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Hi everyone, new thread...apologies for sorry attempt at poetry

A pampering session sounds like a fab idea. It's my birthday coming up and I have asked for spa vouchers. We have a fab one here and it does a 'blissful beginnings' day for mums-to-be, so going to get that for my birthday.

I've bailed on a night out too. Just feeling constantly on the verge of tears, think it's the tiredness. Feel a bit bad, it's a friends leaving do, but I'd be crap company anyway.

Annobal, I might try homeopathy. Is it expensive? That's the biggest barrier for me to do all these lovely things like reflexology etc. We are supposed to be saving money...

Sorry guys, I will stop with the whinging and long depressive messages soon. At least it's sunny at the moment, that makes me feel so much better. Looking forward to a summer off with the LO, working on my tan in the garden while the baby sleeps (ok, stop sniggering you lot who have done it before! I'm sure it'll be september before I even manage to get dressed during the day, but let me have my delusion - it's the only thing keeping me going!).

Just worked out my leave today. Not too shabby. I get 6 months full pay, 13 weeks SMP, plus I get to accrue annual leave the whole time as well as TOIL for public holidays. Works out I get over 10 months off, and looking to have 11th May as my last day, plus I still have 9 days AL to use between now and then. Makes me feel much better, plus it's the one thing I can actually plan and actually have control of!

Homeopathy costs me £35 per session (usually for at least an hour), including the remedies. Not sure where you are based but am paying London prices. I go back about every 6 weeks. She also provides a birth kit full of remedies for before the birth, during and after the birth.

Jealous of your pampering - sounds great, enjoy!

I do kick him- a lot!! The other night I got so pissed off that I attacked him! Oops! He woke up with scratches all over his back. I'm not a violent person, at all, but after lying in bed exhausted listening to him for hours I just flipped. Luckily he's such a deep sleeper that he didn't really notice! Does that gum thingy work foxy? £29.99 seems a very small price to pay for sleep!

I find that DH stops snoring if I roll him over onto his side (or kick and tell him to do it) - probably just wakes him for long enough for me to get back to sleep.

H&A have you got a garage/garden shed you could move him too till the gum shield thing arrives??!!!

Actually I do have a rather large shed, more like a garage, at the end of the garden. He could sleep in there I suppose, although I'd prob still hear him!!

you may get complaints from your neighbours too - he might even get an ASBO!!!!

yes, it works by bringing his jaw forward slightly and opening up the airwaves. I think it makes a difference, and its better than some of the sleep contraptions the hospital has suggested. its one thing the kids waking me up, but DP too - just out of order!!!

The MV of my AN classes recommended some homeopathic remedies for various things - including one to start taking two weeks before due date to get things happening. DS1 was on the day, DS2 was only 40 mins out! Think I forgot for DD.

Hi annobal- our house is lovely but the thought of raising a child in it is, um, challenging. Oh for a flat bit of lawn, even!

Laughing at your snoring tales, dh snores when he is drunk and whenever he is woken by a swift punch he says 'But I wasn't asleep'. Give me strength!

The sun is shining, what a beautiful day!! Time to turn off Cbeebies and go to the park!

Dp has a new woman in his life ! His bloody sat nav! He bought it yesterday and he is obsessed with it. She is called Jane and whenever I phone him up I can hear her talking to him and I'm sure he talks back! Also why do men feel it is of great importance to watch every single football match on tv? Why he wanted to watch Man Utd vs Lille last night is beyond me. I don't mind watching Premiership matches or England, but Champion's League? I put my foot down at 9 so I could watch Louise get skinnier!!

Holly, I had competition from a silky voiced sat nav system too, but I soon kicked her in to touch - she may not ever shriek or get cross, but she does have very fixed ideas on routes and can be very inflexible. We drove down to COrnwall with her last summer and by the end she was firmly switched off .
Bump, some suggestions for cheap ways to relax: settling in with a book - chick lit, crime, something easy with a plot you can lose yourself in, magazines (not Cosmo, obviously - to be honest I haven't read Cosmo since I was about 17), sitting in a cafe on a sunny day drinking a hot chocolate and watching the world go by (a good one for maternity leave when everyone else is at work...!), going for a nice long walk on your own, painting your toe nails (if you can still reach them; if not, get someone else to do it...). When I stop working pre-baby I'm planning to go to the cinema in the afternoon, too, just because I can. Actually, I want to be doing all this stuff right now... .
I went to a shoe-themed evening at Selfridges yesterday with a friend - wasn't really looking forward to it, but actually it was fab. Cost £10, but free food and drink (Woo Hoo, fizzy water for me - cocktails looked a little too alcoholic!), plus goodie bag with lipstick, molton brown stuff and tights. Spent too much money on shoes I didn't need, obviously, but it was good fun - they had a DJ and male models carrying high heeled shoes on little silver trays. Very Sex and the City. And now I have some fab new wedges, too, which makes the summer feel not so far away, particularly as the sun is shining through my window as I type...
Yikes. Sorry for ramble. Must get back to work!

My poor baby!! Some little rotter in the park headbutted her and now she has another fat lip, except worse than yesterday's and in a different place! No wonder she is nervous around other children!

Wow marylou, sounds like a fab night! Food, drink, shoes, male models and goodie bags! Brilliant! Glad you had fun! I need some more of that. Not that my dd isn't fun, but some grown up fun might be nice! In fact it might just be nice to talk to a grown up that's not my dp or my mum!

Poor you! Or, rather, poor baby. Although is anyone else beginning to wonder about all these fat lips? . YOu realise the other mothers are going to start keeping their kids away from you, don't you?
Oh, I really don't want to work today. It's sunny, I should be outside, not sitting at my desk.

Marylou - I would have loved that evening, perfect. They have Kurt Geiger at Selfridges, my fave. Did you buy 'pregnancy' shoes, or some for later?

H&A - whenever I went to the park as a small child I invariably got hit too, my mum says it was 'character building' .

It is a sunny warm day here in Bournemouth so I am resolved to do a walk along the prom later. My route takes me past several cafes, all of which do cream teas...

ps, it was fab, esp the male models. If I hadn't been the only one there with puffy ankles and swollen feet it woudl have been even better

Don't marylou!! I feel really bad! She looks awful, poor little mite! I'm a bad mother !

I woudln't call them pregnancy shoes exactly (as in, not at all) but they're kind of strappy and not too high, so I'm hoping I'll be able to walk in them holding hte baby without toppling over . And trying them on was a nice excuse to sit down, and they did look kind of fab...Yes, Kurt Geiger was the sponsor and I have to say that was the factor that forced me onto the tube at rush hour...

Bless, Holly, I can just imagine her . And fat lips never did Angeline Jolie any harm...

Ooo doggus, you in Bournemouth? Just down the road!! V. jealous, I love the park in town and the beach, but why does the train station have to be so far away from the town centre? I used to work in the town centre and it's such a trek from the station, but even worse on the way back being all uphill!

She's got such a lovely little pouty mouth normally, she just looks so sad and injured!

H&A - you're right, I have never thought about it, but the station is miles away from the town! Are you in Southampton then? I sometimes take the train that way to go to West Quay, and hate that walk too!

Yep in Southampton. We'll have to meet in John Lewis cafe sometime for coffee and cake! There's a free shuttle bus from Central Station to West Quay. I don't usually bother though coz I walk through the retail park and stop off in Mothercare and M&P!! It really breaks the walk up!

Help....I'm going mad. In the last two weeks I've managed to leave the iron on for 24 hours, the oven on overnight and then last night I swithched the grill on, but didn't open the door, than changed my mind and sat down to watch tv. After 30 mins thought I could smell something funny and found the kitchen full of smoke. I'll be burning the house down at this rate . It's quite scary, esp as DH is away.
Then there are the dreams....if they're not x-rated they're downright wierd. Last night I dreamt I'd given birth to a cat! and was getting a hard time from everybody for not BF but it kept on biting me. And it wasnt just any cat, but a ginger cat!!! Don't mean to cause offence to any red heads out there, but we have the ginger gene in my family and there's no telling where it'll pop up next. Last time was my nephew 21 years ago (sister and her DH are both brown) so I reckon its time for a re-appearance. LOL at the way one's mind works...didn't even think I was that bothered about the whole red-haired thing, but...
DS had his assmebly at school today and had everyone going 'Ah' when he stood up to say his lines, he stopped for a bit, gave the room a big cute grin, waved to DH and I, then off he went. The tears were rolling down my cheeks, bless him

Bless your ds daisy!! The other day I left the oven on, but the flames went out and it was leaking gas! Luckily I didn't go out! Also I heated up some beans in a pan last week and after I had poured the beans out I put the pan back on the hob. Unfortunately I hadn't turned the gas off and I burnt all the left over bean juice on the pan! Don't worry I have a secret desire to burn my house down too!!