Hello all, it's time for me to guiltily poke my head around the door too
So great to hear from you Sif, I'm very of your blooming.. I just look tired all the time! I am indeed having a girl, how exciting that you might be too... girls names are definitely easier than boys names I think. So many pretty ones out there.
I have load of friends who've done hypnobirthing and swear by it. For some reason it's very popular in Jersey (where dh is from) so they all do it over there. I hope you get your lovely water birth.
Great to hear from you too Irish. Your spa weekend sounds bliss! Just my kind of break. And I love Edinburgh, I've only been a couple of times and one of those was during Festival so pretty hectic, but I'd love to go back. You sound very chilled about the bding and that's great to hear... I hope that means that your time is very soon. Good luck for this month!
Blue I'm very of your lie ins.... I don't know why, but I assumed that being at my mum and dad's would mean lots of lie ins for me, but so far not one Oh well, ds has got such a set of lungs on him, that he could be at the bottom of the garden shouting "muuuuuuummmmmeeeeeeeeee" and I'd wake up, so it's not surprising. He's not the quietest little angel in the mornings Glad your floor looks good... how lovely to be able to do some major nesting...
Sunny oooooh pleeeeeaaaaaase come to the meet up!!!!!! We can meet beforehand and both wear masks! Oh pretty pleeeeeeaaaaaase!
So glad you've got your scan booked now... it's really hard to not brick it. I've only made it to two 12 week scans but each time I've been convinced there's been something wrong, and spent all morning with terrible butterflies, only to be proven wrong. The relief is so wonderful though!
Jumping - talking of relief, how fantastic your bp listened to us all and started to behave a bit more I hope it continues! It must be such a weight off your mind. I have a friend who's had PE with all four of her pregnancies, the last one ended in cs at 35 weeks, only her first was a naturally started labour, the others were horrible inductions. It's awful, but really you're not a terrible mother. It's one of those things, we're so lucky that today it does mean we can have more children and know that with all the monitoring we have, the docs can react fast when it looks like things are going south. Thanks so much for posting on my other thread about my puffy legs by the way... I'm seeing the mw on wednesday so I'll ask her then if it's worth another look.
wasabi wey hey, we're going to be completing on the same day!! We finally managed to exchange yesterday, but not without it's excitements. I made an online transaction to pay the deposit, but the online fraud people pinged it back.... 6 days later so I'd been all smug thinking I'd sorted everything, but then had a panicky call from our solicitor yesterday saying "your deposit's gone from our bank account, we can't exchange without it, the whole thing's going to fall apart!!" Cue frantic dash by me across London to get to my bank branch to do a CHAPS same day transfer thingy before 2.30pm to keep the whole thing going. Made it with ten mins to spare! So we are exchanged, and completing this Friday!
Are you and your dh arguing over the decorating as much as my dh and I are? We have very different styles... he wants all his pictures of sportsmen all over the place and I'm like WTF?? This is not a bar! No sportsmen! Now we're arguing over the colour of ds's room... (he wants blue because he has so little imagination that he thinks all boys rooms should be blue and I want nice sunny yellow) My mum's an interior designer so I'm slightly winning the battle, but it's going to be ugly!!!
Anyway, I hope your move goes well. We won't actually move in on the 9th, we're going to get all our stuff delivered from storage on teh 10th, and then take the next week to decorate and unpack, so you'll definitely be in before us.
No other news from me, although unlike Blue I think my dd is still either ceph or transverse as all my kicks are low low low down or waaaay out to the side. My poor left ovary took a real battering for a couple of weeks, thankfully she's taken to kicking my cervix for a bit. I say thankfully, I could do without that too. As ds was breech, I don't know what it feels like to be kicked in the ribs, however, I am far too familiar with the sensation of being kicked in my nether regions!
Anyway, I'm of to my wee bed now... got my sister's girls coming round tomorrow as it's my nieces birthday. Plus my grandmother's coming round, the first time since she had her stroke and the first time since she left hospital, so that should be interesting. It's always really noisy when the girls are here, with ds, the dog chasing the cats, the children chasing the dog and everyone yelling. And I can't even get drunk!
Have a good (remaining bit of) your weekend everyone xxx