MSE Pregnancy Club VIII

sparkle03

Evansangel wrote: »

Another one?

Im confused lol xx

me too! :rotfl: Didnt we only get a new one a week ago or something? Oh well.......

39 Weeks for me today! Woohoo Im so excited been having period type pains and very strong BH's for the past two days so Im hoping I dont actually go over by too much! Still seem to have alot to do though before she arrives but its keeping my mind off it.

Have a good day everyone will come back later probably but have a million and one things to get done today :rolleyes:

x x x

Evansangel

sparkle03 wrote: »

me too! :rotfl: Didnt we only get a new one a week ago or something? Oh well.......

39 Weeks for me today! Woohoo Im so excited been having period type pains and very strong BH's for the past two days so Im hoping I dont actually go over by too much! Still seem to have alot to do though before she arrives but its keeping my mind off it.

Have a good day everyone will come back later probably but have a million and one things to get done today :rolleyes:

x x x

Oooh congrats on being 39 weeks! I hope baby doesn't sat in there for to long after EDD hehe. My friend was 2 weeks overdue exactly and was induced, and he still didn't want to come out :rotfl:

Im 7 weeks tommorrow

x x

slscarborough

sparkle03 wrote: »

me too! :rotfl: Didnt we only get a new one a week ago or something? Oh well.......

39 Weeks for me today! Woohoo Im so excited been having period type pains and very strong BH's for the past two days so Im hoping I dont actually go over by too much! Still seem to have alot to do though before she arrives but its keeping my mind off it.

Have a good day everyone will come back later probably but have a million and one things to get done today :rolleyes:

x x x

At 38 weeks I was getting constant stomach aches and BH but nothing since. Really want things to start naturally and not get induced.

Tigsteroonie

A new thread? This place moves almost as fast as the Arms ....

Morning All :wave:

ETA:-

And by the time I returned from doing some housework, we've been merged back into the original thread. Talk about confusing. I mean, we pregnant lassies have a lot to cope with already, I don't think my head can handle all this chopping and changing

newmoneysaver_2

Oops - who's been naughty :rotfl:

Sparkle - fins crossed for you!

durham - sorry I can't help - I'm only thinking of Boys but struggling too! Oh, well I've got until Aug not this afternoon lol!

Nothing really to add today. Baby was in an uncomfortable position last night, making me feel achy. A hot bath and an early night seems to have helped him move up

ETA: My thanks button keeps disappearing and I can't always thank people. I'm not being selective, please don't be offended if I haven't thanked you! lol

Evansangel

Oooh forgot to say, i went to Citizens Advice Bureau about my work not doing a risk assesment, and they told me that they should be doing one asap after i give them written confirmation. And to write another letter stating what i feel is a risk, and if they dont respond within 28 days to take them to a tribunal declaring sex discrimination.

I didn't want to be all "i want, i want" so i only stated one risk that i spoke about with my doctor

Have the letter with me now to give to them later

And im slightly nervous lol. I dont like confrontation (is that how you spell it? I forgot lol)

x x

mountainlioness

Hi All

Had my 2nd MW appt yesterday and it went a lot better - she was much warmer although still a bit abrupt (mind you we didn't really have any questions or worries). She listened to the baby's heart, which she found quite easily and said it was very active (DH laughed as he was a real livewire as a kid, all over the shop, always escaping, even through windows!) :rolleyes:

So that's all fine... But... am hesitating to bring it up after the discussion about the friend of a poster on here who didn't want another boy... but I could do with just getting it out there...

DH thinks it's a girl, and a colleague does too and am kinda feeling I'd prefer a boy, even though I know it doesn't matter as long as it's healthy, and I know girls are great too (after all, we're all girls!)... I can't really explain where this feeling's coming from.

Part of me's afraid of all the indoctrination that girls get to dress in a certain way, behave in a certain way, do certain things and not others... not necessarily from their parents, but all the messages that are around us. I see people who would swear they treat boys and girls equally clearly not doing so - like encouraging boys to be active and get outdoors and mucky while fussing over girls (I have friends with daughters where the mother is very bright and successful but influences from nursery have counteracted that and the girls are obsessed with princesses and being pretty as if that's all girls can do ).

DH's parents seem to have expected less of his sister than of him - not in obvious ways but it's the subtle messages that she always needs help and things are harder for her and as a result she isn't v independent as an adult...

I don't know... I just don't have faith that girls are given an equal chance in life, even now. I know we have equality before the law etc etc, and many people say it's gone too far the other way (read any 'have your say' when there's some report about the gender pay gap on the BBC!) but it's not socially equal, not really.

I guess I want my daughter (if it is one) to be active, sporty, confident, enjoy the outdoors, not be fussy or prissy... but at the same time I know you can't make your kids what you want them to be! So am feeling very torn. I know I'd be kinda disappointed if all she wanted to do was ballet and horses like the stereotype and at the same time I know that's not right to be disappointed!

I've always liked it when I could bust stereotypes, like being able to read maps, parallel park and play footy ... maybe am afraid of what it'd be like to be a mother to a daughter than conforms?

I don't know whether any of this rambling makes sense - sorry - just hoping someone can give me some perspective.

Sami_Bee

Hmmm not sure what Glad is upto That cheeky little red dragon is really confuzzled us

Krystal - i like the blueberry best but black is most practical and as we know practical is what matters with babies

Well I don't think I'll be posting much today, My dog has died Seems she couldn't go on without her mummy. Unfortunately she didn't go as peacefully as her and had a massive fit last night that she didn't come out of, Mum n dad have been up most of the night with her and then Dad buried her with her Mummy straight away because he couldn't face going to bed until she was with her Mum.
I'm shocked and gutted, she was supposed to be coming to stay with us today as mum n dad are spending easter in the lakes and we didn't want her to be alone at theirs until my sis comes home on friday night.
So for the first time in my life I don't have a pet, part of me wants to go straight out and get a dog I feel a bit lost with out a dog
Here's a pic of my beautiful girlies http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=1184312&l=a732fccea6&id=541141775
Hope you all have had a better t=start to the day than me xx

Edit - in light of these events I'd like to throw Meg into the hat for names of baby Durham

Triggles

mountainlioness - if it helps any, my DD loved to dress up in pretty dresses and matching hair bows - and then went out and climbed the tree in the garden and played in the mud. She always had to have matching little stretch shorts for her dresses, so she could hang upside down from the climbing frame! (And she can read a map, although neither of us is great at parallel parking!)

Krystaltips

ML, I don't know if I can give you perspective... But from the way I see things around me... Our children grow up with our influence... But they are also their own people too... I have a friend who would love her daughter to be a bit more feminine, but at 5 they have to bribe her to wear pretty dresses to birthday parties because she would much rather be wearing jeans and climbing trees with the boys... She has a a spiderman lunch box and would much rather shop in the boys section of next than the girls... Its nothing they've ever encouraged in her, they've just bought her up to be independant and confident in her choices... I think this is the best thing we can do with our children whether they're boys or girls...