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[Egypt]

Sorry to do this, but for some reason I can't get into our old thread! Have tried for days, internet explorer bans me and shuts me down!!! Can you all convert to this one please?!! pretty please?

Hello - feeling very guilty because although I've been lurking I've just not posted on here. Hope everyone is well -I spotted Libb on here briefly a couple of weeks ago. Egypt I hope you're all settling down.
Dd2 is starting to be invited to parties, which she loves. I was working on Sunday, so DH had to take both dds to a party in a fun factory sort of place. It soudns like he was run off his feet! Dd2 is much more of a daredevil than dd1 ever was.
We've got two new sofas - we went out on Saturday night and as we were leaving dd1 was solemnly telling the babysitter that "these are our new sofas and you can't bounce or eat or draw on them", whilst dd2 stood next to her with a biro in her hand, serious face on, shaking her head .

nice one re: the mother's day presents bozza! when is mother's day this year, i am slightly out of touch.....not on my calendar!

nice to see you helsy.
how's your friend doing pepper?

dd in preschool at the moment. am increasing her days to 3 mornings after half term, which is in mid march. she is also going to go on the bus!! my baby! think i might follow her in the car the first time and just make sure she is ok. its only round the corner, literally, but will give me an easier time of it with the new baby. and dh and i wont have to negotiate who has the car every morning, because we forgot to talk about it the night before!

baby is less than 4 weeks away, had a scan yesterday and all is well, not that this thread is about 2007 babies, but i know you dont might me flapping! they scan you everytime you see an obst here. they could tell me the weight of the baby now and that it is on track to be 7lb 12 on due date - weird , thats what dd was born at. although she was 11 days over, so seems this baby is bigger.. eek

having weekly checkups/scans now. all very thorough here. nice

Mothers Day - 18th March. Not too convinced about a Liverpool shirt with Fowler on the back myself. I wouldn't worry about the baby being bigger - it could grow faster or slower and even possibly come on time - which would be nice for you, I would have thought. DD was supposed to be over 10lb and came in at 8 lb 12 which was rather a nice relief and seemed quite small at the time - we do big babies in our family. What arrangements have you got for the birth?

Helsy your DDs sound lovely. My two have their lovely moments but also go in for a fair amount of fighting. I have a 2 door car and was parked on the roadside outside the dentist. So DS got in at DD's (passenger) side and climbed across. DD thumped in for getting in at her side first even though when I am parked in the garage she gets in at DS's side first.

oh no bozza is that what I have to look forward to? more sibling fights.

Egypt, cant believe that your almost due. DS was 8lbs 11 born and it was easier birth than DD who weighed 7lbs 7 so try not to worry too much, youll be fine.

DD is dressing up as a welsh lady tomorrow for St davids day, itll be the 1st time that shes got to do it, and then in nursery they are being sponsered to sing 10 welsh songs. I cant wait to put the outfit on her.

Bet she looks gorgeous kbaby. Yes lots of sibling fights. DD is the violent one, but DS is quite sneaky at winding her up. Bathtimes is a bad one, they argue about who goes to the toilet first, who gets into/out of the bath first, where they stand to clean their teeth and so on.

ooo how i'm looking forward to all of that!

you asked what arrangements we have made for when i give birth. well, i'd love to confidently tell you. i am more worried about that than anything. our neighbours, whom dd adores will have her BUT she is going on hols for 2 weeks beginning 4 days before edd. great. my other neighbour whom i don't know very well, and neither does dd is the only other option. she has a dd the same age as dd and says 'oh just bring her round', but i have not seriously spoken to her about what to do, if it happens in the night etc. she is also pregnant and has 2 children herself. her dh is away a lot and it will prob mean having to drag dd out of bed in the middle of the night and taking her to her place as she'll be there with her kids alone. nightmare. WHAT am i going to do?! i'll have to go in on my own perhaps. i'd rather that than dd be upset.

help?!

Hmm egypt it does sound tricky. Although I think this is a very common worry among second time mothers. My arrangements went pearshaped but it all worked out fine.

It's not all bad having too. They definitely entertain each other. DD had a friend round the other day and the friend hit DS. DD marched up to her "don't you hit my DB".

Gosh, that is difficult, Egypt. I have no ideas, sorry. Have you considered a home birth at all? During the day, DD could still go next door. During the night, she'd be fast asleep.

happy birthday!!

but during the night i'd have to wake her to take her down the road if option 2 neighbour's husband is away as she has 2 kids. i need to speak to her but her mil has just died and she has gone back to oz for a bit. eeek sweat

No you could just leave DD asleep rather than wake her if you stayed at home. Personally I think a homebirth is fantastic but probably not for you if you haven't considered it until now.

Happy Birthday Ponka, you young thing! Celebrating hard?

I spotted Judd on the world book day thread so she is still around.

thing is home births arent the done thing here. very hard to arrange, and tbh i wouldnt know where to start. the medical centre where i will give birth is literally round the corner, one minute away. 10 if i walked!!

I have chatted to option 1 neighbour this morning and she is fine with coming over in the middle of the night. thats good, only thing is if her hubby is away then she'll be leaving her 6 year old asleep alone - but she is just over the road. not that its a real road. a drive. we'll have to take it as it comes. if she has gone on hols before the baby arrives i'll have to re-chat with neighbour option2.

off to go jogging now

it'll be fine.....must stop worrying....

sorry, i see you were talking about leaving her asleep IF i had a home birth. yes of course. but can't i'm afraid. would be a good thing, but i fear too late to even try to arrange now. and if the labour went into dd's waking hours i'd offload her onto a neighbour anyway, so i guess it doesnt make too much difference!

sorry i'm such a waffler and a worrier

Egypt - you are not. I was concerned about all these issues when I had DD. I think it is really natural and common when you are having your second, and you have the added factor of being at the other side of the world. I would chat to your other neighbour too just to cover your options. It all went pear-shaped when DD was born and despite agonising over it for weeks before at the time I was really calm and confident. It was all my fault it went pear shaped - I woke DH too late, I got him to ring PIL too late, I rang midwife too late... but you will be much more sensible.

DD has got a new friend at her swimming lesson so DH took an interest:
DH - and where does X live?
DD - at her house (with an implied isn't it obvious)
DH - and where is her house?
DD - at home
DH - where is home?
DD - I don't know

so what happened Bozza? how did it all go pear-shaped. my first labour was days so this time i am determined not to go in until absolutely necessary - i'll no doubt leave it too late too!

Hello all, I;m back after a truly awful Feb, glad everyone is well and Egypt - these things have a way of working out!
My friends husbands funeral was on Valentines Day, she wanted to spend one last Valentine with him, and it was just the worst day imaginable. Her three kids were all in church and the older 2 had some idea what was going on which was heartbreaking. She's still in shock really, just going through the motions of paperwork mainly.
One plea - will everyone please write a will. They didn't haveone and have a very simple family set up, but some of the money which could be used to payoff the mortgage, now had to be held in trust for the kids so she gets effectively a quarter of it. There are ways tound this apparently - clearly it's in the kids interest to be able to stay in the house, but t's all added pressure and complication.

Anyway, since then I've had the worst cold imaginable and am still on antibiotics for my ears and chest so that's been tippy top.

DS1 is well, albeit possessed by some evil demon at the mo, bt I guess that's standard. We remain resolutely in nappies with a diet to make most TV pundits make an example of us!
Shall now catch up with the thread properly and hopefully post a less "me me me" comment next time!
PR

Oh pr that funeral sounds really harrowing. I have to confess we don't have wills, although I (probably falsely from what you say) console myself with the fact that we are married. Also we have life insurance on the mortgage. But I know I am bad. One of my worst things though is the children in the event of us both not being here, and I just find that so hard to think about. Sorry for going off at a tangent there - I hope you start to feel better soon, it sounds pretty awful.

Egypt basically I had a 9 3/4 hour labour with DS and a good two hours of that was second stage (trying to get him out) so I was expecting it to be a bit quicker with DD but trying not to get my hopes up. I woke up with mild contractions at about 3.15 am but DH was sleeping in the spare room because I kept disturbing him. So I hung around for a bit, then decided to go tidy the kitchen and managed to wake DH up about 5.30 by dropping DS's finger paints all over the place. Anyway didn't ring PIL or midwife until 6.45 (PIL 1 hour drive away) and DD was born at 7.46. So second midwife hadn't arrived and nor had PIL. DS was downstairs watching a Tweenies video (so how's that for using the TV as a babysitter? ), I was stood up with the midwife supporting me so DH had to catch DD by throwing himself across the bed. But I was calm throughout. Not sure about DH. I could also have rung one of my friends in the village or another friend who was at her parents about 10 mins away but decided it wasn't necessary.

another week wtih no messages!
how is everybody? i'm still hanging in here with 2 weeks to go - yesterday. no sign of anything happening yet. hmph. dd wants a sister. people keeps asking her - wish they wouldnt - whether she wants a brother or sister and she keeps replying 'its a girl'. hopefully she wont notice!

hot hot hot here. been in pool today. very nice, but you know when its just too hot and you want it to be cold...... not that i want to make you lot jealous. you have all that lovely mild spring weather to come.

sorry, this isnt a very interesting post, not much to tell you but just dropping by!

Hello All
I was thinking of you today Egypt, I couldn't remember how long you had to go - 2 weeks, that's so exciting! I always find other people's iminent babies so exciting cos I guess I don't have to give birth. My friend came round this morning with her 2 week old DD, she was adorable and soooo tiny. I kept thinking I'm sure neither of mine were ever this small, and as she only 6lb 11oz - I was right! Nothing under 8lb 2oz here in the pepperrabbit household!
How big was your DD Egypt? Do you do whoppers or tiddlers?? (She says thereby alienating everyone...)
We've been to a party this afternoon and hosted coffee this morning so DS1 has had cake, cake, oh and more cake today. He's hurtling around like the duracell bunny closely followed by DS2 at "rapid crawl" setting who must have hoovered up cake, cake and more cake from the carpet. Sigh
Looking forward to bathtime so much I'm still on mumsnet.
PR drags herself off to the bathroom in the manner of Kevin the Teenager.

sounds like fun though pr!
well, i guess i have mediums, dd was 7lb 12 and they reckon this one is set to be that at due date. but scan on monday showed it at 6oz which is what it was 2 weeks' ago. obs said it was fine. i'm not going to worry. 3 days to go until our neighbours go on hols so i think there's def no chance of them looking after dd whilst i'm in. and neighbour option no. 2 i'm NOT happy about. she yells at hers and other's kids the whole time, never seen her get involved with them and be nice at all. dont want dd there, she'll get yelled at and told she's a 'naughty girl' and of course be totally distraught cos mummy and daddy have left her, albeit at a friend's house. eeek

ooh, can you see the tumbleweed on this thread??? We're all just waiting with bated breath for Egypt to sprog!

ha ha, you'll be waiting a while! my neighbour has gone on hols, so i'm wanting to hang in there for 2 more weeks!! bet it'll happen tonight. no, the neighbour option 2 is lovely and dd has met her and is very relaxed with her so i'm q happy either way really.
still 1 week today to go.
i never joined the due in march thread on here, but keep an eye on it from time to time. they are all popping. there's just so many girls on there!
dh gone out to look at a motorbike. he bought one just a few days before dd was born and hey - the pattern is repeating itself. how odd. obv he wouldnt be if we hadnt left his old one at home and moved away, but why do men still have the urge when all i can think about is baby.? maybe its their nesting [hmmm] instinct. i on the other hand need to buy a rug for the marble floor in the lounge and cushions. they're surely more useful?! to a baby.....

btw, i said i wasnt happy about neighbour option 2 in my last but one msg, well just to confuse you all she is my option 3 now, which is why option 2 i am happy about......

and met 3 other lovely mums from mumsnet yesterday - who live in singapore.

its such a small world

Ah yes egypt I spied on you and realised that you had got involved in a meet up - well good for you. Glad you have got another option for DD's care. I think your DH's behaviour re the motorbike is actually the opposite of nesting - trying to prove he still has some freedom and can do young and exciting things like ride a motorbike!

pr we were whoppers according to your terminology. When DD was born DH and I were both commenting on how small she was - midwife gave us a bit of a look and weighed her and she was 8 lb 12. But that was coming after 9 lb 10 DS. Still don't see why they were big babies that I had to carry around and give birth to and neither of them are big now. DS eats everything in sight and weighs 3 st 3, which at 6 is not that heavy. So lucky him, obviously got DH's metabolism. And DD seems fairly petite (in 18-24 clothes) still and weighs 2 st 2. I had a bit of a shock though because I weighed 10 st 10 so 5x as much as DD, and when DS weighed 2 st 2 (was about a year younger than DD) I weighed 8 st 8 so I realised I have put on a quarter of my body weight. I have now lost 2 pounds...

Took DD to her first dancing class today, she was really excited but it didn't got that well, she kept coming back to me instead of joining in.

I was probably 19 the last time I weighed 8st 8lb Bozza! That was half my lifetime ago and I weigh 10st 10lb now... I really really want to get back to pre DS2 weight before his 1st birthday on 11th April but have 4lbs to go and a lot less willpower than needed!
We took DS1 (&2!) to see the fire engine and police cars at a family day at the local school yesterday, we were quite early as had lots of other things to do so were one of the only people there at first. All the firemen/police officers/face painters/balloon man kind of swarmd towards DS1 delighted to have a small boy customer and he practically freaked! Was terrified of fire engine, wouldn't go on the bouncy castle and burst his first balloon animal.
I love days like that, not.