Due October 2007 ~Piggies into Porkers~

[muppetgirl]

Have I started a new thread?

Mump ? sorry to hear you?re not well and you?re doing absolutely the right thing by taking the time off. I felt guilty at the times when I have had to be off but at the end of the day noone is indispensable and you need to look after yourself. Try to properly rest rather than rush around doing loads of jobs though!

Apricott ? sure you?ll have a lovely time on your holiday. I guess the mountains will mean that at least it should be breezy even if still warm. Madly jealous!

Nellie ? glad I was able to reassure you about the alcohol! And only manage to catch up properly with everyone by writing in a word doc as I read through and thern cutting and pasting!!! A cunning trick I learnt from ejt!

J20 / Lisa and other freecycle ladies ? I have got some fab stuff from freecycle too ? not for a while though and agree that baby stuff does go very very quickly! I have also managed to get rid of stuff I thought nooone would want in a million years! Much better than taking it to the dump.

Lisa ? hope scan and appointment goes well tomorrow. Will be thinking of you?

Pheebe ? have just posted on your other thread ? very interesting and thought provoking! I worry too about external influences but I guess there is nothing we can do to control that. At we can do is hope that the values we teach our lo?s are sufficient that they make the right choices when faced with the decisions later?.

And hello to everyone else! Thanks loads for all your words of support and glad too that you agree that mil is ott about baby names!!! She is usually great but maybe she?s just having an off day.

Well, as you might have noticed I?m no longer at work today. Went in this am feeling quite faint and sick but thought it would pass off relatively quickly as usual. But still felt grim at 9.30 when it usually gets better. Tried the food and drink think and then the lying down in the office thing and no joy so finally left about 10.30. Thankfully because 2 of my 4 bosses are off this week its quite quiet. Plenty of colleagues to cover today so have now retreated to my bed. Feeling much better when I can lie down so fingers crossed its just a one off.

Mump- sorry to hear you are unwell. Take care of yourself.

Apricott - Are you flying on holiday? Have you checked with the airline that they will carry you that far into your pregnancy? You may need to get a letter for your doc or midwife.

I hope everyone else has a good day.

JUst found this on flying during pregnancy

Also found this. you may need to get a letter from your doc.

I can second winnie's comments - I was told that after 28 weeks I would need a doc's letter with easyjet. Also found it near impossible to find insurance when I was pg with ds1 to travel after then although I have read on other threads of companies that will insure later. If I have a chance to look them out again I'll send you a link

Thanks Winnie - I've checked about the flying. I will need a letter from doc or midwife, but as long as I'm deemed fit to fly, the airline carries pg women up to 36 weeks. So I guess I'm counting on being certified 'fit to fly'. It's a short flight and I imagine I'll be up and down to the loo in any case so I shan't be sitting for any longer than I do in a normal day.

Alice and Mump - rest well

I'm currently reading Ina May Gaskin's guide to childbirth. I've also got her Spiritual Midwifery to have a look at. It's all very hippy - the pictures are hilarious - but good birth preparation. Lots of birth stories in both - one of which reminded me so much of dd's birth that I was practically there in the delivery room all over again! Can't believe we've only got three months or so to go. Yikes!!! Sometimes can't believe I'm having another baby after all this time - thought brings a tear to my eye

Thanks Alice - that'd be great if you get the chance

well im pooped
Have sort all the baby clothes out and put them in new drawers. Takes forever when you move at the speed of a snail lol

I have just got a text to say friend is coming home today with new baby will have to call her later.

Im off to get some lunch, lay in the bath afterward and try and get a nap in before DH and DD arrive home.

lisa

Appricott - I keep getting that - a sudden realisation that we're having another baby and at times its overwhelming.

I just can't wait for him to be here so I can cuddle and kiss him all over. Even though its second time for me its still hard sometimes to match up this wriggling little bump with the baby he'll be in just 12 or so weeks time!!!

I feel so lucky and blessed.

Hi all, ds is asleep upstairs on the sofa as exhausted from soft play place.

I have been reading the thread on showing Schindler's List to 14/15 year olds -fascinating!

What I'm excited about with lo on the way is seeing if they looklike ds 1 or not?
Will they be similar? Will their temprements differ?

Exciting stuff!!

Same here MG - I can't wait to see if he is similar or totally different

lisa- enjoy your bath and nap, might try and have a nap myself. Just dropped ds off at nursery an hour late as he fell asleep on the way back from shopping at 11.15 and I had to wake him at 1.15 otherwise I reckon he would have slept for another hour.

Have to share this as it just never happens.

In walks my ds and says 'Mummy, can I do some painting?'

OMG!!!!!
He never says anything like this and promptly sat down and painted a paper plate, a monster and a train!!!! (monster + train on paper)

I though us 'making' bread together was a mean feat earlier today and him playing with flour was an achievement.

Sorry, amazing moment over now and he's gone back upstairs to play with his cars and garage.

Afternoon all .... I have no chance of catching up with everybody's posts ... so I'm just going to wave at you all madly, then have a quick rant!

DH works away on site quite a lot, and has to go away at quite short notice - and has had to do that for years ... though as the company he works with has grown (there were just the 3 of them at the beginning!), it's happened less and less often.

Well, there's this job which has been on the cards for weeks - but there was a problem at the site which meant that the job was put back - first to this week - then to next week.

DH had the choice of when to go up and do the job next week - and has decided - because he thought it would be best - to be away on the day when I have the appointment with the consultant midwife - which (I have to say) I am really nervous about.

We keep a family google calendar - so that if dh has to go away at fairly short notice, he can lessen the 'agony' by at least warning me that I may have to get babysitters etc.

Last week we talked about this job, and what would happen if it was put back to next week - and, with the calendar in front of both of us, I laid it on thick that this was really important to me, and asked him to avoid that day if it was at all possible.

Now feeling on the one hand, that he obviously wasn't paying the slightest bit of notice - and also because this is just about the last straw - this is the 3rd incident regarding dh not taking in info about dates in the last 10 days!

I realise that it's a small thing in the grand scheme of things, but it's coming on top of me not coping terribly well with the pain and is added to the fact that I'm starting to panic about delivering this baby.

Added up together means that I'm sitting here crying my eyes out ...

sincere apologies for the me me me post (again!)

I bet he had a whale of a time. My DD loves painting, and we made goo yesterday too, now that is messy

I have had my bath but not my nap, just not tired enough Oh well that ironing pile lo9oks like it needs attention, god i must be bored LOL

L

Oh ejt aren't men just gits sometimes??

I'm not surprised you're upset and angry, this means a lot to you and you thought it meant as much to him.

I have to say though that if your dh is anything like mine I have learned I have to really state in no uncertain terms what I want him to do. With me it's my growth scan I'm worried about. I've said I don't give two hoots about the midwife but he has to be at the scan with me a week tomorrow. He knows I will go ballistic if he isn't.

Also I'm fed up with saying 'turn the tv off this is really important and want you to hear me.' He's not a bloody child yet I find I have to talk to him as if he were.

We could start a thread about 'How to make your man listen and hear you and then do what he said he would!!'

havent read any posts except for yours ejt and muppet!...............couldnt possibly catch up, but yours just caught my eye.

ejt - i can completely sympathise with you, my dh is EXACTLY the same. i find that 'laying it on thick' just isnt enough to get through to him. however obvious i think i am being, he still doesn't understand what i am trying to tell him. the only way to get him to do something/ or NOT do something is to actually come right out and say it. i am sure he didnt mean to hurt your feelings and that he is just being a bit dense and insensitive as men can be.

muppett girl, my ds is the same........NEVER wants to do painting or drawing or puzzles (in fact, doesn't like any of the nice quiet peaceful activities!) he would much rather charge around at full speed with his dinosaurs! i was gobsmacked when he told me yesterday he had painted a fish at nursery!!!
how has the nappy free time been so far?

i dont think i ever stand a chance of keeping up with you lot, but i like to post occasionally so you dont all forget me when i have my ickle baby! (going back to the midwife on fri to check if it really is a monster baby or not!)

ok gotta go, patients to see!

SNAP muppett! looks like men really are all the same hey?

Hi gg
I know you've gone but you'll see this later (I think!!)

I am going to start that thread....

Ejt ? really sorry to hear you so upset. I can totally undersand why you?re so p*ssed off. Is there anyway your dh can change the dates he has to go? Failing that do you have a close friend / sister who could come with you?

I can?t wait to meet lo either. It feels a lot more real this time after ds1 but I have to agree with Pheebe that despite that its all a bit surreal at times!

Greedy ? good to see you and you?re not forgotten!! Hope your appt goes well on Friday?

Well after sleeping all afternoon I feel a lot less sick which is a bonus. Here's hoping its not the same tomorrow as I am with ds all day then and not only do I not want to miss out on my time with him but I'm not sure he'd be up to playing quietly on his own for 3 hours while mummy goes to sleep!

Hey ejt have a ((((((hug)))))). P'raps Alice is right and he might be able to be there if you really stress how important it is to you.

I suspect we may be at a difficult time with these pregnancies - emotions have been running high - I know I feel tearful at the slightest thing at the moment. I'm putting it down to hormones. Prefer that to just putting it down to being an emotional wreck!

Anyway, hope you feel better sooon!

I'm off home now. See you all soon x

Seen the mw today and all is well, normal bp, no sugar in my urine but she's bullied me a bit into going for a GTT, i was going to refuse. She gave me the speal about all the bad things for the baby if I am prone to gestational diabetes and made me feel like I'd be a bad mother if I refused. o well, I guess its only a morning.

She's going to write a referral letter for me to transfer to the new hospital which should come through in 3-4 weeks. Then I xpect I'll have to go there and be itnerviewed prodded an poked again. With a bit of luck I'll get another scan out of it...

Hope everyones feeling a bit better tonight and thanks to those of you who've posted on my 'values' thread

Hi all

Ejt, know what you mean about hubbies, especially if you are having more than normal checks! My Dh worries his boss will get annoyed if he asks to come to all so we have to agree on which ones he will come too. Im going on my tod tomorrow and must admit that now its nearer i want someone with me
I have spoken to my friends hubby and they are both doing wlel and baby and mum are home

Lisa

HI all just popping i quick

been stripping wallpaper and house work all days, i ache all over again, early night me thinks

mump-make sure you rest and stop picking on me , i need to keep busy or i will smoke more, honestly!

ejt -poor you! sending you cuddles, and all those who dp/dh are being insensitive gits, tbh i don't mind going on my own, i'm used to it but would probably be the same if i had a dp.

the voluntary doula organisation rung me earlier to say they haven't got any body for me atm but will let me know if they do in the next few weeks, so looks like i will be relying on my best friend and family for the birth

well i've got my 2nd mw appointment tommorrow, so will let you know how it goes.

waves to eveyone i've missed x

Pheebe boo about the GTT! Having said that it would probably be better for both you and lo if they knew you had a problem so they could keep a close eye. And if all is well that will be great!

J20 - will you try and chill out a bit honey? Please? I know it must be hard on your own and your family don't exactly sound like the most helpful bunch but your health is more important!

And lisa good luck tomorrow and great news about your friend