Hey guys. Re: fish. Mostly it is the mercury they're asking you to limit the intake of BUT, please be ware that fish like mackerel and tuna have high levels of histamines in them from 'death' (bacterial growth), too much of this can lead to 'scomboid poisoning'. So ideally, you should limit your contact (as in skin-to-skin) with these fish and never eat a 'warm' fish unless you've literally just dragged it out the sea and banged it on the head whilst pg. Once cooked, totally fine if dealt with when fresh IYSWIM...it's one of the many reasons why I'm not allowed in the fish counter at work.
If worried about brain development, and you dislike fish, then you could always take a pg friendly omega suppliment with dinner (I'm still taking pregnacare plus). Flaxseed oil is also high in omega 3. Nuts, seeds and leafy green veg also contain convertable fatty acids, so you could just up your intake of these too. Eggs have omega 3 too.
giraffe I'm going for the iCandy peach. Have opted for Black Jack...though was tempted by Sweet Pea...but decided Black Jack was more "practical" (as in, could get other blankets etc to go with it). Def. wasn't going to be pushing about a tomato. Seems such a shame that the peach only comes in the 3 colours.
ghost If it's any help, my dwarf status (5ft3) is the opposite of DH's giraffe status (6ft1 - that's tall to me), so took him to test the Peach and Chameleon. I see someone's hooked you up with the bugaboo issue stuff.
capy not that fond of the stokky either myself. Mainly because it's 'built up' in the pram bit (from what I remember), and they seem to be suggesting using the car seat bit is ok for baby to sleep in. It's not, not for more than 90mins. All sellers of carseats are supposed to advise that baby spends no more than 90mins at a time in a carseat before a decent leg-kicking-possibility break...though it does at least look like the car-seat bit does recline fully. I dunno. I dismissed a lot of pram-style ones because they were 'built up' to look nice and 'cosy' but don't like the restriction...BUT! Hey, if it works for you... I would recommend pushing a few about first. I ruled out some I liked the look of fairly quickly as I'm a dwarf and couldn't see over the hoods when pushing them.
parsley My cats seem unphased by Abi booting them too. Abi also seems to like them purring when they're sat on her, odd critters, the bunch of 'em. Also jealous of your aquanatal. Really want to go, but there's no one trained/willing in my area, despite the pool timetabling it in. Not willing to travel for 2h (1 each way) to get to the next neatest class.
fish beastly back ache is here too. Doesn't sound as bad as yours though. Hope you get some rest!
As I though tonight...I didn't get my time off section, or I did, it was just spent cleaning up someone else's crap...again. Ah well, at least I got a bit of patronising and pointless compulsory training done.