MSE Pregnancy Club 18

Courgette

morning ladies

seems very busy on here this morning. Hope we're all well And, yes, where is Smartie?

Was gonna come on and have a massive moan but maybe that won't help. I guess I'm just tired but I'm feeling very very unsupported right now, not just hubby but my whole family. It just feels if I don't nag for things to happen they just don't. Hubby finally admitted last night that he's scared of the next few weeks which is why he's suddenly doing every little piece of overtime going. He tried telling me it was for the money but I know it's an avoidance tactic.

A week on Weds I go 37 weeks and I keep trying to explain to him that the baby will come when s/he decides to, not when he's got his head round it all. On Thursday my BHs felt very different and I had loads of AF type pains in my back and when I told him I seriously wondered whether I was in early labour he actually went pale.

We're ready in the sense that we bought a couple of packs of newborn clothes and other bits and pieces but this house is a !!!!!!-tip. I'm doing my best to keep on top of things, and I know I go about my SPD, but life is really hard when you're constantly monitoring pain levels. The room that the baby will be sleeping in is still full of stuff he has bought and used perhaps once or twice. Yes, I know the house and stuff will get sorted but I don't want to get by, I want things to be lovely. I've waited years for this baby and I want to decorate the nursery and I want to be able to take its clothes out of packets, wash them and put them somewhere where I know they'll not be in the way and stay clean (ie THE BABY'S ROOM!!!).

It's not just him, I'm sick of nagging DS (aged 12) and my family who said they'll help with bits and pieces then don't ever quite get round to it.

I feel angry and left to my own devices. Don't people realise that the only reason I seem to know what I'm doing is because I take the time and energy to work it out

Sorry, said I wasn't going to moan

pigpen

xmaslolly76 wrote: »

How you doing today PP you still getting the pains lets hope baby sticks to your timetable :-)

Yes.. but no different to yesterday except my pelvis is really sore and painful as well today.. Baby still very quiet though which is a bit unnerving..

tinkwings

Morning Ladies

I had a Cr*p night been up coughing and throwing up :mad::mad:

We are going to collect a pram today an old fasion http://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/e11003.m43.l1123/7?euid=7220858763265287316&loc=http%3A%2F%2Fcgi.ebay.co.uk%2Fws%2FeBayISAPI.dll%3FViewItem%26item%3D140427325550%26ssPageName%3DADME%3AB%3AEOIBSA%3AGB%3A1123
one got it for bargin price so happy bunny. I know probably not to everyones taste but I love walking and plan to collect DD from school by walking with bubs and the pram we have been given is a travel system which I like but prefer carry cots for new borns.:o

Hugs & Labour vibes to all those in need.

Goes back off to raid the cough mixture

pigpen

I had one of those tink.. they aren't quite as robust as they appear.. you have been warned.. mine would blow over in strong winds!!!

Courgette

I like that one, Tinks.

Have just printed off the week's flylady jobs from Oldstyle. Am gonna throw myself into them and sort this !!!!-tip out myself, sick of my life being controlled by this !!!!ing SPD.

DS has got up now, put the telly on and that's it. The glue pot he brought down on Weds and that I've asked him at least twice to move is still in the middle of the living room floor. I know I am lucky to have such a wonderful family but sometimes I just get so fed up with them, and I guess this is one of those times :mad:

rach

courgette big hugs, it must be so hard with SPD, even a bit of hip pain is doing my head in and it's nothing in comparison! I don't know what to suggest except perhaps saying to him that you won't feel emotionally ready for the baby unless you can sort the room out and that you're going to do it with or without his help. Can you pin someone else in the family down to help at a certain time and move his carp out of the babies room? It might help him to feel more ready too...ignoring it isn't going to make it go away!

Courgette

He's got a week off work booked for next week (as in after next weekend not this) and that probably will be okay as it's not particularly likely that babe will be especially early (although it COULD happen). The problem is cos he's running around at a million miles an hour at work he has zero energy when he gets home.

Last night I pointed out that his priorities were just in the wrong place and that seemed to strike a chord but then he's at work all weekend so we'll see

tinkwings

pigpen wrote: »

I had one of those tink.. they aren't quite as robust as they appear.. you have been warned.. mine would blow over in strong winds!!!

Thanks for the heads up PP. Fingers Crossed it will be ok

pigpen

It should be.. it did only happen a few times.. I had one of the other style ones as well and the rear suspension collapsed and almost killed DS2.. when I rang the manufacturer they said it was because my child MUST have been to heavy.. I said he was 2 months premature.. and he currently weighs 7lb.. if that is too heavy I think there is an even bigger design fault with the pushchairs.. esp. as they were designed to have a toddler seat attached too!! I was sent a new pushchair pretty sharpish!!

Courgette

One of my brothers and my sister are on their way over to give me a hand with stuff and mum's gonna send them with a loaf of bread too

Gonna make another cup of tea then get stuck into flylady jobs too