*~*~* August 2010 *~*~* where does the time go?

[CherryPie3]

Only 5 spaces left on the old thread - wonder how long it'll take us to fill ths one up?

Happy chatting :)

I can't believe there are more preggers ladies! Congrats nat [goes off muttering 'mental' quietly to herself]. And great news re finally exchanging.

Glad mumps are a thing of the past and lovely to hear so much from cherry after such a long absence.
Also pleased to hear about gig-going and boob-groping (well maybe not so much that one).

E's cough is still pretty nasty - she coughed so hard she threw up this morning. Fortunately it was just the boobage she had just had so I don't think there's anything more serious going on. She did sleep a lot better last night, didn't wake me at all so I think the cough must be getting a little bit better. What will happen now is I will get it, then we will keep giving it to each other in a merry circle.

Re toddler weaning - interested to hear about this. E only has mornings and sometimes before bed now, but she is VERY keen on morning boobage. I have a vague plan to allow her to self-wean by about two...

Good afternoon ladies

So many posts to read...

Nat WoooooHoooooo! Hugest of huge congrats hun. I can certainly vouch that July babies are pretty awesome, I was greedy and had 2 of em! 2nd and 3rd respectively. I honestly think it's easier with plural children rather than singletons as they entertain eachother. Dd and ds1 are 15.5m apart andbit was bloody hard but totally amazing.
Great news about the big move too, glad your sillybilly landlord came around to the idea of you paying rent for the extra few weeks. Would be a no-brainer for most people.

Watching with interest for toddler booby weaning tips....

Belly - hope E's cough continues to improve and those lovely sleepFULL nights are here to stay! (for everyone!)

Maiden - sounds like you're coming close to my neck of the woods . Harrogate is about 40mjns from here. Lurvely buildings, sooooo very expensive to buy property there tho, we looked (very very briefly) as dh likes that area too but soon looked elsewhere. Harrogate is a 'maybe one day' kind of place for us.
Glad you are mumps free now!
Totally agree with you about sparklers, dd is almost 7 and I'm still overprotective wary of them. Absolutely no way on Gods green earth would I let Corey hold one, ds1 is 5 and he isn't allowed yet either!

MakeTea - hope you had a soooper time at the gig last night! I remember the smashing pumpkins but they were always a hit much for me... I was very much a bubblegum pop girl hehe.

Dogwalker - honey you are perfectly allowed to come and moan as much as you need to! I agree with others that it sounds incredibly hard . Sorry if this seems a daft question but does she live far away? Howcome she is wanting to leave? Big hugs to you (not very MN I know...). Hopefully you will be full of nesting energy and it'll be a breeze for you!!

Totally full of snot and sneezes today so not doing much other than, well, this! I'm gonna het Corey's building blocks out and his toddle trucks and we can do easy play today. Will load the dishwasher in a sec and unload/load the washer and tumble dryer. And the that's really it.

Love to all xx

Well waters broke last night at 36+3 but apart from backache nothing else. I came in this morning to monitor & the midwife felt my tummy & confirmed waters have gone. Doctors came to examine & talk to me about two hours ago but got called away before they did anything & have now fallen off the face of the earth..

I'm soooo bored and just want to be told whats going on.
Longest of all 3 from waters breaking to baby was 6 hours and mine broke 17 hours ago now!!

Want to go home.
Do not want to be induced.
Argh.

By the way if you have me on fb don't say anything as I'm here with only Dh, my sister & my best friend knowing.
Trying to hold off the in law pressure & constant texts from people as it could be days still.

Congrats nat!

woo hoo good luck girls !!

Gig was soooo much fun last night! Drank lager from plastic pint glasses! Class act me

Way to go GYA. Wishing a speedy labour your way. Good luck :) xxx

Oh Cherry your day sounds like bliss, apart from the snotty nose of course. Would love an easy play day at home with T, I am very .
My Mum lives a good 4 hour drive away and she has been with me since September, I was supposed to be looking for an au pair, but I cannot pick one, so she has stayed, but she is missing her other 4 children and other 18 grandchildren , so she wants to to back home for a while. I do hope she comes back again at soem point to help me out, but I don't want to pressure her after she has been so good.

Sorry x posted, whooo hooo GYA, good luck, my thoughts are with you, hope the LO pops out soon, take care xx

GYA that's so exciting! Hope you don't have to be induced and that things happen relatively swiftly.

Go Girls Go!!! How exciting! (The waters going bit, not the hanging around bit). Sending you loads of good oxytocin-y vibes! Definitely hope you avoid induction - does the hospital have a time policy on it from waters breaking? Can you chat through your options with them? Seriously brilliant luck to you and your DH and baby!! You'll be amazing, I'm sure!

Thanks for the congrats all!! Am in such a daze re the move and everything so it hasn't really sunk in!

Loving the thread activity, ps. Thinking we're not going to finish it off before Christmas though! Next Christmas maybe?! ;)

Come on we need a new thread for the New Year, out with the old and all that!

Good luck Girls, hope things start moving soon.

Cherry my day trip to Harrogate is to escape my MIL who will no doubt start dropping very heavy hints about how we really need to start thinking about no.2 (what with me being so decrepit and everything). DH's bro and sis have (or will have 3 kiddies each), so we're seriously letting the side down by only producing one offspring. Plugs fingers in ears and goes lalalalalala...

Have had a quick lookie at CazandBelle's blogspot - Xander is adorable, she really does make beautiful babies (mine looked like an angry new born chick )

Evening!! Kids are scoffing their tea so I thought I'd treat myself and fire the laptop up for a bit - dh is on lates so he obviously won't mind! I've been using the MN Talk iPhone app, what a godsend (despite all my typo's)! I've been lurking on here for aaagggeeesss but I've had to pluck up the courage to start posting again as I've been gone for so so so so so long! Glad I did though cos I miss you girls! :)

DogWalker - I know exactly how you feel!! With dd and ds1 I had to go back to work within a few weeks of their birth and I was aching with jealousy at all the other lucky SAHM's. It been almost a blessing that my mum moved to the seaside because had she still been here I would've been back at work and she would be childminding... (I didn't mean that to sound as self absorbed as it did, just wanted to let you know that I can absolutely relate!)

Maiden - I'm pretty sure you're not decrepit! It's each to their own, if you only want one lo then that's absolutely yours and your dh's choice no-one else's. Although I would recommend to everyone (online or in person, honestly) that everyone has as many babies as they want/can afford.

Ok in all honesty I'm likely to be the worst person at giving advice but I'm a firm believer in the saying "You're unlikely to regret having the children you have, but likely to regret not having the children you wanted but didn't have"

I've been trying to convince my dh of this since last Christmas for some time but he ain't budging. :(
But I love my beautiful three children so trying not be greedy!

I wish you could bottle that new baby feeling of euphoria. I swear it'd be a cure for depression .

All in favour of new thread by Christmas say aye...

aye

Back on t'old iPhone nah not that I have one.

Just read my last post back and noticed there are still typos. Darn it!

Wonder how GYA is getting on... Hmmm shall we each take guesses at sex, weight and time?

I'll go for: a little boy, 8lbs 6oz, 22:40 tonight.

Any takers??

xx

Aye

This is defintely the most activity this thread has seen for ages.

Cherry thanks for the pep talk, it didn't sound self absorbed at all, it was nice just to share and hey that's what this thread is for.

Came on to see if there was any more news from GYA. Hope she and the LO are doing well, sending loads of good vibes to her. And oh yes I agree about the euphoric new baby feeling, that would totally solve depression and I am so looking forward to having it again in 7 months time. Really hope GYA is having it now.

Hoep everyone is well, take care xx

Hello! Glad to see some action on the thread, sorry I've been AWOL for a while.
How exciting gya! Really hope things are going well for you. I was put on the induction drip cos my waters broke and then not much happened for a while but it was fine :)

I didn't know Betty's was so famous! I live in York and dream of getting someone to look after DS for a morning so DH and I can go and have a cooked breakfast there. Yum.

Funny hearing about the bf antics. I usually just feed J at naptime and bedtime so he's fairly calm and in his sleeping bag, but if I feed him at other times he does get into some strange positions! How are your nipples Cherry? Is it his teeth or could it be thrush or something?

Congrats nat on the pregnancy I can't believe how many of us are pg or ttc, i'm soooooooo not ready yet.

J is lots of fun at the mo, although he and I have had a cold for the last 3 weeks! It's almost gone now though. He runs about, loves reading stories, climbing into/onto boxes and generally making a mess.

My guess on gya: girl, 6lb7oz, 6am tomorrow

Hiya Marzi :). Boo about the cold! I have that at the mo, isn't it lovely? I can't really talk today. Just croak, which the dc's find hilarious.

My nipples are still a bit shredded tbh but seems to be improving although I've no idea what I'm doing differently!
I think it must've been his teeth as he has a whole new bunch of them!

It's amazing how many of us there were on the a/n threads and how many still post. I k ow I went AWOL but I was always in touch with people on fb (chulita, MrsZaC, Bubba...) there's loadsa ladies on there so I never really felt far away from MN!

Hope you're having snuggled with your baby by now GYA, but if not we're all rooting for you and we know you're Doug a fantastic job!! :)

Right, must get dc's ready for school....

I wish I had some baby news but no.. Doctor finally came back at 330 & examined me & said she couldn't confirm waters had gone as she couldn't see any leaking.

Would need a scan to confirm/deny waters being there or not.

Being kept waiting that long meant no scan apts til 4 this afternoon so coming up for 48 hours since waters breaking- if they have..

When the doctor came she reckoned it could be watery discharge & I could be mistaken but the midwives all agreed with me that they had gone.

I had water all down both legs, into my slippers & onto the floor.
It didn't smell of anything & was clear.

Around two hours later I had a thick maternity pad on & it happened again filling that up and soaking my trousers again..

If that's not waters breaking what is it????

So now I'm left between a rock and a hard place.

Scan will either show:

Waters have gone & I'll be induced straight away. Don't want to be induced as will be constantly strapped to monitor & drip & it could take ages & more chance of c section.

Waters haven't gone leaving me wondering what the hell is going on??

Argh so fed up.

At least I was allowed home last night.

Oh GYA, sorry it's not going that well. I hope LO pops out soon and of their own free will. I don't fancy induction either. Can you be really firm with them and say as long as there in no dange to LO then no induction, the LO will come out when good and ready. Not sure if any of that is possible, but I would want to know and have as many options as possible. Sometimes hospitals just do what's best for them, i.e. get you in and out. free up the bedspace as quick as possible, which isn't the best thing for Mum and baby. Thinking of you lots, take care xx

GYA you poor thing, my prediction is as your other births went relatively smoothly this is def a boy... (unless you know different in which case I am talking out of my bottom).

Cherry We couldn't pay for 2 in childcare, I know nurseries need to pay their staff a decent wage and think if you pay peanuts you get monkeys - someone is raking it in somewhere I swear.

There's not much incentive to work 4 days a week and all the juggling that entails for a couple of hundred pound a month. I'll see how I feel in 18 months or so when F starts to get some free sessions (when they're 3 if the gubmint haven't seen fit to scrap that as well). If we do it again I want to time it so I am on ML when F starts school so I can do drop offs and pick ups for first year at least. After that my mum will be retiring and will be able to pick her up for me (I don't start work until 9.30am so drop offs will be fine).

I'm loving the Ipad/Iphone predictive spelling corrections that I keep seeing on threads - who is Doug and why is he on our thread , this is for wimmin only Doug, sling yer hook or we'll throw a banana mush covered muslin at you. I sent an email the other day and mispelled "sent" as "semt" and my wonderful Ipad replaced "semt" with Semtex! Goodness knows what the recipient thought (don't mess with MaidenDevon hopefully )

Oh GYA, you sound so fed up. From what you describe it certainly sounds like waters breaking and surely having 3 children previously you have some idea of what it's like. I hate when doctors think they can treat you like idiots and talk to you like you couldn't possibly know what's going on because you're not medically qualified!
Sorry for ranting, from personal experience I feel strongly about it.

I really hope your lo makes a swift appearance, have you been trying to encourage labour yourself?

• nipple stimulation
• bouncing on birth ball
• walking
• pineapple

Erm....

That's alm I've got for now but will keep thinking. Best of luck to you, really hopebit isn't much longer for you, I bet your girls are so excited!!

Does anyone read Caz's blog? The most recent post is a pair of poems, one for Anabelle and one for Alexander. Really moving and brought tears to my eyes, in a lovely way mind.

Xxxx

Oh hello Maiden, sorry for cross post!

Sounds very sensible wrt timing and childcare costs, it was those costs and our lack of surrounding family that prompted me to give up work this time around. Agree that when your older child is in school/nursery even a few hours a week it makes the whole coping thing easier - did for me anyhow. ds1 was in half day when ds2 came along although it was the flipping summer holidays wasn't it! Grrrr. Best and worst summer school break ever, bored 5 & 6 year olds and constant newborn nursing really got the better of me a few times! I was sincerely grateful when September came around!

Oh and about those typos you speak of....you weren't reading my posts by any chance were you....?

Doug was supposed to be 'doing'. My own fault for not spell checking anything! I bet there's hundreds haha.

Hmm could the lack of contact from GYA mean she's having/had a baby??

I wish I could say yes cherry! Have just had no Internet on phone!!

Scan showed fluids still there enough to be considered normal & baby happy.

Sonographer said I couldve had lots of water & just got rid of some which to me is a far more plausible explanation than the whole 'watery discharge'line the doctors are spouting.

Who stands in a puddle of discharge..??!

Loving all the updates. GYA, you poor thing, hope it happens soon and naturally. Sex is the answer, I've always been told ;o)

We definitely can't afford childcare for two, we only have nursery one day at the moment and my mum helps out two (while we both work 4 days). I worked out that post tax, I only take home £10 or £20 a day after paying for nursery, which is nonsensical. But secretly I know I really want another one, so our current plan is to reassess things when E is 2, with the vague idea being that number 2 would arrive when E is about 3 and has some free nursery sessions, and then by the time I finish maternity leave she'll be going to school. But we'll have to see.

I agree re the Xander pics, he is gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous.

Keep writing ladies!

Poor you gya, at least baby is happy though. Watery discharge though? If it was you should probably be in the guinness book of records!

We had our first proper sick this morning. In sainsburys. Staff were lovely though and we just bought him some new trousers and finished the shop. He seems otherwise fine and poo is normal so not sure what brought it on.

Childcare is so expensive isn't it? I would love to put him in 1/2 a day a week to give me a chance to do something different but although we could strictly speaking afford it, I don't feel like I can justify it unless I get a job (which I don't want to do). DH has just moved to a better paid job though, but with slighlty longer hours so we will maybe consider it to give me a break.