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Thread number 3 ladies... good grief we can chat!!!

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Hey ladies ? going to attempt to catch up (though really busy at work ) my MS is a nightmare today, two near sick ups on the train followed by a really close one as a rubbish collection van passed me on my way to work Guess it?s just Beanie?s way of telling Mummy he?s fine and well Almond croissant helped enormously! My remaining trouser suit that fitted is now unbuttoned this is all me not baby!

Chooster ? sorry about your VVV and wild garden ? have to say, at least you have a sense of humour about it hon I can totally understand what you said about working Mums sometimes feeling like they are missing out, that is my biggest fear. I don?t want the first time my baby sees zoo animals, or makes things, or worse, says or does things to be with someone else PMSL at you with the strawberries! It is hot as hell though, especially at night, I hardly slept a wink on Sunday and when I did, I dreamt DH was in a Thai jail being raped! it was horrible!!!

Firsty ? that scrapbook idea is lovely, I have a dairy but I only mention baby related things not what?s going on in the world, I guess I should Hope those 3 weeks left at work go quickly are you having a birth plan?

Hey Bodkin sorry about your VVVs!! How exciting about the baby clothes I can?t wait to start organising that kind of stuff!

Iwillbe ? I hope you are ok, there?s a fine line between wanting to feel sick and not being able to function isn?t there? I am the latter today, total waste of nauseous space! Have a lovely time in Dublin, DH and I have had some great times there. Happy 21st too ? wow, so young!! Spotting only lasted about 12 hours thanks, there was hardly any so I am feeling more positive about things again video diary sounds lovely we must get a video!! I don?t like the idea of a 4d scan, don?t know why!

Fettle ? hope DH and DD are feeling better. I think I read the other day that what you leak is colostrum. Is it in limited supply then? I love the idea of having a little girl with long hair to play with Re those books, some of the questions like, Mummy found out she was having me on?, Mummy craved?, Daddy thought I would be a boy/girl? Are things I thought I should be noting down now or I will forget. Love mangoes by the way! Lovely news about your friend Sending you hugs, I know the MC thing creeps up on you when you least expect it x

Greedy ? those are the baby books I mean! Mine has my first curls in it! Glad all was ok (bar the slightly raised BP) at your 24 week check. I have my booking in appointment tomorrow, quite excited that?s lovely about your friend I need to know more about this colostrum stuff please! You can?t leave us when you pop!!!

Which are the best baby books do we think then?

Honeyapple - PMSL at your DD, how sweet! Tot bots? Bamboozles? Fluffles? will I ever know all this stuff? Hope you had a lovely birthday I?ve seen those digital frames, they look fun.

Hey Babymad hope you get good news at the MW appointment.

Ah, you sound like a lovely stepmum firsty - really kind but fair. Its so nice to hear of positive step family situations. I've already got a present for DS from the baby and I'll take DS out shopping soon so he can choose a present for the baby too. But like Greedy says I think its really for younger kids who are probably a bit more shallow and dont really understand it all yet.

Yeah, I'd love to stay on our thread once the LO's are here - its much more personal than the antenatal ones (and I'm guessing the post-natal ones) where there are so many people.

Wow, yeah PinkB is so close now... Hope she pops on here soon to let us know how everything goes.

Hi to everyone else!! Sorry for the mucky house Greedy, just think though it will all be done and looking great by the time DD2 is here

hey Mrsmc - welcome to the worls of mad and mierd dreams - that sounds like a particularly horrible one .

Good luck with booking in appt tomorrow!!

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Hi all - sounds like everyone is in fine form. Greedy - my house is soon to be a complete tip with the kitchen being turned upside down next week. I'll take your advice and move the fruit bowl

MrsMc - glad to hear the pesky spotting has stopped and your symptoms are sounding nice and strong. Sounds like your MS is giving you a bit of jip. And as for that dream !!!! Your poor DH - have you told hime yet, or do you think it might freak him out too much!

Firsty - I haven't thought about doing a present for DD from the baby at all, and she really is the age I suppose I ought to be doing such a thing.... hmmm, I don't know, think I'll probably give it a miss though. I think it's a personal choice, not soemthing to be made to feel guilty about.

Hi Babymad - glad to hear all is well and that you are so super organised. I'm gettting there, slowly....

Hi Kitkat - what job do you do that could possibly keep you away from posting on here for so long

Fettle - sorry to hear you've been feelign a bit low over your m/c - as Firsty says these things can get to you when you least expect it.

Honeyapple - hope you had a great birthday!

Had the midwife around this afternoon to discuss having a homebirth. It felt very strange looking at the area of the living room that I am planning to give birth in and trying to picture it! It all looks so normal at the moment - I can't imagine it being the scene of such pain and mess! Quite exciting too though, to think of it all being so soon.

I'll definitely keep posting here once baby bodders has arrived - for a start I'll need to get all the goss from you lot still waiting to drop!

Hi...

Isnt PinkB having a C-section? Hope she is ok.

Re presents for siblings- definitely only for little ones IMO. I got my DS a James train for his train set when DD was born- he was 3... nearly 4. But now DD will be nearly 5, and DS nearly 9! So no pressies this time... probably some granny will give them something though I imagine! My sister gives all her kids pressies on each others birthdays and I think this is just WRONG! Kids should enjoy seeing other people getting presents.

I can't get a grip of the october thread. Have given up on that one I think.

Mrs- Ha! Horrid dreams... I remember those. I had an awful one where a man was carrying around a decapitated baby, still haunts me now. Weird that hormones do these things. Glad to hear spotting has stopped.

Crossed posts with you bodders... has your MW given you a list of things to get for a homebirth? Someone was telling me about plastic sheets...

Mmmmm honeyapple - kind of think i have given up on the oct thread too! and fettle OBVIOUSLY has! i do try and read it, but then i never quite know what to post or to who! at least you, me and fettle are all close with our dates so we have our own mini sept/oct thread here!

mrs - i have this baby book the baby journal one.
its lovely and VERY detailed, just perfect for you i would say!

bodders - what are you having done to your kitchen? and WHY are you having it done so close to baby being born? you loon!!! i am still in two minds about a homebirth. like you, i can tquite imagine giving birth in any part of my house! i reckon i might end up having one whether i plan to or not though!.........................first time i planned a water birth and it didnt happen, second time i planned a homebirth and got my waterbirth in hospital that i planned first time instead, so this time whatever i plan i will prob end up with my homebirth i planned for last time!!!! does that make ANY sense at all!!!???

glad everyone is hanging around after popping! yippee!

just think some of you are pooping next month! wow!

whoops! popping, not pooping!!!! although i am sure there will be a fair amount of that going on to!! all over your living room floor in your case bodders!!!

honeyapple - all my mw said last time was to get an old shower curtain for a homebirth! so that was all i had and she delivered the placenta bucket! and the gas and air beforehand!!! are you planning on having your kids around when you give birth?

hee - love your pooping slip up greedy - yes I think there'll be a fair amount of both!

Really know what you mean about the antenatal threads - there are so many people I dont know what to say half the time.

Good to hear from you Bodders - I couldn't imagine where I would want to give birth at home - my DH loves the sofas (his choice ages ago) so he wouldn't let me anyway near the living room!

Sorry about the sickness MrsMc but like you say, its all showing good strong normal pregnancy symptoms.

Hi all

Just quickly - waiting for supper to cook. darling DH and DD are out practising cycling - I get so proud seeing her learning to peddle - she's suddenly coming on so well [suppose I should admit that i didnt' learn to cycle unti I was 11, so for her starting at 3, is a great step forward for me!!!!

Feeling much better today - thank you!

Greedy and Honey totally agree re the Oct thread - went through it again last night to see when you had both last posted and couldn't see anything for days, so decided not to bother! they are just too many people. I feel at home on here - please keep posting everyone. think I'll need more support in some ways once I've got 2 LOs to cope with that I'll need you all!!!

Pain about the work on houses going on - I'm not looking forward to moving - hope for cool weather the 2nd week in august!! But lots of hot weather in Scotland from this weekend for a few days, as DD and I are up home to see Mum and Dad - I can't wait!

MrsMc - glad about your MS - reassuring isn't it? However, horrible it is!! Horrible dream. don't know what it is about being pg that makes you dream so vividly. I dreamt last week that we were on holiday in Iraq and were kidnapped. They were going to drive tanks at us all, but decided that they couldn't risk me having a mc. as if they'd care, so they told me I'd have to watch my DH be tortured and my DD....(well I'm not going to fill that in, as it was pretty distressing) Needless to say it still makes me feel awful when I think about it, and I can't forget it! want some pleasant dream to take it away. Last night's wasn't so bad - dreamt I had had my beautiful boy and he could walk within a week - do you think I'm feeling competitive with my best friend and her DD who will have a 3-4 month headstart on my DS!!! Our last 2 were so close together that there wasn't much competition!!

Kitkat - glad all going well with you!

Bodders - must be weird looking at that precise piece of carpet! not sure whether i'd ever be brave enough for a home birth!

Iwillbe - hope all ok with you?

Pinky - where are you? Hope everything going well?

Gosh - gone on a bit too long - fingers can only type as quickly as my brain moves at the moment. Got to go. Big hugs to all!!

take care
xxx

Just been crying with laughter at your posts Greedy - what made it worse was the way my bump was wobbling up and down as I was laughing! I seem to have developed a real old lady laugh with this pg for some reason - high pitched and giggly, I'm sure I never used to laugh like that! But you are absolutely right, getting the kitchen re-plumbed, re-floored, re-painted and re-tiled 3 weeks before giving birth is a little foolish.... Mind you, it has been a good excuse to stop bloody visitors (aka my mum)coming to "help out"

Fettle, I can feel the competitive mum coming out in me now - your DD is already on a bike???!!! I can't imagine mine having the coordination to peddle and steer, even with mahoosive stabilizers.... Note to self - must try harder...
Now, your dream sounds even more disturbing than Mrsmc's - you must have been so relieved to wake up! And as for the one about the baby walking straight away - that seems to be my pregnancy dream of choice this time around - that the baby is able to talk, walk, you name it, virtually minutes after being born! Must be something to do with worrying about the new-born stage flying by too quickly and having a troublesome toddler on my hands before I know it!

Honeyapple - someone suggested those plastic dustsheets you can get from a DIY store, then loads of old towels etc to go on top. The MW also said it would be a good idea to have a mattress on the floor rather than labouring on the sofa - and it just so happens we do have a rather manky old mattress that we have been meaning to take to the tip for a while, so that should do nicely. The other thing she said, which hadn't occurred to me, is that I will still need a hospital bag ready, in case I have to be transferred.

Now, DD is in bed, DP is out fishing so I suppose I have no excuse for not starting my tax return .... expect to see another post from me in about 5 minutes then...

Hey Bodders - how's the tax return coming? Very grown up! Every time we move house, which is at least every 2 years and give them my new address, I ask them if I need to fill in a form and they say no, so I'll trust them! Tax baffles me! Hope you get it done.

Hadn't really clicked that you were having all this work done on the houes so close to birthing! you are brave - at least I have no choice to move house so near, it is kind of forced on me! Do you not think that it is a bit extreme for Mother-deterrant?!!!

AND considering a home birth on top of it all - you brave girl! Manky mattress doesn't sound too enticing though, I have to be honest!!

Greedy - talk about birth plans not being followed! You sound as if you might as well ask for what you don't want and then you'll get want you really want!! IYSWIM!

I have to say I don't see the point of a birth plan, last time they didn't pay any attention to it whatsoever! See what happens in this part of the world - if I ever manage to see the same person twice in this pg. Have I told you my MW cancelled my appointment on Thursday, so I have to see my GP instead - didn't want to wait until next week to see someone as it has been 8 weeks since I was last checked over. So I'll have had 1 MW for booking in, 1 consultant & hospital MW at 14 weeks, another MW at 16 weeks and then a different GP at 24 weeks! Hopefully at least I'll see the same consultant at 30 weeks, but I doubt it will be the same hospital MW, I'll see then! At least we are not moving too far away, so I have the choice to remain booked into my hospital here, so at least my consultant should stay the same right the way through!!

MrsMc - hope your booking in goes well tomorrow!

xxx

Well, I have done 3 months worth of receipts.... thought I was entitled to a break....

The kitchen work isn't that major really, all in all the kitchen will be out of action for just over a week, and we have an outbuilding with worktops and a sink in that can stand-in while we are upside down, so not too bad really - as long as everything goes to plan - there isn't much room for mistakes is there! I said to the decorator (who is the last to come) make sure you are done by the 15th of July otherwise you might be called upon to help deliver the baby! He looked completely unphased and said, no problem, my wife had both of ours at home... so I'm in safe hands then

Hi ladies!

MW app went very well, baby is head down "thank god" so even baby is getting ready, but LO is so active that one of these nights s/he will pop his/her waters i'm sure of it , HB fine too, see MW again in 14 days, it's going by fast now !

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Hi Firsty - at your Mutley laugh! I'm sure you're LO is just chilling today - mine definitely has lazy days and busy days. Last night I think it was trying to tunnel it's way out through my side!!! Today it is quiet as a mouse, so must be exhausted after all that activity. Everyone keeps commenting on how low my bump is though - I suppose it is pretty low (the bonus being no indigestion this time - apart from a weeks worth at about 22 weeks, the down side being a bladder the size of a peanut...) God knows what I'll look like when it "drops" - it'll be by my knees!

Babymad - glad to hear all is well after your MW appt

Hi all,

try not to worry too much Firststar as my LO seems to have time of great activity and the times when he seems to snooze a lot. Hopefully your doppler can give you the re-assurance you need.

I'm also looking for a little re-assurance as my breathlessness is back again today so I may call the mid-wife and see what they say. I feel like I've just walked up a flight of stairs all the time.

babymad - good news about the M/W appointment, so LO is ready to go eh!?

Fettle - where in Scotland are you coming to? I seem to remember its maybe Fife? Am probably way off! I'll be keeping my fingers crossed that the weather improves for you. Its cloudy again today but not too cold. I reckon your DD can still spend time on the beach (I hope I remembered correctly that your parents live near a beach ).

Wow, your decorator sounds very handy Bodders? Decorator and mid-wife - perhaps he could complete the rest of your tax return too!! I know what you mean about wobbling bumps. I was laughing at DH the other day and I looked in the mirror and it looked like my bump was on a spring!

Not much news from me really - finish work at the end of next week - hoorrrayyyyy!!!! xxxx

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well done little Firststar for the hiccups to re-assure your mum a bit . Sorry you are having bad breathing problems. Is there anything they can do for you?

My breathing is not too bad, I just keep having to take deep breaths to get enough oxygen in. My only worry is for the baby and hoping he is getting enough. You probably know more about this than me Firsty - I presume this is a silly worry of mine?

Good that you are seeing your mid-wife tomorrow!

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Thanks Firststar - I guess I'm not really taking it easy as still working full time and DH has been doing long hours so am doing all the DS related stuff before and after work.

But, it will all get better next week as DH finishes up on Tuesday and I finish on the Friday . We wont know what to do with ourselves! - Except for the massive list of things we said we would do / buy once we finshed up...

Hope you continue to feel better
x

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