Anyone due October 2004 - number 2

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Well here goes in date order:

Eyelash (age 36) - 30 September (but always very late). DS1 4 and ds2 21 months
Piglit (age ?) - 6th October First pregnancy
geoteach (age ?) - 7th October 2 children
Toots (age 37)- 8th October dd1 2
Beansprout (age ?) - 12 October first pregnancy
florenceuk (age ?) - due 15 October
Debra64 (age ?) - 20th October dd 7 ds1 6 ds2 4
Miffy2 - 20th October dd 5 ds2 2
Harman (age 34) - 22nd October dd1 6 ds2 3 dd2 2
neuman - due 26 October
Nueman (age ?) - 26 October

I don't have much information on scruff so hope she sees this to let us know how she is getting on. Also hope I haven't missed anybody off. If so let me know so I can rectify it. If any of you want to add further information such as age, children, etc also let me know.

Phew, thanks Piglit!!! Can we make a binding moosey pact? We are all at liberty to rubber neck at the childbirth thread but for now we shall confine ourselves to more sedate topics e.g. chocolate, leaks 'n' stuff, bump sizes, mood swings, speculation on the sex of our little ones.

Please? I am bent over with my head in the sand at the mo and I think my back is about to go, but I can't come out until it's safe to do so....!

There's a childbirth thread you can go on to get scare stories! Until then let's stick to nice things like baby movements and wandering fuzzily through Mothercare...

You will not hear a word from me on the 'arrivals issue' until I am requested in at least triplicate. Bibiboo, you are causing swooning and distress with your macabre interest honesty and disclosure. We are all ladies on this thread

Absolutely no offence to anyone who is on subsequent pregs - this is purely and only the fear of the first timers coming through. Come Sept (or sooner) we will be pleading with the wiser and more experienced ones amongst us, and it is in NO WAY that we don't want to hear your experience. In fact, my key question at the moment is "how do you deal with being this scared of something?" That could be a thread in itself I think.

Toots - are we ladies in the "Little Britain" sense of the word?!

Easy peasy Beansprout. Stick your head in the sand. Oh, and eat chocolate.

Ok laydeez, I'm logging off now to start my hols! Yippee.

I hope you all have a great couple of weeks and that everyone keeps well and blooms magnificently.

Well I took 21 GCSE kids on a field trip today and that seemed to get my little one moving around, at this stage I seem to be developing chronic indigestion, which from previous experience resulted in a boy- not very scientific I suppose. I took my other little cherubs to a mumsnet meetup last weekend, which got me thinking where exactly are you all?
My job has been advertised now which makes it all more real - I really do only have to keep going till the 16th of July, huraah!

Geogteach, glad to hear about the job advert. I thought about you loads when you had to go back after mat leave and tell them about this pg. So glad it's sorted.

Beansprout, yes I do mean Ladies in a 'Little Britain' way. And with regard to your fear, try not to worry too much. It's just one day (usually), a fairly intense one, but just one day. Have a great weekend sweetheart.

Geogteach, glad to hear about the job advert. I thought about you loads when you had to go back after mat leave and tell them about this pg. So glad it's sorted.

Beansprout, yes I do mean Ladies in a 'Little Britain' way. And with regard to your fear, try not to worry too much. It's just one day (usually), a fairly intense one, but just one day. Have a great weekend sweetheart.

Thanks Toots. I keep getting really scared and then I see a post like yours and I feel like I can do it after all! That means a lot to a Bean at the moment, so thank you

Geogteach! Was thinking about you only yesterday - glad everything's ok. Roll on 16th July!!

I'm in NW London btw. Everyone else?
Hope you are all having top banana weekends. It's not going to be warm enough for me to wear my maternity shorts, but that's probably a good thing.....

Surrey - anyone else?

Hey lady meece.
Hope you are all ok and had restful weekends. Had a lovely row with dp in Asdas yesterday (classy ) but ok now.

Have my 20w scan this afternoon... gulp!!!

Morning bean,
Oooh, excited for you for this pm. I've got mine on Friday. I hope baby Bean plays nicely and smiles for the camera! Are you going to find out if it's a girl or boy bean? I am sooooo desperate to know but dh si the opposite, so I can see an argument brewing in scan room!

We agreed way back that although I wouldn't mind knowing, he really does not, so won't be asking.

Dsd (16) may be coming with us....or she may not. I really don't mind and am just trying to do the right inclusion thing, but the sense that she is doing us a favour really bugs me!! Am just trying to focus on the excitement of seeing the Bean and not worry about anything else!

Hope all goes well with the scan Bean - fill us in as soon as you can.
I had a great weekend. Went to England for a couple of days and left dd here with her dad. Spent the whole time eating, shopping and sleeping - perfect. I did feel a bit guilty as I´d wanted to surprise my friend and hadn´t actually told my friend I´m pregnant so she´d stocked the fridge up with loads of my favourite goodies - brie, gin etc. Luckily there was also lots of cake and chocolate which I did my best to eat my way through.
On the boy/girl issue I had an amniocentisis this time so we know it´s a boy. Last time I felt horrendously sick for the whole first 3-4 months and it was a girl. This time not even a touch of nausea and it´s a boy. Don´t know if this means anything or not, but it sounds like quite a few of you felt really grotty to begin with.

Best of luck, yer Beanliness.

Any of you lot see last week's Frasier? Daphne said firmly 'I'm having this baby the way Nature intended; in a hospital, numb from the waist down.' That's my girl

morning ladies,

how is everyone doing? i'm feeling a bit low today - my SIL is expecting too (in July) and I saw her at the w'end and she is looking gorgeous; complete with tan from recent hols.

Blooming, me? More like spotty and chubby. Oh well... really looking forward to the scan on Friday too. Still undecided about whether to take DS (2) along or not...

Hi Sooz, I for once am feeling fine and dandy so far today. Don't feel fat, spotty, windy, tired, achey, leaky or anything else. I don't mean to sound like I'm gloating btw! But I did have an enormous amount of sleep on the weekend. 12 hours Fri night, 3 hours Sat aternoon (football), another 12 hours Sat night and about 10 last night - works wonders. All my spots gone, no bloated tummy and obviously not tired. Get to bed at 6pm tonight and tomorrow you will be a goddess!

Gosh, all that sleep sounds delicious bibiboo - this is clearly where I'm going wrong... DS has been waking us up v early so I don't seem to have much choice in the matter!

Been thinking about bean and your scan this afternoon - enjoy it and remember it's a time to focus entirely on your new bean; how often after this will you get a chance to get a peek before it arrives? Try, if poss, to not worry about DIL too much.

And hope they warm up the jelly for you!!

Sooz, Can't you ship ds off to Gradmas house for a night to catch up on sleep? Sounds a bit harsh the way I worded that then...sorry! Sleep is the fix-all solution to all my ills lately and it works. I never feel as bad, and even if I have all the pregnancy side-effects, I deal with them a lot better than when I'm frazzled
I know it's easy for me to say as baby in tum is my first, but sleep rules!

I like the way you're thinking, but Granny's not quite close enough to us to be able to call on a short notice.

do you have relly's close to hand that you'll be able to call on in times of need?

MIL is about 20 mins away and my Mum is about 35 mins, so not too bad. And plenty of offers of help form friends so far - although whether the offers will still be there when bubs is here is another thing! V lucky I've got a v helpful MIL, interfering, but helpful too!

Is DS too young to introduce him to sleepovers? hahaha

Hi, just got back from scan and everything is ok. The little one is apparently quite tall apparently (just like his dad).

S/he (we didn't ask) actually managed to pee during the scan. One minute we were looking at a full bladder and the next....gone. I was SO proud.

Has to be a boy surely? Only boys do that stuff in public?