Due in June - you toucha my bump, I smasha your face!

[bumperlicious]

Just thought I'd better kick a new one off...
Another day, another tearful outburst at work! It's getting very embarrassing Is it just me who feels like crying at the drop of a hat? Maybe it's lack of sleep, just not dealing very well with things that would not normally bother me, then something really small sets me off. cried in the toilets for 20 minutes today! Can't even explain why. Is this normal still at this stage?

Sputnik, you're right, I'll embrace the peasant/tunic vibe. It's freezing here anyway, I'm just willing summer to come...
And Holly, re. juicers, yes, I had one. You need approximately 54 carrots to make a glass of carrot juice and you have to peel them and cut them up and then you have to take your juicer to pieces to clean it and try and remember how to put it back together again. I found that my enthusiasm for juicing waned slightly after making three glasses or so. That was five years ago - think it has since been donated to Oxfam

i do love my juicer, yummy carrot and ginger is my fav, but its the cleaning. Loved my GF grill too, but it took up too much counter space. Although I did hoik it out the other day to have a ham, cheese, tomato and gherkin toasty when nothing else would do. And it was SO worth it!

and i guess the tunics would be good for bf coverage too, good thinking

Not that I'd wish to encourage you or anything, I've just been on the French Connection website and they've got some lovely ones (tunics, I mean. They're probably meant to be dresses, but hey... )

It was getting quite warm here last week, now it's gone grey and cold again. Bleugh
Re juicer, just stick it all in the blender, that way you get the fibre too.

Anyone else suffering baby-name choosing fatigue?

I must've trawled through 3000 boys names this morning, there is 1 I vaguely like. To add to the complication it has to be prounouncable in Italian. DH and family are no help, his suggestion was Neutrino (and they say pg does strange things to women's heads), when I said, well what if YOUR parents had called you that, as opposed to your very normal and actually very English, name. Says he wouldn't have minded... well maybe at school... My SIL sent a helpful list of possible names this morning, including Osama (DH's family is Arabic), is she serious! At least she didn't put Saddam

uhh, i've got DDs tummy bug. DP has a day off today so he can take over with kids. And I can stay on here. He has some uses. He's still a git though.

I gave mine 'working titles' until they were born. Including Duke and Elvis (which I probably would have gone with given any encouragement at all).

OMG the sky is falling down!!! Seriously I have never seen so much hail in my life!! Glad I'm not outside!

Mmmm...names! We're having hell! I have about a million girls names, but no boys. My dp is very fussy as he has a really stupid name and doesn't want to burden his children with the same issues he has had. So any name we choose has to be 100% sensible and 100% English. No fun!! I like William and Harry, he likes Alfie. Very sensible and boring, but he will not go down the Finn/Kit/Morgan road !

Don't get the juicer, H&A, mine has been used once and it's such a faff I gave up. So true about the kitchen appliance cupboard, foxy...

Marylou - are you me? I chuckled yesterday on reading you are a 'demanding partner'...my dh talks about me having put him through 'obedience training' a la Barbara Woodhouse when we got married. Now he's very good when off the lead....And today I read that you find other people staying stressful - I find my mum and stepfather staying bad enough and have managed to ban anyone else by virtue of filling the spare room with crap.

My stepfather is getting right on my tits by saying (three times) - 'So how long is your mother coming to stay with you for when the child is born?'. He says he is looking forward to being 'home alone' and the way he puts it, she is planning on staying three weeks! I love my mum, but three DAYS is enough, believe me. She is one of those mums that doesn't read, won't watch TV, and just talks constantly. As does my stepfather. I don't have the inlaw problem as we have fallen out terminally with sil, and mil is 90, and totally disinterested in her first grandchild.

Thank you for listening to my rant!

Oh foxy, you poor love, you've had such a shitty week! (((hugs))) Things can only get better!

Sputnik and H&A - am feeling your pain regarding names. We are OK on the girls, but have zero luck on boys. I spent Sunday afternoon reading aloud from the names book to dh, so dull.

Nice suggestion re Osama, sputnik, how about Adolf? Or Genghis?

3 WEEKS! Oh Doggus!

H&A, don't tell me your DH is called Neutrino
Actually, the baby does have a "womb name", but that is strictly between me and him. Thought it was just me being funny.

Thanks for the sympathy foxy. . I am sorry about your bug. I am having the opposite problem (stuffs another fistful of prunes into gob).

Three weeks!! I love my mummy, she's my best friend, but I couldn't have her to stay in my house! Luckily she's only 5 mins down the road!

No, unfortunately, Neutrino is quite cool!! He is called Zeno and his family are from Leeds!! His parents were just a bit odd!

my mum came to stay for the first 5 days after DS1 was born. couldn't wait for her to go. Much as I love her and I was on my own, I just wanted to get on with it.

And my God she was critical.

3 weeks = torture. Tell her you're following some weird child-raising strategy that involves everyone having their main meal at 2am and doing yoga all morning and say that you'd love her to be there, so long as she's happy to follow the strategy to the letter
Agree boys names are a nightmare. Although love William and Alfie. Heard a sweet one the other day, too: Wilfie. I guess short for Wilfred?
Sputnik, we've been getting loads of pressure on both sides to choose names of our parents' liking... I told both sets that if they didn't stop with their 'helpful' suggestions, the baby would be called Tarquin Lancelot. Soon shut them up. .

Napoleon?

Actually I had a cat called Genghis, so that is ruled out, shame really

I am also wondering how long I can get my Mum to hold off coming over, I would prefer it if they waited a month or so.

We should all have thought of this earlier - that way we could have told all our MIL/DMs that our due date was actually a good three weeks after the real one... Maybe it's still worth a try?

After my morning's research I can inform you that Wilf means "hoping for peace" or something like that. Quite a nice name actually.

Well Zeno sounds quite cool, but I guess it's another matter if you're actually stuck with that name. That's the problem with cool names, you have to ask yourself how it's going to sound called out on the school register, or if you have to shout it out at the supermarket.

People always think he's Greek!!