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.

Fear not ladies, our dbs will be ok. It's part of a normal emotional range, we will not damage them. I like Piglit's counterbalance of being soothing to db, which in turn, soothes me too.

Re the sleep - arghhh!! Can't sleep on back or front now and on my side I wake up with dead arm/mashed up shoulder etc. I am using a cushion under my leg and another under my bump but am WELL fed up with this already!!

Do you all grunt and groan when you turn over in bed? I feel like I'm trying to move a sack of potatoes every time I want to turn over.

Piglit lol to speaking with DB at 5.00 am - does your DH think you're a little nuts!! I only say that because mine does. I hope the 5.00 am calls stop soon, you definitely don't want that to be a routine.

I can't help but grunt and groan when I try and get out of bed throwing my legs out first and night dress ends up around my neck! think I need those pj's that Bean has - may be a little more dignified!!

I get a sore hip on the side I am sleeping on cause the back and front are out of the quesion and have been for some time

Dh definitely thinks I'm nuts but tbh, he always did

Oh exactly the same!! I grunt and groan about most things, but turning over in bed (and moving all associated cushions), along with a back that is going from bad to worse.... what's a girl to do?

I've seem more spritely 90 year olds - where's the goddess in that?!

BTW, by the time dp has stopped laughing at my pjs, I really don't feel that they give me much dignity....

LOL at sack of potatoes Piglit - I do that too! I can't get up from the flat-on-back position in bed at all now, my abdominal muscles seem to have give up completely, I have to roll onto my side and ease myself up that way... and goodness help me if I sit on the floor - I make sure I only do that when DH is in the house to get me up, otherwise I'd be stuck that way until he came home!
Turtle, what you had sounds very familiar - my ususal "breakdown" is about how my body will never be the same again, it's all stretched and useless like and old cardie and Dh won't want any other children with me because I'll never look the same as I did pre-pregnancy ever again! etc etc.

I get like that at least once a fortnight, it lasts an hour or two and I take it all far too seriously I'm ashamed to say but I can't help it. Then I get angry with myself for being so pathetic, as well as a bit envious of all my thin, non-pregnant freinds and how they must pity me, swing back to sadness for a while and then finally return to normal when dh does something sweet like brings me a cuppa and some biscuits and talks the baby through what it's eating as I munch away. No wonder I'm getting fat, all those bloody biscuits

I completely relate to your emotional thing Turtle... hope you and DP eventually had a good cuddle over it such that DB got lots of lovely warm vibes.

Trying to take much from buddha flo's influence, as I've been feeling hooge lately, oh and I've broken out in a few spots too, and just to boost that feelgood factor DS has been waking us up sooo early - 5.45am this morning, which was nice.

Yesterday as I heaved (and yes, grunted!) myself off the sofa to get a cushion, I said to DH 'good grief I've still got another 3.5 months of this' - all he could do was laugh!

Oh and I forgot that my DS has some similar pjs too (blue, cotton, shorts!) which we were both wearing on Sunday morning (mmm, matching mother/son combo not intended at all!) and naturally he looked a LOT cuter in his! Great, I'm insecure enough to feel jealous of my 2 yr old son ! That, and watching him sleep.

Actually, I love watching him sleep .

Hello all

I have one of those long narrow pillow things which I picked up from Costco - they are about the lenght of two pillows and fantastic for getting comfortable.

As re emotions, size etc rather than repeat it see the other thread I started yesterday after seeing myself on video. Just come back from walk and feel better already . Just need to keep it up now. Beansprout/Piglet/Turtle35 thanks for your stories as they really cheered me up particularly as we are all at about the same stage.

Booked the birthing pool last week and so hope I get the opportunity to use it - lets see if this one comes out on time but I will not hold my breath as ds1 and 2 11 and 14 days overdue.

Hope everybody else is ok

hello, I've been lurking here a while but have had the 20 week scan now and feel ready to join in! I am expecting my 3rd baby on 31/10 and have two beautiful daughters who are 4 and 2.
I am finding the heat a bit hard to cope with and the tiredness the worst of all. I am either in work or looking after one or both DDs and so can't nap when I need to. DH is great and lets me lie in or rest at weekends. He also does most of the cooking and cleaning at the moment, so I know I am lucky!
Looking forward to chatting with you all

Welcome on board Cerys!

Hi Cerys! Welcome!

How is everyone else today?

Still feeling sick, MW recommended peppermint tea - urgh, tastes like old chewing gum!

It most certainly does Bibiboo! I used to drink lots of it, but cannot face it now preg. Is there anything else that works for you? Very cold lemonade is good for me. Feeling sick again today.... bleugh....

Why all the sickness my lovely fellow mooses? Tiredness? Are bumps squishing things? I have terriblke heartburn and aches and pains and I'm sure it's because bump is taking up more and more room. BTW, our dbs are almost a foot long (head to leedle toes) at 25 weeks - yikes.....

I'm bound to feel sick as a dog when mil from hell turns up this evening. I might feign exhaustion and go to bed at 8.30.

hi Cerys, hi all.

Piglit, being a relative newcomer to mn, am intrigued about your mil from hell?

Piglit,

If you can't feign exhaustion when pg, then when can you? Milk it! Let dh take the strain of mil tonight and work yourself up gradually ... after all he should be used to it. Is she that bad?

Oh yes, she is that bad. If you look up poisonous or malicious in the dictionary, you'll find a picure of her . I have also married her favourite ds which makes things worse. She badmouths her (wonderful) children to each other (and to other people) and has also started to badmouth her wonderful grandchildren. Luckily her children have cottoned on to it (after almost 40 years) and they are much much closer than they used to be. Fil is a complete doormat which doesn't help. Basically she is just a bitter and twisted old bag who seems to enjoy being nasty to people and is never ever happy. I've never understood why. She has a very nice life, 3 great children and 5 lovely grandchildren (and one on the way). Bizarre.....

Good grief, she sounds truly dreadful. Is she nasty to you as well, or just her children/grandchildren?

Definitely make your excuses and head to bed early tonight piglit, with a nice cup of hot chocolate.

Piglit, here's an idea - spend this afternoon drawing green spots all over yourself and when she arrives, announce you've got the lurgy and she has to leave immediately before she catches it too - as you're shoving her out the door add a sweet "Lovely to see you, pity you couldn't stay longer...maybe next time"

Good suggestions from Bibiboo and Sooz! She's awful to all of us (her children-in-law included). No one used to say anything to her when she went off on one but I'm afraid I say things like "Well, I think X is lovely and I really don't like to hear unkind things about people, if you don't mind." Sometimes she can be ok to your face but then she b*tches about us all behind our backs. Oh well, at least we all know what she's like and what to expect.

Piglit, have you got a green pen? Our stationery cupboard is full of them if you want me to post you one..?

Why does she come visiting if she has so much to say about everyone (and it's not all nice)?

My MIL can be a pain in the ar$e but at least she's well meaning and quite kind really. Counting mysself very luck after hearing about yours!

as you say piglit, at least you all know she is like this and that you can collectively ignore her (and have a good moan about her when she's gone).

good for you though for standing up to her. people like that should not bring others down with them.

is she staying long?

Think you will owe yourself much rewarding of chocolate treats!

Piglit. bed with OK magazine at 8.30, and some nice music to drown out the negativity.

Hi Cerys, welcome, welcome.

I had big falling out with cow from the music group I lead yesterday. I didn't ever particularly want to lead it, but when the last woman stopped, no-one else came forward. Was telling her and another woman that I was going to stop doing it as dd is so clingy and doesn't like me sharing me round, after she's had two days without me at nursery. Also, it is really hard work on the back with sitting and standing, before dd even starts pulling me about. Anyway, suddenly found I was letting this woman know she's said several undermining things to me, and that she will need to be more supportive to whoever takes it over, as it isn't a piece of cake, and we all need support!!!! She said that she was being funny. I said that things that make people feel undermined are never funny in my book (of funniness) Got a bit tearful, but could easily have all come out exactly the same if not pg. She is evil bag - she said she'd never meant to be unkind and then about two minutes later was saying how big I was for 24 weeks. Grrr. Actually am quite glad I didn't say 'yes, but in a years time I'll be a little strippling again and you'll still be an unstylish fat frump', as that probably woudn't have helped. I'm upping the ante though - had two fallings out in last pg, both with people in shops, this one was much more personal! Bring it on .

Other than that, am feeling fairly human, if tired, and having the whale of a social life (out four times this week!!!! I'll be bankrupt). Think I'm making hay while the sun, oh so briefly, shines.

Toots - a social life?? And a dd? Good grief - are you superwoman or something?? There's just me and dh and that's enough for me right now

Good for you having words with this woman. I hate it when peope say "I don't mean to be unkind but...." or "Don't take this the wrong way but..." Grrrr.....