March 2013 Mk III - Hopefully the nausea will wear off soon...

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Em & haitch we've not been away for ages either, hence the fifth anniversary plan. Good to hear it's supposed to be lovely :-)
JoJo glad you got on well with the mw appointment!

Thanks ladies :)
I'm ready for a map now though!! I'm so tired!!
em I study at St John's are you there or at the main York Uni??!
I've not been abroad for about 3 years, we were planning a trip this sept but then with discovering the pregnancy and buying the house we just can't warrant the spend!! Besides, I'd take feeling crappy and having a baby over a holiday abroad anyday!!!

I was boasting yesterday that nausea seems to have abated. I swear it's returned today just to make me eat my words. Today being the day of non stop meetings including a new bis meet and one that I'm chairing. Nnngh. Stopping for a drink and perhaps a power nap before next meet. Sooooo tired.

Jojo great about getting another scan

I'm very jealous of all these scans and holidays although we were fortunate to be away the last 2 years after a few years of no holidays, dh is determined to get away again next year after all the rain this year

manda I'm also 5.4 and maybe 2 stone over that (plus abit more now pg) so determined to get super skinny after, although I think my cravings are milk, eggs and nectarines the baby is trying to tell me to be healthy I think

Oh and nausea back today but I have found sucking mints helps

Have been feeling a bit bleurgh today, but eating seems to have lifted the nausea a bit. Really can't complain, especially because others are suffering so much more and I've been complaining of having not enough symptoms, hehe!

Gummi I hear that bfeeding is a great way to lose baby fat so hoping that will work for me! I also plan to be one of those mums who jog with the pram, up and down the (very wide and nice and smooth) towpath :-) However, whether I can feasibly do this with a twin buggy is another matter!

Really excited as the plan to decorate / renovate the house is now in action. Getting my DH to do anything takes f-o-r-e-v-e-r and even getting him to agree to spend money takes a lot of persuasion, so now that we are agreed to use some of our savings to get things straight I've decided to take the bull by the horns and get quotes etc myself. I have asked him to take on a share of stuff, but he's really, really crap at doing this kind of thing. I wait, I wait, I nag, I wait. So I've accepted that if I want it done then I have to do it. Have two painter/decorators round today/tomorrow for quotes and am getting a few kitchen people to come and size up etc. I could do with some support from DH but - whatever - it feels really good to have got moving on this!

Where on earth do you get a reasonably priced kitchen from? Got Magnet and John Lewis coming over, but their costs look a bit mind-boggling. We just need cupboards, surfaces, sink, dishwasher; everything else fine. Given DH's painful inertia (it took him 6 months to get a back gate ... and it's been 4 months since then and he still hasn't got a lock for it!) I really would prefer people to come and fit it as well.

Speak to a local builder rather than a John Lewis etc. They'll know best places for best prices and fit it to your spec for you. If required bring in an electrician. It'll be faster, better & less likely to have fitting issues!!!

I'm told rule of thumb is - get cabinets as cheap as poss cause basically all the same. Splash out on work surfaces, is a cost/quality differene. Sinks & appliances as per individuals tastes and always pay for a decent electrician.

thanks tramp! sage advice there. we're first-time home owners so don't know much at all about this kind of thing but am determined to get the place straight before the twins arrive (because we'll never have the time or money to do anything after!) Just spoke to the John Lewis guy on the phone who was going on about 'whether you've got a budget of 15 or 30K...' and I was thinking 'Er, not really, mate!'

manda Tramp's advice spot on, friends got cabinets from IKEA & hired people to plumb & fit them, appliances bought online & also professionally fitted. Result was stunning and within budget

Manda agree with tramp, use a local builder or joiner, they'll get kitchen from somewhere like howdens-for trade look up Howdens online sorry on phone and rubbish at doing links or name checking, your joiner will prob have trade or working contact for any sparky work or tiling/plastering. Reccoment having access to a decent microwave/combi oven or electric oven for feeding yourselves, and freezer/fridge that you've still got plugged into living room or similar, makes life easier for the week or whatever

Home base do packages for kitchens at fair prices but I would recommended a builder or carpenter maybe and then buying the stuff yourself places like john lewis and magnet charge a HUGE premium for it and unless you have a never ending budget it would be just wasting money. Shopping around and getting good deals is part of the fun and to me is much more fun then handing shit loads of money to a firm for the same product!
jojo glad your midwife went well for you.

Ahh a holiday seems like a luxury thats NEVER going to happen :( We did go to Eygpt in Feb but it seems like forever ago and cant book anywhere as moved into a brand new house in July so money is tight thinking about even a weekend in Isle of Wight as I have never been and can normally see if from home, lol!!

Think my hormones have stepped up a gear and have decided not to email anyone else from group as I cant feel myself going all 'hulk' and turning green with anger, lol!!! Please say you are all hormonal as well as its not just me that could cry at any point today when thinking of the nightmare i had which was totaly unrelistic and in the next breathe want to go ninja on someone and karate chop there head!!

manda Yeap I bf my ds for the longest and lost a pile of weight, so hoping it works this time, I found feeding dds more difficult for some reason

Thoroughly reccommend Ikea kitchens. We put ours in ourselves nine years ago and it still looks great. The bits that have worn out are theexpensive extras, like taps, that we bought from posh firms! WOuldn't bother doing that again!

Ah, you lot are brilliant! Thanks so much for all the kitchen advice! Feel much better about it now!

Manda- you're welcome. We just bought our first place together and that's how we're amending the place and thus far it's come in way below prices of store fitters. Also we get what we want rather than standard fit.

Re hormonal - I've been steam from ears cross at people if usually shrug off today so you're not alone!

Evening All,

I've left my phone at work and feel like i've had my right arm chopped off!! Will probably find I get a lot more done tonight because i'm not randomly googling things though.

jojo i'm at the Heslington campus, so just have to send you some waves across the city then. Hope revision went well.

Manda good luck with the kitchen. It will be lovely having it all shiny and new for when the babies arrive. We've just bought our first house and i'm desperately seeking a fireplace for the living room - 70's house, no chimney but I love fireplaces they make a room.

I woke up in the middle of the night last night with awful chest pains. Woke DH up and told him I was having a heart attack. He sleepily said he didn't think it was likely and assessed me with all the medical knowledge he learned during his history degree..... Not satisfied with his diagnosis I dipped onto the NHS website (see this is why I need my phone) and it also concluded with my husband that I probably had heartburn... ate some toast and went back to bed.

zoey you're definitely not alone in feeling all hormonal. DH refused to pick his pants up off the floor last night. So I threw them out of the window. Seemed perfectly rational at the time.

Sorry Em but LOL at the pants going out the window. Love it!

Hoho at the pants out of the window, Em! Hilarious :-)

I am massively, weirdly hormonal at the mo. I think I was too embarrassed to share this the other day ? husband is foolish enough to let me cut his hair (despite having no training) ever since I took some rusty scissors to his over-long barnet one hot Glastonbury afternoon and he was pleased with the results (and realised it was cheaper than going to the barber). The other night I, by accident, razored off a triangle of sideburn when doing round his ears with the battery-powered thing (see, I don't even know the terminology). He said he'd have to cut both sidies off when he saw it in the mirror and I wept for ages, even at one point clinging to him wailing 'Pleeeease don't cut them off!' Suffice to say, they are still there. Think he fears for my mental stability if he got rid of them! ;-)

Exactly, it's going to be lovely to have a nice, fresh kitchen for the babies' arrival. I argued that we will never have £ or time enough in the future to re-do the kitchen. It's okay, but a bit scrappy round the edges, the cupboards smell a bit damp, the surface is yukky laminate that's coming away here and there, and it's just a bit too much like living in yet another rental house. So, I found a way we could afford it and used a bit of blackmail - I'll be cooking and slaving away and washing and cleaning up poo and pureeing carrots blah blah blah ? and he agreed it was a Very Good Idea! Think it's some extreme, early nesting urge.

Fireplaces, yay! We have a fireplace, but no fire. We were going to get a woodburning stove before autumn but with everything else that's been relegated to the non-essential, maybe next year list ... !

PS Em, I've been having the odd bit of palpitations at night ... and a panic attack (if you're stressed?) is a lot like what people think a heart attack feels like. But, yes, prob just heartburn! Glad it passed easily enough :-)

I was gigeling enough at the thought of Em through pants out of a window, then Mandasnd's DH keeping wonky side burns really got me going. You're both in my bad books for making me heave (not really though ).

JoJo, glad you had such a lovely MW appointment. But m work, 2 hours, I would have eaten a good few sandwhiches in that time adn at least a couple of apples (one thing I've found which actually briefly seems to ease the nausea) or vomited on the poor woman!

Manda - go you with the house doing-up-ness. It's lovely to feel like you're getting started on a project, especially one you really want to do (not like a dull work thing!).

Lexi, you holiday sounds perfect, and such lovely reason and timing.

Anyone feeling jelous of my hol I wouldn't do too much. We started thinking a week camping in France, I had been promised Euro camp after demanding a FULL week holiday this year, ABROAD, and somewhere WARM and with a pool. Got down graded to camping in cornwall when we realised we'd never got DS a passport, then down to no holiday and looking at houses and potty training instead, and now finally booked mon - fri in Northumberland. Decided I couldn't manage the extra time in the car to cornwall, and never would have coped with getting to France. Not camping now though as camping and morning sickness just not a good mixture so have a little cottage in a little village near the sea side. DS will be two a few days before we go and this will be his first trip to a beach . Really looking forward to it though, adn the time off work. HATE my job so can't wait to have some time off. Have a week and a hlaf off work actually as it's whilst the childminders are on holiday.

Took DS to bed about an hour ago and he's still babling away to himself and counting (quite what I'm not sure, perhaps the cot bars)!

Oh dear, I can't even begin to correct all the typos. Really should go slower and read through befor posting. Oh well. If it makes no sense, just ignore it - it's all waffle any way!

Evening.
Amused by pants out the window - though if I did that everytime I picked up dh's we'd have a mighty big pile in the gladiolis. Heartburn is pretty common - as are palpitations - during pregnancy (I had both last time though at different stages). I used to wake in the night & swig from the gaviscon bottle - gave up on measuring as it was so uncomfy.

Yy to over-done reactions. I am not a wailer but suspect I was overheard yesterday morning kicking the washing machine whilst calling it a 'cunting wanker'. Bit overboard considering. Apologies for what my mum would term 'factory language'!

jojo what a happy scan - am thrilled for you. Counting down the days till mine now, gulp.

We have a big old refurb project ahead too, in preparation for baby arrival - well, it is a good deadline anyway. The whole house needs doing so we've got our work cut out. Happily DH is a fabulous DIY-er plus competent carpenter. We'll buy from salvage yards and he'll turn it into a home somehow. Whilst I stand by and point :o

Good luck with kitchens & all other nesting projects - and remember storage as babies seem to need more stuff than two adults put together!

Am shattered. Sleep well all...

X posts flowery - your cottage by the sea sounds blissful. I love the Northumberland coast. Your DS will have a terrific time!

Super stories! Thanks ladies!! Snigger-tastic at pants out of the window!!! Just indulged with great British bake off and now it's the midwives!! Good old beeb

Loving The Midwives.

I have been feeling very punchy the last couple of days, I am assuming this is hormones. Weirdly I am getting full quite quickly whilst eating, I am hoping that will mean I will slow down my MASSIVE rate of expansion.

DH and I have a week W-W booked off in October for my 30th, trying to find somewhere to go on hols, but feeling very indecisive and unsure. I was telling my boss today that we aren't officially talking about anything or telling anyone until 12 weeks as I believe it is just dust, he didn't laugh at me!