10/10 Babies - Rock and Rollin Pumpkins showing us their groovy moves.

[Hermya321]

Right then (brushes off sparkly dress) I'm here!

(cue groovy disco lights and an appropriate selection of tunes)

I also have alcohol free wine, and I'm sure theres a stash of mini eggs behind the bar (along with other some other things) and I'm dancing, whose going to join me??

Stats list here!!

Hi Ladies,

Hope you all had good holiday weekends!! I had a really nice time at a wedding laughing at all the drunks (which would usually be me)

SAM I am in exactly the same boat with the not feeling much movement and am feeling a bit cheated but I am sure we won't be saying that in a few weeks time. Sounds like things are going OK with the work meetings, fingers crossed that everything works out.

Nymph new PJ's always make me feel better. hope your stay isn't too miserable.

Does anyone else feel like they have been hit by the tiredness mallet at 3pm everyday? I swear i am fairly productive untill about 3 then BANG!! its like jetlag!! tired, dizzy daydreamy and useless!!! I am getting 9 hours sleep a night and this is is supposed to be the "blooming" bit in the middle where we feel good and have our energy back - pah!!

Just spent the afternoon asleep. I have a real thing about hospitals and really working myself up,just about held it together talking to the kids but havent told them as dd1 will worry. explained to xh that I'll let him know about calling tomorrow.hoping I'll be out at tea time & can talk to them.
elsa I'm taking food don't worry! vegetarian and hospitals don't mix.

hermya all sorted I think. Spoke to big HR person on Friday and they had sorted it on the fourth attempt She is off this week but will contact me on Monday re sick time & maternity leave.

mamjo and nymph- I felt fine in the 1st trimester and feel like I've been hit with a mallet during the second- sleeping well then being knackered all day. So I know what you mean! I find the only way to stave off the tiredness is to take a multi-vitamin. if I don't take it then I'm screwed. I treat it as food for the baby, multi-vitamin for me!

Thx everyone. Need to kick back and not fret.

Those with much bigger deals going on I do wish you a speedy solution. Makes my yukky tum pale in comparison.

Feeling better already and my light lunch has stayed put.

elsa just reminded me I forgot to get more vitamins today! Have one lfet. Will send dh tomorrow!

nymph, if we lived closer, I'd cook you up a big healthy batch of something vegetarian and bring it to hospital for you. Hope you're ok.
I'm already thinking about the takeaways I'll order when I am at hospital if the birth takes a long time, and the snacks I'll pack. I will not rely on hospital food.

Thanks, tiredfeet. Yes, at least five weeks off work, what a blessing Jury Service is - the timing is awesome! Though I am expected to attend a meeting with the manager before Jury Service, so another sleepless night beforehand, no doubt, but still better than being there day in day out and treated like a fool.

Ooh, and my nursing chair is getting delivered tomorrow! I am BEYOND excited!

Nymph I'm glad you're getting sorted, but the fourth attempt , I mean what do they actually do all day?

Abfab Glad you're getting sorted with work and at least with five weeks off of work that'll be you for a bit won't it. My hospital is next to a twenty four hour super market so I'm not too worried at the moment about access to nice food. I've also scoped out the snack machines, turns out they have one of those turny fridge machines that the catering staff put meals in over night.

Mamjo Nope tiredness here as well, feel like I've got the flu at the moment.

Where's my bloom????

abfab missed the jury service thing before, thats great timing.

Dh took phone call from MW and she said I'm going on Gynae ward tomorrow as Maternity is full. Seems a bit more likely I'll stay in now as I was originally going in the day unit so wouldn't have got a bed. More worried now. Been on Gynae ward before and hated it.

Thanks, Hermya. Lucky you with the supermarket. There's a Co-Op on the way to ours, though cold snack food doesn't really hit the spot often, and I avoid microwaves mostly. I am pretty sure I'll be wanting curry, and from the one place we always go to! Mmm. Actually, I quite fancy some now!

Aw nymph, not pleasant. Not a lot to say really - just hang in there!!! Might be better this time?
Thanks re Jury Service - indeed it is! And I am really looking forward to it, 'busy' watching Law and Order right now!

hermya apparantly back to work slips go to the service centre & sometimes the post gets mixed up

abfab have you watched the British law & order? With martha from dr who in?

Got pain in my leg & another thread & BBC news have got me worried about dvt now I'm
crap aren't I !!!

nymph, you poor thing! Think you are better off being supervised in hospital!!!

I saw the first British Law and Order - wasn't that enamoured with it, and with not enough hours in the day, I'm sticking with the Americans! I've never seen Dr.Who (ever!) so I don't know who Martha is.

Nymph Oh gosh, I hope you get on ok tomorrow. I got that this month as well, some overtime was late and I got a 'well the post was late' comment when I queried it. I suspect the people in charge of these things have a sadistic sense of humour and purposely juggle things round a bit.

Abfab My advice, take a book.

Nymph Good luck for tomorrow.

MIL shoved gleefully a pack of babygros in my chops as i walked in the door. I couldn't even look at them!!!

Good luck tomorrow Nymph.

I'm getting lots of baby movement now. I've felt it from very early on, but was totally in denial until I got the results back, although the weekend while I was waiting for them I had quite a bit. It's sooooooo lovely. I had it this morning while I was sitting in DS's physio session and it made me smile so much.

I also found out this morning that a friend of mine is pregnant and due two weeks after me. How fab is that? A baby and maternity leave buddy. She already has two kids, one six months older than DS, and one just turned two. I do have another friend who's also pg but she is due sooner, in July, so will be (hopefully) a few months ahead of me in terms of baby's stages.

AbFab great news on your five weeks.

Silversky hope you continue to feel a bit better.

Roobear well done on the scan. Still got two and a half weeks till mine.

I've requested more information about an NCT one-day refresher course in early September. ooh there goes baby now, it's the hot chocolate I had about half an hour ago! I thought it might be a good idea to try and do something like that in the hope I have a more normal experience this time. Last time, I had read a lot about labour and stuff which did help enormously even in the strange circumstances. I recommend The New Experience of Childbirth by Sheila Kitzenger.

floozie - are you me? I also felt a good and proper kick (two kicks, one leg then the other, quickly) today (having felt pretty much nothing for about a month), AND I found out today that a friend is due four days before me! I don't see her much any more, but maybe that will change once the babies are here.

Thanks re my five weeks. It really is such a relief. I feel like a skiver, I have always had a very strong work ethic, and was so proud to have done nine years without a single sick day, but hey, perhaps I've earned my time off! In a way, it's working perfectly, as once the baby arrives, I don't think I'll ever have this chill-out time ever again!

You lot are quite quiet these last couple of days!

sorry moany post ahead feel free to skip!

Can't sleep( quite an achievement to someone who has slept all over Cumbria in the last few months) vstressed a out the hospital. I really don't like them. Been crying most of the night, not helped by sleeping in dd1s bed cos dh smells( poor bloke). So I was lonely & missing dds.

Oh Nymph I hope you get on alright today, I can't really say anything apart from send you (hugs).

If you can't sleep best thing to do is get up. Pointless lying there especially if you are working yourself up into a state.

You could always have an early night and catch up that way if pooped later.

I should get up myself really. Time to hit the shower.

Morning all- I'll join you on the not able to sleep brigade. I managed to have a car accident on my way home last night. I got to a cross roads, checked left and right twice, pulled out to go over the road and just before the back end of my car got over to the other side, a car came from nowhere and smacked into me. I spun completely around and ended up facing the way I'd come. I've got classic seatbelt injury of sore shoulder and tummy and the ambulance people declared me ok and asked me to see my GP today- which I am doing at 1045.

As you can imagine I felt awful for my baby and have been dead worried all night- its been moving around, but my tummy muscles are quite sore (no bruising) and I get the odd stabbing pain but not horrendous. The tummy part was not too bad, but is still the most worrying. My shoulder really hurts, but my neck is absolutely dandy which is good. The lady who hit me was fine but shaken and her car headlight was damaged and the bumper. The police have cautioned me for careless driving, for failing to give way. I know someone has to be pinned down for these things, but I defintely stopped at the junction and looked left and right twice and did not see her. She must have been going at a fair old lick as she hit me really hard and the road to the left where she came from was very bendy. So now I have approximately a 12 week wait to see what the police will decide to do with me. Worse case court appearance, fine and points, best case no further action. As you can imagine I need this like a hole in the head.

Hopefully will make a start squaring away insurance crap today and need to get to my car at the storage yard to empty further stuff from it in case the insurance company decide to get rid of it. Given that its 11 years old, I'd be surprised if they tried to bring it back to life. Good little car though- kept me very safe, solid. Ford Puma- as my DH said, not an ideal car for a baby anyway...

Its all very annoying as I'd had it for 10 years and had never so much as chipped the windscreen! Sorry to blather on, but I think I needed to write this down so I don't burst into tears when I see the doctor later! I hope GP surgeries have dopplar things.

Hope you're all ok x x x

I am soo stupid- just googled car accidents and pregnancy and it recommended you should always get checked out, followed by loads of horro stories of placental abruption, not spotted due to no symptoms and loss of baby etc etc. Worried sick now.

Elsa get yourself to your GP or ring your midwife and explain what happened. I'm very surprised you didn't get taken to hospital to be honest, did you get hit from behind or to the side? Did you get interviewed at the time or did they talk to you later on?

Elsa get yourself to your GP or ring your midwife and explain what happened. I'm very surprised you didn't get taken to hospital to be honest, did you get hit from behind or to the side? Did you get interviewed at the time or did they talk to you later on?

Sorry meant to say that I hope your ok. Feel free to ignore my questions. Sorry.

hiya Hermya- I mentioned I'm going to the GP at 1045. I got hit on my near side rear and spun. I will tell the doc how worried I am and also point out I'm Rh Neg which I cannot remember if I mentioned it to the ambulance guys last night. There's no point ringing my useless midwife, she won't answer the phone anyway. I will press the GP for a scan referral for today as I'm feeling sick with worry now. got no bleeding, but that means nothing.