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Due in April 2007 - A Wholly Appropriate Thread .....

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CaptainDippy · 22/02/2007 14:57

Thought I would get there 1st!!!

Zooming in - almost finished housework and feeling less stressed out - poor DH, he came home to a very wound-up mummy when he got home for lunch - after almost driving into a wall on my way back from dropping him off at work (!!!!) and doing lots of cleaning and hoovering, I must say I am feeling better! Still got lots to do though .....

Zoom, Zoom, Zoom ........

ARGH - Can't remember anything anyone said, apart from MrsGV getting the wrong end of the stick ..... LOL!

Hope everyone else is ok!!

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nuttygirl · 27/02/2007 10:55

SOSPL - should have added there's nothing in his contract about it.

CaptainDippy · 27/02/2007 11:07

Morning everyone! Just popping in between sorting out all the paperwork for our local NCT Antenatal Courses that will be beginning in April - Have finally found a venue (phew!) so can send out all the confirmations and stop all the hormal angry boiled eggs on legs calling me up every day and asking me what is going on ....

WCL - Total sympathy here - I completely keep forgetting I am 7 1/2 months PG too - I just carry on as normal and swing my two around and pop them into their cars seats etc etc - Then wonder why I hurt and ache so much .... so easy to forget - and so easy for others to forget too, don't you think!!!? Makes me a bit sometimes, esp with DH!!!!

Grrrr! Ahem.

Any news from Char???

Sorry - haven't have sufficient time to read psot properly but "hello" - Hopefully Internet at work will be working this afternoon and I can catch up properly etc....

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EllieKwithaHUGEbump · 27/02/2007 11:16

hi all
matthew is driving me nuts
thought i was supposed to be loving the time with him after 4 days away

charNbump · 27/02/2007 11:25

morning all....thank you for your kind words and advice etc

Well was still in agony at 6pm last night so rang labour ward who got an on-call midwife to ring me, and to cut a long story short, the baby was lying on a nerve - oh my the pain!!!!!! was literally in tears and my legs kept feeling like they wouuld give out from under me with each bout of pain. A bath really eased it and after lying around not doing much last night the pain eased right off.
Today am aching like HELL tho, all down my legs etc but rather that than the pain i had yesterday!

I really don't think i'm gonna last much longer tho, got this horrible inckling that this could be an early-bird (there is a family history of early births) hmmmmm.....

anyway, enough about me, hope you guys are all well....will read the thread and catch up once i've done some more wages (fun!)

baby dust to all! xxx

OMGhaveswallowedanoctopus · 27/02/2007 11:27

Good news (kind of!) Charnbump - keep some heat on it and rest lots xoxoxox

Sexonslightlypuffylegs · 27/02/2007 11:31

Morning all.

Hellcat, we also had a Jane flat car seat for Becky when she was small. I have to say we aren't using it this time around, as I found it so heavey, and also you needed an engineering degree to fix it to the pushchair chassis. Many tears were shed with the frustration with it! Many Car Park attendants toom pity on me and did help, but can't be doing with it anymore.

Nutty, I am afraid your dh won't be entitled to time off to attend a/n appointments, and will have to take holiday or make up the time. I am sure this will change in time.

Birdie, we had another dry night as well - I think we have both cracked it hun! Hurrah!

Ellie, I hope Matthew stops being a pain. I often find that if I have left Becky for a day or 2, she is a nightmare when we are back together - her way of punishing me iykwim!

On the issue of weight gain, I have put on just over a stone I think, so not too bad, but my joints are beginning to notice it!
On the issue of fruitshoots, yuk yuk yuk! The blackcurrant and apple one smells of cat wee!

Talking of which, had a revolting start to the day today. Dh had shut the cat flap in error, and I came down to find the cats had peed all over the floor of the utility room, and worse still, crapped in the utility sink - eughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Because of my cold, I couldn't smell it (fortunately) and actually thought at first it was a dead frog in the sink!

Now have to buy 2 new cat beds which aren't cheap, and the floor will need to be cleaned a million times as cat pee stinks!

Not happy with dh, the dozy git. And I thought it was us pg ladies that were supposed to be dippy!

Hey ho. HTH as at work and mega busy again. x

weeonion · 27/02/2007 11:33

is he making you pay for being away from him??

Sexonslightlypuffylegs · 27/02/2007 11:37

Char, really glad you are ok, although amazed you are in work today - you little trooper!

EllieKwithaHUGEbump · 27/02/2007 11:37

no, he's been ill while i was away, got a stinking cold

he's not being bad, just i'm in no mood to tolerate him and his sniffing!

so actually, i guess i'm probably annoying him as much as he is me

and spending time at daddy's house always leads to a difficult few days cos they have very different attitudes to things

charNbump · 27/02/2007 11:40

Thanks ladies.....you guys make me smile

Sexonslighlt puffy legs - you've only put on just over a stone!!! so jealous of you xxxxxxxxxx

weeonion · 27/02/2007 11:46

xposted there - so last comment from me was for ellie!poor matthew - another poorly one!

Char - phew - good to have you back my date buddy - i thought of you loads alst night! i had fingers, eyes, ears etc crosse that you hadnt gone into labour. you will have to take it eay if bean is lying on a nreve. rest up!!! freaked dp by telling him that you were in pain - possible early labour - i thought he was then going to give himself a heart attack by trying to put shelves together in haste!

sopl - poor yu and cat wee / dumps. not a pleasant thing in the mornings! i am sure i read soemwhere of a fab way to get rid of cat wee smells - but it eludes me now! we bought a covered litter tray - a poo/pee pod for our cat and have to say - it was the best thing we got her!

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nuttygirl · 27/02/2007 11:51

Glad to hear you're ok CharNbump.

SOSPL - thanks very much. Just as I thought, but wanted to check cos the other guy isn't making his hours up so feel a bit sorry for DH.

Well off to eat some croissants!Don't think I'll be back on until late Weds afternoon or maybe Thursday.

Sexonslightlypuffylegs · 27/02/2007 11:55

Weeonion, normally they go out and do their business as I can't bear litter trays, and tbh, the cats don't like them much either. Just dh being a plonker and locking the cat flap. To be fair, the reason he locked it was because Wiggly brought a mouse in last night, so he threw Wiggly and the mouse out and locked the flap to stop him bringing the mouse back in. He unlocked it later so the cats could come back in, but in doing so managed to lock them in! I am just grateful they shat in the sink as opposed to the floor, as the tiles we have seem to be quite porous (sp?!) YUK!

Emmymummy · 27/02/2007 11:55

Hello lovely ladies. Apols as haven't caught up on the thread entirely but I keep seeing people making reference to their weight gain. I never even weigh myself when not preg, so there's no way in hell I'm gonna do it now! Not a chance. I shall just gauge how much I need to loose by how big the gap between the button and the button-hole is across the top of my jeans after I've had this baby. Also by how many handfulls of flesh I will be able to squeeze from my love handles! Yuk, lovely thought and one I'm not realishing as remember it from last time.

Getting really sick of the "ooooooo you can't have long to go" comments I'm getting, followed by the looks of shock when I say that actually I have another 8 weeks to go. . One of the other mums at school this morning said to me "I bet you've got loads of stretch marks by now" WTF?????? Actually, no not yet (touch wood, pray to God etc etc.) I haven't, but hey there's still another 8 weeks of growth to get them .

Anyway, went to my anti-natal class yesterday and my bump was by no means the biggest, so there!

Hellcat · 27/02/2007 11:57

Hey CharNbump, glad you've got the baby off your nerve - ow!

SOSPL - think they must've sexed up the Jane chassis as you just lift this carrycot on and off whilst pressing a nice big orange button - fixing it in the car looks a bit trickier tho....

My mum said my pram had a carrycot that was basically carboard coated in plastic, and you dropped it into a space on the wheels where it was as unfixed to anything as it was in the back of the car, where it just sat on the seat: "and when we had a crash the carrycot just slid forward and tipped very slightly into the gap behind the back seat and you cried".

But hey, think everyone drove a bit slower in the 70s eh?

BTW all, Thanks for all the hints regarding dh (with baby bruising manhood), as my ML starts Thursday I will be getting out the cleavage, and the massage oil, and pointing out that as I've cooked dinner he's actually got time to 'rub some into me' - I will let you know how I get on, we've not had sex since well before xmas! (yes, thats both our birthdays and valentines day too)

Emmymummy · 27/02/2007 11:57

SOSPL - I HATE cat shit and cat pee. Poor, poor you having to deal with that...

Emmymummy · 27/02/2007 11:59

Hellcat, not only did they not strap in the carrycots in the 70s, I don't think there were any drink-drive laws either (at least none anyone took any notice of), but we're all still here!

geordiemacminx · 27/02/2007 11:59

Mine has pooed in the sink for the past 2 mornings... thing its revenge for putting him in kennels for a week.. although to be fair he has been staying in the hilton of kennels with a heated chalet type thing that costs £7.50 a night!!!

Apparently the do it in the sink cos they can smell the fresh air coming from the plug hole.. to be honest if he is going to poo anywhere then the sink is probably the best place IMO... its very easy to bleach the sink... not so easy to bleach new john rocha rug..

Emmymummy · 27/02/2007 12:00

Sorry, keep interjecting with comments, but Hellcat, can't believe the lack of sex action for so long! Poor you & hope the oil works.

charNbump · 27/02/2007 12:01

weeonion - thanks chicken! and LOL at your DH and his shelving antics x

Hellcat · 27/02/2007 12:03

SOSPL:

I had to give one of my cats away just before xmas as I couldn't stop him weeing everywhere due to 'stress' caused by my other cat.... I was heartbroken.

I did once have a cat though that weed down the plughole in the bath when it got locked in - bloody clever or what?

You can get special stuff to get rid of wee smells, google urine neutraliser

and beware, cats poo is highly toxic to unborn babies!!

weeonion · 27/02/2007 12:05

lol at cat chat. dont we just love them. we found ours in a box at a bus stop last year. strange thing that she is. we are a top floor tenement flat so she doesnt get out. doesnt even bother to look out the windows much..

hellcat - i remembe my folks having a mini when we were wee. there would be 5 adults and 3 kids squeezed into it for days out. i used to get a cushion to sit on, between the front seats and on the handbrake! safety was not a concern!

Sexonslightlypuffylegs · 27/02/2007 12:05

GMM, pmsl at the cat's smelling the fresh air though the plughole! Fabulous!! Have this lovely vision of them sitting there sniffing the plughole now and discussing the fresh smell of cut grass!

charNbump · 27/02/2007 12:07

i'm sat here laughing about the cats sniffing the plughole too!lol

I have 4x indoors cats and am now picturing them all congregating around the plughole lol.....small things hehe xxx

Hellcat · 27/02/2007 12:10

thanks for sympathy emmymummy, if he wasn't so busy and stressed out and knackered with teacher training I would be very concerned!