MSE Pregnancy Club 25

CherryDrop

emsbet wrote: »

Welcome cherrydrop, I'll add you to the list now. ((hugs)) for being made redundant. I was made redundant at 16 weeks.

Thanks hun, i'm coming to terms with it and going through consultations at the moment, am looking to the future now and looking at doing what i've always wanted to do and work in a veterinary practice when Flump's a bit older. Silver lining and all that!

jediquigley

i love the hungry caterpiller stuff - brought the bibs from sainsburys a while back.

i managed to watch an hour and a half of the olympic ceremony, then my bed was calling. have been watching a bit of the swimming and road race today.

i am very chilled out at the moment, not anxious or inpatient about due date being on monday but family are. MIL phoned in the week and has also visited today saying she is nervous (she rarely visits us). i wish everyone would just chill as their bad vibes will rub off on me.

have a meal out for my sisters birthday tomorrow and know i will be questioned on names, symptoms blah blah blah lol

hugs for ikkle and rups

go team GB!

Laura

jediquigley

thought some peeps might be interested in this stats page about when women give birth compared to their due date.

http://spacefem.com/pregnant/charts/duedate0.php

you can also take part in the survey if you have given birth, there is a link at the top saying take survey.

i am quite interested in this as my due date was moved forward by 6 days at my first scan so i still have my original due date at the back of my mind, so wont be leaping for induction until at least 42 weeks if me and bubs are fine.

Laura

rjh090384

I actually gave Birth to my little one 13 days after my scan due date on what was my original due date going my lmp but to be honest when she popped out she was so over cooked and her skin was so dry I felt a bit guilty for not being induced sooner lol

Chrissy1981

I have finished nesting! Took blimmin ages and now I'm exhausted. But the house is clean from top to bottom. (apart from the conservatory but we won't talk about that)

I also packed my hospital and labour bag today! Had been putting it off for ages and ages and everyone kept nagging me. So that's another thing done.

Robyn - congratulations! Looking forward to hearing your story and hopefully seeing a pic.

As for going back to work/staying at home, we have planned for me to stay at home after the birth. We have saved really hard for the last year and are prepared to cut back as we both want me to be able to bring the baby up full time. I've taken the year's maternity leave from work so I can see how I feel in a year's time. And I can go back to work if I want, or ask for reduced hours, or even do something completely different for a few hours a week, as I really don't know how I'll feel.

Can I tell you what bugs me though? People (ie friends) who judge me for saying I'm not planning on going back to work! I would never dream of judging someone who either wants or has to go back to work, so why judge me for saying I want to stay at home?? And another thing -- don't even go there with money as you don't know my/our financial situation! I'm sick of my friend saying, oh but you'll get fed up of asking your husband for money blah blah. Really? You don't know what our situation is! So button it!

Sorry rant over...

Had a lovely meal out last night and really stuffed myself silly (and had a glass of wine) as I might not be going out for a meal with her for a while... Am going round my friend's for a takeaway tonight and I can cuddle her gorgeous 4 month old son. Not while I'm eating the chow mein obviously.

In other news, I got chatting to a girl while I was waiting to see my midwife on Thursday and she is due 3 weeks after me and seemed really nice and normal so we swapped facebook details and I might have a new baby friend soon!

So glad the weather has cooled down slightly. Hope everyone's having a lovely weekend.

Hugs to those who need them x

ikkle87

Glad you've managed to get everything sorted Chrissy. I think pregnancy just brings out the worst in people and lets them think they can comment on every aspect of your life, if it's not going back to work or money it's the name of your baby or the type of pushchair you've bought or how when they were pregnant they did things a different way. Tell em to bog off

Rups32

hello ladies. thank god it is cooler. was hot in the morning and i was dying. felt dizzy today too which i havent felt before and now nauseous.

Thanks for the hugs jedi xxx

Rjh have you tried putting vaseline on your nipples? might help hon.xxx

welcome cherrydrop. and congrats.

sorry if i may have missed people off. my heads not with it and i feel tired. we stayed up to watch the ceremony too which was great and then i woke up at 10 as was hungry and then went to watch hubbys grading and he passed his kung fu grading so waiting to see what colour sash he is. he is doing so well.:)

hmm apart from that had a back ache yesterday and felt yuck. sleep is the usual - broken.

Aida your scan and mine are close arent they? mine is 8 days away and i am dying to go for it. still hoping all is ok and likeyou said after that, i can relax. phew.

just relaxing now. maybe watch supernatural with the DH later or read my 50 shades book. its absolute filth.

Dizsie, i loved what you made for the baby. its lovely. xx

Rups32

ps. someone at the kung fu club said i look bigger than 5 mnths! idiot!!! i was offended and then he said after all its DH's baby (as DH is a bit stocky not fat btw)...grrr

SamW

Chrissy - Because I earn more than my OH (only a slight sore point in our house!), we're planning on me going back to work when I would be having only SMP, no additional money on top of that as we basically couldn't afford to live on my OH's salary and SMP. EVERY time it's been discussed with anyone else I really feel as if they're judging me for going back to work. I want to shout at them 'NO I'd love to be off of work for ages and only come to see you all being really tired and grumpy and stressed when I'm having fun with my baby' !!! How unprofessional?!?!

I have done well and still haven't opened the packages... literally clock-watching to see when the OH will be getting home! :T

S x

rjh090384

Rups I put on my lasinoh nipple cream. Ladies who are planning on breast feeding this stuff is a god send.

But alas niipples still sure and breasts tender and leaking . Shouldn't complain maybe it means labour is coming. I dunno cos I was induced with my first so never had any labour signs as such