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Due in April 2007 - Men Beware ....... !!?

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CaptainDippy · 16/01/2007 15:56

I got there 1st!

Tee! Hee!

How are we all? I've been trying to get online all day, but computer is playing up - Grrrr!

Anyway, better late than never .....

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BigBellyCornflakeKid · 19/01/2007 15:07

That is one would have got if didn't have carrycot - think will get the next size up one - think it still folds down tiny for when baby about 6 months. Thanks for that!

I am watching slings on ebay at the moment!

geordiemacminx · 19/01/2007 15:09

I have a moses basket but not a proper carry cot.

I'm looking at the wilkinet.. kinda a half way house between the baby bjorn and the sling?

YvieE · 19/01/2007 15:09

GM - just wanted to say loved the last line of you rant O n txt spk sux hun!! - miaow!! I've got to use that at sometime.

Personnaly unlike kimmyjane i don't think you were having a go at her about freebies, more that she is taking the piss with good natured people, also there are other people struggling out there as well she should give them a chance to obtain some stuff.

GK - I think Grant Mitchell is kinda sexy

katy44 thanks for the stats tidy up - have updated mine

geordiemacminx · 19/01/2007 15:13

I have a feeling that the 2 in question are actually the same person but who knows.. it was just amusing that she had posted requested everything from a dog to a dining room table!!!

I am calm and relaxed re the whole situation now thanks to my whale music and katy's accompaniment... and I think the girl in question has been banned for her snide remarks... my work here is done!!!

Katy44 · 19/01/2007 15:14

Thanks Yvie - did we know you were having a pink bean? If not, congratulations! (If I've already said that please blame the pregnancy)
I did have a search through the old threads around the time of your scan but couldn't find any mention of it, so I'm glad you've updated it.

YvieE · 19/01/2007 15:26

Don't worry Katy44 - I found out on the 18th december, during the Christmas rush week!

1becomes3 · 19/01/2007 15:55

Just had a thought my babies may come really early, like the end of feb (hope not I will be keeping my legs crossed)
Does that mean that I will have to leave this thread and join a post nantal one for when they are born?
All you bub's will be (hopefully) end of march, april to the beginning of may, mine will be older than all of yours.

Can't really be on a born in april thread if mine are born in feb!?!

geordiemacminx · 19/01/2007 15:57

we can pretend?

Plus they'll just be little so no one will notice...

Katy44 · 19/01/2007 16:03

In my opinion it's (or it should be) post-natal thread for people on April 2007 AN threads.
Otherwise, as you say, people would have to swap and change all the time - fine if you want to, but not if you don't!

Katy44 · 19/01/2007 16:03

Of course starting the thread in February might be a bit confusing!

geordiemacminx · 19/01/2007 16:04

and we would miss you and everything!!!

Eddas · 19/01/2007 16:10

It's taken me ages to catch up as I had to find out what went on with GMM. PMSL when i eventually found the start with the thread attached and your post, very good rant.You should be proud!! Sounds like she was taking the slight p

Had a mixed morning first of all,think it was just pg hormones. dropped dd at pre school where she didn't cry which cheered me up(only her second week so we're going well). Then went off shopping to cheer me up more and got some great bargins so felt much better.

Then DH phoned and said we've had yet another set back with putting in our heating Everytime we do one job on it we end up with another, this house will be nearly rebuilt when we've finished! Oh well has to be done.

Last moan I promise , why is it that when i'm peed off my dh seems to be as well, am I not allowed any pg sympathy.I always end up smiling and trying to keep in my hacked off state to cheer him up, argh. At this point in time all I actually want is some time to myself, no dh no dd.

maveta · 19/01/2007 16:18

Hi Hensden!

Hello all, had a busy morning off, just popped out to the weekly market to get my fruit and veg and meet parents for coffee and ended up getting dragged around various shops and whatnot doing errands with Mum. Then food shop, then lunch, then a not very restful siesta where I didn´t sleep at ALL and which only left me feeling more knackered. Still, it isn´t work so it´s all good

Tonight is ANOTHER saint´s day so we´re going into town to see some bands and cook sausages over fires but am going to have to try and kip before or I´ll be so grumpy. Got to do some vacuuming and mopping first though. Anyone surprised that I can´t really motivate myself??

Ironing v toilet - can I vote neither?? I never iron if I can possibly help it and dh almost always does the bathrooms. Except this week he hasn´t and my sister arrives tomorrow so it looks like I have to. I DON´T WAAAAAAANT TO!! Waaah.

GMM- you go girl! Don´t think you´re out of line at all.

Claricebean - don´t for God´s sake get sucked into the ´middle child syndrome´thing PLEASE!! I am a middle child and it feels like all I have ever heard from my parents when really I couldn´t have given a toss where I was in the birth order!! I do think to a degree you miss out on things/attention but really in the end I reckon it makes for the most well adjusted child, you just fly right under the radar and get left to get on with it! You wait and see!

Oh man. Done my post, does that mean the cleaning is next? So don´t want to.

maveta · 19/01/2007 16:21

And re. moses baskets..luckily we´re being given one with wheels so hopefully can just be trundled around wherever. We were in a house when we found out about the baby and moved into a big 1st floor flat a couple of months ago as I couldn´t handle the thought of having to move the baby up and downstairs!! (obviously there were other factors, we can´t quite afford to be that whimsical! But it did remove the problem!)

1becomes3 · 19/01/2007 16:26

My Dh thinks I am stupid I'm sure of it!

Just phoned him to see what time I need to do dinner for, he said that he has to work late. (he is a builder so can't really work in the dark)
So little old me sits down and then it all comes together, the stupid sod has buggered off to Wales to drop his N off!

May sound like nothing but it costs us £50 in petrol, he has taken time off work to do it and he has been up since 4.30am so is bound to be falling asleep behind the wheel!

I feel really pissed off at him for doing this as N is bloody well old enough to get a train/bus by himself.
Now my poor but stupid DH has to drive back in rush hour traffic which will take him ages.

I don't think I can stand much more of N staying with us.

Sorry about that just had to vent so i don't give him an ear full.

geordiemacminx · 19/01/2007 16:28

tell me to mind my own business if you want but why is nephew staying with you? Has your dp opended a youth hostel??

Eddas · 19/01/2007 16:37

GMM, just searched for lillaura as i'm a nosey sod, found the thread where that kimmie person got a little stroppy and it's well and truely cheered me up! Thank you Some people eh!

1becomes3 · 19/01/2007 16:38

No he is working with Dh, then in the evenings Dh is teaching how to do plumbing as N is doing a plumbing course 1 day a week at college.
We do get money for it, but prehaps my sanity is more important that money.
It was alright to start with but now i just feel like N is invading our personal space, and becoming a bit of a burden for DH.

But what can you do?

geordiemacminx · 19/01/2007 16:44

Is there a light at the end of the tunnel in realtion to how long this is going to be the arrangement for or is it a permanent thing?

Surely you cant be expected to cope with twins and your dd and have him staying too?

1becomes3 · 19/01/2007 16:54

Well Dh has said that when he finishes off building our extension N can stay in there, but I have said NO! to that, there is no way on earth that I am going to be dealing with twins, DD, Dh and N.
I will want my own space with out having a 20 year old wondering round.

It's the little things that make me dread him coming, like the fact that because our house is currently a building site there isn't anywhere to escape to, when Dh and I had a fight the other day I had to go sit in our room for the rest of the night because I didn't want to face N.(I was all puffy from crying)

He is not the sharpest tool in the box, he walks around the extension in his socks, which pick up all the dirt, then he comes a bloddy walks it all round my house, so I am for ever mopping and hoovering the floors.

There is more but I am beginning to get all worked up about it, and i'll never stop.

geordiemacminx · 19/01/2007 16:57

I think you need to set a date to which the arrangement has to stop... I would HATE someone living in my house, I know what you mean about the little things.. like not veing able to slob round in your bra and knickers or have a wee with the bathroom door open.. ok so maybe thats just me

Could he not find a cheap b&b for a couple of nights a week? Probabaly not I know, it just seems crazy that you are expected to cope with all this for an indefinate period.. love and hugs {{{{{}}}}}}

1becomes3 · 19/01/2007 17:02

Funny you should mention peeing with the door open.
I was running a bath for DD and needed a wee or something, so i closed the bathroom door as N was down the shops and was going to come in the front door any second, then DD decided that she wanted to come in and she left the door wide open so poor N got an eye full of my fat arse on the bog

I think I may have to be a bitch and lay down the law with DH and tell him I can't stand much more, I am just too pg to be mopping the floor every day.

maveta · 19/01/2007 18:13

Wow, it´s all gone a bit quiet in here hasn´t it? Did my cleaning, yay! Just the toilets left for tomorrow but that´ll take no time.

Definitely starting to feel like I tire easier and especially a lot of movement involving bending down even just to waist height gives me terrible acid. 1b3 I don´t know how you do it, I don´t think I could have taken having a visitor in my house for so long, family or otherwise! I am sure I would have had a hissy fit long ago. I´m sure you won´t need to ´threaten´ for much longer, it´s probably going to become pretty obvious quite soon that you just don´t have the energy to be picking up after 1 extra person.

Can´t believe there´s no one around just when I´ve settled myself down for a natter!

Bramshott · 19/01/2007 18:24

1b3 - you must stay with us, no matter when the babies come (that doesn't mean you can't post elsewhere too!). We are bound to get some babies who come in March and some who don't come until May from all the people who are here. I was 7 weeks early last time with DD, and am clearly hoping not to be this time, but feeling a bit like you - please not February, but sometime in March would be okay . . . I would hate the thought that I had to make a whole new group of virtual friends because this one had popped out early!

BigBellyCornflakeKid · 19/01/2007 19:11

3 weeks early would be nice! Have had another kip, told dh off for calling me crap at cooking and have been eyeing up new wardrobes for our bedroom in the ikea catalogue!

Still not feeling great - have taken some painkillers but not much effect.

I have been looking at getting a huggababy sling off ebay - there is one nearby so can collect - need to check out full price though etc first. I already have an ellaroo deluxe which is beautiful but want one can just shove over shoulder to put baby in on school run.

1B3 - I would have to say that nephew has to go when baby arrives - I have already told my dh that we are not having visitors staying after baby.

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