's difficult to not get annoyed by this kind of people. What does your husband think about it? I know sometimes it is hard for men to tell/show their friends that they have grown up a little and are no more teenagers themselves. But I think he should have said something or at least shown him that he didn't think his jokes were funny, eventhough he is getting impatient himself (which I can partly understand, the waiting and not knowing how and what the woman is feeling is probably difficult too)
Made my first ever chicken broth yesterday. I keep forgetting to ask if they have a microwave in the birthcentre but I quite like the idea of having a hot broth after birth. (My sister had been told to do so by her midwife).
Now I'm wondering if I should continue my cooking marathon or swap to baking after all this cookie talk here. The freezer is almost full anyway and I guess I should leave some space if my parents fancy filling it when the come over in 10 days... I really hope they don't have to spend all that money for flights and hotel for just seeing a very pregnant daughter instead of a new grandchild.

Morning everyone

Sorry to hear that you have high BP, Belgianbun and that you have to traipse up and down to the hospital several times a week. I would definitely have thought that they would offer you a CS under the circumstances.

Pav yes I am aware I will never iron babygrows again but they just looked all crumpled!!! Also, weird that you have a temperature. I feel like I should have a temperature, but so far, and fingers crossed, I don't.

Kyte lovely of your friends to help with the cleaning. I know what you mean though, about the pride thing. Some friends are coming round tonight, so we don't have to go out and I don't actually have to go anywhere, but it means I will have to spend the afternoon cleaning and tidying! It's all I seem to do. I am a bit anal about it, but it just never looks done. Or else it does look done, and then five minutes later it's a tip again. And it's only surface clean - if anyone moved any furniture they would be in for a shock
I really should make those cookies. I can't find the recipe though, I have a feeling it was miles back in our chatty thread!

actually dh thought it was annoying too, kept saying that if he'd have experienced an actual birth he wouldnt say it, and that if the friend was giving birth he'd probably be asking for an epidural and every available drug within five mins.

go for the baking! im doing a double batch of kyte's cookies today. they wont last long tho. (am going to hide some, so they last a bit longer)

katster think it was about fourth page, half-way down for kytes cookie recipe.

Morning all!

kyte if I were you I'd swallow my pride and employ the houseproud friend. They are bound to revel in finding dirty corners to 'sort out' and that way you get a free spring clean! It's not like with your SPD you don't have an excuse to have dirty corners! I baulk every time I think of the inches of dust I found behind suitcases under our bed this summer. My next door neighbour would have been in her element. The only reason I found them was because I didn't have SPD...

Half term has ended up here and schools are back to normal, so DD is back at the childminder today. So I have no child AND I have a car for the next 3 days (SIL has lent us hers). I honestly don't know what to do with myself. I'll start with Tescos, and go into town on Thursday to see the new shopping centre and investigate BF tops in H&M (did someone recommend them on the old thread?), and see what I can pick up for Christmas in the Works. I should really try to be organised and do all the Xmas pressies but as usual I'm clueless about what to get people. And DH's family are all so super generous that I find it hard to make our £20pp budget look reasonably thoughtful. I suppose it would help if I could manage to think.... I'm just in a daze these days.

Trikken - I have got it - thank you!!
BTW has your DH's friend got a wife/girlfriend who has had a baby? I bet most men would be completely terrified if they had actually been through it with someone. In fact I sometimes think watching and being helpless would be blo*dy scary, knowing there is v little you can do to help. I know my DH is worried, and that's just after going to antenatal classes!

I keep thinking I am getting period-type pains, getting a bit excited that something at least is maybe gearing up, and then realising it's wind

Morning, just a quickie.
Scarlotti your DB/SIL would hate me. I have a draw where I put unwanted gifts (I'm very hard to please) and re-gift them to more appropriate peoples.
Often ds gets so many presents he doesn't even take things out the box. We have tried to stop this but at least passing them on feels less wasteful.
Would welcome second hand gifts in this house as hate excess.

I've been so careful this year not to over spend on DS with his toys etc. He was getting way too much for his birthdays and Xmas, and through out the year. This year it's much more limited. I spent a fortune on his lego last year, he hardly plays with it and will have grown out of it soon enough and move on to the smaller lego. Luckily I'm a childminder so toys can be re-used. I'm all for second hand toys and can't stand seeing toys sitting collecting dust!

Erika Have been thinking about you. Hope everything is ok.

Ninjacat that's a really good idea about the drawer. DH's cousin had a baby in July and received so many presents, literally far too many, that she has passed them all on to us. Gorgeous brand new baby stuff. I don't know what we will do if we get any presents, as we already have far too much newborn/0-3 stuff! Is amazing how generous people are!

Ninja It's all a bit ludicrous in my opinion, I have even given DS presents that he had a few years back but got put away as he had too many/didn't take any notice of them.
I've had yet more texts this morning so have now just asked what it's going to take to draw a line under this.
It's now made me not want them to come and see the baby - all I want to do now is send up their kids' xmas presents (all bought obviously!) and not have anything to do with them. He deliberately backed me into a corner to make me 'confess' and it's now just a nasty mess that doesn't seem to be ending.
I hate waste too.

OMG Scarlotti it's beyond a joke. What did the texts say? Just tell them if they have nothing better to do than worry about some stickelbricks they can sod right off. That's what I would do. GRRRRRRRRRRRRR.

Scarlotti The situation is madness! You sound like you've remained very calm with him and been the grown up. I am grateful to anyone who has given my DS a gift, it's the thought that counts. I often wonder how me and my DB are even related! We were raised with the same values, but sometimes I can't help but resent his attitude towards things. Like you said, you can choose your friends but not your family! It's funny how such small things can be so blown up! They need to get themselves something else to worry about

here here Katster!!

Scarlotti that's awful. I was half thinking he might have been being sarcastic and the humour was lost in text, but obviously not. Does he have hang ups about having splashed out for your kids (that you don't necessarily know about)? Makes me cross when people are unnecessarily thoughtless and confrontational.

I'm pretty stuck on DD's Xmas pressie this year. She's getting a nice bean bag for her 3rd birthday which she will love, as she has commandeered my pregnancy bean bag and I never get to use it (but it WILL disappear in favour of a baby gym soon ). I was wondering about a mini kitchen-type thing or other imagination-type things. I just get so depressed at the plastic tat on offer in the shops. Where are all the NICE (and reasonably priced) toys?

It's raining AGAIN up here. That's 5 solid days of rain out of the past 7. Urgh.

Hope erika is ok.

scarlotti, that's really sad. I think it is good that you will send the presents to their children. Hopefully the cousins can have a better relationship than you and your brother. It's true, you can't choose your family but I was always sad that our few cousins were much older then me and also lived quite far away. And I find it now really sad, that my child will not really get close with its cousins. Well at least not within the next few years.

Do you actually think there might be another problem? The more I think about it the more incredible I find it.

Different question: Halloween. Since we moved to the UK we lived on the forth floor so there were never any children coming. Now we are in a little house in a quite mews in London. How likely is it that children will ring at our door? Do we have to be prepared? Or do they only go to people they know? I'm mainly asking as I am due on Halloween. I guess when being in labour I would rather scare them then the other way round

Ha - a labouring woman answering the door to a trick or treater - I would like to see that! It's possible you might get some. You could always get a bag of fun size mars bars or whatever, and get your husband to chuck them at them if they come round. Or you could hide, which is what we do!! Actually we don't really get any round here (London) either that I can remember.

Urisgurke it is hard to tell. Last year I bought loads of sweets and dressed up as a witch and we go NO trick-or-treaters at all. We used to live on a modern estate in Oxford over 10 years ago and at Halloween we used to get hundreds - to the extent that by 7.30pm I'd turn all the lights off and hide in the corner watching Eastenders with the curtains shut tight hoping they'd go away!

I feel quite sicky today - like morning sickness. I can't wait to feel 'normal' again.

scarlotti I can't believe the nerve of them! Sounds like you're handling it as well as possible. But...

BBL sorry to hear about the sicky feelings.

Also hoping erika updates us soon!

Am properly sick with a cold today... feeling sorry for my houseguest as she's come all the way from the states to visit and I can't show her around at all. Thankfully she's an extremely good, kind, understanding friend, and currently occupying herself baking a double batch of jalapeno corn muffins for us to eat now, and freeze for later

Longwayaway what a good friend! And the muffins sound delish. Sorry you're feeling rough - there really does seem to be a lot about. I blame the warm weather.

BBL sorry you're feeling sicky. It's not fair, is it?

Erika where are you???

Wizzy, I can tell you from experience that the worst thing about having an irritable uterus is that it feels like you're in early labour most days... and then it turns out that you ARE.

Am popping in to remind everyone - pack INFACOL. I forgot about this divine, life-saving substance in between newborns, but oh my goodness, I'm about ready to marry the manufacturers of the stuff.

Good morning. I hope you're all enjoying your day.

scarlotti so sorry to hear that you brother is behaving like he is. What a strange attitude and sense of entitlement?

ursi I heard somewhere that kids usually knock on the houses that are decorated for halloween - a kind of signal that you're up for the fun. We're usually away then, as the 1 Nov is our wedding anniversary, but last year we didn't have any kids knocking on our door - I didn't know this decorating tip and didn't bother, just had some sweets at the ready.

ninja hope you're feeling better now.

I feel really tired lately, was absolutely knocked out last night. Is this the third trimester exhaustion? I still have lots to do, both baby and work, but long for the days when I can just stay on the sofa reading. Please tell me they will come before the birth...

longway awwww. Sorry for you- it's so pants being ill. Nice friend!

katster warm? Lucky you!

Please help. Need to go shopping urgently. Can't think today at all. What do we want to eat for the next week (apart from Kyte's cookies)?!

I don't ask for much, do I?