I now declare this topic.... THE NEW PUDDLE!!!!!!!!!

[EmpressOfTheSevenScreams]

With thanks to SPSFanjo for handing it over.

Everyone's invited to our Puddlewarming party!!!!!!!!!!

I've had enough contractions for all of you, so don't worry! You aint missing much.

I also had my share of contractions, every 3 mins for 4 hours, with paracetamol as a painkiller...not fun!

What Screamy said !

I know, I'm being daft but I would like to know what it's like, I can't explain it.

I don't feel any less of a mum for not giving birth naturally, I just think if I am able to I would like to do it naturally.

If not, I have no problem at all with another c-section, I have a very positive experience from last time - it was perfect, serene and generally lovely.

I get you brian :)

My elcs with dd was so calm and serene it was almost unsettling. We got back to CDS and me and dp were almost in shock as we were just left to get to know her. Whereas when pfb ds arrived it was chaos, mws and peadiatricians everywhere as I was poorly as was ds.

I'm happy to have another elcs I am, I just wonder sometimes.

What Tee said. I've never had a contraction either and I'm a proper mum too! We're ALL great mums.

We were in there 4.5 hours State, think that's a record. I was buzzing when we finally came out. DD looks terrific though.

She's 12 by the way and the thread about the horrors of the 12 year old boy's bedroom could sooooo easily be about her. Thoroughly disapproves of fags and booze at the moment - or claims to - but I know we've got all those joys to come!

Don't be too sure Empress, you might get lucky. I like the odd tipple but have never ever smoked.

And contractions are shit so Brian you're not missing much.

I had to go through the whole thing for almost a whole day and ended up having a really sucky EMCS.

DD is 11 months now and I think I've only just about to come to terms with the whole shitty ordeal that was her birth and the aftermath.

That may well last empress I was very anti smoking and drinking at 11/12, I stuck to it, I did have maybe one or two drinks at around 16 but its never interested me. I drank at my 18th Birthday party, and then didn't again until I was 21, then not again until last christmas, and haven't since. Have never and will never smoked. I did have ds at 18, but since me and dp stuck together and have raised our family together my Mum now says she's glad I did.

Anyway, what's everyones plans for today, I think we may go to the big american pumpkin patch, off to see some friends and if all else fails soft play!

Wow, a pumpkin patch?! I just asked Dh how far it is to where your from, cos I want to go - apparently it's very far! :(

I'm meeting an old friend from school today, then going into town to return a mountain of clothes to Next. I ordered about 10 tops to see if any were suitable for breastfeeding - 1 is, and the rest are going back.

My knees and hips are aching today from my run. :(

I was a very good girl until I was about 16, then I was very, very bad for about 6 years. I'm good now though. :)

Might be worth just googling pumpkin patches screamy the one we go to has been around for years and years and we only found it last year as ds' friends Mum is american, they don't really advertise it but it has website.

That's the one side of bfing I am not looking forward too, I dress totally differently to when dd was a baby and have a feeling I've made things awkward for myself, ho hum, hope you find some that are suitable soon, and the aching stops, I don't do running, I have enough trouble keeping up right when walking!

My mum said I was 'bad' for less than a year, I met dp the week I turned 17 and she said we were/are the most boring teenage couple she ever met, um cheers Mum.

Anyway, best sign off I get nagged for Mning in the car, and if last years journeys anything to go by we will get lost!

Afternoon all.

Had a lovely nap this morning after breakfast and now slowly doing things around the house while my boys sleep. Yes, one of those 'boys' is my husband. We're a very nappy family on the weekends.

I haven't been to a pumpkin patch in 9 years! Enjoy it State!

LittleTee wants to be a Pirate for Hallowe'en. I should probably do something about that soon...

Have a nice Sunday all!

It was so muddy! I was just waiting to go flying and land in a heap. Both dcs new winter boots now look awful and I had there wellies in the boot of the car

We have some brilliant pumpkins though! Well squashes, we have two traditional ones and a green stripey one, a yellow one, a flat one, they're going to look interesting!

of your pumpkins State .

I have just got back from the shittest kids party in history.

The boy is a new friend since school. They get on well but said boy is very hit happy . very clingy too so when ds wanted to run off and play with someone else, boy followed and pulled him back .

Cake tasted like feet. Pass the parcel was a epic fail (and seriously how can you fail to do pass the parcel) . Food was crap.

I am even more at this party than I would be normally because the mum has been bragging about her 'amazing' party last year and she seems very competive so I was expecting a fab couple of hours....in reality, my Gpigs could hold a better flipping party!

Ah bonkey we've ended up at a party like that, except NO games! Only entertainment was the birthday childs new toys, which weren't allowed out of the boxes!
I used to put loads of effort into hiring a hall and theming a whole party, this year its soft play, we have a new one nearby that does amazing food so I don't mind paying for a party there and all I do is make a cake and show up.

The dcs are a bit obsessed with the pumpkins, I may end up hiding them until next week when we carve them. They both want to name them they had pony rides, archery, maize maze, huge tent of craft stalls a bbq and pumpkin pie,candy corn and doughnuts, lovely autumn afternoon, despite all the MUD! I am rather chuffed with my new facebook cover pic

Next year maybe I need to hold a mumsnet meet up there!

Sounds like a fab day, and your cover photo is amazing! :)

I normally go down the soft play route. I think it probably works out cheaper in the end than diy parties. Plus NO clearing up, and NO bored kids!

Ds's party last year was fab!

Sounds like a great day State, and the photos are gorgeous! I googled but there's nothing like that near us unfortunately. :(

Soft play party fan here too, or at least somewhere that does everything for you and entertains the children.

Hello!

Sounds like a fun Sunday was had by all!

We went to do a Scarecrow trail. Me, DD, my best friends and their boys (3 yo and 5 months), DD's godparents (parents of my bf), their other son and granddaughter (2 yo). Should have researched - the trail started in Northwich and ended in Tarporley - would have been a 5 hour round trip walking.......we imagined a gentle stroll of 2 miles max!!

So, we stayed at the craft centre, had a picnic and the kids played on the park and then we had a mooch around the shops and bought lots of sweets and that took up 3 hours!

Invited back to best friend's house and they made us (well male BF made us) a lovely chicken pasta dish...was delish!

Am exhausted, and aching - I would like my energy back, am not used to being such a lightweight

Bed calls - I may dream of pumpkins, I do love to carve 'em and love pumpkin soup even more

Here's my pumpkin from last year - I am a big kid at heart

Wow brian, that's ace!

I did a mickey mouse one for ds when he was 2, last year a cat, this year were going for a gang of ghouls as requested by ds.
Like the sound of a scarecrow trail but 5 hours walking... I was ready for my sofa after an hour at the pumpkin patch! Pregnancy properly drains me of energy.

screamy obviously the only answer to this problem is you have a year to move so you can go to our patch next year

Dd is so excited about her birthday, its all I hear about, its a month today until she is 4, I can't quite believe it tbh! She has been planning it since ds' in July, every day she tells me, " for my birthday mummy, for my party can I have it at big climbing please, I've been good" --she hasn't she's a little bugger-- big climbing is what she calls soft play, and then I get the list of food she'd like and another cake idea. I love how excited she gets but its kind of exhausting every single day.

I've also realised today I'm now in single figures in the count down to my due date, 8 weeks 5 days to go, but elcs will be sooner than that

Christmas appeal

Ooooh! state your pumpkins sound ace! Can we have my 40th birthday party in here, my birthday is Halloween. We could do trick or treat and bobbing for apples, fancy dress and everything!

I'll come as a witch!

I'll post a pic of our pumpkins tomorrow when I visit my Mum --to steal her internet and use her laptop-- only have my phone when at home which is a touch annoying.

Ooh ooh dp has what he thinks is a genius halloween costume for me, a tshirt with dolls limbs stuck to it, fake blood etc, so it looks like the babys attempting to escape. I was personally thinking pumpkin, as I'm that shape

Reading your storys I am grateful for the elcs I think, I do occasionally feel I've missed out but the virgo in me loves the organisation and routine of it, I think labour would scare me, plus I'm a huge wimp I'm already dreading the canular going in, and the epidural. I said to dp tonight does it not scare you that in a maximum of 8 weeks we will be home with a new baby, his reply, no why, should it? I'm swinging between it does, and it doesn't. I'll feel much better when I've got the final bits I need I think.

State you ahve just reminded me of something!

Like this??