October 2004 - Moose massive, part 3

[beansprout]

Does anyone want to come and play here? There's loads of space!

Thanks for kind words Bean, but not reassured that it gets worse!

I am hoping that by taking my hormonal rage out on things like the kettle I'm saving the baby from it i.e. the longer I keep the rage in, the more of it the baby will pick up on, so the sonner I get rid, the better it is for both of us ... does that make sense? Poor kettle though. I am thinking of nipping into town to replace it so I'm not faced with evidence of hysteria every morning.
I am finding it a bit funny now actually, can't begin to imagine how awful and bedraggled I must have looked hurling a kettle at the floor whilst in my soaking wet nightie and flip flops and unwashed hair - a true Waynetta Slob moment.

Also, Bean you are totally bonkers in the nut for contemplating moving house too - but am v of you and new house too. It will be nightmarishly hard to organise, but if you really want the house, you'll only regret not going for it, and moving with a baby I imagine will be harder than moving with a belly.
Get all the rubbish things over iwth now so you can enjoy lil Bean in your new home.

Sounds like we all had tearul weekends. One of my books says we should be feeling more emotionally stable now.... ya right I feel the opposite.

Had a plumber come and fix new shower door and leaky tap on the weekend and they are now both worse then before. This has wound me up to no extent. He is coming back today and God help him when he arrives.

Bean you are certifiably crazy! ! You have what? .. 10 or 11 weeks to go? good luck if you go for it.

Bibi go and get yourself a new kettle and put the experience behind you - you are right though, better not bottle it up and let it out is my motto

am starving off to find something yummy to eat....

on a scale of 1 - 10 your are 9 1/2 and that means 10 being completely nuts!!!

Excellent!! I look very cute when I mad of course!!
We need to move anyway, as there is simply not enough space for Bean, so it's a sooner or later thing anyway. It may all come to nothing, in which case, we will wait but life has been a lot worse... I don't mind having nice "problems" and my maternal instinct must be kicking in as the thought of a room for Bean would make it worthwhile... I may say "sod this for a lark" by the end of the week though!!

Has anyone received the Formes catalogue? The model is about 16, looks anorexic and who on earth is gonna wear 4 inch stilletos when they are heavily pregnant. This doesn't make me want to rush out buy their clothes

Sorry for my ranting, I will calm down one of these days

What a big relief to read all of this. I am sooo hormonal at the moment and cry at the slightest thing. The anger stuff hasn't surfaced yet but I have turned into a blubbing, sobbing idiot and begun to wish that October takes ages to arrive in case I can't cope. Our puppy is very very cute but seriously hard work and when she started to chew some furniture the other day I just sat down on the kitchen floor and bawled my eyes out. Dh walked in just as I got started - poor thing got the fright of his life!

Perhaps we'll all look back on all of this and think it wasn't so bad? Err, no. Forget that. And we've got 10 weeks or so to go.....

Aww Piglit puppies chew, they can't help it. Your poor DH must of thought the worst when he saw you on the floor, I wonder why we all seem to be so emotional and hormonal lately? Perhaps it's the moon and tides or something like that for us pg Mooses! I hope you don't get the anger problem as I have got, I seem to be acting like a maniac with everyone! I am normally not like that at all. Honest.

I'm glad I''m not the only hormonal mess then - I feel better now, knowing that others have been in a bit of a state this weekend too. By 6.15am today I was in tears, because the DDs were fighting and DH, who'd done most of the getting up with them in the night, was obviously knackered and was cross with them. Both DDs looked concerned and rushed to cuddle me, then the 2 year old went and found me a tissue. This naturally made me cry even more, but the cuddles were lovely. I have been a bit of a liability in work today, but it's not too busy so it hasn't mattered (I hope!)

I have been getting awful pains on my back and hips - think the sciatica's back again. Perhaps I'd better go back to the osteopath.

Beansprout, how soon would you be able to move if it goes through? I moved at 7 months pg with DD1 and it was very tiring, but at least you could rest when needed. Once the baby bean is here, you'll want minimum external disruption! I can totally see why you want to go for more space etc, btw.

Right ladies, off home to put on pjs, drink tea and lie on sofa all night ... and probably have several hormonal rants about how uncomfortable pjs are now my belly is so huge, how much my back hurts no matter which way I lie and how ugly/fat/depressed I feel.
After that I shall go to bed, toss and turn for several hours, get up to wee many, many times, lose temper with long-suffering dh for having the audacity to breathe/move in the bed while I'm trying to sleep, get with self for being so nasty to him, cry because I then feel sorry for self. Finally fall asleep amid snot and tears and wake up just as grumpy tomorrow.
If I don't post tomorrow, presume I am
a) dead and dh has disposed of body under patio
b) busy disposing of dh's body under patio

LOL at Bibiboo! I think you summed it all up brilliantly

None of that actually happened last night, although dh did go to spare room due to garlic chicken breath - my fault because I made it for his tea. I had non-smelly veg stew, also made by my own fair hands. I felt surprisingly much better when I got home, made 2 meals without a hitch and didn't cry at anything. Successful night all round! Anyone else feeling chipper today?

Apeaking of being blubbery and hormonal, here is what happened me yesterday.
I just felt really sad and guilty yesterday evening when I picked up my DD from her creche/montessori.

She has been there for nearly 5 years now and absolutely loves it. For lots of reasons we decided to keep her back till she was 5 before sending her to school, and she has really benefitted from it.

Over the last few weeks however, her friends have been leaving, to go on hols before starting school, or going 'upstairs' to the Junior school attached to the Montessori. So yesterday DD was left with no-one of her age and no close friends. One of her teachers found her staring out of the window, crying to herself as she was lonely. It breaks my heart to even type this as she is normally so bubbly and happy. Anyway her teacher brought her close friend downstairs for a play and she was fine.

I finish up work in 4 weeks' time and between then I will have her out on Fridays and my Mum will take her for another day each week, so it won't be too bad for her, but I would hate her final weeks in such a loving caring place to be full of sadness for her.
Must stop sniffing now as people are starting to stare!

On the bump side of things, baby is head down at present, and baby is mostly active in the evenings and during the night. Hope this changes after birth! I get a few squiggles and squirms during the day, mainly around my hip area, but baby practically jumps around in the evening. Must know I am more relaxed at home than in work!

Miffy that DID make me cry. I am still feeling very hormonal/sad/a bit depressed, I thought I would snap out of it but I am really frustrated with work and stupid people saying "how much longer" then I tell them and they say "OH NO" like I am going to die or something - I know I am big but I have definitely seen bigger. It makes feel so guilty for eating too much. Why don't people understand.

Bibi pleased to see you didn't kill your DH or vice versa.

Didn't sleep again last night and feel it's getting the better of me.

Hello all

I haven't posted in ages and haven't read all the posts but glad to see everybody is still around.

Miffy2 - ds1 is the same at the moment but I thought it was because he was starting school and with a new db on the way. He asked me last week 'why did he have to grow up and leave nursery'. I cried my eyes out after I had dropped him off

On a positive - my last full day at work today and tomorrow is just clearing desk and chat with boss - yipee. I have 6 weeks leave to take first so want to make the most of it.

Sorry I can't make the meet-up but as I live in the North West it would be foolish of me to travel so late on in the pregnancy but hope you all enjoy.

Ladies, please can I ask you not to post such sad stories about little children while many of us are feeling out of control hormonal lately sniff sniff

When is everyone leaving work? I was planning on waiting til 34 weeks? Is that to late?

Turtle - am here at work 'til 10th Sept, by which time will be 37w + 2 days...and yes, I suspect it's far too late! Most moose here work until 36-38 weeks, depending on how things are going. I think a lot depends on the support you get at work, and I am lucky on that front.

Sorry to hear that the hormones are being so mean to everyone. I heard the song played at baby neice's funeral earlier this year, on the radio on the way in and nearly lost it.... better now.

Bean - 37 weeks!! That's really optimistic. Good for you, you will have more time with little Bean that way.

I am working until 38 weeks - thought that was okay - is it not? I didn't think first babies came on time anyway, let alone early .. oh dear - will I be okay?!

BBB, the majority of first babies come late. Some come on time. Some, like mine, come early. You play the odds as you see fit! (personally realised bluff might well and truly be called with dd2, as I relied on the assumption she'd be early and I could have five months off with her - fortunately the little sweeties knows Mummny Knows Best

Bibi - you will be fine, but just gagging for it to end (by all accounts). I started a thread on this a few weeks ago when I was trying to decide, which helped me a lot this is it

bbb, was 42 weeks with both my girls, worked until 38 weeks both times too. bit more knackered 2nd time but wouldn't change a thing.

I think I posted on that thread Bean - in my less panicky days.
I'm going through the "In 12 weeks' time I'll be a parent" revelation at the moment. Everything is ... "In 12 weeks' time ..." and it really sounds close! I can't wait for it to be here now, I've had enough experience of pregnancy to last me for a while thank you very much, and wish I could hibernate until gestation was over and wake up with a lovely 1 hour old baby by my side, all clean and gorgeous smelling. Of course I would have been visited by the wash me/ dres me/ do my hair and makeup and lyposyction fairy as well, so would be looking gorge and not at all in any discomfort. If I think this hard enough it might turn out that way, right?

I worked with ds1 until 38 weeks and felt fine and then with ds2 until 36 weeks. Now just knackered due to two young boys and age.