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had a flash of inspiration from Katy!
and seeing as our usual topics are quite , seemed appropriate somehow

Thanks - think I need to stock up on blankets actually so will get some nice swaddly type ones.
Got some good news today - had originally been told that there wouldn't be any NCT classes - we've just been told that they will be able to provide some after all in March

EllieK - have just noticed the new name - me too!! I've also started noticing movements through my clothes as well (before I had to have my top pulled up and be concentrating!)
It makes those boring Mnday morning meetings more fun

Oh I keep forgetting to tell you all - Big Hurrah for my shopoholic Mum and my wee one being her first grandchild - she came back from the UK with a suitcase full of clothes and blankets!! We definitely have enough to get through the first couple of months now! In amongst the haul, all of which was so lovely, were two GORGEOUS fleece towels and a multicoloured wool blanket from mamas and papas

Love you Mum! (NO she STILL can´t stay over!! )

Am feeling very lucky indeed. But starting to feel a little guilty, apparently my big sis has been buying baby toiletries and had a bouncy chair to bring over too. New baby in the family excitement do we think??!

i'm back!

i think i'm very good at multi-tasking but he's not so keen
he can hear me typing a then notices the pause while i'm reading your posts

Maveta, I eat my words, as it was me that initially wondered if your boss was trying to be supportive in a back-handed sort of way. Now you have posted more, I can see that isn't the case at all. I suppose I was giving her the benefit of the doubt, as I know how crap some managers are at dealing with such issues.

Eca - how disappointing for you regarding your friend. How far does she live from you?

Not much to report here. Going to bed soon as am knackered. As usual baby is doing the triple jump, and my ribs - round the back are aching already! Mmmm, can see it's going to be a good night then!

Opinionsrus hasn't been on for a bit either has she?

Maveta - I would be mega shocked and gutted too if my boss was being like that after i'd invested so much in the business.

SOL - she is about 2 1/2 - 3 hrs drive away. Not too far really. What makes it worse is that a few months ago she bought a hen house off ebay and came to pick it up, driving through my neck of the woods, about 10 miles away from my house and didn't even call for a coffee!

Katy - i've looked at swaddling blankets too, but i think you can pretty much manage with a normal one. May indulge in a georgeous one from lulusapphire though!

SOL - yeah I know, I try to give her the benefit of the doubt too and in many ways she´s a great boss but on this kind of level she´s missing a tact chip or something! Hope you manage to sleep well.. and that goes for the rest of you too, I´m off to bed. sleep tight x x

Just one more quick one before I go..

Eca - re your friend. sorry she´s being so crap. I know just how you feel and went through this with a friend last year. We´ve been friends for almost 10 years now but due to me moving away I´ve never really known her dp. To be honest, when we have met we haven´t gelled and a few things have come up over the last few years (since she´s been with him, in fact) that make me think he doesn´t really like me. Just some of her excuses as to last minute cancellations/ changes of plans have been a bit weird and lead me to think she´s changed her mind because of him.

I am barely in touch with her now and I have been very sorry to lose her as a friend but if she is being influenced by her dp then how much of a friend was she really?? Doesn´t stop it feeling shit though but if there´s not much you can do..? She even didn´t come to my wedding, telling me about..ooh.. 2 weeks before and her excuse? She´d left it to dp to book flights, he told her he´d done it and then at the last minute admitted he hadn´t and then the flights were too expensive. EH?

wow maveta that sounds very similar! perhaps some friendships just end up that way and i need to accept it and move on. Thanks for sharing what happened to you. Sleep well!

Evening all! Just popping in on my way to bed ....

Erm.

My head is sooo empty - hope everyone's doing ok and has decent enough night's sleep - Hoping and praying my two sleep through again tonight ....

"See" you all tomrorow!

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrghhhhhhhhh
bloody men!
just got off phone to stephen, again.

he's feeling really insecure at the moment and is reading things into stuff that i say.
this i could deal with, if he'd only tell me. but he finds himself reacting to something i've said and gets wound up, knows it's unreasonable of him to think it so gets wound up that he's thinking it, then decides that it's not fair on me that he feels like this so sends me a text saying he doesn't think he can do this

i'm not sure any of that made any sense

basically, i've not exactly been well behaved in my past, and have been totally honest with stephen about it (made a decision that i really care about him and owed it to us both to start the relationship honestly), matthew's dad and i have had an on/off thing for years, and i'm an incorrigible flirt at times. i don't have many female friends, but do have lots of male friends.

i fully expect to have to work harder to earn his trust, and i'm more than willing to do that, but he won't let me, says it's not fair on me that he doesn't trust me. he's away all week, i work with 2 exes, i have a child by another and am expecting the baby of another, of course he gets worried!!!!!! i'd be more bothered if he didn't, it'd make me think he didn't care about me as much as i do him.

have reassured him as best i can, and he says he feels ok for now so i've told him we'll take each day as it comes and if he feels ok for now we should try to build on that. AND i am more than capable of deciding for myself whether he's good for me or not, he doesn't need to do it for me!

sorry, just had to get that all out somewhere and the sleeping toddler wouldn't really understand

I might get him to read this at the weekend, maybe in text it'll prove to him that I LOVE HIM

Well I have been to bed (7.00 - 10.30pm) and now am having more antibiotics and food!!!

Flumppootle - trying to rest when ds lets me!!

AngeG - resting?? I'm trying

Ellie - yes have learnt my lesson about getting dressed

SOL - Hope you are still enjoying the boss' buns

Cazboldy - we are getting there

Mammyjo - feet are up when I get a chance

Emmymummy - I am using same mattress

MIABT - Hope James is feeling better soon

Liath - I'm trying to take it easy - hope you are too

Maveta - hope you are well

1B3 - Hope house view went well, a new baby to cuddle

claricebean - heres to a countdown of dh's return

10 weeks& - mat leave soon - lucky you

Captain Dippy - can't wait to see a pic of this cake

Hope all who I have missed are well and not too huge

Well I have been to bed (7.00 - 10.30pm) and now am having more antibiotics and food!!!

Flumppootle - trying to rest when ds lets me!!

AngeG - resting?? I'm trying

Ellie - yes have learnt my lesson about getting dressed

SOL - Hope you are still enjoying the boss' buns

Cazboldy - we are getting there

Mammyjo - feet are up when I get a chance

Emmymummy - I am using same mattress

MIABT - Hope James is feeling better soon

Liath - I'm trying to take it easy - hope you are too

Maveta - hope you are well

1B3 - Hope house view went well, a new baby to cuddle

claricebean - heres to a countdown of dh's return

10 weeks& - mat leave soon - lucky you

Captain Dippy - can't wait to see a pic of this cake

Hope all who I have missed are well and not too huge

Well I have been to bed (7.00 - 10.30pm) and now am having more antibiotics and food!!!

Flumppootle - trying to rest when ds lets me!!

AngeG - resting?? I'm trying

Ellie - yes have learnt my lesson about getting dressed

SOL - Hope you are still enjoying the boss' buns

Cazboldy - we are getting there

Mammyjo - feet are up when I get a chance

Emmymummy - I am using same mattress

MIABT - Hope James is feeling better soon

Liath - I'm trying to take it easy - hope you are too

Maveta - hope you are well

1B3 - Hope house view went well, a new baby to cuddle

claricebean - heres to a countdown of dh's return

10 weeks& - mat leave soon - lucky you

Captain Dippy - can't wait to see a pic of this cake

Hope all who I have missed are well and not too huge

Sorry not sure what happened there!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi Ooogs! My even later than usual post but good news in that I'm finally starting to feel better from this flu.

A friend whose DS goes to my DS's nursery came round this afternoon and they played together while I cooed over her 2 month old baby girl - I'm going to have one of those!!

DS2 will be back in nursery tomorrow so I'll have a lovely day to myself to fully recover. Hope I don't put back on the 7lbs that I've lost over the past 2 weeks though. And it's definitely not at LO's expense cos my bump has also gotten HUGE overnight.

It's taken me an hour to catch up on this thread so I'll be back tomorrow daytime for a proper conversation! Night night to all.

WE HAVE SNOW

Not sure what to do about work Really don't fancy risking a journey, esp when 7mths pregnant! Might just go in later.

we have snow too

usually take my bro to college but he's saying we can't go cos it's snowing. cos he's a lazy tyke more like!

Snow here too, though just a light covering. Looks lovely though & it's nice to get some proper winter weather (especially as I don't have to go & drive anywhere in it ).

Maveta, your boss sounds like she's being really thoughtless & I think downright cheeky to be jumping to conclusions about what'll happen when you have your baby.

Found out the other day that my sister's gorgeous but very male baby was confidently pronounce a girl at her 20 week scan !!! She hadn't told anyone she'd found out the sex - just as well in retrospect! Makes you think, doesn't it? I've given away all dd's girly stuff already & just assumed the scan was going to be correct & told everyone I'm having a boy.........

Liath - my cousin recently found out at their 32 week scan that their new baby girl is DEFINITELY a new baby boy.. so yeah I guess you have to be a bit careful but I think more so when they pronounce it a girl early on.

We have clear photographic evidence from the scan that ours is a boy. Someone asked me what I would do if they announced we´d had a girl on the day..I would insist on a genetic test confirmation!!

I´m feeling pretty rough this morning. I always bring this on myself by e.g. declaring just yesterday that I´ve been sleeping like an angel lately. It´s my own fault. Had terrible stomach pains from about 4.00am which eventually turned out to be trapped wind. So sore! And from what??! I was so restless, pillows thrown on the floor, took all my clothes off, put them all back on, picked up the pillows, turned and turned. At 5am finally found energy to go for a pee and then lay in bed feeling sorry for myself til dh got up about 7.30am.

I mean. Trapped wind? How totally undignified. I am surprised we have any dignity left to be taken from us once we arrive at the delivery suite.

• I must say if that wasn't a boy's tackle on my ultrasound I'd be VERY surprised. Must be more common to mistake a boy for a girl than the other way round I'd have thought.

It was one of the things that was stressing me out, as after our 20 week scan I went out and bought a lot of proper boys stuff... but fortunately the scan we had last week confirmed that he definately has all the equipment.. his daddy was very proud!!

Morning all. Snow here too and B was v excited about it until I opened the car window and some fell on her. God, you would have thought she had been trapped in an avalanche!

Maveta, sorry to hear you had a crap night. Hope you get through the day ok.How is everyon

Birdie, glad the ab's are working and you are feeling better at last!

Liath, now worried about whether the scan was accurate or not! Tempted to see if I can get another one!!

How is everyone else doing?

I had a really good nights sleep last night thankfully. Feeling sick though just as I did in the first trimester. I think I am just going to have to eat all day long - never mind!

Right, need to do some housework whist B at preschool - can't sit here on mn all morning!!

See you later.