Shagged out viroids - JS Grads 2

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Our old thread ran out of space! The horror!

Glad others are behaving like weirdos too vallinna . I am currently getting the hump because my nursery furniture is supposed to be being delivered between 10am and 1.30pm today and it's 1.41 and no sign ... resisting the urge to ring them up and unleash preggo hormones on them

Wow ladies I am impressed at all your knitting. The only knitting I ever did was with one of those strange dolls with pins in their heads that you wrapped wool around. Not even sure what I made. In fact, I am so unskilled in this area that I'm pretty sure my baby is going to be sweating in polyester her whole childhood

NCT class tonight. Am actually looking forward to it. Hope I can behave myself and not cry though ...

Someone want to write my birth plan and think of some really intelligent and 'clued' in questions to ask the MW? No? I thought not. I feel like I'm doing home work for school. Honestly with DS I turned up at the hospital and hoped for the best (did help I had a private MW who had some clue of what I wanted though).

Loving the knitting going on. I get bored after one row, so haven't in years and years.

(ps, it's I pity I hate knitting because I'm actually really good at that sort of thing , much prefer embroidery and sewing)

I feel the same about the birthplan COAAF - all the advice I have read is write one but be prepared for it to go out of the window...to which I think, what's the point? I don't want drugs or intervention but am quite prepared to have both if the time comes. Is that enough?!

Good luck at NCT TTL mine start in July. I have 3 all day session 3 Saturdays in a row. Not hugely sure I can concentrate from 10am-4pm

Had two meeting requests sent for September today which I took great satisfaction in declining (mat leave starts in August!)

Thats really cute Katee Great website as well, I love knitting but not very good so I usually start and then call my Mum in to start over finish it.

I love declining meeting requests. Gave me so much pleasure and putting on my out of office 'Back March 2012' really was a thing to behold!

MW appointment and still no movement but she described baby as fussy and laughted when she checked her head engagement only to be punched in the hand!

Sorry not good wording: By no movement I mean no signs of moving out!

Loving all the hormonal pg moments. I had one last night - it's quite out of charracter for me, DH really didn't know what to do . I was grumpy and snappy and accused him of not being interested in anything I had to say, and, as what I was trying to tell him related to Squig, of not being sufficiently interested in OUR baby. Then cried when he tried to defend himself. Then cried again when he dared to suggest that if I was going to do my Davina pregnancy dvd I ought to do it soon or it would be bedtime. My pg books are making me feel guilty about not doing enough exercise, and the WiiFit has an apoplexy every time I get on and berates me about my weight gain. It asks me to think about the reasons I'm gaining weight, and gives a list of about 10 reasons, which don't include pregnancy!. When I'm feeling strong I utter some choice words at it. When I'm not I feel like crying

Oh and also cried because I thought DH was accusing me of spending too much money on baby items, when I've been really careful about what I'm buying (or even getting free from freegle) - everything is 2nd hand so far. He actually said "Our baby will be very well accessorised" or similar, but has been complaining about how much stuff a baby seems to need and how we haven't got space for it.

However, I have been loving Babame's real nappy week offers - they reveal a new one every night at 8pm. On Tues they were selling baby legs at £1 a pair (normally about £8!!) - so I got the max allowed of 5. And I decided on some nappies (again!). I found someone on Preloved selling some unused Flips - a whole birth to potty pack for £100. Checked I can claim my council voucher back on 2nd hand, haggled her down to £85 and went for it. Can't wait for them to arrive.

Sorry, that was very long and about me.

Cowboy am keeping fingers crossed that things start moving soon.

Good luck at NCT tonight TTL. My classes start in a couple of weeks. Did your furniture turn up?

Katee and others - am impressed at your knitting. I'm getting back into it, infact am going to a knitting group at church tonight - surprisingly not populated by old ladies, but at 29 I'm one of the oldies!! All our early 20-somethings are really into it! I've just made a (very easy) blanket for my friend's baby, and am trying to do a jumper for DH. It's really chunky and will probably be ready in the height of summer. Trying to hold off baby things til I meet Squig and know what colour to go for, esp as my mum has made about a billion new baby size things in white, so will be trying to make bigger sizes.

cowboy - you're going to end up giving birth to a 3-year-old!

Katee Katee Katee -I'm going to gush a bit now - I tried on the clothes last night, and they all fit really well (with growing room- don't you just love the Bias!) and such beautiful colours!
I'm wearing the blue dress today. Met DH for breakfast and he said "oh, so you're not wearing a bra?" I said "with these lead-filled boobs? of course I am!" "oh, cos you can't see it"
that's cos the dress fits properly!!!!!!!

Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you

Esk - you poor thing [soothes brow and offers and ]

DH is also constantly moaning about how little room we have and how much stuff we have - not just for the baby, but it's "where are we going to put it all?" - well, you could think about sorting out the piles of boxes of your dad's war stuff from the study, and put them in proper order in a cupboard....

Esk rant away. Then remind DH that if he thinks baby has a lot of stuff now, just wait til baby gets a bit older and needs things like toys and shoes and can run amok around the house. Then he'll know about small children taking up space!! You sound like a brilliant bargain hunter.

Sorry Cowboy I still refuse to attempt to go into early labour to get your LO going. Mine is under strict orders to stay put for another 5 weeks at least.

Yay Nickel for a properly fitting dress

I can't believe you are all so close to labour and babies That said, I only have 15 weeks and a day until EDD. How the hell did that happen, when the first 14-ish weeks were seriously the longest in my whole entire life?

:) esk. What's wrong with a well-accessorised baby?! I thought the whole point of babies was that they made perfect accessories in themselves, no?! (Only kidding.) Anyway, it sounds like you have done a brilliant job (a much better job than me) of bargain hunting for all the things your baby needs, and it also sounds like Wii Fit is sent from the devil! I can't believe it has no pregnancy category! If it makes you feel any better, I more or less stopped exercising the moment I realised I was pregnant. Not on purpose, but I changed jobs and where I used to cycle 5 miles to work and 5 miles back every day I now drive. I did start swimming at the sports centre at my new uni for the first month I worked there (the month before I got pregnant) but once term started I just couldn't be bothered after a day of teaching/meetings/in the library etc to swim before my long drive home. So I'm very impressed you're doing some Wii-ing. All I'm doing these days is weeing (Oh dear, the dad jokes DH is practising are catching ...)

NCT was good :) Everybody is nice, which is great.

Furniture turned up and is now in bits all over the nursery floor. DH has already muddled the bits from the wardrobe, the dresser and the cot so we no longer know which bit goes with which

Am at home today writing essays for a stupid course I had to do and trying to get the uni to organise my teaching load around my childcare for next year. Filled out my appraisal forms and apparently when I go back I am eligible to have my probationary period signed off early and get an £8k payrise into the bargain! This could NOT be coming at a better time, so fingers crossed! Feeling teary again though. I am turning into an oddball. I keep talking to myself

Good luck TTL don't worry about the teary-ness - mine came and went in a day (but will no doubt be back soon, with it's friend rage...!)

As for accessorising...just bought the most awesomely cool bibs on eBay. They are the bandana style ones and available in great colours and designs! You can get any number I think but I got a 7 pack for £14 which seemed a decent deal at £2 a bib. I did refuse to compare prices on MC/M&P etc as I am sure plain white, traditional ones would be way cheaper!

I'm in the hormonal tears club too i'm afraid. Poor DH he just can't do anything right right now and even when something goes wrong (like some fucker buying the last pushchair in the colour I wanted from Argos so I miss out AGAIN!) that he has nothing to do with, I still end up blaming him. Thank goodness I know how to silent treatment him-- hold my tongue, or we'd be heading for divorce today I think ,

Hi guys

I'm still here. Nothing much to add, but wanted to say hi.

I can't breathe and slept on the sofa (leather soft and smooth) last night because I seem to be like "princess and the pea" at the moment and I can feel every tiny bit of fluff on the bedsheets at the moment Apart from that all jolly

nickel I am walking and feeling like that now. DH has affectionatly started calling me 'mega-preg' yeh cos that's making me feel better!

COAAF Please! I can't believe 5 weeks ago they thought I was in labour and here I am nearly a week overdue I really didn't think it was going to happen to me!

That's great news TTL payrises are always good!

vallinnapod they sound great, I really don't like the traditional ones so that might be a good idea for me to and defo good value. Would you mind doing a link?

Now trying to think of some activities for the weekend before I go crazy!

Here you go It's hard picking from all the designs!

Oooh Valinna they're very pretty! And definitely good value when I've been lusting after these

Also of all the impending due dates. I have 12 weeks to go still, but consoling myself that I'm about to enter 3rd trimester and so have every right to be irrational and hormonal (as DH informed me I was being - in the nicest possible way - during the cry fest earlier in the week). He is trying to be lovely to make up for it though!

I was thinking during the night (in the many, many hours between 2am and waking up time that I didn't sleep a wink), I wonder how many of the Viroids have children already.
I know you've all mentioned other DCs at one time or another, but I have problems keeping up. (and memory like a sieve not getting any better )
So, I've not got any - I'm DC No. 1
what's everyone else got?
:)

Just a cat who is a spoiled baby, but this is DC1

Sorry Cowboy Currant Bun is under strict instructions to do as it's big brother did and go exactly one week over. Scarey to think the this time next week I'll be classed as Full Term and liable to pop at any time . Try to go for a walk on lots of uneven ground.

Currant Bun is number 2 (and probably the last ) in the Confessions house.

Don't worry Esk, you'll be at the front of the line soon enough, then you'll be wishing there was someone else ahead of you still, while wishing the baby would just sneak in early, all at the same time

I realised last night I need to buy socks and another hat for Currant Bun. Esp as it appears Spring/Summer has bypassed my house and gone else where far away.

COAAF - Esk is to me as Cowboy is to you - if that makes sense? In that she's my closest viroid in EDD terms! But comfortably ahead so as I damn well hope know she'll pop first.

Esk - lluurrrve Wee Notions!! I covert most things on the site!

Val that sounds like a logic problem of the type I could never get my head round in school "If X is to Y as Q is to P then what does that make H?" or somesuch. And anyway, I'm planning on popping exactly 3 weeks early (d'ya hear me Squig?) as I want some time with baby and DH before my parents descend on us arrive in town and take over. That gives me 4 days of mat leave before it arrives. I think I'll go spare with any more!

Phew knackered!! I've had all week off but feel like I need a holiday before going back to work tomorrow... cupboards all cleaned out everything for baba now bought, nursery painted and set up, place cleaned from top to toe and just had 8 friends round for lunch .. I need a break!! Feels good to be in sorted state for bubs arrival now though ... 8 weeks to go, scary and exciting all at once!

Not been on for a while and so much to catch up on!

Baby2b welcome to Edinburgh!! If you need any recommendations on anything in the burg feel free to pm me!

TTL woop woop to 8k payrise! I also had another NCT class on thursday and was good, no visulisation this time which I appreciated

Cowboy willing your wee bub to come soon, so close!!

Nickel on your Q this is our first .. so no experience in parenting dept here

Waving to everyone else, hope you're all doing grand!