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!

Off oxygen and haemoglobin levels up .

Can I please just have a baby? Sick of period pains and cramping and nothing bloody happening. Last night after dinner everythign felt so low and dragging and it honestly felt as though the waters were bulging (that is the only way to describe the feeling), as though if I pushed it would just explode. Sadly I just spent the evening weeing instead.

I want my baby!

My big ones come back to day though. Yay! Must go dry hair and go to post office.

Get your finger up there and pop it (if you're terribly flexible that is...)

Oh I'm glad to hear your friends DD is getting better.

have you had a furtle around to see if you are dilating even if it is just sloooowly? It could all happen in a rush after all the little pains. anyway, I am back from London and free to MN to my hearts content so tell that baby that we need a labour thread!

I have consdered having a feel...not yet quite desperate enough to do it. Wouldn't want to miss the final Hustle tonight . Plus I now have free swim voucher so we can take the dcs tomorrow (because the pool are muppets and I got cross so they threw free things at me).

Ah was it "shit, there is a heavily pregnant woman shouting, give her stuff in case she goes into labour"? I found threatening to do star jumps in the office while very heavily pg got me my own way 100% of the time

I just realised last night that you could have a leap day baby! I want to place my bet on 22nd though. Because people who have birthdays on the 22nd are fabulous biased

I quite fancy the novelty of a leap year baby. Can't go for 22nd, I'm from a Guiding family and chances are he will be a Scout, really can't have a Thinking Day/Founders Day birthday.

It was an "I rang up at 11am today specially to make sure that aquanatal was still on and now that I have dragged by pregnant arse here you are looking at me like I am stupid and telling me it is cancelled for half term like it is fucking obvious". I got a free swim on the day and some vouchers .

I was at school with a boy whose birthday was 29 Feb. Very bizarre not to have your birth "day" come up every year - something to talk about at boring dinner parties I guess! Am sending you oxytocin laced vibes Indith

And hello all the other people too! Very impressed by minihoudini spiggy!

Happy Due date to me

I need to go and buy eggs later so I can drown my sorrows in pancakes.

Still pregnant.

AND, AND I have started sprouting stretch marks! OK so my breasts got covered first time around, they are a lost cause but my tummy was a stretch mark free zone, even dd didn't do any damage and I was fecking huge with her. No, the bloody things wait until the very end of my final pregnancy and now I've got horrible, purple stripes all over the place.

the bastards. I got all the way through pregnancy with M without any so I was feeling pretty smug happy. They appeared weeks later as I lost the weight. I sulked.

Happy Due date anyway! Pineapple pancakes for later? Or curry ones?

Happy due date day! Get popping!

I'm feeling very flat lately, definitely in need of a cake pick-me-up!

Sorry, I'll try to hurry up! Don't hold your breath though, had a feel and can't even reach my cervix it is still so high.

I was told by a Mum at the School Gates (aka an Impeccable Source) that only 7% of women give birth on their EDD. You'd think then pick the one that more women DO give birth on then... or is my maths wrong (could be)

Anyway! Happy DD to yoooo indith

Happy DD Indith! Hurry up baby!!

Have you heard anything back from your interview, or is it too soon?

Boo to the shy cervix- it can change quickly though. Will keep fingers crossed that he gets a move on. Just think today will be the last day you will ever be 40+1 probably. Does that help make it more bareable?

hello again (just checking to see if anything happening!) You guys are mostly on FB aren't you? I was given a card for Mums in Durham group yesterday. There's a fundraiser thing for this family in Newton Hall on Saturday. Are you all members already?

God life can be shitty can't it? That poor family . I hope they get to spend her last weeks together.

Not on Mums in Durham- is it a FB group? I'm not really Durham though I only come down for cake to see you lot.

Yeah I saw that and shared it on my wall. How very very sad. But the comments on the article were lovely, so many people offering to help out so they can rent somewhere together, how lovely.

Yes it is very sad isn't it.

Mums in Durham is a FB group, lots of offshoots to it like separate adverts page, businesses and locations (think they have teeside etc separate).

I've bought and sold a couple of things and post the odd comment but it mostly annoys me for some reason. Don't actually know why.

I only went on it today, so a little early for any annoyance to creep in! I only know the couple of Mums that I already know in RL. Not sure how I'd use it TBH.

It is awful how much some people have to put up with, but great to see there are people willing to help.

It is lovely.

On the other hand I think I am a deeply cynical person. I would always do whatever I could to help my friends should they have need of it. Always. But when I see things like that, or the things that go on on here sometimes, I just end up wanting to stay out of it because there is always something in the story that makes me go (in this case the fact that she had no insurance, hence the need for loads of stuff). But then you never want to question it because that reveals you as a mean hearted cynic, but I don't like jumping in without knowing the full story iyswim and the internet is never a reliable source.

So instead we have our regular direct debits to particular charities and other things that we do.

It's been a long time since I've been on this thread!
Tentative congratulations to FNP
Indith, how's Liz's DD?

BTW I am away from now until next Wednesday (when I am most definitely available again for DC duties). But I think my chances are slim :( and :o

Hello stranger :)

Liz's dd is doing really well thank you. Still on drugs and it will be a while until her blood counts are normal (as far as I can gather anyway) but she is out of hospital :)

Don't worry, the next couple of days are well covered for childcare .

I broke the thread. Nobody wants to talk to me any more for being too cynical.

I've been working really, really hard. That's why I've not been around other than to lurk to see if you've popped yet cynical is my default state so that wouldn't stop me talking to you

Now my diary is getting on the full side. Can you tell that baby that he needs to plan is arrival around when I am free to MN?