Due Oct 2007 ~Little Piggies turning into Porkers!

[FloriaTosca]

Thought I'd get the new thread started as no one objected to my title suggestion

J20..was it you who did the link to the cat poo aibu? I read it yesterday and was giggling like mad! Then in the middle of it came the post linking it to the classic cat and ballthrowing thread which I just couldnt finish I was actually crying so much with laughter... that quip from Firefly "you could throw aball at it!"!!!;its the closest I have been to needing to change my knickers for ages!Thankyou so much
(though I have to add that DH just didnt get it at all [sceptical]...he's just not got my sick and sarcastic sense of humour)

nellie - no baking today, but I may defrost the lemon drizzle cake that is residing in my freezer after my last baking frenzy

Feel like the side of a house today, the weight is piling on thick and fast and I still have 3 months to go I really hate being pregnant, I have a negative body image as it is, never mind when the extra pregnancy weight goes on I'm trying not to let it get me down though, although its difficult

Need to try and get a visit into town again today, although I was there yesterday I still forgot to get things

If you liked that cat thread here is a classic post from another forum I go on cats and Vets...

So. Find the cat.
Find the catbox.
Find the cat again.
Introduce cat to catbox.
Cat goes in the cat box quietly (this should have been a warning to me)
Open door and place catbox in passenger footwell.
Shut door.
Run around to drivers side, jump in and start engine.
Cat mieows.
Select reverse.
Cat explodes from catbox like that thing from Alien.
Cat runs around car shedding fur.
Open door.
Cat escapes.
Go into house and find parcel tape.
Tape box up securely.
Find the cat again.
Catch cat.
Introduce cat to catbox.
Cat goes in the cat box with a hell of a struggle.
Tape up wounds in hands.
Open door and place catbox in passenger footwell.
Shut door.
Run around to drivers side, jump in (engine is still running).
Select reverse and get the car off the drive.
Cat rips through parcel tape like the hulk, scaring the crap out off me.
Car runs around the car in a panic drooling and shedding fur.
Open door.
Cat escapes. Again.
Go into house and find elephant tape. (I've used this stuff to stop kayaks leaking on white water)
Tape box up securely. Then use more tape.
Then think "sod it" and use the whole roll.
Find cat again.
Tempt cat using favorite treats.
Pretty much have to saw the cats legs off in an attempt to get him into the accursed box.
Take off gardening gloves (learning from my mistakes)
Open door and place catbox in passenger footwell.
Shut door.
Run around to drivers side, jump in (engine has now burnt half a tank of fuel).
Get the car turned around.
Cat still in box, meiowing pathetically.
Comfort cat while driving.
Get halfway to vet.
Pointy eared escape artist does it again. This time at 40mph.
Cat runs around the car in a blind panic drooling and shedding fur.
Avoid crashing the car by about 3mm. This is not good.
Options. Stop, open door to get out and lose cat.
Or, keep driving and risk cat scratching eyes out.
Elect to take the eye scratching option. Glasses should prevent serious injury.
Cat runs around car shedding unbelieveable amounts of fur.
People giving me really funny looks.
Furry Fangio ends up sitting on my lap with two paws on the steering wheel looking out of the front window.
I'd have taken pictures, but I was rather busy at the time.
People now giving me really funny looks.
5 minutes pass.
Get to the vet.
Park the car.
Somehow get the car back into the box.
Get into vets rather harassed.
Nice vet takes 2 minutes to check and inject the cat.
She then spends 5 minutes helping me reinforce the cat box to get home again.
Takes 2 of us to get the cat back in the box.
Get the bill.
Stop laughing and ask for the real bill.
Get the same bill.
Pick myself up from the floor.
Pay a ton of cash for the privilage of the cat being injected.
Return to car.
Open door and place catbox in passenger footwell.
Shut door.
Run around to drivers side, jump in and start engine.
Cat is silent.
Think uh-oh.
Leave vet.
Cat is silent.
Get halfway home.
Cat is silent.
Worry that cat is dead.
Get home safely.
Cat is silent.
Now really worried. Has cat escaped silently? Is cat plotting revenge?
Get catbox out of car.
Open cat box.
Cat saunters out, give me a "What?" look and wanders off.
I stand there like a gibbering idiot.
Cat lies in sun.
Open beer.
Drink.
Open second beer.
Get vacuum cleaner out.
Open third beer.
Clean cat hair out of car......

He's now next to me on the sofa with his feat in the air snoring contentedly.

As much as I love him, sometimes I wish he was a goldfish.

Another good one and oh so true!!!!!!
I once looked after a friends cattery for her when she had to go suddenly into hospital. Getting them boxed and delivering them home was a absolute nightmare!!!
Brilliant. Thanks

Morning all,
Just when I thought it couldn?t get any more crappy being pg, I woke up in the middle of the night with the most horrendous heartburn ? advice needed from you ladies on how to get rid of it!

MrsFish ? glad to know I?m not the only dribbler ? Hope your scan goes well!

Greedy ? big gentle pats to you ? are you self-employed? Is that why you need to find mat. cover yourself? Have you thought about getting somebody straight out of college to take over ? you could train them up over the summer then ? I know there?s a chiropractor degree scheme at University of Glamorgan ? there?s where the chiropractor I saw did her training.
Yes, I luuuuurve BB ? it?s on too late for me so I watch it on the catch up ? but the catch up tv isn?t working this morning! ? will have to go and fiddle with it! I?m afraid I have to press the mite button every time Charlie starts ? I?ve had to do it from the beginning of the series!
Enjoy Cenre parcs ? we?ve been twice ? I never thought it was my sort of place, but we absolutely loved it both times!
Fab names link btw! Mairwen is at position 5842 ? but has gone up 5615 places from 2006 ? we may be seeing a few more of them ? mind you, have just searched using my (never heard of!) first name ? and it gave the exact same positions for that too ?
Mind you, on the News section, found this ? hope it?s true!

Nellie ? you carry on love! I sort of know what you mean about needing a break from DCs ? I love ds dearly, but am also glad to have a break from him. I renewed my contract with the childminder yesterday ? we?re keeping him with her next year even though I?m going to be on Mat leave ? simply because if we lost our place with her, we might not get it back! She?s also going to have him for a few days in the summer holidays ? as I?m so immobile, it?ll be incredibly boring for him here on his own with me!
Hope the pre-school is what you need!
Never be guilty about letting your dc watch tv ? as long as they are not parked in front of it all day everyday, then I reckon it?s fine ? my ds learns such a lot from tv ? especially from that bl00dy awful programme ?Our Planet? ? I hate it, but as he keeps coming out with things I didn?t know as a result of watching it, then I leave well alone!

J20 ? what lovely names ? I have only ever taught 1 of them ? an Ashleigh! How do you say Aleigha?
Hope you enjoyed your McDonalds!

Alice ? Every second child around here seems to be called Ella or Ellie ? My neighbours called their dd2 Eloïse ? which they have shortened to Whizzy ? hmmm ? not entirely convinced ? I?ll be the sour-puss in the corner calling the child by her full name!

Lisad ? hello ? I think you and I have met before ? I?m also suffering with spd ? and am also signed off sick! Spd sucks! Are you having any help from physios and OTs? Luckily I?ve been able to get lots of help this time around, but only because I banged on the table!
DS has his reception induction next week too ? although in his case, he?s been going to the nursery unit (which is on the next door classroom) for the past 5 terms, so as far as he?s concerned, he?s already started school!

Inzi ? your dinner sounds lovely!!

Muppetgirl ? I soooo know where you?re coming from on the names thing! Personally, I love the names Adam, Ruth and Llinos ? but have taught such horrible examples of them (teaching for 13 years, gulp!), that I could never call my child by that name!
We have a girl called Ovilia at the school I teach now ? apparently, her parents read the name book wrong ? cracks me up!

FT ? I?m going to be going to pregnancy yoga classes now my Welsh classes have finished ? partly to see if they can help me have a more active birth ? but also to meet mums in my area. The NCT classes, although fab 1st time around, are not really available around here for second-timers ? and the friends I met through them with DS all live at least a 20-minute car drive away!

Right, going to do battle with the tv so that I can get my fix of BB! Have a lovely weekend everybody!

I said it on the september thread, I'll repeat it here...

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Works for me

tHAT CAT THREAD WAS HILAIROUS, JUST WHAT i NEEDED,

oh good god i've just looked up and apeared to be shouting at you all, sorry

My psych lasy has just left and has made me feel a lot better (I cried the whole way through....)
I know I'm being neurotic and we all have fears I'm just one of those 'control freak' types and the idea of giving birth like last time fills me with utter dread...
The thing I have to focus on is that I am being scanned again in 3 weeks to check growth and then again at 32 weeks to check placenta as is low and could ask them to check growth sneakily then. So really I do need to get a grip
Am off to get McDonalds now mmmmmmmmmmm

Or Gaviscon...

Hello everyone, welcome Lisa

Floria - do you mind me asking where you are? It's just the phrase 'out here' conjures up images of expats in exotic places? Or did you just mean out into the sticks? Or out of Zone 2?

I did the sleeping with a pillow between my legs thing last night for the first time. Wish I'd tried it months ago. I got out of bed this morning without any pain in my groin or lower back - a mini miracle! Was dead chuffed and felt great. Am now feeling knackered again - I'm just so tired - all the time - and yes, I too get shortness of breath - worried me at first until I read it was common even in early pregnancy.

J20 - of those names my favourites are Isla and May. The others I'm not too keen on and I too wouldn't know how to pronounce Aleigha. Is it Al-ee-yah? Ejt - I too love Llinos, it's beautiful but DH is keen to avoid anything that people outside Wales wouldn't know how to pronounce so I think it's out on that ground. I also like Adam, but my daughter is Eve, so that's out too !

Other things I can remember - Greedy - don't apologise for moaning - we all need a good moan sometimes. I've worried about money too - I'm currently the main earner and I'm feeling like I'll have to go back to work sooner than I would choose to, but then I guess many others are in the same boat.

Can't believe you can still get Angel Delight - last time I had any was probably 1976 or thereabouts ! Have to say, I'm really not fancying it at the moment. Am fancying a pecan danish...

ejt1764 yes i think we have met before. My physio is relucant to do too much due to heart problems damn!

Muppet did you have a big baby last time then? Im glad the lady made you feel better. Good luck

Im having more scans at 28, 32,36 weeks and having regular appointments, they are driving me potty already.
I had a phone call from my boss this morning. She saying i cant take AL instead of sick, even though it means me dropping to half pay. She has also said she will start my Mat leave at 36 weeks if im still off sick. She also asked for email password to check anything thats come though, god hope she doesnt read all my personal emails, think might be a few comments about management to my friends. Oh dear me

Hmm mcdonalds sounds lovely, hmmmm...

Afternoon all! It was morning when I started reading this post!!!

Greedy - I SO sympathise with you. Ds was unplanned and we have been doing building work to our house for the last two years. Dealing with the stress of building is bad enough, but when you chuck pg hormones, new baby and increased cost into the pot, it is incredibly hard! I went back to work in August with a massive overdraft which I'm only just managing to clear now. I was hoping to have some money saved up before starting maternity leave as I only get SMP, but dh's 40th has put paid to that idea! The only consolation is that being at home with a baby means we won't be going out much and I will be able to cook budget meals and hopefully avoid chucking loads of food away. I am still vaguely worried that bubba might be breech at birth, so have been doing some research into breech deliveries and feel fine about that! It's finances that stress me out way more than anything else and the idea that I will be returning to work with yet another massive overdraft and twice as many childcare costs to meet...

EJT - you can get gaviscon advance on prescription if you have bad heartburn. It is disgusting though so I'd try something milder like Rennies first...

Lisa - welcome to the thread. There is a stats thread knocking around somewhere in the antenatal section, if you want to add the info about yourself!

MrsFish - enjoy the scan! Lucky you. Can't believe the next time I get a peek of bubba will be 1 October, all going well...

Hi to everyone else!!

Apricott; so glad the pillow trick worked for you...I cant even get to sleep without one now!
Out here is just "in the sticks" not anywhere exotic;rural Lancashire..I used to live in suburban South Manchester where all my family, friends and social groups are( and which are still only 40 motorway mins away so I shouldnt moan) and I'm supposed to be the gregarious one of the two of us so more capable of easily making friends, and Dh was so worried about moving away from his family and really close knit (think Royston Vasey!did I say that!)friends, that I agreed to moving my life and business to the quieter and I have to say probably better for child rearing pace of village life here. But Dh is away so often, business is slower and marriage (not just ours) has changed the dynamic of his circle of friends...though we still have a very active weekend social life, its just that once the morning dog walk is over I have a lot more daytime to brood in on my hands and havent got into the Mothers Union/Church Social thing yet....and having been pg or ttc for most of the past 3 years I havent become either a gym member or a regular at the village pubs either...I'll stop whinging now...its all my own fault, I should have got out there and got involved... Things will change soon, Dhs best mate and his wife are due to have a baby in less than 3 weeks so I'll be going round and getting some practise in, and then hopefully I have babysitters here a lot of the time so I dont have to stop work for too long...and I'll be at the village mother and baby group a couple of mornings a week... life is bound to get busier!

ARRGGGG I can't keep up with you lot ... by the time I've read the posts I have to go off and do something else

I have been trying to keep track of everything

{{{alice}}} so sorry to hear about your SIL but its great that she obviously has such a loving an supportive family to help her through this

{{{Floria}}} you're amazing, won't rehash it all but I'm in awe

{{{everyone else}}} who's been having tough times

and finally welcome to all the new faces...I'm pheebe

Everythings ok here, braxton hicks, hip pain and sps are kicking in with a vengence and I'm just in the process of getting a referral to the ob/gyn physio to see if they can help. Bub is hopping about all over the place and keeping me up at night which for the moment I don't mind at all!

Have cut back a bit on my work hours and am spending more quality time with DS which is fab. I'm loving it, he's loving it and his behaviour is sooo much better. Don't know why I didn't do it sooner but its so easy to get caught up in work and money worries specially as I work for myself. DH and I have decided we can handle less money for more quality time and a happy house

Names, we're thinking of Max at the moment. I like Freddie but all the cousins names end in 'ey' sounds and we want to be different.

Right, best get back to work and finish up before DS is back from nursery ...promised him playdough and jam tarts this afternoon

take care everyone

phee xxx

Pheebe - how funny! Ds is called Freddie and Max was one of the other contenders which is still in the running for no. 2, although presently we're agreed on Alexander James...

Max is on our list too
Along with Benjamin and Zachary, but I think Ben is going to win out

Hi all,

Lisa -ds was 9lb 1oz and i'm 5'2 he was 11 days late and didn;t want to come out! I was induced and one thing led to another which led to pnd. I know i have to separate the 2 things -birth/caring for the baby but i'm just a little scared it could all kick off again.

I think that when you have pnd with your 1st at least you can take some comfort in knowing that at least dc won't know/remember but with the second you worry about the effect possible pnd would have on ds1 -now 3 in my case.

My mother suffered after having me and was institutionalised (it was the 70's....) and she has never recovered from her mental breakdown. She was hell to live with emotionally unstable and a compete b**ch to myself and 2 brothers. She left my dad when I was 14 and now lives with husband no3 on a greek island -no contact with her at all.

My worst fear is 'turning out like my mother'.

My psych was positive though and said that i am able to separate what is 'normal' pregnancy worries and anxieties due to depression so that is a good thing and i don't mind asking for help.

We liked
Eliza

Seth

but settled on Henry...
having saying about the 'hard to chose names as have asscociations with b***d children taught in the past'...
I did teach a Henry, he was the one who stood on a chair to punch the very tall teaching assistant and when asked why he used a chair he replied 'to get a better aim' -he was 5!

He was also the boy that I heard wreck the school librabry (stupid shelves were on wheels -v.easy to push) when I was 6-7 months pregnant.

ho hum....

We had Logan, Tyler and Malikai for a boy. I love the story about Henry, he sounds like one of those children that are sods but you cant help but love them

Oh mupet, sorry to hear about your horrible birth experience and PND after. I had terrible pregnancy and birth and was so worried I would have PND, but lucky i didnt, but doesnt stop me worring about the same birth experience this time. i think with your first you have this plan in your head about how you wantto give birth, how wonderful it will be and very little info on how many get the birth they want.
Fingers crossed we both end up with good birthing experiences this time, although I fed up of local hospital already, they are just being careful.

Yuck dog doo doo. I would be so sick, think i would go out and leave it till dh got home hmm lovely wife i am he he

lisa

Oh, and just to say if you fancy a laugh

My lovely (but firey) friend is 38 weeks pregnant but hasn't got the pram out yet to play with it and make sure she knows how to work it 'They showed me in the shop...?'
She hasn't taken the car seat out of the box to check it fits in the car 'Why wouldn't it...?'

Our car seat didn't fit -the seatbelt was way to short, my friends car seat didn;t fit -the base was to big.

I remember taking my ds out to town when he was firstborn and I knew how to take the carrycot off the frame but had forgotton how to colapse the frame and (yes it was raining and ds was screaming his head off) my friend ended up stuffing the entire non-colapsed frame into the car and shutting the boot on it.

Isn't hindsight a wonderful thing?

Oh, (during labour) she thinks that when the midwives suggest any intervention she will ask for five mins to discuss with dh what they think......

5 mins thinking time during labour!?!?!?!

Muppet; I'm so glad you have asked for and been given all the help you want (you dont sound to me like you need it but it is good to have a saftey net,) and and also glad your psych lady is so positive (though I'm horrified to hear of your 1st labour experience ...for me as a first timer for the whole shebang its a bit of an eye opener...and must add how sorry I am for your Mum and your whole family, it was and still is tragic for all of you; but you are NOT your mother, it wont happen to you) what I was going to say is from what I have heard second births are often a completely different experience to what happened first time round...my Mum says if she had had my brother first she wouldnt have dragged her heels for 7 years before repeating the experiment (not flattering for me, but I understand where she is coming from). I hope todays consultation laid a few of your fears to rest so you can enjoy the last trimester.

muppetgirl - any thinking during labour?

lol ejt

she's lovely but one of the first things she said to me was 'It's alright, I know my rights'

tee hee ... I know people like that .. and pointing out that it's really difficult insisting on your rights when you're mooing like a cow at 2 minute intervals, and drop your knickers the minute any medical professional comes in through the door won't go down terribly well ....