MSE Pregnancy Club 18

kitkat5566

Courgette; sounds like your well and truly fed up! I bet it is hard having a 12 year old DS and being pregnant, along with having spd, you make sure you take it easy and don't overdo it. I had the same issue with my OH keeping all his carp in the babys room, I have since moved it all into the downstairs bathroom (this never gets used as we have a better one upstairs) and its all remained in there, unnoticed, for months!! However, this weekend he is having a sort out and ebaying some of it and chucking the rest hopefully, but of course, I have got to help him...

On a positive note; I think me and OH are both nesting, we totally gutted the kitchen yesterday, emptied all cupboards, cleared all surfaces, washed all and got rid of tonnes of junk. We had cupboards filled with things we havent used in 3 years so they can all go, I have no idea why we would need an additional set of 30 glasses, extra baking trays, 10 extra mugs, extra biscuit jar and many more 'extra' items!! We have cupboards with ones we use everyday and have had plenty of times when we have lots of people over and manage without all the extra bits!!

I love having a good clear out, but isn't it tiring!!!

xmaslolly76

Pigpen good luck hun hope everything goes smoothly for you :-) xx

Courgette My DD is 12 as well and she is turning into a monster her gob is unbelievable sometimes talks to me like something she dragged in on her shoe i could slap her but have managed to refrain so far. On the other side of the coin though she is very helpfull especially at the moment where i can barely move sometimes she is brilliant with bubs so i suppose its swings and round abouts. Thankfully being a girl we dont have the shower issue its getting her out of it thats the problem lol :-)

Courgette

Thanks, I suppose it is normal and it will pass. It's the combination of rudeness and the massive amount of nagging I have to do to get anything done which is really dragging me down right now. A typical example from this week: he brought a tub of glue down into the living room for an art project homework (already a week late by the time he got round to doing it - not through lack of encouragement/support/nagging on my part) on Weds. Did his hmk then needed to be told at least half a dozen times to take the glue back upstairs. He eventually did it on Saturday morning. Usually I would have given up and just done it myself as I just don't think something as minor as taking some glue upstairs even deserves to enter on the radar as an issue to be dealt with. But the point is, he won't do ANYTHING for himself unless he wants to without me nagging. He does stuff like come in, make himself a cup of tea and not bother asking if anyone else would like one. Yes, probably normal but so rude and thoughtless.

The issue with him showering is bothering me too; TWO weeks without one when it was really hot! By the time I got him in there, his hair was so greasy it stood up by itself and there was black ear wax on the outside of his ear and he really stank. I don't know where this comes from cos me and hubby and his dad are just not like that. I'm really dreading the 6 weeks hols which is a terrible thing to say but yesterday just being off for one day he was complaining he was bored - I pointed out that he could do this, that or the other but none of it's good enough for him. I'm happy to drive him over to a friend's or somewhere else and pick him up again.

Sorry to moan, I'm just really down at the moment. He's a nice kid really but I honestly don't know if I can cope with 5 years of this

xmaslolly76

I think its perfectly normal and all we can do is ride it out and try our best to guide them. As for the shower well lets hope when he discovers girls that will change and you will be complaining about how long he is in the bathroom. You could always threaten to hose him down in the garden if he wont comply with simple requests for a shower.

smartie12

Hope everything is ok Pigpen:)

I have a 14 year DS. He's had several girlfriends and can't say even that improves hygeine sadly. DH gets more stressed about DS's inability to listen, do anything, tidy, clean etc etc. I try to let it go whooshing over my head and not get stressed by it all. After all... isn't it what teenage boys have been like since the term "teenager" was invented???

I'm just grateful he's not hanging round the streets, drug taking etc!!

Ok... we have a problem!!:eek: Picked up the car seat. It's about 5 years old. We have a 3 door fiesta... and there's no way it'll fit in the back! Even at the front (no passenger airbag) it doesn't "sit nicely":mad:

I can't remember the brand (it's in the car boot at mo) but think it's a chicco BUT does seem a lot chunkier than other infant carrier car seats???

We're planning to get a new car after bubs is born and we've moved house. DH was "lets go get a car now" but I don't fancy doing that at this stage plus we'd worried about "a nice car" being vandalised outside our house.

I don't know what advice I'm asking for really?:o I guess we'll have to say thank you for lending us car seat but give it back and go and buy one? Anyone else have a 3 door car???

Krystaltips

My DD1 is 6 and she has an attitude on her already... I'm dreading the teenage years!!

Smartie, there is a website somewhere that tells you what car seats will fit different cars.

dreambirdie

pigpen hope u are ok

tinkwings i can totally sympathise with the coughing its horrible isnt it?! i had a chest infection a few weeks ago and i literally could not stop coughing for about 2 weeks it turned me into a demon. :mad: hopefully i dont get another one because all that coughing with my carp bladder control at the moment was horrendus. if the coughing keeps up maybe you should ask the doc for something? although mine gave me antibiotics and they did !!!!!! all. it just eventually went away on its own.

just had a shower OMG my boobs/nipples!! so !!!!!!! sore. think i might have to start getting baths now. although im not sure id fit in:rotfl:

has anyone had stretchmarks yet? im constantly checking for them! ive been using bio oil so maybe its working cos ive had none so far, but ive 10 weeks left so i suppose i could still get them.

tinkwings

dreambirdie wrote: »

pigpen hope u are ok

tinkwings i can totally sympathise with the coughing its horrible isnt it?! i had a chest infection a few weeks ago and i literally could not stop coughing for about 2 weeks it turned me into a demon. :mad: hopefully i dont get another one because all that coughing with my carp bladder control at the moment was horrendus. if the coughing keeps up maybe you should ask the doc for something? although mine gave me antibiotics and they did !!!!!! all. it just eventually went away on its own.

I hope it goes away soon it is so annoying! :mad:

Have been into town got some bargins in Next

*BigBird*

Hope everything's OK for you pigpen, fingers crossed everything goes smoothly.

I have a quick question for those of you around 8 months pregnant - would you drive a 250 mile round trip at this stage? My company are having a golf day, 5 weeks before I'm due. Obviously I won't be playing golf at that stage, but it would be nice to go along for the social side (BBQ etc in the evening), since it'll be my last chance to catch up with colleagues for a good few months. I work remotely and the golf day will be near the office, which is 120-odd miles away. It would probably be a case of driving there one day, staying overnight and then driving back the next. I'm just not sure whether that's actually going to be feasible at that stage in pregnancy?

This afternoon's task is to start listing the pile of stuff in the spare room that needs to go on eBay, since it's been sitting there for weeks. I should probably list my Clear Blue fertility monitor too - which I never got a chance to use as I got my BFP (obviously ) Should be able to make a nice little lump of cash to buy some more things for the Flump

freebiequennie

hello all

Went to mothercare today only brought couple tiny baby outfits they were in sale and buy one get one half price so cost £8.50 for the 2, they are upto 7 and half pounds so wanted a couple bits that small as usually weather is warm until end sept and dont want baby in vests and babygros all the time.

was looking at nursing pillows they are sooooo expensive!! was thinking the dream genii at £48 was expensive but may buy that as can use for last few weeks pregnancy, then for breastfeeding and then as prop up cushion for baby.