Due March 2010 - just because I'm pregnant at Christmas doesn't mean I'm a taxi driver

[annamama]

... new thread for oldies and newbies due in March! ...

I've just boiled a gammon and coated it in honey glaze and am just roasting it for tea. Happy times!
[domestic goddess emoticon]

Hope you are all having a brilliant start to Christmas.

I've managed to get DS off to bed now - he was running around the garden earlier shouting, "Father Christmas, I think I can see your bottom." ! He's not been this excited before, but then I haven't felt this exhausted since I've had all three of them!

Arcadie you sound like a proper Nigella - are you sure you're not a domestic Goddess in disguise?

Iwonka - I was thinking about you the other day - how are you and how is the bump? Do update!

Must go and play Pictionary. . .

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas everyone
I am impressed at all the domestic godessness. I usually am very enthusiastic about the cooking but this year I just feel a bit flat, there will only be me, DH, FIL and DD so no mass catering and I feel shattered and faint. I've made the cranberry sauce and the stuffing but that was as far through my list as I got. All present wrapped though so I might just head off to bed and get an early night.
db great news about your DH's new job, what a great start to the holidays.

Happy Christmas everyone!

Merry Christmas!
xxx

Merry Christmas to you all!

Hope you all have a fun and peaceful time with your families.

Snowball fights with DS and DD and Dmum and Dbro whilst DH cooks the biggest turkey the world has ever seen. Mmmmmmmmmmmm

Merry Christmas everyone! Hope you all have a lovely day and get the chance to put your feet up after much present unwrapping, eating and merriment.

H xxx

Merry Xmas from Sweden! We celebrate on christmas eve over here, so last night Santa came (my dad) with lots of presents in a sack. DD was not too traumatised! Went sledding down a hill in deep snow yesterday too, it was fun. My snowpants almost fell off a few times though as could not zip them up. Perhaps I looked trendy showing my arse, like teenagers these days do...? Hope you're all having lovely christmas days!

good morning everyone hope christmas day went well for everyone xxxxx

we had a fab time here and the DC's were so pleased with their gifts- phew!!!!LOL

have a greast day everyone xxxx

heckle one of my closest friends is due on NYE!!!!!! and like you i too am glad its no me!!!LOL

Wow, 3 pages in 2 days! This is why I have trouble keeping up Hope everyone has had a lovely, stress-free Christmas. It's always over so quickly, isn't it?
annamama (think it was you who asked), my name isn't actually Izzy; Busy Miss Izzy is what DH took to calling the LO when she's being particularly active, and it was the first thing I thought of when I joined here. I am also frequently busy, however my name doesn't rhyme
I feel like we've already been given a mountain of baby stuff (I think she got more presents than us!). She is going to be soo spoiled when she actually arrives.

Hi all

Hope you all had a fab xmas. Slowly recovering from my cold after 4 days in bed. It had the handy side effect of getting me out of relative visits on xmas day- it's not that I'm a humbug but I'm sure like most of you- being dragged from pillar to post didn't excite me - was a good excuse to limit the visits!!

DH up and out for work at 6am today and I couldn't get back to sleep. Sadly that meant I had no option (hee hee) but to visit the local next store just after 7am. Got tons and tons for baby all half price. I'm hoping no one saw me buying all the blue stuff!( did'nt have any generic plain colours- havne't told sex in RL!) Had the back up tale if caught that stuff was fo my nephews - which some was!!

Now off to tackle the biggest ever pile of ironing that was already huge before my 4 day return to sick bed!!!

Ten weeks left to go- today!!! I visited a friend this morning who is 22 weeks pregnant and hasn't put on a pound - how is that allowed!!! I accept she was larger than me to begin with but that can't be fair!!!!! (me 2 stone later )

Hope you're all putting your feet up and chilling.

Happy Boxing Day (although that's ironic)!

Have spent all morning arguing with DD2 who is refusing to wear her new retainers which she got a few days before Christmas to close some small gaps in her teeth. I appreciate that she can't speak or eat properly with them, but if she wears them then that will happen. She's being so difficult about it! Don't have children, will you!

My hips really hurt today - I never had any pain in that area with the previous three, but I seem to ache all the time with these two! I'm about coping on paracetamol at the moment, but I can still feel it.

I'm glad you all had really nice Christmasses and I hope you're feeling better soon, Scooby. I think I'd rather look pregnant than not be putting on any weight, though - I like people to notice and comment (most of the time!). . .

I'd better go and have another round with DD, who will wear the braces even if it means me sitting watching her constantly!

Hope you are all having as chilled and relaxed a time as we are having here: various people are slumped across sofas, in bed, playing boardgames and watching IceAge 3 .

annamama, I had been wondering whether you would do the Christmas Eve thing in Sweden as it is the 24th that is the most important day for children in Germany too. So we had a little celebration and some gifts on Christmas Eve with candles on and general Christmassy music on the HiFi; it was lovely. Christmas Day morning thankfully did not start until after 8am (bless you, DSs1 and 2!) and was a frenzy of ripping paper and excited boys !!

I am officially tired now. We had a great time and all that, but I am ready for MIL to go back home tomorrow and my parents to leave on Tuesday.
We'll have friends over for a sleep-over on Hogmanay and I am really looking forward to that: much more relaxed and I will not have to pretend that I am a proper grown-up .

All of you have a nice evening!

Yep the 24th is the day here, 25th is nothing special, just chillin' really, same as 26th. That's nice that you did something on xmas eve too Pacific!

Pixie - good on you, she will thank you for it later...

Scooby - well done with the early morning shopping!

Busymissizzy - aha, thanks for explaining!

My mum just felt the baby kicking, that was pretty cool. Braved the sales today, too many people, almost lost DD a few times. Putting her to bed now and I feel ready for bed too!

Happy Christmas all! I knew I hadn't been on here for some time but last time I checked we were still on the old thread - oops! My excuse is that I couldn't get to the computer as the study was full of presents/baby stuff/ironing, so one good evening's slaving away at the ironing board and one Christmas and I can actually find the computer again.

Hope everyone's doing well - I'm afraid I haven't read back through the other pages but I have been thinking of you all, promise! Me, all is well: busy work (including a trip to Paris where I just escaped before the Eurostar went into meltdown), busy home: near fatal panic that the Ocado man wasn't going to deliver on Tuesday (before realising that Sainsbury's is 200 yards from my front door and therefore we were unlikely to starve). Oh yes, and I still appear to be pregnant and BabyDragon is kicking away like a good un at the moment. Probably the high level of sugar and inadvertent alcohol from all the mince pies that I have just discovered have brandy in them.

Went to Mothercare today and got completely overwhelmed about repeating the whole baby thing, as did DH, to the point we had to make a swift exit. Is it too late to change my mind?

Oh I forgot to say congrats on the girl Siamese! You must be pleased that the surprise has finally unravelled itself. Lucy is nice but so are the other names.

I don't think I'll be making a super list now... I'm eagerly awaiting the start of the actual births, however we don't want that to start too soon of course! Has anyone else thought that just a couple of weeks early would be nice though...? Late pregnancy is just so uncomfortable.

And nice to hear from you Iwonka!

Hello all! Hope you had a good Christmas. I have a lot of new books now, which is good, it suits my lack of enthusiasm for moving from the sofa these days

I also have... [fanfare] ...pregaday iron tablets. My 29 week bloods came back as low so Santa sent me a prescription. Yay!

Hello everyone. Hope your christmas days were good. We had a power cut - affected over 100 houses between 2pm and 7pm on Christmas day. Fortunately we had eaten, but I know that a few people had only managed to get their turkeys cooked, so that only had turkey sandwiches.

Just been to pharmacist to pick up some anusol. Nice.

We had a nice Christmas although I crashed out in bed at 8.30pm. I felt really light-headed every time I bent down to check on the turkey! I need a higher oven I think!
By yesterday evening I was feeling really rough so went to bed at 7.45pm with various aches and pains and spent most of the night up and down to the loo vomiting it's only been 3 weeks since I last had a D&V bug DH is back at work now so I'm on my own til 7.30. It's been a PJ, sofa and CBeebies day I'm afraid to say.
Getting quite fed up with pregnancy and I'm counting the days til this LO will be out in the world! annamama I was just saying to DH in the car the other day how I would like this one to come at 39 weeks thanks! (DD was 40+8)

Hi, Bluey, yes dear, it is far too late to change your mind !!

Smac, I am counting on this baby being overdue as the others were as I am working to the bitter end and I need some time at home before the new arrival!! And babies are soooooo much easier looked after "inside" .

MIL about to leave as we speak, yeah shame, the boys will miss her.

Now the great tidying-up can begin, sigh!!

Have a good one .

Hello again from Heckle land!

bluey I had a similar experience last week at DD's nativity - one of the other mums had brought along her newborn and when I peered into the pram to have a coo at him it hit me like a brick - I'M going to have one of those AGAIN!!! They're so small and helpless! But other times I think back to when DD was so little and I kind of look forward to it too!

Having a nice day here - it's actually my birthday! So we had a lazy morning (skipped church - naughty ) then lunch at a hotel with my PILs, two of their friends, BIL + his fiance. I even got a teensy glass of chardonnay - bliss. Best bit of the day though, was when DD handed me her card and DH had helped her write I Love You in it and sign her name - I was nearly sobbing on the sofa. Soooo lovely.

Anyway, my parents are coming to stay tomorrow for a few days so there'll be more presents and eating of yummy food - when will it stop?? But I'm really looking forward to seeing them.

Must go now and see if I can convince the alcohol monitor (aka DH) to allow me another teensy glass of wine...it is my birthday after all!!

I was at DP's Mum's from christmas eve until just about ten minutes ago, hence my disappearance...

Oh the whole, a lovely time. DP got me a mulberry bag (well, ok, we were out shopping on christmas eve and he confessed he was having no luck wracking his brains. Actually, he's pretty generous but EXTREMELY unorganised which usually means everythin left to the last moment). We'd just walked into a department store and were walking past handbags when he says 'how about one of these fendi bags?' to which I said 'I'd prefer mulberry' and lo, it came to pass.

However, I started to bleed about 3am christmas morning right as we were 'fooling around' (and, no, had not got as far as 'the whole way'). He had been drinking and was all panicked 'oh, no, no, no! Do you want to go to the hospital?' and I made a split second decision not to. I knew if we went they would definitely admit me for at least 24 hours, not only ensuring I had an awful christmas but that lots of people would have their celebrations darkened by worrying about me and the baby. So, we kept it to ourselves, we me constantly checking on how it was going - obviously, if it got worse, we'd go. It seemed to follow the same pattern as before and stopped pretty quickly, and was just brown on wiping by mid-morning. Still, I really didn't sleep a wink and worried lots up until yesterday when all signs of there ever being blood had gone.

So, christmas day made for an exhausted and anxious day but I'm glad to not have inflicted those emotions onto other people.

My other two dc are home tomorrow (I had a little cry after speaking to them christmas morning but I think it's becuase of how tired and anxious I was - I was glad they were having a great time) so I'm hoping to get a lovely nights sleep in my own bed tonight.

Evening,

Starting to recover from cold - been shopping online to assist in my recovery!!

I've bought some new bedding - I find buying new bedding on average once per year to be a nice luxury. Afterall, by the time it's been washed tons and tons it never lasts very long. Anyway, ordered some lovely egyptian cotton which I plan to squirrel away til after the birth. You can guarantee that if I put it on our bed when it arrives, my waters WILL break in bed !!!! Looking forward to it already - mmmm comfy sleep - even if it will be much disturbed!!

Manda - Really sorry to hear your xmas spoiler. Sounds like your LO wants to just keep reminding you that they are there!!! Keeping you on your toes!! Hope all well now you're home

xx