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i cant see a new thread so i thought id start another one!

Another insomniac here. Had soup and a jacket potato at about 7 last night, then had the sort of night you'd expect after an 8 course banquet and loads of booze. Heartburn is pants.

MsMoss: your job sounds soul-destroying. May the time pass quickly, and may you develop some non-health- and non-baby-threatening condition (temporarily and painlessly) which means you won't have to go in any more. Are you a British myths and legends fan? I like the name Wayland myself...

Rainbow: isn't moving supposed to be one of the most stressful things you can do? What with your absent DP and pregnancy, it's no wonder you're feeling lousy. Hope you can keep in sight that this too will pass...

Leo - my friend's baby was 8lbs at birth, and won't take a dummy. Maybe there are things she could do, but having had it laid quite squarely at her door by other people, I wanted to get some other opinions. Life with a newborn sounds hard enough without people criticising your performance! (Didn't mean you btw: people I know in RL ).

My doggy has had to go to the vets for an X-ray today to see if she's got an obstruction in her tummy. She's been being sick for 2 weeks, and has got really skinny. I didn't realise she'd need to go under a General Anaesthetic and stay all day. Got all upset on the way home: she was so distressed at being left.

Hope she's ok.

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Hello All.

Boo - Hope everything works out with your hound.

Sleep? Whats that? LOL I get from about 11-3 then I'm awake for ages, then at 6ish I feel sleepy again! Just an hour before I need to get up! Typical.

Feel really lousy today, I have a pain in my right eye and the socket hurts when I chew! The evil woman at work has all the radiators on full blast, I feel so sleepy and have a thumping headache, but everytime I ask if we can have a window open she says "Some of us are cold in here" I did actually take the fuse out of one of the rads though!

Callie - glad to hear things seem to be OK after your bleeding scare.

Moss - you tickle me! Hope the last 40 days off work go well for you. I'm on to 3 days a week now, not sure when I'll call it quits completley. ONe of the reps asked me for my home address so he could pop round if he needed me to do anything for him ASAP.. I lughed and told him where to go, NOT my address!

Started a Strep B thread in pregnancy forum.. I had no idea the NHS didn't think it was necessary to test. Oh well. Not sure what to do really. May ask the MW tomorroe when I see her for my 32 week gulp appointment and see what she says.

Diva - fingers crossed the EH can do soemthing about your inconsiderate neighbours.

Amie... have you been watching 'This Morning'??? I have had it on and caught that segment. I have just been bawling in to my cup of tea over the lady with cancer - what a lovely family and what shoddy hormones (mine!). I have my 32wk MW appointment tomorrow also.

I've had to take a break from cleaning my oven . I feel like I've given my abs a good work out. A very quiet day with my baba today, not noticed much movement at all.

Foxy, I'm finishing at half term too where are you - our half term ends on the 9th. I'm struggling with my conscience whether to complete my leave form with the last day of 9th or 16th!! I will figure out how many work days left... tbh I'm not looking forward to going back after this break. I have a ticker from lilypie.com on my email and that says 54 days left (of this pregnancy) aargh!

Callie at your dream!! Glad your shopping trip helped to make some decisions. Good on dp getting involved. I get 'ok' to everything I suggest.

Boo... hope the heartburn feels better today and I also hope that everything is ok with your dog and s/he starts to improve after the op.

Diva... fingers, toes, and everything else crossed for you. Hope your bp is better after your stint away from home.

Interesting reading about your relationships / sex. All the opinions have been great food for thought.

Leo / Booboo, how annoying to be up in the middle of the night! Do you manage to get any sleep in the day?

I get ten days' paid sick leave in the year, but I don't know if that's Jan - Dec (in which case I've a clean slate again) or Apr - Mar (in which case I would get just SSP). I need to find out, albeit surreptitiously, as with a sympathetic doctor I may well develop a non-threatening condition for ten working days!

I haven't skivved like this since I was 21!

Booboo I am a bit of a myths and legends fan, or "geek" if you prefer! Actually I'm just a geek full stop really.

Hope your dog is okay, when do you find out? It is horrible waiting. Could she have an overactive thyroid or is it definitely an obstruction? What will they do if it is?

Leo I think dh was, like me, taken in by all this talk of "blooming" and the pictures in baby magazines of models beaming at their pregnant, lightly tanned tummies. I don't think he was prepared for a fat, farting, burping, moaning woman for whom a poo is a major victory, and whose joie de vivre is massively sapped by constant exhaustion!

I think he's been waiting for me to bloom since day one. If it hasn't happened yet I doubt it will happen now.

Does anyone enjoy being pg? I do feel like I moan an awful lot.

X-posts Amie / Kiwi, sorry, was being distracted by work!

Amie lol at you taking the fuse out of the radiator! I have the same thing here but if ever I get "some of us are cold" I make a jokey reference to "the spreadsheet" and they get turned off quickly!

Sad thing is, I don't really have a spreadsheet.

It's all in a Word document.

Kiwibella sod the oven. It'll only get dirty again, what's the point?

Nine minutes until dinner. I'm starving!

I said the same thing to my MIL this morning, Moss. She (as everyone does) said it must be easier this time around (although last time was almost 11 years ago). I don't remember complaining so much previously .

Kiwi - no.. but I now know what my mum gets up to! LOL

I liked being pregnant untill Junior decided to settle on my bladder.

I'm with you Moss. This pregnancy has given me a rude awakening (and occasionally DH too!) [excuse crass subliminal fart reference]. Actually, he farts for Britain, so has no grounds for complaint.

Didn't help that my BF has had 2 pregnancies, and - apart from a bit of nausea and tiredness in the first trimester - has really enjoyed them. Obviously I'm glad for her, but perhaps it gave me false expectations.

I'm a secret geek too! Have you read The White Goddess by Robert Graves? Very interesting book (bit of a plough, though).

It's just an X-ray today. If the vet thinks it's necessary, they'll operate on Thursday. Don't know if I can bear it...

Booboo I have, a bit hard going but very interesting! Have you read The Golden Bough by James Frazer?

Will you find out from the vet today after the X-ray?

We've got The Golden Bough, but I haven't tackled it yet.

I've got to phone the vet at 4pm to find out what's happening. I'm sure she'll be fine: she's a tough little thing.

Boo & Moss - Wow, my hats off to you! those books scared me when I did my lit course!

Booboo / Amie I am a proper swot!

Unlike everyone else I knew, I didn't go to uni 'cos of the parties and the sex; I wanted to read loads of books.

Did you do an English Lit degree Mossy? I did - loved every second of it.

Which lit course did you do, Amie?

Booboo I did, after major agonising over whether to do that or a Maths degree!

I loved every minute of it, but sometimes can't help feeling that if I'd done a Maths degree I would be having the most amazing career now!

Didn't tackle it at uni, but two of my housemates did so after they'd done with the books They passed them on to me to read! I did a degree in business and retail management, specialising on Marketing... yes.. I'm really that interesting.

But to fill out some evening when I moved back home, before moving in with now DH, we're were high school sweethearts who managed to get through going to different uni one eveing I did photography and the other a fun Book study group really, maybe calling it a lit course glorified it a bit.. but still got to read some great books and learn a bit more about them!

Would loved to have done a more "classic" subject as a degree but chickened out.. for fear of not getting that amazing career I'm supposed to have had.. turns out I could have as I now work for the "Family".

Amie, "I work for the family" - sounds like something you would say if you were in the mafia!! Your course sounds really interesting. What books did you study?

I have to say though, much as I loved uni, I was incredibly pretentious. I even had a black polo neck, a beret, and dyed my hair pilarbox red.

This was fine at uni, but I lived at home and I can honestly say that it's not a good look if you live on a council estate in Kirkby!!!!

Moss - LMAO, that sounds awesome but.. terrible all at the same time, which Uni did you go to? I've been to St Helens few times and I admit, I don't htink it would be that much of a trend round there.. well esp not knowlsley road which is pretty much the only place I've been, come on you saints.

books were fairly varied.. I remember "Heart of Darkness" Joseph Conrad "Catcher in the Rye" Sallinger, Homer's "Illiad" and touched on his Odyssey. "Handmaid's Tale" Atwood. just to name a few..

would love to hear about any recommendations... from anyone!

Amie I'm sure you've told me this but where do you live? Mil lives next door to Knowsley Road; she has a nightmare on match days trying to get out of her close with the parking!! It is a great atmosphere though, even for a confirmed non-sport person like me (well, exception made in the case of cricket, although atm probably shouldn't say that!)

I went to Liverpool Uni, but I lived in Kirkby at the time, I'm not from St Helens.

Have you read TS Eliot's The Wasteland? If you know The Golden Bough it's definitely worth a read.

For about the last six months though all I've read pretty much are baby-related books and magazines!!

Down the M6 a bit Moss, I live in Warwickshire. I have a friend who lives in St Helen's and sometimes I go up there to watch the RL!

Made a note of that. Just getting my teeth into some "classics" I'm supposed to have read.. they're not classics as in.. you know what I mean.. people have said I should read them. Catch 22 is next along on the shelf.. heard mixed things on this.

Head's still thumping but evilness has left for the day and I've flung all the windows open.

Dresser Babies R Us told us was only available online now.. isn't available at all.. unless we got to cambridge! joy.

Hello everyone and happy new year! Sorry not to have been around - far too much family trouble over the holidays has kept me away from the computer. I hope you all have a healthy and happy 2007, with beautiful babies to cuddle come Feb / March time!

Take care and I will try to be on more often come 2007.

Love XXXX

hEllo everyone, Happy New Year and good luck now we're all the 3rd trimester.
I had a 28 week growth scan yesterday
Ahem, found out the gender
I was right Tis Blue! And thumb sucker Same as dd.
Am showing up as a little big for dates as well as having high sugar(I always have this pregnant or not but hey) so am off for glucose tolerance test monday.
Have been so busy with dp and dd at home have redecorated babys room and we are renovating our bedroom over the enxt few weeks as well so evenings are BUSY!
love to all and hope everyone is ok.
I indulged in fair bit of brie and the odd glass of wine over xmas, Was FAB!

Happy New Year Piffle - you knew all along you were having a blue one though didn't you, really?!

Hi Dolly and Happy New Year to you too!

One hour fifteen minutes to go until the end of the day... roll on six o'clock - so tired!

Hi piffle ... Great another boy ! I have to have a GLT when I arrive back in the UK because of a previous big baby - is it true they make you drink Lucozade ??

Pretending to do an inventory on the computer... but should really get on with the packing

piffle-congrats on your blue bundle.hope all is ok with your sugar level etc.
hi dolly-sorry to hear youve had problems,is everything sorted now?

moss/amie-your talk of uni is making me feel inferior...i was going to go to uni etc but i had a bit of a mental breakdown in the 2nd year of my a-levels,and ended up only sitting one of them,then i left school and worked in retail till i went off to butlins with dreams of becoming a redcoat(i ended up working in the supermarket)and thats where i got preg with ds1

so im going to do the kids first then career option,as i feel im less likely to go insane now

i got my maternity grant today,ive already spent nearly half of it

i have known people who enjoy being pregnant,it doesnt make any sense to me.i dont know where they find the women in magazines who have a neat bump and glowing skin.

Moss /Amie - you have had me laughing with your tales of work, radiators and Uni

I haven't written notes today, so sorry to everyone whose comments and news I've completely ignored...

I am SO knackered today its unreal

Mossy - R U returning to work after baby? You've probably already told us and I just can't remember.

Piffle - blimey, well done on all the decorating - just thinking about it makes me want to lie down! And congrats on the little boy news, there a lots of little lads being baked on this thread