Durham / North East Meet Ups - 2012

[juneybean]

Hello hello! Here I am with good intentions to behave and show up to some meet ups since I utterly failed in 2011!

So we need ideas for daytime meets and of course we must not forget our night time meets

[b]Daytime Ideas[/b]
Beamish
Saltwell Park, Gateshead
The Giants Den, Team Valley
Botanic Gardens
Beach (in the summer of course, unless we want airborne children!)

Okay so ideas for January daytime, I think cake is definitely in order so I propose the one that's next to Ebony, the huge place, down some steps, uhh... Slug & Lettuce is it? CAKE!

January night time? Is this something we want to plan? I know we're always poor after Christmas!

Good Luck Indith

hi all, sorry I've not been MNing much recently. Indith hope it's gone really well for you today. Does it take long to find out do you know?

Hope it went well Indith.

Just dropping in to gingerly (and cautiously) say that I'm 8 weeks pregnant with number 3.

I've got a history of miscarriages so nothing is for sure, but if feeling rotten is an index of pregnancy health then this is a healthy one. Feeling DIRE. Had two scans so far and both show heartbeat and growth.

Please keep it under your collective hats - our families don't know yet, and nor do most of our friends. For those that know me on facebook, I'm not 'out' there.

Anyhow, sorry for just popping in with some AAM news but I wanted you to know as may, in September, be able to join in mid-week meetups for a while.

Oooh cautious congratulations . I will keep fingers crossed for you (know that 1st trimester uncertainty well) and hope that the sickness goes soon. 3 is great most of the time. DS2 is starting to join in with the others now and it is lovely to watch. It was a lot easier than I thought it would be- got handed a newborn and knew exactly what I was doing. The older ones love "helping", he follows them round and they have a ready source of entertainment. It'll be even better when he learns to sleep

I have a rule that I never mention anything on FB that I've seen on MN until the person mentions it themselves and then I act surprised

:) Frozen, hope you continue to feel dire for a bit longer then :)

Interview ok I think. It was a very long day though. Group task I know went well, individual interview went by in a bit of a blur .We'll see. First rejections for those who didnt' score well enough by the end of next week then they do final selections 20th March. So long to wait!

I'm now hoping that with the stress out of the way I will recover from the crazy cramps and erm toilet going that I have had all week. 99% sure it is all stress related but I feel dreadful now as nothing I have eaten all week has stayed in there, not even sticking to toast.

Dcs off to my mum's tomorrow though thank goodness!

glad the interview went ok, at least you are likely to be a bit busy over the coming weeks so you won't be able dwell on it. . Hope that he doesn't turn up the first night the other 2 are away so you get some rest. And hope your digestive system calms down.

are we allowed to start pestering you now? 'cos if we are then can I start with a comment about the body having a clear out pre-labour and it is obviously a sign that it is all kicking off? no? You're no fun

Ooo tentative congratulations Frozen!

Fingers still crossed for you Indith!

Clear out yes. Week long clearout not so much. Sometimes the cramps venture up my back and I start to wonder and have to breathe but then I follow it with another toilet visit so probably not baby related.

Poor you. Hopefully it'll be the end of it. You have reminded me about the worst part of late pregnancy though- the endless bloody waiting and wondering if today is the day. not that I'm still cross at DS2 waiting til 41+2

Spiggy ds didn't arrive until 42 weeks. If this one does the same as his brother I will throttle him at birth.

Slightly better today. We were going to go out tonight :(. Hope I am feeling rather more recovered in a couple of days so we can still go out before the children come back, it has been a year since we went out for dinner together and not exactly much more time to fit a meal out in!

Frozen - congratulations!

Indith - glad the interview went well, bleugh at clear out, hope you are feeling better and enjoy your night out with DH!

hope you get your meal out. I'm ashamed to say that I don't actually remember the last time that we had a night out but it is definitely more than a year. We nearly managed a trip to the PTA quiz but a T came down with the lurgy so we didn't get to go. Oh and we went to a mates house warming but that doesn't count as T came as well.

I appear to have given birth to the reincarnation of Houdini. After the incident where I found T asleep in my bed we put the cot side higher. Then there was the incident where I heard shouting in the middle of the night to find him at the bedroom door after climbing out his cot and off the bed. While in his sleeping bag. So we put the cot side up to the max. Today DH heard lots of giggling and Daddadada over the baby alarm at nap time. Goes upstairs to find T bouncing up and down, giggling hysterically in the middle of our bed. I can't actually work out how he is doing it. What are we supposed to do? Tie him to the bed? He's 8 months old FFS. This should not be possible! On the plus side the sleeping has definitely turned a corner. probably cos the little blighter is going clubbing or summat while I think he's asleep

Now, I'm away to London on Thurs and as a result will not be able to check MN all day so no going into labour then baby Indith.

Oh god is that what 3rd children are like?

He sounds fabulous .

A friend of dh's says he used to climb out of his cot so his dad put an old door on the top as a lid. I'm not sure you should do that though .

Went out last night and ate a massive lump of venison :). MW today. He has dropped a lot but apart from general cramps/period pain when I'm on my feet nothing much going on. Only 39 weeks though.

can you buy baby cages? I was thinking of a babygro and sheets made of velcro so he can't move

Glad you got to go out and have something nice to eat. Would you rather he came before or after the children come back? H came at 39 weeks when I thought I'd have loads of time so don't dismiss any rumblings on that basis or you'll have to be your own mw like me

Well Wednesday night would be quite good, dcs due back Thurs so would give birth and then they arrive to see their brother. Don't know really, he'll get her when he gets here won't he . I admit though with having to rely on friends for the dcs if he arrives during the day I do worry a bit. Hopefully he will be like the others, both born around 5am having woken up around midnight with contractions.

Dh came down and said he'd just realised having the dcs away would be a good time to go to the cinema (we hear such places exist). Looked at listings, decided nothing on in Durham and only one thing we might want to see in Newcastle and can't be arsed to go all the way to Newcastle for a film we'll be able to buy at a fraction of the price (petrol, parking, tickets, popcorn, maybe a cheap meal due to timings) in a few months so we will make popcorn and stick a dvd on tonight instead.

Are we getting old?

Could you just crate train him like a puppy?

Yes you are getting old We have a date booked. ok it is for October but still, it is a date. The new Bond film is due out then and it is one of the few genres we can agree on so it is definitely one for the diary. (He likes arty,classics or intellectual. I like things getting blown up )

My mw used to "prescribe" a nice large drink to bring on labour. She reckoned that it helps you relax and kick starts the hormones. Don't know if there is any science behind it but I was happy to try it.

Puppy training for babies- there might be something we can do there. Do you think those ultra high pitched whistles would work on children?

Well, not long until October.....

I'm just in snotty, hormonal tears.

I think some of you met my friend Liz. One of the Americans, she was only here for a year (not the one who moved to Canada). She definitely came to a picnic down at the bandstand. Anyway, her dd was about the same age as mine. Beautiful, scarily intelligent, curious, enthusiastic, kind little girl. She has been in hospital for a few days. Started with a virus but her body went into overdrive and started killing her own red blood cells. Her hb counts keep going down though, she is now on constant oxygen and is probably going to have a bone marrow biopsy later.

Oh I wish I could hug my children right now.

Oh that's awful Indith :( I'll keep her in my thoughts xx

Oh the poor baby . I hope that they can find a way to help her.

Oh Indith, how dreadfully sad, poor little girl will keep her in my thoughts, her parents must be so worried.

Gosh, yes I remember Liz. She came for cake at the BGs I think. Poor them.

Hope you've managed to call the kids, or sit and smell their lovely smell with their clothes, while they're still away.

Thanks for the thoughts. They need all the good thoughts (and prayers if you are that way inclined) they can get.

Rather more excitingly, a potential local labour thread! Not mine though

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/childbirth/a1406942-36w-and-steady-strong-period-pains-with-queasiness#30085344

Is that Spiggy's friend who came to Slug and Lettuce, I thought she had ages left time is obviously passing me by a little too quickly!

It is my friend. Today I shall mainly be pressing f5