April 2015 Thread 9: Let the chatting continue!

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Quick new thread as only 2 posts left on old one! Any newbies or lurkers please join us!

DH won't eat filled pasta and has only just started eating pasta and sauce again after I packed it out with veg and chicken with a minimal amount of pasta and it all stirred together. I think I spoil him too much. He pulled his face at chicken supreme but I cooked it anyway. Ended up doing the potatoes anyway. Similar to the new potatoes idea but I just get a normal spud and chop it into cubes (don't even peel it) shove in oven with garlic oil and herbs. 30mins done.

Bet your potatoes are fab Lauren.

I think you're very very nice to your DH. Either that or I am horrid to mine!

nom nom lauren I'll have some of those potatoes! Ended up doing a creamy mushroom and bacon linguini that DD initially tucked into but then dismissed in favour of 64 zoo lane because the tv didn't get turned off in the other room >.< DH polished off all the plates though, did rather forget how happily he could live on pasta, so he is at least easy to feed, the only thing he dislikes are sprouts and lentils i however am a bit of a fussy cow, no wonder he hates cooking, I don't eat eggy eggs, or fish, or nuts

Well he told me he has gone off all chicken in sauce. That is my go to meal, what exactly am I supposed to cook now? He says he's not a fussy eater but I beg to differ.

DD didn't touch hers either but I knew that would happen so I stuck a load of tomatoes, cucumber and peppers on her plate too. She did eat some potatoes. (and currently separating the colours from her mini smarties.)

Does anyone else think this bad weather they keep banging on about is actually going to happen?

squidge I'd be tempted to tell them that given your own situation and the fact you paid asking price for a quick move, now it is no longer quick you will consider dropping your offer if it isnt completed by March!!! Not enough to put them off... But enough to get them moving, there aren't many buyers who would offer full asking price so they would be stupid to back off especially if they have found somewhere. Good grief I hate buying houses - I like choosing... And hate the next bit! Last time we were at PILs too and it was great but there wasn't much privacy the longer we were there the more we became part of the furniture and one day I came home from work to find that MIL (who I love to bits) had washed my underwear!!! Oh so embarrassing... We dropped our offer because we were cash buyers and had actually sold our previous house in the Midlands and stipulated we wanted to move asap. They said it was fine because they wanted to get to Scotland and settled by the next school term etc etc and said they could do it in 6 weeks. 2.5 months later we got in, it was so frustrating. Still, in the extra time we waited the sewage pipe burst under the side path and they had to get it fixed so in a way that was a bonus that we didn't have to sort!!!

Just took dd down to the garden centre for a cuppa and a play in the Connecta. Well, at pretty much 29 weeks pregnant I front carried her the full 15 minute walk - she's about 12kg. My coat was slippy so it rode up a bit and dd sat on my bump a bit which became sore - but I did all the adjusting myself alone so don't think I did it well. But still managed and am pleased. Its not really for her, but nice to know I could manage it if she really wanted and I could push the pram. I think it would have been better as a back carry at that weight but didn't think dd would be up for that at all. Anyway, given that it will mostly be for a 4-18month old I think it will be fine. Dd chose to walk home, very slowly, but very well, she was so good, and talked about her shadow (which we were following because of the street lights) all the way home!

God Lauren you must have the patience of a saint! He sounds very fussy to me!

Feeling seriously guilty that since dh will be late home I might give dd tinned macaroni cheese!!! What a terrible mother! She did have fruit and yoghurt for breakfast... Hm... Maybe I should man up and heat up the left over caribbean curry dh cooked on Saturday that she liked instead... That's not hard is it!!! Just knackered, doing bedtime along doesn't fill me with joy tonight...

Oh yes and dh is a "proper cooking cook" and does complicated stuff, though has recently recognised most days simple I'd better - leaving more time with dd and less mess. He does loads more cooking than me. And I am not very good at it either!!!

Very annoying about the house. You can't buy think iuf ppl had t deal directly with each other they would get more of a move on to save face!
I have a confession; I drink diet coke when I'm in the pub. I feel really bad now...i have tarnished my child's life already!x

Oh to clarify that comment... Dh is awesome at cooking!

daholster FiL took over our washing the first time the laundry bin got full and MiL would fold it all, pretty awkward as they always noticed when I had new lingerie! FiL was great at getting stuff clean though, even when someone brought him home the nighty I'd laboured in it came back spotless O.o I'd been planning to just bin it, so won't sure whether to be impressed or horrified!

chilli what's this about coke? assume it's the caffeine? we're allowed 200mg, I need every single mg of that to survive...

I didn't even read these posts before tea and I had pasta for tea, must be phychicly tuned into you lot here and brocolli out of a packet,nothing fancy lol
hypnobirthing lady can't make it to us tonight so having to reschedule was really looking forward to it too but never mind these things happen
just had a call from receptionist at my doctors to say they've got my blood tests and I have to go in for a prescription For ferrous fumarate. Which from Google is for low iron related to anemia. I knew my tiredness wasn't just down to big preggo!
Didn't mention b12 though so assume thats fine.
good news on the midwofe lead care banana
Bad news on the move squidge think of the long game,will be worth it in the end and you can tell bump all about it when their older :)
On the cooking front my DH isn't too bad, but I'm no Delia Smith either. he mad a brilliant pea and ham soup for the first time at weekend. Made 9 portions which works out at about 77p a portion! Winner.

Sorry if I missed any impotent posts,hate using my phone (but too lazy to get the tablet or turn the laptop on!)

Does anyone else feel like the baby shopping is going on forever? The only big thing I still have to get is the co-sleeper cot but there are so many little things that I seem to need too.

The odd cheeky one is fine Chili I wouldn't worry about it. I have issues with pub coke it makes my stomach weird. (Can't tell if I'm going to be sick or poop myself) so I try not to drink it. Strangely enough I'm fine with the lemonade, just not the coke/Pepsi.

Just had to read 2 stories to DD luckily she fell asleep halfway through the second one. (They weren't even short ones took me half an hour to read them) DH had done her bath for me which was helpful as I can't bend over the bath now. (Least he pulls his weight in other ways, he washed up too)

stunt It really does go on forever! We saved everything from DD, but some of the stuff needs replacing, and some of the stuff I was determined to get new, feels like fore everything we i buy there are ten more things that we i suddenly need want I just need to stay away from all internet but mums net! Even managed to find a set of oils for breastfeeding today, realised thad got a bit bad when I suggested to DH that he should get me them for valentines...

Misty I'm not the best cook in the world, I can do a few things from scratch and the rest is packets and jars that I pack out with veg (fresh or frozen) working full time there just isn't time to cook everything from scratch. I do try to do at least 1 meal a week completely myself and we have a Sunday dinner at my mums so that's from scratch. (Sunday is my lazy day, we have a bacon toastie brunch at MILs and then tea at my mums, just have to make a small snack early afternoon)

I understand your annoyance at not being able to knit yet. I have my pattern and wool and was meant to steal some needles from my mum at the weekend but she was super hungover on Saturday and then took DD out all day on Sunday so no time to route around for them. I want to get cracking on my little cardigan.

Aww that's a nightmare about the housemove. Fingers crossed it gets sorted quickly and the PILs give you some space when the baby comes.

DH tends to do most of the cooking. He is very good and always cooks from scratch. Im planning on doing some batch cooking when I start to reduce my hours at work/go off on mat leave as I fear DH will insist on still cooking proper meals and I'll loose the rag with him.

Just looked in the mirror and I've burst blood vessels in my eye from being sick. This better just be a blip cause I can't cope if the sickness gets bad again. I just want my baby already!

Well I had a bad morning with my GTT test, fainting, vomit and basically all ending in me having to retake it next Monday.

Anyway on a less frustrating subject I was wondering about something, one of my friends is due in seven days and people on FB have been saying "No more lie ins" etc, now I might be naive here since I will be a first time mum. But surely a lazy morning is still possible if one parent gets up and lets the other do so? I mean, I fully intend to do this for my DH and vice versa. Is this not possible and if so why not? I'm not breast feeding, thats the only thing I can think of.

I've bought some things to finish my hospital bag today BIG knickers, pads, mini toiletries, black towel. It's all on the baby's room floor and now I'm just making a list to make sure I haven't forgotten anything. I'm packing babies things in labelled plastic bags so DH can hopefully find them.

You could have all come to mine for dinner tonight as I made chicken fried rice to use up the roast chicken from yesterday but there was enough to feed a small army I bought more plastic tubs today so that I can do some batch cooking when I finish work.

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Siarie that's what me and DH do when DD gets up too early. We do alternate mornings so you'll get at least an hour in bed extra (maybe 2). She has actually been behaving in regards to waking up recently and we woke her up this morning at 7.15 getting in the shower!

What I did when I was on ML and DH had gone back to work was stick the telly on in the bedroom, pop DD on the bed with me surrounded by pillows and just doze on and off till I felt like getting up. (Got quite a few pics of me and DD snuggled next to each other asleep DH is totally responsible for there being evidence)

We've got left over roast pasta bake tomorrow. I love cooking from scratch but just don't have the energy working full time and doing all the other things I do (i'm a brown owl amongst other things). I do love making jam though when it's a nasty day outside!

Hope you're okay kismac - I have been feeling more sick lately, but nothing that bad. Hope you feel better soon.

Sorry to hear about the GTT retake Sairie - hopefully they'll look after you better next time as they know you had a bad time today.

I have been living in big pants for ages - does anyone know how much bigger they might need to be by labour/after you've given birth?

Well, Sairie, if you're not BF, then yes, a lie in is technically possible. But usually you'll hear the baby cry (they're theoretically in your room until six months) and once you've heard them yell, be fed, have their bum changed, blah blah blah, you're awake. I was BF in any case.

But even once I stopped BF, DH would go in to see DD when she wakes (that's our deal - he's better at mornings than me) and she wanted me. When she was quite small (say 9-12 months) she'd try to wriggle out of his arms and crawl to our room. Sometimes DH would manage to distract her and get her downstairs and sometimes I would go back to sleep (I'd always have heard the howl of "COME AND GET ME I'M AWAKE NOW"). But rarely. Our solution has always been for us all to sleep at lunchtimes on weekends when she does. I don't mind the lack of lie ins as I wasn't a big lie in person before anyway. But we've had a couple of weekends away without her and it's been GLORIOUS to sleep to 9 or 10. Wonderful.

So I guess depends on how good you are at getting back to sleep. How quick your OH is to get up and deal with said child. And how much the child wants you (over your DH/DP).

In our case, DH was doing a part time masters on top of his day job for the first two years of DD's life so was only around 7-7.45am. 7 days a week. and 6-7pm on weekends. So she didn't really trust him and know him. Not his fault - an unavoidable outcome of the situation - but she only wanted me. Now he's around a lot more, she will be more likely to accept daddy, but still wants me, particularly if she's sad. But then I'm a SAHM, so I'm her constant.

Caveat - DD is pretty good about mornings these days and generally we don't hear a peep til 7am. Since we go to bed about 10, we aren't exactly sleep deprived any more! Took a good 2 years to get to that point, however!

Ah London lucky you DD is 4 months off being 4 and we've only just got to that stage. I did bf DD for 14 months so even though I was up throughout the night she was pretty good about falling asleep straight away and I just did the morning feed and handed her over if she was still awake.