Waves is winning.....Here comes the Acrobat!

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Links to previous threads:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/relationships/a1670597-So-DH-said

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/relationships/1745551-DH-said-DH-left-waves-is-still-being-sick-but-into-the-third-timester

Will this become the live birth thread? Will Lodger 1 leave? Will waves be smiling throughout this thread?

Doula is on call, bags are packed, acrobat was a teeny 14 weeks foetus when I started posting - he is about to become DC3, I'll stop being sick and a whole new chapter will begin.

That sounds sensible. I think you need to make space mentally for this baby to come, ie no more work plans.

Happy birthday thumbwitch , or at least, happy birthday for yesterday I suppose if it is past midnight....

I'm playing at a castle tonight - would be fairly "epic" (as DS would say) if I managed to have a half hour labour and deliver there, on the same day as the DoC. Imagine having a baby born in a castle

Not much hope I don't think - and before I even think about that I have to get DD to tidy her bedroom - it is causing the most awful behaviour on her part, despite being asked nicely repeatedly. I just don't want the aggro. Seriously, seriously tempted to follow through on previous threats and bag up take ALL her toys and and all but the bare minimum of clothes to the charity shop.

Thank you waves!

Well you could always at least bag her stuff and hide it in the garage - give her a shock!

Enjoy playing at the castle. I'm off to bed now as tis nearly 2am

Hello waves - have just joined the thread - hope all is well. If it helps, my dd's behaviour was absolutely appalling on the eve of her brother's birth - she even got chucked out of her ballet class - I think she sensed something was up.

Yep, I'd bag it all up and hide it, too!

Enjoy playing tonight in your castle. V jealous.

Yep, bag up and hide if you have the energy.

Enjoy your music, and Acrobat - stay put until the 28th now, OK?

Hope the DCs enjoyed their end of term. Funny, of my two DCs, DD is also the messier, anyway waves without exerting yourself overmuch, if you can possibly extract a few items at a time she may not even notice they're gone.

Oh, and happy birthday for yesterday your time, Thumbwitch.

Umm, waves you've got to stop gigging for now. Seriously.

My gig went brilliantly, and v helpful strong men carted all my gear to and fro so the DCs got to be groupies instead of roadies.

Biggest surprise of my year was that my sister and BIL just turned up. I think they hoped that acrobat would have arrived by now, but they are in the midst of moving house, subject to contracts being signed next week, so this weekend it turns out was there only opportunity to be here for the next 6 weeks. Quite a lovely surprise regardless of whether acrobat is here or not and my DCs are soooo excited to see them.

I would now quite like acrobat to put in an appearance tonight. Any sure fire tips?

Do you have anything you can rock on, when i was trying to get my body to evict DD, i got on a rocking chair, and the rocking towards put pressure on my cervix and labour kicked off about 6 hours later.

I have a rocking chair! (Well, it actually belongs to DD, gift from grandma) I shall see what happens if I rock. I tried bouncing earlier in the week, but it made me sicker than normal, and it is hard to bounce safely whilst holding a sick bowl. Rocking on a chair may be much easier, and practical from a vomiting perspective.

If acrobat doesn't appear following serious rocking action, then tomorrow morning I will tackle DD's room. It is annoying as DS is so much tidier, but then he also has far less clutter. I can't really cast aspersions though as I am a terrible hoarder.

Feeling crampy now, and thinking that I have chilli powder, cumin, crushed chillies, curry spice mix etc in my box of spices. Maybe I should add a load to some soup? Biggest fear with that is the potential pain should I bring it up.

Yes, rock and eat a spicy soup! Hope that works so your sis can have a baby cuddle before she heads off again

What a lovely surprise Waves. Fingers and toes crossed that Acrobat comes soon.

Oh how lovely to get a surprise visit from your sister and BIL! Have you no access to fresh pineapple? Although there's no guarantee from that either of course.

Glad the gig went well and strong people helped move your stuff around. :)

Morning everyone. Happy birthday for yesterday thumb.

I wouldn't eat the spicy soup. I really don't think it will work. I walked lots and tried every trick in the book to evict my dc. Had to be induced for both!

It's much cooler here today, hoping it is for you too waves. What a lovely surprise to see your family. I take it they don't live same place as you?

Leaving

Now that's lovely that your sister turned up! Hope acrobat decides to turn up while she's around to help out.

I wouldn't go for the spice might place going down but coming back up......yuk!

Don't do to much in this heat.

I think I will avoid the soup then..... I am SO tired after being awake for 2 hours with contractions/cramps in the night that turned into absolutely nothing. Again.

I haven't seen my sister since she was here for 2 days over Christmas, so has been ages and ages. Just over til tomorrow morning as she has to be back to sing tomorrow evening. It seems she won't be able to visit again til late September so am half contemplating a visit with just the baby at least if my budget allows (unlikely, but who knows....). She came over to meet DS when he was a few days old and was my birth companion for DD so there is history of her meeting her sisters offspring quite early on!

She never came back to live here after uni, and is a flight away so visiting is expensive and obviously involves planning ahead, but she has the strongest bond I've ever known between an aunt and nephew/niece. She had a child free wedding (such a gritty MN topic) with the exception being my two, but as she said it was her day and whilst they couldn't afford, and didn't want it to be a big day for children, she couldn't get married without them there.

I'm going to see if a shower wakes me up, then possibly try to get a few new songs learned...

... and landscape the garden

Is your sister of the toxic variety? [goes straight to the point!]. Please don't be offended - ime toxicity runs in families, to varying degrees. She seems to have been supportive of you from what you say, though...

Poor you with it dragging on like this. Were any potential kidney problems given the all-clear? You probably said but I've missed it.

Very early start for me today, so I'm a bit knacked, too. I did a you last night,waves and painted the front door. It looks TERRIBLE this morning. That'll learn me.

HOpe the songs are relaxing for you today my darling xxxx

Springy. My sister isn't toxic. In many ways she is FAR more sensible than me and detached herself from the parent (TB) -situation, partly by never returning home after uni, and setting up a busy life a long way away. She is also very good at being able to distance herself emotionally, so gets far less upset by things than I do. She is younger than me, and was treated a lot less harshly, so has a different experience than me if that makes sense. We are not amazingly close, and very different personalities, but I think the lack of closeness is related to her coping strategy which is to be distant.

Sorry to hear about the door - I have that sort of thing happen to me a lot. I also get crazy ideas for things that might work from an aesthetic perspective which become awful failures. Like the time I thought that a completely broken tumble dryer would make a stunning industrial-style planter for my garden. Ummmm. It looked dreadful. I'll not be doing anything like that today.

I think I may try some fresh pineapple thumbwitch, no harm in trying, and maybe it will stay down.

Could you blitz the pineapple to a smoothie? Don't try for ice cream it won't set.

Africa at tumble planter.

Jax, autocorrect from arf to Africa?

I wanted to use the old porcelain toilet bowl as a planter but DH "accidentally" broke it while I was back in the UK so no go there then

(thanks for birthday wishes, by the way! )

Oh dear. Damn you IPad autocorrect! Arf I say ARF