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I gave birth 2 hours ago, I'm absolutely exhausted after almost 3 days of labor where I got basically no sleep. But we are NOT missing this England Vs Mexico game. The baby clearly knew she had to arrive before the game. She wants to see if England has a winning chance or not 🤣.

She was born at home so we literally do not even have to move a muscle from where we are right now. I'm laying in bed, she's in my arms. My husbands gone to pick the other 3 kids up from their nanny and grandads house to come and meet their baby sister and to come home to watch the world cup (Don't judge us, yes we are letting our twin 5 year olds and 3 year old stay up to watch the world cup. They all loved watching the last game. We'll see how long they manage to stay awake for lol.)

We are going to order a takeaway soon, we have snacks for when the game is on later.

But the baby obviously understands the importance of the world cup so obviously she chose today of all days to finally be born. Already a football fan. My husband is so proud 👏

I went into labor at 40 weeks and 2 days pregnant. 57 hours of labor in total (37 hours of early labor. 20 hours of active labor), 2 hours of pushing. Now my baby girl is finally here. She was born here at home at 12:01pm, and she is perfect. She is our 4th baby, and definitely our biggest baby, 9 pounds 9 ounces. I did tear a bit but not major enough that we needed to go to the hospital. Thankfully.

She was born almost 3 hours ago, and I am just feeling pure bliss. All that pain is over and she's here. Laying in my arms. I'm laying in bed. I am absolutely exhausted but I'm also just so happy. Way too tired to share the full story, but I wanted to share my joyful news.

I'm in labor! I have been in early labor since about 2am this morning. I'm in the UK where it is almost midday. I am having a home birth so I've been chilling on the birthing ball all morning long. My other 3 kids are at their nanny and grandads house. My husband has become the world's best backrest 🤣

I'm scared but so excited. We're ready to meet her ❤️

My husband and I are thinking about taking our kids to the pub tonight for dinner, meet up with nanny and grandad for a bit, and see aunts, uncles and cousins. I'm 40 weeks pregnant and don't want to cook, and my husband has been cooking for us every night for weeks after he gets done with work, so I think he deserves a little break.

Our youngest kid is 3 and then we have twin 5 year olds, generally well behaved (They are still kids but they do know how to behave in public). But we've never taken them to the pub with us cause we just didn't think it was socially acceptable. Until my brother texted me and suggested we all just meet up at the pub garden. He said all the cousins will have a good time seeing eachother

I'm nervous though, so I need to hear other people's perspectives, is it socially acceptable to bring my children to a pub for a family dinner and to see family? Obviously I know it's legal but I'm more interested about social etiquette.

It's quite cloudy and definitely not weather where my kids are wanting to go in the paddling pool. We woke up today, went to empty out the water and a dead spider was in the paddling pool. All 3 of my kids ran back into the house 😭 Safe to say they don't want to even go near the paddling pool anymore. Even if it was still boiling hot I doubt I would be able to convince them that the paddling pool is still safe to play in

I (29F) and my husband (29M) have 3 children (5M, 5F and 3M), I am also currently 39 weeks pregnant. So me and my husband are about to welcome out 4th baby very soon.

I have always been very intentional about my kids education. Some people might not agree with this teaching method but ever since our kids were infants, me and my husband have been teaching them to memorise phonics sounds, numbers, and multiplication tables. Just for like half an hour an day, roughly the same time every day, we would show them flashcards of letters and say "A says ah" and we made up songs to make the kids more entertained by what we were saying.

We also had flashcards with numbers 1 to 100, and we just counted the numbers to them. And this is probably the most controversial one, but we taught them to memories the multiplication tables too.

For phonics, when our kids started to show signs that they understood what sound each letter made, we started blending very basic words. And we worked on this for years. But all of our kids have been able to read by age 3, basic books of course but they have been able to read. Right now our 3 year old is just starting to read, our 5 year old twins have become more confident readers the past 2 years.

And all of them have memorised the timestables (Yes I am very aware they don't know how to multiply yet, they simply have just memorised what we told everyday for years. But me and my husband personally think them memorising timetables will make it easier to teach them multiplication)

This past year was our first official year starting home eduction for the twins. We've focused on writing skills, learning how to blend larger words using phonics and learning more complex phonics rules, addition and subtraction.

I also taught them how to add larger numbers using the column method once they mastered basic addition, we definitely haven't mastered the column method yet but they are starting to understand it. And we've been learning how to make bar graphs. Obviously a majority of the learning this year has been them playing and exploring the world. The 3 year old hasn't officially started home education yet but he loves to he included of course so naturally he has learnt a few things this year too.

I've loved home educating them and I am very proud of the progress we have made this year. However, I am 39 weeks pregnant, meaning in September I will have a 2 month old newborn baby and obviously that means home educating will be a bit more difficult, and I assume that we won't get as much done as we did this year in regards to just how much they have learnt.

Of course we would still be learning everyday, but I just do not think it is possible to teach them as much as I have this year when I have an infant to take care of.

So I was wondering, would I be doing them a disservice by continuing to home educate this year knowing that our days would be a bit slower than they were this past year? Knowing we wouldn't cover as much educational content as possible.

Obviously I would love to continue home educating them, but I really do not want to hold them back. I'm so new to this home educating world, I really just need some advice right now. Nobody in my life understand our decision to home educate.

Just curious. My husband had to go and buy more this morning 🤣. He took the kids with him so I could sleep in and apparently they stayed at the shop for an extra 20 minutes cause it was nice and cool in there. It's almost 9am and the kids are already in the paddling pool! I might sit in the paddling pool too to be honest.

Back to the ice lollies question, how many do you think your household will go through today? Between the 5 of us in this house (Me 29F and I'm 39 weeks pregnant, my husband 29M, and our kids 5M, 5F and 3M), I bet we will get through a whole packet of freeze pops! Okay maybe not a whole packet, maybe like half a packet, but I bet we will need to buy more tomorrow!

And what's everyones plans for picky-tea tonight? I need some suggestions on what to make!

I'm a 29 year old mum of 3. I'm currently 39 weeks pregnant, expecting my 4th baby. And the heat today has drained me and it's not even 5pm. My husband (29M) and I have 3 children already (5M, 5F, 3M).

Thankfully my husband works from home 4 days a week and only has to work in the office one day a week and he already went into the office yesterday. So this means he's home for the rest of the week during this heatwave but still...this weather is too hot. Especially when I am heavily pregnant. We have a large paddling pool that we bought during the last heat wave, so we've spent all day sitting outside under the canopy tent, the kids have been playing in the paddling pool, my husbands been working on his laptop and I have been sitting on the birthing ball. The kids have argued non stop all day, I have been having braxton-hick contractions all day.

We are going to forget how many ice lollies we have eaten today 😅. And dinner? That's my husbands problem tonight. I think he's making a chickpea salad, sweet potato fries and maybe some chicken. I don't blame him, the kids are already in a bad mood cause of the heatwave and this is a meal they all love so nobody will complain (hopefully nobody will complain 🤞).

How is everybody else coping during this heatwave?