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New kitchen installed and home birth in the same week?

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walkingwomb · 21/02/2008 12:25

Hello,

I am due at teh start of May and want a home birth. HOWEVER, we are also getting work done to our house and the kitchen people i wanted to use can only deliver the week I am due.

Am i made to even consider it?

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mumblechum · 21/02/2008 12:43

Sorry, but yes .

IME, workmen never finish when they say they will, and I'd be inclined to have it done either 3 weeks before you're due or if that's not possible, at least a month after the birth.

MrsMattie · 21/02/2008 12:44

Noooooo!!!! Don't do it! The stress will be too much!

Lulumama · 21/02/2008 12:45

yes, it will be sods law it arrives as you are about to push ! agree with mumblechum re the timing

OatcakeCravings · 21/02/2008 12:45

Sorry but no way!!

We've just had our kitchen and bathroom done and they overran by 5 days! Surely you can arrange to have it done a couple of months after the birth.

TheDevilWearsPrimark · 21/02/2008 12:46

Sods law the baby will make an appearance on a crucial day when the house is full of workmen and the water/gas etc is switched off!

Although on the flipside sods law that if you decide to wait, baby will arrive overdue and you would have had ample time to get it sorted.

themildmanneredjanitor · 21/02/2008 12:47

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alfiesbabe · 21/02/2008 13:00

You're mad to even think it!

orangina · 21/02/2008 13:27

Agree with all posters. please don't do it. have never known a kitchen to be installed in the time it "should" take.... i can't imagine the potential stress levels....

crokky · 21/02/2008 13:41

Do not even consider it!!!! Kitchens and bathrooms are horrendously stressful, stuff is delivered wrong, the place is a horrible mess, you have no privacy, no facilities to eat/drink/wash up. Noooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!

IMHO, if you need a kitchen soon, what I would do is schedule it for when LO is 2 or 3 months old (ie not needing solid food, just needing milk). Whilst it is going on, get DH or someone else to deal with it and go and spend the week/whatever with your mum/a friend.

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walkingwomb · 21/02/2008 13:42

goodness i take it that is a no then! thanks guys!

I am going to get a kitchen that we can get delivered sooner (and isn't as perfect - but perfectly good) so it is all done before the baby lands then.

I think i have having the craziness as trying to sort a million diffferent trades people while working like a b*stard and six months preggers.

Hmmm - have just left a message for the midwife asking her opinion, she is going to think I am mad.

WWxx

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walkingwomb · 21/02/2008 13:43

crokky - we need tonnes of work done to the room we are putting the kitchen in - it is a 4 - 6 weeks job, so don't think waiting til after is a good idea.

cheers though!

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MelissaM · 26/02/2008 14:55

I'm going to disagree with everyone else - go for it! Your kitchen will never be delivered on time - I don't know anyone who's has.

If you really want a homebirth go for it. If kitchen does by some miricle arrive on time, lo will probably be late and atleast it means the workmen will get on with it as quickly as possible!!!

Good luck

ernest · 26/02/2008 15:29

if it helps I had a kitchen fitted that was both delivered and completed on time.

But it was a lot of work. Is your dh good like that (mine's crap)

Pedrolina · 26/02/2008 18:53

My kitchen was meant to be fitted before I went on maternity leave (i.e all done by first week of Feb) something has gone wrong with one small but crucial bit of a tap and I've now had three weeks of washing up in the bath. Also it's the stress of having to try and sort out cock ups like this and spend time that you should be nesting/resting figuring out how to cook dinner on a sandwich toaster for the third night running! I'm 37 weeks and also going for a home birth and still optimistic that things will be finished in time but I have to say I wouldn't time it like this again!

pedilia · 26/02/2008 19:02

Nooooooooooooooooooooo- we had a new kitchen fitted just before xmas and it was chaous!!
The fitters were in longer than expected as they kept finiding problems that were holding things up!!

maxbear · 27/02/2008 10:55

In general I would say nooooooo, but many people are scared that pregnant women are going to just suddenly deliver in front of their very eyes. It would be quite amusing to huff and puff a bit and see if it makes things happen any quicker. Of course if things did kick off the work men would be off like a shot, but then where would you make cups of tea for the midwives!!

I accepted a parcel when I was in early labour at home and someone phoned from work to discuss my maternity pay whilst I was breathing through a contraction. Needless to say did not talk to them. A friend had also heard that I was in labour and phoned up to see how I was doing which I was about. A bit of a draw back to having a homebirth I'm afraid, but worth it for all the other reasons.

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