Northern Ireland anyone?

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Would anyone be interested in a Northern Ireland meet up?

Tee that is not making me feel any better lol

Am excited and nervous and all wound up in equal measures

Of course you are, but you are going to do great!

I had a baby at 40. You get to start your law degree!!

I would bet we'll be equally tired.

Have had so many lovely messages of support its fabulous. Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy and very un-MNetty lol

My "baby" (DS1) is, as of yesterday, the age I was when I had him. I could be a granny.

Just marking my place again on this thread cos I nearly fell off!! 1 week to go til due date...where is this baby?? I need my pelvis, ribcage and bladder returned to me stat, please!

botty - I'm just finishing a PhD and last couple of years I've had to teach undergrad seminars. Far prefer mature students, who actually want to be there and manage to get their work done on top of actual adult responsibilities, unlike all the 19 year olds who look at you blankly when you ask if any of them have done any reading whatsoever You'll get on far better than most of them will!!

tee - congrats to Adam on his first steps!

wkms - let me know if you find a good estate agent! our house is on the market too but i'm in two minds about whether to sell or not. we'd lose a bit of money, but not too much since we bought it when prices were pretty low and i know we could get somewhere that would usually cost a lot more for cheaper at the min. but i'm nervous about taking on a bigger mortgage at the min and i love where we live (apart from the tiny terraced nature of the place lol) so finding it tough to make up our minds about what to do...

Hope everyone's doing ok!!

LMSS - feeling your pain, had forgotten your Due Date - its horrible at the end

As to me and uni, well I just hope I manage ok with the kids and stuff. But it cannot be any worse than working two jobs and helping XH set up a business as I did a coupla years ago, right?

My only advice for anyone starting uni is caffeine. Lots of caffeine! I've been trying to finish thesis, 9 months pregnant and caffeine deprived. Hell!!

LMSS the end may be in sight for you! I had DS at 39+2, so you might be soon too

All the best for whatever happens and keep us updated please!

T

LMSS - i will remember that

Although there is absolutely no chance of me ever being pregnant again

So I will just have to borrow all you lots babies

Do you want one tonight Botty? He hasn't slept more than about 3 hours in a row two nights now.

Tee -I'll see your non-sleeping baby and raise you 3 pre-teens for a sleepover.

BAH.

botty, I'll see your 3 pre-teens sleeping over & raise you a poo escaping from a nappy

Still can't work out how it happened, but there it was, on the bedroom floor. Bleurgh.

Exciting stuff re law degree. I teach med students & agree with LMSS, mature students are definitely more of a pleasure to teach. Have got out of my first lot of lectures due to brother's wedding

Tee, the girl-child is wearing a beautiful little dress one of my brothers bought for her. She's already worn it to her brothers' christening, but she looks adorable in it (even if I do say so myself!).

(Oh, and BTW, go babyTee, walk, walk, run!)

TLC, our ideal house is in S Belfast suburb, en route to Saintfield/Ballynahinch (very cryptic, I know!). It has practically halved in price since it came on the market though, so no chance we'd get any sort of decent price for ours.

LMSS, hope baby doesn't keep you waiting too long (I went into labour with DD 2 days before my due date, so as TLC says, it mightn't be too long). Hope you come to the right decision re house move. The thought of moving makes me feel ill, but think we will very soon outgrow our little house, so needs must. Can't wait to hear of any news of your new arrival.

Sorry, that post was an epistle

Tolstoy has nothing on you WKMS

Morning ladies!

Botty its a good thing I didn't send my baby to you as he slept all.night.long!! Perhaps just the idea of the threat....

WKMS at least it was on the floor. A friend of mine found poo in the bottom of her handbag once....

Right. Looks like a beautiful day. Mountain of laundry to fold and then off for a picnic!

Laters!

Tee - bet that felt fab a nights sleep

Lucky Tee getting a full nights sleep . My neighbours had a party last night in their back garden... sooooo loud... was still going at 3.30. DD number 4 who is 7 months decided then she was getting up at 4.45 and wasnt going back to sleep. DD`s number 2 and 3 then got up at 7.30 and DD number 4 went back to sleep. Botty can I borrow your matchsticks??

Well, no one be too jealous, it was the first full night in quite awhile! And he's already woken once tonight!

And now...to bed.

Nighters!

Tee - I had a sneaky snooze for an hour after my bath - I must be getting old lol

TLC - I'm 39+2 today so..maybe?? Fingers crossed!!

mumoffour - For some reason our street was really noisy on Sat night, taxis, shouting, hammering on doors, gangs of people milling about. Normally I can more or less sleep through anything but it made me really edgy so was awake for hours and was really looking forward to getting a good sleep last night. But woke up at 4am so no such luck! Suppose I'd better get used to sleepless nights tho lol

WKMS - Idea of moving makes me feel ill too! Such a hard decision - I love our house and I love being able to walk to shops/library/park/museum/centre of town easily as well as being near my mum and dad and my in-laws. But I can't deny it would be nice to have a garden, a driveway, a bathroom that's a bit bigger than most people's walk in showers (lol) and a nice, quiet cul de sac with no bonfires and saturday night parties. Hmmm. Decisions, decisions!

LMSS - fingers crossed for you

Keeping everything crossed for you LMSS

Good luck LMSS!

LMSS - looking forward to hearing your imminent birth announcement - can't be long now.

I can recommend motherhood :) Little Claire is adorable and she's thriving - a month old, eating and sleeping well.

Question for you all: Both Claire and I took to breast-feeding well and I haven't had any physical problems with it at all, no real need even for Lansinoh. However, I find the experience demanding and draining and although I DO intend to keep going for as long as possible, at times I find I'm already kind of looking forward to stopping :( Can I ask you breast-feeding mums if this is normal/ you found this/ if it will go away in time?

MamaMary - this is normal!

It's normal cuz you're bfing, and also because you're adjusting to the huge task of motherhood - your hormones are sky high, your emotions are all over the place and you've developed a totally different aspect of your character.

I felt like this a lot in the early days - DS is now 6 months and the bfing pace is getting slower as he is now on solids and can go longer between feeds etc.

My advice is: be gentle on yourself, rest when you can, don't expect to be supermum or compare yourself to others and drink lots of water.

I had many days when I shouted at DH and was cross and said that I was stopping bf cuz it was draining.... but more than 6 months later I'm still doing it!

It is tough now, but you will turn a corner, I promise!

Morning all.

Was up at Connswater yesterday and saw the next meet up location. Didn't actually go in, as I was on a mission for groceries, but the outside is nice.

I myself did not breastfeed mamamary as my milk never came in, but I have heard that this is very common. TLC's advice sounds good to me. Also a friend of mine set up a 'breastfeeding box' next to the chair she usually used. In it was bottled water, chocolate, biscuits, crackers etc. So if she needed a pick me up during, she could just reach down and get it. I thought that was very smart.