Anyone due October 2004 - number 2

[eyelash]

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.

Anyone else noticed a massive increase in nocturnal trips to the loo? I was just about used to once or twice, but the last week it's been more like 4 times a night! I'm afraid to drink anything after 7pm anymore, epsecially with the trouble I've been having trying to lollop my body out of bed in the first place...

Bibi - my trips to the loo seem to have improved but was really bad before this week it was around 6 times a night!!

Piglit - I once had a mil like that but got out of the situation thank goodness, the son turned out to be the same, clearly you have a good one though

Feeling absolutely vile this am, extremely tired even though I slept 9 hours and a little light headed and shakey. I am struggling with my walk to the tube station (about 10 min) and then have close to an hour on the tube on a bad day! I am getting really fed up, wish so much I could give up work all together now.

Does anyone else feel like going to bed and staying there for two weeks.

I am on my third Tums of the morning and I'm sure it's mil stress related...

I would love to go to bed for two weeks! I always used to be full of beans and wide awake at 6 every morning but I'm quite sure that if I put my head on my desk and closed my eyes. zzzzzz.....

I hear you!! how long is the mil from hell staying for? will she want to spend much time with the baby when it's born?

Luckily she's going tomorrow morning (woo hoo!) My s-i-l says she pops down to visit when db arrives but then naffs off home without getting involved and helping out. Suits me just fine.

she sounds really charming

Turtle, sorry you're feeling rough. Do you eat and drink enough before the yomp to the tube in the morning? It's amazing how quickly these 'turns' come on, isn't it? I started a supermarket trip feeling great last week, and ended it (also last week) feeling vile.

Piglit, I'm glad a non-meddling precedent has already been set by mil around newborn visiting, and that you've got your house back again.

Laughed til I cried like madwoman yesterday - wrote really stupid, ridiculous and very rude in-joke style text message to my sister, then sent it to someone else! Fortunately a mate, I rang her straight away and we laughed like drains for about five minutes. Think I need to get myself in check.

Night loo-ing? annoying isn't it. I'm tending to go twice and wake one further time with cramp in foot.

Have been reading Eyelash et al thread on not pigging out in pg. Sorely tempted to lumber out for some choc, but going to have an apple instead and get down to some serious work before walking in the wind and rain to get dd from nursery - not driving, walking. Not chocolate - an apple. Do you see what I'm doing there.

Just thought of this to say to people who make unwanted comments about our size. 'On this occasion I'm going to rise above that comment. But say it again and you die'.

Toots you're an inspiration to us all!!

Mmmm, I'll put that bar of dairy milk back in my drawer then....

(Looks up, with chocolate all 'round mouth, in the style of a small child)

"mmm? what?"

I still ate my Mars Delight and I'm not at all of myself...

Okay, so I am a little bit , but more than anything!

Enjoy it girls, not many times in your life you can indulge in such lovely things and not feel . In fact, I order you all to go home via Thorntons/other sweety-type-shop/late-night garage and get yourselves a big bar of choc-choc to ease the pain of the footie tonight .... boooooooo!

And anyway, we need the extra energy to go to the loo 6 times a night!

DH 'Why the bag full of chocolate bars?'
Me 'Cos Bibiboo said told me to!'

Ok, I'm feeling guilty now so I might dust off my bike this weekend. Are we mooses allowed to cycle at this stage (25 weeks)? I know I will look ridiculous but is there any reason why we shouldn't do it?

Ok - just answered by own question. I found this:

You can continue to cycle throughout your pregnancy as long as you switch to a stationary bike after your first trimester. (Uneven terrain, as well as your own changing weight and balance, increase the possibility of a fall when cycling outdoors.)

It's back to the drawing board (or comfy chair) for me.

I'm in awe of those of you who are still contemplating exercise. My bump groans and complains from just walking to the tube!

Got on train today and nobody offered me a seat, even when I stuck my bump out - bloody commuters...

I am virtuously snacking on Frusili bar and apple. Bump has gone mad (violent kicks) though because I had a frappucino!

Miffy, as long as your DH doesn't know where I live, then that's a great excuse as far as I'm concerned! I never said buy a "bag full" of chocolate though, your own mind added that all by itself!

Piglit, how about walking to Thorntons/ sweety shop / late night garage to get choc? That way the effort to obtain it cancels out any calories that were in it anyway...honest. And on your way home, snap the bar in half and allow any remaining calories to leak out into the night air. Guilt free pleasure guaranteed

Florence - At least you have the walk to the tube! I drive to and from work and have become sooo lazy. I really need to do something. We are getting a puppy soon so that should get me off my lardy fat arse.

Bibiboo - ah yes, the leaky calories theory. The other one is that if you eat straight from a packet without putting the cake or whatever on a plate then the calories don't count. Oh, and if you eat standing up it's calorie free too.

If you and a friend eat the same thing at the same time, the calories cancel each other out, or if you eat it in the dark ... obviously doesn't count then either? bit like Gramlins - or was that eating after midnight?

Piglit, a puppy AND a baby? This appears to be an excess of maternal spirit surely???

Arrrgghhhh! The not sleeping is back!! Bean has been doing circuit training since 4am and I think that's me done for the night. I have to go to work in a bit and people over for the Eng-er-land game later on....

On the calorie debate though - anything I eat while most people are asleep doesn't count, right?

I confess, although I didn't buy the chocolate (and did have the apple) I didn't do the walk to the nursery - carred it.

Bean you poor thing. That's far too early to be up and about. You must be feeling like cack on a stick. I'm using Avent sleep essence (small blue bottle, baby dept, big Sainsbury's) on my pillow at night. Might help?????? {{{{{hugs{}}}}}} not sleeping takes me into a psychopath.

bean, as long as you eat it in the dark!
Also, a Diet cola will cancel out the calories contained in a Mars Bar (imagine that!), and don't forget broken biscuits!

Thanks Toots, I am basically psychopathic today, albeit a bit slow witted.

So far I have been lucky with the, ahem, digestive system side of things, but this is the thing that has really been a problem for me in this preg. I have tried a whole barrage of oils, remedies, smelly pillows etc etc but this one seems to be my thing.

To the first parent who says "ah, just you wait, this is just a taste of things to come" I say - "well clearly I don't have to wait as it's happening right fecking now!"

Does a computer constitute "heavy machinery" i.e. can I ask to leave work on health and safety grounds?

Oh, very heavy. In fact, I think a pencil counts as heavy machinery in the book I'm using.