January 2014(Thread 10) - Getting out of breath!Don't forget to squeeze when you sneeze laydeez!

[Toothfairy78]

Diddle-leee-deeeee. Diddle-lid-did-deee! It's the finaaaal countdown!

Oh yeah third trimester!

Hoping we bring space and idris with us....

toby you read it correctly. Glad I'm not the only one thinking this is strange!

I hope your boss told your colleague that he/she is King of the Bellends.

Frizz you poor thing! Sounds like a lot of frustrations and stress and worry have come out with a thud! It's good to get it out and your DH needs to know that although he is obviously having a tough time of it right now, so are you and he can't take you for granted!

Good luck at your NCT group tonight. You will be fine - everyone will probably be in the same boat - that's certainly what we found. So everyone will be keen to talk once the ice is broken.

MrsG OMG! That's VERY knowledgable! How DOES he know? Lol!

Humpty ekkkk - good luck for the GTT tomorrow. I had the same reasoning as you and ate like a saint the day before! Lol! Make sure you take something to entertain you for 2 hours and get ready to feel lots of kicks as bubs gets the sugar high of his life!!!

Toby I thought the same as you about eating tons of steak and spinach before my bloods re: anaemia, but I didn't really manage to do it, so will se what happens with the results...

Nature OMG! Really hope you get your account sorted - good job you noticed! What a complete twot you work with! I mean WTF? Who DOES THAT???? It's not frickin compulsory to wish someone congratulations. That's just bloody ridiculous! He should get a warning for wasting time with such stupid nonsense complaints! Like when you waste police time - he is clearly wasting management time like a total attention seeking knob!

Book am loving your chain eating theory! There do seem to be so many reasons they can send you for one! The waiting for the results is the worst part! My midwife still hasn't received my results nearly 3.5 weeks later, so I am really glad I badgered by GP surgery to phone up and get them for me!

I will also point out that said cuntpuffin sent this email whilst on parental leave! Surely they have more important things to do at the moment!!

book we can hold each others' hands through the GTT tomorrow. Mine's at 9am. No food after 8pm tonight, which is why there is a VAT of spag bog on the stove and I am about to eat a muffin some carrot sticks and houmous.

toby well, Kent isn't that far from That London. I'm pretty sure we can have a Billy No Mates meet up cake scoff if we want to.

MrsA mine's in Greenwich - is that yours? Or Blackheath, can't recall the exact location, but there's only one in that vicinity. Would be ace if you were at the same one - we could sit in the corner being naughty and sniggering. Or maybe just me...

nature I am so with toby on this one. Who the FUCK demands a congratulations email? What a #penisbeaker.

Mine's at 8.45 humpty, but I can eat until 10pm tonight. How does that work?

The penis beaker thread has utterly killed me

Did we ever sort out Facebook btw?

I'm often in That London :) DH has an interview at Westfield Stratford tomorrow, as it goes, so I'm going up to eat Pinkberry and spend money as moral support/to meet him afterwards. So a cake scoff would definitely be possible at some point!

:o #penisbeaker

I'm deffo up for FB now if there is one.

Good luck with all the GTTs tomorrow! Make sure you take something (eg sandwich) to eat afterwards. Regarding fasting - You'll be fine so long as you don't eat after going to bed (unless youre snacking on a bag of sugar at 11pm it's not going to affect your blood sugar level at 8/9am). Make sure you do drink water though as they'll be taking lots of blood so good to be hydrated.

Hopefully none of you will have gd as it's really tedious, but on the plus side it's one of the few pregnancy complications that can be completely controlled.

I'm doing a gtt tomorrow too.

I have no idea what i'm supposed to do though, the midwife just gave me a prescription along with about ten other tests.

I know it's bad to fast when pregnant, but is it a compete no no to do it at lunchtime? I have to take DD to school at 8.30 and have a hospital appointment at 11 so won't be able to stay for the two hours required. DH also gets home late, so we eat at 10pm.

Ok here goes (trying to remember what everyone has said whilst actually having a tab with the previous pages open so i can see them lol)

nature that really sucks about ebay but even worse about your colleague. I think when you have your baby you should complain if he doesn't send you a gift basket to congratulate you.

humpty and toby he definitely needs to pull his weight a bit more. I know its hard with him out of work but i need some support too. I did get home today and he had got his dad round to help figure out the leak and the ceiling situation (first house so we have a lot to learn about fixing stuff) and he had sorted out the toilet flush that i mentioned in my stress last night. It just makes me feel bad now as he actually listened and did something.

Good luck humpty and book and altered on the GTT tomorrow.

mrsa thats a bit stupid about not getting the vac a day early. Surely it really doesn't make that much difference as your dates could be a few days out anyway!

toby good luck to ur dh for the interview tomorrow.

sultana really hoping nct does go well. I feel like a bag of nerves! Doesnt help that i have felt so stressed all day just because of everything yesterday. I know in the grand scheme of things its really nothing but i think i had been bottling up a lot of stress and it was good to get it out.

Loving #penisbeaker lol

Ok so i know i have missed stuff out but i have a sudden pee urge!!

Frizz sorry to hear you are feeling overwhelmed. Easy on the chocolate - you may pay for it with heartburn later! Clearly I have no tips on getting dps to do anything though. What needs done in your nursery? Just painting and furniture up?

Good luck to all those having tests done. :)

Had a chat with Dp last night (he only got home at midnight so both of us were exhausted which wasn't helpful...) He doesn't want to split either, but its still being a bit "well whatever you say. you are always right" etc etc in an annoyingly childish tone. Wound me up rightly. Also that Im controlling (I see it as being organised - esp money wise - hes never had a budget or had to look after anyone but himself before) I asked him what practical things he thought we could start doing today to get us more in line with eachothers needs and he said he would get up early and do all his chores etc. I suggested some things re working out a budget.

DD refused school this am and I lost it with her :( DP was calmly chatting to her and was a great help (or tried to be at least) and held me when I sobbed for ages after she finally left for school.

He reckons its just a rough patch. (He just moved here, new job, new baby, hormonal pre-teen step-daughter and hormonal pregnant girlfriend....lots of responsibility) I hope it is.... but he said before he doesnt believe that relationships need to be influenced by outsiders so Relate is unlikely (for example my friend suggested an excellent marriage course run by local church, for any couple, not necessarily those in trouble. He point blank refused)

Will just have to see how it all goes!

Yay for That London meet ups! If we do FB, we can arrange through that? I think it's easier to do 'events' on there.

toby Westfield Stratford is ten minutes away from me now, and won't be that much further when we've moved. Pinkberry is an awesome, awesome thing. Salted caramel frozen yoghurt is a beautiful invention. Makes the hideousness rest of Westfield worthwhile. Also Pasta Remoli, by Waitrose, is one of the best things EVAH. Seriously. I go to Westfield just to get their cook at home fresh pasta.

I'm totally up for Fb. Did anyone start a group? I can do one, if you like? You'll need to PM me your RL fb names so I can invite you all. Also, presume we want it to be set to Batman-like levels of privacy?

tarka thank you for the GTT/fasting advice. Much appreciated!

altered not sure - but good luck tomorrow as well.

I have def had a v bad food week blue There were cakes left from monday so i have been eating them each day!
Nursery needs decorating, so last bit of wallpaper taking off, filling in any holes, quick sand and wash of the walls, ceiling painted white and then if he can paint the wall/ceiling edges in the coloured paint and then i can paint the walls (i dont want to be up the ladder)

Am glad you managed to have a chat with dp last night and at least he doesnt want to split up either. Its def a stressful time that is really going to test us all but if you are both aiming for the same thing then you'll be able to get through it.

blue sounds really positive. The most important thing is that he doesn't want to split up. From there, you can go onwards.
Massive hugs - well done for having a difficult conversation (if that doesn't seem patronising!)

Blue, it sounds like you have such a lot on your plate. I hope things look up a bit soon. I'm so glad he's willing to try and fix things.

frizz I wish I had your energy! I've spent most of today on my backside and am still struggling to stay awake. Think I'll go to bed early to avoid being awake when I'm not allowed to eat :)

I made a lovely dinner and DP refused to eat it when he came in because he didn't fancy it I'm shit at cooking, so it is rare that I even try now but I thought I was doing him a favour so he wouldn't have to cook for us when he got in. He's making himself a sandwich now :(

Good luck tomorrow humpty and altered. Are you doing the fb thing then humpty? I'll pm you my RL name if you are.

Hey all what's this penis beaker chat? disappears off to active threads elsewhere Sounds like some nesting kicking in across the thread
I'm in Invernesshire so Kent & London a wee bit far but liking the sounds of a Billy No mates reunion. Good luck with the move Humpty
Only 7 people instead of 15 at today's parentcraft class - I was amazed people hadn't turned up.
Good luck for all GTT tomorrow. Top tip from colleague at work - don't wear white & take some form of sick bag. She was in a white jacket and struggled completely failed to keep down the original lucozade she got made to drink...

Evening all,

Sounds loads of you have been having a crap time with thieving fraudsters, DPs that should be using their energy more wisely, cuntpuffins at work, leaky ceilings, stupid long days at work...

Can't really remember much else, am a bit pooped after a stupid long day. Anyway sending hugs and sympathy in every direction!

Today My dept head checked if my mat leave stuff was sorted. As HR and centralised workforce services are shite. Well after the HR rep fobbing me off and telling me to pop my letter in the internal mail to the relevant department and not hearing anything back, dept head gave me the name of someone to chase. Turns out they appear to have lost my maternity letter. Not impressed! Especially at hr rep for not giving proper contact details! Useless tw@ts.

Well got MW tomorrow morn. Must remember to bring pee!

Oh, and definitely up for a FB group!

Don't feel bad, Frizz. He needed a (gentle) kick up the arse. He'll feel better if he's achieving things.

Blue, that sounds like a dreadfully stressful time for you both. I know what you mean about him taking on a lot. My DH has gone in the last 3 years from being a young, single guy with a lovely tidy flat, a good job, loads of disposable income and loads of free time, to being a husband/stepdad to teens/sole breadwinner and upcoming father. I always try to bear that in mind when things get difficult.
But that's not to say he gets a free pass on being a dickhead!

Westfield is only 30 minutes from me, Humpty, so it could well be a go-er. And salted caramel Pinkberry with strawberries and Nutella is exactly what I'll be indulging in tomorrow. It is the best thing ever.
I will PM you re FB. Batman levels of security sound perfect! Thanks for being in charge :o

I'm not sure I've wished everyone good luck for their GTTs and I've forgotten exactly who I might have missed out, so GOOD LUCK TO YOU ALL!

Book, please tell me he ended up wearing it!

Grrr @ cuntpuffin work, Tooth!

book and tooth PM your Fb details and I will friend you.

I have toby already - anyone else who's up for a Facebook group, PM me.

Fb group is a GO for launch.

book your DP would be in big trouble in my house. But I made DH eat my exotic beef, lemon and cheese casserole, with red wine risotto, whilst on holiday recently. We didn't have stock cubes in the villa () so I had to improvise. It did not go well. More flavours does not equal better.

tooth grrrrrrrr for useless #penisbeakers at work. FFS.

I was going to call the Fb group 'Pelvic Floors and Penis Beakers', but I chickened out and called it Jan 2014 MNetters... Might reconsider.

:o

wow lots of things since I've last been on here. sounds like loads of you are having similar problems to me re work - I can't believe how hard it is for managers to sort out cover and understand that you can't take on more work at this point !

I manage a team and am currently trying to do my job, 60% vacant post, cover for someone on sick ans train someone new (been covering) that job too! but my boss wants me to do more and doesn't understand why things are being missed. I just don't get it am going to need to be harsh soon.

Blue sorry to hear about the problems with your dp. though your last update sounds more positive. I hope it continues to improve.

I hope space is doing okay.

Hi all. Just had a catch up. Am having an emotional day of crying at ridiculous things. Raaghh need to snap out if it.
Right am being useless I expect but I cannot see how to pm someone on here on my phone. I want to join the fb group lol. humpty could u pm me plz. Then hopefully I can just reply with my details and u can add me to group? X
Baby is doing some mega kicks 2nite which is lovely as they are nice and high for a change :) x