Due May 07 - w/c 2nd April

[twelveyeargap]

Hello! I'm back!

Oh yes, bleeding afterwards.....i bleed forever. Usually between 4-6 weeks, i have no idea if it correlates to periods but mine are noramlly terrible and last about 10 days so you may be lucky SOH.

Dummies, all of them had dummies except Jonah. He point blank refused, i tried but he was not interested at all. He would not take a bottle either, of any kind. It was a real pain, he was very good though but chewing on a dummy is much less painful than chewing on a boob. He was breastfed for 16mths too, all the others had both till they were a year old or so, except Hugs who would only breastfeed for 8 weeks (i was horrified) im far too lazy to make up bottles

Dejags - so sorry to hear about your cat too. I had a fab book out of the library for DS a couple of weeks ago called \link{http://www.amazon.co.uk/Saddest-King-Christopher-Wormell/dp/0224070452/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/202-3130660-3641446?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1175507123&sr=8-1'The Saddest King' about how it is ok to be sad sometimes (in this case when a dog died. It might help your DS? not sure how easy it would be to get hold of it in SA though.

Aargh can't do links
The Saddest King

LG&T I'd just like to say that I hope your exp has a crappy easter, no chocolate and that he falls down a manhole. Never before have I despised a man I've never met as much as your exp. Oh and Noel Edmonds. Are they the same person?

I would love to be able to splash out a bit and buy some new things for Mathilda. Sadly, no money, poor sod doesn't even have her own room. Most of the time I don't worry about it- I've spent £16 and been given/begged for a lot of stuff. Occasionally I stand in Mothercare and watch people buy all this stuff and worry that my baby won't have anything that's new. But hey, I don't have any new clothes ever and I am the happiest I could possibly be. I just hope my financial shortcomings don't affect her when she's at school. Having been the geek at school with cheap PE kit and second hand books I know how cruel some children can be. Anyway, Mathilda means 'mighty in battle' so I'm sure she'll stick up for herself.

Dejags, my cat died from renal failure last year after being very ill. She was on my knee at the time having a cuddle and it was peaceful and it still breaks my heart to think about it. I can't imagine how heartbroken you must be. The sooner you get out of that place the better.

Hi all,

Dejags-I was so sorry when I read your cat thread..And that horrid man-thinking of you..
My lo hasnt moved today at all yet-giving it a few more hours before I panic as she has been very active lately-but then maybe she just needs a rest..

Hi TYG-nice to see you back and now a lady of leisure!Of course they all loved you silly!Im glad they got you such lovely presents..

The work woman has been suspended!Too right..I dont take any personal satisifaction from it, (well maybe a smidge as she did hurl a few unnneccessary insults at me and a few other people to be honest which could have been lived without), but it will make it easier to improve life for the people living in the service and that can only be a good thing!

How are you feeling Mrs JB?-please take it easy now...

SOH-I would maybe get one or two dummies just in case..I said before dd was born, 'I would never use a dummy'.After 3 solid days and nights of non stop feeding-screaming-bleeding nips, and out came the dummy, to great relief all round.She only uses the dummy at night to get her off to sleep now, or when she is teething and although they dont look nice at all IMO, they have been a real help with her..plus as a paranoid first timer before dd was big enough for gro bags, im sure I read some research about dummies helping to prevent cot death and smothering-and I chose to believe it at the time so assuage any doubts I had re giving her a dummy in the first place..You probably wont need them for Mathilda but no point in not being prepared I guess?
I used normal pads after two days I think..but with those net pants (£3.50, NCT sales website) which hold them in place far better than the paper disposable ones and with the added bonus that they dont rustle like a copy of The Times as you walk around!(I know ive banged on about them before but honestly I cant say enough good things about them..(o god-Im becoming obsessive re net pants!Kill me now!)

10 working days left for me now, (unfortunately miscounted last week, very dissapointing!)
I did a surprising amount of homework yesterday, by getting up at 6 am before dd and doing some whilst she had her nap-thus enabling me to watch Jane Austens Persuasion guilt free and concentrate on my proper work today without running around like a wolly!To celebrate am going off down the Angel at lunch to stroll round in the sun, go to the organic baby shop, (have just been paid!) and take some luncheon..

Speak to you all later..

Will email you in a min largegandt re the p and t..
The real Scooter had some kidney probs when I was pg with dd SOH-We thought we would have to have him put down but our amazing vet turned out to be a Wizard and did an operation that saved him-it was awful at the time though..I hate it when animlas get sick or die..And people dont give you half the sympathy you deserve alot of the time either..

lol at largegandt being married to Noel Edmonds once..Although I dont find him that offensive SOH-Is it his jumpers that annoy you?

Awwww SOH thanks for your evil thoughts for exp, they mean alot.

SOH i have had a thought, i have a box of dd clothes. As convinced as my mil and mother are of my growing a pink one im sure it is a 'he', when i return i will send them on or drop them round when we have our coffee mornings after we have given birth I warn you though, they are mostly pink and purple and in very old fashioned styleeee.

Mostly for me this time it is not the buying stuff, it is the excitment of having a baby with someone who really wants a baby. DH is so interested and talks about it all the time, he is reading everything to do with babies. Gone are the argos books and papers from the toilets, all replaced by babys r us catalogues and baby manuals

We have no money but it doesnt matter, i had money with exp but this is by far better. Like i said before i we could win the lottery and ditch exp totally it really would be heaven.

His jumpers, his hair, his height, his beard, every television programme he has ever inflicted upon the poor unsuspecting public, his voice, cosmic ordering pseudo-religion, his mannerisms. And Mr Blobby- for which I hold him personally responsible.

Oh you're a sweet lady LG&T, you really are. And I don't actually mind pink (love purple too) you know- what I hate is little girls dressed entirely in that sickly candy pink (with matching pushchair- shudder , dummy- wrong -and shoes). It's like the small child has been caught in Attack of the Killer Candy Floss. And I lurve old-fashioned.

DH has started reading all sorts of baby stuff- taught him how to fold a washable nappy yesterday. And he keeps piping up 'did you know the baby already has a fully developed sucking reflex' etc. He's so excited.

Nobody answered my camcorder question from yesterday? Shall I record the birth?

Awh... LG&T was right in what she said about me SOH. I'm only going mentallistic with stuff this time round becuase I couldn't with DD. I was in school, no money, no benefits until such time as baby arrived... Didn't have a thing. DD was clothed in hand-me-downs, slept in borrowed cot in my bedroom and so on.

Didn't have two ha'pennies to rub together. My friend's used to bring me food parcels pilfered from their parent's freezers after I moved into my flat becuase I was so broke.

DD didn't have a clue! I do remember it being really frustrating seeing all the lovely things you could buy and yet having to spend my spare few quid on maternity bras... Yeuch.

Your baby needs a few vests, babygrows and some blankets, a drawer to sleep in and very little else by way of material items.

I'm so sorry about your cat Dejags.

SOH, we've been given quite a few pink outfits by family that are brand new. We have to 'act' all grateful, but as we know we're having a blue we know we're not going to use it. (We've not told anybody that we know it's blue) I'll be happy to send them to you. They're not candy floss pink, just white with some pink flowers etc.

Jelly are you sure you don't want to sell them on ebay? Save them for the next one ?

Ebay scares me

Gawd, me too.

What, you dont even like Deal or No deal then?.

I dont think my dh has quite twigged that we are having another baby what with everything else going on-he looked at me yesterday struggling to get up off the sofa and said, 'god, you're really big now arent you?' as he honestly hadnt noticed till then..It will come as a rude awakening when the baby comes if he doesnt get his head round it soon..he is very good though..

Off for a mooch round shops now...Anyone want anything whilst im out?

I detest Deal or No Deal. It makes me really cross. Can't bear to watch it.

Am sitting in the garden about to do my Ocado shop on the 'puter. Ahhhh, bliss.

Do you know, I haven't sat in my garden since I moved in! Just realised..

Sweets please. Apple flavoured.

Deal or No Deal is an insult to anybody of remote intelligence. It could be 30 seconds long- pick a box, open the frickin thing and take the money. How do those people get time off work for that long? And all that horseshoe, praying, pick your favourite number rubbish- it's a game of chance. It's not even a game. It's a joke. Get a job, earn some money, don't go on dwarf, po-faced midgety man Edmonds programme and play telephones in the manner of some small child who has no grasp of the real grown up world.

Pah!

And DH says I'm hormonal.

Have to agree about Deal or No Deal, absolute nonsense!! "Make it a good one", "I'll try my best". No, you'll open a box that already has an amount in it!! The few times I have seen it I hope it's one of the big numbers in the box that they choose, I'm not mornally that mean spirited but they just really annoy me

Oh, forgot to mention that we played the DVD game version (friends came round and they brought it along, felt like we couldn't refuse) and it took as long as the bloomin' program! It was rubbish, you could ask the opinion of the the people behind the box when it came to a deal/no deal situation and they all said "Oo, I wouldn't like to say", how rubbish is that. Sorry, ranting again

I got the DVD for Xmas. DH is well into the program so he really bought the DVD for himself. Only played it for 15 mins as it took forever just to open 1 box.

Morning all...crap it's afternoon already. Eeek
I'm loving this sunshine. Hope we get a bit in Scotland this Easter weekend

Haven't had time to read through everything yet so much lovely chat, can't keep up with it and work is mental so will try and get through it tonight.

Deal or no deal? What the buggery bollocks is that, sounds dredful. I do hate game shows though, with a fierce passion.

SOH dh says "tell soh we have a movie camera and tripod" Cant do nuffin while your holding the camera We are going to video the nanosecond birth too if time permits. I want it as record of the event for the little one and so im not tempted to do this again

TYG sitting in the garden sounds lovely, ocado any good? Love waitrose, feel like i need to walk round with a calculator though. They do the most yummy food, mmmmmm

Have been on to the CSA this morning about my claim made last August....they cant find me on the computer I phoned every couple of weeks up till xmas but just got "oh we are assigning it to a case worker" FFS.....they have moved to a belfast office and have 'lost' me from the system. Grrrrrrrrrr lovely irish accents to be heard all around though which made me slightly less mad.

Am drinking coke, i love it but it really does send the baby more nuts than normal, norty mummy

Well, first morning of entertainingds on my own has gone without a hitch. He's so used to all action all day at the childminders I was worried about how I was going to keep him busy for 2 weeks! After the holidays he is going part time to the childminders so I won't have to think of too many ideas. We've been to the library, had a wander round the shops and bought some stuff for him to make his Easter cards. We then called in on a friend who I work with so she's off too. Her kids are older and great at entertaining Charlie while I have tea and a natter. He's just finishing his dinner and then he's definitely ready for a sleep. I have to go into serious housework mode then!
Catch up later!

You can drink coke? I though it was for cleaning tyres.

CSA are farking useless. I could relate a very long story about a friend's dealings with them, but I would be so angry by the end of it I might break the monitor. Useless, pathetic non-service that it invariably is.

Deal or No Deal was sent from hell to try us. Don't ever watch it. I've only seen it because my very ancient Grandma thinks it's the best thing since Noel's House Party.